skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How Grammarly Quietly Grew Its Way to 6.9M Daily Users in 9 Years
Many Americans are just really afraid of anything being controlled by the government. It's why they keep doing stuff that us Europeans don't understand, like not having strict gun control, not having affordable health care, not having acceptable social security, etcetera. Americans tend to hate government more than they love themselves and others.

Having lived in the US it really bothers me, since there are so many great, caring people there that I don't understand why they keep doing what they do.
Neil Armstrong also apparently suffered from imposter syndrome:

http://journal.neilgaiman.com/2017/05/the-neil-story-with-ad...
Facebook explains its creepy-sounding anti-revenge porn plan
"It's like Facebook, but for $group"

Groan
"law enforcement equities"

What an odd phrase.

We have a criminal justice system in this country that is adversarial and is tilted in favor of the accused. That's because our founders realized the immense power of the state could easily overrun any person it wanted to unless there were strict and tight guards on what they could do.

These lawyers, who presumably should know much more about all of this than I do, continue to make cases that strike me as "There are bad people! Because they are really bad, we need to change the game to give us more power"

But there have always been bad people. There always will be. There is no stopping that fact. It is part of being human.

I wonder if these people realize that even if they continue to get their way, the only thing they'll end up doing is moving the really bad people from the private sector to the government. I get the feeling they slept through a large part of world history.

I continue to hear arguments than sound reasonable. I continue to hear wonderfully-intricate arguments. What I've yet to hear is any of these yahoos recognize exactly what kinds of trade-offs they're pitching. I get the feeling I'm watching very poor workmen, focused on the tiny job in front of them instead of the ramifications of that job. I don't think we need to argue that many of these people are wrong as much as we need to argue that many of these people are incompetent. It doesn't bode well for the future.
When the price of a bitcoin rises so does the energy consumption by the same percentage. I just hope that the block reward shrinks fast enough to counteract the price increase.
If you look at the blog post, you'll see a very strange reason for deciding not to continue operating the Link which I'm sure will interest most HN readers:

"Q: Why can’t you just patch the product or extend the license?

We made the business decision to end the support and services of the Harmony Link when the encryption certificate expires in the spring of 2018 – we would be acting irresponsibly by continuing the service knowing its potential/future vulnerability. Our system shows this product, which was last sold by Logitech in fall of 2015, had a small active user base. We’re now reaching out to all affected customers to provide an option for replacement."

And

"We understand that services are important to you. Because the certificate that’s expiring relates to security, we would be acting irresponsibly by continuing the service knowing its potential/future vulnerability."
> Encryption is the only way to secure information.

I am not sure that this argument is simple at all.

Encryption only provides theoretical security. In practice even if strong encryption can't be broken it can almost always be bypassed rather trivially if data is being accessed on a regular basis.

If data is encrypted and left cold then that can be difficult or impossible to retrieve if a secure key is used and that key has never leaked anywhere but that is a pretty limited use case.

For average people encryption provides very little real world security because their data is online on buggy insecure devices all the time so there are always easier ways to compromise their data than breaking crypto.

Sophisticated criminals also don't trust encryption and don't use digital devices at all.
Bitcoin Cash Surges as Network Upgrade Approaches
Then the government taking a criminal's drug money would also be theft?
Also, he took it from a government wallet, not directly from a criminal.

Edit: Just to clarify, I was just pointing out that the comment I replied to is tangential(1- he didn't steal from a criminal. 2- 'someone' can 'seize' a criminal's money without it being theft.).

He obviously stole -this isn't even a case of trying to steal; he stole, and got caught- and I don't get how he can get away with such a small punishment for stealing $10M+.
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(Almost) everyone has a price. Show a suitcase containing $5 mil to a border agent making $90k a year, and he'll let you pass 10 tons of cocaine...and maybe even ask his wife to sleep with you (if you request it). Humans and all...
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Call me cynical, but I don't believe it's uncommon for them to take forfeit money after an arrest. This time the only difference was that Bitcoin transactions could be publicly seen, as opposed to cash/wire transfer, and the agent wasn't aware of that.
There is a concept called "fluency illusion" which everyone is susceptible to, which is when you are passively flipping through a book on some topic, and you say: yeah, I know this, I know this too, yeah yeah, I got this. And then you are stopped and asked a question about the material and it's like: gulp. Shit.

