skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You know what the GP meant.

And even today, if you take a random poke at Eurasia map, there's an overwhelming chance to end up in the middle of Siberian forest with no cell reception.
Tech.eu Releases European Tech Funding and Exits Report for Q2 2017
Sorry for the maybe silly question, but why does one need a decompiler? Isn't it easier to look an disassembly from tools like objdump? The example from the Hello World decompilation does not look significantly more readable to me than a disassembly (with some basic knowledge of assembler).
Also, we sent a number of ideas/suggestions to DOTS. And I do not think that our feedback was taken into consideration.
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The smaller community subs really are great, though. I follow college football, and throughout last fall - in the heart of the election - politics was never visible on /r/cfb. It was all good, relevant content about the college football season.
Mine doesn't seem as straightforward. It goes into "clean this space" mode and does the parallel pattern, but also seems to do a lot of, "hey, what's in this direction" randomly.

It's not the top end model though
Not my field either but prima facie it does seem suspiciously close to good-old hallucinated feedback-like techniques, POMDPs, etc in the planning / ML-oriented robotics community (see e.g. [1]). Didn't read too carefully though...

[1] Boots, et al. (2011) Closing the learning-planning loop with predictive state representations. http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0278364911404092
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Even if you do accept variable pricing based on use, the data cap strategy doesn't make sense. Why not just charge more when the network is stressed? At least consumers could be incentivized to make efficient use of the network.
Shipping with prime has gotten much less appealing lately. It used to be seeing that logo meant it was coming tomorrow, or maybe the next day - now it's almost useless, as even third party sellers can show up as prime shipping. Lots more "available if you spend 30 dollars" prime choices now too, where that 30 dollars has to be in similar tier prime level products.

Trying to win free shipping as a paying prime member is now often a game of trying to be clever - the game they really, really want you to play. I'm growing more and more tired of it, but for now - the time saved going to places locally or site-hopping to find the best deal is still worth more to me, but "for now" means that it's basically under review - that game playing is really making me evaluate that convenience/cost balance..
From John Cowan's list of "Essentialist Explanations", credited to Kapitano Eglefino (http://vrici.lojban.org/~cowan/essential.html#Esperanto):
"Esperanto is essentially English, French, German, Spanish, Italian, Russian, Latin, and Greek, invented by someone who speaks English, French, German, Spanish, Italian, Russian, Latin, Greek...and Polish."
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Yes, and the person I was replying to works in a place that seems to allow users to install random software from the internet. Thats 99.99% of your attack surface, why not restrict that?

I'm not going to get into the details of sandboxing here, but needless to say managed applications running in a sandbox are a big improvement over unmanaged, unsigned applications running with admin rights.
I guess you can say that Ethereum is also in the "strong and stable" category.
I did get a job in the UK in elixir. So definitely exist.
I would suspect not too badly.
I’m so excited and proud to announce the launch of my latest side project Popcoin, a usage based billing service built to be the best way to get paid for just about anything It’s built on top of the Stellar SDK and utilizes Stripe Connect. It was built as part of this year’s 3rd Stellar Build Challenge.

== What does it do? ==
At it’s core Popcoin is a usage based billing service. You identify users within your product and then create micro charges within that product to slowly (or quickly) use up individual user’s credits. Things like, “view this page, charge 1 credit”, “call this API endpoint, bill 0.17 credits”, “download this song, spend 13 credits”, “every month, burn 100 credits”, “read this article, expense 7.65 credits”. It’s completely up to you how, when and why credits are burned for users as it’s just API charge calls to the Popcoin network. As soon as a user attempts to take an action that would put them below a threshold you’ve set within Popcoin we’ll send out a customizable refill email. Once that invoice is filled we’ll reload the user’s credit, slip out our fees and pass the rest on to you.

