skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ok, you have a roadmap, but I'm left with more questions than answers, e.g.: if a blockchain relies on every node having a ledger of the whole transactions, and bitcoin's ledger now occupies more than 100GB, then how is this supposed to work when the ledger becomes big?

Also, how do the 'instant' transactions work?
> which functions a government ought to serve compared to private industry

(For what it's worth, and in case it helps clarify my stance here, my opinion on this is that if it's a necessarily monopolistic or universally-mandated function, it should be part of the government; if it's a function where meaningful competition is possible, let capitalism do its thing.

The goal being to provide some recourse when things go wrong: If my private daycare sucks I can just go to a different one, no problem. If my government prison system sucks I can at least theoretically vote the people responsible out of office. But when there's no opportunity for meaningful choice or competition, there's no benefit to privatization, it's just inserting a middleman who can skim some profit off the top.

This still leaves a lot of important gray area -- education and health care remain thorny issues for example -- but I hope I've demonstrated that I don't hold the simplistic "everything should be government!" stance you appear to have ascribed to me.)
I can speak highly of Ionic for developing hybrid mobile apps using HTML/JS/CSS
Integrating with a merchant payment gateway isn't rocket science. A few weeks is easily worth the cost (it doesn't take that long, either, most have decent enough APIs or SDKs that may not be stripe quality but still are simple to integrate with).

It doesn't take a large transaction volume to justify the engineering cost at all. We're talking entire percentages of revenue. The ROI justification is going to be a hard one to beat in this case.
well put
FYI: You can do this on the small scale using ProxyARP. I did this once on a network interface connected to the DSL modem, and then proxy ARPed between that interface and another DMZ interface, and it worked just fine. For the router, I set up an ARP on the DMZ interface with that interface's MAC for the router IP, and for each machine in the DMZ I set up the DSL network's MAC with the systems IPs. So each side would see the routers MAC when doing ARP, but when the router received it it would know to send it on to the other interface.

Bridging works great, but it's kind of fun to see this at the proxy ARP level.
This is exactly why my next server will be on Vultr, too, although I still curse Linode for still not having block storage and forcing me to pay double price for a larger server even though I just need 20 more GB of disk space.
GP is saying they don't pass around flash drives to do so, not that they don't share files.
Laws vary, and they still have to build out the infrastructure to support whatever bank they use in a given country and the laws and implementation differ dramatically.

For now, adding countries that have the best combination of low fraud and least difficulty or barrier to entry is the best choice. Romania doesn't have the former relative to Germany and Austria, as such, it's not on the list.
You don't get 3 years in jail, you get 3 years in prison. The only jail time you do waiting to be sentenced to prison is the time you wait to go to court.

Do you think it's appropriate to call out someone for using "jail" instead of "prison", when the meaning is clear, and you made the same mistake just 5 minutes prior?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14497654

and in your original post:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14496609
>Even when researchers do want their work shared widely, why don’t we read more about the fuel that makes math grow? “The physicists tell exciting stories,” Vogan said. “In some ways, this is a failure of mathematicians to tell exciting stories.” The physicists also have better names. Black hole and God particle quicken the pulse somewhat more than “irreducible unitary representation.”

Mathematics also has some cute names such as Monstrous Moonshine[1] and Hairy Ball Theorem[2]. I don't understand Monstrous Moonshine but the name had enough poetry to cause stickiness in the brain for later recall. A math problem closer to layman's experience with a cute name might be the "Secretary Problem".[3]

Leaving aside the naming and surveying the "importance" of open math problems... I would guess the P!=NP proof would be an example. Unfortunately, it doesn't have any easy description that the average person would understand. The same goes for all the other Clay[4] Millenium problems.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monstrous_moonshine

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hairy_ball_theorem

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secretary_problem

[4] http://www.claymath.org/millennium-problems
> Just like the Bible and the Coran

Keep in mind that the Talmud is different from the Torah.

As I understand it, the Torah are the five books allegedly inspired by God; the Talmud is that, plus all the commentary, which is where all the critical thinking and analysis takes place.

> Starting by the fact that all of it is based on the assumption you believe in Yahweh.

Keep in mind that it's totally possible to apply critical thinking skills while starting out with totally different axioms.
Notably, this article specifically points out a much more obvious NYT screwup - they released a Snowden doc using digital PDF 'black highlights' that didn't destroy the underlying data.

