skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> but perhaps it could be cheaper than the cost to build and maintain Guarda/Loomis trucks that carry physical currency, energy to melt metal to mint coins, and all the costs of building brick&mortar banks

On a per-transaction basis? I don't even need to work out the math to tell me it isn't even close. Bitcoin can at most handle 4 transactions per second. By virtue of its very design it will never get much more than that. Our existing financial institutions process tens or even hundreds of thousands of transactions every second. Even if the entire worldwide financial industry consumed as much power as bitcoin, on a per-transaction basis (or even a per-dollar/euro/yen basis) our existing system is much, much, much, much, much more efficient.

Just to again emphasise, Bitcoin (and hence the blockchain) by design cannot scale much more than it already has. It is simply impossible without giving up all of Bitcoin's attributes that people consider important (decentralization, trustless trust, etc...)
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The right lane is for people driving below the maximum speed limit.

The second lane from the right is for people driving faster than people in the right lane.

The left lane is for people driving the maximum speed limit. People weaving in and out of the left lane so they can pass people who are driving at the maximum allowed speed are a problem.

Because instrumentation is imperfect, two drivers who believe they are driving at maximum allowed speed could be driving at different speeds. Ideally, there would be enough lanes for people to travel constantly in the second from the left lane at maximum speed limit, and to move into the left lane to pass somebody who's instruments have them traveling slightly slower. But traffic is never ideal, and extra lanes are very expensive. So people need to chill when the driver in front of them seems to be traveling 2mph below the max speed limit. On a 60 mile commute this won't make more than 2 minutes difference in your arrival time. Probably closer to 10 seconds.
I am a generalist, but have had success in each of these areas.

Education (But not a certified teacher) currently a STEm lab Coach for the past nine years, Systems Librarian and media creation (audio engineering and video editing). I also do a lot of statistical programming (R) for the company I work with for grants.

So I try to just make each resume simple for each job.
It was also a decision by the Parliamentarian, which is a non-partisan position.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parliamentarian_of_the_United_...
A lottery has equality of opportunity, but not equality of outcome.

Many aspects of our societies have lottery-like qualities.
Just cache the responses so that only the first time a new IP connects it needs to be looked up (until cache fills)

Integrating maxmind is a bit of a pain and it’s a massive database. Not well suited to use cases like single purpose or ephemeral containers.

You’ll probably end up storing the maxmind db in a separate node on your local network, anyway. So you still have a latency issue (although lower, obviously). More importantly you now need to maintain an extra box per replicated cluster. It could make sense to outsource that management if the latency between your data center and ipdata is acceptable. Such low latency is easily achievable if ipdata has BGP anycast on servers in the same cloud region as your app.
Just an FYI, Panasonic is offering a commercial product that offers analytics derived from 360 degree camera images. I saw a demonstration of this system a couple of years ago at the National Restaurant Show.

http://www.security.us.panasonic.com/feature/ultra-360-camer...
Congratulations on the release David; I will be watching this one closely!
No, besides browser-based it needs to be massively multiplayer, casual, without rounds (games are endless and you can jump right into an ongoing one) and without registration for it to qualify as an io game.
> Perhaps some game detection could penalize those folks and rebalance the distribution.

That is indeed a large part of the point of the social/welfare state.
Yep, sorry I wasn't clear enough. By "respectively" I meant that the first measurement I mentioned (1-2 cm) was equivalent to 1/2", and the second one (2-3 mm) was equivalent to the second one (1/10").
Am I understanding this correctly that the main value proposition here is further simplification of Noise protocol by replacing the existing symmetric parts with parts from STROBE protocol?

While its good to push the envelope further, I'm not sure how much practical impact this will have (compared to vanilla Noise). Especially if some of the gained simplicity is countered by sheer novelty of this construction.
It doesn't remove mimikatz before allowing me to run it. Nice try.
Fixing the demographics is pretty easy. Kill the group market.