== What does it cost? ==
Popcoin has a fixed fee of 5% per invoice. This added on top of Stripe’s already low fees of 2.9% + 30¢ per transaction will leave you with loads of cash for the piggy. As an example if a user were to clear a $10 invoice, Stripe would take 59¢ and Popcoin would take 50¢, leaving you with $8.91.

== How does it work? ==
Popcoin operates on three core services. Stellar, Stripe and the Popcoin API.

Stellar acts as the financial undergirding for Popcoin. Providing a tokenization engine much like Bitcoin or Ethereum. Within their network Popcoin creates and maintains a network of accounts which give and receive a token unique to Popcoin. Stellar acts as the financial ledger keeping track of who has what and how much.

Stripe acts as the currency platform allowing Popcoin to move from tokens, cryptocurrencies and computers to cold hard cash in your bank account. Their service Stripe Connect is a top notch tool allowing Popcoin to safely, securely and in a controlled, maintained environment move money from your users to you. All without you ever having to really do much of anything beyond creating an initial connection.

The Popcoin API is the last piece of the puzzle and while it might sound tricky or feel like black magic at times. It’s actually just simple, smart and straightforward. You give us a user and then begin spending their credit balance.
I work for a SAAS company that uses MS SQL. I've heard over an over that ops and management loves MS SQL but hates Windows.

MS SQL is the product that people are choosing, not Windows. Why should the MS SQL team force people to choose Windows?
How NASA brought the monstrous F-1 “moon rocket” engine back to life (2013)
They should know that not all cars break down two times a month on average and that black smoke is definitively not a feature.
I use Amazon now as an eBay replacement for specific hard to find items. I wanted a heavy duty cabana-style beach umbrella. Amazon was the best place to find it by far.

For just about everything else, Amazon doesn't really offer a great price and the "convenience" value isn't really worth it anymore to me. I can't order lots of routine stuff due to the fraud issues. Even books are usually cheaper at the local bookstore these days.
pretty cool tool
> 82% of business applications used to be written with COBOL or FORTRAN.

'used to be' being the key words here. PHP is __still__ being used.

> PHP has vastly out-lived its welcome.

Care to explain why you believe that? C is older than PHP and is still around.

> but it's an example of a language that's got a better tool-set than PHP ever will.

Don't know about the PHP toolset you have been using, but I take Composer over Maven any day. If you are talking about IDE support, PHP7 IDE support is as good as Java IDE support. Can you give me examples of tools that are better in Java?

> The debugging tools for Java are really amazing because writing good, threaded Java code can be wickedly hard. The tools for PHP are absolutely anemic by comparison because it's never had the same exposure to enterprise environments.

PHP web applications use a process-based model, therefore debugging threads is irrelevant.

> I'm no fan of Java, but if you're writing Java, you may as well write Java.

I recommend you try out the latest Spring framework(Java) and then go try out the latest Symfony(PHP) and you'll see why you would want to use PHP in some cases despite it having similar OOisms.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LdOcXXB48fI

I watched this video a few days ago and my wife was sitting next to me on her own laptop distractedly listening to what I was watching and remarked it was a really good easy to understand explanation of blockchain.

The part near the end about software verification was really eye opening for me. I'd never considered the use cases of blockchains and the impact they can have outside of crypto-currencies.

I've been reading about and investing in crypto-currencies (mainly ETH) for almost a year now. I'm a software developer so seeing the promise in the technology is easier for me than my wife.
Well, if your policy allows installing random apps from the Internet but forbids installing sandboxed and vetted apps, then you're not making any sense, regardless of whether the latter type of apps may still be a risk.
They've been in MIT Kerberos for years now (since 2009 I think?). And at least partly in Heimdal for around the same time.
Verbing weirds language.

