skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't see how that makes economic sense. Preserved food should wind up cheaper than the highly perishable even with additional input costs barring truly massive differences - the surplus isn't lost and can build up and even if it the sale price minus processing costs is less per item something is more than nothing.

As for your grandparents they were poor farmers so of course labor and seeds were cheap for them - they already had the prerequisites by definition.
I wouldn't even call it a bypass — it's there as a safety net for people who just dump a bunch of markdowns into the repo and expect it to work somehow — it does work somehow.
Absolutely! Everyone has their own usage case, and one has to adapt accordingly -- even me! :)

My point was that simply selecting an email provider outside the US does not make email safe in any way and that end-to-end encryption is the only way to prevent providers from accessing the content.
The idea for Privacy Cloak – Privacy-hardening your browser
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When many of these low power chips have less than 64K of RAM, C++ is a terrible mistake. Once the program reaches even a modest level of complexity, expect blown stacks left and right.

I have had to clean-up so many of these things! And the guy who insisted on using C++ in the first place is always like, "I'll just change the compiler flags, and then it'll be OK." And that never fixes it.
>Schmidt said he thinks people will likely see “fantastic leadership in products and services from China,” noting the scale of the nation’s business, the massive wealth being created there and the advance of global trade, according to the report. But he acknowledged the country’s growing economic influence may have political consequences: “There’s a real danger that along with those products and services comes a different leadership regime from government, with censorship, controls, etc.," CNBC reported.

this is doublespeak of the very highest order.

on the one hand, schmidt is praising china so that google has better chances of success there. on the other hand, he's admitting that china might be a totalitarian state presently or in the future.

the dupe is that it isn't a danger for china to start doing censorship or controlling speech. it's a reality, and now he's trying to gaslight us by claiming that the reality is false and his impression of it is what is really true.

china is a totalitarian state. and soon, with google's help and the complicity of google employees, they will continue to do so with greater efficiency than before. mao imagined a country where the state was the not merely the highest power in the land, but the only power. they're getting there.

if their internet splits definitively, they'll use their cordoned internet as an iron curtain. or perhaps a "bamboo curtain" is the more appropriate term. they are already well along this path. either way, over a billion people will be kept in the dark. some will enjoy it. some will not care. and some will die for their curiosity. schmidt knows this perfectly well.
I always wondered how booking.com knows how many rooms are left. Thanks for the info.
>Those are the guys that don't let you use special chars in passwords "in order to prevent unintentional wrong password entries".

is that really an issue? using all the special characters (assuming uniform distribution) gives you ~33% more entropy[1] for the same amount of characters, at the expense of increased input time (especially on touch keyboards) and being much harder to remember. why not just make your passwords 33% longer instead?

[1] according to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ascii85
I actually have 2 Yubikeys, one with me, one in a safe place. But the price of these keeps rising. $50/$60 is starting to get a bit unreasonable for something that you were able to buy 2 or 3 of for the same price a few years back.
"Medicare currently pays less than what it costs to provide for a lot of services"

Is that even true? Personally I have my doubts.
I respectfully and strongly disagree. A functioning democracy is fundamentally predicated on a well-informed electorate.

If the primary source of information is manipulated in the name of political activism, how can they become well-informed?

Sadly I must qualify this by saying I don't believe the general public in the West are well-informed, but that doesn't mean that ideal should be given up entirely.
well code which U2f token generate with the help of Google authenticator has ONLY 6 digits. 6 digits that's not extremely hard to brute force is that right ?

If you are using additional backup u2f token (2 tokens in total) hacker has chance 1:500 000 to find out correct PIN is my assumption right ?
I think the YK5's biggest problem is that the YK Neo and 4, which have been out for years, were already so good. Unless you really care about NFC at the same time as RSA-4096, I'm not sure I see a big impetus to upgrade. Hopefully the USB-C line won't be plagued with supply issues.

