skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"But reputation is useless as a hedge against the real nightmare of a setup like Ebay: the long con. It doesn’t cost much, nor does it take much work, to build up sleeper identities on Ebay, fake storefronts that sell un­remarkable goods at reasonable prices, earning A+++ GREAT SELLER tickmarks, even for years, until one day, that account lists a bunch of high-value items on the service, pockets the buyers’ funds, and walks off."

That was the business plan of at least half the Bitcoin exchanges.
Unfortunately, I can't say - I use it on Windows 7 and Windows 8.1, along with Android without issues. One thing I do that Skype appears to discourage is restart the application. This means don't allow it to launch on startup, I don't save my password (this is my practice with most apps), and I kill it if I know I won't need it; the latter is not practical if you need to be in constant touch with teams. I am not sure if any of this is a factor in my experience.
mIRC supported ANSI colour codes for foreground and background back in the 90s. I seem to remember people hated you for using them though.
SHA256 is used for mining but that would only expose new coins that are being generated. If there was a vulnerability there the community would switch to a new mining algorithm to secure new blocks.

Addresses are protected by hashing a public key to the bitcoin address (https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Technical_background_of_version_1...). If you've always sent coins to new addresses like the hierarchical deterministic wallets do then your public key is only exposed after you spend the coins, so you are not susceptible to a cracking attempt on the public key.
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> If a datum sounds like a syn­tax object, that’s no coin­ci­dence — a syn­tax object is just a datum with some extra infor­ma­tion attached. The #' pre­fix nota­tion we used for a syn­tax object now con­nects log­i­cally: we can think of the # as rep­re­sent­ing the extra info that gets attached to the datum

This is not clear, can someone explain please?
Hahah I like the cow milking example. spot on.
Ask HN: What are the most clever “email collecting pop-overs” that you've seen?
You know when you land on a page on a random website and a few seconds later a pop-over appears asking for something, usually an email address. What unique tactics have you seen that really caught your attention?
You guys are going out in style! Nice work.
I definitely think we're nowhere near where we could be.

I just meant to say that the article's claim that slow productivity growth is "real" doesn't make any sense.

We definitely could be doing much better though.
Awesome! This is almost the last missing piece for a true Parse.com replacement.
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Hipchat, like ALL other Atlassian products are always feeling just incomplete. By design. (I'm using 80% of their product line).

Slack just feels complete. For tech and non-tech teams.
Interestingly, Monokai was developed back when Mac OS was not using sRGB by default, so using the RGB values today looks different than it did back then [1].

People have gotten used to the higher contrast, and the theme works great this way too.

[1]: http://www.hardtoc.com/archives/310
Yes. In some ways it's fascinating that a person can refer directly to a concept and still not understand it.
I love this! I started working on a toy language as an exercise, and since I'm also trying to learn Icelandic, I thought, why not make my programming language Icelandic? Places like Iceland aside (they speak better English than we do), I've often wondered if the Anglocentrism of programming is a barrier to learning in other parts of the world. Maybe not the highest barrier, but an obstacle nonetheless.
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We had an official club called "Strategic Games Club" in my high school. We'd meet after school once a week and play D&D. One day 1995, our sponsoring teacher oddly started trying to steer us into playing chess. We kept refusing. Eventually she came clean and told us someone complained and there were new rules... our games could no longer contain any references to monsters, demons, killing, or magic. There could also be no games of Magic the Gathering (which was new at the time, and no one in the club was playing yet).

The club instantly folded. We never heard another word about what precipitated it. Seemed pretty late in the game for D&D moral panic, and this was a pretty liberal Chicago suburban school district.
> Unless Microsoft rebuilds Skype for the ground up, I don't see us leaving Slack for it. They had their chance, and they dropped the ball.

The funny thing is, they didn't just have a chance, they had a huge chance. My company can't currently use Slack because our regulatory environment (HIPAA) frowns on our data crossing other people's servers. An enterprise-focused Slack equivalent, hosted on client-owned hardware and with a focus on regulatory compliance, could have eaten a huge chunk of the market.
Sounds like Copyleft licenses like GPL and LGPL.
To be more specific he talks about it here:

http://cr.yp.to/talks/2012.06.04/slides.pdf

http://imgur.com/m6YCyG8
Yes. A J-1 visa is relatively cheap and fast to process.
Most retail accept them through companies like coinbase or bitpay but they immediately convert them to USD so their exposure to a bitcoin hack is minimal.

