skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
https://www.trustprobe.com/fs1/apps.html and http://hexatomium.github.io/ are still online, but the last RCC version is from September.
I thought you were just bs'ing at first but then.... wow: http://www.npr.org/2017/06/12/532557101/want-more-instagram-...
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Hi, it's Trent here, CTO of BigchainDB.

FYI we started working on the precursor to this in 2013 (ascribe). Bitcoin hadn't even hit the mainstream then, let alone blockchain. We didn't build it to mash together buzzwords. We built it because we saw a clear need for it. We had been building on Bitcoin, and (a) didn't scale to meet our needs and (b) was super-hard to use because it didn't act like a database. So we built BigchainDB to address issues (a) and (b).

Obviously, good old "boring" MySQL is incredibly useful for tons of problems. If you're already solving a problem with MySQL, then BigchainDB is not a fit. Don't use it, stick with the thing that's working.

Where it is useful is applications that want at least one of the following benefits:

1. decentralized, so that >1 orgs can share resources

2. immutable / tamper resistance, for provenance of ownership of art, spare parts, food, etc

3. assets, so you can exchange digital goods more readily.

More details here:
https://blog.bigchaindb.com/three-blockchain-benefits-ae3a2a...
I would say contraire, Android phones have a lot more access to the emulation scene than iOS.
It seems unacceptable to me that the updated drivers do not automatically uninstall the CA. How is an ordinary user meant to navigate the certificate store and delete the CA?
Wow thanks for the link, that's a bit concerning. Not an expert on HSMs, but this does seem like a fairly serious design flaw?
What is your source for this? It does not seem consistent with sections 2.1.3.4-5 of the report.

In any case, the captain was not holding a stick when he returned to the cockpit, as both pilots were in their seats. So the captain could not have gotten any tactile feedback regardless of the stick design.
Posted to HN a few days ago. Didn't get a lot of discussion.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15595928
C++11 removed the original meaning of "auto".
That’s funny you say that. One of my pet projects was using google sheets to control SSH access with non-techies. It worked surprisingly well.

https://github.com/stephen-mw/gdoc_ssh_manager/blob/test/REA...
Read the report. There is no simple answer to that question. It was a complicated and confusing situation, and the pilots in the cockpit made a number of mistakes.
Game of Thrones banter
Clenbuterol will increase your VO2 max, so will EPO.
If unions can see the budget sheet and negotiate accordingly, they wouldn't kill the company. They want to keep their jobs, this is nonsense.
Also, fwiw, (iirc) they observed huge benefits to exercising even when GW and AICAR were taken in tandem, so it's probably most useful as an exercise amplifier.
Add Pinterest to that list of super annoying services who won't let you even look at anything without signing up/linking up/whatever else they could extort from you before letting you look at a simple picture.
Is there a list of trusted CA certs that we could use to scan to see if we have any that may not be trusted?
So something like wkhtmltopdf?
Can you please stop being personally thorny towards other users here, like we've already asked?

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
ELI5: Why are adversarial attacks not preventable by adding unpredictable noise to untrusted inputs?
Agreed. Way better than the Tribune, which seems to be more for suburbanites.
Using Artificial Intelligence to Run Your Best Marathon
This line of reasoning is why giving children (or anyone, really) medication for moderate behavioral problems is an ethical gray area. If there is a pill that helps an unruly-but-otherwise-healthy kid sit still and stay focused, do you have them take it? At what point does an element of your personality become a medical issue?
What if I don’t need a scalable blockchain, but I need a tamper-proof persistent ledger? Are there tools that are lighter-weight that can help me there?
See the bigger picture by comparing Q4 2017 to Q4 2015 - that was a blow-out quarter. Sales and EPS have since declined, especially considering the vast buyback amount.
Also the classic Field Guide to Understanding Human Error.

Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Field-Guide-Understanding-Human-Error...

Older PDF (paperback is well worth it, in my opinion): http://www.leonardo-in-flight.nl/PDF/FieldGuide%20to%20Human...
so watching ads is a job?
More than binary nuance is needed. The ship that crashed is a system of humans plus machines, the UI being just the API between the two. Forensic incident analysis of ship design, UI, human factors, etc. is needed.
This is exactly what Windows 10 is doing with UWP apps. People hate it and complain about it and give it a bad reputation. But UWP apps have drastically reduced ability to torch your OS without permission, and have Android like permission grants on the Store page which say what access the app has to your system.
I didn't buy long enough ago to be rich from my investment, but I just choose a percentage of my portfolio that I'm comfortable holding in Bitcoin. If that's 10% and Bitcoin increases in value, then I sell until I'm down to 10% again.

