skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No reason to do so when world clearly shows all one need to do is to stick "private", "secure", "end-to-end encrypted", "anonymous" etc labels (and keep buzzwords up-to-date with current year's trends) and just don't do something too obviously contradicting that.

That's really sad but seem to be true. Too many examples out there.
I mean, sure, but don’t act like you’re changing the world. This is nothing more than marketing. Also, 5 seconds of thinking would tell you that a juice box has more packing efficiency than a bottle.

(I also have had a bad experience with Soylent)
My suspicion as well, how do they get the color palette so on point. Did a google image search, seems like this blog post are the very first one to use those images, so they must have talked with Google's PR team, otherwise they must have an excessive budget to spend their designers' time to advocate other people's products.

I doubt it is for free.

EDIT: they even get AWS's color palette right:

https://cdn-images-1.medium.com/max/1600/1*ypBcvVoRIWfirQTBq...

The person on the left.

https://cdn-images-1.medium.com/max/1600/1*YrtTkA-xV_eincZV6...

See the machine on the right, it resembles the yellowish color for AWS.
Shill Bidding on Namejet Exposed – $100m in Shill Bids
Video games, especially competitive ones, do this to limit the effect of randomness on the outcome of the game, while still keeping the sequence of random events unpredictable enough to "feel" random and preventing simple exploits.

DoTA2 uses a simple distribution based on the number of "rolls" since the last successful one - P(N) = P0 * N, where P0 is the base probability and N is the number of rolls since the last successful one[1].

It keeps both "hot" and "cold" streaks from being too much of an issue, although that doesn't stop players from cursing the RNG gods when they lose.

[1] http://dota2.gamepedia.com/Random_distribution
Why not have the machines presented to the clients or other interfaces by a virtual IP from an application delivery controller such as F5's BigIP or similar? And then remove the dependency on static NIC's on a virtual appliance?

Seems counter intuitive to run virtual appliances on static addresses if it can be avoided.
Is the only way I can "respond to something you actually wrote" by repeating key words and phrases from your post? I reject your notion of "mostly anonymous" as essentially impossible to distinguish from "not anonymous."
This is not "now" a thing. It's been a thing there for years.
Question merged to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14808712

Short version: we're open to it. This said, normally house head training to work under our systems is longer and we like to have somebody experienced shadow the new person for a few months before going solo. We were worried about the timeline, so we were considering just selling the company that runs the location we live in.
Time for an Annoying Nerdy Rant!

Randomness is what makes a game more realistic but true randomness will not make it more likable. True randomness dictates that in half of your games, your players will have a harder time achieving anything.

It is not uniformity of results that the players are looking for, it is uniformity of successes weighted by the importance of the rolls. Failing a perception check in an empty room is less important than failing a dodge roll in the final fight on your last health point.

Many games suggest that the gamemaster cheats on some crucial rolls. More games propose an alternate system that biases rolls based on points systems. Some others even replace totally the dices with a points system.

I really prefer those. A very simple biased rolls system I often use (Dk2) is that GM can emphasize the action of dangerous NPCs by adding special D6 dices to a D20 roll (they are special as they only give +3 or +6 on 3 and 6 and +0 on other results). Once used, these dices are added to a pool that the players can use for their actions.

Anyway, my favorite system is Amber Diceless RPG. It trades randomness for secrets. Every player is a bit of a backstabing asshole who does not show all their skills on any action. If someone has 30 in strength, they may just announce 10 if they think it is enough for the action.

The winner in a fight is the one with the bigger score. Add bonus if they use some kind of trick or ambushes (recommended). It is surprisingly interesting for such a simple system.
Interesting read and not my area of expertise, but it sounds like a bunch of hypotheticals built on top of other hypotheticals. And, of course, I didn't read the scientific paper behind it[0] so I'm sure some of my misgivings on this "research" are due to the filter it's been presented through but it felt like this whole "an advanced alien civilization uploaded itself into a computer in a post-biological move" technology would be a whole lot bigger of a problem to solve than the "cooling down a system to achieve system processing performance required".

I couldn't help but laugh, though, in that the first thing that came to mind was The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy reference to the inhabitants of the legendary planet of Magrethea who went into hibernation to wait out the galactic economic collapse. Maybe that's the real reason they're sleeping!

[0] Which means the "telephone game" of this author's interpretation of the paper in order to write a story that will generate clicks is at play here.
The blog announcement from Parity:

https://blog.parity.io/security-alert-high-2/
Yeah, I stopped reading about 1/4 of the way down the page after feeling like I was reading an advertisement. But I did the exact same thing, and spent three times as long looking for credentials on the author as I did looking at the article.
"- You also escape having your income determined by the market for labor, and instead have it determined by the market for your product."

one of the most insightful comment on the concept of value ive read in my 34+ years.
Unlimited data plans is exactly what those limits are there to try and protect.
None of that is true at all. Rolling it back would do nothing for anybody affected, so there's no way a consensus would form. That and a majority of the hacked accounts were prevented loss by whitehats as things look now.
I'm not asking you to listen to the pleas of addicts. I'm asking you to accept the medical literature and the opinions of addiction specialists.

