skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> and when it went pear-shaped, they abandoned all their principles to rescue themselves

How exactly?

By rolling back the primitive marketplace that had almost zero repercussion because the marketplace was barely beyond the first users?

I didn't see anyone calling for solutions that went outside of the control of Ethereum. To fit into your snide analysis they would have turned to state authorities for help or called for other real centralized systems of control. But that didn't happen. As far as I can tell there was zero control relinquished to central bodies as a result and it would be almost impossible for them to take the same approach now that the market is maturing. So the original decentralized concept still underpins the technology as it ever did.

Comparing the early alpha days of the system to the stated ideals of what they want the system to be in the future in not fair.

If every experimental project followed your advice by being totally risk adverse as well as was carefully controlled with red tape from the early days then we wouldnt have any innovation or the great products we have today. Just look at Japan's market, feeding off industry from the last time they allowed markets to operate freely in the 1980s, if you need proof of this.

This idea that you see nothing wrong with believing you know better than people who volunteered their time and money with this project and they need to be protected by government systems is what concerns me. Why not let them run this project and see if it fails or not? Is it really worth killing this experiment to mitigate risk so a few people don't get burned?

I personally think this project is full of snake oily hand wavy ideas that will mostly fail. But I'll endless defend their right to try it. And provide feedback and thoughtful analysis to poke holes in the bad stuff as I come across it.
> This is an example of a single blog post effectively killing a startup.

To be fair, the blog post in question provided detailed allegations of the CEO committing multiple felonies.
This dark matter theory could solve a celestial conundrum
Are you trying to tell me what my threat model should be? That makes me suspicious...
Casper seems to advertise heavily in the podcast and music space - I hear their ads constantly on spotify, podcasts, etc
Scoop surpasses 1M carpools joined
Because passwords need to be changed (e.g., after a breach). Deterministically generating them does not allow this, unless you add additional information (such as appending an index, e.g. news.ycombinator.com|2), but then you need to store that somewhere...
All such deterministic algorithms are seeded by something. This is their basic flaw. Guess the seed and you get all the passwords.

With a password manager that randomly generates unique passwords, you don't have that problem, but you do have to synchronize the data.
> ISDS is not so states can be subject to companies, it for states to follow agreements they sign.

Countries have their own legal systems for that, there is no need for ISDS.
>When comparing price to customer service, price wins every time.

This is very much a cultural problem that stems from treating service workers as subhuman and undeserving of a decent wage.

And the price difference is hardly as high as $5 per trip. Even places with really high minimum wages don't get that bad. It's more like a few extra cents, barely noticeable. Where the savings on payroll at the bottom are going is usually payroll further up the chain.

Some stores have much better customer service than others, like Whole Foods and Costco (just to cover both sides of the pricing models), and they seem to be doing all right.
IMO that was one bad decision in CS1 that they allowed mixed whitespace to compile in the first place. CoffeScipt 2 (which is ES6 compliant) doesn't allow you to compile/transpile any code with mixed indentation.

BTW in Atom, I've successfully used atom-beautify with coffee-fmt and coffee-formatter to reformat very bad code with no errors
Such as disallowing configuration they do not like, having memory/resource leaks that they cannot find the root cause for and few other things I forgot already. G1GC is disallowed because they had a data corruption bug with it. This is few months back, they might changed some it already. The question for me is what do I get using ES over Solr? If Solr's features are enough for our use cases should I even try ES?
Handle with Care: The Local Air Pollution Costs of Coal Storage
Guess I'm wrong about that then! It's hard to skim an article with this much noise-to-signal ratio.
Ancient Roman Lead Used for Physics Experiments Ignites Science Feud (2013)
The fact that different websites have different password requirements/limitations is a big part of it
You sir, a gentleman. 15 seconds instead of God knows how much.
If you want to have consistency in a distributed system you need something like ZK. If ES does not have ZK it surely has something else, probably with different trade offs.
> This article assumes a priori that talking to boys differently than to girls is bad, then attempts to substantiate the claim, in part, with references to obvious bullying -- a very different topic. But it overlooks the obvious: that boys and girls are different!

The assumption should be the other way: talk to your children the same unless proved otherwise. Do what's best for your individual child, don't hamstring them by talking to them by what you think is the best way to talk to a girl vs a boy. If your daughters are more sensitive and need external validation, great! talk to them like that. But you don't need to generalize to all or even most girls.
Make sure you read the code of the compiler you're using as well, and bootstrap/compile it from that source instead of trusting an existing compiler binary.
Because then you're out of luck when you need to update your password, say, due to a data breach at your target site. Or when the deterministically generated password doesn't meet the specific password requirements of the website. Or if somebody can capture your input "seed", they can generate all your passwords without needing to capture your password database like they would in another password manager.
Those Base/Turbo numbers seem off 3.6 / 4.0 GHz (6 core) 3.3 / 4.3 GHz (8 core) while they both are 140W parts.

