skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I allow a couple, namely Google Calendar and Remember the Milk (which I use for work, sort of). I don't mind being asked if I'd like to enable them - if I don't want something to notify me I just hit "no". I get that some people would find that annoying though, especially if you're more of a prolific reader than I.
Is this not similar to the diminishing release of bitcoins?
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Cactus fruit is becoming a common seasonal thing in most Texas grocery stores. It is cheap and soooo delicious whether green or red. You can find prickly pear tuna as well, but this is still considered ethnic food.
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I think you can make some more sense of this if you read the piece, and watch the video on laser socks [0]. That was a game designed at the CDG lab that is the pre-cursor to Dynamicland.

[0]: http://glench.com/LaserSocks/
The final step in the Panopticon is almost complete.

Facebook is bullshitting everyone just like it did on many occasions.

Yes, they can "technically" use their DATR cookies to help with security slightly, but we all know that was never the primary use case, which is why they used in secret for many years.

Yes, the phone number can be used for security, too, but that's not why they started asking us for it in the first place.

The face thing is no different. I'm 99% sure this is to help stores, like those self-shopping Amazon stores, identify and match users when they enter the store. Expect Facebook to give this option to advertisers in about 12-18 months.

And that's just one of the primary use cases for this. Another primary use is most likely for law enforcement. I wonder if we're going to hear about a "big contract with the government" that Facebook will "win" soon. If we do, you can attribute it to this move from Facebook.

By the way, in case you were not aware, Facebook advertisers now have an option to track you by your Facebook email and phone number. So Facebook has already sold out your email and phone number to advertisers, the same info you trusted them to use for "security". But I'm sure they would never do that with your face profile. No, never. Certainly not Facebook.

There are many other use cases for this, none of which have anything to do with security. I hope the EU will crush Facebook over this lie when they inevitably start exposing it as the lie that is.
Total mistake, obviously so. Let's go back to at least half of all women dying in childbirth, life expectancy reduced by decades and the sheer joy if you get to be an adult of spending all that extra leisure watching the majority of your children die. Living with lice and fleas is natural too.

But the nobility of that life, the nobility.

How the hell does anyone take this kind of utter crap seriously in any way, shape or form?
That's because the actual difference in ECC and Xeon from alternatives are pretty much just a handwave anyway. So it seems acceptable that the alternative not have them, just as acceptable that the alternative also not have an apple logo.
I just block tracking domains. And ad domains. My browser, my rules. The sites that can't handle it aren't worth the bother.
You appear to be correct as far as I can tell. From what I’ve heard the tax situation is a pain, I believe the company becomes non-tax resident. At least that’s what the accountant I talked to told me.

Having zero corporation tax on non-distributed fund in Estonia also seems nice.
Ive wondered if it would be possible to tumble the requests via P2P network. Completely destroy the analytics
You can hide the keys to it in your head. You can store it in a passworded safe.
More relevant to Firefox than Thunderbird, perhaps, but the advantage to using web technologies for their own front end is that it forces them to eat their own dogfood at least. Given that Mozilla wants the web to win, making sure their platform is well-rounded enough to performantly build their own products on top of seems like a wise strategy. Kind of a vote of no-confidence otherwise.
A worse problem, I believe, is more on the side of people actually easily accessing their medical records. It seems that providers have used the onerous privacy laws as an excuse to obstruct the process of releasing medical records in order to prevent customers from moving to another provider.

For example, the Doctor On Demand app has records of all of my visits available on the screen when I am logged in, but in order to actually export or download them, I was required to call them, then fill out an online form where none of that data was prefilled, then I will need to wait up to 10 days for the request to be filled. Its ridiculous.

It doesn't make any sense, since I could just take screenshots on the app as I scroll through the data. Which it seems that if I am identified on the app, they should be able to release the records -- which they do -- they just deliberately make it difficult to export them.

Someone is going to come on here and give me a lecture about privacy laws and how they have to do that or something, but I think its BS. The laws need to be updated to ensure that people can access and export and transfer their own medical records easily. I need to own that data.

I think there are quite a few groups working on technology to solve the problem of owning your data and also being able to share it in a non-identifiable way. Some of them use things like bitcoin or blockchain to do so. We definitely need high tech solutions so I hope some of these types of endeavors will become popular and more effective than some of the inept government efforts so far.
But... when does it run? How do you trigger it? How do you step through it with a debugger? How does one program call another program? This seems like a lousy metaphor.
> 2 Americans killed by Islamic jihadist immigrants per year

Bull-f*cking shit. Count them. Count the deaths. Tell the family they're beloved is still alive. I'll wait.

https://www.liveleak.com/view?i=d6d_1509478675 (very nsfw)

That's eight in a DAY. If you extended this back 20 years instead of the convenient "10" (which is a lie too) that would be an extra 300. Again, from coming from a single DAY.

