skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yet everything is getting better, not worse because we've become better at dealing with issues. The number of people who died from drought has gone down not up according to some studies. Number of people out of extreme poverty is going up is going up not down.

https://reason.org/wp-content/uploads/files/deaths_from_extr...

https://ourworldindata.org/famines

And the world is has gotten greener:

https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2016/carbon-dioxide-fer...

And so we are back to the beginning. We don't really know as much as some like to claim. So what is the goal of humanity? How do we measure human flourishing? How do we ensure we still get people to become more resourceful?

We can't have our cake and eat it.
How Much Does It Cost to Hire a Blockchain Developer in 2018?
>You're comparing the transportation costs of cucumbers to the production costs of plastic wrap, this conflated comparison seems disingenuous to me.

Cucumbers are wrapped in plastic to enhance their shelf life and reduce waste due to spoilage. If the environmental impact of the plastic is lower than the environmental impact of the cucumbers that would be lost due to spoilage, then it is a net environmental benefit. I have provided references to support this argument in another comment in this thread.

I'm curious what water usage has to do with this? Water used to raise a cow gets to be used again, right?

Water loops around endlessly through the water cycle, but clean water is a limited resource. The run-off water from cattle feedlots, grazing pastures or the fields used to grow cattle feed cannot be readily recaptured in a usable form; this run-off water will have polluting effects on aquatic life due to contamination with nitrates.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dead_zone_(ecology)

>Are you claiming that every kg of beef production releases more CO2 than every kg of plastic production? How do you figure that?

Yes. I found the figures in published reports. Producing a kilogram of polyethylene packaging film results in about 2.7kg of CO2 emissions, from refining the oil through to disposal. Producing a kilogram of beef results in about 39kg of CO2 equivalent emissions from farm to plate, made up partly from direct energy inputs and partly from the methane and nitrous oxide produced by the cattle, which are significantly more potent warming gases than CO2.

http://www.wrap.org.uk/sites/files/wrap/Carbon_Methodology_-...

http://static.ewg.org/reports/2011/meateaters/pdf/methodolog...
After re-classification as class B it is worth mentioning that the press engaged in a smear campaign against the scientists, to make sure no scientist will ever dare to recommend something like decriminalisation.
I think that there is probably a bigger difference in sleep quality between a $300 mattress and a $500 mattress than between the $500 mattress and a $3000 mattress.

That seems awfully likely to me, too. I paid around $650 for a full-sized Sealy pillowtop something-or-other, apparently aimed at the hotel market, from an online mattress store some years ago, and it's been fine -- at least as comfortable as the ($800 in the early 1990s) Stearns & Foster it replaced. It's possible the Sealy won't last as long as the S&F did -- at least back then, the latter had a reputation for top-notch build quality -- but I have a lot of trouble envisioning any mattress in that size class being worth over $1000, let alone $3000.
So what should everyone be using instead? What’s as easy to get installed and running, and to update?
Show HN: Terminal-img, an NPM module to draw images to the terminal
Why wasn't this designed in the open like TLS 1.3? The process behind isn't very confidence inspiring...
Talos Releases ThanatosDecryptor
If I were to adopt this approach I would be dishonest - because every second of which I am aware shows me that there is something beyond the line.

DD may be different...
Show HN: Retry, Ignore, Abort as NPM Module
They are not pro-legalisation. They had a drug minister who did nothing to ease prohibition. I don't believe anything they say, they have lost any credibility they had.
Where did you get the precipitation data for those places, because the wikipedia pages for the two areas show that Carcoss[0] gets a bit less than Palo Alto[1] for example. 11 inches vs 16 inches respectively.

[0] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carcross_Desert

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palo_Alto,_California
This - from 2015 - seems to pre-date my link from 2016 that says equitable sharing was reinstated. So he maybe temporarily plugged the hole but then took the plug out. Well, technically Lynch did, but we don't assume she'd do it over Obama's disagreement.
Not unless you use something like pfsense on freed or mostly free hardware (many of us do this).
Hi guys, I’m Anton, co-founder of YouTeam and Cryptohire. Happy to answer any questions about the findings I've presented in our article.

