skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This. Its highly problematic when these people are in positions where they are able to derail efforts to stabilize by insisting upon RCA first-and-only.

Seen this everywhere. Been on both sides of this. Learned to be humble from the experience.
Fun article but you and I just know someone is gonna ignore the warnings at the top and put this into production on some site.
Tangent, but just wanted to thank you, Colin, for piquing my interest in Maths at a talk you held when I was at school. It was maybe a decade ago now, but putting 2 and 2 together and seeing you on HN is a very surreal thing indeed!
I don't think you have to go as far as comparing it to religion. Diagnosing the field as being (currently) overhyped should be enough to explain your observations. However, Kissinger's article [1] raises worthwhile and important questions that really should be discussed broadly.

[1] https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2018/06/henry-k...
His frustration is justified. He's calling out the massive hypocrisy of claiming to be liberal and about "social justice" while doing everything possible to exclude people from housing even to the point of forbidding a church from housing people.

This is a problem across the state. Here in SoCal they talk about wanting to be a sanctuary city/state while also opposing any new construction or any other measure to address housing. I suppose all these sanctuary seekers will live up unicorn butts. I don't have a problem with immigrants but we must build housing to meet demand.
I agree on the assessment of the article, however not with the conclusion that blockchain is driving this market alone - its certainly there, but I don't know any ML practitioner who answers 'how many gpu's' with anything other than 'how many can I have/afford ?' We're starting to get more and more projects reporting their processing time in GPU/years - the singularity is bull, but ML ain't going away:-) That said, if people start dumping their mining rigs, I'm on ebay looking for them :-D
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They are simply reselling it for profits. iPhone Trading in Grey Market are billion dollar business, not to mention US tends to get allocated the most iPhone per stores, and are one of the cheapest worldwide.

* The cheapest is actually iPhone in Japan, but due to hardware enabled sound when taking photos as required by law, there aren't any demand for Japanese iPhone.
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> “It’s fuel, consumables, and I don’t even want to tell you what our satellite bill is for data,”

Interesting - the circumference of the earth is roughly 40 thousand km. If these could manage to lift an antenna either 140m (or equivalently 70m for all participants) - distance to Horizon should be roughly 40 km. So a thousand boats could form a theoretical relay net around a theoretical line in the ocean reaching around the globe.

More to the point, with a fidonet-/usenet-like stop-and-forward system - it might be viable to get data to land quicker than waiting for the drone to arrive with hard drives - and with greater/cheaper bandwidth than via satellite?
Variable interest rates are only disastrous if you ignore affordability in the future as rates increase. You should know at what rates the adjustments will hurt you and at which rates the adjustments will break you. Downside if that most people only base affordability on the current rates ( if they even consider affordability at all ).
You act like all of these kids (and that’s what they are when taking loans, kids) have a support structure and education that’s taught them how to make good long term financial choices. Not everyone has good parents who taught them finances, never mind long term life planning.
Havens for library lovers? Yes!
I've only lived in small finnish town's of 15 000 people. Currently in Kuusamo, where father of irc (Jarkko Oikarinen) is from. IMHO, most of these town's are bleak APART from the libraries.
Sure, selections are often small & dated, it's hard to find anything programming related that's not HTML, C# or java. It's not all bad - my current location has surprised me with a math book from 2017.
Kindle is still essential for me to learn things. Maybe not everything like languages that have audio cd's on the back or painting that rely on the pictures. Technology related fields tends to move quickly. And it's cool to store documents of your own.
All i need is a kindle and a notebook (one with pen and paper). One gripe i have with books was holding pages open with one hand and writing notes down in other. This is annoyance with small page books mostly.
Ergonomics aside, i found surprising that some libraries have all these gizmos. I find it ridiculous, but where else could these urban crowds go to?

This week i had to do a movie review, i don't really watch film's or show's so i don't have netflix or anything. Library was a easy solution to this. And you get to chat with the clerk about the film while at it.

So while i find libraries filling with these ridiculous gizmos, i agree that there are more use cases for libraries than reading itself.
What I am trying to point out is that bittorrent is a well established protocol with a long list of client implementations[1]. 17 years[2] after the release of its original client in python, a particular library implementing the exact same protocol in a specific language is not a "news" - when this site is called "Hacker News".

In 2018, when it comes to bittorrent, I'd expect to see _real_ news/discussions, just a few examples on top of my head -

1. recent large scale measurement results, e.g. how many concurrent users in 2018, how many are using the selfish-and-trouble-making Xunlei, mobile usage, etc.

2. any sybil attack recently observed in its DHT? progress on sybil attack detection and prevention.

