skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's becoming clear that Kim Jong Un, while he is pursuing rocket and nuke ambitions, is not willing to dive into an actual war. North Korea's program is defensive. Trump has to look elsewhere for his war so he's going to the old standard of stirring the Middle Eastern pot. He needs a war to distract from problems at home and to head off any possible impeachment.
I'm not - I don't want to buy bitcoin at the moment because I keep waiting for a bit of a dip, I don't want to buy it at a record high. Likewise I don't want to use my bitcoin because it keeps massively "growing" in value.

A stable currency is far more usable to me. Bitcoin is very similar to gold at the moment, in that I'm as likely to use it as I am to carry around bricks of gold in my pocket. For different reasons, sure, but the net result is the same.
Yes, but devil's in the details. The fact CRDTs are provably able to have specific consistency guarantees doesn't mean a particular implementation does it correctly in all contexts. Without testing, "We built this (city) on CRDTs" isn't very useful.
> How do you reach a consensus and certainty though?

I feel like we're going in circles. In both Bitcoin and Iota, we never reach an absolute certainty. In Bitcoin we reach a point where its infeasible for transactions to ever be overwritten. For high value transactions this is generally around 5 or 6 confirmations. I don't know the exact number people use with Iota, but I remember hearing it was some percentage of confirmations within the tangle.

> What if there is low activity, few transactions; and then comes a big guy who was burning hash to generate txs and take over the chain?

That's the big flaw I pointed out in my original comment, that I suspect may exist.
If you'll read the guidelines, you'll see that it doesn't matter when you added the bit about downvotes. Nor does it matter if the snarky dismissal was obvious; they usually are.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Please just use the site as intended—that means for intellectual curiosity and thoughtful conversation. I realize it's a bit of a context switch to suspend the habits we've all developed elsewhere on the internet, but it's necessary here, or else this place won't survive.
I would suggest the whole "Asian Saga" my childhood favorite (and re reading it when I have nothing else) a must read for sure...
Quantum mechanics is not mostly about quanta, but a qubit and a bit are parallels, in that both can store 1 bit of information.

But QM is at least 99% about information, maybe 100%. How information is organised - how it can evolve. And QM is code + data rolled into one. It's also made of pure functions; actually reversible ones.

It would be good to understand entanglement from a programming perspective; the article does try to shoe-horn it into his system, but it seems like a very shallow understanding of the physical situation.
I think a clear photograph of the person committing the misdeeds would be useful, but not for everybody it seems.
That one feels like a failed series pilot.
Surely voting by mail has the same problem - your family members, abusive partner, employer, etc etc, could force you to vote a certain way?
Discussion for Part 1:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15821899
Do you use Maven or Gradle?
As a point of comparison, Massachusetts does not have a mortgage interest deduction for individual homeowners, but for landlords income is computed using the federal Schedule E with only a few state-specific adjustments, so mortgage interest is still deductible. Of course landlords also pay tax on their rental income (minus expenses of course), while individual homeowners don't have to pay any tax on imputed rent.
Here's links to other things in the SyncFree group.

Lasp (previously on HN):

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14300763

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15444156

SyncFree project review results:

http://cordis.europa.eu/result/rcn/197514_en.html

Legion:

https://syncfree.lip6.fr/index.php/2-uncategorised/54-legion

SyncFree homepage:

http://syncfree.lip6.fr
Sorry Silicon Valley, you don’t need more data. You need a story
Professional societies like SIAM have listings, which you can view to get a rough idea: http://www.siam.org/careers/ . Most of these are academic, but not all. (I think, or at least hope, there's a way to filter/sort.) Most of them may be targeted at PhDs, but again not all.

I'm an academic myself, and a significant fraction of our recent PhD grads have gotten positions in data science, and at least one is now at a pharmaceutical company working on mathematical modeling. The jobs are out there. The tricky thing is that people don't generally advertise for mathematicians, even though a good mathematician may fit the job well.
It's curious that you decry some kinds of "magic bullet" in favor of another.

