skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Closer to home -- for example in the US public educational system -- we have prime examples of your (and Easterly's) point about "band-aids" vs. "health". After acknowledging how politics works, I think we can see other factors at work in those more genuinely interested in dealing with problems. Some of these are almost certainly (a) the idea that "doing something" is better than doing nothing (b) that "large things are harder than small things" (c) the lack of "systems consciousness" amongst most adults (d) pick a few more.

The "it's a start" reply, which is often heard when criticizing actions in education which will get nowhere (or worse, dig the hole deeper) is part of several fallacies about "making progress": the idea that "if we just iterate enough" we will get to the levels of improvement needed. Any biologist will point out that "Darwinian processes" don't optimize, they just find fits to the environment. So if the environment is weak you will get good fits that are weak.

A "being more tough" way to think about this is what I've called in talks "the MacCready Sweet Spot" -- it's the threshold above the "merely better" where something important is different. For example, consider reading scores. They can go up or down, but unless a kid gets over the threshold of "reading for meaning" rather than deciphering codes, none of the ups and downs below count. For a whole population, the US is generally under the needed threshold for reading, and that is the systemic problem that needs to be worked on (not raising the scores a few points).

To stay on this example, we find studies that show it is very hard to learn to read fluently after we've learned oral language fluently. Montessori homed in on this earlier than most, and it has since been confirmed more rigorously. And this is the case for many new things that we need to get fluent at and above threshold.

So at the systems level of thinking we should be putting enormous resources into reforming the elementary grades rather than trying to "fix" high schools.

And so forth. This is the logic behind building dams and levees and installing pumps and runoff paths before flooding. One recent study indicated that the costs of prevention are 20% of the costs of disaster.

We could add to (d) above the real difficulties humans have of imagining certain kinds of things: we have no trouble with imagining gods, demons, witches, etc. but can't get ourselves beforehand into the "go all out" state of mind we have during an actual disaster (where heroes show up from everywhere). The very same people mostly can't take action when there isn't a disaster right in front of them.

This is very human. But, as I've pointed out elsewhere, part of "civilization" is to learn how to "do better than human" for hard to learn things.
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Could you build generic satellite base architectures that at the end of life could be reused as spacestation wall?
Barrier to exit matters as well.

When you buy it from dangerous people, you have to be in contact with dangerous people. It gives dangerous people leverage against you and people who care about you.
eBay, there are a bunch of sale.

A while back one seller was selling packs for 3 or 4 without HDDs/batteries for around 50USD each.
I am working on learnmapp[1].

What? Inspired by Kamran Ahmed's roadmap to becoming a web developer[2], learnmapp lets anyone create and share roadmaps for learning any topic/subject.

Why? Everytime I want to learn something new, the biggest hurdle I face is to find where & how to start and what to learn next. So with this tool, I want to make it easier for beginners to find and follow a roadmap to learn better.

When? Will launch, optimistically, by this weekend.

Also, it'll be free and the code will be available on github.

[1] https://learnmapp.com (not live yet)
[2] https://goo.gl/6fHbVH
There is, but if amount is higher than certain threshold or online PIN wasn't used for certain number of transactions, an online PIN is requested.
what the hell is going on with this web site? this is the most perfect news web site i have ever seen in my entire life. there is not a single false note in their entire presentation. after a video is done playing, a white border tastefully wraps around the next video to play. all of the visual design looks great. there are no annoying pop ups or weird pop down banners or anything like that. and the content is really nice too, all done very well. it is almost strange to come across a site where there are no glaring errors of presentation or execution. i really have to commend these people.
Nobel prize winner F.A Hayek wrote a great defense of deflationary currency and a rebuttal to Keynes back when he was debating Keynes in the 30s[1]. He also predicted Bitcoin with his book "The Denationalization of Money" written in the 1970s[2].

[1] https://mises.org/library/hayek-paradox-saving

[2] https://mises.org/library/denationalisation-money-argument-r...
I wonder how many of them actually work.
Chips aren't anymore secure, I can read the data off my card with a standard chip reader, and I have. The same data on the chip is on the mag strip.

Just because you are using the chip doesn't mean you are doing an EMV transaction. The unique transaction codes only happen with and EMV transaction, almost every time you dip your card it's a regular old card transaction, just as if you swiped the card. Why?

Getting EMV certified requires every part of the transaction chain to go through unified system testing, for each combination of hardware, software, card type, processor, issuing bank.

I've been eyeballs deep in this nonsense for the last year or so. We just can't justify the expense of getting EMV certified, so we just accept the chip and do a regular transaction.

