skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Socialist meddlers ... there’s never a good time to let the people alone and try the free market approach for once.
I mean, I already said I know about the whitepaper. I'm very sorry that I ask for a bit more of a tl;dr of it when there's another new hot blockchain startup. Eh, you know, one of those you see every other day. Why not leave it to them to decide if they want to acknowledge my feedback or not?

I'm not forcing anyone to do anything here.
The article doesn't touch upon it - but IMO, the gender of that "best friend" matters a lot. Most people would probably be just fine with their spouse having another best friend of the same gender, but definitely not of the opposite.
Is that really surprising? This is, erm, not the most critical audience.
It's an accelerator program for social ventures.
There are no private languages. Quality is a social determination. Preferences are idiomatic to exposure. They never matter in defining words.
A review of a biography of the Italian opera conductor Toscanini by Harvey Sachs. The reviewer compares this volume to Caro's Power Broker in its loving attention to minute factual details.

Would not have seen this had it not been posted to HN. Thank you.
Projects like bitcoinereum will try to make ICOs more reasonable. You don't preprogram how much the founders get. It's less susceptible to abuse. It's the bitcoin blockchain implemented on ethereum and lets anyone mine by competing with transactions.
Laughable ...

They show they don’t understand anything to begin with.

Maybe they should change their own behavior first and stop telling other people what to do. Idiots.
Hey, tell me about it. There was a tragic accident at my school, when a structure collapsed and killed several students, because it had insufficient engineering oversight. But, eh, Darwin Awards had to make a joke, so they collectively gave it to all the victims, who were getting up at the crack of dawn to volunteer on a group project, and following all the safety rules they were given.
I questioned the (incorrect) usage of the word "genocidal". There are no ifs, ands, or buts; not every mass killing/death is a genocide. A nuclear first strike against the DPRK in the current political climate would have nothing to do with a deliberate eradication of a certain ethnicity/nationality and everything to do with the DPRK being a nuclear threat in a nuclear world.

You responded to my questioning by trying to qualify the argument with his Twitter antics. Since you're supporting the argument (or at least trying to justify the sentiment of labeling something that wouldn't be a genocide a genocide), I think we can reasonably assume that you're not a fan of Trump's idea of a first strike. The tone of your writing heavily implies that, so if you're actually in support of (or not directly opposed to) a first strike, but simultaneously argue that people could reasonably mistake a first strike for a deliberate, focused genocide, a small disclaimer that you're arguing in support of two dissonant ideas really helps people understand what you're trying to say. Similarly, unless your political alignment and actual viewpoints on the subject are highly dissonant, your politics are pretty easy to extrapolate.

To my knowledge (and I could be wrong), there is no indication that Trump has any intention to eradicate the North Korean people. To argue that Trump's intention with a first strike would be to eradicate the North Korean people would require you to fabricate reasoning behind such an action. To argue that someone is justified in the genocide argument is to admit that they're fabricating that reasoning or narrative.

Not even once did I try to minimize the casualties a first strike would have.

I never said that the original argument was necessarily wrong. I did say that the general populace will make arguments to logic, and making individual points that are blatantly wrong except in the most liberal interpretation of the wording just enables the general populace to do so.
You're bang on the money: Tamsui is a romanisation of the hokkien name, not the mandarin one. There's a few other non-mando names floating around, like Taroko (an aboriginal language).

I have a Taiwanese book for school children that includes the governments romanisation, hanzi, and some kind of extended bopomofo. While the native speaker I was learning with could read hokkien-with-characters, he couldn't do it quickly, and often had to puzzle over a certain character. In cases where they had both characters and romanisation I was able to help him on the characters he was stuck on by (badly) pronouncing the romanisation. Still, I haven't met any Taiwanese hokkien speakers at all interested in romanisation. Which is a shame - it covers all the sounds, and the language does seem to be slowly dying (the fact people don't write it probably has a lot to do with it).
Bucklescript used to support closure output but we removed it because nobody was using it. We can get it back if enough people want it.
mbrdna?
Web platforms in particular have a pretty long list of mistakes that, even if you're smart and careful, if you don't know about them you're virtually certain to make. Injection attacks, XSS, CSRF, etc. are very subtle and nonobvious.
You can use the have I been pawned API to check for login which are dangerous, and captcha those.
Looking at the charts back to 2015, Microsoft has grew earnings pretty steadily. I believe they attribute it to pushing everyone to the cloud.
In my experience, it’s not been a lack of understanding or knowledge on the devs’ part. It’s been more about how much of a hurry we are in to deploy.

I’ve tried a few different strategies to get around this.

1. Build the backend first. Don’t show a UI that looks anything like it’s functional until you sneak in the requirements that you know are needed but can’t get buy-in from.

Fails because PMs and stakeholders don’t see progress fast enough.

