skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes[1], no[2]. An IP address is "personal relationships" data and collecting, processing or using such data is prohibited unless allowed by law or the concerned person gives consent.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bundesdatenschutzgesetz#Types_...

[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bundesdatenschutzgesetz#Overvi...
> The profit from the token sale goes into a foundation setup to oversee the project ... [truncated]

... that is controlled by the founders and could presumably be used for whatever they'd like. The usual approach is to create two companies. One a shell to own the ICO itself, and the second a tech services company that does development for the shell corp.

So it ends up something like:

"We definitely need the expertise of ICO founder Mr. X. Let's hire his consulting company to update the CSS on our web page at $1,000/hour..."
> I'm not directly involved in this proposal, but I personally think it's necessary, and strikes a reasonable balance between the privacy-for-users and actionable-information-for-developers requirements.

I use Firefox and always opt into any telemetry that sends data back to Mozilla. You could say I am a fanboy. I think it is a HORRIBLE idea and Mozilla should scrap it yesterday and never bring it up again. If people bring it up again, send them to the roof team (if it doesn't exist, create one). If they come downstairs, fire them. You already have people like me who are willing to opt-in to every single thing you can try. For example, Firefox nightly on Android has consistently crashed for me about every five minutes or so since the last weekend and yet I keep using it. Don't throw away this goodwill.
Anyone can be an entrepreneur. It's having an idea that can be acted upon that should provide a positive return (in terms of comparable and calculable inputs and outputs). In the capitalist production order, entrepreneurs need capital to create the conditions necessary to act on the plan. Most people don't have ideas that can be acted upon with enough potential return to justify seeking capital investment as a unique enterprise.
Trump moving to Gab would be interesting both for the effect it would have on Twitter’s valuation and on the media profile of Gab as a Twitter-like service. Trump would have the ‘pull’ to draw attention to Gab and the media would feel themselves compelled to cover it.
Is buying a company better than starting one?
The free tier was removed a long time ago. Those who did register before that change had their free plans grandfathered and made available for free later too. I'm still using my free GSuite account with Gmail for a couple of my domains. My usage is very low, and I'm not sure if Google is mining data from free GSuite accounts. My understanding is that it does not.
The money might not have been that hard earned in the first place.

Last year, the price of one Ether was ca. $10. Now it's 30x as much. That's quite a multiplier.

If you bought some ETH last year, just by the price increase, you have lots of spare cash to throw at stuff that promises to make you even richer.
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This isnt how tcp/ip works
Isn't that all Orthodox churches, not just the Serbian?

My wife's a bit of a Russophile. So in years where we forgot to do the holiday shopping, we exchange gifts on Russian Christmas (i. e. January 7, Gregorian). Or, if we're really forgetful, Russian New Year.
Make it float, and self-reproducing and you get a green-fly carpet in the stratosphere that could blot out the sun.
I know several people from crypto community and people who got rich are in a minority. Most people lost their money and are acting as gamblers now, throwing more money into new tokens to double down (which is one factor feeding the current ICO frenzy).

But I agree that there is a small group of people making big bucks from this (people behind ICOs plus a tight group of early bitcoin adopters).
> I'm not sure I buy the premise that every service needs its own coin. Surely in most cases it would be better to just use the most widely used, most stable coin?

The team cannot finance itself without selling a new token

These projects don't use equity and there is nothing that will make the equity more valuable as there.

There are lots of things that will make their token be more valuable as it is a new commodity.
Containers come with their own set of expectations, needs, requirements and problems. They can be a useful tool but I suspect the cluster of Pis is a much more accurate model for multi-computer modeling.
What you guys just won't grasp is that:

1. You will absolutely obliterate any trust you have with actions like this. This is important. Because if you continue to ignore this and you will have tons of data but you will be absolutely clueless as to why your product and brand are completely abandoned.

2. This data isn't worth that much to begin with. Here is a crazy idea, try to make a better browser instead.
Thanks for your input. Glad to hear someone from the Mozilla team on this thread.

Its an interesting compromise... because without improved performance and features, we'll lose Firefox entirely, and all of the relative privacy / security gains that entails. This is a good example where "perfect" privacy that reaches only a few is the enemy of "good" privacy that reaches more people.
Is it even more expensive to drive a regular speaker with a dedicated tablet than a Sonos speaker?
> Any submission of data requires the transmission of an IP address, which is personal data and necessitates appropriate protection.

