skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Depends on the place. Some are 24 hour. Some are just long business hours. See what's available near you before you get hurt.
If DHS stops doing this, there’s still lots of companies that will including Delta. I think if they fix the failure rates they could make it a much more efficient system and perhaps turn it into a form of preclearance for supported countries.

http://news.delta.com/delta-opens-first-biometric-self-servi...
Answers on Quora suggest it's automated, and invisible to most people.
https://www.quora.com/Why-does-the-US-not-have-immigration-c...
Cyberghost 6
What do you guys think about this vpn compared to other vpns?
Have you ever observed amount of calls home from the iPhone?
"Yea even this now where those who use the Bowe compleat the Hunt with undue Haiste..."
Yup. I have been elegibe for an upgrade for 3 years, yet no current phone matches the featureset I have currently.

- Removable battery (huge deal, i carry 2 spares, often away from chargers for days)

- headphone jack (bt quality sucks, a lot, also battery and security issues keeping it on)

- Physical function buttons

- Waterproof/resistant, semi rugged. (Can I use it ouside in weather? Useless if not.)

- Decent camera, and audio.

- Gets regular security updates.

- Removable mass storage

- Makes and recieves phone calls without excessive dropouts.

- Internet connectivity with email and very basic browser.

Most modern phones dont even check half the boxes. They all seem to be made for people who never leave their car or office.
Regarding the historical analysis, we do seem to be in a provably unique point in history. For most of human history, population was constrained by the availability of resources. Ie, the Malthusian trap. The number of healthy children one can raise, was constrained by the amount of material resources one had at his disposal. Not to mention that even in monogamous societies, birth-control was rare, and mistresses/children-born-out-of-wedlock were prevalent.

It's only in the past 100-200 years that the nature of population-control has changed so dramatically. Due to the widespread availability of birth-control, the increasing taboo against mistresses, and the abundance of food/shelter/medical-care, the number of children one sires is no longer well-correlated with financial prosperity.

Luckily, the effects of improved education and nutrition have drowned out any potential genetic effects from the above. But I suspect any potential consequences in natural-selection will take several centuries to fully pan out.
Power Prices Go Negative in Germany
I don't disagree, it reads a bit like submarine marketing for the clustering hardware. But the difficulty in net booting is for the Pi1 or Pi2. On the Pi 3 it "just works."

That said, net booting used to be a thing. When I joined Sun Microsystems in 1986 it was all about the 'diskless workstation.' At the time was the brand new Sun 3/50.
Probably because they've spent the last 7 years building buzz around machine learning vaporware.
I believe this syntax was only accidentally valid: https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues/13939#note-5
He provides good examples and reasoning for his fears, but still it'd be great to have a larger book/discourse on this.

One of Facebook's defenses of this is that they hire psychologists etc, but it's to better train this system.

More people coming out against this sort of thing after they've had first hand experience is good!
Science, strategy and war.

Dives into the thoughts behind John Boyd’s OODA loop. Really good book.
A lot of them have intermittently switched to bitcoin cash when the price/difficulty worked out for them.
Yeah obviously what I'm portraying as irony is really just the contrast between Facebook's marketing itself as a wonderful new way to "connect" and "share," and the actual truth that it's a surveillance machine.
I hadn’t seen this yet, I think we can all agree using machine learning to brainwash people is bad and probably more effective that you might think given Cambridge Analytica’s and Russia’s recent successes.
Silicon Valley is trapped. Its narrative has basically moved from - why are ppl criticizing our magic, to telling regulators right now as we speak - yup we screwed up, but if we make the fixes for all these unintended consequences playing out -

1. We loose revenue.

2. Somebody in China or Russia or wherever will step in with alternatives

So guess what shitheads - we are too big to fail. Silicon Valley is not going to fix jack until regulators protect them.

