skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Clearly I've touched a nerve here :)

> Once Mossad recognized that was the case, the operation was called off; it's not like they fired and missed.

I said the title should be "aborted at last minute" not "failed" - how can that possibly be misconstrued as implying they still tried?

> It was NOT a jet, it was a DHC-5[0]... and the article says that right in the first sentence. Saying "passenger jet" invokes a far greater scope of potential tragedy.

The NYTimes notification on my phone says "commercial jet." And as far as greater scope of potential tragedy... instead of a civilian jet with Arafat and his cronies, it was instead a civilian jet with Arafat's brother and 30 wounded Palestinian children and flight staff. How on earth is that less of a potential tragedy!?
Added to the list.
lighting network is pretty fast now. bitcoin cash will have the same problems like bitcoin once is growing in size. not a solution.
> utterly unaffordable for a lot of contract employees

Caused in part by the issues of employability of (some) chronically ill people, driving up costs, and making "individual" plans de facto "high risk pool plans". Which would be helped by, as you said (and I agree):

> decouple health insurance and employer
Most NES games have separate program and graphics data, stored in 2 physical ROM chips on the cartridge. The CPU and Picture-Processing-Unit (PPU) have separate memory maps; one chip will be mapped into the CPU's area, and one into the PPU's. Some games (like MegaMan and Legend of Zelda) have RAM connected to the PPU, instead of a ROM chip, and the graphics are stored with the program data. This lets the developer store (or generate, like in the game "Elite") images alongside program code, and transfer to the PPU as needed.

So I'd wonder if a pattern like that is characteristic of the game switching transmitting graphic tiles to the PPU.
The SEC is already moving in the direction of trying to mitigate large scale transactions. They know they can't stop the spread of crytpocurrencies, but they're doing everything they can to reduce people using it for larger scale transactions or investments.
Yes, you think things through, but if you ultimately don't find a solution, you choose suicide.
(or maybe in old Savannah times, just lying aphatic around for ages maybe meant the same, with getting eaten by a lion)

But I would also argue, I that even in primitiv societies, things could get very complex - because their daily life involved also lots of deamons, spirits, ect. you had a bad dream, but that might mean that an enemy sorcerer tried to kill you and now you needed to figure out who and what to do against it ...
As the creator, I feel this comment best reflects my mindset behind the pricing. In particular, at a lower price I'd be overwhelmed with fulfillment and I'm not interested in that.
It's not a perfect metric, but 86% of people accessing publicly-financed homelessness services in 2016 reported that their last residence was located in King County.

https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/politics/king-coun...
Author Earnings Report: US Online Book Sales, Q2-Q4 2017
We added that to our feature list.
I was comparing to Echo $99 or Google Home $129.
Home mini's speaker is pretty awesome !
My guess is that the data gets sent to the brain but sometime during development the brain learned to ignore it (if it's not useful).

I think that when people talk about the "doors of perception" being opened by psychedelic drugs, often leading to experiences of synesthesia (seeing sound, etc), that it's this kind of sensory data that's made available to the brain once again, or that the brain is made unable to ignore it.
Personally, I think web forums like that are a poor substitute for actual interpersonal social connection. A 1-1 relationship with a friend, colleague, or supervisor can give you in particular a leg up when you need it. Any broadcast medium can't fill that role, all it can do is disseminate information to a wide group.
Hardly. The tax system in the United States and California is markedly inefficient in terms of price and what you get out of it. CH taxes are minimal, and the body politic and municipalities just work.

Source: I lived and worked in S.V. and live in Zürich for several years.
I personally think cryptocurrency is more interesting as a currency than as an investment. I want "Satoshi's vision" to catch on.

But you're right, the reality is that many are using it as an investment instead, so now, I suppose, it's being regulated like one. Unfortunately, at the same time that we solve some of the problems making usage as a currency impractical (even if one of those solutions is just Bitcoin Core becoming an outdated relic), regulations treating it as an investment will hamper its adoption.