That's a mistake I think most security-conscious, tech-savvy non-professionals would avoid. The printer steganography here is a substantially more subtle error than the one we already say the NYT commit.
Finally I can block all SSH access by default and only open up to 1 IP address on demand then remove when finished. No jump hosts required.
Welcome to the software interview
Not a chance. She will spend a long time in jail if convicted and during the court case such stuff will surely come out if her defense is any good. (Assuming you are aware that she admitted to being the leaker.)
Title is oversensationalized. Also, what if this wasn’t Apple? Because ext4 is currently unusable with most non-English languages as well. https://gist.github.com/Kwpolska/0c63a22f65efe9c90607a826aad...
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Yes as much as I'm not a designer I dislike the usability of flat designs
I think the takeaway here is that AWS is designed to be managed via its API and that shows when one tries to use the GUI (Source: Had a similar experience).
Far from it, this tool prevents the need for us to give up our privacy. (not sure why HN isn't giving me a "reply" button to your posts)
The biggest actual problem is Greek vs Cyrillic. They appear the same, but use different encodings. Any filename (directory entry as identifier) must forbid mixed scripts. See TR31 http://www.unicode.org/reports/tr31/
Combining marks or RTL switching tricks are the other popular spoofs.
I've got social anxieties, I've critically identified the devices and experiences that lead to illogical action. From a distance I can be cold and calculating, once I get close to that situation, though, the only thing going through my mind is 'nope, nope, nope...'
I've read that many yeshiva students in New York City Orthodox communites [1] lack English skills. What is the percentage of yeshiva students who are well-prepared enough to just skip college and take the LSAT?

1 https://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/01/nyregion/new-york-city-qu...
Your earlier comment got me thinking a little more. It's hard to disagree with your logic: since we are there and able to talk about it, that makes the Universe already rather compassionate. In fact, there is no other place to compare its possible harshness to.

However, it's a bit like a parent abusing their child. The kid owes everything it has to their progenitor, but it's questionable whether their existence is worth something to begin with. Even without a frame of reference, I believe you can make the judgment that something is in fact harsh. The very fact that we can conceive of asking this question makes it a possibility. In an easier world we might not even consider it at all.
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The traffic is blocked/allowed at our network layer before being routed to the droplet. The rules are easily configurable through the control panel and API. You can also specify Droplets (individual or tagged) and our recently new Load Balancers as the targets.

You can also layer multiple firewalls on top of one another if you want to apply specific firewall rules to only a specific set of Droplets/LBs

The Intro tutorial we have is great for details: https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/an-introduc...

Feel free to reach out to us if you have any more specific questions. :)
I guess your point can be added to a list of when to not call for a meeting.

However, clearly there are cases where the above is not true and in such cases running them well would help.
Explorers' accounts of hybrid apes in Africa were not believed
They both have their pros and cons. Linode offers more RAM for the same price. Linode's load balancers also support IPv6, DO's did not the last time I looked. And Google's Cloud Load Balancer beats both Linode and DigitalOcean hands down in terms of TLS handshakes per second.
Do you not think there's value in trying to understand what makes oneself happy? If being "lazy" makes a person happy, then so be it. They can live that way.

I'm sure some blue collar workers would think that startup people are lazy without producing much perceived value to society but still getting rich.

I think it's good to know what you want in life, and know what makes you happy and then follow that, whatever it may be (assuming it's not harming others etc.). Or at the very least, know what makes you miserable and stop doing that.
Well, you did start with the assumption the door would be locked. If you left it open that would be the rough equivalent of what happened here.
Stripping the text out is a way to see how much information the graphical element conveys.

By allowing arbitrary text in so-called graphical languages, you have turned your original statement into a vacuous truth - an empty tautology - as all text can be diagrammed.
I read it as function and probably wouldn't have noticed without this comment. Whimsical software names are the bane of my existence.
Monstrous moonshine is actually related to lie groups.
Depends. Developing intregrations has a cost, and until you're processing enough to offset the difference, using something other than Stripe is bad business.
Arguably also very liberal biased (speaking as a liberal-leaning individual).

Much of this theory is based on The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness by Michelle Alexander which first popularized the idea of how we utilized the prison system to intentionally discriminate and keep locked up (for free labor) the african-american populations.

There recently was a book discussing a different explanation. In this book, Locked In: The True Causes of Mass Incarceration and How to Achieve Real Reform by John Pfaff, Pfaff argues it's the perverse incentives of prosecutors and judges that are pushing up the prison population.

I don't know enough to say which is true, just wanted to get awareness of the competing ideas on the topic.

But definitely there's some really perverse incentives to lock people up for free labor. And, as the documentary accurately points out, it's all built in to the Constitution.
There are several similar stories in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/13th_(film)
> I wonder why I don't feel entitled to cheap caviar and cheap yachts?

Let's stick to discussing services.

In well-populated niches like construction, nursing, and software development, you can safely assume that competition will make the price of the service as low as it can reasonably go and still get acceptable quality.

If construction labor costs go up to whatever point you consider "fair", then the cost of the finished products will rise to compensate. If you extrapolate this out for the results of all super-low-priced labor, then lots of costs go up, and the middle class suddenly has less buying power than before. Why, they'd need a raise just to keep the same standard of living!

