skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Isn’t there a mistake with your proof of work?
Because the way you implemented the proof of work, it isn’t tied to the transaction history.
This means that somebody could re-write the transaction history, compute the new block hashes, and re-use your proofs of work.
He could then mine a single new block, and thus create a new longest chain and cause everybody to accept this chain.
The way to fix this would be to include the hash of the last block in the proof of work for the next block. This way, proofs of work can not be recycled on other chains.
How is more platforms going to create neutrality? Wouldn't governments put their bots on the new networks?
Not really, you can find plenty of decent Italian and Portuguese wines for that price. To take the first example I found, the 2014 Quinta de Cabriz is 46th in the world top 100 of the Wine Spectator and costs $5 in Portugal, and less than $7 in the US.

The last wine I drank was a Montepulciano d'Abruzzo; I can't remember the specific winemaker, but it was quite nice and was less than $9, despite being bought in another European country.
I imagine when the telemetry is all way out of expected parameters, it could go into a safety mode.
Numberphile: the maths of juggling
Show HN: Track your responses over time
I think tracking how you feel over time can radically improve decision making. So I made a quick little webapp that helps you do that!

1. Submit a question with a schedule
2. Emails notify you when it's time to respond
3. See how you feel over time

https://simple-decisions.herokuapp.com/
Some real time analytics are useful. For example, pricing of virtual currency (how deep to run an online "sale") can be much more profitable of you have a real time measurement of price elasticity. I've built tools like that for people who actually need them, and it works in those cases.

However if you don't do real time business, you don't need real time analytics. What would you do with it? Have new wireframes generated and implemented in real time every five minutes? Switch database engines five times a day?

I feel the article makes the second argument well, but perhaps hasn't seen the case where the first argument holds. Try telling a currency trader that they don't need real time analytics and see how far that takes you!
Depends a lot on the grocery and city ime.

I'm still in shock about wine prices in the US but SF in particular. ~18 months after I moved here. In Germany I could buy the same Californian wines for cheaper than here, not to speak of pretty good French, Italian, Spanish ones. It's less bad if you're outside of SF.
The point is we aren't tip-toeing around a country when they have been threatening the annihilation of the US and others for years.

Here's a chronology of NK threats... from 2013! [1] You think waiting it out a couple more years while they perfect their ICBMs is a good plan?

The tweets today are just more of the same positioning. Trump knows better than anyone, you negotiate from a position of strength, from a position of; I'm willing to come to the table if you have something to offer me, but I really don't have to be here, and we're not drawing this out another few years while you keep racing full speed toward weaponization.

I personally think the most likely outcome by pushing brinkmanship to the edge and with unanimous UN sanctions supported by Russia and China is that Rocket Man gets assassinated from within.

[1] - http://foreignpolicy.com/2013/03/21/a-running-list-of-north-...
They're still accepting applications and haven't conducted interviews yet, but I'm willing to bet money these guys won't get in. The YC partners understand one of the most important things in a founding team is an ability to work together, so they always ask how they know each other.
all they've done is just rename master.
I for one found the blog post refreshing. Now that it's out there, it might be wise to follow up with a more thorough technical postmortem.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Latent_Dirichlet_allocation

For anyone else who didn't know :D
Awkward semantics for sure, but I think they regret having to learn from the experience as opposed to learning by considering the possibilities beforehand.
I assume you're referring to copyright laws and safe-harbor provisions.

But aren't copyright laws another way of suppressing free expression? It seems contradictory to say that it's not ok for Cloudflare to suppress the free expression of Nazis while implicitly supporting the suppression of the expression of file sharers, remixers, and other violators of copyright who want to use Cloudflare. Furthermore, you seem to be arguing that the explicitly political expression of Cloudflare's CEO should be suppressed using the power of the state (by suggesting that it should open them up to legal liability).
Skyrim actually runs in a VM. So it's already futuristic. And still crashes like a piece of crap written.

I think the 2nd or 3rd STALKER (or all) run in VM as well and... crash and corrupt saves like crazy.

And for those who don't get how it's related. A VM is "supposed" to be pretty damn crash-proof and "safer" much like functional languages. But that doesn't stop deadlines and bad coding practices from creating broken products.
> Also, I could be wrong, but it looks like the example code will accept longer peer chains even if they're completely different.

