skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think it's worth paying the "genius" tax. Though controversial, the tax manifests in the form of inflation and will help fund a company that can get things running and stable.

Of all the qualms I have with Zcash, I think that their mining fee is one of the cleaner ways in the ecosystem to fund altcoin development. This technology takes a lot of effort, and a lot of salary money to develop. And then you have to do marketing, PR, bizdev, etc.

re: qualms:

- trusted setup makes me uneasy
- could have picked more than 5 people for signing party
- cryptography is really scary - lots of assumptions, lots of things that haven't really stood the test of time or the examination of experts
- equihash was a poor decision, and a confusing one given that it's pretty well understood that complex hashing functions are counterproductive (and we've seen this play out already for Zcash, things are just getting started)
- The 'slow start mining' was also a really bad idea, and I would almost suggest that it's abusive to the community. More than $100,000 of trade volume happened over Zcash at prices that are 1000x the current price of Zcash. It should have been easy to understand that this would happen.

Mostly, I would urge people not to use Zcash for situations that require real anonymity. E.g. wikileaks accepting donations, or routing around captial controls in oppressive countries. And this is because I do not believe that the cryptography will hold up. There's too much of it, it's too new, and it's too interesting (e.g. a lot of aspiring undergrads and grads are looking to make their mark on the world, and breaking Zcash would be a great way to do that). I believe that your privacy will be compromised retroactively, and not due to bugs but due to actual cryptographic breaks. And then you're back to the Bitcoin network where everyone can see everything, and you're vulnerable.
Yeah we know these things exist. I just don't think using a VPN or a global Network Extension or a global HTTP interception is a good solution. It would be a workaround.

We need a real solution. We need better WKWebView APIs. The requests are known. The bugs have been open since iOS 8. Two years.
> even Rust has runtime GC

Only in an extremely narrow sense; there's no tracing GC, only reference counted types. And they're not used very often.
Hey tashoecraft - it should! Looks like ngrx supports Redux enhancers, and that it all we need.
> So why not just register a .com

Because the name you wish to register is not available as .com domain.

> Nobody is going to remember or type in such a domain

I don't think this is true, I live in Europe and we have tons of country tlds, people use and remember them.

Also is chris.blog really so much longer to type then chris.com or a lot harder to remember? I don't agree.

At first it might feel strange to type something else then .com but as I said in europe we have country tlds and it works well.
iCloud phone backups contain all sorts of other data, too. But it's encrypted.
> it could give people gigabit level access, 20 to 30ms latency, everywhere on Earth

From:

http://shitelonsays.com/transcript/spacex-seattle-2015-2015-...

Via:

https://www.reddit.com/r/spacex/comments/5d9724/spacex_has_f...
While you're right, this does not look like a good coding practice to me. I cannot think of a good example where you have to assign a pointer to an integer and back. Better keep it a pointer, even if it's void*.
Wasn't this one of Obama's promises?
A text editor is the single simplest tool that has been responsible for me earning more money than anything else I have tried.
You wish to build your own USB condom because you want to be absolutely, 100% sure it's built without any kind of backdoor and you don't trust anyone else to do this for you?

Because otherwise you can just get one at e.g. http://int3.cc/products/usbcondoms

I have had one for years (a no-name one, not the one I linked)
Ask HN: Companies that do profit sharing or fair equity
What are some examples of companies doing profit sharing?

Does anyone work at one or trying to setup their company like that?

I am curious to learn both the employer and the employee perspective of it.
Democrats could stall another 4 years. So, it's going to be an interesting fight.
It sickens me that Britain passed the most extreme surveillance law ever.

America is supposed to be number 1 at everything. C'mon congress, get on the ball! Don't let America be out done by Britain.
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I honestly don't see what libertarianism has got to do with this. Could you elaborate? What are these ideals, and what is the idelogy that lacks them?
I'm sure it is measurably faster. I doubt it is noticeably faster.
This. Can someone chime in here and give me an argument for why Zcash is better than Monero? Because everybody I've talked to thinks Monero is better.

