skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> That's entirely insufficient, as it doesn't prove that the chain you have been given is genuine. It just proves that each transaction is signed by someone holding the right signature. Nothing in your scheme prevents multiple diverging chains. The entire point of the confirmations etc. used by blockchains is that not only each individual transaction can be verified as coming from a specific source, but that the chain as a whole can be verified to meet certain criteria - specifically in the case of e.g. Bitcoin, the criteria that it represents the view of the majority of the mining power of the network.

No, this is wrong. I can sign a chain of transactions (Merkle tree is used in BTC as well), and you will know it came from me. If I'm a central authority, I can keep signing it in all of perpetuity, and it will be verifiably from me. As long as you trust the signer, it's very simple.

The reason Bitcoin is different is because you want to be able to have different signers doing each block. The way bitcoin does it is through clever incentives: miners only believe that other miners care about the longest chain, and they want to sign that last block because then the other miners will recognise their mined coins.
That's a strange fear to have because fake fronts* are fairly easy to detect in sober people. People might say shit they wouldn't while sober (true or otherwise), but alcohol isn't some magical truth serum and plenty of secrets have been kept while hammered. Very few people are out to get you, and if you're using alcohol to detect such a bias you're using the wrong tool.

I'm not sure why a drunk person's actions should be representative of their "real" selves anyway. Does a drunk person's meandering path indicate they're actually faking the ability to walk straight while sober? No. And what about the person who becomes more lively and silly when drunk? Are they faking being calmer while sober? Doubtful. People are different when they're drunk and they're just a stupider version of themselves, not necessarily a truer one.

I know people who choose not to drink because they consistently made bad choices when drunk that didn't fit with their "real" nature. I see that as a sign of a responsible person, not a less trustworthy friend. Some I know have been traumatized by an alcoholic parent. I don't trust them any less because of this. I know others who just don't like the taste of alcohol. Everyone has personal tastes; I don't like spicy food. There are others that will drink but not drink to excess because they don't enjoy wasting a day to a hangover. I'm pretty sure they're not trying to pull the wool over my eyes.

Most importantly, there are also those who are actual alcoholics, for whom alcohol interferes with their physical and mental health, together with their ability to make progress towards their life goals. If you can't trust someone because they stopped making a bad choice, I'm not sure what you're looking for in a person. Personally I'm happy when someone stops a destructive action.

Arguing that you can't trust someone that doesn't drink is anachronistic and founded on specious reasoning. Most people drink and some don't. I can't assume that someone's sobriety or desire to stay in control (they may just be a control freak) is a sign they're trying to hide their true selves from me, because that just doesn't make sense. For some people drinking is fun and cool, but for others it's unpleasant, destructive, irresponsible, and distressing.

* I'm going to interpret a "fake front" as the intention to maliciously misrepresent and deceive for some sort of personal gain at a loss to someone else.
I remember cracking A2FS1 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sWIuTP_A6IQ
This was before floppy disks, the game came on a cassette, but it had the same style of boot0/boot1 encryption.
Starting the game from a copied cassette, it just printed "STOLEN AIRCRAFT! STOLEN AIRCRAFT!" all over the display.
1G is not a lot of RAM?
> 2015-12-31

;)
"Resume ability" is kind of useful when dealing with large data sets though. This kind of scripting often fails in that regard.
From the perspective of not drinking by default, it's pretty funny to see someone's impressions after trying it out for two years. Nearly everything mentioned is relateable. Although it can at times be shocking to deal with the inevitable treatment detailed in #3, it's my favorite social effect of not drinking. Most people will respect you either more or less, and they'll let you know about it.
If only we could get paid to find solutions, not write lines of code.

I was once asked to create a pie chart of the number of lines of code my team wrote every week. I still haven't figured it out.
Nordic ECommerce Summit Q&A with Gary Vaynerchuk [video]
The basic principle of the article is good. We should try to keep calm and use our heads. But in any creative process I would expect to hear a few curses and maybe even see people in a bad mood for a few days. That's fine as long as people still get on with it and don't behave like an asshole to those next to them. Creativity is a struggle. If he sees people who say something negative about the client as "poisoning the design process" then I think he has gone from giving some good advice to a kind of intolerance that's just not very practical.
No, I read some similar studies.
This one is quite good, btw. (over 30 years, 200,000 participiants)

http://arstechnica.com/science/2015/11/coffee-drinking-linke...
Not sure about whole planet but I do realize that previous generation in USA had much higher savings rate, lower student loan, much lower mortgage to income ratio and much higher probability of retirement in 50s/60s. I have never heard people from that generation believing that they were less better off financially than we do, although we do benefit from natural evolution in technology and science.
Putin’s nuclear torpedo and Project Pluto
This is awesome news. Hopefully this means I won't have to edit my Info.plist file with every update now.
From point and click to automated browser testing in minutes
This definition of 'nightlife' is much better than the parents as implicitly as a venue that requires alcoholol to be fun.
Could you expand on that? Once you get decoherence, instead of 'measurement' or 'collapse' you get splitting into subspaces, which get practically separated.

