skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ah, I see what you were going for there. That is sort of the gold mine / oil well situation too. If you price the activity in the asset, you normalize the result to the asset and are left unitless :-). But since the asset value flows with respect to another measure (in this case dollars) you can profitably arbitrage (in terms of dollars) using btc as a proxy. Just like you can with gold or oil.

Seems like a kind of useless way to look at it though since the goal here seems to be dollars, not btc. So what insight do you gain by evaluating it this way?
Also sometimes you don't even need the TLD:

user@myhostname, is a valid email address, and yet it's rejected by a lot of libraries.
Nginx has an equivalent preference, ssl_prefer_server_ciphers on. (Scroll down a bit on evmar's link.)
>Can you make a reasonable argument, that given the same manufacturer and roughly the same workers that the $30K car wouldn't by definition cause about twice the environmental damage as its constructed as the $15K car?

That doesn't make sense at all. There is not a 1 to 1 relationship, or even a linear relationship, between price and environmental damage.

All your arguments seem like you're trying to equate low-cost in dollars with low environmental damage. This is not the case, in food or in cars. In fact in many cases the exact opposite is true.
Sometimes it's important to only allow emails that work your other services. I once signed up for an EA account using an email with a + symbol, and it was a horrible experience because some parts of their system couldn't handle + symbols.
Yup, public transit in areas like Outer Sunset is pretty bad. I've never lived there, but I did stay in a hacker house there once while searching for an apt, and it takes a good 40 minutes on a crowded bus to get to Market St. Also I rarely ever find an Uber or Lyft nearby.
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> Do you expect your £18Kpa hairdresser (or the minimum-wage junior that sweeps up the hair) to spend £5Kpa (after tax) getting to work, or would you prefer to have go to Northampton every couple of months to get your hair cut?
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Turn it off, put it down, go outside. Talk to people. Or make something with your hands.

This is exactly the same like junk food. The solution is the same.
Exactly my opinion. And even though I normally lean towards free market related views when it comes to regulation and government, I think a high inheritance tax would be justified in western countries. With it universities & infrastructure could be funded and possibly enable more people to get a university degree.

My underlying reasoning: Every new generation is a giant possiblity for mankind. Now who do we want to command the most resources? If we had kings, it would be the kings heir, no matter if he is clever or not. Thats bad obviously. If we have capitalism without a high inheritance tax, we might have people like Paris Hilton commanding massive fortunes even though some poor kids might have done a lot better with it if they had a chance of acquiring wealth in the first place.

By having a high inheritance tax one would avoid unbelievable fortunes being handed down to people that are not qualified at all.

Another aspect is obviously that the state needs to motivate people to work better than their peers. If - like in communism - it doesn't matter anymore if I work harder than my peers, so I don't work hard. Assuming that most people work for personal gain, wealth, and so that they children have it better than themselves, you need to leave them their wealth during their lifetime and enable them to hand down some part of their income to their kids, and not give all back to the public. If they would have to give everything to the public, the really bright people might stop working at 35 when they accumulated enough wealth for themselves, knowing their children won't benefit from it anyways.

Good article.
And this could be abused. I sign up to a popular service with someone else's email address. I could be a nuisance and block them from signing up as themselves, even it if it is temporary.
I was thinking this too, but also the population has risen and so has the average life-span so I think the amount of new people joining the wealthy class is about the same as it always has been if not even less due to the old wealth never dying off.
Not all deterministic algorithms with uniform distributions are PRNGs.
There are many errors in Android security, this is one that I have found: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nkdbMv0lNMc

(TLDR: just remove your SIM card when screen is off to unlock, works on Anrdoid 4.0.3 with Acer Iconia Tab A511)

Edit: I wonder if someone with tablet could try to reproduce that?
Oh, nevermind that.. list 3 companies.. my ass. I didn't make your roof a rock.
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you can also check that (1,1), (1,2), (2,1), and (2,2) all happen with expected frequencies (i.e. roughly 25%), where the two numbers in the pair are just two numbers in a row in the sequence. You would have gotten 100% (1,2) and 0% for the rest, so that's suspicious.

same for 3-tuples, 4-tuples, ..., and n-tuples.

There's probably other, more sophisticated tests as well, but I'm not an expert.
You know many lower income people who are commuting long distances into the city? Really?

Sure, many come from Oakland. Which was the point of the article.

And when I was still in school and knew a lot of people in these types of jobs, many worked two (or more, if part time). And still couldn't really make rent. This is why I never tip below 20% unless the server didn't do their job very well. It's expensive to live here and they have a tough situation.

