skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"A person with an IQ of 130 is statistically far more likely to succeed in navigating the problem of life than a person with an IQ of 70 — although this is never guaranteed at the individual level — but the correlation breaks down after a certain point. There is no evidence that a person with an IQ of 200 is in any way more likely to achieve a greater impact in their field than a person with an IQ of 130. How comes?"

Actually there is as well no evidence that a person with an IQ of 130 is in any way more likely to achieve a greater impact in their field than a person with an IQ of 100. And that is probably why the majority of humans have an IQ close to 100 while people with an IQ of 130 or more are less than 5%.

That said the proportion of people with IQ greater than 130 is growing slowly, that may means we are already seing an intelligence growth with mankind.
Cashing in on ML/AI hype machine while simultaneously justifying their extensive personal data vacuum.
>Where I draw the line is throttling when the network could support higher speed.

I have news for you : this is the service you're already receiving. All ISPs throttle user traffic to below their network's capacity.
The source of the currency is not the issue, it's the longevity/stability of it as a medium of exchange. This startup has very little power (compared to the government) to ensure that the currency will continue to hold value to someone you want to trade with. If faith plummets, they can only guarantee as many assets as they hold themselves.
Transforming How We Collect and Visualize Information about Urban Accessibility
Somehow this makes me think of a certain Harlan Ellison story.[0]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Have_No_Mouth,_and_I_Must_Sc...
Funnily enough (to me), I'm in a bit of a situation similar to this, financially anyway (I lack the Stanford side, but whatever).

If I were to put, say as you mentioned, $10K in cash into something like a set of Vanguard Funds, what percentage of my monthly income should be added?

I have money socked away right now from working internships, and from the past year as a full time engineer, but haven't invested it in much other than partially into my 401k. I'd love to do something with it and I know it's doing nothing sitting in the bank in a regular account.
Some GPLv2 copyrighted works, such as the Linux kernel, have many contributors. Each contributor is a copyright owner of their contribution.

I'm fine with these Technology Leaders using a new GPLv2 derived license on NEW code they contribute. After all, it's their code.

Existing code, like the Linux kernel, and other code, already have a specified license. Can the license on the Linux kernel even be changed without consent of everyone who ever participated? (Some of whom may no longer be living.)
Well, if we're doing quick parody headlines as stand-ins, it's actually impossible to out-Guardian the Guardian:

"I dread the day my daughter's poos get smaller"
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/aug/08/dread-...

"Tea is a national disgrace"

"Robots are racist and sexist, just like the people who created them"

In any case, good on them for proving out this revenue model, hopefully it's sustainable and we see gigantic yellow-orange beg-boxes on more online media (seriously)
Famous DJ Gareth Emery to ICO and Launch Ethereum Based Music Streaming
Yep. 100%. ...and it does not apply only to startups but also to large corporations
Some of Amazon's IAM examples are very permissive. Perhaps it's because of the need for brevity but a link to additional examples that are more comprehensive and secure would be great.
Anyone who buys into ICOs tend to not do much research
The Telegraph's political editor resigned because (he claims) the paper spiked stories about HSBC, after they threatened to pull advertising. So there's that as well. Alongside Murdoch's control of the Times, it's a pity there isn't a more decent centre-right paper.
But your reply only covers a small aspect of a single possible perspective on the question: 'a bug in only sha256 was disclosed publically'

Perhaps you are having 'the same discussions repeated ad infinitum.' because of your input stead the actual subject matter

> I guess that's the beauty of financial assets defined by open-source software. Bugs and exploits happen, they get fixed, and we move ahead on a new version.

I am unconcerned with the 'move ahead' bit

My concern is with the assets currently in the blockchain

When I warn those that ask me if they should 'get Bitcoin' that the technology is propped up on unsolved math problems

It is to protect their finances stead attempt to disparage Bitcoin

If the cryptography is broken then the entire blockchain is suspect and needs to be discarded along with the record of any assets locked in it
Anti harassment is not censorship. 'in your face' is different to having the info somewhere when you want it. (which is the case with Facebook because you can simply ignore or unfollow users and groups with opinions you don't like)
Show HN: Read tldr-pages using man
> Oh how I wish the 16:10 aspect ratio hadn't been abandoned. Every time I get an urge to upgrade my home monitor, I remember it's 1920x1200 and I'll never find another like it.

