skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The column heading says the 1.8 million number is for over a 5 year period. The same table on net migration shows China has -1.3 net migration per 1000 (over 5 years), not particularly high compared to other countries. Considering there are over 50 million Chinese living overseas https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overseas_Chinese , the total is not that high either. Or is your contention that all smart Chinese already left China? I also don't know how you figured out that 10% of Chinese elite move to US. Have you heard of family based immigration?

Anyway here is some evidence that the trend is opposite to your supposition: Chinese chemistry Ph.D. grads are forgoing U.S. postdocs https://cen.acs.org/articles/95/i41/Chinese-chemistry-PhD-gr...
You are probably thinking exclusively of right libertarianism and must not be familiar with geolibertarianism[1] based somewhat on the ideas of Henry George[2]. They share most views with right libertarians such as the view that the fruits of a person's labor should not be taxed, but differ in that they view all land and natural resources as the common property of all people and as such believe that use of land and natural resources should be taxed at the full market value and then the proceeds redistributed equally to everyone.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geolibertarianism

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_George
Certain products are purchased repeatedly: for example, anything consumable like paper towels, toilet paper, diapers. Certain other products are purchased multiple times, but with a delay in between purchases.

A final category of products are virtually never purchased multiple times except as gifts. Video games and other media most likely fall into this category, and targeting logic should understand that. I understand the OP's complaint.
I see you aren't familiar with the works of Franz Kafka.
Great guide for devs considering development on Chrome OS!
Only right libertarians hold that view. Geolibertarians hold the view that all land and natural resources are the common property of all people and should be taxed at the full market value and then the proceeds redistributed equally.
How hard is it to get this to work with something other than Javascript?
I like the idea of asking for a captcha after 2 failed logins. We had set up a pretty restrictive Cloudflare rule which blocked access to the site for some amount of time (60 minutes?) from IP addresses that got more than 5 (IIRC) failed logins within a short, sliding window of time (2 minutes?). But the botnet had a ton of machines on it. The rule didn't block nearly as many requests as I hoped it would. A captcha, though, could be set to be pretty restrictive like you suggest.

Passwords: I actually did up the password requirements (to require 10 characters), but the CEO wants me to pull back to just 8 characters. And no special characters. Our conversion rate went down a tiny bit, could be the restrictive password requirements that did it.

Keeping a record of common IP addresses and enforcing something like 2FA for strange logins: Love that idea. Would love to implement it. Can't, though. The CEO won't go for it, says 2FA lowers conversion and he's probably right about that.
I once worked at a big electronics company at the time when TQM (Total Quality Management) was the buzzword. Senior management was on the band wagon and regularly kept dropping TQM initiatives that distracted us from doing our jobs. Once they sent around a survey that asked us to define "Quality". While most of us tried to avoid completing the survey, one of my coworkers took the time to carefully answer that question. He said that "Quality is doing such a good job that nobody will ever again ask you to define what quality means."
Redis Monitoring: Redis-stat and other tools
I don't think anyone in security would disagree with you.

The problem is measuring something that is sort of definitionally unknowable (how many vulns are in this code, where, how likely is it someone outside the company will find it, then exploit it?) is hard (the book referenced has some ideas which boil down to "get some experts in a room and ask them, then average it")

A good security team will do their best at this but its unfortunately not as easy as "ok we found all the xss bugs which reduces our chances of getting owned by %2.5".

The further (maybe depressing) question is to the degree getting breached actually harms a company, my favorite argument that the two are tenuously related is this: http://www.cs.umd.edu/~awruef/HNYM.pdf and my favorite within is comodo. Comodo was hacked and the hacker gained the ability to sign certificates of their choice with comodo key. Comodo had one job, be worthy of trust and not get hacked. Did it harm them? They are still the #1 cert company. Look at the target breach or any others.

