skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
After the ICO, I started trying to figure out who was on the board of the Tezos Foundation. I found it strange that there was very little info about who was on a three person board that controls hundreds of millions of dollars. What I found was that one person seems to be a company formation agent, Mr. Schmitz-Krummacher. Another is, Gevers, who is now being accused of self-dealing by Arthur Breitman. And the third is a virtually unknown software engineer named Diego Olivier Fernandez Pons.

I'm assuming that Diego Pons is a friend of Arthur's because they are both from France and both lived in NYC. I also have a hunch that there is a secret agreement in writing in place that compels Mr. Schmitz-Krummacher to vote according to someone else's wishes, perhaps Mr. Pons. If there is such an agreement in place, hopefully Mr. Pons is staying loyal to Arthur Breitman.

Handing over 200-400 Million to a three person foundation that is 1/3 company formation agent, 1/3 alleged crook, and 1/3 random software engineer seems like it may not have been the best idea after all. But the reason for this is probably to take advantage of the lack of know your customer laws in Switzerland.

https://forums.tezos.community/t/who-is-running-the-tezos-fo...
Yeah, I've run into that same issue with kubeadm. It was hanging because of the network not being set up.

I'm not really sure where your original comment is going, but I don't really feel the problem is endemic to Go. Using/debugging most software is an exercise in frustration. Just look at Linux on the desktop (which I use btw, I'm not criticizing). Fixing things is usually reduced to tribal knowledge, IRC, and Googling.
They're not fumigating, they're spreading a bacteria that kills (only supposedly) mosquito larva.

http://www.mmcd.org/mosquito-control/larva-control/
Same here. Was perplexed at the title until I read the article.
I don't know why you downvoted me- I'm in favor of tiers.
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> Research should never be funded by tuition anyway.

I don't even think research should be coupled to the universities the way it currently is. From what I've seen it ends up being somewhat of a mess. Seeing what goes on there - for example, how grad students are treated - has made me doubt the ability of most universities to effectively manage and oversee research labs.

It's also adds one more thing to the odd stitched together thing we end up calling a university. It's a certification program/4-year summer camp/undergrad education center/research institute/cultural center/professional training center/sports franchise/etc.
Hetzner basically uses cheap desktop computers as dedicated cloud computing servers. Just keep it backed up. If anything catches on fire, they replace it. Cheap hardware mitigated by excellent customer service. If you can deal with that, the prices are great. I've used them for years for my personal dedicated server, and not had any problems. The current EX41 line starts at 39 EUR / month. You have to buy the "flexi pack" if you want luxury services like extra ip addresses.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4063929

https://www.hetzner.com/dedicated-rootserver/matrix-ex

https://www.hetzner.com/flexipack/
My favorite: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_160oMzblY8

It explains from ground up without getting complicated - it basically demystifies the whole thing completely

i give this to everyone - even to non technical people
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Problems with macOS and iTerm2... that is too bad. I am going to do a 30 day challenge with a Thinkpad from Costco next month. Full linux install with Ubuntu 17.10!

I have wanted to try i3wm for as long as I can remember. Unfortunately, it is a PITA to get working on a VM with the Mac as the key chords don't play nicely intersystem. Super excited to give it a go... what is awesome is that I can have an IDE like Pycharm right next to VIM and my shell in a tiling window manager with Linux. I hope I can ditch macOS...
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I asked on the following discussion:

Pixel Visual Core: Google’s first custom-designed co-processor | https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15495907 (Oct 2017, 89+ comments)

>londons_explore: It became tensorflow slim: https://github.com/tensorflow/tensorflow/tree/master/tensorf...
They (The work Number/Equifax) don't license it at all. Company's pay for the privilege in fact. It's sold as outsourcing the "costly" HR task of providing salary data themselves. Other companys or individuals then pay Equifax $35 to make a single enquiry or subscribe at a monthly rate.

Users include 82% of all F500 companies and they have 225 employment records.

My company uses it :(

http://redtape.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/01/30/16762661-exclusi...

This is a pretty shocking news article regarding the last time Eqifax was in the news about this a few years ago. At that time (like now) they were selling the data to all kinds of companies.
Thank you for writing this. As someone who is about to apply to several software schools, the numerous and disparate opinions on HN about their quality / honesty / placement can really affect signal:noise. Sometimes people who appear to work in the industry say things that make it obvious they've done little or no research. Still their statements affect my deliberation even after parsing the numbers as carefully as I can--I'm an outsider making a calculation from a distance. Having followed you for some time since your CodeNewbie interview, I actually trust your words.
> I think the big mistake one can do when comparing digital and physical textbooks is compare then one-on-one with a level playing field. Why do that?

