skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There was a hotel in Brooklyn which required that I provide them a credit card for security deposit. Or was it not the norm?
How does tor "find your friends" (stand in for dht)?

Is this some new feature of the protocol/network?
We've asked you before not to be uncivil on HN or take it into tedious, repetitive flamewars like this one. Not only are you still doing it, it looks like you're using HN exclusively for it. That's not what this site is for. Since you can't or won't stop, I've banned your account.

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I think it varies.

For small, daily transactions like coffee, lunch, etc., I definitely prefer cashless.

But there's definitely something to be said for the convenience & anonymity of just handing over a wad of cash if you're buying a used lawnmower or whatever on Craigslist.

I'd hate to not have the option.
I was trying to be diplomatic, as this is a matter heavily influenced by one's political beliefs, and somewhat resistant to the application of historical facts--such as the Holocaust, Holodomor, Killing Fields, Gulag Archipelago, Great Leap Forward, and Juche.

A certain number of socialist believers must be retained to keep a system of unequal property from running away into oligarchic plutocracy. It's like putting a harmonic damper on a pendulum, to keep it from swinging too far, while still retaining the same amount of energy in the system.
More information from local news:
http://www.kron4.com/news/bay-area/possible-active-shooter-a...
That seems like a reason that no state besides California would have lots of startups? We're moving the goal posts a bit, however, since thread parent from Boston cares about tech jobs which is not the same as startups.
If you have the technology to simulate a brain, it seems pretty trivial to simulate a body, environment, and associated sensory inputs as well.
Admittingly based off of personal experience and limited to US culture, but I have seen/read a recent uptick in the number of people arguing we should restrict rights when those rights might lead to the death of children, including a number of decent sized rallies.
In Brazil it is the main defense of former president "Lula" da Silva:

* Lula didn't took bribes.

* And if he did, it was peanuts.

* And even if he took a lot of cash it is way less then the other politicians.

* And if it is, it is not his fault - the system is like that and he would not be elected without bribery.

* And if it was, he didn't mean it.

* And if he did, it was in the best interest of the poor.
"departures are now limited to 10/hour at #brusselsairport"

Impressive that they maintain this rhythm even during a once-in-a-decade unexpected system malfunction.
The support list [1] is weird. Gulftown (Core i7) and Westmere-EP (Xeon) are essentially the same chips yet only the latter is patched. The distinction between Gulftown and Westmere-EP actually was barely ever made until now. And Intel's confusing product line has lasted until today - the Xeon W3690 is apparently Gulftown (the only Xeon) and is not patched [2], yet the Xeon W3670 and W3680 are Westmere-EP and will receive their microcode updates [3].

According to this document, make sure to read your CPU's model numbers carefully. It doesn't reflect well on Intel that the line does not appear to be drawn based on technical capability, but apparently on contractual obligations.

Many CPUs in the unsupported list still make very serviceable hardware in 2018. It's a shame a security issue will only add to their obsoletion, or make people using this hardware more vulnerable. Spectre variant 2 is difficult to exploit in practice, but that sounds like some famous last words.

[1]: https://newsroom.intel.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/11/2018/...

[2]: On page 8

[3]: On page 16
Hey, if I would have been part of that survey, I also would have said "i want to keep the option to use cash".

It's totally possible to embrace the cashless lifestyle while being uneasy with it at the same time. I argue this actually is the norm. Like it is with a lot of stuff we do on the web as well. Who isn't uneasy with all the social media platforms but still uses some of them.

