skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
From https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15843795 :

> Gridcoin (Berkeley 2013) is built on Proof-of-Stake and Proof-of-Research. Gridcoin is used as payment for computing resources contributed to BOINC.

> I doubt that volatility would be welcome on the Gridcoin blockchain: Wikipedia lists "6.5% Inflation. 1.5% Interest + 5% Research Payments APR" under the Supply Growth infobox attribute.

> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gridcoin
If goal is reducing energy consumption, why not a direct tax on energy?
The author alludes to that by pointing out that they're needed for jacobians, which are essentially also stretch factors.

However, a nice geometric interpretation does not nice math make. If you remember their definition, the one with the sub-products and the alternating +/-es, and then imagine trying to prove that it has that geometric interpretation - you've arrived at a huge pain for undergrad math students that are just being introduced to matrices.
Yet people gladly trust TLS when they're making online purchases, despite many of them having no understanding at all of how it works beyond the little green lock on their URL bar.

Lack of understanding should not be a deterrent. If it's a public blockchain-based system, people can use open source clients that are coded by an entity they trust (like people use Firefox, Chrome, Edge, etc. for web browsing). If people don't trust the blockchain clients, it's likely a UI issue.
It's not an alternative to Meteor since it's built on top of it, but you could look at VulcanJS: http://vulcanjs.org
Amazon ECS Management APIs Down
We've been experiencing a high number of timeouts and internal server errors when communicating with ECS services in the US West (Oregon) region. Our instances and load balancers are still operational, but we're currently unable to make changes to ECS infrastructure.

Specifically, ECS-related CLI commands are returning errors and the ECS Clusters dashboard is failing to load in the web console. Anyone else noticing this?
Sure. What a bad coincidence. But let's trust them, as it might be a weapon of mass destruction /s
This startup claims it’s the biggest competitor of Amazon and Google
> We could count the number of downloads from the gopass website but that wouldn’t too tell much either.

I mean, I think that'd tell you more than GitHub stars, no? Or at least complement the GitHub stars metric? The downloads would be more useful than stars in the way that it's more likely to be used once someone has downloaded. But so many people use stars as a way to bookmark something they find interesting.
There are three widely-used approaches to managing your own keys:

1. Store the keys on your own device, and also write them down on paper as a backup.

2. Store the keys on a dedicated piece of hardware, and also write them down on paper.

3. Encrypt the keys with a username/password and back that up to the cloud.

Option 2 protects against all kinds of malware, including keyloggers. The device has its own screen and buttons, so you can see the backup keys and verify the destination of the funds without trusting you PC.

For the paper backups in options 1 and 2, there are fireproof options like cryptosteel.

Option 3 gives a really nice UX, since it's feels like a standard username/password login. This is what Lastpass does for passwords, but applied to Bitcoin. Keyloggers are still a threat, and if your password is weak, someone might brute-force it in a database breach situation. Depending on your use-case, this may be worth the tradeoff.

The company I work for, Airbitz, implements option 3. In our experience, far more people lose funds accidentally than due to hackers (at least with self-managed keys). Therefore, a familiar UX is crucial to helping users retain control of their funds. Plus, most people aren't willing to invest in specialized hardware, at least at first. If crypto-currencies are ever going to go mainstream, there needs to be a software-only on-ramp.
> Even higher-ups are replaceable. Gov'ts need to really catch the shareholders, they own the misbehaving company, and they push them so hard for profits that the workers/managers are lured into cheating the system.

OK, I was with everyone saying higher-ups need to be held accountable, but now you're spewing utter nonsense. It's not like the shareholders knew what was going on. What are they going to be "held accountable" for? For being lied to by a cheating company? It's almost like going after taxpayers because they subsidized a criminal's public transportation.
> Does this really require knowing abstract algebra?

No, just the ability to distinguish between what one knows and what one does not actually know yet (self-awareness).
It seems that all successful computer designs, large or small, have one thing in common. the presence of a expansion system that allow the computer to take on different tasks for different users.

