jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Interestingly, this brand-new custom coin they're using is not Proof-of-Work or Proof-of-Stake.

> The MobileCoin Consensus Protocol avoids the environmentally-damaging mathematical “work” required by Proof-of-Work (PoW) consensus protocols like Bitcoin and realizes a much higher transaction rate than the Bitcoin consensus protocol. In contrast to Proof-of-Stake (PoS) consensus protocols, practical control of governance in MCP is ceded to the users who are trusted the most by the extended MobileCoin community, rather than to the wealthiest users who control the largest financial stakes.

https://github.com/mobilecoinfoundation/mobilecoin/tree/mast...
Identify their motives "What's in it for them?" is general but potentially effective. Google MICE acronym for more info.
That article taught me that “checkers” is called “draughts” in British English. I wonder how Wikipedia chooses whether to refer to something by its British English name or its American English name when the two don’t agree?
This is not entirely true. There has been a delay (11 month) in the sync of the server code with a public GitHub repo. Currently all commits are there: https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-Server/commits/master
Out of curiosity, have you used OpenMP or TLA+? I seem to remember that solve problems that are really, really different from the use cases for which Rust is designed.
Well, presumably because the latter gets the author an upvote from you on HN and the former gets her funding in SV. That upvote is worth nothing and that funding is worth a lot.

In fact, considering that Loyal was posted on HN https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26546291 and received no upvotes it looks like the choice is between 3 upvotes, 0 funding and 0 upvotes, >$0 funding and so she's made the right choice.
I tried to get a company I work for to contribute to a AWS account switcher plugin but they couldn't be arsed. It's a one-man operation and saves us easily weeks of time per year
I thought the point of the essay is that the obsessed will be obsessed, with possibly great results, regardless of whatever the lucrative career path of the moment is. It's not about anybody "optimizing" anything.
I was recently told how private detectives from a national agency would actually go door-to-door (over a minimal area) under the pretext of AT&T store / sales employees. They’d try to convince their target (and some incidental neighbors as cover) to switch their bundled services to AT&T.

The private agents were armed with the latest available discounts (which you could find for yourself if you tried). But their skills made them particularly more successful than a typical front-line sales employee.

The catch? It wasn’t a scam, and they really were trying to get their targets to switch. It seems that AT&T was more willing to sell consumer data than the general public is aware of. Converting their targets to AT&T granted their agency access to additional data which they then to passed onto their clients. And the target gets a discount, too. Win-Win-Win? :)
Yes, that's why the U.S. also fought a brutal war against Filipino independence.

Regardless, they ultimately delivered on the promise of independence, and at the apex of American military and political power.
He was arguably right though. MAD has never failed to prevent a purposeful casualty from an A/H-bomb.
So... what are Japan's laws regarding child pornography?

If a family with a young kid stays, and the young kid ends up running around naked, who goes to prison?
Yeah that's a tough one because there aren't many "legitimate" competitors to GA other than clicky from what I know. Sounds like an opportunity.
Back in 2015-7 or so yes, you'd be immediately dogpiled on here and reddit and most other sites for daring to criticize Google. I was trying to warn people about them and was always banned or downvoted to some shadowban realm immediately.

Google isn't the actual problem though, advertising is. The backlash needs to be primarily about ads, not the companies that just lie repeatedly in order to bend all tech infrastructure towards the needs of advertisers.
There's no such thing as money laundering

This, on its face, is a pretty outrageous assertion.

I think if you throw a statement like this into the discussion I'm sure you don't mind if I demand that you prove it.
If it is distinguishable, then it has no point.

If it is indistinguishable then you run the risk of losing data in the nested container if you copy enough data (accidentally) on the outer container.

Not sure which is the case with veracrypt though.
Doesn't it seem a bit suspicious when newspapers keep going after tech companies, who just happen to be their main competitors for advertising dollars?

