skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It seems that running a free CA doesn't really have a business model, so capitalism isn't going to produce viable competitors.

Additionally, other impact-focused people (non-profits, etc.), who would otherwise be willing to make a free CA, probably think Let's Encrypt is doing good enough, so why waste valuable time making the same thing when you could focus on having an impact elsewhere?

I suspect this is a pretty common end result in public-good tasks that don't have business models. They naturally grow to be too big to fail. Some governments try to solve this by just absorbing the task and making it a part of the government's responsibilities. I doubt this would happen for Let's Encrypt, so I guess we'll be stuck with a too-big-to-fail non-profit until it fails, starts to suck too much, gets absorbed by the government, or someone figures out a business model.
Is it too much just to ask why anyone cares so much? I mean, this was a "big bet" by Bombardier to enter a market dominated by an aircraft designed 49 years ago. I mean... it's a mature market. You don't make plays for a mature market unless you have a clear value advantage, and I don't see that Bombardier does in any real sense.

No one gets upset when agricultural products (many of them, frankly, more high tech than these things) get caught up in similar trade disputes, which happens regularly too.

I can't help but think this is driven in large part by a perception of this as a US assault on Canadian innovation, when it's really just another corn war.
I'm a fan of formatting UUIDs in Base62 (which is like Base64 but doesn't require any non standard alpha-numeric characters). I have used Base62-encoded UUIDs in URLs and APIs on several occasions. It's not standard, but if you google around you'll see that it's gaining popularity, because of the shorter identifier length.
The “defer” statement makes it easy to ensure important code gets run once even if there are multiple returns (along with %defer for error cases). That covers at least 95% of fiddly manual allocation problems -- the kind of thing RAII helps you avoid in C++, or “using” in Python and C#.
> All the big companies are using Java and Go almost exclusively for high volume endpoints

Please cite “all the big companies.” Also exclusively? No seriously, that is a bold claim. Google isn’t one of them because most of those hotepots are still written in C++. I don’t know how you can claim this. Based on some occaion company blog posts, changing just one or two endpoints out of say 100?

What about Rust? I also know companies rewrote some hotspots in Rust too.
It's not that challenging to present real stats on active accounts.

OTOH, it's pretty tempting to use numbers already pre padded for you.
In fairness to the Times I wouldn't call this fake news; just slightly sloppy reporting. Fake news implies that it's deliberately misleading which this doesn't appear to be. They are simply repeating claims.
This is a pretty authentic and fairly clear note from an acquisition.

It's pretty clear it wasn't the home run that so many set out for when founding a company. I do expect this is a good landing out of this for many, yet now there are new challenges to navigate.

Nine years is no short time to labor through, especially when you're taking a giant risk and giving up things that software engineers could easily get in terms of work/life balance at an AWS/Google/Microsoft. Yet, you set out to change something in a noticeable fashion.

I truly hope Chase gives you the chance to do that, yes it's a big company. But, in the spectrum of big co's in the financial space they seem more open to innovation than so many others so... best of luck with what's next at Chase.
Confiscation of property and cash seems to be a big problem.
Why not? Because if your self-worth is tied to your accomplishments you are at risk of having a low self-worth in the future! The economy collapses, you lose your job, or your partner requests a divorce. These are things you can't control.
You still like the Surface Pro enough with the touch screen not working? One of its biggest draws? That's seems quite nice. Major points in the Surface series favor.
Incredibly sad. Rhinos are real-life unicorns.

Farm them for horns (removing the horn is painless [0], once the horn is removed release into the wild), tax the production of horns, use the tax money to find conservation and security.

The increased supply will decrease prices, making the hunting of rhino less profitable.

The argument against this is that increased supply will increase demand. Also, its not hard to see corruption eating away the profits, and therefore investment into conservation.

[0] http://www.news24.com/Africa/Zimbabwe/does-it-hurt-a-rhino-w...
GW = gravitational wave

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_gravitational_wave_obs...
this was really beautifully written.
The current wisdom is that if you leave yourself weak to disruptive innovation.

In the automotive world, everyone has a bet on self driving cars, for instance. Ford has Argo AI, GM has Cruise Automation.

For a contrast, look at Kodak. They pioneered the tech for digital camera sensors... and then did nothing with it, because they made money on film. Digital camera sensors killed film.