I'm not saying it is, but Monero came out far earlier than Zcash, and unless there is a substantial argument for using it over Monero, I'm not convinced of the argument to standardize on it. The only striking difference I can see between Monero and Zcash is that Zcash was premined by investors.

I just did some digging and also found this: http://monero.stackexchange.com/questions/83/how-does-monero...
ZEC is currently down 14.24% on the day. 8 days ago, Daily volume exceeded the market cap. I don't think that qualifies as normalized by most standards.

[0] https://coinmarketcap.com/currencies/zcash/
From how I understanding "Russian state philosophy" (if there's such a thing) I'd even intuitively assume they're not necessarily primarily interested in gathering everything-about-everyone but in ensuring no other party (especially private western/multinational corps) gain potentially such an information advantage over them. We've arrived in an age when non-sovereign entities can gain leverage over sovereign entities and thus become "geopolitical players", to be "reckoned with".
I think most pro-life people are motivated by their empathy and need to defend the weak. Still they are very authoritarian on the issue and just can't admit the other side's moral views are valid. Abortion being allowed lets both groups live according to their moral views while the ban enforces pro-life view on pro-choice people.

Abortion ban as political issue and abortion as moral issue are a different matter. The latter is an interesting thing to debate in light of various ethical principles. The former should be straightforward (if it wasn't for desire to impose your morality on others and control their lives). Once you admit both sides have a point the only option left is being pro-choice. Pro-life argument is based on "I am right, you are wrong and I am willing to legislate against you even though your decisions have 0 influence on my life". It's very similar to legislating against gay sex in this respect (no influence on you but as you find it disgusting you are willing to legislate against it).

Abortion is the biggest issue I disagree with conservatives and even though I lean more right as I am getting older and as the left (in my view) is collectively losing their mind this one I really can't get over.
It seems to me like an attempt to model curiosity.
Ordinary citizens.
But if it's not a law, who are they making the agreement with? Suppose Trump is voted out in 4 years, is he going to go after any of these guys for breach of contract if they become a lobbyist? It seems strange to make it anything but a law if you want it to have teeth.
One of my kids suffered from selective mutism when she was younger. She would speak normally with family, but would not speak outside of the house at all, incl. at school. Not a single word for more than a year.

Creating safe situations where she was forced to speak is the #1 technique to treat that condition. The speech therapists used situations like going out to buy ice cream to get her to speak.

So, yea, think of situations that are comfortable but will force you to speak. It's a very effective technique.

Volunteer to host/speak at a meetup?
I'm using SOCKS over SSH. SSH is kinda part of my job, so it shouldn't be suspicious, right? Oh. I forgot. I'm a linux user, who runs custom firmware on his router, probably already treated as dangerous.
Facebook testing a jobs feature, set to compete with LinkedIn, Indeed
The A45's dual clutch transmission engages in 100ms after touching either the brake or the throttle. Losing control isn't an issue in this case.
Are you talking about Rust's or C++'s? Name conflict :)

In Rust, std::string::String is not a "value type", and by that, I mean it's not Copy.
I am thinking about jobs and productivity as two separate metrics which is exactly why I am coming to the conclusions I am.

Productivity goes up because of technology but those who gain financially are mostly those who work in technology or own resources.

Cost of living is going up too which while salaries for most aren't. The kind of jobs you can get if you aren't in a few privileged industries are wallmart jobs or part time jobs. 12 million people are about to get a run for their money when the one job that couldn't be outsourced suddenly can to robots.

So no I don't believe the competitive edge in the US is really about it's technological or scientific edge but rather a host of other things like the dollar which allow US to stay afloat despite it's soon to be 20 trillion dollar deficit, the size of the market, it's access to the international markets, the system which doesn't redistribute well and so on.