Of course easy is different than politically feasible.
No, most people get access to this work, despite their phones not getting updated. They get this via access to the Google Play Store.

If an Android device has access to the store, Google can check and remove malware from the device. Incidentally, these checks are how Google has a pretty comprehensive view of active vulnerabilities and in devices as well as active exploits being used.

The result is if a user does not enable unknown sources and only installs apps from the Play Store (the default and by far the most common configuration) they have a vanishingly small chance of being infected by malware.
Interesting read. I think commercial open source where you are actually trying to monetize some sort of open source software is very different than governmental open source. There is some overlap (it's important to be transparent, blog and build community), but the "business" model is completely different.

That being said, I really like the trend of governments moving towards open source. If the taxpayers are paying for software development they should be able to see the source and use the software. I wonder if we'll ever see a popular open source framework maintained by a government. That would be interesting!
> You run red lights and think it's a "money grab"?

There is no proof of your statement.

You assumed guilt because the state sent a ticket to someone. Just because a ticket showed up in the mail does not mean the person is guilty of anything. So what if driving is a privilege? Can the government stop us at its whim from doing anything that isn't explicitly listed in the Bill of Rights?

Red light cameras and speed cameras are both mindless automatons that are configured by fallible humans. They don't always work. I don't think a person's ability to drive should be judged by the findings of these machines.

You seem to have missed it, but

> Järlström was inspired by the $150 ticket his wife got in the mail in May after driving through an intersection with a red-light camera in Beaverton, Ore. His research showed that the mathematical formula used in the timing of yellow lights was outdated and unfair to drivers.

> Järlström’s interest in traffic cameras has grown into a passion. He says the original formula for calculating the duration of yellow lights dates back to the 1950s and only accounts for cars driving in straight lines. Cars in turning lanes need more time to slow down and make a legal right-hand turn, he says.
I get what you mean. However from the use cases I've seen often whatever processing needs to be done eg. showing a banner ad to users from a particular state or redirecting to a country specific version of a site can be handled from the user's browser.

Even if you're not hosting the country specific site in that region your user will still save time on making the call to our endpoint local to them.
> I do feel with the rise of 'big tech' things have improved a bit

Haha. I'm a technical salesperson that is the black sheep of my sales org. Things are worse now.
Sorry for nitpicking since this wasn't your point at all (and the comment grew, and grew, and grew as I was typing it), but...

> LoL is a beautiful and engaging game, despite the basic concepts

I assume you haven't played much LoL, have you? I've been playing for 3 years and I still consider myself a newbie and not only mechanics wise but also (or even specially) game-knowledge wise.

140 champions with their own stats (and growth per level), each with at least 4 abilities (+ a passive, some of them taking paragraphs to describe), plus two summoner-spells (to choose out of ~10), each with its own cooldown that you have to track (not only for yourself, but also for the enemy). ~250 items that modify up to 16 different character stats both in flat and % form, many of those with passive and active abilities that modify game rules and interact in often unexpected ways. 19 different types of crowd-control effects that can combine with each other in the same ability. 2 different types of invisibility.

Frantically trying to maximize your gold and experience gains last-hitting minions, while trying to survive and maybe kill the enemy.

In a game with limited knowledge where you can't see most of the map and only have a trinket that gives vision for a very limited time (lack of vision and incomplete knowledge being a feature, sought by the game designers). 4 different types of trinkets, useful for very different situations.

Then there's the neutral monsters in the jungle. 2 types of neutral monster (in each jungle, 4 total) that give you stats for some time if you kill them. 5 different types of dragons that randomly spawn each game. The powerful herald and baron. And there's a guy whose sole reason to exist is to live in the jungle hidden from your vision and come to your lane and ruin your existence surprising you with a 1v2 skirmish.

All of this in a constant flux due to balance changes and new champions regularly introduced (currently ~6 each year) changing the meta-game (or even the game itself). Plus reworks of many old champions that make them even more complex.

