skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you look at it reductively, yes. The other way you can look at it is that you're paying more in taxes, and in doing so funding the improvement of externalities.
A lot of people assume Bitcoin is just a bubble but there is a lot to say about the technology behind it and its inevitable use.
I want to build a peer-to-peer search platform on the blockchain.

How does the blockchain figure in? How are you not doing ______ "but now, with blockchain!!!"

Why would an expert (presumably) sign up to answer questions from strangers? What makes your pellets delicious?

http://dilbert.com/strip/1995-01-25
How many do you need to make this worthwhile?

The ratio of cost of storing a library versus the cost of GETing a library is very low, so the chances of already having a library cached can be very low for the EV to be worthwhile.

Weighing that against the chance of downtime is a bit more complicated, admittedly.
Just two versions of jQuery, 1.12 and 1.11, represent approximately half of all jQuery versions in use. The top four most common versions (1.12, 1.11, 1.7, 1.8) represent close to 3/4 of all versions of jQuery in use. Version 3.x and 2.x are hardly being used by comparison to those.

That narrows your suggested problem down dramatically.
I feel like that's the step I'm on, and I really hope you are right.
Very few people actually do that. Majority rely on government checks when retired as they can't save / invest a sizable capital during their life working normal job to really be able to live on dividends from that.
Looks good. One suggestion if I may:

When I click on a country in map, the text listing should show the name of the country and not just the flag. Flags are great but I would rather read "China" than seeing the flag since a lot of us may not know every flag in the world.

The top 5 are :

United States: 1062

Canada: 62

UK: 42

India: 29

France: 16

Rest are all in single digits so far.
Daniel Kahneman “I placed too much faith in underpowered studies”
Retirement accounts (401k, IRA, 403b, etc) are unaffected by taxes on investment income (capital gains, dividend payouts, etc.) Maxing out those retirement accounts (~$23.5k per person) is far more than most people save each year. So I don't think raising taxes on investment income would impact retirement much at all.
Just tried it out. Really cool stuff. So easy to use. I am going to have to add this to our toolset with my remote developers
Ask HN: Data pipelines and ETLs
Been working with an org that is really struggling with the reliability and maintainability of their ETLs and data pipelines. Could you share some tools and best practices in 2017?
Sure, that's the cost of doing anything with FB. A pseudonym is used to avoid nosy third parties, not Facebook itself.

Less pressure to expose one's self to the psychological pathogen that is the Facebook Timeline.
I baffled by how many tech guys/girls don't understand this. This is so obvious it hurts.
At my company's last year medical checkup the results were just absurd, specially for men above 30 years old. Abdominal fat, high cholesterol, diabetes, etc..Yet, nobody gives a damn, almost no one changed their habits.

Guys, just get up and move. 30m-40m a day, you can fit this into your daily schedule, don't come up with excuses. If you can fit your TV shows/gaming or your accumulative time on social media, you can redirect that to your health instead. And the output will have a major impact not just to your health, but to your appearance and your confidence.

Eat healthy, exercise and go to bed on time. You don't have to go to a gym, you can buy some gear and follow a plan from your home. Trust me, the change can be quite dramatic.

Before work, or after work, pick a time, have a working out plan, track your progress, create the habit. After two months it will feel like not taking a shower if you skip it.
The PureNight filter is coincidentally a crowdfunded product by Lonely Speck, the people (Ian Norman and Diana Southern) who contributed this story article.
> You can generally load just 6 assets in parallel per origin

This seems to only apply to Chrome, whereas Firefox will happily download everything as fast as possible.

I know this because I fixed a bug recently where chrome was taking so long to download images that other resources on the page were timing out. No problem in Firefox.
That doesn't explain how this person would have the same income taxed twice. Taxes are paid on gains, not the return of principal. Income would be taxed, and then the returns from the invested income would be taxed at a later date.
There have been a few discussions regarding deliverability:

Why does Gmail hate my domain? | https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9855030

How to Avoid Spam Filters | https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10465639

Hotmail | https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14210939

ESP | https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14201704

If there are others I'd appreciate a link as I try to connect them!
But you don't, and can't, truly know any those other factors until you've worked some where for N weeks/months/years. Every company, when hiring, tries to put it's best face forward.

How will you know if the VP of Engineering is a borderline raving lunatic who treats his staff like garbage until you've had the opportunity to witness their behavior first hand? How will you know if your manager likes to micromanage their reports, making your day job a living hell, until you actually work underneath of them? How do you know beforehand if there are toxic individuals, that may be your co-workers or others that you need to work closely with, who create negative work and a poor working environment? How will you know beforehand if any of these things will be addressed if they are present? What about places with ridiculous office politics and bureaucracy? For instance, it can take years to find out nepotism runs rampant through different layers or departments in a company.

