skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm no astronomer, but interstellar mysteries are cool...so are stellar ones.
Ethical Questions for Marketers – Part 6
Wouldn't this paraphrase as "I have no power, so I will continue financially supporting them." ?

Consumers blame suppliers, suppliers blame consumers. No one has to do anything. Long live the status quo! :)
Which article?

Also, it literally applies here – since the fees for credit cards were reduced, ALDI and LIDL introduced payment with credit card (which wasn’t possible before at all at them). Same with REWE and coop.

How can you say it doesn’t apply if it literally happened.
What are some external comparisons?
At least for Google Photos, they don't usually give you the exact same bytes back. (At a very basic level, that protects against some attacks and also against your scheme.)

Of course, you could add enough coding theory to make it work.
First of all congratulations, I do believe that this is good step forwards.

I took a look at the tamarin model, and at least for me it looks pretty much impenetrable (no surprise there). Is it realistic to think that (any?) implementors can use the proven model as the primary reference when implementing the protocol? Especially if you'd strip away the comments, which are not proven to be correct and as such might be misleading?
So...fallout from the failed coup?
Some of those were on a no starch press humble bundle a while.back too
The majority of the Python programmers I know still use Python 2 for new projects.
Highly skilled programmers needed
highly skilled programmers needed to create a software tool
That seems pedantic. Even Cook's Illustrated for example has published taste testing of "vegan mayonnaise"

I personally would have thought that an eggless mayo thing that tastes good would have made the eggless thing a selling point but I guess not. Presumably they're trying to avoid the reflexive it can't be good if it doesn't have eggs in it.

(Personally I use Hellman's in any case.)
Predicting the stock market via Numeria datasets
Doesn't the placebo effect mean it makes some people objectively better (rather than subjectively) ?
The whole point was to put GALILEO on frequencies that overlap with military BeiDou and military GPS, so that no government could jam civilian GALILEO without jamming their own military tech.
Are you referring to Trump? I wasn't thinking of him at all, I was thinking about the polarization of society and the two-party system. Trump will pass fairly quickly. He might even shape up himself, although the presidency shouldn't be adult education. The two-party system, congress and the whole shitshow, on the other hand, will stay for a long long time.
> rather than never take any big risks

With kids at home? specifically?!

There are ways to enjoy life, or take "risks", that do not involve mortal danger.

> Do we need to look down upon astronauts who have children? What about pilots? .. Someone who commutes .. in a car that has a poor safety rating?

Are those as dangerous? If so, then yes, I think so.

> People who travel for work for days or weeks at a time?

People agonise about this all the time. But seeing the kids not very often is very different from dying and never seeing them again.

> The good news is that once you become a father, you'll get to decide (possibly with a partner) what the acceptable level of risk is for you and your family.

Oh, great. Does that mean we should also stop judging people about abuse and neglect too? I mean, fuck other peoples kids, right?
You seem to have a prevailing view of undeveloped counties as being there fundamentally because of their "own fault". This is very much akin to blaming the poor to being lazy or incompetent or stupid.

While its certainly true that a lot of countries don't have their shit together now, its also true that most undeveloped countries were either under foreign domination (e.g. Indian Subcontinent, most of Africa) or domination by proxy (e.g. China).

The moral of the story is: don't accept the propaganda of "International Financial Institutions" as existing strictly for the assistance of developing countries (their stated goal) but rather as a continuation of exertion of power over developing counties through financial means.
I second the reply above. I don't see much overlap between TAOSSA and Security Engineering. And I would absolutely recommend TAOSSA above Security Engineering. I'd almost go as far as to say that if you only read 1 book it should be TAOSSA, but really it depends what you want to do.

TAOSSA also has nothing to do with malware whatsoever. Are you perhaps thinking of a different book?

Also, I would point out that Shellcoders Handbook is extremely dated now. It was excellent in its time, but you won't be able to do much with that anymore. It could still be interesting background, but exploits and exploit mitigations have changed a lot in 13 years. We are talking Windows XP/2003 era.