Oh well. I have faith the tech will win in the end.
The point that public transport can be more efficient than private does not necessarily reflect public investment although the Swiss do invest in subsidizing transport infrastructure. But what's suprising is that much of the public transport system is owned and operated by private (profit-motivated) companies. I think there are about 10 different companies operating what looks like a unified public transport system in Zürich for example. But you'd never know this because of the integrated ticketing.

Healthcare is very similar - a blend of private (mostly) and public provision but with government regulated insurance market. However it's not exactly efficient - I think an exceptional proportion of national income is spent on health care (i.e. close to US levels and way higher than European norms) even if it doesn't appear on your insurance bill every month.

But yes I love that "adjustable work schedules" are the norm here and I think Switzerland is fairly exceptional from what I know in that regard. I work 80% (4 days a week) as do some other collegues and there is no perception that this indicates a lack of dedication to the start-up or that we should be considered less than committed. It's difficult to describe how much this has improved my lifestyle.
Do you similarly feel that it's impossible for poor people to buy car insurance? Disability insurance is LESS complicated than that. Do you want the 50% of your current salary or 75% of your current salary option? That's it. Maybe you can pay a few extra bucks for a rider that increases your disability coverage each year as you get a raise. This is not complicated stuff and any insurance agent is going to be happy to walk you through it if you have questions.
Too bad there are is no P6 code on the benchmarks game[1]. Probably a good opportunity to learn P6.

https://benchmarksgame.alioth.debian.org
When one decides to kill a state leader, he is better to kill him for sure to avoid retaliation.

Trying to kill somebody, and leaving the job half-finished is a sure way to part with life yourself sooner or later.

They were obviously afraid of that. And because they were afraid of even a remote chance that he can get knowledge of this later, they decided to finish him of with Polonium poison, not leaving anything to chance.
Usually Swiss people find a way around this limitation. Swap laundry time slots with neighbours, for example.
I don’t think Google is trying to slow it down or does any work to hamper FF or Safari or IE.

I just don’t think they care. If it works, more or less, ship it.

Not lightning fast in Chrome? Put a couple of engineers on it.

Welcome back to 1998 and ‘Best Viewed With’ badges.
Can you try again? I tried this address and it worked fine for me.
The reason is game theory. Every city has an incentive to leave the bargaining group and make its own proposal.

Taxes in general are a similar topic.

In a functioning democracy, the government/legislator should set the taxes as they see fit, yet with increasing globalization, countries become price takers (https://www.investopedia.com/terms/p/pricetaker.asp), because many taxable goods become more mobile.

This is in line with this observation:

> Rep. Keith Ellison, D-Minn., has also offered a dissent to the process.

> “Something is deeply wrong with our economy & democracy when local government offer up their

> tax base to a corporation worth over $500 billion,” he wrote on Twitter.

Game theoretic constructs, where the social optimum solution is not reached can be seen in other topics as well. Take climate change for example, where a lot of governments know what the best outcome for the world(and thereby themselves) is, yet act in their own best interest and emit CO2. A collective "bargaining" solution would make sense, but has yet to happen.

Finding solutions for this is challenging and not as easy as the article puts it.
GitLab Frontend Engineer here. I was previously working at Koding.com which is an online IDE and I was the author of Koding's collaborative IDE. Koding's ultimate goal was moving your development workflow to the cloud. To do so Koding's IDE is capable of doing most of the things which Sublime Text can do. Beyond that it has massive collaboration feature built-in. We were thinking that we did the best online IDE and we were ready to replace it with our local IDEs or text editors. We tried really hard to do so but we realised that, it's almost impossible to replace pro users local and powerful stuff with something online. Been there done that before, it didn't work.

Hopefully, GitLab's idea is not replacing your local IDE. It is just for making things easier and we are doing our best to give you the most powerful tool out there. Although, it's currently in Beta state, I believe it's very useful when I want to go and fix a typo or change a simple thing in multiple files and do a quick commit.

