skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"In the where to vote? page, you are prompted to enter some of your details: DNI (national id), Birth date, Zip code"

Wait a second, can someone from the area explain this? Why on earth do they need your ID number just to tell you where to vote?

In my country (UK) 99% of the time all you need is a postcode and you can be told your voting place. (I say 99% because there are a few postcodes that are split across different seats and thus different people in the same post code have different polling places. Also just to note some areas are bad at publicly supplying this data. But my general point still stands.)
ZCash has unsolveable issues, Monero has solveable issues. I don't see that as a tradeoff.

zk-SNARKS have no privacy issues, but to trust ZCash you require absolute trust in the zcash ceremony. This is an issue for many, including me. This ceremony has happened, there is no way for me to prove to myself that the private keys were not stored somewhere. Although I can prove to myself it is decentralised and private, I can't see how I could ever prove to myself that noone can cheat and generate coins with minimal effort, thus devaluing mine. I just have to trust the founders.

Monero's Ring signatures require no trust, but they have privacy problems in the case of small rings. This is solveable by restricting to large rings (as a hard fork will enforce this September[1]), and at that point, I can see how to convince myself that the system is decentralised, private, and noone can generate coins without appropriate mining effort.

[1] https://getmonero.org/2017/09/13/september-15-2017-protocol-...
> Because it's even worse in this regard.

Do you have some stories of conference speakers or attendees being treated this way in Australia?
I've spent a few nights in the psych ward at Zuckerberg General. There were quite a few homeless people. There were people that faked being crazy to get a bed and a hot meal, and the psychiatrist had to kick them back out onto the street.

Mental health services are ineffective if a person's basic needs aren't met. Giving homeless people a home is far from enough, but you can't expect a homeless person to get better if they are stuck out on the streets.
> it's not even clear how to decide who is Catalan enough to have a vote in this.

All residents in Catalonia have the right to vote in this referendum, regardless of their origin. So your comment is basically empty.
Yep, been using FF on Android for three years now. Its the best mobile browser around.

And ublock origin must have saved me hundreds of euros and days of time already. (God the internet with ads and trackers is terrible. Gizmodo has a dozen trackers, one of them is called summerhamster. True story).
In parliamentary democracies "the government" often refers to the current administration in power. "The current government" means "the current PM and their cabinet". So "the government" tends to mean only the politicians at the top of the executive branch.
Neither of you guys have had clinical depression. just because everyone gets the blues sometimes doesn't mean they understand someone with genuine depression. keep your platitudes to yourself.
ICEcoder goes free, plus a desktop version
Their fleet hasn't changed in 2 years (I remember seeing them back then). Should we interpret this negatively (no growth in headcount!) or positively (no turnover!)?

https://flypigeon.co/fleet
Photos of Soviet control rooms
> backwards banking infrastructure

You're describing the United States, right?
If you'd like to try out Firefox Quantum on Windows without impacting your existing local or portable version, you can grab either the 57 Beta or the 57 Developer version in portable form from PortableApps.com. It's self-contained with its own profile and settings that are kept separate from the normal install. It doesn't require admin rights to extract it and try it out. And you can "uninstall" it just by deleting a folder.

https://portableapps.com/news/2017-09-28--try-firefox-quantu...
The long game, man. The long game. It can be devastating.

(Mind you, Chrome/Webkit did a similar thing 5-10 years ago wrt. JS performance. Basically, this is the good kind of back-and-forth competition we're seeing.)
My critique wasn't on the volunteering aspect, I agree that's helpful, it was on calling depressed people narcissistic.
Can't wait to see privacy centric forks on ff quantum. How long will that take I wonder.
That's not entirely true. There are a lot of working homeless living in cars, nightly and weekly rental motels, tents, staying with family, friends, etc.
This is a US/Euro nomenclature difference I think. In the US "the government" refers to the entire apparatus- all three branches.
> about 10-20% of even First World populations don't use social media

Does your number include old people? I imagine a border guard would be more willing to accept a retiree not using social media than a college-age student.
He mentions in his presentation that the BFR will have more pressurized cargo space than an A380, which can carry 853 passengers in an all-economy configuration. Let's say the BFR would carry a bit more that that, and prices would be a bit less than $1k, that would bring the flight budget in the order of $500k to $1M very roughly.