As a consumer you have no way of knowing if your transaction is and EMV transaction or just a chip enabled regular transaction.
That can be anybody. Your old grandma, to this beautifull lady, or more common that guy in the corner, but not only "dangerous people" otherwise nobody will buy it.
Woah drop in the bucket? Have you ever browsed the geo map on Snapchat? It's lit in Saudi Arabia! It seems like they have more activity than Europe and most US cities.
Wow, can you elaborate on how you employ it and what you think it did specifically to help?
Cool, thanks for the response! I'm glad my theory doesn't sound /too/ far fetched. :)
What you are referring to as 'good money' , most people would call 'stupid money'.

It's a stupid idea to run a country with a fixed amount of currency - as the economy expands, more currency is needed - either that - or all prices of everything need to adjust because the 'stupid currency' is fixed.

A 'well managed' currency is better than a fixed supply.

Of course - the 'existential risk' is that some political cowboy will 'print money' for political reasons - this is the great problem that fiat always faces.

But this can be avoided.

Most major currencies are very well managed.

Also - remember that they are backed by actual assets - so money is not coming out of nowhere.

Almost all Euros are backed by some kind of quality asset. It's very rational to allow entities to 'trade' some kind of asset for currency at the central bank. This is actually more 'free market' than any kind of fixed currency.

National currencies - irrespective of the quality of their governance, fixed or not - are extremely useful to everyone. They 'spend' that currency because it's what's used to buy stuff.

Household expenditures: mortgage/rent, electricity, groceries, insurance, gas, car payments, cable/internet. Can you use BTC for any of that. Pragmatically - No. BTC is 'pragmatically worthless' to anyone - it has no reason to exist.

BTC is very useful to money launderers, tax evaders, and other people doing illicit things, it's a great currency for the black market. But beyond that, it serves no purpose. It's not a currency and it's a terrible store of value as compared to any of real-estate, gold, most commodities, a 'basked of bonds of equities' or a 'basket of currencies'.

It's a great intellectual exercise, and I think the 'paper value' of BTC will remain quite high for some time, but unless it sinks in as an actual currency of some economy (say, African nations where the currency is garbage), in the long-long-long run there's no reason for it to maintain it's value.
Exactly this. The first step for me is usually to redraw out the messed up crap the last person drafted as things that look like the design patterns.

Even Tektronix and HP can produce some dire schematics so when you've got your head in some old kit I'd probably spend more time deciphering the service manual schematics than actually fixing it (something I do as a leisure activity)
Looks like the browser spends most of the loading time resolving DNS.
It is a good lib,I have used in my project
looks like he's able to port everything important:
https://github.com/piroor/treestyletab/issues/1224#issuecomm...

just hiding the normal tab-bar might require a line of userchrome.css
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In support of this I'll point out that Prohibition predates Nixon's presidency by 50 years.

The righteous have been lording it over the morally condemned since time immemorial.
I doubt it.

The nature of debt collection, and many other legal pickles is that if you are seen to be passively ignoring it, then it just ramps up.

Merely asking for proof is indistinguishable from ignoring claims because it leaves no paper trail. You have to actually get documents from them (or from a court) saying that they have no claim. And it costs a lot (whether in time, money or both) to get that.
Can anyone find the original paper referenced here? Searching the journal’s archive and Google scholar isn’t turning it up.
Sorry, bad links on the front page. Fixed now.

Also, there is a popup menu at left with the navigation links. Although, the repository interface is not very mobile friendly.

Thanks for the report!
The article is about "decriminalization of all nonviolent drug use and possession". This sounds noble, but as we found out in the Netherlands you will have to make a distinction between soft drugs and hard drugs. Hard drugs is always associated with crime and most of the time violent crime and gangs.

So I would say. Been there done that. We are cracking down on this type of policy, since 'education' does not work and it seems that prisons do not make the criminal as some other comments claim... Well they can always wish for it, but reality does not care either way.
> But either way, in terms of a targeted attack for a company's data - surely the clients (phones, workstations) are the weak point? In other words, I think the paragraph oversells the benefit of e2e a little bit?

Literally no encrypted channel is secure against a client-side compromise that allows an attacker to observe the conversation. It is effectively equivalent to a trusted user deciding to knife you in the back.

Even e2e 1:1 conversations have that weakness. The trust in the group is only as strong as the human element (and in the case of computing, the least secured client device).

