skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Again, a blanket statement that can't possibly be true.

What system are we talking about? What third party are you talking about that you're gonna hand money over to do this on your behalf? These things matter, and there are many answers to those those questions where yes, you could indeed deploy and run a system yourself and be more secure than a provider, because for what you say to be true, your relying on a false belief that because someone offers a service (whether for money or not), that inherently makes them more competent than you to operate and secure that service.

There are cloud service providers that are able to offer a more secure base service than 99% of it's consumers would be able to create independently. I am not challenging that assertion. I'm challenging the commonly-expressed belief that individual cases where that is true in any way extends to the blanket claim being made in the parent. That is 'Some cloud providers are more secure than their customers therefore all cloud providers are more secure than all their customers'. No. Absurd.

This is something that can be proved for individual suppliers and with suitable assessment/verification processes. To extend that to 'cloud providers' as a whole is absurd. If you can't see that then fair enough, I truly wish you luck because that's ultimately all you'll be relying on if you choose to play in this space.

When you say 'There is absolutely no way' what you must surely mean is 'Under certain circumstances it is the case that'.

I remind you of one simple example: Dropbox ran for a significant period of time with a system that allowed any person to log into any dropbox account, with any password.
I agree that voice is lousy for many things, maybe even most things. And I think Apple is uniquely positioned to offer an end-to-end experience across devices (desktop, laptop, phone, watch, house/speaker) and that their design sensibilities could lead to a top notch speaker. I think the product will find buyers. But it's ultimate utility will remain in question until Siri improves.

I think part of the problem is that the things 'voice' is good for tend to have humans on the receiving end that then carry out complex, human actions. "Stu, could you schedule a dinner for me at a good local Italian place at 7:30 and invite Scott and Robin?"

Well shoot, that is a lot to unpack! It's a hell of a lot for a computer to unpack. It's a lot for anyone to unpack unless they know you and your circle of contacts. Carrying it out would require interaction with at least 3 people over a variety of mediums.

I suspect that by opening Siri up (And other digital 'assitants') it might promote the growth of infrastructure and services that would begin to make some of these more advanced queries a little more tractable.
Well, KSP and Dwarf Fortress.
This is a feature of democracy. The solution is not campaign finance reform, it is reform of democracy itself. Place additional separation between the people/corporations and the purse-strings of the treasury, and you will reduce this problem. Alternatively, you can take power & responsibility away from the government so that market forces come to bear upon the issue.

Democracy is, after all, a system in which a determined voting majority can use the hammer of the state to extract wealth from the rest of the population. Many people vote in self-defense.

I know that arguing for smaller government and less democracy is an unpopular position, but it is the only way to achieve long-term success. The areas of the economy with the most government involvement and regulation are where we find costs ballooning out of control: healthcare, prisons, infrastructure, student loans, military. Continuing on the present course is not sustainable.
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It was a metaphor. It wasn't intended literally. The actual discussion here is about monetizing open source.
You are not doing speed limit on average in most cities. You slow down for turns, you wait for red light, you wait for other cars, you are parking. Most importantly, shortcuts available to pedestrians are not available to cars that have to take longer route.

I do groceries by walk and it never took 2 hours. The store is not 5km away pretty much from anywhere. You have to be out of city or in the middle of night for it to be that far. Unless there is some kind of law to prevent it, stores with what you need daily pop up around cities everywhere.

In any case, 5km is still nothing on bicycle which I might take for that distance. Just to kill two birds with one stone and get a bit of exercise.
Big games just ignore the size limit entirely and require you to download over WiFi.
I've started to acknowledge random thoughts by keeping an idea/thoughts doc. I write down my thought in the doc and tell myself I can come back to it later if I still care about it. I rarely open the doc otherwise.

So far it has helped me stay focused on what I'm working on.
They are convenient voice command lines. It's faster to speak your timer, ask the weather, play music, or remotely turn off lights than to fiddle with your phone.
Diverting some of the cheddar from highways to public transit is hardly depriving anyone of their cherished way of life.
Biking in the US is way more dangerous than in countries where it's more popular, like the Netherlands.
> So will we all be writing C in the future?

And any compiled language (C++,OCaml,Haskell...)
There have been several great articles that have floated to the top of HN in recent years about how practically no city in the US can afford to maintain its own road networks because of the extreme subsidies in the past.

It is a combination of population density being artificially lowered through cheap road subsidies, constant pressure to eliminate taxes, and gutting alternative transport meaning roads need to satiate all human mobility and thus need huge capacity.
It's already changing in statistically significant ways:

https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2016/01/the-d...
The last 1/3 of your comment contradicts the first 1/3 :)
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This is a circular argument. English is one language because it is one language. Spanish and Portuguese are two languages because they are two languages.
Ask HN: How can I get my target market out of Facebook and into my platform?
Hello HN,
I live in a country where virtually every business related situation is done on facebook groups/pages.