The best you can do is word of mouth and things like GlassDoor. But, word of mouth requires access to people who have worked or currently work at that place, and you have to take those things with a grain of salt, especially coming from former employees. Even if you do have access to these things, it's been my experience that these things only get you approximately close to some truth.

It's a very big gamble and, having lived through some of the above scenarios, I completely understand why people optimize this problem for the highest pay.
Losing enough weight so that there's not cantilevered fat out front acting as a lever on your lower back muscles really helps.
It's been over a decade since I studied the literature on this, but the dead weight loss caused by a tax at the point of transaction is larger; a case can reasonably be made that transactions that would otherwise occur did not due to tax.

Income tax removed before you receive your paycheck into your bank account has been demonstrated in psychological studies to be less onorous, and cause less behavior change (you don't ask for a lower paycheck because you don't like tax).

I'm sure I'm grossly oversimplifying, so someone with more economics education please chip in!
Personally I would not use this type of service.

When I search I either want close-to-instant knowledge that I need (for simple info), or an archived discussion (for more complex).

The problem I see with this service is the speed of it. In the time it would take me to ask a question, get matched with someone, start a conversation, answer follow up questions, and (maybe) reach an answer - I could have searched multiple pages of Google/stackoverflow/quora results.

Also there is no guarantee that the person who is answering is knowledgeable and not trolling. At least with standard search you have a wealth of information (results) to compare against.
assets are not expenses. (that's why it called assets)

some assets can be depreciated over years. some small assets (like printer, laptop) - can be written off in one year... but amount you would save on it is negligible.
How I hacked biotech stock trading
That's only the very top salespeople, though. There are also salespeople making minimum wage with no commissions.
Is there a tendency for Hurricane eyes to 'open' at night and close again in the morning, or was it coincidence?
A sales-only tax (i.e. taxing consumption) means that the burden of taxation is disproportionally shifted towards the poor. A poor person consumes almost 100% of their income; a very poor person consumes more than 100% of their income (by going into debt), an upper-middle class person consumes much less than 100% of their income (they get savings, some investments, and big expenses like student loans and mortgage don't count for sales taxes), and a very wealthy person consumes just a small part of their total income, as most of their spending is essentially buying control of means of production and control of other people, which is not consumption and not affected by sales tax.

If all your spending is consumption, then all of that is taxable, and if much of your spending is to gain more income in the future (e.g. buying rent housing, or stock/control in companies) then that's tax-free - in essence it's a tax system that strongly facilitates a rich-get-richer, poor-stay-poor dynamic and increases inequality. And that's generally considered a bad thing for society.
You can't save $150k a year if you make $200k per year. Your taxes on that income will be over $50k alone. And, even if they are small, you will have some expenses for food, shelter, clothing and transportation - and in most places to hold down a 200k job, you're going to need to half-decent wardrobe.
They were probably aiming at some IT system at Hyundai and they hired the same people to do routing software as they do to do rocket guidance.
There is a common practice for Node.js developers to use one of those tools that automatically reboot the site either whenever the single-threaded-event-loop-server crashes, or periodically...
it's like the internet. it can't be cointained (pun intended)
Was the software loading kernel modules? I'm curious why a more simple kill process routine wouldn't work.
We were discussing data stored on the device. Just like Apple, Google does not have the keys to decrypt the data on the device. And just like Google, Apple has the keys to decrypt the data in their equivalents to the GDrive, Gmail, and Google Photos cloud services for web access. The only difference is that Apple's services are significantly less useful.
You provide high quality service when it works. When customer support is needed, not so much.
Doublefine’s Tim Schafer: Does your dream job have to cost your personal life?
Simple answer: Yes, possible.

Longer answer: The VPS needs to be running a web-server if you expect others to be able to retrieve the static website. And with "no environment or Panel" and lacking the "necessary skills to manage it" unless the VPS came already packaged with an operational web-server, you'll likely be unable to add one without "environment" or "Panel" or "skills".
http://aschmann.net/AmEng/index_collection/AmericanEnglishDi...
Again, I think you're talking about statistical model, which I don't object to. I object to supply-demand model as a phenomenological model, as taught in the economics textbooks. What they are doing is not regression.
But 25 characters of Latin alphabet would represent it better?
Any person or group that manages to avoid paying taxes should be celebrated. The solution to this "problem" should not be that the wealthy pay more taxes, but that nobody should have to pay taxes since it is blatant theft that funds incompetent and evil people. Nothing that the government does is good. All money that goes to the government is either wasted or spent in ways that make society objectively worse. All functions of government can be replaced and improved by a free market system.
(I suppose it would be better for the environment than wasting energy on otherwise useless computations)
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Google fights against subpoenas and warrants all the time but sometimes they lose. At that point they have to comply or be held in contempt and I can't really blame Google for complying in that situation.

