skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Isn't the P2P feature what makes blockchain useful? I've seen many tutorials to code a blockchain in 10min, but they leave out this seemingly vital piece.

It's like how to a SaaS tutorial without user authentication or payment processing.
At one point for phone screens, I just asked people to code up strcmp. I got some amazingly bad answers.

Some of this code-screen mistrust seems to come from the flood of poorly-qualified candidates; maybe there's a more diverse pool than before, but it comes at the cost of lots of wannabes.
I created my Insta account before FB bought it. For some stupid reason I let it connect to FB for (limited) sharing some pics, rather than doing it manually - then that was it.

I don't want all my FB contacts to "see me" on Insta; I just have tonnes of people adding me with no real interaction. The integration is really quite obnoxious. I have in fact stopped using Instagram now due to this.
Back then long distance was expensive so you didn't get scammers outside of the US calling you. Local police are currently unable to deal with the deluge of foreign scams making protecting your private information much more important.
> Oh, I have seen the ones that throw up anti-adblock walls. I hate those.

The anti-adblock list in uBlock can help with that. Read the README.md though because it requires a user script too.
Email: the original asynchronous work queue!
Tip: Don't worry about the competition. Worry about having positive interactions with women.

2nd Tip: There are over 100 cities in the SFBA. The dating pool is plenty large.

Best.
The Origin of Product Hunt (2014)
It's also a calculator and unit converter!
A coincidence that changed my life
'Write your own Operating System' by tuhdo

https://github.com/tuhdo/os01
Why should young people subsidize the health care of old people who almost certainly have a higher net worth than the young people?

Remember with Obamacare about how there was a huge push to get young people to sign up for it, because without healthy young people paying too high premiums, the system would fall over with the costs of the elderly? Maybe that is why young people didn't want to sign up for the ACA, and they needed to enforce 'penalties' for not having health care.

If young people were actually charged a fair market rate for their health insurance, they would sign up in droves because it would be dirt cheap. But when you make them pay far more than is reasonable, because old people need health insurance too, then that is how you get a system where no one wants to sign up for it until they are legally forced to.

The ACA in this sense completely subverted the point of insurance. So, maybe the right doesn't understand insurance, but neither does the left.
Why is that interesting? Just that they're not having to carry special patches for the RPi3 or what?
How to raise our vibrations and attract positive energy??
It is a game FFS. It is designed to maximize enjoyment, realism is way down the list, and it is obvious to any reasonable player. It would be a "dangerous myth" if state leaders started using Civilization as a model, but thankfully, it is not the case.

And the way the rise and fall mechanism is implemented in practice is simply by ending the game. Once you've won (or lost) you are back to the stone age on a different map.
When Europe "collapsed" because of the plague the rest of the world didn't really notice.

Today things are more inter-connected so it could domino in ways it never could before.
Also https://bitcoin.tax, does everything for you pretty much.
Gee that's utterly effing horrible. For me that "magic" was just an annoyance, but I see that for a lot of people it is anything but.
Yes it does, you can't get past the second stage. "Please enter a phone number". I'm sure this is different on some things, mabe number of emails created per IP or what country you live in. Google is a big entity, they can afford to treat some areas differently.

> Verify your phone number

> For your security, Google wants to make sure it’s really you. Google will send a text message with a 6-digit verification code. Standard rates apply
This is a good article, but it only shows a few parts of a much more complex whole, and extrapolating from these anecdotes to a broader system is not really accurate

Many hospitals lose money on every Medicare and Medicaid patient. The only reason they survive is because they can charge private insurance companies more. So hospitals and health systems have been consolidating to strengthen their negotiating position against insurers

This article paints Medicare as the good guy, private insurance as evil, and hospitals as mixed. The reality is more complicated, and more regional, but overall healthcare is a zero sum game today between payers and providers fighting for dollars, and power comes largely from scale. In geographies where payers are bigger and stronger, they push hospitals and force many to consolidate or die. In areas where hospitals are stronger, they basically dictate price and rates can skyrocket

There's a lot of bad stuff happening on all sides, and it isn't clear that private insurance is always evil. If we become a single payer society, small providers that are struggling to survive will probably be the first to die, and providers will probably consolidate much more aggressively into massive national chains, like the Walmart of healthcare

The cause of a lot of healthcare issues is not one particular party (insurance, Medicare, hospitals) but a system that encourages monopoly seeking behavior without any good mechanism for regulating this
SFSU professor says that it is Islamophobic to Not hate Zionists
You're right, I can't comment anything bad on the business model, great respect for being open source and I thank them for they work, just not a fit for someone who was looking for a better Wordpress alternative. Maybe it's just too young. WP is 15 yo already :)) !
Wish you both the very best!
I use a 2009 iMac daily. I've upgraded it to 8GB ram & a 1TB SSD and it works great.
Civilization does not actually portray inevitable perpetual growth. It's quite possible for your advanced civilization to be conquered by barbarians (actual barbarians or a less-advanced civilization; it doesn't really matter which), and when that happens, technology is lost.