It's the new normal. Being uneasy with things and doing them.
Love twitter and this idea is great, but it's idealized. Unless you also add some kind of filtering beyond proximity, you end up with garbage-near-you. You can see what people near you are tweeting right now: https://twitter.com/search-advanced
My name is Dave, and Fiat Lux Research was my first startup. It is Latin for "Let there be light". Among the other things I learned was: don't name your startup in Latin! We got really tired of spelling the name to every single person we talked to. Vendors would think we were a subsidiary of Fiat Motors or similar.
What happened with DO?
Possible Active Shooter at YouTube in San Bruno
Congrats. 40k - the sad part is this type of discrepancy is typical. Hope there were punitive damages. Other companies need to re-evaluate.
A lot of VCs aren't investors either by that definition.
Hehe I did the opposite, moved from Cash-obsessed Germany to cashfree Sweden. Whenever I travel back to Germany (or other countries), I take a special, big wallet with me, knowing that I have to put some bills inside.
Introduction to Biology - The Secret of Life by Eric S. Lander (available on edX) was entertaining and educational at the same time. Not many MOOCs were able to keep me engaged to the very end and make me proud and happy when I've finished them. If you are interested in the cell biology and are looking for a way to start on the subject that one is highly recommended.
Mistaking Switzerland for Denmark is understandable, mistaking Switzerland for Sweden is just wrong.
Kazakhstan to Ban Trading Bitcoin as Well as Other Cryptocurrencies
Spotify traded down 10% on first day, achieved $26.6B market cap
Ask HN: Best site/resources to practice for the technical interview
I plan to go back to job hunting and I'd like to brush up algorithms, data structures and other CS theory that typically comes up during the technical interview.

What websites do you recommend?
(I'm going to apply mostly for development/engineering positions)

Thank you
He behaves as a 16 year old, which is why he hired Sandberg specifically to mother him.
Active Shooter Reported at YouTube Headquarters
"Is the silicon die on your processor exactly the same as everyone else on your team?"

Of course I have worked on projects where all the test dev and live hardware was explicitly brought from the same production run so the hard ware was identical down to the rev no of the pcb's - our hardware guy would have liked to have all the disk also from the same production run.
As someone who does work on the Hill, that's not an insignificant amount, and not when its coming from Sandberg. I don't see that she's interested, or shown interest, in running for office. Mark on the other hand... That's a different story. As one of Facebook's most politically connected executives, it is very strange why no one has heard from Sheryl.
Review: This War of Mine, the board game (2017)
If there is technology to reinstantiate your brain with that memory intact, there is technology to pull just that memory out of your brain without bothering to reinstantiate you.
Which desktop client did you try? The official Mac client, at least, has secret chat just like the mobile clients (I just used it yesterday)

Note that Telegram secret chats are end to end encrypted (default chats are not) but you're still dealing with the Telegram server (not peer to peer)
Small Colleges Can Save Towns in Middle America (2017)
He says he didn't, and that the summed price of the three courses are the same as if it were to be a single long course.
Who would want to store their private messages on a public database?

Not to mention needing to buy ETH some how and than paying for every message?
Getting in quick while they can. Surviving a 5 year down turn on borrowed money is challenging.
I don't think its meant as an insult. I think people use it because it implies familiarity, is fun to read/say, and AFAIK is Zuckerberg's old IM/IRC handle which makes it a way to reference his past as an actual coder/hacker. I see it more as a sign of respect when used on HN.
Agree pretty much apart from the bitcoin failure part.

In nine years, bitcoin keeps on ticking and evolving. Segwit was/is a big deal, as lack of segwit held up further development. Lightning, x-chain atomic swaps, Schnorr signatures, MAST, side-chains to name a few additional features and improvements.

It's early days yet. Give it time.
"Welcome, Dr. Knuth! Let's see if you can invert a binary tree..."
I would think you always sell the cheap model after selling the expensive ones, especially if you are a smaller company with less money coming through the pipes.
Yeah I tried to find the rates that Swish charges to businesses but didn't find them (although didn't look to thoroughly either). But can it really be even below the 0,2% of cap for debit cards?
Do you lot have some special insight into the security of ELB, since you are so bullish on it? It's a sweet service but it's one of the more black-boxy, voodoo-ish things AWS offers and always gives me mild, irrational pangs of paranoia as a termination point.
You’re misinterpetting it. He’s been known as Zuck since Facebook started. It’s even his email and login.
Personally, of all the crypto currencies it's the one I'd like to pay with most. I want companies I transact with to pay taxes, while preserving my psuedo-anonymity. I have no interest in using a volatile asset for an single transaction.

