skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sure. And that's why people who want anonymous Bitcoin use mixing services. Such as Bitcoin Fog:[0]

> In December 2013 the site was used to launder a part of the 96,000 BTC from the robbery of Sheep Marketplace.

> In February 2015, a total of 7,170 bitcoin was stolen from the Chinese exchange Bter.com and traced back to cryptocurrency-tumblers like Bitcoin Fog.

0) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bitcoin_Fog
> The question then becomes who decides what's acceptable content, the only answer is regulations and legislation for this otherwise for-profit tech giants will be the ones who decide and they're more concerned with user-engagement than far reaching detached societal implications.

What about this : all content is potential knowledge and should be made available. That way no one get to decide what is "acceptable content". At the end of the day, the laws still forbid anyone to kill people, content or not.

A good read is : https://freedomhouse.org/report/freedom-net/freedom-net-2018...
So if VPNs are basically no good for keeping yourself anonymous, how do you?

Or is the solution multifaceted and you should use a combo of VPN, don't logon to services connected to first party data etc.?
No, it's not a big step from normal porn. There's no amount of any sort of porn that can replace sex with another human. I'm saying this as someone who frequently (once / day with an occasional off day) masturbates. People don't seek sex simply to orgasm. That is highly naive and reductionist.
Which VPN?
I don't think if the question is whether large bills can be handled by distributing $1M payments over N years. The question is, should this really be costing $1M? I understand if there is a billion dollar investment by big pharma that benefits 1000 people and so there is no other way but to charge $1M. However, it appears that fundamental techniques are all same and it gets reused for hundreds or thousands different treatments. So with cost spread, the cost to patient shouldn't be $1M. If big pharma has life saving treatment and they thought they got people by their balls to pay up any ransom amount then its just wrong.
From my experience the answer is usually (d) all of the above.
Startup argues for a technical solution to flaky tests
However, while both are low carb the ketogenic diet and the atkins diet are different. Keto generally refers to a diet very low carb, protein as needed, and higher fat (generally most calories come from fat). Atkins was a low carb, high protein diet.
This comes straight from the PostScript ancestry and the Forth style stack, right? Are there problems associated implementing this processing Forth-style, so you parse words and put them on the stack, and pop 2 operands when you see 'R'?
As another poster said this is Catholic doctrine. I'll go further than they did and say that this is uncommon amongst Protestant churches.
Characterizing secret leakage in public GitHub repositories
Ubuntu 18.04 LTS on servers.

MacBook Pro 15 for work with a lightweight container for dev.

Ubuntu LXDE desktop at home and a Surface Go w/Windows+WSL on the road.
Your friend will have a painful learning experience. You might not be his friend anymore by the time he learns the thing. Or you might be there to help him recover from a painful learning experience. Either way is OK.
Hmm, my daughter is in elementary school and she never had such homework. Also as an employee in the private sector, I myself has no such burden. I think the public servants are mandated to score well in this app, but I also heard that recent updates have removed names from the score list so the bosses cannot criticize people for taking a low score.

I think the article has exaggerated the situation.
Mithril Capital – Investing Is Hard
I'd rather say having such ambiguous adjectives for types was a bad idea to begin with. And it falls apart when something longer than the original long comes out.

I'm not blaming them for not being explicit about the # of bits back then, though, because back then memory addressing unit (byte) wasn't universally 8-bits and word size wasn't a multiple of 8 either (and some archs weren't even binary): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Word_(computer_architecture)#T...

It seems a naming convention in units of bytes could've been possible though (with the exception of a few archs).
Ah sorry, I assumed Android == Google Play Store.
Answering a few points:

Hasura allows you to turn any "query" to a subscription, essentially live queries.

Hasura's query optimization is actually one of the core features. Hasura is structured as a transpiler that converts GraphQL, adds access control clauses and then renders a single SQL for the database. Very different from a typical ORM approach or the dataloader approach.

