skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I understand the sentiment; there is a lot wrong with the current system. But any new world that you create should have at least the same level of protection against fraud, theft, and speculative bubbles as the current (imperfect) world; otherwise even more people will be hurt. The world of crypto-currencies has not been very reassuring in this regard, unfortunately.
This. There's so much in software development that relies on guarantees that can only be upheld by behavior like this that I _sincerely_ doubt that anyone having issues with skipped rows is in the right place.

There are arguments for and against any technique, but this one seems really ridiculous to me, especially if you consider what any "countermeasure" would do to the code (which is usually much more important than the data in the long run!).
> That has no implications for Trump's effectiveness.

Of course it does. If Obama was supporting and involved in propping up Syrian "rebels" in the area, with groups of people and equipment switching sides, he was not effectively 100% committed to wiping it out. So the strategy was the same, but pumping resources fighting Assad in the region on another hand was undermining that strategy.

https://www.nytimes.com/2016/06/27/world/middleeast/cia-arms...

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-mideast-crisis-syria-rebe...

http://www.cnn.com/2013/09/12/politics/syria-arming-rebels/i...

> The U.S., by its actions, clearly prefers Assad to ISIS:

Right but it only took until Trump was elected to stop feeding "rebels" fighting Assad. Well at least that's what the press releases say. So U.S. actions were a schizophrenic and certainly don't say anything "clearly".

> That doesn't mean ISIS took the U.S. by surprise,

Obama says it did http://www.cnn.com/2016/12/07/politics/isis-surprise-obama/i... . He blames CIA backhandedly:

"The ability of ISIL to initiate major land offensives that took Mosul, for example, that was not on my intelligence radar screen," [Obama told Zakaria]
The standard example is Michael Clemens, who argues the total cost of closed borders to the world is in the trillions of dollars. If you want an article reviewing more views: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2016/10/14/why-e...

The basic argument is just the standard free market argument. if A would like to sell their labor and B would like to buy it, and the government intervenes to stop them, that destroys whatever value they could have gotten from the exchange. The fact that there are some border markers between A and B doesn't change that value, although it may introduce externalities.
People keep comparing Bitcoin to a currency like the Dollar which leads to a lot of problematic comparisons.

Think about it as gold and it starts to make sense in the long term (short term is anyone's guess)
Gold has physical value, right ? For example, used in electronics, jewelry, etc. but gold is a terrible investment so if bitcoin is like gold should we also assume it's a terrible investment like gold ?
Database of Criminal Politicians?
Does anyone know of a database that contains criminal convictions of local, state, federal politicians? There is some text stuff on Wikipedia but I would like the ability to sort.
Bit of a left-field question here: how hard would it be to integrate with Google Home where you could dictate your notes, listen to them or mark todos as completed?
It works if you already have an account. I think anyone who watches one of my videos from today forward is out of luck.
The IRS cannot share information with law enforcement agencies without warrant. So it’s not like they would tell the DEA or FBI about your $1M cocaine cost of goods sold.

Of course when you get busted for drugs, it’s pretty likely that your tax records will be gone through.

I saw a documentary where sex workers had accountants and such and declared all their illegal income. It was pretty interesting. But prostitution isn’t as severely prosecuted as drugs.
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I don't care to provide them. You're welcome to disagree.

My comment certainly is hostile toward PG. He isn't God. I don't have to worship him, even if I'm on his site. Do you think reddit has no discussions critical of its founders?.

PG or the mods are free to kick me off if my comments about him bother them.
If Intel freely released their compilers that would rock. Does the money Intel makes selling compilers outweigh the benefits of having hella optimized code on Intel hardware? The lock in benefits seem to outweigh the few hundred bucks they get selling ICC or whatever. They already have free but-don't-expect-support versions of MKL and such.

Edit: freely released
I couldn't find it, but I wonder if there is any way that you can ask it ONLY to run the skills which have been deployed/approved by the company. Can think of plenty of use-cases where I work, but I know it'd be a non-starter if it could, just like at home, be used to order products,tell jokes, play jeopardy, etc.
One of the big remaining users of display switching is the military. When something important is happening on one screen, others need to look at that screen. The military wants switching so they don't get everybody jammed around the screen with the action and abandoning their own stations. Here's the current incarnation of NORAD HQ in Cheyenne Mountain.[1]

Such switching goes all the way back to NASA during Apollo. Their system put all the screens on a video cable as cable TV signals. Each console, and other locations around Mission Control and Launch Control, all had channel selectors and could watch any display. Using different technology, that capability was maintained in later control centers.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tactical_operations_center#/me...
You are right, of course, but nonetheless this is a significant step forward for the language (and the ecosystem as a whole).

