skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Microsoft Claims Viewing Page Source Makes Their Browsers Less Secure
I think I'm really starting to understand more about all the reasons why SpaceX can get stuff in space for a fraction of the cost of Nasa in less than a decade in business
This reminds me a little bit of rebol, and the concept of dialecting. So the language is composed of many DSLs called dialects each specialized for different things.
The way to "win" the drug war, is the way you win in capitalism. COMPETITION!!! No one would go to illegal drug gangs if they could go to 7-11(or similar).
IPFIX,sFlow,Netflow Collector and Kafka and Spark (Open Source)
Does disseminating information like this cause a net improvement in the workforce? Will people study high-productivity editors in the hope of getting hired, only to become better programmers despite themselves? Or will this result in people learning just enough of vim or emacs to use it badly in an interview?
Wait... are you trying to tell me that scratch tickets aren't essentially the same thing as stock certificates?
Very good read. Too bad, when the author talks about power of algorithms, he doesn't mention Bitcoin and Ethereum.
More than half of British Columbians have tried marijuana. Less than one percent have tried Opiates. Not the best gateway...
leverage and buybacks should be disclosed in the S1 right?
But isn't that true for functions in general? types may help you mitigating some of those bugs, but the real way to solve the issue is with good documentation: docstrings and well-named parameters is the way to go.
The world as if
More like case-studies, books, posts, and interviews.
That would be interesting, thanks!
They could, but then we'd be back to a $30,000 controller.
Kaspersky?

http://thehill.com/policy/cybersecurity/350949-new-russia-su...
Namecoin Will Challenge Google’s Control Over the Internet
I've adapted to your (unusual) definitions.

I asked what you would wish to see, and then provided it.

I've teased details out of your sentences that are more implication than statement.

You're constantly shifting the bar for what would answer the original question, "Is Guile a modern Scheme?"

I'm bored of it.

So, I'll spell out a few more things, and then you can happily say you've won the argument.

> Then people implement it. Developers then choose the implementation based on the capabilities of those.

I said the Scheme specification was modern. This seems irrelevant to that statement.

If it's about Guile instead, the details are available, though it doesn't seem that you have read them.

> Julia uses generic functions throughout and it has a JIT. Guile uses Goops almost nowhere and a JIT is not released.

Patently false. Guile has had a JIT since 2.0.0. [0][1]

I should note that was in 2011, six years ago.

> If one would remove Goops from Guile, would anyone notice?

If I were to remove pattern matching from Clojure would anyone notice? Now allow me to complain that usage somehow is equivalent to integration.

> That's what the manual shows: a collection of unrelated/unused features.

Let me quote someone else from this thread:

> ...The Common Lisp spec is quite a bit more modern than 1958 ... it's a well-crafted ANSI standard. It does suffer from backwards-compatibility... [2]

Seems Common Lisp also has that problem... And you don't have a problem with it.

[0] http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guile-devel/2011-02/msg001...

[1] https://github.com/noahl/guile-jit

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15281652
> The main problem with ICOs is that there are not many independent auditing organisations.

That is right but we are talking about a "thing" that is completely new. Future ICOs will have more due diligence, that is natural and it is unfeasible that they can continue with just a whitepaper in place. BTW, one sector in my company works specifically with ICOs and we are working with some real companies, doing and selling real products, and they plan to launch their ICOs in the next 6 months.
In the US, I have to try the chip and fail three times.
Then it prompts me to use magstripe. My chip does not work, so have tested this a LOT.
Of the two, beg (a.k.a. ask) for money is preferable - it's more direct and more relevant. Imagine showing up to your job and the only way to get paid was to sell ads to some other third company and show the ads to your employer. The ad model has needed a good "disrupting" for a long time...
Blockchain winter is coming
It would be nice to see actual economic analysis of space economy. Usually you see just the listing of potential resources and their nominal price.

We know delta V's required to reach moon and asteroids. Space also has solar energy. What is needed is basic ballpark analysis based on opportunity costs, EOREI analysis etc.

