skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Oh, come on. "Not credible" does not mean "nonexistent." We all know that the majority of Internet Tough Guys have no intention of following through on their threats, but that doesn't make it okay.

Are you really going to argue that everyone whose experience doesn't fit your worldview is a liar? If you want to say that the threateners are just a few bad apples who don't represent the rest, that's at least coherent, but this denialist approach destroys any credibility.
There was also the suggestion to pick a fairly common name... how can they determine that you're the John Smith that changed his name from "John Jacob Jingleheimer Schmidt"?

But the whole thing does make me more sympathetic to the "Right to be forgotten."
Premium phone numbers are a lot of work to get setup, and payout rates are often no more than 1/3 of the call cost.
Not sure I follow. Biggest owner has the same incentives as the smallest owner - to keep the dollar price of the coin as high as possible. So, what I am asking is, in the case of a POW coin like bitcoin, what is the force, beyond pure speculation that keeps the coin worth X and not 0.5 X?
I have opened several bank accounts online and never have been asked for photo id. SSN and some knowledge-based auth sure, but no photos.
Yes. There are many pre-trained model. You can then use transfer learning to build on a pre-trained model to benefit from the existing computational effort.
You can. Most don't. And moving something from a free form environment to a tested continuous delivery one, is not automatic.

Luckily, the performance constraints of most environments are such that python is not an automatic deal breaker nowadays. That said, correctness of code proofs are usually different from correctness of machine learning algorithms. Such that mixing them seems to just fool both sets of practitioners.
Quadrivium and the Trivium.
What are "myopic" and "out of touch" but euphemisms for ignorance.
Acceptable for those that agree with them, sure. Ask somebody who does not.
And there is very little penalty for them for being inaccurate or biased if inaccuracy and bias aligns with biases of their audience, which are pretty clearly partisan. Do you know many Democrats that would stop reading NYT because they were hitting too hard on Trump or reported some news with anti-Republican bias? I don't think there are too many such people.
Well if bitcoin hits 1M like Mcafee says, 2020....
This article talks about the underlying technical differences between various classes of EC2 computer... is this documented by Amazon anywhere? I would totally care more about replacing stuff if I knew "ok, there is some new virtualization difference in this new set of machines" that I could analyze against my use cases instead of "I have no clue what if anything is different, other than the pricing is a little different".
Mistakes were made, and it's not unreasonable to expect both sides to work together to serve the "greater good" (getting people where they need to go during the holidays) instead of just saying "you made a mistake, screw everyone who has their plans ruined".
gdax owns coinbase AFAIK
Has SiFive released any dates for their dev board that can run Linux? I haven't been following it to closely but would love to get one.
Sorry to disappoint, AllSeeingEyes. What I taped out is a fairly modest instantiation of BOOM. I was trying to reduce risk and we had a very small area to play with, so I settled for ~4 CM/MHz. One potential win here would have been to use my TAGE-based predictor, which is an easy >20% IPC improvement on Coremark. Of course, a lot more reworking would be needed to achieve x86-64 clock frequencies.
How to install sql server 2017
No, you cannot build a system like that without foregoing decentralization.
A lot of people like to pretend that government invented unions, when what the government did was step in and set things up so companies would stop hiring mercenaries to shoot unionized workers and unionized workers would stop burning down factories. Making it harder for government to effectively mediate labor disputes won't eliminate labor disputes, in the long run, it will just bring back the thuggery of the late 19th/early 20th century.
GGP treats "the media" as a monolithic entity that lies, when it's really just barely edited blogs like TechCrunch and well-known trolls like The Washington Times, Breitbart, and The National Enquirer that are the main problem.
They could eliminate it because it had a central point of control. There are over two hundred other countries and a black market that can't be stopped even if the US outlaws Bitcoin.
An additional advantage of some kind of RTOS, or at least using interrupts: infinite looping uses more power than sleeping and waiting for interrupts.
paid network
user owned data
fixes most problems
> Biggest owner has the same incentives as the smallest owner

Biggest owner can steal smallest owners money because biggest owner controls the consensus rules. So no, the incentives aren't aligned.

