skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>>> isn't the all secure operation you think it was

>I did not say that at all.

You didn't, but I said that to show that it didn't earn it's place as the bigger competitor, it was just bound to happen no matter who braved it.

>Though since you brought it up, the FBI and Dutch Police's explanation for how they busted the site is very suspect. It does not sound legitimate at all, it's much more likely they cracked the site in another (more illegal/unethical) way and used parallel construction to hide what they did.

Mostly agree. But I don't think there's anything illegal about cracking the tor network, AlphaBay's servers or one of its admins' computers. There was probably a warrant for whatever they did, especially since it was at the international level involving multiple agencies. It might also be a vulnerability in the tor network, but I bet we would most likely never know.
> By reducing people's sunk cost in cars

I love this conversation. The US new auto sales run rate is ~17 million vehicles/year, with an average price right around $35k. That's $595,000,000,000 per year in capital being allocated to automotive mobility alone. Think what better things we could do with that capital (or everyone could work far less!) if we only spent a fraction of that on automotive capital costs.
I didn't mean to imply it shouldn't be regulated. From the way the article worded it made it seem like it was policy makers duty to protect the public from "reefer madness".

Yes those other things have regulations and restrictions, but how many alcohol related deaths have there been this year? How many heroin over doses that stemmed from prescription abuse?

My point is that context is necessary for these types of studies.
Did these guys have any actual impact on society? Besides Hegel's mysticism that later served as a foundation for Marx (and we all know that didn't turn out well), what exactly did we gain from the philosophy of that era?

It appears to me that the "greatness" of these men is an unquestionable truth in our society, while scientists of the same era with more evident influence go largely unnoticed.
New Nissan Leafs were selling for ~$13k here in Kansas City: $7,500 federal tax credit and $10k KCP&L rebate off a $31k car.

http://metroenergy.org/2017/03/10000-off-nissan-leaf-june-30...

I bought a lightly used 2015 for $8,500 in 2017.
I was hoping it would be a new Tandy Color Computer. I guess the news on the new Amiga clone got my hopes up.
Airbnb is global and growing
It depends on the context of "high performance". For example, would a 400ms load time be considered "high performance"?

I always say use the best tool for the job. And this usually means getting the requirements then laying out the solutions and picking the best solution out of the bunch.
> Try UberEATS or other alternatives.

That's what I was referring to already.
The infinitely scalable cloud services have this big problem with surprise bills. In the old days teams often made do with what was available, now it too easy to spin up more resources.

I'm surprised people still talk about cloud services as being cheaper esp where developers are free to use what they want.
Gene Editing Spurs Hope for Transplanting Pig Organs into Humans
Just because tax enable those things in the United States right now does not imply that is the only way they could be provided
Boycotts are "more speech". Campaigns to refuse to associate with a person or company are "more speech".

The comment I initially replied to categorized "speech that demolishes the speech it is responding to". That's still speech. Trying to declare it off-limits, legally or socially, is still an attack on speech.

Similarly, your "punish someone for their speech" is... well, you're condemning people who responded to speech with more speech. Because you didn't like the speech they responded with. There is no way to be a free-speech absolutist and be against boycotts, blacklists, and all the other "authoritarian" stuff you're complaining about, because those things are just as much speech as what they're responding to.
BigCo (using Ruby On Rails) that I worked for once hired a developer. He'd worked for Microsoft and the only 'issue' was that he had to use a mac in our environment. Or so it seemed.

After two full weeks of him quietly 'working' at his new MacBook, I got a bit suspicious about the fact that he'd not asked for help once. So decided to check up on him and ask him how he's settling in with the codebase and if he could use any help.

He opened up his editor to show me something he was struggling with. I gave some suggestions (look at this code here, do something similar).

