skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You'll get weekly nutritional programs based on your preferences yes.

Weight loss isn't rocket science you're right but counting calories and eating the same thing every day is exactly why we exist, people don't want to do that anymore. It's pretty boring and restrictive which is why the average American diets 3-5 times a year :)
The Childless City (2013)
When Trump got elected, I was hopeful that it would result in the many people who were asleep at the wheel on surveillance-related issues (among other matters that self-described democrats were willing to ignore as long as "their guy" was in office) during the Obama presidency finally waking up.

Hopefully it sticks, but I'm giving it maybe a 25% chance of doing so, ironically due to the ADD-like attention span social media has cultivated across society.
4100lbs of E-Waste resurrected. Trillions to go
Show HN: Fast Autofill Assistant for Indian Railway Tatkal Ticket Booking
Sure, but I expect that's more because no one wants to tell everyone their TVs that they were forced to buy in the mid-2000s are obsolete and they must buy a new MPEG-4 (or whatever) capable TV in order to keep watching broadcast television. (Of course, cable networks can do whatever they want; they can just build new decoder boxes if it's worth the expense to them).

Terrestrial broadcast standards have to move slowly. Internet-based streaming and storage can move much faster, and it's supremely beneficial to be able to do so. MPEG-2's now-expired patent portfolio isn't too useful for that, and hasn't been for quite a while now.
It does sound amazing and economical, like almost too good to be true, but I very much hope it is true. What are the downsides? Is there a degradation problem or something similar? Other than the stoner connection in people's minds, what kind of resistance is there to this? Why isn't it widely known?
I think the point was there aren't a lot of young developers/entrepreneurs working on how to make the property casualty preferred vendor relationships work better. Because that type of business would take years of time in that industry to both understand the problems and make the contacts.
Not debating that; that's obviously the case, but really has nothing to do with the point I'm making.
For basically everyone? Direct democracy pretends that you just have this whole bunch of unrelated decisions, and so it lets you vote "Yes, everybody should get $10" and "No, nobody should pay for that extra $10" and then be _outraged_ that the result is economically incoherent even though that's _your_ incoherent policy at work.

It's a footgun. Methods of government vary in how many wise people you need for good decisions. For example an autocracy can work well with just one wise person, so long as they're the autocrat. Under Direct Democracy, more than half of all people need to _agree_ on a decision so you're going to need fully half your people to be wise or the outcomes will be awful. Good luck with that.
Not all who wander are lost.
(I just had to)
> People will often buy a 3 year old iPhone instead of technically superior new Android phone for some price, just to have this brand.

Not necessarily. Using one specific data point, I can also claim to make this argument invalid. The three year old iPhone will certainly, and surely, run the latest iOS, whereas the new Android phone (priced the same as a three year old used iPhone) is highly likely to have an OS that's already a year or two older and will never get updates in the future, putting the user at a much higher risk. So which is better?
Those hashes comes from leaked plain text passwords lists originally. They were already released in plain text. The hashing of Have I been Pwned are just a way to not release even further those passwords (to newcomers, hobbysts and general public), but the hacking community was already using them in dictionary attacks.
I think it boils down to payment processing fees. For patreon for example it would be super inconvenient (and expensive) to process all payments individually, so payments are made in bulk. This is why monthly payments are the standard.

With crypto you can perform instant sub $1 payments with minimal fees (blocks aren't full so it's super low atm). It also saves not having to handle chargebacks, fraud, etc.
As an addendum, I find it strange that people are “deactivating” their accounts. What does that even mean? Facebook still has your data and you are still being tracked. Unless millions actually delete their account (and Facebook actually DOES delete it,) nothing will change.

Unless I can query the Facebook database, how do I know anything is actually deleted? I find it hard to believe that anyone can actually get a confirmed deletion from any social service. We are trusting that delete actually means deleted.
How to craft your buyer persona? Do it like Trump
Snooze is a really weird way of trying to shove stuff in your inbox... Out of your inbox for some reason. You come back to an email later... by still finding it in your inbox.

