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Mock voting can only detect malfunctions, not backdoors. Randomization of candidate ordering is a trivial challenge to overcome for a backdoored EVM. Don't fall for EC's PR.

Here is an example: Is NOTA ("None of the above") option's location also randomized? If not, a backdoor would listen for this sequence: NOTA, NOTA, NOTA, X, NOTA, NOTA, NOTA, X. And then it would start re-assigning votes in favor of X with say 60% probability. It doesn't matter where X is located. The backdoor might trigger only after a few 100's or 1000's votes have been given. How will mock voting or randomization help here?

The sad thing is that all these weaknesses have already been detailed in Hari Prasad's original paper. But EC continues to dish out the same flawed defense: https://indiaevm.org/evm_tr2010-jul29.pdf
Exactly this. It's not hard to understand. If you know you're right, and you're not afraid of being assaulted, stand up for yourself; or in his case, stay seated (for the wise guys). If someone told you that you'd be entitled to millions for going through what this guy did, you'd take it 100 times out of 100.

That's not to downplay how horrendously the situation was handled. The airline deserves to pay damages, and he deserves the money. But, to suggest that he didn't help by not cooperating is one of the silliest ideas swirling around.
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This in my experience is the biggest problem with WFH. It's great for X months, or years, but everyone needs human interaction whether they realize it or not.

If you're a highly social person, "X" will probably be months before you start to get cabin fever and feel extremely isolated. If you're more introverted, "X" may be as long as years. I believe though, it will catch up with everyone eventually.
I didn't even notice that I used a different term - thanks for pointing that out. And the terms are probably defined differently by significant numbers of people (compare to "hacker").

So I'll go ahead and agree that there are more than a few liberals out there who seem reasonable to me, and I might even consider myself among them :)
Pickle had size constraints that make it unsuitable in certain ML applications.
The thing about One Special Bigger Request is that it isn't cacheable. GraphQL is no exception: https://philsturgeon.uk/api/2017/01/26/graphql-vs-rest-cachi...

If you want network-level caching, you want multiple atomic resource requests. HTTP2 enables this.
If the information in this article is true, which seems to be the case after reading most of the linked sources, then a lot of the news articles that were cited are reporting false information. Now that immediately made me curious to see if Google Fact Check would flag these news articles as false or possibly false. Doing a quick search shows no Fact Check under any of the search results, so seems like the answer is no.

If Fact Check really becomes a thing, I hope that Google will be able to use current events like this as a bar for how fast Fact Check needs to respond to an event to make it useful. If they could find and source well researched information and immediately flag misreported news articles while a topic is at the forefront of the news, then it would immensely help educate people. For example:

My parents have not stopped talking about this since it happened and are still looking at and reading news about it. There was some misreported information that I had to clear up for them. If Fact Check worked, then it definitely would have prevented misinformation spreading to them and probably many others.
They don't all live in tech hubs, there are many very good reasons not to jump into one of the first offers you get, and just because you're a top performer at Widget Co doesn't mean that every other company you apply to will find that self-evident based on a few interviews.
Big government intervention is not the app's fault.
Weirdly, until a few years ago, I'd only encountered Zoroastrianism in books about Alex the Great, Ancient Persia, etc. and for whatever reason figured it was an ancient religion that between the Muslims and Mongols, had died out a Millennium ago.

It was kind of a weird sensation then when someone mentioned to me that Feddie Mercury was from a Zoroastrian family. Like if I found out Jude Law had a sister that was a Vestal Virgin or something.
Should we design the processing units differently then?

There's been talk about hundreds of cores, all with local memory, but this will only speed up a certain subset of computing problems...
Interesting, but I'd prefer that MongoDB be in the title.
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Everywhere I've ever worked has been strictly (and almost religiously) a Maya shop. It's more than likely inertia since your content creators are almost always completely slammed and making them change up their workflows just isn't viable but I've definitely never seen professional animators use Blender.
This sounds right, they were sourced from the UK. Sorry, I don't remember exactly, I was much younger then.
I have given you an upvote, although I starkly disagree with what you're saying.

Your comment is greying out. HN's own petite version of silly distolerance - disagree, hence downvote. It isn't civilized at all.
You will get the number of instructions in parallel that is the minimum of (a) the number of instructions that can be handled by the hardware simultaneously and (b) the number of instructions that don't have inter-dependencies.

My example was not a 3 instruction example. It was a minimum example of data dependencies. In the example, until the CPU can resolve what the value of the variable (register) "a" is, it cannot do the calculation for the variable "c". Most programs have a high level of data inter-dependencies. Conditional branches are major class of data inter-dependency - the CPU cannot execute code beyond the branch[1] until it knows which branch it will take.