For all of the flak that Applied Crypto gets, it's actually a very good book for what it is. It's just full of bad/outdated advice. For someone who wants a history lesson and plans to update their knowledge before engaging in malpractice based on what that book teaches, it's still a good read. Cryptography Engineering is a very different style of book. While also good, it doesn't get the reader excited about crypto in the way that Applied Cryptography did. AC also has quite a bit of background and explanation of very basic fundamentals, written for humans as opposed to programmers or math majors, that makes a lot of the ideas behind cryptography more accessible.
You haven't explained how the first case isn't "curve fitting": the agents performing the compilation of those facts into the new fact are just spitting out the "best" fit string of symbols based on learned rules, etc etc. Somethings computers can (theoretically) do, and which fits the description "curve fitting" just fine. School (and other education) is training the model they're using to do that compilation, but it's still just "curve fitting" based on reward/punishment signals.

What part of that can't an ML agent learn to do?

From my perspective, you're just describing the "higher order" layers of the network and pretending that humans aren't actually running those functions embedded on deep networks, then proclaiming that deep networks can't do it.
"peer to peer" payments don't require a blockchain: see Venmo, Square Cash, Facebook Messenger, PayPal, TransferWise, Uber (paying the driver), etc.

Exchange trading is not really using bitcoin, it is buying/selling bitcoin. This is like saying buying a car is an application of cars...

Having said that, Bitpay is processing more than I thought. The data in that article would mean it's about $5M per day... I'd love to see a breakdown of this to figure out why people are spending bitcoin for everyday things if it'd be better for them to just use a credit card (to get rewards, to not have to hold a volatile currency, for consumer protection, for faster payments, etc.)
I think that arguing in that manner with that username will be a very effective strategy, but not for your side.
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need it
Ask HN: Accessible issue tracking for the visually impaired?
I work with Bristol Braille Technology[1] on the Canute, a multi-line refreshable Braille e-book reader. My work is mainly on the user interface[2] which is an open source Python application.

We are using a mix of GitHub issues and emails at the moment and it doesn't seem great. GitHub issues are not easily viewable with a screen reader and emails are, well, emails. Right now we only have a couple of test users but we plan to scale this up when we finalize the design.

Do you know of any issue tracker that are user friendly and work well with screen readers?

[1]: http://bristolbraille.co.uk
[2]: https://github.com/Bristol-Braille/canute-ui
In the US the bank sends a notary free of charge with all your paperwork to sign. What a pain that you don't get this service!
NASA Doesn't Have Enough Money to Go to Mars. But SpaceX Can Help
Content is king in niche markets. One blog post can drive thousands of dollars in revenue. Its all about your market.
3 Real Safe Riding Tips for a Long Ride from Fellow Bikers
Looks like third party arbitration. Guessing it ends up being reputation enforced.
Redesigning GitLab's navigation
21 years of C++ here, give or take.

I haven't seen a C/C++ programmer who doesn't need that.
> I do struggle with what that line of thinking means for soldiers though.

It means exactly the same, but with millennia of cultural resistance to overcome before you can accept it.
American schools are doing what they're designed to do--crank out standard units of compliant citizens.

Cf "Underground History of American Education" by Gatto.

Or see some of PG's rants on the subject.
Content IS king... but the author has a different definition apparently. He should have named it "Vendor lock-in isn't king". People have choice now. The content is what matters, not the platform.
That is a very US centric view of the world. Google operates far beyond Comcast Verizon and AT&T.
Yes, people often overlook this, and it's evidence of just how absurd our copyright regime is. While big utility, resource, transportation, and retail companies may not have the best PR, it makes sense that they would be among the biggest operations in the world because they do things that are intricate, complicated, and irreducible. Every day they get the oil out of some hole in the arctic and into my local gas pumps, or they get a consumer good designed and built overseas onto a shelf in my local supermarket or shopping mall, etc.