A kilobuck will get you a 30" 2560x1600 Dell UP3017.
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Tumblr lost the social media wars. They are basically a zombie at this point eating money and has a toxic community of users.

I would shut it down or try to sanitize it (doubt it can be done). I'd use the tech with some modifications as Twitter-Instagram Competitor.

Another interesting article.
http://mashable.com/2016/06/15/how-yahoo-derailed-tumblr/#GL...
What do you mean by token offenses?

"Fast lanes" as a general product aren't likely going to be offers on the company home page, they're going to be in the private peering agreements they have with larger companies. This has already happened. [Netflix had to pay Comcast](https://consumerist.com/2014/02/23/netflix-agrees-to-pay-com...), and [Comcast throttled their VoIP competitor Vonage](https://www.wired.com/2006/03/comcast_throttling_vonage_user...). Vonage and Netflix started working again but the why was never made public. It seems likely that paying for fast lanes was involved. These aren't the cold hard facts we'd like to have about what exactly happened, but they're clear violations of Net Neutrality that were resolved ambiguously.

As far as negative effects in general, beyond fast lanes, there's more than a few examples:

* [AT&T blocked FaceTime](https://www.savetheinternet.com/att-facetime)
* [Verizon blocked Google Wallet](http://money.cnn.com/2011/12/06/technology/verizon_blocks_go...)
* [Verizon throttles video](https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2017/07/verizons-throttl...)
* And [a lot more](https://www.freepress.net/blog/2017/04/25/net-neutrality-vio...).

The violations are often subtle, and haven't always affected everyone, but the negative effects of the lack of NN are not hypothetical.
the big difference is that i don't have a family.

But i'm not super frugal.

I pay $700/month with utils + internet for my own 1Bedroom apartment. I could've gone much cheaper if I didn't live Downtown (120,000 city population) and could've gotten a roommate in a 2Bedroom aprt. Plus I also eat out at Chipotle/Jimmy Johns almost every other day, then I go drinking maybe once or twice a month. So I could easily save another $500 if I wanted to.
Really? Good to know that.

I'll check back after I do more Googling and make a list. I can get by with free tutorials and videos for now.
This may or may not be a useful technology, but the fact that Facebook thinks they have the ability and the right to diagnose their users with mental illnesses is disturbing. They have more information about their users than psychologists have about their patients. They can (and do) build a psychological profile and diagnose mental illness. Yet rather than keeping this information in the closest confidence, they sell it to the highest bidder. They can (and do) run experiments without getting informed consent (or any consent).

They're playing psychologist and should be subject to a similar code of ethics.

Another interesting article:

http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/science/201...
Physical exercise.
The question was if inflation can be considered a tax on wealthy and unwealthy alike, not how do real wages evolve compared to corporate valuations or whatever. In reality inflation is not even a tax on wealth, at most it is a tax on cash and financial assets (loans, bonds, etc.) and for the latter only inasmuch as the inflation exceeds the expectations.
Did he? I thought he was working for CERN at the time, meaning the public (or the European public, anyway) already owned the protocol he produced.
As a literally card-carrying socialist, i'd pick the Financial Times over the Guardian. They write about stuff that is actually important, in what seems like an intelligent and even-handed way. And the pages of bond prices are good for standing your muddy boots on.

I grew up in a Guardian-reading household, and i want to like it, but it's too full of self-absorbed middle-class metropolitan smugness. And i'm a smug self-absorbed middle-class metropolitan, so i should know.
Money is not a panacea for valuation. If it were, then ending climate change would be much more profitable.
That essay was incredible, thank you.
Facebook being the main reason for depression in young peoplpe.
Ask HN: How do shut-ins get their motivation back to find a job?
I'm a software engineer in the US, who's worked for five different companies in this role, but financially I'm not better off than I was when I started. Not having a job for so long has taken a toll on me. I lost the interest to hang out with people. Since losing my last job a year ago, I couldn't really hang out with my friends without bringing up jobs at some point, because that's all I can think of right now. Money and the prospect of an average-paying job are on my mind.