I do hope that - just like yourself, I am sure - the next significant step is more organically and proactively developed, and not treated (at least in the wider communtity's eyes) as a belated addition to a bewildered leviathan.
Would you please stop?

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
"...send across the the network"

You know, major companies don't just plug ethernet cables to routers and forget about them.

They WILL notice the traffic.
Helpful comment, thanks.
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Can't be, it's illegal to handle financial transactions without knowing who your customers are.

If they don't bother to do due diligence, they will be shutdown by the police soon enough.
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Nearly all insiders (i.e. management, investors, employees, etc.) will be subject to a "lock-up" on an IPO that prevents them from selling immediately. Typically the lock-up lasts for 180 days, but this can vary.

Share price does often drop when the lock-up expires, but usually not as much as you'd expect--the number of restricted shares to be release and resulting liquidity effects of that expiration are well know and disclosed in public filings. So this mostly gets baked into pricing well in advance.
Yeah, I went with the one backed by Amazon...stupid me.
Another modern-technology problem: how do you pass on your cryptocurrency wealth when you die? Wills, trusts, estate law, and legal force are meaningless if you've forgotten to provide your private keys to next of kin.
What bothers me, is that all the Digital Design tools are freaking expensive and closed source. For example, building RISC-V is possible on FPGA board, but you have to have Xilinx tools (or some other brand).
This is nice.

https://web.hypothes.is/
Maybe they mean money no singular entity controls that still can enact sane monetary policy? There basically aren't any cryptocurrencies that are useful for writing long term (i.e. terms greater than 1 hour) contracts (here meaning do this action -> get this payout). The value fluctuates too much. Having a stable value is not necessary for transmitting value, or even as a store of value as long as the long term trend is not down. Determining how much someone should be paid in the future in it is awful though.
If anyone is interested in a fun open source alternative that's actually easy to connect to the outside world and databases, we are building a tool that is the result of 5 years of doing serverless/microservices at various companies:

https://github.com/1backend/1backend

Right now it's still in very early stages, but I think a lot of companies would gain from having an easy to set up platform that takes away the focus from building various bits of infrastructure and moving it to building actual apps and APIs.

We have a strong focus on the latter (APIs) up to the point of having a small DSL to describe the types your service/serverless function operates on and it generates a type safe client (Go and Angular/TypeScript right now, more is coming) and we publish npm etc packages at build time.

But it's still in an early phase so it's only for the adventurous. I hope you didn't mind the plug. Enjoy!
Hehe.

Does this cloud based part not lead to problems? Like what platforms is this thing running on "in the cloud"?
The anthem of our future dystopia will be the annoying music that plays in every Google/Amazon/Facebook product showcase.
The resource requirements are a massive downside, but they are only necessary for the "permissionless" model. In almost all cases it is equally good to use a permissioned model where the parties are all identified in advance, which completely avoids the need for proof of work (because there are no sybil attacks when everyone has a known and fixed identity).
+1 for feel-good Rosie Project. The sequel is nice, too.
That's cool! For arXiv papers you can use Librarian: https://fermatslibrary.com/librarian
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Absolutely.

Just saying that in the context of performance/cycle/core, they're closer to a bunch of Atoms than a Xeon (which, again, is totally fine for some use cases).
No idea what stats show, but I can tell you personally that I have a 20 minute round trip commute daily and wouldn't have it any other way (except shorter if possible)
> But wasn't there that murder case where the police wanted recordings from the victim's Echo and they got them?

Well, strictly speaking, no, it was the suspect’s Echo. And the suspect agreed to allow Amazon to release them. But I can't find any indication that it involved any recordings except ones triggered by the wake word. See, e.g., http://www.cnn.com/2017/11/30/us/amazon-echo-arkansas-murder...
The (Futile) Resistance to Serverless
You move out by changing the passwords & account email addresss, leaving the hubs and giving them the hubs. And tell them to change their passwords.

