skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They reuse a lot of them. A lot of props come from prop shops that lend them out.

Here's an example http://i.imgur.com/mItm9Og.png
In speech recognition they fare additional 10-15% better than Markov models and are state-of-art.
CIA funded MongoDB gets India's citizen data
Yes. My bad, i meant signal.

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Not to mention the very direct human and environmental costs of mining, particularly for the mines in Africa and China.
Then it is even more damning to the head of security if they knew about the vulnerability. The ultimate person to decide whether a vulnerability is not to be patched, is the head of security.
I'm not an expert in this area but my general perception is that all those restrictions make system overall much less secure. This is simply because average users can't remember lengthy passwords and so they tend to use same password on many website or write it down somewhere insecurely. A much better approach may be just to have user use two or three words as password.
Cannibis can cause psychosis in some people, just type "cannabis psychosis" into google scholar.

The common rebuttal against this is "those people were vulnerable to psychosis from the get-go", but what does that mean when, without cannabis use, those persons might have gone their whole lives without a psychotic episode?

Edit: if you carefully read my post you might notice I'm not saying cannabis should be illegal.
Nice article on the extensibility of emacs.

On the particular case of slack, using their irc gateway one can use any irc client, which probably has already some kind of distraction-silencing method. Also, IRC bots are now slack bots. As another emacs' extensibility showoff here's an example for temporarily ignoring users[1].

Unfortunately, slack is adding more and more features every day that do not map easily to IRC.

1. http://puntoblogspot.blogspot.com.es/2014/11/temporarily-ign...
"Lifetime buys" are a thing, and also can be expensive because you don't always have a good estimate when doing so. Either you buy too many and waste $ with excess stock, or you don't buy enough then 10 years later have to scrounge for more stock at higher prices, or come up with a replacement.

It's a tough problem.
There is a huge class of money that is created when a bank issues an covered bond (backed by real estate), which is bought by a central bank.

The money is both created from thin air and at the same time connected to the underlying assets in the bond.

I'm leaning towards the opinion that it's more "air" than "matter" in that case, but you could argue that it's somehow reflecting the underlying economy somehow.
I've no crystal ball, so looking back, monopolies and incumbent monoliths encounter resistance as they mature, there are more examples of the status quo being that they wither under the weight of complexity, this is certainly not over while consumers consume content, consumers own their time, content creators own their content, everything else is middleman stuff.
Had he been sued and not been there at trial time, he'd be screwed. Judges shouldn't just dismiss the cases, they should professionally sanction the lawyers for knowingly filing fraudulent lawsuits, and fine the companies something like 3X the amount sued for.

Even if I owe money...why should I pay you? Prove you bought the loans, tomorrow someone else can ask me to pay for it again.
In many situations it is an excellent means of exchange of value. Convert your fiat to bitcoin, make a global bitcoin transaction (for a comparatively small transaction fee, and within 30 minutes), then convert the bitcoin to fiat on the other end.

That's WAY better than a bank wire, and even better than the increasingly effective service that Transferwise provides. It's also beneficial to at least one party because no bank can reverse the transaction.
> if you compare weed consumption with number of schizophrenic diagnoses then the idea that weed causes schizophrenia can be easily falsified

That's not how it works. There are many potential triggers for psychosis in general (and schizophrenia in particular), and there are reputable studies which show that cannabis consumption is one of them.

> but - of course - any psycho active substance can and will impair the mind of somebody consuming it irresponsibly.

I think it's safe to say that even responsible use can have negative effects for some people.

Likewise, the claim that micro dosing is not going to cause issues at all is unfounded and dangerous. We simply don't know enough about it to make such claims (enabling scientific research is a big argument for legalization!).
>Contacting all the places where we have autopayments set up gets to be annoying quickly.

Please elaborate on this. Do you mean changing the card numbers at all the subscriptions?
It started good then the whole article went on a tangent.
Unfortunately there are only three ways to implement decentralised webapps. Either you have trustless consensus by giving users power proportional to their physical resources where every user only has a small fraction of power. This is called blockchain with proof of work. It's extremely inefficient and therefore many usecases are not possible but it doesn't require trusting in any individual, only in the entire network. It should used for DNS, usernames or other readable identifiers that require global consensus.

The second is federation like email. Everyone has the option to become a provider or trust an existing provider. Of course the problem is that you need to trust your provider and the providers have to trust other providers. Spammers can just set up their own provider to attack other providers, so providers need the ability to block providers they disagree with. Providers don't live forever or they can become untrustworthy, there needs to be a way to export the data and import it into a new provider. You will need digitally sign all your data to prove that it came from you. There also needs to be a mechanism to confirm that user10@oldprovider is the same user as user5@newprovider and redirect from the old identifier to the new one.

