skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Smart contracts definitely have a tradeoff between new toolset/languages vs infrastructure level features. With smart contracts, anyone can write code for the chain vs the "write your application to be deterministic" approach where new code needs to be at a minimum vetted by some central org/group, though they're usually written by the vendor/provider/etc. Each has its strengths/use-cases. For inter-org I prefer the smart contract approach vs the intra-org can see the benefit of using regular code -- it's not like you're worried about malicious code in the intra-org case. I do think that smart contracts increase the utility overall (sorta like having SQL for a DB > not) and improve its reliability (accidentally non-deterministic code can be a bit worrying).

As for Tendermint BFT, it's one of the few that somehow I never got to dig into at JPM. Do you know if Tendermint BFT's performance & performance-vs-scale numbers are published? These are notoriously hard to come by and I'm always curious for more data-points on the matter.
I am a firm believer that we should not judge people from the past using the moral standard of today. Remember that even Obama opposed gay marriage up until a couple years ago.
Of course, it is ultimately a piece of paper...

But in every company I've worked for mail is signed for by whoever and, if it's addressed to an executive, delivered to a secretary who reads it and decides what to do it.

Given the requirement for secrecy, there is zero chance that an NSL will be treated in this way. And it won't be served by a random process server. Most likely it will be served by an NSA employee, in a discreet situation of their choosing.
I have a private homeserver set up and I tell my (nontechnical) wife to fall back to using Riot on her phone to talk to me if / when hangouts doesn't seem to work.

We end up talking on Riot instead of hangouts roughly 1x / month, and I've had no troubles with it so far (except that the matrix server seems to want to use way more memory than I think it "should", so I have it running in a loop that restarts the server whenever the OOM killer kills it. It gets killed fairly regularly (>1x / hour) and I don't really notice it while using Riot).

edit: I don't use the e2e encryption stuff. I have an SSL cert and if chat messages are encrypted as far as the server (which I control), that's fine with me.
Wait, the m68k? No, that's not right: The Amiga got a port, and it's 68k.

Or are you thinking of a different processor?
Did Venture Capitalists Screw Up Bitcoin?
The only thing I liked about Obama care was the pre-existing conditions clause. I think we should keep this and open insurance companies up across state lines. This should bring competition and reduce our overall rates.

We also need to be able to have plans where we can specifically choose what kind of care we need (IE: women, men, children, etc).

I run my own business and my costs went up 100% this year for a higher deductible and less coverage. If this happens again, I may not be able to afford it.
If the candidate is good I will take the opportunity to convince them otherwise.
You're semi-joking, but blockchains could solve this problem cleanly: releasing secret information unless payment is made. In this case, it's a subcase of time-lock crypto (http://www.gwern.net/Self-decrypting%20files) and like time-lock crypto in general, can in theory be solved by 'witness encryption'.

Witness crypto lets you create an encrypted file whose decryption key is _X_ Bitcoin blocks (specifically, their SHA hashes which are the PoW); after _X_ blocks have been created after a particular block ID, the file can be decrypted. So that's general time-lock crypto, for public broadcast. The witness could be extended to include the transactions: decrypted iff _X_ blocks pass with <_Y_ bitcoins sent to address _Z_. The _Y_ is the loan, and the address _Z_ is the blackmail counterparty. To render the blackmail file permanently undecryptable, one simply sends _Y_ bitcoins to _Z_ before _X_ blocks pass - that is, repaying the loan on time.

Who sets up the file? It could be a third party, who only needs to do a one-time setup & broadcast rather than permanently storing keys & needing to be trusted indefinitely. Alternately, you could imagine applying even more crypto magic: homomorphic encryption in which a CNN verifies the presence of nudity and facial recognition with the borrower. (Witness crypto is currently in the 'magic' realm but homomorphic NNs are surprisingly feasible: https://arxiv.org/abs/1412.6181 ). Then the borrower provides the data, the NN runs over it, verifies it is blackmail, the witness crypto-encoded file gets released, and now you have a public secure blackmail system with no trusted third parties.

As always, if crypto isn't solving your problems, you aren't using enough of it. :)
Not my intention to have a flamewar with anyone, just a discussion. I've seen tptacek make some very inflammatory posts and claims lately about political issues, and it seemed fair to respond with the opposing view. Of course, he is one of the upper-class of users here, so forgive me for feeling like he gets away with things that "nobodies" like myself cannot.

> Also, HN is not a site for political and ideological battle, which you've been doing quite a bit of. Please do that elsewhere, not here.

That's one of the reasons I visit HN more than other such sites nowadays (e.g. many years ago I was a Slashdot regular). I have a healthy interest in politics, but I much prefer technical discussions where I learn things and discover things I can use.

