skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I just took a random survey of 5 people around me. 5 out of 5 didn't know that, and assumed Apple had a copy of their fingerprint.

The point, in case you missed it? The fact that privacy is not actually given up doesn't matter. People are willing to give it up to gain some perceived benefit.
>The big players have drastically pushed up developer comp. The "maybe" money that might come from a best-case startup exit isn't holding up well against the RSUs of the big players. I have friends pushing total comp north of 400K / year at the usual suspect companies. Over a five-year-span-till-liquidity your "maybe" money is competing against a near-guaranteed $2M in comp.

I can second this. But it's not just the money though. One big thing for me is lack of actual vacation/sick time accrual in favor of this "unlimited PTO" nonsense. It leads to a culture where no one ever feels comfortable taking vacation or sick time (the obvious goal of the policy), and work life balance is a nightmare as a result.
What's the flamewar topic?
> This title might seem like generated by a Markov Chain on Hacker News submissions, but it is real.

I smiled. But a more plausible Markov-chain headline might be "Using GraalVM to Run Native Java with Rust, Machine Learning, and the Gut Microbiome".
I know a guy with a pricey propane-based one (he runs a propane company) that works really well too, but that seemed out of OP's budget. The propane breaks down into CO2 and water plus heat.
Good points. I don't think going completely cashless is the answer to all problems, I was just providing some counterpoints to the idea that there were "no downsides" to cash.

> but I can count a few pieces of paper fairly quicky.

You may be able to, but I guarantee there are millions (billions?) of folks who cannot count quickly and/or do the basic arithmetic necessary (quickly, or sadly at all in some cases) for a transaction.
Given his past actions, why give him the benefit of the doubt? He has proved to be a liar and a shill for the telcos.

He lied about the FCC's fake DDoS attack and refuses to investigate all the bots on the FCC's comment site as the NN open commenting period was coming to a close.

He's the Scott Pruitt of the FCC.
I am Swedish and have started to use cash as my primary way of spending money. By doing so, I've found that I am more reluctant to purchase expensive items and that it also will lower shops tracking ability.

I really hate the new standard of cashless. It's so stupid and a lot of people are defending it without realizing potential consequences this can have.

If a store doesn't provide an ability to pay with cash, then I am most likely not going to purchase anything from that store.
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Agree. Paysa is off their rocker for ranking the comp from a private company like Uber vs the comp from a public company like Google. (https://www.paysa.com/company-rank)

RSU grants from big public companies are the new/old way to get ahead in tech.
but cashless is easier. Cashless is "I waved my watch at the register".

No, it's not. I keep seeing people futzing with their phone, or using some combination of affinity card, credit card, and EBT card that takes forever to process. Then there's "hosted POS in the cloud", where it takes five seconds for each transaction step as it goes out to some overloaded server. The credit card terminal and the POS terminal can get out of sync, so you get a false "Chip malfunction" message if you put in your card too soon.

Here in Silicon Valley, the contactless card thing seems to have come and gone. I see "No Apple Pay" and "No Google Pay" labels taped over the RF card reader at many retailers.
Author here: we did? Pretty well documented issues w JSON and YAML (coming from CloudFormation perspective). Both have problems (that are unique to each) so we created a format for solving that.

If you like JSON and YAML and don't mind those issues you are well served by existing solutions. Cheers!
There are a few places by me where they've made apartments above a bunch of stores.

I'm in NY, Long Island specifically and they all get converted to Senior or Luxury apartments that cost way more than the average person can afford. But that's getting a bit off topic.

But it would be interesting to have some of those big places converted into cheap apartments. It's like you'd be getting a discount for having ads on your place of residence.
I love it, mentioned it the other day in the thread about MBP gripes. One cable to connect everything. Way better than the older days of plugging in power, usb, displayport cables (and ethernet if thats your thing).
Couldn't I VPN to some PlayStation Network server, "you know, for games and stuff", and just access the entire internet from there?
Thanks. I removed the spot lighting on Earth - accidentally left that code from when I had a specular map. Also increased ambient light on the night side based on feedback below.
The article has the banks moaning that handling cash will cost them kr100 million per year. Fees that will be passed on to account holders.