More details: https://blog.hasura.io/architecture-of-a-high-performance-gr...
The quip about someone being sure absolutely no traffic went out their access IP is that without extreme confidence, they won't be pushing their lawyer/team to scrutinize the chain of custody for the server logs, hinging their case on procedural grounds. Someone diligent enough to setup proper firewall rules is probably also forethinking enough to not go cracking random newspaper websites for fun.

And yeah in regards to criminal activity, I think it would be prudent to consider the NSA, specifically bulk processing of dragnet surveillance, part of the threat model in the modern age. It's very easy for the public narrative to focus on a guilt-implying needle in a haystack, regardless of how that needle was actually found.
Why stop at Facebook? The GoPro or iPhone he used should have caught it before it even reached facebook. The ISP should have caught it too. Lock them all up? How about the pavement the killer walked on, it should have swallowed him, let's sue the city for not designing shooter eating sidewalks?

You're looking to go down a ridiculous road imo.
Why are articles like these yanked so quickly from the front page of HN?
I assume you mean relative to controlling a human body?
Nah, he's right. The Core Secrets leak said the FBI was using some secret method to "compel" domestic targets to do the "SIGINT-enabling" of their networks. It might have been just fines and jail threats under the secret court (FISC). On top of that, the Patriot Act let them hold people indefinitely, they were kidnapping folks at airports for "extraordinary rendition" (torture), and there's the old civil forfeiture laws on top. That's the extreme stuff.

Less extreme, Lavabit was hit in court. Lavabit said giving their private key to the government would expose all their users' data. They said it would be bad for their business. The FBI countered that there would be no damage if nobody knew they did that. So, they just wouldn't tell anyone what the judge had ordered. Judge went along with that idea. So, that's how legislation and liability in the U.S. works. Especially when there's secrecy orders.

Pro tip: don't host anything that's supposed to be private in the U.S.. It's a surveillance/police state slash plutocracy disguised as a democracy. Anything that might be private can be ordered to not be private secretly with immunity.
Likewise, if you're "tired of getting your passwords stolen" sign up for XYZ where all your passwords are stored on their servers!
If the sentiment you express in Western social media is political and outside of the manufactured consent, you are very likely to be put on one of the many American watchlists with millions of other people and systematically-harassed at US borders. This sucks but is the way Western, corporate, imperialist, inverted totalitarianism works.
Yes, DjVu: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DjVu
I see at least two [flagged] comments. Do flagged comments cause the article to get buried?
I know what you mean, but one can say "which register", though. Intel CPUs have registers ranging from 8 to 512 bits these days.
Ask HN: How and where to get good quality news?
How and where do you get good quality, preferably unbiased news ?
As mentioned in the article, a prominent cost-effectiveness research group, ICER, suggests that the treatment may be cost effective at prices of up to $1.5M, but with a different set of the assumptions, the cost-effectiveness threshold could be as low as $310K.

Other studies suggest CAR-T drugs are cost-effective at current prices, but they are not widely covered by payers. In these cases, it is less clear whether drug companies or payers are to blame for access to treatment

The article also does not mention what the gene therapy in question actually does. In small studies, it has essentially cured a disease that would otherwise kill babies before they are two. It's a pretty amazing product. And there are many companies hot on their heels, some of which are developing small molecule drugs -- much cheaper to develop and manufacture than gene therapy -- that actually seem to be potentially nearly as effective

The detailed ICER review is a good read if you're looking to understand how drugs are valued: https://icer-review.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/ICER_SMA_...
> it does work, for the rent controlled people

And anyone relying on their labor. If the cost of living goes up for those people then the cost of other things go up. It's in everyone's interest that cheap housing is available (by some means or other), but lately we've all been sacrificing for the literal rent seekers.
So function languages are excellent and taking very little work to model a clean abstraction. This is mainly due to the behaviour of a lamda function.

