skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not really an answer to any of the questions you asked, but I'll provide my perspective.

I don't use a VPN to hide my identity from the websites I'm connecting to. I use a VPN to hide the websites I'm connecting to from my ISP.

Residential ISPs in the UK are supposed to log a bunch of internet stuff (not clear exactly what), which is then made available warrant-free to over 40 government departments, including for purposes obviously unrelated to "national security" (not that that would make it OK), e.g. HMRC and the Food Standards Agency

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Investigatory_Powers_Act_2016

Additionally, I use a DigitalOcean VM and run OpenVPN myself, I don't get a service from a VPN company.
Bezos is not working out of a library.
Harry advocated a portfolio of:

25% Stocks

25% 30 year treasury bonds

25% Cash

25% Gold

His book on the subject:
https://www.amazon.com/Fail-Safe-Investing-Lifelong-Financia...

A more recent book:
https://www.amazon.com/Permanent-Portfolio-Long-Term-Investm...
You need to look up what stremio (https://www.strem.io/) is and understand the value proposal for the casual non tech saavy end user. This is the face of torrenting now. Not magnet links. People don't know what a URL is anymore, don't expect them to understand a classic torrent client or i2P.
Well this article gave me a good laugh. Poor dinosaur.
Any connection to http://www.utelly.com/?
Why not just use a trusted solution like openvpn and only use providers who provide openvpn servers? That immediately gets rid of one half of your problem; and as for the other half, vpn services that allow for connections via openvpn are likely to be more trustworthy. In addition, the vpn company can't MitM connections which are already on an encrypted channel outside of the vpn conneciton.
The comment about the language is important and, in my opinion, often overlooked. We can joke about how no one pirating "Modern Family" has ever made anyone "walk the plank", but the fact is this language lets the media paint anyone who downloads content without paying (often, they cannot pay) as someone deserving of harsh punishment. Like it or not, the criminality of the pirates of the high seas is being associated with anyone that visits a Bittorrent tracker and downloads some content. In the eyes of many, "hiding" behind a VPN service only compounds this criminality.

I think microcolonel is making an important point: it's all hyperbole and in almost all cases, there is no injured party. Certainly I am not arguing that it is right, or without a moral gray area. But it's certainly not on the same level as physical theft.
I am debating whether I should go with them or not, as well. They do seem solid, but I have not heard any people mentioning them.

I have a paid account with Netflix/Hulu/HBO and I'd like to watch it when I'm travelling or when I'm working remotely from third world countries. That would be my sole use case. Can they stream without huge latency?
HB's Permanent Portfolio consists of 25% each cash/gold/stocks/long term bonds

25% stocks (index fund) Stocks – for profit during periods of general prosperity and/or declining inflation.

25% Gold – for profit during periods of bad inflation; during inflationary episodes gold bullion provides protection against a falling currency and other potential problems.

25% Long Term Bonds (30 year) – for profit during periods of declining interest rates; and especially during a deflation. Bonds also do reasonably well during prosperity.

25% Cash – During a recession, no particular asset class is going to do well. The cash in a Treasury Money Market Fund offers stability when portfolio asset classes fall in price. It also protects purchasing power during a deflation.
Here is a source, but no „malware“ but ads, the line gets more and more blurry

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2015/11/beware-of-ads-th...
> That is a very powerful statement, and I'd like to know why you'd think that. I would even like to know what makes you think that any language (never mind which) can make such an impact, even though we've seen nothing of this sort.

I think we have; I think we've seen dramatically accelerating programmer productivity. I think language improvements compound heavily: if a language is slightly more efficient in the small, that means code has to be broken up less, which give it more and more of an efficiency advantage as the codebase gets larger.

> I am skeptical, because having looked at Idris and played with it a bit, I was completely underwhelmed. Java + JML can do pretty much the same, if not better, and for a lowe cost, and this is not a statement about Java+JML being a leap forward. I have no idea if Eve could make an impact as big as the one you predict, but at least I don't feel I can instinctively reject this possibility as easily as I could Idris, as Eve actually brings a lot of new things to the table, where Idris feels like some ergonomic improvement over things that may have had some potential that never materialized, in the hope that better ergonomics is what should do it.

All of programming language design could be called ergonomic improvements. I always found all the pre/post contract stuff too complicated and too different from normal programming to get any value out of; being able to capture more in plain old functions, values and types is where I see value.
Came here to say this. Postgrest is a fantastic product and a huge time saver, both in terms of reduced superfluous code requirements and overall performance.
But here the RAD is the product. Their end game. Basecamp was the product, and ROR just a by product of it. Complety different.
Don’t peanut butter then. Put 3 on TF, 3 on PyTorch, and the remaining 4 on shared library of some sort.

