skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I believe EU's GDPR made some efforts in that direction, but I'm not sure it went far enough.

We need laws that give companies incentive to store very little data on us outside of what's absolutely required for the functioning of the service. And if they do store additional info, and their servers are breached, then automatic hefty fines should be paid (right after the mandatory notification to authorities and the public).

That should encourage companies to either minimize data collection or use end-to-end encryption, where most of that additional data would be stored on the client's device. This would have to exempt them from liability, and it should since the data wouldn't be on their servers if breached.
Playing around with some of these I clicked on one button and discovered that Chrome has a built in payment system -- the button opened up a dialog with all my saved information. Neat.
Good to know.

And what about the person who’s job was to make sure that one guy did his job?

And the guy who was in charge of that person?

And the department who’s job was makin sure nothing was insecure?

And the guy managing them?

Yep. All one guys fault. Poor guy, ruining the American credit monitoring system for the rest of us.
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It reads like some of the people behind government safeguards weren't acting in good faith. Most notably the Clark County guardianship commissioner Jon Norheim.

Other failed institutions seemed at least too disinterested. That includes the police (considering all of this a civil matter), and Nevada Adult Protective Services.

Beyond that, many people (doctors, people working at retirement homes, etc) seem to have actively aided this scheme.

In general, I'd say a combination of corruption and bureaucratic apathy / CYAism are what caused this. The solution is `more accountability' but that is difficult to do without creating more potential for bureaucracy and corruption.
The Square and the Tower, by Niall Ferguson
Cool idea. Would have loved it years ago (married now).
The act says that anytime a non-US ship carries goods that are from a US port, including Puerto Rico, it cannot take those goods to any other US port. So instead of being able to do a sequence of [Barbados, Puerto Rico, Florida, Barbados], a ship would have to instead follow [Barbados, Puerto Rico, Barbados, Florida, Barbados]. It doesn't eliminate trade entirely, but it definitely increases costs--especially in PR itself, which has to rely only on US ships for US goods, creating a monopoly.
As well as the grilling of Wells Fargo and Equafax executives in congress.
FeathersJS provides a layer between your database (RDBMS, NoSQL, ..) and your client, which gives you similar functionality as firebase.

https://feathersjs.com

Edit: Minus rule based auth.
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I don't have great numbers, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15367507 talks about 256k flash and 32k RAM.

That said, the new AVR support includes 8 and 16 bit chips, I don't know the lowest amount of RAM that has had actual code running on it yet.
Let's make a gravitational wave telescope.
That's their point: that debates premised on a zero-sum contest between the sexes arise in any story about women's issues on HN.
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For a consumer mail service, you to need to know enough to let them recover their account, possibly with decades of un-backed-up correspondence with and photos of since-deceased friends and relatives, when they’ve forgotten their password, and without letting someone else recover their account. This is a hard problem.

(I’m expecting some idealized “solutions” from people with idealized beliefs about mass market tech skills.)
Spot on. Noah Smith made the comparison couple of months ago [0].

[0] https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2017-09-19/want-a-be...
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I find it very disappointing that people resort to anecdote when data is available. Granted, it's a new area and there hasn't been enough time for proper longitudinal studies, but what data we do have generally supports EC's for smoking cessation, and also functioning as a replacement for young people that would likely otherwise start smoking cigarettes.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25301815
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25888354
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26597453

As for the safety of the vapor itself, it's a little tricky. Some studies faced a lot of criticism because the 'vaping' method did not reflect actual usage. In one protocol (unfortunately I can't recall the article) it was found they basically burned up the coil and reported combustion products as the vapor profile.

Similarly, this study appears to be reasonably executed, at least at first: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4961046/

A few takeaways from the article: no long-lived free radicals present, and short-lived radicals in the range of 100 to 1000 fold less than cigarettes. Their estimates for a typical 'vaper' would be about a 10-fold higher dose than typical air pollution exposure for a 24 hour period (200 puffs/day). This certainly represents a real potential hazard, but is also a clear improvement over cigarettes (especially because this isn't the major hazard in cigarette smoke).

However, the protocol uses 5 second 'puffs' on a 1.5 ohm coil with an absolutely pathetic 500ml/min flow rate. For reference, 500ml is the typical breath volume for a human at rest, with >10,000ml/min being typical breathing for a person at rest (https://ehjournal.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/1476-06...). In actual use, a puff is usually larger than the typical breath and taken in a span of 2-4 seconds. A flow rate of 20,000-40,000 ml/min is much more representative. It's no surprise that a coil with such a low flow rate would get far hotter than what is seen in actual use. Worth noting that high flow rates make for more comfortable and pleasant vaping, so are common in actual use.

