skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We need a guaranteed community supported (or local gov sponsored) basic (1-2Mbit) connectivity (wifi / 3G / Microcells). This could be supplied at near zero marginal cost by installing a €30 repeater / WiFi access point every time there's a need to service a lamp post, library / church roof etc.

The purpose is not to compete with the free market but to gently "nudge" it into higher product shelves. Right now telecoms have de facto monopoly (oliglopoly) and strive to charge max price for least possible quality service that can be pushed onto market.
We'll get used to driving around them. You can cut off the Waymo cars and know they won't bump you.
HDCP seems to work absolutely fine with the plethora of HDMI switches available on the market right now, so that can't be the issue.
>his website is suddenly unavailable to the rest of the city.

Lots of people have been concerned about censorship when it comes to net neutrality. Not sure why the response is that we want legal protection instead of technical. All of the major vendors of devices that access the internet are pro net-neutrality. Can't we get censorship-resistant, privacy aware DNS resolution at the very least? Maybe not exactly this, but something like this would be nice:

https://developers.google.com/speed/public-dns/docs/dns-over...

I think realistically protecting DNS responses would be enough. Even a relatively advanced adversary would have trouble blocking your access to specific sites that way. Can you block a specific CloudFlare-protected site, or specific Twitter accounts? Not really.

AFAIK, the bits you can do with DPI aren't cheap. Only adversaries with reasonably deep pockets can apply.
(To be clear: referring to things like sniffing SNI on TLS connections.)
I've worked as a technology vendor for pharma and health device companies. Your boss is dead wrong.

You should treat HIPAA as both a legal AND ethical imperative. Shame on anyone who doesn't.
WWL, now that’s good...checks domains
When they, by virtue of their overwhelming market share, nuke a competitor's product off the face of the internet, whether algorithmically or intentionally, it feels reasonable to me to compel them to provide more detail than "we fixed the glitch".

Google does not have the right to avoid being regulated in the public interest.
Identity verification using passports is not the problem. Identity verification by exclusively looking at pictures of passports is the problem.

The point of a passport is to bind your legal identity (name, place you live, dob) to characteristics of your body (signature, face), so that people can then use it to verify that the body standing in front of them is for legal purposes the legal entity described in the passport. The point is that in order to check the identity, you compare the picture to the face, you compare the signature on the passport to the signature they write with you watching, so you then can be reasonably sure they are the person described in the passport.

What happens nowadays is that people check whether someone can send them a picture of a passport, and if they can, then that is considered proof that the entity that sent the picture obviously necessarily must be the person described by the passport depicted in that picture. That's just completely broken logic and should simply not have any legal weight at all.

It's as if your web browser checked that the server sends a certificate that matches the requested host name, but didn't check any signatures or anything to ensure they are indeed talking to the owner of that certificate and its corresponding secret key.
There are many major actors, both corporate and governmental, that don’t like privacy enhancing services like ProtonMail. No conspiracy theory, just large actors acting ruthlessly in their own self interest.

This year old article is a bit bogus though. As other pointed out, the hit on SEO came from changing from .ch to .com

ProtonMail, and other similar services, deserve to be supported in my opinion. I have recommended ProtonMail to friends and family. I use them out of personal choice, and I also rely on Fastmail.
That's an odd use of the word bigoted.
>"Or, what does a passport or id card contain, which should be kept secret?"

Well for one the passport as a whole can then be used to commit identity fraud or cloned on the black market.
This looks great. I hope you might prioritize adding a web clipper. For me, the Evernote Web Clipper plugin/extension is the killer app. The rest of Evernote isn't great, but their web clipper is incredibly useful to me.
The nations set the consumer laws and the companies follow it; the most restrictive case is no unauthorised tracking, no unauthorised analytics, local warehousing.

If your system can cope with the most restrictive case, you can tag the data with the jurisdictions (easy), and then enable tracking / analytics / shared warehouses for more complex data.

It sounds like a reasonable startup idea to help manage this.
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late 20s. Probably could retire right now; planning on retiring by 32-35.

I save between 95-98% of my income. Max out all tax-advantaged accounts (401k, Roth IRA if income is low enough). No children.

Easiest mechanism, by far, is to reduce spending. After rent + eating out + drugs, I average between 100-200 a month in spending.

I think, if you're able to reduce spending heavily, you should aim for the highest possible salary you can get, regardless of cost of living (well, no company in the world could afford to pay me to move to SFBA, but that's more for personal reasons).

Value all options at zero -- all my compensation has always been in cash.

Invest money. I prefer putting 110% into S&P 500 indices (low effort; typically 30-60minutes/year of work). Some people prefer rental properties. Do whatever is most diversified if your goal is retirement.
Will we be able to install Node on those?
It is more profitable to have a healthy relationship with your client than building a shitty product and hoping you'll never run out of clients.

