skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My first inclinations are that Apple and Google should be in these committee meetings. 77% of Americans own smartphones [1]. 99.6% of new smartphones run Android or iOS [2]. I would love for my iPhone to generate a private/public key pair, with the private key stored on the Secure Enclave.

To register my public key, I fill out, on my phone, a bit of basic public information: full legal name, place & date of birth, and my current address and submit it. My phone suggests a nearby SSA office and proposes several appointment times, reminding me the day of.

At the appointed time, I take my phone, passport, birth certificate, SSN card, driver's license and recent electric bill with my address on it to the local SSA office. [3] There, the administration manually inspects and verifies my documentation. Their systems then sign the authentication along with the current location, the time, the official's ID number, and a sha256 hash of a photo of me and the official holding up today's paper.

My phone chirps, I use my passcode/Touch ID/Face ID/Dance ID to digitally counter-sign their authentication. This assures me that when the SSA's private keys are rotated because of inevitable compromise or on a routine schedule, my public key was not overwritten by the attackers.

The SSA administration publishes my public key in their online directory. Private companies can download the public key directories and cache them, or pay Stripe-like vendors for just-in-time lookups. When I want to apply for a credit card, my phone chirps and I sign the credit request, just like Apple Pay. When I lose my phone, I run by the SSA office again before I apply for another credit card.

Empowered by this new security layer, Congress passes a law establishing that no one can be held liable for—and credit decisions may not be made against—accounts that have not been digitally signed for any citizen who has a verified public key.

And then I remember healthcare.gov and I wonder if I should even press submit.

[1] http://www.pewinternet.org/fact-sheet/mobile/

[2] https://www.theverge.com/2017/2/16/14634656/android-ios-mark...

[3] I wouldn't necessarily need to have all of these kinds of documentation, but the public directory system would be able to indicate which forms of identification I did have at time of authentication, for third parties to weigh the risk of identity theft.
It's 2008 all over again. The US/International shit show we call a media tried to make Occupy seem like lost-goalless hippies. It was the ghost of Nixson. You know why people were mad? All those executives at the highest levels committed fraud, perpetuated fraud, created a culture from top to bottom of fraud where people who issued loans were encourage to forge documents, make up incomes and sell people on terrible mortgages. Then the media blamed those people instead of the people who put that system into place.

None of those executives went to jail. None of them faced any real fines. None of them faced any real consequences. Many of them walked away with millions. PNC bought National City Bank for $5 billion and got a $5b tax credit (National City wasn't allowed any TARP funding). Big banks knew 2008 would happen, and when it did, they used it to buy all their competition at the expense of millions of Americans who lost their homes, retirement savings, etc.

It doesn't matter if it was Bush or Obama or Hillary or Trump, because no matter which puppet is on stage, no one in the 1% who either allowed such terrible things to happen or made them intentionally happen or profited from things that happened to have fallen into their laps; none of them face any real consequences. The executives who sold off Equifax shares getting off without any wrongdoing is a perfect example. It's obvious they knew. They made money and they will never and can never be held accountable in today's world because they control, to various levels, all the world leaders and banks.
Or growth and then collapses all over the place. If humans colonize the galaxy (universe is really hard), it will likely look like a growing amoeba than an expanding sphere.
While I hate to put down an effort before it even gets off the ground, there is some truth to this.

Their recent failed push into 'wearables' was a great example. They bought up a number of small(ish) but interesting players (Basis, Recon Jet etc) and squandered them completely. Their complete missing the boat on smartphones, save perhaps a small amount of modem chip business the past couple of years, is especially damning. With GPUs there's the whole failed Larrabee thing as well.

If Intel ever acquire a company I care about I will be extremely concerned.
That's a bizarre conclusion to reach. Another conclusion is if that you have a long enough runway, you get more at-bats, which leads to a higher probability of a hit.
One thing that strikes me about this is the lack of tactile feedback. Even Apple is working hard to fix that aspect of the buttonless phone, but with cars it's even more important. I don't really want to be fussing with a touchscreen while operating anything moving fast enough to kill someone (or cause $$$ in damages). Don't get me wrong I love touchscreens, but they aren't perfect (sweaty hands, gloves, etc...)
Well, if you variate generic arity N, you are going to get N^3 which is exponential.
If you variate nest level M, you are indeed going to get 6 ^ N which is 'just' polynomial.
However, if you just look upon the code sample, in most case it is assumed that both N and M are variated, and if both of them are growing with same limiting behavior, then there is O(N^N) complexity. This complexity is even worse than factorial!
I don't. The comment above is much more general but definitely provoked by your observation. "You" is used in the sense of the somewhat archaic "one". Language imprecision is a thing.