I would love to have a discussion with startup founders about salaries in blockchain. We were actually quite surprised with the data we gathered from public sources. I expected the salary range to be way higher. But then again - nobody, sort of, talks about this publicly.

I'd really appreciate if you can point us in the direction where we can gather more data because it’s just the beginning of our more extensive research. Something else I would love to discuss is whether you look for in-house blockchain developers or do you usually hire remotely?

Feel free to join the conversation :)
Twitter probably isn't for you or me any more
The Real Killer in the Staircase Might Be … an Owl?
You made the wrong choice.
The coastal dunes are also not especially dry.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oregon_Dunes_National_Recrea...
Not all are daily releases, but here they are.
a16z
ESPN Baseball Tonight
Exponent
Masters of Scale
Recode Decode
The Bill Simmons Podcast
The Joe Rogan Experience
The Knowledge Project
Ross Bolen Podcast

Also Tim Ferris and Founders Fund's Anatomy of Next every now and again.
Having a product overview is still not an excuse for terrible naming.
Hmm is that really true? According to this list the 100th .com domain was registered in November 1987, while it took .org and .net until May 1991 and April 1993, respectively, to reach their 100th registrations. It seems there was much more demand for .com right off the bat.

EDIT: I assumed these were all open to anyone as they are today, thereby the number of .coms indicated higher demand/desirability. Seems that .net (and maybe .org as well) used to be restricted, which is what led to their slower pace of registrations. Makes more sense in that context.
https://www.imperva.com/blog/2017/12/the-state-of-web-applic...

It's one thing to have periodic vulnerabilities in fairly central technologies that have few alternatives, and whose developers take those vulnerabilities seriously.

It's another to consistently choose a technology that has visibly and consistently thrown security to the wind, leaves its users totally vulnerable, and has no reasonable fixes; especially when far, far more secure alternatives exist.

So no, I don't believe any of those are valid equivalencies. WordPress is not the 'right tool' for any job. And PHP itself is also culpable in similar fashion.
It still flashes a white screen at you when it's loading a tab that had been unloaded (this happens when you have a restored session and you click on a restored tab for the first time.)
Well that's strange. The company was founded in 1976, so it was certainly plausible that they would be an early domain registration, but 1996 wouldn't qualify as that!

I wonder why you got a different date back?
Personally, I was hoping for a Chrome-style "start typing name of website then hit tab to search that site". That's one of the biggest features I miss whenever I use Firefox.
> As we can see, San Francisco and New York are the highest-paying cities in the USA. An average blockchain developer salary in San Francisco is $100,819 while a blockchain developer in Atlanta can expect to get only around $80,000.

That seems quite low. According to Paysa (one of the OP's sources), the average salaries for:

- Software Engineer: $109,442 https://www.paysa.com/salaries/software-engineer--t

- MySQL: $130,416 https://www.paysa.com/salaries/mysql--s

- Ruby: $158,034 https://www.paysa.com/salaries/ruby--s
Nanny: a monitoring tool that monitors the absence of action
The question pro-legalisers have to address is the very clear evidence we now have that cannabis use causes psychosis in some users.

Every time people say "It doesn't" that sets back legalisation another 5 years.
There are multiple ways to set it up:
- Reuse the key, set up the TLSA record using the public key. Certbot really doesn't seem to support this in an automated way. It requires that you generate a CSR, but there doesn't seem to be a way to renew this automatically.
- Generate a new key for each certificate, which is what certbot. You would first need to add both the old and the new certificate to DNS, wait for the TTL of the old to expire, change to the new certificate, remove the old from DNS. There doesn't seem to be a tool to do this.
- Set up the TLSA record to say you trust the CA.
or he just got very lucky. it only seems like he was "ahead of his time" because the story worked out - when you look at other acquisitions like say Oculus or Parse, I would argue it seems quite the opposite.
Yes, Apple devices offer to do this for eachother if you are in the person's contacts.

