skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you want a good book on the subject, check out the Beautiful Tree - http://www.amazon.com/The-Beautiful-Tree-Educating-Themsleve...
Sane health care is the biggest one.
cool story bro, but I still cant comment, clicking on text box pops up "what name do you want for your shiny new G+ profile?"
"A RIVER" looks like oscilloscope output. Maybe something from a more advanced digital scope with high speed differential signalling pattern analysis.
>’” The more savvy folks around them think, that’s good, because this isn’t a ‘game’ you can ‘play.’ "

Politics strikes me as something very atavistic. I avoid people who play politics at all costs - I simply can't imagine anything good coming from them.
It's a common meme. The entire financial industry is only about 11% of the GDP (or around 7% if you use a different statistical method). That includes insurance, pensions, etc.

The idea that Switzerland is propped up by tax evasion simply isn't true. The UK thought it was true and actually wrote proceeds from better Swiss cooperation over banking records into their budget .... then discovered there was a huge shortfall, because there was much less evasion done that way than they had imagined.
Is the "!" showing in some of the gate definitions a post-selection operation on the corresponding qubit?
Or make your own...
'Second system effect', the mythical man month (of course!)
Standard of living has barely any useful meaning. The US has a relatively high standard of living sure but in practice you only get to enjoy that, if you are at least middle class.

In Switzerland or anywhere else in Europe (excluding the east) you enjoy all the benefits mentioned in the article no matter what income or job you happen to have.
> I have come to believe that there is a better work-life balance in certain northern european countries than anywhere in the U.S.A

It really depends.

I know several companies offering 6 weeks of paid leave, plus holidays, in my area.

On the other hand, that's certainly not the norm. There are many people working jobs which provide no paid holidays or vacation.

At my previous job it was expected that you'd work overtime and weekends if anything remotely important was going on (and not get flex time or anything like that to make up for it) for no extra pay. At my current job there is no such expectation at all and nobody does it. Critical events wait until Monday.

My perception is things are especially bad in startup culture/the valley, but that's not necessarily representative of the US.

I think the real difference between the US and European Country X is the lack of any universal minimum standards in the US. There is the federal minimum wage and the FMLA, and that's about it. There is no federal requirement for paid leave or maternity benefits. But there are plenty of jobs with paid leave and maternity benefits (other than FMLA unpaid leave). So in reality, the work/life balance in America differs dramatically by locale, industry, and company.
The difference is in Switzerland you don't have to be mega rich to have a good life and because those places don't have different laws than the rest of the US, they only compare if you're rich enough for laws not to matter, at which point it's a moot point. Even the rich won't get paid leave or sane taxes or decent working hours, so to be comparable the level of richness has to put one beyond the necessity of work. In other words, our pockets of Switzerland are no such thing.
You can't enslave workers with a minimum wage of $7.5/hr.
Depends. How many times does a Magic the Gathering Online Exchange attempt to become a real financial institution?
India's DOT bans Porn sites after SC refuses to ban it
It felt like Usenet died as a meaningful place for discussion in the mid-to-late '90s, for all the same reasons that most (or all?) electronic communities eventually die. Bad posters drive away good posters and encourage even worse posters, which eventually results in something akin to YouTube. Forum entropy for lack of a better term.

By the time most ISPs started dropping it, a vanishingly small percentage of most ISPs' users even knew what it was, and the binaries groups had turned it into a source of both cost and legal risk. The heavy users were people who incurred that cost and risk to the ISPs because they were using it for pirating software and porn. The icing on the cake would've been the fact that it's a terribly inefficient way to distribute those things and the ISPs have to store all that stuff locally on servers they own.

From an ISP's perspective, maintaining Usenet feeds became all downside and no upside.

Regarding government control, I would think that Usenet would've been far easier to monitor and censor than the web.
Yes, that is the second consequence of being expected to work >8h with 1h commutes - one parent stays home when you have kids.
I can't imagine what it's like in the US if she thinks Switzerland is good for parental leave.

