skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Accounting, auditing and compliance are a massive cost for business globally. (Fines alone have cost banking $200 billion since 2009.) Blockchain accounting could help cut those costs. For example, instead of a company employing its own auditors to examine the books of its various units, all transactions could be logged on an internal blockchain, and recorded centrally. Likewise, external auditors or even regulators could inspect a corporation’s books in real time. Even the accounting firms that make their money from auditing see the value in the technology: “This solution could significantly reduce the reliance on auditors for testing financial transactions,” Matt Spoke
http://qz.com/629662/the-unsexy-future-of-blockchain-is-acco...
Yeah... I've heard of visual programming before, even played with Scratch a bit some time ago, but I couldn't tell if that's what this was for or what.

I don't really see any advantages to this. I feel like once you get familiar with your languages and libraries, typing is fast because you don't have to search for what you want, you can put it from your thoughts into your program directly, and everything you need to know is laid out before you. With this it seems like you'd have to hunt through menus to hunt what you want (and they're all white text in little blue boxes, none of them being visually distinct from any other), and then spend time targeting it with a pointing device (and they're small targets, which requires more precise movements and generally more time to position), and then you can't see the values of the parameters/fields unless/until you click on them (so, yes, I have a color stacked on top of a sphere... what color? what size? where? that's three separate clicks, as far as I can tell).

I didn't find the demo videos impressive or even interesting, really... I couldn't tell if it was some kind of awful general-purpose programming environment or some kind of awful 3D modeling program (I still can't tell, actually, but it's got "CAD" in the name, so if I had to guess I'd go with modeling).

Text also has the benefit of being a linear format, amenable to listings. It's also a simple and standard format, with hundreds if not thousands of powerful tools already available. It compresses well, and is decently small to begin with. In most programs, spatial relationships typically aren't meaningful, whereas linguistic ones are (or, at least, they can be). In non-trivial programs, a spatial representation of references can get ugly, messy, and confusing fast.

I'm sure there's more, but I feel like I've made my point ;)

Oh, and, as is customary on HN, I'd like to point out how terrible the web site is. I get the feeling this is supposed to be a product of some sort, not just a weekend project, and, in that light: I've literally seen Geocities sites that looked more professional. Text-to-speech narration in the demo videos will never sell me on any product. Now, I'm no good at designing web pages myself, so I can sympathize. But when you've got a product to move, that's when you need to call up a buddy who is good at it and make a polite request for assistance. The kind of impression your web page leaves on people does matter when it comes to making sales.
In post-election media,colorful thread develops on science
Really do not like the ISP routers, that bundle the DSL/Cable-model with a Wireless-router together. Just let the modem be modems, and let the router be router, this way you can use any router model you prefer and do not need get stuck with the ISP ones.
It felt like they weren't just predicting disaster, but hoping for it. Like being right about Trump's election victory having dire consequences is somehow preferable to everything turning out ok despite their candidate losing.
Do you think that, generally, if someone needs an app to do something they've just thought of, that there should exist some way for them to build it themselves? If not, why not?

We will know the age of "personal computing" has truly arrived when such things are possible. At the moment, our hypothetical food truck owner (and many, many more people I know personally) are at the mercy of others, frustrated and unable to achieve their computing goals unaided.
> People have been trying to make programming easier/ accessible since the days of Hypercard, but no one has really cracked yet.

There is no shortage of good programming languages and useful paradigms.
The problem is how to interface with existing systems written in a different language with a very different mindset (e.g. your operating system).
Someone has to write code to bridge those abstractions, and that only happens if enough resources are concentrated at the right place.
I'm unaware of any provider than can protect against a burst of 500 Gbps on a single load balanced endpoint, let alone a sustained attack.

1.2Tbps is basically a death ray.
You would have paid $2 million for your house in San Francisco.
Near where I grew up there is a place called The Pannonian Plain. It's a remnant of a dried up sea.

So maybe we just don't call those geological formations valleys?
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pannonian_Basin
At the host level - yes. All the applications still make the same requests to the kernel. Different namespace doesn't matter.
Recover Photos, Contacts, SMS,WhatsApp, Viber from HTC Bolt Without Backup
https://www.youtube.com/user/udiprod/videos has some fun/pretty sort animations that illustrate clearly the comparison and swaps separately.
Klinsmann Fired as US Soccer Coach
Maybe you'll like this one better:

It is to be regretted that the rich and powerful too often bend the acts of government to their selfish purposes. Distinctions in society will always exist under every just government. Equality of talents, of education, or of wealth can not be produced by human institutions. In the full enjoyment of the gifts of Heaven and the fruits of superior industry, economy, and virtue, every man is equally entitled to protection by law; but when the laws undertake to add to these natural and just advantages artificial distinctions, to grant titles, gratuities, and exclusive privileges, to make the rich richer and the potent more powerful, the humble members of society — the farmers, mechanics, and laborers — who have neither the time nor the means of securing like favors to themselves, have a right to complain of the injustice of their government. There are no necessary evils in government. Its evils exist only in its abuses. If it would confine itself to equal protection, and, as Heaven does its rains, shower its favors alike on the high and the low, the rich and the poor, it would be an unqualified blessing.
pretty damn relevant today. (rent seeking, crony capitalism, lobbyists writing the bills)
If you have a turing-complete machine, you can execute anything you could on any other turing-complete machine (given sufficient resources).
Actually if California stopped producing food we would still be fine. Most of what is produced is fruits.

