skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You can tell Buterin is really smart (and focused) within a few minutes of talking to him about Ethereum. He showed up a few minutes late to an event I helped coordinate. Given his personality, I just assumed he had been off somewhere lost in his thoughts or finishing some critical task; it would never cross my mind that he took the event less seriously or meant to be impolite.
Face recognition used in China to catch jaywalkers
It's more like SPARK Ada. It's a limited language designed for easy analysis by an automated prover. You can do preconditions, postconditions, and invariants in it. It was used in ExpressOS for mobile and I think IronClad Apps, too.
> If those coins are still held by some individual and they decide to unload the BTC will drop like a stone.

That would be the concern yes. So they won't make a couple of billions, but they'll make a lot, and the rest of us will be left holding worthless bits.

I'm sure you can see why that could make someone reluctant to buy into the system, since it sounds plausible, and we don't know for sure the creators are not in fact holding a ton of bitcoins.
That differs greatly in my experience -- in the time I've been using ubuntu I've lost gnome 2 and been forced onto Unity, and had to learn systemd.

The phone home stuff is indeed a seperate, and very serious, problem.
Yeah, who cares about Europe
The people in this thread hating on crypto are missing the point.

Complaining that you can't go into CVS and buy something with Bitcoin right now is like complaining that all you can do with the Internet is send "electronic mail", which nobody reads, in 1990, or like complaining that Facebook is nothing but a glorified campus directory in 2006.

The truth is, you can't buy things with Bitcoin at CVS because the technology isn't there yet. Right now, Bitcoin is suitable to be digital gold, but with a much higher possibility of return because it's a new asset.

In a couple of years, the addition of the lightning network on top of the Bitcoin network will enable you to buy things at CVS.

Right now, buying Bitcoin is like making an angel investment.
Elon Musk on mission to link human brains with computers in four years: report
HN capitalism zealots care not for facts
Selling ~7M ETH is easy without affecting the markets too much. Kraken and Poloniex each do an average weekly volume of 3M ETH on the ETH/BTC pair: https://cryptowat.ch/poloniex/ethbtc/1w If he spread the sale over 10 weeks he would only increase their weekly volume by 10%.

That's not even talking about alternate ways to transfer his wealth out of ETH (eg. approaching his billionaire friend: "how about you sell me that mansion for 100k ETH?")
Many of the reactions in this thread are discouraging. I wonder if HN is a community worth investing in.
I guess "experience discrimination" is a thing now?

Seriously, if a company only wants to hire experienced folk, then so be it as long as they don't exercise REAL discrimination.
> That was true 20 years ago but no longer true today.

It is still true for _native_ Russians, not Russian-based immigrants from neighbouring states.
http://www.webmhs.com/2017/04/prediksi-west-brom-vs-liverpoo...
Depends on your definition of terrible, I suppose. I never feel more alive than when I go for a walk on a crisp, sunny -20 degree morning. I used to get mornings like that quite often in Ottawa, and I've missed them the past couple of years in Toronto.
Cyprus is a country with a wall running across one corner of it which operated its financial industry as a tax haven, overbalancing the economy. Savings in excess of the insured level (€100k) took a cut (8% I believe).
Any benefit in using this inside a docker container instead of nginx? No need for SSL or many of the other features I'm seeing listed here since it's all behind an Amazon ELB.
You can't go into CVS and buy things with gold either.
How? Not available in my country. I'd even pay double the price, but it's just not possible.
Most of the rendering differences I've seen date back to the era before anyone cared about standards. Can you give an example of a modern feature (i.e. not tables) that different browsers render differently due to ambiguities in the spec?
> The younger daughter can not wear clothes from is older brother because they are not pink

From the industry point of view, hand-me-down is a bug that has since been fixed, at least 50% of it. Business cannot uphold ideas when they are at odds with profit (single companies can, as long as they are not public, but business as a whole can't).
As usual in articles of this kind, the article's content contradicts its title. The study doesn't show that "loneliness raises alcohol tolerance," it shows a correlation between two measured traits.

In studies like this, two effects are measured and found to be correlated. For lack of evidence, an assertion about cause can only be conjecture.
Precisely - the solution here needs to be that the server blocks the robot - if it can differentiate it from other traffic that is. That's all well and good and that's the solution which should be used here. If you don't want to be archived, block the IP.
Deleted my account there a year ago after it started sending me lots of questions of type "what are the first signs that you have illness X" where X varied from lyme disease to ebola. After finding that I match all the known diseases, I decided that this BS was not really worth an account there.
SO is so much better in terms of content quality - the amount of BS stupid questions on Quora is just hitting over the roof
A flawed representative democracy is better than corporate feudalism, which is what happens when workers at a company have no leverage, whether via unions or equity.
"Disruptive passenger" is a thought-terminating cliche that recruits the other passengers into believing that it is the other passenger's fault for being kicked off the plane. It is exactly the sort of thing an airline would announce to shift blame from itself.