I think there is a problem with his proof-of-work algorithm in that his proof of work is not tied to the transactions in the blockchain. Should't it include the hash of the previous block or something, in order to prevent people from simply building a new blockchain while re-using the proofs of work?
> There are more-advanced release processes such as blue/green

Blue/green is actually very similar to the Git branching model of forking release branches off of the development branch to merge them in the master branch, if not precisely the same thing referred by different names.
We can all regret that DNC wiped their asses with the majority of votes in the primaries. Bernie would have beaten Trump.
Thanks for the replies, havnt tried any of those. Adding to the list
The conclusions of the article are probably correct, but it's important for analytics systems to have real time capabilities for debugging and iteration. When you're wiring up some new events or funnels you need to be able to click through and sanity check that you're collecting the data you expect.

Maybe some of the desire for whole systems to be real time comes from this frustration.
Don't dismiss a (even much) smaller amount; if properly targeted it can be a lot more effective than the crop dusting approach that traditional advertising takes.
> As to your counter claim ("We never made such a claim.") you need to understand that you are asking us to believe you rather than Cloudflare. As the Daily Stormer you have zero credibility.

He's not asking us to believe anyone. Cloudflare made an accusation that should be easily provable. The fact Cloudflare and nobody in this thread has been able to come up with a single quote supporting Cloudflare's accusation is pretty damning.
Well, there's a need for certain kinds of researchers in industry. How large that is isn't exactly clear. The difficulty comes to PhD programs when people are able to become researchers without a PhD.
The board you're thinking of is the Papilio. The Papillon is a dog breed. :)
Campaign finance is a big topic, at least for the Democrats. Public financing plus constitutional amendment to overturn Citizen's United was in the party program.

And just because we do shitty things to other countries doesn't mean we should roll over and allow it to happen to us (see also: cyber attacks).
None of those points are confirmed by the post. Maybe apart from the sufficient manpower to handle support during emergencies. (But who has that, honestly?)

Some of your points are almost dangerous. Not automatically failing over something handling large number of financial transactions may be a good decision, unless you can guarantee consistency between environments. Same goes for autoscaling databases (if you can even autoscale them in that environment - I'd expect them to be write-heavy and transactional, which is a good reason for scaling up, not out (or sharding or other things, not the point))
For most of its followers, Libertarianism is a means to an end, a label that can be shed and worn repeatedly, a justification rather a-way-of-life.

Other People need the help of government? They should stop being lazy and put their faith in the free market.

My folks need government help? Well we deserve it, give it to us, right now, don’t delay, don’t you have a heart?

Compared to the members of communist, conservative and other demanding and identity-integral idealogies, libertarians are far smaller in number and altogether weaker as an independant political force.
Calculating the Distance Between Points in Wrap Around (Toroidal) Space
Even lower, if my experience with clients is any clue.

Most people I've seen running companies are either clueless in general in IT matters (business or engineering people), or, "older" gents who grew up long before IT security and robust backups were "the norm" and stressed in every class and conference. If there's no direct money to be made, it doesn't matter.

Only in the last 3 years or so have I seen ANYONE of my clients care about potential hackers and breaches. And one of them only cared... because they were hacked by the Chinese.
Much of what you'd recognize as Mexican food or Central American food has roots in Native American food of those that spoke Nahuatl and its dialects (Southwestern tribes and further south). Many versions of corn, many non-sweet versions of potatoes, and many peppers are native to the Americas and have obviously been integrated into other cultures and cuisines. As for reasons why such food is not represented as Native American . . . Imperialism? Appropriation? Assimilation?

If you're truly interested Native American food, don't Yelp it. You'll probably have to speak to several people at a Reservation, Tribal Council, Cultural Group or perhaps a museum curator.
Trump's behavior is surprising no one, true. But that's as much because the only prediction was that he'd be unpredictable, as because he's behaving like he telegraphed before the election

Read articles from before the inauguration, you'll see all sorts of wild predictions on how he would act.

Example:
http://www.bradford-delong.com/2017/01/trump-and-the-us-econ...
Yea I find this "successful" branching model in OP to be a huge pain. It does sound nice in theory but it's annoying in practice and honestly I see absolutely no benefit in adopting it.
I think in the last 20 years Linux has become many orders of magnitude better on all fronts. It's a rolling snowball that has already surpassed other platforms on many levels. The only reason there's only 6-7% market share is that's there very few people selling it. I would say it's an huge market opportunity.
Just a heads up, the layout is pretty broken on mobile.
Pedantic, but Voice of America is basically a US "propaganda" outfit. But a lot of countries do not really have this.

RT is totally at a different scale. It's clearly being used as a political outfit. Other state-owned media in many countries have rules about editorial independence. RT clearly does not.
This is a bizarrely endemic problem on official company blogs, and I've often wondered why.

