skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> What fundamental good does spreading any PoW to millions or billions of devices accomplish? Nothing.

Well, if the owners of those devices control the mining they're doing, then it secures the network by preventing a 51% attack from any single miner with enough power. But in this case, only the website operator benefits by not having to pay for electricity.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pax_Americana
I think the value of the technology hasn't reached a point where it exceeds the inconvenience of using it; namely the bulky headsets and expensive hardware. I agree that it won't be more than a niche technology in the near term future. I guess it all depends on how many more orders of magnitude we can expect to get out of miniaturization before we hit the wall. If it's possible to get a minimum of 4k per eye resolution and the graphics performance of a 2017 high end gaming GPU into a pair of wraparound sunglasses combined with a smartphone, I see it becoming the dominant display technology. The convenience of being able to summon any number of arbitrarily large displays at will is hard to deny, even if you completely disregard any value proposition involving AR and new forms of human computer interaction.

I'm sitting in bed with my laptop right now, and if I could choose between reading this on a pair of lightweight glasses or my laptop, I'm not sure what the laptop has to offer. The big issue is touch typing; no (macro) gesture-based virtual keyboard is ever going to be usable for professional workloads. I sometimes wonder if some kind of one- or two-handed finger-chording input could be as efficient as a qwerty keyboard. I would be willing to toss my decades of qwerty experience if I could eventually get something as fast without having to carry around a keyboard. I imagine something like this device from Children of Men: https://youtu.be/sJO0n6kvPRU?t=2m4s (1024 "keys" should be plenty, so it's technically possible).

Regarding direct brain-computer interfaces, I just don't see the technological barriers going away any time soon. You'd either need some type of non-invasive technology that could wirelessly stimulate the optic nerves (aside from light, obviously), which I'm not sure exists even in theory, or such sophisticated nano-machinery that it would be effectively invisible, like a neural lace. I don't see either of these things happening for decades at least (I would love to be proven wrong though!).

I don't know if the form factor that will finally trigger mass adoption will resemble currently available headsets. The breakthrough might be retinal laser projection or light field displays. I just think that if nothing else, the ability to move our current workloads to a portable virtual display is such an obvious improvement I can't imagine it not happening as soon as the technology is good enough. Of course the same can be said for BCI but that doesn't even work in the lab yet.
> they're just companies at different stages of the company lifecycle

Blue Origin is older than SpaceX. It chose to get a lot of basic engineering right before bothering with a product roadmap. They’ve spent years on a big first stage with big engines, all of which were known from the beginning to take longer to develop. Those intermediate goals, none of which are products, were pursued in the hope that they will result in a better end result.

SpaceX, instead, prioritised shortest paths to marketable products. Its intermediate goals are products. SpaceX flew (and collected orders for) its Falcon 1 a few years after being founded; Blue Origin took much longer. SpaceX tries putting paying customers everywhere it reasonably can; Blue Origin avoids the distraction.

These are distinct, deliberarely-chosen strategies. They’re not just similar companies at different points in their respective life cycles.
Announcing Auctus Advisory Board – Auctus
Sure, but isn't it interesting that freaking ESTONIA has been a forefront thinking country when it comes to tech-as-right country?

FFS - I live and only have ever worked in Silicon Valley and I couldn't even get freaking DSL for five years after it was invented in San Jose!
Are you joking? I can't tell.

Just in case you aren't, what do you think is required for a platform to support Hi-DPI displays?
someone remind me how big the sci-hub archive is - when do i get _my_ copy of the literature? ;-)
Bravo! Sounds fantastic. Curious whether you’ve considered possible paths to integration with tools like WebPageTest.
I find most of the claims in this (obviously PR driven) piece misleading.

