skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What is the point to making self-sufficiency an externally-enforced requirement?
You don't even have to invent a new cryptocurrency. Bitcoin has had a non-turing-complete script from day 1. And if you want to run something more complicated, you can use zk-SNARKs combined with a tiny HTLC script on-chain.
What books have you found so far? Willing to share a link to them (free or otherwise)? :)
On what basis can you state these things with such authority? (Apologies if there is something obvious that I'm overlooking.)

Also, do you mean that these are the stated rules, or that these are the practices? I don't mean that in a conspiratorial sense. In any institution, the actual practices vary from the rules, sometimes significantly.
A 747 pilot will have to go through a significant retraining process before being allowed to fly an A320 or L-1011 in commercial service. This involves classroom sessions, simulator flights, and real flights with an instructor. Boeing and Airbus aircraft have significant differences in cockpit layout, controls, and emergency procedures.
This American Life made a whole episode in a dealership which had that exact problem: they had to sell 129 in a month to get a bonus from the manufacturer.

"The last day of the month continues and the truism is accurate: some people get great deals because it’s the end of the month and they have to hit their goal. When you look at the numbers, the average car they sell in the last two days actually loses money."

https://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/513/...
Its all about scale, people. Harvard would be 'well known'. Everyone knows Harvard the world over with little exceptions.

Harvey Mudd? One of the best schools in the country, probably one of the top 100 hundred in the world. I would wouldn't say its well known. However, its reasonably known within the community of grads it puts out: Engineering, Science, Computer Science. Hence...reasonably well-known.

Like a litmus test of sorts, maybe.

They're not linguistically congruent. I swear!
Divisions in a company are fairly tightly budgeted.

If Waymo can sue Uber and get $5b, that might keep them away from the prying eyes of the ruthless shareholders looking to cut unprofitable side projects.
Welcome to the dark side of the internet fucker. Cloudflare is a threat to a free internet. Try surfing with Tor these days sucker.
> reasonably welly known university

I know it's partially tongue-in-cheek, but how is comp sci in Oxford? I thought all big names in engineering/compsci were MIT, CalTech, and so on. Please correct me if I'm wrong.
I'll take great. I'm okay with that.

even 3500 USD is a steal for something like that.

I wonder if the cost is so low because they don't get any grants/subsidies from anything other than the UK government, so this is pretty much pure profit from a administrative perspective?
Previous discussion:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13846083
> but somehow you seem to think wool is the most comfortable thing on the planet.

Actually cashmere and bamboo I think are the most comfortable (my opinion of course).

> But of course, there's wool defenders out there who keep trying to claim that wool is wonderful, but everything I've ever touched that was made of wool was the same, to some degree.

Ahh so this is the cause of the contention. You think I prefer wool over everything (btw the post thread about wools was just an example of material about humidity control. you could replace that with various forms of polyester as a wicking layers like Capilene).

> Maybe you shouldn't go around proclaiming what is and isn't "comfortable" like you know what 100% of the human population will find comfortable.

I'm sorry you thought I proclaimed what should be comfortable and yes I did falsely assume that most people consider nylon less comfortable than other fabrics.

I based this though on the fact that I rarely see 100% nylon clothes and somewhat confident that manufactures add the material to make the garment stronger and not more comfortable.

I guess one could argue nylon does make fabric more comfortable because you can use a lot less fabric and thus is lighter since it is so strong. So again apologies. You probably are onto something.
That is an excellent explanation. Thank you.

I will add that I suspect that some corporate expenses are going to the driver in the form of bonuses or minimum per hour earnings (Uber has had a lot incentive programs for drivers). This, kinda, goes to the cost of a ride. I have no idea how much money this is overall. A lot maybe.
Compare the scale. Stripe horror stories will come.
The Nazis had IBM.

https://ello.co/dredmorbius/post/bshytzp0on1dfvjdfw4-vq
These tips are not very new or novel. Even low-level malware already follows some of them, although they likely do not care as much about attribution for example.
Applied 10 days ago and still no response. When can I expect to hear from you guys?
I guess all I can say to this is that Beeminder has been worth many, many times what I've paid them (hence the evangelism), and I've paid them quite a lot. You might worry about perverse incentives, but they're going to make a lot more money by creating happy customers like me than by somehow tricking their users into failure for a one-time cashout.
Take a look at what they've written on their site when you have time; it's more thought out than you might expect.

