skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree, in that a proves-for-one ZKP can be converted to a proves-for-n if all n parties can trust the source of randomness used to decide the choice of challenge.
Getting a remote job with no experience working in general or working remote in a narrow niche without many remote opportunities like C++ is going to be really hard. I would suggest getting some experience at an office based C++ gig (try to negotiate a work from home day) or go for remote with a different stack.
Completely agree. To me critical theory has always seemed to represent more of a societal counterfactual (counterfactual meaning a "what if" scenario, not an actual falsehood) than valid economic/political arguments. The worst part about it is that everyone seems to have some pet individual theory about the way things should work, but there's no real way to objectively verify if someone's ideas are correct (and if there are, then those countries were somehow corrupted or didn't fit criteria 56 and 81), so people who should in practice agree with each other all divide up into their little competing camps over relatively minor ideological differences.
Why is this article on the front page? This is just troll bait.
Stop calling it america, it's north america..
tbh, and not trying to dismiss USA in anyway. I find their situation in time and space pretty exceptional. They had no aggressive neighbors and half a continent. At a time where new knowledge was popping out, having such a playground was very timely.
Microsoft R&D grows to 8k people in massive bet on artificial intelligence
The function pointer is static. But the function that mutates it, NeverCalled, is not. One can still indirectly change that function pointer.
Climate is different for once. I'm curious about the parallel history lines though.
The real reason Martin Shkreli is going to jail
Far from deja vu, Google yet again repeating history
What a lovely web experience! I adore the style and artistry of the illustrations here, and the attention to detail to the little things like the clack of the wheels increasing in frequency with the speed, the squeak of the brakes and the different noise when the tram goes over the wooden bridge etc.

I do wish there was a small prompt on screen right at the start with an indication of how to start off the animation. I clicked, dragged and swiped everywhere on the screen before I finally clicked the (i) button to see it was all keyboard driven! :) But perhaps that was deviously intentional, as it gave the site time to load up all the assets it needed in the background?
(No idea what the article says - I've apparently reached my article limit)

How on earth can you describe a landmass as stolen or a continent as usurped?
Your interpretation is wrong. RedHat’s promise is revoked if you sue them for any patent infringement:

>Our Promise also does not extend to the actions of a party (including past actions) if at any time the party or its affiliate asserts a patent in proceedings against Red Hat (or its affiliate) or any offering of Red Hat (or its affiliate) (including a cross-claim or counterclaim).

So RedHat can hypothetically use all of your software patents and still sue you for infringement based on their patents if you sue them.
A bit of googling and it's really unsatisfying to try to get a clear answer to this question. I think you're right the US "wins," just... that may not mean anything.

One might argue the country distinction is a bit arbitrary and look for regions with the highest per capita GDP.

It looks like Washington, D.C., USA dominates that list. Then the Eastern Province in Saudi Arabia, then the Canton of Zurich.[0]

That top 20 contains 7 US regions ("political subdivisions"). Also in the top 20: Denmark, Sweden, Germany, Ireland, and France for the EU. Schengen members Norway and Switzerland would bring it up to seven. I don't know if we're comparing "Europe" or pretending that Norway and Switzerland are radically distinct from the rest of Europe by historical accident. Yet if we go that far then maybe Canada earns a point to the US.

Another odd thing, DC's incredibly high per capita GDP is odd, the area doesn't feel particularly rich. Home prices reflect it, I guess. But many places in California seem nicer. Hell, many places in Ohio seem nicer. I have a sneaking suspicion the numbers are skewed by lobbyists or businesses supporting government that don't impact the local area as directly. Or commuters who really live (and spend) in other areas. It's like saying Delaware is full of companies. Well, on paper, yeah... but it's not some bustling Trantor where corporate skyscrapers block out the sun.

Maybe we should be comparing median regions? Or judge governments by how well off their worst regions are? Would you rather visit the rural south or in the Balkans? Where would you rather live for a year or two?

I'm skeptical about comparing such sprawling areas, I'm not sure it tells us much about the world.

On the other hand I'm not going to be offended if someone refers to a region as the wealthiest in the world as a rhetorical device, they were just endorsing an economic history about the US, they're going to say it's important, which seems at the very least worth granting for the sake of argument.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_country_subdivisions_b...
Ten Policy Goals
For starters having been written in C, after the Assembly and B rewrites, when we already had safer systems programming languages in the early 60's.

IBM for example did most of their RISC research with an OS written in PL/8, where they prototyped many ideas about modular compilers, a few of them visible in how LLVM works.

Then by being a plain CLI based OS versus what was being done at Xerox PARC with Xerox Star and Pilot (done in Mesa).

NeXTSTep was probably the only variant that got close of the Mac, Amiga and Atari multimedia capabilities, and even it wasn't a pure UNIX, rather used it as a means to bring applications into the NeXT world.

