skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well, one advantage of a celebrity endorsement is that when the thing tanks, there's someone with money to sue. If you can show that (big-name celebrity) was paid for an endorsement, and didn't admit that up front, they're now a party to the scheme. We may see some big names go broke over this.
Your opinion is welcome.
Hopefully they can use some of that dough to improve their support.

I've been trying to do a business (US) to business (EU) transfer using TransferWise for the last few days and it's been a nightmare. First they can't accept an ACH payment, then they cannot match the wire transfer to my business account, support doesn't answer, their automated "Action Required" emails have links to help topics that don't exist and their phone support can't do anything and asks you to email them instead, with the emails never receiving any kind of acknowledgement.

Maybe it works fine for sending your friend a fiver, for business use it's a total fail so far.
We [myself former] are not simply poisoning ourselves for fun. There are a multitude of benefits afforded by nicotine in the short term, including improved focus, reduced anxiety, and of course the habit of a smoke break is great for clearing the mind.

Your problem is that you, as you say, equate smoking with poison. That's hyperbolic. One could say the same about sugar, but it would sound just as ridiculous.

It's almost as if smokers are dehumanized these days, and non smokers deliberately ignore reasons to smoke.

There has also been ample evidence of neuroprotective effects of nicotine[0][1] for decades now. I dont mean to suggest that you go out and start a pack a day habit, but my point is that walking past a smoker won't give you cancer.

[0]https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19714494

[1]https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/11772120
I was at the Vatican museum recently and was surprised to see most sculptures appeared to be permanently damaged for embedding a number label. (example: http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-hvqlG6iPcP8/UGzso1C3AcI/AAAAAAAAJF...)

I agree with you, let’s not be arrogant, like in the past, and destroy what we should save for future generations.
Desireco42, the PHP tags are part of design, we are PHP enthusiasts. Regarding slow loading, we were not expecting great response and traffic, check the site now, shifted it to new EC2 server and is working lightning fast!
The typical excuse is file space. The next excuse is privacy/security concerns. The next excuse is usually that other tools do it better (SharePoint, svn, git) for the types of files that really matter.

MS Word has a Track Changes feature that kind of does this, and it's a pain because you have to remember to remove the revision history before you publish the document because it can expose details about the users that edited the document.
According to the org website the report will be delivered late 2018 http://www.globalchange.gov/nca4
Without changing your lifting regimen? I find that hard to believe.
4% p.a. doesn’t look like climbing to me...
Steroids have been known to do this for decades (if not centuries)

http://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJM199607043350101
Your first statement is not true. The tax credit is based on the size of the battery. The Volt qualifies for the full $7500 (which is one big reason I chose it over other hybrid options) as does the Bolt.

https://www.edmunds.com/fuel-economy/the-ins-and-outs-of-ele...
It's quite possible that the US military is a bigger polluter than any private corporation or government agency. It's an organization of truly colossal size.

But the sum of all US corporations is, in aggregate, much, much larger.
It's existed for a very long time, but still hasn't fully taken off.

http://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJM199607043350101
In the last week, I've heard customer service agents and personal trainers talking about investing in bitcoin. It definitely feels like a bubble here.
One important factor of the success of Facebook/YouTube/etc. is that you have an admin every 10k people. Let's say instead of Facebook we have million of people hosting their websites. Then you'd need a lot more admins. A lot more of security issues. Facebook makes super easy for people to put content online and also interact between them. I wish setting up a server and securing a server to host your content would be as easy as creating a Facebook account.
I've been active online since 1994. In my opinion, the start of the cellphone era (iPhone and up) was when the internet started it's way downhill.

All sorts of people who weren't online suddenly were there, and businesses took a lot more interest in the lest tech savvy types who've started to populate the internet.

At the same time, these same mobile users saw they could be anonymous and had no learned netiquette unlike so many others before them.

So because of this new-user saturation, the internet became no longer niche and now mainstream, to the detriment of everyone else online.