ED: looks like it's missing the favored core mode which is probably important for gaming. Which brings up an interesting question if CPU's are now going to last ~5 years, is buying a 500+$ CPU reasonable?
On Maintainability: Gold Plating the Game of Life in Elm
I've used the CS2 beta and I love it. Now tons of ES6 tools work like a charm.
Sure, that is correct, in the end prices are determined by the market, not cost. So in many cases the cost is not passed on to buyers, it is carried by developers. In some cases the cost becomes a barrier for building, though.

But still, it's not the government that carries this cost.

Retrofit cost goes to government if the government decides to subsidize it. I live in Finland, which is considerably colder than Britain, not to mention Australia, and here the requirement for insulation is simply mandatory in building permits (which is required also for major renovation, not just new houses).

There are no real subsidies for this. Also, there are no heating grants which I hear are a thing in the UK (and a thing big enough to have an impact on how people vote).
Are they using dummy parameters in the request so they can substitute correctly?
The redshift loading result seems suspect to me. I know firsthand that redshift can scale to load over a trillion records / hour (with a big enough cluster). Even with a basic setup this should be at least an order of magnitude faster. I'm not sure exactly what the problem is, maybe try breaking the file up into smaller batches and load those.

It would also be helpful to see what schema you used for redshift, specifically the encoding and the distribution and sort key(s).

To give Athena more of a fighting chance, other people have mentioned Parquet or ORC, but also remember to partition the data. Generally you're supposed to give Athena a directory with data partitioned into different subfolders based on field values. Like if you're dealing with time-series type data you can partition your data in the format "year=<xxxx>/month=<yy>/day=<zz>/<uuid>.csv". I'm guessing you should do that for this data partitioning by eventTime but it kind of depends. Of course then you need some other component to put the data into S3 into the desired format, and you should probably count that as part of the loading time.

DISCLAIMER: work for AWS, not on the redshift or athena teams, though I do use redshift for work.
It’s not you, it’s your form: How to improve your relationship with users
How could you generate passwords that satisfy arbitrary password constraints? Say example.com has a 20 character limit, must contain a capital letter and symbol (but not certain symbols), and can't contain a dictionary word. It seems to me like your generator would have to have an option for each constraint to satisfy, and you'd have to remember them at the time of retrieval (unless you store the settings).

Is there a different solution?
A very easy scheme could be:

password = hmac(url++nonce, master_key)

You then store url and nonce. it's no problem that this info is public as far as I know, but perhaps you could again encrypt both the URL and the Nonce using symmetric encryption using the master key

Every time you need to change your password, (because it leaked), you simply generate a new nonce. You only store the nonce and the URL and this seems like a very secure scheme to me.

Cons:
You can not change the master key after the fact, so make sure it's secure.

I'm not a cryptographer, so I'm probably missing something obvious

Edit:

We still need to solve the "password constraints" problem. I
would say, we could add functions that given the password stored, deterministically creates a string from the password that adheres to some specific password scheme. For example, by using the password as a seed to a random number generator used to fuel traditional password generators like the one included in lastpass. The 'scheme' would also be stored next to the nonce and the url.
>>Many of the very best engineers are effectively prohibited from having Github projects.

Many, sure. But the OP's comment was "Of the 10 or so water walkers I've worked with, 0 have github accounts."

Surely people understand how asinine it is to believe that a sample size of 10 of OP's "water walkers" is a representative sample?
http://also.kottke.org/misc/images/password-req.gif
This is a problem even with email at the moment. I spent about 2 hours today trying to get my email filters to a state where my Inbox would only contain email that was (1) generated by a human and (2) specifically addressed to me.

Github Enterprise is so far the worst offender - I can't find a non-heuristic way to filter user merge messages (which contain the user name) from actual user comments.
Syria conflict: Why are air combat kills so rare?
I don't think anyone said that Slack is only for experts, but a training session or two wouldn't be remiss. Here's how you handle notification preferences, slash commands, and such. Especially for wide deployments among people of varying tech literacy.
You can also track your neighbors' energy usage by decoding their smart meter transmissions (around here, they transmit about every minute). https://github.com/bemasher/rtlamr

I can read about 40 smart meters from inside my home using the antenna that comes with it.
It is because of differences in password requirements. It is likely impossible to design a strong deterministic algorithm that doesn't require any per-site tweaks. Once you have per-site tweaks, remembering the exact tweak for each site has similar drawbacks as remembering per-site passwords. You can instead write the tweaks down somewhere, but that has similar drawbacks to writing down the passwords themselves.
One thing to remember is that the NSA isn't a monolith: there are factions and differing opinions inside of the agency.

