skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Because at some point you have to pay taxes, or break the law. They nailed Al Capone, and you’re not Al Capone. I suppose you could buy it in secret and never liquidate it, spend it, or declare it... and therefore never benefit from it. I guess that’s a “win” in some books? Otherwise the answer to your question is pretty obvious, and ends with you in prison.
The book is awesome, make sure to read also Making of Karateka, about his previous game.

I read both books 4 or 5 times, basically once a year everytime I start having doubts about being indie (non-game) developer.
That's exactly how it should work, though.
Until I figured out it's talking about an EA project. Sorry, it stopped being worth my attention after that. No matter how old the project is.
When you end a lesson, you win. Always. There are very few ways to lose at a teaching moments if you are good at it.

I can code for several days before having something that will make someone smile.
How People Web Content
I’m not concerned about rubber hoses on me as much as I’m concerned about threats to my friends and family. I wouldn’t hold out very long at all.
To me it is interesting that proving you identity in the UK could for many years be done with an electricity bill with your name on it and an address, or you driving license, which was a piece of paper which wasn’t hard to forge (no photograph). Cheques where stolen by the postman and used to claim cash at the bank. Nobody could tell me against what identity, as the signature on the cheques wasn’t even close to mine. It was essentially a mess. It is improved now.

Coming from a country, Sweden, with no mandatory ID card and a national identity number, it was both quaint and a real hassle to deal with the odd notion that a national ID number in the UK was a threat to me, but in Sweden it wasn’t. I had more trouble because of it in the UK than I ever had in Sweden. And in the UK you often had to use a passport to identify yourself, which in practice is a national ID.
Weird. I travel quite often. More often than not in remote places. In my experience there's ALWAYS an airbnb/resort/hotel that has WIFI satellite. Also, coding/designing/answering emails very rarely requires a fast internet connection. Some anecdotal examples: Galapagos, Socotra, Lofoten, Sacred Valley, Island of the Sun, Patagonia and Atacama's desert.
The Lightning Network is not settlement. It's like an IOU, that depends on the eventually-settled state of all associated channels.
Regarding the whole-protocol versions instead of mix and match negotiation: is there a reason that wouldn't have worked for TLS? At least technologically; I'm sure it was a non-starter politically.

I'm just wondering if there are any actual downsides to this scheme. It seems like such an obviously good idea that I'm second-guessing myself.
Error Handling in JavaScript (2014)
Yeah, the author handled it nicely, and overall this is a fantastic tutorial. I'm wondering more in terms of the Node ecosystem as a whole.
> yep, and wouldn't it be a paradise for a malicious person to install software on that authentication machine which sniffs off the biometrics and sends that to his server?

Sure. But, using that data to impersonate someone by creating a 3D or silicone model of your fingerprints/iris need a good amount of resources that your average Joe does not possess. Given enough resources, any means of authentication could be easily exploited.

Honestly, I am not being snarky, but could you please suggest a better authentication mechanism, that is more secure, but can be used easily by people who can't read/write or live in slums, or in small villages, and don't run into issues like forgetting the crypto key or losing the auth device?
it doesn't work well on my mac with chrome unfortunately...

*It is actually working fine after a refresh. shift + L for next level, shift + T for more lives (you have to ctrl quit and then start with Prince.exe megahit)

Thanks!
Mullvad also doesn't require an email, and you can mail them cash anonymously.
> 2) total blocking of genuine and constructive user feedback, which feels like censorship - or simply a closed-source, proprietary software.

For those looking for examples, check out the recent post on /r/elm: https://www.reddit.com/r/elm/comments/9a0hc6/elm_019_broke_u...

It was locked and deleted from the front page within hours. There are many many more such posts that have been deleted. The only posts allowed on /r/elm are those praising Elm.

They always invite the users to discuss this in the Elm Discourse which is not constructive because threads about the "forbidden" topics (Native Code) are either locked or completely deleted within hours.
Arduino gets CLI support
Every voter is entitled to a vote for whoever they want. The idea that every vote for the Greens would instead go to the Democrats if magically the Greens didn't exist is nonsense.

Republicans don't bitch that Libertarians exist. For example, if you take the logical conclusion that if all Green voters voted Democrat and all Libertarian voters voted Republican in the last presidential election, then Trump would have won the popular vote.

Democrats don't get to have it both ways.
Check out Spelunky book (published by boss fight)
Either it’s secure or it isn’t. If it isn’t secure then it doesn’t matter if there are only 1.3 million people in the country; I promise someone from outside the country will try to break it.
How about land? Who created it? If god or nature, then doesn't that make it a common inheritance? Perhaps I deserve some sort of compensation?

