skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Pandora and her friends routinely open their boxes at around 15. Age of puberty has been decreasing rapidly since the advent of industrialization and the increase in nutrition and general health and hyper-abundance of synthetic estrogen in consumables, in western societies at least. In america it is between 9 and 13, for girls. A bit more for boys.

To demand that a horny 13 year old girl not fuck for half a decade to satisfy some arb moral code, is stupid.
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Bitcoin is becoming solely a speculation object with great negative effects on the environment.
OK but what if it's hauling out of a pit?
The Wikipedia article isn't a bad start. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Expert_system

I have previously built an expert system - a system of codified expert human knowledge built into a system of executable, interrelated rules. Rule engines are the execution engines of expert knowledge in an expert system. The RETE algorithm is another good place to start.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Business_rules_engine
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inference_engine
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rete_algorithm

When I was first learning, I downloaded and played with CLIPS, a pretty cool old expert system tool built by NASA.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/CLIPS
I wouldn't hold up any Century Series aircraft as an example of anything other than extravagant expenditure. They were all garbage when compared against the actual missions they needed to perform. That was mostly the result of brain dead acquisitions on the part of the DoD.
Ah, gotcha. Isn't it a bit scary seeing people argue for prison time for this? It's pretty easy to imagine webdevs becoming the actual targets / scapegoats rather than the execs.

A note of "Well, let's not be too hasty" would seem to be in order.

Part of the problem is that security breaches matter, but they don't matter. It's like the negative externality of factory pollution. One day perhaps the effects will become visible, but this disaster is about as bad as you can get and it's still not obvious that a lot of people are going to lose anything significant from the breach. If someone wanted to impersonate you, they can usually find a way already.

Of course, if the 140M SSNs become public, that will change the situation completely. Possibly even for the better: then we'd finally stop relying on them to be secret when they were never designed to be.

Believe it or not, the situation now is drastically better than it was a decade ago. People care about getting pentests now. You can grudgingly force a company to fork over the money.

One of the best ways to get companies to become more secure is to force them. Most of the companies who were being pentested didn't want to be; they were forced to, because some other business refused to do business with them until they produced a document stating they were reasonably secure. This special document is only obtainable from a security firm; hence, pentests happen, and the world is marginally more secure.
I understand you are trying to be helpful, and of course you are right, but the fact is that sometimes things fall between the cracks, especially in, say, hard-pressed startups.

There are so many shoulds in the world that don't make it to dids, it reminds me of the joke about the salesman trying to sell farming improvement techniques and being turned down by the old farmer, who says, "Son, I don't farm half as good as I know how to already."

Unfortunately, I have not found the PyPI group as helpful as you have. Perhaps I have been looking in the wrong places.
I think while the technical differences could be resolved the biggest blocker would be cultural. Musk has been super aggresive in rolling out more and more self driving features, where as Google and everyone else seems to be much more cautious.
Ask HN: What can't you do in Excel? (2017)
Was just Googling around for whether Excel (sans VBA scripting of course) is Turing-complete, in order to decide whether telling a layperson that Excel (or spreadsheeting in general) can be considered very much like programming. Came across this 2009 HN thread, "Ask HN: What can't you do in Excel?" from pg:

> One of the startups in the current YC cycle is making a new, more powerful spreadsheet. If there are any Excel power users here, could you please describe anything you'd like to be able to do that you can't currently? Your reward could be to have some very smart programmers working to solve your problem.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=429477

What significant advances -- in Excel/spreadsheets, not the Turing-complete thing -- have been made in the 8 years since? What's the YC startup from that cycle that "is making a new, more powerful spreadsheet", and what is it doing today? I remember Grid [0], but that was from 2012. Any other companies make innovations that would overturn the spreadsheet paradigm, or at least be copied by Excel/OO/GSheets?

A commenter mentioned "Queries", since many spreadsheet users use spreadsheets like a database. I just recently noticed that GSheets has a QUERY function [1] that uses "principles of Structured Query Language (SQL) to do searches). The function has been around since 2015 (according to Internet Archive [2]) so perhaps I ignored it because its description then was simply, "Runs a Google Visualization API Query Language query across data."

It appears that "Visualization API Query Language" has a lot of SQL-type features with the immediately obvious exception of joins [3].

edit: Multiple people said they would like Excel to have online functionality, i.e. like Google Sheets, but being able to accept VBA and any other features of legacy Excel spreadsheets. There's now Excel Online but I haven't used it (still sticking to Office 2011 for Mac if I ever need to use Excel instead of GS). How seamless is the transition from offline, legacy Excel files to online Excel?