> Digital textbooks can offer so much more than print textbooks. They can have embedded interactive content, ranging from zoomable 2D content to see something in detail to rotatable 3D models. They can have videos. They can have automatically gradable quizzes and exercises.

I absolutely agree. Moreover, there might be some situations where physical books might be BETTER and some situations where a digital textbook might be better.

When it comes to textbooks, our effort should be focused on books that are unencumbered by copyright and other such malaise. The goal for the future should be open education resources such as open education resources

> Open educational resources (OERs) are teaching, learning, and research resources that reside in the public domain or have been released under a copyright license that permits anyone to freely use and repurpose them. Open educational resources include full courses, course materials, modules, textbooks, streaming videos, tests, journal articles, and any other tools or materials used to support learning.

I am not saying CUNY's efforts are on the spot (I have no idea how far they've gotten so far tbh) but I think it is a step in the right direction http://www2.cuny.edu/libraries/open-educational-resources/
The problem is not that people are irrational, the problem is that the "rationality" is a convenient mathematical ideation, not a normative statement on how people ought to behave. It's just a terrible term.
As a relatively success California (SF) based software entrepreneur, I have to say that new companies would have to be crazy to move to California to start a business.

Raise money here, then leave if you know what’s good for you. #protip

(These type of policies may be good for employees but are a nightmare for management..)
I'm taking the parachute. How often do you get to jump out of a fiery wreck of a plane? Besides, if there is a deity, I'm probably well passed the threshold for acceptance in a mere few minutes. If I find out there's a deity, I'm going to punch them right in the mouth.
Python 2.7 in 2017?
Werner Koch is starting to look less like a quack after the discovery of this conjecture. He's been pushing to deprecate gpg RSA in general, and is evidenced to have taken a step toward this goal in the latest 2.1 release with ed25519 support.
85% or better and some no sugar almond butter is really nice. I have come to prefer it, and occasionally Justin's with some sugar (but not a lot, 20g-30g of carbs). It is underrated health food. Easy to travel with, filling, etc.
What are the odds that this was intentional? TPM and Bitlocker have been two of the biggest conjectured targets of compromise. To the point that most security people/libraries use neither. Maybe they were right?

If this is true one of Stackoverflow comments is quite chilling

It would be a terrible idea and it would raise suspicions of a deliberate trapdoor if the primes for RSA were chosen from a quadratic progression rather than randomly
I think that’s a very narrow view and it’s far from universally true. While a lot of W3C specs are impenetrable there are many counter examples at the IETF which might not be introductory level but are certainly easier for a developer familiar with the topic to follow.

I think this is actually fairly important for two reasons. The first is simply that unreadable specs are just as bug prone as unreadable code, but the second is that this increases the distance between the web as specced and the [much much much] larger developer community, and things like <img srcset> / <picture> show the benefit of having less of a communications chasm between those groups.

That doesn’t mean that specs can’t be precise but simply that good technical writing can accommodate a wide audience.
I think it's very unlikely that this company will be able to keep the bodies preserved until we develop the technology to revive them.

I also think it's unlikely that a future society will allocate resources to revive these people, even if we suppose technology exists and the bodies are well preserved enough. Everyone who knows these people today will surely be dead by that point.

Furthermore, many of the people paying for this seem to believe in the inevitable emergence of a utopian society with unlimited resources, which seems almost a necessary condition for these people to be revived. Personally, I'm not banking on that happening either.

An aside: when I was younger, my brother and I had an idea for a post-apocalyptic short story related to this subject. The plot goes something like this: after the collapse of human civilization, a group of survivors exhaust the remaining food supply and begin to starve until they discover a solar-powered facility full of thousands of perfectly preserved corpses, which (the story would have implied) will feed them for decades to come.
> The best place for undergrads to get a top-notch education is where they have the opportunity to work with or even around top-notch researchers and people at the top of their fields.

Isn´t the fact that colleges are places part of the problem to begin with?

In the non-US place where I had my tertiary education, the university was in the major metropolis (it had plenty of green and even a small river crossing it, but it was still in the city). I lived at home with my parents.

In the afternoons, I was able to go and attend "scientific initiation" classes at a nearby research institution that didn't issue undergraduate degrees but still had their researchers do some outreach. This at the cost of not taking an internship, which pretty much everyone else did, of course.

I'm not saying this is any kind of ideal model, but the research-vocational university isn't the singular model for contact with the research life (another alternative: internships in dedicated research institutions).