Let's try to estimate fuel costs, according to Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interplanetary_Transport_Syste...) propellant costs $168 per tonne, and the spaceship can hold 1950t of it, so assuming one full tank per trip, that's $328k for fuel.

The actual cost of the rocket is around $200M, assuming a service life of 1000 flights, that's a $200k amortized cost per flight.

Add a few hundred k for launchpad, personnel, administrative costs of various kinds, and you get in the $500k to $1M ballpark.

So on the back of the envelope it looks about break-even. Maybe there's a sufficient market of people willing to pay a premium for very fast travel to make this profitable.
Wow man that's awesome! Congratulations..
What do free speech have to do with a local government breaking laws? If the Catalan government proclaims next week the “independence” of their new republic (but maintaining the Spanish passports, of course), do you think the reaction from the Spanish government will also be an attack on their right to free speech?
Is this real? Can it deliver to a balcony? Or does it just drop it off at your doorstep?
When you consider where the funding they do have comes from, it's not surprising it happened. Especially with Bing / Yahoo starting to bid up traffic acquisition at the time, it's a strategic no-brainer.
Well, its certainly a clever work around, Are they also their own VPN though? How do we know we won't get hit by a man in the middle attack?
(BTW: Huge kudos to Netflix for driving vendors to support
FreeBSD)

Unfortunately exposing my nativity on both NICs and TLS, I've
never understood why NICs couldn't support the crypto in a
way that it can just send the packet straight to the wire
after encryption. Is there some deep (unfixable) reason in
the TLS/TCP protocol or just a lack of foresight in the NIC
design?
Cringe/clickbait title and paywall.
How is having an online discussion different if it's on Facebook or HN?
More convenient to just disable auto-fill, which prevents the exploit.
No, that is not what is happening. Spain is a state where the majority of the people wants to belong to the state. Catalonia would be a state where half of the people wouldn't want to belong to it. I wonder if the future Catalan government will allow referendums so that such people will be able to split from Catalonia.

Besides, not voting is also democracy. Most of the Spanish people don't want to allow these kind of referendums in Spain. Therefore, Spain is doing what the majority wants (== democracy).
Protocol Labs ICO raises $40M for IPFS project
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The fact that it is how this referendum was designed doesn't mean it's fair.

E.g. why would a foreigner that's been living in Catalonia for a few weeks, and plans to move away within a month to never return, have more of a say than a Catalan that spent 40 years there but had to move abroad two months ago in search of a job?
Also the ability to illustrate a video with an image that's not part of the video, has become a click bait paradise.
The ones that oppose the referendum also do it for selfish reasons. They don't want to lose something that in their view belongs to them.
You say you're from Barna but you call it Barça so I don't really know what to believe here.
That's a fair point but doesn't explain why ID & DOB are needed. I asked about this in another comment - in my country, you just need your postcode to find your polling place 99% of the time.
> I didn't make it past the second chapter because the story demands I memorize dozens of ridiculous names, made-up words, magical objects, and fictional cities right off the bat.

Is that a requirement for that book? Stephenson's Anathem starts off with a word-dump full of vocabulary that you as the reader will not know, but everything slowly becomes clearer.

On the other hand, I gave up on Stephenson's Baroque Cycle for much the same reason you mention.
A lot of corporate customers have still not approved iOS for upgrades, so it's actually a big issue
Zooko explained afterward: https://twitter.com/zooko/status/864341289374023680
> For grid scale storage, which would be needed to get to really high penetration levels of renewable electricity, energy density is even less important. A paltry 50 watt-hours/kg would be perfectly fine if the battery also offers low capacity fade per deep discharge cycle and low costs.