2. Plan security into the design specs and feature list.

Fails because there’s always someone who (like when presenting speed as a feature) is higher up than you who will cross it off the list because “we’re behind a VPN/our users are too stupid to hack us/the only speed that matters is how fast we can deploy this.

3. Build the entire front end first with absolutely no backend wiring at all and slowly add the connecting db functionality and take your time adding security checks along the way.

This also fails because once PMs and stakeholders see the pretty stuff, they assume it’s almost done and have no tolerance for “slow” progress.

Direct, straightforward communication about the importance of security doesn’t work.

Obfuscating your team’s process to sneak in best practices doesn’t work.

The bottom line is that—again, much like speed—-if your leadership doesn’t see the value or can’t be persuaded to see it, it’s not going to happen, even from very well-educated teams.

This is a cultural issue that an individual contributor can only do so much about by choosing the safest frameworks to start with. And that’s about it.

It’s added a number of items to the list of things I ask in interviews now that I’m on the job market again.

Where does the company prioritize security in web applications? Where does it prioritize speed?

How hard do people have to fight to get these included as product features?

I won’t make a blanket statement that if those answers are not to my liking, I won’t take the job. But you need to know where these things stand as company commitments before you accept a job with a primary role of web developer.
Should Iconic Lake Powell Be Drained?
The reason why governments don't innovate faster or disrupt more is because they are responsible for the disrupted. A startup is not.

When a startup succeeds in disrupting an industry, they gain the benefits, and grow as a consequence. The businesses and individuals they disrupt do not have power over the startup.

When a government succeeds in 'disrupting' (perhaps 'innovating' is a better word) then they gain benefits from votes they win. Unlike the startup, they also have to deal with cost of votes they lose from the disrupted.

TL;DR: Startups take the spoils of innovation. Governments get spoils and the pain. Governments therefore appear more risk-averse.
Your example, which I presume is from America because we have Little League and counties, involves a public institution.

In a private institution the person paying you money to do stuff for him deserves the power to stop paying you money because it's his money. It's also the employee's ability to make contracts that you're talking about -- you'd hinder an employee's ability to agree to a contract with a lower risk of employing them.

I happen to find it convenient to be able to agree that if somebody doesn't like my output they can stop paying me. It's part of how I get them to start paying me in the first place. You would take this freedom to make contracts away from me. Presumably because you think you know better, and by taking away my freedom, you enhance my negotiating position.

Why do you deserve that much power over me?
Not all software development is like this. In some sectors it's treated as a proper engineering discipline. Circles where javascript, node and logging into Twitter are a thing are where you find this casual indifference to documentation, garbage interfaces, dozens of competing APIs and so forth. The reason is straightforward: in these areas the problems are neither interesting nor that hard, and so developers get bored and invent complexity where it need not exist.
Mayfield Robotics is making a non-flying version of this, called the Kuri:
https://www.heykuri.com/

It is a real product, founded by a bunch of robotics people from Harvey Mudd.
Interesting, but not at $249.
Interesting graph. Of course it's saying a lot more about fiat currency than about bitcoin. The graph would look about the same with almost any commodity, stock, real estate, ... and so on and so forth. It would look the same (exponential shape) for any state, and crucially, it would look the same even if you went back centuries or even millenia.

The only real conclusion to draw from this is that governments have always spent more than they claim to spend, and they've always made up the difference by cheating with your money. The ancient Faraos did this, the Roman Senate and Emperors, the Athenean democracy did it, the Communists (Russians and Chinese) did it, and modern democracies do it. They've all been doing it this way, and for multiple millenia.

TLDR: Don't store wealth in fiat currency (or gold currency). Almost anything else performs better. This should not be news to anyone, but surprisingly few people seem to have realized this.
> After all, if your spouse is your best friend, then whom do you complain to your spouse about?

Never complain or otherwise say anything bad about your spouse to anyone but a therapist. Never.

Your therapist doesn't have to forgive your spouse. A therapist doesn't have to like your spouse. While you may forgive them, your friends/family won't be so quick to do so, if they do so at all.
How to be a CEO, from a decade's worth of them
A NFL Jersey Sale Is a Great Time to Shop
https://duckduckgo.com/html

Or if it's really bad: https://duckduckgo.com/lite
I'm fascinated by what's going to happen in the post (monopolized) data economy. When data acquisition can happen autonomously, beyond HITL. Taking that data and building, growing, and strengthening intelligence could scale up something huge and interesting. We're currently building a decentralized data and machine learning marketplace and network to answer the question: What would happen if agents could sell their data in open markets?