If you want a longer discussion on this, The Innovator's Dilemma is highly recommended. Here's a short summary: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yUAtIQDllo8
If you're new to ses, they can throttle emails to the same domains to protect you
Congrats, well deserved.
What do you mean by orthogonal? I see no reason to tie self-worth to success or failure. It's a disadvantage. You are putting yourself at an unnecessary risk of feeling horrible.
I read Manna, but honestly I thought it was silly.

> Terrafoam is, by contrast, 'Worse and worse.'

No, it's not. Manna is better and better: it yields continually better results.

> With all that happening, it is very hard to get people together to work on big projects.

Wouldn't it be cool if there were something to get people to work together on big projects? Something like an economic force causing them to give a little to get a little?

Frankly, I think the Australia Project would stagnate after a generation or two, while Manna would continually improve. After a few generations, it'd be much like to Communist states vs. the West: yes, the Communists did often improve on their initial conditions by quite a bit — but the free economies improved even more. I recall a story about someone (in China, perhaps?) bragging about how the government dumped a pallet of free cabbage on each city block every time period. Free cabbage sounds wonderful to someone who was a subsistence farmer — but Asian-American fusion cuisine on every city block sounds even better.

And that's just within the construct of the story. A real-world example would have competing Manna-like systems.

Also, in the Manna world the problem is that in the U.S. most people don't have the ability to contribute, and so they languish in Terrafoam. It provides no reason for why they are suddenly more talented in the Australia Project. That just doesn't make sense.

Anyway, I hope that mankind's actual future is not to choose between two different totalitarian systems.
Is this why Ada's syntax was extended from Pascal?
It's definitely a tricky space to navigate. If it were a private network you may be able to discourage false accusations.

I've heard of 'whisper' networks which warn people of unscrupulous behavior from colleges when they join new workplaces. It could be the realization of that concept.
Design for Augmented Intelligence
I wonder the opposite. Hardly any system needs to process 500k response per second. But nearly all of them benefit from the developer productivity that Python/Rails offer.

My current company has 15 Java & React engineers where 2 or 3 Rails would suffice. Load tops out at maybe a dozen requests/second. Feature development is super-slow. System complexity is off the charts.
It depends whether you care about catering to a general audience.

Lisp got away with an entirely different meaning for “car” for a pretty long time!
What? Haven't you been listening to the central banks? Inflation is abysmally low, we gotta pump up prices to get the economy going. With such low inflation, it's impossible that housing prices increased 40% within one year. /s
See related discussion of the NY Attorney General's press release: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15490598
> 5) Intuitive leaps. e.g. Rubics cube.

You're trolling, right? Intuitive leaps are the bread and butter of neural nets.
Check out Bayou (it's cited in the references of this paper, but not discussed). It's basically what you're describing: operations are initially assigned a temporary timestamp and distributed through gossip, and when they reach a central server, they're given a permanent monotonic sequence number that allows old entries to be garbage-collected.
One other interesting example: Mahler's first symphony, third movement (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U5A5tFyXQio) which incorporates a minor-ized version of the classic (major) Frere Jacques tune as a motif.
> So we still rent, which makes me feel incomplete. Like I'm kind of failing my duty of bringing the Canadian Dream to my family.

To paraphrase George Carlin, they call it "the dream" because you'd have to be asleep to believe it.
I had breakfast with Bill a few years ago in Palo Alto. It was clear pretty quickly that WePay wasn’t a good fit for us, but he still managed to navigate me through the competitive landscape and helped me figure out which product was right, pitfalls to avoid, regulations, etc. He even offered his help for the future, even though we were giving him zero business.

I’m writing all this because I left with the feeling that he was a genuinely great guy and that he deserved success. I’m glad it has finally come his way!

Best of luck!

PS: stay away from bitcoin.
Not to mention the two aren't even in competition.
You can expect negative comments for every OS in existence.

You seem to dislike Windows quite a bit. To the point where it seems personal or you have a vendetta against it.

Yes things like settings are silly in modern Windows. But they aren't make or break stuff.

There's major positives to be seen from Windows too. They are the only major player trying to get touch working on desktop. That's not easy to do.

You don't specify what sloppiness or "years of varying quirky behavior" so I can't say much about that. If I wanted to really criticize the other OSes I have experience with - MacOS and Ubuntu. I'm sure I could come up with sloppiness issues and varying quirky behavior too. It wouldn't be hard at all, but it wouldn't be right either. They are both solid OSes overall (at least for now).
Anyone here used PascalScript[0], specifically with compiled Pascal itself? I am planning an application that is compiled and delivered with PascalScript to allow the end user to extend and customise the application without access to the source code. Preferrably using FreePascal.