And that's the bare minimum! Akin to knowing how chess pieces move. Even the top of the ladder games, where strategical and tactical thought is critical, are simple compared with the complex strategies that eSports teams can carry out.

LoL is probably the most complex game I've ever played. It's just hidden beneath a thin layer of simplicity ("kill, don't die, destroy the enemy nexus").

That is what made LoL successful and why I think it can't be compared to Flappy Bird's success.
Not sure you saw the 2017 First Round State of Venture survey [6] results, but anxiety over hiring sales staff has become the No. 1 priority for startup founders (was tech staff). I think you're on to something... assuming you focus on startups, maybe Pre-A round?

[6] http://stateofstartups.firstround.com/2017/#introduction
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How does this square with, for instance, the Bitcoin Cash fork? Bitcoin Cash fulfills most of the "attack" as you've described, but it still trades as money.
Twitter can’t even tell the difference between an “authoritative” account and whatever the opposite is.

If any bots are scraping twitter for altcoin signals, I would be pretty surprised if there were any checks other than num followers / join date / etc. Determining if a twitter account is a bot, even with minimal certainty, is NOT an easy project. And many of these crypto traders are not exactly John Carmack either.
People get O-1's for themselves in the US.
Are you implying that more fair is more equal? Why?
Thanks :)

Hasura gives you dedicated (kubernetes) clusters on the cloud.

These run a bunch of open source components (nginx, postgres, redis) and a bunch of Hasura services (like data, auth, file APIs for apps). You can deploy your custom services on the hasura cluster as well (git push).

We have a free tier and then charge by the 'size' of the cluster. The fee is basically the underlying cloud provider's cost passed on directly to the user + a markup.

The Hasura backend APIs and platform glue are not open-source.
I don't buy that it's impossible to deliver decentralization and usability. It just requires a lot of developer effort.

The real problem is that everything has to be free. That means there's no money to pay developers to do the stuff that is not fun. UI/UX is a painful slog through a long tail of tiny little issues, not to mention many iterations on design. Developers don't do that unless they're getting paid.
I have ran into this before, figured it was a generic login bug. Now I wonder what/where my login credentials went. Lovely.
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Apk are usually signed using v1 an v2 signatures for backwards compatibility. Ripping out v2 signature would keep v1 signature valid. I hope Android 7 doesn't allow signing scheme downgrades if previously installed version was signed with v2 signature.

UPD Documentation states it does.
In my experience the hole in the jamb usually has a lot of wiggle room. Especially in this case: if the bolt enters the plate but hangs up a bit, it probably needs to move less than a millimeter. When the hole hasn't been in the right place I've usually used a pocketknife or flathead screwdriver to enlarge it, but I can see that a small chisel would be "better". Perhaps competence substitutes for tools somewhat?
I'm not the target market and I don't have any idea how to use your tool. The UI reminds me of old grayscale Mac OS. Salespeople are (usually, I'm stereotyping) 'dressed to impress'. Maybe you should put a tie on your project.
I am working off my CV I had professional done a few years ago. Maybe I need to put some money into someone else doing it for me again.
> It doesn’t matter how brilliant your software engineering is if no one buys it.

Right, because so many people buy Facebook products, or Twitter, or Google...

Many, if not most, software products don't sell anything. While there are tons of problems with getting 100% of your revenue from ads, the fact remains that many companies don't have anything to sell to their consumers.

Of course, you have to make a good, sticky product, and so there is marketing involved... just not the sort of 1930s handshake-and-a-smile that this article seems to be describing.