We think it would be cool to see that data be used in turn to help continuously train ML models. It starts to look like an integral part of AI economies.
Are Scorpio and Pisces Soulmates? – Astroligion.com
That's great to hear. Ever read the books *The Five Love Languages" or even "His Needs, Her Needs". They were very helpful to me.
Yeah I was gonna say...probably more appropriate to predict 3.2Ghz at 64 cores or something.
it says it in the article, it's mostly DSP with a bit of minor machine learning. Its also pre-TF. If you're so interested in it why did you not read it?
Radio Tags (RFID) for Trees to curb illegal felling
> Deletion is only an illusion. The people with a multibillion spying program surely keep a "backup" of the "deleted" tweets forever.

people with curl will too.
duh != dough
Grr. I’m sick and tired of rubbish specifications, poorly defined acceptance criteria, and the code that meets it. If you put shit in, you’re going to get shit out. Quality is what seperates the shit from the good. If no one on your team knows what quality looks like, or worse, they like the smell of shit, you’re getting shit, and everyone is going to pat themselves on the back like it’s a job well done.

Quality isn’t conceptually hard. It’s the result of thoughtfulness, care, and dilligence. Three seemingly unwelcome qualities in a lot in software development settings. Any attempt to codify what quality is beyond that will dimish the significance of those pre-requisits and embolden those that don’t possess them.

Quality is also the first thing you sacrifice when you offshore your development, and that’s something no ones wants to talk about. That’s not to say offshore teams are incapable of achieving quality. It’s to say that the rules of offshoring incentivise against quality and guarantee that your flawed specifications and requirements will be met with brutal efficiency and go unquestioned.
QL doesn't allow different versions of a system to coexist, but you can have multiple QL installs on a system for the rare cases in which you need two different versions of a system for two different projects.

Qlot does allow more finer grained control, but I've never had a need for it.
will you remove the initial spaces before the angle bracket? makes it hell to read on mobile
> I really don't see why it's a valid criticism of Web Components that they don't magically solve this problem when it's just the way JavaScript works.

IMO, React feels better and more productive in part because it doesn't have/need observables. It's the difference between a UI in "retained mode" and "immediate mode."
What religion specific laws are you thinking of?
> What gets me is like: Password authentication SUCKS.

There's a conference for that. Has been since 2010. Not quite sure about 2017/2018

> My boss (CEO) didn't want to implement any kind of 2 factor authentication, because it's cumbersome and will lower conversion rates

True. "Security is not a convenience". But there's no easier way to get people authenticating off of something at least a bit secure than straight totp 2fa.
Something about the tech crowd. So smart in general but has such a hard time with how words are used by people. Free, stealing, both words that for some reason whenever used in an article, someone feels compelled to insist on their own definition.
Then take it from the multiple journalists who have quit and then apologized for enabling Putin’s propaganda. When the people who work their can’t stomach their employer that should tell you something.
I have seen the same incomplete and inconsistent documentation for many Google and Microsoft projects including Kubernetes and many cloud based services. And it is not only about their REST APIs but for their SDKs for programming languages/frameworks not limited to Javascript/Node.
Yes, you have to use cash or checks or cards in VND in Vietnam, sellers are prohibited to accept any foreigner currencies. Even listing as USD/EURO/etc. is illegal in VN. You can use any foreigner currencies only when your business are reviewed and even when accepted, it's very restricted.
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1TB gives you about 1 Million terminals if each takes up 1MB of memory.
Since you brought up TOR and money, I would say one advantage this project has is that since payments are sent with packets, that will provide an stronger incentive for transmitters other than just for goodness of humanity.
It's been a while since I read it, but my takeaway was that there's a kind of tension or dilemma between classical quality and subjective quality.

The example from early on is about how Pirsig sees a beer can as a perfect shim for motorcycle handlebars because it meets the specifications of what's needed for the job (classical quality) while his friend isn't sure because it doesn't feel right to put a beer can into a BMW motorcycle (subjective quality).

The book's resolution of this dilemma is kind of hazy to me (something about cleaving a marble in half while reaching the top of a mountain?) but I think it's about how these are individually insufficient ways to define quality and you need both.

I suppose the software version of this is like: passing tests don't imply that anybody is going to want the thing you've made.
Investigation: Why is SQS so slow?
Why your Push Notifications never see the light of day
It sounds like your problem is with the infosec industry rather than the infosec community. The community in general would agree with you about the industry being kind of broken, I'd say.
Launching high-altitude helium balloons has been the activity some friends and I do for fun. Over the course of 2 years+ we've been doing this, we had over a dozen of successful launches where we could retrieve the payload.

For kids, this is a great inspiration and educational opportunity, especially for those who are interested in technology and programming. We used Arduinos and Raspberry pis in many components of the payload, from the tracker to the data logger. They get to program and control the behavior then test the hard/software so I personally think it's a great way to hook them up with computers and really understand them. This is one of those instances of "doing crazy stuff" kids are interested in.

