skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> But my point is that their article explicitly shows that those 3 points are pointless for users.

It's pointless with that device. The 3 points are general advice, and changing a default password, for example, is definitely sound advice.

> Telling people who want IoT devices to just not use them isn't a valid answer

Where are you getting this from? There's an entire section in the article ("Get Ready") with suggestions on how to securely use IoT devices. There's no mention of not using them.

> and show what users can do to research and avoid devices like them.

That is the entire point of the article.
No? The law doesn’t prevent the government from searching your property in a wide range of circumstances: e.g. with a warrant, pursuant to a valid arrest, etc. That’s the whole idea of warrants: so there is a controlled way to search private property. The government goes to Israel to defeat technological roadblocks to doing what it’s allowed to do under the law. This technology isn’t being used to break into phones at surprise checkpoints, it’s being used to search phones of people who have been arrested.
Facebook is going to be following the EU's GDPR in a few months, which will probably require opt-in.
200k revenue or profit?
Agreed. This feels a lot like the "snowflake" label. A way to terminate a discussion early because you'd rather insult the person than make any actual progress.
Where is what the internets say: according to WaPo ( http://archive.is/AUN7q ) Manafort was operating for 10 years - each of the 8 years of Obama.

Where can I find the source for: 'Manafort was campaign chairman and is alleged to have convinced Trump to change positions'.

Also, what is your feeling on amount and frequency Dems were actually paid directly by foreign govs?
This is exactly where I'm at as well. I have a 6S (and a 6 for work) and, for what I use them for, there are plenty fast enough. I really wish the camera was better, and this will drive me to upgrade eventually, but there really isn't a phone on the market that I see and think, wow, I want that.
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Think big. The latest and greatest in DDoS is botnets of compromised IoT devices (as of a few months ago, I don't keep current).
The nightmare scenario, still theoretical, is to synchronize the activation and deactivation of power-hungry processes to wreck the electric grid.
have you heard of Magnetic MightyMind? Those puzzles are really great for the mind. You have to figure out how to place these different shaped magnet pieces into different puzzle shapes.
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I think Optimizely was very smart.

A/B testing is very hard. Designing tests is hard and you need quite a bit of traffic before your results become valid enough to act upon.

For these reasons, many smaller organizations simply don't have much success with A/B testing. And, I'd bet my bottom dollar that the organizations who don't have much success blame Optimizely instead of their own design.
It should be called a "headlie" as well, which could be a more fitting word for it anyway depending on which news outlet you visit.
First and foremost: GR guarantees that an event horizon will form. Oddball exotic states of matter (quark stars, fuzz balls, whatever) might form in proper time within the event horizon, halting collapse before it reaches the singularity state of infinite compaction. (Since time freezes at the event horizon, these states would occur infinitely far in the future from the perspective of any external observer and might therefore very reasonably be considered ‘unphysical’.)

Second, and this is surprisingly subtle: we often discuss black-hole formation in terms of mass, but it's really a matter of relative density: the 2.7 solar mass limit only pertains when one is considering a mass in a void, if for example one found oneself in an infinite universe with an undisturbed uniform density of (say) 2.7 solar masses per metre cubed the tug of gravity would be uniform in all directions and there would be no impetus to initiate gravitational collapse towards any specific point. Once perturbed, however, average density somewhere would rise, and the collapse would begin.
The struggle of humans today is mostly social survival, not survival in nature.

Evolution is not optimal for social fitness because societal factors change much more rapidly than what natural selection alone can respond to.

There may be some conflict over this at first, but humans born in a post-eugenics era will not share your view and will likely dismiss it.
How does external sharing work on SharePoint Online?
My ideas tend to be the same. I don't see any reason not to go ahead and build them.
Try sending a piratebay URL on Facebook Messenger... nope! "Malicious website! Please calm down while we protect you!" (I paraphrase...).
Yes, but I can pay $50 once for Arq Backup, which will let me do this with any (= cheapest) data store - currently Backblaze B2, paying cca $5/mo for 500 GB from all computers at home.

This is a danger for Tarsnap.
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One advantage we have here is that the government is separated enough from the people who have actual executive power to ban content. A sudden ban is quite impossible but we should probably be beware of being a slowly cooked frog.
The most likely explanation that sprang to mind was that there’s a convention in Chinese for (young) people to say ‘n’ meaning ‘lots’. ie:

A: Have you been to Disney?
B: OMG, only like, n times!

(A: 你去过迪斯尼吗？
B: 哎呀我去n次啦)

edit: so i’m confirming Mair’s guess.
The general direction is correct, but not the specific implementation - since it applies to everyone in the EU, no matter what their citizenship, you can just reject all transactions where the shipping address (or credit card address for virtual goods) is in the EU; and that should probably be fine.