After some back and forth it became clear that:
1. he was entirely unfamiliar with Ruby On Rails
2. he had no idea how to use a Mac
3. he had not bothered to learn how to use a mac while sitting at his desk for eight hours a day for two full weeks
4. his approach to copying some existing code and then changing it for the new use case involved mostly clicking through the Edit menu. He was less familiar with keyboard shortcuts than my mom and her mom. CMD-C was not in his vocabulary.

He was let go shortly after, but of course he did get a full month's pay, an amount that would comfortably support the frugal freelancer for at least another three months.

Honestly, I'm mostly thankful for this situation. It cured a decent amount of my 'impostor syndrome'. It also left me wondering how these kinds of things happen.

This company was one that lots of good developers would want to work for, in one of the most desirable cities in the world, and they were constantly in need of good developers. I was baffled by the mismatch between what the market offered (plenty of good developers, more than most cities) and their constant need for developers, to the point of hiring this guy and not realizing that he didn't know the basic copy and paste keyboard shortcuts until two weeks in.
You can hijack a gene sequencer by hiding malware in a DNA sample / Boing Boing
Run+know your infra, none of this is a problem. Serverless is a scam.
It claims that as a UK citizen I will need a visa to travel to Jersey, Guernsey, and The Isle of Man. Seems a bit odd.
PDFs can run JavaScript too. Open this PDF in Chrome: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/osnr/horrifying-pdf-experi...

And I would argue it is harder for the average user to view the JavaScript inside PDFs: on the web just right click and choose Inspect Element right in the browser; for a PDF you'll have to use specialized tools to decode the myriad encoding schemes inside a PDF. The average JavaScript developer doesn't know how to extract JavaScript from a PDF.
> where is the intimidation or harassment?

Many employees felt intimidated and that they now had to prove in a work setting that they are not "more neurotic on average than men". This is about human relationships. If enough people say they felt intimidated, how can anyone dispute that? Can you prove they didn't feel intimidated? Can I prove they did feel intimidated? No to both questions. It's not in the domain of science or facts. It's in the domain of human relationships and emotions.

> If, as you say, it's a fact,

I said it was a fact? Where? I actually don't care if it's a fact or not. It just doesn't mean a lot to me either way.

> then how can it be harassment?

Easy. There is zero relationship between facts and harassment. I can tell the truth and harass you. I can also lie and harass you.

If I pass your workspace every day and say "You have a smaller penis than the average man and some people here are better at programming than you" does it matter whether both of those are facts? It's still clearly harassment. Unless we have an inside joke.... human relationships are far more complex than science. No wonder so many of us would like to shoehorn everything into black and white scientific facts!

> You cannot have reasonable discussions, if you dismiss what you consider to be true facts because you consider them to be harassment.

Of course you can. A reasonable discussion around your penis size at work wouldn't include facts about your penis size. The reasonable discussion would be "that's inappropriate and if you don't leave me alone I'll report you to HR for harassment."

You are confusing "facts" with "appropriateness". One is a scientific concept, the other is a social concept. The two have almost nothing to do with each other.

> the author claims that his memo had notes to supporting evidence

It might be interesting, but it doesn't matter in the least in this case. The domain isn't science. Per the Google code of conduct, it expects "each Googler to do their utmost to create a workplace culture that is free of harassment, intimidation, bias and unlawful discrimination."

Do you see anything about science in the code of conduct? Or is it talking about culture and human relationships?
Using Prime and Netflix with the FireTV Stick, if I search for a movie in Amazon's interface and Netflix has it, Amazon will tell me so and provide a button to click directly to that movie in the Netflix app. Same with the Showtime app (not sure about Hulu as I don't subscribe to it currently)
That's probably true. Plus a lot of people just don't want to share vehicles. At some point, you're basically creating most of the disadvantages of a bus in a smaller vehicle.
You need someone to at least partially direct traffic. Someone is still putting out new BitCoins.
You just don't get the spot. In my case I just didn't get the card that enabled access to the garage. It's not applicable where the employer just has one big lot and isn't paying per space, generally.
Interestingly, while on earth 50 years will have elapsed, because of time dilation on the ship only about 40 years will have elapsed. It will get exponentially closer to 0 elapsed time as the speed approaches c. At 90% c only about 20 years will have elapsed [1]. Equivalently, as the travelers approach c, the distance to the destination will appear shorter.