"If Intel copy apple here, can one object to intel doing it but not Apple with a straight face?"
If we go the centralized route, we're just creating another Equifax (walled garden). That has always worked out great in the past, right?
So I see a lot of comments here about how it's probably mostly middle class and rich kids together. I find it curious that nobody is mentioning the lesser well off. Is the rags to riches dream a fairy tale now?
Distribution of glyphosate and aminomethylphosphonic acid (AMPA) in agricultural topsoils of the European Union

http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0048969717...

http://www.i-sis.org.uk/Roundup_of_Roundup.php
If I recall correctly Silly accused me of slandering some app developer because I posted a negative article.

You're posting about an accusation you can't even remember with incomplete information and out of context. That's like a trifecta of incivility.

If you can't remember exactly what I did, maybe don't spin a half-told version of it?
Recently my grandmother passed away. We found her social security card (from 1932) and it says very clearly "NOT FOR IDENTIFICATION". It seems some lessons are lost.
Populations expand exponentially.

Our population isn't expanding exponentially. World population grew at 2%/yr in 1960, 1.55% in 1995, 1.25% in 2005, 1.18% in 2015, 1.14% in 2016, and 1.12% this year.

Soon every person we send off the planet will just reduce earth population by 1. We'll be lucky if people reproduce enough to keep the population steady.
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Ask HN: Job Satisfaction and Performance Survey
Hello,

This is a survey for an industrial organizational psychology course in college:

https://goo.gl/forms/tC3bpGRZiHKSXUg53

I am trying to measure the effects of exercise and physical activity on job motivation and job performance. There are 14 multiple-choice questions and I would really appreciate if you could take some time out to answer them.

Thank you!
Having started now a couple of businesses, one of which is doing well, I can say:

There is a ridiculously high bar to vault in order to break through to a self-sustaining income valuable enough to employ multiple people. This is why vcs/investors hold so much power in the equation, and maybe why the studies are skewed wealthy.

Trying to do this is indeed a risk, as it is not only a lot of work but it could very easily change you and your personality. It could put your personal dollar reserves in jeopardy. In my case, it cost me a wife. I don't blame the work for that, I recognize that I am a very different man than I was before I took the leap.

I do think it is unfair though to say that only the wealthy are entrepreneurs, because that wealth came at some point through someone themselves making the jump. At the same time, I also think the barrier to entry needs to be looked at somehow.
IIRC Pachinko (the ubiquitous gambling slot machines in Japan) were invented in South Korea but are now banned in SK. I would imagine there are still exports from SK, or at least SK ownership of Japanese corporations in the industry.
Great that they're finally attempting to do something.
But I get a little annoyed that congress always seems to act fast when its something that might actually affect them. Otherwise its back to partisan do-nothing.
> Sounds like IPFS

Only if you didn't RTFA
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RealMe is a shitty non-compliant SAML2 (not really) identity provider that's impossible to interact with correctly. I worked on a contract where RealMe was giving us different unique IDs for the same people. It's a joke and a piece of rubbish.

It's from the government who brought you Novapay and it's a piece of shit. No one uses it to manage identities and you don't really need to because there are only 4 million people there anyway. Their problem set is much more manageable.

Please never use RealMe as a real world example of anything done right. Please also never use RealMe if you can avoid it.
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I find it kind of cute myself (and went ahead and starred it) but I could see how others might find it distracting.
It's easy to learn to "manage money" (or be successful), when you get a lot of money, and you can try again, and again, and again.
OP: What kind of work would you be doing for the new clients?
What I want is control. I want to know who is accessing my credit history and for what purpose. And I want control of what accounts and business are able to access it.

The government can accomplish this by providing your identify in a way that provides this control and transparently, and requiring that businesses/third-parties come through this gateway for identification.
That's the easiest fix unless it's hardware you need, or it's your work computer, or or or or...
Verizon isn't breaking people's expectation of privacy implicitly by MitM-rewriting unencrypted HTTP.

They are breaking this expectation by using the MitM-rewriting of unencrypted HTTP to inject tracking identifier headers for third parties.

Comcast also MitM-rewrites requests and occasionally leaves extra fingerprinting entropy, but they don't intentionally kill your privacy like Verizon.
My Casper mattress started out relatively firm but over the course of a year or so became pretty mushy. It significantly impacted my sleep (without me realizing it) during a period of my life where I really would have benefited from quality sleep.