To illustrate here are a few examples :

- If an HR guy is looking for a freelance dev/marketer/whatever for his company, he goes to Facebook freelance groups and just posts about it to get dozens of CVs.

- If someone is looking for a review on a particular restaurant, they go to another facebook group to ask about it.

- If someone is looking to buy a particular item that is not available on the corner of the street, same.

- If someone is looking to get traffic for their new product, facebook groups again.

And the list goes on.

My question is : How can I get those people to ditch facebook and use my platform instead to fill their needs ? OR How can I turn this into my advantage somehow ?

Cheers
The question of what to do with sick animals is entirely different from the question of preventive antibiotic use. We don't even do that to humans except certain extreme cases like surgery.

Using antibiotics on animals that are actually sick seems OK, as long as it's medically warranted and they take the full regimen (just like humans). Proper antibiotic use shouldn't carry much risk of creating resistance.
Since my dad worked as an engineer for the Federal Government I have skewed ideas how things work compared to most people.

Which is to say, you are spot on. Most of the work government engineers do is oversight. Oversight is really important.

I've constantly read that in the US due to ideological reasons the agencies that handle oversight are chronically understaffed which results in delays and inefficiencies. Delays are a big problem in the US. The slower a project is done the more it costs. Without proper oversight, you have an inability to efficiently manage design changes leading to delays and or less efficient construction.
what are the typical use cases for NSQ ?
DAaaS - Decentralized Applications as a Service
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The AST of Nim is a simple tree, the only thing is that the nodes of this tree are tagged with a kind that represents the kind of syntactic element, since the language is not homoiconic
SHA-3 is currently a reasonable choice for effectively zero real world use-cases. SHA-2 has many advantages over it, and I can't think of a single disadvantage.

SHA-3 has practical value as a moderately well-analyzed cipher in the event of rapid catastrophic cryptanalysis of SHA-2, but barring that kind of event its real value is in the general theoretical advancement of sponge constructions.
If you are starting off just use what you/the team is comfortable with. I mean, unless you think you will need capacity for over 25,000 messages per second.
Isn't Android TV pretty open in this regard?

After all, it even has a VLC app...
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Insightful, depressing. I feel like you could make this into a motivational poster.
The answer is to build new infra close by in support of those locations!

Oh.
Apple does not have an automatic approval process. They do a lot of automatic screening, because there's plenty that can be caught that way, but yes, every single app and update gets manual review by a human being.

And your math is very wrong. Very few apps update every 2 weeks, most of the apps on the app store probably haven't even been updated in the past few months, and there's not even close to a billion apps. In an interview back in January Phil Schiller said the App Store had 2.2 million apps.
I attended segregated schools in the 60s in texas, and when we sang this rhyme, we just let it all hang out....if ya know what I mean....and I think you know what I mean...
Absolutely this. And not corruption (neccessarily) in the form of "you give me $100k into my bank account and I'll approve the deal" type of corruption.

Just simply incompetent (at best) people milking the projects for insane amounts of money while adding no value. Actually in many cases adding negative value.

Basically low-level corruption like scheduling an extra couple construction laborers to a project that only needs half of what you assigned.

It's the same problem with the means-tested entitlement programs in the US. Sure outright fraud (e.g. welfare queen) is not worth talking about it's so rare. But the day to day low-level fraud that is endemic and pervasive to the system? Never counted in any studies.

The general incompetence and fraud has slowly (the older I get) become the norm. It's rare you come across competently done projects these days that are not swamped by fraud and waste.

I guess my point is that it's so common it's simply become normalized these days, and people no longer even see it as fraud/corruption/sloth - it's simply the way things are. It's not just construction - it's practically everything. I guess it's pretty similar to cost disease.
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You say this, but I would not be so sure about that after having worked for a defense contractor.
The pronunciation is /ju/, so I would think that "you" is a closer rendition. The only reason "u" works is because we happen to pronounce the name of that letter exactly the same: /ju/. So it's being used as a non-traditional digraph.

It's the same pattern as using "8" in examples like "g8 b8 m8 I r8 it 8/8". Here "8" is serving as a non-traditional trigraph /eɪt/.
well by choosing to drive yourself to work every day in a wasteful petroleum burning vehicle you are forcing the rest of us to live with your pollution
I've watched the video several times and conferred with a few people familiar with Denver.
It's quite similar to a skewed pipe, why do you say it's anything different?
Ditto

http://i.imgur.com/UJFM9vA.png

I was hoping to see some awesome <layer> tag action, but it wasn't to be.
WebAssembly is a compilation target. Lots of things will eventually compile to WebAssembly (or be interpreted by interpreters that themselves are compiles to webassembly.)
Google's ads are as links, served along with their regular search results, and marked as ads. The only way to block those would be to remove all the links marked as ads, and the predictable response would be to stop marking them. So, no, I don't see adblockers hurting Google (at least, not their main business).
I saw no ads on your second link. Then I remembered I have my ad blocker enabled...
The front page of the Daily Express that day, for those curious: http://proftimobrien.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/Luna9-Da...
We haven't forgot fuck all.