These processes require precision, careful cost analysis, and ultimately employ 10s of thousands of people, all in the process of providing basic living essentials like food, transport, energy, medicine, etc.

What do Disney (#52 Fortune 500) or Time Warner (#95 Fortune 500) do that warrants their presence alongside the Pfizers (provides medication; #54) and 3Ms (provides all kinds of materials and plastics; #94) of the world? They throw mud at the wall until it sticks and then just rehash, rehash, rehash. It is far more profitable than any natural business, meaning a business that exist due to real market forces instead of artificially-imposed monopolies (without copyright, there is virtually unlimited supply to "content", making the market infertile at best).

We have given away the farm to content owners. Copyright must be substantially weakened. Content is only so grotesquely profitable because we threaten to imprison those persons who copy things without the consent of their local MegaCorp; that is, such transactions occur within a completely artificial marketplace. We need to fix this.
Given that Just Mayo looks like mayonnaise, tastes like mayonnaise and is substitutable for mayonnaise in every common use case, I don't see why you see this as an important difference. In programming terms, it duck-types as mayonnaise and conforms to the Mayonnaise interface. Forcing a different term because of an invisible quirk of manufacturing seems like splitting hairs.

Incidentally, the word "just" in their product names refers to the adjective related to "justice," not the term meaning "only." There is a note on the product explaining this.

(Edited to remove a comparison because I forgot people hate comparisons.)
I recently heard a funny quote: "Job stands for 'just over broke'"
It looks like this is only required for withdrawing to a national currency (USD, EUR, etc). Being able to trade between altcoins trustlessly is pretty neat.
If you are interested in doing this locally ( without IFTTT dependency ), I'd suggest checking out: https://github.com/stackvana/microcule
If you try to drill down to real specifics with these people, then eventually you have to give up because there aren't any. They're fixated on not having anything that looks or feels like a job. They can't be convinced that less drastic measures are necessary. They won't engage with their problems logically.

Hmm. I'm not going to say you're overgeneralizing, because you probably do have observational data behind your summation above. But even if it applies to the majority of "escapists" -- there's a significant percentage out there who not only do have plan; they make up for a good chunk of the truly brilliant and creative people who do anything truly interesting, at all.

The closest I can get to these people's underlying thought mechanics is that they just don't want to subordinate any time at all to anyone else. They want complete 100% control over all of their time. Which would be really nice, but c'mon now.

OK, now we're getting somewhere. But is it really that outlandish? There's this category of people known as "small business owners", you know - who basically fit that description. In fact, if you look around, there's quite a lot of them out there. In addition to, you know, genuinely creative people -- successful film makers, musicians and the like.

Are you saying they all should've just thrown in the towel, gotten a teaching job or something because... there's just no "there" in these pursuits they were almost blindingly attracted to?

C'mon now.
It is basically useless on my phone: page (and font) size changes periodically because of that animated ASCII thing at the bottom (and due to the fact that device is vertically oriented), and almost any attempt to zoom things through pinching results in moving two blocks around simultaneously instead.
> For a soldier, it's their duty

They accept that duty though, so it's the same thing - instead of "is it ok for a soldier to go to war" it's "is it ok to become a soldier".

> his tolerance for risk wrt cave diving is different than what you and I perceive

What does this mean?
Somewhat related: Google's efforts to speed up TCP.

"BBR: Congestion-Based Congestion Control" http://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=3022184
Yep, default variables and context are important to Perl. I like a lot of the design, but there is a lot of cruft that has piled up in 30 years. Perl6 addresses that while adding support for FP, OO, array programming, grammar based programming...etc. I find it quite pleasant to read and write. The problem is the implementation is immature and I'm not sure it will ever be as fast as we need for a production language.
Joint Comments of [EFF Et Al]  on the Technical Flaws in the FCC’s Notice [pdf]
I'm pretty sure the oil is the unhealthy part of mayo, not the egg.
From the readme I'm getting that you find someone to buy Bitcoins from. Agree with them a method of payment. Buy coins. For added protection appoint an arbitration person and set up escrow using multi sigs.