WebAuthn is mostly boring and I think that's mostly a good thing. I'm glad that there's a way to evolve the spec. Some of the changes are arguably improvements; I could see how Direct Anonymous Attestation is better than the old certificate method. On the other hand, that's more exciting crypto than I want to see in W3C specs. But the vast majority of deployments don't care about attestation at all: they just care that you can register a specific U2F key once (say, during employee onboarding), and then you never have to care about attestation again. So other than crypto-nerdery, I'm going to choose not to care much about (EC)DAA.

U2F keys already do WebAuthn (individual sites doing bogus feature detection notwithstanding). Despite the name, at the end of the day U2F is just a way to sign some stuff so that it can't be replayed and you can't get phished. If you really wanted to use it as a single factor, you could.

I'm not sold that the integration of e.g. the browser's password manager into WebAuthn is super valuable, but I'm still happily monitoring what they come up with. That is not a criticism, and certainly not a deprecation. The bottom line is U2F was great, and WebAuthn not convincing me yet is not a good reason to shy away from WebAuthn. WebAuthn is still the best authentication mechanism we (realistically) have by far. Go use it.
Microsoft releases platform to build company-specific skills for Cortana
You're absolutely right, this is the golden age of yellow journalism. Especially when the person who owns the magazine is about to run for president.
>You can even host your own email server //

As long as you don't want deliverability to Gmail or Outlook addresses. Though you can pay for Outlook deliverability it seems. They're very pinickety about allowing mail through from self-hosted or even low-traffic shared hosting IME [albeit limited].
My only problem with booking.com is that some random employe in philiphines in another hotel can see my reservation and full credit card details... Im pretty sure this isen’t PCI-DSS compliant.. and Yes my sister in law send a screenshot so i could see it in person.
The vast majority of the large scale increase in human lifespan you can put down to improvements in medical knowledge. People used to get their teeth knocked out and replaced with wooden ones as a wedding present, the idea being that the lucky couple would then have less risk of being killed by a tooth infection before the age of 40, as was common.
would you expand on this please?
You didn’t reply to or contradict anything they said. You need Xcode to build extensions and Safari has a super limited API. Executing JS and CSS don’t address either.
This) I do sometimes feel it's a bubble, as in "where else can we stuck a computer? and now?" And most problems are not solved by computerising in and on itself — the processes just move faster.
I had compatibility issues when I tried to use TensorBoard the other day. It doesn't even seem like they were trying for compatibility in that case.
One thing the Republicans could have done was to iterate on Obamacare instead of trying to repeal it for 8 years and now that they are in power they show that they have no ideas and no interest in improving anything.
Serverless Slack Bots in use
A post about how we're using AWS Lambda for Slack bots in my company. What do you think? Are you using them as well?
https://hackernoon.com/why-your-startup-needs-serverless-slack-bots-dd02f1d9d21b
Backlink builder (PingMyLinks.com) #backlinks
Just to provide some balance to the feedback: I've been using FastMail for 2 years and am mostly "meh" on it. My issues are with the web interface (which is largely why I use them instead of running my own server):

- No delay send/undo send. Allegedly in the works for ages

- Very buggy editor. Randomly slows to a crawl while composing, scrolls up and down erratically

- Cannot handle very long threads very well. (since unfortunately the business world uses top replies with Html email) E.g., undo can pin a core and crash the page.

- Notifications randomly show up twice and then freeze on screen
> U2F can only be used as a second factor.

I mean, certificationally, sure. But what prevents a website from trusting you to input your identifier (user name or e-mail address) and then accepting a U2F signed blob as your only credential?
Highly duplicated post.
Top Devices and OS Versions for iOS and Android in 2018
There is some discussion of your paper on math.stackexchange here: https://math.stackexchange.com/a/1900048/24124

I have no idea why you think proving a famous conjecture would endanger your life, but if that is true, HN is probably not able to help. Adding a Hollywood factor to your appeal degrades your work and yourself and is unlikely to generate the kind of attention you want.
> Otherwise citizens can use satellite phones.

