skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The novel bits are:

* Everything on the VM is purely functional, and inputs essentially cause transactions which can fail/succeed - the result being that it's supposedly easier to implement certain types of network protocols, specifically the ones that Ames implements

* A somewhat decent revision-controlled filesystem with push/pull/merge, static typing of files, and a built-in build system of sorts

And last but not least...

* Feudalism built into the core p2p protocol as an explicit design decision
I got a few updates on my thoughts just a few minutes ago.

I value rational corrections even if I just think parts of it is correct; in some cases I've also come to changed my views somewhat.
Does it work on screen readers? I mean the site is trying to explain voice control, after all.
What I think HN has taught me is that for any X you feel strongly about, if you actually were in a community that was evenly divided about X, you wouldn't know it. Instead, you would feel yourself surrounded by enemies. Why? Because we notice what we dislike more strongly than what we like. We remember painful experiences more than pleasurable ones, and it's painful to read comments opposing our strongly held X's. So people feel like the community is biased whether it is or not. Unfortunately they feel this the most about the most divisive topics.

I arrived at this view because I have a different perspective than most users. It's my job to monitor the site overall, plus pay attention to the complaints people make about it. From such a position one quickly notices how many complaints about HN contradict each another. For example, for any political X, some people are certain that HN is overwhelmingly X. But those claims can't all be true, so there has to be some distortion at work here.

Edit: here's an example I just ran across: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11990458. (I'm not mentioning that to single one user out; it's a common phenomenon, and this is just the first example I saw after writing the above.)
Many personal projects turn into companies. I think it's for anyone in the HN community to show off what they're working on.

Granted this came off a little spammy, in my opinion, because it was submitted and then no founders or employees showed up until a couple of hours later which makes it okay to me but if they wouldn't have shown up I don't think it would be appropriate.
That's essentially what "Works For Me" means. Generally, the dev would ask for reproduction info, and if it can't be reproduced by them using the information supplied (maybe after a few passes, and after investigation of environmental differences), that's the proper way to close the ticket.
Not BitCoin (before someone posts this)
My understanding is that the founder has some elitist ideas about separating and isolating the supposedly smarter people from everyone else. The opaqueness and complexity is a feature designed to keep out the riff raff.
This is interesting to say the least. The arguments see well thought out but I wonder how this is provable?

I also ponder to what extent this is true of boarding schools in the USA.
I had to double take... why would a modern library need a "wedding" manual? Time for new glasses.
> Another example of what I mean is all the articles that pop up on HN about how the modern internet is destroying attention spans. How do we address that best?

I realised this was a serious problem about 3 years ago, after reading The Shallows. (I knew I'd had the problem before, but didn't realise how serious it was). I feel I've pretty much solved it now and I'll happily spend my free time slowly reading 1000-page ancient tomes.

The only thing to do, really, is to try and maintain awareness of why you're reading any particular thing and what you hope to get out of it. E.g. - say you have many tabs open on a topic. You remind yourself that you initially had one simple question to answer, and decide - do you still just want to get a quick answer, or do you now want to research this topic in depth?

If you just want a quick answer, close all but the 1 or 2 most reliable looking sources.

Otherwise, make a note to schedule time to research the topic properly. For me this means creating a note in Evernote, jotting down what I think about the topic beforehand and my key questions, finding the best sources for answers to those questions, and possibly saving documents to read offline if they look like they merit careful study. This is actually more enjoyable, which is important - you need to train your subconscious to associate slow reading with pleasure, and skimming with anxiety and frustration.

For certain hot-button topics (like politics), I often do my own research, decide what I think, and then note how most discussion (even intelligent-sounding discussion) seems ignorant and shallow. I can also now see the huge value in well-edited writing - with the best writing, you can tell the author has chosen each word carefully, and simply by asking why they used a particular word over a near-synonym can reveal insights.

I could say more, but that's the basic idea. You really need to take responsibility for your own reading habits.
This is an issue of semantics. What the studies above are referring to are humans attempting to take on multiple tasks at once. The product pitch is referring to the machine accomplishing multiple tasks at once.
I think you might be going about solving this problem in a sub-optiimal way. WordPress data consists of db + asset files. Db gets addressed outside of this and asset files either go in s3 or are synced (rsync, etc)
They almost certainly do this to detect bots trying to change passwords. If the bot tries to change passwords for hundreds of accounts at once they will end up sending thousands of requests to the password checker and be ip banned and it can silently just reject every password they try to submit to not tip off the attacker that they have been detected.