So expect things to get worse.
This looks promosing - "New company called eelo will give you de-Google-ized Android so that you can keep your privacy"

https://www.phonearena.com/news/New-company-called-eelo-will...
Comes up all the time in business decision making.

Adverse Selection

Principal/Agent

Pareto

BATNA
I'm one of those insane people that actually likes Javascript, so I tend to actually flash espruino to my ESP8266 chips unless they need to be battery powered (where compiled is still the only way to get them to last long enough in most cases).

But I did try out lua and quite enjoyed it (lua being another of my preferred languages), and never really felt the need to tryout micropython. How is performance with micropython? and how does it differ from "regular" python?
I understand it's "fast", but what do you use that speed for to justify spending so much more money? I understand if you're so wealthy, you're willing to pay $800 more to open Facebook a second faster than me, but I don't get why an average person would do something like that.
> SNI reveals the full text of the final lookup query that the requester used to obtain an IP address to open a TCP connection to the server.

Are you talking about something other than DNS lookups done at the client side?
I've never understood why other countries have the exit controls. What is the point?
> If that is the case, then why is it not reasonable to assume that there is a whole range of IQ in between that might be genetically determined that result in differences in educational and employment outcomes for different people?

What is the consequence of assuming it? If you don't know how genes affect intelligence you don't actually have any useful theory to go by. You also don't know how to judge the effect size of genetics against other causes. These are highly non-linear, complex systems we're talking about: brains and their societies. It's far easier to use such an assumption as cover for garbage science used to oppress people who are already vulnerable than it is to turn it into a good social policy.

In short, you gain no deductive power about the world with such an assumption, just a lot of excuses for the powerful to be vicious.
>One Paipaidai borrower, a man named Lin in a small town in Fujian Province called Quanzhou, said he had racked up about $75,000 in loans from 30 different platforms for living expenses and an investment in a shoe store. Mr. Lin, who asked that his full name not be used for fear of reprisal from debt collectors, said he received multiple calls a day from them.

Quanzhou has a population north of 8m [0]. Could the author have meant to mention a town/region inside Quanzhou?

[0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quanzhou
What product license? As the producer of some physical item, you don't get a say in what I can do with it after I bought it. Especially not if I never did any deal with you in the first place, but bought the thing through a long distribution chain of middlemen.

It's only with software that people consider it acceptable for the vendor to tell you what you can and can't do.
> Growth is a single number, and NPS is measuring growth, not UX.

Connect the dots for me on how NPS measures growth. Where does it tie to growth at all?

> NPS is trying to measure your customer birth rate by asking how many customers are (or intend to be) pregnant.

Horrible analogy, but ok. I'd say, if there's any equivalent, it's asking how many people think they are likely they might get pregnant ever.

> What the people who designed NPS did, I am sure (meaning I'm speculating, but giving the strongest possible interpretation), is measure some responses and compare it to the number of actual referrals, then drew the lines where the referral rates cross from negative growth to neutral grow, and from neutral growth to positive growth.

They didn't do anything like that.

> And it seems plausible that people who give a score of 6 or less won't end up referring anyone, on average.

It does seem plausible. It isn't validated by any science, but it's certainly plausible. (Like the earth is plausibly flat.)

> Since NPS is an indirect growth metric, the better answer may be to simply measure your growth directly.

Agreed!
And they were not wholly incorrect when said then. The social change made by each of your examples is huge.
Many do have exit checks (EU, most of Asia), but many don't (US, most of the Americas). I'd assume some of it in the US occurs when you buy the ticket... however, in some places you could still enter Mexico without a passport (returning is a challenge!).

The bigger issue is that Congress hasn't issued a specific mandate for this collection (by a private entity) and spending authority for the apparently ~$1B program. The article's concerns are for a more intrusive security state without congressional authority.

