skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> and rightly so! the boom of ICO's is proof of concept if I've ever seen it, even though almost every single one is a scam as far as I've seen.

Agreed, I've yet to see an ICO that seemed legit.
It took courage to remove the stylesheet.
Because pretty much everything must be framed as risk taking these days.
He's profitable and growing like a weed. The WhatsApp hack potentially opens up a huge new market for him.

Browserling has been a great investment, and he's a good friend as well. :)
Quite the opposite plenty of escorts get fucked around. That’s why they developed market solutions such as screening clients and widely used black lists .
Do you have any idea how rainbow tables actually work and what it would take to "create" one for the SHA-256 hash used by Bitcoin mining? In order to create such a rainbow table, you would have to do about 2^256 SHA-256 computations. All of the Bitcoin mining ever done so far has carried out somewhere in the order of 2^87.

To put this in perspective, the most power-efficient miners available right now require 0.1 J/GH of energy. There are roughly 10^24 stars in the visible universe putting out about 10^27 watts each. If you could use the entire energy output of all those stars to mine Bitcoins with the most efficient mining hardware currently available for the entire lifespan of the universe to the present day, you'd still get less than 2^210 hashes, about 1/10^74th of what you'd need to create a rainbow table for SHA-256. I'm pretty sure that even upgrading this hypothetical universe-wide computational machinery to hypothetical mining hardware that's as efficient as the laws of thermodynamics allow wouldn't get you close.
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One of the quotes I gave included "Before modern day nursing, men were nurses, not women". The files.eric.ed.gov link says "Prior to the organization of female nursing schools and as early as the fourth and fifth centuries, men provided nursing care to members of various religious orders (Cook-Krieg, 2011, p. 22-23), and held the predominant role in organized nursing in western society."

I don't see how you can therefore infer that men weren't the majority of nurses back then.

As for the term "nosocomi", it doesn't imply that care givers were female by default. Latin is a gendered language. A different word would have been applied to female caregivers. As an example from Spanish, think "maestro" and "maestra" for male and female teacher, respectively.

If the Latin only used the masculine form, and never the feminine, then it indicates the job was primarily (or perhaps only) done by men.

Consider the word "maid", short for "maiden" meaning "female virgin." We have a special word for female domestic workers but that doesn't imply that domestic workers were male by default.

Similary, in many English speaking parts of the world, a senior or supervisory nurse is a "sister". This title includes males, eg. from https://www.researchgate.net/publication/282839878_Clinical_... "… what was nice there was a senior male sister that welcomed us and orientated us, so that really help me a lot to accept the situation …".

A male sister may also be referred to using the gender neutral term "charge nurse".

Again you see that a gendered term for a given job does not imply that job is usually done by the other gender.

Or, we have "mailman", "chairman", "cabin boy" for jobs which were usually done by males, while "charwoman", "lunch lady", and "call girl" indicate females. The existence of a special gendered term doesn't mean the mail was usually delivered by women, or that prostitutes were usually men.
TBF the current state of Bitcoin is on par with what banks have always been offering for international transfers. So, it still has the use case of sending unrestricted amounts of money to a peer abroad.

However, I agree on the general sentiment. Transactions are more expensive than they should be.
My response to Did you find or create something cool? (January, 2018)
Moment for iOS and rescue time for Mac and Windows. Fantastically helpful!!
Who invented the internal combustion engine? Does it matter?
> where you take money from others without providing any intrinsic worth to humanity

I beg to differ. Not all crypto projects are like that. For example Omise Go is a promising project that stands to make a difference to many people who have no access to banking services.

They have solid financials, already processing over $500m transactions per day with $110m investment.

They are making a completely decentralized open value exchange DEX based on the block chain. Any developer/provider will be able to build apps on top of it.

Any person with a phone will have instant access to essentially a bank account with no need to hand over social security and ID.

So basically giving 2 billion people who have no way to interact with financial systems a way to join in with global commerce.

> It’s not creating any value, any gains are at the expense of someone else.

Except, not in the case of Omise Go. You may earn a dividend simply by possessing the token.

By staking Omise Go tokens you will have the option to validate transactions (proof of stake) for which you will get paid.

Also note, with PoS there is no electricity burden on the system like Proof of Work with mining.
I have the same body type. I've read about people doing CR who go from average body type to something like your or my body type (I was once 6' 135lb but I've gotten up to 150lbs lately).

As the OP say, there's very little basis to CR given you're talking mostly animals that are overeating and under exercising by default.

And mice are genetically uniform. CR has been partly tested on monkeys and other animals but it's a lot harder and results less conclusive.
And then again: http://time.com/4291505/when-vegetable-oil-isnt-as-healthy-a... , links e.g. to http://www.bmj.com/content/353/bmj.i1246 which has the conclusion quoted below, which is in line with what ggp claimed about whether cholesterol is the cause or just a symptom.

