skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Remember the trend is almost 40 years old, starting in 1980:

Yields on 10-year U.S. Treasuries hit an all-time low yesterday. Before you spin a story using recent events: remember long rates have been trending down for thirty odd years. And that’s true in most advanced economies. So think bigger than jobs day or Brexit or liftoff. And while I’ve got you thinking in decades not data releases … also consider that the share high-growth young firms, aggregate productivity growth, and general satisfaction have all been trending down since early 2000s. And again not unique to the United States.

No single factor has a chance at explaining all these trends … Still I think a common thread of population aging and reduced risk taking is worth exploring. The idea that aging can change individual behavior is nothing new but sometimes the gradual and the familiar are easy to discount. Also, and a bit more provocatively, I want to argue that effects of population aging go well beyond the behavior and views of older individuals.

..As we age, we are less willing to take risks.

In numerous studies, including my job market paper, older individuals are less willing to take risks than younger ones. In fact, I was able to see how much risk tolerance changed with age (and other factors) in decade-long panel study of older adults. Aging by a decade led to a 17 percent decline in risk tolerance. For comparison, women were 14 percent less risk tolerant than men, on average, even after taking into account several other observables including age. My main takeaway from this work was that persistent differences across individuals create more variation in the willingness to take risks than the changes within person over time. However, of the factors that seem to cause risk preferences to change, aging was by far the most robust in my data and shows up in other studies, including those with younger adults.

http://www.smashcompany.com/business/the-decline-of-entrepre...

Also:

"Where are all the startups? U.S. entrepreneurship near 40-year low"

http://money.cnn.com/2016/09/08/news/economy/us-startups-nea...
Hopefully, that they don't fear displacement so much as to be unable to see that equality is not a zero sum game.
> but they can't duck accountability

for what? they have no obligation to do anything besides follow the letter of the law. Anything else is your morals vs. theirs.
I have a question: when we say, zero-knowledge proofs, they are not really "zero-knowledge" right?

Going back to your public-private key example, the way someone proves their identity is by giving you some information that only the private key can generate.

However, in the event that the person is not who they say they are, don't the gain some information (that the thing they gave it is incorrect)?

A way I see to counter this is to make it indistinguishable whether or not the information was correct to the prover. Instead of saying, "incorrect password", you would give them access to an empty account.
Alcohol improving second language acquisition is something I remember hearing of in a Spanish class years ago, and it seems like there is some research to back it up:

https://linguistics.stackexchange.com/questions/1901/how-doe...
I train new technical hires at Fortune 500 financial institutions so this article struck a chord with me.

One of the key points that I leave my cohort with overlaps with the OP's point about fresh perspectives. The hires I'm with are up to speed with the newest languages, newest frameworks, and newest tools. I encourage them over and over to try to bring that knowledge into their roles.
Well many parts of the BBC (tech wise) got outsourced/tuped circa 2003, saw lots of good people go and the whole of new media (web aspect) got decimated back then with cuts.

I know this as I worked for the BBC at the time.
Ask HN: What do you think are the most critical single words to know?
You're visiting a foreign country and you only have time to memorise 10 words. Ten. Single. Words.

What words would you choose?
Romania is part of the EU. If there was really a demand, companies would move in. That’s not a platitude, it’s how things work. Just like saying that balls fall back to the ground when you throw them up.

Articles that don’t cite statistical data but rather anecdotes aren’t “evidence” of anything. That’s not what evidence is. What they really reflect is minorities projecting their views onto the majority. For example, I personally find web business models perplexing. Why would you want to watch advertising and data mining when you could just pay $50 a month or whatever for content? But I resign myself to the fact that I’m a minority and people really do prefer that insanity to honest monetary transactions.
lol they literally just made their full financials public
Some topics are know to "generate a lot of heat, but not much light". A lot of people don't want those articles -- and more importantly -- the discussion they bring, sucking up all the metaphorical oxygen on Hacker News.

I personally think some of these topics are, in fact, important enough that it would be good if we could discuss them here, but realistically, we'd need much more robust moderation for those discussions than what Hacker News provides.
I’m actually super curious to know now the total resource consumption of one video ad versus one hash computation for mining purposes (including bandwidth and battery consumption). The thing with mining is that, since it’s basically a lottery system, you can do as much or as little as you want. With sufficient scale, you could do a few computations and stop when you feel the user has “paid” for access to your page.
My bet:

1. Advertisers don't want to be featured on an ISIS recruitment video, or something like that.

2. Google implements a filter. It is fuzzy and based on machine learning, because Google are strong believers of machine learning.

3. The algorithm let a single ISIS recruitment video through. Advertisers form a coalition and yell "NO ISIS RECRUITMENT VIDEOS!"

4. This forces Google to implement either whitelists, or tune the algorithm for detecting bad content such that it produces a lot of false positives.