Also, you seem inordinately focused on the physical aspects of withdrawal and the moral fortitude required to endure it. I suspect that the professionals would tell you that that's less than 1% of the struggle.
Anyone else feeling slightly uneasy with the exciting and "disruptive" plan of ushering a population of 1.3 billion into the glorious era of the fossil-fuelled car ?

Seems exactly what the world needs right now.
They do sell a powder if you want to mix it up yourself. Then you aren't shipping a lot of water around. But a bladder/bag wouldn't be portable which would defeat the purpose of the convenient mixed option.
Apparently people are putting their domain names on NameJet.com and allegedly bidding on their own domain name auctions.
You can drive a Scooter with a _very_ limited power and top speed at 16. They're safer because they don't go any faster than someone with a road bike can cycle.
The contract code is immutable. The code that you agree to can be pretty complicated though and might not do exactly what you think it does.

In this case, by some stupid mistake the contract allowed anyone at all to change who was considered an owner of a wallet.

The code wasn't changed; one of the functions it specified was used to change a variable.
The "chilling series of messages" takes you to a link which details how File sharing through iTunes on Windows specifically was affected and that a similar file transfer product on Windows iMazing was able to fix to fix it by simply normalizing before transferring.
( The "bag of bytes" response from Apple asks developers to do exactly that btw )

That begs the question that why iTunes itself ( on Windows ) wasn't able to do the same thing as iMazing ?

Anyway that's moot now - As mentioned earlier in this thread iOS 10.3.3 and iOS 11 are changing behaviour w.r.t. this.
I think the HN audience is more diverse than your blue state drum beating image.
Just because they are making one change that isn't exactly like Chrome doesn't mean that they aren't generally copying Chrome . That very much looks like the general design philosophy that they are borrowing from Chrome.

I know you had to "turn on" pocket. That doesn't counter my argument.

I also don't care what agreement FF with Chrome. It's still shitty to do, especially if your selling point is privacy. Having a special agreement doesn't make doing shady things with your user's data OK.

But I don't see how they aren't "copying Chrome". One of them is using another product that is made by the same creator as Chrome, the other copying the "here's a feature that nobody wants that sends your data elsewhere" which, AFAIK, they didn't do before Chrome started doing it.

I strongly disagree that rapid releases are necessary. What issue came up that needed to be implemented within one FF release cycle?

toggle-able options were way back when FF used to have different settings in the options page where you could make changes to the UI, functionality, etc. Almost all of those are gone now for a "simplified" set of options.
That would require the US to have a functioning justice department.
Like "previous discussions" on reddit
Could anyone give a breakdown on why it's more expensive (and where the money goes)? Interesting stuff.
That's a great point. It will be interesting to see what they do here. My bet is that they cover their interests, with an outside chance that they make up some kind of BS about percentage of ethereum in circulation vs the size of the fraud.
> Anybody who has actually dealt with any of this stuff in production knows that Amazon is the industry leader for a reason and that Google is way, way back in third place.

Though I haven't worked with either cloud extensively (I mainly play with them for pet projects), I think that's an overly strong and awfully generalized assertion. There are a number of other, less Google-press-release, experiences around that show a preference for Google.

Instead of saying "anybody knows", could you offer some actual reasons you believe AWS to be superior? That would be much more constructive and appreciated.

I'll start by saying that I find AWS' control panel infuriating to use but complete in functionality while Google's is much nicer to use but often lacks features, annoyingly forcing you to use their command line tools. I also find Google's built in quotas to be too low to actually do much with it and I hate that I had to "apply" for an increase. On the other hand, I like Google's billing much more than AWS; their sustained use discounts are easy to figure out and don't require an upfront commitment, which as an individual I'm not likely to want to pay for.
"Only a handful of lenders playing at this level"

There are many lenders playing at "this level," presuming that by "this level" you're referring to the market for sovereign debt.

The area where there are only a handful of "players" is lending to countries that are very high credit risks. And for good reason. What rational investor would lend money to a party clearly unable to pay it back? None. That's a death wish.

Except of course when governments guarantee that party's credit for political reasons. Usually the arguments for such "support" include precepts that the free market leaves some nations behind, and so intervention is justified.

But the intervention, as we have seen quite often with the IMF itself, can do more harm than good.