> what is the force

The only one that matters : Supply and demand, and no ability to cheat the system. The only thing that is happening is more and more people are recognizing it.
The place was at fault. There were crumbs in the edges of the floor in the kitchen and other nooks and crannies. If you don't want insects infesting your place, you should keep it clean and not feed them. I stayed in other AirBnBs too, and never saw cockroaches that size and in those numbers.
How to Add Social Login to Django
I have seen comments that there is sometimes heavy DDOS attacks on the various bitcoin exchanges during intense price movements. Don't know much beyond that.
I'll be interested to read your follow-up post on the differences between offering phone support in Japanese and English. A few of the interactions you described here sounded distinctly Japanese to me.
... to what end? Credit reports can presumably be looked up without them if they're not asked for regularly.
Not sure about this incident, but I recall there was an incident earlier this year or late last year where there was major price action and evidence of someone DDOS'ing some exchanges.

And if not DDOS, it's entirely possible that these exchanges are not able to handle the rush of people logging in to buy the dip. I don't think any of these exchanges have the throughput of something like NASDAQ, not yet anyway.
Actually it is limited to units. You can still divide a Bitcoin into satoshis, and these satoshis are limited in their printing. He used 21 million units of Bitcoin, but since you want to get technical, it's actually 21,000,000,000,000,000 satoshi. I don't know what possible source gave you the idea that divisibility == unlimited, but sadly, it's wrong.

Also, please take your "digital gold" meme and use it on r/Bitcoin. Not only does Bitcoin's price contain the speculative valuation of a million people who call it a currency (regardless of your particular vision) but that vision also has a million flaws. It's rather funny, when someone points out its flaws as "digital gold" then the Bitcoin troglodites come out and call it a currency. When you point out its flaws as a currency, they correct you that it is, in fact, digital gold. When in fact, it's just a technology medium for transmitting value without the economic mechanisms to be a currency, nor the historical/economic/political/social mechanisms to be a 'digital gold'.
A Ponzi scheme is based on a lie that there is an underlying asset delivering some yield, when in fact it is other investor money. So you can never sell the asset to derive the capital gain. Bitcoin on the other hand has an underlying asset (rights to the blockchain) and has no yield as a dividend. In many ways it is closer to a bank in that you hope everybody doesn't want to withdraw all at once. The main difference is that the money is backed by equity rather than debt.
AAPL is no VZ, but it's paid dividends since 2012.
'Burgergate' is over
Why not search all search engines in parallel and compare the results?
When I was in college I would do this with all the credit card offers received, or anything else I found offensive, if it had a return envelope. All the paper they sent would go back in the return envelope, along with a handful of pennies, and maybe a guitar string or two taped across the top flap.

I'm sure most of them cost several dollars in postage to get back.
2053, 36years from now. :-(
If you use SFOX.com you can buy on whichever exchange has the best price.
yeah, sound money is not nearly 1% as important as getting from one place to another a little faster.
It may not be the end of Moore's Law, but the increase in resources needed to run modern software has definitely slowed down.

In 2017, my mom is using my old 2006 era Core Duo 1.66Ghz Mac Mini running Windows 7 with only 1.5GB of RAM. She mostly uses it for tutoring when she doesn't want her students on her main computer. It still runs Chrome and Office surprisingly well. It has plenty of USB2 ports, Bluetooth and Gig E Ethernet.

i cant imagine getting any use out of the computer I used in 1995 - a PowerMac 6100/60 with a PPC 601/60Mhz processor and a 486Dx/2 66Mhz Dos Compatibility Card in 2006.

My Plex Server is a 2008 era Core 2 Duo 2.66Ghz Dell Laptop running Windows 10 with 4Gb of RAM.
I guess an old IRC joke is lost on this audience?
What alternatives are out there for mobile developers?