The third is the least likely. A full P2P architecture where every peer is equal. Every peer will be forced to store the entire database of the application and run all computation locally. Spam will be an even bigger problem than with federation because you will have to store the spam for eternity too. The dataset will eventually become large enough that a single computer cannot store it.

I'm betting on federation. It's the middle ground between full centralisation and full decentralisation.
Signal does not fall back to sms.
Nothing prevents the seller to automatically change the price to what is the real value of the product. Bitcoin exists electronically, prices can also exist electronically.

Yes, before the internet and computers, changing the price of a product is a huge overhead. Today, it doesn't necessarily have to be.
"Help the addict but punish the dealer" is the Portugal drug policy though, and it's proven effective enough.
this is a very interesting & useful theme! thx
Spinoza's Political Philosophy too (IIRC)
Note that, as others have said, these executive only sold 4% and 17% of their holdings, respectively. It seems rather unlikely that they would risk so much for a rather negligible profit.

Regarding your question: insider trading is pretty well-policed. Conviction rate isn't really meaningful (but I'd estimate it's well above 3/4). What would be interesting is the rate of discovery, which is unfortunately impossible to know, because it's a "victimless" crime: nobody knows they've been harmed, and therefore it's impossible to find instances of insider trading without (usually) also finding the culprits.

But it's a pretty good guess that prosecution of insider trading is better today than it has ever been. Because all data is now available in digital form and can be sifted through with all sorts of advanced statistics/machine learning/etc. There's really no escape from this dragnet, because there's no way to trade without those trades showing up in the data. It's only after suspicious trades are discovered that they start following the money.
Isn't this just an artifact of different writers having differing opinions on Bitcoin? I see no reason why a magazine with N > 1 writers should have a consistent opinion across the board on bitcoins (or anything).
Cost vs benefit? The loss was acceptable enough maybe. Some of the loans are bought for 3 cents on a dollar...you get what you pay for
I don't think that any reasonable person at any point thought that blaming is a solution.

It's just important to direct blame so we can understand history and how events unfolded from that point, there are people and policies to blame and a chain reaction of events which culminated in our current situation, not necessarily we're dwelling in the past pointing fingers and then feeling good that something was solved.
Contactless transactions for smaller amounts are often offline approved without requesting approval from the bank/network. This takes off the 2-3 seconds of the transaction time.
Don’t invest in Aeron’s ICO
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Actually probably not. At least not fatally. You can apparently use two Kinects simultaneously with no serious issues.
That's... what I just said almost everyone is doing with PHP, that and not much else. Those templates are what the "Hypertext Preprocessor" part of PHP is about.
What's the 30min volatility of BTCUSD vs. the cost of a bank wire?
I just posted a slightly more detailed response in this thread related to the layout I use.

In terms of how I think it helped:

for ergonomics/back pain relief: I tend to sit up with a lot better posture now rather than 'reaching out to the right' where the traditional mouse used to be.

Over time, I'd developed some minor right side back pain and I stretched a lot and attempted better posture. It only helped so much. After I'd switched to the xbox controller, I started to feel better after a few weeks. Months later, the pain was completely gone and it hasn't come back since. I didn't make any other significant changes and I suspect my change in user input devices could be to thank.
That's a high intake, though.

A cup of day has solely positive effects, as far as I can tell from reading the research.

All things in moderation and moderation in all things.
Because they've finally entered the mainstream. The normal press cycle follows a predictable pattern to keep people interested and reading:

1. New and interesting thing that the hardcore people use

2. Hopeful stories about the potential

3. Growing excitement as adoption reaches into "real" things

4. Doubt stories

5. Attack stories

6. Non-story
London has already proven, during the month of restrictions around the Olympic Games, that it is possible to massively reduce motorised vehicle traffic within zone 1 and zone 2 during the workday without causing harm to businesses and the functioning of the city. Most people felt that the quality of life in London dramatically improved during the games, and one of the major reasons cited is reduced traffic, cleaner air, pedestrianised zones, increase in cycling, smoother traffic flow for public transport, out of hour deliveries, etc.

It's already been successfully done, there is just a lack of political will to make such measures permanent.
The ultimate value of a currency is: people with military control of an area require taxes and will accept taxes in their currency. It is legitimised by force. Everything else flows from this. If a major government starts accepting your tax bill in BTC then it is real, and not before.
There are two unstated assumptions here: 1) She had the organizational power to order patching and rollout (which is more than the power to prevent a rollout). 2) She didn't try.

You may be right. But.
Ask HN: I'm a pro; still harmed by CCleaner's malware. What could I have done?
Frustrating.

I'm a pro user (or at least that's how I consider myself, unless I suffer from the Imposter Syndrome).

I don't click links just because. I just don't. Not once in a million, not by mistake. I just don't.

I don't install software that comes from an "Unknown Publisher", even if I have to have it. I just don't.