UNIBUS, S100, ISA, AppleII expansion slots, etc etc etc.
How much of the code running on your operating system have you verified before compiling it?
Well, that's some egg on my face. Thanks for pointing it out!
I think it's more like breaking up with someone, but not offering to explain why.
With no backup? What if you suffer a massive head trauma (or an unfortunate death), no way to recover your millions of dollars for friends and relatives? I'm guessing people put this stuff in their wills these days, how secure is a will?
Linear Algebra is a great place to get exposed to some category-theoretical concepts (maybe not when first learning linear algebra, though). My linear algebra prof used the category-theoretical definitions of subspace and quotient space (eg S is a subspace of L if there exists an injective linear map from S to L, a quotient space if there is an injective linear map) and tensor product (universal property)
This will probably not end well for you if you value your credit score. The bill is your responsibility. I almost guarantee you signed something saying you would be responsible for the full amount. If they haven’t billed your insurance, yes it’s incompetent and frustrating, but the correct way to handle this is to pay it off yourself and then work directly with your insurance company to get reimbursed.

Edit: I’m assuming you’re in the US.
While I tend to fully agree with everything you are saying wouldn't it be a nice side effect if Bitcoin / crytocurrency dominance forced the average computer user to get serious about password creation and management?
Both services have ruined the thing that differentiated 'unlimited movies' from just buying movie tickets which is seeing a bunch of movies as an event. Just go from 6:00 to 2:00 and watch anything that looks good or funny.
Payday lending itself isn't the problem. It's the usury that's the problem. Unfortunately, that was deregulated, so states are unable to enforce their own anti-usury laws.
I interviewed with them very very recently. I guess not getting the job was a good thing!
I've tried your test wallet and got an offset for file location - any hints on how to get the wallet's content, with dd i presume?
I shouldn't have to point this out to someone on Hacker News but browsers are not the web. Facebook is not the web. Twitter is not the web. Not even Google is the web.

No one is putting a gun to anyone's head and forcing them to use EME when they distribute media, and it certainly will no more be the case that all media will be forced through DRM and a walled garden than it ever was. The companies that will use this are the companies that would have used DRM anyway, just in another form. The web, as a whole, is unaffected.
Do you use SaaS products at all? If so, do you audit source for them too, or just products that run on your hardware / network?
mail fraud and wire fraud penalties are harsh though

exec fraud, such as insider trading, is much harder to punish and the sentences more lenient relative to the $ taken
We should not be supporting these criminals, most likely based out of Russia or China. It's my biggest gripe with Bitcoin. By buying Bitcoin you are indirectly supporting them.

Full disclosure: I am biased; a US citizen.
Thank you! I hope you really enjoy it. The main stack is Vue for frontend and Python/Django + Golang for backend. I might share my pleasant experience in the future with vue enthusiasts since I became one myself!
If the bank is holding your Bitcoin, what is the point of using Bitcoin at all? It is just an extremely inefficient centralized currency at that point.
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WAT?!

And how would that work?

Most shareholders with enough voting rights to matter are organizations themselves. This would essentially cease any attempt due to the absurd and never-ending complexity holding people accountable.

---
"Corp X needs to be accountable!"
"It's shareholders must pay!"
[looks up shareholders]
"Corp Y is a shareholder of X"
...
"Corp Y needs to be accountable!"
"It's shareholders must pay"
[looks up shareholders]
"Corp Z is a shareholder of Y"
...
"Corp Z needs to be accountable!"
--

The separation of ownership and management is what got us in this problem to begin with. Pointing the finger back at ownership when it's a corporation with thousands, or maybe even millions, of shareholders is stepping backwards in time and approach.

Owners don't make the decisions, managers who effectively have no boss make decisions and they're the ones who should pay.
I had this problem with the last Sierra update. Have not pulled the trigger on High Sierra yet.
AIX defaults to ksh88. My first job out of college a long time ago was to maintain and enhance AIX's various installers, which involves some 100KLOC (!!) of ksh scripts. I was one of the first people on the team to move newer projects to Perl- this was early 00's and somewhat fashionable back then, and the only other scripting language supported on AIX at the time. In retrospect, it's possible everything might have been better off left as ksh :-)
Nobody suggests that you cannot make statements such as, "The President has zero knowledge on every important issue." However, in the context of cryptography, privacy, or security generally, yes there is a need to avoid muddying the waters by appropriating terms with specific technical meaning. We need to have a common agreement about what words mean before we have discuss anything.
Demand for AI Talent Turns Once-Staid Conference into Draft Day
If you have mutual funds, index funds... You are likely a shareholders of a misbehaving company. So... Are you ready for jail time?
Google's security != your security.