I'm curious if Swedish banks passed on that kr100 million savings to their account holders when they stopped taking cash in the first place.

Reminds me of when ATMs first became widespread in the U.S. in the late 70's. The banks kept saying they were the wave of the future, and would save people tons of money because tellers wouldn't be needed anymore.

And yet bank fees went up anyway. So much for saving people money!
How about bleaching low-value notes, and printing high-value designs on top of them?
IMHO if you haven't conquered the willpower part, you don't have your finances in order by definition.
Whisky from a German Glen? The E.U. Won’t Drink to That
And a UK Mastercard used abroad (in the EU) attracts (nearly) 3% commission on purchases.
Most of the repelled rules were in effect only since 2014. I don't remember the web being a terrible place before 2014.
He's a tool's tool. That giant mug? He literally mugs[1] for a corporation's product that is flavored sugar for children. He knows what he's doing.

[1] "mug" v. slang (orig. Theatre). a. intr. To pull a face, esp. in front of an audience or camera, to grimace; to over-act.
This. I joined a moderately successful startup (good acquisition where founders made > $1 m) and the rewards were not worth the risks as an early employee. Also, the RSUs are low risk, high rewards at the "usual suspects". Unless you love working on a small team with more autonomy, but without comfortable resources and losing sleep over whether your company will be there next week, I just don't see the attraction of joining a startup as an early employee. You can learn a whole lot from a "usual suspect", where the world's experts reside, and a whole team of competent and hard-working people are also.

With that said, I'm super interested in how we can make it better for early employers, and the obvious solution is to give them more equity. Why do founders get over 10x early employees ? Just doesn't seem fair.
I echo the comp aspect. I pretty much had a best case non-unicorn startup exit; wonderful benefits pre-acquisition, actual unlimited PTO, and normal ~40hr/workweek, acquired almost immediately after receiving my shares, golden handcuffs after. My total comp was more or less equivalent to my peers doing the big 4 grind over the same time period. They had zero risk and I had to win the start up lotto.

But if I had to do it all over again, I still might do the startup route. It's just more fun. There's more to life than money.
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> I believe, as you said, diesels also have lower CO2 emissions per mile than gasoline engines.

There was a massive push following the Kyoto Treaty to reduce CO2 emissions. From 1996, when separate emissions standards for diesel/gasoline engines were introduced in the EU, diesels initially were allowed less than half the emissions of gasoline engines, though since 2005 it's been exactly half. Combined with this, many countries moved vehicle taxation to being based on CO2 emissions of the vehicle, providing a financial incentive for diesel powered cars.

As for the cause of the various emissions: NO_x emissions are mostly a function of combustion temperature, AFAIK, whereas PM is indeed caused by incomplete combustion.
Appreciate your insight!
It has some great points.

> When amateurs [play tennis], they don’t edge each other out by being slightly more skillful. Instead, it’s a contest of who makes the fewest huge, gaping blunders.

I actually find this idea relevant to so many areas in life. Most of us are just about average in most of the things. It is frequent that hunting down the most critical "huge mistakes" is the easiest way to improve dramatically in a certain field. I feel like doing so just gives you the most bang for your buck, and therefore should often take precedence over slightly improving more general abilities (through a lot of hard work, usually).
So, is there any chance net neutrality is coming back?
They even have braille.
Agreed, but saying "because I said so" doesn't really communicate your concerns. "I shouldn't have to because..." tends to help promote mutual understanding.
If you ask a vegan of what types of 'meat' you can get in a grocery store they will have a more nuanced answer though.
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2018/01/50-senators-will...

http://www.ncsl.org/research/telecommunications-and-informat...

All Democrats and only one Republican supported it in the Senate. In state legislatures, all bills were proposed by Democrats.