The system just doesn't give a fuck.

The money to build bridges and roads is sitting in off shore accounts.

Our efforts are being expropriated and utilized for financial grift.
Having participated in the very first ICO (Satoshi Dice), and seeing the field develop - it seems they are getting more and more professional every single year.

In 2017 we will probably see the first rating agencies for ICOs, plus distributed ways of doing due dilligence. It is quite possible that in a few years the investors will be protected as much, if not more, as in traditional investment opportunities.

It will be a dofferent model though - you will have scamcoins for speculators, but also many ways of gathering information about the startups, much more accessible and sensible than the current system. This may lead to naive investors being protected/educated well enough.

Look at the internet right now. Imagine that in 1996 the government required a ton of red tape to launch websites, and would pose limits on who can access it (so your grandma woukdn't put her cc numbers on a scam site)... That's how the investment environment looks right now.

Instead what we did was to allow anyone access and publish, and fight scamming by prosecution, education and built-in browser security. People are still getting scammed on the internet daily, but it's kind of under control, and the benefits far outweighted the losses.
Deg seems probable to be a mutation of "dec" from the Roman occupation, ie adopted from Latin? Transliterated Cymraeg numbers (in South Wales) go "een, die, tree".

Old Welsh appeared just before the mediaeval period, coming from the common Brythonic tongue(s) AFAIK. There's a lot of Latin, not all recognisable: fenestr, is easy to see; ysbyty (iz-bit-ee, "hospital") less clear due to modification to a supposed origin of "ty" (meaning house).

Interestingly you can find some English words, often again heavily mutated, that no longer exist in English (see eg https://archive.org/stream/englishelementin00parruoft/#page/... don't have my other references handy).

Edit: one other reference that's to hand, https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=nWpbDAAAQBAJ&lpg=PA335&o....
I've bike commuted to work. In a very bike friendly area.

Everyone I know has been in an accident of some sort. Hit & runs, side swipes, doored, pushed (deliberately), etc.

After better infrastructure, the most effective way to improve safety is to have more cyclists. I think we're in a rough transition period, but things are definitely getting better.

One of my bike buddies thinks things will really change once moms start cycling en masse. That'd change the perception from gonzo bike dudes to totally uncool in a heartbeat, evoking much less hostility.
You're right that's a huge issue also - And Amazon (to use your example) also takes great pains when engaging with customers to stress that their security competencies and certifications absolutely do not extend to a customer's use of their platforms.

For an obvious example, if Amazon has PCI DSS compliance and a customer comes along and builds a payment gateway on AWS services, that customer is not also PCI DSS compliant by extension.

But this thinking extends to all of the security assertions/certifications/measures that Amazon puts forth.

That is to say, 'we secure the platform but you can absolutely make an insecure mockery of a system on top of that platform'. In all cases you must implement your own security protections and processes on top.
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Kafka and NSQ have widely variant promises around things like durability, order, etc.

In most use cases you can get NSQ like behavior out of Kafka and the inverse isn't true. Kafka's performance and added gaurantees come at the expense of being harder to operate.
"Ye Olde English" is a funny example, because the use of "y" here is actually a replacement for thorn (Þ) that was introduced with the printing press.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Y#Confusion_in_writing_with_th...
In many areas, just removing outright hostile barriers to pedestrians would vastly improve walkability in the US while possibly going entirely unnoticed by drivers. I once walked to a shopping center with a fence partway around the property that forced me to go far out of my way to go in using the car entrance. A small gap in the fence next to the cross walk would have done wonders for me and most drivers would not have noticed the difference.
Yeah, it'd be every 180 minutes. There'd be two orbits, the circular 90 minute orbit of the ISS and an elliptical, 180 minute debris orbit that has a common perigee with the ISS but a farther out apogee. The debris would thus be moving faster at perigee and would be able to wreak havoc every second orbit of the ISS. Of course the chance of such coincidental orbits happening by accident would be insanely low; you'd need some explanation as to why the object that blew up was in that kind of orbit in the first place.

Actually ... if you imagine two debris fields spaced opposite in the elliptical orbit, or simply a debris ring, then you would have the devastation occurring every 90 minutes. It's even less likely trying to think of how this could happen accidentally, but you could certainly set up a situation like this intentionally.
You're kidding, right? iMessage has massive scale. Several years ago, Apple revealed they were processing "several billion" iMessages per day, and it's hard to imagine that number hasn't simply grown since then.