On the other hand, if you actually want to sell stuff to EU and get a nontrivial number of deals, then no amount of weird checkboxes is going to convince the regulator that it's okay, they aren't stupid.
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Here's a couple of links you might like, although not all of them are exactly what you're looking for:

- https://www.indiehackers.com/ (of course)

- https://www.starterstory.com/

- https://www.authorityhacker.com/undercover/

- https://failory.com/

- Ask HN: Successful one-person online businesses? (Jan 5, 2017): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13326535 (thanks @jbonniwell)

- Ask HN: Successful one-person online businesses? (Mar 9, 2014): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7367243

- Ask HN: Sideprojects/passive income businesses with little or no own coding?: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15806208

- Pieter Levels - Turning Side Projects into Profitable Startups (1h presentation): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6reLWfFNer0
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1. Random, electronics/toys/health/office supplies

2. Not much advertising, just checked and YTD spend is $600, most on a single product. Most traffic is organic

3. Mostly sell existing items that already have a lot of sales and we just get a share of those. That's what I'm paying Amazon enormous commissions for - to bring the eyeballs
Replacing Redux Thunks with Redux Sagas
You'll be able to disable and hide Firefox Sync in Firefox 60
I ran a one man side gig for a couple years (farm management software). Got it to $200k and growing after 6 months in the market but I needed to bring the development in-house.

Could've used outsourced talent for all dev and customer support but interestingly enough the reason why I hired was "what happens to all of our customers if I die?". I felt like I owed it to them to put a team in place, albeit a small one.
Actually, the same as you. Just for me it happened on the first day of high school.
This one's so much better: http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2017/07/17/15/426A9E150000057...
>This kind of data is a surefire way to convince otherwise entirely capable people that they should give up on life.

Life is not binary. I will never be a pro athlete yet I can enjoy doing sports.
>Such predictions, at first hit-or-miss, are becoming more accurate. One test described last year can guess a person’s height to within four centimeters, on the basis of 20,000 distinct DNA letters in a genome.

I find that comparison highly misleading, height was always a reasonably 'simple' trait with very high heritability that is (in our society) relatively uninfluenced by environment. Here's a 2009 paper showing that you can predict height reasonably by averaging the parents' height (the 'Victorian method'). https://www.nature.com/articles/ejhg20095

It's one of the few traits where you can do that well, so why would you use that as an example as to why genetics-based tests are getting better? All other phenotypes/traits are much more complex.

>When they built a predictor for coronary heart disease, for instance, Kathiresan’s team discovered that the people it predicted to have the very highest risk, the top 2.5 percent, had four times the average chance of developing clogged arteries.

So what's the base risk? If the base risk is 0.0005% then a four times higher chance is still tiny.

I think it's this paper: https://www.nature.com/articles/ng.3914
As the scientists correctly pointed out, they only looked at Europeans, so who knows how this fares with Asians or Africans (likely: not well). None of the odds ratios are above 1.1, most are around 1.05, not a very extreme change to me!

Why this matters: In countries like Australia, unlike Germany, there is no protection by the law from insurance companies who don't understand genetics. People can and have lost life insurances due to the results and questionable interpretations of genetic tests. I can only hope politicians don't read this article.
There is something inherently counter-intuitive about teaching probability theory. Consider the Monte Hall problem and how many smart, seemingly rational people will refuse to believe the outcome even after rigorous proof.

For more in-depth treatment, see Probabilistic Models of Cognition

https://probmods.org/
Do aesthetics matter?
Yep... Every serious discussion. All sorts of eccentricity on the less serious end. Technically though, there are a lot of animals most wouldn't see as native to Britain which went extinct at some point in the last 60ky.

Lynx and more raptors are the two on the immediate agenda. Wokf and moose (elk) may be at some point relatively soon. Wolves would likely be big game changers for red deer population dynamics, and livestock farming.
What here is illegally gathered?
And it even gets more interesting: The question is not if you can identify a user by merging your different data sets. The question is if you can identify a user if you merge one of your data sets with any other data set, even if this set is currently not in your possession. (This can happen if the provider is able to mach IP addresses to personal information.)
> We're still prioritizing on street parking above transit, cycling, and even pedestrianism - and the streets are clogged with Ubers and with the vehicles of suburban commuters

I'm not sure what part of the city you are referring to, but this is not what I see in the lower half of Midtown. I see few personal vehicles, and none are parked on the street. In fact, most street parking is explicitly commercial-only during the day on weekdays.