And there's no good standards compliant way to implement that, so it'd mess up third party clients. This is why Gmail is such a broken experience if you aren't using Gmail's own proprietary Google-blessed apps.
How would an attacker use this information? Brute force attack on an account with known email address?
Wozniak struggles to remain relevant.
> low happiness career for a risky enterprise that will likely not work out.
well if you phrase it like that, then you are already in your mindset set out for failure.
>likely only people interested in blockchain stuff has

Not sure, Furious Pete has moved his audience to Dtube and he is a fitness vlogger

>On that note, are there any mainstream blockchain based sites or apps right now? Would be interesting to know

I think that Circle is the most mainstream blockchain based app right now, because no one using it know that it's blockchain-based !

https://www.circle.com

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Circle_(company)
Despacito bounce back and Comes again after hacked by hackers in YouTube
Should you make your knowledge base public or private?
Should you make your knowledge base public or private? Making it public saving you money and makes staff more productive, future customers get to know of your brand. Here's few more reasons to make your KB public > https://document360.io/blogs/super-seo-tactics-optimize-knowledge-base-search/
Ah, I do remember this. It was pretty short lived. Good find.
Troy Hunt said this doesn't really matter - https://www.troyhunt.com/here-are-all-the-reasons-i-dont-mak...

The hashes are about not storing or giving out the passwords freely, more as a way to verify if your password is in there.
It happens. Candy Japan gets a bit of discussion here on HN, and has a few posts about credit card fraud on the blog (eg https://www.candyjapan.com/behind-the-scenes/how-i-got-credi...). The basic premise is that credit card fraudsters use small online transactions to check if a card is valid before they use it for the big high value stuff, and the cost of those transactions to a small business can make it expensive to run.

That said, if you're just enabling features on a site the actual cost to you is effectively zero, so maybe it's not something to worry about.
He already played more than other people will ever pay in taxes in their lifetime, he does not have obligation to society.
If you've experienced life on the west coast, the weather (humidity mainly) on the east coast (and midwest) just doesn't cut it. It doesn't snow enough to have worthwhile skiing, and when it is warm outside, it's uncomfortably humid.
You might enjoy "The light of other days" [1] then.

It envisions the world where wormhole cameras can view any event in the past, thus eliminating all secrecy and privacy overnight.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Light_of_Other_Days
The compatibility story has changed a lot since 1993. DLL hell has been solved, UAC has been introduced, and executables now have manifiests which state which versions of Windows they are designed to work with.

There’s also the face that video is no longer cutting edge.
I don't really see a problem with that concept in a general sense. Google should absolutely use the law to its advantage wherever it can. We as citizens (who presumably are able to influence our elected representatives) need to close loopholes in those laws when Google uses them to do things we don't like.
Franz on desktop. It uses 3GB of RAM and doesn't allow shortcuts to open individual services, but this is where we are in 2018. The slow death of interoperability has ruined messaging.
Ask HN: PhD in Physics in Tech/Finance Jobs
Do you guys work with/hire people holding a PhD in Physics? or do know if it is a common or rare practice?

Most of the people holding a PhD in Physics or Astronomy deal all their carriers with data analysis. Last week I went to a career fair and there was a company referring to positions in the finance sector while doing data analysis. When I asked, the head hunter said people holding an MBA and Economics degree is preferred. Something like the "Data analysis skill is the 'extra' not the main background desired".
Pymeta – Search the Web for Files on a Domain to Download and Extract Metadata
Exactly what is Verge ($XVG)? and why you should be investing
Nickel Is the New Key to Recycling C02 Emissions – Design News
Ask HN: What Finance Management Tool do you use in startup (5-50 hires) and why?
I'm interested to hear how people manage finance / budget in their company and any advice on that score.

Do you have integrations with your bank, do you rely on outsourced accounting to provide reports for you?