Most likely the US could halt 1/2 of its food production and still have plenty of food. We have no shortage of arable land, we have a greater shortage of people actually wanting to be farmers/ranchers :(
So I watched this video, was inspired, and tried it out tonight.

Turned out pretty good! I know my way around a whole chicken (I cut up whole chickens about once every week or two), so deboning wasn't so bad. The legs took too long; you gotta scrape with conviction! I also need to sharpen my paring knife.

I went with a spinach, mushroom, and crouton stuffing like Pépin. Also made a wine cream sauce. Quite good. Threw mirepoix in the pan while the chicken rested, deglazed with white wine, added some stock, strained into a sauce pan, added roux, then finished with cream.

Yes. I like to cook.
I wish there was a way to force other applications to disable color emjoi.
Probably because Common Lisp has a bad rap at NASA.

http://www.flownet.com/ron/jpl-lisp.html
Please use a safe rocket to get into space. That would be one stressful rocket ride for the project scientists on earth.
yo thanks fam!
This is a rather surprising development to me, I didn't imagine that this would inspire writers, but I quite applaud what Minecraft does for creativity at all ages!
Confusingly, _escaped_fragment_= is always a prefix if you have a #! in your url, otherwise I think it can come anywhere in the URL params.[1] Here is the exact system of redirects we were using, along with an explanation of why it didn't work:

https://www.fwdeveryone.com/t/mdDouBesQwCv0za_o7GjCA/serving...

[1] https://prerender.io/js-seo/angularjs-seo-get-your-site-inde...
What is this?

I get the feeling there's a joke somewhere I'm not getting that's pretty funny.
I wish more people felt uncomfortable with such a close marriage between commerce and lower education. Get em while they're kids and you have a customer for life...
Mostly because the House knew the Senate would not actually back the repeal, but they wanted to look like they were doing something for the folks back home. That's the saber rattling. Now, maybe, they will actually put forth a plan or a few plans. I think multiple approaches, with hopefully Democratic and other party input, should make for a better system.
That's what a "fat binary" is :)
Blockchain could provide “near-real-time” transactions to speed up the foreign exchange market http://qz.com/779660/goldman-sachs-wants-to-put-foreign-exch...
Bootstrap Lifehack – See all margins and padding with chrome inspect
Just scroll to the bottom of any element with a before or after (most elements in bootstrap), and hover over the grey asterisks and it will show all elements on the page's padding + Margin. I find it really useful for understanding if a row or div is causing things to get out of whack.

http://imgur.com/a/LMzV1
I'll admit that was an over exaggeration and ESPN is not nearly as bad.

However, would you not agree that most media has been regressing towards the lowest common denominator with the least amount of effort put into it?
It's fine to post about your personal experiences when they're relevant to a good conversation, but not as part of off-topic ideological rants. The latter are not ok here; please see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13011538.
Running for office is illuminating. Everyone's behavior makes perfect sense (is predictable) once you see how the game is played.

Everyone should run for office at least once.

They should also lobby (try to get a law changed) too. Ideally, before running for office.
Total Conquest Hack Tool No Survey (iOS-Android-IPad)
Absolutely sickening.. Stallman needs to leave the crib and join the real world.
Is that really the case though? I mean, I'm no longer a customer of Mavis Beacon, Mario Teaches Typing, and Dino Park Tycoon ...
Not only tech people roam this water
I tried to hunt it down, but the trail went cold at a message [1] in which YAMAMOTO Mitsuharu refers to an unspecified "discussion about the inclusion of the Mac port". My best guess is that a broader policy decision about not supporting Mac-specific features in mainline was made a while ago, and this was something that slipped through in a bigger merge.

[1] https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2016-01/msg00...
Previous discussion of same graph: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12992777
This a 100%! While I was reading his guide, I couldn't shake off that jazz track from "The Talented Mr Ripley"...
Government records your name, gender, age, address, voter id, voting history. Pretty sure anything else is value added by vendors.