People make things so complicated, they'll do anything to avoid doing the right thing. It's not that complicated.

The law isn't right by virtue of being the law, it's right in virtue of being in accordance with what's truly right. Ignoring this for generations doesn't change it.

You would think a nation that has the sins of taking the land and labor of others would have the respectability to make sure everybody has a place to be with no work requirement. Alas, this nation knows no shame.
With the small-blocker and big-blocker schism, BTC is not Bitcoin, and is not meant for commerce.

If you want fast, cheap, settled transactions, use Bitcoin (BCH).
Not true, C has features missing from C++.
> community interest/support

The community is interested but PRs for 0.18 stopped being merged months before 0.19 alpha was released. I know I'm interested in a couple of patches, I'm also willing to write the code, but I won't because there's no chance they'll be merged and released. I'm using a private fork of those packages in my app for over a year now.
I had to do similar a month ago, around $20k as well. It was from my account at BofA to an account at a different bank. I did it all online, and it cost $10 and cleared the next day, so within 24 hours. I did this all online without talking to any person, though I did have to 2FA into my account.

I get that some banks might not be as competent yet, but signs look like they'll all get there in the end.
He was in math 55a in Harvard, it was considered the hardest math undergrad course in the country back then. So I think it's maybe possible for him.
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Any SEM with an EDS system will tell you non-destructively if you have tungsten wrapped in gold. X-Ray diffractometry would also do the same. Rutherford Backscattering spectrometry too. All three of these techniques are non-destructive and the first two are quite common to find at universities.
Aadhar is not meant to be private. It should not be treated a s a private key when you need to give a copy of your card everywhere like your bank, getting a new cell phone sim card, employment, etc. The problem with Aadhar (among other things) is that people think its a secret. Its not supposed to be that way.
This looks like a derivative/expansion of the Leitner Method[0] which I first came across over on Reddit in /r/flying for flashcard-based studying. I have definitely always had more success with paper-based studying than studying electronically--I recommend that you take a look at that document if you fall into this category as well!

[0] https://drive.google.com/file/d/0BzlHy07nfEjOQ2hXWjU3LWpDdmc...
The Netherlands and synthetic drugs: an inconvenient truth [pdf]
I loved Prince of Persia for MSDOS because it made me learn to "hack" / "crack" at computers.

I remember also being stuck on the first level and then on the copy-protection. Until one day while pressing random keyboard combinations I noted that a game was saved. At the same point, my father had this XTree Gold program in the computer (like DOSSHell but better), and it had a HEX view... when you opened the .SAV file in this view, you had only like 8 or 9 bytes. I remember my excitement when I changed that 01 to 02 and boom! after loading the game I started in level 2 .

Back in school (I was in 6th grade at that time) my friends had no clue what had I done to get past that copy protection level.

It was downhill for me and cracking at that point... I was not interested in playing but more on doing reverse engineering on different games and programs.
That's quite a leap from "you can verify at some other gold dealer" though.
Link to the github repo: https://github.com/arduino/arduino-cli
I guess you and I have different intuitions about the meaning of the word "easy".
Having worked in corporate IT, with all its human and technical challenges, i agree that the "sociotech" elements are critical for engineering, but I also think that corporates massively misunderstand the value of the hacker culture and underestimate the extent to which the "sociotech" challenges are a direct result of having a weak "hacker" culture... we should challenge the "band aid" approach to fixing corporate bullshit
That’s the naturalistic fallacy. You need to do more than appeal to nature to make that argument. You have to give a reason why that nature, or at least nature in general, is superior.

Also, by the logic you're using, you can just as well say that possibly living in captivity is the lion's new nature. After all, humans are part of nature and our capturing of animals then is too.
Looks super useful, thanks! May try it for German.

The system I'm doing isn't s reading one though. Instead, you associate each of the 2200 Kanji with an English keyword. You break down the kanji into component primitives, and then you remember how to draw each one by visualizing a phrase associated with that keyword.

For example, Seedling:

苗

The top part is flower: 艹

The bottom part is rixe field:
田

You can make a story like: if you plant seedlings in a field, they will flower. And you imagine it visually. (Note, I have terrible visualization, but can do it well enough for it to work)

This is a really simple example, but you can get more complex stuff. The system generally sticks to Japanese etymology, but sometimes will make up new primitives where it's more convenient for learning.
I wonder if protocol agility was pushed through the IETF as part of the NSA’s intentional weakening of crypto protocols.
The Geomicrobiologist Searching for the Origins of Life
Right. I remember writing with such epigenetic-ish ideas about inheritable DNA modifications to Jacques Monod, decades ago. He didn't even deign to reply; such nonsense did not even merit politeness.
News4Jax reports several fatalities:
https://www.news4jax.com/news/shooting-at-jacksonville-landi...