Currently space based business is mostly satellite TV. Launch services and satellite manufacturing and satellite operators and other services combined are < 20% of what satellite TV revenue is.
IEEE754 includes two decimal floating point basic formats: decimal64 and decimal128. 0.1 can be accurately represented.

Of course in any base there will be some non-terminating representations of rational numbers, so changing the base of the floating point system changes which numbers these are but does not eliminate them.
Drugs are not health problem, the life is a health problem. Drug usage not= addiction or toxicomania, as alkohol usage is not necessarily cause health problems. There is a wide range of alcohol users, from sometimes a glass of wine to hardcore alcoholism. The humans are the problems, not the drugs. Drugs could be good or bad, depend on the usage.
At some point, you want to buy something with your money. The minute you do, tax authorities in your country can detect the discrepancy between your stated income and your lifestyle.
I think calling the removal of the headphone jack "evil" is stretching it a bit
I guess the parts you skimmed didn't include the introduction, eh?

It says:

We want to change the way economics is taught [...]
Students in economics all over the world were asking,
just as I had asked a few years previously: ‘Why has the
subject of economics become detached from our experience
of real life?’
[...]
we have tried an experiment in classrooms around the
world. We ask students: ‘What is the most pressing
problem that economists should address?’

...and the that experiment said inequality. At least according to students at three universities and professional economists at two central banks.

If you want to write a book that starts with motivations before delving into the nuts and bolts, and you ask customers what they think is most important and they all say the same thing, it seems reasonable enough to put that first.
Scenario: The US bans all banks and credit agencies from transferring money to/from bitcoin exchanges. Most of the other powerful countries follow suit.

Now what?
Ah, they're still using the dev key for Google Maps eh?
Leave it open for a couple of hours and you'll see those 4GB coming up quickly.
Well in Haskell it all makes sense, since you have other powerful tools (function composition and application, very large standard library of small functions, etc) that all compose into readable and nice code.

If you just use currying randomly, it's going to create more headaches than solve. Ultimately you'd need to adopt something like Ramda in your project if you want to do this in your JS codebase, but even then I think Ramda-dependent code is way less readable than Haskell.
"It is likely that they want to grow faster than their current cash flow would allow - in fact, they may need to do this in order to survive in the long term."

Do they really, though?
Browser Security White Paper [pdf]
This sounds great; I'm sure people on HN would be happy to help out if you have any questions.
> it's now perfectly possible to live a cashless life in the UK if you wanted to

Perhaps in London. Try spending a long weekend in Torquay.
Two news sources that I'd like to see added are memeorandum.com (the best algorithmicly generated news feed I've found) and drudgereport.com (whose politics I disagree with but it's a hugely influential site and I try to avoid trapping myself in a bubble).

I haven't found a news reader type app that handles those two sites, so I find myself wasting huge amounts of time hitting those two pages and trying to skim their entire link list looking for the couple new articles since the last time I visited, guessing wrong, and re-opening articles I've already read twice before. I'd love to be able to use your site to newsreader those two.

(Memorandum is tricky, as it groups related articles together because so many news articles feed from the same source report, and that greatly reduces needlessly redundant reading. Even if you could only easily add drudge, that would be a huge time savings for folks like me)
Announcing the SpankChain ICO
This kind of thing is good, but I would definitely characterize going all-in on walled gardens and creating ecosystems where only approved code can run as "evil". That certainly characterized Apple/iOS when last I looked, which is why I dropped them. (What's the status of the latest iPhones for that? Can they be jailbroken at all?)
Portable Android SDR Player Supports DRM and DAB
It's a fun read :)
"Fairness" is a funny word to use for not participating in an open economy and extracting subsidies through coercion instead.
How do large online purchases work with your card?
You can thank Russian hackers for that.
Totally agree. I'm actually a shy extrovert. I'm unhappy around people and not around people :-(
I agree that you probably shouldn't include stock that can't be sold. There's gotta be a middle ground though, because if you're at a big established tech company with a senior-ish role, your comp is like nearing or exceeding 50% bonus&stock, which you can liquidate on the spot and turn into actual cash.