I didn't want to be that guy who only complains to their friends, so I took a sabbatical and "went silent" with my friends with the exception of occasionally PM them online for small talk. Almost none of my friends are programmers nor know many people who hire them, so I stopped bugging them. As for my colleagues, it's the same story- I ask them if they know anyone that's hiring, they say no but they'll "keep an eye out". They always say something like that.

A couple months ago I applied for Medicaid from my state's Dept. of Human Services because my savings were getting very low. I eventually got approved, but was left wondering why my taxes to the state could only offer cash, TANF and medical assistance, but why gov't sponsored "job matchmaking" for able-bodied people doesn't exist. A lot of people would rather just get an appropriate job no-strings-attached than sit around sending job apps and collecting welfare.

All I do now is apply for jobs online, randomly browse places like Reddit and hit the occasional tech meetup. Other than that most of my time is taken up doing errands for my mom.

These meetups, well they are good time killers, but not making any headway there either. I get business cards, email people and get placed into a few interviews but not getting offers.

I wonder what place is there for shut-ins like me in this world to be a productive member of society again without the barrier of the hiring process. Volunteer activities do not excite me. How do I make getting job offers second nature for people who are right now socially withdrawn?
It may just as well end in tears for the nay-sayers who were too chicken shit to buy in while teenagers got rich off decentralized currency.
I see the irony as well, but from a purely business standpoint, it makes sense. If Facebook gains and keeps a reputation of being intensely bad for mental health, it will lose market share in the long run as regulation passes limiting its scope.
NFc and wireless credit cards urgently need to implement something like this...

It's only a matter of time till NFC credit cards get read with a high power reader and proxied across a cell connection to steal money from someone hundreds of miles away from the thief.
How long before Facebook notifies my local police that I seem to be likely to commit a crime?
> and has a toxic community of users.

Yep. This is not new. Even as far back as 2011, when they were experiencing 'explosive growth' a lot of the traffic was attributed to porn that tumblr users were hosting on various tumblogs. David Karp even responded to these allegations in a comment thread and claimed that Porn was "less than 3% of their content". [1]

Source: [2011] What Is Responsible For Tumblr’s Recent Explosive Growth? => http://oobly.com/?p=95/

Even right now, if you Google (this is NSFW) "tumblr <_PORN_CATEGORY_OR_TAG_HERE>" you'll see 100s of tumblogs hosting porn in the said category / tag.
This is an unbelievably slippery slope. It has the potential for great good, but also for great harm. Cliched and click-bait phrases, but I believe they are accurate in this instance. I'll try to explain why I believe that.

A case has been made that Facebook users are not the customers, they are the product, and that data purchasers and advertisers are the customers. If Facebook can determine whether you are suicidal then it might determine other psychological conditions such as agoraphobia, alcoholism, depression, ADD, SAD, etc.

Once that determination is made and stored the possibility exists that it could be hacked or exposed in a data breach.

The possibility also would exist for Facebook to sell that information, and/or to target users with medical adds related to their condition. I am not saying Facebook would do this, I'd like to think they wouldn't - I have friends at Facebook, though they aren't in management.

However, the decision of whether to allow this has to be based not on whether it's safe to trust Facebook with this information, but on whether it is safe to trust any company with it.

What happens if there is a false positive for suicidal tendencies or another condition?

Take this to the absurd extreme and consider how it compares to the Pre-Crime operations depicted in the movie Minority Report. Instead of Oracles we have Machine Learning intelligent software agents. Most of the problems depicted in the movie could arise.

To a lesser extreme, imagine the situation when a false positive occurs for a user in a position of public trust, a government official, or a defense contractor with a clearance. I'll assume this triggers action in some way that is visible to some combination of the user, psychology professionals, authorities, and an employer - otherwise why do it. If the employer in any way catches wind of the determination they might very well take steps to flag and/or terminate the employee.

Even if the employer doesn't flag the employee or terminate them, if the information is purchasable or discoverable in any way then an insurance company could conceivably raise the user's rates based on the determination.

