skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What the fuck kind of cryptographic hardware security device is unlocked with a PIN and stores the plaintext of the PIN? What cryptosystem generates a recovery key and then stores the recovery key? That is a clown-car vulnerability.

Later

You know what I bet? I bet the PIN check is literally a string comparison, between the input PIN, and a stored "correct" PIN that they decrypt every time you try a PIN.
> "Doesn't allow you to pay with cash"

How? Once they've poured your drink and ask for money, they can't refuse your cash payment[0] (that's what "legal tender" means). I suppose they could forbid you from ordering another at that point, or ban you....

[0] ETA: or rather, they can refuse it, but only if they forgive the debt. If you try to pay a debt in legal cash, they can't tell you "no you need to pay us some other way".

(IANAL)
You'll note that I said more general election fraud happens. That was the point of the 2004 election reference.

>Even in this case, there is no proof of substantial voter fraud deciding an election.

Perhaps not voter fraud, but certainly the fact that there were substantially more improperly cast ballots than the outcome of the election makes it impossible to know which candidate received more votes. The judge's ruling does not change reality.
Make an internet connected toilet that compares and analyzes specimen data of all connected toilets and warns it user(s) of life threatening disease.
It's still tiny (from the article):

"Put another way, if each of these posts were a commercial on television, you'd have to watch more than 600 hours of television to see something from the IRA."

And the content was not representing only one side:

"Most of the ads appear to focus on divisive social and political messages across the ideological spectrum, touching on topics from LGBT matters to race issues to immigration to gun rights."

Only the title suggests something different (and it is obviously tailored for that effect).
I would imagine an idris derivative isnt all that much easier to write when compared with writing coq.
Cherry-picking studies to fit a premise can steer you in the wrong direction. The Adventist Health Studies are specific to a population of 7th-Day Adventists, who are not only vegetarian but have particularly healthful lifestyle habits overall (and have a strong social-support system). I'm not sure how strongly that population correlates with the average, overweight general public.

Generally speaking, though, scheduled fasting as a strategy (limited feeding hours, alternate day fasting is getting more and more supportive science every month.

Related reading:

http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1550413117...

http://www.cell.com/cell-metabolism/abstract/S1550-4131(15)0...

http://www.cell.com/cell/fulltext/S0092-8674(17)30130-7

http://news.usc.edu/116479/scientifically-designed-fasting-d...
There's a postgres operator by Zalando which sets up postgres with WAL-E and auto failover using Patroni.

https://github.com/zalando-incubator/postgres-operator
Do something about nlp+social network -> Russian fake news detection. Sell it to Facebook/twitter so they can shut down propagandists
A lot of climate change denial isn't actually complete denial that the climate is changing, but rather the poking of holes in the science and claiming that the confidence level of that science has been grossly overstated by the media for political and ideological ends.

Unfortunately, when viewed from a "who benefits" perspective, global warming theory does not look good to your average libertarian small-government cynic:

- Climate change researchers are virtually all academics.

- Academics are strongly incentivised to make the grandest, scariest claims possible because that is what unlocks large streams of grant money.

- The claim they're making in this case is literally "the world is going to end unless you give us lots of research money".

- They have been wrong before, c.f. global cooling.

- Many of the proposed solutions look suspiciously like excuses for vast government power grabs to monitor and micro-manage every aspect of one's life and business. Such people tend to assume the powerful are always looking for convenient excuses to become even more powerful still, and "we must take away your trucks and your meat against your will to save the world" looks like the ultimate power grab.

These concerns are not entirely meritless. A typical example of the genre can be found here:

https://www.spectator.co.uk/2016/04/ocean-acidification-yet-...

I haven't looked into the claims in depth but they sound plausible, in particular, the notion that certain kinds of papers showing negative results don't get published, the notion that entire fields of study that appear to have hundreds of peer reviewed papers can nonetheless fall apart when subjected to rigorous meta-review. We have seen this in other scientific fields like psychology so it is not implausible that it could happen in climate science as well.

