skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I can't speak for the world but in switzerland we have a similar distribution. The big exception is that we are way more skeptical towards people who put on a big show. We like it way more moderate. Wannabe alpha wolves get ridiculed here.
You may be aware, since you're asking the question, but you really can't without some other information.

If you have block D, and want to fetch block A, you don't actually know if it's the real block A unless you also have blocks B, and C. Block D (which you have) contains the hash of block C, which contains the hash of block B, which contains the hash of block A. You need the hash of block A to be able to verify that it is indeed the real block A.

Of course, because of things like SSL/TLS, you can be sure nobody tampered with the block on it's way from the server to you. With that in mind, ensuring you receive the real block just requires you to trust the server giving you the blocks, which may or may not be worth it depending on how much time/space it saves you. In some ways, the server would become your 'central authority' on the block-chain.

In reality though, I can't really imagine there's much they could do. Sending you fake blocks may work for a while but would fail if the client caches them and asks for the surrounding blocks (Their fake block isn't going to match the hash of the real block). I think it would be a bit hard to pull off for any length of time.
Can't wait until these people try making a kernel patch.
I think you're describing the algorithm behind the Facebook news feed (minus pay-for-play).
For those of us interested in the context, can you tell us where in the documents you found this?
> As I told my kid when I showed him mosaic, the screen is not a human. Humans have kindness and compassion. The screen is to get things. To some it is a way to make a living. The screen can never be generous; that is learned at the home.

I really like this, thank you for sharing.

As for getting advice on the Internet - there are many quandaries about which one might rather ask the Internet than a person they've met for a variety of reasons.

* They don't know anyone with expertise in $THING

* You want a more objective opinion (who better than someone you don't know?)

* Asking someone they know is likely to create bad consequences (makes them worry! makes them judge you! makes them retaliate! makes them jump to a crazy conclusion and attack someone else! makes them report you to $AGENCY)
Flagged because this is an attempt to turn non-news into something clickbaity.
That would result in too many redundant comments. Many people will down-vote for exactly the same reason.

Though I do wish HN could distinguish between "I subjectively don't like or disagree with your point" and "Your logic is objectively flawed or rests on false data".
NASA cancelled Constelaltion program. Now, Space Launch System (SLS) expendable launch vehicle is the planned replacement for Space Shuttle program. SLS aims to provide heavy cargo lifting and human spaceflight (via Orion capsule) capabilities.

http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/atoms/files/sls_octo...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_Launch_System

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orion_(spacecraft)

Progress updates: https://www.nasaspaceflight.com/tag/sls/
Page 29 of 47: https://static01.nyt.com/packages/pdf/politics/hillaryclinto...
It's almost poetic how from the ruins of the collapsed human socialist era, other species are creating a truly communist colony.
I mainly frequent the Entertainment and Politics sections of Fark.

The Geek topic is generally too non-technical for me.
Mobile Web Apps Are Dead
> That doesn't leave a lot worth upgrading... maybe just the radio module.

Camera upgrades would sell like hot cakes.
The Bitcoin whitepaper [1] (which is very short, concise, and definitely worth the read) describes how the Merkle trees might be pruned (transactions could be pruned when all outputs are spent) and in fact Bitcoin 0.11 added pruning (and 0.12 added further compatibility for pruned nodes).

Vitalik Buterin (Ethereum lead) also posted a description of how Ethereum will implement State Tree Pruning [2].

These are short/medium-term scaling solutions.

Many people are pushing sidechain [3] / child-chains [4] as longer-term ("Visa" level) solutions.

* Lightning Network [5][6] is what Blockstream and others are pushing for Bitcoin scaling.

* Raiden Network [7] is the Ethereum version, and may come out before Lightning, funnily enough.

For those interested in the topic matter, Vitalik wrote a pretty dense paper on blockchain scaling last year [8].

While sidechains will be an option, Ethereum is also pursuing on-chain scaling as well.

Sharding is scheduled for the upcoming Serenity release [9] (which also switches to Proof of Stake (Casper), another important scaling-related change). Writeup on Serenity PoC2 [10].

In general for scaling atm, processing/network latency/bandwidth for initial sync is more of a bottleneck than raw storage. By that measure, I'm actually a lot more interested in the on-chain tx-processing that Casper/PoS might bring [11].

Of course there's no requirement for a single chain to handle everything. Especially over the past few months, we've seen a few relatively smooth migrations to multiple chains as Bitcoin tx processing has "maxed out" (or more recently as fungibility/privacy issues have loomed). At the same time, Bitcoin volatility has stabilized, so it might be just the natural life cycle for blockchains to "scale" until they can't. It's still early days, so who knows?