3. frameworks for scraping contents on bittorrent

4. recent progress on NAT traversal

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_BitTorrent_clien...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BitTorrent_(software)
> That policy would basically allow large groups of trolls to basically lock that guy,

That. It's not theoretical, it's an existing usage pattern. See "brigading"

https://www.reddit.com/r/OutOfTheLoop/comments/36xhxc/what_i...
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Discord's new Privacy Policy takes effect on May 25th, 2018
It’s almost like 18 year olds don’t have a firm grasp on how to manage their future. Especially when they’ve been brainwashed to believe College is the only way they’ll have a future.
I was a HOPE recipient at Georgia Tech. I took a random signals class from Mark Clements which had its basis in probability and statistics. He brought up the regressive nature of the lottery and the ethics of it: the expected value of these games is negative and in the case of scratch games, so negative that you can't even easily assign a dollar value to how bad it is. The state markets these games even though they aren't in citizens best interests. The state has given itself a monopoly on these games, so there is no competition to the poor payouts. If you look at who plays lottery games in Georgia, it's mostly lower class people transferring their wealth to middle and upper class families.
Still, this is a trend I will have nothing to do with if at all possible. And besides subscriptions, version 7 will only sync using their back-end, which is not acceptable for me.

On one hand, password managers in browsers are becoming nearly good enough to cover for 80% of my use cases, and most of the other 20% boil down to convenience (ease of pasting, updating, etc.)

I don't like the idea of being forced to move to a subscription on my Mac and on iOS for diminishing returns in feature improvements -- and I've been using 1Password for many years now, so the need to finance new features is something that I understand but have seen little return from.

By all means ensure you can sustain revenue, but beware of inflated subscription prices.

(I've been keeping tabs on alternatives for a while now, so I will likely not upgrade to 1Password 7)
It forces you to call using the National Network, which are all monitored anyway.

I am surprise iMessages Still works in China though.
The trust is still decentralized unless coinbase someday drops external blockchain interop, i have a hard time imagining exactly how that could come to pass
Very kind - thank you. Feel free to email me to get/be/stay in touch, and to let me know what you're doing.
Intel is struggling with their manufacturing method, but they aren't wed to it. Everyone is struggling with EUV.

ASML - the guys who make the stuff that all the fab houses use, said that they only shipped 10 EUV machines in 2017. Intel's public statements on EUV is that they will use it when its ready.

TSMC and GF both manufacture their newest large scale production nodes using the same basic technique as Intel (hilarious amounts of exposures and layers at 193nm).

Everyone except Intel has said that they only plan to start rolling out EUV built chips in the later half of this year into next year.

No manufacturer has gained ground with EUV in their products yet.
I would argue the majority if not all of those websites didn’t exist for people who are struggling today. For new students, sure. But someone struggling in this situation didn’t have these resources in early 00’s.
> Stevens said. "If the same energies used to organize neighbors around minor parking issues, young girls choirs, and 'nasty tweets' were honed to fight actual injustices, Palo Alto would be a very different city. Palo Alto needs more action, less lip service."

That seems accurate.
We get DNA not just from viruses, but also vesicles. All cells, from humble bacteria all the way to our relatively huge and dynamic human cells, package snippets of DNA to send to other cells.

It's like a message in a bottle, thrown out into the "sea" of our atmosphere. Or an email, and viruses are spam.

Previously on HN:

Cells Talk in a Language That Looks Like Viruses. [0]

800 million viruses fall onto every square meter of Earth every day. They kill 20% of bacterial life every day. [1]

Video simulation of HIV infecting a cell and reproducing. [2]

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17005810

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16839636

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16982396
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Sorry I should have been clearer. My point was not that checks are amazing. My point is checks have been free my parents times in the 60s and 70s. Checks switched to electronic checks in the early 90s. My father hasn't sent a paper check since 1991 when billpay first started and quicken started supporting it.

Free since at least the 70s is in contrast to Japan today which is still $3 to $8 per transaction.
My understanding is that you have to be able to remove PII like usernames, email addresses, and such. The actual message sent to other recipients is not covered, but the envelope information would be. For envelope look up (sender, recipient), have those as hashes that are in a look up table. If the sender sends you a GDPR request, delete them from your hash look up and display "user deleted" as the "from" user on the message.

Obviously, run this through your lawyer as I am not one.
It's easy to nitpick at this particular author for the choices she's made but I think that skips a really important aspect of the larger situation: structural changes to the economy/jobscape that are working against people.

The article I keep re-reading is this one from the highline -

https://highline.huffingtonpost.com/articles/en/poor-millenn...

If the author had made the exact same college/career choices 20/30yrs ago - the outcome very likely would have been much different.
#1 : Is it this article? [1] http://www.gwan.com/blog/20160405.html
As long as it not fills with water, I'd say it will right it self.