Do you have a citation for that broad assertion? My understanding is that this is highly variable across legal jurisdictions and even in Europe, which typically leads the way in privacy, it's not that simple. See e.g.
https://www.whitecase.com/publications/alert/court-confirms-... discussing an EU Court of Justice ruling that had two requirements: the ISP can link that IP address to an individual AND the website operator can get that information from the ISP.
You read that and think they're going to tunnel into your network and break your speakers? To me this is clearly lawyer CYA language to ensure that when Spotify changes their API and Sonos only supports it in a future software update, you will have been warned.
That's a pretty stupid example. If I say I'll beat the crap out of anyone that hurts my family is that considered a threat[1] too?

[1]: Cause in my mind it's not a threat. It's a guarantee.
There are secret tunnels under the Alhambra
The world’s largest floating solar farm producing energy atop a former coal mine
> Why is this man now being classified as ”alt-right”?

(1) Sexism is an integral part of alt-right movement. Most alt-right communities are anti-women as well. (e.g. https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/dissecting-trumps-most-...) (2) This man has identified himself as an "alt-right" icon by continuously featuring on shows of every despicable alt-right outlet (refer to his twitter account, multiple interviews, etc.).

"If it looks like a duck, swims like a duck, and quacks like a duck, then it probably is a duck."
> "modern computers are very complex, don't even try to understand what's happening"

I live my life by that adage
You could transmit the telemetry through Tor.
Introducing SKA – SSH Key Authority
I personally couldn't stand Planetary Annihilation due to the camera, but there are other great Total Annihilation clones out there, like Supreme Commander (w/Forged Alliance expansion) and Spring Engine games (open source)
> Now urandom is based on chacha

Did Linux follow the example set by OpenBSD?
Taking Lithium-Ion Batteries to the Extreme
I think you're right. But I don't think casual consumers want that. I can't wait to explain to my 4 year old that Disney movies aren't on Netflix now.

I think what went wrong with music was the initial value set, and then competed with (into extinction) by Davids and Goliaths. Steve Jobs valued a song at $0.99 11 years ago. We've yet to adjust that for inflation. It's only gotten worse with valuations for streaming. The real problem now isn't that we don't listen to albums anymore (OK, maybe that's half the problem) or that we don't have physical music, but Steve Jobs valued it too low. And that a song that took $2,000,000 to produce costs the same as a song that took $0 to produce; yet both command a $0.99 price point.

I'm getting preachy, and I'm sorry.
In 2020 you'll be able to drop the first part too.
There aren't really any good choices in that price range, your options are basically rubbish or old. Out of the two, I'd probably pick old and recommend something like an iPhone 4s or a Nexus 4 (used - check http://swappa.com)

If new is important, check out http://tracfone.com - they have Android's as cheap as $20 (and worth every penny!)
I know (I used to play LoL after all, so I'm familiar with the genre), but I've seen people misusing the term very often. I wasn't sure because I'm not entirely sure how would they turn a game like AoE into a MOBA - it wouldn't be an update of the original game, it would be a whole new concept published under the same name.
You're talking about variable rates? Hawaii is a good example of what the future might look like, unfortunately. The power companies there are fighting very hard against variable rates because it would make solar way, way more feasible. It's kind of an extreme example because solar power could virtually eliminate Hawaiian power companies at a very substantial cost savings and a very short timescale, but the same principal elements are present everywhere in the mainland US too.

Australia has a lot of variable rates though, so that's nice for them.
This probably wouldn't be a very good optimization puzzle as the cost of printing would so dominate the arithmetic operations. :(
Invacare take powerchairs to a new level
How to check the spelling of your docs from TravisCI
I should have stated extra constraints; you're not allowed to use either additional memory (memory accesses are slow) or an if statement to update your state (branch mispredicts are slow). Yes, these are arbitrary (and I know the total time would be dominated by the cost of printf), but the point is to shave nanoseconds. Also, you've still got the duplication of strings.
I appreciate your reply, because sports games are actually something I have little to no experience with. I wasn't aware of the current trends in that area.
The only reason I still have Twitter is to see what crazy thing trump will say next! I've been saying for a while that if trump were to stop tweeting the usage would plummet
> Lastly, crash reports are sort of a boolean filter - you only get the people that crash. The things I'd like to know to help in my development are things like "what is the histogram of max GC pause times on docs.google.com". Getting that info requires a good random sampling of the population, not just those who exhibit problems.

PLEASE do not go down this road. Look where "optimizing" video card drivers has led the video game industry. Game engine developers and game developers are lazier than ever. It is not up to you to make sure docs.google.com runs well on your browser. It is up to you to provide browser that adheres to (and defines if it must) standards. It is up to the web developers at docs dot google dot com to make their application work on Mozilla Firefox.
I guess any browser wants to dominate the platform. It turns into another IE once it succeeds at doing so. Here comes the new boss, same as the old boss.
Get a copy of SICP and do all the exercises (and or follow along with the MIT course videos on YouTube)
You're right, that was too short and thus too harsh. Please accept my apologies.

