skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not sure where your 22 years estimate comes from. I think man has been trying to understand it for much longer maybe thousands of years ? - and has found answers through techniques that are outside of the mind - such as meditation.
I'd love to see them categorised better, I was looking for something specific e.g. an iOS developer interview which I didn't find. Not really sure if it is mentioned in the description or if each one is one or multiple interviews but it was kind of messy so I lost interest fairly fast.
> The remaining XP machines are still in place due to complex technical requirements from a small number of externally provided highly specialised applications," a spokeswoman told the BBC.

This is the real heart of the issue. In my (very limited) experience, software choices are made by different people than the ones that deal with them each day.

My hope is that more and more applications will become web based, and big enterprises can move to a cut down linux desktop with a limited attack surface, so internal IT teams can focus more on securing servers.
I don't get what you are saying entirely, but companies like Microsoft and Broadcom, of all places, have given patent licenses with their open source work that were not as one-sided as Facebook's was.

If Microsoft and Broadcom are better OSS+patents citizens then you are, you have a serious problem.
What's the Enterprise pricing?
> Well quantum computing is obviously physically possible.

Well, since you mentioned this: would you mind linking me to a single demonstration of it that has been conclusively established as evidence of quantum computing? I've seen lots of D-Wave stuff but to my knowledge the experts don't actually really buy those.

> However the difficulty of scaling quantum computers goes up exponentially with the number of qubits, so we might not achieve enough success to make them practical.

But yes, this is more in line with what I was thinking. Even if it's possible I don't expect it will be practical (hence why I used this word in the earlier comment).
There have been zillions invested in the Diesel, which would have been wasted. The Diesel is also seen as the more efficient engine: less fuel consumption and less CO2 emissions.
I agree. And if they do make it a contest, providing numbers for comparison would be really helpful. Like, her impact compared to that of Bill Clinton or George W. Bush.
Safari at the moment but thinking about going to Firefox
Isn't LINQ quite slow?
Notice that the traceroute is from github to the user. I don't think we can assume users have port 443 open.
That's the direct consequence of Facebook's patent license.
> If you're online in any way whatsoever, you likely know I'm talking about Bodega.

I'm online in many ways, and no, I didn't know that.

When writing an article on cultural ignorance, try to be mindful of your own echo chamber as well!
I'm continually impressed at how well this feature works.

Several times I've come across an oddly formatted page and worried it'd lose styling required for the correct interpretation but not yet!
I’ve seen forums posts from the early days where people have mentioned giving a tenth or so of a Bitcoin as a tip to thank them for an answer. Quite a tip now!
Indeed. It was exactly the other way around, as many nationalists (including the KKK) did not want to get into the war and held a lot of sway right up until Pearl Harbor.

After Pearl Harbor, there was no keeping USA out of the war.
Yes, but those companies don't use toxic patent licenses like Facebook does.

No false equivalence should be made here. Facebook needs and deserves to be called out over it as much as possible.
I read a story of people losing a huge amount to theft: https://medium.com/@CodyBrown/how-to-lose-8k-worth-of-bitcoi...
"Google would be an elephant while DuckDuckGo is a mosquito (this is not to emphasize; I’m actually making things better for DuckDuckGo)."

Why would this guy go out of his way to say this metaphor is actually literally informative and generous towards DuckDuckGo while apparently having exerted no mental effort and being incorrect by orders of magnitude on his own data?

If you're most generous to the writer, you get 12 million hits /day vs 13 billion hits /day according to his data from Wolfram, for a ratio of ~1/1100, which applied to a pygmy elephant of 5500 lbs yields a corresponding weight of ~5 lbs for the mosquito, or over 2,000,000 mg, versus the average mosquito weight of about 5 mg. Even if he meant a small 2000 kilogram pygmy elephant and a 20mg elephant mosquito, he's still 5 orders of magnitude too generous towards Google in mass comparison in his metaphor in which he is "actually making things better for DuckDuckGo".

I think most people think of animals like African Elephants when they hear "elephant", though, in which case you're looking at a 13,000 pound animal versus a ~12 pound one if you use hits as your metric, or a ~95 lb one if you go by visits as your metric.

So an actually fair metaphor is if Google's an elephant, DuckDuckGo is somewhere between a goose and a hyena. Better watch out, Google.
Secondary markets have little or nothing to do with resource allocation.

The business actually has little need to get involved at all in its stock market listing if it is just getting on with its business.

It's only when you start using shares as currency to buy other things (whether manpower or other companies) that secondary listings and the ability to swap them into cash starts to matter.

There's a fairly reasonably argument that a stock market in its modern construction is actually more of a hindrance to genuine equity investment and it shouldn't exist. Then those investing in equity have to look at the ability of the company to generate an income rather than sell itself to the greater fool.
Given that Firefox is shipping this, are we looking at a reversal of the "Opera had it first" meme? :-)
That's an unusual material for a ring, I just hope you don't get into the situation where it needs to be cut off. That would put me off using such a hard metal for rings and jewellery chains.
Greece imports a lot -> gets more expensive.

