skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Eh, I'm not really interested in "watching" it, I just see what comes my way by chance. That mostly seems to be scary emails from CoinBase[1] and snippets of news of "the community" having major arguments about the fundamental nature of its value. This is not confidence inspiring for the casual user. Maybe it'll settle down sometime and I'll re-evaluate, but for now I've officially moved into the "not interested" camp.

[1] """The User Activated Hard Fork (UAHF) is a proposal to increase the Bitcoin block size scheduled to activate on August 1. The UAHF is incompatible with the current Bitcoin ruleset and will create a separate blockchain. Should UAHF activate on August 1, Coinbase will not support the new blockchain or its associated coin.

The User Activated Soft Fork (UASF) is a proposal to adopt Segregated Witness on the Bitcoin blockchain and could result in network instability. It is scheduled to activate at the same time as the UAHF."""
>As this point you've already lost everyone who doesn't already ready the same pamphlets you read and agree.

Usage of the term "Whig history" is not confined adherents of a particular ideology, and does not require one to have/not-have any particular set of beliefs to use it (other than believing that the history of some institution is not a story of progress)..

In other words, it's not comparable to "comrade".

>Appealing to this fact in a thread about cryptocurrency is beyond ironic.

There's a subtext that you're missing here, which is that the political system doesn't work when voters don't understand the system, which is unlike most domains, which manage complexity effectively.

For example, most people don't understand how microprocessors work. But this is addressed through an effective and spontaneous process of delegating responsibility.

The political process differs in this respect. The delegation process is baked in, as a result of built-in mechanisms that actively resist change. This prevents the kind of readjustment that occurs in other institutions. Meanwhile, those affected by policy are a captive audience, which eliminates a major feedback mechanism that exists in market-based systems.

These two factors result in the system as a whole not evolving toward greater efficacy. On the contrary, it has the potential to evolve toward greater exploitation.

>Political power will flow from the arrangement of bits only when the arrangement of bits determines who controls overwhelming military force. And not a moment before.

We'll see.
I understand that as well. I'm not sure going from 2 parents to 1.2 parents is worth a yard though.

And there are other options, like taking another job in a smaller city. Running a small business in a suburb isn't sexy, but you can afford a yard and have time to teach your daughter about robots and be there when your son gets bullied on the bus ride home.
I also do a form of extreme commuting, but on the other side of the spectrum - I commute 1 mile (1.6km). I had to endure one hour long commute for a year, and it simply was not worth it.
Hi! Thank you all for the attention! I was not expecting it!

It seems that the user registration emails are causing a 500 server error and I'm working on a fix.

Edit: I'm bypassing the email confirmations for now, if you got a 500 error, please try to login using the account you signed up with. It should work, otherwise email me at mflynn210 <at> gmail.com.
There are results showing that machine learning can be completely fooled by images that are slightly modified, so little that the human eye can not perceive any difference. Have a look at the images in this paper on "adversarial examples": https://arxiv.org/abs/1412.6572
Even if you can rely on the courts, smart contracts could still make themselves useful, since the costs for enforcement are lower. Until your interpretation of the contract and its implementation disagree, which is when you start your costly litigation spree, assuming you have an idea of who to sue.
I had this exact same experience. It was detrimental to every aspect of my life. Moving back to office work was one of the best decisions that I've ever made. If not the best one.

Before I started working from home I used to consider myself an introvert, who was good with/preferred being alone. But that was always against a back-drop of living a relatively social work and home-life. Once I started working from home my tendencies towards introspection, and insulation, which were tempered by my social life, became dominant and I ended up becoming insidiously depressed without even noticing it.

Change your job/workplace man, it'll change your life.
Although I'd check out what actual grammarians and linguists think of S&W before doing that (hint: they're not fans)
Less well-known, not only is the selection of the pivot element important, but also the selection of which side you use recursion:

"[...] it always recurses on the first sub-partition, and iterates on the second sub-partition; but instead, it should always recurse on the smaller sub-partition, and iterate on the larger sub-partition [...] our attack constructs an input array of N elements that causes qsort() to recurse N/4 times." https://www.qualys.com/2017/06/19/stack-clash/stack-clash.tx...

That's from last month.
Yes, there are! Hanabi, Pandemic, Sentinels of the Multiverse are three of the biggest games of the last decade. All are cooperative. You all win or lose together.
Something's fishy with this ranking, ie. web-only list has "Processing" before "Clojure", "PHP" before "Ruby" and "Go", for enterprise-only "C" before "Java" - I don't buy it, this data looks like garbage.
I am a programmer and I don't understand Ethereum. Sure I haven't really read up on it but if I don't understand it, how will the common man?

