skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You mean like the now-dead mugshots.com site that would post information about people accused, but not convicted of crimes, then make their money through extortion -- charging $500 to take down the photo?

Edit: the site is still alive, but the owners have been arrested: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/may/18/mugshot-phot...
Are dog catchers public officials? Here they are contracted by the city. That's a pretty big difference.
It certainly may be, and it's your choice to make (if you wish so) by opting in to targeted advertising.

What's wrong (and, in a few days, illegal) is for the service provider to assume that everyone will prefer that.
Actually no, all keys are strings in JS, and if you use something that isn't a string as a key, it is converted to a string (unless you meant Maps[1], which don't use object notation).

[1]: https://developer.mozilla.org/docs/Web/JavaScript/Reference/...
Erlang certainly can be used to implement an HTTP client, but once you step outside of Erlang's actor model and virtual machine, you lose those benefits that it provides in terms of message passing behavior.
more details here:

https://forum.bitcoingold.org/t/double-spend-attack-on-excha...

Bitcoin gold was a fork to try and decentralize mining. It changed to a proof of work that is supposed to be ASIC resistant. It looks like the typical situation is mining by GPU for equihash (BTG PoW).

BTG hashrate is at ~30MH/s at the moment, where Zcash's hashrate is at ~486MH/s.

I don't have the numbers off hand, but it'd be interesting to see how many GPUs you'd need to pull of a double spend against BTG and if any of the other equihash coins saw a drop off during the attack.

It'd be really interesting if it wasn't a rental attack, but an invested miner just switching over to BTG to achieve the hack.

They reversed 22 blocks, the recommendation is to increase the # of confirmations to rely upon to 50. If you are trying to react to 51% attack doubling the number of confirmations only doubles the cost of attack, and the attacker likely just doubled the number of BTG they have. If they can pay the electricity/rental cost for the attack they have enough BTG to execute the attack in a cost effective manner again.
I remember thinking at the time that the PS1 controller was just like a Snes controller with extended hand grips. They just changed the out the colours / letters for shapes.
That's extremely non-selective - for instance [1] is a random paper discussing ethanol interacting with the 5-HT2A receptors (at least if you are a male rat that is).

It would likely also lead to unforeseen consequences. For example, the Czech government attempted to ban growing Phalaris, but had to backpedal as it's a common unassuming weed.

[1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/9347073
ACH transfer between bank accounts is generally free, especially between accounts at the same bank. They're even blackout ready...you can use these things called "checks" (or "cheques") to execute account transfers.

Also, most CC companies aren't taking 3%+30c per transaction. Visa, for example, is 1.5% plus 10c per transaction. Amex, on the expensive side, was between 1.85% plus 10c and 3.00% plus 10c depending on the type of merchant.

If you don't have a basic factual understanding of how financial transfers actually work, it's not surprising you got rejected from YC.
It makes sense that something like that is needed. Right now, the media is essentially throwing the bones - there isn't really a way to evaluate much less track what's been correct and incorrect over time, so there's no justification on why one system of interpreting the world is any better than any other.

Of course, as the article points out, evaluation is hard. I don't think there's enough of the guts of how this sort of program would work to really call it 'bad' though. (potentially assuming tracking user votes, running in conjunction with something like doc2vec would lead to some cool results for understanding splits in beliefs).
> Which begs the question - what tokens are actually worth trading in the first place?

I think we're getting closer to tokenizing actual securities. Similar to how TrueUSD is tokenizing U.S. Dollars, I think we're fairly close ( 5 years out) from NASDAQ officially tokenizing their stocks ( as an erc20 on the ethereum blockchain)
This has to be my favourite:

https://twitter.com/RealPressSecBot/status/99928406869604761...
I think it's a rather bad example because all that the different Mitsubishi firms share is a name and a logo. They're four independent companies.
Right? Top talent in software engineering can generate billions in revenue through their work. Getting paid $80 per hour to help your client make 2 billion annually? Fuck that.
Yep; docs, ripped jeans and flannel are all really fashionable right now. Feels like high school.
> then why would you adopt it when it's missing important features compared to Scala

Such as?
Curious if this is illegal in anyway?