DHS’ current face scan-based program also may not comply with federal law. The program may exceed the authority granted to DHS by Congress because Congress has never explicitly authorized biometric collections from Americans at the border.26 Even if DHS has sufficient legal authority for the program, DHS has failed to complete a prerequisite public rulemaking process for the program, as mandated by federal law.
Ongoing automation of the agriculture economy in China is a much bigger displacement of labor than climate change. Without deep study it would be hard to even guess if climate change will be a net positive or negative for agricultural output in a country as large and diverse as China.

Some what disappointing to see the "climate change" meme come up so often as the cause for some badness in the world when it is, at best, tangentially related to the issue being discussed.
Okay, but how is that ironic?
Yet the onus is on visitors to prove that they did not overstay their visa, if leaving by land/sea, or if by some airline/airport fluke the departing passenger list didn't make it over to the DHS.

https://help.cbp.gov/app/answers/detail/a_id/1674/~/report-d...
Intel Memory Encryption Technologies [pdf]
Look, we all intuitively get that it's a bad idea and it is definitely funny. But honestly is it helping to make fun of the poor user rather than educate them as to why their password is on the list and the importance of secure password practices?

The security community I grew up with was welcoming and understanding, and it sparked an interest I never would have realized otherwise.
No, it is not. One can easily destroy nazi-fascism without being apocaliptic, and I think that welcoming this ideology in universities is a waste of time, as I said earlier.

The Charlottesville guys were not trying to engage in an educated debate or expose their opinions to scrutiny, their creed does not accommodate the very idea of dissent. Few among them [edit: previously " Few fascists"] are brave or patient enough to be civilized. Groups like theirs generally value shock tactics and its meeting was mainly conceived as a demonstration of power.

Like-minded people, good or bad, will reunite and some groups will use the US free speech laws to propagate their hate and attract more followers. It is a very different scenario than polemic opinions being treated like a civilizational hazard in England (or elsewhere). Gay rigths, desegragation and many other ideas now taken for granted were once unpopular. History does not moves always forward and everyone that values freedom needs caution when considering politics regulating speech - they can be used for nefarious purposes or create unexpected precedents.

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There are plenty of good entry-level tools now available for the ESP8266. There's an Arduino bootloader, with full support in the Arduino IDE including TCP/IP and HTTP APIs. You can serve a "hello world" over HTTP in about 20 lines of code. I wouldn't suggest it for someone with zero microcontroller experience, but it's not terribly difficult to make the leap from basic Arduino projects to the ESP8266.

https://learn.sparkfun.com/tutorials/esp8266-thing-hookup-gu...
Shouldn't they just do a fingerprint scan then?
How does pfsense differ from FreeBSD in light of these comments?
One reason migrants anywhere get paid less is not economics but exploitation: They have limited power, including legal rights and limited access to the legal system to enforce those rights. Unfortunately, others exploit them.

> If you raise the minimum wage high enough so that it provides for a liveable wage in a major city and are able to enforce it, then the amount of people willing to pay migrants for work will collapse and the migrants will stop coming to the city.

While I understand the theory, the reality in places that raise minimum wage is much more complex.
Theory and Applications of Hashing [pdf]
As someone looking to move a cluster from ancient Debian, I was looking at either CentOS or FreeBSD but this looks not so nice..
I agree. I mention secondary SE prices to show that frugal & discerning Apple customers will go much further down than the iPhone 7.
I totally get that--what I'm saying is that, much like something like C++, you can only practically use the subset everybody you have to work with will agree is acceptable. Threading macros, IMO, help but don't really solve the readability problem, and it's still a far sight from Ruby, but it's a good step. But you have to get Bill the chin-stroking graybeard down the hall to use them when they're "not how he uses Lisp." Contrast this to a language with more guardrails--the equivalent of that threading macro in Ruby (or in Scala, or in F#) is just...The Way You Do It, it's the standard of the tools involved.

