skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Wow, those ads are terrible. The fact that some of these[0] exist says a lot about the people in this country.. I get the impression that all of this 'political action/interest' against the tech companies is really just treating the symptom, and not the underlying problem.

0. https://img.washingtonpost.com/rf/image_1484w/2010-2019/Wash...
FinTech Is Not a Threat to Banks. Telcos, WhatsApps, and Amazons of the World Are
that was an awesome writeup. I've wrangled finance data and know the pain. Those Porsche blue links are wonderful!
The installation CD for SuSE back in the 1990s had a big how-to PDF, plus another documenting all the kernel compilation option flags ( we didn't have enough RAM then to run fat-and-happy kernels with everything included ).

I printed-out both of those over a long period on the work printers, using the reverse side of single-sided pages recovered from the paper recycling bins. And then settled in for a weekend...

I still remember choosing to include AX.25 in the kernel because it seemed like a cool thing with which I'd want to experiment at some point. Never got around to it!
Thanks for the response. One of the main reasons I'm unhappy with my work is I do the bare minimum to publish and submit. So far I've published 3 first author papers and somehow they've gotten into decent journals for my field.

I'd much rather have only published 1 paper with a more expansive coverage of that topic. I feel intellectually dishonest because I know the end game is adding an extra line to the grant application/progress report.
Future generations will really appreciate that plugged shaft!
SUPER EXCITING!
By definition, to lift heavier weight one has to change their lifting regimen.
I have a question. What are the "Services" they refer to in the article? Are these B2B and/or government contracts, the kind which Oracle/IBM are well-known for?
How dangerous is it? Do you "wake up" when something happens? Or do you wake up to late?

I don't drive and it just happened maybe once on a bike for me.
You've been downvoted because this shouldn't be true, but since no-one else has stepped up, I'll bite :).

It's perfectly possible to do IP-based rate-limiting in the IPv6 world, you just need to do it based on different prefixes, rather than full IPs.

As a specific example, my ISP -- as is quite usual -- hands out /48s. So in the same way that you can rate limit my entire NAT'd IPv4 connection with a single entry, you can rate limit my entire IPv6 connection with a single entry, by storing the prefix.
Ransomware attacks tiptoed around Russian AV product
They all take PEDs though.
"Scaleable BlockChain" is redundant, isn't it? Same with "BlockChain Database"?

The abstract also seems to imply that this in fact IS NOT a blockchain?
You're just assuming that no one can see trends more effectively than you. The reality is that you have no idea how other people see the world, people could be way ahead of you and you'll never know it.
I think your idea just creates capital flight and wouldn't work in practice... which is too bad because I wish it would work.

How lovely it'd be if we could say "make your capital productive or surrender it to someone who will".
The browser could throttle the cc mining based on your battery level/power state. In theory, your device could even mine while charging and then distribute the mined tokens later.
No, I _started_ lifting seriously at 48. I was objecting to the observation that loss of muscle was inevitable after 40 "even the athletic". Its not. That doesn't address the value or danger of GW501516 since I didn't use.

Most of the people using this drug are using it with more serious exercise than I'm doing. In practice its being used as an exercise supplement, not replacement.
Siblings have pointed out how very much it does happen, but if I may take issue with:

> Is the US really such a third world nation that not even basic regulation like this exist?

First, the US is by definition the First World (USSR et al. being second world, third being "everyone not allied with first two"). Second, we have somewhat different ideas about freedom that, often, lead to an extreme lack of regulation; the hope is that this gives more freedom and we'll work around abusive actors (yes, I know monopolies are an obvious weak point in the system).
Video that is deliberately structured to keep people watching without delivering much information is absolutely user hostile. That's why TV is full of shows with bullshit cliffhangers leading up to ad breaks and so on. Stringing users along in order to monetize the content is somewhat voluntary but easily tips into being exploitative.
I'd agree with zackify here too, unless I'm misunderstanding what was meant by "reproducibility". How is this different from say, pulling an external dependency from a repo manager, like we do all the time when building software?

The ability to easily deploy pre-built Docker images from a registry is one of my favorite features of a Docker workflow, especially the time that can be saved when deploying components of a software stack to a local development environment. I find I have to deal with significantly less installation issues if the developer can just run a Docker Compose file or similar on their machine to get going.
Yes, but CAs can charge money based on (more or less) number of CA root cert installations on the target devices for a company.

Some of your competitors have had their current root certs in device preinstalled for a lot longer than you. Entrust and GlobalSign have 2048 bit roots with Not Before before 2000.

If I'm going to go with a Johnny come lately root, I may as well use LetsEncrypt because it doesn't cost money. Also, audio drivers may get you desktop share, but getting into the platform store on mobile is a lot harder.
Owning a Prius was about feeling good.