It's like giving the keys to the house and suggesting they change the locks after they move in.

I know what this guy described is a more involved process, but most smarthome cloud accounts are about as simple as an email & password change.

Most smart home stuff should work fine if there was no hub controlling them, like with light switches and electric shades.
OK, a down round at last. "The sale of those shares would value the business at $48 billion, a 30 percent discount to the last private valuation."

I'll bet that gets trimmed even more if the deal closes. Losses are increasing, not decreasing.
I absolutely do not understand your point. Anybody doing OS development in C++ is doing so with absolutely no C++ standard library support, same as if you were using C++ to develop for your microcontroller. If C++ binaries are compact enough for Arduino or Parallax Propeller development (<32KB RAM), they are absolutely fine for kernel development.

The real answer is historical, and cultural. On the latter, Unix is a product of C (well, and BCPL) and C is a product of Unix. They two are intertwined heavily. The former is as was mentioned a product of the relative crappiness of early C++ compilers (and the overzealous OO gung-ho nature of its early adopters perhaps as well...)

C++ without exceptions, RTTI, etc. has a lot to offer for OS development. Working within the right constraints it can definitely make a lot of tasks easier and cleaner.

It won't happen in Linux, tho.
> YPTFPSD

I'll bite, please, can you tell me what that means? Googling brings this post up as the only useful result.
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Shrem wears a ring engraved with the code that gives him access to the Bitcoin "wallet" on his computer.

"They started calling me four-finger Charlie“

http://www.businessinsider.com/charlie-shrem-arrested-bitcoi...
Would you mind posting substantively?

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
I actually moved from Word Press to BlogSpot a few years ago. I like it a lot better. It is very user friendly for non-tech people and you can add authors, who have fewer permissions than admins. You can use a third party domain to make it a .com.

You can edit the HTML if you don't like their themes. A non coder can also do quite a lot to change the look, layout and functionality.

Google now handles backend updates and security for me. It is vastly less of a headache for me than Word Press was.

Full disclosure: I am not a programmer and I am not actually qualified to assert that BlogSpot is more secure. I just like it as a platform and I don't understand why it has such a terrible reputation as something you should not take seriously.
I don't know why I'm being downvoted. Please read this article [1]. Quote: "The move comes after Uber refused to apply for a $150 permit that would designate the cars as test vehicles, and allow them to be used on Californian roads, with the company arguing that the documentation didn't apply to its specific self-driving cars."

[1] https://www.theverge.com/2016/12/21/14049070/uber-san-franci...
This is an interesting article. It gives a perspective on, and out of, the experiences of the author, the underpinnings of his choice to come (to Athens) to try to build a structure to assist others, the exchange that happens within the interaction of giving and receiving; and on how receiving a gesture from another, one may be left with the spirit of this gesture with him, and may chose to support it.
Some years ago I was working on an embedded platform with two processors connected via ethernet, one handling data and most of the application load, the second one handling some automotive buses (CANbus and ARCnet).
I wrote a kernel driver to expose raw data coming from the ARCnet to userspace applications in the most transparent way.
So I labeled data coming from the second cpu with an unused ethertype, I changed the ethernet driver to inspect the ether type of the incoming data and send it up inside the network stack as if it was received from a certain fake ARCnet device.
The fake ARCnet device was a dummy module that allowed userspace to receive that data via normal sockets.
Probably it could be done in a better way but it was quite simple and it worked well.
I thought Bitfinex was the washing machine, as the Tether 'creators' own that too?
And hence the potential Softbank deal, who can broker these mergers across the various asian markets. This is also why Softbank is so keen on investing in Uber over Lyft. With Lyft, the best Softbank can muster is a parternship of equals amongst disparate localized companies, which is nothing but a mess in the end. Uber allows them true mergers where one side absorbs another and both come out with a net value-add. An Uber with one or more majority regions along with stakes across the globe can be a massive massive company.

Also Disclaimer: this is not investment advice. Do not buy or sell anything based on this Internet comment.
Counter data point, my erlang nodes on t2 often reports lockups of more than 400ms. This is not acceptable when queries are handled in 10ms on a typical day. Erlang had built in monitoring when the underlying system scheduler makes a error
1000× times the diminutive likelihood that this nicely immutable paper wallet hasn't already been spent.