Happily there are plenty of others to choose from, too, but I'm glad that one with these overall design principles exists.
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I love this one. Saw it when it launched and it frequently helps me see through some situations. Some models explains why, despite best intentions, things go awry sometimes. Sometimes things are terrible not because people are terrible, but because everything interact in ways that are difficult to understand and predict.
It's funny how each time a scandal comes out in America, it's treated as if it's new and separate. The truth is that there is one solid pattern in every single American scandal, and that is corruption.

America is built on corruption, and is corrupt from head to toe.
Alcohol itself may not raise insulin but what about the rest of your hard apple cider or miller lite?
Photos Taken by AI May Be Public Domain
Well the archaic systems are getting older and older. From what I've heard it's almost impossible to get replacement parts for some of the computer systems that run airports/airlines.
It's likely the engineers working on Maps, etc. and the underlying tech would not see their work as simply "AdTech."

What’s that Upton Sinclair quote?
If you actually read the paper, we talk about ASN.1 and why it's insuffient for what we are doing. That's clearly stated, and it's clear you didn't read that paragraph.
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Explain Types (In Programming) as If I Was a Normal Person
Yes, but I suppose it's a matter of expectation. When I read NYT or WSJ or Slate or National Review I will get a fairly consistent message.

We don't see a lot of extreme partisan publications linked in HN, probably for good reason. Just wanted to note that although The Hill is not on the MSNBC/Fox spectrum, its editorial content may well be.
Looks like he made it out ok https://twitter.com/Lavrusik/status/981263546460774400
>Instead of the Turing test, perhaps we need an elf ranger test?

No. The author is trying to be funny, but the Turing test already encompasses this. The rest of the article is meandering.

Edit: And the whole intro of "These computer scientists play chess and go, so they wrote bots to do it. They should instead write a bot that plays the game I like instead, then it would be 'real' AI". Come on. The hypocrisy is palpable.
They blew up a Ceph cluster yesterday that was serving block storage (and they use Ceph for object storage, too, hence my concern). It was down for over thirty hours.

https://status.digitalocean.com/incidents/8sk3mbgp6jgl
Precisely... How much down did it close at the end?
This is a plot point in Niven's "A World Out of Time". The global state views cryogenically frozen people as expendable commodities and uses them for missions that normal citizens won't be asked to do, or which require their antique perspectives. If they refuse a mission, their host bodies (convicted criminals) are mindwiped and the state starts again.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_World_Out_of_Time
A good account from a YouTube PM: https://twitter.com/tdd/status/981262640830754817
I always appreciate it when someone also takes the time to design the aesthetics of their research paper/post. Very interesting work!
Some live updates: https://twitter.com/erinjeanc
I am using Arch + Signal but message syncs are pretty slow after long chat session on mobile.

I've forgot to mention, we've also tried Riot Matrix.

UX was simply not there and app felt oriented towards the very technical audience. My teammates had a problem with this.
Interesting. Maybe also doing some kind of rnaseq synapse by synapse could tell you what levels of neurotransmitters and receptors it’s maintaining.

I’m not sure if that small of a scale would ever be possible.
> Maybe users could pay _receive_ messages.

Pay to recieve a possibly unsolicited message?!

That's insane.
>Client-server application security
>Percival, 2009: Use OpenSSL.

Percival actually recommended not using SSL and shipping the server public key with the client.

From http://www.daemonology.net/blog/2009-06-11-cryptographic-rig...

>Client-server application security: Distribute the server's public RSA key with the client code, and do not use SSL.

What are your thoughts on that approach today.
Second this. Doing the homework assignments (especially the first one) helped me understand how transactions work and are validated.
Arguendo

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arguendo
This breaks the HN guidelines and is a bannable offense regardless of how wrong some other commenter is. Please don't do this again.