It's a web, you can't tug on one part without moving lots of others. The only "stretch" available in this web is people who are earning more than they are actually worth, like some CEOs or Waltons. Which, come to think of it, is not that dear to me. So okay, fine, let's start raising the minimum wage.
For example, let all your Droplets talk to each other (and no one else), but not have to explicitly track the list of IPs and generate firewall rules from that list on every host every time it changes.

Deny outbound access except through specific hosts (config management, internal package mirrors) so that even an attacker with root can't phone home.

The same reasons anyone uses firewall devices vs. host-based firewalls.
In my department at my university, professors and staff usually end up bringing a sweater and leaving it in the office so they have it in the summer. It gets kind of cold in the offices.

I've set my apartment to 26C. I find that without the humidity (since the AC deals with that too), 26C is actually not too bad for the summer.
I had so many problems with Linode. The company itself seems really poorly structured, too.

Do you consider this when you're talking about value? I know little about vultr.

5 vs 10 vs 20 vs 40 dollars doesn't mean much, and Linode pricing starts to converge on DO's after the $80 price point.
Nice article, gives a clever insight on the oldest productivity tool ever, Meetings!! I also would like to add that there should be a feedback session at the end of the meeting on how it went, if anyone else felt that it was a waste of time.
There is also the faction of people who resent having to take a job they dislike and get nothing out of, simply as a means to provide for one's family.
I'm not going to ask why this BS is on the front page of HN. But it would be nice to know how many people upvoted it.
The value is stored magnetically, so physical shock is not a problem, but other environmental conditions might be a problem.
Smash more bugs
Not supporting Linode, but can't you use something like AWS for that?
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Forgive the ignorance; what is headless?
There's also Backblaze: https://www.backblaze.com/b2/cloud-storage.html
just use ncurses, have a gui to "add new class", etc. and a box == class.

I often thought that languages shouldn't need any OO keywords if those features are visual, ie. boxes and arrows.
They're charging for the locational value (that, as above, they didn't create), not just for maintenance.
This is nice, but I wish he showed it in mathematical syntax too. I don't understand some of the calculations because I don't know much about Clojure. Or Linear Algebra.
Just installed the beta and I'm really impressed. Opening and moving between source files is pretty instant on my 2014 13" rMBP. The new editor feels like Sublime Text 3, which is what I've been waiting for. Even opening Storyboard files feels at least 2x faster. Keyboard input also feels much better.

Sourcekit/completions still seem to slow things down when typing for me. Hopefully that will get better soon too, but I'm really happy with the improvements.

I'm curious what the editor rewrite means for XVim and other plugins. I really hope either XVim will work, or they added more functionality to the new extensions/plugin system so a new Vim plugin is possible.

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I tried using the new Asset Catalog color feature but I'm not sure how to include the color in code? I expected something like using image literals added in Xcode 8 - but it doesn't appear to be how they work. In interface builder however, they're really nice. A new section under "Recently Used Colors" is added for your named colors :).
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Obligatory quote from "Real Programmers Don't Use Pascal":

Your typical Real Programmer knew the entire
bootstrap loader by memory in hex, and toggled it in whenever it got
destroyed by his program. (Back then, memory was memory -- it didn't go
away when the power went off. Today, memory either forgets things when
you don't want it to, or remembers things long after they're better
forgotten.)

http://web.mit.edu/humor/Computers/real.programmers
the real issue is not how she was caught, the real issue is how someone like her got to this position in the first place. with a social media existence that is littered with dislike/to hate for the current administration, high activity on social media, a name change, and more? these should all be red flags that either block such positions or remove you from then.

back in the last world war they managed to pull off creating an atom bomb with even the vast majority of people in office knowing about it, today every damn snowflake is looking for their five minutes of fame.
This seems pretty untrue. The excerpt shows that at one point, pre-Snowden, Greenwald was an unsophisticated user who didn't want to deal with PGP, just like 99% of reporters. But it's responding to a point about Greenwald, post-Snowden, establishing The Intercept specifically to handle security reporting and anonymous leaks. That's not a claim that he's Moxie Marlinspike, it's a claim that The Intercept has much more emphasis on security than news orgs without those origins.

And, more broadly, citing his pre-Snowden behavior seems unreasonable. For literally all people, there was a point where they didn't know PGP, and another point where they were confused and just learning to use it. If you trust their current knowledge of it, that's hardly a serious criticism.
Going to be totally honest, I try really hard because women are very demanding. Even an average looking woman with average intelligence acts like she deserves some rockstar.

If I sit there being average in my Honda Civic, wageslave job, I will have to settle for something far below my league just to make sure she doesn't run off with half my stuff after the boring average life, well, bores her.