There is a class of programs that are "embarrassingly parallel" that having more execution units will speed them up, ideally linearly (graphics GPUs are a classic example). "Garden variety" programs end up under utilizing execution units because the execution unit assigned to calculate "c" (from my example) will be stalled waiting for execution units assigned to calculate "a" and "b" to complete their calculations.

This is related to the long unrealized, and still unrealized, promise of VLIW architectures.

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

[1] A small-ish lie: many processors nowadays do "speculative execution" where they guess which branch will be taken and execute ahead. If they guess right, they win. If they guess wrong, they throw away the work they did and restart the execution on the other branch.
It's still in my dock. It feels great on macOS and it is lightweight.
He didn't break their CoC, and he wasn't kicked out for a CoC violation. As far as their CoC was concerned, he was fine.
I don't think I would say it is "surging". It is up on this news, but if you remove the last 2 weeks it's unchanged since late 2015.
Justin here - cofounder of Serotiny. We've been building software to make the design of genetic tools efficient and straightforward. I'd be glad to to answer any questions about the software, it's capabilities, or the tech behind it. The hope is to enable a 'plain language' abstraction layer on top both DNA, and the knowledge/expertise required to manipulate DNA. We'd like for those without an expertise in cloning to be able to find, design and start using the genetic constructs they want.

Specifically Pinecone is our software to build novel proteins based on functionally annotated domains. With it you can build single proteins, combinatorial sets of proteins, and mutation libraries all without ever having to actually dig into a DNA sequence. Once you've built your novel genetic designs we help facilitate purchase of whatever deliverable is useful to you - double-stranded DNA, plasmid DNA, or purified protein.

Thanks to the the HN, Go, and Ember communities for their fantastic tools that allow a scientist to get software like this off up and running.
Based on my discussions with other game programmers over the years, I can conclude that it is not an uncommon story.
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Top Level Domains have been available for sale for some time now. Google purchased .google, and registered a blog domain under that.
$500/month for a coworking cubicle? Wow. The going rate around here (Chicagoland) seems to be less than $200 a month. In some of the smaller cities I don't think it even costs more than $400/month to give yourself a (small) dedicated suite for an office around here.
Complaining that others don't know as much as an expert (you) isn't going to help change anyone's perspective. Most people's perspective about most subjects is superficial. The same can be said for you: you know very little about most people in most countries.

If you want perspective changed, tell people what's wrong, or the real story, without hating on the people who could benefit from your expertise. Then your audience will know more. I think most people here would appreciate hearing your perspective (with much deeper knowledge of culture and history) on the current events.
> No, the GP has it right: for all practical purposes, customers have no rights, especially when their contracts include binding arbitration clauses, since arbitration rules against the company essentially never.

I don't want to make it partisan but with all due respect TOS is not the law (oh btw, please keep pushing to repeal the CFAA in the US). We don't live in a libertarian "paradise".

I've heard of anecdotes where a judge throws a pre-nuptial agreement because it was too one-sided? I think the same should apply to terms of service and arbitration clauses. They cannot supersede the law or become the law.

Something people are not talking about is why isn't there a lawsuit against the police department? They're the ones who did the actual assaulting?
Definitely Google - AdMob, I think.
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Was using Thrift or Protobuf an option?
Well, obviously GPU hardware has become a lot cheaper, more powerful, and more widely available in the last 20 years. VR display hardware hasn't become ubiquitous in the same way, but it's still way beyond what was previously available to consumers.

Also, VRML took the approach of trying to build all kinds of special-purpose functionality into the platform (see e.g. http://gun.teipir.gr/VRML-amgem/spec/part1/concepts.html#Eve... or http://gun.teipir.gr/VRML-amgem/spec/part1/concepts.html#Int...). This is similar to what old-fashioned fixed-function OpenGL used to look like. Over the years, graphics APIs have evolved to become more general-purpose and programmable. And we've seen a similar trend with browser APIs: consider how Service Workers have replaced the old AppCache, or how MediaSource has replaced proprietary video streaming plugins. The design of WebGL/WebVR is a lot more flexible, and better suited to the modern web, than VRML was.

Obviously this doesn't mean that VR is going to be a huge success this time around, but it's also not fair to assume that nothing has changed in the last 20 years.
It's too bad they couldn't figure out how to generate their own release forms!
> I don't know of a religion that does not repeat this as a central theme.