Many mainframe ideas about OS security are still not part of any UNIX clone, as another example.
> harder to deploy and revert than code

Agree.

> harder to unit test

Disagree. I've implemented unit tests that connect to the normal staging instance of our database, clone the relevant parts of the schema into a throw-away namespace as temporary tables, and run the tests in that fresh namespace. About 100 lines of Perl.

That was five years ago. These days, it's even easier to do this correctly since containers allow you to quickly spin up a fresh Postgres etc. in the unit test runner.
Yep. In business, in dating, in life, we use the level of confidence someone projects to assess his quality as a human being. We openly acknowledge this, and most don't think there's anything wrong it.

Hedging, weasel words, caveats, etc. that accurately reflect the complexities of situations and the uncertainty inherent in understanding them ("most," "usually," "seem to,") are seen as slimy, and the people who use them are considered weak and dishonest.

I'd say the man speaking confidently in absolutes deserves more skepticism by default, but instinct doesn't seem to work that way.
States can leave the US with the consent of Congress. Congress has never given its consent, and it is hard to predict how it would behave if such a request was seriously made today. Congress did reject the demand of the Confederate states to secede, but there was a strong moral argument against allowing their secession–their primary reason for secession were to continue to evil practice of slavery. If a state wanted to secede today, I doubt there would be such a strong argument against allowing them to do so.

EU member states have only been able to unilaterally leave the EU since the Treaty of Lisbon came into force in December 2009. Prior to that, there was no legal provision for a member state to leave without a treaty amendment. So the situations between the EU and the US are not as dissimilar as you suggest.
I agree, unfortunately getting published seems really difficult. I released a Mac app and wrote to every Mac publication I could find - probably 30 - and never received a single response. The app had/has some rough edges and could use some more polish, but it was fairly novel.
idk man, but it's probably safe to drop the "who can code" part of the question.
"Designing Interactions" by Bill Moggridge
https://www.amazon.com/Designing-Interactions-Press-Bill-Mog...

He passed away in 2012. I wish someone wrote a worth revised edition.
The North American tribes had plenty of warfare and territory turn overs long before the Europeans arrived. The isolation of the americas did prevent diffusion of technology, but we also saw the same thing happen in Africa and even Asia to similar extents. It wasn't very unique.
I think any of the Edward Tufte books qualify, starting with _The Visual Display of Quantitative Information_:

https://www.amazon.com/Visual-Display-Quantitative-Informati...
I've got a 32GB iMac here, and in Chrome, on full screen on my 27" display, the animation worked smooth as butter. In fact, the smooth scrolling added to the whimsical, arty style of the site for me, leading to a great experience.

EDIT: Actually, I just tried it again in entirety, and noticed some juddering from time to time. However, when I am looking at the beautiful background artwork (which is most of the time), that juddering is less obvious. I guess it depends if you are looking at the background art or the foreground animation as to whether it is really apparent for you.
This Innovative Cooling Installation Fights Soaring Temperatures in New Delhi
Only works in Chrome, from the looks of things (not very well explained on the page), and uses microphone input.
Killing the natives?
"hardiest large mammal" - hopefully but you might want to be related to tardigrades for real hardiness.
I think you're right. Most of these sort of things are due to legacy homepages pre-setup in wonkies like Internet Explorer.
A lot of companies actually don't let you change things like the start-page of your browser (which you can't update either)
We hit Hitler comparisons fast on this thread, eh?

It is fine to condemn it if you want, we definitely don't want to repeat it, but if you think any culture really has the moral high ground on this, you should look deeper.
It's similar to the difference between opex and capex. You can call it a marketing gimmick, but 100% of the money put into capex is capex, at least according to the page you linked.
"Most people" :)

Fraction of people who have Emacs installed. Fraction of people who use Emacs for things other than programming. Fraction of those who use org-mode.
what you said is true, but reminds me of one of the last paragraphs of the article.

> Lannon said that Google had changed the way people sought information. “They only want information based on the information they think they want,” he said. As a rule, he said, archivists at the library should give you the box you’ve asked for — but also suggest another box. There are fewer opportunities, now, to stumble into a world you don’t already know. “It’s important to look outside of your own existence.”
One I have (and use as a coffee table book) is "Core Memory: A Visual Survey of Vintage Computers". May be out of print though...

https://www.amazon.com/Core-Memory-Visual-Vintage-Computers/...
A Basquiat book by Taschen. Can't go wrong with Basquiat among liberal people

https://www.taschen.com/pages/en/catalogue/art/all/49203/fac...
lol for the downvotes. Why have a discussion forum at all if everyone talks via freaking email. How does that help people doing google searches in the future? lame.
You could start by reading the article you are commenting on.
The traffic is by requests.