And by the way, many "undeveloped" countries have respectable credit ratings (http://www.oecd.org/trade/xcred/cre-crc-current-english.pdf).
They are usable externally. The Realview boards use it to connect a CPU chip with an external northbridge, but it's really rare. Even in that case, it's just because the Realview board is meant to prototype SoCs with the help of an FPGA.
Chromium TO Get Support for MP3
> people with a job to do

No such thing. A job, like an order, is not something that actually exists outside of the actions of people. Both the people giving orders and the ones following them remain responsible. They can pretend to leave the court room by dozing off but they remain in it for those who haven't, and what you seem to see as "putting blame" is simply pointing out what is already present and cannot be removed.
Cool! TIL!
Soylent pretends to be things it isn’t. This is easily one more example. This post reeks of “hipster”: name dropping of famous aesthetic designs, space references, black and white photos of milk bottles, some mathematical looking diagrams, talk of perfectionism (two years development)?

This is a marketing ad, nothing more.

“the same complete nutrition you have come to expect from Soylent”
http://www.teemingbrain.com/2013/05/09/orson-welles-on-chart... This particular video is worth watching even if you don't watch the whole movie.
"because I've experimented and I know what works with childcare and what doesn't"

hm...
The article makes some good points though:

That’s like getting a turkey to vote for Christmas right?
In fact IT is the department least accustomed to being automated.
"We’re the guys who automate everyone else aren’t we? What’s this — now our own jobs are at risk? Woah."
But it’s happening regardless and IT will resist it like all the other departments did. It’s human nature.

But the conclusion is... Unsettling, to say the least:

Enter the CFO who, in my recent experience, is the voice of reason.
Now, more than ever, I see CFOs taking the lead in arbitrating technology decisions. This is the correct approach. IT must relearn the vocabulary of business: money.

Has a good CFO ever been a decisive factor in why a startup succeeds? I'm not saying they're not valuable, but if the CFO is making your technology decisions then it seems like you've already lost.
Especially when the odds are that it will happen again soon.
Yes, I agree that the method that OCI v1.0 & Docker v2.2 has of telling you ahead of time "you must fetch all of these objects and they will be this size" in a compact single metadata only format is the best option. Then it is up to the fetching code to choose the best way to pipeline or parallelize.
I wasn't aware that Mozilla shares every single web page you visit with Google. Do you have a source?
iOS 11 will include QR code support in the native camera app.
Both Google and Amazon charge based on compute heft per second (Amazon in GB-seconds, Google in a mix of GB-seconds and GHz-seconds). When you multiply that out, it overtakes EC2 pricing at a point; I've done the math out for different types of sites before, and it obviously varies by stack, but you hit those breakpoints a lot sooner than you might otherwise expect. One project's workload was something like 10 req/sec and the Lambda costs were more than three load-balanced m4.larges (edit: load-balanced for fault tolerance more than load) due to RAM usage that was per-request in Lambda but amortized across all requests on instances.

Serverless stuff can make a lot of sense for low-utilization tasks under this model, but for applications with nontrivial load you may be paying for a lot of GB-seconds on an ongoing basis. Couple that with the additional latency inherent to spin-up times when putting Lambda behind an HTTP endpoint, and it also runs the risk of being a kinda-janky experience for the user, too (though this can be mitigated), and I'm very not-a-fan past toy/proof-of-concept problems.
Apple might have some good products, but a lot of bad ones as well with a whole lot of marketing and devoted fans that will wait in line all night for it, so really not that different.
If the driver risk compensates, as suggested in research below, the risk to people in the car stays the same by having fewer accidents in less safe cars but the risks to other road users also decrease.

Also, the driving and road culture in most lower income developing countries are very different from those in developed countries.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-lock_braking_system#Eff...

"Anti-lock brakes are the subject of some experiments centred around risk compensation theory, which asserts that drivers adapt to the safety benefit of ABS by driving more aggressively. In a Munich study, half a fleet of taxicabs was equipped with anti-lock brakes, while the other half had conventional brake systems. The crash rate was substantially the same for both types of cab, and Wilde concludes this was due to drivers of ABS-equipped cabs taking more risks, assuming that ABS would take care of them, while the non-ABS drivers drove more carefully since ABS would not be there to help in case of a dangerous situation.[26]"
Check out his profile.
Meanwhile, the people who fleeced the old system know all the tricks and they get a chance at doing it again before the regulations kick in.
Why Sitting at Your Computer All Day Can Wipe You Out
Note that Mozilla is working more closely with the Tor project with an eye towards making it easier for more people to get the privacy enhancing benefits of browsing over the Tor network.
It's worth pointing out that you can always reply to a comment on its own page, regardless of whether the reply link exists in the main thread.
Unfortunately, you are correct about that -- it isn't a mainstream view at all, which is why I share it during relevant discussions.