The result is that you can easily model a procedure as a series of discreet steps and abstract away clutter. Mutated state and implicit arguments (this) are also typically not used in FP (except where required by the language or for performance reasons)

Upsides to this is that code is explicit, terse, and doesn't get bogged down in the specifics of how the hardware might need to assign pointers to values, etc.

The downside to this is that some people find the mounting abstractions and endless new terms difficult to parse, since FP spends very little time working with primitive values, and since it often is so different from traditional OO languages.

Javascript in particular can be very terse because there's very little boilerplate necessary due to the type system, and because it places no restriction on side-effects, allowing very easy methods of getting things done (but also creating a lot of brittle, bug-prone behaviour)

Haskell and purescript have much more verbosity devoted to types and type manipulation, but produce much more stable/predictable behaviours.
Hm... is this is like JOOQ[1] for non-Java languages? Or maybe more like a typed version of massivejs[2]?

[1] https://www.jooq.org/
[2] https://massivejs.org/
Some people do. If that's true, all hope is lost ;)
Announcing Project Rome SDK for Android and iOS
In just 55 years, this is like looking at alien technology compared to what we use today. Humans are notorious for looking at the incredible advancements of technology in the previous few decades and then saying, "and now we're done".

The idea that what we have today could seem as ancient and antiquated as what we had 55 years ago seems now; it is truly hard to fathom.
This is completely different from the NaMo app.

The use of the Chinese app is compulsary for many to teach themselves about Xi's ideology and propaganda. They gamify this by scoring the "player" and placing them on a leaderboard. The scores they receive on this app most probably are and will directly or indirectly affect their actual social credit scores. That is dystopic.

The NaMo app/television channel is just mode of communicate to the larger mass regarding the party's ideas and news updates.
There are Java APIs that give access to raw memory. It's one of the infamous, largely undocumented sun.misc-stuff though. There are libaries that used it to implement efficient off-heap data structures. Because of modularization its future looks grim though. After all, Java was not designed with having an unsafe subset of language constructs like Rust has. It would degenerate to C++ in terms of safety.
We're really interested in the community's thoughts on the approach. Cloudseal is also a startup that is currently hiring (https://www.cloudseal.io/hiring).
We have all kinds of software that you could call feeds, but they're mostly not public. https://news.ycombinator.com/noobstories and https://news.ycombinator.com/noobcomments are, though.
Houellebecq predicted all of this.
Whale blubber and mammal livers are high in vitamin c and considering primates lost the function of the GULO (L-gulonolactone oxidase) gene, one could surmise from megafauna extinctions that hunting was essential to most nomadic hominids.

Also, GULO is one of many interesting genes to contemplate resurrecting.
They're similar. Polyphony would be a bit harder on the continuum because you've got to tune the intervals by ear and feel, whereas I believe the Seaboard quantizes to quarter tones. So, you can play chords easier on the Seaboard, but in theory the chords could sound better on the Continuum if you're really good at hitting those just-tuned intervals.

Another instrument that's similar is the Linnstrument from Roger Linn. It's very playable and last I looked was a lot cheaper than the Seaboard or the Continuum. You can turn quantization on or off. The firmware source code is also open source.
This makes a good moment to thank you for how much of that you've done—a genuine community service, even though most HN users don't know about it.
> One government is trying to keep their people from seeing violent and disturbing content.

That should be up to the people, not the government.
I would tend to attribute this to the fact that butter is delicious before I'd say it was an instinctual craving for fats.
One of the best pithy comments on general relativity and dark matter was made by someone on HN about a week ago. I think it summarizes the situation quite well. But, inexplicably, people don't seem too concerned about it:

>"[dark matter] seems to make up about 95% of the galactic mass...crushingly narrow passages between observation and tests of GR"

GR only matches observation because you added in 20x more stuff that is undetectable other than as a deviation from the predictions of GR.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19537192
There's something hilariously ironic in saying that tech companies should be treated like mining, aviation, and medical companies. How many natural disasters have the biggest mining companies caused and what repercussions have they faced? Do you really think Boeing is going to dissolve or that the pharmaceutical companies that kill tens of thousands each year by selling opioids and bankrupt millions more are actually held accountable by government regulations? It's all a circus show.
I wonder too. The only reason I think this has any chance in hell of working is that I didn’t think anybody would ever use the non-plus version of News. But they do.
Yes, women controls the access to sex but of the men that do get the sex, those men controls the access to the relationship.