I have no interest of low-wage jobs coming back. What I do have an interest in is that people recognize that a lot of people are being left behind not just brushing it aside as the price of progress. Because never before have so many been left behind with no real chance of a future unless it's on welfare. And if you think this election was bad just wait til the next one, unless we start recognizing the problems and actually address them.
What is straight line black box reduction?
More so than PIA? Also make sure to tell the Tor project that, all of their marketing material disagrees with you.
Dev groups on linkedin? A abandoned phpbb forum from 2010 is a better option!
Trying to avoid getting caught in a 'lets see who visited this random page in the past YEAR because it recently added some "illegal" content, so all who visited must be punished' situation.
What are the multiple standards of JSON? I am only aware of one standard; it is the implementations that are the problem.
I don’t have data on hand, but there are some issues with your claims. They're accurate when comparing a manual transmission to an automatic from the 70's, but newer automatics have essentially closed any efficiency gap.

1. On most automatic transmissions (probably anything newer than the early 90's), the torque converter has clutches inside of it which allow the pump to be directly locked to the turbine. This makes it behave basically the same as a clutch in a manual transmission - no constant slipping. The converter will usually “lock up” once you’ve reached a cruising speed. So, it is less efficient during acceleration, but once the converter locks up, it’s much more comparable to a regular manual transmission. The only thing that still hurts the automatic at that point is the fact that there’s a hydraulic pump which must be driven at all times to maintain pressure to keep the various clutches clamped. So yes, this is where city driving can show some efficiency differences. However, ...

2. On newer automatic transmissions (i.e., transmissions from probably around 2006 and up, such as the ZF 6HPxx series which is found on many Fords, BMWs, and some other brands), the torque converter actually behaves even more like the clutch in a manual transmission in the sense that it’s far more “aggressive” regarding when it locks up. For example, my 2011 BMW will usually lock the torque converter as soon as you take off in first gear (it even sort of feels like when you’re taking off in a car with a manual transmission). Then, it remains locked the entire time after that (even during shifts and wide-open-throttle conditions).

3. Newer automatic transmissions (such as the ZF mentioned above) do in fact have the ability to jump to any gear. I believe this is one of the main things that separate transmissions like the ZF 6HPxx from older style electronic automatics like the 4L80E which use a sprag system. The newer transmissions have a clutch pack for every gear which allows them to jump to any gear rather than following the sequence.

4.I believe that many CVT transmissions still use a torque converter anyway.
I'm not sure, but there's certainly plenty of evidence that they know a lot more about society than people who don't bother studying it at all.
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We have 100 days to stop Donald Trump from systemically corrupting institutions
... yes ...
> why only six

The protocol is expensive; it took 2 days with 6 people. After a certain point, it's not practical to add more participants without increasing risk. It requires gigabytes worth of communication per participant and many millions of curve operations.
*) Change: format of the $ssl_client_s_dn and $ssl_client_i_dn variables
has been changed to follow RFC 2253 (RFC 4514); values in the old
format are available in the $ssl_client_s_dn_legacy and
$ssl_client_i_dn_legacy variables.

*) Change: when storing temporary files in a cache directory they will
be stored in the same subdirectories as corresponding cache files
instead of a separate subdirectory for temporary files.

*) Feature: EXTERNAL authentication mechanism support in mail proxy.
Thanks to Robert Norris.

*) Feature: WebP support in the ngx_http_image_filter_module.

*) Feature: variables support in the "proxy_method" directive.
Thanks to Dmitry Lazurkin.

*) Feature: the "http2_max_requests" directive in the
ngx_http_v2_module.

*) Feature: the "proxy_cache_max_range_offset",
"fastcgi_cache_max_range_offset", "scgi_cache_max_range_offset", and
"uwsgi_cache_max_range_offset" directives.

*) Bugfix: graceful shutdown of old worker processes might require
infinite time when using HTTP/2.

*) Bugfix: in the ngx_http_mp4_module.

*) Bugfix: "ignore long locked inactive cache entry" alerts might appear
in logs when proxying WebSocket connections with caching enabled.

