skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Their desktop site works better than the mobile site on Chrome in Android.
Magnetic material RAM developed to improve energy usage and efficiency
I wonder how many times someone called the coast guard when the ship starts flipping.
This is what naively I thought when creating it. Anyway, now it's clear. My bad!
https://wiki.debian.org/ReproducibleBuilds

"With this we can detect problems related to timestamps, file ordering, CPU usage, (pseudo-)randomness and other things"

https://tests.reproducible-builds.org/debian/index_variation...
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or simply, in your browser's console, enter `window.dispatchEvent(new Event('offline'))`
But this will only compound, no? If people keep using it, the switching "cost" (cognitive/time) increases exponentially and people will near the storage limits.
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Because a key-value store is a foundamentally simpler data structure (it's an hash) than a relational database, which tracks the relations between different data types. If you make an advanced use of the key-value store, you have a lot of logic in the application (for example to key management, cascade operations between related data...) which a relational database should do for you. It's not fair because there is a development cost in using the key-value you are ignoring.
Why? Assume that the value of these altcoins do not change, and see how many you can mine given a certain amount of time. The value of altcoins could very well go down, but for the sake of demonstration you could still calculate a very rough estimate, no?
Ask HN: Anyone facing AWS ap-south-1 connectivity issues?
We've been facing connectivity issues between ap-south-1 and anything hosted on GCP today.

Even calls to google APIs are taking very long:

curl -w "@curl-format.txt" -o /dev/null -s https://maps.googleapis.com
time_namelookup: 0.004
time_connect: 0.061
time_appconnect: 9.116
time_pretransfer: 9.116
time_redirect: 0.000
time_starttransfer: 9.173
----------
time_total: 9.174

Any servers in google cloud are unable to connect to anything hosted on ap-south-1. Best of all, the AWS service health dashboard (as expected) is all green.
What a nice progression https://tests.reproducible-builds.org/debian/stats_issues.pn...

Project started in 2014 it seems.
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14221587

Author's comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14223780

"Honestly I just wrote this for fun to play devil's advocate and see how convincing an argument I could make. It was intended to be more creative writing than a serious market prediction. (The title used to be "How Google Collapsed" -- Startup Grind changed it and added the subtitle when they published it on their blog).

I don't think it's likely that Google is going to collapse any time soon. I just wanted to imagine a world where they had, and try to work backwards from there with current data.

It's my first article, and I'm only 21 so I definitely got a lot of things wrong and oversimplified/combined others. But I do have almost 2 years of work experience in online advertising, so I have /some/ idea of how things work.

I was honestly expecting 12 views and a mean comment about how stupid I was -- I didn't expect the article to pick up traction. The editor in chief of Startup Grind reached out to me and asked if I would like to have it published on their blog, and I said sure."
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Maybe im missing something but it seems the justification behind this is based on a situation in which source wasnt open. Debian is open so why is reproducibility a priority?
Also some build systems create artifacts as a result of timing-dependent algorithms. Simply put, if two things A and B run simultaneously, and A completes before B, then in some compilers/build systems/etc the result can be different from B completing before A. GHC, as a well-known example, suffers from this problem.
What do distributed software-defined storage/distributed filesystem projects have to do with a CoW filesystem? Alternatives to btrfs are things like XFS and ext4.
ORGANIC is not same as NON-GMO
Early on the fission products were stored in acid solutions in tanks. Circa 1980 the technology was developed to evaporate the solution and trap the fission products inside glass.

Plutonium from either a LWR or FBR fuel cycle is heavily contaminated with isotopes that will cause a bomb to predetonate or get really hot. Somebody with advanced technology (say Japan's government) could probably use electromagnetic separation to remove the unwanted isotopes, but you wouldn't expect ISIS to be able to do it.

The real thing terrorists would want to nick from a reprocessing plant is Neptunium 237; it has a large critical mass compared to plutonium, but it can be separated by chemical means and will not predetonate.

In the 1970s people wrote hang-wringing papers wondering if inventory control could be made good enough to detect diversion, a 2000s accident at Sellafield's THORP plant showed that it probably can't. They lost an Olymptic size swimming pool worth of fluid containing upwards of 50kg of Pu and around 1000kg of U and did not notice for months.

To be fair, it drained into a containment area and did not threaten anyone. They were able to clean it up. But obviously the inventory control was nonexistent.

THORP has been successful at producing plutonium oxide powder but the UK was unable to fabricate it into fuel elements and had to ship it to France.
Where did the data for the growth rate table come from? I can see that the original source is a reddit post but I can't find where the reddit post got it's numbers from.
If we leave them enough habitat. But why would we if we don't need them?
How to Know You're in a Mass Hysteria Bubble
http://blog.dilbert.com/post/164297628606/how-to-know-youre-...
How much 'real' transaction goes on through these alt coins?