For grid scale storage there's also options like pumped hydro storage. Cost / kwh can be much lower than batteries, depending on site and scale. Might need to start with a budget of $50m-500m though.
This is why DNSCrypt [1] and DNSCurve [2] are a good thing because they encrypt the data between client and resolver. Although they can block all of the traffic to/from any known resolvers, that's draconic and a lot of work, and it is quite a list.

Mac/Homebrew users: brew cask install dnscrypt

Windows/Chocolatey users: choco install simplednscrypt (or alternative see [3])

Linux: should be in your package manager. Generally, searching for dnscrypt should yield some useful software. It isn't difficult to set up via command line IMO. There's probably howto's to be found via search engine as well.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DNSCrypt

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DNSCurve

[3] https://github.com/Noxwizard/dnscrypt-winclient
Could you discuss how you selected the Mellanox cards? Were other cards such as Solarflare, Broadcom, Chelsio considered as well?
Show HN: Sanictype, a Windows Utility that Autocompletes Words
How is that clear?

It is clear to me that he is brave, principled and committed to privacy. It is not clear to me that his skills extend beyond that of the average sysadmin.
You're making an assumption that is not necessarily true.
It depends. Is Catalonia rich because the federal government pumped money and resources into it? If so, then I would say yes, it's wrong to try to break off.

But, if Catalonia is rich due to their own industriousness, and effectively prop up other parts of the nation by sending more of their own money to the federal government, then no, I don't think there is a problem with trying to break off.
It looks very nice (I am trying it out right now) but how trustworthy is a free password management service?
Honda introduces ‘Riding Assist-e’ self-balancing electric motorcycle
Thanks for the article. After reading it, I went and added an IPFS node to my Kubernetes deployment on Google Cloud and then mapped the /ipfs and /ipns endpoints through Kong so they would be served by https://api.wisdom.sh/<ipfs|ipns>/. This effectively gives people yet another domain they can use which doesn't require installing the IPFS client. Any IPFS site wil work through the proxy, but here's the site under discussion: https://api.wisdom.sh/ipns/QmZxWEBJBVkGDGaKdYPQUXX4KC5TCWbvu...

If anyone wants the scripts I used to build up the system, let me know. Here's the Kubernetes YAML I used: https://gist.github.com/kordless/5625ae8abf3d3f14dd3f9c9d500...
On a related note, it took me years of playing with *nix to notice that the notations '&' and '|' were chosen to mimic series and parallel operations. These days we tend to think of '&' as a backgrounding operation, and it's almost always the final token in a command:

$ some_background_command &

I suspect it was originally intended to run commands in parallel:

$ command1 & command2
This is the major roadblock for me to leave Chrome. The Firefox containers are close, but don't quite hit the mark in the same way as Chrome's profiles.
Seriously, this is a giant advertisement. The diagram of the jet engine with literally zero technical value is particularly egregious.
I like 57 as much as the next guy and it's my main browser, but I still develop with Chrome, cause inspector is so much better :/
Yeah, and make him a white guy. YT can age 10 years and become a romantic interest. Change Raven into a Chinese character, add in a subplot about Bitcoin, remove the motorcycle stuff, maybe move the setting of the Raft to something easier to film - like outskirts of LA...
Fifteen Questions for a New Game
Galaxy Note 8 faster than iPhone 8 in real world test
I don't know what makes people think technological progress isn't slowing down. By any metric you choose to look at it is. GDP growth, life expectancy, etc. A modern person would be basically familiar with the household and lifestyle of 1940. A few differences, but most of the technology that we use today was already in place by then. Cars, electricity, washing machines, indoor plumbing, etc. A person from 1940 going back 77 years would be entering a different world.

The only real exception is computers, information processing technology. One exception doesn't disprove a trend. And even those have begun to slow down now that we are approaching the physical and economic limits.

I strongly recommend The Rise and Fall of American Growth: The U.S. Standard of Living since the Civil War which pounds this point home with example after example of just how much the world changed during the second industrial revolution.
They are targeting something that only exist in the drug haze filling the marketing and design offices.