The gist is that they make money by a) selling a monthly subscription to give you more options and features, and b) charging you the amounts too small to motivate you so you can get up to the amounts that you take seriously.

They've set up their pricing so that you will pay half of the motivating amount to find the motivating amount, e.g., you might lose $5+10+30 over three weeks in order to find out that the threat of paying $90 motivates you. They argue that most people would never feel that $90 threat without experiencing the first $45 of losses because they'd either not sign up for $90 right away or cancel quickly since they hadn't sunk anything into the program.

Their more experienced users pay the monthly premium to skip the first few weeks of penalties and make progress faster since they already know the level of financial risk that motivates them. They also let you adjust the number down since circumstances and habits can change your ideal wager.
I've been using Titanium for years. Still do. It can be frustrating at times yes, but through using it so long, I've now learned enough Objective-C and Java to fix things or build modules to add functionality. Not enough to build an app, but it's been an enjoyable learning curve.
They have a path to profitability without self-driving cars. They don't have a path to justifying a 70 billion dollar valuation without self-driving cars on the horizon IMO.
Isn't Gödel's incompleteness a consequence of overly ambitious material implication properties? When you look at the truth table:

A | B | A -> B

0 | 0 | 1

0 | 1 | 1

1 | 0 | 0

1 | 1 | 1

I fail to see why all except for 1 -> 0 = 0 aren't undefined. I understand reasoning behind why this was done, but mixing unrelated predicates seems like a generally bad idea, even if it allows mechanical proofs.

Aren't there already "complete" systems like relevance logic? Now with computers we can perhaps make proofs we need "relevant" instead of being based on fundamentally incomplete though "simpler" logic?
Where does DragonflyBSD win right now? I haven't looked into it and seen a place where it fits.
Well, no, I don't agree. There are lots of opportunities to say "this really ought to be refactored... but whatever, it more or less works" when working on a typical application.
Intel is just so f_______p outside of pure silicon. How many billions have they wasted since 1990 on this with zero return?
> Do what they do for all other engineering fields: require a certified engineer sign off on a product delivered to a regulated entity, and be able to hold that engineer criminally liable if someone comes to harm from the product they signed off on.

Dunno about the USA but the aerospace companies I've worked for in Europe already require multiple sign-off from engineers.

"Engineers" meaning people who got an engineering degree (typically 5-6 years for a master) from an accredited university.
Sorry but you've been misinformed... If you take a look, it takes at least 5 mining pools today to get over 50% of mining power [1]. Some have argued that this is more than enough decentralization that the network needs to stay secure [2].

The beauty of it is how easy it is to switch mining pools. Miners come and go [3] so the large mining pools need to make sure they're keeping both the miners happy and the network users happy.

[1] https://blockchain.info/pools

[2] https://bitcoinmagazine.com/articles/problems-associated-wit...

[3] https://news.bitcoin.com/pools-diversifying-bitcoin-mining/
This is one of the better CloudFlare acquihires. Congrats!
My nickname suggests that I am a 4chinner (which is true), but the question above was legitimate and was with the best intention.

The moment that Hillary went nuclear with the stupid, harmless frog was the moment that I questioned the things "progressive" people label people who don't agree with them. As silly as it was, it was truly the turning point of me re-examining what I read and listen to with a more skeptical approach.

Thanks for the answer - it really unrustled my jimmies.
This is why I'm against company or state pension funds. It's the worst form of the principal agent problem where you can't choose the agent, you're obligated to keep giving him money, and you can't switch to a different agent or get your money out for decades. Horrible incentives.
Not filing suits/charges against the individuals involved suggests "sending a message" isn't the goal.