Greece with its Drachma would have been a welcome victim for currency speculation. This was tried with the Euro, too, but it failed.

People also think in economic terms, but the Euro is a political project. Countries like Greece wanted to be in the Eurozone. It was not Germany's wish. It was the wish of Greece and the population of Greece also wanted it - not just the politicians.

Germany actually did not want to have the Euro itself, it agreed to the Euro to get the Reunification. But it agreed on the Euro to be a stable currency, not one that politicians would devalue to gain short term effects.
I'm from Baden Württemberg, and I'm not sure how strong the car industry is any more. For example, every year a bit more autobahn has a speed restriction applied to it.

I think you're spot on though. The diesel emissions scandal is made worse by the fact that diesel was promoted in the EU because the CO2 emissions tend to be lower than petrol. This is reflected by diesel vs petrol prices in France or Germany (diesel was/is? cheaper per 100km), compared to the UK where diesel wasn't as popular.
Ask HN: Is there a less general purpose Ethereum style platform?
I'm no expert so open to being corrected but a concern I have about platforms such as Ethereum is that they seek to be general purpose. From what I have seen about how smart contracts are written they are often using languages akin to Javascript & C that compile down to a general purpose VM.

This concerns me because something we've learned about software development in the last 70 years or so is that there are maybe a handful of bug free programs of any significance. Software you can't fix is, therefore, a recipe for trouble. And an Ethereum smart contract is, as I understand it, "software you can't fix".

The recent exploit of Ethereum wallet emptying would appear to bear this out but, as I say, I am still learning and perhaps I operate under some misunderstandings that says these problem are less general than I think?

Recently I have been looking into behaviour trees for implementing both game AI and also decision support systems. Something I like about behaviour trees is that they can be sophisticated but, in general, have a smaller conceptual surface space and seem easier to reason about than general purpose programming languages.

(For calibration purposes my experience of building software since the 1980's has been: assembler, BASIC, C, pascal, C++, Perl, Ruby, Erlang, Clojure).

Once you have mastered selectors, sequences, and the notions of success & failure the rest is conditions and actions whose mastery is predicated on domain knowledge.

Editing of behaviour trees can be made very intuitive through outliner style editing and I wonder if they might be easier to automatically verify.

It occurred to me that Ethereum's beginnings (arising out of MasterCoin) were a lot less ambitious and general purpose. Is there a platform that uses something closer to behaviour trees for implementing smart contracts?
While I agree with your statement it's hard to actually prove.
My guess is that it's a md5 of the IP (with a salt) to hide what the actual IPs on their internal network is. But since they know the salt and the ip ranges they can find out what the IP is.
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At a higher level, I think the problem is poor requirements specifications when the externally sourced applications were first procured. If the procurers had accurately predicted the lifetime requirement, they could have required the stack to be fully security supported for that length of time, making it the vendor's problem to update to a newer OS that has security updates.

Instead, they pushed the cost back while keeping the risk themselves.

Perhaps back then this wasn't so obvious. I hope it is now, and procurement teams actually do incorporate this into their requirements now.
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'It would be a lot harder to raise the initial capital if the initial investors wouldn't have the prospect of unloading their shares to the public."

It wouldn't, because there isn't anything else they can do with the capital other than sit on it in a bank and get no return.

The myth that the stock market is relevant is put about by people who work in stock markets. Much like share buy-backs are the same as dividend payments. Exactly how giving the company's money to people who want to stop investing in the company is the same as giving it to those that do is a triumph of using dodgy maths and statistics to fool people.
Addresses have a checksum for just that reason. It would be remarkably difficult to acccidentally mistype an address that had happened to have the correct checksum, and also be a valid address.
This article makes me a little sad about Apple's internal development, many of the components that seem oddly misaligned or incoherent in a good practice development should be centralized, to be reused as many times as possible, but apparently don't seem to be
Worse, I believe some cars are now doing this with almost all of the controls, not just the entertainment system controls.

Controls I want to operate without looking at them: fan, temperature, air routing, defrost, windshield wipers, high beams, turn signals.
The article was very clear that she not simply open to criticism but has done more, by her industry-driven policy decisions, to damage the environment than any other person. Literally, the worst.

It's not a secondary claim; it's the entire premise of the article.
DuckDuckGo is OK but they seem to be penalising single-page apps so my project websites rank low on DuckDuckGo but high on Google. So I can't support DuckDuckGo.
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Interesting app is there an alternative for linux?
The Linkedin profile is now gone.. but the employment history was listed as "Professional" for the CSO's previous positions - rather than showing a graceful rise to a C-level position.

