skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A good journal needs good reviewers.

The quality of peer-review at conferences for example is terrible, and that is well known. Even at not very big conferences, and despite the usually hard work of the organizers.

So establishing a good review process is not easy and perhaps that is what is stopping the open access model rather than just the prestige issue mentioned in other comments.
They're like the ACLU for technology topics
On their application page, shipt requires of potential "shoppers" own a "reliable vehicle, 15 years old or newer", I wonder how well defined "vehicle" is in the fine print?

What's to stop "shoppers" from using something like a bike for the deliveries? Drastically cuts down on the operating costs of the shoppers, adds a good workout, I can see the appeal for many people. Could maybe even be good for marketing "Eco shipt, the local and green delivery".

It's what German startup Foodora has been doing with take-out food deliveries, so far quite successfully.
As someone who followed that gamer->modder->hacker path, I would like to see statistics of how many developers got there start that way. The cohort of CS/EE majors I went through college with in 2010 had a solid percentage who started that way, but I don't really see that in the 18 year old CS major of today.
> Starting a startup is great and you totally should.

Wouldn't you ask the same set of questions that you describe for this position as well? Why is the outcome different? Arguably, you're taking so much risk as a founder that your expected financial outcome will almost certainly be worse than working at Facebook/Google/Amazon in the early days.
There are three general buckets of work that EFF does. All three are focussed on protecting user's online rights to free speech, security, and privacy - but each achieves that result in a different way:

* Legal: Taking on precedent-setting cases (e.g. establishing code as a form of speech, overturning Betamax Doctrine, challenging censorship laws). Full list is here: https://www.eff.org/victories

* Technology: Helping launch projects like LetsEncrypt (now its own org), Privacy Badger, Certbot, Panopticlick, Democracy.io, HTTPS Everywhere.

* Advocacy/activism: Pushing state & federal legislatures in the US and around the world to pass laws that protect user's rights, and not to pass laws that would harm them. Also to push regulatory bodies (e.g. FCC) similarly.

(I'm a Tech Fellow at EFF but not speaking for the org in any capacity)
There are plenty of people accessing their banks on public / insecure networks; it’s folly to assume that MITM attacks just can’t happen. You yourself might not be at risk, but you’re not the only person out there.

The assumption is that yes, all of your machine’s updates are served over HTTPS. If they weren’t, then of course you’re right - it’d be possible to hijack your machine by serving malicious binaries. That’d be one hell of a security hole.
It's hard to sell large amounts of bitcoin. Most banks, when they see an incoming wire transfer for $10M marked "bitcoin" will run a mile and close down your account.

Hopefully by 'donating' it to these charities, who will probably choose to sell slowly over time or hold it, that alleviates the problem.
Financially, you're probably correct. Most people, however, work at a startup for different reasons:

* Less bureaucracy, more building
* Larger impact on a product; not just being a cog
* Generalist rather than one narrowly defined job
* Ability to learn many new skills
* Experience for starting their own startup
* Working on something they believe in
* Working with newer technologies
* Can't get a job at a larger company (due to skillsets)
* Easier place to make a jump into product management or people management
* Flexibility (work from home, set own hours, etc)
Google bets big on China AI
Don't think about _you_, think about the layman. Who probably has a WiFi router from 5 years ago with outdated firmware that their ISP can't be bothered patching.
The people doing random things with fake .dev domains were going to get bit in the ass one way or another. You can't just make up your own domain and hope no one ever does anything conflicting with it.
couldn't you just capture a sample of frames and take the mean ?.
Dog Walking Service > http://smallbusiness.chron.com/start-dog-walking-business-41...
This seems straightforward, if only from a cash flow perspective-- customers are the people who give you money; vendors are the people you give money to.
The browser would still need to trust the fake CA, which means pwning the victim's computer i.e. it's already game over at that point.
> Welfare does the opposite of this. It helps people merely subsist, not strive for greatness.