Yes yes, Eternal September and all that, but were they wrong about the similar assessment back then?
You can actually use a "Remote" hosts file with Gasmask and set the update interval in preferences. I actually just figured this out after a little bit of trouble -- my issue was that Gasmask cannot files from Github or any https site[0]. There are non-Github mirrors listed in the table at https://github.com/StevenBlack/hosts which I have been able to use successfully.

[0]: https://github.com/2ndalpha/gasmask/issues/90
but the 1% that pays going to pay 100X , isn't that how VCs operate?
FBI Charges 22-Year-Old Student for Hacking System to Change Grades
Read Liar’s Poker and basically everything by Lewis.
Cool illusion; I figured it out and so will most humans. I don't think the claim that these sorts of illusions are of the same nature as, say, single pixel attacks against neural networks is justified. On the other hand, it is also true that it's not clear whether such attacks on our current crop of primitive neural networks will work on more advanced autonomous systems that regulate themselves.
I think my exercise and physiology textbook stated an age related decline in muscle mass happens in everyone after about 40 without a concerted program of strength training to stave it off.
As a junior trader navigating the markets during that time I noticed that nobody has a clue about anything. Pundits, researchers, analysts, Junior guys, Senior guys... They all pretend to know. I'm not suggesting the markets are truly random. Systematic profits are feasible year over year... But only to the select few who are in the right product or looking at the market in the right way. I suppose it's those guys that keep attracting fresh blood to a zero sum game where there are mostly losers.
Yeah, and if you finish the quote, the next line is:

> The point of this essay is to suggest ways to improve future file format designs.

That makes it sound like, "No offense, but < extremely rude comment >." Just because they say they're not trying to be critical doesn't mean they're not actually being critical.
>Or am I misunderstanding your point?

Only that you are talking about specifics, while I was talking in generality. (IMO) unsupervised learning of semantic relationships is a 'big deal'. This seems to be a very general method that would extend to any pair of data streams, but that hasn't been proven out yet.
Faster big-data analysis
I can provide one data point: I drive a 20 year old Honda Civic but I'm looking at getting another car (with automated shifting for spouse). With the $7500 federal tax credit + $2500 CA credit I was considering a Chevy Bolt. Now I'm about 99% certain I won't, I'll probably buy a Honda Civic, now that they went back to making hatchbacks.

I don't know about environmental impact (I bike to work 4 out of 5 weekdays) but that's one lost electrical vehicle purchase. I could have charged it at home for "free" (I have solar panels) but it's way too expensive without the credits.
If you have a mass target sure, there are better attacks.

But if you target is only a single network, packet sniffing is pretty effective and is stopped by HTTPS.

And if you target is a single person or small group of enumerable machines, arp poisoning still works on many (most?) networks.

Personally I am more scared of the damage that can be caused by being a direct target than I am having my info in one of those massive dark-web data dumps.

Edit: Also, the ops post is actually an example of a MitM (where the ISP is the one in the middle). I just expanded it to the superset.
Right, the single biggest maybe. But more than US citizens combined, as the parent comment indicates? No.
by you using your current crypto stack as collateral. you put up your stack, add SALT tokens:

1 salt token + collateral = 10,000 loan
10 salt token + collateral = 100,000 loan
100 salt token + collateral = 1,000,000 loan