[1] disclaimer: I didn't do the math, i just googled the tables.
\{n\}, \{n,\} and \{n,m\} are all in POSIX.

\{,m\} is a (pretty obscure) GNU extensions.
EFF detail - https://www.eff.org/cases/online-policy-group-v-diebold

Note that HN has an issue linking to Wikipedia pages ending in a period, so add a '.' after this URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Online_Policy_Group_v._Diebold....
You're right: It's not practical to run a blockchain on a single server or even just a collection of servers. For it to work properly it needs to be constructed as a P2P system. So each system that wants to use the blockchain has to participate in its construction.

What this framework appears to do is enable your endpoints to participate in a one-way fashion. So they will get just enough information to facilitate a transaction but nothing beyond that.

It seems like a bit of cloak & dagger tomfoolery where the blockchain is just being implemented behind-the-scenes on a specified collection of servers but I haven't looked very deep yet. I can see the benefit to Microsoft from having a setup like that--they can allow customers to participate in a blockchain-utilizing system without giving them full access to the blockchain but to me that seems like defeating the purpose and unnecessarily trusting a 3rd party to handle all your transactions with no independent way of verifying said transactions.

In other words, it's no different than just standard server-client architecture except instead of handling transactions through a database (the traditional way) they utilize a blockchain in the background. When you want to verify a transaction you're really just making a request to their central server and asking it to do the job for you--and trusting whatever it tells you.

Not exactly a proper blockchain if you ask me.
Beethoven and Goethe worked in a specific artistic context which is
radically incompatible with industrial production that is
characteristic of modern pop-music and marketing. Hence a facile quip
like "Beethoven would be making techno in Rotterdam" is misleading and does not really engage with the subject
matter.	Yet, pointing this out and triggering an interesting	debate
gets reprimanded as "curmudgeonly" when the discussion was
specifically about pop-music.

May I ask what is on-topic on HN these days?
HSTS already protects you from attackers that get another CA to sign their certificate.

There would be obvious problems with encouraging you as a user manage pinning (how would you know whether a site will deviate from what you pinned?) If you understand that but want to pin as a user anyway, chrome will let you do that:
chrome://net-internals/#hsts
It's easy to dismiss studies that have a large number of caveats and no strict way of measuring use.
If I was a vegetarian, i'de be asking "if not animal fat, then what?". Synthetic glue? Vegetable glue (milk-based for example)? All these have their own damages on the biosphere, indirectly. The mining for loads of synthetic products is associated with deforestation, and vegetable-based products can sometimes be orders of magnitude worse (for example listen up and take yout seats for the upcoming crises palm oil has/is/will cause, the media is getting fired up for that one with test articles showing interest (see: nutella)).

I don't get it, instead of taking arbitary stances, can't we take more informed stances? Maybe animal-based binding agents kills the least animals for all we know...
but I only allow my close friends to follow me on Instagram...
> if you tell a young person they're probably less capable of something, they probably will be.

Purely anecdotal, but when I was told I would get a low mark in my undergrad degree, it made me work harder to prove them wrong.
I don't have much to add to this discussion, except that this is why I never respond to workplace surveys unless I'm required to, and even then, I say what I think upper management wants to hear.