Works between your own devices too, requires bluetooth but no pairing.
Yeah. I thought we could just go there to listen to it. they didn't say anything about a timeshare, they just said go there to listen to them talk about some apartments. I sounded pretty harmless.

Things started off politely enough. Then about 30 minutes in they get really mean, really fast. this was wyndham by the way - if you check online, looks like they have nothing but 1 star reviews, from those that did sign up.

It starts with manipulation, then insults on your intelligence, then move onto insults on your personality, followed by countless bullying tactics. Then, once that doesn't work, they call over some ruthless thug boss lady, to really intimidate and bully you. These guys are world class jerks. i don't know how they sleep at night.

Once they realize that they can't get you, they'll just keep beating you up, just for kicks.

Boy, that's got to be a stressful job.
You can get more done knowing less now, but essentially, all you do by using other people's code is gain some leverage towards a specific problem. When your leveraging tool fails you and you have to debug or extend it, a strong sense of CS topics lets you distinguish the map from the territory.

The downside of absorbing CS wisdom is in being sophomoric about it and trying to apply the most powerful, generalized and optimized technique you have ever heard of to a problem you have encountered for the first time, writing a giant edifice of code while misunderstanding what the technique actually does.

It's always been possible to get very far in programming with crude techniques and a large amount of persistence, and you will be a more grounded programmer for attempting an approach that is wary of abstraction - abstraction in the language, in libraries you use, in the way you try to extend code. Try writing excessively primitive code until it becomes painful - simple assignment, branching, arrays and lookup tables, maybe a function call - then gradually sprinkle in the abstractions, and you'll have the right balance.
When It’s Good to Be Antisocial (2017)
If we're talking "deserts" in the sense that there is a bunch of sand and some dunes, then I'd hazard that the Desert of Maine[0] wins this contest at 600 acres smaller (.16km^2 in total) than the Carcross desert (2.6km^2 in total).

[0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Desert_of_Maine
One interesting bit is the "laundering through a bitcoin warehouse he bought in China".

I suspect this is actually a Bitcoin mining farm:

In goes dirty money, to buy mining hardware in bulk.

Out comes fresh, never-transacted-with Bitcoin block rewards.

It is fairly hard for authorities to trace the wash: in Bitcoin land, block rewards are the least-tainted kind of coins.
Because the article is only about the mentioned achievement. The project page of Wendelstein 7-X (https://www.ipp.mpg.de/w7x) details what the project is about, though.
I think you could do online+fax-followup from sometime around 93 or 94, but until then: mail. Even then online was dodgy (unreliable) at best. Easier to call ISI and see how they wanted it this year...

EDIT: I operated a regional thing off BBN, and I could do the nasty bits of hoisting myself to administrative acceptance. I can't imagine what it must have required for someone just trying to 'join' before 1990-or-so.
Kissmetrics.com redirects to neilpatel.com
People went to prison over expert testimony from FBI scientists over hair analysis in the past (not just warrants, actual convictions).

Like this guy, who spent 23 years in prison because FBI told the jury some hair they found was his... while it was actually not even human but dog hair.

>An FBI analyst testified that one of the hairs from the stocking mask linked Tribble to the crime and “matched in all microscopic characteristics.”
>Tribble’s attorneys were successful in obtaining mitochondrial DNA testing on the 13 hairs recovered from the stocking mask. None of the hairs—including the alleged match—implicated Tribble or Wright. Further, the analysis revealed FBI analysts’ errors, including mistakenly calling a dog hair human.
https://www.innocenceproject.org/cases/santae-tribble/

As for face recognition, I wonder if you're correct. I'd expect a lot of people think it's very precise. Well, at least the "My Sibling can unlock my iPhone with their face" debacle might have generated some press to combat that misconception.
Well I'd hope it wouldn't make it work worse.
Lots of hosted alternatives making the rounds these days. One quick Google gives: https://www.elegantthemes.com/blog/resources/alternatives-to...
>I would think it's easy to get in, and hard to not get caught.