See it really is supply and demand. If a stud can get access to so many women, why would he commit so easily to just any relationship?

Like the tech job market, you have top companies getting most of the applicants and being super selective. Eventually, some women will have to settle on a lesser company or University.
I'm guessing you don't like introspective, moody or slow paced movies? I shudder at the thought of watching Wong Kar Wai's "In The Mood For Love" at 1.7x speed...
In capitalism no one sheds any tears if you can't make a business work. If you won't someone else will. Probably in China or India. They'll happily read all your papers, develop a copy-cat cure and sell it for 100k maybe even 10k in the name of Humanism. No one will shed a tear for all the profit investors lost out on.
>PIA absolutely does not keep any logs, of any kind, period. While this does make things harder in some cases, specifically dealing with outbound mail, advanced techniques to handle abuse issues, and things of that nature, this provides a high level of security and privacy to all of our users. Logs are never written to the hard-drives of any of our machines and are specifically written to the null device, which simply acts if the data never existed.

From https://www.privateinternetaccess.com/helpdesk/kb/articles/d...

They don't say they aren't using deep packet inspection, and it acknowledges that makes it more difficult to handle abuse.
For several years, I've been recommending AirVPN, Insorg, IVPN, Mullvad and PIA. So at this point, I can say that they've all been around for several years, and I've heard nothing bad about them.

Ones I have heard bad things about are EarthVPN, HideMyAss, Proxy.sh and PureVPN. And although I've heard nothing bad about ExpressVPN or NordVPN, the fact that they've bribed so many review sites to recommend them annoys me.

And yes, I have written stuff for IVPN.
Yep. And use Tor instead.
> Furthermore, the idea that harsh penalties and regulations are going to prevent psychopaths from broadcasting their killing spree is ridiculous

Nobody is broadcasting in TV or newspapers - they are actually liable for content that gets published on those platforms.

Maybe we finally remove exception for internet?
SpaceVim seems really cool, but it has so many dependencies. Seems like a nightmare to get working on Windows and the 5 other platforms I use Vim on.
Consider who the person is reviewing these things. Imagine all the horrible fucked up shit they see on a daily basis.

I wouldn't be surprised if after seeing videos of babies being killed, people being beheaded and hung, that some sperm yelling at women might not even register to them as a bad thing.
David Buckel
You should probably include private sector debt, not just public. I've seen figures that range from 266% to over 500%, depending on whether you include shadow banking and correct the official GDP figures for inaccuracies that researchers have uncovered.
The case against Facebook: A 'dataopoly' with too much market power
Maybe by replacing Electron based apps with native versions /s
This. Man I thought I was the only one. Is there a group for people like us? A subreddit maybe?
I've had the idea of doing a similar thing in application code for XHRs. For example, if you have a React app and you structure your code so that components declare their own data dependencies, then you can have a framework-level solution where you measure component positions on mount and give priority to data fetching for components above the fold.

I never actually implemented it, though, just seemed like a nice idea. Anyone know if existing data fetching frameworks (e.g. Apollo Client) can do anything like that?
If you setup your own VPN on some leased VPS, then you're the only user. So there's zero help re anonymity. And re privacy and security, you need to trust the VPS provider.

No free lunch :(
Don't value? They have been begging for free speech to be utterly decimated and cry foul if you even suggest that maybe they shouldn't lockup a teenager over sharing the video.

They just want to "teach people lessons", it's quite sad really.
Why Do I Keep Getting UTIs and Yeast Infections?
The impossible challenge of tracking US visa overstays
Given that Micronesia has a population of 100k, I wouldn't worry too much about their secret service.