As for the iTunes Music Store, I could believe that it's not used as often as previously because of the popularity of streaming services, but Apple also runs one of those streaming services (Apple Music), and they run iCloud Library which gives you access to all of your purchased music on all of your devices, and of course they also run the iOS App Store and you can't argue that doesn't have massive scale.
My pure JavaScript implementation of blake2s (which is approximately half the speed of parallelized sp variant) on 2.6 GHz Core i5 hashes at 170 MiB/s. JavaScript! Whatever you do with your benchmark, you're doing it wrong. Also, there is no reason to use such large buffer sizes, I suspect this only makes benchmarks more unreliable.

For real numbers on many platforms, see https://bench.cr.yp.to/results-hash.html (warning: very large page)

For long messages on 2015 Intel Core i5-6600; 4 x 3310MHz:

blake2b: 3.33 cycles/byte
blake2s (remember, half speed of sp): 4.87 cycles/byte
sha512: 5.06 cycles/byte
sha256: 7.63 cycles/byte

This means BLAKE2s is close to 700 MB/s, and BLAKE2sp will hash data at more than 1 GB/s.

Here are the SHA-256 implementations measured: https://bench.cr.yp.to/impl-hash/sha256.html

As you can see, the winner varies by platform, but in most cases OpenSSL wins, and Wei Dai's implementation is close.
Q: What's the difference between a language and a dialect?

A: A language has an army!

Examples: The Chinese government usually just talks about "Chinese". Mandarin is an English word to describe the Chinese language spoken in northern China--- but the Chinese government as political reasons to try to pretend that Cantonese is just a dialect.

Swedish, Danish and Norwegian are mutually intelligible, but each country has a government department dedicated to vetting books published in the language, and claim that what they speak are languages, not dialects.

I think the real answer is that taxonomy is difficult.
The original post specifically calls out hoarding:

> On the other hand, the unskilled tend to have a slightly different curve: Value Convergence. They eventually settle into a position of mediocrity and stay there indefinitely. The only reason their value does not decrease is because the vast amount of institutional knowledge they hoard and create.

The quote you're addressing (from another article) is also qualified in the original source, under "Responses to comments" / "Not everyone ‘left behind’ is incompetent": http://brucefwebster.com/2008/04/11/the-wetware-crisis-the-d...
Apple TV has VLC too.
Ask your Google Assistant to send a message using Allo, see what happens.
Krste Asanovic in https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KxuQW8HWBXI shows numbers that the Berkeley Rocket implementation of RISC-V is both faster and has smaller die size than the ARM Cortex-A5 and that the Berkeley BOOM is faster and smaller than the ARM Cortex-A9.
I totally agree with you. And I do empathize completely with people who do not understand what is being put in front of them but are still asked to make a value judgment. I'm in that position myself sometimes and it's awful.

I think it's furthermore definitely a problem that politicians tout one number. But it's unfortunate that folks blame the number in that case. There's nothing wrong with the number - and all numbers are fudged, by definition!

So I think we have a massive failure to teach critical thinking in our education system. We can't continue to, on the one hand have a political system predicated on informed citizenry and on the other do everything possible to prevent those citizens from enlightening themselves.
I think you're giving them too much credit. Happy that it didn't "unsuspend disbelief" for you, but it's too easy to make creative excuses for movie fridge logic.
I've tried to find more up to date information on him since that post is over 7 years old now and can't. Do you have anything more current or more details on the user pensioner?

ericscc.com appears to be gone as well as any of the other prosper forums I've found links to. Not really familiar with the site so is it basically dead or moved out of p2p or something?
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I think your mis using "world use case". It's a hash function and so it is usable as a hash function.

I'll repeat what was said elsewhere. SHA-2 of vulnerable to length extension attacks.
Is the core argument here is that SaaS enables the success of software companies that have little value and that "post-SaaS" means that those companies die?

That doesn't really ring true to me. That already happens, doesn't it? SaaS as a pricing model or platform strategy in and of itself won't do shit for you if you have a terrible idea, right?

Or is the author trying to argue that SaaS will eventually become a race to the bottom and that the market should shift towards value-based pricing?
This raises what appear to be important points. Has it been formally submitted to Unicode in some way?
Probably one of my favorite things I've seen on HN in a long time. The perfect synthesis of tech explanations to biological phenomena. The way the entire page fits together to teach is just beautiful.

Why it's sitting down on the second page with just a few upvotes is beyond me.
I drive a Civic hybrid. My decision to not have kids has had a far greater environmental impact.
I've always wondered if you ported F# to the JVM if it would suddenly become much more popular.
No. English is one language because the entire world considers it to be one language. Spanish and Portuguese are two languages because the entire world considers it to be two languages.
That's a great writeup, and it highlights the fact that sometimes these things happen for purely pragmatic reasons.