skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I found the story of the woman[1] in question quite interesting. She was recording 24/7 news onto tapes across 8 machines throughout her house, and it seems like it took over her, and by proxy her husband's, life:

> Every six hours when the tapes would be ending, Stokes and her husband would run around the house to switch them out—even cutting short meals at restaurants to make it home to switch out tapes in time

I can't help but mention when talking about Archive.org - the Computer Magazine collection is one of my favourite places to get heavy nostalgia fix.[2]

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

[2]: https://archive.org/details/computermagazines
The big fat joke is thinking that agile are the processes and methodologies developed from the manifesto.

Read the manifesto, apply some techniques, methodologies, frameworks that you hear about but always keep the manifesto motto of "constant communication and improvement of the process" in mind. You and your team should try different approaches and learn from them on what is working for you while keeping:
1. Communication
2. Constant feedback and improvement
3. Knowledge sharing

If only 20% of the people can contribute you have a problem with your team, not with the agile process to be honest.
Would be cool when you're old, transfer your consciousness into a satellite/spacecraft and just fly away into space... then you're like "Oh no...." and get sucked into a black hole.
Here are just two thought experiments I'd love to hear Colony/elena_di explain:

Hypothetical 1: You and a growing team of incredibly engaged Colony members build out a $10M/yr revenue stream. Edge case leaks 87% of tokens to a dedicated hacker. Sorry?

Hypothetical 2: I like/hate your successful Colony. So I locate and bribe/extort your main influencer/s to push your project into the ground (block work, object to everything, whatever) or in my preferred direction. Code is law. Obey?

There are so many other fun problems with code-as-immutable-law for human institutions, it's concerning that none of these are even remotely addressed in the Colony literature (not to mention that the full, binding, self-regulating dispute mechanism fails horribly in both the above scenarios).
To be fair, Martin Fowler's entire blog is a "bliki" because he intends to (and does) change his entries often. He's even ripped out entire swathes of his writing when he thinks he's wrong (occasionally frustrating when you think he's wrong about being wrong ;-) ).

I assume he doesn't make such a disclaimer because he thinks everyone already realises it -- but I have to agree that it would be nice if he (and other people as well) did. A lot of times people seem to think that reading something from a well known author is equivalent to permission to turn their brains off :-( Instead of, "Oh, that's amazing! Let's try it", they think, "Oh, that's amazing! We don't have to try it".
Thank you for your comment. Looking at all the doubt and hate about blockchain & cryptocurrencies on HN lately, I personally can't help but wonder where have all innovators gone.
Because being forced to go to another Android device means you no longer get stock Android. That's why it's annoying.

Having used every Nexus device from the One through to my current PixelXL, except for the Nexus 6 which I skipped in favour of the OnePlus One, I'm very annoyed I'm going to have to put up with :

1) Someone else's skin on Android
2) Someone else's schedule for supplying my phone with software updates, which from my experience with the OnePlus One, and with anecdotal evidence from everyone who hasn't had a Google device seems to be "sometime, if ever".

That's why this is annoying to me at least.
I would bet Eastern Europe, maybe Romania.
Maybe the effects of the equifax breach or a successor will be widespread enough to make the general population appreciate end to end encryption and proper security...
China is currently being run by bullies.
Luckily the regime is not long-term sustainable, they are badly failing on innovation, which makes sense considering that the fruit of much hard work can get easily stolen by said bullies.
> Proof of Work isn't the only consensus algorithm, there are ones with lower computational costs, such as Proof of Stake

PoS still doesn't exist in the real world, as far as I know.

> See IPFS, and there are other distributed storage solutions

IPFS has nothing to do with blockchains per se, though for better or worse (IMO for worse), the team working on it is also heavily involved with the cryptocurrency world. You might be thinking of Filecoin, which looks reasonable and had probably the only ICO so far that isn't total bullshit, but while I'm hopeful, we still need to see if and when it actually gets deployed.

> the main benefit is that smart contracts can eliminate the need for 3rd parties, but still provide trustworthy transaction settlements

Let's not forget about the most important drawback of "trustless" systems - machines know no mercy. You'd better be sure you've covered all potential problems in the present and the future, because if you make a single mistake in the code and lose all your money, there will be - by design - literally no one to help you.

(There's this idea of replacing laws with smart contracts that occasionally pops up on the Internet; it's a stupid and dangerous idea precisely because of that.)
Looks like you earn tokens by doing work, and each token is a vote?
It'll be interesting to see what happens when the EU GDPR and Bitcoin (and other blockchain based systems) collide...
It's necessary for the network design.
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I want a similar platform with reproducibility built in:
your paper gets in the blockchain, if and only if, its results can be reproduced by other members ("Proof Of Reproducibility").
The interesting thing about all these debates, that many here seem to forget is: these actions are awful, but in the grand scheme of things, they are actually good and a sign of progress.