No paid maternal leave beyond the employer's discretion with the only exceptions of New Jersey, Rhode Island and California.
Actually, neutrality requires more military spending. As a NATO country, Switzerland could specialize more and better coordinate on technology and purchases. But on its own, it needs to maintain a full defense machinery without outside help.
Swiss banking secrecy (or privacy, if you want a better sounding name) is pretty much over these days. The Americans killed it as part of their worldwide citizen taxation program (FATCA). The Swiss send all your banking data to the IRS directly now and have done for several years.

The financial industry is large but not outsized, relative to GDP. For instance it is a smaller component of the economy than in Ireland.
> The oil doesnt' really make that much difference in Norway. They tend to keep most of the money in a state reserve to not create too much inflation.

It absolutely does make a difference to have the world's largest sovereign wealth fund[0], as well as the economic status that allows you to leave it untouched. Simply having guaranteed future access to that kind of wealth changes your political and economic options today.

> Subsitute Norway for non-oil Sweden, a country with huge immigration

Sweden is also comparably small (same size as NYC proper), and much of the "huge immigration" comes from other Scandinavian countries or EU member states. Sweden refuses to publish data on ethnic backgrounds[0], but by all accounts it is overwhelmingly white[1]. Of the top ten countries of origin for Swedish immigrants, 6 are predominantly-white European countries, and the rest are countries with majority Muslim population[2]. Muslim immigrants in Sweden have on average a dramatically lower quality-of-life than the general Swedish population and compared to what is being discussed here. On top of that, they face incredible racism and xenophobia.

So if anything, this supports the point that allowing free migration (as all US cities do) brings average quality-of-life down, not up. (Or to put it another way, it's very easy to maintain a high quality-of-life when you have the freedom to exercise strict control over your borders).

[0] http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-24049876

[1] Manhattan, by contrast, was majority non-white for most of the 20th century, and only just surpassed 50% white in ~2011.

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_Sweden#Populat...
Cecil the lion's brother, Jericho, is also illegally killed
I'm Swiss and I have been working in the US for a few years and some prejudices resonate with me. However, there are also some explanations for this:
Xenophobia: Swiss are probably less xenophobic than other countries I have experienced (including the US where I was mildly surprised about some things. Of course you shouldn't tell it loudly at your work-place). About one third of the population in Switzerland are foreigners and the number has been strongly increasing in the last few years. I think Swiss are fed up about "soldiers" (aka expats) and other foreigners that don't want to integrate. I had some bosses that didn't speak German and also didn't understand that some things are socially unacceptable. Unlike other countries, there is rarely violence towards foreigners.
Banks: I worked in banking. Other countries do the same as Switzerland. When you go to a German bank just over the border as a Swiss until recently, they will tell you that you can hide your money there and tax authorities in Switzerland won't know. I won't speak of Delaware, Miami, Singapore, Hong Kong and all these other places. The US is well-know for having ambiguous policies. Bankers in Miami are specialized in taking money from Latin America.
Prices: Prices are a lot higher for certain things. You can go shopping in Germany to save money. Some other items, e.g. electronics, are cheaper except for the US. Expect to pay high prices for rent, meat, vegetable, other fixed costs (health insurance, electricity etc.). However, the money left after your fixed costs is a lot more than the average person in another country. And to revert back to xenophobia, there are foreigners that somehow are unaware of the prices and accept low offers. Swiss don't like them very much.
Working: I worked in New York (not the US I know). I worked on a fixed two-year contract, so I couldn't be terminated. My US colleagues had an at-will contract. I always thought it crazy what my colleagues were willing to put up with. When they got a better offer, they just disappeared within a few days. But I had to adapt because I was the foreigner and the Swiss nowadays also expect you better adapt and integrate (see xenophobia) or you better leave Switzerland.
Although I lived in the US for some time, I'm a strong supporter of limiting the number of foreigners in Switzerland. It's not in Switzerland's interest but more in the interest of employers who try to take advantage of it.
I never said anything about rape victim behavior. I am a feminist and a radical; I see nothing wrong with connecting the logic of a rapist ("consent is not important") to OP's comment and denigrating this destructive attitude wherever I find it. And yes, I believe the two ARE connected. I find your comment thoughtless and reactionary.
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Made to Stick, by Chip and Dan Heath [1]. They ask "how is it that certain ideas seem to stick our minds better than others?", and give concrete advice on how to improve the stickiness of your own ideas. I've found it useful to avoid forgettable business waffle that fails to change people's minds nor behaviour. One of the many examples they give is of Nordstrom (a fashion retailer). They could have said "we want to delight our customers". Instead, they use stories of employees that embodied those principles: ironing a shirt for a customer that needed it that afternoon, refunding tyre chains even though Nordstrom doesn't sell tyre chains.

