skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
CryptoKitties Are the Start of a Revolution for Blockchain Gaming
A faraday bag might be a decent solution, they're expensive to buy, but cheap to DIY.
Seriously. What am I supposed to wear - a man purse?!

But in all seriousness, I don't see this recommendation even coming close to being considered until there are proven side effects.
> Any other strategy is a gigantic waste of time.

Sounds like you value networking but I wouldn't call other strategies a waste of time. I got a lot of jobs in my career by simply writing a cover letter and directly applying.
Yeah, I suppose I lacked some precision in my language there.. I agree with you that women as a group were certainly oppressed in the past, and any woman who didn't want to live within the cultural norm would have felt oppressed, whether she went along with it or not. Feeling you're being treated unfairly and attributing it to oppression and actually being oppressed are two different things, though.
The issue isn't that the immigrants are coming from a non-white country. The issue is that they are coming from a _poor_ country with poor labor laws, and that they're displacing American workers in the process. Australia and other countries have similar quality of life as the US, thus immigration doesn't deleverage American workers like it does with poor countries.

You injecting race into the conversation is racist itself, and does nothing to help advance the conversation.
Sorry, but I'm leaning towards trusting the FAO as opposed to anonymous anecdotal evidence.

I will give you the benefit of the doubt and believe that you may be on the top end of the world-wide average, but how does your 80 acres of usable soil help the rest of the world when push comes to shove?
for millennials specifically in CS, i'd argue that things are better now any other time in history.

Many are getting $125k+ salaries in the Bay and Seattle. Of course, not everyone will work for a Big N. Even still, getting a $70k+ offer in CS is very common for a mediocre dev coming from a mediocre college with a mediocre gpa
I only have the pure profits that I've made off bitcoin invested in bitcoin nowadays.
Followup just to clarify: The reason smart contracts drastically mitigate "server compromise" is that compromising / altering the operation of the VM (and not merely exploiting a bug) requires a 51% attack on the entire network. That should generally be a MUCH more expensive undertaking than the value of any given smart contract (under the assumption that the network will be valued at least 2x more than any of it's participating apps).
Don't know if Last pass is good since I've never used it. I know its closed source and it has had numerous security exploits with it, though they seem to get fixed in a timely manner.
That's just the negatives though it may be a good password manager for all I know about it.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LastPass#Security_issues
That's because there are none, other than a little heating.

It's not ionizing radiation, so it can't give you cancer. See Einstein's Nobel-prize winning paper from 1905.
Trust the computer, the computer is your friend.
The first thing to always keep in mind is that intentionally attempting to engineer social behaviors has historically been the single most devastatingly destructive motivation. Far more destructive than war, famine, disease, or other means of human suffering and death. It gave us eugenics, concentration camps, political purges, the obesity epidemic, and all manner of other ills. It backfires consistently and almost always. It is quite literally the most dangerous game that you can play. Unintended consequences are only something you can ignore if you can claim ignorance of their possibility head of time. We do not have that luxury. We have history.

That being said, the solution is a fairly simple one. Stress critical thinking. In all things. In personal life most especially, but also in other actions. Encourage people to recognize their inescapable biases and to resist them because those biases are irrational and provide no actual benefit.

There are unfortunately strong indications that this might not work, however, and that differing brain structures might actually be at play. Some people might have brains that are essentially hard-wired into an in-group/out-group way of processing the world which is inescapable. And seeking to change that would be seeking to change their fundamental character as people, clearly a morally wrong thing to do. But, we were never guaranteed that this whole 'society and civilization' thing was going to be simple or easy... so I guess we can't ask for our money back.
Keep your phone in a Faraday's pocket/bag? How do you receive calls then?
The answer to me is Yes!

The current Social Media business model is to push us to extremes to lure us into staying on their site. This is great for profits, bad for society.