And how many actually will?
Kind of beside the point though when we're talking about a children's cartoon. A straightforward 'people who hurt other people don't love them' message is probably preferable.
American Hospital Association: Underpayment by Medicare and Medicaid Fact Sheet, December 2017 Update [0]

FINDINGS

In the aggregate, both Medicare and Medicaid payments fell below costs in 2016:

- Combined underpayments were $68.8 billion in 2016. This includes a shortfall of $48.8 billion for Medicare and $20.0 billion for Medicaid.

-For Medicare, hospitals received payment of only 87 cents for every dollar spent by hospitals caring for Medicare patients in 2016.

- For Medicaid, hospitals received payment of only 88 cents for every dollar spent by hospitals caring for Medicaid patients in 2016.

- In 2016, 66 percent of hospitals received Medicare payments less than cost, while 61 percent of hospitals received Medicaid payments less than cost.

[0] https://www.aha.org/data-insights/2018-01-03-underpayment-me...
Yea, my mind immediately jumped to that as well, probably because I recently setup my own Mastodon instance recently.
Honestly, nothing here is surprising. It's amazing that this stuff operates without scrutiny.
Quite simple:
If someone were to sniff the encrypted traffic between Hotmail and Gmail then they wouldn't have any idea who was talking to whom.

If someone sniffs the traffic between Hotmail and my server, it's trivial to see that a Hotmail user talked to me or one of the few others using my email server.
How FPGAs work, and why people will buy them (2013)
Flutter Awesome
Shit. I cancelled my Sirius subscription and told them I wouldn't send them any money while they had Steve Bannon on payroll. And I have a grandfathered-in $4/mo Pandora subscription. Time to put up or shut up, sigh.
So if you simply eliminate some of America's health care problems, America is like other nations?

That's convenient.
Python Community Interview with Mahdi Yusuf
Had 2 pet cockatiels (a pair) while growing up, not sure I would again. We allowed ours nearly free access to fly wherever they wanted in the house (and it was a decent sized house with several lofted ceiling areas) and we also had a small dog they interacted with (we were also a family of 4). While they seemed happy, were incredibly funny, friendly and made great pets, they were also incredibly demanding. While it was fantastic that they'd sit on the couch with the family while we watched TV, or with one of us while doing homework, it was less awesome when they'd perch outside our bedrooms to wake us up to play with them. Thankfully they can't see for shit at night, so they went into the cage on their own when it got dark.
Cool site,Thanks share.
The problems is that the US system is unnecessarily expensive and inefficient. That means that more people could afford it if it were cheaper. Right now the system is only good for very well off people. Others are in danger of either not being able to afford it or going bankrupt if they actually get sick.
U.S. Students Spend More Time Working Paid Jobs Than Going to Class
Enslaving the population of doctors would improve the index, since it reduces salaries drastically. Halfway between slavery and market wages is where you find Spain.
That's what I mean, 64 degrees isn't the end of the world. And for the few hours of the night an infant sleeps, it's the same issue as if the power/gas were to go out.
Thanks for you comment.

I agree that the NSA is not _my_ enemy and I am probably not being targeted. However, as more people start thinking like that, those that _are_ targeted (journalists, lawyers, activists etc.) will have less options to hide among users of more privacy-aware service providers.

In a way, by using these providers you shield those who need their services the most
I am happy to coherently type my argument.

Alcohol consumption in the past was necessity because of cold climate and manual labor. Alcohol is made from ethanol is made from sugarcane and is extremely calories rich. 100 gm beer contains 43 calories. One can contains 154 calories

It was quite fine in the past as most of the calories were burned due to harsh living conditions.

Fast forward to 21st century. We are hardly exposed to extreme cold. We live in extremely protected environments. From temperature controlled office to car to home. But we haven’t changed our drinking habits to reflect that.

Add to that mass media consumption due to profits. We have an epedicmic which can easily be prevented. 5% of all deaths are due to alcohol.

