skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
According to Wikipedia word polygon is pronounced as (/ˈpɒlɪɡɒn/) I don't see an e there.
Man, I must have been asleep this afternoon because I could not figure out what a bare IP address had to do with DNS. I get it now.
No, bitcoin is not subsidizing Chinese energy. They're paying for the energy being used at the price it costs to use it. I imagine the amount of energy used to mine in China is not a significant fraction of the overall energy production of China.
"think Dunning-Kruger is a brand of champagne."

Oh bollocks, that's me undone. Err without Googling and being British and given where I am and a few other things, I'm going to go for ... ... firearm?

Simplistic analysis by me: Well it can't likely be a Champagne (French). Dunning (English), Kruger (German with options).

OK Goo ... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunning%E2%80%93Kruger_effect - hmmm 8)
Surely good enough detection is just one step from prevention? Detect fraudulent cert, revoke it. Or have I missed a layer?
1. It isn't, that's not what I'm saying (if you're talking about their freedom to do something...if you're talking about society in general it seems obvious that certain behaviors are bad and should be discouraged). But if you're going to tax me, and then give this money away to people it seems reasonable that I should have at least some say in what it's spent on...which just gets us back to the same discussions about what UBI evolves into and the kind of culture changes required for it to work (if it's even possible for it to work...that is not a certainty).

2. This "if you give the money they'll spend it in your economy" thing is I think by no means clear. The largest cash source in Mexico is remittance payments from the US. The reason I brought up the "global citizen" model is because there's a lack of skepticism and critical analysis on it and people make blanket statements like "the first country to give everyone in the world money" are actually taken seriously.
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My concern is the lack of debate beyond two or three comments. Basically someone says something, another replies, there’s a follow up and then nothing. It’s weird that there’s no discussion, just hit pieces. You see the same thing in the media both in articles/reports as well as callers and comments. We’ve lost the capacity to debate as a society. Or at least we now debate in 123 character tweets or memes.
A couple of the folks I know are just HODLing until BTC hits $150,000. Most of them bought Bitcoin when it was a couple of $, haven’t bought Bitcoin since and are just waiting it out to see what happens.
It is not easy if you are on a shared domain and it is not supported by your host. Please don't run around saying it is easy for everyone.
The standard in antitrust law when evaluating a merger or acquisition is to write down a game theoretic model of competition, estimate the parameters of the model (consumers' tastes, degree of substitutability between products, etc.), and make projections of prices based on those parameters.
Basically anybody with unpopular opinions or opinions that the powerful fear should support net neutrality.
For some dumb reason the Bank of America website is ok with firefox on windows, but throws up a big red error message when you try to use firefox on mac.

https://www.bankofamerica.com/information/supported-browsers...
And a NULL transaction to/from that address encoded the string "pineapplefund.org"

https://live.blockcypher.com/btc/tx/c44ad5f83ddc84d08967c765...
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This was an honest question, really. I didn't say I had the right answer, I was wondering why they chose "Secure"
This sounds a lot like "we can't protect average joes from themselves, so let's not bother adding protections"? Sure there are always other attack vectors, but that doesn't excuse ignoring the ones that are easy to fix.
The challenge is that $400/mo is not much more than a few uncovered parking spaces in a lot of these locations. That means that we have to subsidize each one to price them that way.

In a city like SJ (SF is even harder) 2% would be 20k rooms. Subsidies of $400/mo are not unreasonable to reach your targets. That means we need to raise $100M/yr in local taxes to make this happen... which basically is an impossible political ask before you even start choosing locations and NIMBYism.
Alternative title: Develop Hypertension at a Young Age.
But the extras beyond encryption are definately not guarantees. [1] HTTPS means encrypted HTTP. Everything else is "I trust the certificate authority to provide oversight and verification." It may just be me, but I don't trust the fine, upstanding CAs we have now-a-days.
1: https://stripe.ian.sh/
I think its interesting that Apple release features which show their own older product in a bad light, compared to newer product. You think that a user-experience person would say "hmm.. lets de-tune the settings on the old GPU and hardware" but I guess in nudge theory terms, if you make the old box crawl but they are a fanboi, the outcome is they buy a new box.

I'm going home to de-tune my two old macs now. Thanks!
Dan Gackle, moderator of HN:

For the most part, we keep author names out of HN titles. It's a trick I learned from PG for keeping the focus on the content.

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Name recognition seems to encourage reflexive upvoting, which is one reason we often take names out of titles.

We've removed "Alan Kay" from this one. (Nothing personal—we're fans.)

