skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Maybe someone with a more indepth understanding of genealogy can answer this question:

If you were to sequence this man's genome and add it to the 23 & Me database (or some similar service) would you be able to get any interesting results?

Is there an existing database of historical DNA sequences available for comparing against?
This is why a lender for a house purchase requires title insurance. The insurance kicks in to make you whole if it turns out the house was not the prior owner's to sell. I don't think the same things exists with cars, but requiring it in some way seems like a way to handle the problem in general. In state-level social fund equivalent. This happens with insurance too. One of the costs baked into premiums are state mandated contributions to common insurance solvency pools. If a carrier goes out of business, the insured is still covered by the common pool that is used to fund claims (that have now be transferred to a solvent firm or trustee).
Try to manage all your cloud storage in one place
First of all, if it’s too complex to explain to all of us, it’s probably not a good idea. Second of all the steam roller referenced is the entire implosion of the crypto space. You’re getting fractions of a penny in interest which you could easily achieve in the real market with much much lower risk.
There was no native support for command line apps (in part because the cooperative multitasking model is not especially conductive to such things), but at least some Win16 development environments came with libraries for emulating console applications (eg. BP7 and Delphi 1 had unit WinCRT which did exactly that).
Just when I thought my home state couldn't embarrass me more by being backwards...

Thanks!
i can't imagine how this made it through review.
Do you even know what a HSM is? Did you consider their existence before initially commenting?

If you do know what HSMs are, do you believe that they’re all useless?

Idk where the “lol!” came from, we’re talking about extremely standard cryptographic key storage here.
I'm happy to make a contribution towards the preservation of his site. If there is a Venmo to which I may contribute, please let me know.

Also, I'm not sure how it is presently configured, but if the site is presently a dynamic CMS, it might be worthwhile to export the static assets and host the site on S3/GCS/IPFS. And to publish a tar.gz copy along with a signature checksum.
+1 on this. My whole reason for using NC has been to remove anything like social features, and let me control sharing.

Maybe all this will be optional, but the direction seems opposite to my needs. And the risks from 'extending' the network too.
It is possible to live on $0 income/saving indefinitely, assuming you live in a developed country with a welfare system (I wouldn't personally want to).
I'm not talking about me. I'm talking about the 2 billion people in China and India.
Would it be okay if they were required to drive in bike lanes? I think public safety concerns such as the ones you raised are very important, but I feel slightly baffled at what I perceive as an almost curmudgeonly, visceral dislike for them :(
Just FYI, might be interested in Ted Nelson's old idea of StretchText. It was never really implemented, to the best of my knowledge.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/StretchText
In my experience, Quora was a godsend in the early 2010s when we were all still reeling from the prevalence of Yahoo! Answers results on the first page of Google. Quora was new and contributors worked hard to provide high quality answers.

Then people's worst instincts crept in. High profile users with lots of views in popular topics realized they could use Quora as a "brand building vehicle".

Within maybe a year (2014?), Quora was a very different experience. What used to be simple, to the point responses became lengthy, thought pieces peppered with references to one's own website, ebook or online course.

Unsurprisingly, the replies to people's responses dried up around this time as well. I remember seeing real discussions in the comments and the authors constructively discussing issues with the commenters. I rarely see that now. Usually it's just a display of view and likes.

There isn't really a Quora community anymore, just self-styled experts.
If you want to do the same for Chromecast it's not possible yet. Google seems to have locked down their API. There is some open-source projects that are trying to reverse engineer it but the problem seems to be linked to crypto keys used to authenticate real Chromecast devices: https://github.com/thibauts/node-castv2/issues/2
Yup, it’s called an adblocker.
Yeah, I sort of agree. But two things:

1. The article shares a bunch of anecdotes about individual investors receiving their money back, which is surely true, but not necessarily representative of what’s happening overall.
2. Unfortunately it probably wasn’t priced strictly by “odds of recovery” (and also I suspect there was information asymmetry there) but also based on liquidity needs. Large institutions can wait for cash. Retail investors can’t necessarily. Yes, yes time value of money blah blah. Still seems asymmetric.
Just out of curiosity, what do you think of https://qbix.com/platform?