The irony was that Social Media was supposed to bring us together, now we could not be further apart from each other.
Thanks for the correction and the links.
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Your link to the definition file, https://blog.falcross.com/introducing-restyped-end-to-end-ty..., is 404ing.
Aligning sales and support for long-term growth
Edit #3 - You don't think the few comments on Hacker News represents some kind of consensus do you?

My MBP 2016 is easily the best hardware I've ever used. For all the legacy connectivity I need I had to purchase exactly 1 piece of hardware - a USB C hub for $69. This is portable, has 3 USB A ports, an HDMI video port (which I don't use), GB Ethernet and an SD card reader. I also keep a USB A-USB C adapter in my bag in case of emergencies.

Coupled with my LG monitor, I plug in exactly 1 cable to start my day which connects all my ports.

Not exactly sure what your issue is or why you'd think someone would have to purchase a lot of cables. My total expenditure to support "legacy" stuff was about $90 - the USB C hub and a new USB C 3.1 drive enclosure to move my old Time Machine hard drive to a high-speed interface.
This article reminds me of the scientific articles on the health benefits of smoking. Big tobacco had to pay to place the articles where they were guaranteed to get lots of eyeballs, though.
DOD says defense contractors must have “system security plans” by Dec 31
SILICON VALLEY'S IMMORTALISTS WILL HELP US ALL STAY HEALTHY
I have never understood this idea. Why would it be beneficial to have your citizenry trained to kill?
Pr statement vs reporting. News needs the clickbait headline. An official corporate statement can be fully aligned.
Road salt is actually pretty terrible for the planet
The problem is, how do you know those numbers are bias-favored if your sample size is a few dice rolls? And if there is a bias in those few dice rolls, there's no guarantee it will continue. Sure, a more skilled player will always beat a much less skilled player, but the randomness of the dice certainly closes the skill gap.

It's much different than a game like Agricola or Dominion where you're playing 100% against what the other people do and not relying on the outcomes of 4 dice rolls to determine what you want to do on your turn.
“The cellphone manufacturers want you to keep a minimum distance away from your body and you should find out what that distance is,”

Couldn't be more vague, what a useless recommendation.
Feel this is very appropriate after the net neutrality thread. Top comment was a very blatent red-vs-blue characterisation, which of course is not the right mentality.

If we want to build a better world, we need to work together instead of target eachother.
Archive.org is one of the most important online services. This and Wikipedia will always get my donation, as they are near and dear to my own personal passion of us recording and sharing human knowledge across cultural and geographical boundaries. These simple services do more to make the world a better place than any new shiny mobile app. Donated obviously :)
> "On the oth­er hand, we still lack a de­cent high-quality JSON Schema lan­guage."

This turns data integration with JSON into a total nightmare. And to make matters worse, Swagger is a total shitshow. Combine the different flavors of JSON schema with OpenAPI/Swagger and you have are left with a regression from SOAP/XML that approaches the same complexity with with fewer features and no standards.

Even mf COBOL has a standard schema definition for data. For new projects I'm still cranking out XSD definitions and doing transformations to JSON if I have to. Even if they come out with a decent schema format I would probably skip it and jump straight to gRPC, Thrift, or some other IDL and just continue to treat JSON as an "also supports".
they're all microwaves
>> 1) No counterparty risk. Everyone can get hacked, but coinbase being hacked shouldn't every, under any circumstances result in me loosing any bitcoin they hold on my behalf.
> This point may prove to be very sticky. It might be solvable with smart contracts...

Shouldn't be that hard, even using just the features available in Bitcoin today. You'd need a 2-of-2 multisignature wallet for each account holder, with one key held by Coinbase and the other by the user. When the user wants to spend some coins, he or she signs a transaction which Coinbase prepares and counter-signs; neither the user nor Coinbase—or an attacker with access to Coinbase's keys—can transfer the funds unilaterally.