I suppose there will be increasing incentive to do the numbers on the hash cost to take over a coin and to execute these attacks.

Neat.
What do you mean? C++ does use a colon for inheritance in exactly the same way as Kotlin.
> then why would you adopt it when it's missing important features compared to Scala?

What important features are missing?
If there's one thing we can all agree on about China's flavor of authoritarianism, it's that it's efficient. When they decide to fix something - be it their economy, or their environmental problems, or corruption, or anything else - they just get it done.

Of course, the flip-side of maximal executive power is that it can be abused. In the past that's how authoritarian governments have basically always turned out. But China seems to be getting closer than any other to creating a version that's actually functional. It's scary, but also fascinating to watch from afar.
I could be wrong, but thought a motivation for Kotlin is to get Java-8 and Java-10 power into versions of Android that cant use those levels yet.
Satoshi really downplayed 51% attacks in his/her original whitepaper[1]:

> The incentive may help encourage nodes to stay honest. If a greedy attacker is able to
assemble more CPU power than all the honest nodes, he would have to choose between using it
to defraud people by stealing back his payments, or using it to generate new coins. He ought to
find it more profitable to play by the rules, such rules that favour him with more new coins than
everyone else combined, than to undermine the system and the validity of his own wealth.

Apparently he didn't realize that coins could quickly be transferred to other crypto and not held, so who cares about the value of the stolen goods.

[1] https://bitcoin.org/bitcoin.pdf
Seems pretty standard.
It's ironic that the report criticizes 60 Minutes for being biased while showing its own bias in the same paragraph

> The 60 Minutes report was not exactly fair-and-balanced; it featured an anti-tech-monopoly crusader
, an anti-tech-monopoly activist, an anti-tech-monopoly regulator, and Yelp CEO Jeremy Stoppelman

Characterizing these people, especially Margrethe Vestager, as "anti-tech" (i.e. simply being against technology) when they're just critical of certain aspects and developments in the industry and don't paint such a rosy picture, is very misleading.
I think the military wants to not have deepfakes done to them.

Here's a video of your officer giving orders. Should you obey them? (Note that "no" as an automatic answer is just as bad as "yes". The only correct answer is "yes if authentic, no if not". But how do you know if it's authentic?)
The paper discussed on HN:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17096175
It really reminds me of the dynamic music used in Doom (2016).

In fact my favorite game, Rez, has a central conceit that is much closer to this. The heart of Rez is a 32-channel MIDI engine which continuously plays the game's background music; however, which channels are "active" is controlled by a bitmask that varies depending on which phase of the level you're in, allowing for a constantly shifting sohndscape. Then, additional music that arises from game events is mixed on top of that.
Thanks to AI, a 3rd Person Is Arrested Following a Pop Superstar's Concert
As someone that follows the space partially because it's a really cool story, I am amped about all of the attacks these days! It looks like there weren't any protocol failures or anything that made the attack easier. It's a simple case of 51% attack.

The hashrate for BTG is well below most other coins, a modest miner on another coin could easily switch and execute the attack, then switch back to their main coin and not have to pay large transaction costs for hardware acq or rental costs.
Is that correct? Brief research indicates that it is not.
Few quite understood it was also a full-blown Amiga in there but with looks making it living room friendly - intended to match up with typical hifi or VCR.

It actually had some niche success hidden in early multimedia kiosks and info systems for shops and museums.
It's only the "most plausible" explanation due to the general lack of public explanations.

It's still an extremely poor explanation.
Pretty on the nose. Devices that were little more than slide show players like the Kodak Photo CD player were considered "multimedia." Come to think of it, doesn't Kodak have a "blockchain" technology they demoed recently?

also, hello n-g.
Are you seeing the same what I'm seeing?