Ocean acidification is not the same thing as regular global warming. But you can see why doubt sets in given the alignment of interests involved. For people who have lost their confidence in the academic establishment, climate change is effectively invisible.
I get the obvious point of the article; something is clearly fishy.

However, let’s look at the numbers.

According to https://www.census.gov/quickfacts/IN , the population of Indiana is roughly 6.6 million. Roughly 85% are white ( so about 5.6 million people) and ~15% are non-white ( roughly 1 million people).

Now, the article says “50 percent of U.S. racial minorities share the same last names, as opposed to 30 percent of white Americans”. So just using this as an issue, about 1.7 million whites and 0.5 million non-whites hit the first hurdle.

Honestly, if they really are using this against minorities, then they sure suck at it. They’ve already got MORE THAN 3 TIMES as many white folks as non-whites thru the first hurdle towards un-registering them!!

Serves them right if the article is anywhere close to being correct!
Transportation is a big problem, especially when it comes to commuting from a suburb to a city. I would love to have more options outside of aging and overcrowded mass transit. Are there solutions to this problem? Are there any killer carpool apps?
There already was such a standard. Physical good stores. A large chain will not risk their reputation by selling you a dud, or counterfeit item. They're also easier to sue in your local jurisdiction than some random online seller, etc etc. People have made their choice, and they would rather save money by shopping online.
I think interest in football is waning because the sport is a lot less fun to watch now that we know those bone-crushing hits actually leave guys debilitated for life. And not just in the long-term; Aaron Hernandez should be a wake-up call for the risks of CTE among active players. A broken leg from a sport is one thing, but widespread (something like 95% of former players show signs of CTE) traumatic brain injury is another.

It's just not right to encourage people to do that, and I think a lot of fans are choosing to watch something else.

Edit: Also, basketball has better economics and a more international fan base, so it's probably safe. Baseball is probably fucked too, at least in the current incarnation of MLB. But the NFL is definitely fucked.
2-Party System? Americans Might Be Ready for 8
I'm very impressed with the level GitHub database testing is at https://githubengineering.com/mysql-testing-automation-at-gi... We still got a lot of work ahead of us. But Yorick and Greg their work has been outstanding.

Regarding Spokes we're not planning something like that at this time. From https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitaly/issues/650 "GitHub eventually moved to Spokes https://githubengineering.com/building-resilience-in-spokes/ that had multiple fileservers for the same repository. We will probably not need that. We run networked storage in the cloud where the public cloud provider is responsible for the redundancy of the files. To do cross availability zone failover we'll use GitLab Geo."
> Harder to work with than CSS.

Harder for a web developer for the first two weeks. UI builders are more suitable for making app layouts than CSS.

> Harder to align look of web and desktop.

Thousands of mobile apps do it without much trouble.
My guess it's just a hack to show HTML+CSS are enough to do it without a real programming language.
https://bitcoinfees.21.co/ has some better information on fees ~$3.50, and that is the mining fee. All transaction fees are given to the block that they are first included in.
Pretty sure they can:

https://www.federalreserve.gov/faqs/currency_12772.htm
Yes, I do have a suggestion that will seem outlandish, but even if I set you thinking I would have achieved my goal.

The problem of human health and aging. ( isn't it the biggest problem ALL of us face?) On the face of it you may think that there are plenty of people working on it but there aren't. Most of main stream research is aimed using the conventional approach: Finding a 'cure' for a disease just like it's done for an infectious disease.Example: cancer. This is a fundamentally flawed approach. If you think of it older people have a higher probability than younger people of cancer, heart disease, diabetes etc. So the more rational approach would be to target ageing itself.

The SENS foundation is one such entity that has this approach (http://www.sens.org)
Facebook is liar and privacy violator!!
Certainly allow it, but provide a sane default, too. If you don't, people wiill be more likely to do something stupid than they would be otherwise.
Show HN: Open Source alternative to services like Intercom.io and Smooch
Javascript-free golf.