In fact, the people involved look to have done rather well financially out of it so far.
I thought in the article the father did attempt to go to a program to learn something new.

Anyhow, demands of family and health can take a lot of free time away. You need kids to understand this, hopefully some of you do.
How do chess masters play so many games simultaneously
React Native Navigation Library
I was in Helsinki a couple weeks ago. They are offering their services there even if it is totally illegal [1]. Of course, it's the Uber drivers taking the fall, and Uber is letting this happen, simply hiding part of the license plate on the app to make it harder for authorities.

[1] https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-08-16/uber-driv...
Is it possible to mount Tahoe-LAFS as a file system? If it is, then it's exactly what I'm looking for.

Edit: Also, can you say "this group of nodes count's as a single location" for failure protection? So if I have two locations where I store servers and then 10 other one off data collection locations can I say "I want you to treat these datacenters as one node since they are very likely to fail together if they fail".
> I guess the benefits of putting your financial data in the cloud are the same as for any online system: Access your data from any computer, automatic backups, and easily share your data with other people (especially your accountant or co-workers).

I definitely could see that applying to business accounting, but not to my personal finances. I don't need to look at the latter very often, and very rarely do I need to share it with someone who can't look at my laptop.
Native Navigation in React Native
I strongly feel that Erlang really, really needs more visibility in the world. It is an important language for distributed systems, but the language itself is startlingly spare, using recursion and pattern-matching in lieu of conditionals. There are two resources that I like, a 3 week Future Learn course [1] and Learn You Some Erlang [2].

It is my belief that the Erlang "process" is a true object, as opposed to Ruby/Java/C++ etc object which is, ultimately, a thin easily-torn veneer over global spaghetti.

WhatsApp's acquisition for $1B for a 57-person team that could run a large, world-wide messaging system with Erlang should also be considered a resounding endorsement.

Last but not least, I personally have come to see the overall trend toward statelessness is a coping mechanism to deal with bad technology.

(If I could change my name to ErlangJosh, and if it sounded good, I would.)

1. https://www.futurelearn.com/courses/functional-programming-e...

2. http://learnyousomeerlang.com/
How my 9-year explained Net Neutrality to his friend
Exactly right; the CPU is a black box.

There's nothing stopping a PSP/IME from waking up on a magic packet, executing code that doesn't exists in flash (say, it is cleverly crafted into what looks like dummy transistors used to ensure an equal metallization layer), downloading new firmware from a C&C server, and re-flashing itself.

If you want to actually own the hardware, you'd probably need a custom chip layout all done by hand on a planar node so it was easily verifiable by a third party with relatively inexpensive tools; things like dopant-level attacks assume access to the machine physically as far as I know.

If you assume that a fab could be hostile, you'd have to zero the foundry attack surface.

This hypothetical chip would be dog slow and uncompetitive, but by god, it'd be yours.
"never"? The (UK) Co-operative Bank was 99% powered by renewables in 2014.
Nine ways to obfuscate e-mail addresses compared
It may be "rare", but one doesn't normally take risks with a house. For most people, the financial loss alone would be devastating. There is also the matter of a house being a home, a familiar place to feel somewhat secure and to associate with memories.
It's pretty neat to see Airbnb contributing a serious amount of work to the React Native community!
The lawsuit is against Uber as they own Otto. I don't think Uber can just "throw Otto under the bus" at this point.
It wouldn't; the route the ACE covers isn't the only place people commute to the Bay from the Valley along.
Wool can be itchy and scratchy, but it absolutely doesn't have to be. The typical coarse wool-sweather can be fairly scratchy. "functional" merino-wool underwear/t-shirts are a dream, not just for hiking (what they are typically marketed for, since the stuff stays extremely non-stinky even if worn while exercising)
They may or may not have broken the law but asimov_ is trying to present settlements as proof of lawbreaking which is invalid.
To complete your list, these are the sources I use in my own script:
https://github.com/zant95/hBlock#sources
>SSL does not really keep the domain name private at all either way though.