Everyone falls victim to this, but I think smart people can be especially prone.
You could argue that the UK does something similar - if you are from Scotland and go to a Scottish university then no fees (~£9K a year).
Actually, the tests made by Dunning and Kruger that led to the coining of that "effect" also showed that competent people tended to rank themselves below their actual level - exactly as described by the Impostor Syndrome.
There is whole movie based on Jim Cramer Bear Sterns episode, Money Monster (2016).
KirinDave musings on software and tech (thread)
Whoosh! A good example of why jokes are discouraged on HN.
citing reddit? I'm guessing you'd like to point out the commit history table. Nice.

You might notice that the table (conveniently) starts from 2010, after a good chunk of coins already has been mined. 2011-2012 is when a lot of the new devs came in which is the new generation, but it was getting much more difficult to mine then.

There's also so many problems with git commit history, so let's be honest here, ie. How many commits doesn't tell the whole story.

Hey, btw, my comments are just observations & not meant to criticize, sorry if you think I'm attacking you. I'm pretty positive about bitcoin and I think it's good that it can re-invent itself and find a good niche (the b2b / institutional market could be huge and certainly would see Bitcoin really growing up). The direction that the current team has chosen to lead it to has certainly paid off well. I sincerely wish the project more success in the future!
We have a few Amazon Lockers in Paris and the suburbs. It's awesome. A lot better than the usual "Relais Colis".

Just flash the barcode from the email, and it opens the appropriate locker. It even lets you open multiple ones with a single barcode if you received multiple packages the same day.
Don't want a shipment of free gold? Send the scam email to this AI instead
Ask HN: How do you know what to ignore?
When I was younger the choice was between doing "good" stuff and doing "bad" stuff and I learned to choose and enjoy the "good" stuff. As I've become older I've realised that I have to choose between "good" stuff and other "good" stuff. There's too much to do and experience to take every good option. Each good choice excludes something else.

How do you decide what to ignore? For example, on the front page of HN today are several really interesting articles on diverse topics (see below for some examples!). Reading each one of them would benefit me in some way. And that's just HN! There are one hundred or one thousand times as many interesting and educational new articles on the internet available for me to read. And that's just the internet! There are at least ten other ways I could be productively spending my time (e.g. offline reading, programming, sport, socialising, ...).

So how do you know what to ignore, or put another way, how do you prioritise? I admit my goal-setting has been a bit lax recently. If it had well-set goals would this become more clear to me? Or do you have another way of addressing this issue that I'm sure many of you face :)

Example stories

CEOs don't steer

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15668572

What is a Bitcoin fork?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15667607

French institute suspects nuclear accident in Russia or Kazakhstan in September

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15668202
I have my printer added multiple times with different default configurations; eg b&w-draft-printer, colour-photo-printer; it's much easier than messing with settings all the time.
It would be sufficient for media to launch shitstorm again.
A fair point, well made.
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Enough, cut the bull. I’d understand Mac to Linux (which I did), but what would you do on a Windows machine living the UNIX ecosystem? It’s not even about usability or price. It’s where developers works these days and out of the enterprise world, Windows is garbage.
But apart from the UK, Intelligence services in European countries tend to have less influence and aren't as popular with the general public. Many people have bad experience with intelligence services (Germany in the 30s/40s, Eastern European countries until 1990) so that there's still a lot of mistrust.

That has changed a bit with recent terror attacks (fear of terror outweighs other fears) but in general, data protection is taken much more seriously in Europe than in other regions and that doesn't only include companies but also the state.
The New Zealand chatbots designed to scam the scammers
> Why do they warn us 2 weeks after the fact ?

Agreed, concealing these informations for so long is deeply troubling. I'm not againt the nuclear at all, but given the potential risks, the transparency ought to be maximal, and again and again we are observing a lot of opacity.
Alibaba’s Singles Day Faces Fatigue in China
No. I mean, "theft" means "we made a law making it theft". By definition, government seizures are not theft.
Postponing for one year a material replacement does not seem that extreme, and it has impact on a company revenue.
- Bridges, how much BTC did we confiscate from Silk Road?
> - 1,600
> - 1,000 you say?
> - Yes, sir - exactly 800 bitcoins
You could argue it's a variation thereof, more like MVVC (Model View ViewController) maybe. In React you only really have the View layer. In this case, there's two views, a 'functional' view (the ViewController) and the 'presentation' view (the View itself).

I guess the main difference is that in MVC, the view and controller are two separated entities (side-by-side), while in React it's embedded (Controller wraps around View).
It will be newsworthy even 5000 years from now just as some things from 5000 years ago are news worthy today. Power. Corruption and all.
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Excuse my ignorance, couldn't have he moved the bitcoins to offline storage, or is that the thing of the past? I am so out of the loop with bitcoin.
It wasn't concealed at all, it hit the news in France in beginning of October. Maybe it wasn't picked up by foreign media then.