I'm not saying the articles are false (most of them, anyway). I'm sure Google did lobby the FTC, and there really were (very small) protests about tech buses, and Apple really did collude to hold down wages, and so on. But somehow, when a tech company does something bad, it always winds up on the national news, while the thousands of other companies doing similar things are quietly ignored.

"Remember the exercises in critical reading you did in school, where you had to look at a piece of writing and step back and ask whether the author was telling the whole truth? If you really want to be a critical reader, it turns out you have to step back one step further, and ask not just whether the author is telling the truth, but why he's writing about this subject at all." - http://www.paulgraham.com/submarine.html
Ha, of course, film as well; for whatever reason, my first thought was "crappy flip-phone camera".

In any case, it's great. The noise hides some details that would otherwise reveal flaws in the render, similar to how motion blur and focus help as well.
GPU acceleration is off by default in Chrome 10 on Windows XP.

It worked for me when I started Chrome with: chrome.exe --enable-webgl --ignore-gpu-blacklist
When I was a kid, I had a joint bank account with one of my parents. When I was around 16 I was able to get a "Check card", which behaved like a debit card in that I couldn't spend more money within was in the account, but it looked like a Visa card to anyone who was processing it. I recall being pleasantly surprised when I learned that I could use that card to "prove" I was over 18.
1. The logo seems similar to the United Nations logo. What was your inspiration for the logo?
2. In the video, who is holding the camera? And who is holding the signs?
3. Did you use an ad agency to make the video, or did you put it together yourselves?

The first card says "welcome to the future" which I thought was perfect :)
> It's a media issue

Then why are all the comments about the politics?
If there were less people in prison, and less reoffenders, who would make all the military equipment, household appliances, license plates etc etc for free?

The US would have no slaves to work with!

edit: Since I'm being downmodded for stating fact:

http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=82...
http://www.darkgovernment.com/news/slavery-in-u-s-prison-sys...
http://newworkerfeatures.blogspot.com/2010/02/us-prison-labo...
http://www.insideprison.com/prison-industry-labor.asp

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gwT6CisM0mU

There was also a great wikipedia article listing all the different things that inmates make. If they refuse, they're subjected to solitary confinement.

The US should be thoroughly ashamed. Not that it'll ever be reported by the mainstream media.
Not really - with Amazon you have to add shipping and a trip to the local post office (since they _never_ deliver when you are home), and nobody is going across town to save 20$ on a several houndred dollar widescreen tv.

But when you don't go to the store _at all_ there is no way they make a sale.
I'm not sure I want a watch I have to charge several times a week.
After a year, people who don't care about the delay don't care about your product any more either.
Does the doll come with an ipod nano laptop?
I had this same experience, and switched to Credit Karma out of spite toward Turbo Tax. It was fine: https://www.creditkarma.com/tax
I'm quite happy that their patent doesn't make any hard assumptions about GPS, and actually relies on more than one means of making sure the rails are clear and unbroken.

source: https://uspto.report/patent/grant/10894550
Unfortunately, it seems increasingly apparent that it is. It is especially common in clinical research to gather troves of data "anonymize" it, and release it publicly. I'm very curious how patient data can really be meaningfully anonymized if health conditions or treatments are combined with geographic data.

Recent history suggests we haven't really come up with effective, objective standards to truly anonymize health data. Certainly, this is not what most patients have in mind when they seek care.

https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2076397
> Even if Bitcoin transactions went to 0 tomorrow, the system would still consume more energy than Argentina just to keep everyone’s balance.

Do you have to do proof of work when there are no transactions?

My understanding was that the PoW was done to place transactions on the block chain. If nothing has changed, nothing has to be done. The entire system can be offline and archived if we have 0 transactions.
Contrary to popular belief, memory safe C is possible to write, and with modern linters it’s even easier.

Yes it’s easier to shoot yourself in the foot, but with practice you can learn to miss every time.
Politicians rarely know when there is a problem, someone has to tell them there is one. There's where a lobby group comes into play. The danger becomes which one do you believe? You can hear both sides and make a carefully thought out decisions, and then do that for the 10,000 other groups coming to you, but it's a time consuming process.
> Lots of folks would love Scala codebases that only use 10% of the available language features and none of the complex frameworks.