[1] https://bitcoin.org/en/bitcoin-paper

[2] https://blog.ethereum.org/2015/06/26/state-tree-pruning/

[3] https://gendal.me/2014/10/26/a-simple-explanation-of-bitcoin...

[4] https://www.ardorplatform.org/

[5] https://lightning.network/

[6] https://lightning.network/lightning-network-paper.pdf

[7] http://raiden.network

[8] https://github.com/vbuterin/scalability_paper/blob/master/sc...

[9] https://github.com/ethereum/EIPs/issues/53

[10] https://blog.ethereum.org/2016/03/05/serenity-poc2/) from March

[11] https://twitter.com/VitalikButerin/status/760185856057638913

(phew, maybe one day HN will have markdown support, maybe one day...)
Do you pay with a new, anonymous bitcoin address every single time? Because otherwise this seems like the ultimate tracking tool.
> Over the past few days, news has trickled out that liberal billionaire George Soros has poured millions of dollars into local election campaigns against "tough on crime"

Because of lack of education, awareness, care and time, along with the easy with each elections (especially local and state) can be manipulated, we are left at the discretion of benevolent billionaires to fight for us.

I remember first becoming aware of this issues after watching Hot Coffee documentary. There is a large part there around how corporate interests can easily manipulate state Judicial branches -- by sponsoring judges which are more favorable to them (in that case it was capping maximum damages people could win during corporate settlements on appeal, and yes, lawyers knew to always appeal).

> But that's not the case in much of the country, where prosecutors don't file records that would explain why, for example, they pursued prison time instead of probation for a defendant. "We don't really know why prosecutors do what they do," Pfaff said.

I think aside from padding the stats and pleasing voters with "tough on crime", there is a very good reason for prosecutors to prosecute more. It helps prison guard unions (keeps them employed), private prisons, state prisons (cheap labor). Each one of those interests can spare a good amount of cash to sponsor the "right" prosecutor. It is like a long term investment. In fact, they'd be stupid not to do it.
"The download of six megabytes of data collected during the six-hour transit, from above Jupiter’s north pole to below its south pole, took one-and-a-half days."

...surely that's a typo and they mean gigabytes?
I think prosecutors fall under the executive, not the judicial, branch
To be honest, I didn't even realize that the grey 'i' was supposed to be a warning. I'm so used to seeing the little "blank document" icon there that my eyes totally glossed over it. I doubt many people are even going to notice the change, let alone worry about what it means.

It's even worse in incognito mode now where the little padlock icon and "https" are both plain white, exactly the same color as the main URL. To a cursory glance, secure and non-secure both look very similar.
Well, LibreOffice is not "copyleft" licensed. It is distributed under a joint of licenses: GNU Lesser GPL v3+ and Mozilla Public License v2. The latter is not "copyleft".
Economics as a discipline can certainly be positive and scientific. Developing a model to predict the elasticity of demand, collecting the data, testing the model, and independently replicating the results is certainly science, with all the pitfalls of doing science well.

Answering whether one should raise/lower the price of some product P to maximize profit for company C is a normative question.

BTW, calling economics a social science doesn't mean that economics gets to shun scientific methods, nor is economics any less a science than physics. Being a social science just means that the discipline will apply scientific methods to develop models of, collect data about, or directly experiment on human subjects. (Physicists, and normal humans alike, don't view individual particles as human and feel no qualms about performing whatever experiments they might feel like, no matter how high energy.)

Humans tend to be understandably nervous about being test subjects and this has limited the pace-of and extent-of progress that economists have been able to make. The extent to which economics relies on inaccurate models ("rational consumers, competition, efficiency" as you say), is the extent to which personal morals, governments, and societies inhibit progress.

One thing I find very cool about economics is that it can put bounds on how much these barriers to our scientific understanding cost and benefit us. There is a cost to having a better model than "rational consumers" and we can know how much that is. But whether or not one ought to pay that cost is outside the realm of economics.

Overall, I think your claim is more rightly applied not to Economics the discipline but to Economists the practitioners.
BugMuncher - https://www.bugmuncher.com I've been transparently blogging about my experiences going full time and trying to get profitable without outside funding - it's been a pretty crazy year but I'm still on target :)
He is extremely abrasive, but he doesn't seem to carry grudges.

Telling someone that presentations were "stupid" doesn't seem out of line.
Accidental homicide isn't a crime? I thought that was what involuntary manslaughter was?
Yep. Please mod remove "?comments=1" from the end.
Voat.co is very good
In that case, it seems to me all of the value lies in the comment, and none in the downvote.
I was joking, and denying the obvious (which you stated).