no credit check.
RNG (React, Next.js, GraphQL) Can Slay the MEAN Stack
Hey there, the request you see are being loaded in background, thus not affecting the user experience at all, its not the size of each page, it preloads data when ever it can. I.e. Cache by service worker. Its for best user experience, regarding the page restoring scroll, that is what I did, which I guess was not that of great Idea. But yes we worked hard in it and its pretty useful if you check it yourself
Sure you can. Nothing prevents you from zipping something with compression turned off and then running bz2 on the result.
1 French ISP, 1M+ Box and internal network open
Billionaire Mercer Severs Financial Ties with Breitbart and Milo Yiannopoulos
I like your sentiment but then I realized of course it is. There is nothing more real than what is real. If suddenly we were dropped in a more random universe with less probabilistic rules, then what we have now wouldn't be good. Short of another reality, that's almost tautological.
I think what he is saying is technically true, though the conclusion doesnt follow. It is technically true because the US Military could easily be the largest single polluting organization in the world (because it has way more employees and vehicles than any other organization). By that token, the next biggest gov't agency would probably be USPS because of the miles of driving they do.
That does not mean, however, that the most effective path for stopping pollution starts there. For example, automobile fuel efficiency standards, or subsidies for solar power, etc could all offer more opportunity for reducing climate emissions than what is possible in reducing the US military usage of fossil fuels.
Ancient Nuclear Explosion?
> Mice that had been given large doses of the drug over the course of two years (a lifetime for a lab rodent) developed cancer at a higher rate than their dope-free peers. Tumors appeared all over their bodies, from the tongue to the testes.

> ...

> Since then, he has developed a less potent version that he hopes will also be less toxic.

So yeah, this isn't exactly ready for mass consumption.
Problems in Estimating GARCH Parameters in R
What J. D. Vance Doesn’t Get About Appalachia
2 mil was all you had, more or less? Must've been devastating.

You could live like a king in a lot of places with $2mil...almost for life. Not in NYC but the world has a lot of countries
Yes. I was there. There wasn't even a google. I would stumble along on deja.com in the late 90s until it died a slow painful death and got scooped up by Google [1]

[1] Source: [2002] https://www.cnet.com/news/google-buys-remaining-deja-com-bus...
Since it's a tax credit, it was also never actually "given" to people.
Yeah, my complaint is that they're using the generic phrase "machine learning" for specific deep learning and other neural net methods. Certainly, a wide class of "black box" algorithms can be fooled, mostly because they extrapolate in surprising and paradoxical ways.
Is it only me or both firefox and chromium refuse to connect with something like ERR_SSL_PROTOCOL_ERROR?
If they have a current valuation, from a priced round, they can probably pay; I'd go that route. If they don't have a priced round, I'd recommend code at a rate in exchange for convertible debt, with a reasonable discount on their next priced round. It's just cleaner, though it could have an impact on their future financing, but that's not your problem. For example, let's say they agree to $150 per hour and a 20% discount. Then, you give them 1000 hours worth of work. you have $100000 worth of debt (technically, plus your interest), they raise a round of $2m on $4m and you are getting $100k worth on $3.2. Or, a scenario where they raise convertible debt for seed and the incoming investors see your discount for in-kind, not cash. That could be a problem.

Here's your problem. Startups want to get as much as possible and given that you have a day job, that's going to create some friction. If they are hustling and pressed enough to go for this sort of arrangement, be prepared to be micro-managed, for free work. And what happens when they argue with you over how long something "should take" vs. how long something did take.

Good luck.
I currently use Venmo and Cash (by Square). I prefer Cash for it's simplicity and lack of social-media style alerts and notifications. The only reason I use Venmo is because it is popular (at least with my peers/friends).

I like the idea of Yap, it seems like a nice way to track group expenses and make sure everything is divided up equally.

One suggestion - an option to "pre-settle" would be nice. I.e -- if me and a group are planning a vacation ahead of time and know what our expenses are ahead of time, it would be nice to settle between the group before making the actual charge.

The only thing that would prevent me from using this is if there is any social-media aspect. That's my least favorite part of Venmo and I don't really understand the reasoning behind it in the first place.
That's really not a problem of the kernel, though, is it?

Also, I think bigger challenges to desktop Linux are the degree of configurability, drivers (maybe that's better), and the fact that the GUI is never a first-class method of using the app but instead a hastily-written wrapper on top of a command line tool.
There are waiters, but not food. Maybe it was a free-drinks deal.
Ask HN: What is the significance in Hacker News' domain name “ycombinator.com”
I know in Lambda Calculus there is this idea of the Y-combinator. What is the reason why the ycombinator group has its name?
It's still wood, granted full of glues and chemicals.
Vscode + Typescript magic
Uhh, weird. I just sent you an email.
> If they can, they’re probably not buying a new car.