[0]http://www.remobjects.com/ps.aspx
That would mean getting illicit reward signals in their reinforcement learning system (behavioral system).
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2015/11/23/cops-...

Worse than our actual thieves. I am on the paranoid side and most Americans don't think this way as far as I know, but I feel safer walking through a bad neighborhood with a pile of cash than going by a cop. I'll most likely get mugged in the bad neighborhood but the cops will take the money and put me in jail
Please don’t encourage the Toronto housing bubble. (Or Vancouver, OP is surely in one of the two)

I’m sure Georgianism has its merits, but housing generally hasn’t been a great investment in most of north america, especially once maintenance costs are factored in.

Meanwhile, Toronto and Vancouver are in the midst of a speculative housing mania. House prices have far outpaced rents. OP is correct not to buy. (Especially now, the bank regulator has just announced restrictions on mortgage lending. These are likely to reduce home prizes as average mortgage eligibility will shrink)

Long run, you may be right, but re: the canadian markets OP is referring to you’re commenting on a situation of short term mania.

Note: I’m referring chiefly to your “it’s no surprise” line. I’d say the cause of the immediate anxiety is the housing mania I described, rather than a longer run trend.
Rent is the answer
I hear that. I work in Python, but prototype most things in Go, simply because many classes of problems benefit from the additional structure, and a compiler that can reason about that structure. Also Go has excellent tooling, it has great libraries, it compiles to static binaries, and anyone can read it.

I'm hopeful about Python's type checking though, but so far it leaves a lot to be desired (absolutely no recursive types, lots of bugs, strange restrictions, confusing for variables, etc).
> Well, a basic sense of dignity as a human being should certainly not be tied to success.

Are you saying that in order to have a high self-worth someone needs accomplishments? Your phrase "basic sense of dignity" makes it sound like one can only have a high self-worth if they frame their successes and failures with this process you are advocating.

Also, this comment is off-topic. You're reiterating your main point and not addressing my comment.
Humanity is amazing. Billions of years of nothing but mindless senseless suffering and death in the natural world, and finally we emerge, a creature that can think beyond the next meal, next kill, next rape. Even if we do it imperfectly, the fact we can try at all is possibly the most special thing that has ever happened in the entire universe. Humanity is amazing.
Ok, let's think: if a single client only has ordering locally and the server assigns global ordering, than retransmit in case a client didn't receive an acknowledgement from the server is going to assign global ordering again, like it's a new batch of data. Which breaks consistency. If we want to keep consistency and be able to synchronize we need to have this global ordering on the client.

To make it work that way a client has to ask the server for a starting point before it can generate operations and increment it with each new operation. But then it doesn't sound like the server does the ordering and starts to look a lot like lamport timestamps.
How Benford's Law Reveals Suspicious Activity on Twitter
> The US has far lower density than those countries, which increases costs because it makes it necessary to have a lot more idle capacity in order to maintain a reasonable emergency response time.

The density argument doesn't make sense. If that were true, New Jersey would have cheap healthcare on par with "those countries" that have similar population densities. New Jersey would also have cheap, super-fast broadband and a robust statewide public transportation system, other things that people claim the U.S. simply can't do because population density.
It's also important to remember that is a hypothesis, not a fact.
We don't need uprisings. We just need to own the damn robots.

When high automation comes, it's not going to be only the rich that own robots. As an analogy, take smartphones - there are 5 billions of them in use in 2017. Almost everyone can have the best phone today, or one that was as good as the best from a couple of years ago.

There are going to be cheap and useful robots for everyone, 3d-printed, open sourced designs running on open source AI, and capable of assembling more robots. What goes into a robot? Motors, gears, sensors, batteries and computer chips? Those are all commodity everywhere on earth. The moment we can assemble them into working useful robots, we will see an explosion of do-it-yourself automation everywhere.

With self printing and self assembly we can make a software based factory that can "compile" itself and anything we desire. We will have built the first "material compiler" that can "bootstrap itself" by creating a replica. Then everything will cost only as much as raw materials.
Yes. Chrysler has made some very puzzling choices with the hybrid. Like no memory seats. On a $40k+ car. My wife is over a foot shorter than me so that's really weird. Maybe we shouldn't weight that feature so highly but it has very real practical convenience for us.
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Ever wish you could make your own animated video series?
Logs all the opened websites in the Chrome. Even incognito
See here for a comprehensive review of CR: http://lambda-the-ultimate.org/node/4699

Each client can operate on its own what though? If they have some kind of private copy of the data, then how do you resolve conflicts? CRDTs are about doing this automatically by restricting the types of changes clients can make. Concurrent revisions permit arbitrary changes so long as you provide a merge function to make them commute.