I agree that a large amount of the congestion is caused by hired cars of one sort or another, but contractors, delivery trucks, and sidewalk vendors are #2 and the primary drivers of street parking availability (in Midtown).
There's probably a huge correlation between good parents and parents who would go through the hassle of bathing their child in broth only to have to clean all of it, and the baby (even if the baby simmers for a while.) Not that the soup thing is necessarily good, but it sure shows effort and good will which will probably translate in other ways.
But even how we illustrate a sheet of spacetime we show it dip when it should stay flat and pinch, closing the gap between atoms as they get more dense.

All of these inaccurate descriptions assume we have the concept already in mind to recursively look up. Describing more accurately let's the reader get a clearer picture and thats where real concepts get conceived.

I like heavy/dark star/planet for a vague description. I also think the fact that humans rely on visuals now and we can't get more than a single angle of one of these we can show anyone a 3D view of how it's not just nothing.
Yes we should definitely prohibit anything that could help having a healthier population, by for an example eradicating genetic diseases.
No I don't think that was it. I had ~700 peers connected. I guess due to DTube using CDNs in front of IPFS most content is probably only available from very few actual nodes.

PS: Keep up the great work on IPFS!
( it won't let me reply on the other thread - pardon, you asked for http://bfy.tw/Gqi6 )
That's about 5 large bowls in a pipe.
Looks like it's only grepping for lines that start with le_test_. A comment would start with #
This is the essay the interview references: https://medium.com/q-e-d/whos-important-a-tale-from-wikipedi...
When I have a side project, and I need remote developer, communication skills are the number one skill I look at. Secondly, I look to see if they can code according to a technical specification.

There have been countless times where I have had to spend excess time going back and forth due to lack of these two skills.

Your situation might be a little different if your employer is not someone who can write technical specifications. If this is the case, I would say the skill of translating the customers requirements into a specification would be an important skill.
It all depends on how things are framed.

Your reality is better than the test predicted? You beat the genetic lottery! Go show to those correlations and the whole world what you really have in you.

Your reality is worse than the test predicted? You are not making full use of your genetic potential! Work harder on yourself and you could improve tremendously. If only you had known sooner that you were born for greatness.

Sure, that's no different than astrology, but lots of people are quite happy about taking advice from astrology. Genetic testing would have the additional advantage of having at least some relation to reality.
I created and run The Online Slang Dictionary - http://onlineslangdictionary.com/ . It's the eldest slang dictionary on the web.

I started it in 1997 when I was in highschool. I found it interesting that slang terms frequently heard just the year before were already passe. I thought it was something that was worth capturing.

It affords me a modest salary in a fairly high-priced area, on around 2.1 million visitors a month. I estimate that it would get 2.5x - 3x the traffic (and hence the earnings) if google weren't up to strange shenanigans with the site's rankings.
^ is beginning of line, so you'd need:

le_test_xxx # <- this is not a comment anyway
# le_test_xxx does something nice. # <- doesn't match ^le_test_
That's https://pinboard.in
Oh, of course, my bad. I mean't to express "have your content hosted without a central party gatekeeping party".
This kind of chicanery shows up at every point in monarchical rule...one would have anticipated it to be a bit more delayed in this case given how recent the abolition of the term limit has been

Term limits are a check-and-balance against this sort of silliness. The divine inspiration cited by George W Bush for example to invade the middle east was no guarantee that the US would continue the practice of seeking holy affirmation to invade a country. Abolition of the term limit disrupts international confidence in a parties ability to advance domestic and foreign policy as now, you've pinned yourself to a single dependency in the government.
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How would that be useful to you?

The EU subsidiary would not be legally able to use any of that data (it can't take it from the China subsidiary in any way whatsoever); and the China subsidiary would not be practically able to use any of that data, since they don't have any users/customers in EU.
How do you get in a market like that? We tried but failed because the owners didnt like the fact that we where from "the city".
I was self taught on piano for years, and when I finally started taking lessons I had so many bad habits to break that were holding me back.

Reading notes was not the problem, but my technique for how I was physically striking the keys needed a lot of attention. Legato, phrasing and dynamics are the real challenge and it’s tough to practice things with such subtlety on digital keyboards at all. I still do it, but every time I play on a real piano I have to recalibrate.

The author says he chose a piano without weighted keys, I think that’s ultimately not the right choice if you are truly interested in learning piano and eventually want your skills to translate to a real piano. Pretty early on the proper technique is based on weighted keys.
Nuggets from the buffet: Warren Buffett’s words of wisdom frm 2017 annual letter
Ask HN: Sendwithus won't support GDPR, what are you using instead?
Sendwithus have just announced they will not be GDPR compliant.

Which alternative are you using which does support it?

Bonus points for any service that has good i18n support!
I agree. I think IoT definitely gets a bad name because of poor security practices and design decisions made by a few bad actors.