If I'm unhappy or unsatisfied with something that I'm not in an immediate position to change, I'll get a job elsewhere. I want to control if and when that happens, which means no whining or complaining, even if I'm asked to. It's not worth the risk.
I know for a fact that one of the subsystems for a major energy multinational was supposedly "Object Oriented" but which had absolutely no instance variables and no instance methods. Instead, "objects" were actually represented as what were essentially contiguous regions of arrays of structs, and everything was implemented in the form of oodles of cut-and-paste variations of essentially the same 4 index incrementing merge-like deeply nested looping/conditional class methods which called the other variations recursively. This wasn't an obscure system either, but was actually responsible for hedging all of the trades for that major energy multinational! When that subsystem had a bug, multi millions of dollars of trades would go un-hedged each minute.
That's gotta be quite the complement to your value to the company. Not only did they not let you go, but you still got a decent raise later. Even if they hinted that you won't be eligible for promotions (I imagine that decision comes from someone higher than the person allowing you to continue working from home), I'd still be feeling good about myself if I were in your shoes.
The strategy that helped one hardware startup raise $70M in venture capital
I had a tough time understanding the purpose of one of these gears as the operation of it is quite strange. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kcdj-b49TW8 ...this lego version made it a little more understandable.

Roughly: it's a motor turning an ellipse, and the ellipse is pushing against a flexible "sock" made of metal with geared teeth. All this is contained _inside_ a fixed gear.

As the motor turns, the ellipse turns, and causes the geared teeth to push and squeeze against the fixed container. This gearing motion is designed to take ~100rpm's down to ~1rpm (very high _reduction_ ratios)... as the outer container has ~100 teeth and the inner has ~99 ... every one lap around the large gear only advances the small inner gear a single notch.

So... high motor speed is converted to low motor speed. The fixed containing gear never moves (it's fixed), and you rely on the flexibility of the inner metal flexible "sock" in order to turn another shaft which is giving the output power.

In the lego model you see using red "nubs" for the fixed outer gear, yellow "windows" to catch the "nubs", and then the yellow "splines" simulate the flexibility of the metal / sock component. As the lego model turns you see where the motor driver is turning the ellipse. The basketball-picker-upper is effectively attached to the "sock" directly and that is the output work.

A lot of the animations are really hard to understand (compared to physically seeing it working) because the gearing ratio is so low... hard to see the output movement over time compared to the lego on.
Hey, this looks pretty good! Nice work.
Fair enough. I didn't know about that. But I guess I could have predicted it.
Thank you for the smart questions. We are focused on a specific market of midsize employers (frequently self-insured). Our goal is to help employees of our clients navigate the full point of healthcare in a way that is scalable.

Many companies in the navigation ecosystem today provide call centers that members/employees can call to get help. Unfortunately, these models have a hard time scaling to the midsize market -- our tech solution is able to scale for this market.
I Asked a similar question recently:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14967819
It would still suck to arrive at a supposed to be human free planet just to realize they have a 2000 years of history :)

On the other hand, they would probably have beer.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SEDuVF7kiPU

Here's the video of the interview.
Ways to make money in 'blockchain' from worst to best:

- employment at an enterprise company with a blockchain research division

- employment at a blockchain startup

- contracting at a blockchain startup

- contracting at an enterprise company with a blockchain application

- contracting at an enterprise company exploring a blockchain application

- forming a contracting company to sell blockchain ideas to enterprise companies

- trading cryptocurrencies

- selling services for cryptocurrency traders

- launching an ICO
>“Mass producing strain wave gears using BMGs may have a major impact on the consumer robotics market,” Hofmann said. “This is especially true for humanoid robots, where gears in the joints can be very expensive but are required to prevent shaking arms. The performance at low temperatures for JPL spacecraft and rovers seems to be a happy added benefit.”

Highly unlikely. Teflon (PTFE) can be injection moulded and is self lubricating and probably cheaper although it still costs and arm and a nut. Also the flex spline is one of the cheapest parts of a harmonic drive- the elliptical bearing is more expensive.

There are also other reasons not to use harmonic drives. Their efficiency usually isn't as good as advertized and is often worse than other gearsets.
Funny though, that's exactly what attracts me to the lifestyle :) I love the aggressive minimalism.
Think you have a lib of smart contracts like you have a lib of java code.