So a short roundup:

/dev/random and /dev/urandom used to be exactly the same (on Linux), except that /dev/random did some voodoo "entropy estimation" that the Linux kernel guys are totally in love with, but everyone else doesn't trust anyway. Even if there was a plausible model how to estimate entropy, which there isn't.

In the meantime things have changed quite a bit. But the main thing to know is the same: /dev/urandom is the device you want to use for cryptographic randomness. /dev/random is an oddity that will be there forever because Linux takes backwards compatibility (for user space) extremely seriously.

(On other Unixoid platforms you also want /dev/urandom)

If you can use syscalls and don't need a device, use getrandom(2) over /dev/urandom. It's better.

Oh, and please note that the Linux man pages have been updated! They now state clearly that /dev/urandom is suitable for cryptographic use. Of course, lots of old man pages floating around on the web.
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HN has a higher standard of dialog than Reddit. Appeals to authority without qualification and name calling doesn't really work here.
> They scan the emails and obtain valuable information regarding the user preferences and conversation, which later they use to tune their ads. We are the product.

At least for the "free" Gmail, as of two months ago (June 2017) Google promised to no longer scan email content. That change is coming in the near future. [1]

[1]: https://www.blog.google/products/gmail/g-suite-gains-tractio...
So no word on whether the spyware authors can be identified and if they'll be prosecuted? Only teenage hackers can get in trouble?
> Currently we can collect this data when the user opts in, but we don't have a way to collect unbiased data, without explicit consent (opt-out).

That to me suggests the problem isn't that too many people are opting-out, it's that not enough people are opting-in.
Most ISPs filter spoofed IP addresses nowadays[1]. Even if your ISP doesn't prevent it, NAT might. You wouldn't get a whole lot of responses this way, and there'd be a strong bias because of regional differences w.r.t. filtering.

[1]: https://spoofer.caida.org/summary.php
The second photo in the article, under Zendar, is actually a screenshot from a video game called Scanner Sombre. I guess this is just a mistake?
Databricks raises $140M Series D round led by Andreessen Horowitz
In the end Mozilla is simply going to go through with it and there's nothing we can do about it. Just like with the killing of the XUL plugins - the company simply didn't care about the outcry. I mean why would they? The amount of people that cares about stuff like 'customization' or 'privacy' is slim.

So we will toothlessly complain but then the changes will be shoved in our throats, because obviously why would one care what the non-targeted demographics whines about. And of course it will be framed as being 'for our own good' and half of the people complaining with just deal with it, just like the majority already does.
Often porting cost is much less than profit from this market. This is quite geeky game intended primarily for fans of old AoE, lots of such fans are using Linux and Mac Os now.
Sorry about the brief downtime. It's back up now.
I think so, yes. getrandom(2) is also an OpenBSD thing (getentropy), but of course they had to rename it and add a few options...
I made no comment on the work done here, it is novel and concerning if you use the outputs for important things. My comment is that non-cryptographic random number generators should not be used for security-critical functions.

These functions are specifically built for speed, not security.
This is true, and I've thought about it a bit. If you were really optimizing, then maybe the goal would be stated as putting the completed answer into a memory buffer. But for now, shave as many nanoseconds as you can from the logic and pretend we don't have to worry about printing.
There is a podcast called "The Earth Collective" where an entire civilization is constantly moving. I guess they use big RV's there too. It is quite interesting.
Their original goal of online microtransaction boardgames is a far cry from very popular eSport.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Oed9nM7MFA
Previously, I wasn't able to upvote old posts of user, if I did upvote it'd redirect to add to my favorite posts. Now, the upvote button upvotes.

Did the change came recently ?
Twitter is really a terribly managed business on so many levels, including the one you referred to. It's a mystery as to why their institutional investors haven't staged a coup and brought in new management.
do_I_have_very_bad_medical_condition.com

Wouldn't that still leak health information? Less overall, but if any is bad, this still isn't acceptable.
Scientists Say It's Raining Diamonds on Neptune and Uranus
Memory accesses are not slow on modern CPUs. With speculative loads and large L1d caches these loads won't stall even a single cycle

String duplication helps speed here.

Branch misprediction will happen once every fifteen times worst case.

Plus, if shaving nanoseconds, printing is a bad idea
Question: in light of the SEC decision regarding the DAO, is there any way to do an ICO that doesn't run the risk of later the whole company being shut down for not registering securities? Like maybe opening the company in Crypto Valley, Zug?

Is there a way to do a public offering of tokens? Or does it necessitate all the same reporting that a publicly listed company has?