[1] http://www.amazon.co.uk/Made-Stick-ideas-others-unstuck-x/dp...
For negotiation, I can recommend: Getting More,
http://www.amazon.com/Getting-More-Negotiate-Succeed-Work/dp...

The author, Stuart Diamond, gives workshops at my company. I was able to attend one early at my tenure there and the book and workshop helped me understand how to use negotiation to get what I want.
It's a human thing, not a Swiss thing. Which is why homogenous countries have more sane political systems.
I don't see how leaving the country would help. I do vote, but my choices are either the crazy guy, the other crazy guy, or somebody who can't possibly win. Public advocacy campaigns? Maybe, but people by and large know what's going on and like it.
Valve has done a brilliant job creating a virtuous cycle around professional Dota.

They host The International (TI), the biggest tournament of the year. Dota is free to play, and financed by selling in-game cosmetic items. Every year around TI-time, Valve releases a collection of items, with 25% of proceeds going towards the tournament prize pool. Some people buy the items because they look cool. Some people buy the items because they "want to support esports". It turns into a virtuous circle because e.g. reddit gets hyped up like a kickstarter "how high can we make it go?!". Each year breaks the previous sales record, leading to PR, and higher sales. Higher sales leads to a larger prize pool, leading stories like these. Larger prize pools also attract pro players from other esports, leading to more PR and hype, etc.
Ask HN: How about a machine telling me what to do next with my app?
Working on a side-project that would predict what the developer should do next based on users' reactions. Would love to validate that idea, since it excites me more than ever.
That's what patio11 meant by the last bullet point ("Gox's bus number was one...").
My point is that to measure a single country's progress, you need to measure the quality of life for the working class, minorities, retirees, etc...

That's why things like health care, transport infrastructure, PPP, median and average salaries, etc... are all factored in to quality of life rankings. And why the US isn't the best country to live in.

Obviously there's many people between homeless and billionaires, but I was responding to a post that claimed the US' quality of life was better because of the potential to live well.
Omg! They're gmo!
Thanks for the suggestions, there is no problem, this library was made to be used on another project where we needed some kind of "joystick" for elements of the DOM.

We did not find anything and we thought of writing it directly.

Obviously it's open source so anyone can use it and do and suggest changes, we are curious to see even the possible use cases that others have.

Probably using what you say would be the best is not easy to say so on the spot, it should be seen in any detail.
The OP's response was in no way jingoistic. I guess you were hurling the epithet at the US in general, which adds nothing to that particular conversation.

As for the somewhat racist term "third world," I assume you really meant "underdeveloped economy." Which, for all of the United States' problems, it is not. The UN puts our HDI in the top 5, and it's nearly equal to Switzerland's.
There is a datacenter in Las Vegas with a great number of rack mounted MacMini's.

I would imagine even the new mac pro's can even be rack mounted if necessary.
Post-WW2 America had less income inequality than now, but it was far from a "very level and equal society."

In 1945, the share of the total income of the richest 1% was 11.07%, while in 2014 it was 17.85%. For the richest 10%, 32.64% in 1945 and 47.19% in 2014. A big chunk of the US segregated K12 schools and disenfranchised a race of people that politicians now use as a caricature in order to de-fund welfare programs. Women were kicked out of paying jobs after substantially contributing to the war effort because men came back and expected women to be homemakers.