Imagine you're an new employee at a big old company with a lot of legacy tech that's had mediocre maintenance and documentation over the years as is typical. You are going to leave footprints everywhere just learning to do your job. Imagine how many footprints you leave when you're an outsider who has to learn it all from scratch without documentation or assistance from other employees with historical knowledge. Now try getting anything done in that system without leaving tracks or triggering alerts when you hit some API that even the employees don't knows exists. The reason nobody ever gets caught is because insurance doesn't usually require a conviction before paying out and the effort required to determine who broke in is much higher than figuring out the exact sequence of events because you'd have to do the same investigation on every compromised system they used along the way.
>I have also bought many products from other businesses that have made my life better. In most instances, I have only become aware of these products because these businesses have spent money on ad campaigns.

That could have been a valid argument in 1970.

Today we have the internet. Instead of advertising it's not perfectly possible and easy to have other means of discoverability:

a) professional product reviews - a review site visit or Google search away

b) actual user reviews -- an aggregator site or Google search away

c) the product makers marketing material on their own website

d) blogs from people using the product

e) forums with people exchanging advice/complaints about the product

f) videos of people unboxing, using, showcasing, etc the product

g) the specs of the product, product manual, photos, etc online

h) online communities around a product category

i) for digital products, one could also try a trial/time limited/shortened /watermarked version of them

j) for products we encounter physically on some shop's shelves and want to know more about them, a quick Google search or QR Code can take us to the product page (and/or all of the above)

Unlike advertisement, none of these give an unfair lead to the maker than can spend more campaign money.

What's best, most of these add informational value (like scores, real world complaints, professional reviewing, etc) that ads, by definition, don't have.

We literally have more ways than ever to discover products, and to find the best products. Advertising is just random producers (random quality wise: just the company with the bigger pockets) shouting to make their wares stand out.
Show HN: Crowdsourced list of startups made by solo developers
5 Things Learned Generating API Documentation
I have never used it but interviewed with two companies lately that used Asterisk. One recently moved over from a Cisco platform and was "still working out the bugs"
The guy that was doing most of the configuration was doing so remotely from the Dominican Republic.
The owner of the company(25 employees) claims it was the best thing he could have done.
But this dude also claimed his competitive advantage was using file pro even though he could find no one with file pro experience to hire.

The next company didn't seem to have a problem with it. Part of my job was to create a system to automate specific monthly reports for their phone usage that was currently being done manually.
im surprised that the mission even took place seeing that one of the pilots had to ditch his jet on the runway. different times i guess, but i doubt that the sortie would continue as normal today.
CPU usage seems lower. Especially on streaming videos. Am I seeing things or is that intended? Nice though, my MBP fans don't spin nearly as much when surfing today.
While I haven't read either of them, Pointers on C and Understanding and Using C Pointers both have good reviews.
I built a small site where people can post bootstrapped startups made by solo devs. My robot will go and fetch some dynamic data like Twitter followers, Product Hunt upvotes and revenue on Indie Hackers.
>Instagram would have died an early death if you had to pay for it

That would be a bonus.

>hiding certain features behind a pay wall would alienate 90% of the users

Only before they have conditioned differently from an industry that has been legally allowed to trade private information for ad money.
I really wonder what the C++ community will think of execution policies in 5 years. Using them seems to be interesting step up from coding your low level parallel algorithms and instead using standard C++ algoritms with an execution policy to build your algorithm.

But are they an abstraction that will be useful in the future? Worth it for the language?
Blur by Albine[1] has been my preferred anonymizer.

Though my main appeal is the burner credit cards.

[1] https://www.abine.com/index.html
> WPS had flaws in its implementation, but was reasonable on a theoretical level.