Owning a Tesla, from what I can tell, is about operating a truly excellent vehicle that happens to be electric.
Yes and no.

Look around. When, as the article mentions, the option is no pill vs some pill that helps in some way; for most people the pill makes sense.

As it is today, many people could alter their diets and improve their health. Yet they do not.

In an ideal world this pill makes little sense. But our First World world of today is far from ideal. Put another way, they say that worldwide more people die from eating too much than not eating enough.
Except the majority of customers don't want to pre-purchase gift cards to shop at a retailer, but instead want to spend as soon as they make the decision to purchase.

Likewise, the frequency of chargebacks is so low it doesn't justify waiting up to 10 minutes to buy something for every purchase.
5-15ug of LSD ought to do it! Traditional stimulants (methylphenidate, amphetamine) work pretty well too.
Because?...
How many losers have you picked?
It would have been a nice quip 20 years ago, but we have amassed so many evidences that this is now more or less a meaningless thought exercise.

I might as well ask "But what if hurricanes aren't real and we end up building a better sewage system for nothing?"
Apple’s PR strategy for iPhone X
While it's true that these attacks work well on state-of-the-art models, there are defence strategies such as including adversial examples during training. Advanced defence strategies such as https://arxiv.org/abs/1705.07204 are robust to a wide array of attacks and achieve very competitive error rates.

I'm not saying it's not a problem but there are successful defence strategies already in place for many attacks.
> It's really hard to imagine an optical illusion that makes you mistake objects in the physical world for something else- say, panda for a lawn mower or a car for a pigeon, or something like that.

Here's a physical object that makes you mistake an insect for a plant:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phasmatodea
Investing in Bitcoin to diversify is fine. Buying Bitcoin because it's been rising? That's the definition of speculation. Most people are not qualified to be speculators because they are insufficiently critical. It's easy to imagine potential, and difficult to gauge risk. See also "most investors lose money".
As referenced by https://daringfireball.net/linked/2017/11/02/iphone-x-pr-str...
I am in a very similar situation (outrageous exchange rates from by Canadian bank). Do you use TransferWise to transfer between your own accounts in a Canadian bank or from your US bank to your Canadian bank?
4. it's easier for people who are driving etc. which is at least somewhat valid
Its still early days. 100k new users is nothing. Still 99% of the population do not have BTC accounts. Once you get everyone buying then you can say its a bubble, until then there is more room to go up!
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Thanks. I posted an Apache Impala freelance gig, just waiting on the manual review process for now. :-)
iCloud, iTunes, storage etc I think.
They only assessed the patients after 6 weeks. It would be interesting what a longer follow up of the patients would reveal.
There’s been constant whining that Apple doesn’t care about the Mac and has abandoned the platform, the line is stagnating and they don’t sell any models anybody wants to buy because they’re all terrible and everybody will buy big ass Windows laptops with proper keyboards, 32GB RAM and an escape key for EMACS.

Except for actual customers that are buying Macs by the truckload, that is.
that's a great way to get OS vendors to blacklist your cert and mark your installers as malware
VW Resurrection: Beautiful French video and a young Phoenix guy who lives the life
I'd like to point out that yes there is evidence of the possibly of catastrophic climate change. But we do not know enough to have any certainty on probability of catastrophe, we also don't know enough to be sure we could properly mitigate the current changes. Or that any mitigation will have a net positive effect on life on earth.

There are very dogmatic people involved in this argument that want to put in place very expensive measures to avoid a catastrophe but we have to be careful. We could drive our global economy into the ground if we go to far. The cost to the environment would be far worse. Industry gets very dirty when people go into survival mode. Clean technologies could alter the balance, but they're only going to get developed if we have the money to invest in them.
Why was this flagged the first time? The number of flagged articles on HN is becoming ridiculous. It's creating a precedent where any group with an extreme opinion can shut down conversation by deciding a topic is 'controversial'.
Netflix doesn't reward hard workers. They reward smart workers. If you get your job done in 5 mins, and take the rest of the day off, they will reward you with a 20% raise every year. If you work your ass off 16 hrs a day but don't get your work done, you will get laid off.

Keep in mind that "the job" I'm referring to is more complex that regular jobs, but they hire people that can do the job that they need them to.
> Regarding the data, it's not very conclusive. Given the scale of time over which data has been collected, is it sufficient to create a reliable model and predict the future changes in climate?