You’re right that doing 10 things at once is a recipe for failure, but the reality is, majority of frameworks don’t really matter all that much, and if a couple of solid integrations existed, they could just reuse that work on their own.
Investigating Recurrent Neural Networks: compilation of resources to get started
Rich people: since you have as much money, you should direct it towards solving that problem with all the available channels, including carbon recapture.
Apple could literally release a phone with zero changes to it over the previous "generation" and billions would still want it.
You don't need devs, you need some Ops/DevOps guys who know what they are doing.
I may have answered my own question by looking at the matching logos
> An Uber is, for all intents and purposes, a cab - not a friend.

A private driver?
Why is SOCKS limited? Just make whatever you want to send your traffic through proxy it through the SOCKS.
The first rule is to inherent the money. The second is to be born into a network that benefits you and doesn't punish you arbitrarily. The third rule is to profit from a strong public infrastructure, and then once you've achieved enough wealth, work tirelessly to defund it through tax cuts.

This guy's a mug. And anyone who thinks financial security for one is something that can be done independent of a community is full of it, or a hustler protecting previously accrued assets.
This doesn't address the issue of IP (code ownership, licensing, etc.). She gave him 33% of something he arguably had 50% access to (the 3 tickets), and she took 100% of the booth presence. Oh, and she took 100% control of the project. She was only 50% of the winning team.

Math is hard for some people... maybe she has problems with it, too, and thinks that yelling "harassment" will make the math problems go away. Unfortunately, that's not how the world works.

I have no doubt that the "25%" statistic is because most of those are the people who didn't win and everyone abandoned the project.
I know, but this is a difference in how normal people and search people talk about SERPs. "Ranking factors" almost always refer to organic search. That's part of where this friction has come from.

Personally, I wouldn't be surprised to see the carousel disappear once Google deems that AMP has become self-sustaining. I think they're using it as motivation to get publishers on board, and then they'll fall back to regular organic ranking afterwards (to which AMP pages will still benefit).

But in the mean time it's causing a lot of consternation.
I think people are coming across one of the other two Alan Kay on Quora submissions[0], [1], finding this other answer, and aren't checking for dupes when submitting. This isn't that uncommon of an occurrence, plus the title of the submission for this answer is "Alan Kay on Lisp": it's not immediately obvious that the submission points to this Quora post.

[0]: Alan Kay Answers “Is There a Successor to Smalltalk?” https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15518746

[1]: Alan Kay answers “What was it like to be at Xerox PARC when Steve Jobs visited?” https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15575287
The X is Apple playing catch up feature wise, but they seem to be catching up the way they always do; being a leader in the pack. Fastest phone by far, arguably the best camera (really comes down to preference vs Pixel), but what I'm excited about is for stuff I've dreamed of from Apple - OLED (dark themes matter now!), thicker phone for more battery life and Plus features without the ShoePhone size from a company that is actively trying to protect my privacy.

If they complete the whole package and make it all work great, then like the iPod, it doesn't need to be first to market to be revolutionary. Just be better than all the other implementations and UX thus far. Though iOS 11 doesn't seem like that's all coming together super great but their pros still seem to outweigh all their competitors cons for what I want from a device. And of course, marketing is marketing.
> All SSH does is move your traffic to a different computer.

And browsing the internet over a VPN is different... how, exactly?
Though information leaks via font rendering is very much a solvable problem, another major vector for fingerprinting is WebGL: https://browserleaks.com/webgl

Since graphics rendering is tied so tightly to the hardware, I can't really imagine a scenario where all fingerprinting leaks from WebGL can ever be plugged.
Compressors galore: pbzip2, lbzip2, plzip, xz, and lrzip tested on a FASTQ file
Times were different when Browne was practicing and refining his system. His book Fail-safe Investing talks about using Swiss banks and holding gold there. My understanding is today the Swiss don't want to deal with the headaches that come with servicing customers from countries that demand so much reporting.

One way is via the Perth Mint in Australia. They need a copy of your passport and take the money by wire to an American account, but as far as moving some money somewhere else you can do it.
My biggest issue with it is finding out that the aspect ratio has changed and so even thought the screen is roughly the same length diagonally as iPhone 6/6S/7/8 Plus it's width is really like that of a iPhone 6/6S/7/8 and not a Plus. So for Plus users, there's no replacement here it seems.
You mentioned stremio and I respectably pointed out that it's not going to work over i2p for reasons mentioned above. I don't even see why you're mentioning it when we're talking about privacy.
If it were possible to do this with any level of certainty, then VCs wouldn't have to back 1,000 startups in the hopes of getting it right on one of them.

To put it another way: this is one of the hardest things to predict. Either, neither, or both startup's options may end up being worth nothing to you, since employees are far down in the pecking order.