Not sure about that since it has a key space of 10,000.

Implementations without a timeout were super-easy to crack while those with a timeout just took time to figure out how long the timeout was and to not exceed it. I have a Netgear wifi bridge that doesn't turn of WPS (even if you click the button) with no timeout and is trivial to get the password out of while another case it took a couple weeks once I determined the timeout.

*of course I only tested on my own devices and never engaged in wifi thievery from my neighbors
Show HN: 18 year-old and HS XCTF team built a free app for shareable stopwatches
I would think a degree would be valuable, if for nothing else, then because it indicates a willingness to put in 4 years of work to achieve a challenging goal. Conscientiousness is the word, I believe. A university degree shows you have some minimum level of conscientiousness.
Black Jeopardy: the SNL sketch that always plays hot
Firefox can already run multiple profiles simultaneously (like you do with chrome) http://kb.mozillazine.org/Command_line_arguments .

The problem is not having just one instance open all the links. It seems it might be possible to hack around that by writing your own url handler for your os, then dispatching to the correct instance. (https://superuser.com/questions/119014/how-to-remotely-open-...)
Hey HN! My name is Derek, and this is my project.

Over my years running varsity XC & track in HS, myself and others on my team took a lot of splits during workouts and races. It was always such a hassle to take splits without a convenient way to save, search, and share them with each other besides taking pictures or writing them out on paper. To solve this problem, I worked with my team as well as local athletes and coaches to develop Synchro: a free pro stopwatch app for people who take splits. Synchro Pro removes the ads and enables you to have an unlimited number of simultaneously running stopwatches (free limit is 2) and saved stopwatches in the "Archive" tab (free limit is 5).

It launched yesterday on the App Store, and I'd love for you to try it and let me know what you think!
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=547260
9 years old
Plastic is a nearly free byproduct of refining oil for fuel.
Reminds me of an article about some powerful men on wall street that do not use email. Doing most of your written communication through an assistant would give you a great deal of plausible deniability. Also reminds me of someone else constantly in the news these days.
> The problem is that cannabis was never shown to be more harmful than tobacco scientifically in the first place,

Comparing anything to tobacco is weird because we spend considerable amounts of money trying to get people to stop smoking.

And we now have very good evidence that cannabis causes psychosis. That's pretty harmful.
I don't remember any serious effort at ending civil forfeiture while Democrats held majority in both House and Senate. Could you provide the link?

I think both parties have very little interest in ending civil forfeiture currently, and the executive has even less as it's reducing their power. Placing it on the GOP only is just wrong - they both share the blame on this.

> Obama couldn't simply stop enforcing the law because the GOP and various state/local law enforcement agencies were prepared to sue

That didn't stop him from discretionary stopping to enforce other laws he didn't like. Surely, they could sue, but he has the resources of the whole Federal Government, and as we've seen recently, single injunction from a friendly federal judge (Obama must have had at least one?) could stop any regulation nationwide. If he really wanted it, he could organize it so that the practice would be stopped at least until it propagates through the courts up to SCOTUS (probably several years) and he surely could stop any federal participation in the practice, and issue guidelines severely deprecating the practice. And of course one shouldn't underestimate the power of the President, especially one like Obama, just plain speaking on the matter publicly. Obama did so with many matters. On the matter of civil forfeiture, he did the exact opposite. I see no other explanation for this but his complete approval of the practice.
We have been using Asterisk (SIP/IAX) for about 7 years both on "cloud" servers and field communication devices with no issues on production devices (only minor problems during development/qualification). Our experience has been very positive and the community is very helpful.
Seems that it would violate the "no purchase necessary" rule most (all?) states require to avoid it being an illegal lottery.
Funny thing is, non-free printer firmware was what first got Richard Stallman thinking about free software. Then came Symbolics and the rest is history. I wonder what it'd take to reverse engineer a printer?
It has been more than 7 months since the issue was reported, I don't see how this lacks professionalism. They even created a temporary fix.