It is more of a toolbox for building NextCloud or anything else. But all the components have been tested on all platforms and work (and are secure). It has a working, fully documented plugin API.
There's no way Nintendo would ever cut a deal.
I really like this in concept.

There's times when I hit a site and I'm just there to do one of maybe three common things, but it's sort of "hidden" in a jumbled site.

Granted this is all about data on screen but I would think you could extend it to common actions or such.

Maybe you'd also learn that all your users really just use or want a simple view rather than a more complex site?
I have been using NC for a few years now and I am mostly happy with it. Contacts, calendars, sharing, photo auto uploads all work with my Android phone.

My problem is the software is pretty slow and from a security perspective I'd be hesitant to expose it to the greater internet. That's just my gut feeling.
Rome at the end of the Republic may have technically been republican (if oligarchic republicanism counts), but it was neither democratic nor liberal. Liberalism didn’t exist in name or form for another 1800 years.

One must be extremely careful and judicious drawing straight line comparisons from Ancient Rome to today. And as usual, the correct answer when confronted by a discussion along these lines, the correct answer is “it’s more complicated”.
React 16 Lifecycle Methods: How and When to Use Them
If they ask for something unsupported, accepting it'll break, don’t believe them
This is referring to desire lines / desire paths (I assume they are more common terms as google and wikipedia knew about them)

The wikipedia article even includes the example of the twitter @.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Desire_path
> After all, as one of the most famous writers in the world today, you are a legitimate subject for inquiry, whether you welcome it or not.

No she isn't. She doesn't owe jack shit to you or anyone else. The sense of entitlement in this piece is really off putting. Read her books or don't. That's it. For once accept the work as it is and don't try to interpret it against the background of the authors views, opinions or worse: her race, gender and whatever else millenials come up next.
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18639359
Why do Apple and Google get a pass here? Who knows what apps are doing with your photos and contacts. Apple doesn't. Facebook was grilled for not aggressively shutting down an app that sold much less sensitive information.
> the US and UK will follow suit after the testing period is over

This is one case where the corporate capture of the US government works in our favor. Tech is an absolutely massive portion of the US economy (compared to Australia), and the tech companies will fight this tooth and nail. If the government couldn't do it in the 1990s (they tried) when tech companies were far less influential, they certainly won't be able to do it now.
I imagine that you wanted to put focus on "second-class", but if we focus on "everything" we would have a compelling argument for lat/lon as a base for a transmission format.
Thanks a lot! You might also want to set up certbot ( https://certbot.eff.org ) to have https too, as I remember visiting it last time and having it flagged as unsafe because of the http.

It only takes 60 seconds to do it :)
This is a review of Sarah E. Igo's recent book, The Known Citizen.

Book detail:

http://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674737501

Podcast:

https://www.podtrac.com/pts/redirect.mp3/dovetail.prxu.org/1...

Youtube:

FPF Privacy Book Club - The Known Citizen by Professor Sarah E. Igo
https://youtube.com/watch?v=LnyGcJiZAjI

Sarah Igo: "The Beginnings of the 'End of Privacy' in the Modern U.S."
https://youtube.com/watch?v=AlWbNYvnxhg
OK, that's actually pretty cool.
This problem has already been solved without cryptocurrencies, check out TransferWise or myriad other solutions. The reality is cross-border payments with cryptocurrencies are always going to be more expensive because you have to convert fiat to and from your crypto medium on both sides with a 1 to 3% fee where transfer wise charges as low as 0.85% total. Sometimes less. Not to mention volatility risk over the course of the transfer oh my.
It's sold to Russians unwillingly and taken by the US willingly
What is a good source of information? By that I mean:

- not about daily information (which are usually as fast as possible and don’t take the time to really understand the situation)

- not biased

- not about juicy news, but world topics that are ~objectively important

I feel like there should be a subreddit for that.
> This is like Zuck’s infamous VR tour of hurricane-ravaged Puerto Rico, but worse because Zuck for all his faults does not maintain a public image as an enlightened tech guru.