What makes you think that about consultancies?
Me too, and my favourite is the sketches. Add a little doodle, use the ruler for crisp lines - all in your basic little note app.
Indeed. But that problem has been to "Show clients how to install the relevant plugins, make their certs, and then appropriately use certs." That's been error-prone since the beginning with PGPMail and PGPphone.

That's why this was switched to doing it in a webapp, to streamline the process and remove user error out of the equation. There's one problem, and that the owner of the script can change it to a bad one that does X.

With an immutable data structure, like what IPFS uses, can provide that chain of custody with a script they make that simplifies PGP usage, while still maintaining "We didn't change anything" - and you can prove that.
And yet they are failing.

For any given search many websites have an economic incentive to be at the top and are willing to understand the process and jump though some hoops. However, jumping though hoops has zero correlation with quality and only minimal correlation with relevancy.

It's not an easy job to find a useful mattress review website or whatever, but Google's users don't care about easy they care about how useful something is. Even worse Google's actions end up changing the websites they are linking to. It's a slow but vicious cycle that I don't have a solution to, I just finally realized what the problem was.
I still would like a personal one, I get to work from home frequently, and have a personal desktop, personal laptop and work laptop that'd be great to switch between without having to keep changing plugs (as it is, I velcro the HDMI, mouse, keyboard and speaker jack together to keep it easy to handle).
Leaving Apple and Google: my “eelo odyssey”, continued: the mobile OS
Speechmatics launches 46 new free languages for speech-to-text
"More competition" is not going to happen in the US. The telecoms have secured regional monopoly status, in part due to structural factors, but also through government favor.
The daily transition from work to home is difficult for many couples and this problem has existed since forever, but it has _nothing_ to do with "being analytical" at work and then having to "be empathetic" at home.

It doesn't matter what your job is or if you're a husband or a wife, there's a period of time after coming home from work that is beset with opportunities for arguments. Lots of people experience this, not just rocket-scientists and developers :-)

There's no sure-fire solution, but a little bit of buffer time seems to work, followed by deliberate accommodation for the needs of the other.
Observing that would indeed be interesting, not to mention the amount of quality popcorn to be consumed!
You're arguing one edge of a very much double-edged sword, and I must say (as someone that was deploying the linux-vserver patches by at least 2004) it's incredibly tiring to watch.
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> Providing open source drivers/stacks will in many cases provide insight into implementation details you do not want competitors to easily understand

Competitors will have the resources to reverse engineer; it's not an effective means of hiding implementation details. It _is_ an effective means of wasting free software and security communities' time by forcing them to reverse engineer if they want to use hardware.
>You claim that A is false because the three are more likely to be influenced by persons who self identify as left leaning.

I think we misunderstand each other. I claimed that A was false because I took "are on average as close to reflecting reality as any human enterprises have ever come" to mean it reflects the reality of the body of individuals, which I guess both of us agree is not the case. I don't think we really disagree on that much then.

For fun though, I'd like to point out that this applies to conservatives, too:
"Never mind that liberals are anything but monolithic in their views and there is as much enmity between liberals as there is between liberals and conservatives."

And also conservapedia is a failure because A) Shaffly is an authoritarian nutcase and B) vandals outnumbered serious posters 2:1 easily, since it's inception. I know this because I was one of those vandals back in my script kiddie 4chan days. They would sometimes just have to revert entire days worth of edits because for every 'good faith' edit there were a dozen there were less so, and often the difference is subtle, especially since you could invoke religious craziness at will on conservapedia.
it's a bit criminal that hospital are locked in like this ...
I really like UUIDs for all of the reasons described in the article. But can there can be significant performance related drawbacks:

UUIDs are double the size of 64 bit integers. Which could mean fewer rows on data and index pages, leading to memory pressure, leading to I/O pressure.

UUIDs are also random. I'm not an expert when it comes to PostgreSQL internals. But for MSSQL it's common and recommended to use your PK as a clustered index. The randomness can wreck havoc on the clustered index, causing severe fragmentation due to page splitting. There are some techniques to mitigate the effects of this (decreasing page fill factor, using incrementing UUIDs, using a surrogate IDENTITY clustered key), but each has significant tradeoffs
Imo, raw markdown links look a lot better when you use [this style]. It's marginally more effort to write, but reads better and is easier to edit.

[this style]: https://example.com
I did an ecommerce recipe app. It was critical to us.

We couldn't get funding, so it was important that we could build things very fast with limited resources. I also made the mistake of being a technical CEO, so dev time was very limited as I had to deal with multiple distractions from logistics to finance.