Online marketers are aware of fraud. The common wisdom is to assume ~30% of your budget went into fraud. Advertisers measure ROI, don't bother much to dig into which form/shape fraud takes place, the tech details, or how to identify or stop it. Because that's technically far from trivial. It's like a restaurant assuming 15% loss on fresh supplies. You factor that in and as long as you have a margin you're good to go.
The reason water exists on earth, and not on mars, may be that life on earth saved the water by discovering photosynthesis.

The discovery of photosynthesis caused the "great oxygenation event" which pumped oxygen into the atmosphere. Oxygen reacts with atmospheric hydrogen to form water. Without the oxygen, the very light hydrogen molecules would float to the top of the atmosphere and are easily blown away by solar winds, which is what happened on Mars. But with high oxygen concentrations on Eath, hydrogen molecules react to form heavier water molecules before they have a chance to be blown away, and thus hydrogen and water are retained.

I read about this in the book "Oxygen" by Nick Lane.
How much energy does it take to get stuff from the earth to the moon though?

Is it that much less than leaving earths gravity all together?
I thought the article was pretty good on that front.

The passive voice is consistently used throughout ("have become hypermutators", "picked up early mutations in") and so on. The last paragraph explicitly calls out the stochastic nature of mutations and the role of selective pressures.

The only part struck me as even vaguely "volitional" is "they are each finding their own path toward the same goal of optimal fitness" , and even that is a far cry from "Giraffes evolved long necks so they could eat leaves at the tops of trees".
An easy way to try ST-72 is in your browser here: https://lively-web.org/users/Dan/ALTO-Smalltalk-72.html and ST-78 here: https://lively-web.org/users/bert/Smalltalk-78.html

The above links run emulators in Javascript and have been used for live demos as well (see https://youtu.be/AnrlSqtpOkw?t=2m29s for a fun one)

Related, for a Javascript based live system check out https://www.lively-kernel.org/ (also created by Dan Ingalls).
No, it's not. Baltics got their independence in 1991 and they had to re-build a lot of infrastructure rendering it more modern.
Thank you for this answer! But then why does the water have to come from comets? Why couldn't the Earth have formed with its own water?

Also, we seem to have a lot of water. It's really all from comets, a little here, a little there?
We might find other causes increase. For example, decreasing violent deaths increases mortality from heart disease. After some lag time, of course.
Never because if everyone adopted this the difficulty rating would go up by a factor of everyone.

Currently it will take you two years of one the newer computers running constantly to even meet half of the min payout on coinhive.

The more people the greater the difficulity. Lose-lose for everyone.

Ads are great. The current trend against them is shortsighted. Without ads we would be paying for content in walled gardens with less share-ability. Content would he hoarded and tokenized as opposited to widely shared.

Out of the 60 top thread would you micropay to read them all? No but someone does for each one and writes a summary in the comments. Lose-lose because the site gets less money/traffic the readers rely on secondhand information and no one is better off aside from the micropayment provider who takes a cut.
Isn't that still an indicator, albeit not a strong one, that Tesla-like autopilot features are safer?

Saying "Cars with ABS have lower crash rates than the same cars without" means that I'd prefer a car with ABS... I don't wanna spin out in the snow. I'd also enjoy and feel somewhat entitled to a lower insurance rate than a non-ABS car.
Without saying how much is too much :)

I wanted to know because it is probably really hard to reach without processing the sugar. IIRC dates are most fructose dense food we can find in nature. How many dates would be enough to damage my liver?

It would probably be hard to hurt your liver with alsohol as well, if you limit yourself to unprocessed alcohol (i.e.: by eating off fruits).
Rover, flyer, and submersible.
"the first argument" => "the second argument"
Several of the Nordic/Baltic countries are like that. Why does Russia not follow that pattern? What's different about it culturally?
Convincing a few hundred million to act in a certain way without force won't happen before we got 10b. I don't think that's an outlandish prediction to make...
What a terribly frustrating article.

1. It doesn't satisfactorily make the case that targeting the audience rather than the topic-related websites doesn't work or make sense. (I'd argue that a deeper problem is that most simple online ads just don't work, for most people. And otherwise, if you're actually susceptible to online advertising, then actually getting served ads tightly targeted to your interests does make sense.)