How complex of a web app can you make without using javascript.
Probably an unpopular question given HN audience, but how does one know a team is great if said team hasn't successfully tackled any problems? Is it similar to my cat being a great pilot because she hasn't crashed any planes?
Lack of universal healthcare. Next question.
So the counterfeiters will use a real hash from one (or from hundreds) of the real products.

That's why creating counterfeit-proof physical money is still an unsolved problem.

I've been thinking - maybe something like bitcoin can help. When you buy a product, you get 1 coin with it. When you resell, you have to send that coin to your buyer. Since counterfeiters can't make coins, that serves as a proof. Unfortunately it creates an annoying layer that all sellers of goods must follow.
Why are so many articles being flagged on HN today? It seems quite excessive.
Indeed.

Some posters seem to think that, because you CAN build a chat app consuming a few megabytes of RAM, it means you should and it's practical. It's like pointing to 64KB demoscene games and saying "see, you can write a game in 64KB, why does this one take multiple gigabytes".

Well, by all means, create a Slack competitor in hand-optimized assembly if you wish. Or whatever else you prefer (Rust?). If it's a better product, it may take over market share. Assuming your users even care about that. Hint: most are not obsessing over TOP, Activity Monitor, or whatever your OS uses.

Otherwise, don't whine. Electron makes it possible to create and ship apps very very quickly. Apps which would not exist otherwise. Every time you remove a barrier, you open up doors for more people.

While spinning up an entire browser for a single app has memory usage implications – namely, the baseline consumption is high, as is download size – the biggest issue is that it is easy to be wasteful when using web technologies. Look at Visual Studio Code, for instance. It's light and nimble compared to alternatives. It's true that a single one of its workers consume as much memory as a whole Emacs instance, but the development pace is staggering. And it still uses less memory than Slack...
Do you see this as a useful dichotomy? In reality no system is truly sealed - it's just temporarily sealed between evolution steps, no?
Love the list! :)

for the OP of this list, this idea "Crowdsourced Air-Traffic-Control" is a good idea if changed to traffic light control. One thing that REALLY bugs me is inefficient traffic lights because their timings are off. But the trick is not direct control of traffic lights, but track a consensus to change timings.

Bonus, revolutionize traffic lights through vision and adaptive control to create best average trip times for everyone, adapts to accidents / blockage etc :)
While any given statistic is rather uncertain, a read of the long parent article gives a taste of how the US has essentially abandoned a larger public health approach to the various health problem it faces and those other countries which have instead kept this approach, of dealing with new health threats as they appear, have managed to lower maternal deaths (again for example) while the US has seen an increase in maternal deaths (and so forth).
Yeah, I was thrown by that attribution chain and the fact that the article is hosted on a site that apparently belongs to a "Rob Landley"...?

edit: I see now by the URL that it's a mirror. This kind of thing takes me back to the old days of the internet....
Demo video in Russian. Hmmm. Sorry, but no.
Ideologically, maybe. But our first-past-the-post districted electoral system naturally reinforces a two-party status quo. That changes only temporarily, during major realignments, when one or both of the two dominant parties split and then re-merge.
"I'm a big believer that great ideas find you, you don't find them. Without a unique insight, you shouldn't start a company. You have to be authentic to the problem."
-andy rachleff

https://pando.com/2012/12/11/what-makes-for-a-great-entrepre...
Great point - in every product that you've dismissed, there's a lesson to be learned. Particularly for commodotized products - if there is a way to do it cheaply, what is it? What new technology enables companies to offer their services for so cheap, and where else can you leverage that tech?
Anyone know of a simple way to store bitcoin on paper or digital that won’t depend on a specific app being available in 10 years?
Solar cost is plateauing.