You may not be aware but yes, cloudflare is a significant internet company.
Elixir is an application that runs on the Erlang VM. Libraries can be brought in and started as their own applications, with their own lifecycles. I'm not privy enough in the specifics of the Rust way of things, but it sounds like this is sort of similar if you squint a little bit?

Observer screenshot from a blank IEx session: https://puu.sh/xI3re/3701a0c64e.png
I appreciate Zizek's cleverness. He demonstrates the kinds of higher-order thought that are possible via application of the dialectical method (though one has to be careful; his analysis of violence could lead the unsuspecting thinker down some interesting paths!) When I said "dense" before, I think I was looking for something closer in meaning to, "Zizek is a Hegelian reductionist, beware."

I also appreciate Ayn Rand's committed exploration of rational egoism, also reductionist, though I admit I have not yet been impressed by its implementation.
Read the article and I can very much resonate with the "hedge fund mode" quip, its because the consequences are more favorable.
How about a coffee table book about coffee tables?
Your changes of being successful making unsuccessful mobile apps for other people are almost 100%
One possible explanation is in the popular book Las Venas abiertas de América Latina (Open Veins of Latin America) by Eduardo Galeano.
Who are the "natives"?

Do you stop at "first to call the area by its modern name" or do you go back through say first hominids?

Perhaps we should go back further, say "recognisable single cell organism"
It's kind of like, I come over to your house for dinner... Murder your family members, and sell you to a slaver, then your house is mine.

Pretty straight forward.
I just wrote you a mail about that.
The Making of Stanley Kubrick's '2001: A Space Odyssey' by Taschen. This isn't a book so much to be read is it is to be /studied/.
The settlers who went to South America with the dreams of plucking gold bars out of the fruit trees and using an enslaved population to make hard farm work a breeze met a harsher reality.

I don't know for certain, but I assume that the land was harder to make arable, the weather was less forgiving, the rainforests brought additional problems (like persistence of mosquitos and ticks). Plus South America didn't unify like the USA did, which might have presented an obstacle.

I think I once heard a statistic like at the height of slavery 50% of the USA's exports were cotton. The industrial revolution was a great driver of the demand for America's cotton.

"The American South is known for its long, hot summers, and rich soils in river valleys making it an ideal location for growing cotton. By 1860, Southern plantations supplied 75% of the world's cotton, with shipments from Houston, New Orleans, Charleston, Mobile, Savannah, and a few other ports.

The insatiable European demand for cotton was a result of the Industrial Revolution which created the machinery and factories to process raw cotton into clothing that was better and cheaper than hand-made product." [0]

It might be the case that this prosperity didn't happen in South America because they were not strategically fulfilling cotton demand of the industrial revolution. The reason that the conquistadors had started slaving was to fulfill a "gold revolution"; and they did at least gain prosperity in doing so. But the demand of the "gold revolution" for their monarchies was much smaller than the demand of the industrial revolution.

However, Egypt and India also had significant exports of cotton. The effect that did happen is that the Civil War led to great increases of prosperity due to cotton exports for those countries [0][1]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/King_Cotton

[1] http://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/how-american-civil-war...
What kind of crazy stuff has been going on that would make older versions damage documents on an OS upgrade?
Does anyone have any recommendations for YouTube channels that focus on reverse engineering?
Going contracting in IT in London is a way to get a pay rise for anyone. A senior dev contractor will likely make more than a director or architect at the same company. The whole situation is wacky.
You can click on the bell at the end. Besides letting passengers on and off was there anything else along the way that was interactive like that?
heavy on vitriol, light on substance. fun to read if you don't ask questions.
Last I checked "OpenTracing-compatible" only went as far as using common terminology. Tbh I was a bit disappointed by this; has more been defined since? E.g. are there now shared schemas, APIs of sorts?
Slavery actually held the USA back. It kept the south rural, whereas the north was far wealthier without slaves because it industrialized. Furthermore, the civil war was incredibly destructive and without slavery would not have occurred. Lastly the USA was not the biggest economy in 1850.

As for a “usurped continent”, the land was very sparsely populated by the natives compared to the people who came in, and disease cleared out more of them making a vast underpopulation. It’s just not right to say that so few people should get to control the entire continent just because they were there first. Also I would guess you are a liberal from your comments, and therefore likely support legalizing undocumented immigrants. According to your logic, undocumented immigrants are “usurping” America, which is quite unpopular among liberals today.

America committed plenty of evils, but that’s not what made America great. In addition to many bad things, the USA did a lot of things right. I believe the USA had a lot of benefits from geography, but the real thing that made the country great was recognizing the rights of the individual. It has been demonstrated over and over again that egalitarianism yields big dividends in groups. Because the USA had such an emphasis on equality (declaration of independence), innovation occurred on an incredible level. It took a long time for that equality to spread to blacks, but the very idea of even equality of whites was unheard of at the time of the USA founding.