2. I'm not sure that the data used (in support) supports the author's case that people stick to a small number of their favourite websites; rather, it looks like it shows that popular websites are popular. (Hard to be certain without examining the market research questions though.)

3. It then takes a tangent to show that lots of ad exchanges are unreliable; this may indeed be true, but is totally unrelated to the original premise.
Isn't it fundamentally impossible to learn to become more extrovert?

I mean, if you have to think about how to react to people, then that's sort of the definition of being an introvert.
Then we have no hope of ever engineering Mars to have enough air for us to breath?
I think they meant Coinhive.
https://coinhive.com
sqlite3 is the most underrated database ever, especially with python. You can get a ton done with it. Who needs HBase and MongoDB...
At a different price point than their 375 GB PCIe model? The endurance per GB capacity seems pretty bad, so scaling down doesn't seem like it will work especially well.
Neither seems reasonable. The a is definitely wrong, or 6 cans would give you diabetes guarantee, which is wrong. The b grows slower, but is still uncapped and speeds up as it grows.
Not exactly, WebAssembly has no direct DOM access so if you want have your front end run in WebASM you’ll still need JavaScript to make anything work.

Personally I think that’s a good thing, I don’t want front ends to get any more obfuscated than they have gotten.
I think we will enjoy a cup of coffee together.
Sports betting and/or prediction markets are such an obvious application of cryptocurrencies/smart contracts that I'm kind of shocked it isn't already a huge part of the darknet (or maybe it is and I just don't know about it). It doesn't even have to be good, as long as it's anonymous, decentralized, and eliminates counter-party risk. Something like that could be adopted at a glacial pace and still be unstoppable in the long term.
Also, it helps that it's a tiny country (1.3 million citizens), so providing IT infrastructure is dirt cheap.
This leads to this interesting page:

https://support.google.com/news/publisher/answer/4582731#sat...
TAOS was peculiarly crazy and brilliant. It was written in a sort of macro assembler, essentially a form of assembler with a large number of registers, which was "compiled" to the target platform on demand. It was network transparent so nodes on the network could use devices from other nodes. There's a lot more from an ex-employee here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9806607

I wish one day that it gets open sourced (but I'd settle for a non-open read-only license) because it's unlike anything else.
Yes especially well designed ones as far as UX goes. That means easy to use by your friends mom and not sluggish based on network performance or application performance. Definitely needed but it requires a bit of an investment on development and implementation.
This will be abused by trolls more than used by the "good guys". It's just a matter of time before some trolls decide to use this feature to create more lies about elections, hitler, holocaust, immigrants, and every conspiracy theory out there. You're going to search "who did 9/11" and have false websites trying to "fact check" the top pages (which at least today seem to be sane).
NeoGAF goes offline following sexual assault allegations against owner
If you think Spring could make better bundling choices, tell them. They are very open to feedback.

And if they don't qualify as "experienced Java guys" then I don't know who can, short of Gosling.
English: one two three four five six seven eight nine ten eleven twelve thirteen fourteen fifteen sixteen seventeen eighteen nineteen twenty: normal from here on (twenty-five, seventy-three, one million forty-eight thousand five hundred seventy-six)

Spanish: uno dos tres.... (15) quince, normal from 16 on.

French: normal begins at 17 (dix-sept), but runs into trouble later on (courtesy of a friend):

70 - soixante-dix, sixty-ten,
80 - quatre-vingts, four-twenties ("score"), and
90 - quatre-vingt-dix, four-twenty-ten.

That makes 99 "quatre-vingt-dix-neuf".

German is the same pattern as English, normal after 20, but prefers the smaller numbers first.

I have heard that the Russians need to study their conventions intently...
There's probably something to being a lot bigger and having more diverse population density.