The only spot where a breach can be company-ending is all these bitcoin companies, which from my spot in application security makes them fascinating test cases. Here are a bunch that blew up after they got hacked: https://magoo.github.io/Blockchain-Graveyard/
Federal Panel Destroys US Inventors Property Rights
Yes, as do other DJI drones, but only for a few minutes, and of course the whole "you can't actually fly a drone here without calling the 5 airports in the area" rules tends to put a damper on things.
What would convince my mom to use this though?
Internet Download Accelerator Pro 6.14.1.1579 Keygen Full Version
FSA don't do food safety checks in premises.

Local authorities do the checks.

Does deliveroo not understand the regulatory framework? Is this just lazy reporting?
An Icy Conquest
Duty free pricing is about $3.75/pack. I imagine they sell them wholesale for $2.50.
To Keep Up with AI We Need Bigger Brains
The best thing about the project is that the tokens will be valued by use from the beginning and not with an ICO.

Could you name the other projects that you think are better? Given the interest in this article I’m sure others would be interested as well.
> Such people are a minority of smokers around the world, and given how addictive nicotine is, probably fooling themselves

Do you have statistics on that? Sounds a little suspect.

> The average smoker is in the Asia Pacific region, India, Indonesia, and Africa, and is impoverished.

Another vague statistic. I'm really curious, where'd you get it?

>In those regions as elsewhere, socioeconomic class and education correlate with the lowest numbers of smokers.

Poor people like different things than rich people? So what?
A Pudding Head and His Money
It's interesting that you went for TRUE 2FA. I was thinking about going for email/text-based 2FA. I know it's not true second factor authentication, but it seems so much more accessible than requiring a separate device. Our customers are not at all tech savvy, generally speaking; there's no way they'd go for a dongle.
Granted, this is a year old now, but the data doesn't match your assertion, at least in the US.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/ewanspence/2016/04/13/apple-mar...
Is a chess coach like Lev Alburt worth the money to someone who does play chess at a professional level? Does a world class coach make a big difference when we're talking about amateur chess players?

Obviously, there are other reasons to go to a guy like Lev for lessons (the conversation, social cache etc.), I'm just curious as an amateur chess player if seeking someone out like Lev would make a notable difference in my game as compared to a more average chess coach.
Psychedelic Drugs Could Reduce Criminal Behavior
Hollywood Powerhouse Built High-School Football Factory
Why promote it now when you have nothing to release? Without any actual software to use and test, this just comes across as the usual overhyped ICO vaporware.
I'm not cherry picking the cases.

You made a claim - that mere criticism of Islam was leading o arrest.

I asked you to support that claim, and despite your very best cherry picking you have been unable to find a single person arrested for criticising Islam. What you did find is people sending death threats; people calling for a campaign of bombing of mosques; pedophiles grooming children.

> but not illegal

You obviously know fuck all about English law so you should probably stop making claims.
There could be a great opportunity for Google or Facebook to take the lead in managing user logins. The rest of the world could just piggy-back on one of those two. I'd love to never have to deal with password bullshit ever again as an app creator: I'll just make my users log in with Google/FB/etc.
This is the full talk, I assume: https://archive.fosdem.org/2016/schedule/event/ruby_extensio...
Not very hard. Two years ago we did something similar for Clojure:
http://cloxp.github.io/cloxp-intro.html
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qQvvgzvPgQI

We are currently evaluating options for getting this stuff funded and Python would be a another target language / platform.
The author's ideal language seems to also describe TypeScript https://eng.lyft.com/typescript-at-lyft-64f0702346ea
> if you decide to use a product even though you are aware of the risks.

vast majority of smokers are not aware of the risks. they have some vague knowledge that smoking is dangerous, bu most smokers don't know, for example, that smoking is a leading cause of erectile dysfunction.
2000s was a time when even penny stocks that did similar stuff to real company’s, they would go up big just from stock board members pumping them up
Just look at Miami in the 80s.
Hey.. I'm in a very similar position.

I'm 26, have been at 4 different tech jobs in 2 years, dismissed from 2 for not great reasons. I'm based in the Bay Area, and looking for a new job now. Its definitely hard to explain the work history to employers. I was actually considering moving to Canada as I was recently granted a permanent residence there, but I don't know about the job prospects.