Just visit ED of any hospital on Saturday night if you want to see the ills for yourself
U2F keys make you basically immune to phishing.
If we are speaking about something like a PIC with 8 KB I agree, for anything else comparable with a C64 or better, it is quite doable.

CppCon 2016: Jason Turner “Rich Code for Tiny Computers: A Simple Commodore 64 Game in C++17”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zBkNBP00wJE
Introduction to the univalent foundations of mathematics [pdf]
This is a great document, thanks for sharing. Since it's 20 years old, I wonder if there are any newer references that are as concise? Surely HCI/UI/UX prinicples have come a long way since 1998.
I have an iPhone and a Macbook. It's frustrating that I have to choose between USB-C support for the Macbook, and NFC support for the phone. It's odd that they don't make a USB-C version with NFC.
>Suddenly, you are no longer fighting your browser.

I mean, if you're okay with Pocket showing you ads in your home page, your browsing data being sent to Cliqz, addons that publicise the "Mr Robot" TV show being installed without your consent, Mozilla pages that use Google Analytics scripts that cannot be blocked, then Firefox is a solid choice.
Uncle Bob, You're Wrong
hmm .. there is something badly missing in this response.. The word 'trauma' has a serious medical meaning aside from whatever this paper says.. The quick associations encoded above in 'Part of the fringe push to redefine "injury" to mean hearing something unpleasant or disagreeable.' is not only accusatory via some unspoken point of view, but also dismisses the medical definitions of trauma.
Development tools held me back and why I don't use Mozilla. Using Chrome dev tools on a daily basis keeps me stuck. Also having different profiles for work and personal is super useful (different bookmarks, logins, history that syncs) it's really slick. Does Brave offer this along with 1Password integration?
I always found transfer.xe.com far cheaper than transferwise. Though it might depend on the currency you are converting to.

When I tried to convert EUR to ZAR, they wanted 25€ in flat fees, a percentage and had a worse conversion rate than xe who had no fees and a better conversion rate.
How are they mining your emails to build a profile of you?

Besides when you use such a service all your personal emails are stored in servers. One rubber stamp away from total ownage.
Of course they could, but as the article mentioned toward the end, the school district no longer has the political capital to pursue rearranging school schedules. The superintendent lost his job over this. I imagine votes were angry with the school board.
The 5C nano is designed to be plugged in the all the time though, so in that scenario what do you really gain from NFC?
> You can argue nobody concerned with his own reputation commits spyware to a public repo, but malicious actors are usually not concerned with that or try to stay anonymous in the first place.

It's not so black-and-white though, hence "keeps the honest guys honest". Are Microsoft and Google 'malicious actors'? They're hungry for our data, but they often only do it when they don't think we'll be able to find out what they're doing. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17749330
What is good software is at least partially subjective. Every measure of quality from the existence of bugs (that is, how many and how severe) to structure (is it OO or functional or a mix) to utility (is it spyware or a command line utility or something else) involves some subjectivity.
I have Alexa commands that will light up the group of lights I need to get from my front door to the kitchen. Also, I have dogs that would probably find a way to turn the lights on when I don't want them to.
Call people names? You mean saying "white people" or......??
I always look at these types of reports, and it makes me laugh. It doesn't tell the whole story, and it doesn't tell the true story. We left Canada precisely because of its healthcare system and came to the US. Canada would have require substantially more out of pocket (10s of thousands) with a much longer wait (years), whereas in the US, the out-of-pocket was substantially less ($500) and substantially less time (-2 weeks) to receive assistance. And that was without using insurance from my job.
Recently I've learned that in some US states there is something called a Social Purpose Corporation, which actually lets you profit and stick to your mission. In a regular company, it's more than likely that putting your "mission" above maximizing your profits will put you in legal trouble.
I'm on Exchange online (~5$ per user/month) and rather happy. The Outlook Web App online interface is regularly updated, I can use a custom domain, have plenty of storage and adding my wife as well as alternate domains was rather easy. Add to that support for shared calendars and great support for push features (using Exchange Active Sync) on almost all systems.

