skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There is running joke about general relativity and quantum mechanics being a demonstration of simulation hypothesis, i.e., floating point computations used to simulate our universe break down under very small and very large scales.
This. It's the kind of insanity that made t-shirts with 09 F9 11 02 9D 74 E3 5B D8 41 56 C5 63 56 88 C0 illegal.

True laws are the intersection of legal and technically enforceable.

And in lieu of a globally-monitored and controlled internet, that's going to be far short of "we don't like your reference to a reference to a reference of this thing."
Or who's to say that they didn't try exact simulations and find it too boring?
Fact-checks don't spread as widely as the original sources.
Thank you. I hadn't heard of this concept before. I think it could be relevant here.

If the encryptor offers multiple inputs, one a dummy "sure, here is my password, officer" HTML and passphrase, the other the sensitive one this scheme could work. Hiding both in a single blob, plus some noise, could work in the browser too. Seems it might offer some degree of plausible deniability. Some investigation of the decrypted dummy HTML might reveal it isn't large enough to account for the size of the blob. This doesn't seem like an insurmountable obstacle though. If the tool hides an arbitrary number of inputs in blobs that are indistinguishable you'd seem to have a great deal of deniability.
Fake news basically began with Fox news aka Faux News. You also see it rise out of the fear mongering promoted by Rush and then taken further right. The real problem is that it works in the sense that it is profitable and it dominates discussion / media frenzy.

There were some statistical studies by Gelman on the previous elections (prior to 2016) that show that rich and middle class people in red states voted republican vs those in blue states (although rich people tend to vote republican in general). The poor basically vote democrat all the way around the country. This is why you have huge voter suppression campaigns in the poorer red states that should turn blue if enough people voted. It also explains gerrymandering to maintain minority control. Obama was an outlier in that he got more of the rich/middle class red state vote than Hillary did.

So the question is, why do middle class people in red states vote republican?
http://rocket.chat is an open-source self-hosted (or pay for hosting) slack clone. the client has some bugs, but it's totally usable.
Continuing to comment like this will get your account banned.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
I'm hopeful that the price does seem competitive, but not too low. I'd say the Visio market is slightly different, although you're right there is probably some overlap. Thanks for checking it out, and I hope to have a Mac version up and running before too long!
He can send transaction with $0.5 fee, but it is very close to the lower level limit. The link below shows that median sized transactions with $0.5 fee (about 75 satoshi/byte) have a waiting time up to 24 hours at the moment.

https://bitcoinfees.21.co/
Resistant is always a though word. The important, but hidden measurements are cost to produce, etc but relative to most other cheap, though, and clear materials...

CD's are actually very scratch resistant even though they often get lot's of small scratches.
>> What about building quantum safe protocols?

> That's called post-quantum cryptography, not quantum cryptography.

As I understand it, "quantum safe" and "post-quantum" describe the same thing.

I never used the term 'quantum cryptography'
The reason that redirect worked is because it was using the contents of the yes program instead of its output.
@dang why was the post title edited?

It said 'IISc Bangalore Scientists experimenting with drone seed-bombing to plant a forest'. I see no problem with it, other than IISc not being as well known as say MIT. But it is still a very good institution and I think they deserve to be known. The name of the institution should be celebrated for their research, not just put behind a large banner of 'Indian Scientists' which gives no recognition to the institution.

Just like MIT/Stanford scientists aren't called American scientists every time some article about research comes out from that University. If someone doesn't know what IISc is, we know they can just google it.
> The straw that broke the camel's back for me was threads.

Me too. The all threads list being in opposite chronological order as the all unread list blew my mind also.

So I've moved everything to discord and have never been happier. Faster, smoother, chat as it should be, with no 10,000 message limit and broken search. I really wish every public slack group would switch (like Elixir and others). With a 10,000 message limit and 700+ users online, it's practically snapchat...

Not to mention webhooks being dead simple and dead awesome.

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https://discordapp.com/

https://elixir-slackin.herokuapp.com/
More about how the algorithm works here: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/hp-mosaic-20-steven-chow
maybe kotlin as a gateway drug to scala as a gateway drug to haskell
This exactly: the old v. young issue is a deliberate distraction and divide-and-conquer strategy so the superrich can keep eating everyone else.
I guess I just feel like your rebuttal would be stronger if its only points weren't the same, yet ultimately irrelevant in the case of a prior technology with many similarities.

Of course they're not the same thing. That doesn't mean it's now totally valid to claim that it won't be successful due to the same roadblocks that the Internet overcame easily.

Do you have any arguments against cryptocurrencies that don't mirror early problems the Internet had, that people warned about, but ended up being very solvable? I think that'd be a lot more convincing.
> What's most off-putting for me [...]