It's just infuriating that an ordinary citizen like myself can get a ticket for speeding, even though my intention was not to harm anyone and I wasn't aware the signs had changed a few miles back. I'm convinced the Clintons, Bushes, Obamas, Kenndedys, etc literally have a different set of laws that apply to them.
Pot, meet kettle!
People regularly left their stuff in my cab. At first I wasn't so good about checking, but eventually looking in the back seat became a habit. One fellow was going to give a business presentation. After he got out, I looked in the back seat and saw his ipad. He was very appreciative.
This is incredibly sad. Why they wouldn't go out of their way to see to it that people's livlihood was protected is beyond me. And the bees... The poor little bees. They are crucial to the ecological balance of so many crops. Does the pesticide cause harm to any other species? This sucks.
> Any of them, since DNSSEC validation doesn't occur in stub resolvers.

By that logic, because someone could write a browser that will accept invalid certificates and/or show everything as secure etc, TLS in general is fundamentally broken so we should never use it.

A bad implementation isn't reason to abandon the concept.
"The continued survival of the ‘colony’ through the years is dependent on new workers falling in through the ventilation pipe. The supplement of workers more than compensates for the mortality rate of workers such that through the years the bunker workforce has grown to the level of big, mature natural colonies."

For heaven's sake someone hide this article before Jeff Bezos reads it :)
The labelling subterfuge started when the FDA started seizing properly-labelled shipments. Broken feedback loops, forever.
This is... interesting? Based on the description, an apology is unnecessary. Users who would be affected by this are probably too busy avoiding asphyxiation by plastic bag to notice.
references prolong the lifetime of temporaries. It wouldn't work in this case:

vector<int> v =...;
const auto& x = v[59];
v.clear();
// x is dangling
OK Google, what about good UIs?
Avg Guy: "Hi, Pam will you go out with me"

Pam: Hell, No.

Avg Guy ~ Loser....
Worth migrating to HTTPS soon then. There's a couple tools here to help make sure you don't end up with HTTPS mixed content issues: https://httpschecker.net/ (Desktop & online.)
You've clearly never worked with the 99% of people who use the internet who don't care about https, much less know what it is.

They don't understand that when someone says "go to google.com" that something isn't wrong when the url bar says "https://google.com". They think they something is broken.

Heck, Safari now be default doesn't even show you the path, they just show the domain, because once people get to foo.com they don't even understand about the paths, nor care.
Control Your Windows 10 Settings for Subtle Changes
When I click on a link someone has sent me, I want to see what the server at that link is sending me. I don't want to see what a MITM is sending me. Maybe I shouldn't trust the person who sent me the link and/or the method it was sent. But maybe I have good reason to. Why should you assume weaknesses in a previous link on the chain in order to justify a weakness in the link of the chain that is being discussed?
I don't think its really up for much debate that imgur is mostly porn, given that represents the largest volume of tradeable images. You might not see it if you don't go looking for it, but its totally there.

Second, it doesn't even matter, there is plenty of porn on the Chinese internet. You run into it on Baidu for even the most innocent of image web searches.
I'm currently working on a code base that's just upgrading to MSVC 10.0, and seeing std::vector::value_type(?)::const_iterator everywhere is killing me.
/r/politicaldiscussion is one that I frequent
Ask HN: Confirmed developer running low, what's the quickest way to make money?
I'm a confirmed developper with strong skills in most mainstream languages and frameworks. I can do Ruby on Rails, NodeJS, React, Angular, Ember, CSS, HTML5, Python, Java, PHP...

I'm running low of cash for this end of month (august). What is the best way to make some quick money? I'm thinking of providing services like code mentoring or freelancing without having to create a company.

Note: I do already have a job. I'm thinking of trying to make money on my spare time.
Burning Samsung Galaxy Note 7 Devices Cause Global Recall
The USAF never did buy any 747s.
Researchers should end this madness and free the ants. I don't think that those ants are happy :/ :(
Most of 2016’s movies have been soulless, noisy, and dull
I wonder how many birds are killed by coal and natural gas to produce 390 MW
At least she should get punished at some level.Not like nothing happend and she can still run for president. What a joke. Shame on us.
That isn't going to work for the general public though. Not because it is too difficult to set up (that can be fixed by sane defaults). Instead the issue is dealing when you can't get DNSSEC responses.