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WTF. The Core i7-8700T is a desktop CPU with 6 / 12 cores/threads at 2.4-4.0 GHz at 35 W for 303 dollars.

The i7-8750H has the amount of cores and thread it is rated at 2.2-4.2 GHZ. But it's 45 W and 395 dollars. That's a lot of money and heat to pay for a paltry 5% speedup at the very top -- and let's not forget the non Turbo speed is 8% lower.
This list includes the Penryns used in most Mac laptops and the Mac Minis up to ~2010 vintage. I still use mine to host various Internet-facing utility services, which it does handily.
Active shooter at YouTube HQ
Zuckerberg- is that you?

Seriously, WTF!?!

Not one part of that comment is true.

The cat’s not out of the bag. Nothing “permanent” has happened. A law could be passed tomorrow requiring that all of our personal data be erased. You might not like it and it would put you out of business.

And that part where you say “best safeguards are to create strong institutions...”. That sounds strangely like “the 4 dog defense” article that’s currently on HN. You just skipped the other arguments

1. We don’t have your data
2. If we had your data it’s it would have taken work to collect it.
3. If it took work to collect it it’s ours since you should have protected it.
4. If you didn’t protect it, the only answer is to form strong instituitions to protect the information formerly about you, but which now belongs to us.
A Brief History of Humankind by Yuval Noah Harari on Coursera.

There is also a book (that I have not read) called "Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind" which I think was quite popular. It was not quite was I was expecting yet it was very interesting and enlightening.

Also, it's been mentioned, but Databases, by Jennifer Widom. Stanford.
It seems like crappy networks are the norm nowadays, and the preference of the ISPs is to offer the web only. You need a middle box just to access the internet at-large (e.g Tor). Masquerading traffic as web traffic appears to be a good tactic, though inefficient/sloppy.
Insulin is a driver for obesity, but its really secondary. The primary condition that precedes most metabolic syndrome complications is liver fat accumulation. When this happens, liver cells become insulin resistant and consequently start synthesizing glucose unnecessarily, which floods the bloodstream with excess glucose and subsequently drives insulin higher to sink it into peripheral tissues. Its been demonstrated over decades that the hyperglycemia of diabetes is caused by this liver synthesis of glucose, and not dietary factors.

Alcohol (ethanol) gets processed by the liver and enters the denovo lipogenesis pathway, becoming fat, which can accumulate in the liver if the lipid transporting machinery (LDL particles) are overwhelmed. This leads to Alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease (AFLD) and the "beer belly". Excess fructose consumption has been tied to Nonalcoholic Fatty Liver Disease (NAFLD) for many of the same reasons.

Some day we'll figure out why lipid droplet accumulation leads to insulin resistance. Some people think its tied to fuel selection and the evolved starvation response.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/87483
I think you should just use TLS.
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https://twitter.com/danafergan/status/981259647872000000?s=2...
The problem isn't the number of connected or registered users on the server - the problem is the complexity of the rooms they are participating in. So if those 20 users join hundreds of rooms with tens of thousands of users participating, spread across thousands of servers, with large numbers of joins/parts or messages sent a second... you shouldn't be surprised that it takes a few GB of RAM.

HOWEVER, we have been working incredibly hard at optimisation over the last few months, and we have order-of-magnitude algorithmic performance improvements on the horizon over the coming weeks. https://twitter.com/matrixdotorg/status/979049079568240641 etc. There's also a port to python3 happening which should improve RAM by 2-3x given python3 stores strings in utf8 rather than python2's utf32.
Sandberg is a classist asshole.
'Shots Fired' Near YouTube HQ in US
Apple Refreshes Mac Laptops: Pro, Vanilla, and Air All Get New CPUs
utility of permissionless blockchains

Is there actually any purpose of a 'permissionless blockchain' other than turning the security model into an x-threshold of capital needed to compromise the system type threat model?