So if you take someone whose base salary is 180k at whatever big tech, you're missing the part where they actually make >300k/yr in cash.
Did you misread?

> Al Gore, then US vice president,
Do other "emerging" languages also do well?
Discussion about APC pricing would be a lot more fruitful if there was some honest and open discussion about how laborious the publication and it's different work phases actually are. As I said, and as you verified, in the previous thread, no publisher wants to give any breakdown of the costs. This post on JMLR is one of the few where an outsider can actually get some kind of grasp of what it actually takes to publish a journal, and as seen, it isn't that much.

If the actual cost structure was better known, it would be a lot easier to evaluate if the price level is reasonable. Also, it would give a push towards "unbundling" most of the APC. Eg, the author could do the typesetting themselves (as in JMLR) or buy it from somewhere else for cheaper, and thus save grant money that could be used to pay at least something to a grad student or a postdoc currently working for free instead of, as I cynically assume, line up pockets of rich investors and overpaid execs.

I find it a very odd claim that somehow doing publishing at large scale should be MORE expensive than doing it on small scale. My hypothesis is that it's not the production costs, but that at the moment academic publication is so ridden with network effects that publishers can ask for greatly inflated prices to make huge profits and/or be done very inefficiently. It's also such a good business that journals/smaller publishers tend to get bought out or at least invested into by larger companies (most of this was actually done in past couple of decades), who of course have an interest to keep the profit margins as high as possible. And this can happen quite naturally even without full monopoly or cartel, although I wouldn't be surprised if there's some kind of "common understanding" among the big publishers that price wars aren't good for any of them. Also, it's one of those businesses where almost nobody actually pays anything from their own pocket directly, which generally isn't very good for price competition.

But in the end, I find most of this discussion sort of moot. I quite strongly believe, and can't seem to get any evidence to the contrary, that the actual labor going into the publishing is so low that the industry in it current form shouldn't be, and hopefully won't be, sustainable given the current, let alone future, technology. But OTOH, even if I'm correct, they have huge lobbying budgets, democracy is in such a sorry state and people are so indoctrinated to be selfish, short sighted greedy creatures, I wouldn't be too surprised that the industry can keep the racket going for decades.
There are also a similar tool from Nirsoft.
I'm more interested in why it took them this long, while they're perfectly fine suspending accounts that are politically opposing to their worldview. How are political dissenters more dangerous than actual terrorists?
I'm currently taking advantages of SaltStack's GPG renderer to store secrets in our version-controlled Salt code (see https://docs.saltstack.com/en/latest/ref/renderers/all/salt....).
On a related note - are there any frameworks you could use to write native-ish Mac apps without knowing Objective C or Swift?
First they came for the Socialists, and I did not speak out—
Because I was not a Socialist.

Then they came for the Trade Unionists, and I did not speak out—
Because I was not a Trade Unionist.

Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out—
Because I was not a Jew.

Then they came for me—and there was no one left to speak for me.

Who defines what is considered terrorism and what isn't? Once censorship infrastructure is in place, it will get abused.
Perhaps you're too young to know this, but before he was a film maker Al Gore was vice president to Bill Clinton [1], from 1993 to 2001.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vice_Presidency_of_Al_Gore
Imagine this scenario:

1. User A holds a publicly visible wallet with 1000 bitcoins in it.

2. User B publicly gives User A 10 bitcoins.

3. User A now holds a publicly visible wallet with 1,010 bitcoins in it.

4. Over the course of a month, User A distributes all 1,010 bitcoins across a thousand new publicly visible wallets, in seemingly random amounts. These wallets are publicly visible, and the transactions are publicly visible.

5. Nobody knows who holds the keys to any of those wallets. Presumably, at least 10 bitcoins worth of money belonging to User B is held in some combination of those wallets, but figuring out which ones belong to User A vs User B suddenly becomes very complicated.