I think you're just hand-waving a lot of the complexity away by using "synchronize" without explaining what is synchronized and how. That's where all the complexity in distributed computation stems from.
Probably like many others, in the first part of 2012 I invested about $10k in some bitcoins that I still continue to keep untouched today. Tell me once again what should I stay away from??
You mean to say millions rather then billions? [1]

Either way, thanks for the positive message.

[1] http://sci.waikato.ac.nz/evolution/AnimalEvolution.shtml
I'm definitely impressed by how 'busy' it is - but TO is mostly a 'Starbucks, Timmies, Whole Foods and IKEA' kind of town.

It's more brand oriented and suburban than ever before.

Example: Toronto used to have a 'musical sound'. You could hear a band maybe know that it was from TO.

No such thing anymore.

TO is a large group of fairly well behaved and polite people from around the world getting along in the cold. And that's it.

Toronto has made me realize that culture cannot be invented, and that you can't just 'create' cohesion.

Sadly, most things that would have made the are unique - have been wiped out ... the suburbs of Toronto, Singapore, Denver, Amsterdam - are becoming more and more alike the only thing differentiating them is the weather. :)

I think we need a new version of globalization :)
In fact, one might argue that's all they do -- depending on how one defines "intuition".
Sort of like Jon Stewart and Rush Limbaugh and the many clones they have produced.

Kiddo's the one thing you have to notice about these characters is any time they open their mouth they produce an "us vs them" narrative.

Pointing out hypocrisy and doing something about hypocrisy are two very different things.

The attention economy is constantly propping up the people who can only talk about issues.

The assumption is, this doesn't have an effect on the folks who do something about issues. It does. They soon realize they don't need to go through 15-20 years of hard disciplined work to get ahead in life. They just need to act as enlightened as the talking crowd.
It's a simple choice:

Judge Dredd or the Culture.
To truly own the 'robot' you have to own all of its components; the hardware and the software.
Odd. I drove in a Tesla and the owner showed off the Autopilot by having the car stay in a city street lane and have the car stop itself as the car in front of it stopped at a red light. When the car in front continued on, so did the Tesla.

My Odyssey can't do that.

Now I'm confused why Tesla would sound so limited, unless they are trying to cover their ass legally on how you SHOULD use autopilot versus how you CAN use it?
> we can predict the result of a neutron star collision and be right

To be fair, what we're predicting happened long ago in the past... predictions about the past are always easier :)
I've switched to resilio sync already. It works perfectly even on rapidly changing files.
Latency is still annoying. I prefer VMs still.

Regarding your number 3. For a lot of this, we are talking about devices like the MacBook Pro line. Not huge workstations.
> how are you going to pay for social welfare if no one is making money? So what do you tax?

You stop taxing income and start taxing wealth. A land tax would be a good start. Resource taxes are another.
About 22 years ago when I was in 4th grade, all the girls were given vaccinations at school for HPV. They didn't really give a shit about the boys, or something? I don't know. They've been dropping the ball on this for decades.
Humanity stuck on this notion that labor = virtue, which made some sense in an agricultural society where everyone would starve to death if most of the population wasn't actively engaged in production, but is getting increasingly toxic as we approach a post-scarcity world.
Google's Sidewalk Labs signs deal for smart city makeover of Toronto waterfront
> It's not only the quality of the products that compete, it's living standards, health laws, worker protection, environmental protection, social welfare, healthcare, educations and human rights that compete.

Canada has single-payer ("free") health care, and plans to introduce a national carbon tax. There's a narrow socio-economic gap in school results[0].

Tell me again how the United States has better health care, environmental protection, and education?

[0] http://www.bbc.com/news/business-40708421
As somebody who has seen my friends move there in their 20s, I can't help but think it rubs off on the residents... Not so much that they become sorta 'B', but they seem to become fearful of culture outside of their bubble.

Give me a friend who moved to Montreal over the Toronto lot any day.
Most websites are written to minimize developer time not processing time.
Chase QuickPay has always been Zelle. Or, more accurately, QuickPay was Chase's branding of the clearXchange system, which has been rebranded everywhere as Zelle.

Also, Zelle and WePay are in two completely different spaces. Zelle is consumer-to-consumer money transfer. WePay is a merchant payment processor.
While we're at it, let's give lawyers a lifetime word limit too...