Sure it does. That's the whole point of SNI. SSL encrypts the request, including the domain name. If you share a single IP address with multiple vhosts, you have two options. SNI, which leaks the domain in the clear, or a certificate matching all the domains you vhost.

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

If a server hosts hillaryclintonisgreat.com and donaldtrumpisgreat.com, then SNI leaks the domain and lets the ISP know definitively which one you visited.
The Software Engineering department, via which the course is offered, has a strong faculty from functional programming and formal methods perspective. There are some interesting names here: https://www.cs.ox.ac.uk/people/faculty.html

However, from a prestige point of view, the parent university is sufficiently lofty that it's hard to go wrong; similarly, Judge is a questionable business school, but telling people you went to Cambridge will open any doors that need opening.
Women and minorities have no obligation to enrich someone working against their interests. The only "silencing" going on is the universal desire to not work for a jerk.
It's a real issue. Many people have found that clothing is often the biggest impediment to being treated seriously on the job.

It affects women and minorities in different but equally profound ways. Meanwhile white males can wear whatever and nobody cares. Bath robe to work? "He's a 10x coder, we just let him do his own thing..."

This isn't about a "dress code", this is about perception. You could have a company mandated uniform where everyone wears exactly the same thing and they'd still find reason to be suspicious of people.

I use the clothing problem as an example because it's the biggest one. There are too many stories of people not being taken seriously because of what they wear when what they're wearing isn't the least bit unprofessional or inappropriate. It's just how people project things onto appearances.

> Blind interviewing does not handicap anyone.

Can you name one company that uses an actual blind interview for a technical positions successfully? How about a company that can apply the same rigour to technical and performance reviews?
I read the FAQ and this is apperently an asked question! I'm not surprised because I think many people are thinking of doing the type of thing I want to do.

Here it is directly from the Q&A...

" Q12: If I had 3 locations each with 5 storage nodes, could I configure the grid to ensure a file is written to each location so that I could handle all servers at a particular location going down? "

" A: Not directly. We have a wiki page and some tickets (linked from the wiki page) about this but it's deeper than it looks and we haven't come to a conclusion on how to build it.

The current system will try to distribute the shares as widely as possible, using a different pseudo-random permutation for each file, but it is completely unaware of server properties like "location". If you have more free servers than shares, it will only put one share on any given server, but you might wind up with more shares in one location than the others.

For example, if you have 15 servers in three locations A:1/2/3/4/5, B:6/7/8/9/10, C:11/12/13/14/15, and use the default 3-of-10 encoding, your worst case is winding up with shares on 1/2/3/4/5/6/7/8/9/10, and not use location C at all. The most likely case is that you'll wind up with 3 or 4 shares in each location, but there's nothing in the system to enforce that: it's just shuffling all the servers into a ring, starting at 0, and assigning shares to servers around and around the ring until all the shares have a home.

The possible distributions of shares into locations (A, B, C) are:

(3, 3, 4) 1500
(2, 4, 4) 750
(2, 3, 5) 600
(1, 4, 5) 150
(0, 5, 5) 3
sum = 3003

So you've got a 50% chance of the ideal distribution, and a 1/1000 chance of the worst-case distribution. "

From https://tahoe-lafs.org/trac/tahoe-lafs/wiki/FAQ
Have you asked the people who put you in that position? They may have a specific role for you even if they didn't verbalize it.

In the absence of other info I would let the more senior guys size him up in terms of technical skills, and instead focus on the more human aspects. At the end of the day what you want to know is "can I be happy working with this person?".