On a traditional boat the sails can dig down in the water and needs to be released rather quickly, and you don't want the hatch to be open, but neither of this seems to be a problem here.
In the early 2000s it was really nice being able to replace a dead Socket A motherboard (bad capacitors) with one that was several years newer, not only bringing a system back to life but adding new capabilities and improving performance, and for competitive retail prices instead the premiums you pay for new-in-box EOL hardware.
Good timing that I moved all my passwords from 1Password to Emacs and GPG one year ago. It’s a pity; I’ve been a very happy customer for a long time, had licenses for multiple machines and was happy enough to pay for the updates.

But my data shall be my data, again. I’m not paying for an app that I regularly have to buy an upgrade for and which doesn’t give me the opportunity to hold my data locally after explicitly having this as a selling proposition for many years.
> An US citizen with a masters degree could basically immediately get a 5 year Schengen visa.

Maybe I'm wrong but I was under the impression you needed a job (sponsor) first. Why should a US citizen waving a masters degree around be given the right to work?
There's a golang wrapper for libui written by the same author [1], if that's of interest. Same standard of documentation, though.

[1]: https://github.com/andlabs/ui
Probably so, but fellow pastors should have counseled him that if he spent as much energy at prayer as he did tweeting at "a small group of progressive ministers and Leftist political activists to whom my rants were geared" (haha wut? that's not how online works) he would never have had these difficulties.
This article takes a preliminary paper on Rats and turns it into a sensational article; the paper is titled “Intermittent fasting for three months decreases pancreatic islet mass and increases insulin resistance in Wistar rats”

Full abstract: https://www.endocrine-abstracts.org/ea/0056/ea0056p519

The full paper isn’t out yet it seems.
You've been here for over a year, shouldn't that be enough time to look at the rules once or otherwise realize Hacker News is not strictly for "news", and indeed the definition of good content for HN doesn't even mention news or new-ness?

You want to see content covering new developments for Bittorrent? Submit it instead of complaining that others content isn't revolutionary enough.
I have been using Bitwarden for some time now. It’s an open source password manager. There are apps for all major platforms and extensions to all major browsers. Checkout https://bitwarden.com/
"The Hawaiʻian creation myth relates that the present cosmos is only the last of a series, having arisen in stages from the wreck of the previous universe. In this account, the octopus is the lone survivor of the previous, alien universe."

( https://archive.org/details/oceanicmytholog02dixogoog )
Here is raw text of mail from support team that I got on May 15, 2018:

Discord <noreply@discordapp.com>
15.05.2018, 11:58
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We're updating our Privacy Policy
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Hey <username>,

By now, you've probably read dozens of emails exactly like this one, so we'll keep it brief like shorts. Or briefs :thinking:

We're updating our privacy policy in preparation for the EU's General Data Protection Regulations (GDPR) later this month. Although these changes are spurred by European law, we think privacy is super important and so these changes will apply to everyone, no matter where you're located.

Here's a quick summary:

- We aren't asking to collect more data or use your personal data differently — instead, we're being more specific on how we use the information we collect, how long we keep that data, and the rights you have regarding it.

- As part of that, we're also adding information about how you can control the usage of your personal data and download the data that you've provided to us.

- Finally, we're providing more clarity around the legal bases we use to process your information, including providing the service to you, complying with the law, improving our improving our services, fighting abuse on the system, and developing new features for you.

For the full scoop, you can review our _updated privacy policy here: https://discordapp.com/privacy_. It takes effect **May 25th, 2018**. By using Discord on or after that date, you'll be agreeing to the changes. If you have questions about these changes, feel free to reach out to us at privacy@discordapp.com: mailto:privacy@discordapp.com.

Appreciate ya,

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Ask HN: Are there any crash reporting services that play nicely with GDPR?
I (an EU citizen) run a small SaaS service and use a couple of third-party crash reporting services. Depending on the type of crash or error that occurs, the report could include any kind of personal information that my service handles. The services I am using aren't run by EU companies, and don't have any policies related to the GDPR, so as I understand I can't legally use them after May 25th.

Are there any crash reporting services that have a GDPR compliant privacy and retention policy, and even better, automatically anonymise the content of any crash report they receive?
> never going to have enough

“Hey Siri show me cat videos”

“Here are some videos I found of ‘cat’ on the web:” «Link to YouTube page saying “About 79,900,000 results”»
Let me throw in their excellent cheese selection.
Oh wow, this is my father's site! Will try to get him here to answer questions, if anyone is interested.
Hacker News is a bit of a misnomer. The guidelines are clear as to what's appropriate to submit:

> "On-Topic: Anything that good hackers would find interesting. That includes more than hacking and startups. If you had to reduce it to a sentence, the answer might be: anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity."