You're transforming a linguistic readability issue into a cultural problem of agreement and that's a waaaay harder problem to solve, IMO. Lisps are cool. But every problem raised to "cultural problem" is so much harder to solve. (When was the last time you saw an indent war in Ruby?)
RSS Feed: http://dataprism.co/issues.rss

You could add a link to this feed in the main page. :)
> But honestly is it helping to make fun of the poor user rather than educate them as to why their password is on the list and the importance of secure password practices?

I am not sure the issue poster really uses that password...
Can you explain your point more clearly? Are you saying that he’s not credible because he got rich off of it?
I'm curious here about what, if anything, these these negative electricity prices might mean for cryptocurrency mining and transaction processing. How feasible would it be to set up compute infrastructure that "soaks up" the extra power in the German market, but is -- presumably -- idle a lot of the time? For example, is this a good application for distributed networks that piggy-back on top of other peoples' computers (with permission, of course). See, for example, historical examples like SETI@home, Folding@home, and Popular Power.
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I love a good in-joke.

Spoilers: http://bash.org/?244321
I didn't find it that hard to figure out. You can do pretty much anything you want with lua on the esp boards. Soldering was a little tricky, I also have to do it outside now with my kids. I think the material for beginning electronics online rivals programming tutorials in quality though not quantity.
> I've seen NPS used as a way of keeping a pulse on a community; if it drops sharply, something is clearly wrong in a way that normal monitoring can't surface.

If this is your goal (and it's a good goal), there are way better questions than NPS to use here. I'd go with a simple "How did we do today?" question, versus the convoluted NPS mechanism.
Visualizing graph spectra like chemical spectra
And they weren't necessarily wrong IMHO, with the exception of maybe the original landline telephone (I would give this an asterisk though, and confine it to the first ~20 years of landline telephony; ie, farmers running homebrew line using barbed wire fencing in the depression-era dust bowl to keep current on grain prices, etc.).
Cars are great for transportation and have enabled humankind to travel further and more often then ever before, but they are also 2000+ lb. death traps and combined with alcohol they are an absolute threat to everyone's safety.
Television is pretty much ALL evil these days (everyone's trying to sell you SOMETHING or worse yet manipulate your natural thought process -- but it's all about money of course), so that's out.
Computers are probably a double-edged sword. Incredibly powerful and have given humanity new capabilities, but we've probably become too reliant on them. They are too ingrained into daily society now. On a somewhat narrower scope: social media is absolutely 100% all evil, designed intentionally with the explicit intention of manipulating their own users.
Sustain the volume at what level? All indications are that Apple makes less profit on the iPhone X than the other phones. Apple would be quite happy if someone bought any iPhone that they sell from the 6s to the 8s Plus 256GB. I'm purposefully excluding the SE. I think that probably has a lower profit margin.

And how is it overpriced? There is no such thing as an overpriced item in a free market as long as the quantity that Apple can make in a given time period matches the quantity people are willing to buy.
Thx... I intend to use it next time. This is going to be a series of blog posts about cryptocurrency analysis.
This Is Not Your Parents’ Economy
Advocate-of-the-devling re: "something still needs the secret" (assuming you're symmetrically MAC'ing, not asymmetrically signing): yep, but that can be a tiny, separate component and that might be better than everything seeing the plaintext secret.

I wouldn't recommend such a scheme by default, because now e.g. your API clients are way hairier to write (e.g. serialization, possibly canonicalization) and it's pretty easy to mess this up (AWS did in their first attempt). But if you have resources to do it well, that is: audit the heck out of the protocol and the tiny component that verifies the MACs, it does prevent some problems mentioned such as unintentional disclosure of the key on the server side, replayability of requests. I don't think those are super valuable properties, but it's also not intrinsically a hare-brained idea.