I mean the entire United States was founded on the belief that welfare unlocks greatness, because the founding fathers all believed that citizens wouldn't contribute to having a republic unless they shared in the ownership of the means of production. It's not like this is some crazy new experiment, we've been doing this for hundreds of years with everything from cod fisheries in the 1700s, the homestead act in the 1800s, ESOPs in the 1900s, tech startups in the 2000s, etc.

Source: https://www.amazon.com/Citizens-Share-Reducing-Inequality-Ce...
> valid certificate

> fake CA

Pick one. If your cert isn't signed by a CA that the browser trusts, it won't load the page.
It's mostly about speed of innovation. Cryptocurrencies will just make creating and experimenting with financial products easier (being unregulated).
This article seems to be reaching. Reading it through, the basic claim is "Porn is really popular. Serving out streaming porn causes power consumption. Without any really numbers or information, we think that must be bad for the environment compared to old style porn on tapes, magazines, and DVDs."
3) its much worse if they use their newfound free time and available resources to do things that actively harm society
I'm a believer in this approach as well. in-browser proofs of work can serve as anti-bot/scraper/spam filters as well

Coinhive has already been successfully deployed to mine $XMR in browsers. I haven't used it yet, but they claim to get pretty close to native CPU performance also which is pretty incredible.

https://coinhive.com/
Yet Chinese people cannot use Google, at least not easily...
Anyone with a brain would know it's illegal, just like anyone would know selling weed is illegal unless you own a dispensary, and can get a really harsh sentence.
The concept would be to specifically fund projects and startups which specifically accelerate the process of making lower cost of living places like Pittsburg, Detroit, Fresno more enjoyable places to live (farmers markets, food trucks, etc.) so that people don't get stuck in overpriced coastal cities due to fear of missing out.

Kinda of like what PG describes here.
http://www.paulgraham.com/pgh.html
Interview with Al Sweigart – Invent Your Own Computer Games with Python
I already said that it can be too expensive, but thanks for playing. <3

Also, a squash merge is not a merge. It's just another form of rebase.

And if you mention reset as an alternative to cherry pick and squash you should also mention --soft.
Citi has some really bad security practices, when I talked with them about it they mentioned some future changes they were planning that were even worse.
I stated specifically that I agree it is bad in situations where you could be MITM. I also agree many people do that. My question here is only how it could effect me or people who follow the practice I follow.
Exactly right. At least from Indian experiment it did not happen. That's why I said 'may be' in sense that may be rules of human nature does not apply to USA.
> why should the Federal government finance the tax methods the states impose on their citizens.

It should be neutral to them, which is why State/local taxes should be deductible; non-deductibility creates an artificial incentive to avoid tax-funded programs that are a net economic benefit before considering the distortion produced by federal taxation.

A longer write-up and worked example of how this is a problem that I wrote in an earlier discussion of the tax plan is here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15855955
I don't know... There's a lot that's not being said in that article... As is the case in all articles about court cases... Or court cases, in general. I feel a very real, "burn the witch" attitude when it comes to hackers and coders mixing with the justice system...
very likely, something like PCA + KNN does well on mnist. I think what will start to get tricky is rotation invariance.
Awesome. Would love to hear more about what you're doing. Do you have a site?
https://blog.bitcoin.org.hk/bitcoin-mining-and-energy-consum...