The main problem is that it is Microsoft and thus rather complicated: I now have a private Microsoft 'work' account for Exchange Online + a private Microsoft 'home' account for Office 365 Home Edition. So when I want to log into the online services (Mail, OneDrive, etc) I always have to think twice about which login to use :-(
N26 works on rooted phones AND have a website (and I'd go through the trouble of switching banks again if they discontinued it), but for transfers you need the app.
Engineering Productivity
It's not like the author is asking for people to write a bunch of whatever Go's equivalent of IFDEF is. The author's proposed alternative code is just as concise and straightforward, it just has the benefit of using something that's portable across multiple platforms.
One issue is the stability of The Cloud of your choice, but in reality, few apps are truly multi-cloud and ready to loose a region.

Really makes you think that with all these big players pushing chaos engineering and multi-cloud deployments, the cloud suppliers should really be more prepared.

How about at least two "chaos regions" for every supplier, available at half cost, but with random outages, to really test our applications, and the suppliers infrastructure!
Also 'directed discovery' from Pluralight: https://www.pluralsight.com/blog/career/product-development-...
In nature, they are far more likely to end up as prey than to live a long happy life.
Street cats live to the age of 5 on average. House cats live until 13.
Freedom is a fantasy.
>Without this it is incredibly difficult to do full verification.

You can verify the optimizations on their own.
Example: https://www.cs.utah.edu/~regehr/papers/pldi15.pdf
> Or some employee doing some BS job can't use Gmail for a couple of days?

I'll grant you Amazon, but turn off GMail for a couple of days, and you'd dip the economy. A great many of small but essential companies - from car workshops to paint shops to furniture makers to retail and wholesale shops - run their business on personal GMail accounts. Losing access to primary e-mail for a week may very well be an existential threat for them. One which they don't realize, because GMail is generally reliable.
I don't see the problem. People wouldn't do the tasks if they didn't think it was beneficial to them.
On other hand, they have more experience handling failure than 99% of companies so I think 99% companies are better off with Azure/AWS/AliBaba.

Experience kind of matters in this case and allows smaller IT departments to outsource resilience to more skilled companies/workers.
Turning a Barebones ESP32 into a Hacker Arsenal’s WiNX Portable Clone
Encyclopedia of Ethical Failure [pdf]
Largest Brazilian Brokerage Is Getting into Bitcoin and Ethereum Exchange
It's not organic; Google has editorialised it in a racist way.
We need a post Inbox era therapist
>> The Alexa doesn't do that though, it only does if your home already has a ton of smart home stuff! So it's an interface to control a smart home (or if you prefer the common terminology - make an automated home a smart home).

Very true. My house already did have smart home stuff, and that's actually the reason why I got an Alexa (it had a reputation for being good with smart home devices). And after getting an Alexa, its usefulness made me buy even more smart house gear.
Generally I've been harvesting them manually using tools like RGeo or ex_shape.

I also don't see how I could be "doing it bad" since the thing I need to do is to use data from sets that use multiple SRIDs. If I can't reliably pick out the SRID, I also can't reliably bring them all into my DB.
Gravity doesn’t leak into large, hidden dimensions
This whole article reads like a promotion for China which comes on the heels of several reports about Google helping China cracking down on dissidents.

To me, this is a Google PR piece, nothing more.
Right - of course. So the question is: are the other "things that matter" designed to:

1) Inform the user and help the user quickly find facts, narratives, and meaningful content related to the search phrase?
2) Sell things?
3) Promote modes of political control by narrowing the scope of acceptable thought and connection between search phrase and content?

We all hope for #1. We all accept #2. But I think that most of us, at least until recently, had thought that #3 wasn't happening to any significant degree.

I agree that results like this one are befuddling - a search for "Politically controversial and anti-state concept <foo>" brings as the first result, "Related but saccharine pro-state concept <bar>" when both foo and bar appear in approximately equal stature in the domain in question.

Yeah, I think that's odd. And I don't see a way to easily explain it in the context of numbers 1 and 2 above.