I do trust Google to "get security right"[1]. I just don't trust them to secure things I don't want to share with them. Which happens to be a huge percentage of data on and generated by my phone.

[1] In the colloquial sense that people tend to use that phrase.
It can get worse 100+ Megapixels at 60 fps: http://www.forzasilicon.com/2014/04/forza-silicon-introduces...

Though, I have no idea what network connections they would use. I mean even in black and white this would saturate a 100Gbps link.
> Can you hand-code a solver for Maxwells equations or Navier-Stokes (lid-driven cavity flow)?

For my undergrad, I mostly focussed on number theory and differential geometry. These topics are mostly useless unless you want to work at the NSA, which only works for the US. Most of my undergraduate curriculum is absolutely useless except for the art of mathematics itself.

For my Masters I wanted to learn more about numerical analysis, hoping to land a job this way. I suppose that did help me understand topics like machine learning, which really seems to me like numerical analysis rebranded, but I didn't end working on anything like it. In fact, what happened is that I started contributing to Octave and used the experience from working on that to justify getting other programming, non-mathematical jobs.

The reason I'm telling this story is just to emphasise that most mathematics is useless, always has been, always will be, just like most art is useless. You mentioned very specific areas and applications of mathematics, but mathematician in general will always have difficult finding jobs pertaining to their mathematical interests and need to diversify towards the need of the job market.
If the accused accuses back, the lack of proofs (despite evidences) would be an evidence of the plot.
Actually, there are certain technical characteristics of DSL that make it better than cable (DOCSIS) for certain use-cases. Fiber obviously takes the cake, but fiber has not been rolled out everywhere yet.
That lower level engineer was a higher level manager, I thought? At least someone on HN said so (so it must be true). Not really a grunt.

Also it was seen as a positive thing because it gave regular employees an excuse to say no when execs come asking to cheat.
Federal time is usually ~ 80% time served and state/local ~ 20-30% before parole.
Probably the opposite as long as MoviePass is paying the full ticket price to the theaters.
Far more people die in accidents than from emissions, but if people stopped driving it would indirectly cost lives in terms of econ stagnation, I suppose
Yes they are intuitive but it is pretty hard to define them rigorously in a way that captures that intuition. Also, every way I've seen to define them requires choosing a basis (or even an orthonormal basis), which isn't that nice. If you read the pdf you'd notice that Axler's proofs completely avoids relying on the fact that every finite-dimensional vector space has a basis, or choosing one.
Sharehlders get punished when the stock drops.

Or are you suggesting we lock up anybody who owns a few shares?
Hi Radim,
I understand that it is hard to stay on top of things in this fast-evolving market, but you omitted a few important things.

1. "Softlayer is also the only platform that allows the provisioning of bare metal[...]": so does AWS:
https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2017/11/announcin...

2. "Softlayer and AWS charge in hourly increments." AWS offers per-second billing: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/new-per-second-billing-for-...

3. Echoing @tedivm's comment, for a real comparison you'd really have to include GPUs. Do you plan to write a follow-up?
(Disclaimer: I work for AWS)
> Actions speaker louder than words. If driving was actually a privilege rather than a right, we'd be quick to revoke it on bad behavior, and we wouldn't enshrine car-first street and road design everywhere.

Non sequitur. That driving is the default mode of transit is an artifact of history and practicality. It is simultaneously true that driving is a privilege and it is impractical to overhaul the national infrastructure. Whether or not the punishments are as severe as you would like doesn't make it less a privilege.

> You realize that right here, you're explaining why it's a right, not disputing that it is a right, yes? By your own admission now, we treat it as a right.

Non sequitur. There's no logical way to read my sentence and arrive at your conclusion. Both are true: driving is a privilege and for historical, geographical, and economical reasons it is also the primary mode of transit.