5. Most people are now demonetized, and since the system is based on machine learning, it is not possible for Google to tell you exactly why the neural network decided what it did.

It is clear that the current demonitization algorithm hits unfairly hard on content creators. It forces them to run a Patreon-model. I'm willing to bet that Youtube is now powerful enough that people are willing to pay for content and no ads for certain channels, so in the end this is not necessarily good for advertisers.
That might have been the theory of security questions early on. But by now I'm sure I've filled out security questions dozens of times. Whatever the intent, from my perspective as a user, they're in the "speed bump" category of security.

For things like house, car, and life savings, I'm perfectly glad to go somewhere with physical ID. Heck, I'd love to see police stations offering this as a municipal service. Lying via internet form is pretty easy. Walking into a building with 100 cops bearing fake ID is a whole different level.
It isn't illegal for concerts to be spread by word of mouth or for their tickets to be sold for cash.
By multisig can be done with paper wallets, hardware wallets, and online right?
That's the crux of the "trickle down" theory, that eventually money will make its way to normal Americans. Arguably, the rising inequality in the post-Reagan years is proof that the theory is flawed and that very few individuals and small businesses actually see any benefit.

Taxation theories aside, parent proposed repatriation as a solution but past experience showed it to be less effective than the proponents claim.
According to Google, the "machine is learning every day": https://twitter.com/TeamYouTube/status/911340451696971776

I wonder how long it'll take!
"“There was no control over women hiring women... No eyebrows are going to rise if a woman heads up fashion,” Mr. Parsons said. “But we’re talking about women staffing positions — things like autos — where it cannot be explained other than manipulation.”"

Really? "Cannot be explained"? Absolutely zero chance women who liked cars also wanted a workplace where grabass was going to be less acceptable?

Jesus christ, men.
But what makes you think that any of that money would be any more easily available to small businesses than now? We’re talking about money owned by Apple and similar multinationals here (and banks no doubt), and of course by the Trump organisation.
It depends. Do you have a fixed date to have the product ready? Is it custom?
Sub-Saharan Africa is almost entirely free of Neanderthal DNA except for some groups who acquired a bit through introgression from Eurasian modern humans.

Various sources of Archaic admixture have been observed or postulated for different modern human groups; determinations about their similarity to modern humans are made in broader grounds. As a practical matter, taxonomic distinctions between different hominid species/subspecies are generally retained until sufficient evidence accumulates to justify dissolving the boundaries. The idea that archaic groups like Neanderthals were very cognitively sophisticated has been around for a long time; the question is whether it is more informative to maintain them as different taxa.
>What are the benefits of paper wallets over a hardware wallet or storing it online?

If you only have bitcoin on a single hardware wallet, then if that hardware wallet fails to work one day, then you're boned. Paper wallets are easy to maintain and visually verify the integrity of (they're just ink on paper). Definitely recommend people using them keep multiple copies in different locations though.

By online:

* if you meant in a computer connected to the internet, then if your computer gets malware then it could steal your bitcoin.

* if you meant in an online exchange, then you have the above issue (malware could steal your login info) combined with the issue that the exchange could go offline / lose your money / run away with your money. (See MtGox, btc-e, etc.)

>Also, is it me or are people more paranoid with their Bitcoins than others with their USDs?

If money is stolen from your bank account, then the bank will reverse the transaction. Bitcoin transactions can't be reversed like that, so their security is solely in the user's hands.
This is the point that various people such as Maciej Cegłowski have been making - if they had a policy which banned that word, we could argue about it; but if they have an algorithm that emits the same result but without explanation, it's much harder to make criticism stick. And unless people go to special effort, the algorithm will pick up the prejudices of the training data.
In this thread (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14384430), multiple people claimed that 7 days was the limit.
If you sell your company:
+ You will be financially secure

+ You won't be taking any risk so your life will be easier

+ It will be dead easy to raise when you start a new company

+ You will have more reputation thanks to the exit

- The potential of the company may be much higher

- Your life will no longer be fun if you love what you're doing right now.

If you don't sell your company:

+ If thing go well, you can be the founder of a unicorn

+ It will be more fun if you love what're doing.

- One of the big enterprise companies that wants to buy you may build the same product and try to kill your company

- The fundraising may take so much time and stressful for you

- Even if you fundraise, things might not go well and lose $14M.

I would think about all of them at first and sort them by their priority and then it will be easier for you to decide.
I thought it would make a cool movie device if you encrypt your paper wallet in a 2-of-3 method. Then store 2 parts in different safety deposit boxes in different countries and carry the 3rd on you. The movie then revolves about getting your cash while on the run from several governments.

I bet James Bond uses bitcoin.
You'll be back...

It really is addictive. It's a great way to experience part of what it's like to be a ham radio operator. Pretty soon, you'll be over at one of the ARRL sites, taking the practice exams, and applying for a test date.