""" Available evidence from randomized controlled trials shows that replacement of saturated fat in the diet with linoleic acid effectively lowers serum cholesterol but does not support the hypothesis that this translates to a lower risk of death from coronary heart disease or all causes. Findings from the Minnesota Coronary Experiment add to growing evidence that incomplete publication has contributed to overestimation of the benefits of replacing saturated fat with vegetable oils rich in linoleic acid. """
possibly of interest:

http://beaufortmagazine.fi/2014/08/seven-years-sailing/
Same here! Worked at Canva during 2016. One of the most amazing experiences in my life so far.
You started a flamewar with this low-quality dismissal. Although I'm sure you didn't mean to, in effect this is vandalism. Please post more thoughtfully to HN.

Here is a relevant site guideline:

* Comments should get more civil and substantive, not less, as a topic gets more divisive.*

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Edward Snowden slams Indian govt over FIR against reporter on Aadhaar
In 1968, the USA used helicopters in lieu of light trucks all over Vietnam, thousands upon thousands. Getting an heli ride was a mundane experience for a conscripted grunt. If anything the practice scaled down a lot since due to proliferation of MANPADs. But point is, a helicopter was not something mind blowing or novel on the scale of a flying car.

Nor would an RC model shatter anyone's imagination then, another common thing. If anything, a non-controlled, autonomous or semi autonomous drones that are appearing now would be far more impressive.
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What's the point of security staff at a bank or military installation? If things are slow, just send guards home. We'd be able to save millions.
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The Danger of Trends
This. Ftfy has saved my as many many times. Thanks for the regex. brilliant.
I wish gogo worked with this. I've ended up bookmarking http://captive.apple.com just to trigger their login page.
The forces of nature at play.
This is a good time to invest in electricity and facilities in Mongolia

> Mongolia hosts 10% of the world's known coal reserves at an estimated 162 billion tonnes in 2011 with 17 operating coal mines
Consider something like this:

struct __internal_variable {
uint64_t type;
void *data;
}

uint64_t __last_type = [number of builtin types];

whenever you create a new type: increment __last_type and associate that type with the number;

uint64_t typeof(__internal_variable var) {
return var.type;
}

function[__last_type] typechecks;
functions[] = void function(uint64_t type) { failure; }
functions[int] = void function(uint64_t type) { success; }

functions[typeof(myvar)]()

If typeof(myvar) is int, then the function that returns success will be called, otherwise failure, no branches involved! Yes, it's a kludge, but it kind of works.

---

Of course, you don't actually need this trick. If you put enough effort into it, you can essentially compile anything to c, after which you can just compile it with the movfuscator[1]

1: https://github.com/xoreaxeaxeax/movfuscator
PFLOPs is no longer a ”supercomputer” thing. Now you can purchase NVidia DGX-1 with Tesla V100 for $150K. This gives you almost a petaflops. If I am reading it right, price of 1 PFLOPs in above mentioned super computer is $6M. That’s insane.
The headline on the website of a major Australian newspaper right now [1] is:
"Elon Musk's satellite 'disaster'".

"Expensive mistake: An expensive and highly secret satellite is missing after being launched by Elon Musk's SpaceX"

How the heck are we allowing reporters to "report" like this? Utter nonsense, and millions of people read this newspaper every day and assume they are being told facts.

[1] http://heraldsun.com.au/
Thanks, I'm with BoA and didn't know about the feature (it's called ShopSafe, for others).

I like privacy.com for this purpose - works well plus it can anonymize transactions to make them opaque to the bank.
What was your reason for not using database sequences?
In general, from the perspective of a dev in a MS-shop, AWS gives you a bit more 'responsibility' for infrastructure than Azure, but that level of control lets you get further in practice sooner.

Azure has a lot of great things going for it, but I've had a lot of issues getting newer tech out on it without considerable delay. I hope both Azure and GCE give AWS a run for their money in coming years :)
These people buy a lot of stuff online, usually through 'cash on delivery'.
When I was in university, the calculator dream of many engineers was the Casio FX-850P, I got the follow up model Casio FX-880P instead.

I wonder which model is now being favored in Portuguese universities.
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As long as there's money to be made, which there undoubtedly is (right now), Bitcoin mining will just move somewhere else.

Also, as the Chinese proverb says, the mountains are high and the emperor is far away. Liberal use of the death penalty hasn't solved China's drug problem, a few Politburo decrees aren't going to stop China's Bitcoin mining.
Compare with "fully private blog".