So I will gladly refrain from political discussion here. I just ask that you ask all users to do so in the same way you have asked me, because, as I said, it seems that certain prominent users are somewhat above the rules. (This is not a slight or accusation against you or sctb, etc, just my impression.)

Thanks.

P.S. Dan, I'm curious about how this comment gets downvoted. The original story is 2 days old, and this comment is in a subthread under a flagged (therefore invisible) comment. No one should even be seeing this comment except you and me. Is there any way that this is not evidence of, shall we say, vendetta voting, i.e. someone going through my comments page and downvoting because they generally disagree with me? If it is, I wish that HN would crack down on it. Disagreement-without-discussion-downvoting is enough of a problem here without blanket, systematic brigading against individual users. No wonder I've been seeing so many throwaway accounts lately. It's practically "unsafe" (karma-wise) to express unpopular opinions around here. :/
Check out this 2009 research paper that Eve is based on; it's an important new extension to logic programming: https://databeta.wordpress.com/2010/01/05/introducing-dedalu...

Also please let me know what you think about Part II (coming later this week). It's all about logic programming and CQRS.
> In London, probably the biggest/richest market outside of USA, that sort of salary is beyond what most experienced developers get, even some very good ones.

That's what I though as well until we offered £100k to 3 different guys in London.

They all refused saying it was a substantial drop. One actually standed up and left the room :D
That makes a lot more sense. Thank you for the reply.
Let's assume for a second that this could happen. Then, assuming no foreign alliances, the US could simply conquer California back.

CA has the largest contingent of military personnel by state (about 190k) but not per capita. The size of the brave population is actually small compared to the population of the free and it's likely most of them will swear allegiance to the US. And it's not like all of the sudden a lot of free people from the large, typically peaceful cities in CA will all of the sudden find the courage to fight. Historically, outside of the military and rural areas, CA is not known to be a land of fighters (like, say, Texans).

Source: http://ijr.com/2015/02/251918-data-shows-highest-numbers-uni...

Nomenclature: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Star-Spangled_Banner
RapidAPI raised $3.5M to help developers easily add capabilities to apps
I would love to hear you overall review of everything. I'm really into all the options. Dokku seems too simple for the stuff I want to do. Flynn is pretty awesome, but I've been loving the steady progress Deis makes. Rancher is also interesting.

I'd love to know what was the smoothest process for something like a phoenix/node/rails app out of these. Feel free to email me at jbhatab@gmail.com if you feel like breaking it down over chat too :D
> It syncs to iCloud

That sounds great if you want Apple to have all your data. But why do you?

Never mind that wires will always be better and more private than wireless.
This article is so full of factual errors it's not funny.

1) "Kaikoura, sixty miles north of Christchurch" - it's closer to 90 miles - in a straight line across the ocean. If you are driving, it's even further.

2) "The North Island, where the capital, Wellington, lies, is part of the Australian plate, and its landscape is dominated by two dozen active volcanoes." - 24 active volcanoes in the North Island? Pity that we're only monitoring 11 of them then. https://www.geonet.org.nz/volcano/

3) "that the earthquake, like the one that devastated Christchurch in 2010" - It happened in 2011. The initiating earthquake happened in 2010, yes, but the aftershock that killed people and brought down buildings in ChCh occurred on Feb 22 2011.
That are willing to fight the US military so that Californians can hit the beach rather than fight for their own independence? I doubt you'd find many takers.

And who would be the taker? Russia? China? North Korea? Iran? Venezuela? Are any of them going to really want to go against the US military within North America? (The closest I could see happening is some Russian statement of support and an attempt at nuclear blackmail, but few or no troops on the ground.)
Note to moderators: the typo in "Brexit" is really distracting. When I saw "Brezit", I thought it was about a possible Breton (Breizh) secession from France!
Those workers don't seem to be protected (especially in the second episode). Isn't this thing radioactive?

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=n2f7kEeSXYg
I got the impression that he was simulating _our_ universe, not _the_ universe. In other worlds, the laws of physics, etc, in our universe might only exist in a rock simulation in some other universe with very different properties (unlimited spaces and time, etc).
I don't understand the need for such heavy sarcasm.
Here's one of the early svg drawing posts by Jake Archibald from a few years ago which is interactive: https://jakearchibald.com/2013/animated-line-drawing-svg/
Google Acquires learning platform Qwiklabs
If you want a deterministic smart contract language, you're better off avoiding the EVM, or worse, Solidity.