A bit like gumtree for Bitcoin?
I didn't realize was such a regional thing :-) We also have Cain's in Massachusetts.
From their website[1]:

The Top 3%

"Everyone at Toptal has a proven track record and elite industry experience. There are Toptalers from Wharton, MIT, CERN, and Google, as well as Django committers, Top 100 Rails contributors, leading global designers and art directors, professors, founders and more."

Holy crap man I'm not even going to bother, I'm none of that.

Impostor syndrome intesifies

[1] https://www.toptal.com/top-3-percent
Because there is no waste...
The infrequent pollings were an irritating aspect of IFTTT. Also, I wished for more advanced functionality similar to what Yahoo Pipes provided.
Woops. Sorry John. :)

The graduation of your cohort was pretty amazing, though I'll say you being a mixologist during the event would be a welcome improvement. :)
> Legal: No. These are copyrighted works after all.

At least in Germany, Austria and Switzerland it is completely legal (under some restrictions) if you do it for yourself. Here is the German Wikipedia article on this topic:

> https://de.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Privatkopie&oldid...
As Paperwork Goes Missing, Private Student Loan Debts May Be Wiped Away
Sure thing.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ski_rental_problem

[...] The ski rental problem is the name given to a class of problems in which there is a choice between continuing to pay a repeating cost or paying a one-time cost which eliminates or reduces the repeating cost. [...]
Or to be more specific: verify that the protocol satisfies the properties you want from it (i.e security, robustness, what-have-you), then verify the implementation correctly implements the protocol.
Speaking of Larry Wall (creator of Perl) above, "the search for the perfect language" is his favorite book I believe.
> On a personal level, if I were lending money to a desperate down-and-out friend who had exhaused all the normal sources of credit including their family, I would probably also ask for lifestyle changes before giving them money.

While it might seem reasonable from a personal perspective, I don't think it really applies when you're considering an entire country (or any sovereign entity, for that matter). This mistake has been made before, and in many fields, so I don't blame you particularly (e.g. we think of personal indebtedness as "immoral" but deficit spending has largely been shown to be bountiful and a net positive when managed correctly).

I'm personally not well versed in economics or genius enough to suggest alternatives, but I just wanted to point out that kind of fallacy when thinking about these things.
Full disclosure: 2.5y ago I worked at HC for 8m

You're right that the FDA definition of mayonnaise requires egg. This comes from depression-era laws where people were passing fraudulent products off as the real thing. I think those laws still matter, but kind of miss the point here.

As a different way to look at it, imagine a sort of food Turing Test. If it looks like the thing, it behaves like the thing in every meaningful way, and its taste is indistinguishable from the thing, is it not the thing? Maybe, maybe not, but I think it's an interesting question worth exploring.
citizens labeled illegals: 1,000,000

illegals labeled citizens: 0.01
Making sure I'm following your last sentence -- "centralizing force" because of the power miner teams wield over the blockchain? (Electricity power = control of network)
Missing out? I believe anybody who won't bother to compile and send the paperwork does not care enough to contribute good code anyways. There is a working, functional, and pleasing system for those who do actual work, why should a project like emacs (or any other open source project, really) chase the newest fad bargaining the layman's attention and his two lines of patch? What arrogance people show in trying to bend every project to their liking, and going as far as threathening to not do the contributions that they already aren't doing... Good god.
Haha, hiking in mountains helps me relax a lot. But whatever else people find up in Colorado... must be enjoyable too.
> There are ways to enjoy life, or take "risks", that do not involve mortal danger.

Depends on how you look at it.

We are fragile creatures and the world is a fairly dangerous place. People die every day driving cars, riding bikes, going for walks—doing things far more mundane than cave-diving.
Ask HN: Who uses JSON Patch?
Free Hadoop Instance for Practice (IBM Analytics Demo Cloud)
you won't need a load balancer... it will just serve infinite scale (effectively) as they take care of that automatically.
What it costs to run an independent video game store
> Concourse looks good on the surface but it's really not that great.