... may be most appealing to others.

> It's too close to the conspiratorial and/or anti-establishment mindset to be comfortable.

"counterantidisintermediation"
It would be acceptable if it only existed for AWS and GCP at first. But ideally yes, it should aim to support a variety of them for freedom of choice and redundancy.
So you take a previous Pulitzer prize winning piece and the one variable you change is the author isn't a official journalist™ and now it's not Pulitzer worthy?

I would like to be believe the Pulitzer Prize should recognize exceptional work and the fact that exceptional work can come from anywhere shouldn't really be a problem.
Slack's free tier? if you don't need a full archive, it works fine.
Lets just vote on that.
Nobody has the intention to build a anti-statistical wall. The youth would never escape the loving hug of the last generation.
We really wanted to go with Gitter but limiting sign-up to Github and Twitter is a big no for us. :(
Oops thanks, that should be fixed - the generating page now gets its libraries from CDNs.

I'll probably look into adding Subressource Integrity checks for the other two as well.
In no manner I am trying to insult or mock the person. I just stumbled upon his profile when in one of the forums he claimed to be the creator of the e-mail and the internet.
This was the style of interview I ran. I usually picked snippets from an open source project. I usually grabbed pull requests that fixed bugs.

Have them delve through it. Reason aloud, ask questions about it. See how they gain context, and how they troubleshoot. The biggest down side was they sometimes need to reference external projects, or documentation. I would often have to search on my work laptop and then let them should surf the docs.
Agreed. In support of this theory, do note the tabletop world (which still exists and apparently makes money. See: Games Workshop and its many current competitors) is moving away from complex simulations, and striving to streamline and simplify the gaming experience, within reason.
I think technical people (including myself) tend to view legal systems as dumb machines that can be tricked into executing any possible permutation of their own rules, and this is how you get "clever" ideas like warrant canaries.

Laws are precise, but unlike the rigid systems we work with, ultimately there is going to be human somewhere who can classify events into buckets like "horse shit" and "not horse shit"
A number of the biggest torrent sites are down. Others are mere shadows (e.g. kickass). I would say the law in this case is winning, perhaps because there are so many streaming options now that the demand has dried up.
>intro to statistics or calc

Most degrees don't even get that far. You can satisfy the math requirement for most degrees with college algebra. In many cases a generic math class that's considered a step below college algebra works.
> There is no way to take off with something that is not yours. There is no reliable or efficient way to cheat.

I'm a bit rusty on my crypto-currency knowledge, but I seem to remember that there is the possibility of a 51% attack, wherein if an evil actor managed to control 51% or more of the network, they could basically wreak all sorts of havoc on the network, from denial of service, to double-spending of coins to rewriting of (recent) transaction history.

As for feasibility, some mining groups have already briefly obtained 51% control of the network "by accident", but if you want to go the black hat route though, DDOS a large portion of the network, spin up a few dormant bots and presto, you have your 51%.

So it isn't impossible to cheat, and certainly not impractical.

This is a major problem. Has this problem been addressed at all?
Law firms that will happily pay hundreds or thousands of dollars per seat. OP, you're selling yourself short.
I remember in ~2005-2009 while I was in high school, javascript password-protection was my main interest, since I only had access to free hosts that hosted static files.

Most of them just focused on obfuscating the password in the source (most by encoding, the fancy ones through some opaque evals), but I came across one during that time that claimed to use AES and even had a not-insignificant cash prize for defeating it.

I really wish I could find that site... would be fun to give a shot at cracking it given what I know now.

Anywho, in my search for that site, I found a pretty good tutorial considering it's age (1997!) on implementing DES in javascript to achieve something similar[0].

[0] https://www.javacrypt.com/Course/
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I guess the good news is once buzzfeed et al find a way to appropriate all that attention your highlights will stop being pointless stuff people said.
But the ones that do absolutely love it. At least, I do.
It's interesting how there are more comments and votes here in HN post than the projects posted and voted on the app.
I'd certainly favor taxing the ever-loving heck out of Harvard and MIT (actually, everyone in Kendall and Harvard Squares) to repair the MBTA that literally brings their employees to work.
I understand what you're getting at, but the price is an issue.

I do something similar: I write very small programs for embedded systems: simple timers, sequencers, alarms, etc. for around $100. In some cases, we're talking 15 minutes of work, tops.

If I could charge just $30 and instead sell it to multiple people, I would, but the odds of that happening are so slim, I have to have a $100 minimum. The problem is that even for well-defined problems, what people need tends to be so different that the best you can do is have a common framework for similar problems. The code itself is rarely even close to identical
SolarCoin is one such effort.
Another lawyer here (tax, UK) - there are similar products available and they're pretty commonly-used over here (such as Worksite for DKMS/version control and Workshare for comparisons between docs).