That's probably more because most major religions all arise from a rather small geographic region (the Abrahamic religions from the Middle East, Iranian religions (e.g., Zoroastrianism) from a little further west, and Hinduism, Buddhism, and other Indian religions are only a little further west than that), such that most religions you'd talk about in comparative religion essentially arise from the same place and broadly the same basic tenants.

When you start looking in creation mythologies from indigenous peoples outside of that small core region, you get far more diversity in the way they see creation. Native American creation myths tend to focus on a cyclical view of creation (i.e., this is not the first Earth to be created), for example, and there's no clean delineation between good and evil or order and chaos.
With "in paper", I mean mostly that you subscribe to a daily or weekly single release.

Be it paper or as e-paper on your tablet.

But in either case, subscription costs are a lot more reasonable than subscribing to the website, and you get high quality content with only very few, handpicked, ads. Which also can't track you on paper or in the PDF
There were massive storms in the few days prior to the incident. That could disrupt their planning.
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It was a financial no brainer :) it serves no other use than owning it. It was surrly not a scam, double checked it all, was working with the county clerk. Land with Mineral rights costs much more.
hehe, you remember me, that crystal, nim and rust are invented to avoid write C

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Companies aren't valued by the gross sum of their assets minus liabilities. I guess it means they expect BB to generate more than 1.2B in value thanks to that .8B cash infusion.
> or even wear anti-abortion shirts or stuff like that then yeah, I might ask you to tone it down.

If someone wore a t-shirt in support of the LGBTQ+ life style, would you ask them to "tone it down"?
Right; the question is "Why is it not the policy of United to keep doubling until they get enough takers?"
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I remember when DRAM "wait states" were 0, 1 or 2. They aren't advertised anymore because they are 1-2 orders of magnitude worse than that now.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wait_state
We dont know that yet. Lets see how this quarter and next quarter and the lawsuit turn out.
I appreciate your well thought out comment.

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For engineers/developers, mentoring is not necessarily having a seasoned person training someone with no experience. Everyone on the team has a different background and experience.
We ran into an issue the other day where we identified a developer misunderstanding how a certain kind of technology is supposed to be used. This developer is outstanding on many levels, super focused and a great asset. English is also not their native language. Try describing a concept over Skype with paint.exe. It is much easier to put it on a white board so everyone can see how their piece fits into the larger picture. Having everyone in the same location brings synergy you can’t achieve in remote locations and timezones especially if you are a startup.
That doesn't strike me as true. It appears more likely that these cpu monsters with OOE and register renaming are like just-in-time trace optimizers that can use run-time values to improve the optimization. That is, take shitty code, and try to run it as fast as possible, and try to squeeze multiple instructions per cycle out of it, by optimizing over hundreds of instructions in real time.

If the intention was just to speed up hand-tuned library functions, it would be much easier to ask the library-hand-tuners to figure out instruction dependencies ahead of time (instead of doing re-ordering) and to provide a lot of registers (instead of doing renaming).
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What do you mean when you say Avro doesn't let you "cleanly update or track schema"?

From what I've read about Avro
1. It can transform data between two compatible schemas.
2. It can serialize/load schemas off the wire, so you can send the schema in the header.

If schema serialization causes too much overhead, you can set things up so you only send the schema version identifier, as long as the receiver can use that to get access to the full schema.
> If we imply that TOR exit-node owners are innocent by default, what stops me from installing TOR node, posts threatening messages and when police comes say "hey i am humble TOR node owner, look somewhere else"?

If you're savvy enough to run a Tor exit node and want to post threatening messages, why wouldn't you use Tor yourself?…

But anyway, at least in the United States, everyone is "innocent by default" - that is, until proven guilty beyond a reasonable doubt. If the presence of a Tor exit node, or an open proxy, or an open Wi-Fi network, or any number of other things makes an IP address insufficient evidence by itself, well, that's too bad. It may still be sufficient evidence to launch an investigation into the owner of the Internet connection, to gather more evidence - but even then, the standard is based on the likelihood that they committed the crime, not something about incentives to run exit nodes.
I believe this is correct. If there is a civil argument, it can be heard in an appropriate venue. But once the owner/operator of an FAA regulated aircraft has asked you to leave you no longer have any recourse and the word of the airplane crew carries quite a bit of weight.

I'm seeing the suggestion that United broke the law which doesn't quite seem to be what this article is saying. The article is saying they breached their own contract of carriage. This would allow for damages afterwards in civil procedures but i can't imagine how it gives the man the right to ignore the order of crew and airport police to get off the plane.
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Home made consul template duct tape with NGINX vs. solution that was designed from the ground up to be what we mangled NGINX to be with Consul template.