You'll end up making more money with an impressive resume and good connections than you ever will from options, so you should optimize for those factors. And, if it matters to you, quality of life.
Because that's a bad place for the sensor. If I have to pick up my phone and touch the sensor on the back, I might as well use FaceId.
Big Brewer Makes a Play for Marijuana Beverages with $191M Investment
> Don't accuse others of astroturfing or shillage. Email us and we'll look into it.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
I get the idea of having some sort of shared cultural touchstones. But there are plenty of candidates for that role.

Not to belabor the point, but why the guys in tights and not, say, the characters from the Abrahamic faiths? Well, you say, it's dangerous to mix faith with fantasy. But that's exactly what the old myths did and what Tolkien could do by implicitly associating his stories with Christianity, and exactly what Batman will never be. So much for the structural similarities between the Superman and Hercules.

But, again, this is all beside the point. The devil is in the details. There might be nothing inherently wrong with making superheroes the source of a shared cultural vocabulary about "spiritual" questions: what is right, what is wrong, what is bravery, etc. But how has it actually unfolded, in the world, right now? Again, Moore argues that, in the concrete, it has led to a kind of infantilism.

You bring up the Dark Knight. I don't personally like what I took away as the message of the Dark Knight, but I understand if you do. But can you name a single other example with actual critical value? Or do the vast majority just serve to make unhappy people, sleepwalking through life, continue unhappily sleepwalking?
As neither of us are supreme court justices, everything here is opinion, that's what we're discussing, our opinions. I shouldn't need to prefix everything I say with "this is my opinion" just as I don't force you to prefix everything you say with the same. So put that aside, it's a useless thing to point out and adds nothing to the conversation.

> Quite a few of us do not believe property and free exchange are unconditional freedoms

I believe you are in the minority. I believe the vast majority of Americans would disagree as our Constitution only allows the federal government to regulate interstate commerce, I believe the case law is on my side as is the law but I'm not remotely running around claiming things are facts so please get off that high horse.

And by the way, trying to claim Constitutional scholarship and case law are not on my side is a poor and fallacious attempt at argument from authority; try addressing my arguments, I have no interest in your fallacies. I don't live in Germany, I don't care what their constitution says about property; I care what my Constitution says and more importantly how it came to be; it codified not what my rights are, but what the government can and cannot do.

My right to trade pre-existed government. If the governments of the world all collapsed tomorrow, my right to trade would still exist, I would have to defend it by force, which I would, but it would still exist as a naturally recognized right of any human to engage in trade and we'd all each defend this right by force if required. And I'll call you a liar if you claimed otherwise, you'd defend that right for yourself as well and you know it.
I don't understand the long-term aim of bitcoin. It currently costs $40/transaction, that seems far beyond any reasonable idea that bitcoin could ever be useful. How is this not a ponzi scheme, help up by mining fees?
Composi 1.0, a 3KB JavaScript Library for Making Component-Based Interfaces
Among other things, Paul Manafort may have also broken Airbnb’s terms of service
Google/Bing search injection browser attack maybe? You can't write a character into your browser's address bar without being hit?
Those kind of statements almost never mention extenuating circumstances - to do so is often looked upon as making excuses.
Making Data charitable: Lessons learned applying data to the charity sector
Easy, alongside taxing added value (VAT), we need a way to reliably tax emissions. Distort the market until we have a chance to survive.
I don't believe that this is specific to men. If an individual is threatening over email then it is more probable that they will be threatening in person in general.

If Mark's behavior made the author feel threatened then she has the right to avoid further interaction with him. But as others have pointed out, the emails sent are not threatening in the way that the author describes them, and there isn't really any evidence of "harassment". The author describes Mark's "intensity" while working with him at the Hackathon. It seems likely that this intensity carries over into the way he writes emails as well, which made the author feel unsafe.
Ever seen an eclipse? It generally not obvious that it's happening until just before totality and it's fine to look at during totality. Generally when people go blind watching an eclipse, it's because they knew it was coming and wanted to watch it happen. So a lot of folks probably didn't even think to look up until it was safe to do so.
I dunno if I agree with the rest of this guy's blog or his off-hand remarks, but the investment advice in this page looks pretty solid overall.
What about the argument that the only chain that deserves to be called Bitcoin is the one that is completely backwards compatible to all the versions of software dating back to the genesis block?
Lawsplainer: The Manafort/Gates Indictment
I would add that gold is an asset that does well when people lose faith in the dollar. It's insurance against the unthinkable.
Hah, you beat me to it! :-) Still happy to answer questions, although this is trending on a particularly bad day, as I'm moving house. Leave a question here, however, and I'll answer it.
Looks promising but my biggest gripe is the visuals. Maybe in the future, you could support different themes or skins? It's great to be able to bootstrap a website quickly, but if this is going to be customer facing the design needs some love :)
See Rule #3: Recognize the difference between investing and speculating
Historic World Series Home Run Rate May Be Result of Slicker Baseballs
Good point. Here's hoping for an iPhoneX+ next year.
Tor is basically a funnel into the DOJ and has been for quite some time:

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2017/03/doj-drops-case-a...