Of course, by refactoring the university, this... disrobes... the problem of funding research.
I've been using i3 for years now. I experienced the same pain. Mac hijacks a lot of the child vm keybindings. I didn't have this problem with windows as the host os. But that doesn't really make sense. Best of luck with the transition. Posting from a thinkpad, with i3, pycharm and vim right now :).
I am curious if you use something to highlight, write on web pages while reading on web. I haven't found ideal tool for that yet.
To be fair, “come to appreciate” sounds a lot an “acquired taste” you know? Curious aside though, what brand do you go for? I have a friend who likes similarly dark chocolate and I’m always on the lookout for presents.
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It gets faster?! What? Thanks for this.
I don’t see where you get that implication. Perhaps they’re spending a month in France rather than taking three one-week trips. Perhaps they’re living closer to town so that they don’t drive as much to get to work and their local hacker club. There’s lots of ways you can reorganize your life to be less resource-intensive without meaningful sacrifice, especially if you’re starting from the immensely wasteful late-20th-century-middle-class lifestyle.
If you job hop a lot you cannot build anything of substance or scale. Launching a first version of something in 6 months is great, scaling it globally and iterating 2 or 3 times is the part you are completely missing and cannot do in 6 months. This is why I think you need to spend at least a year somewhere to learn much of anything aside from writing code. Learning software design doesn't happen without hands on experience iterating on a major project.

Being adaptable and delivering a few one off features is junior engineering which senior engineers can coach through.
Coding conventions differ from team to team, package to package adapting to these also doesn't mean you are a robust engineer. It means you are competent. Solid engineer are expected to adapt. All big software projects that stand the test of time have nuances and even possibly anti-patterns because the initial design missed something.

I'm not sure what you mean by "saw the kinds of companies I worked for" but if you worked at Google for 6 months, Facebook for 6 months and Amazon for 6 months it still wouldn't mean much to me. All it means is you are smart enough to get your foot in the door but not successful enough to succeed.
Yeah, the orange Chinese ladybugs are everywhere here in Ontario too. The darn things cluster up into large groups on windowsills so you're cleaning up corpses, and critters bite too, and stink when you slap them.
It has always been the case that RSA keys should not have primes of certain forms. IIRC there are some forms that are preferred too.
This is a tough situation to be in.
In my opinion, there are two ways of dealing with it
1) Escalate to reliable competent authority - Tell them whats the problem
2) If (1) does not work, its just a caustic place to work, get a project change or change companies. These situations deteriorate fast, and its difficult to get out of them.
Hiroshima was total destruction within 1 mile, the farthest away that glass broke was 12 miles, no damage past that.

So 15 miles is definitely out of the blast radius. What about the fireball?

Google told me the following. 15 miles is roughly 24 km. The mass of air is 1.2 kg per cubic meter. The volume of a sphere is 4/3 pi r^3. The energy of a kt is about 4.184e9 joules. It takes about 1 joule to increase the temperature of air by 1 C. When I put all of that together I calculate that a 15kt explosion has enough energy to raise the temperature of a 15 mile ball of air by about 0.9 C.

Please double check my figures and calculation, but I think that your average city can survive that. :-)
See this is what I'm saying is a bad comparison. Why compare text on paper to text on a screen? Compare text on a paper to rich interactive content on screen. Say you have a really good screen to write on like the iPad Pro where you have minimal latency, infinite space and colors to work with.

Also I think you preferring paper is more out of habit than any real advantage. I know of professors who need real chalk on their hand because paper and pen just don't work for them.

It has been a personal battle for me too. I love writing on fresh paper with a select few of my favorite pens. It felt like I was doing something, rather than hit away at a keyboard or a screen. But I've convinced myself of the advantages - instant accessibility anywhere, copies to share easily and backups that last a lifetime.
Do you have Tezos tokens? If so, it’s polite to disclose your stake, like on stock investment forums. Promoting an ICO that doesn’t have a shipping product is much like promoting a penny stock.
...also habitat loss, destruction of aspects of the overall food chain, Cline change, etc.
Primes are much denser (1/log n).
hacker news?
What's his reasoning, and how does this conjecture fit into it?
Can we please stop calling things ".js" if they are not actually JavaScript files or libraries written in JavaScript meant for direct inclusion in JavaScript source? Call it NapaJS, not Napa.js.
You can see the changes just fine in the city. New weather, different bugs, local forests ravaged by invasive pests, all that stuff is plainly visible to me.
> It doesn’t take a lot of capital to open a store

I think you underestimate the cost. AFAIU it takes significant capital to open a store, and there are far fewer people in rural areas both capable and willing.

Real estate and labor is still a significant expense. Outside of unionized grocery stores, it's not like store clerks in New York City or San Francisco are making $25/hr.