If you want to talk, email me at mathemagicalmonkey at gmail
Very good question that I'm curious about as well. The cynic inside me could think of some nefarious reasons, but I can also imagine some legitimate ones, such as taking a cut of the eth made in bandwidth transactions, and opening up markets for other services that were previously impenetrable, such as China.
That’s a loaded sentence with 2 terms i have not Idea what they are. Depth 3 and polynomial time
It is amazing anything works at all. A rant on software development
Tabacco - average of $609k per employee

Oil, Gas, & Consumable fuels - average of $421k per employee

I think top 5 public software companies (GOOG, MSFT, FB, AMZN, AAPL) averages more than Tabacco.
I would say it’s both (or neither): if you are always predicting disaster, then your predictions are neither useful nor credible, since you will be wrong most of the time as the long-term trend of the market is upward.
How does that jive with the fact that Play also has books and movies? Those are not Android apps. There is absolutely no technical reason that Play couldn't also serve as a discovery and installation (i.e. icon on the desktop) mechanism for PWA-compliant applications. Users would never know the difference.
Hmm, I wonder if small noises is it. The upstairs neighbors had a kid a few years back. He's loud. During the day, though. I don't often find myself waking up to the kid's noise -- I just find myself waking up. Maybe I'm waking up to the kid and just don't realize it. Hmm.
If an extra makes things worse, then it's not exceeding. It's a novel way of underperforming.
so... same as paper money then? quick better outlaw that too.
I feel like Snapchat is aging out of coolness and there's nothing they can do about it. First adopters are in the workforce and probably starting families by now. Do kids want to be on the same social media platform their uncle or aunt are posting baby pictures on?
But they do know that some of their parents, friends, uncles, cousins, grandparents smoked and lived happy lives. Instead of diving into obscure statistics finding things to worry about.
A board 1cm off meets the specifications. A board .2cm off exceeds the specifications in terms of precision. The closer to a perfect meter, the more it exceeds the minimum.

You can't exceed "1m exactly", but that's the same as saying you can't exceed perfection. The specification is not perfection, the specification is "1cm slop". You can exceed it.
Also out this week in Science is George et al. "A generative vision model that trains with high data efficiency and breaks text-based CAPTCHAs": https://www.vicarious.com/2017/10/26/common-sense-cortex-and...
A mostly uninteresting article in my opinion, but didn't agree with this:

> Dr. Bader said that she wished popular magazines would challenge the notion that you shouldn’t get married to change someone.

Most of the relationships I've seen where one partner has a goal of changing the other person have failed. I would bet that this would bear out in a well-designed study as well.
Have you tried rate limiting based on the user account? That should block a distributed attack since each login would count against the rate limit independent of the IP address.
70% of kids can't be hip and cool. It's a numbers game where being the winner means losing cool cred.

For example, do your parents have iPhones? Anything your parents are into instantly loses cool.
Just go. It’s great. Go to Yunnan. TripAdvisor is pretty good if you want tips for a short trip and you’re just going for a short visit. But don’t go in winter unless you’re going to the south.
Exactly. And nobody gets addicted to crayons.
That's an eye-opening article you linked there. Thanks for posting.
That's exactly what this project is attempting to tackle. As addressed in the podcast, we can do a pretty good job teaching knowledge of what good behavior is. This project is attempting to get beyond knowledge to action.
Apple is a majority in the luxury (>$500) phone category. In the history of computing, no company has locked down devices after one pays to own it, like Apple. In opposite world, they're not a monopoly.
Is it different from a restaurant near a busy road, or by the side of a highway?

The micro-kitchen location shown in the photo at the top of the article was near a highway. I doubt all of them are in locations exactly like that.
The abstract says depth-3 means a NN with 1 hidden layer. So I guess the 3 refers to one input layer, one hidden layer, and one output layer.