Background story - I'm CFO of a growing data science consulting company. We started simply with a spreadsheet to track cashflow and setting budgets. Having computer science background I moved from spreadsheet to a custom tool I built in R to allow simulating the budget/cashflow and to add reporting. As we continue growing it no longer makes sense to spend time iterating on the tool and I'd like to just use one of the existing tools on the market.

It would be very helpful to hear your advice coming from experience on this topic.
It's not manipulating the English language, though. It's merely interpreting the law in a way that's favorable to someone's particular interest. As I said, no one would seriously start calling Google a "journalist" in colloquial usage. Calling them a "journalist" in a legal sense is an entirely different thing, and legal definitions of things are already often unintuitive from a "pure English" sense.
There are well-documented cases where liability had been shifted to the customer, and which was only reversed through there being evidence that is not normally available in these cases:

"In one disputed transaction case we assisted in, the customer had his card stolen while on holiday, and then used in an EMV transaction. The issuer refused to refund this customer on the basis that their records showed the PIN was used. Luckily, the customer managed to obtain the merchant receipts, and these contained the TVR. This indicated that the PIN was not used, and the merchant opted to fall back to signature. We decoded the TVR and informed the customer, who was then able to get a refund.
Other customers are less fortunate: it is unusual for the TVR to be included on the receipt, and often the merchant receipt has been destroyed by the time the dispute is being considered."

https://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/research/security/banking/nopin/oak...

The law may always have been that the customer is not liable unless they enabled the fraud, but I hope the rules of evidence and/or practices of dispute resolution have changed so that the infallibility of the system is no longer tacitly assumed.
You should read about the Ash-for-Cash scandal in Northern Ireland. It was a scheme to get people using renewables for heat but the end result was some people wasting vast amounts of energy heating empty sheds to make a profit... a little like crypto-mining in a way..

https://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/northern-ireland/far...

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If they just had proper checks and balances and worked out the reward correctly it could have worked.
If you have mountains, you have batteries. Pump water up the mountain when you have extra juice, pump it down when you need extra. I was also curious about a sort of spinning mass energy storage. Get a big cylinder of concrete or lead spinning with the extra juice, then generate the energy back.
Some of what is making the world smaller is also making it better. I sometimes lament that you can find literally anything online; no longer can you find some amazing Walkman model in Tokyo that will blow away your friends back home in the US, nor find a truly unique souvenir you just HAVE to go to Europe for. That loss of exclusivity/rarity is a good thing, but it feels like you've lost something when you can no longer have that cool rare/weird thing.
I wouldn't know what happiness is anymore, since I work for a living. I wasn't happy in school because attendance was compulsory, but I do remember summers being okay.

It's been decades since I've enjoyed a "summer time" but once, when I lost my job for about 6 weeks, I was almost happy during week 5 until I landed a job offer, and spent week 6 stressing about returning to work. It took me a month to feel like a human being again, and just as I started to relax, it was taken away from me.

So I disagree. A mind compelled to focus for unnatural reasons, onto details personally irrelevant to one's continued existence, under threat of being ostracized from civilized society (can't pay rent; out on the street) is an unhappy mind.
Cambridge Analytica is only the beginning
"Created by Gabriele Cirulli. Based on 1024 by Veewo Studio and conceptually similar to Threes by Asher Vollmer."
No business plan checks at all - I still don't have one. You have to pick a vague category that you do business in, but that was about it.

There's mention here about difficulties getting a UK bank account but I can't speak to that as I'm UK based. For me, as a UK-er, I got a business account (and a credit card at different bank) within a few days and I've never had to do anything in person. Total cost being the £14 for company reg (and later accountant fees because I'm bad at that). For what it's worth, my personal credit was below the toilet when I did all this as well, so no sweetheart Mr Moneybags dealing either.
Better dictionary attacks
Modern Front-End Boilerplate
Could you please give me a link to your github account?(assuming that's where you'll put the source)