The same marketing that insisted that Mozilla shift their major version on every release, and that keep producing sugar coated videos for the most vapid of reasons.

Face it, the FOSS world has become a bastion of champagne pimping social climbers that just want to add to their score card that they have worked on something with a "humanitarian" angle.

On that note, i guess there is always the option of helping out with Palemoon before they go through with their planned rebase on a more recent Firefox release...
It's like saying that the Industrial Revolution started in England by mere chance. In a way it's true, but does that mean that England has a moral obligation to share its wealth with the rest of the world?
> Work with no profits (or revenue) would likely mean no salary.

I'm pretty sure Twitter engineers get paid well. Same for Uber. They've got loses for a long time now. (But they have revenue) Profits definitely don't pay salaries there.
It's a condensed version of your code using color blocks instead of text.

The Sublime text editor used a similar view along the right side of the editor. You can use it to quickly navigate to a section of code without having to read each line.
"If they blacklist your address, your "permissionless" currency starts looking a lot more like a frozen bank account."
Interesting aspect. Could you please clariy _who_ could blacklist _what_ address? It's not exactly clear what you were referring to.
I wrote this over the course of this week. I needed a faster way to write college application essays, so this was clearly the most productive use of my time :P

All joking aside, this is the first project I have ever submitted to a community forum. This is still very much a work in progress, but it is usable enough where I feel comfortable putting it out there. Right now, I am using it in google docs to write essays and stuff, but it will work for any text inputs in windows.

The main issue it has right now is consistency. Windows api is hard, especially since this is my first time doing anything as low level as this. Keeping track of the word that the cursor is right next to is a pain, and if there is a better way than the one I have implemented here, please tell me. I would love any feedback that helps me become a better programmer.
For real, I read everything I could on their site. They do mention living birds, I don't know why I'm still sceptical...
I guess if it were a PC program, the judge would need to order to the sites that host it to stop distributing it in Spain?
just sign into Chrome, and visit myactivity.google.com

you'll see your browsing history, which unless you have a preference turned off deep within settings, Google may then use to target advertising.
Replace it with nothing.
Wait... Is it April's Fools already?
Basic Techniques in working with AngularJs
I disagree with the assessment that because you're committing one crime, you should commit two.

For example, lots of drug dealers get busted on tax related charges. Being the pimps busted on securities laws isn't impossible, especially if you set that up as a slam-dunk case while making the other hard to prosecute.

Not commenting on their specific case, but that reasoning is dubious.
Google Cloud SQL supports postgres as well.
Catalan here.

Your ID is bound to a place to vote based on "where you live" registration. You can't just vote from anywhere.
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1332447

Looks like some interesting ideas on the user interface in the new Firefox.

Anyone worked out how to hide the tab bar with a single tab in 57 yet? (I'm odd, and I like to use my window manager to manage Web sites in windows.)
>Ability to scan and filter 5-10 million rows per second on a single core

>Ability to aggregate 1-2 million rows per second on a single core

This almost makes it sound as if increasing to N cores will increase the ops by N * rows per second. But it won't, not even close, not when you are reading from the same hard drive/SSD card. If you are basing your calculation on max I/O output, then additional CPU cores will make little to no difference or worse would decrease performance.
Whether it actually works for those companies (beyond a placebo-like effect) is open to question.

But the bigger point is that - even assuming for the sake of argument that these questions actually do "work", on some leel - they've become such a huge fad that people are just adopting them solely on the basis of authority, without intrinsically understanding why these questions work, or more importantly, how to interpret candidates' responses to them

In other words, they're just following a script. I wouldn't say quite it's on "blind faith", per se (because the companies do have some reputation). But it's not much better than blind faith. Such that this precious quote of yours, from just a few days ago, seems quite apt here:

This practice of blindly adopting ideas just because they work for Google needs to stop.
Maybe he plays for Barça?
The above official link has many sections. Here is the link for the official language poll ("Enquesta d’usos lingüístics de la població 2008"), which includes mother-initial/identification/habitual language details (official data):

http://www.idescat.cat/cat/idescat/publicacions/cataleg/pdfd...