For adults, it involves many fun aspects too. Specifically for geeks, the best feature is the optimization of weight, reliability, and features for the payload. Some people did get crazy with party balloons that carry impossibly light and efficient payloads that last for over a year with full tracking and sensory information. It can get surprisingly technical when you want to communicate with the payload reliably from the ground (over the radio wave). You'd be baffled and outraged when it was reported that with all the amazing things we could do, we didn't know peep about a missing airplane. The little phone in our pocket knows and tracks every step we take, you'd think - what's so hard about keeping communication with an object in the line of sight? I think all we don't appreciate enough is how advanced and amazing our cellular network is. When you have cellular communication, you have everything, the economy of scale is real and it works. With (amateur) radio, it's a different story: Many times we'd had flawless successes communicating with the payload, sometimes we just couldn't do it for some mysterious reason with the same equipment. I've grown to be much more sympathetic to people who have to work with that vast amount of distance, space, and power envelop when it comes to tracking some flying object on the sky, let alone on/under the sea.

As a side note, I can't imagine launching such a huge object such as yourself tied to a cluster of balloons to the sky could be something the authority is too fond of.
This is one hell of a documentation! Thanks for sharing!
Opening the Chinese market? As it stands the GFW implements a rather strong protectionist barrier. I've long suspected that to be it's main purpose.
Virtual Reality Gets Naughty
Indeed. I am always amazed that they don't pass out when they cross 15,000'.
You have not met Nvidia's marketing department. I hope I am not giving them ideas, but I dont put it past them to specify GHz as number of cores multiplied by the GHz the GPU runs at.
The other day, Troy Hunt found a leak from a coupon website that was storing customer CVVs. If a doctor, lawyer, accountant, etc was similarly negligent they could be financially ruined (at least here in the US).

The industry may not face anti-trust issues as much as civil liability issues.
Averon closes $8.3M funding to make your smartphone the key to ID online
Lights on – Lights Out
And we elected Richard Nixon multiple times (governor, vice president, president!).

I suggest you don't get caught up in the hype. The current period is actually extremely placid compared to many in the course of our history. Just because Trump is really dumb, and that people voted for someone really dumb, doesn't make things 'unstable'.

If anything Trump's term so far has been a case study in what a stable system looks like. He can barely implement any policy and has yet to get any legislation passed. In the meantime the government seems to be functioning, checks are being mailed on time and the military is still under civilian control and is 100% loyal.

I mean what sort of scenario do you have in mind (if any) of how this 'instability' would play itself out? Generally the biggest threat to democracy isn't "electing someone that everyone thinks is stupid and has negative charisma, during a peaceful time with few major problems" it's the opposite, someone super charismatic during a time of extreme danger.

I would say that electing Clinton would have been a far greater symptom of something deeply wrong. Not because of her personally, but because it would have been the second time in 12 years that we elected someone who was in the nuclear family of a previous president. Oligarchy destroys democracy, an incompetent leader is just someone we put up with for awhile (and we have had plenty far worse).

I think Trump would have lost by double digits if Biden had run, and he would have lost handily if Bernie had won the primary. It almost goes without saying that a hypothetical Trump vs Obama election would have been a bloodbath. There are probably half a dozen establishment democrats that would have beaten him easily. However, they didn't run because the Clinton machine was actively threatening anyone who didn't get in line for years ahead of the election. THIS is what destroys democracy, the ability of powerful families to perpetuate their power and influence. That Bernie did so well says very little about him, and a lot about how well anyone would do running against Hillary Clinton, a candidate that a sizable majority of people dislike and believe to be a liar. Frankly, Clinton is probably one of the only people in the country that Trump would have won against.

Anyway, the point of all that is to say that Trump didn't win because of discontent or something that made him popular, he won because the Democrats nominated someone who is not electable. Trump was never popular, even on the day he 'won' the election.
I think what @chenglou was referring to are issues like the "value restriction" [1] and the need to wrap "uncurried" FFI functions with a function that "adapts" it to curried form, thereby adding a layer of indirection.

Reason does not solve these, they're problems inherent to the underlying language and the choices made. I think the point being made was just that currying isn't a clear step forward, but causes some problems as well.

[1]: http://mlton.org/ValueRestriction
So, let me get this straight. The government pays people to produce them, then charges people to smoke them?
Here's the tl;dr: a practical encrypted mesh network that can work over the traditional internet protocol (IP) or over real-world links and radio antennas.
Not sure about "verifiable benchmarks", but you could have a look at https://mathieuancelin.github.io/js-repaint-perfs/
Oops, you're completely correct. I was thinking of the brute force scenario.
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Makes a lot of sense the Grammer while seemingly legal is a bit weird though.
How does he safely maintain altitude? The helium balloons will expand as he rises (due to the lower pressure at higher altitudes), eventually popping. It's how weather balloons descend. Is he counting on a slow descent after some initial fraction of the balloons pop? That's quite a bet.