Some good work has looked at variation in vaping protocol https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24832759 These findings show just how drastic the differences are when you start to use higher power levels in ECs.

The data clearly show that high-power vaping likely presents a significant risk, but to date I've yet to see data that is convincingly representative of anything like normal use.
Unfortunately many of my blockers, such as functioning in new tab and other internal pages and anywhere on the chrome of the browser, are WONTFIX.
> I’ve run a fair amount of email campaigns where we strip out the + if gmail is the domain to ensure it doesn’t end up in some weird filter.

Which works, until the Gmail users who bother using + addresses with filters start giving all legitimate senders + addresses and sending everything thst doesn't have one and doesn't come from Google straight to deletion (possibly with a stop by “mark as spam” en route.)
Stripe Elements is really good. It has been an absolute help.

Now if only we could get something similar for the Connect account stuff. So many different edge cases for countries and businesses, that the only reasonable approach is to autogenerate a form, and hope it makes sense.

Example: Japanese business need to put in their address in kana and kanji, both personal and business address. They also need to specify their gender (and are the only ones who have to do this). I believe they also need some form of personal and business IDs.

Form validation? Forgettaboutit!

Note: I realize these requirements are most likely not strictly determined by Stripe.

Here's hoping Elements expands to Connect accounts in the near future! :)
It seems that in practice, yes, most people who are buying into ICOs have an expectation of profits based on the actions/development/promotion of a third party team running the project. Matt Levine talked about some of the nuances of this back when the SEC released a report about the DAO[1].

A couple days ago, I stumbled across a blog post of the Colony.IO project[2], who are creating a token and blockchain platform for distributed organizational management (coincidentally similar in concept to the DAO). They go into detail about their plans for having an ICO only once they have a product actively functional. The hopes are that with a working product, people buying the tokens will do so with the expectation that it is a sale of services, rather than an investment security. Now, their perspective is that of the team and their lawyers, and not necessarily that of the SEC. But if there is hope that ICOs won't all be securities, I think that is the pathway.

[1] https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2017-07-26/tokens-va...

[2] https://blog.colony.io/the-colony-token-sale-7ac14c845bc0
I visited my 95 year old grandmother this past Sunday. She was up and moving around the entire time except when sitting down to eat the delicious lunch she had insisted on cooking for us. Her hearing is starting to go, but her eyesight is still fine and her mental faculties are razor sharp. She still lives on her own and can get around just fine.

Part of it is surely genetic. Her father lived to be nearly 105 and was 100% healthy physically and mentally until 2 weeks before he died when he developed shingles and got sores in his mouth that made it difficult to eat so he stopped eating and died. He was still breaking horses into his late-80s.

I also wonder if it was something to do with how she was raised. She grew up on a ranch and spent a lot of time outdoors tending the cows and sheep We were visiting the old property this summer and she told us we should go on a hike to see a waterfall up a canyon where she once had to retrieve a flock of lost sheep - it was one of the most difficult hikes I've ever been on and I can't believe she did it and brought back the sheep while still a young girl. They made them tougher back in those days I guess.
Not wrong.
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Not to defend the 2nd amendment as `power to the people' but that is not how the argument works.

The fear is that a benevolent government banishes arms, which makes the populace defenseless. Then later, a malevolent government gets into power, and the populace can no-longer defend itself. The key here is that the government instituting a ban need not be the government that later needs to be revolted against.
Using the black market as a standard, your identity-related information isn't worth enough to be taxable.[0][1][2]

The more common data you give away is worth even less. Your "gift" is akin to giving away a few grains of sand to a glassmaker who provides a free grain counting service.

Now let's say you dumped a lot sand that we could value at $10K. Any smart sand-counting glassmaker will claim his once "free" sand counting costs $10K, which amounts to an equal, zero-profit trade.

[0]: http://www.bankrate.com/finance/credit/what-your-identity-is...

[1]: https://qz.com/460482/heres-what-your-stolen-identity-goes-f...