Is there an open source Android and/or iOS equivalent allowing self-hosting analytics like Piwik does for web (without a 3rd party)? Piwik does ship an Android SDK; anyone have experience to compare to 3rd party options?

https://github.com/piwik/piwik-sdk-android

Hat tip to user johnny_and1 for mentioning ACRA for Android crash reporting elsewhere in this thread. Are there any similar libraries for iOS?

https://github.com/ACRA/acra
Matt Lauer Accused of Sexual Harassment by Multiple Women
Since you are clearly very well informed (no sarcasm intended), do you mind helping me with something Ive been struggling with?

In your opinion, what is the intrinsic value of Bitcoin?
Bitcoin, like gold, does not stop inflation. Once again, what is a problem that Bitcoin solves that isn't solved better by another system?

See the original paper on The Byzantine Generals Problem by Lamport et al, where the authors present multiple solutions. Many more solutions have been successfully used in production. People who need to solve that problem do not need to hold any Bitcoin, so the Byzantine Generals Problem does not put any floor on the value of Bitcoin.
> reality is unfair (which it just can't be by virtue of being the reality)

Fairness is absolutely orthogonal to reality. An imaginary scenario can be fair, and a real scenario can be unfair. You've never heard the saying "life isn't fair"?
Please reread my post, I never claimed any did.

But anyway, off the top of my head:

http://www.nytimes.com/1989/02/05/us/3-accused-of-murder-in-...

>The police later discovered that a thumbprint from the corpse did not match the one on Mr. Hanson's California driver's license.
VIOLATION OF HUMAN RIGHTS AND ABUSE OF JUDICIARY POWER IN BELGIUM
> If a company makes less money than others, it will stop investing investingn in itself and divert funds to more profitable ventures.+

+ In a free market without monopoly in its industry
Some of this is fairly well known if you happen to be quite familiar with Xen.

If your use case is "I don't want to understand Xen", then fine, just use AWS and pick the newest instances, they're usually the best.

AWS does have some words about PV vs HVM here: http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/virtualiz...

But really, they don't say much and that's fine. If you just want to run stuff, you probably don't need to understand the deep details of Xen or PV drivers or whatever; the cpu speed, memory, and "disk io"/"cpu credits" they document quite well will be what matters significantly more.

If you are at the scale of netflix, then it does make sense to figure out an extra several percent disk performance.

> I would totally care more about replacing stuff if I knew ... instead of "I have no clue what if anything is different

They almost always have blog posts accompanying each new instance launch which roughly outline the performance improvements and reasons that instance type is cool vs previous ones, even if they don't go into the depth of virtualization differences so often (which again, usually doesn't matter! for nitro, the C5 blog did talk about the visualization stuff in depth https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/now-available-compute-inten...)
One advantage of being the size / prestige of Mozilla is presumably organisations that are willing to license their content for free to Mozilla for this purpose?
Aadhaar is NOT a proof of address. Or Age. UIDAI has clarified it.
Yep, I'm a king. I don't live in a mansion, but I don't need one. My wife works because she wants to. My kids go to a wonderful school 2 minutes from our house. I commute 25 minutes into SF (worst part of my day, BART is seriously crowded). I make a fairly absurd amount of money (it's embarrassing to say, and I don't need the hassle of having it out there, but let's just say that I hit 6 figures many years ago). We spend well under half that, and we have enough saved that we can retire anywhere in the world tomorrow if we want. I _am_ older than you, but what people are saying is true, after 25 years working as a developer in the Bay Area, I am making money hand over fist and the only place that can compete compensation-wise is NYC -- and honestly you couldn't pay me enough to live there.
You may be interested to know the creator of the crypto currency exchange Kraken was CEO of Lewt Inc. Many of the people involved in virtual item shop businesses over the past few decades are prominent holders and founders of crypto currency businesses and schemes.
Who said we need decentralization? Adding that requirement drastically increases costs without providing any practical gain. Card networks provide near instant payment processing with very low fees. Need irreversible payments? Simply use the same architecture without implementing chargebacks.
Any private entity demanding Aadhaar from its users/customers is putting them at risk. So no, some blame goes to companies that have started demanding it.
The internet was designed to route around damaged caused by nuclear war.
Great article. An effective engineer needs to know how to work with non-engineers. Unless, you're on a team composed of purely engineers and don't need to interact with non-engineers. But even then, it's a good skill to hone for potential career changes in the future.
I think they have already broken POSIX compliance in this area. A lot of the /etc/passwd entries don't do anything by default (like the root entry, in this case, whose significance in that file changes based on an external, second, unrelated-to-POSIX auth system).