As a matter of practice, this doesn't happen much because it isn't fun, but it's well within the game's view of what can theoretically occur.
The vast majority of Afghans traditionally didn't have last names either. If you look at the Tazkira (Farsi/Dari language government identity document, it's an A4 sized single piece of paper that serves as combination birth certificate and primary government ID), it has the person's name, name of father, name of grandfather on it. Legally people are known as something like Showaib, son of Ahmed.

A lot of Afghans who have emigrated to foreign countries have created their own last names from something related to their family, geographical area/tribal affiliation, etc. There are also people who have not done this and their name printed on their passport is a double of their first name, so you have people named "Jawad Jawad".
The only problem here is that Proof-of-Work is the evolution of Proof-of-Stake, not the other way around.

PoS is how Paxos and RAFT work, and it was described in Wei Dai's b-money in 1989 [1]. But it didn't work for an adversarial byzantine network, and so it wasn't until Satoshi invented a Proof-of-Work based solution in 2008 that we had a crypto-currency.

1. http://www.weidai.com/bmoney.txt

"Each server is required to deposit a certain amount of money in a special account to be used as potential fines or rewards for
proof of misconduct."
You can ignore people all you like. But to post a comment telling people you're ignoring the comment because it contained blacklisted words like "female" or "pernicious" is absolutely toxic to a constructive environment for dialog.

You're not simply ignoring a party at that point. You're promoting a pretty extreme form of ideological intolerance, where merely using a particular word is enough to make a snap judgement about a person's entire argument.

>>Fortunately though, as your argument(s) seems to be largely logic-free, it turns out to be very helpful.

Trying to insult me like this is not mature at all.
I swear I recently read something else talking about applying TCP congestion control to RPC queueing

I did this almost 10 years ago for accessing Amazon SimpleDB, too: http://www.daemonology.net/blog/2008-06-29-high-performance-...
I would invest it in growing my startup. I have got a sales pipeline of > 750K USD in the works that I am having trouble servicing, having self funded so far it's difficult to do an exponential jump without funding, even with an exceptionally high amount of automation. I might need to make some phone calls soon to investors, but 2.5M tomorrow would help a lot!
The world took notice in the long run.

The survivors of the plague had it good though, salaries were up and the institution of serfdom was finished in western Europe, the stage was set for rapid modernization.

Also westerners got some level of immunity to these germs so that people in far off places would just die off when they came around.
EU IV's "failure" states are a lot more interesting than those in Civilization. You can take a severe beating, lose a lot of territory, and recover it later.

This is because holding territory is a lot harder, and integrating captured territory is more expensive. You can't snowball as quickly, and short-term setbacks can be reversed by planning carefully.

Civ's new expansion does try and fix some of this, but it's not as nuanced as in EU IV. City-flipping is a thing again, but the mechanics are pretty cartoony.
Why do people put up with that extortion?
Question: I did EE degrees. Trying to fix possible gaps, I am going through Robert merlose notes on functional analysis. He refers to rudin for metric spaces. I am comfortable reading rudin, but I am hoping for an intuitive motivation for abstract definitions in general. Metric spaces have a physical motivation. What does one gain, if it is axiomatized?
Maybe my bigger question is, in mathematics research, will abstraction always go towards symbolic manipulation and set theory. I am looking to avoid definition via axioms and motivate it. I hope I've explained myself.
So he plugs two modern GPUs into the PCIE slots and calls that

> Truly a testament to the engineering that went into designing the 2009 Mac Pro.

I'm sorry but you can upgrade any computer from 2009 in exactly the same way. That's the beauty of using standards you know?
I already suspected this due to getting more posts from my friends based on who I texted, and they were Android users. It's fucking annoying. Also, using the same wifi network leads to getting friend suggestions
I use an external Samsung SSD as my boot disk. USB3 isn't as fast as native, but its pretty darn fast. This iMac came with a spinning disk drive which is worse than useless so it was a major upgrade.
> "You win a game of Civilization in either of two ways: by eliminating all rival civilizations or by surviving until the colonization of space begins."

This isn't accurate at all. To win by colonizing space, it has to be you who colonizes space. If all you do is survive until somebody else does it, you lose.
They are using expected value in a technical sense.

In a pure contract between equally informed parties, it's exactly how insurance would be priced.
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I would invest in real estate.