I think this part of the debate hinges critically on whether or not you think that core samples can be used to project temperature samples. If so, the data available to the models is vast and conclusive. If you reject that, the amount of climate data we have covers only hundreds of years.
But the fighting on steps 1-5 was so intense, every step of the way, and the character assassination against the scientists who advocated for them so consistent - I've lost a lot of respect for those responsible, including people close to me. It would be different if they were willing to consider possibilities and work together to find answers and solutions.
Abortion providers? Really? Who’s getting rich in that space?
Are you giving people a real choice, though? And to what extent are they just hooked on your eye candy?
It seems like this is itself a demonstration there are alternative techniques.
Because it could mean that sophisticated markets are not impressed by the stagnating offering and the only reason the Mac is seeing growth is that people are buying Macs for the first time in developing countries.

That being said, they just said on the call that all geographic areas grew by at least 20% in Mac sales so maybe I was reading too much into Tim Cook's earlier comment.
Apple doesn't really do B2B in any major fashion that doesn't involve their core product lines. So answer to your question is no.
Chad linking to Geek Feminism Wiki to explain the "Gittip Crisis" is a testament to how effective the disinformation was, as that page repeats the lies used to whip up the crowd against him in the first place, including misrepresenting discussion on this very site:

>Shortly thereafter, Chad Whitacre, the founder of gittip, responded positively to (CW: Hacker News) a comment on Hacker News calling gittip "a joke dominated by professional victims" because women use it.

Actual comment:

>Yelling on Twitter and demonizing men for existing is not "promoting empathy and equality". Begging for legal money for your civil lawsuit is not "sustainable crowd funding" (hint: what is she being sued for? it doesn't say.). Sorry Gittip, but your site has turned into a joke dominated by professional victims.

It was never about women, and always about how "women in tech" is a glaringly obvious smokescreen to funnel money from real contributors to posers and grievance mongers. A gold star if you can guess which notorious "women in tech" activist this was about.
Major influential figures in the C++ community (notably Bjarne Stroustrup and Herb Sutter) are very explicit about having a goal of simplifying everyday usage of C++ (make simple things simple). Watch any of Bjarne's talks over the last few years to see this is one of his main focuses. It's also recognized that backwards compatibility / not breaking existing code are very important however. Yes, that's a hard set of requirements to meet but I find it bizarre when I keep seeing people state that the C++ standards committee and the community in general don't care about simplicity and ease of use when those are literally the major topics of keynotes at every C++ conference of the last few years.
That's a subcategory of one of the major arguments about CO2 being bad for as long as I can remember. Namely: the earth will do absolutely fine with rising CO2, but the ecosystem as we know it in the form we rely on will go through a period of unpredictable adaptation which could be catastrophic for us in various ways.
Russia's Tactics for Attacking America from Within
It's strange that text content needs to be semantic having all kinds of divisions for different kinds of text. Yet video can remain an unstructured unnavigatable blurb of content. It should have semantic stuff like menu, header, footer, h1, h2 or p as well.
Great idea about the numbers and associating good memories with them, gotta try that :)
Well Kieth Rabois thinks it does

https://twitter.com/rabois/status/926130750444814336?ref_src...

So does CNBC

https://www.cnbc.com/amp/2017/11/02/gop-tax-reform-bill-help...

Looks like you can defer the taxes from exercised options until there is liquidity or 7 years pass.
A simple way around that would be to pay for them so that no patient was billed for one.
Tinder is doing great with millennials. Match Group stock is up 100% YoY.
Agreed

The only case I see for "C++ is too bloated" is for embedded apps on limited hardware and even then

But then of course people make something that's 10 inheritance levels deep and (ab)uses templates and then suddenly "C++ is slow". Write better code
2x improvement just depends on where you start in relation to where you have been. If you haven't lifted legs heavily for a while you'll have to start lower but you'll quickly regain that lost grown. Well, you'll regain the lost ground faster than you'll go up past your old max.
Any info how this compares to commercial html to pdf renderers like PrinceXML?
Got a lot of Apple haters - I wasn't ripping on Android. Just pointing out the obvious. Why the down vote?
Paris accord hasn't been around for long enough to see if it'll actually produce meaningful results. Kyoto Protocol was around longer, and would you call it a success? If it was, then why have a Paris accord? The examples you have listed are things where the benefits are pretty immediate, not a couple of generations away.

To get to the level of co-operation needed, a significant investment needs to made in educating people of all mindsets, about the benefits of this co-operation. That itself is going to take a couple of generations.
GOP Tax Plan makes it easier for employees to exercise stock options
Well, I sort of assumed that since you voice your opinion about consensus as
defined in computer science, you at least should know what it is. I talk
about Leslie Lamport's (plus Shostak and Pease) original publication about
Byzantine generals problem, from 1982.
As long as we're using fossil fuels, reducing CO2 emission will always bring more bangs for the same buck. It's simply much more effective to not generate CO2 than try to suck it up from the air (which is only 0.04% CO2!).