I use CCleaner for a long time, as it's considered trusted, reliable and crap-free.

I did install the dodgy CCleaner 5.33. It was digitally signed by Piriform: https://i.imgur.com/GlDiEJM.png

And yet, it contains malware that was injected to the build process, thus got it to be as part of the "normal" program files and signed.

The trust model has broken.

What could I have done differently?
That's a high caffeine intake, though. All studies I've seen, show that a cup a day has solely positive effects.

And it's only bad for your teeth if you load it with sugar.
Is Microsoft going to be willing to share their original specs so you can build an identical controller years down the track? Given we're talking military here reverse engineering to remake wouldn't be acceptable.
This means I now have an excuse to avoid paying for content eve further.

You didn't want to play nice, so never will I, I will continue to torrent stuff from majors while continuing to participate in crowdfunding and supporting indies.

You wanted that, not me!
It's a much older joke than that though.
I wish I could report these kinds of newspapers with paywalls. Hacker News should ban these sites. It doesn't make sense to share news nobody can read.
Hey, I am on the chat picture :D (beginning of the fame, look at me mom)
I think those look like raw numbers, rather than adjusted by volume of use. To be comparable you would probably have to compare number of deaths per non-motorway miles travelled or something similar.

To add some more anecdata, I walk to/from work in central London every day. I will admit that I do occasionally see motor vehicles breaking traffic laws, but I see an order of magnitude more cyclists breaking the rules. I have both experienced, and witnessed multiple near-misses by cyclists ignoring the traffic rules/laws.

As there's no need for registration there's never any repercussions, so why not?

I'm sure in some cases there are justifications (it's dangerous travelling next to motor vehicles, so safer to cross major junctions in pedestrian phases), but as a pedestrian I have to not only make sure I'm looking out for when it's my turn to use a crossing, motor vehicles disobeying rules, and also cyclists who could come from any direction at any time at any speed. I think this is probably where the negative opinions of cyclists comes from.

But I've also witnessed pedestrians ignoring traffic signals and almost walking into cyclists as well. So in conclusion, people are the worst.
Neural network controllers for bipedal robots that grant them adaptability, efficiency and elegance of movemeny.
> ... bought for 3 cents on a dollar ...

So some jerk is buying a $50K loan for $1.5K. But trying to collect $50K, plus fees and penalties. And ruining someone's credit in the process.

That's insane.
"and still suck the profits out of the illegal market. "

Not really.

If you create a big series of regulations and taxes around drugs - then there will still be a huge secondary, black market.

The 'war on drugs' will therefore continue - even as you 'legalize' drugs. Double whammy.

Take cigarettes - a much milder health concern:

"the total U.S. tobacco market represented by illicit sales has grown in recent years and is now between 8.5 percent and 21 percent." [1]

So now you have to 'fight a war on drugs' - and deal with the massive health-care crisis from the considerably more people who well get hooked on opioids, barbiturates etc..

[1] http://sites.nationalacademies.org/dbasse/claj/us_illicit_to...
As someone who occasionally helps people with their web server/TLS/Let's Encrypt configuration, my experience is that there is a world of difference between a web server merely giving you the tools you'd need for a (relatively) sane OCSP and auto-renewal configuration, and one that takes care of everything. You should not need the amount of specialized knowledge you currently need to correctly configure OCSP on HAProxy or nginx, for example.

Failure to renew a certificate (for any number of reasons) and missing intermediate certificates are the most common issues, and both of these are essentially solved with a web server that supports ACME natively. The same applies to OCSP stapling - we're not going to achieve ubiquitous stapling support on the server side if every server admin needs to deploy a bash script calling to openssl because the native OCSP implementation in their web server is broken.
I'm going to take a look at that

I ran into the precision issue as well, but my brain eventually figured out how to deal with it. I use the left analog pad for higher precision tasks
Because bullshit statements like "Bitcoin will rise no matter what. Atleast for 5 more years." are increasingly annoying.
While we are just having opinions on things I'll say pedestrians on their phones are the biggest danger to pedestrians of all.
As I've explained in overwhelming detail in this thread, I sent about 800 e-mail messages to VCs and got back essentially nothing. What I sent was never like what I posted here for the technical HN audience.

For nearly all the 800 or so, I started with something very short, e.g., an executive summary or an elevator pitch. I gave a sample below at

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15283099

and will repeat it for you here:

--- Executive Summary, Elevator Pitch ---

There are about 3 billion Internet users in the world. There is a problem (I can explain very quickly but won't explain in public yet but have explained to lots of VCs) that is pressing for essentially all those users but so far solved at best poorly. I have developed an excellent, and the first good, solution, now in software about ready to go live. Ballpark, good users will visit my Web site solution a few times a week, and from simple arithmetic the company should relatively soon be worth ballpark $1 T.