I'm replacing it with a mattress from an old-school company as soon as I can. I've been sleeping on the floor in the meantime.
A little cheesy, but whenever I hear about this sort of thing I always think of this scene from Saving Private Ryan:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dKbdE5LOGNQ
I think this is a really interesting move from Tesla and it is making a good commentary on what the automotive industry has become. There's a lot of clutter in the modern car's UI, and I do agree that it could be slimmed down a lot. But the thing here is that Tesla is sacrificing usability for simplicity -- having to go through menus on the touch screen to access commonly used features like windshield wiper speed, relying on the screen in the middle to know whether your turn signal is on, or having to browse through menus to enable your parking break. You can't even see the speed your car is going on the dashboard, and instead have to move your focus to the thing that's basically an iPad mounted in the center console. The thing is, these are solved issues. Tesla could use a HUD to show even a simplified dashboard view. They could integrate the screen into the entire front seat/dashboard location/center console rather than just a rectangle in the middle. The only real answer to what they are doing is given in the article: they are trying to ditch the normal driving experience because they believe in the self-driving car as their end goal. This car is almost more of a commentary on this idea than a product (though I'm sure sales will be through the roof because Tesla has built itself as a trendy company the same way Apple did). The Model 3 is not for somebody who enjoys driving their car 24/7, and until self-driving cars become the norm it pretty much just exists to be edgy.
I would be interested to see the performance difference between raw copy and using pgloader. http://pgloader.io
>But the limit in the number of transactions is not a technical limit, it's a political limit. We chose arbitrarily to set the limit to 4 million segwit weight units, however it could be changed to anything without impacting energy consumption.

It's at least partly a technical limit, because there are technical issues faced by scaling the Bitcoin network to the arbitrarily large number of transactions/sec you think it can handle. Each scaling solution has its tradeoffs[1][3], and therefore, to the extent that there's no "free [scaling] lunch", then there is inherent scarcity to what the miners can support, and therefore transactions should be attributed their proportional share of that limit when accounting for them.

It only appears as a political limit because a) users generally don't want a fragmented network, and b) there's persistent disagreement on what tradeoffs are acceptable when scaling.

>Therefore your analogy is incorrect: if the cargo capacity of a truck is increased, it will certainly impact its fuel consumption.

What is that responding to? The issue was how to account for the cost of one unit that takes up a scarce slot in a known-cost thing. The fair (IMHO) solution, per previous comment, is "blame" each unit for its share of the total cost.

How does an increase in the truck's capacity refute the analogy? The same logic would hold: if trucks could carry more Netflix DVDs at the same [environmental or whatever] cost, it would be reasonable to say that the cost per DVD shipped also went down. If trucks had infinite capacity, then it would be fair to say that the DVDs have no cost, since the cost inputs are independent of problem size (number of DVDs to ship). But -- per [1] and above -- we don't live in that world.

[1] For example, if you simply said "each block can hold as many transactions as miners are willing to tolerate" [2], that risks making the ledger (blockchain) freakishly large. Since each node has to store the full ledger, that blowup, in turn, risks [excessive] centralization, where only a few miner-datacenters can run nodes, defeating the (or a major) point of Bitcoin.

[2] which you think would make transaction capacity non-scarce

[3] Wiki page for discussing the issues: https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Scalability
I grew up with rich kids, and they needed to screw up badly, in order to not be millionaires now.

Every very successful--financially, person I knew, had a rich, sympathetic father.

I live in the Rich Kids capital, aka Marin County.

This county has produced so many rich people, and the one thing they all have in common is that wealthy, understanding father.

You know those white dental picks you see everywhere. If you knew the backstory on the invention, and success; you'd be shocked.

Gavin Neusome would be homeless, or a Waiter, if not for that family, and then the back up family--The Getty's family. (He is a nice man, but he was so privileged.)

I can run through my year books, and tick off the successful people. I don't think one, is from a blue collar family, or from a poor family. (Financially successful--it takes a strong stomach to hang with most of these people. Sorry, but the denial is nauseating.)

For some reason, it's taboo to talk about the benefits one gets from being from a wealthy family, and genes have nothing to do with the equation.

Rich family==can take on risk. Plus they gave the honest useful, wisdom from that father.
Sorry you are wrong. SSNs and other identity mechanisms are an infrastructure provided by the government to facilitate business. It Should never be the responsibility of individuals/ business to validate identity. If there are flaws in the existing system that lends itself to be manipulated, then the solution should be that the government should fix it.

Edit: In my country we didn't have a unique id till a couple of years back. So everywhere you had to submit photocopies of your id proof and a nother of your address proof. Imagine giving copies of your id to the lowest ranking person of the business you are dealing with. You have extra challenges if you have moved recently.
I worry that they'll figure out that the easiest way to ditch social security numbers is to ditch social security.
As long as parents do their best to help their own children, rags to riches will be a fairy tale. For poor and rich kids to grow up and do as well as each other, rich parents will have to treat their kids as badly as poor parents do, because the opposite is impossible.
>Mehta launched the service in 2012 and applied to Y Combinator, the prestigious Silicon Valley accelerator that hatched giants like Airbnb and Dropbox. He was rejected because the application deadline had passed. Undeterred, Mehta used Instacart to deliver a six-pack of IPAs to a Y Combinator partner. Within 30 minutes, he was asked to come in for an interview and the next day was accepted into the program. Shortly after, he closed a seed investment round.

