jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Scalability: While it can't do 25k transactions per second, my Raspberry Pi can validate 600tps with still some headroom. (ie 150x current maximum of BTC; it could actually do 2,2k but I wasn't able to reliably generate blocks because of the stochastic nature of it)

The barriers described in the article are very real, but there is also real work being done to remove them.
At the end of the article it said something about immediate mode. I do think React or Vue are kind of working like this now? Both requires you define your state of the each component and define how it should look like based on the state values. When you update the state it will then update the view automatically as well based on what you've defined (JSX/template). It is not 30/60FPS though, it is re-rendered when it knows there is a state change (i.e. setState is triggered)
Please don't do this here. I'm sure you didn't mean it that way, but it is a brutal response. We need to treat each other better than this.

Empathy for one doesn't negate empathy for others, including others who may be in lesser straits but are still suffering. Those of us sitting in comfort and safety right now are particularly in no position to demean anyone who is not. I'm not saying that about you (I don't know your situation, of course), but there are a lot of internet commenters doing exactly that right now, and it's not ok here. It's also deeply counterproductive to what they presumably want to achieve.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
If it's still relevant, I've found the Ruby whois lib (https://github.com/weppos/whois/tree/master/lib/whois/record...) to be quite comprehensive.
The envelope has a name and signature.

The ballot is inside the envelope.

You verify the name is a valid voter, and you keep the envelope.

The envelope, with the signature on it, becomes the poll book.

1) Someone smuggles in completed ballots. There will not be any envelopes, and their illegal acts will be detectable.

2) Someone smuggles in completed ballots and fake envelopes. The name on the envelope can be compared to voter registrations, and you can go to a voter and ask if they in fact voted. Then the illegal acts will be detectable.

What am I missing?
> The entire idea of a representative democracy is we elect people to act for us.

How do you keep elected representatives accountable then ? Their words alone is not worth the storage space it's being recorded on...
What's the general idea of number 2? Colour me intrigued at least :)
Are you sure it's a good thing ? Social interaction is important for our mental health.
1. Hopefully ship a couple of big internal projects that would basically make me a product manager.

2. find the courage to actually launch a silly viral website I've done in my spare time. It's been sitting on my disk for a couple of months now, ready to go, but I fear the maintenance burden I'll get once launched.

3. if the two above items flounder, retool -- in 2016 my current job will likely be obsolete, so I have to prepare for that.
The fact that this uses RSA directly seriously worries me. Is the RSA library using OAEP? Does it properly blind it's inputs before signing? What's the modulus? Does key generation avoid using weak keys?

Maybe the answer to these questions and others is satisfactory, but getting RSA catastrophically wrong is easy enough that I'm extremely skeptical that a library will get it right. Honestly, I'd be infinitely more likely to use your library if it just used GPG under the hood. That's one less piece of crypto I feel compelled to audit.
I totally agree with this statement.

> My job is in sales and I am teaming up with "sales" engineers. The bottom line is that they have the technical knowledge and I just have to manage/prioritise the relation with the Customer.

>>> I am doing the meetings instead of them
>>> They don't like to be disturbed while producing, or move from their chair >>> hipchat is the best option for me
>>> they are dedicated on different tasks/projects

So, when they are working remotely is fine for me as long as us don't loose the intimacy [common language]
Can you provide any info on your book or it's still hush-hush ?
This too https://www.vulnhub.com/
Not just overused but essentially coopted by pseudoscience.
This brings back fond memories of Palm OS development. It wasn't the easiest platform to develop for, but as this document describes, user experience was emphasized and the thrill of making sophisticated tasks simple using constrained resources was satisfying.
It's extremely difficult to gain admittance to a place like Stanford if your parents are not supportive of your educational ambitions. This is both because your academic results earlier in life (upon which admittance would be based) will tend to reflect an unsupportive family, and a place like Stanford wants students with supportive families. That's why parental support matters.
Please don't post comments baiting political opponents (or continents). That isn't what HN is for. When a comment is wrong, either refute it substantively or downvote it and move on.
Who said making the world a better place had to be linked to commercial products?

Also "minimal consumption, minimal destruction" isn't necessarily what will be required, a better approach can be found in mimicking nature, waste=food, etc... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IoRjz8iTVoo
I bought one of these $6.99 USB 2FA devices from Amazon, and use Chrome. They sell more expensive ones. The cheap ones = fragile = take care.
http://amzn.to/1Ml9fA3
I tolerate the delay, because I would rather have the delay in place of getting hacked by a sniffer some place.

If I must use IE of FF, it defaults to a phoned number to my cell, and if that fails, I have my printed list.
Ignoring the fact that I doubt that the original post was serious:

Of course you can patch the software and in the long term that will of course be the best solution. But it can take a long time until that patch actually makes it into the main repo, and even longer until it will be in the default `make` on all major distributions. So if you want to use this feature right now then writing a patch is useless for you, unless you only ever use it on your own machine.