While the file is still there in the same form it would be on a truly POSIX compliant system, the functionality is not.

The change I proposed, or other equivalent changes, might "loudly"/fatally break programs that rely on the /etc/passwd style of auth, but if those programs are depending on POSIX-compliant behavior based on that file on OSX systems already, they are likely "silently"/more subtly broken (which, when it comes to code that interacts with the security system, is a much worse thing, I think). It's the same old accessibility/security compromise as ever though.
The obvious solution is to have phone support days or hours.

If you only accept support calls at certain times, you can plan to do development at other times.
This is so awesome, thank you. Can't wait to play around with it
Theoretically, yes, but it's never happened since leap seconds were established in 1972, and it seems very unlikely to happen for quite some time. Chances are that a lot of software doesn't actually support negative leap seconds at all.
> Anyone remember the Bitcoin faucets?

I logged in to my Coinbase account for the first time in years this week.

What was $0.01 worth of Bitcoin from a faucet is now worth $0.20. Incredible ROI!
The problem is most developers don't like to communicate much. They just want to develop stuff in peace. It takes a lot for a developer to actually start communicating with people.
> I did it for 10 years, but more recently have moved away from phone support as much as possible (or delegated to others to do).

Somehow you managed to also keep the business going as its sole developer without going insane or bankrupt. If your luck turns bad and you have to find job security at a Big TechCo, at least the prospect of being stuck in an open-office-layout won't scare you :)
Scaling PostgreSQL: load balancing and healthchecks
Right, this comes after numerous lawsuits and one humiliating defeat for AT&T and FCC in 1956.
Having an atomic clock behind your NTP server doesn't really gain you anything unless GPS is lost for an extended period of time. As long as a timeserver has a GPS lock, it's going to be disciplining the atomic clock the same way any other clock is disciplined, so you don't really gain anything. Even a cheapie timekeeping GPS chip can get down into the < 500ns accuracy range (and the Thunderbolt on my desk will get down to < 50ns).

(You can gain a little accuracy if your timeserver itself is running its main clock (the one that drives the CPU and all the busses) off of a precision frequency reference, be it GPSDO or atomic clock, but that's a separate discussion)

Oh, and if you're using NTP and not directly connected to a precision timesource (not over the network), you may as well give up on that level of precision anyhow. For that you need PTP.
how exactly do you build a centralized system that is irreversible?
I don't know where you are from, or the situation you are talking about. If you give me some context, I'm confident I can make a case.
Check build2, it has a sane build model and syntax and comes with integrated package manager/repository, similat to Cargo:

https://build2.org
Paywall Will Be Wired’s ‘Hedge Against the Future’
Can help avoid that with the even-newer t2.unlimited [1] instances, it seems.

[1] https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/new-t2-unlimited-going-beyo...
I don't understand why you've gotten downvoted. Your analogy is fair in my opinion. I made the same analogy to video games and porn, both which use inordinate amounts of electricity.
You see no value in sending $1,000,000 across the world in 10 minutes for less that $4? No value in date-stamping documents on the Blockchain, and proving asset ownership? No value in locking your wealth cryptographically among several keys, shared by your family or business partners?
I’m guessing no fiat to crypto or vice versa; 1. That’s a taxable event. 2. Wouldn’t that lead to more financial scrutiny?
I'd be curious how you deal with engineers that are well past "Senior". Title inflation has devalued "Senior" to the point that people not having that title after 5 years start to think they should look around. Back in my day... (snow, hills, etc)

I'm guessing you probably just don't see that many of them. It's rare that I look around and meet people with over 20 years of experience.