The title could've been worded better in warning people to avoid certain products, than to paint the whole ecosystem badly.
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China leadership might be completely different by then.
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Mastering Inkscape in 2018
Very large bowls. In my heaviest usage periods of cannabis I smoke bowls by myself and I get a lot more than four bowls out of an eighth/3.8g.
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>> Life is not binary. I will never be a pro athlete yet I can enjoy doing sports.

Sure, but what if someone did a genetic test at this point and told you that your genetics would have made you a world class something-or-other? You missed your calling, how would that make you feel? For others it might help justify a failure and cause them to give up.

For a lot of people, life is a journey of discovery and pushing limits. We've seen that telling people they're inherently good at something can make them underachieve due to reduced effort. Giving people preconceived notions of who they are can be as harmful as giving them false hope.
Wow! That's pretty amazing!

I have a course on how to do that. It seems pretty easy, but for some reason I never go out and just try it.

I have another business idea that I've been working on for some time. So, maybe that's the reason for not starting this one. But, why not have multiple source of income than rely one thing that may be BIG.

I guess I'm saying I'm throwing my hat into the ring today. Gosh, business is scary and exciting at the same time.
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I find the Monte Hall problem is simple to grasp once you explain it properly. But you need math for that.
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Hey #dev folks! I've been working on something to build desktop applications with @electronjs and @reactjs. I've open sourced it and I would love to hear some feedback from you! It's called Reactron! All the #reactjs bundling it's done with @parceljs!

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Things like this and Formspree are great for setting up a one-off site. If you get to choose the hosting though, Netlify offers form submission handling as part of their free tier, with email/Slack notifications, API access, and data export.

https://www.netlify.com/docs/form-handling/
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That may well be what they're thinking they're doing, but when it's trivial to identify the machine with a bit of work, they're just disclosing early in a clumsy and obfuscated way.
Adhering to that basic advice is hard. Most people don’t do it. I’d like to see a study if adherence to diet and exercise improves with genetic predictions.

For me, it would help to have a somewhat accurate prediction tied to my Fitbit that shows me right now the benefit of my hour cardio every day. My doctor could look at my physical activity vital signs pulled from wearables during my physical and give me personalized advice “You’re going to die 6 years earlier because of your genes+your diet+your excercise with 20% margin.” Is a lot more effective than “your diet and excercise suck, it will have some unquantified negative impact. But you might be fine, who knows.”
"Any time" is hyperbole, but the bank bailouts and car manufacturer bailouts were major lessons for me about how American society really works.

I also hear this kind of sentiment a lot in the Net Neturality wars. "The cable companies can't make money off of TV anymore," therefore, the laws of society have to change.
You have clearly not spent enough time in Berlin.
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Python dependency locking for complex projects
Probably not the first opportunity I would miss in life, and I guess I would probably have above expected metrics in some other field. There's no reason to overthink it.

>For others it might help justify a failure and cause them to give up. /
For a lot of people, life is a journey of discovery and pushing limits.

Yes, people are different. It would help some, it would bring other down. It's not an obligation so I don't see the harm there.
Think there would be substantial interest in that "Blockchain Engineering" Masters program if you put it online ;)
There's no particular evidence that "for profit" organisations do better at handling "common goods". And the very definition of your 'for-profit' organisation is that this is what is providing 'pressure to perform'. If they didn't have that pressure they'd just be the same as non-profit. You'd have to explain how a "profit motive" could impact these common goods - which would mean they wouldn't be in public ownership.
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Number of open faculty positions in CompSci exceeds candidates by a factor of 5
most impressive, builtwith.com, 2M / month
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https://www.frugalhack.me/2016/09/28/how-to-sell-on-amazon/ good general intro to a bunch of models, http://www.lessonslearnedinbusiness.com/amazon-wholesale-sou... good long deep dive into wholesale.
"easily disproven with the current situation."

If you mean that the current party isn't instituting totalitarianism, I would agree with that. Trump has taken more steps to put down government power than to pick it up. A totalitarian does not lower taxes, which is a form of government power, nor does he cut regulations, which is obviously a form of power. You can argue about the effectiveness, but there's no way to argue that into an increase in power.

If you mean that nobody is accusing Trump of being totalitarian... I have no idea how you could possibly have that impression. Google "Trump" and "authoritarian" together and start reading.

And if you don't fear the social media mob, poke them and see how you like it. Talk is cheap; prove you aren't afraid of them, and that you get away with it, and I'll reconsider.
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Appreciate your perspective. One small quibble is that you saying you are Christian did not really aid your point, as far as I know. As in, without it your argument still makes sense to me.