While some coal in landlocked and inaccessible locations is fired up in an environmentally unfriendly process to mine Bitcoins, most miners are powered by hydrogen dams, geysers and other geothermal energy sources that cannot be transported or stored.
Kubernetes 1.9 and a look inside the Kubernetes project
There is more to the story around being banned from United than he states in the article. It wasn't about the lying, it was what he was doing after he received the certs.
This meme needs to die. Keeping the lights on tens of thousands of banks and keeping hundred of thousands of servers running transaction processing cost a lot of electricity too. Efforts are underway to get rid of dirty energy because the costs of renewable and battery storage are so much cheaper that this is a non-issue.
I think a major issue that many commentators here don't touch is the idea that Patreon plainly lied to its users. They said "more money will go to creators" when the real action was "we're charging more money to users with barely any more benefit to creators". Everyone understands that $1 going to $1.37 is "more money going to Patreon" and the stated benefit was spin. It didn't make me change my pledges but I was shocked by the dishonesty.
Patreon have built a kind micropayments platform, but suddenly they decided they weren't happy with being a micropayments platform anymore, charging PayPal-level fees on transactions, and many more artifically inflated transactions at that. We already have PayPal, we don't need Patreon as a second one which isn't competitive.
So non-resource limited prices may remain low, but couldn't most of it be captured by those items that are limited? Like rent or health care? People could move out of the cities to avoid the rent increases, but then cost of services / taxes per person rise in those areas.
According to the linked blog, this worked for about a week before Google flagged the IP and started delivering an obfuscated audio challenge that can't be recognized by their own recognition API.
this is exactly what the "you only look once" model does. It will give you bounding boxes and a classification for every object in the image it recognizes.

https://pjreddie.com/darknet/yolo/
Representation based on land ownership is close to the opposite of UBI
If it's means tested then it's not UBI. Sickness/disability might indeed be a problem, but it's better to address that specific problem, eg. with health care subsidies, rather than reintroducing means testing. Means testing has three major problems:

1. Incentive to game the system.

2. Social stigma to receiving benefits.

3. High administration cost.

UBI is the only welfare system that eliminates all three.
One thing I'm very eager to see is how Defender and Microsoft in general will interact with various third-party AV and "enterprise security" solutions which almost invariably contain rootkit-ish/malware-ish modules.
And we don't even get the fancy fashion and gadgets, I expected way more mohawks, gas masks, and cyber glasses.
He can move out of the country and never pay a penny.
PowerShell does something similar to what you're describing, but arguably better.

With PowerShell, instead of passing text strings between programs, you actually pass CLR objects between programs.

PS does a lot of things very nicely, it's a great tool for Sysadmins, with more safety than Bash. The verbose syntax (e.g. Get-ChildItem vs ls) is a big stumbling block the few times I've used PS, but it makes sense from the point of writing a script to be executed more than once, it's a much more readable language than Bash.
Huh, didn't know about that. Glad to see.
The layman clicks on links that say "you have a virus; download this tool to remove it". They then click 'Yes I authorize' to verify that the downloaded program should be allowed to corrupt their machine.

I fail to see how the bank changing their website to HTTPS is going to save the average Joe.

There are so many websites and things that operate over HTTP that make our machines vulnerable, that I think it is foolishness to use a link that could be MITM to begin with.

That is, it seems to me, that if you simply avoid ever using wireless there is no danger of MITM. I could see that XSS could be done on some sites with ads, and that would be worsened by lack of HTTP.

Is it as simple as "Don't use wifi. Use adblock. HTTP/HTTPS then no longer matters." ?
Don't banks provide the service of reducing the danger of holding cash or storing money in a risky investment?
React-content-loader: create your own custom loader easily, like Facebook-style
2017 Review: China Leads World, 22 New Unicorns Worth $37.3B
Couldn’t you have used more formal methods for spatial autocorrelation?
Justice Department confirms criminal probe in Uber case
This is not even wrong.

EDIT:

James Madison, the principle author of the US Constitution, in reference to a bill proposing to give aid to French refugees, had this to say: "I cannot undertake to lay my finger on that Article of the Constitution which granted a right to Congress of expending, on objects of benevolence, the money of their constituents."

http://lcweb2.loc.gov/cgi-bin/ampage?collId=llac&fileName=00...
Will 2018 Be the Year of the Bank of Amazon?
Well, the bank seems to be stuck in the past...

10 years ago it was best practice for ecommerce shops to serve non sensitive pages (pages without forms or user data) without HTTPS to reduce the server load (HTTPS connections are a little more expensive than HTTP).