It is a terrible way to implement bot detection but with ebay owning paypal they are on the hook for lost revenue so bot detection probably takes higher priority than other security due to the actual economic impact of bots who steal hundreds or thousands of account at a time being so bad for them
Click fraud would be actual fraud if the the clicks originate from the person getting paid for the advertising. When an unrelated third-party does it, though, it is not.
If you want to dive in deep right away, an interesting summer project would be to create hybrid client / server gpu clusters using webgl and the browser!

Install node-opencl and CL.js and check out how Graphistry is using scalable distributed gpus for visualization of massive data sets ;)

CL.js:

https://github.com/graphistry/cljs

Node-OpenCL

https://github.com/mikeseven/node-opencl

Graphistry

https://www.graphistry.com/
Ok, that's a fair point.

I feel like I have the skills to handle that, or to create redundancy if necessary for reliability, so that doesn't bother me, but I can see the appeal of ignoring all of that.

I still like the idea that I'm not trusting a "black box" to run my code. I know how it's set up and what it's doing. And if I add replication or load balancing, I also understand what's actually happening there. But you're right, once you get to that level, you're out of the realm of "simple".

Maybe I can still hide behind my earlier comment "unless you need the scalability..." to say that covered your caveats, but I'll admit I wasn't explicit about the considerations that guide the optimal use cases.
I have to nitpick.

2) You can't prove correctness with tests. You can only state that it ran correctly for that test case(s).
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It'd be nice if they additionally implemented https everywhere while they're at it
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Yes. If the goal is gender blindness, a more effective strategy is to block all video and voice communication. Even chat could be a giveaway. Go off of nothing but code against a test suite.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11921608
Ouch, that's quite a bit indeed. One reason why I shop at Amazon more often.
Where "riff raff" is bots and spammers.
>"Contrary to what we expected (and probably contrary to what you expected as well!), masking gender had no effect on interview performance."

I've seen quite a few studies pointing out this "confidence gap" now. They have shown women to be less confident, and it shows in their actions and speaking patterns. I still hear these speaking patterns even in the voice modulated versions-- statements sounding like questions with the upward inflection at the end. Vocal fry. Lots of "uhm, well, erm" flustered speak. So it doesn't surprise me that even with a modulated voice these women still sound unsure of themselves and thus they still didn't interview as well.

As women there are some actions we can take. It's good to be aware of these speaking patterns and try to break them--but ultimately there are so many of these patterns that show that the only real solution is to try to internalize confidence. It's easier said than done. And we can't ignore the fact that there are reasons outside of ourselves for why women are not as confident as men. It's not just an internal issue. While we can take some actions for ourselves, we should still be looking at the external reasons that caused the issue in the first place. Why are large amounts of women less confident compared to men? Let's tackle those issues, too.

When women try to be confident, it can get frowned upon. A man being assertive is a leader, a woman is bossy. Women are quicker to hit walls for just how confident they're allowed to be before they get the "bossy/bitchy" label thrown at them. The below article makes good counterpoints for the confidence-gap, and provides sources to some studies regarding women and confidence. And I've seen women call each other bitchy/bossy, too. This is something that society as a whole needs to work on.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/apr/23/female...
In line with the principle of charity I'd like to point out that your declaration here that network IDS provides only "minor cost savings" is controversial to the point of almost being aggressive towards folks working in information security. In the same vein, I'm simply disregarding the politically charged motive you assign to the technology.

If that was your intent (to start a political argument), then so be it, but if instead of picking a fight you would like to understand the problem space better there are plenty of smart folks on HN and elsewhere who can provide use cases and data ... to say nothing of vendors who will argue from either side depending on what they are selling.

hth,
adric
Blake from Layer here. Have you taken a look at our developer documentation on developer.layer.com? I felt like we did a pretty good job of presenting the product capabilities. Our homepage and the developer documentation speak to different audiences. Let us know how the developer side matches up to your expectations.
Try to start a hosting business??
Unfortunately whatever algorithm computers come up with to assess creditworthiness is going to be "racist" by the broad disparate impact definition of racism that the government uses. Ironically, the algorithms will have to be made actually racist to correct for this.
P.T. Barnum comes to mind. There's a sucker born every minute.
I view white-collar crime as primarily an individual act. Corporate crime, such as we saw with HSBC, Dow Chemical, and even Mitchell Jessen, escapes significant punishment, only very rarely rising to criminal conduct. That the conduct is legal, or considered legal, is a policy and legislative outcome.