Safety regulations are insane. As in 5x what is actually reasonable. I.e. deregulation.

And standardization, as in make all the plant designs the same instead of designing them all from scratch.
All debts public and private refers to debts by a creditor. A drink you haven't paid for isn't a debt. It's just an account payable. They don't have to take your cash.
Some bullet points:

- US health care is shit overall (people are less healthy as a baseline)

- Sexism in various ways: "Whether they are pregnant or not, women are second-class citizens when it comes to health care" - vs. men, and vs. their fetuses or babies when pregnant; maternal care not being prioritized in health care

- Excessively invasive/interventionist healthcare practices

- "With its uniquely fragmented health system, straddling states and federal government in a complex web of public and private, for-profit and nonprofit, it is nearly impossible to effectively tackle complex issues."
Look us up and get in touch @ http://invanti.co if you're looking for a group that has a problem-first approach
Surprised to not see Infosys on this list.

Business as usual for H-1B cheaters.
I'm not in favor of preventing legal voters from voting, yet one could just as easily say that you cannot provide an example where preventing people without ID from voting would have widespread impact on the results of an election.

>Never mind that adding an extra vote to a voting pool does not have the same effect as denying a person the right to vote.

It has exactly that effect, unless you are saying that allowing a person to vote and then removing that person's ballot from the ballot box has no effect on their right to vote. Is that what you are saying? Otherwise every ineligible vote for one candidate nullifies a lawful vote for a competing candidate.
How much players make influence whether people aspire to be players at all; a tangible decline in quality of play will hurt the sport.

Also, if the funnel of advertising (and thus TV) money goes away, the visibility of the sport will drop, and visibility reinforces popularity.
IVPN loads only typekit.net in Linux/Firefox.
In Norway we have sheep roaming the mountains in summer....and wolves. How many wolves to kill is a huge political issue. Government reimburses sheep killed by wolves.

Building fences around the areas is basically impossible. But I hope some day drone-shepherds can do the job.
Hey all,

One of the creators, this is the first project we've taken from inception to open source, and are working towards building a hosted service [0]. A big motivator for building it was the high costs associated with competitors like Intercom.io and Smooch

It mainly comprises of 3 code bases, the server[1], the client[2] and then an application[3] to speak to the client.

As always would love to hear feedback, good and bad! Also if you have any questions let me know :)

[0]: https://minimal.chat
[1]: https://github.com/minimalchat/daemon
[2]: https://github.com/minimalchat/client
[3]: https://github.com/minimalchat/operator-app
You're repeating the first subheading, but that subheading is setup partly as a strawman in the article. Read further.
It's just a proof of concept to show what's possible
I don't think we're suggesting that Facebook is responsible for the loss of democracy rather than being an agent in the process.
How to Program a Supercomputer
Unity is essential to my business and it's fucking great at it. Over the last two years it has increased it's utility exponentially increased the function and workflow is top notch. 3D application development is one of the most interdisciplinary things you can undertake, but Unity is rad as hell.
I think this is an indication that a major realignment is in progress.
> The highest i've gotten it so far is 120X from start of LTC/BTC

120x sounds impressive (and overfitted), but if you compare this to a simple buy-and-hold strategy it is a rather depressing result.
Let me humbly offer my advice, based on my last 10 years in startups (with 2 years interruption working for big G):

1. Figure out what kind of company you want to build and which spaces you feel most comfortable with. B2C or B2B? Software? Saas? Hardware? Services? How long would you like to be involved? 2 years? 5 years? 15 years? Any different combination will require a different approach. Find alignment on these points with your co-founders early.

2. Align yourself with larger tech trends and figure out which ones you actually believe in. As a reader of HN (or your favorite tech blogs) you should have a good idea about the trends and hypes du jour. Pay special attention to where BigTechCo is allocating resources. Proper alignment with a larger trend (+ the right timing) is a major success factor in startups (but way too often gets lost in the discussion noise).