Some exemptions (not listed) for judges, victims, witness protection. YMMV depending on jurisdiction.
You have access to the NYT and not a cafe in the US Great Plains on a Saturday morning. Sadly the NYT doesn't bother to show up either.
Obama says he can't pardon Snowden
They have all their photos since 2010 stored in there and have inherited all the crap from every single unexpected reboot, failure and app residues, building up gb's of 'other files' as shown in iTunes

Meh. They should just copy their photos off their idevice using USB PTP mode. That's USB config 1 when an idevice plugs into a PC. No macOS required. No iTunes required. Done. Solved. As for the crap, isn't that an argument to NOT migrate via iTunes?

Most of iPhone users have a 5Gb iCloud account where not even a whatsapp backup fits, and they still need a computer to migrate all the data

ICloud storage is super cheap, especially compared to the price of a smartphone every 2 years. If you're not using this, you're cheating yourself out of one of the biggest advantages that iOS has over other computing platforms. iCould backup is the one thing in iCloud that really just works.

Plus there's dropbox. Solved.

But it still isn't strictly necessary.

That, and the fact that you're still unable to put music inside an iPhone if you don't a) buy it from the app store or b) using iTunes

Wat? Who still does this?
I can relate to the sadness of those witnessing the slow-motion atrophy of an epic company. Apple have been the company that "did it right", that made it "just work" and got out of your way, all while looking ridiculously beautiful, without compromising on engineering quality and with sensible security baked in. Once upon a time I thought/hoped Apple would by Sun - what a world that would have been!

Given that's no longer the company we're being left with, is there a window of opportunity for a new entrant to step in and start filling that void using the same principles of design and cohesion that Apple have made famous? A sort of "Apple for Nerds"[1].

[1] BTW, this is not Google, nor should it be any company where the "customer" is actually the product.
Dino Park Tycoon - now that takes me back. Would love to take a trip down that memory lane.
Process Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook and PDF Files in Android
Tesla Self-Driving Demo
Debian considers merging /usr
seccomp-bpf is awsome, but it has to be really baked into the app to be useful. Not being able to filter by deref memory is pretty limiting.

But not all syscalls need to be logged. You don't need to audit all read()/write() calls for example. open/connect/exec/setid should give you plenty of information already. I know at least Fedora had audit included, but inactive, and I haven't heard of any terrible performance degradation there.

(it looks like the penalty was ~40ns in 2014 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/1639528)
Reasons for internal resistance to blockchain tech at banks

Regulatory 63%

Compliance 56%

Security 31%

Cost 19%

http://qz.com/823739/accenture-blockchain-banking-survey-no-...
None of those votes do anything to change the result in Pennsylvania, which until recently was part of a "Blue Firewall" that made a Trump victory impossible.
How I got some of the best people in Silicon valley as my advisors
Jason Martin is the valley's ultimate douchebag. Every company he touches turns to garbage. How many companies has he been forced out of now?
There's not much to emulate but it's still there, I've spotted plenty of stuff labeled Windows-on-Windows or WOW64 digging around Win7 installs. While it may not be doing CPU emulation (IIRC they just use the 64-bit registers like 32 and remap calls) but it is emulating nonetheless.
Why even write an article like this? Bored journalist around the holidays or great stealth advertising for their "open" institutional funds?
There are so many places where this thread took a dismal turn that I suppose it's hopeless to even try pruning it, but since this is one of those places, we detached it from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13005641 and marked it off-topic.
Actually doesn't look bad at all, I like it. At the very least he left the branches on.
I would love to have the EPA show up at the author's house and explain how the backyard is now part of a wetland.
A colleague of mine dropped nearly $3k on a personal MacBook Pro, then cancelled his order when he found out about the new touch bar. Then he started looking at other laptops that were good quality (we were suggesting lenovo X1s or dell XPSs) and he balked at the prices just above $2k.

"But these are considerably less than what you already had paid for a laptop!" -> "Yeah, but they're not Apple, and when people see Apple, they know you have a good laptop". That branding was literally worth almost $1k to my colleague...
But you can't actually directly address I/O ports in C, and directly addressing memory (via pointer arithmetic which oversteps the bounds of an object, or which puns the type of an object) invokes undefined behavior. Both those things depend on details of the underlying architecture, ABI, and operating system, and are abstracted away in C.
It changed because of elections.

Truth often hurts when it's bad and is against people you support.

I hope Assange is doing well.
I miss Alpha. Such a good arch. I wish Intel would do something with it, though I know they never will because there's really no market for it. I'd do something drastic to get my hands on an Alpha system in a Raspberry Pi form factor, though... or an Alpha laptop, or desktop, or Chromebook, or tablet, or server, or...

Last time I checked, there wasn't even a working emulator for Alpha. I've been thinking about trying my hand at it, if only I had the time and the resources...
I understand the reason why they did it. I understand your view of why it should be done.

I'd be A LOT more sympathetic if they hadn't been shipping it working for two years. At that point it's a little late to put the horse back in the barn.