Nowadays, even the economical driven ecommerce shops got it that is better to just serve everything via HTTPS. It is very sad to see a bank (which should really know better) arguing that way.
I'm curious - is this making charitable donations in lieu of taxes on the gains?
Unfortunately had to stop reading due to their text-hiding scheme--miniscule light-gray text on white background
WASM is bytecode and a spec - writing it by hand would make as much sense as writing an executable binary in assembly. You could do it that way, but it kind of defeats the point, and writing anything nontrivial becomes impractical.

Write something in a language that targets WASM and compile to it - it's an easier way of accomplishing the same end result, and that's what it's for.
That'd be silly to tie such an obligation to support one of the purported most valued parts of blockchain..
The Blockchain Economy: A beginner’s guide to institutional cryptoeconomics
In the 1700s capital was considered to be land, because owning land was how you made money — either by working the land or by renting it to others to work.

Whereas today capital is considered to be mainly money, because owning money is how you make more money. E.g. by investing in Google in the 90s, Bitcoin in the 2000s, etc.

So giving people money today is basically the equivalent of giving people land in the 1700 and 1800s.
"Men do not differ much about what things they will call evils; they differ enormously about what evils they will call excusable."

- G.K. Chesterton
When people work on a volunteer basis, I would actually guess that people get more emotional when the social contract is broken by a profit seeking company. Going straight to harsh enforcement in order to strengthen the social contracts might sound illogical, but I would bet that its common through out history. Just look at historical societies that operated on a honor bound system and see how harsh enforcement were, even when the punishment has a cost to that society.

There is multiple strategies to keep social contracts. Forgiveness is good, but so is enforcement. Site like HN do ban people, but also warn people. I am uncertain if any singular tactic is best.
About 8 years ago Natwest had a policy of having a "browser whitelist" which was rarely updated. Each time a security update for chrome or firefox came out it would be 2 weeks before online banking was accessible, and using any pre-release versions were out of the question.

I complained and a member of the dev team phoned me up and after a long discussion about why this was madness he told me that it was better to use older browsers for important things such as online banking (like IE6 which was in their whitelist) because they're tried and tested.
The experiment Sam mentions is already heavily biased. They are giving away $1000-$2000 to few families in Oakland as basic income. The problem is that these families are already aware that some Silicon Valley billionaire is performing experiment on them and they know this life line would disappear in future. So they would be forced to make best out of it unlike if this was provided by government for rest of their lives unconditionally.

Another counter point is that doing this at scale would have huge impact on pricing of services. A lot of people do
monotonous boring repetitive work they absolutely hate even if it generates bare bone income. This can include everything from janitorial services to cashier at grocery store to construction sites. Once you get same amount of money for free, there is less incentive for anyone to do this sort of work. Consequently supply for workers would reduce while demand stays same. This would inflate prices of goods and services in general economy. My hunch is that price increase would be exactly such that to offset the basic income. So the net effect would be having no basic income at all. In countries like Finland things are different because of their sovereign funds, tax structure and external income sources.
I think you should do a little research on how cap gains taxes interact with charity, it's not how you think.
I am not curious. One could be buying up through bred horses or $$$ paintings to avoid tax. I much prefer this kind of financial maneuvering to avoid paying tax. Well done.
Are you suggesting that Troy Hunt is involved in illegal pentesting ( pwning their db )? I really doubt that. He is an industry professional.

The problem is not pissing off Troy Hunt; but more that they are advertising that their website is vulnerable and that they don't care.
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Depends on what they believe the purpose of the review is. They'll be incented to do whatever gets them more reviews.
Washington state will act under its own authority to protect Net Neutrality
> Most discussions I've seen of UBI recently have shifted from universal to means tested.

If it's means-tested, it's not a UBI; the “U” is ”Unconditional” (less often “Universal”, with the same meaning) indicating that everyone in some defined population gets it without means, needs, or behavior-testing, specifically.