The only thing missing is a convenient UI.
If you're talking about the keyboard on the MBP 2016 or 2017 I don't know what you're talking about. My keyboard works fine all day long - so does my office mate who has the same keyboard and who codes on it all day.
At power levels that differ by orders of magnitude.
Selfie stick.
I for one generally carry it in my backpack, in the outer pocket. That’s a bit more distance than my own pockets...
You're absolutely right! Both are very, very possible.

Fortunately for her, she and her legal defense team will have ample opportunity to present facts on such precisely this subject! Specifically, during trial.
It's amazing how temporary things are. I never used AIM much but if I had I would have a lot of history in my life with a particular service and now they would pull the plug. Ditto with Facebook these days. Or hosted software like Google Reader.

In contrast, I still have most what I grew up with. Disk images of my old computers, binaries of games and applications, fully usable in emulators. There's IRC -- while the networks I used then have died a long time ago IRC probably never dies. I still use IRC on some networks and interface some other chat services by using a proxy frontend that you can connect with an IRC client.

But most importantly, I can launch early computer games from my childhood. It's like having your old toys on a shelf at your parent's house. Not only I can still try out the game I never could finish (and observe that I still can't finish it because games in the 80's were often both stupid and ridiculously hard), but I can put my kids at the controls and tell them this is what their parent used to play at the same age. It's not just history and culture but an origin. This is where I came from. For a human being that is a very concrete, if not tangible, thing, and of value in itself. Now think that you can't fire up Instagram or Facebook or even Angry Birds in 2035 and tell someone hey this is how we shared pictures, messaged, and gamed back in the 10's.
Where is the guy who has $81M in bitcoin. I hope he sees this post soon.
Softbank to invest $300m in Wag
If you are willing to be disconnected, you don't need a magic bag, just turn your phone off!
Slate Star Codex on the same topic:

http://slatestarcodex.com/2014/09/30/i-can-tolerate-anything...
No one is interested in reading a generic cover letter, they can be extremely helpful if you "keep it real".

I always write very short cover letters that say who I am and what are my interests (e.g: ML, Distributed systems)
Then I write why I think I would be a great fit for this position (e.g: I worked on something very similar)
Future generations are going to marvel at our stupidity in creating IoT, if we survive this phase so that future generations can be born.
You don't, that's the beauty of it. But you can make a call when you need it.
Maybe if they hadn't retroactively applied robot.txt, I'd consider it. Losing decades of a website because they updated their current terms is annoying and has made the site worthless to me.
Individuals may do better than average, but the trend in the US has been a widening gap between the upper class and everyone else combined with stagnant wages[1]. This has been due to many reasons like outsourcing, (illegal) immigration, automation, dissolution of anti-trust legislation, and the trend away from unionization in most industries.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Middle-class_squeeze
Conservatives who are against say gay marriage aren't necessarily saying they hate gays. There are lots of completely benign reasons why people might believe that gay marriage shouldn't be a thing.
Five priorities for weather and climate research
Yup. Someone on Reddit suggested making an OpenAPI/Swagger -> RESTyped adapter. If people are interested in this, I'm all for it.
Isn't this just the nature of reality though? A never-ending battle for resources and territory?

On time lapse, even tree roots are fighting for water, and leaves are fighting for sunlight.

I feel like this article might as well be called, "Overcoming Reality." Which the article basically admits, since these in-group / out-group distinctions are so deeply hardwired into our neurology.

Yes, cooperation works sometimes, but it's usually to beat out another cooperative group.
What about bluetooth headphones?
I was hoping this article published new findings from a medical study, or at least some evidence. Nope. I think their lawyers are just freaking out preemptively just in case anyone finds an effect and a cause.
I'm talking about this [0]:

"In its report, called Seed Giants vs US Farmers, the CFS said it had tracked numerous law suits that Monsanto had brought against farmers and found some 142 patent infringement suits against 410 farmers and 56 small businesses in more than 27 states. In total the firm has won more than $23m from its targets, the report said."