Also, Bus Drivers don't belong on that list. They are certainly paid more than wait staff, etc.
A bit of a stretch. There is no evidence that the leaker leaked the documents because of the American journalists FOI requests.
Earlier discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6545465
Speaking of Scott Adams' business ideas, I've always liked his "Rules for Filtering Out Bad Ideas":

http://filters.pen.io/

My favorite is #3: It doesn't matter how many people dislike an idea. All that matters is how many like it. So you should ignore the odd person who says, "Personally, I don't like the idea of an antigravity invention, so you probably ought to spend your time doing something more useful."

I would have phrased it as: Some good ideas will be viciously hated by a few/some/many, but it's still good if adored by some.
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SF is tiny. The Bay Area is not.
Nope, because you don't have the same number of 9s and 8s as 1s and 2s, so it's not uniform.
That sounds great. How come they don't service the Peninsula to South Bay? :(
Let me emphasize it again - perhaps by sheer repetition, the main point will become obvious:

It's not something relevant to the general population, the middle class in general, or the concept of social mobility, IF IT ONLY APPLIES TO 1 PERSON IN 1 MILLION.
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Doesn't mean SF has to ape the East coast. There are enough people making the 50 mile commute everyday that a public transport system is worthwhile and can be profitable.

I am pretty sure that if Caltrain went about 10 miles/hr faster, 101 will have fewer cars.
I have been thinking about using Digital Ocean (moving from Linode) but I have heard a few stories like this that really make me second guess that decision.
One of the enduring problems with various specialized diets is the desire to make substitutes for the food that was left behind. Nobody really wants to give up a food if they don't have to and we end up with all kinds of terrible substitutes when folks should probably just make the entire paradigm shift into whatever their new food style is.

I think if you have to change foods because of a debilitating issue like Celiac, getting rid of whatever is making you feel like you're about to die isn't all that hard and thus you don't really want to terrible substitute. It's the folks who are induced into the fad who don't really feel all that different one way or the other outside of some kind of placebo effect who still desire the foods that "were making them sick".

I think it's a particular kind of disgusting to convince people who are otherwise healthy that eating certain foods is making them sick when it isn't, it's infantilizing them and I think it takes away from the seriousness of the real disease and the people who really suffer from what's a very painful and often socially crippling issue.
This reminded me of a Star Wars book where Han Solo won a planet in a game.

>Han Solo won the deed to Dathomir from Drackmarian Warlord Omogg in a game of sabacc in 8 ABY.

http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Dathomir
I believe it would be a wash. Who do you think is more likely to be incompetent, all McDonald's 450k employees or 10 board of directors?
It does have to do with IP. If there was a worldwide IP regime in place, EVERYONE would have to pay what the drug companies demanded, or let their citizens die without the drugs (in countries with single-payer).

Since the drug companies know that Canada or countries in Europe could -- if they so chose -- make new laws that strike down the validity of their patents. But that would take time to do and require specialized laws that only dissolved drug patents or whatever. So they sell the drugs cheaply.

There's no negotiating like that here in the US because this is where the major pharma companies are headquartered and where they spend a lot of money lobbying for excellent protections. As a result their patents are safe here.

But their patents are not safe overseas which is why those countries tend to get a better deal on their drugs on the whole. It's different because those involved in the buying can alter the regulatory environment. Those involved in the buying here can't make such a credible threat and as a result, higher prices.
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What's the story behind the $10 reg fee? I assumed that it would include dinner/drinks/something but I can't find anything confirming that. I would've guessed it was a free event given that there's already at least one corporate sponsor (or so it appears). Failing that, I would've thought it was maybe a "members only" thing like Texchange. Do the startups doing the demo also have to pay to demo?
I'm usually the first to rail against NSA shenanigans but I also believe you shouldn't ascribe to malice what can more easily be explained by stupidity.
The first paragraph says:
> The popular view of America's upper class is that of an ossified aristocracy. But research from the National Bureau of Economic Research shakes up this view, at least among America's richest individuals.

Not much has shaken up this view. Half of the list inherited $400 million or more upon turning 18. Even the other half of the list are from among a small percentage of America's upper middle class.

#1 Bill Gates. Father a wealthy lawyer. His grandfather was a national bank president. He went to an elite private grammar school, which had teletypes and computer timesharing back in the 1960s. His mother was on the board of United Way with the CEO of IBM - a helpful thing for a son who became a billionaire by riding IBM's coattails. Despite all of this, he is still on the bootstrapped, self-made side of the F400 list. He is not one of the heirs.

Next is Warren Buffett. His father was a congressman. His grandfather owned a string of stores. And so on.

The rest of the top ten are the Waltons, who inherited Wal-Mart on birth, the Koch brothers, who inherited an oil company on birth, plus Larry Ellison and Michael Bloomberg. Ellison and Bloomberg are the only middle class people on the list.