(A paper wallet is a paper wallet even if it is written on gold in tengwar runes that only appear when subjected to fire)
No, that's how you use them. We I moved into my house I spent a good week or more tracing out where vents, pipes, and wires went. I spent time learning the parts of the furnace and built in humidifier and the different switches and knobs on them and what they do and how they do what they do. I'm no expert, buts it's helped several times already to have such an understanding.
Just to be clear, this is exactly what I thought when I first started working on DApps. But the more I get into it the more I realize there's a blurry line in there a lot of people don't even think about.

I know it's cool to build completely decentralized apps, but let's ask WHY you're trying to build a completely decentralized app.

Chances are you're trying to make sure that what users do on the app is never censorable.

If you're trying to build a decentralized app where EVEYRY asset must be unstoppable, then you need IPFS. For example million dollar homepage kind of app.

But I think those are niche cases and for most decentralized apps, the more important part is the actual transaction ledger. I don't really care if my profile image next to my transaction history stays on IPFS forever, in fact I don't want it to be permanent. I would rather have it be deletable if I wanted to. All I care about is that I own certain asset or have control over certain actions through my private key.

I think a lot of DApp developers are missing the point in this regard, trying so hard to make everything "100% decentralized" for the sake of being decentralized, while sacrificing user experience, not to mention the fact that users may actually NOT want their assets to be permanent (they only care about transaction being permanent).

Yes I know what IPNS is, but I think by now you get my point. It's not about being able to have an address to refer to multiple versions, but the question about "do users want immutability for that?"
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I mean, yes, all the issues pointed out here are real problems that I wish they would address.

On the other hand, and, more importantly, no! Remember what the world was like before SO? It has been remarkably successful at its stated goal of putting expertsexchange and random terrible phpbb forums six feet under. And despite its flaws I don't think anyone would wish for the world that it replaced.
Or just remove the thermostat from the wall, and turn the heating on by shorting the signal wires together.
Not really. In fact, permissioned blockchains are already being researched by big banks (I know someone working on this) to solve certain problems related to the integrity of financial records. It is not hard to imagine revival of ecash [1] coupled with a distributed ledger and a threshold blind signature system for issuing the currency.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ecash
> Does a set of timestamps have the same informative value of the geolocation history of a user?

It depends on the user, which is why they are given an option.

> Would you affirm this in a formal risk assessment?

Are we still talking about a free, open-source note-taking app or is this a medical device now?
There is plenty of C++ in the Linux kernel. It just masquerades as function pointers and initial fields in structures called "base".
Bitcoin loses over a fifth of its value in less than 24 hours
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It's not about hiding it, it's about making it hard to accurately observer its heading and therefore hard to hit with a torpedo.
"just because you have a CS degree and work in San Francisco, don't think you're the smartest person in the world."

That's right, because everybody knows _I'M_ the smartest person in the world!

Nobutseriously. I've never been able to articulate why I was skeptical about Bitcoin as a "currency" per se, but I think you've done it. The money problems Bitcoin claims to uniquely solve, it either doesn't really solve, or it's a solution you can easily get some other way, or it was a security-through-obscurity type of thing where agencies of oversight were ignoring it/ignorant of it -- which meant if it ever went mainstream they would catch up... and now they have. Sadly I don't think there's any escape from authoritah.

That's not to say the blockchain idea isn't useful... just not as money.
The thing is, if its value drops to zero, we might lose a few dollars here and there right? A lot of high profile people and edge funds would lose hundreds if not billions of dollars. So we’re good no worries...

Now, if 1 BTC reaches 500k-$1 million, it’s all good and it’s actually possible when you look at it as a product vs need + market size.

No risk no reward ;)
I've never moved anywhere that I can remember already having a fridge, washer, or dryer. We've always taken ours with us. They seem like more personal appliances to me, anyhow. And in my current place, all the window coverings were removed before the home was shown. I plan on leaving mine in when I eventually sell. They were custom-cut anyhow; I suspect that the old ones were removed because they were damaged.
I wish OCaml had the libraries and community of Go or Rust, I think it'd be the most useful all-around language out there.
The only unanswered question is how many of them are needed per square meter.

p.s. first hand impression: one per small or medium room.
However you need much more than one to avoid delineating the exceptions which prove the rule.

Also, your anecdote had a safety net - parents willing to take them in. What impact would the absence of that safety net have had?
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