How about "there are no magic bullets, full stop"?
While I'd agree that they "manipulate" the Wifi signal, I also have a hard time calling something that doesn't generate Wifi frames or packets "Wi-Fi communication". It merely changes the signal strength of existing packages (or packages specifically generated to fill air-time, which seems like another large downside of this). It does not generate new frames or insert data into them.
Your worried about semantics. Tencent's corporation holdings and size doesn't isn't increased or decrease by people's knowing the name Tencent. It actually strengthens my statement that Tencent is bigger than people understand, especially here in America in knowledge of name and its corporate size.
The idea of the "just right consistency" is that it brings the best of both worlds, without any drawbacks.

Your application works as well as if it was executed fully in strong consistency, but with improved scalability for the set of operations that can execute in an eventual consistent model.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HJjWqNDh-GA
You can make the conflict be between the humans or based on a fundamental misunderstanding (like The Abyss)
> I'm stating that institutions weigh the tradeoffs, which is a pretty neutral statement.

But you cite that as a "problem" in your previous comment:

> Isn't this exactly the problem we're seeing in sexual harassment and sexual assault cases outside of politics, though?

Decision making based on tradeoffs and acknowledgment of human frailties is better than decision making based on unrealistic absolute categorizations.

(For instance, we'd all be better off if we acknowledged that humans tend to be prejudiced, because we're designed that way by evolution -- as opposed to the "racist/not-racist" dichotomy that drives current discussion. But it will be a long time before society ever arrives at a consensus on that...)
Cyberbit: Ethiopian Dissidents Targeted with New Commercial Spyware
Discussion for part 2: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15861788
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“There’s no point in acting surprised about it. All the planning charts and demolition orders have been on display at your local planning department in Alpha Centauri for 50 of your Earth years, so you’ve had plenty of time to lodge any formal complaint and it’s far too late to start making a fuss about it now.”
Sure. My point is that it's a rough idea of what you could expect.

If you look at the Jepsen posts for Cassandra and Riak, for example, you can see that the general characteristics are fairly similar.
Unless they're trading, in which case they're selling on perceived ups and downs, and in some cases making a killing - at least for now! The bullish trend with periodic pullbacks means profit for the bold / greedy.
So 3 2nd generation TPUs are ~= 1 Volta class GPU ~= $3 per hour on-demand on AWS: https://aws.amazon.com/ec2/pricing/on-demand/ and ~$1 (75 cents at the moment with p3.8xlarge and its 4 GPUs) in spot: https://aws.amazon.com/ec2/spot/pricing/ if you take the time to build a robust framework.

And to make things simple, let's do it all in FP16 because INT8 on Volta ~= 1/2 a first generation TPU, but FP16 ~= 3 first generation TPUs at INT8 (sad, right?), an accident that occurred because P100 didn't support INT8, but consumer variants did.

So, 5,064/3 = 1,688 Volta GPUs ~= $5000 per hour, probably half that reserved, a quarter of that in spot.

Say you need a week to train this, so $200K-$800K...

You can buy DGX-1Vs off-label for about $75K. Say they costs $20K annually to host. Say you use them for 3 years, so total TCO is ~135K, which comes down to $0.64/hour.

Conclusion: p3.8xl spot instances are currently a steal! But I don't have ~$200K burning a hole in my pocket, so I guess I'm out of luck.
If you're not clear on what domain fronting offers, it is basically a chance to hide traffic by sending it to a popular domain (the unencrypted TLS SNI destination), but traffic is routed elsewhere within that provider's network (via the encrypted HTTP Host header). It takes extra work for providers to shut it down (since SSL termination is usually separate from load balancing), and support is generally left enabled (kind of "don't ask don't tell" at the personal-use scale) because of anti-censorship benefits.

I believe the main point is that support is being integrated into Meterpreter, an exploit framework. The end result will be that even script-kiddie style attacks can spend $10 on a domain (or perhaps a free trial of GAE/Azure/AWS) to auto-magically use this technique to add another layer hiding their command & control servers from non-LEO/government defenders. (Meterpreter may be late to the party compared to similar tools.)