The big advantage of the workaround is that it actually works with current versions of make.
> Louis C. K. being a cunt

The lack of fellow-feeling with these people really disturbs me. OK, you were blessed with some brains and are doing well. Everybody grinding it out in your country with a worse job deserves your scorn?

Newsflash: odds are good one of your kids won't be especially smart. Unless you've lined up a huge inheritance, a horrible cut-throat labor market is probably going to hurt your progeny.

That's an appeal to relatively narrow self interests. The lack of concern for fellow citizens out of principle amazes me. If you think citizenship and borders are irrelevant you need to grow up. Who do you think will have your back if it hits the fan and we have to tough out a nuclear war or similar? These fresh of the boaters sure won't.
Yes, I remember friends having that problem in undergrad in Canada. There was a way around it but it was an application process with an interview. I believe they were concerned with people trying to game the system to get lower tuition fees.
Yeah, that's an option too.

But again, what's the pricing model? $19/month for unlimited exports?
My comment applies to the Name Spinner.
I think this thread has served its purpose. Workflowy appears to be the ideal tool for what I need. If someone has a better suggestion please email me, my email address is in my profile. Thanks.
I say that explicitly:

"Whether it is actually giving insight or not (it could definitely be some idiosyncratic interaction that lsd is having with your brain to make you see things in a certain way); it's at the very least fun, and can have a drastic effect on the way you oritent yourself toward reality."

There is something seemingly objective about it though in that others seem to have very similar experiences.
"LAMP architectures are dead"

word?
DISCLAIMER: I work for Joyent, and I can speak for the company but this is not legal advice.

My personal understanding of trademark law is that it is within a given domain. If you use "Node" in place of "Node.js" but are clearly talking about "Node.js" then you might be infringing on the trademark.

However, it is not our intention to stop anyone from doing open source or business using Node. We'd love to give you a free license to use the mark, please email "trademark [at] joyent [dot] com".

Our intention here is to make sure there are some protections against bad sports. People doing good legitimate work with Node is awesome and we want to encourage that. Mostly we need to do this thing with lawyer so if some hypothetical organisation in the future tried to do something bad and call it Node.js we can stop them. We don't want people to misrepresent a product as Node.js when it isn't, and damage the good name of the Node community.

trademark [at] joyent [dot] com is the best place for questions but you are welcome to reach out to me directly too. I'm tom [at] joyent [dot] com or @sh1mmer on Twitter.
Really fun site. I think it is helpful. I did, however, think the list that was returned was too long by default. Maybe leave off the unavailable one?
I'm very sorry to hear about your friend and his drugs abuse however this statement is pure speculation. I don't find drug abuse to be a convincing argument for prohibition - in the US, it has only escalated violence and addiction rates. There are obviously negative ways to use drugs. The article is about a positive way.
I’ve been meaning to learn more about contemporary cap tables. Warrants, wratchets, it’s all seeming so financialized.

What’s a good high-level view?
> But if abiogenesis happened more than once, and we don't see any alternate-root lineages, then we've admitted the possibility that major advances towards complex life can have a resource lock out effect leading to the extinction of alternates; this could apply to any or all of the critical steps towards technological intelligence

I have often wondered if this is not exactly what occurred on earth, basically immediately after life first appeared. That direct ancestor to modern humans, maybe not even a real unicellular organism yet, won that very first resource race and extinguished any/all other contenders. That distant ancestor would have suffocated any possibility for carbon-based abiogenesis to occur again, leaving us with the tree of life we have today.
"That unpredictability makes it stressful to drive because being ready to take over instantly means trying to predict what it will do."

I feel this. I rarely if ever use autopilot because I find the cognitive load and stress of monitoring it to be higher than just driving the car myself. The exception to this is when the road is absolutely empty.
Right. I think it has to be boiled down to a simple parable to be sufficiently clear, but it is really attacking a belief that is quite common.

I like this essay on Overconfident Pessimism[0] because I think it gets at the same thing, especially in the context of confident dismissals of important future technological changes:

>There may also be a psychological double standard for "positive" and "negative" predictions. Skepticism about confident positive predictions — say, that AI will be invented soon — feels like the virtuous doubt of standard scientific training. But oddly enough, making confident negative predictions — say, that AI will not be invented soon — also feels like virtuous doubt, merely because the first prediction was phrased positively and the second was phrase negatively.

[0]. https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/gvdYK8sEFqHqHLRqN/overconfid...
To accept the payment successfully you must have a merchant account and have completed some KYC with one of Apple's payment partners though, surely?
> No one was hurt or killed.

This time...

> Presumably this incident is an important bug that will now be fixed.