Get the mankind carbon neutral, and then we can talk about sequestration. (Of course it would be wise to research the technology now, so that we can use it later, but industrial deployment is another story.)
It's been mentioned that what Google pays apple to keep Google as the default search in Safari is included in this figure.

Not sure what percentage that is, but I've seen it mentioned several times. Not sure about what else is included.
That certainly sounds more credible. I encourage all the HN'ers north of 40 to try weightlifting. We have members older than myself seeing good results.
sure, there is always that. but here's another perspective. I basically only wrote C for decades. Except for some interesting side projects and playing around with research languages. Did projects in language de jour (i.e. Java) and hated it.

but now I program almost exclusively in go. because for almost everything I do, especially web services. I appreciate the completely and well thought out runtime.

the primary development team could be alot more friendly. i think the channels stuff isn't as useful as its supposed to be. the vendoring thing is still screwy.

but it saves me time, and tends to make more correct programs. thats enough.
Simplifying every day usage is entirely a different thing than simplifying the language. I’m not denying the inprovement in usage, just that you should expect the complexity of the language to continually increase because that’s the needs of the c++ community.
Virtu trades 3 million shares a day, they are way out on the bell curve in terms of statistical significance.

There are of course many risks to their business model, e.g. high fixed costs, competition, regulatory risk, technical malfunctions, etc.

They are "lucky" to be in a position to capitalize on the opportunity, but investment luck does not play a role on a day to day basis.
The most popular books in all 50 states, in one map
> causes cancer

Source? Because 200 mg of Testosterone E a week is already more than human organism can produce. In study linked above they gave them 600 mg a week.

Most professional bodybuilders are doing minimum of 1g of test a week for years. Most of them have heart problems if any from test. Most problems they have are from different compounds like Trenbolone, GH etc. but not testosterone.

I don't know any study that links testosterone to be a main reason of developing cancer, that's why I ask for source.
Fair point, that was an error on my part. I've corrected it with a note of the change right below it. Thanks for pointing it out!
Yet again, analysts crying doom were touting nonsense.

iPhone selling less than expected as people wait for iPhone X? Nope, turns out they sold a half-million more than expected.

It's the same story almost every quarter. Almost like people make money on depressing the stock before the announcements or something.
Law is a different language. While it may read like computer code; it isn't. Well, it is but it's as if "goto" and ";" had different meanings depending not only on the last keyword used, but also on the mood of the computer. I wish a straightforward reading was possible but it's often not.
Omega Tau - a Science and Engineering Podcast is fantastic:

http://omegataupodcast.net/

Long episodes, such as 2 hours interviewing a physicist at ITER are really well done.
Republican tax plan kills electric vehicle credit
Remembering Baseball’s Right-Wing Rotation
Are turn-based and real-time not antonyms when applied to strategy games?

Also, that does still sound like it could be an epiphany for some. It's not immediately obvious to apply game strategies to real world scenarios. I would consider that type of analogous thinking to be one of the hallmarks of cleverness.
To be fair, a lot of podcasts have ads, but ads aren't what I'm objecting to. The modern web doesn't suck because of ads. It sucks because of the technologies around ensuring you look at the ads, around sharing your behaviors as you look at the ads, etc.

Any podcast player I can imagine anyone would ever use has a convenient way to skip ads, and the neither the presence of the ads themselves nor my decision to skip them degrades the experience of listening to the podcast. My podcast player doesn't demand I look at Forbes' "thought of the day" or disable my fast-forward button in order to play. It doesn't connect to 280 random third-party tracking domains as I listen to an episode. It downloads a file and plays that file for me.

Who really cares that much about ads that don't track you or destroy your experience?
I think at a certain point everything will be digitized, and the only inefficiency will be humans themselves. Eventually we will be replaced. So "our" innovation will end when we end and the next phase in evolution will continue.
I browse mainly on mobile devices and forward link to interesting articles. Earlier I just bookmarked page after reading and it was fine, but now that linkrot made a mess of my bookmark list I tend to print to pdf.

It is amazing how much thought is put into looks and design of web pages that just ends scrambling everything during printout or just prevents to obtain any meaningful result (ie. imgur)

I look around and see options to share on tweeter, pinterest, tumblr, reddit, facebook. But no print button that would make it easy to archive. It is like articles are disposable and not thought to be of any reference in future (even highly technical ones).
> An optical illusion won't lead to you thinking you're the king of France

I'm not sure what you're getting at here. By definition, optical illusions are perceptual mistakes limited to the optical system.

It is certainly possible for an optical illusion to trick someone into doing something they don't intend to do because they are fooled into believing the illusion. Imagine painting a set of stairs with a disorienting pattern of shading that makes them appear off, leading you to trip and fall down them.

I don't think it's necessarily for a perceptual illusion to hijack your entire belief system in order to be considered an effective adversarial attack.