Sure, modeling decoherence is not always easy. (And, 'collapse' is often a nice simplification for practical purposes.)
I don't like Uber either; I just dislike dishonest propaganda, even if targeted at a bad actor.

> They don't give a flying fuck about the law, and they're too big for any single city to pressure them into anything.

I think that's a little overblown. Uber has been forced to leave many cities (Paris, Frankfurt, Hamburg, Madrid, etc) and parts of cities (e.g. Calgary Airport).

Uber may be willing to bend the law, but the cities can literally call their cars and ticket them (or even impound them), it's not like it's an underground operation, and not even Uber can sustain that, as we've seen.
Is Rust suitable for web development?
You're still anthropomorphising too much by comparing it with an animal. A large amount of an animal's behaviour is genetically determined, wrought by Mother Nature step by step in thousands of ad-hoc adaptations, and we simply don't know what many of those adaptations are. They come together in something of a cohesive whole, each part depending intricately on all previous parts, and that's why we socially understand dogs to the extent that we do: lots and lots of the machinery that makes us both is shared.

By contrast, hopefully we'll design our AIs according to, say, engineering principles. That way, we can know what its motivation is, which I'm sure you'll agree is very important when creating something that is potentially substantially smarter than us. This is so unlike any other intelligence we interact with, that there's no particular reason we should be able to compare it to them.
The title of this post -- "FreeBSD on the raspberry pi" -- is not very descriptive. The title seems to imply that running on the Raspberry Pi is news, which it's not, as myself or anyone else already running FreeBSD on our Pi can attest to. I'd suggest changing the title to "Patch posted to have FreeBSD use armv6hf target arch by default for the Raspberry Pi" -- however, someone just commented on the Pull Request:

>armv6 is already hard float, all armv6hf gives you is it will pass floating-point data to functions in floating-point registers. I also expect that armv6 will be using the hard float ABI soon (within a month) an at this time armv6hf will be removed.

So maybe just remove the post all together?
Yeah, tuples make sense sometimes, that's why they are introduced. I think iterating through a tuple only makes sense if you store in some kind "similar" elements in there (not necessarily same type but same trait class). It could indeed be great for generic programming where your tuple have variadic length (depending on template parameters).

Just don't use it to replace structs, it doesn't make sense.
I get the impression that the OP has underestimated the effect that giving up meat may have on these changes as well.

I have no idea what proportion of credit can be attributed to that change alone but it must surely have had some effect?
> don't you have to proxy all their traffic?

and that is one part of what the gfw does.

google 'how does the gfw work' if you want a broad overview.
there was a really in-depth explanation on HN not that long ago. sadly, i'm unable to find it at the moment.
Works for me...
>The ultimate way to get market price is to work for yourself, by starting your own company.

see... this (and the implication that people working at large companies get less than market rate) doesn't ring true for me. The real "free markets" of labor, like craigslist and the rent-a-coder marketplaces pay about 20% of what you get if you go through a recruiter who has "a relationship" with a large company... for doing essentially the same thing, and from what I've seen, contractor pay (after the middleman takes his cut) is about the same as base pay (for the same work) at a large company.

Now, when I started contracting in the early aughts, base pay was basically the same as total comp, and so I subtracted the payroll taxes and health insurance and could pretty much directly compare contract vs salary wages. In the early aughts, it was pretty unusual for individual contributors to get big bonuses or even stock refreshes (or that was my perception; I was considerably less senor at the time.)

But, from what I've seen, if you are full-time at a big company here, you get a pretty significant bump now, in terms of bonuses and stock.

My point here is just that my experience has been that when I'm selling my labor, the further I move away from "the free market for labor" and the closer I get to a system of rank and privilege as pg describes 20th century corporations, the more I get paid.
Why Arabs Lose Wars (1999)
How "good" he is has nothing to do with his fondness for reading. Everything points to Gates being a guy who just likes to read. Are you going to be equally suspicious to learn that billionaire Zuckerberg likes to play video games or that Sergei Brin likes to buy/get bleeding-edge tech gadgets?
Rule No.1: If it sounds too good to be true, it probably is!
Async IO in Rust (part III)
This surely sums up the unambitious and self-seeking aims of those who make it their business to offend

No, it doesn't. There's just one Milo Yiannopoulos while there are thousands upon thousands of purposely anonymous channers making memes and cracking jokes.

I don't know how to say it without sounding negative but this is an uninsightful article based on little more than outcast mood affiliation.
What Is Functional Programming?
Yeah looks like it's back now.
> There is a break in your logic: your conclusion would only make sense if not producing wealth is the only way of becoming poor.