Some of Stallmans list seems insane to me. They withheld accurate scrolling until all the other platforms had it? They are crippling font rendering to the lowest common denominator? They don't want background transparency on OS X because what is ostensibly a console program doesn't have it on other OSs?

This is the kind of stuff that "free software" people do that turns off normal people. I do understand some features. I can see why they wouldn't want to use the system spellchecker if they didn't have a spellchecker on other platforms. Very significant features like that that really could divide the platform makes some sense to me.

But breaking font rendering? Making scrolling work worse? Not having some generic cosmetic effects like background transparency? That seems way too dogmatic.

Worse is that Stallmans email seems to imply that some of the things that they held back on OS X should have been available for a while, but no one was keeping track of when the free platforms caught up to parity. Does that mean it's possible that OS X could have supported something to years ago, doesn't have it today, but Linux has had it for a year? If you're going to impose a rule like that you should be tracking it.
> MacOS users we will always be second-class citizen in Emacs land3.

GNU Emacs is part of GNU/Linux. Why are you surprised that [other OS] is a second-class citizen for a project which already has a clear OS target.

Besides, the guidelines for GNU packages clearly states that GNU packages cannot emphasise features of proprietary OSes. So it's not really the maintainer's fault, it's one of the rules for GNU packages (you can blame the FSF, but you've got to look at it from their perspective).

GNU packages are different from other projects, because they're actually part of an OS. So they have an obligation to support the OS they're a part of more than other operating systems (especially proprietary operating systems).
I have thought of this as framing a paradox for the impossibility of strong AI. Turing machines can never really be embodied. They can always move to a different substrate. So intuitively, they don't have skin in the game in the same way that living things do. Mathematically, they are unable to represent the real numbers, only the rational numbers.

Maybe this intuition is what you're getting at here.
https://archive.org/details/msdos_Dinopark_Tycoon_1993
We're not aware of any general issues like that. Please open a support ticket with the full details and we'll happily investigate: https://www.fastmail.com/action/support/
What's in a Room? – Layout Automation in Social Tables
Great job with the break down--the numbers seem spot on. I just checked my spending for September and I spent $1600 for discretionary; and this was with larger family dinners where I paid, and also a weekend trip to LA with friends. I'm more on the frugal side, though.

In regards to the 10% vs 25%, I believe most guidelines account for retirement saving. So with your numbers, we'd be at 28% which isn't too shabby. But yeah, in terms of getting six months worth of savings..

1200 # rent
500 # student loans
1200 # discretionary
=1900
1900 * 6
11400 / 1000
= 11.4

We'd need 12 months, which isn't unrealistic either. I figured one can easily live on $1200 for discretionary when unemployed. $300 for utilities, $600 for food ($20/day), $300 for whatever else. Just can't be blogging from Sightglass every day.
It's https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double-entry_bookkeeping_syste... (traditional banking) versus https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single-entry_bookkeeping_syste... (blockchain)

I think we've to overcome https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fear,_uncertainty_and_doubt to embrace blockchain
Peter Thiel quietly building Silicon Valley brain trust to help Trump
Arguably, your NPR link backs-up the decision. The fact that Apple's emoji's often diverge considerably from the Unicode standard (and set their own, divergent emotional meanings) is a pretty good argument --- for an avowedly cross-platform app such as Emacs --- to maintain consistency across operating systems.
Accusations of astroturfing and shillage without evidence are not allowed on HN. Someone liking different things than what you like is not evidence.

In context, what you've posted here is a sordid attack on a fellow user. That's shameful, and even worse after you got a good-faith response. Please don't do it again.
You were right. There was a 90cm tsunami. https://vosocc.unocha.org//GetFile.aspx?xml=4248gjer_l1.html...
atom probably has emacs emulation
> If that's a theory he has there, then you imply god and the spirit are not a theory

That's just lazy. You can't shift the burden of proof on me when OP was the one making the extraordinary claim (sufficiently sophisticated synapse simulations are guaranteed to result in emergent strong AI). If you want to demand proof of my claims, you'll need to post your demands to the comment in which I made the extraordinary claim.
The Apache Software Foundation Announces Apache Geode as a Top-Level Project
FWIW, neither did Mach-O in the beginning; the fat magic and fat_arch structs are bolted onto an archive of single-architecture binaries, and they debuted in 2005.
I was getting extreme, severe panic attacks and had become agoraphobic. Tai Chi and meditation changed my life.
Honest question: why? Maybe I'm focused to much on the memory model, but from my POV the support weak coherency makes Alpha uninteresting.
this sounds interesting. what kind of problems occur in domain hosting? i would assume a lot of them can be solved today with a combination of amazon s3, cloudfront and cloudflare.

even scale probably does not come into the picture.

is it stuff like custom domains (which i assume is nginx+lua magic)