Combine that with the fact that Europe was devastated by two world wars, it was inevitable that the USA should pull ahead.
It'd be great if the message shown is a little more direct than "Your computer has detected a potential problem", because having an unknown EFI is pretty worrying. With the current wording, there's a good chance I'd ignore it.
I've hit mid-30's and I am still an individual contributor. People tell me ageism be real and I would face the music real soon.

How do people become managers, should I just tell my manager that I want to be a manager now. Would he be thratntened that I want his job ?
The quality of your sleep is an important factor too. If you suspect you may have obstructive sleep apnea then go get it checked out.
I use graphviz quite a bit for doing diagrams of data flow or UI flows. It's easy to get something sufficient to communicate, but in my experience very hard to get something you'd be happy putting in a presentation that's going to be seen outside engineering.
Just an aside, but I wonder if the north stood to profit from this dynamic. Like, if farms were held as collateral against the slave loans, did northern banks get to take that land when the owners went into default?
> ... I introduced Gnirehtet, a reverse tethering tool for Android I wrote in Java.

> At Genymobile, we wanted Gnirehtet not to require the Java Runtime Environment, so the main requirement was to compile the application to a native executable binary.

While it is nice to see new projects adopting Rust, I really don't get the point of having a tool targeted to Android developers not depending on Java.
xcape is what you want:
https://github.com/alols/xcape
(or probably in the repos of your distro)
So, for us that are not into the non-profit world, who is the more reputable and actually helps people?
Doesn't really explain Argentina to nearly the same degree as e.g. Brazil-/which The Economist has written about at length over the past couple of years.
> the main change from one year to the next was intensively planting more and more acres of corn and soy, churning up the soil and using ever more chemical fertilizers and herbicides to try and turn a profit.
> We hit Hitler comparisons fast on this thread, eh

god forbid people bring up hitler in a thread about history/world politics

In fact, let's just scrub history of any references to Germany so we can make internet threads marginally less annoying
I remember this from... 11 or so years ago, i think. I was making some Java applet based game and the slow startup time and big JVM download was something that an issue among people making such games (which by the time i was into were dying - although they'd soon get a short lived shot in the arm thanks to Minecraft, but that was later). There were some posts in javagaming.org forums from some people who were talking with Sun (that was before Oracle - Sun at the time was actually interested into uses of Java in gaming and talked with devs, including from smaller/indie developers) about a new improvement for the VM to modularize the packages so that only things that are required would be loaded (faster startup) and the default JVM download would be much smaller (sort of comparable to Flash) which was a big issue at the time for those making web-based games (that niche for Java games would soon die with the introduction of Flash Player 9 and ActionScript 3, although it took a bit for people to actually upgrade).

I remember it was released at some point, but at the end it didn't amount to much since most of the JVM's actual implementation relied on everything else and the "optional" bits were only a small part, so it didn't help almost at all with applets. And by that time Java applet gaming was dead (it never reached Flash gaming's heights, but for a few years in the early/mid 2000s it was still something you could make a living off - if you didn't expect much).

I never heard about it much after that and personally moved away from Java with Flash becoming dominant on the web game scene and soon with Oracle being an dick to everyone. The only reason i used Java was for NetBeans' GUI editor for my tools but with Lazarus [0] becoming very stable by that time and NetBeans looking and behaving weird in my -then- brand new iMac, i abandoned Java for good (the only active Java project i still have is a tilemap editor [1] but this only if you stretch "active" to "hack on it a little every few years").

I also never liked Java much after Java 1.4 - it moved further away from its "simple language" roots and i liked how everything was solved in the library instead of adding extra stuff to the language. Well, that, and things like generics felt very "bolted on" while annotations like `@override` felt unnecessary verbosity (and ugly syntax-wise).

My favorite Java was probably around 1.1 or so (i have a book on that too), some times i think i should make a new language and VM after it but i lose interest quickly - i think i have a bunch of parsers for Java-1.1-like languages lying around in my backups, from every time i get that urge :-P.

[0] http://www.lazarus-ide.org/
[1] http://runtimeterror.com/rep/mapas
Downvotes because the truth hurts, I guess.
haha, that was literally 262 years ago. Much less common than the frequency California seems to have of these things.
Press the spacebar when in the tram...
This is a console game, and consoles are always starved for memory since it's such a huge BOM cost so they put as little in as they can get away with. This ends up screwing the console game developers who have to start accounting for every single byte.

So there are a lot of these things in games where they just run a script on all their assets and what not to figure out how much memory they will need for it, then allocate fixed pools at the start. These programmers would love to just throw that stuff into a vector but given their growth strategy you can end up wasting half your memory. Even worse, every element added into the vector might now cause it resize and when that happens during gameplay it might just ruin your 16 ms frame target. A fixed pool is as fast as you are going to get, no random chance your game is going to stutter and no waste.

Here is a great talk on this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8KIvWJUYbDA