One last thing is, please don't forget that, not only developers use GitLab. It's kinda easy for us to checkout the target branch and do some commits but this is a golden for not so technical folks.
Perhaps you have me confused with someone else? Looking at my history I don’t see anything particularly abusive and certainly not “unsubstantiated”.
Here is a list of G operators
https://goo.gl/jYQk2t
I've had FF become extremely slow on two machines while it worked fine everywhere else. After a few months, back to normal. Profile refreshes etc didn't seem to make any difference and I still have no idea why it happens.
Nice platitudes. Do you believe that poor people are similarly incapable of buying car insurance?
If the claim is that the private data unrelated to bitcoin transactions is being published and verified on a bitcoin blockchain then this is a scam.

It is absolutely amazing that the person who wrote this article still has a title of a Senior Editor that claims to write on this topic.
Zürich > Silicon Valley or San Francisco (esp. if you have a family)

Zürich is a great place to work, live, and relax. The people here are also stupendously awesome.
Could you try in Chrome? I didn't test the site with Fedora.
Not all global mega corps need to salt the earth. To some extent disruption will have side effects. Some like Uber are deliberately evil and others like Apple, Salesforce etc might not.

My original point was that people were attempting ideas which were in the realm of potential global mega corps. If you don't grow to be one, you get eaten up!
Is there some problem with posting the link?

I'm not in tech. I have terrible eyesight. Google customizes search results. What if they give me different results?

I would trust it coming from you. Not so much from Google.

Thank you.

Edit: Or anyone else here who knows which paper this is.
Yep. I’d like to get a series of these for something like “where Mom and Dad met”, “where you were born” etc. for my sons room.
This is true. I know someone who works as a dev for CHF 150k+ in Bern, and Zurich has even higher levels of salary.
I use ddg as my main search engine but disabled ads because I can't stand them. I wish they'd let me pay for the service. "If you're not the customer you're the product". I want to be the customer.
I am usually skeptical of links to blog posts people add to HN themselves because I'm skeptical of self-promotion more generally, but this series of posts is actually really insightful. I enjoyed reading it and have been passing it to some friends of mine.
Close, but I imagine the person would struggle to explain the print to their non-techie friends, who pretend to understand. $200 to hear “oh... cool.”
No masters, each one sold is unique! If you buy one, I'll play another round of Donkey Kong. haha
Tsunami Preparedness in San Francisco
There are no secrets to riding a bike:

1. Do no try to go straight. Move the handlebars violently left and right when you feel you are falling left or right.

2. Going slow is hard. Go fast. The wheels spinning will behave as stabilizers, making it easier to stay on the bike.

3. Moving your body will make you fall at first if you do not counteract by moving the handlebar. Start by going downhill, without pedaling.
Is an individual soldier not an autonomous weapon? Autonomy in war is an unchangeable given, not something to be (or that can be) overcome.

Talking about "autonomous weapons" as something to "overcome" seems like anti-AI fear-mongering. There doesn't seem to be any real basis for it other than assuming as a foregone conclusion that AI is necessarily prone to inhumane malice. I'm vastly more afraid of most humans having weapons than I am of AI having weapons.
That's still not a commercial passenger jet.

> How on earth is that less of a potential tragedy!?

Because they didn't fire on it? And had no intention of doing so. You make it sound like the actually intended to shoot it down.

It was a charter jet, with the expectation of a single person on it. That's not in the slightest the same thing as a commercial passenger jet.

You knew exactly what you were doing with that inflammatory title. Hopefully an HN admin will come and fix it soon.

Edit: It's been fixed.
> Formally define what is meant by "innovation" in terms of clearly measurable outcomes.

Surely you can see that this is not possible, and any attempted would be superficial and would be gamed anyway?
> Nobody should believe the PR -- even with the latest "new" stuff added it's still the "old" stuff that has to be improved as the "new" stuff is still just the "leaves" of the whole "tree."