But the VC tends to be centralised, rather than distributed. I've often hankered after a more git-like experience when working remotely or offline, and I will follow this project with interest.

One area that is underserved at the moment is diffing .ppt files. Since a lot of the tax industry in particular uses PowerPoint for step plans and structure papers (because it is generally easier to build structure charts). Whilst it isn't the right tool for the job, for as long as people continue to use it, getting this working on your app would be huge.
Not to mention it's trivial to set up a blog using a news template with a reputable-looking TLD.
Modern tree farms are sparser than natural growth forest. The quantity they are optimized for is yearly increase of new wood per area as opposed to maximum amount of wood that will eventually grow once trees are mature and planting trees as densely as possible is not ideal for this. (That is, trees planted somewhat sparser grow faster and mature quicker.)

> Mind you, I'm not saying that it is not sustainable, just that we did not necessarily make it so. It just happens to play out.

Again in Finland, it didn't just play out this way, the current state of affairs is result of intensive government-led research into sustainable and effective forestry methods started in the 1920s. Back then, the forests were the most important export resource of the recently independent nation, we needed a lot of imports and therefore ensuring that there will be new trees to cut down was a national priority.
If the tool always makes a large blob of noise to hide the HTML in, and accepts an arbitrary number of key/html pairs it seems like this could work in the browser. Would seem to just cost disk space to be viable.
Yep. As far as I can see he outsmarted American media.

They really tried hard to help every other candidate but ended up playing right into his hands.

Given what people think about the current president this says quite a lot about media.
The Internet opened up a whole new world of applications. Distributed ledgers do not. They are a complex and horribly inefficient solution to a very niche problem that crypto currrencies like Bitcoin have. But outside of that realm, they offer next to no technical advantages that would justify the exploding costs incurred by implementing this technology.
Thanks. I didnt know about nautil.us and aeon.co
I wonder if the 100GB cap is because they are using SSDs? I did research and apparently DigitalOcean's offering is also using SSDs.

Am I the only one that would have built this with HDDs? lol
the nutella jar is rather iconic. it's like the contour bottle or the happy meal box. there are probably efficiency reasons to change it, but i don't know if they will.
The odds of being killed in a terrorist attack in Europe or the US are essentially zero. But the odds of being killed in a car crash, by a hospital mistake, falling in the shower, are very real.

This is a classic, and irrational, disproportionate response.

Besides, is there any evidence that monitoring 100% of message traffic will reduce terrorist attacks? Are terrorists really so dumb they're going to plan their attacks via a monitored channel? Do governments really have any problem catching and convicting criminals?
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The headline is misleading. They are not planning to fingerprint all children. They are lowering the age at which refugee children are being fingerprinted (from 14 to 6). This is part of the EU process of making sure that refugees are handled properly.
Even more misleading by including the photo of candy.

What is involved in the production of thymidine?

Even if the process did use conventional "sugar" the usual production source (corn syrup, sugar cane or beets) is not exactly environmentally friendly at scale.
I enjoyed your post but I have a disagreement. Graph Coloring is np-complete or np-hard depending on what question you're asking. Grover's algorithm for unstructured search only provides a quadratic boost. If you're pulling from the papers on adiabatic evolution, these are simulated small instances with acceptance probabilities that would likely not be economical in real world scenarios.

For quantum computers to solve np-complete problems in polynomial time would be highly surprising and seems just too good of an outcome. Especially considering the work showing exponential slowdowns for simple problems that defeat local search algorithms like QA.

That said, there'll likely be many practical problems for which quantum annealing provides speed ups which vastly outstrip classical computers.
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It is a collision of a centralized top down hierarchical system designed by people with no skin in the game v/s highly decentralized and evolving networked system with lots of people with skin in the game. Former are destined to be sore losers.
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Good point. Right now we're making sure only vetted projects go up - eg we chat with each person to confirm it's real problem and they'd pay.
I wonder how easy it would be to build a distributed torrent aggregation service on top of Ethereum. Something similar to what openbazaar is doing.
Outside of foreign functions, "unsafe" is used mostly for (sometimes premature) optimization. "Vec" needs "unsafe" because Rust can't talk about a partially initialized array. But "Vec" isn't very complicated. Maps are very complicated, and written as unsafe code. They could been written using "Vec" for storage, but they're not; they're at the raw storage level. That's a possibly premature optimization.

There's a lot of code like that in the standard library. Somebody thought that safe code would be too slow, and used unsafe code for some local optimization. I tend to think this was overdone.

Here's a typical example, in crate "url": [1] unsafe conversion of a slice from a UTF-8 string by calling "str::from_utf8_unchecked". Minor speedup, but if the slice calculation is off, unsafe, because advancing through a bad (or misaligned slice of a?) UTF-8 string may cause a subscript error.