Polynomial time roughly means "fast enough that it could be practical at large scale if you have enough computing power". It's in contrast to exponential time which means "no amount of money can ever buy enough computers to do it at scale".

My question is what's the existing learning time for such a network? Maybe it's already just as good but these guys have a proof that it works in general instead of just hoping and finding that it usually seems to be fast enough?
ChrisRackauckas (above) is the author of DifferentialEquations.jl!
They'll have to pry my terminal out of my cold dead hands.
Hard to tell. One thing I would like is being able to ask someone why the hell Stockfish is making some move when analyzing my games, but on the other hand I tend to be a rather self drive player.
I got the spectacles and as sunglasses they wre pretty low quality. They only have one size, which doesn’t fit my head well, and the hinges get too loose after just a few days.
Oh, so it wasn't specifically for tobacco. In that case, I think we might as well count schools, roads, and anything that is subsidised.
Long ago (I'm thinking early 80s) in Scientific American, I recall a story about the implementation of a computer(?) in a giant train switching yard. That one, I can't find. Though the story of Apraphul ( http://robert.surton.net/cs160/apraphulian.pdf ) also points to the "nothing magical about silicon and electricity".

There are lots of ways to do computation. DNA for example. http://www.nature.com/news/2000/000113/full/news000113-10.ht...

Its just that going from the accidentally Turing complete and physical implementations of logic gates to the simulation hypothesis was a sudden shift in the narrative I was making for myself while reading the slides.
Are there even any sattelite systems available to the general public that can track objects on the ground? GPS can't, they're one way. Satellite phone systems would know which satellite the phone is connected to, but would they get any more information than that?

I'm not sure there's any realistic way to do this.
Yeah, it's much easier to find someone you can accept than it is to try to mold someone to your liking. In fact, I would submit that it says quite a bit about the person for attempting that level of control.

I am not innocent. It's a lesson learned in time.

And, yeah, a strange choice of article for HN. But, here we are.
What's wrong with raising money? Is it more ethical to build systems while living of one's savings?

One of the reasons why there's is a lot of Ethereum-based projects currently raising a lot of money is because token-based systems avoid relying on the traditional financial system for payments and value transfers. If your app is using traditional payments it can be shut down by your payment provider.

Blockchain-based tokens allow users to be in control of their own funds and not have their payments tracked or tied to their identity. I'd say that's a pretty big win.

Moreover ERC20-based tokens allows for engineering of incentives in a way that is far more efficient than company shares. It can accelerate network effects in a way that was simply not possible before blockchain technology.
Why should the top 10 change? We still secure our houses with locks, secure our neighbourhoods with police, secure our borders with armies. We drive safer cars these days yet we still secure our road edges with barriers at dangerous points. Why would the categories of risk change on a bi-annual basis?
Answer: It depends.

I have friends who really aren’t, but they seem to have a rewarding relationship anyway. Not my cup of tea, but other people’s marriages aren’t any of my business!
"President Barack Obama called on the tech community to build a safe encryption key to assist in law enforcement investigations, saying that if it failed, it could one day face a more draconian solution passed by a Congress that is less sympathetic to its worldview. "
What's the point?
If it's to "stick it to the man!", it won't have any effect because they are probably using multiple ratings from different users to classify things (in average people will be right).
I’ll second this. I have the same as you - autoimmune issues that cause hypothyroidism. Stress and anxiety that debilitates me at times. Not American, not Mensa too.

Just anecdotal but at least there’s two of us :)
"If builders built houses the way programmers built programs, the first woodpecker to come along would destroy civilization."

- Gerald Weinberg
USDCHF Looks to Strengthen Further but with Caution
Portuguese non-neutral ISP shows us what our Trumpian internet will look like
>>but the gist is they built something with low utility value. period

Yep. Today we live in times where apparently this is secondary, however, so they gotta make up a ton of crap.

A friend has a pair. They work... fine. The app support is... fine, and kind of novel actually given that rotation on the screen works with snaps shot with spectacles only.