"Initial language" (page 45):

Catalan: 31.6%, Spanish: 55%.

"Identification language" (page 48):

Catalan: 37.2%, Spanish: 46.5%

"Habitual language" (page 51):

Catalan: 35.6%, Spanish: 45.9%

Edit: in my first comment in this thread I spoke from memory. Also, the data from the 2013 poll (official data):

https://www.idescat.cat/cat/idescat/publicacions/cataleg/pdf...

"Initial language" (page 45):

Catalan: 31%, Spanish: 55.1%.

"Identification language" (page 46):

Catalan: 36.4%, Spanish: 47.5%.

"Habitual language" (page 49):

Catalan: 36.3%, Spanish: 50.7%.
From Wikipedia: The right of people to self-determination is a cardinal principle in modern international law (commonly regarded as a jus cogens rule), binding, as such, on the United Nations as authoritative interpretation of the Charter's norms. It states that a people, based on respect for the principle of equal rights and fair equality of opportunity, have the right to freely choose their sovereignty and international political status with no interference. ... self-determination entails the "moral double helix" of duality (personal right to align with a people, and the people's right to determine their politics) and mutuality (the right is as much the other's as the self’s). Thus, self-determination grants individuals the right to form "a people," which then has the right to establish an independent state, as long as they grant the same to all other individuals and peoples.
please, just use .slice, not .substring or .substr
It will probably play out like a conversation. A data scientist trains an ML model, and in analyzing the results discovers some intrinsic property or invariant of the problem domain. The scientist can then encode that information into the model and retrain. And that goes on and on, each time providing more accurate results.

As an aside, I think it's important that we find a way to examine and inspect how an ML model "works". If you have some neural network that does really well at the problem, it would be nice if you could somehow peer into it and explain, in human terms, what insight the model has made into the problem. That might not be feasible with neural networks, as they're really just a bunch of weights in a matrix, but this is practical for something like decision trees. Just food for thought.
I don't see any way this could be real, personally. As a previous owner of pigeons, they don't generally fly to random places. You release them somewhere and they fly to a place they KNOW (their coop generally). That in and of itself is amazing, but yeah, I don't know any way you'd be able to get them to fly random places... not to mention predatory birds and such.

Also, even if it was 'real' at some point, none of their stuff has been updated at all since 2015/2016.
You actually think that websites would ban Firefox' user agent?!?
No, I lost interest when Shannon pulled it out. I'm dancing with a company that might hire me to do some performance work in this area so maybe I'll redo that code. I don't think it is hard and I'd do it in FreeBSD. And bring back topvn.

We've got so much memory these days it might help.

But..... back in the day the top vnode was always swap because everyone used the same swap vnode. Howard Chartok (Mr Swapfs) and I discussed at length an idea of a swap vnode per process group. You want the set of processes that work together to use the same vnode so you have some sort of idea if it has gone idle. Just imagine the stats that the pageout daemon looks being summarized in the vnode, you want atime, mtime, dirty, clean, etc.

I suspect for your workload the swap vnode isn't an issue.

If the pageout daemon is still like it was then it's crazy. 4K pages, 128GB of ram, that's ~33 million pages to scan. If you summarize that you can find stuff to free really fast. And probably drop per file hints in there for the pageout daemon (like you are doing).

Be happy to talk it over over a beer or something. I'm at the usual email addresses.
Zuckerberg’s Preposterous Defense of Facebook
As you point out they don't now. The proposal at least has the merit of extracting extra taxes from the NIMBYs.
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Since sending messages by homing pigeon requires taking a pigeon from location A and then releasing it with a message so it will fly back home to location A, I'm going to guess this isn't real. Unless every customer has to install a pigeon coop to raise birds that will head home to that location.