It's a rite of passage for SV execs to be completely tone deaf.
Inject secrets from Vault directly into Kubernetes pods
It does, sort of, but, if you want to do this seriously, as in, you want more than one unit (I wan't ~5 to add to the open-source home security camera software I'm writing), you can't buy more than one at a time unless you buy it with headers attached (which I don't want), leaving you the alternative of buying them individually and paying for delivery for each individual unit.
That was largely the point of the Fabian strategy, was it not? Similar to the concept of a Fleet in Being[1], maintaining a functioning force is protected, but still able to threaten the other side constrains their options and makes it harder for them to achieve victory. Hannibal may have never lost in Italy, but he was nonetheless prevented from winning either. Though the main armies could only do so much to keep him from taking objectives, it made it difficult for him to maintain control over them. Notably, Hannibal had difficulty securing lasting control or alliance with many of the Italian city states, and those he did control often required losing some of his limited forces in order to garrison, otherwise they risked being retaken by the Roman army once Hannibal had moved on.

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fleet_in_being
> Based on all the twitter banning of right wing thinkers.

I did some Googling to see what "right wing thinkers" Twitter has banned lately, and you appear to be talking about Alex Jones and a bunch of literal Nazis.

> When it was allowed for twitter to silence people from their platform

"Free speech" does not and has never meant "guaranteed access to private businesses and websites."

And I'd bet money that you wouldn't say a word if Twitter started banning far-left progressives.
The startup I'm involved with has a solution that solves this problem.

Edit: Sorry about the terseness. I decided about half-way through to write a top-level comment that delved more deeply.

In short, our solution is this: http://qalocate.bamsaas.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/QA-Lo...

The AliLocator is flexible enough that whole structures can be sub-divided by any arbitrary criteria, with floor as potentially one of many. Since the AliLocator itself would be a bit awkward to use, you'd just want to create an LNS entry that then pointed to it.
I find that argument silly.

I have found this silly WRT "there are no viruses for Linux because no-one uses Linux" too.

If it is small, the attack is going to be much cheaper too. You don't need 24/7 active armies of trolls, you need one, maybe two parttimers to attack a small mastodon service.

My argument is that at all moments the attackers will weight benefits and costs. Currently, apparently, the costs to infiltrate, spread fake-news, or troll is too high.

This is caused by both the size of the attacked community (the benefits to the attackers are low) but mostly due to the attack being hard enough to not implement it.
15 years back i once tracked down a "boiler room" operation that was annoying me with incrementing dialer calls. I visited a little vigilante justice on them (smoking drugs in front of the webcam, heheh, heck it turned out everyone there was a meth user, local drug task force made an easy bust). They switched to an offshore call center site a few weeks later. Seems the dialer was selling the calls and there was no shortage of bidders. It's a pervasive and endemic corruption and there's no end to it. It's a cockroach-scale problem.
MPW had an interesting way to ease GUI-centric users into its CLI-centric world. There was a mode you could trigger for commands that brought up a help-oriented GUI for the command to build the command argument list, which would then echo onto the command line. Depending upon who built the GUI, it was usually a less terse and friendlier help for new users than AIX's SMIT, for those who are familiar with that.

I sometimes wish there was an open source equivalent like that for Linux , but with live, interactive building of the command as the GUI options were manipulated so new users could get a feel for commands more readily. This would act as an intermediate help system for casual users that is friendlier than manpages, and more immediate than searching around the Net.