Why yes, yes those keywords are unintentional. I wouldn't want you to go searching and find a new hobby, or anything like that.

chuckles

I'd get a license but I'm happy just listening. It's already a time sink. I can't imagine what it would do to my free time if I actually had a way to respond.

Some of them do crazy stuff like use the moon for signal propagation... I'm not kidding. They will intentionally bounce signals off the moon, and do it successfully, to do two way communication. It's so common, they have a on acronym for it. They call it EME, Earth Moon Earth. Sometimes, they do it off Venus.

So, once you get the bug you can kiss your free time goodbye. But, you'll have a lot of new friends and be able to do cool stuff - including helping out in emergencies. Hams only provide communications, not actual rescues or anything.

Don't worry, you'll learn all about it when you join your local radio club. It's destiny, you might as well not fight it.
If it violated the TOS they would just take the video down. Talking about sex, even with very explicit language, isn't against YouTube's rules. Heck they'll sell you softcore porn! NSFW https://www.youtube.com/results?q=red+shoe+diaries&sp=EgIQBF...
I'm a bit suspicious of the hype + Ticker symbol. The Ticker Symbol for Spark Therapeutics is "ONCE". It is a $3bn valued company although is doesn't look like it has any revenue (around $1.5m) and has a huge deficit of -$74m (probably will be higher for the next year).

Seems like I have seen this movie before...
Just curious about your own binary protocol. If your object has an int32 value, but the value could actually be represented with only 12 bits, do you send the entire int value (32 bits) or only the 12 bits needed to reconstruct the number?

I also used DO for a low-tickrate game (2ticks/second), but it doesn't seem like the servers are able to handle multiple game servers running at 60FPS.

If you were to implement the game again, would you rethink your networking so you don't have 2TB of data transfer for only 200 players?
He says, trying to make a humorous analogy to further his political ideals.
The only conclusion I can make from this article is to avoid services hosted in the USA but even that is not guaranteed to work -- having in mind that US agents have been known to go abroad to request access to foreign company's servers. (They were even supposedly thrown out from Iceland once -- assuming that wasn't a honey pot propaganda operation to lure people to host stuff in Iceland, of course.)

What's left for the people who aren't criminals but don't like being spied on? PGP and keys that are exchanged physically, by hand?

If somebody can physically spy on the infrastructure cables that your traffic goes through, will SSL protect you? As written in the article -- no it will not, because the certificate can be obtained, even if it takes some time and strong-arm effort to do so. But when a country can order you to give up private keys and keep quiet about it, really, what can you do?

At this point, full decentralization, mesh networking and something times better than Tor encoded in 100% of the network code seems to be the only way out. Maybe a combination of IPFS and FreeNet, full packet-level encryption and keys that expire in 1 minute and are auto-generated for every transaction?
I never thought I would say this: but is this thing available as video or audio? It seems to be the transcript of a lecture, and I would like to listen to it as I clean my house.

I found this thing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PWZbQuqAQCI, but that is an interview in the wake of the lecture, not the lecture itself.
With all due respect for those who create these videos, is it not up to google to determine what they do and don't monetize? At the end of the day, it is their platform, and they will do whatever makes the most business sense. YouTube is not a government service, it is a private company, and as such it holds to right to make whatever decision it needs to make in order to maximize its business potential.
Wow, an official, functional, online phonebook with addresses? I didn't know those still existed. Crazy Canadians. Thanks, I may give that a try.
Yeah, these too. So? What about them?
To be fair, it was passion in general they thought was base and animalistic, not just anger.
Exactly what I had in mind reading the title. The answer to several "what happens if we dump this system that should organize our society" question is - look at India and you'll find out.

Apparently with enough gods anarchy works.
Does an IT contractor count as small business or startup in the USA? If so, could it be skewing the stats significantly?
text to speech!! ^^
Ok? I haven't seen anyone asking for law enforcement to get involved. This is between Google and its customers and users.
It's not even close to a comparison with "Galt's Gulch." It could be, but the prime movers aren't there. Historically, it actually shows the opposite of such a place.
Depends on the country doesn't it?
It's less effort to just memorize a 256 bit private key.
> It is fuzzy and based on machine learning, because Google are strong believers of machine learning.

It seems like YouTube must be backed into a corner where that's the only feasible way to do it, at least as a first pass. Video is uploaded at what, 5000x realtime? Or 100 years of video per week?
This is misinformation. Typically you'd use a deterministic wallet[1], which permits you to restore the wallet from a backed up seed phrase.