While it's a subsidy; the benefits don't stop at the first purchase. As long as the subsidy continues, prices for used EVs will stay below prices of new EVs.
The semi-nude fit white people oiling each other up planet (TNG Justice) is rumoured to be a Roddenberry re-write. Roddenberry wasn't quite the person a lot of Trek fans think he was.
Stack Overflow conducting layoffs?
> If video content would be so "hostile", it would have failed on its own already. People would flock to other places where they can read instead.

That is not the slightest bit true and is in fact the entire basis for the conversation we’re having.
VCs also operate with various protections and guarantees (e.g. against dilution, position in the chain for repayment of the original investment, etc.). An individual contributor isn't going to get that kind of deal.
Yeah, "security" people in the VOIP industry can't get their head out of their own ass. Seen it too many times myself!
I don't think you understand. EB2 actually has per-country caps. Once you are in the Eb2 queue, you have to wait 15-20 years if you were born in India. That is what needs to be fixed.

The process should be completely merit based.
Docker allows you to specify mounting directories on the host system. If you wish to have persistence of the data - it's simply the matter of specifying that mounting option.
HP Selling Palo Alto Headquarters It Has Occupied Since 1957
Right, but the US military is top down control, which means changes are easier versus herding hundreds of millions of individual consumers to the right solutions.

Nobody likes a dictatorship until something needs to get done fast.
Investing is about compounding almost by definition. You take X dollars, get a return of Y%, and now you have ((1+Y%) * X) dollars.

It's true that Buffet did use insurance float. That basically became his principal, which he then compounded through investing.
I agree with the author, if people would pay for the information they got over the Web then the providers of that information would be open to not selling information about you to people who wished to exploit it.

The challenge though is trust, and of course transparency. Even if PrivacyBook (the mythical anti-facebook product) had paying customers and no tracking, how could you really verify that they weren't selling your information? And of course nation states always have a large hammer when they can put you out of business if you don't hand over data that they deem important.

In some ways DAO's are an interesting response to this, immune to pressure from nation states they may be able to provide a foundation for a distributed service that resists oversight. It might be a viable business plan if you could get more than the tin foil hat demographic to buy into it.
As of 2016 35% of our production came from Natural Gas vs 30% from Coal. So if anything we're natural gas based now.

That being said, I think you're on the right path as only 35% came from renewables (15%) or nuclear (20%).

So the 1% is accurate if the power generation remains static but renewables and nuclear are growth sectors. A bunch of reactors are allegedly coming online in the next decade. Wind and Solar are also growing quickly.
> If you're going to compare long term maintenance costs, you absolutely have to include the battery pack replacement cost.

> Keep driving with terrible range anxiety?

If we're bringing all of this up; we must consider the reliability increase as well.
It is not true that whatever a human can do, a machine can be taught to do. The human must have insight into HOW they do it in order to teach it, or otherwise come up with some new algorithm. There are a large class of things humans do that they don't understand the mechanics behind, and for which there also aren't algorithms.

I'm not talking empathy or philosophy. How about just folding laundry. Not just one type, not in a controlled environment, but folding any laundry anywhere.
> Thankfully I make enough today to break even on open source (that is, my infrastructural costs are paid for).

What kinds of infrastructural costs do you have to deal with when working on FOSS (that don't apply to software development in general)? Do you host services of some kind?
Pretty much. They'll tell you a hundred reasons why any single idea you have could never work, for technical or other reasons. I say this as a developer, and I've been guilty of this before.
NAT punching with SIP has gotten worlds better in the past few years. The protocol itself is sufficient, its just actual implementations that are piss poor at this point, missing even basic stuff like IPv6.
> Looks real nice.

Thanks!

> Any plans to open source that?

Not opposed to it, but on the other hand I have no idea how to package it?