The belief that post-WW2 America was some kind of glorious classless meritocracy is a myth. It just took a few decades of the natural self-reinforcing loops of capital to highlight the inequality that was already there.
In fact America does have one of the highest standards of living. It also has one of the highest median incomes, and among the highest disposable incomes.

OECD better life index:

http://i.imgur.com/ekhWXeG.png

Maternity leave is common in America. You are free to choose your job based on the benefits you desire, including vacation time and maternity leave.

Switzerland and Germany to name two, are famous for not having fully socialized healthcare systems, instead they blend private and public. Poor Americans have had universal healthcare for a lot longer than just this century, via Medicaid. US healthcare has only become particularly expensive in the last 15 years as costs have soared, prior to that the US had a very affordable, mostly private healthcare system.

The infant mortality rate in some third world countries is far more likely to be fraudulent, including in places like Cuba where they force abortions to artificially prop up their infant mortality rates.

The minimum wage in the US is set federally, and all states must at least meet that line. It's also likely to jump by ~50% nationally in the next few years, as major cities move to $11-$15 minimum wages. Italy for example has no minimum wage, and Germany just finally got one. Only 1% of American labor earns minimum wage. The median income of the bottom 25% of workers in America earn as much as the median income in all of Italy.
Perhaps I'm wrong, but the simplest explanation of Ethereum appears to be that it's a way of specifying and sharing contracts.

I think the whole digital currency thing muddies the waters. People, myself included, hear the word currency and think of something we earn and spend, but then you hear about all the other uses of Ethereum and wonder what that has to do with money.

What I've just realised by reading this article is that contracts are what Ethereum is all about, the currency aspect is just one of the many use cases. Laws are another example of a contract. The base class is contracts, everything else is a subclass on top of that.
Let's say the hash value comparison short-circuits by hex digit:

char[] entered+_hash = ...
char[] password_hash = ...
for (int i = 0; i < entered_hash.length; i++)
if entered_hash[i] != password_hash[i]:
return false;
return true;

This is a modification of a dictionary attack. as such, it assumes that the person has used a known password.

I take a standard password dictionary and hash everything. I arrange it into a Trie or somesuch by the hash.

I start trying passwords. Specifically: I try passwords where the first character of the hash is different. So, for instance, with SHA256, I try:

12345 5994471abb01112afcc18159f6cc74b4f511b99806da59b3caf5a9c173cacfc5
abc123 6ca13d52ca70c883e0f0bb101e425a89e8624de51db2d2392593af6a84118090
computer aa97302150fce811425cd84537028a5afbe37e3f1362ad45a51d467e17afdc9c
123456 8d969eef6ecad3c29a3a629280e686cf0c3f5d5a86aff3ca12020c923adc6c92
1234 03ac674216f3e15c761ee1a5e255f067953623c8b388b4459e13f978d7c846f4
a1b2c3 4f32044a655f32e8528edea64dbfd11cba810b8790e6e6e23d28ad3a75980734
xxx cd2eb0837c9b4c962c22d2ff8b5441b7b45805887f051d39bf133b583baf6860
test 9f86d081884c7d659a2feaa0c55ad015a3bf4f1b2b0b822cd15d6c15b0f00a08
carmen f3c2ce176290b0c384cb4881eb714f2db58f630c33863d91c9bedf58d36007db
mickey 33c614ca3cf78827a85dc0d8d06bfcf8c4d923fd23c813acd50b80ed2d4d4fb3
secret 2bb80d537b1da3e38bd30361aa855686bde0eacd7162fef6a25fe97bf527a25b
summer e83664255c6963e962bb20f9fcfaad1b570ddf5da69f5444ed37e5260f3ef689
ranger dbc4a04327176e6577b4da46df04564150053960eba5d89587dad1f76a818d80
letmein 1c8bfe8f801d79745c4631d09fff36c82aa37fc4cce4fc946683d7b336b63032
mindy 7376c22801fbd6e01009830a70028820f280958165e6d3c2bac9683dab28feb7
bear bc98bb50e8094b2ac3ceb90ba2512587c0513cd294a07efcfdcf467198da6266

One of these should take slightly more time than the others. Let's say it's 'carmen'. I now know that the first character of the password hash is 'f'. I then try passwords where the first character of the password hash is 'f' and the second is different. Repeat until I have the entire password.

