skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Based on what we know about staying seated for hours a day, it would be more beneficial to allow non-smokers stand up and walk around breaks every hour rather than 6 days off.
yeah. The :empty() pseudoclass should do the trick.
And when is the last time you got something for nothing?
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The author of Kdb is Arthur Whitney. He is another extreme programmer who has had a huge influence on fintech and made boat loads of cash I would presume.
Ditto for the seccomp syscall (and args) blacklist, although I wouldn't describe it as "worrying" considering the disclaimer at the top. Jess Frazelle's contained.af uses a seccomp whitelist[1], which doesn't need to be that long to allow reasonable programs to execute.

This is a very good piece of writing with extensive references and I'll definitely find this useful to share in the future. She documents a ton of tradeoffs she made and resources she chose not to constrain (including the aforementioned syscalls and capabilities), which is important in this type of design and something that I wish I saw more of.

[1]: https://github.com/jessfraz/contained.af/blob/master/seccomp...
LOL, I love the guys filing that bug report with Mozilla... Had to have cost some overtime for their network admins. xD

The way I see it, this - along with most of things - when you place the mechanisms there, people will use them and abuse them.

20 years ago, a browser had 3 MB and today they're 30 and 60 MB large, with much better compression of the installer.

Why do we need this-and-that service integration within the browser, to "follow trends" of the likes of Adobe, Microsoft?..

I don't think so. Cut it all out. Someone wants to watch a video: install a codec. Their service uses different coding? Tough luck, get with the (popular, useful) standard(s), or gtfo.

What the hell do I care about your corporate policy of "creating new jobs" and "advancing development", all you're doing -anyway- is peddling your products. In my browser. On my hardware, which I paid for, meh. Introducing 1000&1 vulnerabilities, where there should be none.

Right, wrong? Know what I mean?
When I was younger, around 7 or 8, and saw my parents get the Nigerian scammer spam, I felt bad because they had some sort of sad story tied in to the email. It wasn't until I noticed the sloppy grammar that I realized that it was a fake email.
Yes! Although ideally part of the working hours should overlap with Pacific Timezone's working hours.
I think they're using both, as a mean to scale for billion or more number of accounts.
Odd. Can you please provide more details? I shall look into it asap ?
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Ah I missed the different name. Thanks for the clarification. I was thinking of comments I've seen before where people say that if you have 100 bitcoins you'll have a hard time converting them to (e.g.) $700k cash.
I believe that the kernels learned by a deep net (especially the detailed ones) are basically what this guy is talking about (a small nnet that recognizes basically one feature). I suppose you could sample a large number of capsules, but that would be equivalent to just making a bigger deep net.
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I have a feeling dictators will find brutal ways to burn through whatever stands in their way.
Is it possible to use Kafka Streams wtihout Kafka by listening and processing events from another source?
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Bitcoin Cash is a different, suggestively named currency (it’s not Bitcoin) that was bootstrapped by copying Bitcoin’s blockchain.
In any other kind of social/business arrangement he would be politely but firmly escorted out, possibly by security, for this kind of behavior. Being right or wrong is irrelevant.
Becoming a lead isn’t entirely about technical competence. A large part of it is “will other managers stand working with this person?”
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Well, it's not really a bank account but a kind of "wallet", and the setup process reflects this (having gone through N26's, bunq's and Revolut's, definitely Revolut's is quicker and less fussy). However, they do provide you with personalized IBAN numbers to top up your wallet, which really blurs the difference between those two concepts. And BTW, Revolut also supports bank account to bank account transfers in multiple currencies.
GP poster lives in Switzerland. US construction quality is weak, and building code would be nice to have. It may come as a surprise to those who have never been to the States to see just how awful housing in America is, on the contrary, those in America who have never been to Europe will be surprised to see how nice a multifamily building can be when it's properly constructed.

This one is emblematic of US construction: https://www.nbcdfw.com/news/local/Lake-Whitney-Cliff-House-M...
Paypal also has support (call,email) used them for refunds and changes on account.
For various reasons I would not go back to Java, but that was wonderful, your very old code still worked with newer versions, nothing broke during upgrades (even when behind deprecation one version).
So same concept as face detection by Viola Jones ? Look at smaller features and a superset/composition of them ?
^^ Keys pressed... Jesus Christ, that alone has fueled entire generations of criminals. :))
I probably should've taken the time to mine some back when my friends were doing it and tried convincing me too. Ah well.