But ultimately the biggest culprit is probably the major political, economic and cultural hangovers from over a century of political instability.
The Internet in its infinite wisdom tells me this is from "Tales of the Blode Episode 2: A Trip to the Seaside."
If it came to blows, chances are that the battles would be fought on Earth. Launching anything is expensive. Launching anything manned is prohibitively expensive. Armaments would just increase the cost and the risk.
> Why couldn't the Earth have formed with its own water?

We’re not sure from where Earth’s water came [1]. Some evidence suggests the Earth was born with all its water, some that most came from comets.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Origin_of_water_on_Earth
Just wanna say that my wife has a PhD in nutrition and this isn't news to us.

We've "known" that unbound fructose is hard on the liver for years.
> I'm not sure how he goes from 1 serving per day to 2555 per decade. I would assume it would be ~3650 servings.

3650/30*21 = 2555 - 1 serving per work day?
Meanwhile, Germany is moving in the opposite direction. Taxes are increasing and now Germany is the second highest taxed country in the world (according to OECD). and freelancers here can't even work without a tax advisers who will manage all their taxes, because the system is so complicated. Mobile internet is extremely expensive. Just one day of using mobile internet in Germany will cost you more than a a whole month mobile internet in Ukraine... everything is very bureaucratic and a lot of paper work is required on every corner. and don't forget, there are more than 300000 laws and rules for everything. I can keep this list forever, but after all, I think I should just move to Estonia, because Germany is definitely not for me.
The paper's conclusion that a can of coke per day is associated with a 'relative risk' of 1.18. That means X% -> x*(1.18)%, where X is whatever the baseline risk is. The blog introduces the result as increasing 'the likelihood of developing diabetes by 18%', which means the same thing.

It then incorrectly translates this to a 'marginal chance of 18%' -- which means X% -> X+18%. And the math uses that.

X%->X+18% is 'a marginal risk of 18%', or 'an increase of 18 percentage points' or 'a 0.18 increase in absolute risk'.
You should talk to the James Randi Educational Foundation about that ( http://web.randi.org/ ). Depending on how their rules are structured, the ability to detect Bluetooth emissions might qualify for the $1M prize that they offer for a repeatable, controlled demonstration of paranormal effects.
Heavy user of both and I used to work there.
GP's comment is what people are calling anti-intellectualism these days?
I'd love to know how you would check 'true or false' on logic based speculation such as this article on the recent Las Vegas shootings https://www.veteranstoday.com/2017/10/20/las-vegas-massacre-...
A Martian atmosphere (not sure about a lunar atmosphere) would be lost on a timescale of tens of millions of years. That's very quick in cosmological timescales, but slow enough that any human effort to create or replenish it could be very successful.
I suspect there's no good answer to that question. People vary widely. Some people drink lots of alcohol for years with relatively unscathed livers and others get cirrhosis pretty quickly.

But your instinct is right that fructose that's bound up in real fruit isn't typically the problem. It's unbound fructose like you find in agave nectar or HFCS.
Android getting “DNS over TLS” support
Why should the W3C have anything to say about it? It doesn't conflict with html in any way, it's just structured content inside html.
Yep, 4chan will have a field day with this. I think the goal of this is to harness the wisdom of experts, but can't help but think the end result of this will just be more noise in signal to noise search ratio.

Without human input as to what is correct and real of these inputs, its just another input that can be gamed.
Gitian Building: Bitcoin’s Security Processes
We don't need russians anymore. Google's new mission : organising the world fake information and making it accessible to everyone.
I don't spend much time on the JVM, but in ClojureScript, this is what I get for a similar test (including multiple definitions of foo in my case, i've elided the whole source file here):

(defn foo [a b] :hi)
(defn bar [] (foo 1 2 3))

WARNING: Wrong number of args (3) passed to prepost.core/foo at line 25 src/cljs/prepost/core.cljs
WARNING: foo at line 24 is being replaced at line 48 src/cljs/prepost/core.cljs

It's a compile-time warning even when the app is not running, but ClojureScript goes through a different compilation step than JVM Clojure. Perhaps I was mistaken in the JVM case, or someone else can chime in.
Assuming Google trusts anything marked as a fact. Which would be a ridiculous assumption.
I would absolutely love AR. It'd be fascinating to look at a bridge or building and see who designed it, when it was built, how it was constructed, who died while building it, the floor plan, utilization rates, etc... Ideally, this would be done while not actually driving.

