skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes you can game the network by writing your own Ethereum Mining Client. Introducing a ton of code. Selectively ignoring code. BUT this isn't smart. You are devaluing the currency you are deriving profit hurting your profit margin.

Furthermore you need to maintain plausible deniability. THIS IS HARD. If Ethereum catches you, they'll just hard fork. So your average blocked claims can't change by a large amount. So in reality you already need to 1st/2nd sigma miner, then increase your profits by maybe 20-30%. This is a lot of risk, and a ton of work.

Most likely it is just somebody doing it for the lulz
Yes, it's possible to do that. I'm not sure if the current miner is, though.
Given the title and the length of the post I was expecting a lot more detail.

> Over the last year we’ve developed our new load balancer, called GLB (GitHub Load Balancer). Today, and over the next few weeks, we will be sharing the design and releasing its components as open source software.

Is it common practice to do this? Most recent software/framework/service announcements I've read were just a single, longer post with all the details and (where applicable) source code. The only exception I can think of is the Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) which was discussed over multiple posts.
I'm a huge fan of freeradius. I have tried multiple propiortary radius servers and I can honestly say freeradius is the most flexible most reliable radius server in the world. Thanks so much for your effort.
Embargoes happen on the time; but usually controlling the narrative is super subtle rather than explicit. Most journalists aren't too critical of a source because they know next time they won't be given a release at all.
Galaxies don't seem to obey gravity in their rotation.

Take images of a galaxy, estimate the number and mass of the stars based on their brightness. Make a computer simulation using this and the known laws of gravity. In the simulation the galaxy will rotate way differently than in the observations. This happens with every galaxy, so we just don't know why galaxies rotate the way they do.

There are two major theories:

1. Maybe our estimation of the mass distribution in a galaxy is wrong. We only estimate the mass based on the light of the stars we can see. So people have invented dark matter. We can add unseen matter in a certain distribution into the galaxy, until we get it to rotate, under our known laws of gravity, the way we observe it rotating.

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

2. Maybe our laws of gravity are wrong. Maybe the gravitational interaction works differently over very long distances than it works inside our solar system. After all, we have directly measured gravity only over distances inside our solar system.

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

Generally physicists feel that the mathematical form of the gravitational interaction is too precious to meddle with. It is easier to postulate unseen, unknown, extra mass to all galaxies, than to alter the equations of gravity. So dark matter is the more generally accepted theory.

This study is purely observational. The authors observe that the deviation in the rotation of visible mass, compared to out laws of gravity, follows a nice curve with almost no scatter. This gives slightly more support to the theories of modified gravitation laws, because the deviations seem to follow a smooth pattern. But if we postulate some mechanism which distributes the dark matter just right, to follow the observations, also the dark matter theories would conform to these observations. So this is a small step in one of the big unsoveld problem in physics.
It's as much a "law and order" issue as it is a civil rights issue.

Cops have limited resources to deal with a number of problems and if they don't have the training and procedures to use internet evidence they are going to waste those resources tracking down stolen cars, child porn and whatever in the wrong places.
Good points about gas prices. It's also silly the way people assume oil prices are all a matter of government policy, as opposed to the business cycle. So much about being perceived as a successful politician at the national level is about entering at the right moment, when the economy is on the upswing, or about to be.

> But people do vote on particular pet issues like a carbon tax.

California's rather unusual. At the national level, which is what matters most, we don't do taxation by referendum. I'm not advocating that, either. The current system would work fine if people put a little more effort into understanding the budget and pressing their candidates to form positions.

> The candidate who says "we need to increase the cost of fossil fuels so you use less of them.." won't even have an audience listening for the second part - "...to save the planet from pretty much boiling to death and ending civilization as we know it".

Well, they do have something of an audience, but that audience is somewhat diminished by the brain-damaged nature of the American public when it comes to understanding science. But it's not as if messages of self-sacrifice for the common good always go unheard.
The Strauss & Howe definition is that Millennials were born 1982-2004. Generations typically last 20 years or so, so you're smack in the middle.
Think you're reading too much into it. Most software license agreements have silly rules and restrictions that nobody takes any notice of - at home. Businesses have to be more careful.
One of the things I've been really needing is buried in the wiki:

> Previously flagged as an invalid flag combination, target: es5 and 'module: es6' is now supported. This should facilitate using ES2015-based tree shakers like rollup.