Is "est" acceptable Esperanto? I thought that it had to be "Anna estas bela"?
Yay, at minimum 7 Mb freed up going forward. People will remember this joyous occasion, would rate 10/10 again.
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A veteran ICE agent, disillusioned with the Trump era, speaks out
Easier to turn back into editable code, change it, recompile it, port to another processor without having to implement a binary translator, just a few ideas.
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Why would people need mixers if you can use shapeshift and monero ? Monero is anonymous, it solves the problem i guess
My feelings are similar. Current AI seems to be the infinite monkey theorem put into practice. I'm not saying it doesn't work, it obviously is, but I wonder what the limitations of it are. When do we start running out of monkeys too the point that only nation states, and companies with the resources of one, are able to achieve the next level?
I don't think it makes sense to say "the x direction and i direction" about the number "x + iy". How about "the 1 direction and i direction"?
> But people in tech who think this is just going to sail through aren't in touch with how the majority of people look at the world... they're sort of like the folks who thought Google Glass would be a smashing success.

Maybe, maybe not. We've seen tech outpace regulation many times - Facebook and privacy, Uber and taxis, e-mail and spam, etc.
I believe the popular quote with Erlang is that Erlang makes hard things easy & easy things hard. Elixir was built around the idea of keeping the easy things easy. It does so by improving syntax, tooling, documentation & community in my opinion.

I believe I first read this idea in the book, Elixir in Action.
> It's like condemning engineers for enabling governments and corporations to spy on us and constantly erode our privacy.

I don't agree with your actions, but I definitely agree with your statement. It's like judging people for paying less taxes via loopholes, yet it's perfectly legal. We focus on judging the action, rather than fixing the problem.

In this case, judging you for using a broken system, akin to tax loopholes, may not be "good" - but it's certainly not the root of the problem. Judging you would, at best, just cause one more "victim" (for lack of a better word), and completely ignore the root cause.

We as a nation need to - at the very least - focus equally on the root cause as much as those doing something we don't like. In this case, the company and/or Amazon are far more meaningful and fruitful subjects to lay blame on. Forcing one person to keep an item is not going to fix anything but ensure they have a wasted money, and have 1 bad review in a likely sea of reviews. A possibly insignificant digit. Yet, if the company is accurately called out, if Amazon are accurately called out, we may see real change.

I assume we blame you because it's easy. "Don't dodge taxes!" we scream. Yet, it's our laziness that enables tax dodgers due to ultimately ignoring and not fixing the root problems.
> And there are four major competitors in the market (more than in say search or social media).

Social media and search seem to exhibit signs of monopoly as well.
Superintelligence, The Idea That Eats Smart People: http://idlewords.com/talks/superintelligence.htm
Will users' revolt stop this advancement? I'm serious.
We separated the analytics from rendering at Graphistry, connecting GPUs on both ends. You'll notice most of their visualizations aren't showing much geometry in the client: Leveraging that, we aim for 15fps+ on datasets 100X+ bigger than normal stuff in browsers, and soon, even more. And we're looking into including MapD as part of our backend GPU analytics stack... so, yes!

And if you're into visualization engineering like that, we're hiring :)
> It's nonsense to suggest that any two Turing-complete programming languages are equally safe or secure.

Well, I didn't suggest it - it seems you are inventing that notion because you are obliged to agree with everything I actually wrote.

The point is not the relative safety of one language against another, but whether, in absolute terms, Ethereum will become safe enough for the sort of wide-ranging uses that its promoters envisage. If the sort of examples you present here are sufficient for that, then, given that security and correctness have been prized for long before Ethereum, one has to wonder why they have not already been used to create languages that are already secure and bug-resistant enough for Ethereum.

There is certainly some basic changes that could make Ethereum more secure, but past experience in this field suggests there is a whole range of hills beyond this one. And in security matters, going part-way is not much of an advance at all; such defenses can, like the Maginot line, be outflanked.
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"I like this language so much that I am angry that there aren't jobs in it near me"

Seems like a pretty good language endorsement to me lol

EDIT: Here's a "curated list of companies using Elixir": https://github.com/doomspork/elixir-companies
For some reason I made the wrong assumptions. Thanks for the clarification. I'm going to activate that U2F key asap, and also disable SMS for my google account.
The host guarantee on AirBnb isn't as great as most people assume.