The reason governments do this is that due to the Internet, for the first time in human history, humans can have access to truly secure telecommunications. I'm pretty sure that before they could just phone tap/bug their way to all the communications they wanted to follow and this is proving harder today. That's why they're making so much noise about it.

It will be a fight to keep the (favorable for individuals) status quo, but in my opinion the status quo is an evolution over what we had say, 40 years ago.
Swearing is an important part of speech, used to communicate all sorts of things:

- Trustworthiness - Listeners are more willing to trust someone who curses because careful censorship of one's own speech can come across as calculating and inauthentic.

- Involvement - Swearing as an amplifier is often used to communicate emotional involvement. People curse much more about their favorite sports team than just about anything else, for example.

- In-group membership - Cursing in a group setting denotes a less formal relationship, which can actually have the effect of encouraging associates to bond more. And, like all language, certain groups have their own curses which, when wielded in the proper context, demonstrate that you "belong".

- And yeah, power - Cursing in a formal setting is a great way of challenging convention and asserting authority, demonstrating that one is immune to the typical social consequences for "bad" behavior.

Do people really respond to this? I know I do. And I suspect that, if people didn't react as intended, cursing wouldn't be so pervasive in every language.
Bitsquatting, rowhammer and silent corruption. Basically, ECC should be the universal standard in all network gear, servers and endpoint (user) devices. Not creates an attack surface and opportunity for data-loss.

https://cr.yp.to/hardware/ecc.html
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Programmers if you want to get a job, put a readme file like this on GitHub repo
The newer version, non pdf too:

https://medium.com/incerto/how-to-legally-own-another-person...
If money were no object, Xeon Platinum 8180m ($13k retail).
I think the p2p keys generated for a WhatsApp chat should be sent to certified contractor such as Equifax for their secure mainframes to store, and their staff to monitor the communications under a 5yr non-revokable GCHQ contract...
It's impossible to ban crypto only for criminals. Either strong cryptography is generally available or nobody can communicate privately.
Is there any major software project that doesn’t get competition after 20 years? (Counting from gcc’s release to clang’s launch.)

This industry is constantly reinventing. Clang takes a different tack in both licensing and implementation, and that’s great for everyone.
Amazing. Thanks for the link.
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In digital healths biggest year of funding, women CEOs emerge as Q3 2017 winners
Join Amnesty (UK) or Amnesty International (elsewhere). We put civil pressure on governments that imprison their citizens on issues of conscience.
Alexa is a stool pigeon.
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I don't understand this argument.

1) Literally infinite permutations of entertainment out there.
2) Birth rates have been falling steadily for decades. I don't think it'll be a problem in space unless you think space Catholicism is a thing.
What drivel is this? The purpose of a college degree is to show to your peers that an academic institution is satisfied with your level of knowledge in a particular area.

There are legitimate criticisms of the current university system (such as cost, political interference in teaching, irerelevant curriculums etc), but claiming that a college degree "demonstrates submissiveness" is utter horseshit.
Some UK police officers most certainly do have access to firearms - for example airports generally have fairly heavily armed officers patrolling about:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Firearms_unit
I cannot find any option to disable geolocation in my current Chrome version on Mac, and when I use a VPN and connect via a different country, sites I visit in Safari are in that country's language, but sites I visit in Chrome, even when private browsing, know the language to use based on my actual country location.
Protanopia is a revolutionary digital comic
Most of Go code I was working on or contributed to usually has quite a split out structure and more complex structs are defined in multiple files with related methods grouped together. I have seen couple of Go packages which consist of one huge file but I think it's quite rare. Most people will structure their code into multiple files to keep it more readable/maintainable and file sizes relatively small.
Kazuo Ishiguro wins the Nobel prize in literature
I don't know if they're bad at higher abstractions, or if the pay-off of a higher abstraction isn't always there (or is unclear).

The original comment did a good job of illustrating this. It's not clear from this post what category theory can do for a person programming with design patterns in mind (in other words, how will it change their behaviors?).
My guess is that "near-prose like" refers to writing that feels like it is being spoken as you read it. I can somewhat understand that.