The thing I keep telling myself is if I'd mined even 1000 bitcoins (which was viable at the time I first learnt about it) I'd have totally sold out at $10.. there is zero chance I would have made it to $1000 :-D
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I'll admit my previous post was thin on substance.

Sure, if you believe that a radical increase in capacity to surveil everyone and exert overwhelming violence against anyone with absolute obedience would certainly never be used to destroy the lives of politically inconvenient people and tear innocents off to torture or extrajudicial assassinations, I guess it's all sunshine and fluffy bunnies.
It appears tirthbodawala is the repository maintainer. I think they are asking for contributions to the project, not looking for new hires.
Are you investing your savings? No. Are you just holding it in a bank with little or no interest, then yes.
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People are taught about this in Driver's Ed now. It's called Highway Hypnosis. I've experienced it a few times now and it is a bit scary when you try to figure out how you drove somewhere without really realizing it.
You understood it correctly.
I do understand... maybe I wasn't clear enough: it will do more in the future! but it's not Facebook scale yet. Coinbase has 10M users, not 100M, not 1B.

I do bet on BTC to change the world... so I pay in BTC when I can too!
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An ideal HSM serve only one purpose: store secrets (privatekeys/passwords) and give specific access (sign/spend/login).

> Most companies consider MITM an external compromise since the malicious actor is not on the machine itself or has no-longer access to the machine(s).

Securing HSM+Laptop is impossible compared to HSM. If laptop is secure, why even need HSM ?

> Even most 'dedicated' systems do NOT have a direct link to the input terminals most of the times since they are simple usb keypads. Some smartcard readers for PC have pin-pads but this is rarely the case and they are way more expensive than a keyboard and a regular reader.

If usbkeypad is not connected to a network and not attacked by evil maid, HSM+usbkeypad is still secure. But laptop is complex system, always connected to internet and has loosly regulated physical access.

> HSMs are not "MITM proof", the system at-large has to be.

Again if whole system is secure why need HSM ?

If user satisfy few conditions of using HSM, such as being rubberhose attack proof, the secrets MUST be secure irregardless of how insecure the larger system is.
Linus or the contributor? I can see an argument for either.
The typo in the very first sentence (where/were) puts me off :(
Technically yes, you are treating it as a property rather than currency. Such a property is subject to positive and negative externalities (notably, inflation/deflation), and (where applicable) it is subject to taxation on transference (eg: inheritance tax, gift tax, etc).

From a purely economic perspective, cash is just another liquid asset. The distance from currency to store of value is quite short.

Physical assets are generally regarded as stores of value, however, in modern times, currency stability has resulted in currency supplanting durable goods as the primary store of value.
Low life is easier to distribute than high tech. The future is already here...
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Linus being salty is like soap opera for HN.

Pleasant and good mannered application programmers gasp when real men (aka systems programmers) communicate at each other.
Back in 2002-2005, I knew a whole lot of "tech-savvy" people with top-notch pedigree, who never believed FB/Youtube/Twitter etc would scale as no one had ever built a "many-to-many", pseudo real-time network at that kind of scale before (both technically/financially). Let alone a bunch of 20 year olds.

I was quite convinced by their arguments.
Where I was wrong was believing technical arguments mattered.

What matters is the psychology of the herd.
As much as I think the general principle of "no userspace visible change" is great, I can't make up my mind on whom I agree with the most in this specific instance.

My understanding is that some distros (e.g. OpenSUSE) ship with AppArmor in a whitelist mode where things have to be explicitly permitted by policy, otherwise they're denied by default. AppArmor introduced a new class of actions that wasn't there before, and with these restrictive policies it's causing daemons to crash (because it gets auto-denied).

The whole point of these policies is to not expose new attack surface if it's not needed by the software. It's going to break whenever AppArmor will start supporting more checks, unless policies get pinned to a specific version of AppArmor. But AppArmor doesn't currently support this (they refer to it as "features ABI" in the thread).

WAI?
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This assumes people are working just because they aren't on a smoke break. If you work on a production line in a factory, it's fairly easy to see the output level of your work. If you work in an office, there is not a simple measure. The non-smoking worker could just as easily spend the same time chatting it up around the water cooler.