I have little faith in this kind of system. Could anyone here explain to a noob how Eth would be any better than Bitcoin?
Which also resulted in that jolly good time called "The Great Depression".
Don't forget Benefit Focus. They have office in Greenville and Charleston (HQ), have been growing like crazy and went public a couple years back. That company is doing really well and can't seem to hire people fast enough.
How the Pentagon’s Handling of Munitions and Their Waste Has Poisoned America
Warn HN: A dangerous vulnerability found in Apple wifi chips
Control robots in Minecraft from a web app
They might have great features, but are Dashlane using the term "zero knowledge" in the accurate, historical (25+ years), cryptographic sense, a la [0]? Or are they just using it in the hand-wavey slick markety sense, "We could never know your secrets; give us your money and your secrets and trust us forever."?

[0] Words mean things. They are dealing with encrypting passwords, after all, so I hope they're truthfully representing the technology behind their system:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zero-knowledge_proof

Maybe even:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zero-knowledge_password_proof

My money's on some corporate bullshit, however, for example:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13303436
I can write secure smart contracts in Solidity or straight in EVM assembly, it's really not that hard as long as you code it defensively.
Yeah. I commuted into Boston for a bit over a year and I was similar. It was a relatively straightforward commute. Short drive to train station, train, then shortish walk to office. And, of course, I could read on the train. (This was pre-smartphone.)

But it was still about 1 1/2 hours out of my day each way and the train wasn't very flexible if I wanted to do something after work in the city. In which case I had to leave very early and drive to an outlying subway station. (Which took about the same length of time total.)

I traveled some and worked from home some so it was fairly tolerable but I wouldn't have wanted to do it long-term.
Not just that, but in many ways a strange business decision. Traditionally, it's not uncommon for railways to build a line to the middle of nowhere where they own the land, then make their money developing and selling the land, rather than from fares.
"Over 1/3 of Thimbleweed Park sales are are on Mac and Linux. You're being silly if your ignoring that."

-- Ron Gilbert
The successful model would have to be one that turned out grads who beat out Stanford grads for jobs. That means it would have to be constantly improving and changing at a blistering speed. In the end, this means that the successful model has to be run by true visionaries who see a solution they can sustain over time. It won't look like a huge scale money-making venture that anyone can hop in on with VC money.
I imagine some of them don't have another option.
There's Trouble Inside Nairobi's Biggest Tech Startup
They're almost single parents when you think about it.
Yes, this is essentially half the basis for cryptography, of which the one-time pad is one particularly rigid form. If Alice and Bob wish to communicate, they can do so by first verifying each other in person, or with a trusted courier, and from then on can communicate remotely. Alternatively, they can use public-key cryptography to communicate remotely and securely over an insecure channel without requiring face to face contact or a trusted courier.
I don't understand these kind of rankings. What are you supposed to conclude from them?

My point is that computer programming as an industry is so diverse and complex that these general comparisons become almost useless.

Some examples:

* If you live in a town with lots of government agencies and big corporations then it is a lot more important to understand some obscure Java or .Net framework than even mainstream languages like C or C++.

* If you live in a place with a big financial industry or hardware development then probably understanding the arcane details of C++ and compiler idiosyncrasies is more useful than any web-related language.
If a simple board game played with family leaves someone angry or in tears then that's a problem. Games like monopoly are actually great opportunities for children to learn self control and perspective.
Hey, I've been developing this in my freetime for a while now. The robots are added into Minecraft by a mod, and they run Lua code. I have an Express webserver which communicates with the robots using TCP, and relays information from them to a webpage with websockets. I'm happy to answer any questions!
>Is it not still possible that human populations increased

This doesn't seem convincing to me, Indigenous Australian populations maxed out around 1 million people, across the entire island. Considering the population density and ranges of these creatures, I don't see how they could physically do so.

> new (less mgafauna friendly) cultures emerged

It's important to remember Australia's isolation here and the cultures of Indigenous Australia. All Indigenous Australians were nomadic hunter gatherers, with a deep seated animalistic dreamtime belief system, it doesn't make sense that a new culture suddenly rose up and caused mass extinctions, as all of these cultures remained within their land ranges, and without evidence of widescale war in Indigenous Australia, I don't see how this would happen.

>or subsequent migrations caused one of these?

Not really, again 20,000 years and Australia is a big, big place. Like really big, and most of these creatures had wide ranges. I don't find the human hypothesis has enough stock to stand up under scrutiny, especially considering these extinctions happened at the end of an ice age.
I agree with complaints the landing page is extremely lacking in getting me to move forward and sign up for something I need to see more info about.
yes, looks completely unrepresentative to me
more of a luxury model, and less of an every-person solution to the college debt and job crisis
As for the last point, would you expect them to tell you it's impossible for populations to go negative?
> It means you are prohibited from using your own code except as how the FSF sees fit. That's what copyright assignment means.

The FSF copyright assignment grants you back the right to do what you wish with your code, including sell exceptions.

> So what, exactly benefit do I gain by submitting code to the FSF, and assigning copyright?

Because they'll enforce the GPL on your behalf. I assigned copyright for my GNU project to the FSF for that reason: I have no resources for enforcement. Nor do most people.

> e.g my own project: FreeRADIUS. At this point, I've written at least half of the code. If there's a licence violation, I don't need anyone else's permission (or copyright assignment) to go after the violators.

If there's a violation with _your code_.

If someone uses a portion of your code you don't have copyright over, you have no standing. And _this_ is why the FSF wants full copyright over Emacs.
Which one? There are two languages named Swift:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swift_(programming_language)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swift_(parallel_scripting_lang...
People see improvement even after taking placebo.

I haven't read the paper yet but on first glance it looks like an observational study. I know it's cliche but correlation does not imply causation and observations are just that, drawing conclusions after facts.

It's still an interesting study though...
In the crypto world, you can get something for nothing
Market rates are not arbitrary numbers that exist in a vacuum. All economic actors contribute to the market, and they are the result of competition and how low the producers are able to get and still make a living. Some are a bit higher, some are a bit lower. If the prison can always go as low as any other producer and out-compete farms that can't use slave labour to stay artificially competitive, then it will eat the market share of these farms, which will progressively go bankrupt, and the only thing that will stop the prison from eventually owning the entire market is the number of people that get convicted of some crime and jailed there.
>They're consistently on a cycle of booming and busting - Bitcoin's value has been slowly creeping up and up through these cycles

Have we even seen a single cycle yet? Bitcoin hit the mainstream, what, five years ago? The value certainly hasn't "crept up"; it's growing exponentially like every bubble in history.
I haven't used the iOS client, but on Android the most common way to sync is to use your own Git repository accessed over SSH. You could use a private GitHub repo or one on your own server.
There's drama, conflict, hacks, fuckups, civil wars, bugs, theft, more drama, bailouts and all of the growing pains that make a story worth telling.
I guess we will have to revisit history in order to understand it?

In the Bay Area, when politicans had their hands on that never ending supply of money; they spent it on pet projects, and projects that would boost their re-election.

It seems fashionable to blame prop 13 for the housing crisis.

And don't get me started on SF rent control.(talk about misplaced anger. Rent control in SF, just allowed the 1 percent to build luxury condos for 1 percenters, or their kids. These are not condos, they are mansions in buildings. How do I know? As a local 6 electrician--that's all I work on. Could I ever afford one--hell no, and my wage is over $100/hr., including benefits.

A lot of you in tech will be going home due to a bunch of just bad.com investment money drying up. We have had investors throw money at thelatestestmonopolysaturatedcutestbuystufffromagayman.com

I don't have a solution to the housing crisis. Pesonally, I think we need to open up state, federal, and county land to free camping because many of you complaining about rent right now will be Homeless after the gold rush ends, and a whole new reality will rear its ugly head.

(There will be a politician who tries to exploit the projected prop 13 displacement for votes. I think the strategy will fall on multiple fronts.

Remember this, before prop 13, property taxes for Everyone was going up every year. New house owners were greatly affected. Apartment dwellers just got an increase in rents.)
> Nothing prevents the Samba team from joining together collectively and suing someone for violating their license.

It's a lot more work and can be more tricky when there are many different copyright holders. For example, the GPL case against VMWare has hinged on proving that Christoph Hellwig in fact owns the copyright to the lines in ESXi that ended up in VMWare's codebase. He tried to provide git blame output, as I recall, but the court didn't consider this to be sufficient. The case got thrown out, although Hellwig has said he will appeal.

If Linux had a single copyright holder, there would be no need for git blame output and Linux could mount a more effective defense.
my dad was emotionally cold so he did what he could and ensured that even though he felt awkward hugging and playing with me and my brother that he would work for us and buy us things we wanted.
Not everyone is touchy feely. It did take me a while to understand his love to be honest but it was definitely there. He turned down a move to another country because he was worried that it might negatively effect us. With that he lost a promotion and his senior position at a fortune 500 and worked positions much lower to keep us going over the next decade.
Working from home messes you up in more ways than you notice. One is that you tend to eat more and the other thing is it can stress you your will power bencause ther are so many distractions. One last thing is you move walk around as much as you do, your brain needs blood flowing, oxygen. Ever heard of drowning causing brain damage? Extreme analogy but that's because of lack of oxygen, I'm sure less than optimal oxygen can't be as good
> a direct approach is to raise the price on product A

That's only direct if the problem you are trying to solve is increasing the price of A. If you are trying to reduce the amount of A used, a direct action would be restricting the amount of A you can buy.

If you are trying to get homes to use solar energy, nothing is more direct than requiring the installation of solar panels.
Over time, it's become clear to me that the only business model with true longevity is open source. When I was first looking into password managers several years ago, I wanted something very simple: an iOS tool that could securely and locally encrypt a data blob with a memorized master password. 1Password did this job well for many years. Unfortunately, as with many App Store offerings, the pressing need for Agile Bits to grow has distorted the fundamental nature of the product. I was first alarmed when they added TouchID authentication: a seemingly innocuous feature, but one that necessarily stored your master password somewhere other than your head. (Fortunately, this was disabled by default.) Subsequently, features got added that stored your data on remote servers and even required you to send your master password over the web. I ignored this for the most part, but recent talk of this becoming the only use case for 1Password has put me on red alert. It's evidently time for me to start looking into OSS alternatives for my password manager, just as I have with a number of other tools in recent years.

Unfortunately, it seems that many companies these days are more interested in developing services rather than deftly solving specific user problems. Whether or not this is financially sound, it's an ongoing assault on my workflow. I can't live in fear of every utility on my system pivoting to a new business model! Fundamental software needs to be stable, and there's a good reason why most of our essentials (compression, video playback, web browsing, etc.) are free and open source.

Going forward, I hope we discover more ways to collectively fund open source software projects, large and small, because everything else is just an IOU for another future shakeup.
no, consensus for the win.
Looks good you just need to add a price. Otherwise my assumption is you'll be offline sometime in the next 2-3 months.
This Iraq Veteran Lost Her Arm--but Found New Purpose as an Entrepreneur
I'm sorry but if your business is running an illegal drug market and you're sending out account emails with your real name and year of birth from a non-burner email, I think "moron" is probably a pretty apt description.
Can you show me an example of such a package? All the Elpa packages are hosted on a Savannah instance.

https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs/elpa.git/tree/packag...
Are the Bay Area public schools good? Or is it the thing to do to send kids to private school there like every other urban center?
It's so hard...
> use it in a commercial product? Nope. FSF won't allow that.

The FSF explicitly allows that.

> The assignment contract we normally use has a clause that permits you to use your code in proprietary programs [...] Although we believe that proprietary software is wrong, we include this clause because it would serve no purpose to ask you to promise not to do it. You're giving us a gift in the first place.

http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/gnulib.git/tree/doc/Copyrig...
I noticed that too, I like haskell, but I don't believe it.
Well it certainly is evil, taking several hours, provoking family arguments, the slow grinding down of anyone that didn't get ahead quickly at the start.

There are reasons I don't play it very often!
It's interesting to play with their ranking editor. It really does highlight how variable some of these lists are depending on what you consider to be part of a "top" language.

For example, I'd personally completely remove stack overflow questions. It could mean a language is incredibly complex rather than important or commonly used.
The greeks used the method on this page (http://www.trottermath.net/algebra/multsqs.html) to do multiplication so I suppose the romans did too.
I understand your concerns, we had the same reactions from some of our friends, and I can assure you that the integration is planned, and any redundancy, duplication, or patches that we have right now for some tf code will be removed.

thank you for taking the time to have a look at the project, and I am very happy that we are receiving such a constructive criticism.
> you're going to have to wait days/weeks as your copyright assignment papers make their way over snail-mail.

Depends on the country. I signed mine with my GPG key in the United States and simply e-mailed it:

https://www.fsf.org/blogs/licensing/fsf-to-begin-accepting-g...

There's other countries, like Italy:

https://www.fsf.org/blogs/licensing/fsf-to-begin-accepting-g...
Agree that it's great, but the feeling I got from the OP was along the lines of "They only offered 80k, and on top of that it was in Ohio"
> So much of parenting is just being there as life happens.

It's easy in our consumerist, materialist culture for parents to become confused about this concept, and emphasize making sure that the life that happens for your child is as good as possible by providing them with luxuries like backyards and designer clothes and buying them the best toys and tech and clubs and sports and vacations. And when you even dip your toe into this danger by spending a bit more than you budgeted for at Christmas or for a birthday, you can become trapped into keeping up with your new neigbors (who are probably playing the same game you are) and feel forced to maintain a front of being just a few percent more wealthy than you are.

Not saying that it's smart, but it's happening all the time.
In real live people dont care about functional programming...
You can access external data from Ethereum contracts via what they call an "Oracle" which is an intermediary between a third party service and the blockchain.

If the connection to the third party service is cryptographically secure, the Oracle can even provide proof the results were not tampered with, and if multiple data sources are used it can provide a consensus answer based on them.

Otherwise, the smart contract only has access to what is in the blockchain, but Oracles are pretty easy to write and use.