I've never read any of this guy's work before. Despite the "preliminary draft" footnote, he strikes me as not a very thoughtful writer. I can forgive "Sometimes around the fifth century" but not "beggars who flouted they scorn of material possessions". Flouted material possessions? Flaunted their scorn of material possessions? Once I get the impression that someone is using words without fully understanding their meaning, it's hard for me to seriously consider what they are trying to convey. Perhaps that's a little harsh, but he is supposed to be a writer.
It depends on what the goal is. Is it to identify the song à la Shazam or to display lyrics, concert tickets info, ... ?
We're running a closed beta at the moment but if you have a use-case in mind you can send an e-mail to collin@colony.io :)

(Although he probably won't be able to reply before next week)
I wonder how the EPYC 7401P would compare with the 1950X in terms of performance/price? It has 24 cores v. 16, but with a lower clock speed, and is $51 more. If you can actually use all the cores, I suspect better?
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International "meta"-law is so ridiculous. I mean the customary rules concerning recognition of states, embassies, passports [1], etc..

If I was ruler of a small country, I would say "of course we won't recognize Taiwan. We will foobar them. They don't get an embassy, but they get a blah." (which de facto will be exactly the same thing)

[1] Concerning passports, no matter how radically different states are, the US, the Soviet Union, North Korea, the Vatican, one thing they can all agree on is that people have a "nationality" and must carry a "passport" when going over borders, the passport has a certain size and spaces for "visas", etc.. It really makes me consider how "radical" a state is if it partakes in this global system. Especially interesting, if you remember that a few centuries ago, none of this existed at all. In history lessions in school, I wondered how Lenin could travel through all of europe unhampered when he was fleeing from the tsarists. Well, there were only little borders or passports as we know them now around.
Then perhaps tax processing should be the exception and use of the unique tax identifier for other puposea made illegal. IMHO, it would not be an impossible task to generate a unique tax identifier for each person that is kept private to the government
and then print a unique identifier on tax forms sent to each person to use for filing (that changes every year).

The identifier isn't great, but it's the pervasive use of this identifier that is the problem.
That’s incorrect. There are over 5000 Authorised Firearms Officers (AFO’s) in the UK.
I think there are people who value completeness- they enjoy working on systems with many rules tailored for specific use cases, and like accumulating knowledge about which rule is the correct one to apply in each situation; and there are people who value open-endedness- systems that have few simple rules that can be combined to obtain novel and unexpected results, even if these are not as optimized as they could be in a more complete system.

I picture the difference as that between a role playing game and chess: complex, domain-specific rules on one side, simple and abstract rules on the other.
After being used to Visual Studio, where the project and solution files are not a 1-1 match to the file system, I used Eclipse (or some other Java IDE) and found to my shock that when I remove files from the project it also deletes them from disk.

Not as bad as this but certainly an eye-opener.
Highly probable : https://dot.kde.org/2017/09/14/plasma-mobile-and-purisms-lib...

Although, it's obviously not done yet.
Can you give an example of locations you'd look for when searching for terrorists?
Not to mention cool new phones from Google with always-on microphones!
I have to say I think there's something to what you are saying.

The Senators are beating up on this CEO for a security breach that happened under his watch -- suggesting he ought to be fired. For the OMB hack they were the ones with the power to fire the CEO of the organization responsible, i.e. the President. Did even a single one of them call for impeachment? Did any senators resign for thier lack of appropriate oversight?

They attack equifax for having bad security policies and procedures and dismiss the claim that one misfeasant employee is responsible. Well they are the organization largely in charge of writing and overseeing policies and procedures for the federal government. Did they attack themselves for doing a bad job after the OMB hack? Did they change any of those policies and procedures in response?

They are calling on equifax to fully compensate people whose information was released. What laws did they introduce and pass to fully compensate people whose information was lost by the organization they are in charge of?

Technically the identity of the speaker is of no moment, but it's a little hard to avoid rolling ones eyes in the face of such blatant hypocrisy.
>would anyone ever create a VPN client that doesn't use encryption?"

They do, but generally call it tunneling. L2TP and GRE links that don't use IPSEC are fairly common on private WANs.

I suspect the author was trying to point out that the encryption was included in the 2k lines, versus say, calling out to ssh.
This reads like a horror you'd expect from China or North Korea. Rather than the USA.
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Really seems like IA/Wayback is rolling out nice front-facing features at a surprisingly fast pace, given how old (and stable) Wayback has been as a service. I'm sure Wayback's front-end features have changed a few times since 2001 (nevermind the backend), but I couldn't tell you what any of those changes might have been; Wayback has always seemed as straightforward as it is today.

(but just for reference's sake, here's a snapshot from Oct 2004 http://web.archive.org/web/20041019080216/http://www.archive...)

I hadn't heard of (or I've just forgotten) the term "Wayback Playback". It made me think that Wayback had an animated feature like "Shots" [0], which would be incredibly impressive.

I'm already super-impressed with the keyword-search they introduced last year. I've rarely used it because I've just gotten used to the idea of searching old pages to be an impractical information-bonanza. Now I wonder if eventually WB will manage to implement full-text search across its archives:

https://blog.archive.org/2016/10/24/beta-wayback-machine-now...