Could still be worth it! Because the investors control even less of your board than in Snapchat IPO.
But he is not sexist. It is not sexist to believe biology could influence interests or to cite peer reviewed research on the topic.
Read this comment, it cites the relevant laws for Germany: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15072474

But be aware, in May 2018 it all changes as the new EU GDPR comes into force, and that’s a bit more restrictive (and even applies to anyone processing or storing data of EU citizen, no matter where the processing entity is located)
The "Scramble for Africa" was a particularly late colonization push (late 19th century). Colonization in Africa started after de-colonization was complete in the Americas.
They could rebrand to merely Duck, but duck.com is already registered... to Google [0].

[0]: https://www.whois.com/whois/duck.com
So how would you go about acquiring evidence that this approach actually works?
A group of URLs tied with the IP accessing them may leak such data. Maybe not in exact violation of the law, but it would allow for a reasonable estimate of the chance of someone at that IP address having some given condition.
Making the web more accessible with AI
I think a lot of sources generally treated as liberal have swerved in their coverage over the last ~year, since Trump began to look credible. I'd argue that stretch is non-representative compared to, say, 2014, but I'd also argue you can still see a distinctive outlook when they do cover those topics.

A source like Vox covers urban/coastal issues from the 'inside', treating first-hand sources as credible and writing like the reader is included in the topic. There's also a significant assumption that readers inherently care.

It writes rural white plight stories as 'explainers', approaching them the way you would approach some international crisis your readers are unlikely to know about. One big human-interest frame example to make your readers care, lots of background and statistics, first-hand interviews that add flavor, but are aggressively contextualized by talking to professors and experts who aren't part of the community. And, of course, a necessity to say "which maybe caused Trump" or otherwise justify why such stories are relevant to their readers.

Basically, I think NPR/Vox/etc have started covering rural plight stuff far more, but they're still explaining those people to their readers.
Yes, this is actually a thing: https://coinmarketcap.com/assets/omisego/
People universally stated their feedback about pocket and it's still there.

Why participate in a no-op?
tl;dr -- the asm author used DIV to divide by a constant 2

More fundamentally: it's theoretically possible to at least match compiled code performance with assembly, because you could just write the code the compiler generates.

BUT, it requires a LOT of experience.

Modern compilers "know" a lot of optimizations (e.g. integer mult by fixed constant --> shifts, adds, and subtracts). Avoiding pipeline stalls requires a lot of tedious register bookkeeping, and modern processors have very complicated execution models.

It's almost always better to start with a compiler-generated critical section and see if there are possible hand optimizations.
You keep adding in dark matter, but this article has nothing to do with dark matter. I didn't discuss dark matter.

The article is about the metric expansion of space, or if you're really really really stubborn about that (you appear to be) the redshift-distance relation sans mechanism.

That relation is an empirical fact and has been known for more than a century. Indeed, the discovery of that relation both predated the discovery of galaxy clusters and enabled the discovery that galaxies are collections of billions to hundreds of trillions of stars.

> experiment

You are being way too fussy about this. Sure, you can take an ultra-Popperian attitude towards cosmology, but that would make you an extremist rather than a scientist; science generally doesn't work that way. You'll be hard pressed to find any scientist who advocates ignoring observational evidence simply because local direct testing is infeasible with current technology. Heck, we still can only demonstrate the inverse square law for gravitation down to micrometer scales in laboratory settings, and there was no experimental value for the gravitational constant until the start of 19th century. Yet there Neptune is.

At any rate, you do not really seem interested in learning about the theoretical underpinnings of dark energy in any way, and if you're as uninterested as you appear to be in advancing your own understanding of the standard cosmological model and the many observations and experimentally well-validated theories that it wholly captures (notably the Standard Model of Particle Physics and General Relativity), then it seems wasteful to continue this thread.
I have no need or desire to "convert" you, and am uninterested in your personal beliefs or what you believe I believe or why I believe it. Honestly, I hope my withdrawing from the conversation will make you feel better.
That is one hell of a stretch.
turning your comment into a 10-week pdf course as we speak, just gonna pick a theme over ath theme forest brb
Remember when you first encountered some seemingly hard topic early in your developer's life. Pointers? Virtual functions? Futures? Pick something from your experience on what you had to spend a couple of weeks to get a grasp.

Now think:

* Was it useful?
* Is it hard, from your current perspective?

Ponder.
Let Consumers Sue Companies
Clearly those users that dont choose to opt in are wrong, and mozilla needs to make this choice for them...

This trend towards parentalism in software, especially software that is supposed to be user driven is frankly a steaming pile of garbage.

If you have any shred of pretense of being pro-privacy and pro-user dont do this mozilla.
> Don't collect URLs, but only top-level+1 domains (e.g. images.google.com)

Do you consider images.google.com to be eTLD+1? The eTLD would be .com; so, eTLD+1 would be google.com; and hence, images.google.com would be eTLD+2?

eTLD: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_Suffix_List