They already do it: it's called Kotlin.
Note the example didn't use dd/mm/yyyy. It used dd-mm-yyyy. Generally you can assume that a dash delimited date will be in European format while a slash delimited date will be American. The problems arise when British (and former British colonies) are added to the mix, because we use the European format with slashes.

The only truly unambiguous format is yyyymmdd.
LINQPad is one of the best tools I've ever used. I can't recommend it enough for anybody who wants a C# or F# scratchpad, or wants to quickly query a database.
I agree that it's not the most nuanced picture, but it correctly captures the ongoing debate on meta about this very question -- a debate whose very existence suggests that these guidelines aren't cut and dry at all.

For example, where is the guideline that answers this without ambiguity?

http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/261592/how-much-rese...
If you read https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/#philosophy then that's not surprising at all. Disconnect.me also blocks Google Analytics.
The part that confuses me, and that I hope they sufficiently clarify, is that I run my (rarely used) copy of Windows in a VM. So I can move that VM from one machine to another as I upgrade my hardware. This seems to route around their "supported lifetime for the device" language, as they are most likely relying on eventual hardware obsolescence and continued income from OEM installs. But in a sense I'm evading that by moving the VM from one laptop with Linux pre-installed to another.

As far as I am aware, installing Windows in a VM has always been allowed by their license (although they tried to limit this in some way in the past and eventually backtracked, around the time of Vista if I recall). Will they attempt to return to such restrictions, or simply write people like me off as an extremely small portion of their install base from which they do not expect to extract further revenue?
It's completely different than the bible because it can be proven by yourself, no faith needed. There is the whitepaper and there is source code. But since you are so cynical as to not believe people, and didn't seem to understand the whitepaper, I'll explain it to you:

Transaction blocks are generated at a fixed rate, no matter how many miners are operating. This is done by adjusting the difficulty of finding a sha256 hash on the data of the transaction block. You simply need to find a hash by adding some random data to the block until you find a hash that ends in 0. The more 0s at the end of the hash, the harder to find.

Generating a sha256 hash is easily done by a laptop computer. But when huge farms of ASICs are finding the hash very quickly, the difficulty goes up to throttle the transaction rate, and many more hashes must be calculated in order to find one that meets the criteria. This is where the energy use comes from - the hash difficulty, not the number of transactions in a block - thus it scales with competition to sign blocks, rather than the number of transactions.
Where do the original textures come from?
I mean, I could do 60 hrs a week with stimulants, but not without. Some people just have a lot more natural capacity, but who knows if it's trainable or even worth it to maintain for someone that doesn't naturally have it.
I speak enough corporate to know that this guy gets to be chewed out. They singled him out in their response and said he was new. If they stood behind this policy they would have basically diffused the responsibility without mentioning him by specifically. I could be wrong of course, but he cost a bunch of people a bunch of time and effort and unpleasantness so he'll get yelled at.
Permissions management in Postgres is indeed a pain.
Europe's GDPR is exactly that. It forced the creation of modal popups that harass you on every web site you enter, prompting you to "Accept" being tracked and monetized.

And apparently it wasn't enough, since the EU was lobbied to update the law with "special interests" that allow companies to track and monetize you without opt-in anyway. So, the worst of both worlds.
Everyone reading the above, please don't take it seriously. For anyone working in the field, it is obvious that the parent poster is a dilettante who has read some PDFs of scholarship on the internet, but he has no formal background in the field and he hasn't even really understood what he read. His post abounds in errors and claims that no Indo-Europeanist can take seriously.
Yup. The largest ones could afford to buy a mid-size country. (AMZN revenue = $386B, AAPL revenue = $274B, GOOG revenue = $182B, Norway GDP = $366B, Vietnam GDP = $340B, Chile GDP = $245B).