I am all for advancing technology, especially in the field of AI, but when we apply that technology we need to ask not just if we can use the technology in that way, but also if we should.
The James Bond Corkscrew Jump Was the First Computer-Modeled Stunt (1974)
Why not both? Most frameworks (including Flask) already have static file/page tools/middleware. Just set up the static file hosting part of your framework. At that point it is "merely" a CI/CD issue to compile your static site and deliver it to the static directory your framework expects.

Python frameworks, owing to the Django CDN-focused approach, tend to make static assets harder than they have to be, so the answer to a better approach for Python in specific is often to setup the static asset hosting more directly in your web server than in your framework. But that too is "just" a configuration/CI/CD issue.

Finally, an approach that is increasingly common is simply to treat your own dynamic server-side assets like a "3rd-party" API: host it on something like api.example.com and let your main website just be the static app served from a static file server/CDN.
OP here, thanks for making this.

I stumbled across it last night on Reddit[0] and decided to post it here as thought the HN community would enjoy it.

As for price, I'll try to support you on Patreon but for many it's easier to make a one-time donation. Even just making it cost ~$5 on Steam would be a significant revenue source, as I can see this game becoming very popular.

Regardless, it's a very unique game and I'll be excited to try it when I can.

[0]: I can't seem to find the thread, but essentially someone mentioned that this would be an awesome game idea. Someone else then responded with a link to your game. I'll update this if I can find the link.
Do you have a strategy that you're able to share?
Matt Levine's Money Stuff is my favorite newsletter. I'm not a finance guy, but he has a way of exploring thought-provoking ideas in a way I can understand. Are index funds marxist? is among my favorite recurring topics.

Anyways, if you like his writing, I'd encourage subscribing.
http://link.mail.bloombergbusiness.com/join/4wm/moneystuff-s...
As an American of similar political leanings, I feel the same way about NYTimes households. I also find myself reading FT, WSJ and Bloomberg for more "important" stories as well.
Wow, that New Posts chart is brutal. This nearby link[1] seems to claim that Yahoo failed to "not screw it up", but the details are extremely vague. I'm unclear what could have caused such a dramatic reversal. ~Everyone left, but why? What changed?

[1] https://qz.com/735583/
Wonderful example of how we can use AI for good.

Now, if this catches on, I can see Facebook adapting their algorithm to recommend treatments for depression, anxiety, even ADHD. This would be a huge success. "Mr. Smith, I see Facebook's AI considers you a strong candidate for medication X and your doctor agrees. Can you explain then why you haven't been taking medication X?"

Also, if an algorithm can detect when a person is likely to commit suicide, can it detect when a person is likely to commit rape? Arson? Murder? If most of society views this as an achievement they'll scoff at comparisons with a book written in the middle of the 20th century (that was made into a movie starring Tom Cruise in 2002). "It's not the same... AT ALL!"
Problem-based learning is a highly effective form of learning for some materials.
This thread is not talking about Vegas.

It's talking about genocide. If internal strife gets to the point of extreme hatred, then you don't need guns to kill each other. Not saying I agree that would happen in the U.S., but that's what they're talking about. Not Vegas.

To reiterate: See Rwanda. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rwandan_genocide
The GDP is a poor measure of economic health. Even the IMF has its doubts https://www.imf.org/external/pubs/ft/fandd/2017/03/coyle.htm. The GDP doesn't consider natural resources like clean air and water as assets but pollution clean-up efforts (successful or not) are seen as positive economic activities, for example. A proper alternative would measure quality of life and sustainability, not "growth."
The ads Russia bought on Facebook in 2016
ok.

Btw, itch.io is the way to go for a one time donation, just download a game and name your price.
The problem is that most finance "professionals" you and I encounter are salesmen. The only thing they care about is their commission on that high fee mutual fund they just sold you.
McAfee to acquire Skyhigh Networks
James Bond spiral jump stunt (1974)
I guess that's one way to keep MAUs up.
It is clear from the context that I am talking about corruption
ProtonDrive: Secure Data Storage
I was expecting a standalone html file that could be run by clicking on it, or, due to that "same origin" b_llsh*t [1], at least served using any generic http server, not one which has to be specially configured and installed.