It's called a diary or a journal.
That's so useful. Everyone should read this list.
That depends on what the network is for: transactional currency, settlement, something else...?
Does it still have coil whine? If so are you going to work in a quiet room a lot? I have an xps13 and ended up getting noise canceling headphones because its annoying.
How does it compare with h5mag.com, which is what I currently use to do all this .. ?
> with what banks in the US have always been offering

FTFY

And even with the likes of Transferwise, it's cheaper even using "traditional banking"
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Miners also do not need to be part of the p2p network. A mining pool for example will distribute the block for you and send you the bitcoins. There's also a tool to send transactions [1] so you do not even have to be part of the network to send/receive transactions.

[1] https://insight.bitpay.com/tx/send - These still require your signing key, so you can use Bitcoin without ever being on the network. It just requires you to trust all the block explorers that you have actually received payment.
> the general recommendation for drug addicts is to keep their drug of choice in their home and within an arm's reach, so that they can exercise their willpower for the sake of the stronger fight

Is that really true? Where did you get that from?

It's exactly the opposite about I've learned about how to help drug addicts.

There is, however, the advice that for drugs which can't be quickly reduced to zero for medical reasons, those should be stowed by a close friend (depending on the situation), who then ensures the dosis is reduced over time in a proper way. The advantage is that the reduction of dosis is enforced by other person, and that if the addict temporarily needs a higher dosis for specific reasons, they might get it, but first have to discuss another person.
I recommend everyone to read the book Deep Work by Cal Newport
Android has had multi-user accounts for months or years now (I can't remember exactly when it was introduced).
Well, I was born in 1978 and did experience the last years of the USSR, but I also know from my parents` experiences and from the old text-books, that there was a foreign language taught in Soviet middle/high schools and colleges for decades. Upon some research I've found that a foreign language was introduced as a common subject in to the schooling programmes in 1927 in the USSR. Initially that was German. Even in my school years I know that German, French, Italian and Spanish were still taught in schools, but English was more popular.

It would be surprising if they didn't study foreign languages in schools in the USSR considering that the country was surrounded by "enemies".
Graphical splash screens in the RedHat bootstrap process caused the change, about 2 years before systemd even existed.

* https://lwn.net/Articles/305047/

* http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/BetterStartup

* https://blogs.gnome.org/halfline/2009/11/28/plymouth-%E2%9F%...

* https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=480113
It's too bad that an article focused on black pepper doesn't mention Cambodia and Vietnam. Kampot pepper in particular used to be the fancy pepper at good restaurants in France. If anything, India remaining stable-ish and continuing to export is what caused pepper to be a race-to-the-bottom commodity. It'll be great to see a resurgence, but honestly most people will never care.
> Indeed. But this is just as true if the spending on food is funded by a consumption tax.

The problem is that eating food IS consumption. For very poor people, food is the main consumption. That's the bad of taxing consumption - that it naturally taxes more the poor, making them even poorer, than the rich.

>> The outcomes of taxation and other economic levers are never represented by monotonic functions. The optimal options are always somewhere "in between" the extremes,

> I don't see why this ought to be true and you did not provide any evidence to support these claims.

Of course, if you think that there should be no State - and therefore no taxes - you won't believe that. But if you admit that some public services are necessary (eg police, defense from external threats) then it's obvious that a 0 tax rate is bad - 0 taxes mean 0 public services.

On the other hand, 100% taxation would mean that there is nothing left for people to spend. That can't be good.

If the benefit from taxation is 0 at the extremes (0% and 100%), and non zero somewhere in between, then the curve can't be monotonic.
I'm more curious if any of his family or close friends (who hold significant amounts of $INTC) sold during the "pre-public" period.
I dont think bitcoin is sustainable now, and miners have too much interest for make any change,
If you pick a Cryptocurrency like raiblock,
- Transferts are instant. (5seg)
- No fees (you send 10 your friend get 10)

And this is for ever and even if all humans on earth use it, instant and 0 fees..

I dont see the benefits in using btc having micropayments/value storage solved.
> no big company will ever hire him

Palantir or Peter Thiel will just have him well.
Most of these are really good, especially productivity and time estimation.

Some I do not agree with (although perhaps the model presented is useful depending on desired outcome).

-Efficient market hypothesis: Markets are not fully efficient and the state of the world is not optimal. Thus opportunities exist. It's our job as engineers (and business people/humanitarians/writers/philosophers etc.) to recognize and correct these inefficiencies. Look for them. Its not easy and thus is called work. Do it anyway.

-Base Rates: People are over-optimistic. They are also bad at finding similar things to compare.

-Emic vs Etic: Dangerous form of mental laziness. While it might be "efficient" it leads to underestimating people and phenomenon, missing out on valuable information and, as the old saying goes, judging books by their covers. Sometimes valuable lessons and opportunities can be found in strange places. And often it isn't even what is said or even "anti-lessons". Better to remain somewhat open and listen without preconception and with consideration as much as possible.