With many thousands of engineers it is totally possible for bad actors to have infiltrated Google. It's one of the reasons why there are such strict protocols for accessing customer data or production hardware. The idea is that by default no one has access to anything and that all accesses to data and production hardware are logged and audited.

I'm sure there're still opportunities for a rogue employee to do something bad but Google are way better at protecting access to their customer's data than many of the companies I've seen.
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Capital does not need to follow an immigration process in order to move to a new country, beyond a known-fixed cost in customs duties, and typically not even then.

Labor can't run away as fast, so it's easier to tax more.
Show HN: Immortalize yourself in the blockchain
Each topic, say cryptocurrency, would be a network of knowledgeable, skilled and experienced people. Each of these people would accept incoming search requests to answer questions, explain information, come up with solutions, etc. Because each request isn't static anymore, but dynamic-- the tool's utility can grow from being only information to being collaborative as well.
Summmary: explains context and background for a comment left by Kahneman https://replicationindex.wordpress.com/2017/02/02/reconstruc...

"I accept the basic conclusions of this blog. To be clear, I do so (1) without expressing an opinion about the statistical techniques it employed and (2) without stating an opinion about the validity and replicability of the individual studies I cited.

What the blog gets absolutely right is that I placed too much faith in underpowered studies. [...] My position when I wrote “Thinking, Fast and Slow” was that if a large body of evidence published in reputable journals supports an initially implausible conclusion, then scientific norms require us to believe that conclusion. Implausibility is not sufficient to justify disbelief, and belief in well-supported scientific conclusions is not optional. This position still seems reasonable to me, but the argument only holds when all relevant results are published."

[Edit/add] Kahneman also outlined an approach to address concerns in 2012 in an open letter in Nature see https://www.nature.com/polopoly_fs/7.6716.1349271308!/suppin... [linked from https://replicationindex.wordpress.com/2017/02/02/reconstruc...] which was apparently ignored by the priming researchers.
That doesn't equate to the same hourly rate though. Different jobs have different demands. In different roles I've been both lead engineer and painted fences. If the pay was the same I would probably paint fences and write code in my spare time.
I am not sure to understand.

Once the device is unlocked, what is the obstacle to change the passcode?

Needing the old one?

Or - if you prefer - what happens if you have a TouchID and forget the passcode?

Do you need to reset the phone?
Looks like services are back up as of 7 minutes ago

9/12/2017 @ 10:27 AM +MST (Time services reported back up according to status page)
Why does it feel like there is a barrage of propaganda being published against tech companies right now?
Edification / amusement.

I had a go in Rust recently. Was a great way to learn new things about Rust and also some interpreter concepts.
As per usual, Apple identified and fixed these bugs 2 major releases ago. Even if they had not, exploitation of them would have been strongly mitigated by sandboxing applied to every system service. Use an iPhone.

On the other hand, Linux still does bluetooth parsing in the kernel, and Armis definitely found these by simply grep'ing for memcpy calls. There are few mitigating controls throughout the Linux, Android, and embedded device ecosystem. Linux is a security tire fire.

At the very least, I have to give Armis credit for a detailed technical writeup. It goes above what many other firms have done in similar situations.

Full disclosure: I am quoted in the ArsTechnica article.
Right. I don't see it either, I wrote that stuff to try to clarify that I was responding to the question about what might bend a plate, that I wasn't trying to tie the events together.
Ask HN: Can we have an open thread for the IPhone keynote?
I will be following along on r/apple, but really want to read the thoughts of HN. Am I stuck waiting for the follow up thread?
Password Managers Using Android O’s Autofill Are Vulnerable to Data Leakage
That was also not there a couple of hours ago!
> don't you need a certain "minimum" time to capture the faintest of stars, because their signal otherwise wouldn't rise above the noise floor?

I'm not an expert or even very knowledgeable on image stacking, but I'll share my experience.

I've taken a stacked picture of the Orion constellation. 15 exposures at 5 seconds each, and combined them to get this photo:

https://www.flickr.com/photos/abliskovsky/31756623694/

In none of the individual exposures is the Orion Nebula visible, but in this photo it's pretty clear. So in the end I'm fairly sure that your statement is true, but the signal required is very, very faint.
i went through calculating it. that works only for narrow range of revenue/profits per year. if you max out fica taxes, you are at loss, since s-corp still pays its half of employee taxes. on top of it whole uncertainty of "right" amount of salary and possible audits made me steer away from converting my llc into s-corp.