But to even open a small convenience store you need to purchase tens of thousands of dollars in stock, plus have enough reserves to keep your store operating, able to turnover product, for at least 6 months of negative cash flow. This applies even if you're not franchising.

Basically, even in a rural area your startup costs are easily in the $100,000 to $200,000 range for a small store--at least for anything bigger than a bait shop. Plenty of people in rural areas could secure that kind of financing using mortgages, but once you factor in risk of failure and opportunity costs, you need a pretty significant pool of potential investors before you can expect one of them to take the plunge, and in rural areas the available pools are just too small.

Opportunity cost is a huge deal. Somebody with enough assets to secure a $200,000 loan _and_ who is prepared to lose it all, is probably going to see a significant cut to their earnings compared to what they could be making elsewhere. This is why you see so many immigrants as shop owners--their opportunity costs are effectively lower, by dint of them being first-time players in the local economy, than a native with equivalent assets.

Similarly, outside corporations have to answer to shareholders. Even though well-financed corporations could easily open more stores while still making a profit, such capital has more earning potential elsewhere.

The upshot of all of this is that 1) rural consumers pay significant rents for living in comparatively uncompetitive markets, and 2) theoretically there's ample opportunity for a philanthropic entrepreneur to improve the quality of life of a rural town by strategically opening small stores with more competitive prices. Indeed, professionals who retire to a small town and open a small store are often effectively doing exactly this. (Similar to how well-heeled spouses in large cities burn money on boutique shops, except compared to the retired couple they have less need to actually be profitable, or care about whether they'll put someone else out of business.)
I didn't see anything about eink screens in that article except a mention that they exist.

They claim the cost of scrolling is the issue, which is something that I've not seen on an ereader. Page refreshes are a different animal to scrolling, despite the (potentially) distracting flicker they are deterministic: one press is one page. Scrolling is a more analogue interaction, scrolling by one page requires more focus than pressing a button once.
Why is this significant?
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You're making it seem like MacOS and major Linux distros are much better. My issue isn't with Windows [10] not being amazing. It's with the competition having issues of their own.

Apple help for MacOS stuff for example is hilarious from official or major communities. They treat everyone like complete newbies.

Not being too used to Ubuntu except for production servers, I was never able to resolve getting it to work on my Touchpad back in 2010 nor getting my VM to update from 14 to 16 without screwing up. From my pov, in aggregate, all the OSes have their issues

Why not sell the SP3 and get anything else? No one should use something they dislike this much if it isn't mandated.
Love it.

On a related note... The keyboard in my 15" 2016 MBP is definitely the most "persnickety" electromechanical device I've ever owned. While still fully functional, it has developed a broad range of individual key feel and sounds. Without precise measurements, id say its developed a variance of 2x. Some keys are normal others range to twice as hard to press and they are commensurately louder. In particular the damn bottom right arrow key.

This song very accurately conveys my frustrations with this keyboard. I have tried to clean out the crud that is obviously affecting my keys, to no avail. Apple's instructions for cleaning the keyboard are laughable.
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The electricity for 1BTC trade could power a house for a month
This point, while maybe valid, completely ignores the point of this post (Precious Plastic).

The Precious Plastic shipping container setup clearly is not out to pad the pockets of Big Packaging. It (albeit on a small scale) takes plastic waste and makes various end products, all while being completely transparent to the end-consumer. I think this is a good thing.
> Furthermore, many of the people paying for this seem to believe in the inevitable emergence of a utopian society with unlimited resources, which seems almost a necessary condition for these people to be revived. Personally, I'm not banking on that happening either.

This seems like a feature. If a Utopia arises you'll be revived into it and if not you won't have to live in the alternative.

As for motivation for future generations to revive you it seems prudent to will all your resources into a trust upon your death to be paid to whoever brings you back.
Something faster than ag? Honestly had no idea. I've been so happy with ag.
According to wiki they have 225 million employment records and according to The Work Number they are used by 82% of Fortune 500 employers.

Then they turn around and sell all that data while telling the participating companies what a wonderful service they are providing them by offloading this task from traditional HR.

It's crazy.
Assuming at least 768 bits (an RSA number of this size has been factored), the gaps between such numbers are more than 10^232. Even if every number of this form was prime, the prime number theorem tells us we can expect one out of every 10^229 primes to be weak.

There could or course be a larger class of such easy primes, but it seems like it's extremely unlikely a prime of this particular form would ever be generated by chance.
Hell yeah dude, i3 is incredible. Simple, stable, no distractions, efficient, easy config. It's so perfect
Isn't that proprietary & unfederated? If so, I'd rather not encourage/depend on yet another island service.