If I go to the quantcast link and press 'show purposes', everything is deselected by default as it should be, and if I click 'Save' there then I proceed without having opted in to anything. Sure, the "show purposes" button to refuse is misleading and should be changed, but the 1000 options screen is fine, at least for me.
Ask HN: Help keep my bootstrapped startup running
I’m currently bootstrapping my startup (App Evolved) and have been doing so for the last seven months and I am flat broke. I've resorted to lending money from my parents to pay the accountant and technical (AWS, SendGrid, mLab etc) bill but my parents cannot afford to support me anymore.

Selling my apartment provided the initial investment because approaching multiple VCs lead to no investment. I did ask other family members but that lead to no investment either. My initial investment enabled me to incorporate the company, register the domains, pay a designer for a graphical logo and pay the technical bill for 6 months.

My initial investment is totally depleted. I am starting to panic.

No product is launched. I'm working 9-12 hours a day--sometimes even longer--on the product and it will be launched within the coming months (less than three months). I feel all I need is a little more time and funding before I can launch the product. When my product is launched, everything will change.

I am actively looking for work, as a web application developer, but no employment is being offered yet.

No one else at the company is relying on me for a salary however, I do have an Asian girlfriend whom I’m trying to help.

I really do not want to see my startup fail in this way.

I don’t mind sharing the Business Strategy and Company Overview (https://goo.gl/rgQrGR) so you can verify this is a legitimate business and not a scam.

Would you be able to donate some money so that I can keep my startup running? If you do, I will mention you name and Twitter handle on my company’s about page under “generous lifeline sponsors” and I will keep your details listed for my company's entire existence.

If you are willing to donate, please visit https://www.paypal.me/AppEvolved

If you are not able to donate any money, can you share some advice on how I can keep things afloat? Have you been through a similar situation? How did you keep things running with no capital?
If you look really carefully, you'll notice the highlighted chars make up the word "yellow".

Such design. Much wow.
> Credit cards are our primary form of digital money and their fees are excessive. The basic design was ACH money into the wallet, transfer money between balances for ultra low cost (1%), ACH money out of the wallet.

2% (credit card fee) is "excessive", but 1% is "ultra (!) low cost"?
I'd make a law so that ISPs can't be content/media providers at the same time.

Got to end this insanity.
Headline is clickbait, but one of the things you learn during the process is that what your ex does with the alimony simply isn't under your control. It certainly doesn't have to be any kind of reasonable expense.

The article is unfortunately pretty sloppy with its stats. For example, they say that a woman is the breadwinner in 40% of households. Technically true, but it's only 15% for two-parent households. (And the source doesn't say whether these are even all married and/or male/female marriages.) So, opportunities for the female partner to get stuck with alimony to a guy are still probably relatively rare. (Ask yourself, how many such people do you know?)

That said, I wouldn't wish this on anyone. Never let your spouse stop working, unless you're willing to give them a fraction (possibly >100%) of your future pay.
I'm not banking on it turning out to be a good thing, but I am curious.
That is how my SaaS works.

After a few months of recurring revenue from a company, my app causes them to go bankrupt and stop paying me.

I then find new customers that are impressed I was able to bankrupt a company with my product in only a few months.
Anyone who was paying attention before Snowden knew there was mass surveillance happening. See Room 641A, Stellar Wind, Quest Communication's refusal to cooperate, etc. These were all reported well before Snowden in major media such as the NY Times, LA Times, Washington Post, etc. I remember many of these were first reported back in 2006.

On the other hand, no reports on CIA programs selling crack cocaine to the inner city have ever been described or verified by any major media outlet, as far as I am aware[1]. Nor have I seen any convincing evidence of such a program.

But I'm open to any evidence you can show me, if you have any.

Also, as someone else pointed out, MI6 wasn't founded until a half century after the Opium Wars.

1. Despite many major media outlets—the same ones who outed programs like Stellar Wind—investigating the claims that the CIA smuggled drugs into black communities, they all found that there was no evidence of such a program.
Using AI to Automate Atomic-Scale Manufacturing
> discoveries within the noise of experiments people run every day are not unheard of.