For acquisition, the tech stack was also one of the factors in the final valuation. Nobody wants to acquire something they can't maintain (although ironically this was what happened exactly).
“Virtual Reality” is an Oxymoron
Is it a death sentence to try and learn Haskell on this challenge? Or should I go with a language I'm more comfortable in?
Bitcoin, Cryptocurrency and Taxes: A Crypto tax guide with examples
Snowflake has been retired in 2014 [1]. Are there any similar services around that are still maintained?

[1]: https://github.com/twitter/snowflake
Good point, so far I've just used the default build options but I see there's a "allowToChangeInstallationDirectory" option so I'll enable this on the next build.
>"“[E]ven though Google is an American company, it controls over 90% of European search traffic. In this case, Google directly caused ProtonMail’s growth rate worldwide to be reduced by over 25% for over 10 months,” he adds."

If a substantial part of your funnel is attached to another company's whims then maybe it was past time to think about your strategy for building product and brand awareness.

>"“The only reason we survived to tell this story is because the majority of ProtonMail’s growth comes from word of mouth, and our community is too loud to be ignored."

Again it was up to you to diversify what sounds like an over reliance on Google for 25% of your growth. Portraying that as into "victim survivor" story is a bit dramatic.

This sounds like a yarn they are spinning for potential investors. And not a very good one.
Well, it's unfortunate that we have people like this who make employers feel the need to track their workers.
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If you're doing manual updates to a production DB, using START TRANSACTION and then checking the outcome of your changes before you use COMMIT stops typos becoming catastrophes.
I've used Voddoopad for years. It was amazing. As a person who organizes content and research based on links instead of folders, its wiki like structure was perfect.

I had high expectations when Gus Mueller sold the app to plausible, but they haven't invested enough on it since 2013.

https://www.plausible.coop/voodoopad
Saying objectively that 12 people are doing the work of 8 isn't making any value judgment on the 4 people who get let go.
I wonder if this will backfire somehow. Google (privacy nightmare) removing ProtonMail from its search results will only attract more privacy conscious people...?
Do you not think that once in 30 years one the ~50 rich, seemingly very intelligent people that live on that street didn't step out onto it and think, "Hey.. this is a nice private street we have here. The property taxes on it must be killer. Hmm.. I wonder who pays those.. maybe I'll bring it up at the next HOA meeting."

Why do I get the feeling that the same people defending the residents of this street wouldn't bat an eye at condemning a poor person whose electricity gets shut off because the bill was sent to their former address and they simply forgot abou tit?
Twenty Toes: juggling with hands and feet. (Vimeo)
Bigoted simply means prejudicial without a valid reason.
Cramming the Cosmos into a Shared Memory Supercomputer
Ask HN: Anyone here tried building an A+ team based on Ray Dalio's Principles?
I've been reading Ray Dalio's book Principles: Life and Work of late. It's really inspiring to know how he built a meritocratic culture at Bridgewater Associates by following core principles with a backbone of radical truth and transparency. I'm also reading more about the tools they used to groom a culture of excellence (psychometric tests to understand each member better, baseball cards for each member etc). Has anyone tried similar approaches with your team/startup? Would love to know how it went.
It's somewhere in-between. There's no required HIPAA certification process, all you need to do is sign a BAA and you're a covered entity (and HIPAA applies to you). HIPAA really requires only a few things: if you have a breach of PHI you have to announce it quickly and announce it in a local newspaper, you shouldn't be sharing PHI with partners that won't sign a BAA and you should all be recieving HIPAA training. This is enforced with fines and by the terms in your BAA. Your company may be out of scope though. If your company never receives PHI, then HIPAA doesn't apply to you. If you do receive PHI, then the danger of losing it, either accidentally our through a hack is much larger
FCC Chairman blasts Twitter, Google for opposing net neutrality repeal
Bit by Bit: Social Research in the Digital Age
We do not have a high, global carbon price. If it's not global, the miners will just relocate to areas that don't have it.

But a ban on bitcoin would just relocate miners to places without the ban so I think it's a fair comparison.
I think you probably did. I was making a right turn at a controlled intersection. Specifically, the dedicated right turn lane was controlled by a yield sign. I had slowed and was preparing to merge into the other lane, checked my blind spot over my shoulder, and found that there was a car in my blind spot, so I braked to let it pass me (since the yield sign gave it right of way). The car behind me failed to react to my breaking and rear-ended me.
New nanomaterial, quantum encryption system could be ultimate defense
There's a lot of good information on modeling spiking neurons here:
http://www.scholarpedia.org/article/Category:Spiking_Network...