Bitcoin enabled trade accross borders without going through banks, and with the possibility of evading normal money launderng proceedures.

Ethereum offered fascinating new applications like DAO, providing new ways of trading in funds and structuring companies.

Possibly there would be space for a zero knowledge alt-coin in dark pools and for mediating illegal tranasctions. But I don't think there is a market leader yet.

The huge majority of these alt coins are bucket shops. Surely that should effect the way we talk about them.

There are a lot of bucketshops these days. American gambling laws make it better to pretend to be legitimate. I wish America would just legalize online gambling.
>visit nytimes.com
>10 seconds to load page

Maybe if you're using the Trump definition of fast...
The way you've delivered this "comment" makes you sound like you either work for AWS or were asked to make a sponsored reply - for credits or $.
Red team training, developing countermeasures and signatures, researching attack heuristics, and if "counter hacking" will ever be legalized (which there is some push to do so) then in the same manner as owning a gun legally shooting back.
> would never use a voice assistant in public

I would be so much more willing to use voice control systems if they ditched the stupid code phrases, and just used a push-to-talk button instead. Something about saying "Okay Google/Siri/Alexa" creeps me out way more than just talking to a computer. I already use voice search and say "timer 10 minutes" rather than navigate the awkward clock app, but I'd love to be able to just squeeze a reliable button on the side of my phone (or even smart watch) to do that instead of fiddly swiping.

And PTT would also reassure me that the mic isn't listening in when I don't want it to, and help to minimise latency (which IME is a major impediment to using voice control) by providing immediate feedback when you're done speaking instead of having to wait for silence.
That has nothing to do with reproducible builds - the issue being solved by reproducible builds is that even in exactly the same environment, running the same build script twice can result in differences in the output.
Ask HN: Minimum size for a library
The size of libraries range all the way from single tiny functions like left-pad to massive frameworks like Django and Rails. How large do you think a library ought to be in order to be publishable?
I don't know about altcoins but I doubt learning about new ones and setting them up is worth your time.

The electricity mining Bitcoins costs with a normal CPU/GPU though is definitely more then you're going to make. (Even if your PC is on anyway, just the added cycles.)

EDIT: This is a good place to remind everyone that most people in the original gold rush lost money, their health and years of their lifes for nothing.
Is there a model ponderated by momentum ? Decisions have different consequences if you're at 30 vs 50mph.
Talking with Google about Android Oreo
You are already looking at the future of optimized infrastructure, as people have always moved homes to where the jobs, commerce, schools are. I think the're s a certain balance point. If everything is delivered, people will just spread outwards.
Ask HN: What is your favorite CS paper?
Google needs to fix the issue with search optimization gaming. Searching for products on Google is useless! The SEO manipulation puts marketing heaving companies first, while companies with product focus rather than marketing focus loose out. This creates a world of empty products with the majority of the product's investment going towards the advertising of the empty thing.
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Facebook has a bunch of tools to restrict both what you see of other people in your newsfeed (unfollow), and what they see of you (restricted list).
Oh, yes I understand. Totally with you. And proxy adblockers are not really user-friendly yet, so as long as advertisers go native they still have a rosy future indeed.
Here Is the Safety Trick That Will Help SpaceX Fly You to the Moon
You want evil? I can give you evil.

ASM.js or similar like Webassembly. Use it, create a polymorphic VM in the browser that forces a user to compute the ads in order to get content.

Now, trap the content in each VM (and no, not as a downloaded plaintext). This will be an encoded bytestream, that the easiest way to decode will be through the browser VM, and displaying ads along the way.

That's evil, and I would highly assume it works.
Am I getting this right?

Stenciljs is:
* Another way to create web components - using Typescript/JSX.
* Provides SSR support