So I don't think it really oversells it, personally, given the fact there is no option that is universally agreed to be substantially better secured and immune to a traitor and/or compromised client.
That's rather cool. I am slightly obsessed with current loop designs myself. It's amazing that you can deliver sensor power and the data in an analogue or digital form over two wires over huge distances without degraded performance.

Definitely agree with Art of Electronics.

Also for some more complicated schematics with rigorous engineering approaches detailed, google for "tektronix 453 manual". It's an analogue learning goldmine!
Ask HN: Which e-commerce CMS has most market share?
Hello, Does anyone have any reliable data on market statistics, customer satisfaction for popular e-commerce CMS? Like. Magento, OpenCart, WooCommerce etc.
Are we talking gaming only here? Otherwise, I'm very curious how you use the controller.
Cool. Didn't know laptops existed with 3 monitor ports. Which model laptop are you using, and would you recommend it for programming? :)
Have you looked into a tool like Gorilla Stack - https://www.gorillastack.com/?

(Note: I have no investment in the company)
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> they already have everything they need to catch someone installing the device

...except for the timestamp of the installation event. Or the resources required to brute-force through mountains of footage to find the event.
I lost $1200 to an s3 mistake when I was broke years ago, it really sucked.
I'd argued that heavy regulation has been just as important. For example, how many other products besides cigarettes have to carry a warning over half of their packaging?

Also taxation. Ideally the taxes should make people understand the true cost of their purchase. (I know this is not usually how cigarette tax is actually determined)
Why not? It's a good controller, cheap, and readily available.

I'm reminded of the in-joke in Metal Gear Solid 4 that saw Solid Snake use a PS3 controller to joystick around the "Metal Gear Mark II" recon drone. Then, as early as later that same year, actual soldiers were operating actual drones with Xbox controllers...
If you tell people they can't skip in a certain lane on the sidewalk they will skip in that certain lane. There will always be people who just want to cross the line because the lines existence makes them curious or "rebellious". It's like a psychological balance for some people. Being told "no" really makes some people want something.

The counter of this is why underage drinking is higher in the US than elsewhere. Society made it a taboo and that attracts people. In countries with lower age limits there's less underage drinking. The culture itself doesn't see it as such a big deal and there's no pent up against.
Another context for the same words:

Vietnam could be considered the war on drugs.

If what I've read is correct, US soldiers were given amphetamine pills "like candy".
Out of curiosity... Do these same places accept contactless payment, either by card, or e-wallet (Google/Apple Pay etc.) ?
Please work on building some kind of safeguard against typosquatting and other similar angles.

The one thing that worries me with this sort of thing is the "oops, I typo'd" something factor.
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Ask HN: Where do you live and how many hours did you work this week?
If you worked unusually long or short, could comment on that too.
> the Fed has stabilized markets very well ...

> ... at the price of speculative distortions

That's really all there is to say and the main argument against Central Banks.

PS: A nice analogy would be: They got rid of the hens by burying them in eggs.
When the United States criminalized alcohol, usage went up.
The modern German word for tailor is Schneider (feminine: Schneiderin) - "cutter".
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Or -- to get this back on topic -- add more fibre to your diet and your days of messy wiping will be over [1].

[1] This is not medical advice. Terms and conditions may apply. Consult a physician and toilet paper specialist before stopping to wipe.
good job,that is awesome
Speculators also move coins between exchanges in search of better speculation opportunities, and to convert from and to "fiat" in those exchanges that allow it (but are worse for specularing)
Yup, just like gold.
I used to date a girl who would snack on raw potatoes the way regular folks snack on apples.
Or is it? If the operations are truly intended to be espionage and thus covert of course you won't hear it in the mass media, which would only tend to report busted enemy operations. CIA has massive operations everywhere. Basing everything you think on the mass media would not be smart to say the least.
> How often do we use fifths?

I can't say I use thirds much more often than fifths.
We're living in a strange culture of over optimism that thinks if we just magically change certain systems "literally everyone will be better."

No. Heroin users aren't going to magically become productive members of society just because we legalize heroin.
AI needs empathy to go places
I still control my machine. I just run software that I don't understand to get content to play.

If I wasn't able to run a certain subset of software, i.e. DRM, then my machine would be less universal, not more.
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Same here in the UK - it's ALL Chip & PIN, I can't even recall the last time I had to swipe my card[1], and I use it a LOT (yay, Airmiles!).

If the payment is <= 30 GBP, it's an offline transaction as well. Anything over that amount triggers a round trip to the backend servers.

As an aside, it's now perfectly possible to live a cashless life in the UK if you wanted to.