That's also at the edge of the parameter space we're familiar with.
Reallly submitting idea means you loose the IP, even sponsored Hackathons don't have that in their rules/contract.
I started for the glory. Refurbishing keygens and writing ddos perl scripts for irssi.

But the more I learned, the bigger the problems I want to solve, (and create, in some cases) and that drove me to become more dedicated to the discipline of it all.

I'm blessed to have the opportunity to do contracts or work a 9-5 with my skillset, and I can basically live whatever lifestyle I can afford that way.

But yeah, even if I was getting paid 1/5 of what I have now, as long as I can spend my days browsing through disassembly, outsmarting someone, I'd still show up.
GDAX is now Coinbase Pro
I am just going to say two things:
1 it was only a matter of time
2 LoL
I think in the larger cultural context, the public at large is getting more aware of and concerned about data collection. If you don’t have large amounts of PII on EU residents then simmer. If you might, don’t be the one they make an example of.
On the other hand, movie trailers can benefit a lot from this. Of course for trailers you'd need a "creepy 5-year-old singing" slider and a "BWAAAAAAAAAA" slider...
Yeah in the next couple years I'd expect to start seeing smaller PoW chains wither away due to attacks like this and exchanges starting to have prohibitively high conf times as they'll need to protect them selves from attacks like this.

Merchants are probably fine.
I've long been confused why this isn't talked about more. It's seemed very obvious to me that this is exactly what is happening.
Smart people are dumping on this as naïve and impossible [0], while the mastermind behind many disinformation campaigns loves the idea [1].

It only seems impossible because it's never been done, just like rockets self-landing on autonomous ocean drones seemed impossible five years ago.

When people hear "crowdsourcing" they think "free-for-all". But it doesn't have to be that way. With clear rules and strong moderation, it's possible to build a meritocracy of truth.

I would start by logging the predictions of pundits and publishing their win/loss ratios.

Next I'd index news stories published 3+ years ago where hindsight gives us greater certainty what actually happened. That would establish the Bayesian prior of credibility for each organization and author.

You'll always have trolls and propagandists with "evidence" that the world is flat but that's what shadow banning is for.

[0] https://twitter.com/NateSilver538/status/999400424435314690

[1] https://twitter.com/JamesOKeefeIII/status/999370127421378561
If the concern is politicians without skin in the game, how about we instead forbid electing anyone without children? If someone is just an individual without a family or looking toward leaving a legacy for their future offspring, perhaps they're more likely to be over-individualist and not even think about coming generations.
Does anyone know what safety issues they're referring to? Did a Go contributor beat someone (or threaten to)?
The funniest part about this, is that the chain would continue into one of Facebook's products after snap gets it.

I come up with a great idea for storytelling --> Snap says "yeah, that's our's now" --> Facebook says "yeah, we prototyped it in a weekend and folded it into Instagram."
alternatively, they could just ban political ads.
> Careful there. A judge calling Twitter a "public square" might ultimately lead to an extension of Marsh v. Alabama whereby social media platforms will not be able to censor political views they dislike.

The judge didn't call Twitter a “public square”, they called the space created by the @realDonaldTrump account a “public forum”; that's a critical difference.
Yay personal attacks!
There is a difference between being an asshole and being an asshole on tv/radio/twitter.
The only way LBJ was same as Trump would be, if LBJ went on TV everyday and yelled profanity and called people names.
Because that is what Trump does when he rage-tweets every morning.
>So if it loses points for the lack of "extends", why doesn't Java for not having these?

No one said it didn't :)

In general, I personally prefer my languages explicit for a variety of reasons. There's a balance for sure, and one can go too far the other way. For example, I find Rust to be a shade too unwieldy for my optimum preferences, although I would overlook that to gain the safety benefits if I had the right use case.
Not significantly different from underbanked US people who cant obtain unsecured credit cards or a checking account by have a low FICA score or ban in CheckSystems.
There are a lot of things I miss. Case objects, macros, string contexts, (built-in) options as single-element collections, tuples, built-in either, abstract/self types, implicits, etc. We can argue about "importance" or even if those are good things, but we can't pretend that there aren't many missing features. Granted these days I appreciate Kotlin more than Scala, but that is more about tooling and backing.
May the West always lack the stomach to do what Mao did.
Crypto currencies are worthless unless they have an enormous amount of hashing power behind them.