There's one party that is destroying Net Neutrality, and one party that is trying to save it.
I wouldn't beat yourself up over it. As other commenters have pointed out, nobody knows or could have known where Bitcoin was going to go, unless they were in control of substantial liquid leverage and knew that they could constrain supply indefinitely.

And even then, holding a corner on supply of an untested asset is still no guarantee it will perform. Sergey Brin and Larry Page tried to sell Google to excite.com for a paltry $5MM ... and Excite turned them down. Even they, who of all people should have had the utmost confidence in the future (and control over supply)of their own brainchild asset, didn't fully understand the significance of what they were sitting on.
Your assertion seems off... Sure, the US federal government may spend far more money than any individual corporation or mega-wealthy person today, but who controls the spending? Corporations and wealthy individuals are simply using leverage today, buying influence with legislators via lobbying and campaign donations, to guide government spending.
I can’t think of any pros. Most startups I worked at had long hours and shitty pay, with a hefty dose of koolaid. Most lacked any sort of business plan besides “raise more money”.

Stock options at startups are worthless, since there’s no market for them and the terms are terrible.

Why make $90k at a startup with some worthless options, when you can work at an established company for $150k+ and get options that are already worth something.
Well, it was a Renault 21 with a carburetor, and it had only 150K kms for over 20 years and nice use. It used to work great in Izmir where it was warm but when I attended University at Ankara where it was freezing, it required more than 3 ignitions, keeping it above 2.5k RPM and the handle (I do not know its Enligsh name) must be on (https://youtu.be/jLfnwRavuy8?t=1m4s) which pumped more gas so cold weather was reduced, I guess. But it might happen in kinda in warm weather too, at 5C
Reboot the internet with IPv6 and now all your internal devices will be openly addressable to the internet. I see nothing good coming from that.
This is obviously cultural, but the very idea of a bank that refuses to handle cash somehow feels antithetical to the very purpose of personal banking. I can't imagine a bank in the US doing that, nor can I imagine hoq fast their customers would revolt!
Small turbodiesels were way ahead of small gasoline engines for decades in fuel economy, power, and so forth. Diesel, which uses direct injection and compression ignition, has always been a natural fit with turbocharging, which makes them intrinsically suited to the paradigm of a small engine for efficiency with a turbo for power. They also intrinsically have great low-end torque, which complements the top-end power of turbos.

Turbo gasoline engines were hard to make well, I gather mostly due to predetonation. Gasoline engines historically use manifold injection and spark ignition, which limits compression ratios. However, with advances in technology, particularly in engine computers & sensors, small turbo gas engines have recently become far more competitive.

So, basically, from the vantage point of 2018 turbodiesels might seem like a questionable choice- but ten or twenty years ago, good small turbocharged gasoline engines mostly didn't exist.
What I've noticed is the lead time for all sorts of things used in small embedded systems has gotten terrifyingly long. What says to me that there is a lot of embedded work going on.

Also in the last 5 years people have abandoned the JVM as a end all be all platform which puts you squarely back into native code again.
Ask HN: How do you handle project level imports in Python?
I have python project called xyz. It has a directory structure like this:

xyz/
__init__.py
a.py
b.py
c.py

At the top of a.py, I'd like to be able to say something like from c import some_func.

From what I can tell, there are many, many different ways to accomplish this.

I haven't been able to find anything though that is both a) automated and b) clean.

How do you handle this your python projects?
Sure, and Mulvaney is really going to "streamline" the CFPB...

Why is it always "removing regulations" == "removing things that protect the average person from predation"

The small government/less regulations argument is just a dog whistle for unfettered corporatism.
http://www.zoomorama.com/slark/01-ea01279b3194535ef039af3a56...
> It is a matter of record that some local politicians made speeches about how the new freeway would benefit the original city it runs through. I think they use the phrase "tortured truth" to express how these statements reflect what actually happened.

Does anyone have any more info on the meaning and usage of the term "tortured truth."