That pitch or anything like it, just that, or with more below, as text in e-mail or in a nicely done PDF foil deck, revised dozens of times, polished, etc. is a non-starter. No VC in the country will touch it with a pole 5 miles long.

My other posts to this tread today have some guesses just why.

When I first considered VC funding, I had some projects that needed some equity funding. No VC wanted to fund those projects.

So, I cooked up my present project with planning that I could take the project to live on the Web, good revenue, plenty of revenue for rapid growth, with that growth plenty of revenue for much more rapid growth, ..., all the way to a very successful company and, maybe exit and lots of financial security for myself and my family, all as 100% owner with no equity funding at all. Well, I'm nicely on track for just that, with the software in alpha test and essentially ready to go live.

I just didn't want to depend on VCs or report to a BoD.

I still have some interest in VCs as, say, backup in case of some financial emergency or just as sources of feedback.

But I've found that VCs essentially, it's easy to conclude, just really hate everything about my work! Everything! Really hate!

I wasted a LOT of time contacting VCs, for all the projects I've tried including the present one. My view is that VCs have Web sites that mislead entrepreneurs, get the entrepreneurs to contact, often strain to contact, VCs, and then the VCs, finally apparently with perverse pleasure, just ignore the entrepreneurs. The claims on the VC Web sites are 90+% total BS.

So, I didn't get pissed -- I got way beyond pissed.

But I've mostly gotten over being pissed -- I just accept that VCs are a bunch of losers that, on average, actually are not making much money.

So, here on HN, in response to the OP, I am responding to warn other HN entrepreneurs that mostly VCs are just a waste of time. Even if you get their check, you have to put up with them on your BoD, and that's not going be a picnic either.
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"A random sample of nearly 400 National Collegiate loans found not a single one had assignment paperwork documenting the chain of ownership, according to a report they had prepared."
https://mobile.nytimes.com/2017/07/17/business/dealbook/stud...

Why aren't judges fining them /their lawyers? Can I sue John Doe and demand that he pay me the money he took for his mortgage? Before filing a lawsuit, the "I bought your loan so pay me" chain should be settled in an acceptable way. Otherwise it's fraud.
Hayek didn't really adequately defend a deflationary currency at all. Hayek was attacking a related, but different underconsumptionist argument that consumption was more important than investment.

The argument against [sustained] deflation is that investment will be reduced along with consumption. In order for investment to take place, it is necessary [though not sufficient] for the investor to expect to earn a money profit as a result. In the case of sustained deflation resulting from an economy being tied to a fixed supply of money, the expected money return on an average investment over a time period is negative (especially after adjusting for risk) and the expected real return to burying money in the garden is positive. Thus the money stock is more likely to be buried in the garden and less likely to be invested in production, with the result that less stuff is produced and sold than otherwise could have been.

The best thing that can be said about Hayek's argument as a defence of this is that he points out that profitable companies confident of still having a market in future might still be inclined to invest money in cutting production costs (which is true, and necessary for the deflation to be sustained, otherwise you can expect prices of goods to start rising again in future as a result of greatly reduced production) but there's no reason to expect that level of investment to not be lower than an economy where nobody is incentivised to hoard.

(the original paper is included in this compendium for those interested http://www.hayek.sk/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/hayekcollecti...)
Blendle allows you to get your money back. I've used it quite often and as a result I've spent more on news through Blendle than I've spent on news throughout my life. I think that model can be quite effective.
If you hurt someone while driving a bike or any other vehicle there are repercussions, if at fault you will probably be arrested, and charged with crimes up to manslaughter:

https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2017/sep/18/cyclist...

Cars are far more dangerous, just by virtue of being heavier vehicles.
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Telegram privacy is not "good enough" for a commonly used communication platform. Most messages are actually stored in plain-text on middleware servers.

I'd be surprised if some state actors don't have access most Telegram messages.
That could be the case sometimes but not usually for high frequency whines. They're can be pretty loud and annoying, and they fade in and out simply by moving - not turning - your head.
I think they're in the process of rolling out in the US and Germany as well.
Ethereum Sure Can Competition Visa
If I understand your argument, you're saying that I'm a 'creditor' to my bank when I deposit money there that they are obliged to return on demand. Fair enough, but the reason I deal with banks is that it's cheaper than protecting my assets personally. Cryptocurrency is cheaper than dealing with the banks.

So if I find a dollar on the beach and pick it up, what liability has been created by my having a new asset? Are you saying that the potential to find the dollar was some sort of collective asset that I've turned into a liability? That seems like an unnecessarily complicated way of looking at things.

The only thing that can keep the pension system going is a growing population paying into it. Pensions are the ultimate pyramid scheme, the idea that bonds are a safe private asset... safe compared to what, and how safe on an absolute basis?