C-Level is amongst other things, a strategic and political position.

After an incident like this, it is understandable that people look at the profile of those entrusted with this responsibility.

If we look at Moxie's OSINT, we'd quickly see that he was perfectly qualified based on his presence in the ecosystem (conference talks etc).

A more suitable comparison would be the CSO of Equifax's competitor - which is Experian.

Do the same comparison with their CSO:

- Director of Security / Compliance,Capital One
- VP of Information Security, Citi Group
- Director Information Security and Risk Management, Thomson Reuters
- Director / CSO, Experian

Oh, this candidate also has relevant publications, certifications and a PhD in Computer Science..

Whilst I think the education is relevant, I don't think it is the defining factor... But.. We should be careful to jump to "education doesn't matter".

Was this the right person to be entrusted with the strategy for OUR data security? We simply don't know... but what we have seen has caused concern.
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$5k was the all-time high. Most assets crash from their all-time high, unless they're at an all-time high, of course.
Maybe you need to do some SEO then.
Not sure if same protocol, but iirc Dust (https://github.com/blanu/Dust) was supposed to accomplish this. Created by Brandon Wiley co-founder of freenet.
> It takes me 5-15min to fall asleep at night, let alone during the day

I'm very similar but have found that using Beats Brainwave Entrainment I can get a solid 15 minutes deep relaxation. Just get in a comfy chair where you won't be interrupted, pop your headphones on and listen.

I've no comment at all about the science etc behind the Brainwave Entrainment, I just use it as a good method to get a catnap. I'll sometimes set the alarm for 20-25 minutes just in case I go off to proper sleep but find I usually wake when the sounds stop.
I've been using it for the last 6 months.

The problem is, whenever you can't find something in DDG, you assume it's because it's DDG, and search again with !g. Meaning I end up requerying 40% or so of my searches using !g (prefixing your query with !g redirects your query from DDG to encrypted google)

Here's some example queries I ended up !g yesterday that had much better results in google than DDG:

reduce kendo javascript file size - For me, the useful result was number 2 in google. In DDG it was number 11 ("Only What You Need | Kendo UI Getting Started").

ptr overwatch - PTR is the test patch of the game overwatch. It's regularly changed. The correct result "Overwatch PTR Now Available - August 29, 2017" is number 1 in google, in DDG the blog post August 12th is not available (well, correct from my perspective)

I tend to find anything speculative DDG is fairly terrible at. For example yesterday I was googling about trying to identify the source of some weird animation CPU cycles I was seeing in Chrome Performance Profiler, I didn't really get to the bottom of it, but I ended up ditching DDG and doing all the queries in google because I would otherwise have ended up searching everything twice.

I'm also getting quite frustrated with the "instant answer" functionality, it's generally terrible. One of the most annoying ones is the SO instant answer that just utterly sucks, you can't see the code, it usually cuts anything useful in half, and takes up a HUGE amount of space meaning on a laptop you've got to scroll to start seeing the results. I just want to be able to turn it off, but because they don't track you they don't offer that functionality.

Also the maps one is really bad. I almost always want directions, but clicking the map takes me to a really nonfunctional, bare-bones map that doesn't have directions and then I have to click another button to actually get the directions. There's a drop down where you can choose your map type, but it definitely doesn't work as expected, I just want it to always embed a google maps instead of whatever they're doing.

Basically UX ain't DDG's strong point.

Ironically, if you DDG: "turn off certain instant answers duckduckgo" it comes up with terrible search results and no answer. If you "!g turn off certain instant answers duckduckgo", the top result is at least relevant.

I also find the entire bang thing to be a gimmick. Who wants to use !r when !g with "reddit" at the end will always get you better search results, reddit's own search is abysmal (as is !so).

EDIT: I'm being overly negative, after all, I haven't actually switched back, like I did last time I tried to use DDG. So it's definitely worth a go, but I don't think it's ready for your Mum to use. Also, I have Bing on my phone's Chrome to avoid AMP, and it's actually quite good.
If there's anyone from Vivaldi watching this thread my one and only request: when I type www.youtube.com show me https://youtube.com as the first choice and not some inner page that I bookmarked. I constantly enter youtube and hackernews via some page that I bookmarked ages ago.
Ignorant question: What other language is Swift like most? And what improvements does Swift make over that language?
Well duh thats the idea. Then they can sue you. More work for FB's legal team too.
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Don't know if it is a too obvious answer, but have a look at the output of 'sudo lastb', it will show failed attempts quickly to verify if it is plausible and fail2ban properly setup.
For hecks sake just put the foot down and cancel the money going to the tardy vendors.

Cutting off the money supply magically fixes software issues fdast.
Nice exercise, but in length I would say the magnitude is correct:
around 6m for an elephant vs 3-6mm for a mosquito
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I learned different things in economics than. I learned about, scarcity, fungibility, divisibility, durability and transferability to be the main properties of a currency, not a desired factor of any case, afaik thats just a quality of humans, called greed.