I ended up implementing daemons for eg. setting up all the interfaces and routing on the box, because I ran into so many bugs in systemd-networkd that in the end it was impossible to work around them all and I just implemented it from scratch.

So installing the software pretty much takes over your system and turns it into a vpn+firewall unit. ;-)

Not something most users would expect if they find an open source project and install a .deb or something. So I'm not sure if it is advisable to open source it.

> All iptables/nftables/netfilter rules apply.

Rules haven't loaded yet, as per previous reply.

> Either I don't understand what you've written,
> or this is complete nonsense.

The former, I'm sure ;-).

> Probably it'd be easiest to just poke us in #wireguard

Yeah maybe.

> In "kernel-speak" it's a net_device with hard_header_len = addr_len = 0, instantiable via rtnl.

OK.

I actually have an alternative implementation of the GUI lying around where it does handle wg devices like a special device that you can only do IP on.

But it turned out to be a lot of reimplementation of everything (handling IP addresses, routing, configuring interfaces, generating anti-spoofing rules, applying policy, ...) that in the end it turned out to be an unworkable mess.

So right now the code handles wg interfaces like any other "bearer" interface, in other words a bit-bucket you can pour stuff into and it turns up at a peer port on some other box. Obviously that is a bit wrong as it cannot forward L2, so that means there are some features that are unusable (in particular VLAN tagging and VRFs).

(It's also possible that I have just been too eager when selecting wireguard and should have found an L2-compatible VPN system instead. Not sure which one fits the bill though.)

By the way, is there a video available of the talk/session you and GKH and others had recently?

I'd love to learn about wireguard internals by following along a recording of the session.
http://www.ycombinator.com/faq/#q41
Whereas the link between anabolic steroids and cancer is pretty weak. If someone is interested in getting fit (or fit looking) with pills, we already have some pretty good stuff out there.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3827559/
Bahahaha. That wasn't even the worst of it. Imagine this scenario, you have to install linux on a pc. There's no stackoverflow, there's no google. The linux distro you're using doesn't even have a package manager. And currently it doesn't have a working ethernet driver either. Also, it's the only computer that exists in your entire house.
> reign in the largest polluter in history

You mean China, right?
Adversarial attacks sound useful. How can we make it illegal to prevent them?
You do realize, even in the EB system, there are per-country caps based on the country of birth?

Which means, if you are from India and are waiting in the EB2 queue, you have to painfully maintain H1-B status for 15-20 years.
That's really surprising. I've had only great experiences using it between Europe and North America. Maybe an issue with sending to Cyprus?
Do social media threaten democracy? – Scandal, outrage and politics
http://www.businessinsider.com/us-census-median-income-2017-...

Between 2015 and 2016, US median household income rose 3.2% from $57,230 to $59,039, according to a new report released by the U.S. Census Bureau on Tuesday.

So, yes, the median household income is right in line with being able to purchase a 20k vehicle.
I generally goto remitrate to check best rates offered today : http://www.remitrate.com/best-exchange-rates/compare-USD-to-...

In my experience, Transferwise has been one of the most expensive ones if not the most expensive. Folks at remitly, ria almost always offer better rates compared to Transferwise (atleast on two occasions when I was sending it)

I would at some point want to give them a try though.
My first compiler was on a disk and I bought it from a video game store.

On the flip side, back then most of the programs I was writing could fit on a few screens and had almost no external dependencies besides libc and the C book was the SO for libc.
The irony here is that under Scott Pruitt, the EPA is removing any references to climate change from the department. Yet, the same government that gives him the power to do that also made this report.
There are podcasts like that, but I admit I am strange because all my favourite podcasts are multiple hours long, getting really deep into the content. Jocos podcasts, which doesn't really have ads other than for his own products, fx are often more than 3 hours, Dan Carlins Hardcore History is typically that long per episode, but often they are also part of a series, like his 5 episodes on the first world war (probably about 20 hours).
Pride and Prejudice, you say? Must have been written by some rube.