As for the direct methods, I think we may get there someday. We already enable paralyzed people to interact, albeit on a minimal scale, with a computer using nothing but their mind. There is even a DIY movement that has enabled this, again on a minimal scale, for hackers at home.

No timeline, no estimates, but I think we may get there.

My thinking is that miniaturizing is a limited endeavor. We're very unlikely to ever have things like AR by means of contact lenses. So, we're looking at something people will wear.

It is my own personal view that I see no great benefit in consuming print media by means of VR. For that, I have a tablet and a few ebook readers around the house. I am not sure that I (expressing only my own thoughts) see any great benefit in that.
Attack of the Zombie Websites
Google terminating YouTube channels and videos (2016)
Mining doesn't have to be a cost efficient use of cpu cycles for the person browsing for this to catch on, it just needs to be a more cost efficient use of bandwidth and server power for the entity serving the ads.

Bitcoins are the consistently valuable and liquid coin, therefore it can make sense to serve bitcoin mining js.
Gitian: a secure software distribution method
Consul is a dream for most Operations Engineers. At work we have used it in production for almost 3 years with basically no maintenance except dropping a new binary for the old one when we update the versions. We use it for service discovery, feature flags, consul lock for deployments and use the KV as a config store. It is also our backend for Vault and stores all the encrypted data. Thank you HashiCorp and the Consul team for an amazing achievement.
Judging from what kind of targeted advertising I get, pretty much any method would be better. Topic method would at least made sites I visit less annoying. I am totally wanting to investigate anti bed wetting method (or other kid related targeted ad) to buy when I am visiting sci-fi web or gaming web page page or ... get the idea.

Judging from experience if people I talked about it with causually, I am not alone nor special.
It's amazing to see how little the concepts have changed in desktop world since Xerox Alto. The only different concept I saw few years back was by 10gui http://10gui.com/ with VR, MR, and AR coming in we need such innovation again.
Allegations in question:

https://imgur.com/a/FJrjx
How is this different than happo?
The whole point of technology is solving real-world problems. You can't separate technology from the world.
It's JSON-LD, which has been a standardised W3C recommendation since 2010.
Except you(or anyone else) probably won't be driving.
Millenials express a level of hate towards the previous generations that I never witnessed before (apart from the usual teenage rebellion times). Some of the stuff I read or hear honestly scares the shit out of me, some of them would throw people like my folks or older (or younger) in a dumpster if they had the occasion.

Some of them bought into the libertarian craze, so they consider older people useless, and anyone useless is garbage that can be tossed away; but it does not only come from that side: other ones consider the previous generations responsible for anything bad (and for a wide definition of 'bad') that happens to them, and those guilty people (indistinctly guilty) should be punished.

Are these extreme cases? Probably. I hope so. But I do not remember such a trend in previous generations.

To go back to the point about work, I have never witnessed or read the previous generations express any problem working with people older than them, on the contrary, they showed (some) respect and expected some knowledge to be gained from them. I also think that the age stratification in jobs is higher now than ever. The workplace is less and less varied over the years (I do not give a damn about skin colour, I am concerned about age and social origin), and tolerance (and simply knowledge) of people with a different social background goes down.
Oh, I totally agree with this different argument, it's a pretty common opinion about the two companies.
Does the app respect user privacy? Is it just a bluetooth remote control or is there a web service connected to it?
unit tests? integration tests? Why hire a QA person if you can trust your own test code.