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[1] That said, I think ATMs read the mag-stripe... but I don't really use those either these days.
My strategy is to look for the people working there around retirement age. A lot of times they have been tradesman or contractors, and are working part time for some extra money.
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Isn't the dependency gone now? I think I read something about using WebSockets instead, although with more battery drain.
yes indeed! not everyone uses an iOS or Android device (think SailfishOS, Tizen, etc.), and government sites are essentials services for those folk too.
Thanks. I found the interface kind of hard to navigate on my 24" screen too. Mainly the the location of the "Menu" is hardest to figure out. The link to source tree is there.

If anyone else is wondering, here's the direct link to repo browser: https://fresh.flatassembler.net/fossil/repo/fresh/dir?ci=tip...
Those companies made it easier for the consumers because those companies would have never accepted non DRM Video (period).

You still can watch h264 on all modern webbrowser.

And still it is there choice how they wanna offer there content.

Don't get me wrong, i don't like DRM but it is still there choice and they are big enough to do it and the just did because it is and was there standard for there internet to reach there consumers.
The screenshots are taken in Linux: XFCE+Wine.
Fresh IDE is actually some kind of hybrid application. It works in Linux better and with more features than in Windows. :)
No example? :/
> The fear is that this makes it far too easy to use DRM for webpage owners. Previously, you had to pull in a slow-ass Flash-plugin or similar, which was very much known to bring all kinds of security issues.

"Previously" in this case would have been four years ago, would it not? Ever since then, EME has already been reality. If EME has been reality and commonplace since then, what does this W3C decision really change?

> Now you just say "DRM this" and it does it, and you have the security issues whether you use DRM or not.

> As a result, webpage owners might start DRMing things that were previously just not worth DRMing. Like images, text.

> If you want to cite a news article in the future, you might have to type it off by hand instead of copy-pasting the part.

I would like to see some evidence for that. From a very brief read of what the EME spec defines, I don't believe this is technically possible in the spec. The spec only applies to 'protect' byte streams sent to audio and video codecs. If it were possible I think we would have seen implementations already since implementations have existed since 2013.

I hate DRM as much as the next guy, but we shouldn't need FUD to get that point across.
The article is a bit more nuanced than expecting "literally everyone will be better" or "heroin users aren't going to magically become productive members of society".

'anythingnonidin has summarized a number of the points from the article here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15281949
>we made these aluminum 'handles' for the arm to grab onto. I mean - really, really basic stuff. $200K each. Engineering, overhead, testing, sales yada yada - we only ever made a few dozen.

That sounds ridiculous. Did your coworkers have a strong opinion of that, or not care?
This is funny - the same wording can be found here: http://startupjobs.asia/job/33056-backend-developer-fast-gro...
> At what point do you stop using the hammer to put in a screw and just use a screwdriver?

If you're a SV company with unlimited cash flow: never.
Any idea how make simple onboarding for public team?
Something like https://github.com/rauchg/slackin for Slack.
Thanks
Even 35-year-olds may feel ageism in tech: Google, Amazon engineers
He said gold was better, because gold doesn't cost electricity to produce whereas bitcoin does.

Thats not true, you need electricity (and other resources) to:
- mine gold
- build storage facilities to store gold
- transport the gold
It's pretty self-explanatory. Reading comprehension is important because not everything you read is going to be a pithy simple point.

To paraphrase. I'm saying I never knew who this guy was, checked into him without any bias and he's a terrible man. Even compared him to born and raised Muslim friends who are from the most extreme Islamic nation. I have tight friendships with them so they've spoken very openly to me in private, and it's Cat Stevens who makes Muslims look bad.
Thanks Matteblack (whoever you may be) - my name's Oliver and I got alerted to this mention of GorillaStack.

Without wishing to be too promotional, you can set a trigger to shut off EC2 when a cost threshold is reached. You can currently automate shut off of RDS but not yet from a cost threshold (that will be available shortly).

TLDR: we can do a lot of what you ask but not all of it.

Feel free to reach out if you'd like more info.
You can't tell from the receipt? Home depot is well known for doing EMV, and the result I see on the receipt is a lot more detailed, with listings for AID, TVR, IAD, TSI and ARC. Chip-enabled regular transactions just seem to list the AID, an Approval #, and a Transaction ID.
AWS, GCP, IBMBM. You may like Alibaba Cloud as well.
$38k for the current version ! No Way !
Can you elaborate on the "owned by Facebook" part? I couldn't find any link between OpenWhisperSystems and Facebook apart from OWS helping WhatsApp integrating their Crypto.