It is another step in the cat & mouse game, where techniques like this are usually first used by APT-level actors, someone rediscovers or documents it, it goes mainstream and eventually gains enough notoriety to be shut down.

There were a pair of discussions on the technqiue when Signal added support about a year ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13245970,
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13232417

- mentions a Tor pluggable transport implementing the technique first discussed in January 2014: https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/wiki/doc/meek

- also mentions effective mitigations done provider-side: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13233720

>temprature: Cloudflare did this a few years back by requiring that SNI matches the host header [...] or suspend the server running the reflector (Google did this to the meek reflector running on Appspot that Tor Browser used).
The argument that the companies are lying about how unfairly they’re being enriched, and claims about the abusive, addictive nature engineered knowingly into loot boxes and similar Skinner Boxes are really quite separate. You’ve only addressed one, and refuse to touch the other more interesting (and titular) part of the piece. I can understand why, given that your livelihood depends on said practices.

Edit: Just to add a quote from the article, Note: I’m going by the claims of the video. I still haven’t dug into the EA financials myself.
Are you claiming that a majority of large corporations don't pay income taxes?

Is it even 5%?
$125M Fund Guarantees Homeowners Rental Income
It's hardly a "shadow ban" when we explain it to you at length!

The issue is that your comment history has frequently violated the site guidelines. That's not just about negativity—it's possible to say critical things in civil, substantive ways. But you've been doing it in a way that damages thoughtful conversation, and that's a net negative here.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

https://news.ycombinator.com/newswelcome.html
This chart might serve as a good indicator : http://charts.woobull.com/bitcoin-nvt-ratio/ , similar to stock market P/E Ratio, it uses NVT Ratio (Network Value to Transactions Ratio).
I am not sure about how little the effort was he put in. Where did all the reviews came from? You don't get a #1 spot with 5 reviews...
There's not even a single reason there, let alone many.

Older people get married past the age of childbirth, infertile or avowed child-free opposite-sex couples marry too.

The 'signal' is already hopelessy noisy and not fit for any sort of purpose. Plus, "we were using those numbers for something they are inherently unsuitable for" is no valid reason to continue discrimination.

At this point it really looks like you're grasping at straws to justify what is just a prejudice.
Sorry, but I genuinely want to know how you can misplace a hard drive!

(Sounds like he went to a good party, the night was long and when he finally got back home he realized he didn't have his hard drive on him anymore.)
Edit: No real reply to the parent comment but on a slightly related/unrelated note: what I don't understand is why `maps/` and `shopping/` and any other google product when using Googles DNS goes to their servers, does this mean they plan on purchasing those gtlds?
Yes, microwave energy can do pretty much exactly what you're saying, and perhaps other forms of radiation could directly activate nerves as well. It's also possible that if the brain damage includes auditory processing then it could be phantom sounds. It's too many options, too little evidence, but microwaves seem like a good culprit. It doesn't seem too far-fetched that such a system could induce something like a "recording" as well, or that recording could be coincidental.

If they had devices in the embassy which required maybe intersecting "beams" of microwaves to power up and transmit, and something went wrong...
Does anybody know if this kind of thing is as common in other countries as it is in the US? Are there stronger controls in, say, Germany or France, or Norway and Denmark, that make abuse on this scale impossible? Or is the situation as bad in those countries as here?
Chine Focus: China plans social credit system pilot
Hey, author of GUN (the current most popular generalizable CRDT based database), and want to say I'm impressed. I'm often the first to nitpick things but this looks great:

- Built in Erlang

- Great explainer videos

- Well documented CRDTs that you accept

- Team of university related researches in CRDTs.

I'll be looking through your guys stuff more. But good job! We need more people like you guys out there.
1. Unfortunately the logs don't give any detail there. Most likely something arrived down the replication connection that the process couldn't handle, and it crashed.