Just because some people want something, doesn't make it a good currency. To stay in the same metaphor, I'd like to own the Nightwatch of rembrandt, just as many others do, still doesn't make it a currency or even gives it properties of 'currency'.
If you're going to quote an article, you shouldn't leave out context that changes the meaning of the sentence you're quoting -

"The 75th anniversary commemorations of the dastardly Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor
seem to be a great gift to the Alt-Right’s xenophobic nationalists."

It's the 75th anniversary commemorations that seem to be a gift - not the attack itself (obviously).
As I understand it, this is bad because you could use their code within the copyright license but then be sued for using it without the applicable patent license... Making it open source but far from free.

Just out of curiosity though, has this sort of backdoor patent infringement actually been tested in court?

IANAL, let alone a bitter twisted IP lawyer, but it seems perfectly reasonable to infer relevant patent licenses from an open source contribution. "Hey here's a free meal, but you better not eat it or we'll sue!" Sticky stuff.
I've hacked together some small VR visualizations for multidimensional data with particularly hard to understand structure and my experience with that was:

1. Moving through the data set in room scale VR is completely different from seeing and manipulating a 2D projection of it on a screen. Exploration is much more intutive (just move your head!) and the perfect depth information that you perceive feels almost like an additional input channel to the brain.

2. Collaboratively analyzing visualized data with VR would require hacks that render abstract avatars of co-workers and remove a lot of the informational content of direct communication. With AR and a direct line of sight all of these obstructions just go away.
>>Better watch out, Google.

Yeah, be really scared MSFT, two geeks from Stanford that wanted to sell for $800k are going to challenge you in the future.

A little (long-overdue) help from anti-trust authorities and Google might just have to watch out. After a while migration to another SE is logarithmic. https://duckduckgo.com/traffic.html Google pays for a lot of its traffic, see Traffic Acquisition Costs, directly and indirectly.
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> Swift guarantees memory safety

But memory leaks are quite easy to do with reference counting which is why Swift has some more complex syntax to prevent strong references. But it can take skill to understand when to use those techniques; the compiler doesn't always find these problems, thus there really isn't the guarantee you mentioned.
> If the procurers had accurately predicted the lifetime requirement, they could have required the stack to be fully security supported for that length of time, making it the vendor's problem to update to a newer OS that has security updates.

Oh sure, but there are a million other reasons too.

Maybe the vendor went out of business, but company is still using whatever application for edge cases.

Maybe the vendor now has Version 2.0 of application that does support newer OSs, but it requires hundreds of millions in hardware upgrades.

Maybe it simply takes years and tens of millions to test every application and piece of hardware used by the company to see how they handle new OS.

(I worked for a large company that just recently upgraded from XP to Win 7, and the project was years and tens of millions over budget)
I don't see why a RISC-V core can't be built to run as fast or as efficiently as an x86 on the high end. With the C extension for compressed (16-bit) instructions, the dynamic and static code size is very close to x86 and usually better than armv8 over a slew of practical benchmarks.

https://riscv.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/Tue1130celio-fu...
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Gitlab put on hold their GraphQL implementation due to the patent. Gitlab Senior Director of Legal Affairs said:

"If we were to allow this license, it could lead to potential future conflicts with software licensed under Apache. Also, we could be impairing the future rights of our customers. Essentially, this is not really an open source product based on the implications of the license. While there is no payment of cash, payment is in the form of giving up future rights." [1]

[1] https://github.com/facebook/graphql/issues/351#issuecomment-...
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I have been im China recently and it is still quite easy to access the unblocked internet. the lazy solution is to subscribe to one of the many VPN solutions available. I subscribed to ExpressVPN and could use it all the time with fullspeed on my phone and my girlfriends phone. They also have server close to China so the delay is human.
It wasn't so easy on my Chromebook. First I tried to tunnel my traffic through SSH to my german linode host but got blocked down to near zero bandwith.
After a little bit of searching I found shadowsocks and set it up on my chromebook and linode. It worked flawlessly. After that I downloaded the shadowsocks android app (via VPN) and used it from the on.
Interestingly shadowsocks plus a cheap node is actually cheaper than a VPN subscription. Just don't forget to use a node close to your location.
read the article :)
Some might see this as a win for DuckDuckGo
I switched from Chrome to Brave a few months ago. https://www.brave.com/
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Does anybody know if/where you can just buy the FE310 on it's own?
For most people, not really.

I can send money to anyone I want to, I have no expectation of censorship or interference. The fees are low to zero depending on the exact method, and I don't have to jump through hoops to try to interact with a crypto-currency broker. I have protections, insurance and various forms of reversibility to fall back on if something screws up.

For me it's not huge, or even really relevant.