But... there's not much value there. At all.

And why would there be, anyway?
It's interesting to look at how that distribution of jobs has changed over the last 40 to 50 years, though, and whether or not seeking to reverse the centralization could be useful.
Worse. It's when 'Design Patterns' came out and developers tried to "create" or "invent" their own pattern.
Boris Johnson couldn't do that until he paid huge amounts in penalties for a citizenship hr was unaware of. He consumed no US services. Why should he be taxed?
And that's the point: being a right wing extremist is a better predictor of violent behaviour than being Muslim.
I was thinking governments are probably the largest profiters of tobacco products though taxes.

>Their data estimates that taxes make up 42.5% of the cost of a pack of cigarettes in the US, compared to 82.2% in the United Kingdom, which has the highest cigarette taxes.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cigarette_taxes_in_the_United_...
The Sci Am article was a Computer Recreations column, probably by A.K. Dewdney.
What happened in May?
Do you have any data to back that assertion up? I suspect most smokers know the health risks, it's just that they are addicted.
Well, this is why large denomination notes have been taken out of circulation...
Connection needs to be stable as well. It usually isn't in developing countries. Yesterday Hacker news was talking about 3+ seconds to load. Today it loads instantly. When the speed varies you just wait for the page to load. Nobody thinks it's JavaScript they assume net is slow.
IMO, (well based on actual data from my websites and apps) most people consume media, not produce it, where producers are < 1%. The phone is a device that both consumes and produces doing a great job at it but for the majority of its use, ~99% , consumes. A device only for producing is already at a disadvantage and its a novel one at that. When glasses or contact lenses both consume and produce, we got something pretty great going on. For example, kind of related, when the iwatch becomes 100% an phone in its own right, no tethering, you already sold me and I'll buy it as it just dramatically increased its utility and its novelty vanished turning into a new form factor.
Business work is hardly steady-state. Being unable to quickly shrink/expand the workforce means the business will be perpetually over/understaffed, making the business less competitive.

Of course, there's always going to be friction in changing staff. But increasing the friction should be approached with caution.
I wonder if they ever tested the concept before the release. To me, they would have seen the issues with any sort of actual market test prior to the investment.
Holy cow. I don't get it.
So you do like “obscure statistics” after all! Good!

https://www.tobaccofreekids.org/assets/global/pdfs/en/Global...

Your turn.
>is also one of the leading causes of deaths on Earth.

The methods of calculating that 400,000 number are highly suspect.

Nearly 60 percent of the deaths occur at age 70 or above; nearly 45 percent at age 75 or above; and almost 17 percent at the grand old age of 85 or above! Nevertheless, without the slightest embarrassment, the public health community persists in characterizing those deaths as “premature.”

tobacco-related deaths occur at an average age of roughly 72, an age at which mortality is not unusual among smokers and non-smokers alike.

https://www.cato.org/publications/commentary/blowing-smoke-a...

I'm not disagreeing that they are harmful, but 400,000 deaths a year is hyperbole. Governments make a lot of money on that hyperbole too.

In Fiscal Year 2010, the federal excise tax on cigarettes (currently $1.01 per pack) brought in $15.5 billion in revenue.

In 2009, states raked in more than $24 billion by taxing cigarettes and $8.8 billion in settlement payments from tobacco companies

http://dailycaller.com/2011/02/28/what-would-an-america-with...
While not very well described in the whitepaper, the system actually uses token commitments to verify source nodes. Relay and exit nodes verify that the connecting source node has enough token committed (locked up in an Ethereum smart contract) before and after accepting connections / payments.

The only two operational systems I'm aware of using probabilistic payments is blockchain Proof-of-Work, where mining rewards can be viewed as probabilistic (though with annoyingly high variance) and blockchain-based lotteries.

IMO probabilistic payments can replace payment channels in quite a few blockchain-based systems such as https://gridplus.io/ (basically in systems/apps where a service is provided that is (very) granular and continuous (video streaming would be another example))