I read the strong obligation of stopping people becoming poor as stopping any people from becoming poor, rather than stopping some people from becoming poor. If there is a single feasible way to become poor, then some people would go that way, and we have failed that obligation. The flaw is not in my logic.

Even with strong social security net, you cannot stop people from being poor. The strong social security net would represent the lowest level of income. At the lowest level of income in a society, you're poor, as everyone else is making more than you do. If someone was working and making less than what the social security provides, then they can just stop working and be better off at the security net level.

No matter how strong the social security net, the people resting on it will always be the poorest in the society.

Speaking from experience (grown up in a communist country, living in Western Europe atm), even the strongest form of state-forced salaries/job availability did not prevent people from becoming poor. Unsurprisingly, the current Western European societies are not preventing this either.
Now I feel bad about my life. I'm really not doing anything.
Current bundled Java version is 1.8.0_25.
He's absolutely right, this is a crappy benchmark. Increase the array sizes by at least a factor of 100 to get anything meaningful.

The fact that someone who is "the review manager for std.ndslice's inclusion into the standard library" does not understand how to profile numerical algorithms makes me very skeptical of using D for any numerical project.

Plus, the syntax looks god-awfully unintuitive. A main advantage of Python is that you often get "code that looks like what it does". The D "basic example with a benchmark" OTOH looks almost obfuscated. To wit; a Fortran version is more readable, is fewer lines of code(!) and of course kicks D's butt when it comes to speed:

program p
real, dimension(100,1000) :: data
real, dimension(1000) :: means

n=1
forall(i=1:100,j=1:1000)
data(i,j)=n
n=n+1
end forall

forall(i=1:1000000,j=1:1000)
means(j) = sum(data(:,j))/size(data(:,j))
end forall

Disclaimer: I wrote this on my phone, only 95% sure that it will compile and run correctly. Save it in means.f90 and compile with `gfortran -Ofast means.f90`. This calculates the means 1 mill. times (the loop over i in the second forall); I bet you it will be an order of magnitude faster than D per means calculation if you time it with plain time (the *nix command).
Some code on the subject:

https://github.com/zenna/Arrows.jl
https://github.com/wojzaremba/algorithm-learning
"But startups are qualitatively different - they are usually started with the express (and usually only) purpose of growing very large, very fast"

Usually a startup is understood to be any venture in search of a sustainable businessmodel.

To grow very large, very fast requires only lots of capital. A lot of companies have confused a large capital investment with a sustainable businessmodel and gone bust soon.
Turning the Raspberry Pi into a dedicated retro-gaming console
I downvoted you by mistake, please accept my apologies.
If you truely believe in property rights, you will get in big trouble from philosophical point of view. For example, if you live in US then very likely you will need to surrender your property to last know Native Amarican owner :). In Saudi Arabia, the ancestors of Saud family declared entire country as their private property. The result was that when oil was found there in 1930s, about 2/3 of the income was used by Royal family as their private income to build legions of palaces with elaborate gardens while millions of poor people went without food. Even today Saud family has about 5000 Royal princes, each one with their giant share of country's fortunate based on ancestral claims. This is ofcourse not new to Saudi Arabia. Most of the Monarchs all over the world believes entire country was their private property and people living there was just happened to bestowed the permission to stay there. How does property ownership philosophy sound now when you take it extreme?
I talk to people who can't understand why I spend exorbitant amounts of money on my Harley or jump on it and ride for hours ever chance I get, only to end up right back at home, where I started.

My girlfriend doesn't understand why I spend so much time in my office typing white letters into a big black box.

I don't understand why some people spend large amounts of their {money,free time} collecting stamps or coins or playing golf. To me, all of these things are boring as hell.

In each of these cases, however, there's no need to (have to) explain why. Any answer (including "because it makes me happy" or "because I want to") is completely valid and acceptable.
Interesting!!! I am walking right now in Downtown Ho Chi Min, Vietnam, and I've seen training courses for kids for "Managing emotions, creativity and mood". For kids, aged 6-10years old. Quite interesting ...
I'm not sure I agree. They may work under good circumstances, but how do you test the error cases? What about when you need to scale beyond a single node or you need an "online mode"?
Make sure you use the devect macro or parallel accelerator if you're going to use vector iced code :)
I'd say that sober nightlife is boring, if everyone else is drinking heavily. If the group is generally not drunk, it's fine.
> economics isn't physics - and it isn't ruled by physics-like laws

Professor Mark Blyth has a very good summary of this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hmWbkPezgtU

The problem for economics as it's become very mathematical
and technical is that the intrinsic beauty and rigor and appeal
of the models themselves have become an attractor - something
that research gravitates towards. [...] There is a great attraction
in these types of models; they create a world of equilibrium,
a world of stability almost by accident - they are just a consequence
of the model, and it's a beautiful and seductive world.
Your link's graph shows that nordic countries have highest social transfers and highest consumption taxes. This means that they are countering the regressive effects of consumption taxes with other income transfers. What the graph doesn't show is that income tax (and many other fees/taxes) are also quite progressive in these countries. So the graph supports Krugman's claim of high consumption taxes in these countries, but not your claim of on "highly regressive" taxation.