If you want DNSSEC to actually secure you, you need to reject any DNS answer that should have a signature, but doesn't. This means sites not working if there is a slight mistake upstream. Unless this shit becomes really rare, it seems unlikely people will accept this.

If you ignore this, you are vulnerable to anyone who can spoof DNS and refuse to server RSIG records.
WW3 VIOLENCE THROUGH OUT OUR WORLD,IS THE DEVIL ALREADY HERE,BEWARE
> in CA I pay about $20/month for gas/electric

How the hell do you pay so little? I pay $25/month just to have a gas connection.
The Wiki page has a nice writeup of a few downsides: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DBSCAN#Disadvantages
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Ants starving in the dark, damp pit of an abandoned nuclear bunker. Sometimes I love the cyberpunk dystopia we live in.
I say this with all seriousness - 4chan.org/pol is great if you can get past the satire and small number of prolific trolls. If you visit you will find an international community of genuinely intelligent, knowledgeable people there. Go to the "catalog" and find a discussion that interests you, avoid clickbait threads. Don't let the reputation fool you. A lot of it is blown out of proportion to keep people away and afraid to engage there. However, there are trolls and paid posters which tend to post inflammatory things especially during an election season. At least give it a try, you might be pleasantly surprised, I was.
Well... link #1 is a person saying "I won't present at a conference with Crockford because reasons"

#2 is someone saying "me neither, because these reasons"

I guess we could consider it "a woozle" but it does boil down to two people who have publicly stated they don't like Crockford.
Kunming was much better 15 years ago when I first visited, it is still one of the better cities in China, but it is going downhill quickly. Very sad, actually.

I'm not sure you can say the living standards of the Chinese people are improving when they can no longer go for strolls at night.

If you only read Chinese media, you'll come out with a more grim view of China than if you read western media. For that, western media is actually positively biased, not negatively.
"coyotes eat dozens of road runners trapped along the outside of a perimeter fence" i've heard that before...
I love the Node.JS ecosystem for the entertainment it brings to my life.
> Though I do wish HN could distinguish between "I subjectively don't like or disagree with your point" and "Your logic is objectively flawed or rests on false data".

We never hear complaints about people not distinguishing between "I subjectively like or agree with your point" and "Your logic is objectively sound or rests on good data".
How can HN distinguish when even its users cannot? "Objectivity" is so subjective.
And hundreds of millions ("Between 365 and 988 million"[0]) birds die annually from flying into buildings. There are organizations that encourage buildings to be built with bird friendly designs (especially when it comes to glass), though I've never seen much general interest in it.

[0] https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/stop-...
"In a follow-up FBI interview on May 3, 2016, ____ indicated he had an "oh shit" moment and sometime between March 25-31, 2015 deleted the Clinton archive mailbox from the PRN server and used BleachBit to delete the .PST files he had created on the server system containing Clinton's e-mails."
I left two weeks ago, before that I was in Beijing for almost 9 years.
Also, Roundup has some big advantages in inherent safety. It's a competitive inhibitor of an enzyme that's necessary to synthesize aromatic amino acids like L-tryptophan ... and only plants can do this, we animals have to get ours from plants, or animals that eat plants, or animals that eat....

So its mechanism of action is entirely irrelevant to us animals. Maybe it's toxic in some other way, but that's been tested, to the point people are willing to drink the stuff.

Now, the surfactants it's normally formulated with, to get past waxy coatings and the like that plants protect themselves with are another matter altogether, but then again, there's a reason we avoid putting soap in our eyes, with or without triclosan....
This also happens in the sports betting world. People use this method to convince others that they can consistently predict the outcome of games, or the spread, or the other stuff people want to bet on.
What a farce. Remind me again why this is killing Django and Rails for mindshare? (I'm serious, somebody please remind me.)
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Loyalty and How Retailers Should Be Looking at It Differently in 2016
depends on the moderators, obviously, but "academics" aren't immune to clickbait headlines (they advance on attention too).

the problem with politics is there's not black and white, clear cut right a wrong, but there's a never ending pile of people who insist there is.
Do ants have enough neurons to experience happiness or unhappiness?
No, I didn't. The cheap Acer's slot turned out to be handy for a Wireless G+ card when the builtin wifi stopped working. Most of the time, the little placeholder plastic thing never gets removed.
>namely, the local papers' endorsements

By which it is meant, the recommendation of whatever mega-millionaire owns the paper.
Speeding laws are written such that it is a violation regardless of intent or reason.
Tip o' the hat to you, sonny!
The legit branch is signed/vouched by at least (N/2)+1 parties and the cheating branch has less than (N/2)-1.