I would become a (for profit) provider of affordable housing and get my name dragged through the mud as a slumlord instead of being lauded as a friend to the poor and someone reducing homelessness. Cuz that's the lovely way the world works.

I would also pay cash for a small house for myself.
If you're a tech entrepreneur, it's the first story in here that should alarm you the most. It's about denying coverage altogether, not about denying individual claims. Outside of the "guaranteed issue" ACA market, there is virtually no due process for coverage denial. You can be denied on a whim, with little recourse.

The list of conditions for which insurance outside the ACA will be denied is long and opaque. The story makes it sound as if they're looking for reliably diagnosed conditions like diabetes. No. They're looking for indicators of a long list of potential conditions. If you or your spouse has a functioning female reproductive system, the chance of your family being denied is high, even without a diagnosed or treated condition. We were denied for something like that, and also because my daughter had an unexplained seizure when she was 4 (she's now 16 and just fine). To get insurance for the first couple years of Matasano, my wife had to take a crappy full-time job with group coverage.

Without insurance, a typical working family is one major medical incident away from zeroing themselves out. My daughter has never met a pickleball net that didn't break her ankle (she has met one pickleball net). Even with insurance, the cost of that injury was high single-digit thousands of dollars. Without it? The cost of a pretty decent car. Find a friend who's had an appendectomy some time and try to find out how much the insurance company was (nominally) billed for it. A down payment on a house.

If you work in this industry, intend ever to start your own business and potentially have a family at the same time, you should be extremely alarmed at the prospect of guaranteed issue regulated health insurance (the ACA) being replaced.
Global warming is a game mechanic in the original Civilization. You have a pollution indicator in the UI measuring how likely it is.
I need an URI for that.
Fascinating, I wonder how much stuff like this was intended to pressure vulnerable populations into not filling it out. The argument is good, and convincing, but I wonder about the intentions.
Stop Trying to Regulate Facebook
On points 2 and 3, why limit this to companies with revenue exceeding x or y million USD?
I'd imagine those other factors you cited wouldn't favor California by all that much, entertainment being the exception (and one narrowly concentrated in certain metropolitan areas); in my experience and observation (having lived in California all my life up until about a year ago), employment, poverty levels, and prices are all dismal at best.
That's fascinating. Is there any way to contact Google to get them to change their crawl patterns? Or a more efficient way to directly send them the site updates as they happen? I imagine a "direct line" to Google would save resources both on Google's side and yours, but I've never ran a site big enough for that to be a problem so I wouldn't know.
You don't have to own a car. Everyone gets sick at some point, and everybody dies of something. Whether that's cripplingly bankruptingly expensive or not is partly the point.

Although I suppose if the singularity happens, that will also solve the health care crisis in this country. (sarcasm)
I think it'd be a good sport to make hospitals eat denied claims. If two giant institutions want to argue about whether something is covered, the patient should not be the loser.

We should also better fund Medicare and Medicaid. Taxes should be apparent.
You realise that is literally how insurance works though, right? If you tranched age groups or risk profiles then you would have those needing to use insurance unable to afford coverage. Which defeats the purpose
No, but some of these may be legally required in order to operate as a competitor to Facebook.
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It requires substantially less engineering effort than they've put into making sure people cannot do those things.
Michigan, so nights are < 65F for 9 months of the year. Then the other times, we have a window AC unit, close our bedroom door, and blast the AC :)
In other countries your definition of hazardous is an acceptable risk. My mother tells me stories of people rooting through garbage in the Philippines. I also went to my local freegeek (and won't go back again because I can't tolerate the low quality air). Also, in Ghana a bunch of electronics gets processed by people (and they are quite toxic) from our consumer electronics. From this article it seems like they were able to salvage computers (at a considerable risk) See
https://medium.com/@felipearaujo22/i-was-looking-for-africas...

I don't know why people throw away their consumer electronics. I got an Original iPhone for $5 and sold it back to AT&T for $100 trade in credit (this was in 2012). I also used the phone on their 2G network for six months and connected to local WiFi.
The principle is already well described in Crossing the Chasm[1]. You need early adopters and then figure out from there how to go a mainstream audience.

You probably also need some groundbreaking shift in the medium to create an opportunity e.g. how shift from laptops to smaetphones made photos and videos more compelling than text for some use cases, leading to Instagram and Snapchat. And then Facebook bought Instagram and used it to make Snapchat redundant...

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crossing_the_Chasm
Absolutely true. Just as you are free not to use Google and Facebook if you don't want your data collected. Not trying to say they don't have every right to do it.
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Reasons to quit, and reasons to not quit
This article like so many others perpetuates this idea that Facebook and others are selling your data. You can more or less disprove they are doing this with a little critical thought.