I do think there are new trends happening at this level, but they don't point to what the blog post authors are pointing to.
Conditioning has taught me never to press the blue facebook button on another website!

I took a leap of faith though when I read the comments here.

Good game, although I was checking my FB profile every five mins to make sure it hadn't posted any crap!
You could make the same argument about a lot of private equity - that tends to involve the restructuring/managing of various brick&mortar.
this should go as Show HN post.
I'm curious — do you take it all at once? How long does its effects last?
I've found that the best ways for validating email addresses, in order, are: checking for the '@' sign, resolving the hostname to the right of the '@' sign to see if it has MX records (or an A record, since the specification technically also allows sending mail to the server at the A record), and sending an email to the address that includes a verification link that the user must click.

The first two can be done without requiring any additional work for the user, but people are so used to clicking verification links that they don't really mind that either.
often translated as, "A sound mind in a healthy body."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mens_sana_in_corpore_sano
You can't do much "infill" development in SF while you still can in Seattle. That's very much a "physical bottleneck" that must be accounted for when comparing the two cities. In SF, if you want to build something, that means tearing something else down. In Seattle, there is still open space that can be built on. Of course politics plays a role, but lets not pretend that there aren't very real physical bottlenecks to building in SF.
(Not to say that the paper is correct, I haven't read the actual study). Authors don't need to have greater insight into people's psychologies, even if the characters is just a representation of the author's mind, a reader reading many different works would have a glimpse of many minds, and it isn't hard to argue that it would help in reading actual thoughts of real people.

And the distinction of thoughts of fictional characters and real people is a thin one, as you said it yourself, many characters (within a certain genre and level of works) are in fact very realistic - a believable character has to be grounded somewhat from reality. Pick a fictional character in a good literary work, chances are in the real world, someone somewhere would have the same personality.

And the not-so-good children in Renaissance paintings doesn't affect the quality of Mona Lisa at all.
A can of beans and a turtle's foot.
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I'm skeptical. On any given ad break on any major network, there is an 80%+ likelihood that there will be an ad for a drug, if not two.

The US is the only country in the world that allows the advertising of prescription drugs - often with ads that would be hilariously vague, if not so dangerous ("Do you sometimes feel tired? Cymbalta could help! Ask your doctor!") - cha-ching, co-pay and insurance, and possibly a script for a drug that's really not needed.
Is that the last message they sent?
The article presents that caveat straightforwardly:

The popular view of America's upper class is that of an
ossified aristocracy. But research from the National
Bureau of Economic Research shakes up this view, at
least among America's richest individuals.

And elaborates:

Over the last 30 years, income inequality has grown and
intergenerational mobility has decreased. The rich are
getting richer and drawing up the ladder to the upper
class with them.

The story differs for the members of the Forbes 400 List.

So I'd say you're in violent agreement with the author.
I would not be surprised at all if we see other competitors enter the market in the next 2 or 3 generations. For example, Samsung or even an unknown. As the hardware is now basically topping out, it will eventually commoditize to the point that even smaller companies can have a go at the market.
I noped out of there when I saw the triple negative :-)
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We don't disagree. My point is there are plenty of employers who will keep your salary up to date. Of course if they fail to do so, you should leave and move on to a higher salary. They are at fault, so they should take the loss and redo their hiring experiments all over again. Simple as that.
Does not work on my SGS3, not sure if it is because I am using Cyanogen mod or because I have a sim pincode activated, that needs to be entered before the pattern unlock screen.
> America’s .0001% is becoming more meritocratic, but the means of a middle class background remain a necessary launching board.

Doesn't this directly contradict the preceding statement that those "born into poverty stayed level at 20%?" Maybe I'm being too pedantic with my interpretation of "necessary" but 20% seems a sizable chunk.
I know that, but that is what the first sentence in the paper's abstract is claiming. As I said, I think it's wrong.
Part of the difference may be that several of the communities along the R5 near Philly are affluent for the area (or in general, in some cases (Gladwyne)). Transit to poorer areas like Upper Darby isn't quite as nice.
Is it just me, or is this article filled with a lot of complicated buzz words and hyperbole?

"APIs have eaten software, and they’ll go on the eat enterprise architectures, too."

Yes, that API someone did a few months back that allows you to do a GET and POST "F *ck you" 10 different ways will eat software indeed. As will that API that gets a random LOLCat pic.
> Why on earth would I want my tax dollars subsidizing your rent?

Because service jobs and because traffic congestion and because all service job related prices.

Some counties and states provide "affordable" housing for people who work in that county if they make below a certain wage and above a certain wage. They basically make it affordable for taxi drivers, waiters, cooks, delivery people and other low paid job workers to live in that area. This way those people are not driving from farther way increasing congestion on the roads and I guess as a side-effect lower the prices in those particular areas (food, taxi, etc).