*) Bugfix: nginx did not write anything to log and returned a response
with code 502 instead of 504 when a timeout occurred during an SSL
handshake to a backend.
Even in America there are still pretty big blank spaces on the map.

I live 5-miles outside of a town in Idaho with a state university, and a population of about 30,000 people. Between my house and town, I lose service for 80% of the drive. If I drive from here to the next major population center, I'll only have internet on the state highway for about 40% of the drive. If I make the same drive on back roads, I'll have internet for less than 10% of the drive.

The situation is much the same in much of the rural West.
But then we add the IE-nightmare of using an accepted user-agent in a new product to workaround cases like this
HTML 5.1 is the gold standard
Looks awesome - can't wait to use it on my app. Great product!
From http://www.cnn.com/2016/11/17/politics/dni-james-clapper-sub...:

"Clapper's announcement wasn't a surprise to those around him and was expected at the end of his term. For months, the intelligence director has been updating those around him on his own personal countdown clock, telling them exactly how many days he has left until retirement."

It had nothing to do with Trump.
It would be interesting to see how media will respond. Last time I watched them they were upset he went to dinner without inviting them or some such thing.

One complaint I heard on a Washington, DC forum was that it would destroy DC culture. I imagine "lobbyist struggling to make ends meet after being laid off" might be an angle.

> The five-year ban will make it harder for Trump to recruit people to work in the administration.

I imagine anyone in Washington who knows how things run is a lobbyist of some sort. Wonder how or who they'd have to hire who wasn't some insider of sorts. If people don't know the system they'll probably make mistakes or take too long to get started. If they know too much they are probably corrupt and lobbying for someone else as well.
Like the author I would also have no problem in paying a few of several hundred dollars as an initial registration one time fee, for a domain like chris.blog.

I would really prefer using chris.blog instead of buying a .com domain like this-is-chriss-development-blog.com, just because any shorter .com domain is already taken.
That's what I'm thinking as well. I only need to do a crawler, doing HEAD requests only, piping into /dev/null, in theory.
Very sad that someone calling with PTSD did not get help, but the opposite. 4th amendment violations happen all the time. It's good to see justice done here, the system worked (eventually). The upshot of this story is not so much that the police messed up, as occasionally happens with treagic result -- it is that veterans still are not getting quality care.
Are you referring to the Data Retention Directive [1], which was invalidated in 2014? Or are there still other EU-wide laws on data retention?

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_Retention_Directive
Soft robot with a mouth and gut can forage for its own food
but the usa has very local police forces many of which are tiny forces and have much less oversight than a centrally managed force as is common in the EU and UK
Exactly what I was thinking, and put much more succinctly!
Why such a small group of people though?
People will almost always take the shortcut/easiest way out. Facebook for news = the fastest way to get news. Doesn't mean it's going to be accurate, but do people care? Apparently not.
Engine braking imposes negligible wear and tear on the engine. Instead of fuel-air explosions driving the pistons up and down, the pistons inefficiently compress and expand air at ambient temperature and pressure. Sure, extended use might take 100 miles of life off a 300,000 mile part, but are you really going to worry about that?
> lag between depressing an accelerator pedal

Well, doesn't fuel flow need to be increased before acceleration can begin? That causes latency, much more than software would. Perhaps the software is causing a little bit of that, perhaps there's a simple delay loop instead of a sensor there and it's a little too long.

We'll never know, but there are plenty of guesses you could make.

> why the engine will often konk out unless the accelerator pedal is pressed fully when starting on a hill

That doesn't at all sound like a software problem. It sounds like you're conflating "I don't like my car" with "my car software sucks".

> upshift from 5th to 6th [...] 1,400 RPM [...] 1,200 RPM

Are you certain that upshifting like that would only drop you 200 RPM? Not at least 1000? I'm fairly certain that's not correct.