You didn't mention whether this person will be or is likely to become your future manager. If he will then the question becomes "would I like to report to this guy?".
I haven't experienced this, I've actually had good luck doing basically the opposite. Go in with quotes already from my bank/credit union(s), tell the dealer "if you can beat 2.2% [or whatever] I'd be interested in your financing", let them decide if that's worth it to them, but still negotiate bottom-line total dollar amount, not monthly payment, as if paying cash (since outside loan = cash, to them).
It amounts to the same thing though - when the company gets liquidated, Google can buy all the assets and continue to operate the business, knowing that all the money they pay will be going right back into their own pockets.

Obviously, it runs the risk someone else will come along and buy the company instead, but any other buyer will have significant ongoing IP concerns by using google tech vs re-engineering stuff. Hence, Google will probably outbid other buyers since the company has more utility to them than to others.
A lot of that is about expansion. You don't need to factor it in to a question of whether they can run a viable business on 30%.
Google has mega-cash, and is happy to burn through it if long term returns look plausible.
I'm kind of skeptical about the total cost, I've been looking at the fees section of the course's website (http://www.londoninternational.ac.uk/courses/undergraduate/g...) and it looks it's upwards to $7000 per annum for the BSc, or I'm missing something.
Yeah, I know. This is brought up whenever someone mentions the concept of free speech as it relates to two private entities that aren't the government.

The point is that the comment I was responding to was painting this as a side A trying to limit the speech of side B. I was trying to say (quite poorly it seems) that this could just as easily be construed as side B trying to limit the speech of side A.
Are you kidding? Who doesn't want an Uber for the Blockchain, where they can enter into a smart contract with their driver before getting into the vehicle?!
I will suggest you check out these previous discussions of Direct Primary Care:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13354383

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13354383

If you are under age 26, you may be able to get on your parents' insurance.
Intel to Buy Israeli Self-Driving Car Tech Mobileye for $15 Billion
15 hours is just the minimum that Texas chose to require for continued licensure. I'd be rather surprised if successful PEs didn't spend as much time in independent study as successful software developers.
Hey Kenton!

Congratulations, I'm really happy for you, Jade, and the rest of the team.

I am sad about the projected lower development activity in Sandstorm in the coming months. You had a tremendous community/brand built up, which is very hard to do for decentralized web technology initiatives -- several independent chat groups I'm in are lamenting the news today. If you're aware of any groups discussing further development in the decentralization space, please let me know (email's in profile, or I will check this comment every hour or so).

Seriously great work so far.
Now that's funny.
Someone just ruined your yogurt-filled snack? ;-)
This was a pretty interesting presentation at React Conf. Basically, the Airbnb app started off being totally developed in native code, and they only added React Native later on, so it was really important that their navigation solution be able to handle transitions between screens implemented in native code and screens implemented in React Native.

I liked Leland's metaphor of calling apps like Airbnb which started out without React Native as "brown field" development and calling apps that start out as React Native "green field" development.
The book that I recommend for Networking, and that has been recommended to me by every fulltime NetEng I've ever asked, has been Interconnections.

https://www.amazon.com/Interconnections-Bridges-Switches-Int...

Yes, the material is a bit dated. Yes, it won't give you the ins and outs of what you need to know. What it will give you is the why and from there you can figure out everything else you need to know.
It seemed to me Appcelerator sort of abandoned the smaller/hobbyist/indie market for enterprise. I was using it in 2013/2014 and went to one of their conferences in 2014 - activity seemed to really slow to a crawl in public (hyperloop was announced, and the demo looked great, but I never saw much after that).

$40/month, but no visual builder. Eclipse-based IDE tooling (which was always flakey ime). $100/month/seat to get hyperloop and visual builder. Still not sure what 'arrow' is exactly.

The demos always looked good, but my day to day was... frustrating after a while. Possibly could have stuck with it and justified with "sunk cost" but I started looking more closely at cordova stuff. Yes, it's not pure 'native' (why I liked titanium) but the ecosystem is more flexible (or so it seems).
Go to MIT, it's the BEST! <3
Graphene magnetoresistance sensor 200 times more sensitive than silicon