> Regardless, wouldn't UBI need to be higher for the sick, elderly, and disabled?

With a UBI, existing benefit or social insurance programs that aren't primarily means tested but address other special needs might need to be maintained, including programs offering special support for the aged, blind, and disabled.

This is different than a means-tested safety nets, though.
Military stuff uses "XOR the data with a secret keystream", which is zero latency (okay - more like 10 nanoseconds of latency), and can run arbitrarily fast.

The only disadvantage is one has to use a stream cipher, and those have fallen out of favor lately...
Practical Awesome Recursion (in Scala) Chapter 2: Catamorphisms
This comes at the expense of normal users who have to solve three iterations of the puzzle.

One co-op term I wrote a simple VBA script to open up Google and search for some addresses. It was a small 2-3 day research project. Well unfortunately for me, I subsequently had to solve captchas every day for the next month and a half, and although about half of them would be instantly solved, when I had to redo CAPTCHAs I could feel my sanity slipping away.
Ajit Pai's plan leaves US with a gaping consumer protection void say 39 senators
Unibail-Rodamco to acquire Westfield for $24.7B
This looks sketchy as hell. No personal information attached at all and the domain has who-is protection. How do we know this is legit?

(Edit: nvm, misinterpreted the website)
Great analogy. To take it further, what happens if/when Amazon and Google are the only providers of any sort of cloud computing technology because all of the independent computing providers are defunct and no one knows how to make servers/disk drivers/SSDs except those two companies. Will they benevolently keep the price of computing storage low? How about once Jeff Bezos and Larry Page are no longer founders?

Then apply that thinking to Monsanto, Tyson, Archer Daniels and their pricing power on food staples.
List of Congress Members Who Just Told Ajit Pai to Repeal Net Neutrality
search for "arm" on this list: https://dev.golang.org/reviews
HSBC literally told drug cartels how to alter forms in order to bypass security scans done to detect money laundering.

It's safe to assume that not all banks are as altruistic as one would hope.
It does irrefutably link a very large amount of bitcoins with the site.

https://live.blockcypher.com/btc/tx/c44ad5f83ddc84d08967c765...
This is what I wrote: "a joule from coal is significantly cheaper than a joule from a slave", read my comment again. In your reply you stated the same.

My point is that it was cheap coal energy that freed slaves, the economic realities of coal joules vs human joules, not high justice, economics.
Just grab any U.S. history book. The original drafts of the Declaration of Independence talked about the importance of property, because the founding fathers spent an enormous amount of time thinking through the implications of what would happen if citizens just voted to take all the property away from the wealthy. (Democracy was basically Bitcoin of the 1700s.) And they came to the conclusion that the only way to prevent that from happening was through ensuring that every citizen owned a stake in the means of production, and believed that only with welfare would it be possible to unlock the potential of both the individual and the government.

Also, in reference to your Madison quote, in The Federal Papers he expressed the fear that if the majority of Americans didn't own land then they would vote to take away the property rights of those who did. His solution was "extending the sphere", aka making the country large enough so that everyone could own land. That way the government could give away "free land", but that once individuals already owned personal land the government wouldn't have to take it away in redistribution programs or whatever. He was never able to come up with a longterm solution, but he recognized that it was a fundamental problem that could eventually destroy that republic.
What is the business reasoning behind this kind of domain name silliness?
AFAICT he's only giving money away, not asking any. What's sketchy about anonymous donations?
Wouldn't it be better to just deploy asm.js alongside wasm? Emscripten can easily generate both, and a simple check can select which script to load.

if(window.WebAssembly != null){
loadScript('script.wasm.js');
}else{
loadScript('script.asm.js');
}
There is significant debate over the causes of maternal mortality and in particular its recent rise in the us; almost noone thinks it has to do with income.
you have no choice with road toll. unless you plan on teleporting or walking.