It's likely someone spent a fair amount of political capital to draw attention to the agency by emphasizing their public projects and trying to engage with the wider public. If there's a negative response to that, it only lends weight to the voices inside the agency who are against that sort of thing.

I, for one, prefer the NSA to be working on defensive technologies in collaboration with the tech community to any number of things they could be spending the resources on -- and think we badly need their expertise and help to secure domestic assets.

So I'm going to say "good job!" when they're doing things I like and save my criticism of their other behaviors for more appropriate moments.

I think collaboration is fundamentally more powerful an instrument of change than shunning is.
The pricing is contact us levels, so right off the bat probably more than three quarters of readers brushed this off.

I don't see any free public API like twitters mini firehose (10% of traffic for free).
Ask HN: How do i get first 20 subscribers for my landing page?
I have the landing page set up for our upcoming Saas product and its been 2 weeks i'm not able to get even one subscriber on twitter and Instagram even after making posts everyday.I'v tried betalist but they seem to take a long time to publish it.Kindly suggest. http://vaporinterface.com/
These are some great points. You might want to check out https://tmail21.com. We built this around what we called Deep Collaboration (a riff on Deep Work).

We built it to be Thread First AND have a thread-first inbox as well.

However, more importantly we realized that just thread-first is not sufficient. We saw three major problems with synchronous solutions like Slack and asynchronous solutions like email.
1) Lack of support for updatable content
2) Lack of support for easily moving from unstructured to structured content.
3) Difficulty catching up

So we added the notion of Updateable "Sections" to threads (in addition to conventional attachments).

These "Sections" come in various types, some of which lend themselves to making your thread structured.
1) Text
2) Form (structured)
3) Task List
4) Checklist (process)
5) Word, Excel, Powerpoint
etc.

This allows one to create threads that have structured content. However, this still doesn't solve the "one-off" problem you described. So, we made it easy to take any thread and make it a "Template" that can be easily instantiated. This allows one to naturally to evolve towards lightweight processes starting from regular threads.

For example, here is one of the "industry solutions" pages which gives ideas for structured threads in a particular industry (in this case Manufacturing and Logistics)

https://tmail21.com/solutions/industries/manufacturing-and-l...

Lastly for the "difficulty catching up" problem, we took inspiration from the way git et al are built and decided to make "diffs" central to the catchup metaphor. We're talking not only diffs for Text, but also for Task Lists, Grids, Checklists, Forms and other "Sections".

We hope to make communication and collaboration significantly more productive. Would love to get any HN feedback.

ps) We integrate with Slack to marry their synchronous model with our asynchronous model.
except not everyone has the time or interest to do a ton of unpaid work for companies they're applying to
I'm not too familiar with WebSockets. How trivial would it be processing power wise to provide this service? How trivial would it be for a large news organization like BBC to do something like this?
Case in point (from /r/thinkpad): https://www.reddit.com/r/thinkpad/comments/6goe9h/just_order...

(check the whole thread)
In situations where a subthread is already off-topic and destined for the bottom, I try to make a substantive contribution. It's possible to pull out some interesting conversation even from the dregs.

It's true that it grows the subthread, but the [-] button exists now.
AWS was not built for internal-first use. For quite some time (often years) after S3/EC2/etc launched, they were not available internally.

From what I hear, they are now used pretty extensively internally (and that may have been an end goal)
Serious question - how viable would it be to implement some sort of data decay?

I don't know how it would be implemented, on what schedule, and to what extent.
purely anecdotal evidence but i've heard of one former wall street person is taking a programming course to get exposure to that world. he also happens to be quite wealthy.
After giving them a quick overview of my 6 years worth of Django experience, I was asked if I know Python.
If there is one thing at-risk people respond positively to, it's ham-fisted social intervention that DGAF about them and openly seeks to control their behavior.
The UK’s Brexit Options in the Eurozone Landscape – Visualized
Thanks you so much, this is a terrific description. On the side I had a look at XtreemFS and slidely different Ori.
Behind the farmer protests in 16 states in India
Actually I would suggest starting with something less strong than a "constitution", something that just defines the federation of etherium exchanges in broad strokes, call that the "federalist papers" or something.
As an ex-IBMer with 10 years of dealing with Sametime, I find this discussion amusing. Just think of Slack but with 300,000+ in your team.

Sametime was a big part of IBM culture. IBMs work from home policy was tied up with it. At work means you are online and responsive to Sametime. A typical meeting involves people sitting in a conference room Sametiming comments to each other about the speaker.

One nice thing about Sametime is that you chat history is in XML files on your computer. This allows you to use grep to find past information.