The passenger is not actually disruptive in the traditional sense, but is disruptive to the way the airline wants to run itself. The passenger has no access to the announcement system to rebut the assertion, so the airline can paint them in as bad a light as they like.

Or did you think that airline employees did not routinely lie to passengers for their own convenience?
Yes, and these are _extreme_ examples. Examples that try to make success appear to be just luck.
I'd take the calls to "fight inequality" more seriously if they didn't have such a nationalist tone. 71% of the world population lives on less than $10 a day, if inequality was ended on a global scale the majority of the people out there protesting would see a dramatic drop in income. I have a feeling that isn't what they are talking about.
This depends on your government and its pension schemes - the UK operates both a minimum pension and a state-run contributory scheme.
https://github.com/serprex/luwa

Have a basic interpreter worked out, currently implementing tracing, no WASM currently being output. I have some previous experience generating wasm tho:

https://github.com/serprex/Befunge
https://github.com/serprex/brainwebfuckassembly

I don't really care about interacting with DOM. I feel that something like vDOM & working out a method to play nice with emscripten's ABI will have more use for projects which want to run a wasm jit with the code being mostly in WASM

lua.js seems promising on the not-wasm front. Possibility to allow coroutines by implementing those on top of generators like I've done in my own implementation
Hmmmmm, that's a really good point. I suppose I agree that in general an argument that there is worse shit in the world is probably a bad reason to ignore other problems. In this case however it'd be difficult to do anything about biases against men without exacerbating sexism further.

If you can think of a way of making things fairer for men, without making things worse for women at the same time I'm all for it.
Maybe some PC company will get the idea to hire retired IT people to do tech support remotely. I think it would be competitive to off shoring.
If you think that USSR "praised progress and science" for 70 years, I have some grim news for you...
I worked at a franchised US Burger King in the late '90s. The shift manager would tell us how many fully assembled copies of each popular sandwich type to keep on hand. I never saw any charts or evidence of number crunching, but the numbers did vary based on expected traffic for the day of week and time of day, and the popularity of the specific item.

The sandwich wrappers had the numbers 1 to 12 printed on them, and you were supposed to mark the pre-made sandwiches to show when to throw them away. For example, if you assembled the sandwich at 12:15, mark the 5 to show that it should be thrown away when the clock's big hand is on the 5. Literacy not really required.
That doesn't exist per definition. You cannot have a light client that its own node and it is not the node defined in the specific blockchain. The bitcoin innovation was about using a common ledger for every node and the nodes must run specific code to check that the blockchain state is the correct one.

If you find a way a node can do less work that what is doing now without relying on another node you would discover something new at the computer science level, so this light node will transform into the definition of a node.
Here's a question for the community -- has anyone here ever been in a union? What was it like?

So much of this thread is theoretical concerns, but I'm wondering what the actual on the ground experience is like.
I also tried to find a way to delete these topics from my feed but there is just no such functionality.
I think you're helping to make my point, so thanks!

For every $1mm net worth person who chose a safe boring white collar job, ran a local service business, or saved aggressively over decades, I'll show you ten people who who attempted a safe boring white collar job, tried to run a local service business, or planned to save aggressively over decade, but did not achieve $1mm net worth.
What kind of ad do you make? I am very interested in the way you concretely go about this!
Are those pre and post conditions always executed? Or are they optional assertions that can be enabled/disabled?
Holy crap.

I've read the first 30% of the article - you are clearly the expert.

Then fast forward to the end: "if only I could figure out a way to make them pay"

Chronic fatigue (medical condition) is an issue and there should be a way to work around that...

Independent, remote work, creating infographics and visualisations for media outlets - that's a pretty large niche!
"The entire point is to completely remove all those issues in a way that makes it obvious to everybody that the only possible explanation in this made-up example is blind luck."
Yep, I use the similar eBay/fabio which pulls my LE certs from hashicorp/vault, much better than leaving them in a filesystem. Can't imagine using a proxy/ingress/LB without automatic reactive routing these days. All I have to tell Fabio is what interface to listen to.
> I look at the value of my stock holdings in euros only because it's also my day to day currency

Until it isn't and it's replaced by a new one. Less than 20 years ago Euros didn't exist. It's entirely possible that in 20 years time they won't exist either...