I always guessed it was something like, "Many WordPress and other blog-theme designers default to thinking of the blog is the product or main website itself, so their themes link the logo to the blog itself (and perhaps(?) there's no easy setting in the GUI to change this)?"

I see this default behavior on my own personal blog[1], which uses a fairly popular free theme, but in that case it's correct because my blog is really its own standalone thing.

[1]: Hehe, did you think I was going to try to plug my personal blog here?
Not sure what you mean by mindless. Seems like there's been a well- reasoned justification for most of what's been said.
>"At around 07:00 BST on Friday morning, our transaction database began to malfunction."

and

>"This server slowdown has never happened before"

Why does this transparency not include meaningful details of what actually went wrong? A "database malfunction" and a "server slowdown" are technical gibberish. This is not dissimilar to the kind of crap a traditional bank says when there are problems. It reminds of hearing "The system is down" from a customer service representative.

This apology is on the company's blog alongside a blog post titled "How to extract analytics data from your iOS application", complete with Swift code snippets[1]. So clearly they aren't worried about content being too technical.

We are talking about a bank and your money, why would it not be OK to err on the side of being too technical? Or at the very least provide a link for the more technically inclined.

[1] https://blog.revolut.com/how-to-extract-analytics-data-from-...
Streak CRM, fantastic if on G Suite.
> Why not citizens from other European countries who as have relatively many road fatalities per capita?

When it comes to pedestrian safety, the only EU country with a record that can match Romania's is Latvia, but it has a population that's 10 times smaller.

http://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/statistics-explained/index.php/...

> I am usually most worried about Americans since many have little experience with roundabouts and they are used to turning right on red

Except the crossing in the article has nothing to do with roundabouts and turning, just stopping to give way to pedestrians, which is something Romanian drivers are very bad at. I'm speaking from experience.
Those are MLC (Military Load Classification) signs.
...the truth is almost mostly a lot more boring.

By this metric, which should we believe? That a) one unpopular candidate barely beat some other unpopular candidate, or that b) some heretofore unimagined global conspiracy of crypto-Stalinists overturned what would have been an electoral landslide just by trolling from some sockpuppet accounts?
Right. I'm the Chair of a (neuroscience and psychology) departmental graduate school and I also sometimes sit in on departmental PhD 'scholarship' interviews. One of the questions we ask is 'Given that your chances of gaining a job in academia are only about 1 in 8, what do you think you will do when you finish graduate school?'. Then, when they arrive, we show them, a discuss, a version of this picture

http://thegradstudentway.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2013/02...

during the induction lecture on their first day. They are all still there on day 2. I like to think they are smart enough to know what they are doing and that the only people who are still writing phd 'glut' articles like this are those whose ideas about graduate training were formed a few decades ago.
The class numbers only roughly correspond to weight, so you could just as well consider them metric tons (1000 kg).
Right. But "camera" does the thing. I didn't expect an article or an image; video is what I expected to be at the end of the link.
Thanks. Which plan are you on, if you don't mind me asking.

The free plan only has 5.5 of the 32 features in the next paid tier ( 600$ / year).

Thinking of using it to market my side projects.

Also, did you start with free tier for your SaaS and then upgraded once you got sales, leads, or did you directly start with 1 of the paid plans?
> People should be downloading actual releases. This could be release archives, or release tags.

Yes, and those versions are represented by tags created on the master branch. Github automatically interprets tags created on the master branch as being releases, and even creates nice little tar files with the branch's contents.

> master can change on a whim

Actually, it can't. According to the Git workflow, the only thing committed to the master branch is either the contents of release branches or hotfixes.
Please raise it as an issue. My UI knowledge is pretty limited but will try to make it a bit cleaner.
Do you really believe this? You really think 100k stands up to 1Billion?
I find it surprising that you are more likely to be born upon the 29th of Febuary than the 25th of December.
My wife uses Arch on her laptop - she doesn't really know what it is and doesn't really care. She does know that she has less down time than with Windows when updates happen. She uses Facebook (the internet sigh) very heavily, email (Evolution to an account on my office Exchange server) heavily plus a fair few other things - basic word processing and spreadsheets via LO.

I'm a KDE aficionado for good reason. I put a few large icons (KDE allows you to scale your icons really well) on the desktop, with a pretty wallpaper, that have easily understandable functions, that are locked in place. The ability to lock the desktop layout is a killer feature that I do not see available on Windows or Mac or most Linux WMs.