Other than that:
* Is there anything else that we get from stenciljs?
* How is it different from Polymer?
* What Polymer problems does it solve?
At first I thought it was weird that I built a shrine to his divine wisdom, but after praying to it for a few nights I realised there's nothing wrong with it at all... I just hope he doesn't ask for human sacrifices...
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So that anyone can check whether a binary (on the mirrors) has been tampered with in ways that are not present in the source.
Is Docker (or any other container platform) a facilitator to reproducible builds? Making the environment standard between builds is probably easier in a container.
Is the data from coinmarketcap.com?
That looks really really good! I hope you're getting signup referrals. I think it could be a good thing to post on the sub.
On the contrary. Reproducibility means that given the source you are able to produce the exact same binary, i.e. you can verify that someone didn't modify it before building. When software isn't open, then reproducibility is meaningless, because you don't have the source, so: 1. you can't verify anything (you can't compile anything); 2. assurance of the binary not being modified gives you nothing, since you don't know if there is no malicious code in the original source code.
Mine have become tatty very quickly — perhaps just because I wear them too much? But, tattiness aside, I find their sound exceptional and still think they're worth every penny.
Bitcoin SegWit was activated
I know that, but you wrote "among european countries" an Switzerland is definitely one of them. It doesn't really make a difference for EU citizens if Switzerland is in or out.
Absolutely!
With visual content being predicted for popularity, a model can be made which produces quality content based on the training data of existing popular content from different sources.
To be clear, I don't think they're less important. I think they're unenforced. But in my experience most people don't seem to really believe in the rights in the DoI if it would cost them anything. For instance, just the right to life would _definitely_ include a right to water, which is an example given elsewhere.
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In his defence, "correlation is not causation", or even more aptly "predictions are difficult, especially about the future."
You are completely missing the point. This is not a critic of the OSM project. Most of the commenters love that it exists. It's just that if you click on your mobile on google map and osm map, you get a vastly different experience. It's objective.
Bitcoin is far past the point of being profitable with CPU or GPU, but there are many coins out there that are more than profitable for most americans (it has to mainly do with electricity cost in your area how much it will be profitable)
Sigh. I suppose this is true. I say "hopefully" even with a secure job and ability to put money away...
The problem with these exchanges is you can never be sure what your actual return is going to be (this is true to an extent for all coins, but the effect is not as big for the more established coins that you mine directly).

Suppose there's altcoin called ALT which can be mined very quickly and is worth let's say $0.00001 per coin. Mining a block takes 5 minutes and the payout is 10000 ALT coins or whatever.
The 10000 coins are distributed across the pool, and you determine that on your setup you should be able to mine $3 USD in terms of BTC a day on the pool. You get wind that ALT is about to get pumped hard, which means your potential earnings could reach $20 per day (or whatever).

What's the problem (ignoring exchange fees) with going "all in"?

Firstly, ALT coin may have a confirmation time of several hours or even days. You can't sell unconfirmed coins.

Secondly, the exchange has to sell these coins elsewhere (usually another exchange). Because of the low value, this other exchange may have a rule that you can only sell in batches of 1 million. So even though you've mined X amount of coins, you still have to wait for the batch to be fulfilled.

Thirdly once the batch is fulfilled, you still have to wait for it to be sold on the other exchange.

And finally, the BTC <-> ALT exchange rate may fluctuate independently of known factors.

By the time this happens, your ALT coin will almost certainly be worth a different value to what they were when you first mined them.

It could be worth more or less, but the point is you can't efficiently forecast on most alt-coins when you use exchanges like Zpool and NiceHash. This is why they usually have several values for your "earnings" - Total, Unconfirmed, Confirmed, and Sold. It's also why "profit switching" algorithms and techniques are kind of a silly idea for most alt-coins - you cannot calculate profit based on current market values.
Shouldn't Figure 7 represent a first derivative of the GDP? In which case, no refit is necessary, but trends are still only clearly apparent in hindsight.
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If you can't go into details then you're likely doing something illegal.

Which means even less reason to trust you.
True, but not everyone loves freelancing (I don't). There's a middle ground, which is full time remote work.
I really like it :-)

Never underestimate descriptive analysis.
After all, that's the first step you take before digging further in the data.
What you say is kind of true, but it's not that black and white, is it, when you consider naked shorts?
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can you provide any examples? i'm very skeptical because generally any coins that are viable with GPU mining are very quickly made not so by an influx of miners...
This is woefully misleading. Very little of that (nearly none?) was developed at the behest of government initiatives alone. The tech may have found useful traction via gov't contracts, but certainly not their birth.
I'm giving up on HPKP
Most people will not pay hundreds of euros for a device that can get them the same service they have for free on their phone, ads or not.

As Openstreetmap, the debate is already active in other comments.
What coins do you suggest?
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Thanks for your feedback. I am glad I could help you.
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I'm not sure about the other coins, but you can't mine NEO. You have to purchase it.

https://www.guidetocrypto.com/neo-neo/neo-neo-mining-guide-v...
O'Reilly Strata Data Conference in San Jose.
I attended this year and it was awesome (I guess other OReilly Conferences are equally good, but since Orailly is based in the valley I guess they can get the best speakers there), plus you get 3 months of Safari books online with it.

I always wanted to go to a hacker conference in the Netherlands that happen every 4 years (hip'97 / etc...) but I never can make it because always happens something... like getting married, having babies, etc... I guess going to Defcon would be a "safer" bet.
you only paid 1640 in taxes out of an 8650 income?! that's crazy!

even if we include the health insurance, it's still only 2k in taxes out of an 8650 income (less than 25%)

a lot of countries in europe will tax you 40% for that income...
Using a cron to scale an AE service to 500 instances 5 minutes before 10PM > bugging the infra team to bring up our 19th MySQL replica.
Probing the online phish market reveals thriving, profitable underworld
That's the nice part of NiceHash though, you never even own the alts in any way.