So now I can add rollup to my production build pipeline to remove dead code. Nice!
You will find that the vast majority of people doesn't care for faster machines. I think Microsoft's Continuum is the way to go. People will just connect their huge displays + mice/keyboards to their phones to avoid the trouble of syncing data.
This network shows how it is possible to represent meaning into a vector of 100-600 real numbers, first from images to vectors, then from vectors to text. Philosophers have always wondered about the nature of thought, but this representation model creates for the first time the ability to work with sensorially grounded abstract concepts in AI. It's not so mysterious after all. It is possible to merge multiple sensorial modalities in a common meaning space.

In order to get full AI we need to add behavior and embodiment to these meaning vectors. They need to be trained by reinforcement learning, to learn the behavior that maximizes rewards. Meaning vectors are just a small part of the final system, equivalent to our ability to see and speak. The most difficult part is that of learning behavior.
Use CSS to change the look if it does not suit you.
Love this. I wanted to build this exact thing a few years ago. Did a little work on it and then saw a squirrel and jumped to the next new shiny thing I saw. Really happy to see that someone else had the same thought and executed it much better than I ever could have hoped to.
> i.e. wait until you’re 25% past the milestone to announce - so that you’re that much closer to announcing the next milestone.

I wouldn't be surprised to hear this violates a securities law.
css variables too
16K writes/second is very impressive (Disclaimer: I work on competing products), from my experience of working on distributed database performance. I've been watching various system's performance spec and this is quite good.

My only complaint is that most vendors report the SUM total writes/second across all nodes which I think is a bit unfair for titles/linkbaiting. Reporting single node writes/second is much more honest. Why? Because if they had spun up 64 nodes rather than 32... or any arbitrary number, they could get whatever number they want. That said, still very impressive.
I just finished "Chaos Monkeys: Obscene Fortune and Random Failure in Silicon Valley" and there is a discussion about this in there. Turns out its very hard to get from "what you like" to "what I want to buy." Google actually has an advantage here, in that it is easier to identify search phrases that are part of the pre-buying process.
Quoting user 'moron4hire':s hyperbole from 959 days ago, at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7187021 :

> No! You may not have my email address after two woefully simple problems! I don't need you sending me emails every day, "You forgot to come to Codewars.com in the last 2 hours, why aren't you spending your entire life on this site?!"

They let me type in code they execute on their computers, running on a Docker instance? Where I can os.popen("ls") and urlopen("http://python.org")?

That ... doesn't sound safe. I mean, sure, it's in its own instance, but I can talk to the world through their machines. And Python has a built-in web server.
This is just one chapter of the sad story of the Syrian civil war.... It is similar to the treasures that were plundered in Iraq over the last 15 years. The truth is the West does not care - neither about these antiquities nor the incredible price that civilians have paid. If they have not paid the ultimate price, they may be among the millions displaced and living in misery and suffering.
Wondering the same thing, from my understanding UC is a variation of Chrons. Although I've personally found it pretty easy to manage after my initially attack in my early 20s. But I've heard Chrons is different and treatment is much more diet-based. Whereas with Colitis there doesn't seem to be a connection to nutrition (yet).
I literally think you're an asshole for thinking you know everything about how enterprise works.

IT can be brow beat just as hard as developers. They will change whatever domain policies you make them change. Quit being a pushover.
const means a completely different thing depending on what language you come from (even JavaScript). I think readonly has a much clearer meaning.
On the official forums for Strauss & Howe generational theory, the community uses "Gen Y" to refer to late-wave Gen X-ers and early-wave Millennials who have some of the social characteristics of both generations due to being on the cusp.

The exact years are nebulously-defined (cusps typically are, since they're unofficial extensions of the theory), but I've seen it defined as wide as people born 1977-1988. Mid-80s are almost universally accepted as part of the cusp, but how early or how late it extends beyond that seems to vary.
Which, in turn, would be a pretty impressive achievement, and certainly worthy of an HN story.
Show HN: Transdata – flowchart-style data manipulation
Github!! Fortress of Open-Source!!! But why they are not open-sourcing GitHub just like GitLab?
Everybody is "passionate" about some kind of vice or leisure. But you probably have some useful passions buried in there too. It's a waste of braincells to lament how unfair it is that your only passions (drinking & sleeping) are not very marketable skills.
Agreed, I'm waiting with bated breath for the next one... first boot is exciting.
Why greater diversity in tech will help us all
6:00 am - wakeup
6:10 am - jog
6:30 am - nutritious breakfast including fruit, carbs, protein and water
7:00 am - shower
7:30 am - coffee (limited) and classical music
8:00 am - review learning list and choose focus
8:30 am - focus and learn
10:00 am - stretching, situps, pushups followed by water
10:15 am - focus and learn
11:45 am - evaluate learning, update learning list
noon - nutritious lunch (limited) with water
12:30 pm - bike ride
1:00 pm - review learning list and choose focus
1:30 pm - focus and learn
3:00 pm - weightlifting followed by water
3:30 pm - focus and learn
5:00 pm - evaluate learning, update learning list
5:30 pm - dinner (limited)
6:00 pm - your time
9:00 pm - bedtime