Now whether that is desirable, it is a net beneficial thing or not or just creates more problems I don't know, I am just presenting one reason some localities do it.
The cost argument is bunk. I spend much less than most people on food. The average westerner blows thousands of dollars on expensive processed food and garbage restaurant meals. There is nothing but consumer preference preventing most people in western countries from eating like I do.
I don't see any contradiction.

Goal : Lose 10 pounds.
System: Eat healthily and exercise every day, without looking at the scale.

Goal : Find a better job (when you think you need it)
System : Be always on the lookout for a better job (even you are content with you current one)
> The tendency for programmers to think of security in a nihilistic way continues to boggle my mind.

tptacek is appears to be too modest to say it himself, so I'll go ahead and point it out: He's not "just a programmer", he's a well-respected computer security and vulnerability researcher.

This isn't to say that you should ever simply take his word for stuff, but rather that you are on one hand preaching to the choir, and on the other that you are probably not considering practical effects on security design that he has to wrangle with all the time.

For instance, it's probably a bad idea to hop immediately from one weakened (not even broken) cryptosystem to The New Hotness just because flaws are uncovered, especially for those doing this without thinking of the consequences. For every theoretical security bug you may fix while doing the conversion, you may very well introduce two much practical security bugs.

Cargo cults are bad wherever they are encountered, even when the cult involves something as seemingly as innocuous as "Cryptosystem $FOO has been weakened, time to jump ship".
Scientists are trained to look at the data when confronted with a hypothesis.

In this context it's worth looking at Aspen, CO. Wages for service workers there have not gone up, and 60-mile commutes on mountain roads are common. I have no theory for why that is, but I do not expect a different outcome for SF.
The current email validation approach in MediaWiki allows for email addresses like "foo@bar", instead of "foo@bar.com". This ended up breaking unit tests at Wikia when we upgraded versions last year.

I originally thought this was a bug. But if you think about it, MediaWiki is capable of being deployed on an internal network. An internal wiki actually could actually interact with email addresses only available in a given intranet server, and not reachable from a given TLD.
I don't think you're correct. A discrete distribution can be defined for any number of values. Linux, which is the subject of the paper, uses a discrete distribution too.
There are two solutions: use hardware with the AES-NI instruction set, which makes AES blazing fast, or alternatively use a better stream cipher like Salsa20. On my machine, which has an Intel i5-3570k, Salsa20 is about 25% faster (edit: than RC4)

Unfortunately, neither solution is easy: only the very latest chips have AES-NI instructions, and not many clients support Salsa20 yet (OpenSSL does not, for example, and it powers a lot of SSL stuff).
I just tried this using the hardware specified. Works remarkably well, and Roximity have released an app on the App Store which can pick up this iBeacon, so no need to compile the AirLocate app mentioned.

Can anyone in the know advise if you could advertise multiple iBeacons (say 2 or 5 different UUIDs) off the one Raspberry Pi with the one BTLE dongle?
Yep, I haven't received a response to my last message. I've rehosted elsewhere though so I am not worried about not getting my files back.
The rigidity page calls schemes "fully rigid" when the scheme used to select their generator point is unspecified.

This is unfortunate.
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No, because he created $10,000 of value for society (In this case, an album.) On the other hand, creating $10,000 of paper bills does not create $10,000 of value for society - instead, it transfers value from the rest of society, to me.

Spending money to create currency does not add any value to society. (Or at least, it is a horrible investment, compared to spending 8 cents to print 100 x $100 bills)

And yes, there's more costs to printed currency then just printing bills. However, it does not come anywhere close to the value of the currency. The same cannot be said for BTC. There's 1.2 Trillion printed USD in circulation. I strongly doubt that the cost of printing it is anywhere approaching that amount. There is a billion $USD worth of bitcoin in circulation - and the amount of resources expended on producing it is a much larger fraction of the monetary base.

BTC is not valuable because it is definitive proof of difficult work - its valuable because it is 'difficult' to create, which protects your BTC against inflation/counterfitting. There is nothing inherently valuable about doing difficult, pointless work (Or any work - really), that provides no value to anyone - except shovel manufacturers.
I think you missed my point, which is this: the first sentence in the paper's abstract is wrong.
If only there was some possibility of there been a third option instead of just stupidity or maliciousness....
That mining bitcoins is dumb, you can access the same potential reward (or loss) with normal speculation without having the money tied up in hardware - put another way, if the BTC market crashes, you have some small window of maybe getting out at 40 or 50 cents on the dollar, but if you spent all your money on asics you're stuck with a bunch of expensive, inexpensive space heaters.

BTW: This is absolutely NOT an arbitrage situation. Arbitrage is when you make 2 (or more) simultaneous transactions to take advantage of market inefficiencies.