They run massive PR campaigns with carefully structured press releases designed to convince the kind of people they want to detain that TOR is private and safe for any kind of activity.

Because of this people tend to get swole when you suggest that TOR is not any good for protecting your privacy because lots and lots of people have been arrested, tried and convicted after trying to use it to hide elicit activities.

The US government has made millions of dollars of investment into TOR:

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/jul/29/us-govern...

Pretty much every time the US government is investing in something you can be certain that their intention is not to help you out.
I can't watch Netflix through ProtonVPN.
No.

I wish people would stop throwing this question at every headline that happens to have a question mark at the end of it. The headline here isn't clickbait, it's an attempt to answer a question that is pertinent to many.
And how, exactly, does one embark upon an endeavour such as owning real estate, starting a business, buying stocks, acquiring education, or starting a family?

For almost every single person, the main source of their wealth will be their career.

Unless you are planning on inheriting more money than you expect to make from your career from your extremely wealthy parents, you're going to have to accept Rule #1.

And if you borrow money to accomplish these things, you are in violation of Rule #7, don't use leverage.
I am not sure why it is different from any other phone. Yes, unlocking the phone with fingerprint does not require taking your eyes off the road. But aren't your going to look at the screen of the unlocked phone anyway?
Even as a hypothetical, this sidles up to an accusation of shillage, which the guidelines as us not to do because it's not substantive.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
I'm confused. It sounds like you're criticising Youtube etc for not being democratic media, but also not for "drawing lines between truth and lies" -- in other words policing speech.
Create a batch of new yous' with different addresses and make them public across the internet. Your problem is too little misinformation.
I think it's not Google or google being gamed by SEO.. I think the web went from a cute jungle of documents into a boring market filled by baseless content.

Today my heuristic is: the older the HTML the better. Often the horrendously crafted website were the work either of naive individuals that had no hidden agenda beside having fun with webpages, or passionated ones that would put long articles full of interesting facts.
refactoring != adding new features.

Also some refactorings are easier with tests, some are harder.

The kind @viraptor mentiones is the kind that spans more than one compoment. For example when you decide that a certain piece of logic was in the wrong place.

The kind of refactoring that becomes easier is when you don't need to change the (public) API of a component.

Take for example the bowling kata. If you want to support spares and strikes and you need extra bookkeeping, that's the easy kind of refactor where your tests will help you.

But if so far you have written your tests to support a single player and now you want to support two players who play frame by frame... Now you can throw away all the tests that affect more than the very first frame. (yes in the case of the bowling kata, you can design with multiple players in mind, but that's a lot harder in the real world when those requirements are not known yet)
The SPY ETF is 0.0945% per year, although you still pay the broker when you enter or leave the position.

Vanguard's prices are great, especially if you get into their top-tier $10,000+ accounts. But ETFs are competitive against Vanguard in my experience.

Of course, Vanguard also offers low-cost ETFs. As long as you go with a mainstream option, I don't think you can go wrong.
I've set up my own VPN using Streisand [https://github.com/StreisandEffect/streisand] & Google Compute Engine (Micro Instance). When you create an account on Google's Cloud, you get $300 (or used to at least). This instance type is big enough to handle the few devices I connect to it, fairly speedily too.
I would totally support micro-payments to content producers as opposed to the status quo. Until then.....Kodi all day baby! Cut the cord and never going back!

I, however, didn't buy one pre-packaged. I did it the "hard" way and installed it on a Rpi3. If only I could play netflix on it, it would be perfect.
Virtual Species: Display Alphabets by SetInterval() Function
> Where does the money for those things come from, if not your career?

The money to fund wealth building ventures comes from having a stable career. However, the act of having a career does not build wealth as the rule implies.
...and that principal is your wealth.

So to summarize:

Use your career income to accumulate wealth that will provide your income without your career.
Does anyone require a Google account to live, no; it's a luxury item. Unless and until not having a google account prevents you from living in this society, i.e. unless it becomes a basic utility which without you cannot function in society, then I don't believe you have any right to regulate Google. It matters when something is a monopoly when its service becomes no longer a luxury but a necessary element of life in society. If I can't get utilities to my house because they rely on a Google account for authentication, then you can regulate Google.
> I have a similar anecdote. Girlfriend was having some symptoms, we briefly talked about it then walked to the pharmacy and bought a pregnancy test.

The funny thing is, this is a horrible use of ad data. With a few exceptions (luxury cars being one, making someone feel good about their purchase) showing ads for a product someone just bought is the height of uselessness.