That said, my own experience is biased (I currently work for a non-profit!), and so the snarkiness of this reply probably isn't warranted. Surely for many places, sales experience is valuable... but I certainly wouldn't rank it higher over software development, at least not with the places I've worked at.
Dont't see anything on mobile (Fifefox).
what did other companies not get right?
In a more theoretical vein, "Deep Learning" by Goodfellow, Bengio, and Courville was published in late 2016.
You don't think the Bitfinex/Tether cats printing Tether and using it to wash trade BTC is manipulating the price of BTC. I don't think the $19,000 price on Bitfinex yesterday was organic.
There are actually very good reasons for keeping the group market. For example, many larger companies will be what is called "self-funded," meaning that they are actually fronting a large part of the healthcare costs for their employees, beyond just the premiums. This is a risk-sharing strategy, administered by the insurance companies, in exchange for lower overall costs to the company. But it has to be done on a per-company basis to optimize it.

Killing the group market could create certain efficiencies, but it would lose many others. And like you said, that is politically infeasible.

Other options, like looking at cross-state competition and capping certain medical expenses are likely better possibilities.
Uber hacker was a 20-year-old Florida man
Your last sentence just makes the worst excuse ever. Doing wrong to be able to do right in other cases...
I'm talking about this: https://www.statista.com/statistics/264905/top-10-banks-by-m...

No.1. bank on highest market caps list is JP Megan Chase with $311bn. Which is being overtaken by total Bitcoin capitalisation right now. I'm pretty sure members of the Rothschild family don't sleep well these days.
What is the primary reason? Many people would love to work on such a project and some people would fund them. Would you agree that fundamental physics does not preclude a functioning nuclear rocket? Where would one build, much less test, such a device as a nuclear-powered rocket? We can't even agree in the US where to bury inert (mostly) ceramic radioactive waste. A live, radioactive (low-level, but still radioactive) exhaust stream is not going to happen in the US in the current culture.
I'm having none of these problems, it's more legible than all of the "modernized" websites I've seen. Reasonable serif font, pure black text, pure white background. More legible than any posts on here, with the choice of gray text for certain things.
One thing I never see discussed is if Bitcoin were to truly become mainstream, it would require "the mainstream" to purchase all of their Bitcoin from existing holders. In essence, all of the people who got in early get to decide who does and does not get to participate in this hypothetical Bitcoin-based future.

Setting aside all the other issues with Bitcoin (scaling, energy use, volatility) it seems like this would be a major issue if Bitcoin was ever on the precipice to being considered "mainstream". People would most likely strongly object to having to go purchase bitcoin from a bunch of people who bought in early in order to continue functioning in their lives. It is one of the big, largely undiscussed, reasons I believe that Bitcoin will never truly catch on.
I hope you're right. Just purchased more BTC :)
You actually have a lot of really interesting stuff on your site. The Client-Server Game Architecture and Pathfinding Demystified articles also both look like really good reads. Thanks for sharing.
Selling your idea, perhaps to donors, is a kind of selling.
"Currently, when a government takes and uses 1/3 of every dollar earned, the society is not free."

See, this is just nonsense. You follow this to its logical conclusion and the only free people have no government. You're free to reject it all. There's plenty of places where you can just say "fuck it" and nobody will come bother you. Go ahead. Nobody does, though, because they quite like the security of living in a city, where no matter what the emergency help is just a phone call away, and one can watch live video from the surface of Mars on a smartphone.
> There really aren't any major benefits/downsides anymore regardless of what you'll read

Who made you the grand arbiter? There are huge differences. Rails is miles ahead in the options you present. Probably 90% of startups that don't have a specific reason not to, use Rails - and rightly so.

Rails has over 65k commits. Django has 25k. Sails? Less than 7k. Don't tell me these are equivalent.
Stop loss means get out NOW to stop losses. Trying to finesse a nickel out of a trade at that point is a sucker's game.

Getting "stopped out" is fine, it's part of investing. You need to stop your losses. I'm just saying don't put the order on the books for the exchange to pluck like a ripe berry.
Found the original gist for those interested: https://gist.githubusercontent.com/jvzr/9015c395b2b49e101669...
I've embraced my relative youth and tried @tagging someone in an email body one time...and was surprised to learn Outlook actually supports it.