I've been wanting to do this for a while but figured out that I lack the knowledge and time to do it properly
I think it is a basic moral principle to stop someone from committing suicide.
How to pick the best learning rate for your machine learning project
And that people generally dislike hackers?
As you point out, there is no difference between "deactivating" and "deleting" your account, because Facebook doesn't delete anything. Either one is just a statement that you will no longer use Facebook. Anything that hurts their MAU numbers is an effective protest. Just look at their stock price in the last month.
The problem is that users see Facebook in a different way than Facebook sees itself. Users see a fun website where they can post pictures of their dog. Facebook sees ways to get companies to pay for access to those users. That disconnect is at the heart of all the issues around Facebook.

Looks like it is time for my 2-monthly repost of The Seven Realities of Social Networking.

https://sheep.horse/2013/10/the_seven_realities_of_social_ne...
i'd agree with this, the indie hackers link is a nice shout out but seems like an after thought. i think saas is good for devs, but the coding skillset creates a barrier to entry... pleasantly surprised info marketing or dropshipping was not mentioned
Wozniak used to be ahead of time, but i can only agree that this is common knowledge now.. Soon we will see "Water makes you wet - S. Wozniak"
No, I believe it's because it's against the law.

They have rules on what they can and can't do because they're publicly funded.

It's to allow the commercial operators a way to compete.

And even if it's not, they have to operate in a political context, the Tories are always looking for an excuse to shutdown the BBC so their donors can pillage the public commons and eat the corpse.
Hopefully the former, but given how most "normal" people tend to respond to these things, most likely the latter.
You are still valuing all government actions at zero dollars. When the government takes ten dollars of tax money and then spends it on a plane, how is that purchase different than if Delta spent 10 dollars on a plane? It's still a transaction and it goes into the economy to create something.

On the flip side youre also valuing all private transactions as being a multiplier. How is it a multiplier when a monopoly just charges higher prices one day with no improvement to their product? That's just extracting money out with no equivalent increase in value, which does not make it a multiplier
Was Edward Snowden the catalyst for change away from tolerating government dragnets?

No, not enough to insist on “liberty [from dragnets] or death”, but it sure made a lot of people more aware about the spying powers of major govnerments on the devices people use every day. The toothpaste of paranoia cannot go back inside the tube of ignorance.

This is that same moment for the private sector. Sadly, as another poster mentioned, people will scathe Facebook and go to Instagram or WhatsApp instead, changing nothing.
This idea is based on the assumption people who'd watch stuff from BBC's old catalogue would, instead, watch Top Gear or Strictly. These are probably a couple different demographics, distinct enough to warrant separate delivery options.
There is always this 1.4 billion plaintext email:password compilation magnet:?xt=urn:btih:7ffbcd8cee06aba2ce6561688cf68ce2addca0a3&dn=BreachCompilation&tr=udp%3A%2F%2Ftracker.openbittorrent.com%3A80&tr=udp%3A%2F%2Ftracker.leechers-paradise.org%3A6969&tr=udp%3A%2F%2Ftracker.coppersurfer.tk%3A6969&tr=udp%3A%2F%2Fglotorrents.pw%3A6969&tr=udp%3A%2F%2Ftracker.opentrackr.org%3A1337
That's interesting. I suppose the written word is just a visual representation that needs to be parsed, natural that there could be thought processes that overlap and conflict with that process. The only similar experience I have is when I'm learning a new tune on the piano - when following the sheet music my mind keeps jumping ahead and trying to work out where the song is going (and also analyzing how I'm playing), whereas working out the tune and playing "by ear" is much quicker for me and doesn't cause any concentration issues. It's a pretty mild and perfectly manageable thing for me though, I can generally force myself to comply, but it takes effort!
I am considering to start a YouTube channel recently, dtube maybe a great alternative. However, apart from a donation, is there any other possible income source for the creator?
The red button was a nice touch. I genuinely laughed.
Facebook Messenger for friend and family that can't use SMS (or understand texting.) Google Voice for everything thing else. I really like Line, Quidd (don't judge) and Telegram. But I use them more as BBS services then a true messenger app.
Just a reminder: HIBP password list only includes passwords from already cracked / plaintext sources.

https://www.troyhunt.com/ive-just-launched-pwned-passwords-v...
There's plenty of snow for skiing in the Midwest. There just aren't any mountains. In Michigan the 'big' places have 500 or 600 feet of vertical, with the modest outlier literally in the middle of Lake Superior, so it takes forever to get there (http://www.mtbohemia.com/ ).
There's no such thing as a "context switching overhead". You don't understand how operating systems work.