You as a "seller" get paid in bitcoin per mhash/s (or whatever the unit is for that algorithm). so if you are hashing "DaggerHashimoto" at 26Mhash/s for 24 hours, you are getting paid x btc per mhash/s

The "buyers" are basically then paying NiceHash to say "I want x ghash/s of this algorithm and I want it going toward this mining pool and I'll pay you X bitcoin for it." So then NiceHash plays the part of the broker and matches that X bitcoin payment up with as many miners as is needed to reach the threshold of ghash/s and takes a little off the top as a fee.

It's not perfect, you may end up taking a sub-optimal algorithm and making less than you could have if you did it perfectly, but it works well enough that I make profit in bitcoin.
I too have lost an entire btrfs volume (single disk) because of a bad sector. It seems btrfs is very sensitive to bad sectors in metadata, compared to ext4.

Since then, I've formatted my btrfs partition to do RAID1 on metadata and haven't had problems since.

$ sudo btrfs fi df /
Data, single
System, DUP
Metadata, DUP
Also FYI probably the first large scale broker of exploits was TippingPoint/HP (i don't remember if this thing started before or after HP acquired TippingPoint), they would buy exploits develop signatures for their IPS products then notify the vendors of the affected products and later disclose the vulnerability to the public.
http://www.zerodayinitiative.com
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Riot-E

There is a documentary about them also: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0427783/
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> Go...but likely won't quite match the speed of C/C++ for most tasks.

Last I checked golang generated code 3 years ago, it was full of redundant instructions, most notably redundant range checks. Seemed to be about half as fast as equivalent C/C++ code.

I believe golang can approach something like 80-95% of C/C++ performance once codegen is good.
Novel scenarios might not be common compared with miles of traffic-following drudgery, but even really bad human drivers deal with novel scenarios on the road more often than they have accidents.

Stopping might be a sensible safety protocol in some situations, but it isn't in others (not to mention the situations where the car may stop too late because it doesn't actually recognise that a novel scenario is about to occur).

So if you want Level 5 driving, and not just a very impressive demo which is safe provided a human watches it attentively enough to take emergency measures and is able to override it when it decides it can't process a situation well enough to proceed, you need the AI to be pretty damn close to perfect in its judgement of how to react to a huge number of edge cases.
The term "free-speech zone" is older than that. It goes back at least to 2004, and a similar concept under a different name ("protest zone") is even older.

Example from 2004: https://www.acslaw.org/acsblog/free-speech-zones-balancing-f...
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It could also be a bit ageist, indirectly. By qualifying older hires as adult supervision, companies might unconsciously avoid hiring older employees for positions where there is not a perceived lack of maturity, or hire workers only for the purpose of addressing deficiencies in maturity.
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I'm very suspicious of the prices for some of these more exotic coins. If you mine something like Golem or Pepe Cash with no name recognition, how do you find a seller? The big exchanges don't sell them and finding a buyer yourself is very time consuming. Seems like you're likely to end up with a lot of cryptocurrency you cannot find a buyer for and a lot of wasted electricity.
> Assume that the value of these altcoins do not change, and see how many you can mine given a certain amount of time. The value of altcoins could very well go down, but for the sake of demonstration you could still calculate a very rough estimate, no?

And likewise if you assume values for the cost of apple seeds land, see how many apples you can grow given a certain amount of time - and the value of apples could very well go down - but for the sake of demonstration you can also calculate a very rough estimate of apple orchard profitability, no?
Is there any better alternative that offers similar simplicity?
Why SSD's will not kill off hard drives
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I have an idea, what’s next? Step-by-step guide
There's an inalienable right to water to the extent that a government would be tyrannical because people didn't have water. I can imagine a few different scenarios where that would be the case.

The "right to life" was more broadly talking about who owns a life (the individual, nature's creator, not the government). It wasn't talking about the right to be free of all death.
No, harassment is the action of repeatedly crafting then using deliberately harmful speech toward a specific target. It's not about the speech at all. The speech can change. The combination of repetition, intention of harm, and specific target can not.

And you speak about consequences, but those consequences are the one that should be punished. Because you can assess consequences. You can evaluate damages. You can't evaluate the value of words.

If you say "kill the xx" one time, it really doesn't matter.

If you say "kill the xx" and that it leads to attempt to kill, then the problem is the intent to kill.

Otherwise South park / Rick and Morty could not exist.
More profitable to trade altcoins and get in on rumors then sell when they go high, and cash out to BTC/BCC when you can. Problem with a lot of alts is they don't go anywhere. If you were lucky and say mined NEO then you're fine, but what about the other 100's of alts?