I've since started tagging people in the body for specific items I need from them. Varying levels of success, if people are on the email and see themselves tagged in a specific part of the email, they know where to read carefully and what response I expect from them.
I meant to say that a managed currency does not imply inflation, as the commenter was saying.

I'm saying a managed currency can be whatever you want it to be. I agree targeting deflation would be bad.

Hint: deflation is kind of bad, and we have massive deflation with BTC :)
> but I disagree on the touchbar. It’s one of the better things Apple has added recently.

Strongly disagree, and I can not conceive of how it could be viewed as "better" than hardware keys. Maybe if they moved it above the FN row and we regained the hardware escape key, while making it a build to order option. Even then, I personally would have no interest in it, and neither would anyone else I know. I do not want to look at my hands while I type, ever.
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Yeah, was definitely interesting to see that. That's exactly the intended focus. Essentially a crash course for tech founders to start selling in their early days.
It happened to me as well, but with HipChat.
That’s right. We like to say “professionals ask questions, amateurs make statements.”

The “sales process” is just a series of questions. The close is the natural ending to a great presentation.
That statement really only applies in the consumer space. Businesses pay for software all of the time and a decent sales team is critical to any B2B software.
Hi Peter, this might sound harsh, but first of all

1.- Get a domain.com to look more professional
otherwise if I see "GitHub.io" looks like a code repository
Pick a better name for your product. Right now it doesn't mean anything (i.e. dropbox reminds people of storage, submittable.com also sounds like form management, hope you get the idea)

2.- Look at well designed websites (i.e Invision, xero.com, mint.com. stripe.com) and notice the difference.

3.- Copy. There's zero copy.
Check mailchimp.com for great voice and tone.

4.- No Pricing info, policy, FAQ, etc.

5.- A short 1-2 minutes explainer Video (optional)

6.- Look at well done explainer videos

7.- The landing page doesn't necessarily have to be all flashy, check this one for a simple one: https://visualping.io

8.- Important: Get feedback from people, I've used this: https://userinput.io/

9.- Also, forget HN, PH, etc., go after offline people or try more creative ways to reach people directly.
This stuff is so amateur though I don't think it is being discovered and handled by security guys. It's just some dev that is annoyed that the lock screen doesn't have total focus which is annoying and insecure and the kid of shit you'd see in the 90s
>Others have a right to privacy, and what you attribute as malice could be due to shame, embarrassment, fear, or a host of other reasons. These are their own, and they deserve this.

Did you read my post ? Where am I saying that they don't ? I tried to make as clear as possible that just as it's their own right, I have no interest in befriending or have further talking with people like that. Is that pathological?
Haha last time we went to the Gulf for a fishing trip, I found my father in the driveway staring at his 225hp boat motor which had lowered all the way and wouldn't raise again. My first reaction: let's go to YouTube! 15 minutes and a little lifting later, the motor was in the proper travel position.
Right, the point of killing the group market would be that everyone has to risk share with everyone else. No sectioning yourself off to save the moneys. Consider that you identified the different demographics of the individual market as a problem...

I expect the only impact of cross state competition would be a race to shitty insurance in the state with the worst regulation.
Ask HN: Books for reading before bed?
Looking for books specifically good to read before falling asleep. So, that leaves out deeply technical works and textbooks. Both non-fiction and fiction welcome.
That's an interesting quote on New Zealanders (I am from NZ, but live in SF).

My take on it is that places like NZ are great in that if you can make the jump internationally, you're highly likely to be extremely successful overseas as investing isn't really a thing and the market is so small. The downside is that any investors want more than a pound of flesh for dollar sums that would be seen as laughable in the valley. It's going to be interesting seeing how the sector does over the next ten years - and while it's been great seeing the success of Xero and Pushpay, I'm really excited about the current cohort coming through.
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