2. Our understanding now is that INF is the strongest preference, whereas -INF is a veto. It would be very cool to have this confirmed 100% by someone who works on Pacemaker!
I wonder how much prior boom times have an impact on farmers because prices on the crops have just languished for years now.

2008 had very aggressive price appreciation in corn & beans. Same can be said for late 2010, all 2011, all 2012, & early 2013. After that prices have absolutely fallen off a cliff & continue to hover near those lows every single day.

I suspect it's difficult to be in the "risk management" business which farmers are by being "long" the crop in the ground & having no price appreciation for years. Meanwhile all other risk assets continue to explode higher. At some point it probably becomes challenging to find a light at the end of the tunnel. Now with rising interest rates the cost of capital is higher & likely going to accelerate higher.

Higher operating costs (wages & debt service) & continually deperessed prices of the product you produce. I don't have a solution for any of this but by putting myself in those shoes it sure does seem horrible.
Don't be in that situation. No seriously. I even went so far as emigrating and moving to a country with a better welfare state partly to avoid this ever happening.

Not everyone has the luxury of being able to move countries+. Which is why we should all vote and lobby for better welfare systems - so that we and our loved ones never have to take these types of decisions.

Edit
+ It usually takes marketable skills that allow a well paid job such that welfare doesn't seem like a priority.

Edit
Would down voters care to chip in with a comment? Drive bys don't really lead to good discussion.
They don't. This post is a rare congressional testimony by a subject matter expert, on a security & technology topic.

The rest of the posts you're alluding to are weak, media articles by non-experts.
Bloody hell, you're quite right, I'd even double checked the lyrics and still got it wrong.
> Google uses .dev pervasively for projects

Do you have any source for this statement?
You can use SQLCipher [1] with libsqlfs [2], which has a FUSE interface.

1. https://github.com/sqlcipher/sqlcipher

2. https://github.com/guardianproject/libsqlfs
Ideally people wouldn't feel the need to use their phone while driving at all

I understand what you’re saying, and agree, but I just want to play some tunes. On our Nissan Leaf, it takes seven taps on the screen to get BT to connect to my phone, because my phone isn’t the “default”. Seven, and plenty of opportunity to make a wrong choice along the way. And I have to do this every time the car restarts, and it can only be done while the car’s not moving. The car has a list of known devices, it just refuses to iterate through them. Real incentive to use the safer option, that is.

New rule at our house: car either has CarPlay, dash unit can be swapped for something with CarPlay, or it doesn’t come home.
On a side note, this is the heart of how Democrats managed to lose the last Presidential election. Telling 50 year old machinists and farmers that they should get government assistance to get a loan to learn computer programming because their job moved to Mexico is much less palatable than the guy who will call the president of the company and tell them not to close the factory.
> for internal company use.

There are no gTLDs intended only for internal company use. There are many that are intended for only a single companyto use them, though externally.

For example, the .americanexpress gtld (https://www.nic.americanexpress/) will only provide domains to entities affiliated with american express.

Same with .dodge, and .google, and many many others.

ICANN handled this quite well -- they let others object to applications, let anyone who may have a trademark or reason to claim the word was generic come forwards, left time for comments, etc etc.

If you're objecting to this now, not back when the program was being formed, you clearly handled this poorly by not being involved in something you care about.

If you don't care and weren't involved, you also don't have the full picture and your outrage very well might be misplaced.
The core feature of a voting system is to determine who got more votes.

With paper, that's a laborious process, requiring physically adding up millions of pieces of information. And many other things - like horses, sailboats, and slavery existed for hundreds of years but have been phased out for superior technology. An electronic voting machine or computer would, in theory, be able to take votes and output a result without this effort. Electronic voting machines are, at first pass, a good idea.

The presence or lack of transparency, accountability, and auditability are implementation details, not principles of electronic voting machines. In the absence of bad decision making and the presence of properly aligned incentives, the issues current voting machines suffer from could be worked around with a different implementation.