The reason they do this has more to do with the fluctuating price though as they can't risk the value dropping after they sell something.
Yet today, nobody is bothered by GTA, where you can run over people and shoot whores. (But not have sex with them; that still generates bad publicity.)[1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hot_Coffee_mod
I don't know why they didn't make it more obvious. The aparant Adobe like subscription model almost scared me off too.
If this trend continues I can't see myself continuing to develop for windows. Creating an environment hostile to developers might makes some parts of windows more intuitive for inexperienced users, but it will hurt their ecosystem in the long run.
because it takes years of training/experience/luck/success to be invited sitting to solve them while sipping champagne on the house. :)
Wish I could upvote twice.

Totally agree.
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There's some information that I need to memorize (how to use git, how to write code).

There are also and other things that are in the periphery of what I need to know, but can look up easily when necessary. These include things like my mother in law's mailing address, my coworkers' phone numbers, my wife's phone number, the population of the US, how to rewire a plug socket, and the recipe for Belgian waffles.

Each of those things would be good to know, but we can effectively offload it to external memory.
I recently had an on-site interview at a big SV tech company. I had 4 interviews and 3 of them flat out told me they haven't read my resume. I didn't do as well on the whiteboard hazing but I'm confident that I could have solved them if I had more than 30 minutes to come up with an efficient solution.

What disappointed me was, 3 of the interviewers had no idea about my background and weren't able to extract my strengths. Even though I am a new grad, I have interned for 2 years as an app dev and learned a great deal about design, code quality, testing and etc...

I have read Effective Java, Clean Code, and Head First Design Patterns. I'm reading Java 8 in Action now. I have not memorized them page-to-page and still need more experience to master them, but at least I know some of resources I can go to for more answers. I have participated in code reviews and enjoy them. I can implement LLRBT and many of the algorithms you can expect a new grad to know but I have not invested my time on hacker rank and uva.

I don't know what SV or big tech companies are looking for. I constantly hear interviewers say they want good engineers but fail to capture the essence of a potential good engineer well. What benefit is there in hazing anyone with problems many engineers don't deal with without the tools they use every day, and with an absurd time constraint. Kosaraju didn't come up with SCC in 30 minutes and he had a PHD. Sure I can spend hours studying for whiteboard questions but to what benefit. I am sure anyone of you can come up with a whiteboard problem you can't solve in 30 minutes, but what does that say about you.
Hacker News and Silicon Valley are a ferocious den of beta manginas
I hope the TensorFlow team is working on improving its performance. Anyone know if they're working on that?
Ironically, that particular interview is pretty positive.
In a hostile Internet, where ISPs performing egress reverse path validation is the exception, rather than the rule, public UDP- based services are doomed.
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The field is huge, what djb has done is a part of it. Obviously not relevant here.
Did you read Microsoft's reply to Sweeney's article? They basically used sideloading as an excuse for why this isn't anti-consumer.
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The tuning is and will always be far worse than x264, because no commercial team will ever have the motivation to beat the years of video encoding maniacs' free time spent on it.

Plus the Cisco employees probably aren't any good at Touhou games. Presumably they're pretty good at tuning video calls though.
Where Whuffies meet the real world is in reputation systems being used in society today: Amazon and eBay seller reviews, Uber and lyft driver reviews, Facebook and LinkedIn profiles.
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> if the perpetrator could cover their tracks, the potential would be much greater than 6.5 billion

I think it's interesting to consider that this already could have happened or could currently be happening. A sophisticated attacker may be quietly reaping rewards in such a way that it's going unnoticed.

Granted it's unlikely given Bitcoin's core design is to prevent exactly that kind of untrackable-bad-actor-behavior, but it's absolutely possible with known weaknesses like a 51% attack.

I would hope some of the parties heavily invested in Bitcoin have verification tools that monitor the mempool vs. what ends in the Blockchain as I think even the most subtle attacks could be discovered that way... however even that may require an impossible perfect knowledge of the global mempool at any point-in-time.
Parse is quickly becoming the model of how you wind down a SaaS startup.
You are right, it's not a good idea for anything other than video conferencing because of being Baseline only. I don't think that makes it "terrible" - WebRTC is only video conferencing.

That said, both Firefox and Chrome prefer VP8.
“Google Posts” embeds a one-way social network directly into search results
Well, sure, we are deeply into an inherently subjective area.

But I believe you are being obtuse here. I've never met a large group of programmers who wouldn't have rough consensus on their "better" colleagues. Begrudgingly, perhaps, but it is there. Human beings naturally self-organize this way all of the time, the metrics are definitely imperfect but pretending they don't exist or are somehow meaningless is just perverse.

Nothing I said claims that diverse people cannot become perfectly competent programmers, this is certainly true.

The claim was more that "greatness" in part, at least, necessarily comes from within.
Yes, it has. There are more legally protected classes than there were, and the laws were changed to make managers liable personally for wrongful termination.

If you're a first level manager at BigCo, the risk of getting sued outweighs the benefit to your career of getting rid of someone who needs to go.