When I was unemployed, this is the routine I followed. I was able to pick up quite a few technologies that helped me in my current job. Notice that quite a bit of the routine is focused on YOU. If you feel good, and confident about yourself, you can learn a lot.
It sounds like the option of leaving 9 people to the wolves was on the table; but they didn't want to leave 10 people to the wolves.
While driving; daily commute :)
Or a clerk who made fifty bucks or more off of a gullible tourist...
I think the choice is not that obvious if you factor in sustainability. A health system that is all about saving lives but collapses on itself (taking down a chunk of economy with it) within a year or two is not better than a less effective health system that can run sustainably for decades or more.

IMO you need to give the drug companies enough money to cover their operating expenses and R&D costs and give some margin to stay afloat. But not more than that. It's hard to do because this aspect is one that is handled well by free market - but in healthcare, you very much care about the thing free market utterly sucks at - product quality. You need regulation to ensure the product is good enough, and many of the important criteria are not immediately verifiable by the customer at the point of sale. Trying to reconcile those two issues is the hard problem.
Kansas couple who live in a 'digital hell' sue mapping company MaxMind
EDIT: I read the post more carefully - the reference to DNS was merely to highlight that often times a single public [V]IP can get overloaded and common mitigation strategies.
(1) It's unreliable (2) It's unconstitutional assuming judges agree (3) It's expensive if you screw it up, such as people die, lawsuits, or embarrassment. All of which is unlikely change behavior unless everyone agrees.
>Not much seems to have happened in LibreSSL since the initial rage-sprint.

Where did you get that impression?

https://github.com/libressl-portable/openbsd/commits/master shows an actively developed project
That's probably only because you have the cognizance to be shameful of what other people your age have done and are doing to the world. Most baby boomers don't have this.
As a pedantic writer, it annoys me that the article starts by mentioning a quiz and making a big deal about answering yes or no to the questions... but there aren't actually any questions. The "quiz" is a list of statements. Each one can be understood by context to imply a question about whether you agree with the statement, but it's distracting because you can't answer yes to something that isn't a question.
In P&C it's closer to 28%, and for most of them that means agency commissions and such. That said, I think 20% expense is a bit wishful for a startup, but I hope I'm wrong and that it works out for you.

I will just assume that your 20% doesn't include LAE unless you're writing super preferred risk.
On it's own? Yes, definitely.
Pretty sure Bas said that, not Joe
Why on earth would NPR accept that deal? I thought the whole point of public radio was that it was that by relying on donations it could maintain its independence and objectivity. There is no longer any reason for them to exist.
I would hope that most people on HN are knowledgeable enough to agree with the EFF's take on EULAs -- they are of questionable legality, and "dangerous for consumers and innovators alike"[1].

[1]: https://www.eff.org/wp/dangerous-terms-users-guide-eulas
Is there a part 2 to this?
You don't need PASSION.

You don't need GOALS.

You need SYSTEMS THAT IMPROVE YOUR ODDS OF SUCCESS OVER TIME.
It starts off saying:

> If police raided a home based only on an anonymous phone call claiming residents broke the law, it would be clearly unconstitutional... Yet EFF has found that police and courts are regularly conducting and approving raids based on the similar type of unreliable digital evidence: Internet Protocol (IP) address information.

I'm not sure that these two are equivalent. A better example would be the police raiding my home based on an illegal phone call that came from my phone number. Sure, the fact that it comes from my phone number doesn't mean I did it, but it's certainly evidence that points to me, just as an IP address can be.

In general, the summary linked to above makes it sound like police should never use IP addresses. To be fair, if you read the whitepaper itself, it doesn't say this, but rather that police should be _careful_ in how they use IP addresses. Specifically, it recommends that police "conduct additional investigation to verify and corroborate the physical location of a particular decive connect to the Internet whenever police have information about an IP address’ physical location, and providing that information to the court with the warrant application".
Certain things(circular structures) are harder to represent without dropping down to unsafe code(which is a C equivalent security model).