You've played your hand by saying you look at your stock holdings in fiat. What happens if fiat fails you? i.e. if hyperinflation kicks in or the powers that be decide to restrict access to your fiat? I realise it sounds tinfoil hat-esque but if investing to safeguard your future, these are possible doomsday scenarios... (just ask people of Venezuela)

> In the short term you're basically betting on cryptocurrencies gaining adoption and thus more of the economy needing them. In the long term it's just a currency not an investment.

A deflationary currency with a fixed supply... so it's an investment in the sense that (a) it's scarcity will naturally drive up the price if demand increases (b) it will hold value better than fiat, given that the supply of fiat is, well, unlimited.
You can nicely see where land turned to see and vice versa with the aqua-monitor: http://aqua-monitor.appspot.com/

A lot of the Louisiana marshes have disappeared
There's a lot more versions. There's Server, IoT, Embedded, RT.

Following your argument, they'd have to be tested as well. A few versions more of Windows 7 and 8 doesn't seem like the huge budget breaker, it just takes more time. I don't think they'd use a dedicated machine for each and every version, you can use the same machines and just change the drives or use NetBoot or whatever.

The real issue here is that they want users to upgrade to Windows 10.
Work filtering out netflix.com? Old place use to do it and it would bug me I couldn't read their techblog at work.
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Or Ada 2012 + SPARK 2014 wrapping the C API behind safer interfaces. One can catch most problems, including integer overflow, at compile time or with runtime checks it inserts. The other can prove their absence automatically in more static code. Rust can prevent temporal errors at compile time so it's on table, too.
Aiui Eclipse JDT (and probably other IDEs too) do something similar. It takes code that currently is not valid and tries to massage the AST until it becomes valid so that it can perform type-inference and use the type information to offer valid autocomplete suggestions even at the currently invalid location.
How does the fact that other companies have streaming video services lead to Netflix not having to solve that problem? This seems a bit like saying that Walmart doesn't need to worry about managing their supply chain because Cosco has already solved that problem.

Also if you've ever tried a TV channel's streaming service you'll realize that recording the start and end time won't tell you much about the quality of the experience.
Ask HN: When bootstrapping a startup, what are some ways to keep the lights on?
isn't this a case of survivorship bias?

after all, just because it worked for you uncle and mother doesn't really mean that it works for anybody else.
Do you have any data that prove you right?
Can you recommend any reading on the founding of Twitter?
My personal rule is that anyone who deigns to use latin in their arguments also has to use all English words in their dictionary form, and not their colloquial expression.

As per that, your use of misogyny to mean something apart from ingrained dislike or contempt for women is wrong.

You're using misogyny as if its a synonym for any expression of differing attitudes to men and women, regardless of if the outcome is good or bad, and if the participants feel happy or poorly about the situation.

That colloquial usage is utterly disqualified if you want to turn this into a formal argument.
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I have. Mine had little power, but even still, someone on your side was there for you for any problem you had. It's almost like having a lawyer. He may or may not do much, depending on the case, the location and the situation, but he's there for you so you're not alone. My pay was also very good because of the union negotiation power.
Thanks for the feedback! We are mindful of people who want to contribute funds but aren't able to because of the price. We get a lot of requests for stickers and T-shirts and even jackets/sweaters; so we might go that route for individuals being able to contribute.
>Curious what their 'own isolation technology' does that docker doesn't.

Probably related to that "and security" part. That isn't currently docker's strong suit.
Please don't. These threads are problematic enough without it.

We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14164831 and marked it off-topic.
I have some issues with "Intellectual Property Right" in my job contract, as I have my llc company, but I am seeking permanent job, in the contract says that, what ever I learn there tools, knowledge etc, I cannot use anywhere else.
And if I register domain or what ever I have to handover everything... so now not sure what to do...
a lot of these protests such as "Occupy Wall Street" or "Black Lives Matter" have the right idea, but they are not sharp enough to be meaningful. Know your audience.
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For many people, texture is a major component of the enjoyment of fries. Room-temperature fries are limp and rubbery, and microwaving them does not restore their original crisp texture. (Though heating them in a toaster over does, and fairly quickly.)
C++ will always have a leg up over D for me due to the GC stuff. I like not having GC in C++.

When I want a GC'd C-like I use Go.

D has to find a space between those two for me and a lot of other people.

I don't dislike D. I think D has a LOT of great work done in it. I just really want all my libraries to be able to be used without GC. And I'm not sure it's really feasible to have each foot in either world and not just get split down the middle.

Can someone argue against this worry? It's literally the only thing stopping me spending more time with D.

Also I've been coding in Ada (lord help me) for fun. Contracts are interesting.
I can't get over this quote from a Bloomberg article on this: '[Juicero founder Evans] declared that his juice press wields four tons of force — “enough to lift two Teslas,” he said.'