I've used teamcity, jenkins, gocd, circleci, concourse, and travisci. For multi-project systems, concourse is king. (I like travisci for by-itself, non-system projects)

> The UI is clunky.

What? You just said the UI looks good... It's simple and clean; everything is async javascript (no page loads).

> The abstraction layer is too low and leads to a lot of repeated YAML. Which leads to YAML programming.

Which is an intentional choice. If you don't like YAML, use one of the MANY yaml abstraction layers of your choice...

> There are simple scenarios like deployment rollbacks who are hard to do.

First of all, a CI system shouldn't be your answer to rollbacks. Your deployment system should handle that. Secondly, assuming your deployment system can do rollbacks, concourse has on-fail jobs that can trigger rollbacks just fine.

> For some reason they decided to develop their own container engine which leads to all sorts of trouble and maintenance issue. It's generally slow and we had 100% CPU usage when the worker was doing almost nothing.

garden is used because cloudfoundry builds it. It is not slow... it is a light layer on top of runc (as opposed to docker which is a rather heavy layer on top of runc). You should pretty much never have to care about it, and in 3 years of using concourse I haven't had to - and we have some pretty gnarly large pipelines.

Also I call rubbish on your 100% CPU. I have two workers t2.xlarge workers running 22 and 30 containers (like, right NOW) and neither is above 10% CPU (which, actually, I should make those a lot smaller). Don't run workers on a potato and you'll be fine.

> Gitlab CI is much better. Or even Jenkins is better.

Ohhh you're trolling.
Well, where do you draw the line? It is safer to stay inside than outside. A padded room is safer than a normal roof.

Should all parents stay in a padded room?

I think everyone has a different place for the line.
The stars are not a constant though. In virtually any suburban area you have substantial amounts of light pollution. We are seeing a pale imitation of what every human living before us saw.

You really have to go quite far off the beaten path to reach a true dark-sky area. Unless you are living a 20 minute drive from the nearest town of 250 and an hour away from the nearest town of 100k+ then you have some degree of light pollution.

https://www.lightpollutionmap.info
I'm not sure either are unhealthy in reasonable quantities. But historically there was the eggs=cholesterol and cholesterol=bad thing. And there are vegans.
I've had an manager once tell me, "I hear your request for a raise, but my hands are tied because 'the book' says we cannot pay you more." They actually had a physical book and you could look down the list and find "Senior Software Engineer" and there it was: The maximum salary they could pay!
Yes, interestingly the idea of preference for simplicity is a medieval invention - not a universal truth. It served the rational program well for eight hundred years, but now we have infernal engines we can abandon it. I think that the late enlightenment test of theories that generate a clutch of non trivial testable predictions is going to prove more useful in the future.
Miracle Whip has eggs. Granted it is the sixth ingredient listed while on Hellman's it is the third, but both have eggs.
"Entrepreneurs are the crazy people who work 100 hours a week so they don’t have to work 40 hours for someone else" (https://twitter.com/richardbranson/status/488646661326245888)
People in the US have a disproportionate amount of money so serving them ads provides Google disproportionate value.

Could they exist without the US market, Maybe, I don't know. But I can't imagine they want to go without it.
> myself an average to slightly above-average developer

His point was that everybody thinks this about themselves. This is the "I'd rate myself about a 8/10" thing.
speaking of bug fixes, might check the spelling of your "The Service" button. ;)
My client wanted it that way. And they also pre-booked hours until mid of december. I guess they try what they can to keep talent.
too complex for humans to create the models unassisted?
Even more frustratingly, if you're on a VPN or such, it takes even longer. When at the Chaos Communication Congress (whose uplink goes over a VPN) I gave up after some 3-5 minutes of trying to solve an image classification reCAPTCHA.