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11636311
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I find it incredibly difficult to comprehend that any UK politician would use the phrase "protect people from pedophiles" with a straight face: This is a political class which has, for decades, protected its own pedophiles from prosecution.

It is highly troubling that this would be being used as a public button, when there is much evidence that UK politicians have no desire, whatever, to actually prosecute the biggest pedophiles in their state - those within their own ranks.
I used to. I had the second-gen Pixel that has apparently become the third-gen Pixelbook because Google couldn't even resist stealing the name of their own product for something completely different.

I loved it. I could have run Linux natively, but I've spent too much of my life already fighting all the familiar recurring sound/video and suspend/resume and wifi issues on Linux laptops. No, it's not because I'm bad at it. I worked at Red Hat at the time, where most of the people who actually fix this stuff for you also work, and I was no worse than others around me. But being good at fixing problems isn't the same as not having to put up with them in the first place. I don't want to have to take even ten minutes to debug a system issue in the middle of trying to do something else while I'm on the road, over and over again every month or so. The whole point was to have a base platform that was feature-complete and stable, plus a full Linux environment (via crouton) with all of my favorite tools available simultaneously. It also helped that it's a beautiful piece of hardware, with a nice (somewhat square-ish) screen and a trackpad that works and the best battery life I've seen so far.

It was really like having two laptops instead of one, each suited to its purpose. The only reason I don't still use it is that I couldn't be bothered replicating all of the "special sauce" to conform with the infosec requirements of my current employer on an OS different than the one they installed on the laptop they gave me. If I were to switch jobs again, or retire, I'd gladly go back to the Pixel.
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I notice that you disagree with his conclusions,
not with his logic or arguments

I don't know about the autocrats and liberal west, but I did read the linked article far enough to get to 'never buy when you can rent the three "Fs" '

In that paragraph I can't really see any explicit "logic or arguments".

Or more precisely, I can put a bunch of words into Taleb's mouth to convert that paragraph into an argument taking small steps and supported by statements of fact; but even the strongest interpretation I can come up with seems so weak it would look like I was attacking a straw man.

Perhaps denom didn't dispute Taleb's logic because it isn't stated clearly enough for him to do so?
Whatsapp will add EULA "service cannot be used for criminal activity" ;-)
> You need to realise that the far-right spawns much more violence (against individuals; against groups; against the state) than the far left.

In the UK perhaps.

The most recent attempt on a US Congressman's life:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2017_Congressional_baseball_sh...

On May 22, 2017, Hodgkinson wrote "Trump is a Traitor. Trump Has Destroyed Our Democracy. It's Time to Destroy Trump & Co." above his repost of a Change.org petition demanding "the legal removal" of Trump and Vice President Mike Pence for "treason". He belonged to numerous politically-oriented Facebook groups, including those named "Terminate the Republican Party," "The Road To Hell Is Paved With Republicans," and "Donald Trump is not my President."

When the media normalizes that "punching Nazis" is A-OK, this violence from very unhinged, disturbed individuals is the result.
Color me skeptical, but hopeful.

Counteracting the tyrannical nature of modern company governance is a very good thing. If this takes off, I wonder how these non-centralized forms of governance might be able to be applied to traditional political governance! Any way you slice it it definitely beats out Chinese style dictatorship, and I'd be willing to bet it'd be a good improvement on even US republic-style governance!
You can import all your Gmail contents to Fastmail. I did this, it was very straightforward.
Really? I've literally never written (or at least I don't ever remember writing) a case statement without either specifying every possible value or adding a meaningful default case.
It doesn't scale very well though when you're trying to run a large criminal organisation
Yeah, they do, unfortunately :/ Hopefully there will be some improvement they make or some other API that will be able to provide this.
It will be a fight to prevent people being punished for keeping secrets.

The horse has bolted, it is not possible to prevent (good or bad) people communicating securely?
And then people would ask why you can't handle more.
To build a particular working GCC, dependencies (binutils, MPC, MPFR and GMP (and sometimes ISL)) need to be within a particular range, preferrably within the same time era. Also note that old compilers will often contain unpatched security vulnerabilities.
I had the same thought and am wondering about the economic reality of doing this.

Does anyone have an idea of the cost increase for using ECC RAM in a mobile device for instance? Are there also power usage concerns to worry about?

AFAIK there are basically zero consumer devices using ECC RAM.
Fair enough. Can only back up with personal experience at this point. "It works for me"
How are you going to handle the growing inequality problem?

In every type of economy, inequality gap in wealth distribution tend to grow over time. In your system, you'll have the same trend with "reputation" or whatever measure of influence you choose.
I’d like to read this, but this website has buried the meat in a slideshow that my iPad doesn’t render properly.