[1]: https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Deterministic_wallet
I tried googling the reddit post but I has not lucky. Sometimes the original post has some context that makes easier to debug the problem, or sometimes it has an interesting comment with a good guess about the cause.
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game devs... do not understand the web.

well I'm not sure how it could only be 100MB
considering that our Angular2/4 Web Application (a big enterprise CRM/ERP) uses 400 MB (no joke).
Land of the free home of the brave. More and more it seems to me that Americans are afraid of living and afraid of freedom.
I disagree.

The same mentality is why universities graduate more students in the visual and performing arts than computer science, math, and chemical engineering combined(1).

It's not enough to let people follow their dreams, if their dreams lead most of them off a cliff. You have to either catch them when they fall, or help them find better dreams.

(1) http://www.chronicle.com/article/Tuning-In-to-Dropping-Out/1...
> Say what you want about MathML but as of now it's the best standard we have for putting math on the web

I would argue that this holds true for (La)TeX, most sites use JS implementations of it and show the raw (La)TeX code as a fallback (or in an image form) if the user has JS disabled.
> I appreciate if you'd prefer mathematical rigor, but if that's the case, you're not the audience.

There is a rather big gap between "have never heard about ZKP" and "mathematician comfortable reading complicated proofs all day long". I suspect here on HN there are enough people who wouldn't mind some more rigor in the examples - in fact, some good articles mentioned here do just that.

I don't mean to say that for this subject there aren't any materials available with more rigor than an introductory article, but some more wouldn't hurt.
The adpocalypse had an obvious chilling effect on youtube, lots of channels closed as a result of this. And while you can repeal the demonetization, this takes time and even if its successful will remove 90%+ of the income from a video anyways (since most ad revenue is generated in the first day[1]).
The arbitrary nature of YouTube's decisions have always made doing YouTube as a full time job really risky. A large number of gaming related video creators have already transitioned to twitch.

YouTube is 100% opaque, nobody knows why and when they are doing anything. Including things that cause a huge damage for people that make their livelihood on their platform. They clearly don't really know what they are doing, I hope there is going to be a viable alternative to this terrible company in the future.

[1] source: https://youtu.be/ULtjwGN2olM?t=373
FWIW I am working on a multi-group issue board for CE (I guess it will work for EE too).
So you're saying, cryptocurrency and fiat currency are the same, because you don't have a meaningful say in either one, unless you have a lot of money. Yes. True.
Dearborn and Detroit both either barely have a government or the government has ceded power to private groups. Corruption and constitutional protections have largely gone out the window.
The ArXiv of the Future Will Not Look Like the ArXiv
Note that, somewhat counter-intuitively, what "wc -l" counts is the number of newline characters:

$ printf 'foo\nbar' | wc -l
1

There are arguably two lines in the input, but the result is 1.

Without this (mis)feature, "wc -l" would be more difficult to parallelize.
If you have problems with lag and conflicts resolution of state, take a look at this article, it may be useful.
https://0fps.net/2014/02/17/replication-in-networked-games-l...
That's probably one of the risks of doing business in Saudi Arabia.

Doing business in EU or US is not risk-free either.
Note the verifier doesn't need to share the outcome with the prover- that does, indeed, open certain problems up to enumeration.

In schemes that rely on computational assumptions (eg, hashing & signing with a nonce) I don't think that's an issue.
thanks * yes * no * where? * this * i'm (name) * when? * how? * english? * pardon (me)
That has nothing to do with the current political climate. Advertisers were reluctant to advertise against anything not perfectly anodyne 20 years ago. This was a perennial problem for us at early community site bianca.com.

The specific things that people complain about has changed, sure. At the time the US right was much better at the game, insisting that everything be "family friendly". And at the time, anything GLBTQ related was seen as "not family friendly".

That has changed, though. For example, support for gay marriage has flipped, going from a minority position to a majority one:

http://news.gallup.com/poll/210566/support-gay-marriage-edge...

That's what makes YouTube's behavior here particularly notable. If, say, relationship advice is monetizable but GLBTQ relationship advice isn't, then that feels like going back to the dark ages.
I thought the point was about the risks of posting images of boarding passes on the internet. Where they happen to be posted seems irrelevant to me, but whatever.
I've been impressed with all of the Django documentation.
How churn limits your subscription app business
Do you have a live demo somewhere?
When looking at competitive fields like E-Sports, which is making a lot of millionaires[0], but is >99% male dominated, almost entirely by Asians or Whites, what should we make of that?

Do the results mean the system is necessarily unfair?

Should we enact laws that force tournaments to hand top results to female players? What about racial minorities?

If not, what should we do about the inequality here?

0-https://www.esportsearnings.com/players
Quite a bit ironic that you need js to actually see the images in that article.
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I'm not so sure, we'd need to look at statistics for that.

Regardless background checks should be done; just like cleaning checks in commercial kitchens, you may be more likely to get sick from home cooking, that seems largely irrelevant.

Another analogue: Most child sexual abuse is by family members, I don't see that as a reason not to do background checks on care workers.