TL;DR: API keys are fine and you should use them but you're not a bad person for wanting to HMAC things :)
Black Hat Europe 2017
I found some charts that are relevant to the economic history that I've mentioned, and I've posted them here:

http://www.smashcompany.com/philosophy/do-men-become-warlike...
Could you elucidate on that? I don't get how a message is somehow routed through a thicket of say 1000 of these things to get from one node to another, because NAT?
Not the OP. When I started out I took a conscious decision to stay away from IDE'S.

an IDE adds complexity when the main goal should be to learn to program. An IDE has a bunch of features you need to learn and understand when learning to program by itself is hard enough.
One option is to use 3.7v lipos[0] with a regulator[1], which can be done pretty cheaply:

[0] https://www.aliexpress.com/item/10pcs-3-7V-260mAh-Lipo-Batte...

[1] https://www.aliexpress.com/item/5pcs-Ultra-mini-DC-3-7V-4-5V...
The second "stamp" allows them to track how long you were in the country and which country to left through (which may not check on exit either). For visas (especially EU) this is a big deal, because you (as a US citizen) are not required to apply for a short term business/tourist visa, but you can't stay more than 30days. If you exit through the UK, however, you may not receive the exit stamp (e.g. EuroStar). They may then deny you re-entry due to the apparent violation.
Unless you can include the complete irrationality of the users fueling the crypto bubble to get rich into the statistical model, any statistical analysis of those prices will be misleading.

Traditional historical trend analyses of stock prices assume the market is somewhat rational. (but not 100% efficient, which is where money can be made)
Tell that to the guys who invented the Snuggie! On a serious note, bad mouthing an interesting article doesn't do anything, but drive up its traffic...
Related to this, "The Systems Thinking Playbook" is an excellent resource for demonstrating applied systems-thinking (and the power of mental-models) in a workshop setting.
At our local Chicago Python User group chapter (chipy.org) one of the organizers of the Financial Group did a similar analysis. HODL is extremely hard to beat if not impossible.

See https://github.com/Chipy-Finance/CryptoTechnicals/blob/maste...

https://github.com/Chipy-Finance/CryptoTechnicals/blob/maste...

There is more in the github directory also.
My next step is to implement strategy testing. I would like to end this series with a classifier that predicts buy or hold.

Follow me on Twitter to get the latest updates: https://twitter.com/romanorac
GP was referring to the car insurance, not the driver insurance.

Those are separable concepts. If your rear-view mirror is broken off by a punk with a baseball bat while parked on a Chicago street, that is property damage to your car that would be covered by your car insurance. If you t-bone another car, the damage to their vehicle is covered by your driver insurance, while the damage to your own vehicle might be covered by your car insurance, if that possibility is listed in the policy. Generally speaking, if your car insurance doesn't pay for damages incurred by the owner while driving, you-as-car-owner can't file a claim against you-as-car-driver under the driver insurance policy, and end up getting any money out of it.

When the policies are offered by the same insurance company, the actuaries for each can share information, such that the risk of owner-caused damages can be assessed for the car policy, and can therefore be rolled into its premiums. This is why those policies are often combined.

Where states mandate insurance, the mandate is always for driver insurance. So the car insurance then becomes an upsell option for those who already have to buy something from an insurance company.

With health insurance, there is the one big problem that you just can't get around. Everybody dies, eventually. You can sort of predict when and how in a large enough population, but everyone has a very high, statistically predictable likelihood of needing medical care at some time during their lifespan. There is also another big problem. Most people incur their highest medical costs in the year before their death. Obviously, after you die, you can't work off your medical debts.

That's not a good looking model for healthcare providers, and a tough one for healthcare insurance actuaries to squeeze profitable premiums out of. There is a perverse incentive to drop a client or raise their premiums right after a claim is paid, on the presumption that any uptick in medical payments might be a harbinger of greater future medical expenses. There is also perverse incentive to drop customers immediately after the first payment related to chronic disease is made. We paid for an office visit to an oncology specialist and for biopsy lab tests, so our model says that we should drop you right now before your lab results come back. We hope you don't have cancer, so you can prove it before coming back to us as a customer, but otherwise, good luck with your treatment bills....