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But mostly we take the author's/presenter's name out of titles, in keeping with HN's emphasis on content over personalities.

https://hn.algolia.com/?query=dang%20names%20titles&sort=byP...
Alternatively: a shameless person tried to claim that actively subverting the privacy of users was a positive and he was (rightfully) mocked by the majority.
Agreed - but that's only a small portion in the beginning. The bulk of it is fine.
> Maybe you can't find a better term for "secure" because it's perfectly fine, already..?

Could be! Someone else suggested "Encrypted", seems like a good word. I really don't know.
Sure, but you are advocating redistribution of wealth from the most impoverished segment of the population to the middle and upper classes. I’m not sure how helpful that would be. I mean, I would love to buy more toys every month but is that worth taking away someone else’s food stamps and healthcare?
According to that definition, money is capital as long as it's being used as an input to create new wealth rather than to purchase goods and services for consumption. We can see this is empirically true since 95+% of the income gains from the economic recovery have gone to the wealthiest 1%.
Ok but your personal project could be a new video game that nets you millions. That’s the whole point of UBI.
A good reason to use at the very least adblock.
The Trouble with Bias – NIPS 2017 Keynote – Kate Crawford [video]
The presentation goes straight from from linear regression and classification to computer vision and reinforcement learning.

The practical value of ML/AI is what’s in between and is something that isn’t often discussed between all the hype. ML/AI can be used to build models which work well with nontabular data (e.g. text and images), and can solve such regression/classification problems more cleanly. (and with tools like Keras, they’re as easy to train and deploy as a normal model)
Why Bitcoin Is Most Certainly, 100% A Bubble (Trust Me) !
Here's the story: https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2017/03/firef...
I'd say that the people who actively disrupt other students by what they do on their phones are outliers.

Most people are probably somewhere in between.

When a few students are naughty, should the teacher punish a whole class with detention? A whole generation?
Also in Finland: a new additional tax on motorcycles was canceled after citizens removed so many motorcycles from the registry that the new tax with fewer motorcycles was going to bring in less revenue than the status quo before the law proposal.
My skillets almost never leave the stovetop. Other than soups and sauces, everything I do on the stovetop, I do in cast iron anyway, and I use one every morning for my eggs. I try to rotate which one I fry eggs in because I find that eggs improve the condition of the pan.
There is the horrible example of the nice computer company that had called itself by a certain name. [1] They registered their domain in good faith and conducted business. Later, a multi-million dollar car company decided they wanted the domain for the name they choose after Datsun and lawyered up on the mom-and-pop computer company.

1: http://nissan.com/
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As I understand it, they’ve only lobbied to prevent biased, underhanded research: none of the funds made available for injury prevention and control at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention may be used to advocate or promote gun control.

CDC can discover facts and make observations all they like, but is barred from advocacy. Why did they stop all work after that? Don’t they have any work on violence and guns that was inquiry rather than advocacy?
Well, now that we have a futures market...
Net Neutrality or whatever this fantasy name actually implies is more likely to see the Justice department and the rest of government including other non elected officials dictate what you will be allowed to do or see. What protocols down to eventually what countries.

plus we were fine the 15 odd years leading up to the rule change and if anything it will stagnate high speed internet even more because there will be zero incentive to try except where they are told to go. like your speed or not, it will be all you will have because competitors won't have any reason to try to take down cable or phone companies.

oddly the content providers who will stand against or represent wrongly places like guns.com and have an outsized influence higher than any cable company (facebook/google/twitter) are all very much pro government less freedom except where THEY are concerned. They certainly don't like your pro gun stance
Yeah, good luck with that. I've never made a dollar with patreon, it's been a huge waste of time.
I've heard about the acquisition months ago. It took them a while to create a Microsoft version out of it.
That's awesome. Honestly I submitted this to HN as a way to look up comments about your site. I was surprised when it came up as a new submission. This is the first time that my 'submission to find the comments' ended up on the front page. I'm glad it made your day.
That's only assuming that they have a corpus of other writing out there on the internet which is linkable to their real life identity.
> The important thing for all of us to remember, is that in any given conversation we may be idiot.

Alternative take, particularly pertinent to this situation:

The person handling twitter is not a technical person, but a customer support person who handles hundreds of dumb questions, day in, day out, from customers who have no clue what they're doing but will often throw technical terms around.

Expecting solid technical answers from a general twitter account for a business is beyond absurd.
Ted Santos: Corporate consultant motivational speaker
The argument is that forced unbundling (ala telecommunications act of 1996 and examples in Europe) allows competition and will get us to better service and pricing. And net neutrality doesn't really get us better service and pricing.