[1] I know the security reasons behind this, I just find the hassle to be a counter-logical irksome, and insecure in most cases, hack.
> The iMac Pro will have an ARM co-processor: https://www.macrumors.com/2017/11/19/imac-pro-a10-chip-hey-s.... - Arguably for "Hey Siri" and other mobile-inspired functionality, but wouldn't it be interesting if it were also an ARM-on-the-desktop beachhead?

The current MBP already has ARM:
https://techcrunch.com/2016/10/28/apples-new-intel-driven-ma...

But this is similar to ARM (or MIPS or whatever) cores that already exist in all sort of peripherals (what's in your Wifi chipset? Bluetooth? SMC?), so it's nothing new.

I'm dismissive of any talk of switching conventional Intel-based desktop/laptops to ARM. It's not equivalent to Apple's switch from PPC to Intel, because in that case there was a clear performance advantage. ARM may have the performance-per-watt crown on the low-power end, but Intel maintains the pure-performance lead everywhere else. Conventional desktops still care about performance (and if you don't, likely you can switch to a Chromebook), and there aren't any advantages to switching a heavily Intel-ISA-dependent desktop ecosystem (macOS/Windows) to ARM.
Yes, it will be very convenient for people to issue bonds when they need a loan to buy a house or start a business...
There are multiple levels of tax avoidance / money hiding being discussed here. You are responding to someone talking about the worst level, which was documented in the Panama Papers and the Paradise Papers. It involves rich individuals who hide money in banks in the Seychelles, Cayman Islands, etc.

Very different from tax avoidance schemes that companies use to pay lower taxes by incorporating in low tax jurisdictions or funneling the money through multiple countries.
Amazing. My wife would never allow me though (my employer actually forbids digital cameras on campus so technically we're not allowed phones)
Yes, to solve the upwards funarg problem you can't rely on a single stack. The problem is that using the heap for everything instead comes with a heavy computational cost, and using the heap only when you need it means you need to identify those circumstances, which isn't trivial.
PeerPad, which evolved from the data structure in this tutorial, can totally fine be run from any location:

- https://peerpad.net

- https://ipfs.io/ipns/peerpad.net

- https://ipfs.io/ipfs/QmXhnaUzhiZ6EGvr2SwPgSZzVhfsTnzTW5EsXH6...

- http://localhost:8080/ipfs/QmXhnaUzhiZ6EGvr2SwPgSZzVhfsTnzTW...

And with the ipfs-companion browser extension:

- dweb:/ipns/peerpad.net

- dweb:/ipfs/QmXhnaUzhiZ6EGvr2SwPgSZzVhfsTnzTW5EsXH6TNnQcYD

- ipns://peerpad.net

- ipfs://QmXhnaUzhiZ6EGvr2SwPgSZzVhfsTnzTW5EsXH6TNnQcYD

Or by grabbing it using `ipfs get /ipns/peerpad.net` and clicking the html file in the resulting directory.
"Decentralized ISP" generally means wireless over unlicensed frequencies which requires none of those pesky permits. Historically wireless has been fairly expensive and 10x slower than wired, but maybe next time (60 GHz?) will be different. Probably not.
You're talking about libertarians. There are also right-wingers who are authoritarians. Those are the ones who are more of a problem at the moment, and the ones that have, to put it mildly, historically been more of a problem in Germany.
After release, probably yes.
Not to harp, but the big difference is your relative cost of living. $700 for 'complete' housing is a pebble compared to > $2000 a month for housing in the bay area. It might not be frugal itself but the choice to pay what you're paying is a luxury compared to the person above.
I depend on the Internet for my income. I'd feel the pinch. But if I had to pay the equivalent of my rent a month, and had literally no other choice, I'd bite.
They are round in many other countries too.
Spring Cloud Edgware Brings JDBC Config Server, Contract and Sleuth Improvements
There may not be a formal list of civilian-prohibited weapons but I'd be astonished if you can find someone who has a Title II license to own a MANPADS or even an ATGM.