This means that over time I've sold a lot of my bitcoin and moved it to lower risk investments, but the dollar value of my bitcoin holdings has increased over time as well.
I'm sure you know this but I will clarify for readers: PoW is only one consensus algorithm. Consensus algorithms go back decades. They're powering all the distributed DBs, file systems, etc that power the web. Some are fault tolerant (eg Paxos), some add in Byzantine tolerance (eg PBFT), some add in Sybil tolerance (eg PoW).

> Not sure whether BigchainDB implements consensus/PoW

It has a 2-layer consensus algorithm. (See a comment above, or BigchainDB docs.) It does not use PoW because PoW is inefficient; BigchainDB doesn't target applications needing Sybil tolerance.
How Wolfenstein II Censored Hitler in Germany
Ask HN: Google Docs Still Using Operational Transformation?
Based on articles from 2009, Google Docs uses the operational transformation algorithm to manage real-time collaborative edits. Does anyone know if Google Docs is still using this? If not, any insight into what they may be using today?
This transcript: http://www.popularmechanics.com/flight/a3115/what-really-hap...

I’m not talking about the captain, I’m talking about the other pilot at the controls, Robert. He also held the stick back for some time, but he appears to have done this in the mistaken belief that the correct recovery procedure had been tried and failed.
I’m sorry for bringing this up here, but why do I need to scroll sideways in Safari on iphone on Hacker News every time there is a quote written in an unproportional font? Just, why?
So one should just be happy with everything they have, dislike, and cannot change or compete on? How is that a reasonable expectation?

"Vast amounts of people"? Vast amounts of people kill other vast amounts of people, are you ok with that? Vast amounts of people vote for laws that screw over other vast amounts of people, is that cool? A vast amount of people boarded the Titanic, look where that got them...

If some idiot Youtube personality wants to flap their jaws for an hour, droning on and on about whatever stupid pointless thing in their life is stuck in their craw or whatever, fine. But for information dispersal, unless the video is densely packed with visual content, it needs to be text. Doers all over the world will thank you.

Entitlement is, if anything, forcing poor viewers to sit through a 15-minute life-story-slash-prologue just so they can continue to participate in a Reddit discussion or finish their task or whatever.
Given the "leetspeak" file names mentioned, this smells
more like a bot or malware than a smoking gun for collusion,
or lack of competence rather than malice.

On the technical side, how could this work? How could
a third party create sub-domains and control their DNS?
> Is it still warming? Ok, here we get more contentious.

No, no we don't.

> How much of the warming is down to CO2? Contentious, again

Sadly, not contentious at all. The influence of changing solar output has been looked at again and again. It is not neglected.

> s a warming planet a problem? Again, debatable. Rising sea level and ocean acidification scares aside

So, rising sea levels and ocean acidification are not scares, they are occurring. The Great Barrier Reef is struggling, the Artic ice is retreating.

I can't believe that there are people so determined to stick their heads in the sand.
You can always make a substantive point (if there is one) without the distracting and uncivil snark, and the guidelines ask us to.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
That's concurrency, which isn't really surprising :)

But probably when S3 is busy, you can edit, refresh and not see your changes.
Pretty much nailed it.

The linked book is a classic of the genre. It's by an honorary PhD (Vahrenholt) with ties to the oil industry and, this is key, seemingly zero peer-reviewed publications to do with climate (but a couple of English-language op-ed pieces -- https://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&as_sdt=0%2C5&q=frit...).

What's the point (I ask myself) of even engaging with junk comments like that?
Ask HN: Uses of hidden space behind the iPhone X notch?
Hello.

I know the iPhone X is not out just yet, but it's in the hands of some media people and a few developers. I'm looking forward to getting it or getting my hands on it.

Here is my question. Do you see any uses for the hidden space behind the notch?

I saw that apps can render behind the notch, but it's not visible while the app is fullscreen, but if you go to the app switcher, the whole app is visible. Here is a little funny proof of concept. https://youtu.be/doEwhLtsACU

I thought about achievement-type games or puzzle games could use this, but its a once-off trick.

Do you see any other use for that? Probably people here are more creative than me :)
Come jump on my new Perl bandwagon, plenty of room... :(
Bitcoin is a currency. Why shouldn't a currency not have more articles about its price? I don't understand where you're going with this argument.

There is plenty of technical information about bitcoin. Bitcoin has spawned an overwhelming amount of technical discussion with regards to blockchain.

> It may or may not continue to increase in value long-term, but it has little uses outside of being worth a lot of money.

It is a form of currency. What uses are you thinking? Bitcoin popularized blockchain technology. I really don't understand your criticism of Bitcoin.
What do you use this for?
Picking stocks based on "everyone uses..." is a great example of a bubble. What about all the companies that are not consumer facing?
I wouldn't be surprised if this guy digital_trench was being paid to shill for Tesla.
> Apple has a strong brand… because it’s consistently been building good products since the 1980s

This writer wasn't using Macs in the '90s.