I think the details of networks will make neutrality hard to enforce. For electricity it's easy to measure if a utility is providing good service -- is the voltage and frequency correct, how much of the time is the service available. For telephone it's pretty easy too -- is there dialtone, how many calls aren't able to be completed because circuits are busy etc. For internet it's much harder: there are many ways to run a network, and many places congestion can happen, and I don't expect the FCC to issue effective guidance on oversubscription and interconnection policies that covers what people think of when they want neutral results. Ex: maybe a national network runs all their transit interconnection through Chicago and Dallas, but does regional peering with 'selected high traffic partners.' if you're small, you can't compete on latency for their coastal users, because you're not big enough to peer, and transit runs in the center of the country. ISP claims it provides cost benefits and network management benefits to connect to transit it only two locations.
To be fair Chase seems (on the surface) to have the best site/app/whatever of the major US banks.

The app is pretty great.
I've gotten more out of raw PayPal donation links
Engineering breakthrough?
Speak the name loudly to someone and ask them to write it. I know all about the company but I couldn't stop laughing after reading the headline. It gets to me every single time.
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I think it sounds crazy too but I would love to be proven wrong. :) Do you have a background in macroeconomics?
How much do you exchange though? There seems to be some kind of hard wall at £100k in the UK, and anything more than that seems to get a personal call from a fraud investigator who demands documents proving what money was moved, where it came from, where it is going to, who it is for, and what was bought or sold with receipts etc.

Do 10 payments for £10k each, and you'll usually get the same call.

If the word bitcoin is mentioned, even once, then you'll get a letter saying "Dear Mrs X, We are withdrawing financial services from you, and your account is now closed".

This even happened on two so called "bitcoin friendly" banks...
I may have found the post by Michael Nielson I was looking for... on Hacker News!

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=666615

In particular, this piece of advice he gives still rings true to my ears:

Often, when struggling with a book or paper, it's not you that's the problem, it's the author. Finding another source can quickly clear stuff up.
Being born on a rich family is akin to being on "welfare" through the years you need most.
Isn't (not) needing HTTPs kind of unrelated to your database being pwned though?
I don't have any qualms around taking names out of titles.
The Fake News of E-Commerce – How Sketchy Facebook Ads Mislead Customers
I think he's telling us he used the money to pay for a lawyer, although I have no idea why it matters what he used the money to buy.
Anyone can steal all of chrome saved passwords, form fields, bookmarks, history
Biologists hypothesize that Mantis shrimps perceive 12 primary colors. Do you expect a sea creature the size of my fist to share art and literature about its inner experience?
Venezuelas US Hostage Suffers Severe Health Decline
>But they might also try to get laws passed that just benefited their own interests.

The NRA is a gun advocacy group - that's exactly what they would try to do, because that's their purpose.
As with many power tools, that's actually really cool and there are some neat ways to use such a thing. It's just that in this case it's getting horribly abused to subvert the user's control of their own system.

(Examples: You could use such a thing to block ads, or archive sites as you browse them)
And yet here we are discussing an article with Sam Altman's name in the title, as is rather often the case on the topic of UBI, and you essentially arguing that this is a good thing.
Why former Groupon CEO Andrew Mason regrets telling everyone he was fired
Why $150,000 exactly? Because of what the market cap will be then?
> How many people are out there with the potential to be one of the best in the world at something important...

How many important things are there? Lets go with 10,000, which I think is _extremely_ generous. Perhaps there is a better way of enabling people such that we find those 10,000 people. UBI doesn't need to be the solution.
Which Coin will Coinbase add next?
DOJ confirms new criminal probe linked to Waymo v. Uber lawsuit
I mean we shouldn't kid ourselves, this forum is maintained, and funded, because it is of financial benefit to YC (in many different ways). Not because of some higher ideal.
Woah, someone quoted me!

Yea, this could certainly go both ways. I picked the 'optimistic' sarcastic scenario instead of the super depressing one you bring up here.
> By giving people money to spend, it unlocks the economy's potential to produce wealth for the people.

This is a corollary to the myth that wealthy people hoard cash. They do not. 100% of their cash is invested, even the money held in a checking account (because the bank loans it out to people who spend it).
Is it just me or should it have been named the other way around? This is a Linux Subsystem for Windows (just like there is/was a POSIX subsystem for Windows).

I thought this was an official WINE-like layer for Linux.
I wish them all the luck but they're probably going down the road of JCPenny.

- People want promotional pricing -- you get to feel like you're 'gaming the system' by going though the customer service song-and-dance when really they were making money either way.

- People want bundles. It's why Netflix, Hulu, HBO, every steaming service are so popular despite the ability to buy movies and TV a la carte for years.

- No contract is alright but probably irrelevant for most users.

Even if they manage to cut out all the 'bullshit' they're really not all that different from existing providers. Streaming services have a tangible value proposition with no ads and their entire library on-demand.
Me too; After I read Perceptron I fast forward lol
That's always why I have a good laugh when someone comes out claiming to be Satoshi when they end their sentences with only a single space after a period. If you wanted to come out as Bitcoin's creator, you'd have used 2 spaces...
> We have a lot of pointless jobs in the economy that really only exist as an excuse to provide people incomes.