So far all iterations of permissionless blockchains have been subject to take over from any modestly funded entity.
Miller Lite has about 12 calories from carbohydrates, so not much. Roughly the same for most red wines. Not sure about cider because I don’t drink it, but in general most of the regularly consumed alcoholic drinks have a lot fewer carbohydrates than you’d think.
I never had lost messages and I'm using Prosody for almost 2 years. Check the advanced info in Conversations account settings page. There you will find all features that the server should support for good service. Maybe your ejabberd is old or doesn't have all necessary modules enabled?
It's "dumb luck" that my parents were middle class instead of drug addicts, it's "dumb luck" that I was born and raised in the USA instead of a place without electricity and running water. It's "dumb luck" that I was raised somewhere where the walls weren't poisoning me with lead during my child-hood. It's "dumb luck" that I wasn't raised in a ghetto where the only kind of success anyone knew about was in joining a gang or leaving forever.

Dumb luck is also being born into a family where you'll inherit millions of dollars, but tell everyone you worked hard for it.
Free Email Verification API
How to spend money on Marketing when you don’t have money to spend on Marketing
Just for reference, here are the source URLs for the quotes from Percival, 2009 [1] and Ptacek, 2015 [2].
I'm not sure about the gist, but it is what I always refer to and it's last revision is May 23, 2015.

[1] http://www.daemonology.net/blog/2009-06-11-cryptographic-rig...

[2] https://gist.github.com/tqbf/be58d2d39690c3b366ad
Police have responded to reports of gunshots at YouTube headquarters
This is not a very good comparison at all. In the 1950s, we already had a complete theoretical foundation for space travel. Newton's equations, developed hundreds of years earlier, gave us that foundation. Where is the theoretical foundation for consciousness upload? If you had pulled a quote denouncing space travel from the late 1600s, it would be a better comparison. It should be noted that it took hundreds of years before Newton's theory resulted in extraterrestrial travel.
Labels control the back catalogs, other than that I agree with you that the old ways are changing. The problem is nothing you said gives Spotify some unique advantage over Apple on the streaming side or something like cdbaby on the publishing side. Spotify can't just be some 'small' label and survive, and I'm also not sure what artist only wants to be on Spotify.

Music streaming has been completely commoditized. It's an add on feature to both major phone software makers. What can Spotify uniquely bring to the table that will give it the money to survive?
From Waimanalo, Hawaii cloudflare times out:

test1 test2 test3 test4 test5 test6 test7 test8 test9 test10 Average
192.168.50.1 154 ms 157 ms 154 ms 154 ms 154 ms 154 ms 156 ms 158 ms 155 ms 184 ms 158.00
cloudflare 1000 ms 1000 ms 1000 ms 1000 ms 1000 ms 1000 ms 1000 ms 1000 ms 1000 ms 1000 ms 1000.00
google 106 ms 82 ms 80 ms 158 ms 113 ms 148 ms 82 ms 107 ms 106 ms 81 ms 106.30
quad9 91 ms 99 ms 111 ms 106 ms 90 ms 97 ms 89 ms 91 ms 89 ms 88 ms 95.10
opendns 105 ms 81 ms 96 ms 120 ms 82 ms 110 ms 81 ms 115 ms 105 ms 83 ms 97.80
norton 82 ms 80 ms 82 ms 94 ms 84 ms 91 ms 82 ms 80 ms 82 ms 83 ms 84.00
cleanbrowsing 135 ms 158 ms 245 ms 136 ms 132 ms 132 ms 133 ms 138 ms 133 ms 145 ms 148.70
yandex 287 ms 389 ms 256 ms 256 ms 258 ms 256 ms 258 ms 257 ms 258 ms 255 ms 273.00
adguard 290 ms 270 ms 319 ms 295 ms 433 ms 340 ms 261 ms 351 ms 290 ms 264 ms 311.30
neustar 86 ms 82 ms 83 ms 84 ms 80 ms 90 ms 80 ms 81 ms 84 ms 83 ms 83.30
comodo 149 ms 148 ms 152 ms 152 ms 153 ms 148 ms 150 ms 147 ms 148 ms 151 ms 149.80