What gives you this confidence? Tesla started decapitating people in 2016, and 5 years later it's still lunging toward cyclists, running over pedestrians, running into parked cars, running into barriers, running stop signs...

Tesla has a fundamental perception problem. Teslas fundamentally have blind spots due to their perception stack. The way this gets better is that Tesla:

- admits its perception system is a bust, and it goes for a more robust system which takes into account over a decade of industry wisdom as to how to properly engineer a potentially life-threatening system with safety-first engineering practices

- starts emphasizing a safety-focused company culture that doesn't use the general public as a beta testing playground.

I predict neither of those things will happen.
There was an additional interesting cultural correlation I heard: there are more cases in the south and south-west of Germany plus a slightly outlier in Hamburg layer. This matches apparently when there are winter holidays in schools (different in each state in Germany) and the fact the generally skiing is more popular in the south, were many people would travel to the Alps, including northern Italy, for vacation. This could possibly mean that more people from these regions brought the virus back home.
Europe/Germany
A few thoughts:
1. Five star rating systems by themselves contain such little information that they are basically pointless. If there's a critical mass of ratings, then they can be somewhat useful. Yelp is a 5 star system, but without the ability to skim a handful of reviews written by other users, it probably wouldn't be nearly as useful.
2. The system presented in this post might work ok for one's personal ecosystem, but as soon as I strayed into a new city where my contacts were 0 to a few, the utility of this service would rapidly decline.
3. For all their pitfalls, Yelp and Google reviews do a decent enough job at enabling discovery, especially when users take into account the amount of reviews for an establishment, the specific area they're searching in, and the specific search term they've entered. Sure, there are fake reviews, astroturfers, and gaming going on, but it's not too hard for a trained eye to filter these things out.
"Facebook claims trying to deduce which sales are illegal would be too complex"

Is geofencing the protected natural reserves is too much to ask?

"name and shame of the land thieves."

Huh? In Russia that doesn't help one bit, I can't imagine it would in Brazil.
It continues to blow my mind how much cognitive energy VC's expend trying to figure out a way (no matter how implausible) for something to have the value they hope it has.

e.g. Marc Andressen on what we all were missing about the Yo app.

https://slate.com/business/2014/06/marc-andreessen-explains-...
Yeah, it's the same as SELINUX - layers of security.

I could easily see reasons to have a box that can boot a signed kernel but the signing keys are held by me offline.
Good to know. I was recently wondering if I'm not being too protective about my phone number, but apparently not giving it away to the likes of Twitter was the right call.
Presumably if someone is squatting your blockchain -land you call crypto police and they...?
How do you compute real value? And does your model for real value include the quantity of money and future expectations for the same?
Similar, and probably slightly easier from my experience, plus supports things like clustering and easily managing service, is microk8s[1] from canonical.

[1]: https://microk8s.org
Worse. The first time I played, I picked a different option. There was a bug in the game where you could see the companion on the map, but could never reach him. I spent hours trying to find a way, before starting the game over just to choose differently.
Almost joking, but in my experience europeans (also not coders) are stronger in language-localization and currencies, while americans (also not coders) are strong in timezones ;-)
I think bandwidth costs and the possibility of accidentally DDoSing the site if the scraper gets out of control are probably big issues along with the 'theft of data' mentioned.
Noob question: why doesn't dropping the voltage increase the current?
Yay, more sleep!

Wait... (very briefly thinking about broken assumptions, date calculations, month-end assumptions, 0:59 versus 0:60 vs. 0:00, ...) dammit, I just lost more than I gained! Thanks, France!
Maybe I have a lack of imagination, but what on earth could possibly be the failure modes of floor tile?
Thanks for the feedback! How would you see yourself using an API if there was one?
Off topic:
In portfolios, risk can be reduced via diversification without being transferred: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modern_portfolio_theory#System...
>my impression is that programming interviews are roughly analogous to quizzing a mid-career physician on end of chapter exercises from a second year college organic chemistry textbook.

That is a strikingly accurate analogy.

And regarding exams/licensing/certification, I'd gladly study to pass an extremely hard software engineering exam in order to not have to go through insipid interviews every 2-3 years.
You seem to think that I (and everyone else defending Manning) expected the prosecutors and the judge to have mercy and let him go with a pat on the head. You've got it wrong. Asking the military to set Manning free is as pointless as asking a hot iron not to fall on a child's face when the cord is tugged. Any curious toddler can be expected to yank on a cable, and any decent adult should be expected to expose concealed atrocities. The thing is, we're asking why the the iron was left out unattended, and you're going "uh, stuff hurts when it falls on you, it's the law of gravity." You're missing the point. Manning's fate isn't the disease, it's the symptom.
Most of my developer jobs haven't been particularly high stress. Perhaps there is some selection bias here in that if you rely on the usual high stress interview process for developers you increase the chance of working with people who create systems that regularly need hot patching in production. Sounds like a dreadful job to me, so I guess that if there is any truth to this speculation that I should be happy about the selection mechanism.
Seriously. All I could think is,this is one of the world's toughest problems?