As for intent, the law has centuries of precedent to incorporate into criminal statutes that affect corporate activities. It's just that the standards are artificially high and don't take into account the diffuse nature of the enterprise. But we have several decades of even that which could be applied, but isn't.
No, I'm sorry, that's not how cryptography works. A 'skim' clarifies nothing - you need precise proofs to understand security. And yes, I'm aware they provide proofs in the extended report, but the adversarial model seems not to model a real attacker particularly well. Here's a concrete question affecting real-world security that is seemingly unaddressed: what does their scheme leak about the frequency of rule matches? Can an adversarial middlebox see that some rules are matched more frequently than others? Are there rule sets for which this frequency information allows the adversary to guess plaintexts?
Relevant comment from ende76 on why brotli-rs is relatively slow and what the goals of the project are/were:

"Yes, performance has not been a focus point at all so far.
I've started this project as a a way to get familiar with Rust, and also with the Brotli spec.
For the implementation, I have made it a point to work only from the spec, while avoiding looking at the reference implementation, because another goal was helping to improve the Brotli spec itself.
I do believe that there are a number of places where copies could be avoided, and other places where I used clone() simply because at the time I was unable otherwise to appease the borrow checker.

For a performance-oriented implementation, I would probably take the test cases and experiences so far, and start over with a new implementation."
I wonder how many good tasks there are suited to the current pixel density. You can't read text across a 12 virtual-monitor array, but there must be other things that work well.

Maybe it could replace a wall of monitors displaying surveillance footage in a security room. You could even do impossible things enlarge the screens with lots of movements, and shrink or fade out ones without any motion detected. Show each video feed overlaid on a map of the premises.

I have no idea exactly what daytraders are looking at, but I know it's a stereotype for them to have tons of monitors. You could spawn a few dozen virtual screens displaying charts, have indicators when a chart behind you changes within some rules you've defined (something similar to the "you're being shot from behind" indicator in shooter video games), maybe with different colors, shapes and scales depending on the rules you set.

There's probably a ton of potential being passed up just because these don't do text very well yet.
I don't think you understood the article. The conclusion is that there is no problem. This bias against woman in IT interviews people keep talking about, doesn't actually exist according to the study.
Space/Mars could start to be in play before the century is over. That's one example of a (literal) new frontier for growth.
It's a functional (as in functional programming — immutable data, no side effects and so on) server/OS and (peer-to-peer, I think?) networking protocol, written in a dialect of APL[1] I call EOPL[0]. So far I believe there isn't any software on it besides a chat app, but the rather ambitious goal appears to be to eventually replace Unix and the TCP/IP stack.

[1] /s

[0] Extra-Obfuscated Perl-Lisp
I wasn't aware of its prevalence, but hey. Great minds yadda yadda.
New updates and upgrades of BB-8 robot made by Endurance
New updates and upgrades of BB-8 robot made by Endurance

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8mmxOGblCZA

We made a few improvements on our BB-8 robot. We added wireless charger, we added 3 solar panels and added speaker.
Singletons in Golang
What did they sell? Apparently, some (all?) of their potential user ID space.

Urbit, under all their jargon, is a base for a federated social network. Sort of like Diaspora. (Right now, they say they have chat, so it's sort of like IRC.) They recognize that a big problem with social networks is spam. If you can freely create user IDs, it's hard to stop spammers. But if user IDs cost money, then spam blocking costs spammers money (their purchased online identities lose value) and spamming is no longer cost-effective.

So their solution is to create a market in user ID space. It's not clear if this will work out, but it's something. If you buy an ID, you own it, in the Bitcoin sense. That is, you're not at the mercy of some service provider, and can freely move from one service provider to another without their permission. (I think this is right. Not entirely sure.)

It's not clear if this will work in the social space. They have the underlying machinery, but nobody has built the Facebook or WhatsApp or Dropbox killer on top of it yet, so it's useless to end users at this stage. The concepts are interesting; it's good to see people trying original ideas.

If someone builds an easy to use social application on this and gets some services to host it (like Wordpress hosting), this could get actual users. Right now, it's a developer toolkit.
A few clicks actually. WaPo requires me to paste the link into Google to get around the paywall.

Thanks.
Somehow the telecom connection (when it does not go completely down) is better. The voice from the machine to the people in the office is clearer, and the beam driver seems to pick things up with the microphone better (although) I have never been on that end to experience it.

It's totally at the discretion of the Beam driver get online drive over to your desk and start a conversation. Much more like having someone in the office. It also has a very personal feel talking to your colleague next to you. You have to experience it to understand. The full-scale Beam is a much nicer experience, we also have the cheaper model, which also works well.
I'm a tech recruiter in Chicago. Due to a lot of the reasons you listed my advice for developers is to reach out to senior developer/leads/architects/managers/cto's at companies they are interested in working for.