We ate $1500 in damages on one of our first visitors, and we're off the platform now. The whole experience was a real bummer.
Thank you! Did you try it out?
Im implying that two wrongs dont make a right.
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SQL Server has had its underlying SQLOS since the SQL 2005 rewrite, so the mechanics to port to Linux has been in place for years:

https://blog.sqlauthority.com/2015/11/11/sql-server-what-is-...
Yes, and they wrote some interesting blog posts about it:

https://blog.discordapp.com/scaling-elixir-f9b8e1e7c29b

https://blog.discordapp.com/how-discord-handles-push-request...
> Seems similar to my experiences - AirBnB neighbors throwing a rooftop party and their 'emergency' support won't help unless I can provide them with the airbnb listing of the owner (which I don't obviously have), rather than just the address.

> In situations like mine it's easier to call the police - AirBnb aren't interested in helping and having a record of consistent antisocial behaviour (and illegal letting) will help you take action against the owner.

It seems that the situation that your parent describes:

> > Called that and was left waiting in the queue for 3 hours (about a house I had booked which didn't exist) before I gave up and had to sleep in the car.

is different. That is a situation where a product that AirBnb had sold did not exist, and for which they should be held accountable. Any guarantees AirBnb makes about guests' behaviour (I don't remember if there are any) are to hosts, not neighbours; it seems to me that, if the hosts are not properly monitoring their guests' behaviour, then that should be a matter for the police. (What would you want AirBnb to do in that situation? It seems that at best they could address the issue of future parties, but not do anything about the one currently going on, which was, presumably, the problem.)
Most people don't enjoy struggling and the stress of not being pay the bills.

Trust me, that's more stressful than a job fairly your fairy 'meh' about. It's much more likely to burn you out.

Most passions, when you turn it into job, just ruins the passion(Having done this myself). You go from something that's creative into something where cost, and timelines matter and you have very little personal input.
What's going on is that this is just showing what any sane people already knew: any kind of commercial transaction must be backed up by actual real life laws or sooner or later one of the parts gets ripped off.

Nobody can - or I would dare say, likes - to be watching is own back every single moment or their existence... but that's what crypto in general expects you to do.
Might be a great argument against welfare
I really don't think this is the case.

Check out the top comment from @grellas here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2208056

At the end, he mentions that general statements never apply to everybody, and unique situations vary. Additionally, in California the law protects moreso than other states.
>don't use the work/income/tax/payment cycle to do it, try to use bartering

Fyi, bartering is taxable in the USA.[1]

Yes, lots of people barter without reporting "fair market value" of bartered services to the IRS and yes, there isn't a large scale manhunt or crackdown for the tax evaders.

So it's very possible that people think bartering is cheaper because of ignorance of IRS laws. It's still technically "tax evasion". (Similar to how driving across state lines to buy things for 0% sales tax is also technically tax evasion when you don't declare the purchases in your home state's tax forms.)

E.g. A homeowner's lawn service costs $3000 a year. The homeowner could barter his web developer skills to make a "lawn care website" in exchange for 1 year of lawn care. The homeowner is supposed to declare the $3000-fair-market-value as income. If the homeowner is in 30% tax bracket, he owes ~$900 extra taxes PLUS he still has to expend the extra hours writing HTML/javascript to fulfill his side of the trade.

Is bartering that much cheaper if it's not "under the table" and you add in the the extra work+time to satisfy your end of the deal? (Especially if that extra work could be expended on other projects that are worth more than $3000 -or- working on websites more interesting to the homeowner than a lawn care service.)

[1] https://www.irs.gov/publications/p525/ar02.html#en_US_2016_p...
The problem is not differences between Chinese room and human. The problem is in different perceptions of them. One is intuitively perceived as conscious, other not so much. If you can't perceive something as conscious because you see all the moving parts, it surely isn't, right?