The news here is the results of the investigation, showing the probable origin of the contamination after weather analysis.
I've seen cases thrown out for ALL of the reasons that Ross Ulbricht's lawyers brought up.

Such as when the government withholds evidence to allow the defense to properly mount a defense.

Such as when the investigators of the case were part of a corrupt money laundering and extortion scheme, where they steal money intended for the government and concoct schemes to make the defendant look worse to a jury even if they can't charge him with those things, but those things are also used in sentencing rationale.

Such as when those exact investigators can't be brought in as witnesses because they botched the whole investigation for multiple field offices and government agencies.

Ross had zero wins in his motions, in his sentencing, in his appeals.

Amazingly discretionary how all of this is.
> Answer: you can’t.

No, it is incredibly simple. You have a master key and the government holds this key on a secure audited system which can only be used to unlock a device once a court order is granted.

The government's security for the master key will certainly be much better than the average user's password security so this will not decrease the average user's security in the least.

You would also make the master keys expire regularly (maybe daily) so as long as a user updates their phone they will get updated with the new keys to protect against a leaked key.
Yet another travel concierge company? Gotta be kidding me. Anyone used it?
Completely agree ! Don't worry, it is coming.

Streaming 8K is actually nice and useful for having good quality 360 video.
Estonia arrests suspected FSB agent accused of “computer-related crime”
> - In many countries guns are illegal. Yet criminals do own them. If encryption becomes illegal, criminals would still use it

The main reason why recent terror attacks in Europe used trucks and knives was because guns are really hard to buy in most countries. Even on the black market it'll be hard to get guns in many European countries. Not saying that there's no black market but most people wouldn't have the contacts to get any. So outlawing helps a lot and while it doesn't reduce gun crime by 100%, it probably reduces it by >90%.

While encryption is easier to get online (no physical shipping), I doubt many people have the knowledge to identify good encryption without backdoors. Most would probably fall for mechanisms planted by intelligence services.
Upgrading Kickstarter to Rails 5
Halfbakery
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That normally wouldn't go directly to the agent though, right? So that's completely different.
> the agent wasn't aware of that

If thats the case, it's interesting that he wasn't aware of the fundamentals of the technology that enabled the people he was investigating.
The Fungus That Turns Ants into Zombies Is More Diabolical Than We Realized
I'll just leave this here. Downvotes start in 3.. 2... 1...

The long goodbye to C - http://esr.ibiblio.org/?p=7711
AI Could Help Reporters Dig into Grassroots Issues Once More
Personally, I would be surprised to read about well-documented theft committed by ancient Pharaohs in tomorrow's newspapers.
CUPS will stay in ports anyway, I really doubt anyone even wants it in base
Sorry but that's not true. Using a short pass code for your phone is not secure but it's more secure than using none at all. There are many shades for security and not everything that's unbreakable is the same as no security. The same as old and simple locks are not secure but better than no locks at all.
If one of the agents pockets the criminal's drug money, then yes, its theft.
Isn't it simply theft and punishment. Not sure how newsworthy are 5000 year old thefts.
So, if I'm interviewing with a startup in AI, and asked all these questions, how many good answers I should expect? Is it ok for a startup to have a defensible business to solve a problem 10x better, knows how to make money in a big market, but have no experience in marketing and haven't talked to many potentially users?

As a wanna be startup founder, I found my ideas have bad answers to at least 2-3 of these questions.
How startups are grappling with d issue of combining tech and non-tech strategies
It doesn't because a safe is just a wrapper for its contents, which are within the safe still in their original form, while with cryptography the contents no longer exist in their original form. A safe would be a good analogy for instance for a tamper-proof USB stick which required a password to make its contents visible to the operating system, but which stored its data unencrypted.

A better analogy for cryptography is "a journal written in code". This better captures the property of encrypted data: the contents of the journal corresponds to the plaintext, the rules to encode the writings corresponds to the cipher plus the private key, and having the journal without the rules is like having the ciphertext without the private key. Like with cryptography but unlike with a safe, to get to the contents you have to know or guess the rules; you can't drill the door like you can with a safe.
Yes in Vivo confocal microscopy is done by Dermatologists

The machine is called vivascope
Yes, but it doesn't answer the OP's question. What if government, official bank or other strong entity with virtually unlimited resources starts a fork (something like Ecoin for those who watch Mr. Robot)? I wouldn't call such event improbable.
That would be too transparent. Also, if they really crack popular encryption, only few people will know to avoid any leaks. Maybe they'd complain even more to give people the feeling that they cannot crack that particular method.
You're absolutely right, I stand corrected, they seem to have released some information as early as 10/4/17.

http://www.irsn.fr/FR/Actualites_presse/Actualites/Pages/201...
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"incredibly simple"
Nope, hardware & paper wallets are the preferred method of storage. Keeping crypto with exchanges is generally frowned upon by long-term holders.
> the value of my original coins drops by the difference in value compared to the new coins (or around that).