Anyway, at least partly due to experience and partly due to not saddling myself with crappy startup salaries, my base compensation isn't even an option on your distribution!
They do. That's why unions that subsist usually have some special command of power, normally enforced by the state.

For example, in argentina its impossible to hire pilots from other countries.
Uber's hack shows need to change how we handle digital security
> which is an easy >20% IPC improvement on Coremark. Of course, a lot more reworking would be needed to achieve x86-64 clock frequencies.

Maybe these should be expressed as Instructions Per Second (at peak and at the point of diminishing returns?) or something like that, rather than two independent numbers. Higher clock frequency actually seems like a bad thing, all else being equal. It seems to me that throughput ought to trend toward infinity, clock frequency toward zero. ;- )
If they already have the image, then you don't need this system.

If they don't have it, but are doing verify-after, then the image won't actually be blocked right away. The proposed system would be of pretty marginal value. Some value, yes, but low enough that facebook decided it wasn't worth building that system.

You can't avoid having a tradeoff somewhere.
Maybe not "buying stuff" unless you truly need it would be a boon to the environment. Endless growth is for cancer, not the economy.
I think this comes down to how "Russian agent" is qualified. At least in terms of Twitter's search it counted anybody using Russian characters, that had ever logged in from a Russian IP, or had transactions from a Russian bank. There's two absurdities here - first how many Americans would be counted, by a similar metric, as being "American agents" against countless other nations? Did you talk about Brexit from a US IP? You're an "American agent" trying to interfere with the UK's election and national sovereignty!

Perhaps the most interesting part is while this qualification qualifies countless unaffiliated individuals as "national agents", it likely all but entirely excludes anybody who actually is a national agent. If I'm a government engaged in a conspiracy to target another nation, you know the most basic things I'm not going to do? There's this completely absurd notion in the media that Russians are some sort of collective of super-hackers and media masters capable of shaking nations and changing elections with a negligible subpercent fraction of total impressions -- yet apparently they haven't yet learned how to use fancy software like TOR, forget to not write in Cyrillic, and also connected their accounts to Russian banks?

I think this is a major problem with media in general. In the US many people do not want to believe that Americans voted how they did. And so when an explanation comes along that helps them confirm this bias, critical thinking is completely thrown out the window. Of course this problem obviously is not relegated to just this issue, but the repetitive banality of this particular one is disturbing. It casts a rather negative shadow over most of the media.
Just don't implement chargebacks. Done. What made you think reversible payments are easier than irreversible?
Show HN: CardNewsApp – Creating New Kind of News
That's a pretty bad title and I'm not going to click on it on principle.
So how will RISC-V help? Do ARM patents cost that much to license?
Crypto is a really really new market —- expect exchanges to go down, have flash crashes, be complicit in manipulation, have terrible customer services, and maybe even lose customer funds.
European Plug-In Electric Car Sales Surge, While Diesel Collapses in October
Software Giant Autodesk to Axe 13% of Global Workforce
> does not stop inflation

Not interested in arguing with strawmen. I've been clear enough.
They aren't "requesting" it. The service exists for a specific reason, and is exceptionally optional.
The company is a year old...
Or if you can't switch jobs just yet, and you have time to kill at an Apple store, sit in on one of their daily tech sessions. I once went with my mom to the "Basics: iPad" session and couldn't believe how basic the topics were in the description [0]. But the attendees had even more fundamental issues than could be covered, such as file management, e.g. how to move a photo from the iPad to their home desktop hooked to the printer. I know that is actually not simple (it may even be covered in the Intermediate version of the class), but it's the kind of everyday feature that users expect to be simple.

[0] https://www.apple.com/today/event/ipad-basics-63381241581444...
You say your gripe is with snapchat, but what you've described is the loose amalgamation of everything in the category called web 2.0.
“Responsive” Machine Learning Could Lessen Cybersecurity Tradeoffs
Cell phones are not voluntary
> Count your blessings.

No.

Facebook is not the Almighty God.