Tezos (plug, plug, I'm the lead on the project) has a VM with a full formal specification, and even a rudimentary embedding in Coq. It's statically typed and purely functional.

https://tezos.com/language.txt
Silicon Valley scrambles for a seat at Trump’s table
Things to consider:

- Product safety

- Electrical device standards

- Radio spectrum allocation

- Education

- Disaster response

- Vices: alcohol, marijuana, tobacco

- Medical and medicine research & regulation

- Intellectual property

- Food inspection / standards

- Environmental standards

- Chemical safety

- Prisons

- Courts

- Mining

- Agriculture

- Highways and transportation

- Aviation licensing / safety / incident investigation

- Defense

- Trade deals / bargaining leverage

- Bank regulations

- Securities regulations

- Currency

- Military

- On and on...

Conclusion: pipe-dream
Prolog itself has many issues, many of them rooted in its somewhat unrestricted use of terms. The nice thing about datalog is that it has very nice strong normalization as a natural property of term evaluation. While it's true that it doesn't do everything, this combined with controlled dataflow has long been an interesting area of PL research.

Eve is definitely not the first to have realized this but it's attention to making it fit in with modernized ideas around interactive computing are noteworthy. The translation of a lot of these ideas into this context requires a lot of careful thought so I wouldn't trivialize it as a lesser version of something.
The hidden cost of an American employee is probably even higher. Since the company picks up most of the cost of health insurance, its a huge chunk of change right there.

50%~ overhead sounds about right.
Here he is making both styles of omelet: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s10etP1p2bU
and beyond!
Can you post full data for an example certificate?
Sorry, fixed the typo.
Its all about spending your energy preparing for more likely damaging events. In Australia little attention gets paid to earthquakes but fire safety standards and preparation are no joke, especially in the country.

Maintaining fire breaks and doing controlled burns are a big part of life for a lot of country people. Its not entirely uncommon for people to have backup generators and a pump specifically so they can still pump water in the event of a fire and power has been lost. Many homes that are surrounded by bush sit on their own little island of barren ground that has been cleared of virtually all vegetation.

It freaks out me out seeing TV shows from the US in particular where they have houses surrounded by trees with trees literally hanging over the house. The road leading out also has a beautiful canopy of trees right against the side of the road. They look like deathtraps to me but presumably they don't live in a walk-in tinderbox like some parts of Australia.
Probably better to just post the Medium post directly (which I see you did just after this). You might want to know that posts on Medium are slightly "penalized" (meaning they need more upvotes than other domains to stay on the front page) so posting to your own domain might be better.

"Show HN" type posts go over well, as long as you have a link to something you've created yourself. Scattershot advertising spam goes over very badly. If in doubt, email to hn@ycombinator.com is a good way to find out the best approach.
That's a good example that shows the capability, but complete apps like that have been built with scheme, haskell, lisp, prolog, smalltalk, etc. I think what the original poster is asking tho they most likely won't admit it, is for a runaway profitable app. Once you have an app built with this that get's popular with millions of users or makes tons of money then people take it serious. The app you plan on throwing together is more than enough. If this works as has been written, it would become the secret weapon of the smart programmers.
Frozone, Mr. Freeze, and the Power of Debugging
Actually doing this in a project I'm working on right now. The solution is to use the pen vector as a clipPath over an underlying line which is animated to fill the calligraphy.
There are a lot of responses to a government that doesn't represent your interests. Secession is only one, and it's one of the most violent and the most risky. There are many ways to exercise democratic pressure in America, even when one's presidential candidate doesn't win. Anyone who cares should be putting pressure on their local and national representatives to investigate Trump's past and present business practices, block the campaigns of his bigoted cronies, and calling for an audit of the vote, which was clearly swayed by both Russia and the FBI.

Secessionists just show that they don't know how democracy works. Sometimes you lose, and sometimes you lose big.

I find this poem by Anna Akhmatova quite powerful and topical:

I am not one of those who left the land

to the mercy of its enemies.

Their flattery leaves me cold,

My songs are not for them to praise.

But I pity the exile's lot.

Like a felon, like a man half-dead,

dark is your path, wanderer;

wormwood infects your foreign bread.

But here, in the murk of conflagration,

where scarcely a friend is left to know,

we, the survivors, do not flinch

from anything, not from a single blow.

Surely the reckoning will be made

after the passing of this cloud.

We are the people without tears,

straighter than you...more proud...

(1922)

http://leopard.booklikes.com/post/874564/poems-of-anna-akhma...
FYI: Experienced devs are avoid Google London because they pay shit ^^
The site is linked in the article, just look at what they're doing and how they're doing it.

Since they're scumbags, and since it hilariously pops up "You are not allowed to copy content or view source" when pressing CTRL+U, I won't link to their site here, but this instead:

view-source:http://www.libertywritersnews.com
> GS thinks they will make more money on their own when they built up a nice patent portfolio in this space.