Prices of cryptocurrencies are very unstable even without any forks, so what you are describing doesn't make any sense.
That's also because criminals needed local knowledge. If I wanted to commit a crime today in another city, I can get there easily and quickly and get all the info I need online. In the past, small cities would've noticed strangers but (luckily) you can walk through other cities nowadays without people objecting that. For the police that means that they need to follow criminals and be able to share information nationally and internationally.
>> 2. How was this problem being solved before the AI came around? Was the pre-AI
“manual” solution good enough? Common answer: “we’re replacing humans.” That
isn’t enough. Often having a human is desirable (bedside manner, dexterity,
perfection a requirement). Often a human is affordable due to margin
structure. You’re looking to get a sense that the product provided is
something that was never possible before, 10X better, or just-as-good but 10X
cheaper. Not 20% cheaper. 10X.

That "10X" sounds like a bit of a heuristic, but is it a good one? Surely, what
you're looking for is some assurance that the rewards from the use of machine
learning justify its cost and that the profit the company can make out of it
is higher than the profit they would be (or were) making without it?

It doesn't even matter even the profit is really much higher. In business, as
in war (and, er, board games) any edge you can get is enough to push ahead. If
a company can make even 1% more of what it did before, thanks to some new
technology or whatever other trick, then that trick is worth pursuing in
earnest.
No it's a separate, more primal, layer of hazard indication that seems to shortcut the Bystander Effect and enlist aid. It can be initiated by non-drivers, pedestrians, and cyclists too.
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You can, you just need to wrap it when used inside a react component.
A browser extension to bypass challenges using a 'blind signature' protocol
Hopefully, those who miss that Dropbox code today may think about using a more powerful license (ie AGPL) on the code they'll write themselves in the future so that they make sure their users will contribute back like they want DropBox to. :-)
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Ethereum dApps with Truffle
Ask HN: Any jobs for average software engineers?
It seems everywhere I look companies are either looking for junior or senior software engineers and so I thought I'd shoot this question to you to see if anyone would find some use for me (or someone like me).

- Javascript (Vue.js, Angular, jQuery) is quite well known, mostly by creating SPA's that talk to a set of REST API's

- PHP (Laravel mostly) is of average level I'd say, but I'm pretty good with WordPress related things such as creating themes or plugins which I've done for the past 5 years or so

- HTML is excellent (I'm not sure this should even be mentioned anymore)

- CSS (All the latest and greatest I do speak)

- Willing to relocate (in Europe), currently in Tallinn, Estonia, but if remote is a possibility I wouldn't say no to that

All in all, I'm sure there's lots of people like me out there (or here) that find themselves stuck in the middle with seemingly nowhere to go and yet I'm sure we could be put to good use, us average developers.
Hmmm...someone in ancient Egypt--via state connections--had the chance to steal xx kg ok gold simply by using his position and did it...
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Oh, their ios client was plenty terrible too. I remember having to wait 5 minutes before being able to type the first message character - just watching a blank screen while my phone got hot.
80% for 4 second clips, so running it on random video feed guarantees false positives in under a minute.

Not to mention this is trying to predict something human expert in the field (lets say a taxi driver) watching same clips couldnt do, its trying to predict future. Most likely triggers on something semi related, like amount of cars in front/roundabouts/red light, more cars = bigger chance of accident = strong correlation. Garbage in garbage out.
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Good! These components are really suitable to develope a e-commerce project.
That's the joke. Working conditions here (Japan) are generally terrible, and engineers (and pretty much everyone else) is sorely undervalued.
It's just syntax suger, no? A dictionary from string keys to objects, which could be arrays or dictionaries or primitive types.
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Bitcoin provides strong anonymity as long as you never tell anyone that wallet dcfb49fb16e688a46841c05b07b1ee40 is yours and never withdraw any money. "X is true if both Y and Z" is a UX problem waiting to happen. It's too subtle for people who check their smartphones every seven minutes, Y and/or Z will be lost in hearsay transmission.