Polygon has more info on the tournament and some reactions from players via Twitter:
https://www.polygon.com/2018/8/26/17783924/madden-tournament...
It depends on what level you're playing at. If you have access to capital and social connections then yes you need to play smart in order to succeed.

If you're some random person with no access to capital or social connections then your focus should be luck.

As a random person who started with no social connections and no capital, I think about luck all the time and it helps me to make decisions. Mostly, it helps me to weigh up future opportunities against current opportunities - I think about things that happened to me and I ask myself how unlikely they were to occur; if they were very unlikely, I try to stay on that unlikely path. Never waste your luck; you have to keep moving forward wherever it takes you. Sometimes it leads you to places you don't want to be, but beggars can't be choosers.
Managing Cybersecurity Risks as Part of Organisation
I recently started a new job, and wrote a quick script that scrapes a slack team for all the names and profile photos and creates an Anki deck out of it. I'm usually terrible with names and faces so this helped me immensely.
Preparing for Japan's Next Tsunami
A Critique of Resizable Hash Tables: Riak Core and Random Slicing
ditto. used to be ok but now too much clickbait, low quality content, and now paywalls
> Think about the fact that almost 140 years ago, civil engineers stopped building bridges that fell down.

It was written last year, but it looks like a weird sentence this year:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Florida_International_Universi...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ponte_Morandi#Partial_collapse

It's even not that unusual. In https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_bridge_failures#2000–p... I counted like 150 bridges collapses in the since 2000.
No one really knows a general "right" thing to do. Even someone who's found a right thing can't be much help if they just say what they did right. The best you can do is avoid doing the wrong things while probing around for a right thing. It's a way of thinking called inversion.

Try 100 things while avoiding common pitfalls. One of them will probably pan out.
For finding events nearby.
Do you mind sharing the script? Because the company I work for has grown at an insane rate - and there are a good 300+ coworkers I don't know. It'd be nice to know peoples' faces for when I see them walking around the building.
Not yet, but it's in the works. There currently isn't a stable userspace implementation of Wireguard that would work on all the major platforms anyway :(
You've been lied to. Count the party switchers in that time period:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States_Represen...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States_Senators...

It's just 2, Strom Thurmond in the senate and Albert Watson in the house. If the "party switch" narrative were correct, you'd expect many more. What is going on here is that nobody wants to own the history of the KKK or voting against civil rights legislation because that is an unelectable position to take in modern America. An effective way to evade this ugly history is to throw it at the opposing party, falsely claiming the illogical idea that the parties just decided to swap sides one day.
I took Math 55. There is no way any of my fellow students (or anyone else for that matter) could meaningfully work through the full Art of Computer Programming (or even one of the volumes) in “several months”, even working on it full time, except in some similar way to my grandfather “seeing all the art” in the Louvre in a few hours.
Different company, same sats iirc.
Yep. And the service with both of these is top notch.
Interesting! The tone is suspect: same cultiness as wildeberger stuff. But hey n-lab covers it, so it must be legit:

https://ncatlab.org/nlab/show/Clifford+algebra
Not sure what you mean. Nothing is secure, ever, in a binary sense of being just one thing or the other. It's all a balance between level of security and level of practical usability. Often we've made things easy to use but hard to secure. Like SSNs. But regardless of the source of an attack, the reward for breaking 1 billion targets on the same system vs 1.3 million on a different system is probably much higher. So the inconveniences of more secure systems must be weighed in context of the desirability of the information within them. More attractive targets need more secure, less easy to use, systems.
A lot of the more successful entrepreneurs I know operate a lot like Elon Musk. The basic model seems to be to:

* Start a project in spare time

* Validate technology (prototype something)

* Validate market demand (talk to customers)

* Validate business model (estimate costs/revenues/etc.)

* Otherwise mitigate risk as appropriate for the business

Most of these are pretty deep dives; it's not a one-evening project. In most cases, people (like Elon) become minor domain experts. On the other hand, these are also not job-quitting deep dives; one isn't on the street if one fails.

Perhaps for every few dozen such deep dives, something which looks really plausible comes up. From that point, it's largely a matter of good execution.

I think the key difference between my friends and Elon is that Elon tries to do Really Big Things which change the world. My friends might start a business which e.g. applies machine vision to a new vertical, or adds some kind of automation to some industrial process, or similar.

At this point, all have lives, families, etc. and aren't working 70+ hour weeks. Failure rates for their businesses aren't all too high either. Most business they start seem to at least pay the bills for the boss and the employees (with a few much bigger successes, and a few failures).