[2]: http://www.businessinsider.com/heres-how-much-your-personal-...
I found this comment very fascinating and would love to learn more about the recent history of the two major American political parties, do you have any suggestions for literature on this topic?
Yeah, you are right. I've already implemented everything from r5rs, but macro system. And I don't know where to start, just can't wrap my head around it.

And people say that Scheme has a very minimalist design and is easy to implement...
Here's a UUID you could probably remember "officer tell 8 apart country press spring % circus".
Of course not. Because my OS isn't specifically designed for that. If it was (like my router): Of course.
I don't think the US would stop trading with Puerto Rico, so I suppose the question is if the increased trade with Caribbean nations would offset however much trade with the US mainland would diminish. I don't know the answer to that, but it could probably be found by looking at how Caribbean nations' trade compares with Puerto Rico's trade today.
There are also particular compounds in cured tobacco that are dangerous: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tobacco-specific_nitrosamines
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Its not a matter of the laws, its a matter of who is making the rulings. In this case, the issue with the jurisdiction was Jon Norheim, the Clark County guardianship commissioner. He seemed to rubber stamp whatever the predatory guardians put before him.
And spam filters
Why does the initial attempt of a solution have to work for everyone overnight? Stop the bleeding with those with tech know how first. The the others will come as the solution matures. What is with people wanting to flip the bit all time jezzz. Run two bits!
They don't have to be identical physical things. That's what they mean by design space. What features (that affect things like range and rate of fire and accuracy and so on) should be legal on civilian weapons?

For the US even something like limited internal magazines isn't politically tenable (a 5 shot internal magazine and manual action would still be useful for hunting but could not be used to shoot hundreds of rounds per minute into a crowd of people).

Hell, I won't be real shocked if nothing gets done about bump stocks (which don't really have any purpose beyond shooting for fun).
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Yes, we need to amend the Constitution if we expect restrictive gun laws to actually stick.
From my observation living in Singapore lifestyle is an important factor. People are generally active and there seems to be little obesity. Among young guys at least, national service and the associated mandatory fitness requirements seem to play a part in setting long term habits early.
The problem is not all legitimate sites/sources will actually accept '+' as a valid email character even though the RFC says it's a valid email character.
It feels more like a bug in the implementation. Specifically, the rubber stamping by the Clark County guardianship commissioner Jon Norheim.
Yeah problem with that is the number of crappy regexps sites use that stop you from signing up with a + address in the first place.
Marketing is at least as important as the product it promotes
Can this be used for just frontend and not integrate with Stripe's backend? ie. use the "elements" form and not create the token to transmit card information. Sort of like a beefier Card library by jessepollak (https://github.com/jessepollak/card)
That actually sounds worse (I work in the sales department of a Fortune 150 company).
Jinx. :D
I feel that aesthetically this is going to come out a bit ugly, since it's not actually pixel-based like the original was. Low-rez image filter w/a passthrough for correctly-sized images?
…if ‘fully’ means ‘remotely operated, when the going gets tough’, such as, I guess, in bad weather (rare in Phoenix), or when there is a lot of traffic in one place, times when demand for taxis is highest.
A government hack would be even worse and, IMO, far more likely.
Amber Rudd is an imbecile.
I don't know if what I've read is actual proof and a lot of this seems to point to "opinion" pieces on news networks, I guess. I have not done the legwork, but here are some articles I've found going towards what I stated:

http://www.npr.org/2016/12/14/505547295/fake-news-expert-on-...

https://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/09/business/media/what-weve-...

http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2011/jun/...

https://www.alternet.org/story/154875/the_science_of_fox_new...

In retrospect, though, I probably think it's more prevalent than it is in actuality. To be completely honest, the sensationalism by media outlets exposing misinformation by media outlets "on the other side" of the news gets to me, sometimes. As for corrections, though, mea culpa's seem to be a mid page item, at best =/
First was an IBM mainframe at Mærsk, circa 1978

Second was an Olivetti BASIC workstation (not listed on Wikipedia!) at Bang & Olufsen, circa 1979

The real time sink arrived with a Nascom 2 kit [1] (to be soldered) circa 1982.

Later a Commodore 64 which had the curse of great games and thus didn't encourage programming as much. I'm glad I started with a computer where the entertainment was getting it to do something and I feel sorry that kids today miss out on the wonder of the whole thing.