Physical presence does not equal working time. I wish more managers understood that motivated workers will work and non-motivated workers will always find the path of least resistance. Remote or in-office doesn't matter that much.
Ok I am not trying to be dense. I really am curious. Maybe it correlates strongly, but there's nothing dishonest or illegal about it that I can tell. PayPal has all your personal info. They have your bank account info on both sides. People transfer money between. So maybe it's a pattern that money launderers use, but so do regular people. What am I missing?
Because many of us needed to thrust our work to thick books on the days before ubiquitous Internet. :)
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You know what? I'm glad he is doing it this way. Hard to imagine the kernel getting to this point if he did not communicate and scrutinise like this.
The high transaction fees are symptomatic a large problem that not only has divided the community, its literally forked the currency. There are several proposed solutions, but unless a majority of all bitcoin users agree to implement it, it won't happen.

Here's a rundown of what's happened: https://blog.plan99.net/the-resolution-of-the-bitcoin-experi...
This control software is for the manufacturing line. It's a mixture of a game engine and the code to control the robots by signaling each individual servo on the robot arm. Now multiple one robot * 4 lines* multiple stations(at least 6) * more than one robot per station. The game engine simulated the robot state to program then faster without requiring a pendant like it's typically done.

The code you are thinking about Is a copy paste from the model s and x batterry management system which implemented a kalman filter in a dsp to calculate State of charge among other things. That code is not the one being discussed here.
To me an asset that moves 15% in a day, and which no-one knows what it's truly worth, isn't great as a store of value.
I'm not going to speculate about where bitcoin will be trading when it becomes a stable, useful asset, but in order to justify a market cap anywhere near this high it will eventually need to generate actual utility for its users. Can someone explain where that will come from? Cheap currency conversion and easy money transfer?
Who would bail it out? It isn’t backed by any government with big pockets.
It doesn't matter what field of ML you work in. The underlying tech is the same and can be applied to anything.
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I know know what I would do with a time machine.

1) Go back to when I start to put bitcoin mining on my server for fun and than decided it would cost to much in electricity

2) Second time around I wouldn't sell it when it hit $1000 for the first time

3) I would go to the future to see when to see :)
Majority of participants in the network. I run a full node, I don't mine, but my voice counts. Of course I don't like the weight of huge mining farms, and I hope there will be viable alternatives to proof of work, to make BTC more democratic.

In the meantime, not a single country controls BTC, and even heavy weight miners can't decide unilaterally...
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Except, it shouldn't take work!.. Like - with cell phones.

Until recently, I had no idea that manufacturers actually PAY Google to have the services on Android... Talk about idiocy.
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Project Loom seems to be much better than async/await. Hopefully they manage to implement it.
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Is 2048 RSA broken? I think that's what ssh-keygen creates by default, right?
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this is going to revolutionize Nvidia's stock price and probably not much else.
It's not clear to me either. From John's replies it also seemed to be an OpenSUSE bug.

On the other hand, if it's bad enough it certainly makes sense to treat it as a kernel bug. The difficulty lies in finding where to draw the line.
Banks are doing more than just blockchain now: https://techcrunch.com/2017/09/28/fidelity-ceo-abigail-johns...
Here's a youtube video that explains the new capsule idea: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VKoLGnq15RM

(I'll admit that I don't fully understand it yet), but I think the major thing that capsules tries to fix is that a CNN only looks at a small window of the image at a time. Since the capsules aggregate more information, it can learn more general features.

Also, he notes that the paper was done on the MNIST data set (small images), and may not generalize to larger images, but the initial results are promising.
Tulips aren't finite in number nor can they be transferred on a decentralised ledger.

Anyone can grow tulips and grow fake tulips that may look like tulips but are cheaper quicker to buy / make. You can't fake Bitcoin nor can you grow it indefinitely in your garden.

People who make the tulip comparison simply don't understand the revolutionary aspect of the technology. It's like calling the internet tulip mania back in the mid 90's. Blockchain technology will change the world. Bitcoin's value will boom and bust for many years to come. Where will it end up in USD terms? Nobody knows... but the technology itself will become as indispensable as the internet.
No, I think it says that people feel they're working harder than smokers. So far as I can tell, there was no attempt to say they actually do work harder.

The other half of this is that it incentivizes smokers to quit.