Before computers were an option, paper was not chosen because of these properties it's now lauded to have.
"Your backups are only as good as their last successful restore."
You can't know that it's not a bubble. Maybe it is and crashes tomorrow. Maybe it is and crashes in a year. Maybe that crash brings it back to fundamentals but that price is still higher than it is today. If you could perfectly predict the future you'd be pretty much God.
I have been waiting a lifetime for this! Ok that's an exaggeration but I'm happy Amazon Prime is finally available on the Apple TV.
> because an answer to the second question is required for TripAdvisor to be able to claim that its system is any good

Not really, the expectation of any sort of honesty in public communications, be it from the government, corporations, or individuals, is a thing of the past.
I incorporated an LLC through Legalzoom a few years ago that I didn't end up using for its intended purpose, so I logged in to cancel the renewal. After spending about 15 minutes combing through all of the account settings and reading the fine print I couldn't find any way to cancel the renewal (they must have forgotten to add that functionality to their UI), I gave up since the card they had on file was expired anyway, so I figured they would just cancel the service when they realized they didn't have a valid card on file anymore. Instead I got a bill from Caine & Weiner Commercial Collection Division for $160; no warning or notification from Legalzoom. I'm still super pissed about this and I definitely won't use or recommend Legalzoom to anyone anymore.
> I thought Google had smarter language designers.

Really? Knowing that it's the likes of Rob Pike or Ken Thompson?

If you had told me ten years ago that these guys are going to make a language for Google, I'd have accurately predicted that it will be exactly the same sort of insipid blub that it is.

They are not going to see very far outside of the C + UNIX box, and much of whatever they do see, they will have an allergic reaction against.
If that's true, wouldn't the right plan of action be for everybody to continue using dev as if it was a reserved TLD? Just pretend Google paid off ICANN to make it safe.
Yes, that's what the parent means.
I don't know, if this is some kind of sophisticated multiple-beam system using constructive interference (https://xkcd.com/1922/), it might have more penetrative ability than you'd assume.
Savings!?!...pfft this is America. If you are not in debt how can you buy a house, send your kids to college, take care of the families medical expenses and buy everyone new iPhones for Christmas? Savings he says! What madness!
There is a bug, where the # of bathrooms are listed as bedrooms, in addition to bedrooms being correctly listed as bedrooms.
anyone got a cache? I'm getting 502's
> Wifi TX --> 3D Printed Object --> Wifi RX

No, it's:

Wifi TX --> 3D Printed Object --> general 2.4GHz RX through a specialized device or driver for an existing 2.4GHz device

They're not magically encoding new Wi-Fi packets; they're changing the amplitude of Wi-Fi packets - and everything else that's on 2.4GHz - seen by the receiver. Contrast with the interscatter you mention, which uses an electronic device to encode new Wi-Fi packets.

Interscatter is not what's happening here.
CME is offering bitcoin futures starting next week.

Interestingly enough, S. Korea has declared bitcoin futures illegal today and S. Korea is the leading buyer of BTC.

Should be a good time.
It was a really bad practice that, for some reason, got really really popular - so especially in the Ruby community and it's derived branches - but it was still always a bad idea to make up your own domains for testing.

So it isn't exactly a shock that this bad practice is going to bite its users. I think the reason it's getting headlines is why it's biting those users now, all at once.
Except, as you point out, .example and .test exist (and should have been used for this). What's the technical justification for the third?

Remember when APNIC got 1/8 from IANA and had to go test what would happen if they announced 1.2.3.4 to the Internet? Just because something has been done historically doesn't mean we need to ban it entirely from the future.
SimpleSVG: Load icons on demand instead of entire glyph fonts
Just search for @yuhong2 @brendaneich and you will see most of them.
Can you go into greater detail?

What happened to your mother's relatives?
Ask HN: How founders pick the brand color of their product?
Or is it designer's work? How does the conversation about deciding on a color goes like?
Could it be Ralph Nader on Small Claims Court?
I successfully, based on this video took Verizon to court over an overcharge of just $12 and I won.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YjH4Us0n0QY