I've been looking for new, concise ways to refer to a dishonest use of selectively chosen truth to mislead.
> I joined a startup and the rewards were not worth the risks as an early employee.

Which risks did you take?
This system has no way to detect obstacles (not even radar.) So probably at some point.
There's no innovation in this sector. It needed Apple to kick Ti's sorry ass to get us to Ti 83 even instead of the Ti 82. It says quite a lot every Thunderbolt enclosure uses this chip: there are no other USB PD controllers (USB PD is used to negotiate Alternate Modes).

Another example: you can buy a small and cheap USB C to DisplayPort adapter with power passthrough (< 20 USD). You can buy a (relatively) small and cheap USB C to dual DisplayPort MST hub (<50 USD). You can not buy a USB C to dual DisplayPort MST hub with power passthrough unless it's a full dock, huge in size and expensive (200 USD at least).
+1 to this. 10 years ago you couldn't make 400K at Google, Facebook, Microsoft, etc. Now you can.

Startups made a lot more sense when your opportunity cost was 50-150K per year.
The math on this is even more direct, as you can take the differential in salary and invest directly into early stage companies that interest you, trading technical advising for access to seed rounds. You often end up with more equity (on better terms) than you would have had as an early employee, with less risk.
Didn't Wells Fargo get in trouble a couple of years ago for laundering money for Mexican drug cartels?
Any condescension is your perception only; not my intent.
Thank you. Correction made.
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I'm excited because this makes it so much easier to get started with Greengrass. Java, NodeJS, and Python with a full IoT service behind it... and compatible with AWS Lambda. Seems likely they'll add Go soon too.
I agree. They already sell Smartwater. Because it has got electrolytes.
Missing the point on microservices, it's about testing/deploying independently
This is a theory that has no backing evidence with this specific issue.
You can already do this.
> Most of the repelled rules were in effect only since 2014. I don't remember the web being a terrible place before 2014.

The now-repealed rules were a codification of the pre-2014 status quo.
No, not $100M - 100M Kronor, which is about 1/10th of $100M.
Russia is not part of, nor "recently" founded from, nor relatively heavily influenced by, Western Europe.

I don't know why there's a rush to identify as Western; usually it's used pejoratively.
"22 percent couldn’t pay off their balance"

Incorrect. Apparently a lot of users intentionally chose to not pay it. The original study (link: https://lendedu.com/blog/bitcoin-and-credit-cards/) asked whether they did pay it off, not whether they could. See question #3 and #4. A crucial, but important difference that changes the interpretation of the study.
The basic problem right now is that adding capital dilutes labor, but adding labor doesn't dilute capital. I think this is one of the biggest problems the blockchain can solve by driving down the costs of double entry accounting by at least an order of magnitude.
Opportunity cost being the main one, and living uncomfortably. Benefits were not that great. Resources were small, which limited potential for expert help.
Who says they have to spend it on paving?

If they spend the budget trying to convince the product managers at the big three that American consumers want vehicles that float over potholed dirt roads at any speed the result will probably be noticeable. It'll take 20yr for the up-travel and fat sidewalls to filter down to the average delivery driver though.
Which China already does.

ATMs which accept currency usually read the serial number.
Scaling Network Security Technologies by Decoupling Traffic Ingest from Analysis
How do I get 400k at Google?

...160k is architect pay in most of the country.
> Mining several blocks in private to confirm the fake transaction may be needed to prevent the other miners from reorganizing the blockchain in order to steal the fees and output of transaction T. If the attacker is not in collusion with 51% of the miners, then this may cost the attacker millions in rented hashing power ...

Does this mean that this exploit only has value to an attacker who is already capable of sustaining a 51% attack?
> I adore Zodiac as well but am in a decided minority in that regard.