It's a bit more upfront work to satisfy the compiler but I've found the payoff in debugging memory issues to be completely worth it.
Could the down-voters at least tell me why? Thx
The US still can't get the last people to leave Centralia, PA. Centralia has been on fire since 1962. So I think the answer is no. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Centralia,_Pennsylvania
What also isn't new is that when those same people get married and have kids, they'll be looking to move out of that urban environment.

What is new is that people are getting married and having kids much later, or not at all, and so they're staying in urban areas for much longer.
I'm a long time shaarli user and the reason I use shaarli is to get away from services such as yours. I trusted del.icio.us got bitten and will never make the same mistake again.

paperbin.co is useless and pointless to me, it is contrary to how the internet and the web is supposed to work, it is closed source crippleware with no possibility to self host, it offers no features that has not been around in competitors for years.

This is a reason why I ignore your project but am excited to participate in discussion about shaarli and wallabag.
I've worked in enough Perl at one point to actually like it but I would never recommend anyone learn it unless they absolute have to. At this point it's effectively a dead ended language. It's also a terribly difficult language to learn.

I don't particularly like the Javascriptification of every technology but these webdev graduates have the right idea.
I read in another article that Fungus has been neglected in medical pathology research:

> As of November 2015, only 269 of more than 6,000 Web of Science search results for the term “microbiome” even mention “fungus,” and the scientific search engine returns only 55 papers pertaining to the “mycobiome.”

> Despite this lack of attention, a handful of recent studies point to the importance of our commensal fungal inhabitants as critical players in human health and disease.

http://www.the-scientist.com/?articles.view/articleNo/45153/...

Hopefully this type of research will help with a large variety of illnesses.
Hi HN, OP here. A bit about Transdata:

It started as a scratch-your-own-itch idea from one of our founders (a financial analyst) to solve problems that are impractical/impossible in Excel and such. The overall goal is flexibility and ease of use. The entire tool was written in C++ by a single programmer (me).

Some key differences:

-The flowchart-style GUI (using Qt)

-Ragged data is allowed (non-rectangular)

-No data limit beyond what your computer can handle

-Reusable models
Yes, using 3D CSS transform is a common performance optimization. 3D enables hardware acceleration.
Not from a medical background, but I spent some time writing hospital infection surveillance software so can share a few anecdotes.

What he's saying isn't inaccurate. The idea is antibiotic resistance generally carries some metabolic cost -- the bacteria disable or find some other way around whatever pathway is being targeted by the antibiotic. This means they operate "less efficiently" than their non-resistant peers. When the antibiotic disappears from the environment, the resistance no longer offers an advantage, so they get out-competed by their non-resistant "more-efficient" peers.

This is in fact one of the ways hospitals fight outbreaks of resistant bacteria -- they cycle antibiotics. More subtleties of course, but basically the head infection surveillance person says "alright docs, this month we're blacklisting these antibiotics, next month we're blacklisting these." (This is one of the interventions our infection software helped with.)

On the other hand, there are places where the widespread use of antibiotics extends far beyond the reaches of a hospital building. Commercial agriculture is infamous for overusing antibiotics (basically mixing them into the lot's feedstock so every cow gets it). Outbreaks like SARS and avian flu weren't antibiotic-resistance outbreaks, but they WERE caused by sizable quantities of people working in close proximity with livestock and then spreading the disease through their normal travel and social interaction vectors.

India is known for having antibiotics widely available over-the-counter for people. There are stories of people coming back from India with an infection resistant to literally everything (there's only about 50 antibiotics out there) -- when that happens, it's like the outbreak movies where the CDC comes in with plastic sheets and wearing bunny suits to quarantine the room.

So will the lower-metabolic-efficiency attribute of antibiotic resistance be self-limiting enough to prevent it from turning into another 1918 spanish flu global pandemic? Maybe. But as long as there are large city-scale pockets of heavy antibiotic over-use with people traveling in-and-out, there are going to be constant transmission vectors that will still kill people in largely preventable ways.
>Its population has dwindled from over 1,000 residents in 1981 to only 10 in 2010

They're probably gonna be dead soon anyway.
Would it be possible to simulate this on a MBP or would it require significantly more amount of computing power
Modern flat Earth societies
Especially with things like Hash Life. It really bleeds across into philosophy. This concept is explored in a book I recently recommended on HN. Permutation City. You'd probably get a kick out of it.