Note also that SpaceX has more accurate ballistic missiles than the U.S. and Russia (PeaceKeeper CEP = 40M, while SpaceX routinely lands rockets upright within a ~10M radius on a drone ship), and Google has more data than the CIA & NSA (why else did the NSA try to wiretap them?). The microchip revolution put enormous capabilities in the hands of those organizations that know how to code effectively, such that Silicon Valley startups can often do things that were the sole province of national governments for decades.
I suspect most just use their phones instead.
Thank you, that was my gut feeling as well.
Care to point to the line with the memory leak. Can't see one here (you sure you understood how the _cleanup_* macros work?).
> I've written code for production use cases in Java, Scala, Groovy, C#, Guile, PHP, JavaScript, Ruby, Python, Perl, VBA, and C

Whenever I see a list of high use languages with 1 or 2 obscure ones like Guile or even Groovy stuck in the middle, I wonder if the real intention of the list is to promote the obscure one by associating it with more respectable ones.
Mr Obama just sided with Mr Cameron on the issue of forcing companies to backdoor their products.

Do you believe that backdooring American products will have a positive effect on security?
> At least one student has received the records, and said he was surprised by what he got back: several hundred pages, including a log of every time his electronic identification card had been used to unlock a door,[...]

It seems totally unnecessary to indefinitely store every door swipe. Sure, store the swipes used to access the rare book room or the chemistry lab for 6 months or a year, but there’s no reason for every swipe into a dorm or dining hall to be permanently recorded. Some amount of time between a few days and a few weeks should be entirely sufficient for every reasonable purpose.

I imagine if the systems that store all the ID swipe data got hacked, it would be possible to learn all kinds of things about students, including embarrassing secrets or enough info about movement patterns to ambush someone.

[I guess this seems like a minor thing compared to records of people’s cell phone movements, internet traffic history, etc., but I think those should be deleted within a few days to a few weeks too.]
> probably not even close covering the drinks costs

From the contestant detail page, it looks like DNA supplies all the booze and mixers (which also probably makes things easier on their liquor license). You also get $1 per drink served regardless of if you win or not.

Edit: This is also awesome -- We will provide 110VAC, 10A. If your robot runs on something else (e.g. steam, plutonium, the souls of the damned) you'll have to provide that.
I don't really see how that fits into this scenario. Computer Security is more like chemical warfare. Were you can either do research or try to make everyone more secure by international treaties. Here you can either undermine encryption, infiltrate networks, keep exploits to yourself or you can make everyone secure by patches, standards and encryption that works.
This looks to be a Gen X story. I am not sure what the Boomers have to do with this?
single. user. mode.
'patio11 has been making a related point for over a year here: not only do you not want to be doing "freemium", but you also want to be wary of having a very-low-cost option. The lower you price, the more problem customers you end up with. Your most price-sensitive prospects may also end up being your most entitled-feeling and least enthusiastic users.

It's like Steve Blank says in _Epiphany_: especially when you're getting started discovering customers, you want to be zeroing in on the people who are committed to solving the problem you're trying to help solve. The people you want to work with have budget for your solution. The people who don't have budget, you don't want influencing you now.
Sorry, didn't mean to be a jerk.

It is cool that there are more than just those four projects.
> but there is social decorum that we should follow.

really? In business, politics and law, we tolerate a lot of manipulative, egotistical assholes. why shouldn't the nerds get a break on some things, too? If I can save 20 minutes in the morning by throwing on jeans and a T shirt and not messing with my hair, really, what's the problem with that? why should I waste time/money on dressing nicely?

Really, I think the fact that nerds aren't held to the same level of 'professional appearance' as others of the same pay grade is that manipulating others, generally speaking, isn't our job.

The fact of the matter is, how someone dresses is simply not a good indicator of honesty, skill, or anything else you might actually care about.