We're in the same camp, friend. Zodiac was my favourite novel of his.
Gasoline engines are getting better and better. Have you seen some of Mazda's latest engine innovations? Emissions have been improving rapidly, and fuel economy has been improving too (unfortunately these gains have been hidden by increasing size and curb weight)
People. Credit. Budget. ... Choose any two.
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"Pick nodes on the knowledge graph which are highly-connected to things you do routinely". I am really interested in knowing what are the nodes I should focus on for data science and machine learning? My thoughts are first focusing on the tools and libraries I interact with every day, then the harder/high level concepts.
I think it's cool hack / proof of concept. Sometimes you need to know something is possible before you start investing if it'll solve your problem.
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> Hindsight is always 20/20. If I could go back in time I'd run the earliest Bitcoin miner on my PC for as long as it generated coins, and then sell them at the height.

I worked as the sole IT person in a big (~300 computer) university department. My predecessor had placed folding@home (IIRC) on many of the lab computers. This was around 2009-2012. I removed it; he didn't have a "team" assigned or anything so I didn't think much of it.

I didn't hear about cryptocurrency until late 2012, but occasionally the "what if" pops in my head and I go -- I could have put a lot of miners at 50% load -- even just at night and made quite a bit had I waited till the first boom (~2014), or lots if I held till now. Highly illegal, but unlikely to get caught.

But that's a lot of "what-ifs", and it's all easy in hindsight. Useless to dwell on it, but hard not to sometimes!
In the UK, bank notes are different sizes depending on their value. So that goes a long way towards stopping that kind of thing.
Land Grant colleges were good for the United States
Everybody, anywhere in the world, should have at least 3 days supply of food and water stored at home for in case of emergency. Ideally, you should have it in a container, along with other emergency supplies such as a first aid kit, a radio, and a flashlight.

It is normal for emergency services or the military to take up to 3 days to get the essentials running again in the case of a natural disaster such as an earthquake.

When I used to live in an earthquake prone city, I always had a bag with a hard hat, gloves, a flashlight, and some other emergency essentials ready to go.
Ok, that's it. Murphy does not need to verified any more. And i need a really really stiff drink.
Physical size scales with banknote denomination (not linearly :P of course).
It's amazing how much information is conveyed just by a handful of dots in motion. I had a lot of fun a few years ago turning some Michael Jackson moves into an animated constellation: https://codepen.io/sdellis/full/PGLLwx/
Yes, it would be way easier if everyone on Earth was kind and understanding. But vulnerability might not feel safe in an environment where we know there are real social and economic consequences for being vulnerable about certain things.

Until we stop judging each other, the right to privacy seems pretty important. That doesn't mean you always have to exercise it, but it should be your right.
> but also certainly not Uber scale.

How many Uber rides are happening every second? I suppose it depends exactly on their setup, but I could see that being at least the right order of magnitude.

EDIT: According to the Internet, there are about a billion Uber rides per year, which makes for about 31 rides per second. Even if there are 1000 transactions per ride, 21k/second sounds approximately Uber scale to me.
Same, and I'm paying $50/month for 5 Mbit.
I dropped off a few books this weekend to one, and when I went by a couple hours later 2 out of the 3 were gone. So at least someone is using them!
private blog network.

An seo company will buy a bunch of recently expiring domains related to a specific topic, and do it in a way that hides who the owners are. They build blogs on these sites, and fill them with the lowest grade content. I've see stuff that's "spun" (plagiarized content where a percentage of words have been replaced with synonyms, so that it appears original) and other stuff that's farmed out to writers in developing countries who work for pennies (A lot of articles with no real substance, written in poor english.)

The owner then links all the blogs to each other, so they appear to have domain authority. Then they sell back links to their customers. This fools Google into thinking your website is trustworthy (because everyone is linking to it) and you get better placement in search results.

In short, its a way anyone can buy popularity online.
How captured is our economy?
y, just pick anything then. Good luck with the tutorial.

I've heard using Digital Ocean instead of AWS is a good way to make your life simple and SHIP IT.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vHZLCahai4Q
Buying other instruments with your card has been against the terms for awhile on most cards, IIRC. I was surprised credit card companies allowed the purchase of cryptocurrency in the first place.