Part of your code is used internally and you have an authz server (typically not the one that runs the java code, in MS world it's active directory).

Think that you have dockerized your java servers. It's not that you don't trust your employee laptops for development, it's just that you want to reduce the differences between dev and prod.

Same for blockchains, you want a lib of contracts, you want authz, you want to reduce the diff between public and private.
If you really wanted, you could create a script that after a certain billed amount gets reached switches your site via route53 over to a static s3 page that says "down for maintenance" or something until you figure out why your forecasted billing amount is so high. forcastedSpend is an object you can call via api: http://docs.aws.amazon.com/awsaccountbilling/latest/aboutv2/...

and a SDK like boto3:

http://boto3.readthedocs.io/en/latest/reference/services/bud...
Fruits are natural and have plenty of sugar
Azure has this. When you hit your spending limit, it shuts down your services.
melody, harmony, and rhythm [...] timbre

You are missing the fifth and most important: meaning!

To be fair meaning is extra-musical, and varies between listeners.

Other than that, you are absolutely correct: timber is the focus of modern electronic music. All previous genres simply lacked the instruments to do much of interest in the way of timber.
Several of the submissions got flagged for whatever reason.

There were multiple threads though and the most active had 2000+ comments before it got killed (which is extremely high as far as HN submissions go).
I think both you and OP are reading a bit too much into that phrase and it seems like both of you definitely did not listen to the talk.

In contrast I _did_ watch the linked video and can tell you that it was professional, did not expose any personal details of SF employees, any company secrets nor did it disparage the company or paint it in a negative light.

Don't believe me? Just watch the video.

Don't know OP's motivation in making his comment. He blames a misunderstanding of a colloquialism for the confusion, but to me it looks like an attempt to discredit the presenter.
It's a regular room, nothing special (in terms of using the word "cabin"). 4 years ago at San Diego interns were 3 to a room, regular engineers were 2 per room, and I guess at some point it became 1 per room.

Kind of useless for me though, because I spent almost 90% of my time in a lab (and a large portion of engineers spend most of their time in a lab). The lab is a large noisy room. with people next to each other. It was a good deal though; if I had stayed past my internship and gotten comfortable enough to write a lot of code before wanting to test it, I could've spent more time in my office.
I've lived in Rome. It's basically like that. Everything you need is within a 3-4 block radius. It was very pleasant and I only rarely needed public transportation, and never a car.

Groceries were a total pain in the ass, every time.
It's important to note that Coinbase also operates an exchange, GDAX, that anyone can get access to. The fees for limit orders on GDAX are currently 0%, and there are no transaction fees for withdrawal (at least on USD->Bank account or BTC withdrawals). I'm not sure if GDAX has any deposit fees.

Buying/selling directly on Coinbase is merely for convenience, and obviously you're going to pay for that convenience. I'm glad that Coinbase offers that option, because there are a lot of people for whom the fees are worth the ease of use.

But if you're one of those people for whom the fees aren't worth it, and you want to get your hands dirty, by all means use GDAX and pay no fees at all.
Sounds like you work on some pretty toxic teams or are yourself toxic
This is just about the most absurd belief any smart person can actually hold.
I was really impressed that ublock origin worked on mobile firefox on android.

I recently switched to an iphone, but sadly, the ios version of Firefox does not support the extensions.
Fwiw I find their meals take me less time just because left to my own devices I tend to make more complicated affairs.

However your comment about preprepping everything, aka mise en place, actually does improve your cooking experience in the long run once you get used to doing it. Sure some things you can multitask on but it's not always possible to say how long it'll take you to chop up that garlic and maybe you timed it wrong
> Surely they must remember which year they left high school to go to college? That's graduation, early or otherwise.

Graduation is when you are certified by the school as completing graduation requirements, and usually issued a diploma attesting to that fact. Leaving without doing so, even for higher education that doesn't require a high school diploma, is not graduation.