> [...] all my criticisms can be addressed by offering a manual transmission option with a dry clutch [...]

Just buy a manual car if you care so much. Or buy a journal and vent into that rather than the HN comment section. Goodness gracious.
> This is necessary, because there's no way to define a generic interface that would have acceptable perf, due to boxing.

Actually, that's going away with Java 9 (or 10). Luckily.
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Thanks! Having no idea that any of this existed, the article author's recipe list seemed like blatant abuse, but those rules are so long and so complicated that it's now easier to see how people could reasonably conclude that such a project might be acceptable.
This is very good advice, as when I practiced for public speaking competitions one technique was to deliver readings or speeches in front of a mirror. In private. A bathroom is good because keeping volume at talking voice is kind of important, and it will probably improve speaking technique with practice and attention to desired goals.
First, let me say that reading the OP has eased my worry that the President-Elect "is racist" (at least no more than typical, which unfortunately is still pretty racist, but let that pass for the sake of discussion.) I no longer think that Trump is racist in the sense that he hates non-whites. (I'm also really annoyed that the media I frequent did such a poor job portraying the guy in this regard, but that's a whole 'nother issue.)

I do still believe that he, and most people, are racist in the sense of having a hard time relating to "The Other" as another aspect or manifestation of "Self". But here we are getting far from the political and into deeper interpersonal relations. In other words, this is something that can't really be addressed by laws, so it is formally outside the bailiwick of the POTUS. However, I would still rather the POTUS be someone conducive to the greater good. Trump seems out of his depth here, as in so many other areas.
No, due to browsers leaking data and state actors controlling tor end points.

They still know know someone out there is doing something, and can build ad profiles and threat profiles on them, they just can't link those profiles to you easily: that is anonymity.

Privacy would be inability to build useful profiles.
>Volunteer to host/speak at a meetup?

This could be nerve wreaking for someone who is just getting started. Improv maybe? I dunno.
> could have picked more than 5 people for signing party

I think it was six people: https://github.com/zcash/mpc/blob/master/README.md
MDM doesn't interest me, but storing the OS and user data separately? That is interesting.

OS X and now macOS already has System Integrity Protection, where a large portion of the filesystem cannot be touched even by root.

Maybe they'll eventually move that to its own partition?
I don't have access to the answer to that question. I wasn't involved at all.
Batch Normalization – What the hey?
Note that the keychain security is a bit of an exception -- it's particularly strong, as it's protecting password data. (My favorite detail, not mentioned in the original white paper: To prevent the iCloud Keychain HSMs from being updated with a more lax policy, the smartcards that would have been required to update them were destroyed in a private ceremony involving a blender.)

Other data in iCloud is generally under less extreme levels of security. This isn't to say that it's insecure, merely that it's not as fanatically protected. Some of it may be accessible by resetting your account password.
On the business case for (or against) software
I don't live in the US, so I'm out of that particular loop, but I was talking to an american friend of mine about police shootings and he told me about BLM, and I said "but it seems to me that the issue isn't that the police shouldn't be killing black people, it's that the police shouldn't be killing anyone!".

It seems that the argument has been framed around black people's mistreatment in general, which is fair enough, but, when specifically talking about the police, it seems to me that getting the latter to be less trigger-happy would alleviate the problem for all races, which is why I find the focus on black people a bit odd.
> I think there needs to be a law that punishes false information

> Thus sinks democracy.

Fixed the order of statements for you..
> They should not carry firearms

Unfortunately in a society where a lot of citizens have fire arms, where gang culture exist this will not be possible at all. How many times police was shot on routine daily events? Police not carrying weapons is not realistic in USA.
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Can we please see a comparison with a statically-typed language better suited to data-science? Go is a long way away from the current state-of-the-art in statically typed languages. I would hope that F# with its type providers has a pretty good exploration story and possibly Scala too.
NVMe added feature of HMB (Host Memory Buffer) to use host DDR rather than internal RAM. So, I think this chip used HMB feature.