3. Figure out if there's an area within a general trend you believe in where you can get one step ahead of everybody else (e.g. because of skills/expertise/connections of team members).

4. Within that area, start talking to people.

5. If that sequence doesn't yield any good results, start over. Only commit to an idea if everyone has a great gut feeling about it. If your gut tells you no then don't do it.

Happy to talk more.
That's a funny story. He may have got lucky: if he hadn't been locked out for so long, he may have been tempted to sell the bitcoins after the value doubled or so.
It won’t do a damn thing in the USA since it “can’t” be used for diagnosis. The incumbent industry will make sure it is not approved.
Industry standard POS systems are usually significantly more expensive
Yes you need a VPN, no you shouldn’t trust anyone with it. Run your own. It’s easy and less expensive.

https://github.com/StreisandEffect/streisand
Cool, just making sure. :)
There was an issue with the dashboard causing it to try and load data from the wrong place, this has been fixed. See https://gitlab.com/gitlab-com/infrastructure/issues/3115 for more info.
Here's my two cents, hopefully I can make a dollar back.
I've been working on an web app to let small businesses create/design logos. My idea is to build a bot that translate requests in natural language to actions. For example, enlarge the icon by 5 percent. Or move the text a little to the left. Basically I want to cut down the time and cost of making minor changes that clients go through with designers over emails.
Good match for your #4.
There was a time when Unity was by far the best tech platform for building your game on. Then they took on a ton of VC money, grew very fast, and went after all forms of mobile, VR, and desktop development, at which point they morphed from the best platform for game development to the worst platform for enterprise development.

Speaking as a 10 year customer of Unity, I can’t wait for Three.js, gltf, and a couple other components to get just a bit more solid so I can drop my dependence on Unity. Three or four years ago it would have been inconceivable for me to say something like that, as I was a long term hardcore fanboy.

It’s just not the same company or solid development experience it once was.
> Nope but few (if any) platforms will accommodate such a demand.

JavaScript does though, and it even doesn't need bytecode.
The goal is not cheap housing, its the amount of people that get homes.
"Phone app that cries when the phone is left alone" for a bounus ,starts whining at you if you use it too much. I'd call it "Millenial Anxiety Simulator"
Dancing Mania
> one person alone is essentially powerless

Yes one person alone is powerless in the face of a global problem. We have to work together to solve this thing.

Having said that, there are things one person can do to "do their part".

1. Reduce personal consumption. Household and transportation energy needs, and products account for large portions of GHG emissions. Getting serious about cutting waste can yield near order-of-magnitude improvements in your electricity bill [1], transportation spending [2]. Buying less stuff will do the same, and leave you significantly richer and happier. Hobbies and activities that emphasize personal effort and creating, over passive entertainment and spending will do the same (I'm still working on this part myself)[3]. Even though we don't have carbon taxes, spending is still often a useful proxy for emissions. The less you spend, the less you emit; it's not a perfect rule, but it's a useful guideline.

2. Vote and campaign for representatives who are serious about dealing with climate change.

3. Consider your "circle of control" i.e. the things that are actually within your power to do [4] and take care of those. Don't worry about the rest.

4. Expand your skills. This one sounds weird, but learning more skills is both a) a form of entertainment and b) allows you to substitute skill for consumption. For example, if you get moderately good at cellphone repair or appliance repair, you can keep your and your family's (and maybe even friends') cellphones and appliances going longer without replacement. This applies equally to areas such as home improvement, vehicle repair, gardening, physical fitness, sewing etc. Mastery in new areas is also shown to improve personal happiness.

1. http://www.mrmoneymustache.com/2015/03/25/cut-your-power-bil...

2. http://www.mrmoneymustache.com/2013/04/22/curing-your-clown-...

3. http://www.mrmoneymustache.com/2011/12/05/muscle-over-motor/

4. http://www.mrmoneymustache.com/2013/10/07/how-big-is-your-ci...