IBM started to use Slack when I left. On the one hand this allows you to collaborate with people outside IBM, but downside is you need both tools running. Slack for the cool kids, Sametime for the old guys.

My new job is giving me a new experience- video conferences using Google Hangouts. Many times with googlers on the Google bus.
From the article:

> Along with home addresses, birthdates, and phone numbers, the records include advanced sentiment analyses used by political groups to predict where individual voters fall on hot-button issues such as gun ownership, stem cell research, and the right to abortion, as well as suspected religious affiliation and ethnicity.

In some Western countries, the mere existence of such a database would be illegal. Especially relating to religion and ethnicity.
http://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/can-the-french-talk-...

In the US, it is leaked online.
oh, looks like I missed the news yesterday: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14578807
How are shift+enter newlines "totally against the grain of the system design"? Most every chat system I'm aware of supports this and displays it in a sane way. If people are misusing the system, training/instruction is in order.
Why Don't Companies Want You to Work from Home?
How to Install a Hidden Windows 7 Operating System with VeraCrypt (video)
Netflix tests pre-roll video ‘previews’ that are personalized to your interests
ARKit is soo boring :)
Oh interesting, wasn't aware that was a thing. Sad they didn't make it.
It is obviously bogus that Foucault raised that issue in 1975. For example Erving Goffman introduced the term "Total Institution", which implies total surveillance already in 1961. Subsequently, there have been many public reports concerning the information society and the problem of data bases. For a legal assessment see Westin, Columbia Law Review 1966, pp. 1003ff.
"Convicting a major firm, especially of a serious felony that can lead to de-licensing and debarment, often puts it out of business. Because the economic and social structure of the United States depends so heavily on the existence and survival of such firms, prosecutors understand that full prosecution is unrealistic."

Interesting article, but this passage is grossly naive. Such a firm going out of business means someone will purchase its assets in bankruptcy proceedings, and more than likely continue whatever the firm used to do.

E.g., if Walmart goes out of business, hundreds of thousands won't go unemployed and large sections of the US won't be left hungry, without any stores nearby. Instead, competitors and startups will buy what used to be Walmarts, and open new stores inside.

This sheds and uglier light on why prosecutors 'understand' full prosecution is unrealistic.
I got the impression it was more to do with gaining access to the various pieces of information which make up your online (and offline) reputation, out of their original context. That lack of context then means the otherwise benign info suddenly makes you look awful.

That's the big thing here, the internet strips context and nuance from everything you post unless you take a lot of time and thought over exactly what you say. It's proably fair to say most people on the internet don't do that.
We have the Future Fund but it's a joke compared to Norway's sovereign wealth fund.

There was plenty of tax money floating around back then but it was probably spent buying votes and posting budget surpluses so government could pat themselves on the back for being such good economic managers...
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14585182
Given their client base, it seems they don't really care about attracting small players.
The main finding, which I'm shocked hasn't been so clearly enunciated before, is that within a 25 mile radius of an outdoor power plant coal stockpile you have a measurable increase in infant mortality rates. Personally, I think the externalities around some of these traditional generation options need to be more thoroughly understood and discussed, and this type of analysis is a good jumping off point. It is extremely sad that we have to re-litigate the localized environmental impacts of the mid 20th century, today.

As an example, you can see some of that in the evolution of stacks on coal-fired power plants. First, they were short and people nearby got sick (some of these plants even made it into the last 5-10 years in major urban areas in the US, once the communities around them became impoverished over the decades, there had minimal advocates for their elevated cancer and respiratory illness rates). After quite a while there were local restrictions so they built massively tall stacks to vent particulates and other waste high enough for it to drift away. Those stacks in the Midwest and rust belt caused damage (in the form of acid rain) in the mid-Atlantic and northeast. Today, there are scrubber systems and filters, and the idea that those emissions could just be stuck in the ground. However, the solution to the acid rain and long stacks issue was the market-based cap and trade of the early 90s, which has been less effective recently as prices for compliance have exceeded the cost of penalties, leading to greater rates of pollution.
The Wonderful Truth about the Isle of Man’s Burgeoning Bitcoin Business [pdf]
This is /r/iamverysmart/ material.

I'm going to go out on a limb here and guess that you don't work in a large team with other developers, maintaining a common codebase.
It does worry me that Apple is walling itself off from the ecosystem of OpenGL even further. However, if most developers will only ever interact with Metal through game engines, hopefully it won't matter too much since the popular engines are supporting it.
This is something Intel has said for over 2 years now, AVX512 has several instruction sets under it.
CD is probably the biggest gamechanger since it now allows you to vectorize code that you couldn't before due to memory conflicts that arise from identical elements in the array.

But the difference between Skylake-EP/X and XeonPhi in relation to AVX-512 support were known way in advance.