So instead of contributing back to the community on a openly-developed technology (not talking about R3, but Satoshi's blockchain concept), they could decide that the best course of action is to patent encumber the shit out of it!
I remember reading somewhere that Bill Gates used a Windows NT Alpha workstation as his desktop...
Ask HN: Is there a reason downvotes on HN don't require comments?
It seems there are people on HN who downvote because they disagree with your opinion. Is there a reason comments aren't required when downvoting? I think making comments on down-votes mandatory would go a long way in making HN more transparent remove fear of posting something, which some may disagree with.

The world would be a very dull place if we all had the same opinion.
Asian stocks ride Wall Street rally, oil extends gains
I remember reading that the majority of Japanese rather accepts the consequences of earthquakes than giving up natural hot springs in exchange.
Anecdotal, from the small sample size I've seen from working in Silicon Valley.
Yes based on the Newcastle event that if we did get a medium sized earthquake in one of the large cities there would be a lot of damage and people killed.

Melbourne, Canberra and Perth look to be the most risky [1].

1. http://www.ga.gov.au/interactive-maps/#/theme/hazards/map/ea...
I currently use S3 Infrequent Access buckets for some personal projects. These Glacier price reductions, along with the much better retrieval model look really great.

However using Glacier as a simple store from the command-line seems horribly convoluted:

https://docs.aws.amazon.com/cli/latest/userguide/cli-using-g...

Does anyone know of any good tooling around Glacier for the command line?
Is that a viable path to becoming a biotech VC?
And what if, say, next election, again someone you don't like gets elected ?

Bay area secession ?
Yeah, and how did that work out? Quoting from the article:

> The Philippine Revolutionary Government did not recognize the treaty or American sovereignty, and subsequently fought and lost a conflict with United States originally referred to by the Americans as the "Philippine Insurrection" but now generally and officially called the Philippine–American War, which ended when Emilio Aguinaldo was captured by U.S. forces, and issued a statement acknowledging and accepting the sovereignty of the United States over the Philippines.

So maybe not the example you're looking for.

Why do I need a US example? Because the examples of one state seceding from another happened with the blessing, and even the instigation, of the Federal government. More: The new state remained within the US. That's quite different from a state trying to leave the US (in particular, it's different in how the Federal government would respond).

It's happened elsewhere? Well, it shouldn't be news that the US doesn't really care how it's done elsewhere...
6. You want to back up your Mac, so you buy a Time Capsule.
As someone who has gone through software engineer interviews with top Silicon Valley companies, what I see is that the process is biased towards 1) people with lots of time and good memory (so that you just work for several months to churn through the books/questions available out there), 2) new hires (tend to get easier questions as far as I can see, they don't get design questions, etc.) 3) people with competitive programming experience (especially Google or FB). If you are not in one of these groups then good luck, you will need that. Especially experienced software engineers who are married/have kids have very little time to prepare for these sort of interviews, which makes it very hard for them to succeed. The way software engineers are interviewed right now are totally messed up, and is a big waste of time.
> statistics, logic, anthropology (of media), etc is essential to a healthy democracy

Thomas Jefferson said something similar:

An ignorant people can never remain a free people.

> one's primary value to society is what they contribute economically

There's an excellent video [1] of former Supreme Court Justice David Souter (if only we could get judicial nominations of this quality these days from either party, let alone Republicans) where he makes the point that lack of civics education is the largest problem in America today. I think he'd argue that one's primary value to society is being an informed citizen who votes and properly holds the government to account, which doesn't mean simply voting for the opposite party every 8 years because you're dissatisfied with life.

Especially after an election where it's so clear that many people are not being responsible citizens, either not voting or voting ignorantly, I with you in wondering why more people in this thread can't understand the value to society of a well-educated populace, regardless of how that education provides an economic benefit.

[1] https://youtu.be/rWcVtWennr0
This may play very well for Apple also if they intend to move to ARM CPUs in MacBooks. Bootcamp would have been a major blocker.
Apple emulated PowerPC on x86 when they initially switched to Intel CPUs, and it wasn't too bad really.
This article seems to say more blame goes to the landlords who want higher rents, for longer terms and from tenants with perceived better credit/deeper pockets.

Makes sense though.

I am not defending banks at all, but it's interesting banks are criticized for lending to risky smaller businesses and now they are criticized for not lending to risky smaller businesses.
You mean after several other states did so violently and demonstrated beyond any real doubt that Great Britain could not maintain control ?

That's not peaceful. Or at least, not any more peaceful than nuclear deterrent is.
Cooling-all-real-estate-markets-across-canada-not-necessary-says-analyst
> Then, later, I define an incredibly complex abstract computer, such that the sand falling out of the bucket and shifting along the ground exactly represents a self-aware AI within my defined computer going through its states.

Is it possible though? There is likely no equivalence between all arbitrary dynamical systems, including those with very high entropy such as a bucket of sand, and systems capable of performing what we call computation.

Otherwise building a computer would be much easier than it currently is.