I presume OP meant FSM as in Flying Spaghetti Monster as a stand-in for any organization that might wish to spy on you with its noodly appendages.
The easiest way to find a hidden camera is with a thermal sensor. You can get a used FLIR for around $100. Everything electronic gives off heat...
Higher kinded types create a context arlu d the types(and ultimately the values) they wrap. This can type classes which implement a the same function in different ways for the same value wrapped in a different higher kinded type, for example. So if your domain deals with values in two contexts, and you want to manipulate them using a common language, higher kinded types are a pretty great way to achieve that. They also enable parametric polymorphism, and that creates a LOT of predictable behaviours for free, which in turn allows you to automatically derive typeclasses, interfaces, and theorem proofs in certain situations.
ah yes 4chan lite was supposed to turn out completely differently.
It all comes down to this:

> With a VPN, all you end up doing is shifting the trust from one party to another. You are not gaining anything.

This is where a lot of people would disagree. A known, reputable, audited, privacy-focused vpn provider, for example, could be more trustworthy than an ISP.
This isn’t an incorrect approximation. It’s exactly how relativity was taught in my upper division physics class in college.

General relativity basically starts with the assumption that everyone is moving through space-time at the speed of light. We sedentary material beings experience that mostly as moving through the dimension of time. Non material things like photons experience it as moving through space (because they lack inertia). When you accelerate to high speeds, you’re somewhere between the two extremes.
> Neither a mosque nor bank should be closed for a circumstance that could not reasonably have been predicted.

How is this any different from Facebook? A bank has security measures in place to prevent robbery, but a robbery could still take place in one and is more likely to occur in one because it's a high value target. Facebook has human and AI moderation in place that automatically processes anything you upload. Users are also able to report content. However, just like sometimes banks are robbed, sometimes objectionable content slips through their filters. By your own logic Facebook shouldn't be closed down because mass shootings cannot be reasonably predicted. The basis for your argument is fundamentally flawed and if you extrapolate it to your own examples you'll quickly see how ridiculous and illogical it is.
1984 is set in London
Nobody is griping, calm down! It was just a reflection on the attitude of the typical teenager, and how he'll grow out of it.

> "Things are absolutely more accessible now, full stop."

Not if you don't "have the time" because of all the "memes" and "evolving conversations". Overexposure to constant new stuff is actually an impediment.

You know people who enjoy Calvin & Hobbes? Good for them. They managed to overcome the distractions of the latest stuff to focus on the good ;)
Or a group of 3-4 people occupying the whole sidewalk coming towards(infront) of you, they see you coming, and still won't give space to let you pass.
Most times, I just stand and stare at them.
This even happens at work, when I am walking up the stairs.
When I was younger, I wanted sex all the time. But around the time I turned 29 or 30 I rapidly began to lose interest in sex. It was like someone turned off a switch.

It doesn't seem normal - I should want sex more than I do. I'm healthy and my hormone levels are normal. Maybe I'm an outlier, but I wonder how many people aren't having sex because, for whatever reason, they're losing interest at a relatively young age.
I don’t have the time to go look at financial statements of music labels vs publishers, but my guess is that the written word is much cheaper to produce. After all, the talent is much cheaper. Are there magazine or newspaper writers making more than $250k/year? Probably not. But there are tons of musical acts with multi-million dollar deals. Also, while there are songs and albums that make money for a long time, the labels need fresh content in the same way that publishers need fresh content.

But, look, I’m not saying this is a home run. All I’m saying is that it’s not clear to me that this is doomed to failure. Might work, might not. We shall see.
I just launched: https://uidea.co. It's basically collection of website designs that I like. Because I hate to visit them everytime I need inspiration. So, I took full-page screenshot from each one, and put it online.

Maybe, you'll find it useful too. I'll put more websites everyday. 3-5 websites a day.