[0] http://blog.ycombinator.com/grid-yc-s12-reinvents-the-spreadsheet-for-the/

[1] https://support.google.com/docs/answer/3093343?hl=en

[2] http://web.archive.org/web/20150319144449/https://support.google.com/docs/answer/3093343?hl=en

[3] https://developers.google.com/chart/interactive/docs/querylanguage
Sometimes I look at the objects my father bought for me before he died - a toy train, a film camera - stuff I can get for $10 at a store, but they mean a lot more to me than that.
It comes down to whether people have a reasonable expectation of sexual conduct at work.

If the answer is no, then if it makes someone uncomfortable you have to drop it.

This is not the same as every kind of thing that can make someone uncomfortable. Should people reasonably expect to have their performance reviewed at work? Yes. So if it makes them uncomfortable, too bad...
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Prevailing theory is that the price is manipulated by the bitcoin central bank, aka Bitfinex's Tether minting & counterfeiting scheme.

https://www.reddit.com/r/btc/comments/7059hr/more_25_million...

https://www.reddit.com/r/btc/comments/6xpddt/as_20m_more_tet...

https://twitter.com/Bitfinexed
You're just trying to get me to fill my search history with queries like "age of consent in Juarez" aren't you?
What does AWS do when someone moves 500PB of storage off of their systems? Do they sit idle till some other big customer comes along or is their growth so phenomenal that a 500PB move off doesn't even slow new (storage) deployments at all and just keep up their pace?
I "agree".
TouchID had a much lower bar to clear, just be better than a pin or password.

FaceID has to be at least as good as TouchID or it is a step back for the iPhone.
The Amish (and the rest of the US) would be just fine with a small fraction of current military expenditures.
That would help with the unlock step, but then how do you interact with the phone? The touchscreen wont work well as you've said putting in the pin isn't easy.
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It's fine to assume that people under 18 lack the necessary power and sophistication to meaningfully decide whether or not to have sex. But then we must also assume that they lack the necessary power and sophistication to meaningfully decide to commit rape.

Deciding that someone is both a rape victim and a rapist at the same time, for the same act, isn't an unfortunate sacrifice around the edge cases of heuristic reasoning. It's categorically insane.

States have typically balanced this against the desire to prohibit "relationships" with vast power differentials (i.e. between a child and a middle-aged adult) by carving out exceptions to statutory rape for consenting couples who are close in age. Others have just relied on police and prosecutors not to bring cases against teenage couples, and been mostly successful outside of a some newsworthy examples met with public outcry.
> selling $600 million of stock to the public so that it can go out and hunt for a unicorn to take public

Holy shit. They're literally selling a chance for your money to be spent on potentially nothing. I'm not one to usually cry that the sky is falling/it's a bubble, but this is getting ridiculous.
> No victim means no crime

This isn't true in the least. Jaywalking and speeding can be done in a world with "population: 1", yet caught on camera would constitute a crime.
Well sure, I don't want to blame a person though. I'm sure there's enough blame to go around. It sure looks fishy though that this person is being swept under the rug.

Either she is the scapegoat, or she knows who is responsible for this. I'd love to have her on record to testify about the culture and what happened some time before they've effectively paid her to go away, and stashed her somewhere off the coast of Bermuda.
One of my passengers tried Naltrexone to get her drinking under control, maybe a dozen years ago. While on that drug, she couldn't drink enough to make all her problems go away so she discontinued it. I met her after her third DUI & almost 2 years in prison...

Addiction is multi-faceted.

Thx for the radiolab link.
Well yes of course, we should curtail the freedoms of bosses to be abusive, steal wages, and generally behave horribly to his or her employees in the same we curtail the freedoms of a physically large man to physically assault others.

And even if that isn't okay for you, there are plenty of ways to do this without even curtailing anyone's "freedoms" to be abusive: we can provide government jobs to all workers if they want them and require managers at government run institutions behave decently, for example, as we did in the New Deal.
The problem with the pin is that you can easily see people entering them, and then you can easily get in. With TouchID and FaceID that part is a lot more difficult.
Oh, it's almost completely impractical in the real world.