Note that this can also turn an online brute-force attack into an offline brute-force attack with a small online component. (The only difference being instead of a password dictionary, you brute-force for hashes with the known bits.)

Note that a salt - if the salt is never leaked - prevents this attack.

(Except that if you have an account yourself you can do a timing attack against your own account to try to figure out the salting scheme!)

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If the password hash itself takes data-dependent time... There are plenty of ways to go from that to breaking passwords. I could elaborate if you wish.
> + Wages at Tibbanne (which provided 100% of employees for Gox) were consistent with prevailing wages in Tokyo startups i.e. scandalously low. 50% of employees earned less than $2k per month; director-level salaries in order of $4k, except for...

I've been told that employees at a certain like-deviantart-but-good startup are paid about as much as a convenience store worker. On the other hand, the conbini won't sponsor your visa.
would you work with remote teams?
For what it's worth, there doesn't appear to be any proof that this person is whom they claim to be.

The question was asked but somewhat suspiciously dodged: https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/3fe92x/im_ashley_b...
What kind of extremely screwed up design for mobile is on that site? A left and right column that scroll independently of each other. Can't resize the text. Can't enable the reader mode either.
AFAIK (I'm not a historian): serfdom started disappearing from most of Western Europe around XV century. In XVII-XVIII it was mostly forgotten, and peasants were free men, who either owned land or rented it from the big land owners. Having said that, their standard of living was dismal (including starvation when prices or crops were low) - often actually lower than in countries which maintained serfdom, such as Poland or Prussia.
The number one reason for Switzerland's wealth is that they were clever enough to stay out of wars as much as possible.

Other countries start from ruins and rubble periodically. Switzerland grows its prosperity incrementally, without catastrophes.
Interesting stuff. Sounds like a bunch of kids that had no idea how to handle $500 million dollars. However, the owner did seem to handle things with malice. Why would he share a bank account with all the customers assets - I'm no lawyer but that sounds extremely ilegal and obviously a conscious choice.

You're given such a large opportunity and to piss it all away. Yikes.
By lower class I don't mean everyone not rich. I mean everyone not middle class or better.

Median household income PPP adjusted in America is 30-40% better than France and Germany.
Oh for sure. Dota has ~11M MAU. The #100 top earning player's lifetime earnings are lower than a fresh out of school programmer's starting salary.
What's a contract? (Playing devil's advocate a little)

(edit: for the sake of pedantry, assume I did indeed mean contract)
Why would you want people to be silly? Do you mean wasting your time and getting in your way kind of silly or something else?
Nothing contradicting with your statement, Just gave some example of bullshit their cute democracy produces.
Actually the average European enjoys a way better living standard than the average American. Just take a look at healthcare system in the US. A disease in the US could ruin a family in Europe is taken care by the state... Same goes for education, etc.
You don't think it was unprincipled to commingle funds?
Many, many more than anyone will admit.
Recognizing such people is itself a skill, which can be learned.
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> It absolutely does make a difference to have the world's largest sovereign wealth fund[0], as well as the economic status that allows you to leave it untouched. Simply having guaranteed future access to that kind of wealth changes your political and economic options today.It absolutely does make a difference to have the world's largest sovereign wealth fund[0], as well as the economic status that allows you to leave it untouched. Simply having guaranteed future access to that kind of wealth changes your political and economic options today.

It probably makes a political difference yes, but I mean that if you woke a swede in norway, they wouldn't really notice apart from that everyone sounded funny.

> much of the "huge immigration" comes from other Scandinavian countries or EU member states.

The biggest recently is Syria, followed by Eritrea (2014).

I'm not saying that immigration is a net positive economically in Sweden (this is a hot topic, which isn't PC to talk about btw), short term at least that is very hard to believe, especially for refugees. Long term you get a different set of factors though when you weigh in demographics etc, the opinion on immigration is somewhat positive here though.
Assuming you meant contract, I'd say it was a formal agreement between two or more parties. Will that do?