I'm not saying that's most folks, but that is most folks in my community. But they've universally managed people before, they can code well, they can do math well, they've built out a reasonable network of contacts, etc.
How did Mechner get access to a rotoscope?
I used to think that, but bitcoin didn't go up despite the currency collapse there. The problem is the vast majority of Venezuelans are too poor to buy even a fraction of a bitcoin. Hyperinflation destroys wealth very quickly, so often everyone it too poor by the time they can do anything. The wealthier people put their money overseas or in gold.
I really wish the React ecosystem had less dependencies. Things that are included in other libraries are always met with “You can always install X” as if it were a good thing to add more dependencies.
I loathe being so blatantly self-promotey on HN, but since you asked: this is specifically a thing I do.

Skim my profile and follow up by email if you want to figure something out.
Hum, or maybe I meant data analyst, like you say who knows.
That's amazing you did that, maybe he meant book one. I read where he was working on early compilers also, so maybe he had some odd domain knowledge.
The strive for simplicity is very old in the hard sciences. It’s already displayed in Euclid’s elements.
Every generation rediscovers a virtue of the previous ones.
Qiita is a really interesting Japanese alternative to StackOverflow. It's rare someone writes something in English, but fun to practice your Japanese and technical Japanese is often cleaner and easier to understand than written or heaven forbid spoken colloquial Japanese.
You can use Ceddit to see the comments the moderators removed:

https://snew.github.io/r/elm/comments/9a0hc6/elm_019_broke_u...
So, I can expect this generation's CASE tool that magically generates all the optimized code from requirements given to this years priestho..... SocioTech Specialist?

I think their case for advancement of development technologies or how much social interaction was needed in the 90's is a bit flawed.
I always kinda wondered how to make Anki stuff for like algorithms and the like.
Always wanted to try this, never was sure how to use it for algorithms and the like though.
I don'think it would be too hard to sell decentralized, even in general terms.
You can buy a tomato in a supermarket, most people do so. Yet a large amount of people buy it from farmers on markets, also a lot grow it themselves. Everybody prefers local, homegrown tomato over supermarket one, always, even if that is cheaper, controlled and easier to get, everyone understands the differences, even while knowing nothing about how to grow a tomato.

Such differences would also be increasingly trivial for apps and data we use daily. Customization, inherent in every individual, would also be a powerful driving force. Why letting FB/Google etc at our data requires also less and less explanation.
While it won't work offline, you can use the web version on iPhone (https://ankiweb.net/about).
I think that's a very simplistic view.

While there are of course people who have been extremely successful relying on those two things alone (and they dominate the headlines, of course), there are countless successful people who succeeded without either of those two things.

It's pretty disingenuous, for example, to argue that Katherine Johnson's (admittedly delayed in recognition) success is the result of social connections or acting skills.

An even more trivial example is that many pro athletes (in the US, at least) didn't achieve success because of their social connections to capital; most of them certainly aren't great actors either.
Are you saying TheFappening was a good thing? If the best example of torrents being used to avoid censorship is the massive leak of salacious, private, non-newsworthy photos, then maybe your argument isn't all that great.
You probably mean 'etymology'. The other one is about bugs.
This is what I'm talking about.
I'm not that concerned that /r/elm is tightly moderated, given that there are other places to discuss it. (Such as here.)
I guess I'm projecting that then. The opening "Have you ever noticed that nobody is allowed to be successful on the internet?" struck me as very silly and I must have gone on from there and filled in my own thoughts about why anybody would write this way. "Allowed" to be successful makes it seem like you have a huge chip on your shoulder with somebody - who does the disallowing? How do they actually prevent you from being successful? It sets the tone of the post as a story of persecution which I'm guessing you did not intend.
External forces happen. I've certainly seen businesses shut down for reasons outside of their control. It's just that this happens a minority of the time. Most of the time, businesses shut down either because:

1. High-risk venture. Someone wants to be the next Facebook and takes a 1-in-a-100 gamble at a billion dollars.

2. Stupid idea/business model. Founder is a true believer in some idea which doesn't match reality.

3. Poor execution. It's a good idea and business model, but any of the hundred things which can shut down a business do: technology takes 10x as long to develop and is buggy; founder fails to recruit good people; zero external sales/visibility/marketing ("if you build it they will come" or wildly implausible assumptions about viral or similar); costs get out-of-control; etc. Most founders I know can do all of those reasonably, and one or two brilliantly. It's hard for me to emphasize how important (and hard) it is to be at least competent at all of those since messing up any one will shut down a company.