Obviously, it does help that I'm an IT Consultant but "For an average user, Linux can still be quite challenging to use as their main OS." No it doesn't need to be so. The KDE Plasma UI can be made very simple or unbelievably complex to suit the required UX.
I don't know if you can make a single one of those assertions based on the content of the post.
Yes, the useful message here is that we can indeed inject trillions into economies without overheating them, if the right conditions and structures are used.

They will be different for BI, naturally.
This only uses LDA on your starred repository descriptions, to find topic terms that describe your starred repositories. These topic terms are then used to query the GitHub search API to find matching repositories. The results are then sorted by star count.

That is a clever way to make use of a search API like GitHub's. The principled way to do this, though, is to run LDA over all descriptions on GitHub, then use that similarity index to find similar repositories. You could run LDA over code, too.

I'll note that there is a cold start problem with this implementation: using LDA on such a small set of short documents will often lead to uninformative topics with words that are too-specific. You need a big corpus to capture e.g. synonym relationships.
I think you are underestimating the role preference plays in preferences. We get it that you like wine mostly for the buzz, but it so happens that when people like it mainly for other aspects, they are not always faking it, and neither are they always posturing. When my wife and I enjoy a glass of wine at home, no-one else knows.
> That is very vague

It's not a post from engineering. It's an announcement to customers. Most will neither understand nor care about the details of that infrastructure failing. What you want is an engineering post mortem which is a completely different kind of post. Don't get me wrong, I want them to publish one and would love to read the details. But their engineering team has (hopefully) much more important things to do at the moment.
If there is no demand for your skills they can’t be wasted. There’s no necessary reason why being really good at literary criticism is any more socially valuable than being really good at Counter Strike. If no one’s willing to pay you for it I hope you had fun learning to do it because otherwise it was a waste.
This is a very interesting contention.

What examples can you provide of "being transparent and sincere in trying to do better" back-firing? Did massive clickbait articles get reported, blowing up the issue?
Awesome work, sir.
Sigh. Being a supertaster isn't a scientific explanation for not liking wine. It just means if you don't like wine you are more likely to dislike it a lot.

By the definition, I am a supertaster. I know this because I once had a virus that made the papillae on my tongue swell and I couldn't eat anything for a week. My doctors all exclaimed how many "taste buds" I had and I must taste foods very strongly. I do - I rarely need seasonings - even salt and pepper - or heavy sauces. I eat pretty simple and enjoy (or despise) flavors.

But I love wine and many other strong/sour/acidic/fermented foods. Love dark chocolate. Lemons. Bitter green teas. I suppose I would love these as a medium or light taster too.

On the other hand, I hate coffee, sauerkraut, blue cheese and some other strong foods. I suppose I would hate these as a medium or light taster too. Just maybe not as fervently.
Oh, I never take off my shoes until a few thousand ft AGL - I figure at that point it doesn't matter much anymore :-)

> They really do know what they're talking about, and they're well trained.

I wonder, btw, whether people on Saudia 163 would have survived if they had stormed the emergency exits after landing against (presumably) the orders of the crew...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saudia_Flight_163
Who said anything about tourists? It can also be economic migrants. I bring up Romanians because they have a very particular disability - they find it really difficult to stop at pedestrian crossings, even when people are obviously about to cross the street.
What an incredible collection -- to keep the masks and robes of the people he has led to renounce their membership!
Top spending by US companies on R&D (latest fiscal year):

Amazon: $16.1B
Alphabet: $13.9B
Intel: $12.7B
Microsoft: $12.3B
Apple: $10.0B

For most of these companies, they are spending more than their income on R&D (but less than revenue, of course.)

(Recode/FactSet data)
My. God.

That's got to be one of the silliest, most insane things to actually care about.
He's not normalizing anything, he's setting the context which I happen to account for as well; for example our country directly attempted to (and did) influence the Brexit campaign and Scottish referendum – and not just our media but our elected officials.

Our news outlets have been caught colluding with certain candidates – federal funds is one of countless vectors in which governments/elites can steer the news. Think of Donna Brazil, for example. She had to leave MSNBC after forwarding debate questions to Clinton.
Could you please expand on what you mean by the 'ui not being blocked'.

What behaviour do you expect the app to have and why?
Google spreadsheets are pretty good

once you really need automation features, then something like insightly or hubspot can be useful
Problem is this, the suggestions are generated by using the repo descriptions as the starting point dropping all references to language and non-English words. What this means is even if you have a lot of stars on ruby repositories, if the search on terms derived from the above process leads to non-ruby repositories that is what is shown. Will look into tuning it better.