So while it might work for some - it is not a major "loophole" for top 0.1% (not even for top 1% i think)
>>looks and feels like the real thing
>Not really, because you can't turn off virtualization

To be clear what I mean is, the bios can be made to look and feel like the real bios when in fact it could be a compromised bios which still shows the manufacturers logo, menu options etc etc.

Bottom line is, if someone can make it, someone can modify it.

Only getting a SOIC clip hooked up to something like a RaspberryPi to get a copy of the chip code will you possibly be able to tell otherwise. Something like this might get people pointed in the right direction.
http://www.win-raid.com/t58f16-Guide-Recover-from-failed-BIO...

One of the other attributes I have seen with this "suite of malware" is its ability to spread over the USB bus. If hit with it and it stops your usb devices including printers, mouse & keyboard, PS/2 mouse and keyboards still work so you can safely shutdown your machines instead of pressing and holding the power button to force a shutdown which can lose work. Lets face it, when looking at how USB works, its a disaster waiting to be exploited when considering how much attention goes into monitoring ethernet traffic. Having spoken with Tomasz the developer of this tool http://desowin.org/usbpcap/ on windows, you only get what windows will show you, so a separate malicious OS using CPU virtualisation could still interfere with the USB bus.

One file I've isolated when using partedmagic will not display its entire contents in the included opensource hex editor if its accessed using the hex editors file load method, but if you read the block device sector by sector, you can navigate to where the suspect file is stored and then read the entire contents of the suspect file. There seems to be a sort of magic string which prevents further investigation of suspect files including the ability to dd dev zero block devices which is a nuisance.

In all, who ever is behind this is IMO hacking chips so that even if you do a full disk wipe to whatever standard and reinstall the OS, you'll never get rid of it unless you reprogram the chips, it like a complex zero day spread over hardware and software, so in isolation parts look innocent enough but when combined becomes malicious. Its very very clever whoever is behind it and theres not many entities with the resources or knowledge to pull something like this off IMO.

Plus when considering the NDA's that exist with chip/cpu/hardware manufacturers, the knowledge at this level is even more restricted.

If you want to get lucky, dont always follow industry standard practices, its sometimes the only way to spot the anomalies.
worth noting that its probably less about time and more about energy- so make it easy to get 30m of exercise. do something you like, make it near where you are, etc...
Gmail and YouTube are working fine in NC. Maybe they're getting things sorted out now.
Did they die because they were sedentary, or were they sedentary because they were nearing end of life?
People love calling things a 'bubble'. There's been a steady stream of bubble predictions for an eternity about just about everything that's been successful. It's meaningless FUD used in place of real arguments.
We have a smart board in our office that no one uses. I'll hav e to give this a spin to see if it sucks less. Hopefully far less...
I am in the same boat.
No problems with any Google products today.
I don't know, I find that letter pretty convincing actually. They seem pissed, but they also make a lot of valid points.
I can't recommend varidesk.com or geekdesk.com enough. A varidesk is great if your company already supplies you with a non-standing desk and a geekdesk is excellent if you work from home and get to pick any desk you want. Be sure to get a mat to stand on as well.
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Was gonna build something like this myself to move away from subscription based services and utilise storage such as Dropbox.
Nice job.
Is it inevitable? I'd love it if I can pay for things by just scanning a QR code, but the number of merchants accepting Bitcoin feels like it's going down, even though Stripe has made it trivial to support.

I would very much like to see everyone move away from speculation and into actual use, but it's not looking good...
I'm not particularly worried, Google and Facebook have two of the best security teams in the world and spend an amazing amount of money to protect customer data.

NSA begs to differ, on both counts https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/the-nsa-files

CIA too https://wikileaks.org/ciav7p1/
The Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago praised Bitcoin too, in 2013: https://www.chicagofed.org/digital_assets/publications/chica... Key quotes:

«Bitcoin is an elegant
implementation of a digital
currency, but can it truly rival
or replace existing currencies?»

«it represents a remarkable conceptual and
technical achievement, which may well
be used by existing financial institutions
(which could issue their own bitcoins)
or even by governments themselves.»

«At the time of this writing,
the average worth of a bitcoin over the
previous six months had been a little
over $100» (up 42× since then: $4,200)

«Bitcoin solves two challenges of digital money—controlling
its creation and avoiding its duplication—at once.»