[1] https://www.macintoshrepository.org/1360-macintosh-programme...
It's not a gender politics thing. You didn't just "question" her, you directly insulted her--"marketing to me, nothing more ... the bar has been lowered past the floor now." You'd have gotten the same downvotes if you'd launched a stream of invective at a similarly prominent male author.
> What would happen if I call the function with predicate ‘x == one AND x == zero’?

Then the algorithm never halts.
France.

We have no law about age of consumption but we have a law about a minimal age of buying; it has almost no sanction though and the worst you risk in spending a few hours or a night in a "drunken" cell at the police station. On the other hand we do have strong sanction for selling to someone under the legal age.

About the age of buying it used to be 16 years old but the law was changed to put it at 18 for liquors and hard alcohol back in 2009, since then most maps you can find on the internet about drinking age often put us at 18 but in reality it's still 16 for wine/beer/cider/...

The change was to fight whisky/vodka/rhum/... binge drinking by high schoolers.

(driving age is 18, or 16 is you're accompanied by an adult and passed a specific kind of driving permit)
> I have to rely on regulations and hope companies like Lending Club are legit, I don’t pour over their paper work

You...should probably do more diligence if you’re investing your money in Lending Club. Treasuries and CDS are the thoughtless investment option.
Yep. I was fortunate to have an old iLamp that can't handle the current version of the Airport Utility software, which doesn't support the older Airport Express (Mine are branded "AirMac," because I bought them in Japan) base stations.

You can get Airport Expresses on Goodwill for $5 to $10, but you need an old machine to set it up.

The current version of Airport Utility will see them in an extended network, and plot them on the network graph, but can't be used for configuration.
Everything Breaks
“Forward” user onboarding
I have not found something like this on the internet, but if it exists I'd love to know about it. Otherwise, books are the only place that fill out those qualifications.
A ‘Honking Big’ Cave in Canada Lures Geologists to Its Mouth
the rage is not winding, its now a part of cultural. There are kids that have seen antifa rallies and this is the norm to them. On the other end there are kids that have seen this and will always see these people as traitors. Maybe the protest are a fad but the supporters of the protest and against the protest have deep seeded hate.

We are in the anti civil rights era. Where the position of segregation and identity politics is being sold as the answer for the outcome of the equality era.

This is not a position argued , but a position felt. Many dont like minority quotas and many dont trust white men. The diversity is our strength idea while not wrong does not come without costs.

If I told you a new norm would be secession would you accept that?
Sure, that simplifies things and is how the law treats it. But there is still complexity. You have some cases where a single true owner invested via a family office, via different trusts, via feeder funds all at different times with different amounts taken out and different profit and losses. Sometime the profits from one venue are compensation to another. In these scenarios, you can treat them all as separate cases, or you can pull them together and negotiate an umbrella settlement. My understanding is that this has been done when possible, including with some hedge-funds who have purchased a variety of positions and even feeder funds themselves.
I don't think that's true. Prions aren't bacteria or viruses that evolve and transmit. They're mostly just a misfolded protein that occurs spontaneously. (They can then be transmitted.)

I'm not sure there will ever be a prion that hasn't already existed, whereas I am sure there will be new viruses and bacteria.
Relevant xkcd: https://xkcd.com/1189/
Show HN: A simple job board for finding internships in Tech
But that's not what I was responding to. Re-read the context:

> The feel of travel was different then because no internet, no cell phones.

The feeling of freedom that came from pre-internet travel was a result of being able to leave your home and its associated troubles and constraints behind and go someplace where they couldn't find you. Nowadays, all those troubles and constraints follow you around no matter where you go.
I noticed the writeup has your output set at +4db. That implies it’s substantially overdriving the output, which will cause obvious distortion. I have a rpi plugged into my high-end-ish stereo for other reasons, and find the output to be more than good enough.

If you’re complaining about audiophile nuances like warmth and presence, and also using 24-bit, high sample rate audio files, then fine, but if you’re encountering obvious distortion or buzzing then something’s wrong with your setup.