Krugman's other reference has a broken link but his text does not sound like your claim either.

But in the big picture, income transfers do seem to be more favoured in strong welfare states than progression in the tax system. The US has a mongrel system with EITC because you get a "negative income tax" by social criteria (basis of which are quite 1950's...) - it's more like a social transfer in many respects than a tax progression.
shellscript that crawls web? Surely doable but never secure.
I read another article about it that stated that divers pulled 40lbs of his watches out of the lake. FORTY POUNDS. Of watches. I don't even think I own forty pounds of shoes.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2580280/50-000-year-...

^^ don't hate, I enjoy reading the daily mail... it's not above packing their articles chock full of the little salacious details like 40lbs of watches that other rags leave out.
Anin negru PLANTA MEDICINALA
So conversely if I'm already traveling I should ignore any fraudulent charges until I finish my trip so they don't cancel my card.

What a well thought-out system!
Yeah, this and the pollution is what made me leave China two years ago. Looking back, I don't regret it.
Nimr's execution will lead to the end of Saudi regime – Houthi official
That was tense!!! Seems that Pac Man had better ghosts than the baddies in this game, still felt I had to watch it to the end.

From what I remember there was no discussion of how to actually do copy protection in magazine articles, as in the early magazines that published reams of assembly or hex that you could type in, yet, concurrent with this era there were plenty of copy protection schemes, as evidenced. So it was not as if you could easily use a few well known tools and techniques to obfuscate code. People were very much on their own but the games companies would have been able to put resources into protection and learn how others do it. This know how must have travelled word of mouth between publishers and developers as copy protection was vital for revenue in an era when everything was instantly copied and shared as a matter of course. What else were games for?!?

Anyway I think that even though there was not a lot of published material on obfuscation there must have been those that were well connected enough to know a library of techniques for copy protection. These guys would have found work with games publishers, their work being integral to publication. This was by then just capitalism and the resultant specialisms in the marketplace.
I can definitely appreciate #3, having faced many incredulous questions when I refuse drinks at social events, but I think most of the author's claims are greatly exaggerated. Your mileage may vary.
N.B.: [2010]
This glitch is far too interesting.
The quote about inhibition rings a bell to me, although I won't conclude to aim for 0% drinking.

I believe I'm the of the `badly calibrated` kind. A drink or two won't make me drunk, just loose. Like warming up for a sport event. I'm naturally still too introverted, a bit of alcohol disengage that grain of sand that forbids my mind to be in the moment.

Leading to the ability to go with the flow, which is exhausting but in non stressing way. Just like being able to use some part of you you never do. And even when almost drunk, the counter intuitive part, I sleep like a f*n baby, and wake up at 6am ready to run (from hitting the bed at 3-4am). No stomach or headache .. nothing.

I see this as the equivalent of jitter for the tribal part of the self. Alcohol is mostly bad and useless, but a few drops here and there and your system just run smoother.
> 2. Remove unnecessary new lines and spaces.

Add new lines and spaces. A cramped wall-of-text is the last thing someone needs when reading a CV.
"At its worst, it gives us mindless thuggery, the kind of collective violence exemplified and explored in Golding’s Lord of the Flies."

There's a reason kids are made to read/watch this book in school. The author was an English Master at Bishops [0] while he wrote this book. That's why it rings true. First hand knowledge of the pecking order and the herd in action.

" The consequences of dissent are excommunication from the tribe."

Excommunication is dangerous because it can result in death.

[0] UK, COE Grammer, Salisbury, Wiltshire. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bishop_Wordsworth's_School#Not...
I'm surprised that running a gas station isn't more regulated, i.e. being required to provide reports of how much has been sold, how much has been delivered, and who it was purchased from (and eventually using ANPR to say who bought how much :D).
I have trouble endorsing positions like this just at the level of ethics. Refusing to work with others because of 'disagreements,' even those as similar as her fellow writers, is a good way to never have an impact on the world and change it for the better. I think it's easy to be among 'the herd', working with people of diverse backgrounds, while also staying true to yourself, and I think you could argue it's an essential skill if you ever want to accomplish something great. What does that say about your strength of person that you find it threatening, or at the minimum, a 'big deal,' to associate with those you disagree with?
I found the article insightful because it puts in words what I also felt sometimes. The tone of your comment reminds of it.
Video player webtorrent with subtitles
I thought he was saying how the teenagers are ridiculous.