God bless the victims of islamic terrorism. Their loss should not be trivialized.
I am on an E-2 right now and was under the impression it wasn't dual intent. What path can I take to apply for a green card? Thanks so much!
I work for an analytics company, this will affect my snippet – I don't think it is a big deal, but I'm going to benchmark it on a few sites. From what is described here, it may actually help us. When folks throw tons of tags into their site, we're all competing against each-other as well as the site's own loading – it makes sense to prioritize the site's rendering.

I think of this as no more invasive than pre-caching stuff in a page when you see links that are likely to be clicked, or any other browser optimization.

I may be pounding my fist later if the results don't look great, but ultimately, I think Mozilla's heart is in the right place.

I can think of tons of ways to work around this if I thought it was a real issue, I don't. People who want to block analytics, trackers, ad networks, etc... know how, and this doesn't feel like it is targeted at those people, or even squarely at the tracking pixels.

HN-pre-emptive-defend-myself:
My company doesn't share or sell data with third parties (it's in our TOS – and could obviously change in some Orwellian future, but we'd have to update the TOS), it's the customer's data, they can use it in the same way they'd use any other data they collect. We don't do cross-domain tracking, or aggregate behavioral information across customers, and the way we've built it, it makes it pretty hard to tie any two visitors together across sites if you were to hypothetically acquire our dataset. We're also working on building tools to comply with GDPR and wipe out data per-request. Anyways, I think a lot of very bad actors have made the space have a bad reputation and I don't blame anyone for blocking everything, or even for hating my company, or generally all analytics.
It's based on Disney Movies Anywhere. If you've bought a Disney movie in the last few years that comes with a digital copy, you'll have gotten a code to redeem on DMA. Movies Anywhere seems to be an expansion of that to drop the Disney-exclusive branding and include content from other studios.

https://www.theverge.com/2017/10/12/16462824/movies-anywhere...
It's valuable because you can, if you do some research, make some pretty educated guesses about what the floor is in the gold market. That tells you whether you are risking 10%, 25%, 75%, or 90% of your money while speculating.

And, uhh, if you don't know why having a good idea of your potential downside is useful when investing, maybe consider finding a trustworthy financial adviser?
Disagree.

To me, it looks like a data structure. It would be really cool to find evidence of them using it to calculate taxes or maybe social status, level of political influence, property rights, etc.

...or to figure out whether or knot the interpreter would halt ;)
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> Introducing te "do-not-track" header was a great idea but it has been completely ruined by major browsers turning it on by default so the trackers have legitimately chosen to ignore it.

This seems to imply that doNotTrack would have been successful for its intended purpose had it not been a default setting at one point, which feels like wishful thinking.

Sure, that aspect made it impractical for uncharacteristically privacy-minded companies in the space to support the header, but the vast majority of companies in the business of tracking and advertising would have ignored it anyways, because there's zero consequence for not doing so.
Understood, and that's generally what I've been taking away from it, but I have a mind towards security and while I don't need to fully understand it to be a developer, I must understand it for my own purposes, as I would (1) feel completely ashamed of myself for blindly following tutorials, especially on this topic, and (2) would not want to adopt the liability that comes with implementing an insecure system for a client that has a bigger wallet than me and wants to crush me financially even further for making a mistake that harmed their customers or business. Is such a scenario likely? I don't know; doubtful, but still, I'd feel like an impostor.

Truthfully, the spec itself doesn't seem too difficult to understand; it's mostly my inability to stay focused that causes me the problems I deal with when studying and coding. Perhaps the true culprit of our times are browser tabs; the more I have open, the more overwhelming it becomes to consume them.

As for caffeine and anxiety it's better than the depression that I feel with a lack of caffeine. Caffeine also has a kind of analgesic effect, or rather maybe the lack of caffeine causes me to have more pain in my spine for some reason. Sleep isn't too difficult with chronic melatonin use. Your body never adapts to melatonin as with other substances, so you can maintain the same dose (5mg in my case) with consistent efficacy. I'm out within 30 minutes after taking melatonin.
Not much. Without the battery, everything would have happened as expected; with the battery, it happened a few seconds faster than expected.
I'm sorry, but I don't care what you do—if you work in tech, you need to be able to demonstrate an ability to think algorithmically in order to solve problems with a computer. It's a) not acceptable to get by in tech without knowing anything about computers and b) not rocket science—anyone can learn!
There is a similar issue with switching states away from 'winner takes all' in the electoral college.

If a liberal state does it, it costs liberals votes. If a conservative state does it, it costs conservatives votes. It seems pretty clear that such a system is fairer, and yet no-one wants to actually do it.
On 1) the exchanges may be unregulated, but there's dozens, if not hundreds of exchanges. Implying that exchanges are manipulating the spot price across the board is ludicrous. There's also exchanges like EtherDelta, which are entirely run by a smart contract on the Ethereum block chain, so it's independently verifiable that the trades are fairly executed.

2. BTC is being used as the reserve currency for almost all exchanges. BTC has a vast network and even as popular as ETH has gotten, it has some ways to go before it's accepted at the same level as BTC. The others, like LTC & XMR also rarely have trades delimited in their currency.
In addendum to this, I'd like to mention that things that are designed for a specific purpose are good for that specific purpose.

And in general, things that are made to work well together work better than things not made to work well together. This also applies to things that happen to work well together, despite not initially being designed to.
Xeons are more expensive for partially the same reasons apple is more expensive. Branding. I can't think of any reason to need Xeon or ECC on a workstation. And the legitimate usecase for needing them would have to make up less than 1% of those actually purchasing an iMac pro.
Or even Bitcoin Cash...
I mean really, I'd probably find that funny but I'd be inclined to fire the nanny. Although really I'm not sure why I'd have a nanny in the first place, that would probably be my first line of investigation in this scenario.
Because your drug dealer only accepts bitcoin? Does anyone else actually use it? Other than as a get rich quick scheme?
Just because gold is better in some ways that bitcoin doesn't invalidate the GP's point that bitcoin is better than gold in some ways. One quick example among many is that you can transfer it nearly instantaneously without geographic bounds.
> much more usable and useful alt-coins

I agree. I researched Ripple a lot and am sold on it, since it's not just a crytocurrency (XRP Ticker) but is also a protocol that Gates Foundation, AMEX and other banks are using to perform cross-border payments almost instantly and with a lot lower fees and overheads.

Are any of the others you mentioned, ex : stellar, dash, monero etc similar to Ripple? If not, what are their use cases? Any links you can point me to would be helpful thank you. (I know I can google this, but google is full of SEO-ed promotional and pump-and-dump posts, so can't really rely on that info).
Have you seen how much processing power is in the Bitcoin network? Do you know how expensive an attack like this would be?

By the way, you can only double spend with the 51% attack.
Healthfulness of foods by comparative farming practices is not something I have been able to find any solid information about. Hopefully our taste buds know what's good for us when they're not confused by sugar and fat.

Life - Dan Barber said on "Chef's Table" that he felt his produce tasted better and better as he put more life into the soil. The hydro growing medium is relatively sanitized.

Freshness/Ripeness - We had an organic CSA farm box last summer, and in head to head comparisons, the stuff we grew at home (both soil and aqua) tasted way better. I think this is because we picked it when it was ripe and ate it immediately.

I do have some worries about using plastics. unless you are doing a large-scale operation with concrete and / or glass, hydro and aqua both involve water making a lot of contact with plastics. I have to assume that food grade plastics are safe, but no one really knows for sure.

My gut feeling is that as long as you're meeting all the needs of the plant, freshness/ripeness matters more than the presence of other life in the growing medium.
> Google’s A/B testing initially hides the whole web page with opacity: 0

Sounds like a violation of Google's own policies.
How do you prepare it? I've only tried it once and I didn't much care for it.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delaunay_triangulation

Delaunay triangulations maximize the minimum angle of all the angles of the triangles in the triangulation
how is this game theory?
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The Instant Pot claims to have some sort of mechanism that will lower the cooking pot and break the seal in an overpressure situation:
http://instantpot.us/benefits/safety-features/
Huh. To me, being from Michigan, those are both the south.
Lexus is a bit of an odd choice, considering their relative reliability rankings as compared to BMW.

https://www.consumerreports.org/car-reliability-owner-satisf...
He mentioned that nginx using lua managed the requests but I didn't see the code for that. Is that available anywhere?
> Gold has had some ridiculous swings along the way too...

The Spanish pulled a large amount of gold out of their New World colonies. It reduced the price of gold in Europe... by 20%. That seems to me to be not much of a swing, given the magnitude of the event.

The biggest swing that I know of was when the US allowed the price of gold to move. The US held the price of gold at $35/oz from (about) 1932 to (about) 1975. When they allowed gold to float, it went to $200/oz, dropped to $100/oz, then went to $800/oz. But I'd ascribe that set of "ridiculous swings" to government messing with the market, not to gold itself.

Off topic, but too fun not to mention: An ounce of gold weighs more than an ounce of feathers. This is because an ounce of gold is a troy ounce (1/12 of a pound), and an ounce of feathers is an avoirdupois ounce (1/16 of a pound).
You're still paying a huge fee, though.
> willybot, spoofing

Interesting. First time I'm hearing about these two. Anyone know of any real life instances where someone perpetrated this w.r.t. bitcoins / crypto trading?
Thanks Peter for taking time to do this. I'm in the process of applying for E2 from the UK but really struggling with actually spending $100k on our start up 'wisely'. While we will burn through the funds at some point, we don't want to just spend it just for visa purposes. We reckon initial expenses will be about $20-30k and we were planning to put the balance in a US bank account. How do you suggest we go about proving investment for E2 visa purposes? I'm open to engaging your professional services if available.
Relevant recent discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15889519
I'd pay for video on demand, as in I want to watch that episode, I pay one Euro and come back when I wish to watch more. No monthly fee, no bundles, I won't pay for that.
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It seems short-sighted to me.

It's penalizing vendors who went through the trouble to make their scripts load asynchronously - which is done specifically to help page load performance. The worst offenders, who block the page with sync scripts, actually gain a competitive advantage from this change.
Alt-Coins don't have astronomic price increases, are far less accepted by merchants and have far less backing from the finance industry.

In short, most altcoins are neither useful for investment nor payment. Which is a shame, because there are some coins that have substantial technical improvements over bitcoin, and nearly all of them can handle more transactions/second than bitcoin
There are actually direct RER B trains between the airport and gare du Nord in central Paris and other RER B trains that stops at all the stations between the airport and gare du Nord...

There is now a project to create another direct line between the airport and Gare de l'Est (and shutting down the direct trains of line B at the same time), the CDG express (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CDG_Express and more info in French https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/CDG_Express). The project was indeed stopped in 2011 butis now alive again, and very likely to be made. Se also http://www.cdgexpress.com
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> Shouldn't other people do the same themselves too if they choose to or leave everything as is if they don't actually feel they need to change anything?

Your browser is no longer imposed on you, so switching to Firefox IS doing that thing yourself.
to late to edit: there IS a comment section but my ad blocking had blocked it -- and someone else pointed out the stream joiners.
Why not? What would they be saving their money for?
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Ask HN: Im great at making prototypes, what business should I be in?
I love making prototypes and ave been hired by big firms to rapid prototype new product ideas. Both hardware and digital product prototypes.

I want to stop freelancing, but want to continue building prototypes. Whats the best business I can start?
Wouldn't it be simpler to send another transaction with identical inputs, but with a higher fee? I haven't tested this, but I'd expect it to replace the old (conflicting) transaction in the mempool.
It demonstrates how going from cultured land to a natural reserve doesn't necessarily lead to a balanced ecosystem. There you have a herbivore population that requires culling in order to prevent mass starvation from exhausting the food supply.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oostvaardersplassen#Natural_pr...

In the absence of natural predators the rangers shoot animals that are unlikely to survive. It is quite common for 30 to 60 per cent of the population to be killed in this way. After a cull, the vegetation has a chance to recover and this will get the first natural afforestation of the area under way.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tofJFxKOVao
I don't think you understand the Chinese are not done with us yet.
At 30% equity I'm guessing they're very early on and expect you to build the whole thing. Probably not a good role for a junior unless you really know what you're doing.

Feel free to send me an email if you need career advice.
Top rate in CA is 13.3%, in IL it's 5%. (although the page I'm looking at suggests of CA: If you earn $50,000 a year, you'll only pay 9.3 percent.)
Hi, OP here. Good point about the lack of interaction with people at the company, I did not consider that. I'm not familiar with interviewing.io, what's the hook?
Uncompressed, that's still quite a lot of data - perhaps not relative to other ML projects, but still.
How do non-apple devices cope as they age ? Any word on what Nexus, Galaxy or Pixel devices of a similar vintage do? does the performance stay the same but the battery life becomes shorter?
It's a grey area. But I am interested, do your ToS forbid your customers from on-sharing the data with cross-site aggregators?
I just love the word play of Smalltalk and Realtalk!
sure but its actually you thats telling yourself to think differently.
I don't know where I can find the answer to this question but I guess it's academic since I am a visiting research scholar here at UC Berkeley.
That doesn't make much sense. I think you set up a rather arbitrary definition for this.

Here's my attempt: Gold is just a "metal" just like Bitcoin is a "cryptocurrency." There are many types of metals and other materials. Some can directly replace gold while others have way different uses - just like cryptocurrencies.
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