The Servo CSS style system, which was practically the headline feature of Quantum, is about as far from the "leaves of the tree" as you can get. Claims like yours are kind of insulting to those of us who worked really hard on it, to be honest.
Ask HN: Why is it odd to discuss about salary among friends?
Anyone who can wiggle their ears can confirm this.
Getting paid while in grad school? Or you're saying the pay goes up as you go from graduate degree to Ph.D?
"Israel came close to downing a plane to assassinate Arafat" would have been a better choice of order of the same words (minus the jet-prop confusion).
>(except for Edge, which uses an undocumented IPC API).

Do you have any links or things to google for?
There is also a lot of hot air generated by SF that may be advantageous to ignore.
You realize that -your- cost of health insurance would go down as a direct benefit of being in a larger, more diverse, pool? Well, apparently not.

Apparently to you everyone for socialized medicine is a freeloader who doesn't work or pay taxes.

This polarized vision is a large part of what plagues the country.
This is pretty cool, looks like I know some people who didn't negotiate hard enough ;). It would be nice to get a sense of the standard deviations as well for those positions where you have many data points. Is that possible?
"Install an arbitrary piece of code on your machine to improve your privacy."

Note that there is no link to the source code, no checksum. There's no indication that DDG isn't doing exactly what they claim to be protecting against. And the question comes up: what do they stand to gain from having users install a mobile app on their phone?
And a 30-40 minute install!
I'm strapped for cash, but would love to buy one in the future! I quite like the idea! Glad to see it!
Regarding IOHIDFamily: An application may be able to execute arbitrary code with kernel privilege

I found this: https://siguza.github.io/IOHIDeous/
that was published Dec 31.

It took Apple 23 days since it was public before they released a fix.

> The exploit accompanying this write-up consists of three parts:

> poc (make poc)
Targets all macOS versions, crashes the kernel to prove the existence of a memory corruption.

> leak (make leak)
Targets High Sierra, just to prove that no separate KASLR leak is needed.

> hid (make hid)
Targets Sierra and High Sierra (up to 10.13.1, see README), achieves full kernel r/w and disables SIP to prove that the vulnerability can be exploited by any unprivileged user on all recent versions of macOS [!!!!!!!!!]
Text messages are stored forever (or until storage arrays are full) on the SMS gateways for the provider. They are stored in plain text and are backed up if the admins are doing their job. You can grep on MSISDN or text strings.

The only time you need access to the phone is for large images, videos, etc. Or if they are using a web service to chat, then you have to subpoena that provider for their chat logs, which almost everyone keeps.
Looks nice, but "get a quote" == "close tab".
Not just that. This happened when a Uber like model doesn't have any inherent global market place advantages. Most users in a city take a cab in their own city most of the time.

If even having this in their favor, small players are finding it difficult to survive - imagine if a bigger player comes in a space where there is a play for global level market place.
> The reason is game theory. Every city has an incentive to leave the bargaining group and make its own proposal.

Except 3: Montgomery County, Washington DC, and Northern Virginia.

If Virginia gets Amazon, the other two benefit with increased commercial activity. Even if the taxes aren't directly collected from Amazon HQ2, the increased shopping, increased services, and all that will lead to major benefits for the entire region.

There's one group that can collectively bargain, and benefit even if its rivals win over. That gives that particular group a major edge.

Its unusual that three of the top20 positions are within a 20-mile radius. Amazon must be really considering that area.

https://i0.wp.com/www.thedailychronic.net/wp-content/uploads...

"Northern Virginia" is basically Arlington. As you can see, Arlington / DC / Montgomery County are literally next to each other.

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Newark NJ and New York City are the other city-grouping that could work together on the Amazon deal.
Mature Blonde on Blonde Beat Down
Smallco can do interchange plus too. It's more daunting, but almost always a better option.