Concrete example; Fabio is far more resilient to operator mistakes then our own NGINX Consul template duct tape solution (which is totally unforgiving).
Sure but it's a deeply uninteresting exercise because no one programs in category theory.
He should totally bring a multi-million dollar lawsuit, it's a total cake walk as it'd be hard to find a jury that wouldn't sympathize and he and his grandkids would be millions of dollars richer. Not to mention all the dirt you can drag United through during the lawsuit in the media. Love to see some testimony from the dick CEO as well who tried even character assignation of the poor doctor they needlessly assaulted.
I have some very important advice for startups that is tangentially related. Make sure that your AWS account is not on someone's retail account. They can never, ever be separated. Your order history is not deletable and AWS resources, data, etc. cannot be transferred between accounts. Additionally, the root account is required for many activities.
My statements are true for most of central Europe. They are also true for large parts of the US. Solid data backs this up. This is not an emotional argument, tick prevalence is a well-researched field with lots of data.
> The line I quoted resonates because sometimes the idea of a boring task is actually frightening to me, in the way you described. Like I get a really sick feeling about it and will do almost anything to avoid it.

This is actually an amazing insight. This tells you exactly what the root of your procrastination is. It's not laziness, because I'm sure you can apply plenty of effort in tasks where this fear isn't present. Maybe drill down a bit further on what the source of this fear might be. Were boring tasks used as punishment in your childhood?

People with eating disorders are often afraid of boring food without realizing it. The thought of a diet is scary because they'll be missing out on their favourite foods. After adopting a bland diet for a few weeks, most find their fear dissipates, and bland food can become enjoyable. Maybe try the same strategy with boring tasks? Essentially exposure therapy.
Having done a lot of programming in Postscript, I understand the allure of point-free style.

Some code can seem extremely elegant, but mostly it's just clever, and an exercise in showing off how smart you are and how much you can keep in your head.

And with all due respect to Joe Condon: Eschew clever code.
I've been wondering: does this mean that a valid response to this situation would be "I will leave the plane if given my legally entitled $1350"?

As in, among other reasons, is United in the wrong here because the maximum they offered for volunteers was $800, not the regulated $1350?
You can hot reload config files that you have already tested for correctness. No dropped connections.
There was an article on here a couple of months back that was an intro to blender from a geek / vim perspective. I felt a bit inspired and downloaded it to have a play. It's an absolutely brilliant application - I highly recommend giving it a try.

Edit here's the post https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13379597
A fully automated HA solution is yet missing for PostgreSQL.
There's a lot of nonsense regulations that different industries lobby to be put in place. I mistook the fact that there's a cap with what the airline is obligated to pay with what they are allowed to pay.
We have a Chase Ink card, it was fairly easy to get and we have a limit over $10,000 so we can use it for all of our expenses.
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Does it support more advanced forms of authentication than http basic?
Since what happened to Greece, I think we have to be carefull who we allow. I do agree that it is taking long, Turkey tries to force themselves in the EU. I don't think that's how a future member should act. The EU had been long in the making and a country that can't join in a span of 3 years of isn't bad considered the consequences it has on both sides
> If the police didn't know who was wrong

The police won't arbitrate a civil matter.

> they could asked the airline to cancel the flight and seek damages in a court. Then, and only then, they could remove anyone from the plane as it wasn't part of a contract anymore but just the airline's property.

If they asked the airplane to cancel the flight they could then remove the man from the plane? You're arguing that if United cancelled the flight for everyone that would render the contract of carriage moot for all and then the person would no longer have a claim to a seat?
I guess I've confused the issue with the Banksy example. Forget about that. Say I want to take a picture of a robin on the first day of spring. I take a picture of my deck with the robin sitting on it. This software knows I'm in my house looking out at my deck. It knows what my deck looks like. It doesn't know that there's a robin there at that moment, what exact location it's in, how big it is, etc, so it's not going to be able to reproduce that.

Maybe I could carefully explain to the software, "there's a male robin in this exact location and pose on the deck" and it could generate one, but why would I want to do that instead of just having a regular camera?

What does this do that I can't do with a camera? It sounds like a way more complicated, processing-intensive method to achieve an inferior result. It's a solution in search of a problem. It's not like decent cameras are prohibitively expensive, seeing as we've managed to include one in basically every phone now.

Most of the pictures I'd want to take are of something unique. Software may be able to figure where I'm standing, what permanent features are nearby, what the weather is like, what the people I'm with look like, but it's not going to know the transient features, like there's a lady with a weird looking hat in the background that I wanted to capture. So, what's the point?