This is about motivating non-smokers who are feeling de-motivated. And about helping people drop an unhealthy habit.
I haven't seen the refund one. Do you have it? All I could see is the ticket system where issues are closed by support rather than user.
Opinions differ on that point. I'm familiar with the lignan/rot hypothesis. Another view is that major coal beds, including those of Appalachia and Europe, formed in subducting marshes at the margins of a rising mountain range. Fossil evidence of decay suggests lignan-persistence alone wasn't sufficient to explain accumulations.

I don't know which model is more likely, just sharing the info.

http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2016/01/13/1517943113

https://www.economist.com/news/science-and-technology/216887...
It's shopworn but good tech doesn't always win. Bitcoin has a big(ish) network of users and a proven codebase.

The decentralized nature of blockchains means that they're hard for individual corporations to control and profit from. That hampers adoption of new closed cryptocurrencies (not Monero or Ethereum though) but can serve as a powerful public utility.
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Maersk uses it to fight corruption in container ownership claims. It used to be a piece of paper, that cost more than the actual container to transport because whoever held it could pick the container up at the port.

These days it's run on block chain making it virtually impossible to claim a container that isn't yours.

A similar use case could be used for almost any sort of ownership record in the public sector, like landownership.
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It's probably more than that otherwise that guy wouldn't waste his time.
Who are the trio?
> a single non-illegal use case that isn't better served by a traditional, centralized database

You know how PayPal blocked payments to Wikileaks? (Back when it wasn't yet obviously evil.) That's what traditional, centralized databases can do for you. Note that donations to Wikileaks weren't illegal, governments were just efficient in pressuring PayPal into enforcing rules that didn't even exist officially.

Also, traditional, centralized banks simply do not currently offer me the possibility of near-instantaneous money transfers. (This varies depending on where you live.) Bitcoin does.

There are a lot of things wrong with Bitcoin, the fees are much too high, and yes, its proof-of-work scheme is terribly wasteful. But the view that it doesn't offer anything useful is a bit one-dimensional.
The comparison between bitcoin and tulips is pretty common, JPM CEO, Jamie Dimon, said "bitcoin is a fraud worse than tulips," then his bank apparently bought bitcoin [???], or at least did on behalf of clients.

There have been a number of threads on HN though about the comparison. The tulip bubble is apparently not as interesting as its reputation leads us to believe

>"the tulip price crashed, not because it was irrationally high, but because of an external shock." [1]

https://stratechery.com/2017/tulips-myths-and-cryptocurrenci...
Does the company have a culture of encouraging people to actually take those holidays? Based on my experience in Japan, nobody actually uses their holiday time, to avoid losing face at work. The only holidays people actually take are the public holidays. Luckily, they have a good number of them, including a whole week at the beginning of May.
Was there a HN post for this ? Only saw it on reddit.
Yes, exactly - there's a framework in place, which allows for the bullchit. :/
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Your comment's not backed up by evidence. I can think of more right-wing (Koch, et al) and left-wing billionaires (Soros, et al) with much more influence than...who exactly?

Also worth noting that libertarian != objectivist. There's many who espouse only one of those. Religious gun-focused libertarians for example.

And nutty propaganda is just mud slinging. How Diogenian of you!
It may be some time until $100M of daily churn doesn't result in a 15% price swing. The market capitalization of BTC would need to increase considerably to accommodate such a scenario.

And it looks like we are quickly approaching such a scenario.

The rich (and super-rich) have a lot of resources to move markets and BTC is currently especially susceptible to this.
Rich Hickey has a wonderful talk about it.

"Spec-ulation" - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oyLBGkS5ICk

Which I fully agree with, basically there are no major, minor, patch level changes, in reality every change is a possible breaking changes, because we don't control what downstream is doing with our software.
I'll sell when it goes $50K.
He lambasts the developer not for making a mistake, but for making a mistake and refusing to admit that this is a mistake. That is very different.
Linus's followup post later on in the thread explains his position in more detail and is a pretty good read:

http://lkml.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/1710.3/02487.html
We do not intentionally cause regressions, and if we do then we fix them instead of asking userspace to change.
That's also true in the US. We have way more trees today than we did 100 years ago. https://www.mnn.com/earth-matters/wilderness-resources/stori...
Whereas I'm on my second Razer mouse in 12+ years and wouldn't go back to any of the previous brands I'd used (Logitech and MS come to mind - neither of which are even particularly bad in any way).
Conference talk:

"Networks vs. Hierarchies: A Delicate Relationship"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mcy_E-231LE