The OS context switches to the next available thread at fixed time intervals. It doesn't matter if you have 5 threads or 5000, the number of context switches is the same.

The only difficulty is deciding which thread is the "next available" one. This is the job of the process scheduler.

Normally, the process scheduler is a complex heuristic affair that tries to pick a more deserving thread based on some black magic rules of thumb. Under certain loads this black magic can backfire, picking some threads more frequently while letting others starve.

If you know your workload, you can use a scheduler without magic heuristics. These kinds of schedulers are called "real time". Try them, you'll be surprised.
Under GDPR, Facebook will be facing some serious trouble if they try to continue the not-really-deletion deletion thing, so at least there's some hope for those who reside in Europe on this front.

That said, even for those who are in countries like the US, deactivation and ceasing "engagement" with Facebook is still at least one step better than continuing to actively feed them data.
Um... yes? I'd probably want to know that information. And I'd also know that partying too hard 25 years ago probably doesn't have any bearing on their current behavior. But if they had been to jail for embezzling money? Yeah, I might have a problem with that.

Just give me the information, and let me decide how to interpret it.

The Right To Be Forgotten not only denies me the information in the first place, but it allows someone to selectively curate the information out there about them to tell the story they want to tell about themselves. Sure, maybe partying too hard 25 years ago isn't relevant anymore, but being convicted of child abuse 10 years ago certainly is. If it's just as easy to erase references to the latter as it is for the former, that's a problem. And what perfectly objective and moral party should decide what bits of info are ok to delist, and what should remain? I don't think any of us would trust that such an entity exists.
The financial press is obsessed with blockchain. I’m sure there is something to that (payments? Real estate ledgers?), but this isn’t it.
How has this not been obvious from the start?

I can't be the only one that knew this from the start. Nothing is free.
My farm consists mainly of rx 580 graphic cards. Due to depressed markets, my returns are just okay right now. Luckily my equipment has been paid off since December. To put things in perspective, a single 8GB rx 580 costs around $400 (if you're lucky) and only makes $0.80/day. During the peak at the end of last year, they were making well over $3/day each.
Also : smaller rainbow tables if you have some hashed passwords you want to reverse yourself
CRviz: Initial Release of CyberReboot network visualization tool
This make me to recall a website which claimed NIST P256 ECC Curve is unsafe in some respects.
> To me, a computer "is" processors that step through memory locations interpreting them as operations and operands - not a state machine.

And what is that, if not a state machine with memory? Where the state transitions come from decoding/executing instructions and arguments, and the memory comes from ram/registers.

Although yes, that's kind of getting to a similar theoretical level as object = function.
Evaluate the whole situation and do what's best for you.

You already know that the primary contractor wants you to stay because that's best for themselves, so they are not an unbiased opinion. If you've conveyed to them that the likelihood of meeting the deadlines is small, keeping you around gives them someone to shift the blame to when it's missed.

If you've raised your concerns about the work, and they can't bring in additional help to meet the deadline or are unwilling to adjust the deadline, then there's no more for you to do. Chaos from you leaving, budget cuts, or just poor project management are not your concern.
Microsoft Wants Machines to Understand What They Read
Go and chess are different in that they are designed as a competition for human thinking in a similar way that say marathons are designed to show off human running. Dividing 100 digit numbers less so. Also there was something human like in the way alphazero learns unlike say stockfish which is more calculator like.