I suspect that's why you see healthy companies doing a lot of relatively small layoffs - when your manager tells you a person on your team needs to go, you'll lay off the one you might have already fired in 1980. The result is the same, but it's a lot harder to sue over staff reductions than a firing for cause.

Startups are different, of course, because a company with only a handful of employees might go out of business if it has to carry one as dead weight.
If you're in a rough spot, starting a company isn't likely to help out much. You're far better off building a career and getting stable first.

If you have to start a company instead of getting a job for some reason, a tech startup isn't the best choice for immediate cash flow. Particularly one that requires investment to get off the ground.

There are knowledge, skills, and savviness gaps to bridge, unless you're a serial entrepreneur, you won't have done this when you start. You need the stability to weather through the failures caused by those gaps.

If you're a developer, you need time to understand the business world and the business mindset. Alternatively, you can find someone who does, but in that case you need to be able to properly vet business cofounders. You also need to have the social skills to not blow up the relationship.

Asking an investor to fund you while you learn these lessons is unreasonable. He has no clue how long it's going to take. If you approach one with an idea, he is going to be looking at you as much as the idea, and they see dozens of hopefuls just like you every day.
I don't see how this relates to my point in that children are not necessarily mobile (interpreted as moving easily with minimal stress or effort) because of the scope of thinking a child trends to be limited to.
Your logic is not welcome here.
>- Paypal in 1999?

Whaaa? The paypal-to-paypal part is instant. Getting the money into a US bank account usually is not. It's still the case in the US that there is no easy and reliable way to instantly get money that's in your account to appear in your friend's account. (There are some instant transfer services, but they don't work between any two US bank accounts.)
No, it really hasn't. In most cases the new reCAPTCHAs actually take longer to solve than the old ones.

The old variant which makes you read street numbers is pretty quick and painless - type in 3 or 4 digits and you're done. With the new one, first you have to figure out what it wants you to identify (street signs? storefronts? lakes? mountains? food?), and then scan through a bunch of small, poorly focused images. Even if you get it right, many times it asks you to complete two or three separate challenges before it lets you through.

The only time the new version is more usable is when you run into the one old variant which is virtually unsolvable.[1] I actually wonder if some of these even have solutions. There have been countless times where it's rejected an answer I was sure was correct.

[1]https://2.bp.blogspot.com/---dJJOn8n9c/U1rZNDiWG1I/AAAAAAAAO...
Is there one?
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I think there's a misunderstanding here. Will OpenGl be able to run games that were coded in DX? No.

Vulkan's existence means I don't need DX12, and I don't need Windows 10, because game devs that care about me (and my 35% brethren) will have a Vulkan port, in the same way that game devs that care about any other non-Windows platforms have an OpenGL port (or are already using an engine that does the porting for them). Technically you're right that Vulkan won't help me run a game that uses only DX12, I doubt there will be many of those games though because of many bad incentives to do that.
Yeah, my comment now looks a bit weird after yaur silently edit the original post to add everything after the first sentence.

I still think “terrible” is a bad choice of wording – “slow” would be an objective statement of fact and the fact that it's within a factor of 2-3 of x264 is worth knowing but hardly enough to say nobody could use it.
Also the company Alphabet gives all the agencies all the data they have freely.
>We definitely could be doing much better though.

The question shouldn't be: "what more can we have?" then.

It should be: "how can we work less?"

http://groups.csail.mit.edu/mac/users/rauch/worktime/

"An average worker needs to work a mere 11 hours per week to produce as much as one working 40 hours per week in 1950. (The data here is from the US, but productivity increases in Europe and Japan have been of the same magnitude.) The conclusion is inescapable: if productivity means anything at all, a worker should be able to earn the same standard of living as a 1950 worker in only 11 hours per week."

To do that, you must legislate a reduction in work hours as productivity increases. Otherwise, corporations and shareholders see all of the gains while workers continue to slave away.
Men in technology who self-identify as nerds and write about their experiences being tormented by girls in their childhoods don't do much do allay concerns that their industry is pervasively biased in favor of men and against women.

I was as nerdy a kid growing up as I am in adulthood, and I while I had virtually no problems with girls, I had a whole fuckload of problems with cliquish and bullying boys. That, I'm afraid, didn't do much to make me more tolerant of men bullying and excluding women today.

Take from your bad childhood experiences the lesson that deliberate and calculated exclusion is bad, not the idea that anyone has somehow earned a right to justify excluding others.
It would be nice if it only applies to scummy patent holding shell companies though!
and in a video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gbqNCgVcXsM
In fairness, the next sentence is "If we fail, you get a check.", so I'm taking that more as an attempt at dry humour. Watching a random sampling of videos, the feedback is pretty thoughtful and polite. Of course the valuations aren't going to be the highest bearing in mind the tiny amount invested and absence of due diligence.
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What was the process of learning about side channels and techniques for mitigating them when developing libsecp256k1?