-Bias for Action: Unsure about this one. Looking back I'm not sure if I regret more actions I didn't take or actions I took that were mistakes. I think probably the second has had more negative impact. But I've been a fairly active person, maybe for a less active person it would different. In my case though very often doing nothing would have been the better choice.

-Charitable interpretations: These do make relationships go better. Especially for people who take advantage of others. I'd recommend outward charitable interpretation, inward cynicism. It's usually more accurate for prediction. But cynicism does make a person unpleasant and negative so best not to display it.

-Global Utility: A dangerous precedent. But sometimes yes, indeed needed. Be extremely careful of deals with the devil though and prefer principal, honer and fairness as much as possible. The long term gains are usually greater. The long term effects of short term utility can sometimes be fatal.

-Reasonable Person Principal: Meh "reasonable" can be whatever a group decides. It's not always good. However, no need to keep someone around who doesn't fit the agenda. Hopefully you don't see them in the 30 under 30 list in a few years though.

Otherwise it's a pretty good list.
The idea is to read random things as follows:

1) Write a function that reads the "nth" value out of an array in JS.

2) Call the function a bunch of times with JS arrays.

3) Pass an integer to that function for the "array" value. This would normally end up throwing. But before it does, the CPU might speculate the VM-internal typecheck as "it's going to be an Array, like the previous 1000 times" and end up doing an "nth value" read out of a memory address that you fully control (by changing which integer you pass).

That is, you can use speculative type confusion in the VM to allow precise control over what memory addresses get accessed and how for your timing attacks on the cache.
1ms is absolutely overkill IMHO and will require rewriting a lot of code which measures frametime this way. This is not an issue for the precision reductions in the other browsers (Chrome's 100us is just about what's still tolerable, Firefox's 20us is fine). It's probably better to round the measured frametime to the next 'vsync frametime' like 16.667ms or 33.333ms anyway, but I expect a lot of WebGL demos and games to break :/
Web Packaging sounds really interesting.

I think there's a need for another layer of security in certain types of web applications (secure messaging, financial, cryptocurrency). It sounds like this is a "nice to have" use-case: https://github.com/WICG/webpackage/blob/master/draft-yasskin...

I've almost been able to abuse Service Workers for this purpose. After the Service Worker is installed on first load you can intercept any requests (including the HTML and JavaScript) and verify a signature on them using a key embedded in the Service Worker. The big problem is it seems like you can't reliably prevent the browser from trying to update the Service Worker itself, which is obviously a deal breaker. Also shift-reload bypasses the Service Worker completely.
> It was probably via [this Quora answer](http://www.businessinsider.com/google-employees-worst-things...).

FYI, HN doesn't really have markdown, so that link doesn't work. Instead, generally we do something like this:

> It was probably via this Quora answer[1]

> I don't think that's entirely accurate. There are efforts to reward Product Excellence, for example, which involved UX polish, performance tuning etc.

>

> 1: http://www.businessinsider.com/google-employees-worst-things...).
Think about how much pork and other dubious unrelated provisions get attached to bills now. Now imagine what would happen if politicians got a regular opportunity to hold the continuing existence of every single law currently on the books hostage, no matter how important, as a tactic for getting their way on other things they wanted.
I've put Whatsapp on several tablets by using free sim cards and an old smartphone. Still works.
To use WhatsApp Web, your actual mobile device still needs to be connected. If I completely disconnect my phone, e.g. put it in airplane mode, I get this on WhatsApp web: Phone not connected. Make sure your phone has an active Internet connection.

https://imgur.com/NTIZpk8

The link follows to https://faq.whatsapp.com/faq/web/28080002

So I admit, I'm also struggling to see what the benefit of using WhatsApp through Browserling is.
6 hours later and it’s still not fixed.
A similar thing happened to me, as a teenager 25ish years ago - an elderly relative gave me a slide-rule and told me it could be useful to me in my physics career.

Part of me wishes I'd kept it, but even at the time I was given it the thing was obsolete.
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See title
I find it annoying that it's virtually impossible to get such a phone in "the west". I've been looking forever for a phone that enables usb tethering and is not a touch screen. Touch screens sucks when it's cold outside and you are waring gloves, so I need buttons, big buttons.
Google apparently create competing apps on purpose to see which team wins
This gets blocked on WhatsApp end in 3, 2, 1...
well basically we talked about renames and live messenger actually was canceled for skype and not renamed. the other examples were just renames with/without a new ui.
Isn't employment in California in major big tech companies are titled at will?
Thanks. We've moved most comments that were here there.
There is no value in collecting social graph data on owners of $20 phones.
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SQLite Corruption when running on ZFS (Linux and FreeBSD)
One thing I like from common lisp that hasn't caught on in other languages is that there is the option for exception handlers to run in the stack frame of where the exception occurs.

That seems like it could solve this issue, as the handler itself could tell if it were in trio code, and register a deferred exception only in that case, before the stack was ever unwound.