6. This becomes even more complicated if there are more than two users in the scenario. What if there are actually a thousand users that the money is being mixed between?

This is the premise of bitcoin mixer services. It is at least somewhat possible to "anonymize" and "launder" public bitcoin transactions on the public ledger via this method. This is especially true if someone uses multiple mixer services to launder the same money split across a bunch of wallets.

Or at least that's my understanding? I've never actually done it.
This is one of the reasons I think it's important to have more than one credit card when traveling (especially abroad). Redundancy in case one get shut down at an inconvenient time in an inconvenient place.
Interesting, I'm planning to implement a translator from a subset of Scheme to Rust. The source code will be Scheme plus extraneous forms for declaring types and borrow checker information / referencing, minus support for call/cc and other difficult to translate Scheme features. I want to develop a program in a Scheme interpreter then be able to compile it as a Rust program. Contact me if interested (and meet me in London via http://rustaceans.uk).
Show HN: Dovecot IMAP Server Scripting with Mruby
The piece you pasted says "vice president".
The real problem with Facebook is "sharing". I want to see what my friends are doing, and have zero interest in their "sharing". Sharing is spamming.
This is a pretty fascinating anecdote to me, as I preserve software as long as I possibly can (still having boxes of games like Marathon, Myst, Spectre, SimCity for example). I had a strong feeling that the ultra-closed App Store would result in extremely ephemeral software. It's very difficult to preserve software that is so "encumbered" and reliant on the continued distribution by a 3rd party who sets all the rules.
Alexa Topsites: Fastest and Slowest
I’m still using SourceTree, not happily, but everything else I’ve tried is utter shite. It either breaks on big repos, is horribly slow or just a usability train wreck.

Has anyone found something that actually works?
Yes, and the frequency is increasing.
If you can accurately show it's interfering with resource allocation, you can make a huge huge profit by buying under valued stocks, and rebalance the market.
Or maybe it indicates that your caricature isn't rooted in fact?
iTerm2: Please disable 'Perform DNS lookups to check if URLs are valid'
~99%. Critically, prices change as a result of any imbalance in supply and demand for stocks.

Also of note index funds do have feedback loops as they try to retain a balanced portfolio. If company A is worth 1 billion and company B is worth 2 billion yet they have equal dollar investments in both, then they sell some of A to buy some of B. This greatly magnifies the impact of active traders in a 99% ownership situation.
For that example (retail shops vs. company HQ), I totally agree.

My experience could be in the minority, but at both young tech companies I've worked at so far, _everyone_ in the company had to sign over their IP (regardless of role).
That's what led me to believe it was more industry-based, but maybe there is no useful generalization to go off of -- industry or otherwise?
With the bozos running things in Dune, it might have been better with machines in charge.
I suppose yes, I could see such a thing working in the style of "A unified approach to solving seven programming problems"
perhaps 'naively' would be the right word
All of our servers are full towers, not rackmount, and still sound like jet turbines.
Bitcoin and Virtue Part 1: Prudence
How to Start and Grow a Killer Travel Blog
Hate to nitpick, but this is the Internet....

"many moms feed their babies Coke instead"

I see one reference in the article cited about two women feeding Coke to their babies. I'm not sure how the "many moms" conclusion is drawn - is there data on this or just this one anecdote?
Once you do, will they still?
dovecot included dovecot-mruby-plugin is a programmable IMAP/POP server scripting with mruby like ngx_mruby for nginx, mod_mruby for apache httpd and trusterd for HTTP/2 mruby Web server. Also pmilter is a programmable Milter server scripting with mruby for SMTP server like IMAP command register and pre or post command hook using mruby.
So you're speaking out for the terrorists? I'm struggling to see the point of that quote.
AWS Serverless React Native Starter App
Lots of people have access to gas pumps and their keys. Not just the station owners, but the managers. Also city/county/state weights and measures regulators, the guy who maintains the attached screen that shows the local news and weather loop, and probably more that I don't even know about.