There's an effort underway to clean up some low-level Rust library crates, and "unsafe" appears rarely in ones that have been through that process. So there is forward progress. But few crates have been through that process yet.

(I've complained about this in the past, pointing to places
There's a Rust fanboy who usually replies, without citing any references, denying everything. The usual excuses are 1) nobody really uses unsafe crate X much, 2) the crates fanboy is using contain less unsafe code than I'm finding.)

[1] https://github.com/servo/rust-url/blob/master/src/form_urlen...
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He never said they should be denied the prize. If I read it correctly, he said it's interesting that it's opened up to everyone now.
Except it was, and badly. Unicode support reached sanity matching Java or C#, if only just, but for me the most important fix was making exceptions actually work instead of being a broken pile of workarounds glued together with ambiguous and/or confusing syntax.
I was assuming non-sf salaries... but yes, even then, it's really pushing it to say it would pay for 3 people in the us. I was being generous.
The more interesting question is whether there's a 3rd variable we're missing.

You were right in your initial assertion: people talk over people. The people desperately trying to prove that "men talk over women" using statistical analysis are all missing the point.

The first thing to do, before looking for sex differences, is to try and identify the reasons why people interrupt, because there are many of them and sometimes there are conflicting or related motives.

Gathering anecdotal evidence would be a starting point for articulating hypotheses. What are the conditions of the discussion? What is at stake? What is the expertise of the participants? What are the personality factors? What is the general conversational ability of each participant? How long is the attention span of each participant? What is the apparent purpose of each individual interruption?

There are so many factors you could look for before looking at sex differences. And would the sex differences persist when those factors were controlled for?
Sure, the idea is that now it's easy to mint your own currency to do stuff with. That wasn't so easy before! So Kik is minting a currency to serve as Weird Premium Kik Points, and GameCredits is minting a currency that you get by playing Candy Crush or whatever, and BAT is minting a currency that represents attention you paid to ads, and Augur is minting a currency that makes an incentive structure for reporting prediction market results, and so on.

This is plausibly better than if they had just rolled it by hand outside of Ethereum for a few reasons, e.g.

- You automatically have a way for users to trade real value for your currency via ETH. (This is probably easier for devs than setting up Paypal or Stripe integration, but harder today for users.)

- The currencies are something you have that's more tangible and auditable than an entry in some company's bespoke centralized database. Everyone can see it and believe in it.

- Users can easily send the currency to each other by default without all the transactions having to go through you. (I don't actually know whether this is a pro or a con for many use cases.)

- It's trivial to make interoperable software that accepts or holds or sends these currencies, like exchanges and wallets.

- The above facts probably mean that there is something like an open liquid market for your currency, if anyone cares about it. That means people can perform mutually beneficial trades! Mutually beneficial trades are mutually beneficial.

As to whether it's useful to have a bunch of currencies for different things, I think so? I mean, there already are a ton of things like this in software which behave as de facto currencies -- free-to-play games and MMOs are a good example -- and those seem like they would be well-suited to be ERC20-style tokens. And as someone who believes in incentive structures, I'm excited about the prospect of quantifying more things which are currently vagaries ("attention", "reputation", "compute time") into currencies with a market. Augur's design is a good example of this.
Wasn't this to be expected, though? I'm no way near being a lawyer but, as I understand it, intent is quite important in law. If you design something with the intent of breaking a law, it makes sense that you should be liable.

That being said, I'm no supporter of copyright law, and I think whoever depends on owning information to generate an income will have a very limited life span (decades, at most), since they're essentially fighting against technology. The Pirate Bay is extremely simple technology (web page+BitTorrent), and after a decade of fighting I can still access it because I don't use my ISP's DNS servers -- just imagine how long the next innovation will take to suppress in court.
Gets even cheaper if you:

1. Remember that most people don't care about how 'well written' an article is, and simply care that it tells them something they wanted to know about (or reaffirms their pre existing opinions).

2. Go even further and remember that most people don't even read the article to begin with. They just look at the title and icon on a social media site, and share it based on that. Quite a few really lazy fake news sites don't even write real articles. They just post attention grabbing headlines and simply have realistic seeming gibberish on the page itself.
Looks like this has been fixed.
I'll grant you that --but while that protects domestic workers it may hurt domestic industry in that some things would be cheaper to develop in locales with less unionization or simply lower labor costs.
I have to say, these RCA's of the various bugs are great for getting a better understanding of the internals of the language.

In a lot of ways it makes me trust Rust even more, because there is a deeper understanding of exactly how these guarantees are made.
Evidence that private air traffic control use/would use more modern tech?