Also, I like the papers linked here by Eugene Izhikevich:
http://www.izhikevich.org/publications/index.htm

The new links discussing the capsule neural networks are somewhat reminiscent of this polychronous computation paper:
http://www.izhikevich.org/publications/polychronous_wavefron....

https://hackernoon.com/what-is-a-capsnet-or-capsule-network-...
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Pai on Net Neutrality decision [pdf]
just do it, what's the worst that could happen?
Does anyone use ULIDs [1] instead of UUIDs for stuff like this? I like that they're sortable.

[1] https://github.com/alizain/ulid
You could check if your server IP is on a blacklist https://mxtoolbox.com/blacklists.aspx/ Those are usually for/against email spam. Often entries remains after the owner or the whole website changed.

If you use https you could try to find out if the user's browser doesn't support your (offered) chiphers https://www.ssllabs.com/ssltest/ Internet Explorer 6 comes to mind. We run an API and sometimes, though very rare, users try to access it using http/1.0 or other super old compiled binaries. Or see 'SSL handshake' errors in our load balancer logs.
Why Big Tech Should Subsidize Real Journalism
From Fairies to Fullstack: Forget Your Label
Yes, competition for dev jobs at actual software/tech companies is pretty fierce. I spent years trying to get hired by SV/SF/NYC tech companies (well-known, not so-well known, small startups, etc.), both onsite (when I was younger and more mobile), and remote (more recently).

Never could get to an offer :/ so I work in govt contracting, where the only requirements are having a clearance (which requires being a US citizen) and a butt capable of occupying a seat (actually having a pulse is a plus, but not necessarily required).
Ehh, if your main concern if obfuscation of the primary ID, you can... obfuscate your primary IDs to be used in your URLs.
Big Bang of Intelligence – New Algorithms, Parallel Systems, Big Data
Airlines are using fewer Airbus A380 and Boeing 747 jumbo jets
Object models
> Bulk data collection and massive privacy invasions weren't a problem, that's what I'm saying.

That's quite debatable, from Stasi methods to NSA trying to collect bulk phone calls, there've been plenty of examples for bulk data collections and massive privacy invasions predating social media and the Internet.

20 years ago nobody cared much what information you shared about yourself on the www, as it wasn't monetized, barely anything was as many users back then had been hoping for something like a "post-privacy society" to emerge. The problems started when companies wanted to commercialize the www, que ad-revenue economy and massive aggregation of personal information on-top of that.

Creating a situation where monolithic companies and governments suddenly have a very similar goal: Categorizing and collecting "people" in every imaginable way.

Facebook is pretty much building a database of all the people of the world, governments have struggled to build something like that, on a national scale, for far longer and regularly failed.

At this point, I wouldn't be surprised about shady backroom deals along the lines of "We let you get away with breaking this immensely complex legal framework if you give us access to your database of phone numbers/selfies/whatever" actually being a thing.
I'm not sure yet what to think about the idea of internet access as a social program.

However, I'd be less irritated about losing Net Neutrality if competition actually existed in the US. Break up the monopolies and maybe we can talk about allowing the free market to guide companies to do the right thing instead of requiring regulations.
Nakama: Distributed server for social and realtime games and apps
Debating the Role of Commodity Chips in Exascale
As far as I'm concerned a great camera implementation is art and not science.
How to watch the only visible “supermoon” of 2017 this weekend
Take to the Skies with Alex Zosel and Yann de Vries at Disrupt Berlin
Some of the Best Coding Tools Aren't Coding Tools
Similarly, if you love auto-increment, use it.

Don't write lame HN comments deriding others opinions.
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If anyone else was also wondering, prices starting at $299 (or $20/month.
This. Use the autoinc for FK. Use GUID for exposing.
Except that Visual Studio 2017 is a dog, especially on Windows 10.
I am pretty sure Google derives a lot of its revenue from advertisers who operate on the assumption that the users see Google searches as mostly efficient and impartial. There can be special cases, but they should not be statistically significant. Thus it is in Google's own interest to keep providing efficient, unbiased search or at least the appearance of it. Break this and the customers will flee to other search engines and advertisers will follow. So yes, I expect Google to provide information to consumers free of charge as this is a key part of its business model.

Which, however, has nothing to do with the article's point -- disappearance of a single entry with competitive advantage over Google. No statistical significance for search, but instead wielding its enormous power to squelch a small competitor. IMO, if true, this is the case for the government to address via rulemaking, courts or some other means.
just curious, what are you doing with ETH contracts? working on a product or just hobby?
I found that HDMI switches lose signal because the output device doesn't provide enough power for the switch to leach off. I've had a few of Aukey switches:
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Switcher-Output-Splitter-Control-Bl...

And once you plug in a dedicated 5V power supply they are rock solid.
Do you know any good sites that show the best practices for CLT and a good vendor? I've been thinking about building a shed out of CLT to try it out rather than a standard stud and plywood frame.
Facebook disables ethnicity advert targeting system