(Thanks for writing this up, by the way; it didn’t occur to me that I could set up an AirPlay server with stuff I have laying around.)

[edit: I forgot that I’m using hdmi audio. Still, the +4db thing is a red flag]
Another vote for the HiFiBerry. I’ve used their Digi+ board (which includes optical-out) with a Pi3B running Volumio for a couple years and it’s been fantastic.
As of 11:18AM EST I can access everything just fine. Seems to either be back or it's an isolated problem.
In university I had a course (curse?) called "logic in formal systems" (or something like that); I doubt many using only the course's materials truly understood the logic principles demonstrated there. Coincidentally, the course insisted on using ∧, ∨, ¬ etc., while another course also dabbling in a lot of logic using natural symbols was far better in terms of presentation and explanations. (To this day I have to look ∧, ∨, con- and disjunction up to be sure which is which).
I'm not too sure. I think it was to prevent consumers being hit with hidden charges, which makes sense, but I can't help but feel the legislation is a 'sledgehammer to crack a nut' sort of solution. I think it would be fairer to simply force companies to state up front what their charges are and then the consumer can make her decision based upon that.

- ed

Curious, I had a quick Google, and lo — from a few months after the legislation was introduced... https://www.theguardian.com/money/2018/jun/17/credit-debit-c...
They're not banning "right wing thinkers". They're banning people who are violating Twitter's longstanding policy forbidding hate speech on account of "race, ethnicity, national origin, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, religious affiliation, age, disability, or serious disease". Every forum I've ever participated in has had rules against this kind of behavior.

If you're not promoting hate speech, you're fine. If you think someone can't be a "right wing thinker" without posting hate speech, then that's the kind of attitude that's poisoning the right and destabilizing the country. Bill Kristol is in no danger of being banned.
To be fair, nor do they have a history. Though simplification can make things easier, it can also result in obfuscation, and it's often not obvious which is the better bargain in general.
$1 million isn't enough to stop working for someone else if you're in a first tier city like NYC or London, but if you move out to a cheaper part of the country then you can.

You might not have an extravagant lifestyle, but you can certainly live on the interest and returns on investment.
A few suggestions: academic papers, books, documentaries (including indie produced ones on Youtube), radio shows/podcasts.
The SIPRI Top 100 arms-producing and military services companies, 2017 [pdf]
Can Marriage Counseling Save My Marriage?
Oxford, Cambridge and Merriam-Webster say no.
Samsung to develop real products with a fake Supreme
It seems to be back up, but I didn't do anything. I'm still going to find out what happened and make sure it doesn't happen again.

Thanks for posting this. I probably wouldn't have noticed until January.

Edit: it turned out to be a problem with the server. Thanks again for the heads up and for everyone’s kind words.
Were financially independent. The crypto millionaires I know who rode the trend all the way up to the top rode it right back down to where they started. It makes sense, the kind of people who would hold onto crypto unconditionally until they became multimillionaires are exactly the same kind who would ride right back down to zero.
Ironically, I've dropped Chrome on Windows because of the very same issue several years ago. There were more than a few sites like this; the only way to close the tab was killing the entire browser with the task manager. I've been occasionally stumbling upon sites like this for a year and a half, and the bug hasn't been fixed this entire time. Then I switched to Firefox, which has a feature to bail out from the endless loop (the 'Prevent this site from creating additional dialogs' checkbox), and never looked back.

So I guess there's more than one way to aggressively keep the tab open.
> This feels like an accidentally arrogant, Western-centric way of looking at addresses

nope, many places simply do not have addresses. many places do not have streets. And unless you can find a more global addressing format that does not require translation of complex sentences we can only use location based addresses for a lot of places.

Essentially a plus code is something that you can paste on amazon for a delivery.

Now we could say that web giants like amazon are a danger to the world, a danger ever so ominous as so alluring. Still to the aim of identifying a place for delivery many places do not have addresses.