However, the fact that a narrative with political implications is "mainstream" does nothing for its credibility. I try to understand how these things work and while it's a pretty nebulous domain, the factors I presented are what seem to be the most significant I've seen in explaining the behavior of the real estate market, and further, the market at large, in '01-'08.

We are both rightfully upset that the crisis "somehow led to trillions of dollars missing" --
while paper wealth and market cycles are inevitable, the magnitude and 'unfairness' of this event is clearly a problem. However, when you then confidently assert the cause: "banks got really creative, a bunch of people made nice bonuses, then when their fancy leveraged mechanisms went bad, we all had to bail them out" without any details or refutation of the explanation I posted, to which you were responding...

Well, what I read was "I'm not sure what happened but I don't like it [rightfully so], and this narrative gives me an easy scapegoat -- an evil, shadowy figure, of sorts -- to blame, which seems to absolve me of needing to understand any of the mechanics involved, and which also happens to validate my pre-existing political beliefs."
Unfortunately this is no different to any other car sold at the same price point in India. There isn't anything special about this price (other than clickbait for Westerners) - other cars like the Suzuki Alto which also don't come with airbags as standard cost the same.
My company (https://pelorushealth.com) is a remote case-management/recovery coach app suit for people who are recovery from substance abuse, namely opioids and alcohol.

One of our biggest blockers has been the existing recovery industry. Addiction is so stigmatized that getting people to use an app on their phone, even after treatment, is problematic because they feel like the data could get out that they're an addict. This is another reason more research isn't done. These existing facilities literally don't collect data - much less use it in any relevant way.

Value-based payments and growing oversight from insurance companies is changing that somewhat. These facilities are starting to be required to report outcomes data - so from a business perspective we're good. But man this industry and it's privacy/secrecy are something else.
I didn't know it went that far east. So it pretty much completely changed the course of events instead of just delaying progress for a few decades...interesting.
Bitmovin (YC S15) Is Hiring a Video Solution Architect in San Francisco
It's not ironic at all - two men profiting on their notoriety, long after their 15 minutes of fame were up. This is not meant as a slight on Leary, just an observation.

Irony I think would be that Liddy ended up at the same correctional facility as Leary. [1]

It's worth noting that both were convicted felons which severely limits your work prospects in the US, so speaking engagements made good sense for both.

https://www.nypl.org/blog/2012/08/15/transmissions-timothy-l...
CoreML from Scratch
I feel like that would be a good idea, to know more about what went into a design, but I fear that we would just end up with tons and tons of Apple-like videos, British accent and all. Then the neat factor gets alluded by marketing spin.
Because we are talking about block security. Security is not on a per day basis, its on a block basis.

people don't make race attacks on a "day" they make a race attack on a block or series of blocks.
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That's not how they vote.
As a kid my dad and I would bow hunt these. They have a certain season where they'll breach the surface, letting you get an arrow off easily. We'd smoke them and fill up an entire refrigerator in the basement (No limit as they are invasive), pretty decent tasting.
The redesigned Firefox for Android was roundly praised as the best Android browser for a while. (It's still very good!) It gained very little market share. Unfortunately it's very hard to compete with defaults these days without paying for distribution deals like Google is doing with Chrome.
Because we are talking about security of blocks and block scarcity, there is no limit on the space "per day", its all per block, similarly people don't make race attacks on a day, they make race attacks on a block.
I teach at Stanford though not in CS. I think this headline is a bit off. There is a CS 106J class that follows the CS 106A curriculum using JS instead of Java, but as far as I know, the CS 106A Java curriculum has not been tossed out for the academic calendar of 2017-2018 (syllabuses aren't up yet, so I can't confirm).

As the article states, CS 106J was spearheaded by Professor Roberts this past year. I would imagine it'd take some more time for it to become a curriculum that all of the profs teach, though JS is being used in several other CS classes. For example, CS 142: Web Applications, used to be taught with Rails:

https://web.stanford.edu/~ouster/cgi-bin/cs142-winter14/inde...

Now it's taught with MEAN (Mongo, Express, Angular, and Node): http://web.stanford.edu/class/cs142/info.html
Or more like $10/y, through a PositiveSSL reseller.
The article is arguing that the $4k Renault is as disruptive in India as the Tesla is in the US. That seems like a reasonable claim.
A lot of people get into DRUGS out of boredom.

When drugs can be used to change how you feel people often will to escape negative feelings. Replace boredom with depression, anxiety, pain, it's all similar.

It's all about escapism.
I wonder if the change to the filesystem is why my phones performance feels so sucky the last few months. I have an iPhone 6. it starting hanging for several seconds at various times. It didn't used to suck this much.
Do you imagine this is different in any other part of the world? In the West, if you run someone down and even kill them, you will often escape any serious penalty.
Clever trick to host all their blog images on imgur. My only wonder is if they legally licensed those Dieter Rams and Kubrick images?