First and foremost, it would make at least a heavy minority if not a majority of people rather unhappy. Because of a wagon-load of reasons (excessive work hours, moving to a new city for work separating you from most of your pre-existing social network, general difficulty of making new friends as an adult), work friends are the core of most people's social networks nowadays. If you eliminate work friends, you'd leave a lot of us more-or-less friendless, isolated, and sad.

It also becomes complicated when you consider that some work inherently involves discussing your personal opinions. What business practices are ethical, aesthetics of design, editorial choices.

Finally, employees must be able to discuss matters of common interest directly, to organize against management in both traditional matters of worker interest (conditions, pay, benefits) and to express a collective opinion about the direction of the company (eg, when the company takes actions the employees believe are unethical). This also requires employees be able to express potentially objectionable opinions to each other.

But as a model of professional behavior, it would make everything so much simpler if you never said one extra word to or treated the person in the next desk/cube/office in the slightest way different, inside the workplace, regardless of whether they're your best friend, your spouse, your kidney donor, your childhood bully, your crush, your worst enemy, or your closest relative. If you work with your best friend, finish your work, leave the office, and then talk to them about sports or your porn collections.
Also the currency of choice in the billion dollar drug market.
Care to explain the negative effects? Worse than the fraud JP Morgan committed?
Isn't fiat the largest drug currency by far? I assume in crypto that would be Monero or some other privacy focused coin nowadays.
Firefox does also have those completely separate profiles. Container Tabs are a new thing on top of that.
Thank you very much for information. I'll look into it since Travis Mac builds sometimes so annoyingly slow so for majority of builds we can just use cross compiler.
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Shapeshift to Monero before or after! Doesn't really matter.

Try buying cocaine from your local neighborhood cartel, contrast that to receiving shipments in the mail. World of difference as far as safety/security.
...and now she's <cough>fired </cough>retired.

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Clearly, you are oblivious or willfully ignorant of the massive amount of innovative development occurring in the space.
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Seriously, 12 people controlling all of that sounds like a liability. Are they allowed to meet all together?
It started out that way, too.
>A more sane legal adult age would probably be around 25

Depends on whether maturity is reached 25 years after birth, or 7 years after you start to make your own decisions.
What you propose in the last paragraph sounds like Reddit.
(replying to your "What if $40k for a pentest becomes a rubber stamp?" question, which was an important observation)

Mm, it can become that. It's important to get a pentest from a reputable firm. At the one I worked at, it was a point of pride to come up with clever attacks. We'd make a sport of it and try to one-up each other. But it's easy to imagine some other pentest firm just going through the motions, running Nessus and calling it a day.

Unfortunately, that's where money really does make a difference. $40k is at the low end of how absurdly expensive pentests are. Yet they make all the difference -- one app that I pentested was at a trading firm. I took that app from "typing ' leads to SQLi in their Node backend," and "there was SQLi in their Java backend if you were clever" to "you'd have to be more clever than me if you want to breach this app."

Most attacks come from unsophisticated adversaries. This implies that raising the bar higher than these guys gets you 80% of the way home. The other 20% is much harder, but it's doable if your company has a culture of caring about security.
Huh? You deduct CapEx cost over the depreciation period (server hardware is usually 3-5 years). Not sure what you mean by "CapEx is not".
Serious Q: what are some specific innovations you have seen and are not necessarily well known?
I recently misplaced one of my 32GB SD Micro cards I was using to have an alternate image for my Raspberry Pi. So I just bought another one for the price of a half-decent lunch.

And I did have a flashback to my first hard drive, all 220 glorious megabytes of it, and a great deal more expensive than "a decent lunch", and get a sweet hit of that yeah... I am in the future, aren't I? feeling.
Probably a reference to the massive amount of energy (especially relative to the twins) of all the CPU cycles going into mining
Matt's response https://caddy.community/t/the-realities-of-being-a-foss-main...
What currency is not being used in the drug market?

I would love to have a rational debate and hear objective arguments agaisnt bitcoin vs gold that can be applied uniquely to bitcoin or rather that dont apply to both.

Scarcity?
No intrinsic value? Speculative?
Thefts?
Used in illicit ways?

All these apply to both gold and bitcoin.

"Gold has been historically valuable to humans". So have many other rocks, flowers, spices, etc.

I am geniuenly interested in seeing why Bitcoin should fail as being a store of value.
Ordinary people spend their time avoiding tense situations. Repo man spends his time getting into tense situations.