Examples, please? Who are the benefactors giving away these jobs?

EDIT: Parent's answer is at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15919065
No Troy and co do not work like that - per se. What is most likely is that someone noticed the public discussion and took advantage. I see where you are coming from but the fix was easy and wasting time whining about being called out on rubbish practice was the wrong response.

Besides, if the DB was pwned, it is unlikely that http -> https would have any real bearing anyway. There was probably a XSS exploit or whatever.
Took multiple support calls and 2 hours of our time to get their phones to roam in Canada, whereas the rest of us were up and running when we landed. Nevermind, once we got their phones working, outbound calls still didn't work on iPhone or Android, it'd ring outbound and the other person would get the call, but the call would collapse on answering it.
that sounds unfair.
Good question! I don’t think it’s a scientific number, but rather based on the current price (approx. $15,000 at the time of writing) to represent a 10x increase in Bitcoin’s valuation.
And they will never believe you. Elon musk said he'll run a coast to coast self driving car this year and also unveil Tesla network, the self driving Uber competitor.
Doesn't sound like it's anybody else's responsibility to help you dick around while on the clock.

I'm not saying a workplace should care about you visiting a webpage with a cartoon ass on it, but I just don't think it's anyone's problem but your own since there are precautions you can take yourself, like using a separate browser for dicking around with images disabled.

If you can't be bothered to do that, then why should anyone else.
I don't know about deep debt, but I've had multiple people whose are basically technically illiterate ask me about bitcoin and how to buy them. One of them even asked me which bank they could drive to open an account and buy bitcoin!

There is a new wave of people who've read the 10,000% return articles on fb or whatever who now wanna invest every penny that they have into bitcoin
If “find my iPhone” is on and it’s a 64 bit iPhone there is no way to use it without knowing the iCloud details of the account it is registered to.
This was one of the best things I’ve read on wired in a while. It’s a surprisingly excellent write up on the Mirai bot net and the events surrounding it. (The HN headline title is definitely more click bait than I’d like)
Do you see the difference between living off 1k a month (that's your welfare on BI) and being raised by parents making 150k+?

One's a life of poverty and misery, the other is education, opportunity, social connections, etc. People can get the former already on welfare programs. Why don't we divert that 3 trillion we'd spend on BI and spend half of it in targeted ways that actually increase opportunity?

...all of this makes it weird that the biggest proponents of UBI are ultra wealthy.

Or, in terms software engineers should understand: why a complete rewrite when there's lots of low hanging bugs that we all know about?
In some areas you need a car: the area might not have traversable by bike, you might have a 80 item order, or have a 20 mile trip to make your delivery.
Ah, I'm not terribly familiar with DACs, I mainly see PCM in phones for audio files and paging applications, which seems really silly considering these phones support much more efficient codecs like Opus.
Don't worry, you'll also be able to license your OpenSSH server per core (minimum 4 per-core licenses).

I'm joking.
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A bit side topic:

It seems that every time Troy interacts with a company on Twitter, they never seem to click on to who he is, until it's probably too late and they look like fools.

It's just so amusing to see companies trying to condescend to Troy, when he's one of the most visible authorities on web security on the planet (not necessarily the most authoritative, but the most well known).

I occasionally get this when people try talking to me about computer science topics, when they don't realise that it's what I do for a living. I've probably done the same myself when talking to Doctors and other domain experts, I'm sure.
Um, yeah the profanity was completely unexpected. I happen to be one of those weird people that basically doesn't swear and presenting "me" with a big ole (non abbreviated) STFU word bubble feels bad. Uninstalled.

If you're going to have them, put them in a "you gotta look for them corner" of the app, not front and center.
Hacked Pandora is a thing, and it just grabs the initial file, no transcoding. http://www.apktron.com/2016/02/pandora-69-unlimited-skips-no...
Ask HN: How to check email without fear?
There are many security concerns when checking email. Such as phishing or installation of malware.

What do you do to protect yourself from these threats?

Is it safer to check email on a mobile device? Any device or just iOS?
it is not extremely costly, it cost me an extra £20/month

the only shared infrastructure is the cable under the street being in the same physical duct, the copper wire electrically terminates in physically different equipment owned by a different company

they also offer a 3g backup on top of those two independent lines, which is completely independent of the physicality of the path of the copper pairs

they'll even let you announce BGP if you want to multi-home your (existing) PI address space yourself

it's not a normal ISP

we're very lucky in the UK that the way the telecoms industry is regulated allows a small techie focused ISP to operate on a national scale, instead of in one town