I see this as "what we can program is not a mind" taken to the extreme.
Thanks, I'm capable of using a calculator :D

There will naturally be a distribution of incomes among those people, with some people earning little or nothing, and some people earning a lot.

The point is that whatever the income a given person is earning, that is income that was unavailable to them before modern computing and communications devices became affordable to them.

That's money that people are using to build better lives for themselves, their families and their communities.

As I said, that is the point of making things cheaper.
> Like a coin, every story has 3 sides

I like that.
It's easier to read pseudo-C than assembly, especially on an architecture you're not terribly familiar with. I can fire up an ARM decompiler (Hex-Rays) and be able to do some basic RE work in minutes on an architecture I've never touched assembly for. It's also just plain faster to read, though the nice graph views for assembly do help you understand how loops and conditionals are really structured, it's still not as good as C.
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I am a big fan of the bolt blog.

https://blog.bolt.io/

Its a hardware/hardware startup blog written by what looks like a full(ish) stack hardware VC.
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I recently discovered that the Nix package manager was available outside NixOS (such as on OS X!)
I actually work with someone who was involved with the precursor to this program, which didn't involve any direct training or bootcamp. After reporting a security issue in a big banks app he received an email with a quite humourous quote: "you are on the precipice of cyber crime". The short of it is they hooked him up with an internship at a cyber security consultancy.

So I'm pleased they are taking more proactive steps like offering a bootcamp where before they would done something stupid and got the law involved. There is a big shortage of people with these skills in the UK and I think it will get worse, not better after brexit, as Europeans fill quite a few of the positions.
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Or just the real and imaginary axes?
I don't get the philosophy behind the Esperanto language. Why didn't the inventors pick a popular language like English or Spanish, and fixed their inconsistencies, rather than invent a whole new language? Were there political reasons?
I'm going to say it's unlikely since Zuckerberg and the rest of the Silicon Valley crowd is seen unfavorably especially after Google's flirtation with Obama's administration. At least that's been my observation with my parents and their views. So he has an uphill battle which would be much harder to win than Trump did as Trump had the advantage of voter dissatisfaction in establishment candidates.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steganography

I remember being told that Al-Qaeda used this mechanism to exchange messages pre-9/11. Surely there are longer established tools for this?

Edit: https://www.openstego.com/
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Except that it fails to capture screens larger than about 2000x1000, it just fails silently - you select your full 2K monitor and the tool just doesn't do anything. Printscreen can capture even multiple 4K monitor and paste all of them into Paint - the snipping tool fails to capture even two 2K monitors which is really annoying at my work.
Honestly, I don't know why Apple don't implement U2F on the secure enclave (activated via the TouchId sensor); it seems like such an obvious move.

Maybe they're trying to get iCloud and Safari support all ready to release at-once?
I tried to buy a thing off a dark net market, and the FBI stole my money
The pipes that service a city are.
Really cool! I actually read about this idea years ago in a book (Dean Koontz, The Husband iirc). Ever since then I've wondered why it isn't more common to try to obscure messages through normal means.

I guess the data formats are too inefficient in most scenarios. Eg, encoding bytes as words is insanely inefficient, but somehow encoding them in such a way that they make grammatical sense as to not seem "off" - I imagine would be nearly impossible and/or crazy inefficient.

Double that with trying to encrypt your encoded bytes, such that if they were discovered, the encoded bytes wouldn't be blatantly obvious. That's... a lot of damn data haha.
> Alright, the dog's actions were not conscious and actively planned, but then neither are ours.

Well, some of ours are. At least a few. It's not clear that any of the dog's actions are consciously planned, is it?
> Purely enjoyment.

Like we know what we actually enjoy for many years to come.

You know why "follow your heart" is such a terrible advice.
Chakra is just the JS implementation in Edge; it's the equivalent of JavaScriptCore in Safari, V8 in Chrome, or SpiderMonkey in Firefox.

The layout engine bits in Edge are https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EdgeHTML