Though Paris Texas is my favorite. The two confessions in the sex shop is, to me, one of the most intensely moving scenes in all of film.
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While we're on the subject, PDF software typically supports embedding just a subset of the font, containing only the characters used in the document, to save space.
Here's a link to the video interview from 2016 that was erased from YouTube a few days ago, on September 10 after it was first reported:

http://evilrouters.net/media/susan_mauldin_cazena_interview_...

The HN thread that found another copy:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15262026

The first story that broke, drawing attention to this story before it was wiped out by "user":

https://hollywoodlanews.com/equifax-chief-security-officer/

There's still one video interview from that story which we can't account for, but this one gives a pretty good picture of the CISO and the person Susan Mauldin.

I think it's criminal (possibly quite literally) that this information is being suppressed by whoever has taken the original interviews down. I want to hear more from Susan Mauldin, but the appearance is they want her to disappear.
I think that could work. Most of our great leaps of medicine spring not from cutting-edge tech, but from the germ theory of disease. Vaccines, antibiotics, sterile drinking water, proper sewage disposal. These have saved billions of lives. Along with a decent understanding of how the human body works (no four humors) to guide us, that suffices for most stuff.
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This case is such atrocious abuse of power. The fallout from this case did not affect nearly enough people. Think of all the enablers of this behavior at the various stages. The patriarchy has much of America in their clutch at various levels of so-called "public" service. Why was this man never reported? Everyone covered up for him. Standard operating procedure for America.
100% of it would be tax-deductible. Corporations don't pay tax on any money spent on salaries, equipment, expenses, etc. Whether there would be ADDITIONAL subsidies, I do not know.
Dramatically more convenient is having 3 grocery stores within 4 blocks, so you can buy groceries in small batches every other day, or wheel a wagon over for a larger load.
Worse than mining for gold? We have ample stockpiles above ground...
Wrong. It is your interpretation that this is an irreplaceable key. You are trying to say that a design is wrong, because you believe that your implementation would be wrong.

Uniqueness is a different property from replaceability. And, replaceability is not necessarily the correct property to design for, key rotation and recovery from loss are the properties. What you want is the ability to rotate keys and recover from the loss of keys.
"Since you uploaded a video which was removed from Youtube, your Google Driving account has been permanently revoked."
I haven't studied it, but the general compaint seems to be it takes a fair amount of power to run the computers to generate coins, validate transactions. (enough to power over 1,000,000 american homes, by some accounts[1]) China has some of there mines near hydropower (the cheapest power source).

[1] https://blockgeeks.com/bitcoins-energy-consumption/

https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/qkvxk3/chinas-big...

https://qz.com/1026605/photos-chinas-bitcoin-mines-and-miner...
It's where the historical data of memory prices start on his source:
http://jcmit.net/memoryprice.htm
If you don't believe me, this headline is from june 2017. Not even Hillary Clinton, as an NY senator, chose to tackle this issue.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/new-york-ends-child-marriage-ra...
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I think the main point is not who suffers, but who cares and why. We have a lot of people suffering around due to lots of reasons, but don't actually care to fix that. E.g. "abortion" after birth is biologically rejected by many, because it completely contradicts the evolutional efforts of a group to survive and reproduce. That's why children make many of us happy — if you're not happy or careful enough, then they're quickly dead, and your group is dead. Other animals have different strategies, from having hundreds of children to being pregnant for years, so child is ready to fall to the ground and go travel in five minutes.

Suffering has nothing to do with it, it's just a biological motivator for both parent and child to escape pre-reproduction death with insignificant side-effects like really, really missing a nice car or just an ice cream.

But while this topic is naturally highly dependent on "local" social rules, I think modern society should put responsibility and planning on the first place. If someone is not very sure that s/he can raise, care of, or simply enjoy the parenthood, it must be okay to abort it, unless that overweights all imaginable social programs. Like killing born children, for one. With modern society atomization and precision, abortion absolutely falls into "not your business" category in most places, unless one has very conservative and/or intrusive religious views, which is a bad thing itself, given how many completely different minds have to interact now on daily basis.
Is there a website that could interpret tbis... iPython notebook, I think it is? I'd love to read it on mobile.
Wow, awesome. Is there a paypal link where I can donate to support this? Or some other way?
Can anyone from Mozilla here explain what this is written in, or how it works?

"Containers" makes me immediately think of Docker-like containerized applications, which I suspect is not actually the case here.