And that's just the situation in the US, I don't think Indian farmers fare that much better.
Disney is already on its way of gobbling up all entertainment "intellectual property", we don't need a comparable situation with companies like Monsanto and essential plants like crops.

[0] https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2013/feb/12/monsanto...
How do you know that your interpretation of the Koran is correct, and ISIS's is wrong? All mainstream religions have this problem, and there's no resolution. Christianity, for instance, has 30,000 subsects that can't agree on the most basic things mentioned in the Bible.
Facebook is going to tell us if Facebook is bad for us?

Neat, next we should ask Comcast if Net Neutrality is good for us. Oh wait...
Ask HN: How to get word of mouth when customers heavily compete with each other?
To clarify: I often heard about building a great product and how that would lead to word-of-mouth advertising from your early customers.
But in many cases, I feel customers are competing with each other and don't have any incentives in doing it. Say you are selling something to small restaurant owners and that actually drives sales up. I doubt they will go and tell other restaurant owners about that. And I feel this is actually a very common situation I never hear discussed.
I'm not saying fossil fuel dependency is a good thing, but it's a fact of life

It's easy to believe they are utterly indispensable. They are just so convenient, and we love to convince ourselves convenience is really necessity. But would the world truly collapse into the dark ages if fossil fuels petered out in the next decade, and we no longer had that option?

How are you going to transport food? You ignore that food was shipped around a long time before fossil fuels. More of a pain, of course, but we did it all the same.
>It's a little insulting to marathon runners to claim this is a 'marathon' IMO.

I agree. Anything other than a 26.2 mile race in footwear common in the classical hellenistic period that terminates in the ancient town of Marathon in Greece is a little insulting to REAL marathon runners.

/s
You don't. That's an additional bonus :-)
Yes, this works, as does joining a gym where you do some sort of group activity, say a BJJ or other combat sport.
Unity against a common enemy has historically put an end to such internal strife. The Second World War wiped away domestic conflicts in the face of an existential threat, and gave a generation of men so much valor as to put them beyond reproach. It was unthinkable to target the men of the Greatest Generation with the kind of attacks and vicious reporting we are used to today, whether they deserved it or not.

Edit: I'm not saying we should go to war to solve our problems. I'm just observing something that is demonstrably true: groups unify in the face of external threats.
Indeed! The discussion is about rogue elements getting a Buddy List that was in AOL's hands, and therefore one should assume the TLAs already had it. Google might not have, unless you, or all your contacts, used the AIM/Google talk integration that existed for a bit, in which case they had it. Leaving aside that it's quite likely these connections already leave a Google-based data trail.
Hmmmm, I mostly agree. Except I think our definitions of difficult are different. People are complaining about how hard it is to move out of the Bay Area, which they can't afford to live in. Imagine how much more difficult it would be to move millions of people so they can live closer to food sources. Those people also need jobs so they can afford food, and it's hard or impossible to move industries that are capital intensive or depend on natural resources.

It's pretty obvious that eventually we'll have to deal with these problems, but I don't see how society will start the process voluntarily. It's too disruptive and there is no financial incentive to do so. (And even if one country decides to, then they lose out relative to every country that decides not to, so it really has to be an everyone or no one thing).
I think the answer is partially in your quote: emphasis the similarities.

Women of all colors, backgrounds, and economic statuses are sexually harassed and assaulted.

Men of all colors, backgrounds, and economic statuses are sexually harassed and assaulted.

These are facts of reality.

Our culture makes it such that women are more likely to be on the receiving end. But it doesn't make the fact that both sexes in various backgrounds are victims.

How do we help people with emotional or health issues? We don't unless they can pay for it.

Oh, you mean wealth inequality may play into "Us vs Them?" mentalities?

Another example:

Everyone race, gender, and creed has been some victim of society in the past. Irish slaves, African slaves... I knew my great-grandfather on my dad's side; 100% Chippewa Indian with papers to prove it, family documents that went back 3 generations prior to HIM being born, not me.