Facebook has a disincentive to sell data: if they sold user data, they no longer have exclusive control over it and somebody else can profit off their efforts in its collection. The value of Facebook is they have lots of eyeballs and they have lots of data on what those eyeballs like to see. If they simply sold this to an advertiser, why would the advertiser want to come back and pay them in the future? What they actually do is let advertisers target on this data, but the advertisers never actually have direct access - they can only assume that the users they target are ones that have the attributes they requested.

So what is Facebook selling? The same thing any other media platform, from newspapers to TV, is selling: your attention. Are you the product? Kind of. But just like any other marketplace, Facebook knows that if their platform doesn't provide value you're not going to come back and then neither will the advertisers.

Personally I think Google has played this balance far worse, by comparison: their interaction time with their users is so small that they have gotten more and more spammy to wedge into the little bit of your attention they get. Facebook gets a lot of user time and thus can be far more judicious on when and how they show you advertisements.
#3 sounds like a cool idea, I think knowing how your data is being used is important and allows users to make more informed decisions about how they give their data away.

I think #2 is over-regulation, given #3 users can decide if they want to support the product or not by using it.

Also, if you deactivate your account companies should no longer be able to use your data.
I'm saying that their stance on privacy is motivated by self-interest. Nothing more, nothing less.
no. 2 is guaranteed cost plus pricing. Quite a lot of fiascos built on that principle.

Regulation is harder than it seems. The legal system we use... it just doesn't really work that way. It doesn't fail just because of corruption and such. That said, here's one. Whatever they collect, users can elect to have a copy and easily with a 3rd party. At least that way we could watch them watching us.
How I brain-washed my girlfriend out of depression using old House MD episodes
Ask HN: Why should we jealously guard our data?
Ubiquitous and accessible data spurs business efficiency, targeted advertising and therefore cheaper products. There aren't any clear negative impacts to people making the data they generate accessible.

Whereas jealously guarding our data would make data intensive applications infeasible.
Not collecting user data is something that only Apple can do. Google depends on data collection for its primary revenue stream. Apple does not. This means that focusing on privacy is a uniquely competitive tactic for Apple to take, and they have shrewdly taken it.

To be absolutely clear, i'm not disparaging them for taking this position. I think it's great. I'm just trying to contextualize it.
According to their FAQ, they are working on it:

> Will you add additional locations in different geographic regions?

> We are actively looking into this option right now.
Another great book is "Ninety Percent of Everything: Inside Shipping, the Invisible Industry That Puts Clothes on Your Back, Gas in Your Car, and Food on Your Plate" by Rose George. It covers the wider world of international shipping but containers are obviously a key part of the story.
Every trade produces a taxable event, so no.
So what is Uber’s thesis these days? Global taxi monopoly is dead. Self driving cars is dead. Time to dump this dog in an IPO and hit up the buyer of last resort ... America’s 401ks.
I'd buy more property with a nice ranch house on 20-30 acres in the California desert (max $300k), invest the rest and pull out small amounts to fund my startups as needed.

Basically I'd be doing the same thing, but nicer.
People have been building stuff like this. Often for firewall appliances (eg SCC Sidewinder, Immunix Linux, genua w/ OpenBSD). They usually do one of these: (a) get big under new management that doesnt care about either security or the little people (enterprise focus); (b) sell out to company like that; (c) go bankrupt cuz market values assurance of security the least.

Sad but true. There's still a few companies selling microkernel-based solutions in defense and mobile with Linux user-lands. They'd OEM license their stacks for a new set of products aimed to do this. They cost a fortune. Whoever pays it wont get it back, though, cuz folks dont usually pay for security in that volume. So, nobody is doing it for small players for now.
To not create unnecessary barriers of entry.
> You can't have private, distributed data. You have to pick.

I think it should be possible by leveraging public-key encryption. That's going to require something beyond Wordpress though.
I would pay someone to diversify and invest it for me. Assuming a 6% return rate (on average), the principal would generate approximately $150,000/year in interest. Obviously more if you reinvest some of it.

Eventually I would probably dip into the principal to afford a nice home with some land somewhere. I haven't settled on the details yet.

Honestly, the most valuable part of this would be that my time is freed up to work on things I'm passionate about.
"In the latest advance, biologists reported on Thursday that a molecule already sold by supplement makers (even as scientists scramble to understand it) restored
youthfulness to blood vessels in 20-month-old mice, an age comparable to 70 years in people..."

So which supplement is it?

If it's already sold by supplement makers, have there been any reports of similar effects in people?
I assume it is specifically to avoid killing startups in the crib.