It's an area I'd love to better understand.
>I've often wondered if the Anglocentrism of programming is a barrier to learning in other parts of the world.

From personal experience: no. I was 7 or 8 when I started learning BASIC and I didn't speak a word of English at the time. FOR, IF, GOTO, etc. were just abstract words for me. Things of their own that resulted in specific behavior. I didn't really grasp the "real world" meaning behind them until I started learning English later.
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Then I wish economists would pay more attention to economics because they've designed our economy right down a hole in the ground.
A friend of mine had his D&D books burned by his parents. I was pretty young at the time and I remember thinking: "Burned? Like book burning? What? That DMG never hurt anyone!"

I was young and it was my first brush with a moral panic. Changed my perspective. Made me realize that it's not Evil per se that you need to watch out for, but simply regular people who are afraid of something.
Complex systems never got any simpler, only more complex.

Certain circles are beginning to realize that the main issues are human and not technological (Lean, Deming, Kaizen, Design thinking, etc).

So there's your answer. Increasing complexity of work, with unchanged or at best slowly increased ability to cope with it.

For a great overview and insight into this shift (and how to tackle it), check out Gen Stanley McChrystal's book, "Team of Teams."
(2) and (3) really are easy though. Both can be solved by deriving counterexamples for the options until one is left.

For (2), imagine if there were only two teachers in the convention and they shook hands with each other once - that invalidates option C. If they shake again, that invalidates option B and E. A and D both talk about an even number of teachers, so let's imagine there were three teachers. If each teacher shakes hands with the other two once, that invalidates D. So A is the answer. I guess some form of graph theory is involved with solving it properly.

(3) can be reasoned in the same way by imagining quadrilaterals for each option. A quad with two adjacent tiny edges and two long edges symmetric along one axis (like a square with one vertice pulled away) gives a rectangle, which invalidates A, B and E. Making it asymmetric by moving the far vertex invalidates C. So only D is left.
incredible read. I checked out the author's current work, and it's beautiful: http://barraganstudio.com/
There was technically a second hard fork a couple of months after the accidental one in order to carry out the change that caused the first one in a more controlled and planned manner. Sticking with the existing code was not an option for technical reasons: "This would be an issue even if the entire network was running version 0.7.2. It is theoretically possible for one 0.7.2 node to create a block that others are unable to validate, or for 0.7.2 nodes to create block re-orgs that peers cannot validate, because the contents of each node's blkindex.dat database is not identical, and the number of locks required depends on the exact arrangement of the blkindex.dat on disk (locks are acquired per-page)."

Also, there was technically also one way back in 2010 to fix an integer overflow bug that allowed large amounts of BTC to be created from thin air: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=823.0
I didn't realize it was such a wide-spread 1980s thing. I always just remembered the Procter & Gamble rumors since one of my parents worked for them:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Procter_%26_Gamble?section=17#...
^Thought control at its finest. If a person has an opinion it should be heard instead of squelched.
It's funny to me how often I hear about company culture from the executives and owners of a company, but never from the actual employees working there.

Here's a secret - culture isn't that important to employees. It's nice, but nowhere near their top priorities when job hunting. I'd say order of preference for a lot of people (not all) would probably go something like:

-Salary/Compensation
-How interesting the problems are you're working on
-Flexibility to work remote, good vacation and sick options, etc.
-A million other things
-Culture

If your goal is to get the best, you should keep what their priorities might be in mind. If I had the choice between a good "company culture", and getting to work entirely remotely, I'm going to choose remotely every time.
Ehh... I won't argue that the Internet hasn't opened up the door for new modes of harassment. However, the "cyberbully", "stalker", or "brigade" phenomenons are a totally different animal from a moral panic. Maybe they're even worse, but they're not the same.
And here's an idea to explain the mismatch. Not sure if it's right, but it might explain why the numbers make no sense:

newspaper -> hacker news, google news: GDP drops, but life is better.

stereo + CDs -> mp3 player: GDP drops, but life is better

GPS -> Google maps, GDP drops, but life is better.

snail mail -> gmail, text, GDP drops, but life is better.
I played D&D a lot from about 1982-1989 with the neighborhood kids. None of us fit the stereotype for D&D kids. The parents didn't think anything of it at first until all this media stuff. Some parents stopped allowing their kids to come and play because of it. I recall my mother taking me aside to talk to me about the game. I distinctly remember her saying that "some people say that game is evil." I don't recall what I said in response but she seemed satisfied and that was the last time she ever asked me about D&D. I even got the Fiend Folio for Christmas that year.

I have to say the darker and scarier the modules, the more into them we were. We must have played and replayed Ravenloft dozens of times. We made up our own versions to it.