I work with 85% of the bigger name tech companies in Chicago and they don't always have their roles posted online. Most of then have urgent roles with no roles posted online because they rarely get any good resumes from it and instead rely on recruiters.

Cold email/linkedin message someone at the company you may be interested in working for and I bet they would at least get back to you. At least you wont have to fill out a job application.
Ask HN: Is the AWS reserved instance marketplace dead?
I scanned it every 10 seconds for a week and only found 2 r3.large reserved instances for sale (from third parties). Is it dead? Have you bought or sold on it?
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How CRISPR will change the world
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dancing_pigs#Origins
> If they were going to run the whole thing in a SECCOMP container anyway, there is little damage a compromised C library could do.

They can't block everything with SECCOMP, the code still has to be useful. It also must still do it's job correctly, which it won't if it's compromised.

> If reasoning about uninitialized memory would take a review of the entire brotli code base, didn't the rust port require that anyway? (speaking as someone who has done a couple of cross-language rewrites)

But even if you go through the whole original codebase (which I assume was in C or C++), and kept it in that same memory unsafe language, you don't have any guarantees that you caught even a subset of possible classes of memory safety bugs.
These captchas are a great pain for Tor users, who are often presented with them on all websites protected by CloudFlare.

It would be greatly appreciated if the code used for the paper were released, even better if it's in the form of a Firefox extension and submitted to the Tor Browser maintainers for inclusion in the default install.
How often does it check each certificate?
Yes, that's true. I'm not saying that the US is necessarily at its peak, just pointing out the fundamental problem with extrapolating based on historical data.

It assumes that the future will look like the past, even though there are some plausible reasons to think that it won't.

Some of those reasons would push you harder in the direction of investing in stocks (e.g. increasing automation, globalization) and some would push you in the opposite (e.g. declining gdp growth, rising inequality, political instability).
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Zero is intentionally used to denote “true” to defy programmer intuition.

OK, that was just perverse. Except check out the latest iteration of point of sale credit card terminal keypads. "0" is Yes and "X" is no.
While this is true, the opposite can also be true. That's called "Analysis Paralysis".
Expose yourself to criticism.

This one is tricky, because (implicitly) it means surrounding yourself with people who are better than you. Which means getting hired on such teams, which is tricky if you can't bring the skills to the table (or mind-hack their interviewing process)... leading to a vicious circle.

But if you can find a way to "quantum-tunnel" through that barrier, and always try to wind up on teams better than those you've worked with up until then -- that's a big step in the right direction, at least.
Because raw taxation numbers do not describe everything.
Germany is still cheaper by almost 30% in most things. You also pay for unemployment insurance (60% of net salary after year), better family benefits, cheap childcare, better Health Service, decent retirement etc.
Statistical significance is irrelevant. The law is not a peer reviewed journal.

The legal standard for showing that someone has been discriminated against is that it is more likely than not that they have been discriminated against.
I know that's what is being passed around (by Hillary Clinton for instance), that there is this huge bias against woman and that they earn 70% of what men do.

But it doesn't work like that, woman doing the same job with the same experience as men have a pay gap difference as low as 1.6%.

So, good luck finding someone willing to work for 20% less than what the industry is paying.
It's unclear if the NYT accounts for dividend reinvestment.

Leaving out compounding interest could massively affect the returns shown in the chart.
I really wonder where this originated. :-D I've been saying a variant of this for years: There's no such thing as a temporary solution in the government. ( I've been a techie in gov for the better part of 2 decades ;-> so I've seen and implemented many "temporary" solutions )
>That number should have been at least as big as the population of the planet.

Addresses can actually be up to 128-bit. I think the idea is that addresses longer than 32-bit are just assumed to be bots, but that convention would probably be changed if Urbit gets popular enough for the 32-bit limit to matter.
Yeah, but then I'd have to stop putting ASCII art of my genitals in my comments. Ugh.
Not entirely true:

Spotify is hopeless. I train it by listening to high quality instrumental (i.e. no spoken words) music and it tries again and again to tell me I'd possibly like vocal music :-/

Whrn it comes to the music I use for work I'd like more bubble.
Just curious - are you worried about getting too coupled to the industry you work in? I try not to invest in tech since I work in tech. So a big downturn in tech would not only be bad for my job but also investments. Or would you possibly bet against mining?
My point in calling it formalized MMA (by which I mean the literal definition of the acronym, mixed martial arts) was that rather than the techniques being passed down by tradition (like tang soo do, kung fu, aikido, etc), it was built up by mixing and matching techniques from various art forms with the explicit goal of a brutal, effective form of self defense.

Taekwondo, I think, long ago parted ways with any intention of being an art of self defense, if that intention was ever there to begin with.