[1] https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2017-04-19/silicon-v...
What would be an alternative way to learn this that would be more acceptable to you?
eBay/fabio or Traefik.io both fit that description. Linkerd and Envoy probably do too but I have less experience with those.
Why not? C does not have a book type and it is standard to use either char or int, depending on if you're concerned about space or about time.
This is true; but slowloris attacks don't require opening as many connections. We've seen one or two instances where buggy (or malicious?) clients were slowlorising Caddy instances; but we were too eager to enable timeouts by default I think.
I think the biggest argument for honoring robots.txt is that sites, especially old sites, can have a lot of really highly resource intensive pages. I don't want someone crawling a page that has 800+ DB calls... for example. Yes, I should optimize the page, or whatever... but really it may be useful for that admin, or 1 out of 10,000 users, who uses the page. It's not ideal to have someone crawl all those pages at once.

I think they should honor robots.txt, and the meta tag version on specific pages or links -- given the site publisher went out of their way to give instructions to crawlers it seems reasonable to honor those requests.
What's the right type then? There is no bool type in C90. It appears in C99.

I've seen this in the wild, including the top answer on a StackOverflow question:

#define bool int

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4159713/how-to-use-boolea...

Besides, if you want correct code, don't ask a tool to guess it! This tool is for patching up fragments enough to get them through the compiler front end analysis.
what is going on with all this coverage of a tiny company with an expensive product? is there some kind of media conspiracy going on? I'm legit asking. This story is now running in like 10 different high traffic media sites in the last 24 hours and I had literally never heard of it before this morning. Nor do I care.

so can someone clue me in? it smells like there's some weird behind-the-scenes manipulation going on here. something off about this.
I asked, and the answer was: "it's important to fight these fights, which is why I'm donating to the ACLU".

I believe Us Code 108 is relevant here. It starts:

it is not an infringement of copyright for a library
or archives, or any of its employees acting within the
scope of their employment, to reproduce no more than
one copy or phonorecord of a work[...]

There's obviously more to it that I haven't done research on, but that's a pretty good start and I wouldn't worry too much about lawsuits. In fact, if they were at risk of lawsuits, I don't see why respecting robots.txt would stop them–there's no "but you didn't tell me not to" excuse in copyright.
This sounds like one of those developer estimates that takes 10x longer than stated.
I get the impression they're running analytics not just on the users but also the content (which would take more horsepower). Guessing they use the analysis to model scripts and generate ideas for their Original Series. Thinking of what is needed to do this, you need to analyze themes, characters, story lines, visual effects, music, many components, and then tie them to user types and viewing patterns. Then they create series with either wide appeal or strong appeal to a very small niche. On top of that, these shows load almost instantly while you're still determining whether to watch or not.
httpstime is interesting, but roughtime seems to have a few additional features:

* stateless operation (via UDP)

* no reliance on SSL/TLS or PKI

* ability to catch incorrect servers (assuming no collusion)

I think it's a very interesting take on time services, without being something quite as heavy as PTP/IEEE1588. The stated goals of fixing wildly incorrect clocks over ultraprecise timing [0], preventing clock-source tampering, and keeping largely in-line with the original design concepts of ntp (while solving a number of security shortcomings) seems to be targeted squarely at user devices, and much less so at service providers or operators that require precision timing for log stamping and the like.

Additionally, if you need a roughly-correct clock for validating HTTPS certificates, and you have to connect to an HTTPS server to update your time to be roughly correct, how do you trust the server? Sure, you can simply connect to something with a self-signed cert, but then you're putting the trust squarely back in the hands of that single server, without any method of verifiability. Turtles all the way down.

[0]: "The Roughtime creators state that 25% of Chrome’s certificate errors are caused by incorrect local clocks (off by days or more). A local clock within a few seconds of reference time is good enough."
Well, at least it wasn't "enough to lift MY two Teslas"
Watching how WeChat is used in China was very eye-opening: https://youtu.be/leFuF-zoVzA?t=546
My experience is company lawyer telling me "oh, don't worry about that" but when I hired a lawyer their explanation matched my understanding. When someone tells you not to read the contract ignore them.

You won't get the nuances (and they matter a huge amount!), and you won't be able to write a good contract, but you can usually notice grossly bad clauses.

So: on the one hand, no, you don't understand it enough for many purposes. But then neither can the recruiter. On the other hand, you can notice really bad things.
They'd also have to somehow remove all the old how-to content from the internet and somehow find a way to stop scabs. Any up and coming developer anywhere in the world could find the basic specs and references needed to become a "strikebreaker" expert on a given topic.

The nature of our industry and the widely disseminated information makes me really skeptical that could ever happen, even if there was a strong will to do so amongst developers and technical writers.
You are 100% correct - I have no kids and have the luxury of not having major life commitments blocking my ability to do these things.