I know my first impression, when I see someone in a suit, is "who is he trying to impress? and why can't he do it with his skills, rather than his appearance?"
What else could Twitter do?
Well, turn it around: "Mow the lawn: done with todoneapp.com". Better to avoid teaching computers semantics if you can :)
Wasn't long ago that Chrome was announced and bare bones. And now it has many if not all the features of the competitors, without the baggage.
He spends a lot time calling out predictions by financial analysts. I'm not sure what the point of that is.

To point out the (un)reliability of these analysts whose opinions people may trust (at act upon) because of their positions as "analyst." All things being equal, I will take the word of a police officer over the word of an accused criminal, but if I provided with facts that the officer is often wrong/lying, I won't automatically trust the officer's report.
The difference between Gruber and Williams?
Gruber makes very clear (in his columns and Twitter feed) that he is brutally honest about his subjectivity on all issues. Willams pretends he is "objective", the same way Paul Thurrott, John Dvorak, Rob Enderle and Joe Wilcox all claim to be "objective" about Apple specifically, and other issues in general. Who has jumped the shark?
Maybe try MoCa as the backhaul, if you already have cable tv lines run?
We should all be really concerned given that a majority of the technologies being funded to fight terrorism are nothing but pseudoscience in addition to being contrary to respecting civil liberties. The inability to question the legitimacy of any of these programs is doing more public harm than good. Beyond that, we are putting an enormous amount of power in the hands of a few individuals who despite having the best intentions can still make poor decisions or even cognitively make decisions that knowingly jeopardize public safety. I am worried that there is now no economic incentive for these individuals to prevent violence if their failures and abuses are only awarded with more power and resources. Instead we will just continue to write blank checks for psuedoscience that will further promote a growing divide between the public and their governments.
Good old Microsoft — selling features instead of benefits. Some things never change.

It's a shock that the same company who brought us Windows could also make the Xbox. Without J. Allard, I worry about its future.
Clifford Stoll's story about Andy Odell I always thought inspiring -

Andy Odell’s name is synonymous with non-radial oscillations in stars and protoplanets. While a grad student at the University of Wisconsin, he noticed the sorry state of the nation’s railroad system. Decades of neglect had left Wisconsin crisscrossed with abandoned train tracks. With a scruffy red beard, scruffy blue jeans, and scruffy black sneakers, Andy set out to capitalize on this situation.

Working late nights in the astronomy department’s workshop, he liberated an eight-foot sheet of plywood, four rubber wagon-wheels, a couple of four-and-a-half-foot axles, and a lawn-mower engine.

Andy built a go-cart for railroad tracks.

“You gotta make the tires out of rubber,” Andy explains. “Otherwise, they’ll conduct electricity and you’ll set off the lights along the way.”

Grinning like fools, Andy and his companion coasted into town around eleven on a Saturday night. Doing ten miles an hour, they got most of the way through town, past streets named Lucy, Minerva, Harriet, Ann, Alice, and Louisa. It was someplace around the last three streets that they looked up to notice a police car ambling alongside.

Silicon snake oil : second thoughts on the information highway by Stoll, Clifford https://archive.org/details/siliconsnakeoils0000stol_c3s4/pa...
August 19, 2014, just FYI
Are you implying that cannabis users exclusively vote Labour? I suppose that explains Jeremy Corbyn.
We recently adopted a Sheepadoodle, and this comment really resonated with me. It's a combination of a poodle and an old english sheep dog, which many think are originally from border collies. She's a wonderful animal, but really, really needs mental stimulation! She's got us trained to be sure. :-)
It just didn't cross my mind; a side effect of the city I live in being a campus town, not a manufacturing town.

You're absolutely right - manufacturing needs to be solved.
I have always used diffpdf. Its been around forever. I don't know if it is what is used in the screenshot: http://www.qtrac.eu/diffpdf-foss.html
Ok now that's just making things up. 35,000 55-64 dead in the US alone. Its a problem, and flat denial is not the same as argument. I'm done here.
It's closed-source/proprietary/non-Free software. Even if it weren't from Facebook, that would be enough to warrant skepticism.