[1] http://nascomhomepage.com
We have an array index lookup for empty slots, the search should be constant time throughout.
In this case it kind of fits the point/arc of the story. The victims in the story have no idea why they do this, how they assess people, how to fight it... somebody just showed up unannounced one day with a court order and viola, mom and dad's legal autonomy is somehow gone and their assets are freely mismanaged & stolen. Police & judges do not even pretend to care.

As for why the "guardians" do it, it's right there for you in the subtitle.
Elements works with Connect! Any platform can integrate it.

We're also working to improve the connected account flow. In the US, we recently launched Express Accounts to help with this, and we hope to bring it to Japan soon. https://stripe.com/docs/connect/express-accounts
Computed goto is also not always fastest. Someone benched it (I think it was in the context of interpreter main loops); any of the 3 approaches can win depending on arch and usage patterns.
Oh definitely. I think that’s the case for nearly any language that’s worth the code it’s written in. C++ is an interesting case study in how to do it both right and wrong; we’re spoilt for choice and it keeps getting better every day
Another plausible hypothesis is that the tech is already better-than-humans today, but not orders-of-magnitude better. Killing 30 thousand people a year instead of 40 thousand is not politically viable. So we just keep it in the lab while 10 thousand extra die because of politics.
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It is when you have 3B records
I don't believe so. You don't get the card info from the form, you only get the generated tokens. I could be wrong, but I believe that's how it works.
Typical competitive thinking from everyone here. Just see the Nobel Prize as a little gem alongside the road to greater goals. Focus on the work to come instead of arguing about a procedure older than any human alive.

It doesn't matter who gets a shiny medal, the only thing that matters is that we push science to next level. To help our understanding of the world and to help the people.
Appreciate the advice, thank you.
You are not wrong, if you raise $60M then you have set certain constraints on your future. That said, as a primarily bootstrapped company with good traction and a reasonably world wide 'touch' if they aren't operationally cash flow positive yet I would be surprised. They have hit an interesting sweet spot between transactions (always a useful volume business) and an aged infrastructure (SMS). It was a space I would have expected Twilo might compete in.

So in this case it could simply be the cash they need to either prep for an IPO or to solidify their lead so that if they are taken out it is expensive (and thus a good return to the Series A investors).
Not really, not much one can learn from ColdFusion. The problem with CF is that it tries to do everything. CF server is a huge monolith, some functionality you'd never use still loads and occupies the memory. I call it "a bag of memory leaks wrapped in legacy dependencies". Haven’t used it for a few years but back in the day “tuning the JVM" seemed to be a common pattern among the CF folks. Basically, instead of accepting the fact that CF is memory hungry, sometimes not releasing memory correctly and literally consuming gigs of RAM within minutes, everybody tried to find some magical JVM settings that would prevent this behavior. Server used to require rather often restarts. the other thing is, some of libraries used by the CF server, even the most recent versions are years old. It’s not really a problem if you plan on using CFML layer only but if you want to do some more advanced stuff with event gateways, you may find yourself in trouble. For example, I was recently writing some Kafka stuff that supposed to be working as an event gateway. The amount of shading required to deploy the JAR is insane.

There are some really nice things though, for example <cfprint> tag would be the sole reason I'd put a CF instance up. Haven't seen anything out there that would handle printers so easily.

Personal recommendation would be: if you do not have to, stay away. Nothing new to learn there. I am saying this as a certified Adobe ColdFusion 7 and 8 developer who’s not working with this technology for at least 6 years now.

Some people in this thread mention that it’s a benefit that people who know nothing about programming are able to write some working code. I find this a problem often contributing to the issues mentioned above.
>all savings of people who don't invest in cryptocurrencies are worthless, that fear may be driving a lot of the ICO speculation.

There are lots of ways to invest your money that aren't based on the dollar. Futures, real estate, company stocks, metals.
Worth noting that almost all the rights for Winnie-the-Pooh rest with Stephen Slesinger, Inc and Walt Disney, and not with the Milne family.

In '98, Clare, Christopher's daughter, attempted to prevent Slesinger from expanding their copyrights, but the US courts didn't agree.
You can use cljs everywhere because nearly all platforms have JS support. Not true with Clojure on JVM. I use cljs on iOS.
Maybe go read what I wrote before replying? I'm talking about metadata. They will see every company/person you correspond with by mail now.
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The manifestation of such a key doesn't have to be "numbers and letters" it could be a passphrased USB key, for example. Maybe applications would be designed where you touch your thumbprint to your USB key and it would unlock it for 60 seconds or w/e.