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

It need not be new or news.
I'm glad they're at least offering non-subscription licenses. I hate feeling like I'm having to buy the software over and over again, just to get security updates.

While 1Password works better than the rest of the pack, they're not exactly a fountain of new, needed features.
Excellent. Multiply by 10 if you have dogs.
How do you expect people to study without beer?

It’s a human right in Scandinavia.
They're marketed at that target segment to avoid the problems that came with not providing a state-sponsored version of those services. If you look back at the history of the lottery, it started out as black market, unregulated gambling that led to violence and other crime as the people running the often-fixed games fought over the right to fleece people. The modern, state-run lotteries just provide an outlet for gambling that would happen anyways.
I thought this wasn't allowed by EU?
Completely defeats any chance of a competitive transportation market cross-border.

That said - I wish they would do it in my eu country too.
It would be cheaper on the taxpayer - even if he/she doesn't use public transportation.
You did not mention the consequences of Amazon’s actions which are a net positive for people.

Amazon underprices and offers a better service like Prime with 2-day delivery. Competitors start freaking out and begin launching responses to tackle this. Industry changes for the better.

So yes. Capitalism at its finest. Offer a better price or a better product to compete in a marketplace.

Without Amazon, the brick & mortars would have never begun to think about such things like a better online experience, online-to-store pickup, etc.
You can't really default on student loans. Even if you go bankrupt they don't go away. It's created a huge amount of moral hazard for lenders, and this is the result.
They're still selling standalone versions for MacOS & Windows that run off local storage. Doesn't seem like they're doing multi-OS license bundles anymore, though, so it's gonna run expensive if you use more than one OS.
CONGRATS! you now understand the time value of money and usury.

Conversations like this will allow us to hopefully evolve beyond the current fiat central banking system.

Read the Federal Reserve's Primary Mandate.
Full Employment.

Your student loan is a great example of the systematic slavery each one of us are born into.

Change will only come from education. Keep the commi bastards from trying to claim utopia via central planning.

Thank Bill Clinton and JP Morgan Chase for the
Student Loan Reform Act of 1993 - Amends the Higher Education Act of 1965 ( HEA) to replace the Federal Family Education Loan (FFEL) Program, under which ...

https://www.congress.gov/bill/103rd-congress/house-bill/2055

Loan limits and underwriting guidelines greatly expanded post 1993. If you want to see the effects lookup the WSJ's article on this sometime back in 2008-2012 or charts of student loan origination volume from 1980- current.

https://www.newyorkfed.org/studentloandebt/index.html

Skyrocketed Tuition Chart: (see increase post 1993)
http://www.businessinsider.com/this-chart-shows-college-tuit...

Lumina Foundation's Student Loan Explosion Study: How did we get here?
https://lookingback.luminafoundation.org/wp-content/uploads/...
Then you distrust grocery stores, too?
> I stopped trusting Amazon at step 3 and only shop there if they actually have the cheapest option.

This should be the default whenever/wherever possible.
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I think his point was the money is not being taken from them forcibly by the state, as is the case with a tax. One could rightly argue that the state should also not be in the lottery business. In this case though there is no coercion.
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Unless I’m saving at least 10% off or at minimum $20 by not buying an item at Amazon, I don’t really give a shit if I pay more. It’s just too convenient.

I always laugh when people say “It’s cheaper!” somewhere else and then it turns out it’s only by like 4 bucks.
The first link contains a list of 3 (three) libraries. I personally would not call that "long". Anyways, your opinion is much appreciated, I'll make sure to check with you next time I decide to post something on HN.
I think that much is clear but I would take it one step further and ask: how to counter this effort so less businesses and customers fall victim to Amazon’s game?
Might be a solution in search of a problem: https://www.technologyreview.com/s/409710/whale-inspired-win...
> it talks about interfacing with a library which implements a bittorrent client API

Which is a valid way of building a piece of software commonly called a "bittorrent client". HTTP client isn't used in the same way, but "building a download manager using curl" would be a fair comparison.
Immediate answer to question is no.

Gamifying something like this ends up with people more likely to put token efforts in order to keep a streak. They'd post simple quotes from the book just to keep the streak for example. That behaviour takes away from the overall experience of the site. Basically it's the wrong kind of behaviour to reward.
So the solution to a problem of unaffordability is to have Uncle Sam pay for it and take it out of the tax payer's pocket? That lady couldn't pay for her expensive education, so I should?

Since I graduated 15 years ago, the public University I went to has increased costs significantly and massively improved student amenities. Baristas and rock climbing walls and whatnot. Why? It improves rankings and people will still pay for it, subsidized by student debt. If, say, people actually had to be able to afford the bill, I bet all the expensive nonsense and massive staff beuracracy would shrink in no time and the schools would go back to costs being classrooms and books.