A classic example of having faith in yourself and your product.
Well, I'm kinda intrigued by the Redux/C++ idea. Will there be notes or video from the conference? I looked through the talks page but couldn't find anything that seemed like that.
Can you share your email or a way for me to get in touch?
$10bn estimate from 2015 https://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/china/2015-06-16/chi...
Not the parent you're replying to, but a guess:

Because the presence of regulation suggests at least some vector for the regulated thing doing harm. Wantonly exporting something tightly regulated in its place of origin implies that the government is aware of its potential to do harm, and sells it anyway without the regulatory guiderails, which is a shitty thing to do.
Cowardice in the form of running away from battle was definitely a cause for decimation.
possibly always was, but definitely is mostly a fairy tale now. not that people won’t or shouldn’t strive
And this space REALLY needs competition. I've found pricing elsewhere on a FEW of the items AS carries, and their markup is around 400%. Not a typo.
Sounds like famous last words of the Mayans.
I don't agree, but you make a valid point so I'm not sure why you're being downvoted.

But I think it's fair to assume that in most minds stack ranking includes a fire quota, and that's what most commenters mean here.
Its not an accident that these loop holes exist. And companies like Deloitte and Pricewaterhouse are happy to consult companies and help them save taxes.

Some of these accounting and financial advisory companies are also large campaign contributers with revolving doors with relevant government departments.

There is an inevitability about it, but many are either on koolaid or demonstrate an intentional naivete.
> I'm not sure what we need to do

Fund recovery centers and programs to rehabilitate users and provide them with ongoing assistance so they can get by and stop using. Most addicts who come out of prison say this because they know they will immediately relapse.
North Senetinel Island is a anachronism. Much more likely to happen is Hispaniola.

From De Casas: Destruction of the Indies

The Spaniards first assaulted the innocent Sheep, so qualified by the Almighty, as is premention'd, like most cruel Tygers, Wolves and Lions hunger-starv'd, studying nothing, for the space of Forty Years, after their first landing, but the Massacre of these Wretches, whom they have so inhumanely and barbarously butcher'd and harass'd with several kinds of Torments, never before known, or heard (of which you shall have some account in the following Discourse) that of Three Millions of Persons, which lived in Hispaniola itself, there is at present but the inconsiderable remnant of scarce Three Hundred. Nay the Isle of Cuba, which extends as far, as Valledolid in Spain is distant from Rome, lies now uncultivated, like a Desert, and intomb'd in its own Ruins. You may also find the Isles of St. John, and Jamaica, both large and fruitful places, unpeopled and desolate. The Lucayan Islands on the North Side, adjacent to Hispaniola and Cuba, which are Sixty in number, or thereabout, together with with those, vulgarly known by the name of the Gigantic Isles, and others, the most infertile whereof, exceeds the Royal Garden of Sevil in fruitfulness, a most Healthful and pleasant Climat, is now laid waste and uninhabited; and whereas, when the Spaniards first arriv'd here, about Five Hundred Thousand Men dwelt in it, they are now cut off, some by slaughter, and others ravished away by Force and Violence, to work in the Mines of Hispanioloa, which was destitute of Native Inhabitants

Whenever "explorers" from distant parts have "discovered" new areas, throughout history the indigenous peoples get badly screwed over. See the history of post-Columbus native Americans. Look at India and China to see what even very advanced civilizations with large populations still get screwed by the invaders.
> without those requirements, only the most profitable (read: rich) neighborhoods would be cherry picked

Isn't that how everything works, that goods and services are bought by those who can pay for them? Isn't that what having money means? Isn't that why people strive to earn money?
Ok, so why didn't they? Should we ask TransUnion what went wrong at Equifax, and what laws and regulations are needed, if any? Or should we ask Equifax?
it was really close
Complete crap. Please stay far away with your misleading headlines and your poorly disguised advertisements.
Totally agree. Looking at this car, I commend Tesla for going through with an insane idea like this, but personally I can't imagine having to deal with this every time I leave the house.
So if I send a faked message from this guy saying "we changed out minds, fork now" it's not going to be an issue at all?

Ridiculous.
it seems like your evidence, that of a small sample of entrepreneurs, you ran into multiple youth from prominent families, suggests that rich kids are at least substantially over-represented, although most likely not 100% of entrepreneurs.
> These days, most products are made in China, but usually some other local company acts as an intermediary to ensure that the product is developed to specification and without other "features" that shouldn't be there. However, this additional protection goes out of the window when people decide to purchase directly from Chinese manufacturers via Chinese marketplaces.

Come on, it's not like American manufacturers are a paragon of user privacy, was this jingoistic jab necessary?

"Obscure manufacturer screws up" doesn't imply "Chinese engineers are completely worthless".
The real surprise would be if they found it alive.
It doesn't need to be a wired network: https://software.intel.com/en-us/articles/technical-consider...