I get the spirit behind the idea of giving kids money to tinker, but this creates what's equivalent to a programmer who has only learned from stackoverflow and w3schools. There is a lot missing that's still part of the standard college curriculum, and the worlds problems will most likely need just as much theory as practical understanding.
You can always do "a.text(myVariable).is()". I like your last version though, it seems clean. Your first variation was confusing for me, though. I was trying to keep all type operators neatly packaged in their respective type, though - isn't that cleaner than having dangling types?
But you have much more background at 4am, you know the likely failure modes, you aren't dealing with a black box. An interview is often a black box you do not even know what you are trying to optimise for...
Somewhat ironically, I had a Google account already (albeit only lightly used, losing Reader killed ~95% of the utility for me), but when I got my Android phone, it simply refused to link to it. I think perhaps because I didn't have GMail? To be honest the error messages were never that clear to me. So instead of linking in my "real" Google account, I had to create a new one. One I never browse with, one that has no services, one not linked to the greater anything. Instead of a lightly-but-really-used account now they just have an Android account floating in space, being virtually useless to them.
Great post. A must read, to stop compulsive reading
"Clearly reading the JLS wasn't good enough for most people. So what do you turn to when people take a well-established programming term like "pass-by-reference" and apply it where it doesn't belong?"

Clearly, one should turn to computer science fundamentals. Considering the totality of your posts under this article and the responses to them, picking the language with arguably the most complex panoply of ways to denote values, of any language in common use, hasn't worked out as a pedagogical device.
This looks very promising
Very true. For .sg's tactics, see https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K2oL81Tum3I and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e8rPofi-AUw
the union is claiming for payment for the time involved in cashing non existent cheques.
What a fantastic game that was, with an even more fantastic soundtrack. I wish they thought about a Remaster edition for the newest gen consoles.
https://waytools.com/products/textblade/2/numbers-symbols
It has Cmd (which I presume doubles as Ctrl for non-Apple?).
It has physical Tab and ⌂ in the CapsLock position; the latter suspiciously is marked only in green, and I wouldn't be surprised if it also does Escape.
And surely you can map Esc somewhere with https://waytools.com/store/showroom/info/multimap/tablet

Select and Edit combos (on home row!) let you access arrows, dedicated prev/next word, home/end and replaces Ctrl+ZXCV. So you're using Cmd(/Ctrl) and Shift less in favor of home row chords.
To further deprecate Shift (leaving only letters and <>?"), most punctiuation moved to the Fn layer (the green modifier though they don't call it that).

That makes a lot of sense, as thumb-activated Cmd and Fn ought to be more comfortable than Shift.

The only loss in modifier convenience is numbers requiring Fn but that's cheap price for a row off.

=> Seems it has almost everything. The big missing modifiers are Alt and Win/Super. OTOH there is a "Media" modifier they don't elaborate on. I hope the remapping software is flexible enough to map at least Alt.

There will be a big learning curve for shortcut users, though modifier usage _ought_ to be actually more convenient than standard keyboards. (all theoretic)

Hmm, I'm off to try https://superuser.com/questions/96299/mapping-superhjkl-to-a...
> Hi, could you solve this thing called "n queens problem" for me within 3 hours? Thanks.

Hmm.
P.S. Here's a nice 'fuck you' I just saw: http://www.coindesk.com/coinbase-secures-approval-launch-reg...
Is google translate from Chinese (Mandarin presumably) always this good? I'm pretty shocked by how coherent the resulting article is.
These cost assumptions are where the analysis falls down. Try to calculate what the cost of suborbital rocketry should be. There's a good case it should be even cheaper than today's jumbo jets.
I was thrilled to find out Denis Villeneuve is doing the adaptation. He's a fantastic director, with complex, morally challenging films.
> I agree that Copyright lasts much too long, but there is a significant economic advantage to the Copyright holder for more than 5-10 years. Disney does not keep lobbying for longer copyright because they are stupid.

ISTR seeing that for the vast majority of works, most of the income ever earned for the copyright holder is earned within the first 5-7 years after creation.

Of course, some copyright holders have some works that are valuable longer, and use the proceeds from them to produce enough that they'll hit more of those jackpots (or can outright buy others.) But its not clear that supporting the ability to create those jackpots supports economic gains for society as a whole (rather than providing a gain for a minority of copyright holders at the expense of everyone else) or that it serves the constitutional purpose of copyright (which isn't to maximize rewards to creators, but to provide some reward to creators in order to "promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts".