skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think this argument fails even by its own standards. It applies equally well to Bitcoin mining, and while there is clearly some centralization there, it is still quite decentralized. At least, decentralized 'enough'. Secondly, storage is fundamentally different than other commodities. The decentralized storage market is more like AirBnB, where you're consuming the excess capacity of capital. Most people have tons of storage already that they're not using. Extracting rents from that space is found money, and therefore they have inherently lower costs than anyone supplying storage in a commercial way.
Loved this post, thanks! You mentioned the 3 constraints under which you (and many founders) thrive in:

* Being the underdog

* Hard challenges most people shy away from

* Personal responsibility for outcomes

Why are some people best under those conditions? Is it something trainable, or inherent?
Catan takes the distribution into account, and is pretty up front about it (There are dots on the numbers that represent the probability). I've played a lot of games of Catan and, every once in a while, you'll have a statistically unprobable game where 11 is rolled 10-15 times, but 6 is only rolled 3 times the whole game.
> Short of a drug that provided a permanent cure for opioid addiction itself, I'm not sure what sort of solutions can be pursued by scientific/tech research, as opposed to addressing the root social causes.

Just give them the opiates for free in supervised facilities and let them have otherwise normal, albeit constipated lives. It works and costs very little.
That's correct. When you click the rays of the star, descriptions of the different Gnod sections should appear though.
Lead Lighting for dummies
Elixir Persian Package
> I'll be back to the docs for secrets, stateful containers, volume mounts, cert management, instrumentation, health checks, load balancing etc.

Almost all of your points are on one page in the doc (just google 'docker-compose file') which is read and used in 5 minutes. Btw, load balancing is the default, no real config required (still you can but the defaults are sensible). Anyway, you are usually 5x to 10x faster than with setting up an k8s cluster. This should be a good enough reason to give it a try and to make your own picture of Swarm.

It is up to you but I think you have a wrong picture of Swarm. Something huge, conplicated and intimidating like k8s. Something you should spend your weekend and the week after to learn. This is wrong.

Just see is as another CLI tool which you can grasp in the next hour (instead of surfing the web).
Chrome is just a (much) better product. Combination of building a better product and a lot of advertising.
Google is paying the app makers for the bundleware per install.
Exactly! I feel that no one is attempting to create a application that makes it easier on the job seeker. Everything coming out now is to make the recruitment process better, not the actual job search.
If 20 people were to stand up on a soapbox with a megaphone in times square screaming about /r/redpill, /r/fatpeoplehate, etc concepts they would be removed if legal, and if not legal a huge countermovement would appear to try to force them out. On Reddit you get both the megaphone and the safe space, but are still just as easily accessible to the public as anywhere.

Its "real" freedom of information, without many of the mechanisms that larger society uses to fight back against it. Instead it is just ignored and left to fester and grow until it pops into the public forum at the point where huge efforts are required to fight it. I feel like the internet is a great way to get differing views out, but not a great way to build any cultural agreement.
I would challenge you to go to /the_donald and find a single example of hatred or bigotry. I think you will be unsuccessful.
5+ Million Requests in 7 Days. Stopping a DDoS Attack (Case Study)
I'm not sure about the trend in general, but it looks like SpinalHDL is a fork of Chisel, the 'other' Scala-based HDL.
Light gray text on slightly darker gray background is pretty hard to read, at least for me on this iPhone.
Thanks for the ideas! The downloaded PDFs are not in a PDF/A format. I understand the need for a feature like this - I have used some government services that only allow submitted PDFs in archivable format. The commercial PDF->PDF/A libraries I came across are pretty pricey. Do you know of any open source alternatives?
This is the reason I can't take Silicon Valley too seriously. It isn't the magic algorithm, it is that no sane person would want Pied Piper's storage because it does just what you said in the context of the show.
Really, anonymously, wow. Apple going to crazy lengths to keep the price of their researchers down. I'm never stepping foot there again.
What do you think Apple or Google does with your files after they are uploaded? Do you think they aren't encrypted and spread out over several machines?
The music discovery gave me some new bands that don't have a lot of listeners.

Thanks! I'll be back for more.
What is the basis of your new product?
Care to elaborate on the "intuitive sense" part?
Dice-O-Matic hopper and elevator (2009)
All they're suggesting is that trusting the government is a silly idea, and then provided examples of it. I don't think they're suggesting necessarily that we need a brand new kind of government - just that we should for good reason be wary of the one we currently have.
They're a public forum with none of the traditional social controls, because people can say anything behind a screen of anonymity. Its a public forum with almost 0 institutional memory, and true arguments can be avoided with the click of a mouse that wouldn't be possible in person.
> Chromer doesn't do what the tabs in recent option does.

Yes, it does. Which part do you not understand?

> Supporting being a provider for Custom Tabs has nothing to do with being able to have your tabs show up in Recents.

No, but if Firefox supported Custom Tabs, you could use it with Chromer.
well, it sounds like this is not the application for you.
Elon Musk at International Space Station R&D Conference 2017
Except that this is clearly only to keep the price of the researchers down. This is shameful.
Thanks for the link!

I only know as much about Section 230 as I just read at that link, but it seems that this doesn't provide protection for things like calling for violence against a religious/sexual/race group. I concede that the exact boundary of what is a call for violence is hard to pin down, but I don't think that makes it OK to throw up your hands and say "Anything goes on my site!"
You sound fun.
Hey, if that's what it takes to reach new potential viewers, then they should go for it.
SpaceX targets 24-hour first stage rocket re-use turnaround by 2018
Nah, Icefrog doesn't make decisions like that. It's all about what makes the game more fun.
There is another macro-economic issue here:

With a decentralized trustless system you have to assume a higher failure rate for nodes than with a central trust based system.

If you assume a higher failure rate you have to replicate data more extensively to achieve reliability.

If you have to replicate data more extensively then decentralized will always be more expensive than centralized.
Also coming from academia, experimentation is not necessary for publication - both reviews and observational studies exist and are published in peer reviewed journals quite often.

In engineering (although I worked in neuroscience, I worked with many academic engineers and read way too many of their papers), whitepapers and concept papers are also often published - there's nothing to indicate here that this was a reviewed journal article. It's just a formatted PDF.
Read the blog post, what you their feedback was about is the same artist playing for too long.
> Firefox changed how plugins work and I think that broke Google's Hangout implementation.

IIRC, there was s public notice by Firefox about the API change more than a year in advance. Google does not have the resources for implementation? Firefox support is just low prio for Google. I think it's a deliberate (non)-action because instead of switching away from Hangout, people rather start using Chrome... So not-browser-compat seems to help Google :-/ (see also my other comment)
Right. As Wall Street learned in the 2010 "flash crash" a few years ago, much of the "liquidity" created by high frequency trading is fake. When a big seller sold 9% of the trading volume and wanted real money, the entire market crashed for 36 minutes.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2010_Flash_Crash
Illustrating the Future of Travel
> I made a chatbot that rolled dice, and it was constantly criticized for being "broken" because four 3's would come up in a row.

> These accusations would come up even though they (all being computer science majors) know it's possible (although unlikely) for these events to happen. They just don't trust the black box.

This reminds me of a talk [1] given at Game Developer's Conference (GDC) about the game Civilization, in which the Sid Meyer -- creator of said game -- spent a bit of the time talking about the difference between fairness and perceived fairness. The talk is only an hour long and worth watching.

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AJ-auWfJTts
Exactly. Though I wouldn't be surprised if Chrome finds a way around it. Chrome adds itself pinned to the taskbar as it installs even though Microsoft guidelines explicitly forbid it and it is purposely a little difficult to do.
All of this is correct.

Both parties are our target audience. Our goal is to partner with the SaaS companies and give them control over the freelancer ecosystems. We're also building for the end-user though because we think that mindset will ultimately result in the best product for them.

Does this make sense? I can see how it's confusing.
Most Indian metros already have electrified trains. Only long distance trains are still run using diesel.
"The DeepFlight Dragon starts at $1.5 million and will make its public debut at the Monaco Yacht Show on September 23. " This is from 2015.
Filecoin and its underlying protocol IPFS assemble the world’s knowledge and data into one big content-addressed graph (Merkle DAG), and attempt to make it accessible to any device, anywhere. This is great because it allows for all kinds of use cases apart from just securely storing and sharing files. It’s much more than an app: it’s an underlying protocol, rather than Dropbox on a blockchain.

> FileCoin is using proof of storage

Yeah, Proof of Replication and Proof of Spacetime, to be precise.
Should one also do a startup, when a startup seems to be the only possible path to "see something happen"?
Zuckerberg's Visit to Montana to Discuss Climate Change Just Got Very Political
We’re on the engineering team for Android O. Ask us Anything (7/19 12-1:30 PT)
You mean from the 25 kV lines?
Storage rental is a concept that most people are familiar with. Extending that from physical objects to data isn't a very big step. Of course, storage facilities probably have some regulations to comply with that you won't be following.
It was the only choice.

Set your User-Agent to Firefox or IE Edge and Windows OS. You'll soon see "install chrome" pop ups/banners/warnings that take up a portion of the screen all over Google properties.

At that point why not just self-uninstall?

Out of non-Google search engines, Yahoo makes most sense even if they got no money from the deal. Maybe DuckDuckGo but unfortunately it's still not as good.

Regarding extensions, it's better this way because nobody is bothering with current API. Most new extensions are chrome-only.
Just out of my mind, as an early C++ adopter (1993).

Turbo C++, Borland C++, Watcom C++, Green Hills C++, Microsoft C++ 7.0, djgpp for MS-DOS.

Turbo C++, Borland C++, Watcom C++, Green Hills C++, Microsoft C++ 7.0, C++ Builder, Symantec C++, Metrowerks C++, C++ Builder, Visual C++ for Windows 3.x onwards.

MPW C++, Metrowerks C++, Visual C++ for Mac OS.

Borland C++, CSet++, Visual Age for C++ for OS/2.

aC++ for HP-UX, xlC++ for Aix, Sun Forte C++ for Solaris.

gcc for most UNIX systems.

These are just the ones I remember without having to do a search.

Writing portable C++ code in those days was quite an adventure, specially since we only had the CFront followed by C++ ARM as standards, while ANSI/ISO were working on the first actual standard.
What we're doing in our scientific research to tackle the reproducibility issue
What does your data show regarding success rate for people like you vs those who build companies because of the need to have something exist?

What are specific challenges you see in each case?
Except now you've transferred your data over an international border and into a third parties infrastructure. If you're paranoid, that isn't more reassuring either. I suppose if you encrypt the files yourself before uploading, then your data are a bit safer.
There are many mature software markets that are still fragmented. Even when it comes to operating systems, there are still several choices.

As for voice and video conferencing, there are several features and price points that these products offer, which causes each product to be more popular to its users. For example, having different channels in Slack, or deep integration into Outlook for Microsoft Lync/Skype are features that make these products unique.
I hear you on Zapier! I was in the same boat initially. I actually built the initial prototype for Sixty using Zapier and Google Sheets. Then built it on Bubble.is until we got Andrew (our technical co-founder) on the team. Wished I had experts on both of them the entire time.

Have a ton of great Shopify experts :)
Yeah, you are getting paid a few cents to act as a proxy for criminals. Somehow I don't think this will catch on with the general public any time soon.
Also happens on startup for me and others. See for example this comment from the bug report:

I simply double-clicked the Firefox icon twice quicker than I ever normally would, and the Close Firefox error appears: "Firefox is already running, but is not responding. To open a new window, you must first close the existing Firefox process, or restart your system."
Tim Draper invests in Gravity’s ‘Iron Man’ flight suit, on a $100 bill
It's actually not that bad. The graph just emphasises the subtle differences. The worst one (a 10) was rolled 696 times extra over the expected number of 100,000 rolls. That's like 0.3% deviation.
You are missing the point and having a wrong understanding of what talent means.

There are many extremely talented people doing exactly the same not succeeding. You have the same in everything from music to movies and art.

The primary defining factor are things which has nothing to do with the talent but with timing and luck. So the primary insight is to play the game to have a chance to win.
The Methods and Morality of Building Habit-Forming Products
I still believe that Mozilla biggest mistake with mobile was not Firefox OS, it was that they started on Android too late. They should have been on Android from day one, but they weren't, and when they did build Fennec, it was really bad. They eventually fixed it, but by that point Chrome for Android was already out.

And then they pivoted to Firefox OS. At a time when WebOS had already failed, Nokia had already failed, and the writing was on the wall for Blackberry and Windows Phone. It was already well known that the market couldn't support another mobile OS, and that was the moment they decided to build one, totally bizarre.

I firmly believe that if Mozilla had gone all-in on Firefox for Android at the time when Android's browser was just atrociously bad, they could have been the hip option there, and had a leg-up on Chrome for Android.

To everyone that says "people don't install 3rd party browsers on mobile", that's 100% wrong. Chrome for Android was a 3rd party browser for several years and was popular.
The only time I ever witnessed that was when a public transportation company employees went on strike for a month and the only transport available were trains. Otherwise I have never heard or seen anyone sitting on top of a train.
Google Glass Is Back with Enterprise Edition
I'll explain the last statement. I mean that gentrification occurs even in places like Copenhagen and Amsterdam with no required parking spaces.

Two ways to slow gentrification are to limit the increase in rental rates, and increase the power of the tenant's union to veto changes that the landlord might wish. I don't believe these are typically part of city planning, though I can see how they might be included.
Adrian Lamo, the hacker wrote a book “Ask Adrian”
Thanks for the link to the themes page (I must have overlooked that and thought they blew up the theme system outright), and there are a couple of promising ones I'm looking at now.

That said, given the treatment of how some other bugs are handled, especially one particularly noxious one regarding dupe SSL certs that's been kicking around for nearly a decade now that renders Firefox unusable for technical enterprise users, the fact that it's filed in their tracker doesn't mean much, and their classification of that bug as "(REOPENED bug which will not be worked on by staff, but a patch will be accepted)" tells me that compatibility isn't that much of a priority internally.

Why not let it bake a little longer and then release it? Surely Firefox won't turn into a pumpkin if they fail to push it out the door by November?
This is so wrong. People used I.E. because it came bundled with their computer. Source: I was there.
Why Chetan Maini’s Sun Mobility is betting big on renewable energy
The same reason I can't take Ethereum seriously. Do people seriously trust, or want an unproven hypervisor running code remotely on their hardware/network?
I don't know anyone who use Hangout anymore so that doesn't bother me. Basic gMail, Docs, Sheets work pretty well in Firefox. They feel faster in Chrome (actually I use Chromium) but are not perfect. Right now I'm having a problem where deleting a document in Drive causes an "Aww, Snap" crash.

Overall I think it's a tossup. Google makes sure their stuff works decently in Chrome, Edge, Safari, and Firefox (probably in that order).
The people running the contest owed you nothing. It sounds like you weren't a good match. Move on. The fact that you aren't what they wanted, and they aren't what you wanted, isn't a reflection on either of you.

> i decided to start a second business, mainly because i have a big office and i have unused space.

This doesn't sound like a good reason to start a business, especially one that's looking for outside investment.
All those machines are owned by Google or Apple though. They're not completely random machines.
Regarding tech people knowing ev vs non-ev, there are very few companies that need to know about them at all, the ones that get more than 10k hits per day through a login. And if you work at say Apple a different team would be taking care of certs, not everyday programmers, so we're talking a small percentage of the tech crowd that needs to know about EV certs.
It actually closes all Firefox windows. The generic hotkey for closing one window would be Alt+F4.

I definitely think that this should be handled by the OS though.
I switched to Chrome in ~2011 or 2012 after being a Firefox user and evangelist since... was the first one Phoenix or Firebird? Anyway, that one.

Reasons:

- Firefox got bogged down with just a few tabs open, and caused beachballs (OSX/macOS) systemwide. Chrome was snappier and didn't harm my system's overall responsiveness with several times as many tabs open. This was the main reason.

- Dev tools. Liked Chrome's better.

- Profile handling was, at the time anyway, better.

- IIRC Firefox didn't do per-tab crashing at the time, while Chrome did, which aided overall stability.

Advertising had nothing to do with it. Chrome was just way, way better, especially its (apparent, which is mostly what matters) resource footprint.

Now I'm mostly on Safari, even though it's the worst mainstream browser, just because I gain 1-2hrs of battery life using it over Chrome or Firefox.
Not counting radioactive decay as a physical process because you've chosen to define physical processes as deterministic is some intriguing mental gymnastics.
why was that a download?
Ask HN: Interview rejected, extra freedback after offical. Laws broken?
About 1 year ago I interviewed at company X. I was rejected, but the interviewer told one of their employees his opinion about my interview.

That employee is a friend of mine and they 'politely' (unofficially) relayed that information to me after I received the official rejection letter from the company. I was honestly offended by the 'politely turned' feedback my friend gave me, which was uncalled for and quite frankly unasked for.

The "feedback" was essentially "I don't know what I'm doing, go some where and learn how to do the job you already do on a daily basis, then interview here another time.". This was all based on a sub par 15 minute phone screen (both on my end but very very much on the interviewers end - one of those people you just wouldn't want to work for kind of interviewers).

That's besides the point, were any laws broken in this case?
I wasn't making a lottery metaphor. I was making a if you start a company you have better chances than playing the lottery but you are still playing that game.

There are literally thousands of talented people executing like there is no tomorrow and failing.

Access to capital, access to distribution, luck, timing. Thats what you primarily have the other factors are less relevant because most people playing the entrepreneur game have those.
YouTube's new preview on thumbnail hover doesn't work on Firefox as well.
Learning Machine Learning – Probability Basics
My Horrible Experience with Shared Hosting, and Why VPS Is the ONLY Way to Go
Falsely yelling "fire" in a crowded theater is illegal because the First Amendment has exceptions for lying (i.e., asserting an objective falsehood with intent to deceive).
There are no methods to make you successful. If you believe that you are fooling yourself. There are plenty of methods and practices to run a company but that has nothing to do with whether it successful. You can be very unsuccessful and still following all the right methods and practices.
But with Apple and Google, I know my data won’t go missing because the p2p network decided to stop seeding my file. Torrents die all the time due to lack of seeding.
Seconded. We use Helm to deploy OpenStack (and various supporting services) on Kubernetes: https://github.com/sapcc/helm-charts and https://github.com/sapcc/openstack-helm
Yes, with this logic, storage rental should expand into the sharing economy. You could rent out a room in your house for strangers to store their stuff in. Not a big step at all.
Can they still feel the crotch of me, my wife and 3 year old though?
> the FBI has told our client CREDO that one of the NSLs in the case is now permanent, and the Bureau will not further revisit the gag it imposed to determine whether it still serves national security.

How can the FBI possibly argue this? It sounds like they're basically admitting that they never actually expect to catch the criminals they're investigating through this NSL?
Meh. This article doesn't claim to be a scientific paper, so I don't see any reason to complain. I understand that some people will be confused because it has similar formatting to a "scientific" paper. But what are we going to do about it? Regulate LaTeX templates?

On the other hand, this is massively better to what normal corporate types call a "whitepaper" (usually just a glossy brochure that tells you nothing new.)

> Where are the experiments?

The experiments are in the markets. :) I.e. "here's a new coin, will it make money?"
No one is claiming it's purely lottery winning simply that even among the very talented people there are many failures so the only thing that really stand out is the luck and the timing aspects. Talent is mostly a hygiene factor.