Not crucial to the argument, I know, but seriously, Apple was famously inconsistent.
None of those operate on the open ocean.

There's a wheel there for steering; from the article it sounds like the trackball is used with a menu system of some type, not directly to set the steering angle.
I generated on livecd, and exported it to multiple yubikeys + backup.

That way I don't have deal with different subkeys and other complications that just makes everything hard to understand :)
Doesn't include iPhone X sales, next quarter results will be interesting.
If unikernel image boots in 4ms, it can be used to directly hande incomming traffic in some cases. Does anybody have an experience with this?
> the others are still open questions.

The bad news is that if we wait just a luttle longer, they'll become closed questions.
Any special reason to why you use this over Chrome?
Perhaps you're looking for an append-only logging / messaging system like Apache Kafka? Good to explore what's out there and understand what's possible.

BTW using BigchainDB can feel pretty lightweight: it feels like a DBaaS but you don't have to set up the back end, you just get going. In the following, you'll have a tx on the BigchainDB public net (IPDB) in seconds. And the JS or py code to do it yourself is right there too. https://www.bigchaindb.com/getstarted/
Thanks! We've moved the other comments there.
In their second publication they actually use the probabilistic unit, but computing those requires running an EM algorithm for each layer of capsules: https://openreview.net/forum?id=HJWLfGWRb
If you ask a child to draw a hand, they will almost always draw it with five fingers stuck straight out, widely separated. This is a view of a hand that one almost never actually sees; generally you'll have fingers clustered together, occluding each other, foreshortened, etc. So why do they draw it like that?

It's because they're drawing a conceptual, represntational model of a hand, not a distilation of visual "hand" characteristics. That's the difference with human learning: it's based on representational model-making, which is not at all the same thing as pattern matching.
Why should unions get to see the budget and negotiate? It's not their business and they aren't entitled to that information. If they don't think their salary is fair, they can always seek work elsewhere.
I was working in the crude oil / nat gas options pit at the NYMEX during the summer of 2008 when these trades went down (where much of Mexico's hedge was traded but not necessarily the author's portion.) A highly ironic part of this story is that the traders in the pit selling to Mexico thought they were getting an incredible deal. Both because the price of crude was so high at the time but also because they were able to "fade" the market. When you're in a pit like this, there are only ~100 "seats". At the time this meant 100 people who had firms with enough cash to front ~$1.5M so that you could stand for 6.5 straight hours in a tiny space at the NYMEX and shout back and forth. Basically what happens is someone will yell out to the other 100 people "what's the market on DEC'9 crude?" The point is they aren't supposed to say whether they want to buy or sell. Other people will yell out the prices they'd be willing to buy or sell at and the quantity. Say someone is willing to sell 200k options at $100/option, and someone else likes that price, they can yell "sold, 50 DEC'9 crude at 100." meaning they just bought 50k options expiring in December 2009. For this particular trade, there were three brokers that were known for representing mexico's hedge in previous years. Traders were expecting them to come back around this time. When one of these brokers came into the pit and yelled out "what's the market on DEC '9 crude" traders guessed he was hedging for mexico and quoted a price a full dollar above where the market was at. A bunch of people piled on willing to sell at even higher prices. The brokers had no choice but to accept this higher price. I was just a 22 year-old DRW intern on loan from a Stanford PhD program and in my head I was thinking "what the hell is going on.. that's not the fair price. I need to be selling!" I didn't actually sell anything because I didn't have the confidence or authority (it was my first month). But a senior trader explained this to me on our walk back to 7 world trade center after.
If BTC ever reaches a period of stability in price, I say that getting there the faster the better. Then people can actually start using it as a currency. So I vote this is good for BTC.
Even specialised UIs need to be intuitive. You should need to know the domain (navigation), but not the specifics of everything the UI can show.

The problem with this kind of thing is people are sent on a course, which gives everyone a false sense of control and understanding. Clearly the crew didn't understand it, leading to a panic and wasted time.
If I were Craig Newmark I would launch a DNAinfo clone in every market where Craigslist revenues support it. I suspect that would be dozens of cities.

In fact, I think I'd sort of feel like that was my responsibility, having killed the classified business that allowed local newspapers to fund quality local reporting. This has done perhaps more harm than is realized:

"You can draw a straight line from the decline of local journalism to our current political morass. It’s as plain as the nose on your face." https://twitter.com/lpolgreen/status/926204411789049860
Apple Holiday Sales Outlook Tops Estimates on IPhone X
To be clear, I am totally on board with reimagining the economy. Sorry, that didn't come through in my post.
It's _not_ just about an oil CEO. It's about everyone who uses energy. Gas tends to be a high percentage of poor people's cost-of-living, and cheap oil tends to act as a progressive reverse-tax. In cold climates, heating one's house is also closely linked to energy prices.