2.0% blended does actually cover premium segment cards on a per transaction basis even at the top-end shelf rate depending on how you've structured your payment processing pipeline. Fully international transfers on high-end cards often cost less than intra-jurisdictional premium card purchases. Shelf rate, you're looking at 2.7 in the worst case without negotiation or any work on the part of the merchant.

But even if didn't - premium card penetration isn't very high.

So why are you paying for the full premium card interchange on every transaction?

Your merchant agreement restricts how you can do it, but you can provide incentives to use different payment venues. You don't have an incentive to push people towards low-interchange channels if you're getting fleeced on every channel.

Given the difference for a 10% margin product purchase between a 1.0 and 3.0 blended rate processor is literally a 28% difference to your bottom line, getting on top of the minutiae of your agreement is tremendously important.
Well I think this research paper is a little too detached from the human condition to add a lot insight into what function depression may serve but is definitely illuminating in the mechanics of how it functions. Really I think depression is the part of the human poker game where you have to put your cards down, fold, or leave the game. It forces the sufferer to finally make an attempt to relate to another human being in order to continue moving forward or at least gain some insight into why things aren't working. Suicide has no definite causal relationship with depression because plenty of people do that when they are angry or even happy (so happy life is complete). Suicide will always be the absurd answer to the absurd question and there is not much worth examining in between there in my opinion. There is higher incidence with depression and intelligent people- so perhaps the function of the depressive state is actually to improve the species. I say this because if intelligent people were able to separate themselves easily from everybody else that would have happened a long time ago. I think there must be a genetic component in there for human beings whom are intelligent to actually get stuck in a rut and inadvertently help those around them. Possibly getting depressed is that mechanism because what else is more effective at getting people to talk about their lives, what they are thinking, and what's wrong with them. If they don't feel like talking and actively resist physical signs develop to the point others take notice. The uglier side of this however is that if the depression goes on long enough it hardens and becomes a psychosis or even psychopathic tendencies. First the silver and then the lead unfortunately. More studies need to be done about the group dynamics of depression instead of focusing on the individual or their direct contacts. Certain chain reactions occur in society and we are very much aware of that but psychological studies tend to ignore that certain members of any population act as a catalyst and maybe this is where the physiological inputs are derived from- the greater population as a whole.
The distinction between "BTC" and "BCH" (and "BTCS" and "BCD" and so on ad infinitum) is cultural convention. There's no inherent technical merit (or alchemical nature) to one ledger over all other contenders, it's entirely a state of mind of its users.
> a) pay to open up a channel with each person you wish to use it

I think you only need a path to the person you want to pay, not a direct channel. eg if Alice wants to pay Bob, and they both have a channel to Greg, then Alice can send money to Bob through Greg.

> They haven't even implemented segwit yet,

The wikipedia[1] page seems to say that most miners implement segwit now.

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SegWit
Yes, this is a classic story. Crystal diodes were known prior to WWII, and produced in bulk during WWII for radar systems. That resulted in commercial crystal growing technology. Bell Labs and Western Electric did much of that, so the technology for making crystals with controlled properties was coming along. That's the first step in the process of making transistors and ICs.

The first big technology that really required theory and heavy math was AC power. That's what Tesla was noted for. DC you can do with ordinary arithmetic, but AC rotary machine design requires calculus. That was a big shock to engineers of the era. Edison never made that transition.

Up until the early 20th century, science and engineering didn't talk much.
Doesn't seem to work in Firefox 57 on Linux. I disabled uMatrix, but do have Privacy Badger & uBlock running.

Also, checkout says 'Get your hospitality poster.'

Looks awesome though!
Zurich, along with London, has the highest salaries for development in Europe. You may need to work in a finance-related position, but you can make fairly big bucks.
Why would it drop below 1.6B? Coinbase makes money in both bull and bear markets via fees. If they booked 1B+ in fees last year their cash on hand alone should justify their current valuation, if not conservatively justify a higher one
Car insurers accused of discriminating against people with Hotmail accounts
Floating in VR
Scaling Ipify to 30B+ requests/month (Node, Go, Heroku)