When suddenly everyone has a historical claim, but society only recognizes the claims of a minority because it can be traced back along arbitrary legal lines (which include by todays standards some pretty horrific violence and theft)... well you have a ripe field for "us vs them" when it comes to which claim.

But since almost anyone can make a claim, and since the special elite we do "prefer" can't show except through cherry-picked historical examples, any reason they should be lifted higher than others. Or that they're divine...

Change all conversations to focus on the similarities.
Also, don't keep smartwatches next to your body!
Is Smoking Bad for Us? (marlboro.com)
I find it disheartening that people here who I expect to have a wider view of commentary by online folks would think that just because there are some complaints that it's an actual issue.

I also have a 2016 MBP with tb and it's the best hardware I've ever used (and that covers hardware since the Apple ][). The TB is very innovative and handy and the keyboard is pretty good.

People who don't have issues just don't post - the few that do are not a representative sample.
Obviously someone saying "This thing I profit from you doing is not bad!" is not credible, but the fact that they even had to say this is progress. I think the takeaway here is to hold people/companies accountable and they have to start paying attention to what they're doing. Good stuff.
"Beat China" after being the one who empowered it... that will go well.
5G will likely be way up there, above all the others. They seem to be focusing on performance over anything else.

https://app.secure.griffith.edu.au/news/2017/08/17/concerns-...

http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-cellphone-5g-health-20...

https://www.electricsense.com/12399/5g-radiation-dangers/
Tango down: Google’s first AR project officially shuts down March 1
>A part of me can't wait to see the President whose entire life can be cherry-picked from various servers and datacenters.

So we can add porn preferences (Hi Senator Cruz!) to list of non-issues people use when choosing the leader of the free world!
> There were two possible solutions. One was to fix the configure script. However...

> The solution we ended up choosing was to add the string "compatible with GNU linkers" to our linker's help message.

The right way to deal with things like this is to do both. Do the hacky-but-realistically-shippable thing to get unblocked, and then also contribute towards the "right" solution, even if it's way upstream from you. Otherwise you're part of the problem.
But that's actually true. Maybe the world would have been better if we'd encouraged smoking in moderation instead of banning, banning, banning: deaths would be far fewer, and freedom would be much stronger.
Finland is not a member of NATO and it does not have any foreign army on its territory so it can make a decision based on technical characteristics and economical (not political) factors.
But I'd expect to see distinct clumps, not a straight plane...
There's several possible benefits:

- Enemy nations will be somewhat less motivated to invade if they know they will be facing a population that is entirely armed and ready to resist.

- Putting the population into the service of the country helps build a sense of national cohesion by giving a shared sense of mission and duty.

- Training the citizens to fight could also be a tool to help prevent dictatorships where the military persecutes the people; a military of citizen-soldiers would be less likely to see their own people as a "them" and more as an "us."
It is worth noting that not all crops absorb toxic metals in the soil, and some crops/plants sequester certain metals extremely well - (Kale/Thorium, Garlic/Selenium). Possibly we could use certain crops to ameliorate certain metal toxins.
what about apple watch? people wear that on the wrist all day long.
I think you mis-spelled "bodging" ;)

I've spent months, maybe years, of time fixing and maintaining cars, motorcycles, and bicycles. It's useful when something breaks on the side of the road or when you get an estimate for repair. There is the satisfaction of being self-sufficient and able to do it yourself. There's also the screaming frustration when you break something-- which happens when you're learning like over-torquing a bolt (tighten until it spins then back off a quarter, anyone?). cracking a housing, snapping the head off a stuck bolt, watching a unique and critical part improbably pick up speed on a flat work area as it rolls away from you drawn to the siren song of a sewer grate or a gap in the deck. I want to spend time with family, friends, on hobbies, or, you know, actually use my vehicle instead of recreationally bust my knuckles on it. I'm happy to read all the manuals and squint at exploded diagrams then pay someone else to do it while I go play.