When you hamper the economy, everyone loses a little. It weakens wealth creation slightly.

We're at a moment in history where we're pulling people out of poverty, through economic growth. So any actions that limit economic growth need to be judged with a high bar. https://www.economist.com/news/leaders/21578665-nearly-1-bil...

I'm not saying that we shouldn't do it, and if it is actually a 5% catastrophic risk then I think it would be prudent to take action at the cost of leaving millions of people in extreme poverty. But there is a trade-off, and it needs to be examined.
It absolutely could. The alternative is that Microsoft has complete control over what software can run on any Windows PC. It turns out that people who want this ("Man. I wish I could only run programs chosen by the monopoly supplier") already have an iPad so this basically just creates a backlash.

I know what you're thinking "Oh, well there could be an exception for when you need it, you'd just use admin to authorize it or something" and that's exactly what this is.
No shutting down the whole business is the one legal form of retaliation
Again, this is an optical illusion that fools depth perception. It doesn't make you see the T-Rex as a tea-pot, say.

Different things.
Because the markup for those blocks isn't intended for general-purpose quotations; it's <code> blocks. You don't word-wrap code.
Sounds like he fired every single employee on the spot. I can see the logic behind redirecting the site to a static asset when you have nobody to manage it.
Toss them in the bin marked with 'x', go round back after work to fish them back of that bin and take them home.
Some setups here: https://kit.com/explore/setup
Probably something like this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosetta_Project
You are right, but that was just an example I found on the web. Here is another one: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/19/Sculptur...

A few more:

https://c1.staticflickr.com/3/2693/4094114491_b9ae422af4_b.j...

https://c1.staticflickr.com/5/4293/35910672716_90f1f62105_k....
I’m curious about the choice of python here. If your building a scalable high throughput data store, python seems like an odd choice
Your question is whether the person who maintains SQLAlchemy knows how to install mysql?
Congrats, you just added one more nail in the coffin of capitalism.
THIS I'm tired of people equating the web with facebook.
I think this idea is a serious, highly consequential error (when broadly accepted). It's the corrupt and criminal who say, 'everybody does it'.[0] If you study the professional practice of propaganda, you'll find that they use this argument too - it covers for them and attempts to paralyze their targets (which is commonly the true aim of propaganda - confusion and paralysis). There are very important, consequential differences between people and between organizations; some should be trusted, some supported, ignored, opposed, shunned, and some should be jailed. It's all the difference between a just, functional, prosperous and free society on one hand, and on the other hand a corrupt one where such things are despairingly accepted as inevitable. We can do and have done much better than that.

[0] To avoid any doubt: The parent commenter is not a criminal; the ideas are the same.
I never understood how blockchains could scale.

A global list of hashes that is also append only? This just screams to blow up sooner or later.
That is an article in popular mechanics that contains a few excerpts from the transcript selected in order to make a particular point. The accident report gives a detailed description of the behavior of both pilots before the copilot entered (2.1.2.3).

One possible misconception here is that the copilot would have had his hands on the stick. It isn't normal for both pilots to have their hands on the stick. Only the pilot flying does -- for obvious reasons. At the stage where the problem developed, the copilot's attention, as the report explains, was mostly concerned with trying to interpret the ECAM warnings, and later with calling the captain. The idea that the copilot would have closely observed his own (hypothetically linked) stick and detected the problem, despite being fundamentally confused about what was going on, and having many more things on his plate, is little more than wishful thinking. The possibility cannot be conclusively ruled out, but there is no evidence that this would have happened.
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No, they just have a big button by each wheel marked "MAKE THIS THE BOW".
Prediction: 5 years from now Go will be viewed with similar scorn to Java
> He's a Trump supporter. So he's probably...

This sort of thing is a sign that what follows won't meet Hacker News' bar for substantiveness and flamebait-eschewance.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
What romaniv said- it's a different thing.
>I'm sure that the intent in this case was not malicious

What other explanation is there? Is there a valid reason for an audio driver to silently install a CA cert?
The Mac is stagnating ?

They dropped the ball on the MacPro but everything else saw evolutionary upgrades this year.

The MacBook Pro is the 2nd generation of this design which usually see more people upgrading to. And to be fair it's a dramatic upgrade over older models.
I'm not talking about his logic, I'm talking about the logic of the person he asked to remove all of the content. That person was almost certainly an employee who was also laid off.