We could really do with a webpage with a list of crypto currencies, the hashing power currently behind them, and how much it would cost somebody to take over 50% of the network.

Or does that already exist?
Writing Off the Subject
I don't have an opinion on BTC vs. BCH, but I think network innovation through competition of these coins is ultimately a good thing. The free market will dictate what each of them is worth for different use cases. In any case, increased competition will increase the quality of Bitcoin and cryptocurrency as a whole.
>You may say not all rap is this way

That's correct.

>but the truth is that most popular rap is this way.

Why is this the case? I mean, doesn't it make you wonder whether it's the music or our culture overall that is the real problem?
What you're talking about is a photon drive, which still obeys conservation of momentum. The EMDrive was (claimed to be) reactionless, and a genuine reactionless drive would shatter physics at the foundations.

In addition to the other replies, a working EMDrive would imply that the results of physics calculations would depend on your choice of coordinate system, because of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noether%27s_theorem, which would be absurd.
I use POP3 for fetching mail from my remote mail server, and I don't want to keep mail on it (my current pipeline is: mpop > procmail (clamav, spamassassin) > gnus (nnsplit & nnml)). This does not bar me from using IMAP locally to sync mail among my devices (which is a problem I haven't handled yet, mostly because has not really been necessary for me up until now). But because I don't use folders and spam checkers on the remote, and never keep mail there, using IMAP to communicate with it is unnecessary.
It makes no sense. Why do I need a separate app to view a web site? That's right. I don't. I always have to switch the the desktop version on my phone. They had to go out of their way to hinder their mobile web site and make it nag to install the app.
Just to answer that question can take more time from engineers and lawyers than it's worth for a small userbase.
Yes. One of my best friends was an addict and died by Fentanyl OD. That is exactly how she thought.
I heard a variation on this: it's not big data until it can't fit in RAM in a single rack.
But China has THE strictest drug law anywhere on the planet. China doesn't consume those drugs, it is because there is a market so they are creating those drugs. Why didn't Canadian government just ban it? Put those dealers into jail and grab their profit? Stricter law enforcement works.
It is true that the other side doesn’t play fair any more

Jesus, what a sad article. Which obviously fails to mention the Venezuelan populism, or the Podemos party in Spain, and similar ones.
I'm not sure why the article is speculating about a "seismic" change. Apple (and Microsoft and Google have followed) has established a pattern for their OS evolution: yearly incremental updates.
Maybe all that energy spent to secure the chain is not so bad after all.
If I cut and paste some code, even if not from Stack Overflow I'll document it. Partly because I want to attribute the code correctly, but also so that someone later can go back to the original source. The original source may have additional documentation, explanations, assumptions, etc. that people in the future may want to know. Plus it helps to know that this block of code is an external cut and paste and that modifying it should be done more carefully than other code.

This tends to only be for tricky or time-consuming algorithms. RGB to HSL/HSV, is point in a polygon, hash function, etc. Those point-in-polygon functions in particular can be densely optimized to the point that it is not obvious a) how it works, b) what the original algorithm was.
> protect idiots from their own stupidity

It's not idiocy, it's vulnerability, and it's not the magic result of "their stupidity", but of exploitation.

Why should people who are either so useless they have to prey on others, or so fucked in the head that they do it even though they could do something useful, be protected?
It's not worth it, Java is getting better and more feature rich that improves programmer productivity. Kotlin is like a cool JavaScript library in the market.
People keep on misusing "brutalist". This isn't brutalist whatsoever, it's anti-design. [1]

[1]: https://www.nngroup.com/articles/brutalism-antidesign/