This will probably be downvoted, but hey, it's the truth and it's what is happening right now. shrugs
Is python3 shipped on OS X by default? I'm not sure why they are still shipping 2.x -- anyone know if 3.x will be shipped in high sierra?

A bit disappointed that the model conversion tool only supports an older version of Keras as well (1.2.2). Keras 2.0 is pretty new but I hope they update the conversion tools for it quickly ...

I wonder if the conversion tool will be open source ... seems like they'd want to support the widest net of external models since they don't yet have a way to produce .coreml models directly. Or maybe the intent is to augment Keras/caffe/etc to support saving .coreml directly?
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Ryan Dahl on His Google Brain Residency
People are also strongly motivated by being part of a team and "winning" e.g. achieving a common goal or beating an enemy.
Ah the glorious cognitive biases we have.

I believe you're referencing the Backfire Effect coupled with cognitive dissonance of your views being a part of your identity. Plus a generous helping of the overarching Confirmation Bias[1].

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confirmation_bias
Anyone know what the status of Incanter is these days? It seems like Incanter could benefit mightily from the Neanderthal library referenced in the article.

I have to confess that, after the initial excitement around Incanter, I haven't kept tabs on it.
Huh, really? I would've bet on 50. Google tells me an 18-wheeler's max weight in the US is 80,000 lbs, or about 35 metric tons. That's substantially less than I'd expect to be honest. 35 metric tons isn't _that_ heavy, and I always thought of 18-wheelers as these massive behemoths of the road that carried villages worth of supplies.

Further reading shows that the US has uniquely low maximum weight limits, which results in containers that are legal under European laws arriving at US ports overweight. The UK for example has a maximum weight of 44 metric tons, and Canada (or at least some parts) have a maximum weight of 64 metric tons.

Do you know if trucks running at 44 (such as in the UK) use special trailers like those Cozad trailers?

Side note, while Googling truck things I found this gallery. http://www.cozadtrailers.com/en/gallery/ I highly encourage anyone reading this to take a look at it. I had no idea things that heavy could be moved on a truck trailer. One truck is moving an "Ocotillo Nacelle" at 350,000 pounds. Another is moving a SR-71 Blackbird.
Actually Korean (Hangul) is the biggest user of NFD normalization, with very special logic. Hangul also has the only 2 still remaining identifier bugs in the unicode 9 database. HANGUL FILLER and HALFWIDTH HANGUL FILLER wrongly being valid ID_Cont, as such wrongly usable as identifier characters (such as in filenames).

Almost every script but Latin-1 has TR31, TR36 and TR39 issues. http://www.unicode.org/reports/tr39/
Am I the only one who has constant issues with VMs in Linode? I feel like that platform is the worst out of all the ones I've tried so far. Unfortunately, our company is stuck with it for now. :(
I wish we had that rule. My last 3 jobs have been in historical buildings. One didn't have AC, and the other two have barely had functional AC.

My desk reaches about 80 degrees once the weather is over 65, and it won't drop below that until the fall. In order to make our AC more efficient they "weather sealed" the windows, which mostly involved gluing them shut. So now I can't open the window when it's cooler outside.

I'm sitting at my desk with my sleeves and pant legs rolled up like a five year old pretending to be a pirate. Most of the women don't mind because they can wear light dresses and slip on shoes.

The did give me a fan after I asked HR if I could wear women's clothing to work.

But seriously, it's kind of ridiculous to be paying to cool a place to a certain temperature when literally nobody in the office has any reason to be dressed up.
I actually liked it in a way.

Not my favourite but absolutely not horrifying to a student.

Now that I think about it though I wonder what huge merges look like.
Good post, but I still would prefer sending an email or communicating over chat rather than hosting meetings.
Well, you can be rich and depressed. It doesn't necessarily buy happiness though it is a good foundation to work on other problems.

It takes work and skill to get rich, and the reward may not be worth it to some, or it may be antithetical to their goals.
The idea is that you follow this with a math Linear Algebra textbook. There is a recommended textbook, but any will do. I am not a mathematician, and there is not enough space in a blog post do develop everything step by step anyway. This should be a math->programming link, not a self-contained book.
If anything I think your estimation underscores the point that it quickly becomes worth the investment to shop for a cheaper payment option.

It always surprises me how quickly people are willing to adopt stripe without even making this calculation on their own and considering competitors.

I suspect since they are YC funded they give discounts to other YC companies which makes it a more viable
option and helps foster the ultra positive stripe sentiment you see on HN. I think there are a lot of people who eat up the hype without doing any real analysis of their own.
Why is this downvoted, it is factually correct. Greenwald did not appear to be at all tech savvy or prepared to deal with such sensitive info. And this fuck up certainly does nothing to improve the picture.
The cave thing is neat - sounds like an easy form of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geothermal_heating