From what I've seen about gas pump locks, they look about as "secure" as those round keys that came with every IBM AT-clone in the early 90's. They kept the weak and the ignorant out, but you could unlock your buddy's rig at will.
That is rubbish, Microsoft never acted like this. They allways favoured backwards compatibility. Apple OTOH has behaved this through their entire existence. Yet Apple still grew to a large company.

Quite the contrary it is this behaviour which has saved Apple. It made sure they could move forward with new technology quickly.

MS moves slowely because they accumulate so much cruft pulling them down. That is the flip side of always being backwards compatible and "nice" to the customers.
>Seriously, modern web development is 90% chasing down bugs, security enforcement, and fixing compatibility issues.

That's true of most modern development. It might be more painful on the web, I wouldn't know, but systems programming is not really any different.
The new gas station near my house does contactless. I think that now that the credit card networks are pushing liability onto the merchants we will start to see more and more of these popping up.
I certainly haven't reached 20 years of developer experience, but I wonder if many (most?) individuals with that level of experience will move up the hierarchy rather than staying focused on software. Those managerial or client-oriented/sales/"solutions architect" roles pay more.
Audrey Hepburn, Hollywood star and UNICEF Ambassador:

"I have to be alone very often. I'd be quite happy if I spent from Saturday night until Monday morning alone in my apartment. That's how I refuel."
Out of curiosity, what goods and services will people in that line of business switch to?

Will they exploit inefficiencies in other drugs markets that the state hasn't caught on to yet? And just accept the diminishing returns before switching to the next drugs?

Will they try other lines of business, like computer hacking syndicates?

Or they all magically disappear, or be cut off from appearing because there is simply no unskilled labor + high margin + low overhead business line remaining?
This is the most tone-deaf invocation of this quote I have heard in my life.
I think it's "accurate enough".

How much closer can you expect? The purpose of these calculators is to let folks know whether or not they're in the "right ballpark" when considering salary for job offers. $14K less than your salary is still very much the right ballpark for your job.
They could go another 500k tied to the Terrorist In Chief.
Cure53 Browser Security White Paper [pdf]
Xcode 9 on the Mac App Store
My phone company offered me free data usage on spotify.

Sounds great right!

Except this is bordering against net neutrality.

You see, like with net neutrality, Apple could offer services in the future to companies to get a "free pass" on their cute filter. This means people who want to advertise their innocent little game, have no chance against companies with a lot of money who can afford to do so.

If you are in favor off this update, but against for example net neutrality, then you might want to check up again on how well you understand these concepts, and how they could play out in unfavorable division of power.

tldr;
Monopoly is inherently unfavorable, not just theoretically but has proven so time and time again in many different sectors.
Perhaps pedantic, but Bitcoin as a tradable instrument is really only about 7 years, starting in July 2010. Otherwise you'd have to talk about how long tulips have existed.
The Case Against Passive Shareholder Voting
Could you please not do this?

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Good data point!

Anybody have experience with minideb vs. debian:stable-slim? Any pros/cons to either approach?
Are these users committing acts of terrorism 140 characters at a time via the Internet?
There's a bunch of them, especially around networking use cases. Alpine itself was a fork of another embedded Linux distro. One appeal of Minideb and a big reason why we developed it is that at the end of the day, it is still Debian and you have access to all the DEB packages out there, which tend to cover more ground and be more actively maintained than more niche Linux distros
I completely agree with this. For years, I was a crypto-currency advocate, telling any and all that it's better than their credit and debit cards. When I took a look at why, though, I realized that tool (in physical form) already exists: cash. As long as you trade a few with a few friends, or buy something from a Mom & Pop, no one can really know what bills you have, and there's no record, ever.
I understand why Twitter might not want ISIS accounts on their service but from a national security standpoint, it seems better to have the communication happening on a U.S.-based service like Twitter than some darknet or crypto-centric app.