> Yes, our very built environment enforces driving as a right. And whose idea was it to create communities where one was required to drive to live a normal life? Did we arrive in North America with wide roads and parking lots already laid out on the earth?

More non sequiturs. There's no way to get from "roads exist" or "humans built roads" to "driving is a right".

> Yes, we collectively decided to become attached to cars, because we saw them as a better way. And for some things they are, but there's a rather long list of negative side effects that have come along with our love affair.

I agree. But for most people and communities, they're the most practical solution to the transportation problem. As technology and population density change, public transit options may improve.
As an investment. If a person believes Bitcoin is going to continue to go up in value, they might want to buy a lot of Bitcoin, but have someone else manage the safekeeping of that Bitcoin they bought.

I'm one of many people kicking myself that I didn't buy Bitcoin years ago when I first heard about it. And now I'm wondering if I should buy some now, because there is a decent chance it will continue to go up (in the long run). But if I could pay a modest fee for someone I trust (like a very big bank) to look after those Bitcoins for me, I might consider it.
I have an encrypted file with online banking passwords, account numbers, etc for my wife.

It's on a USB stick in our fire safe, and also in our safe deposit box along with a passphrase hint that my wife or daughter would understand, but is not obvious to an outsider.
SaaS is usually just a pentest some we get/request code access for.

Overall it depends on the risk profile of the product SaaS products tend to have a lower risk profile becuase they don’t deal with trades/contracts directly.

It’s all about managing risks.
One of the products we use is Salesforce.
Penetesting Salesforce would be a waste of time for us because Salesforce has a good application security team and is a trusted vendor.
However we did perform a review of apps/plug-ins that run on the Salesforce platform which we use but have much less confidence in.
It's a nature of their payout structure caused by high bitcoin tx fees. Payout happens in rounds.

I didn't lose a penny of cash as a seller, but hash buyers did.
His book "Computer Engineering" is an interesting read. I noticed someone posted a scan PDF : http://bitsavers.trailing-edge.com/pdf/dec/_Books/Bell-Compu...

I have a copy of the book. And a PDP-11. Well, most of one, in a closet.
There has been some land in Iowa which has still sold for $9-10K/acre this year. Very good CSR. But it's definitely not the norm anymore. $7-8.5k/acre seems to be the range.
Good. Too often, top executives seem to be above the law. They need to be held accountable.

But I can't help but get the impression that many countries only seem to punish foreign companies. I don't think Germany is punishing German executives, are they? Nor the US punishing American executives?
Everybody. I've worked in financial services and med devices - everywhere I have been, my sharpest coworkers have either been math majors or have a great math skillset. Math is best focused on a single vertical: find an industry you are passionate about and be a specialist in it.
Since they’ve offer such a great deal, you’ll probably use their service for every movie that you can.

With fandango, you have to make a conscious decision to use them as an intermediary every time.

It’s reasonable to expect that MoviePass will, over time, have a more comprehensive (less sparse) record of movies you’ve gone to theaters to see.
I'm still on 1.0.

Not changing either.
Ghosting can also be situational.

For instance, you can ghost from a bar or party, which is essentially just disappearing without saying goodbye and trying to avoid anyone noticing you leaving. Also called an Irish Goodbye.
Is it true that in finance you don't get RSUs but just get the money straight away in bonus?
That video is really good - perfect for the layperson such as myself!
This makes no sense. Of course the University has to waive the tuition fee to avoid their grad students leaving en masse. If they don't, then another University will offer waived tuition.
(committer on Antidote, Riak and Lasp)

We're investigating a backend that works on LevelDB and RocksDB. We just haven't had the academic resources to get it implemented yet. However, it's largely an engineering resource problem and not a theoretical problem.
Why They Dox: Top Motivations and Targets for This Form of Cyber Bullying
Also, lots of shareholders did lose big? Take a look at VOW 2014 - 2018. The price is basically just now recovering.
>How on earth can you tell if someone is a native citizen from their name?

Why are you playing dumb? He's clearly talking about someone with clearly foreign name, not someone from Canada.

I'm sick of people acting willfully ignorant in their arguments
Every time you write a check for a recurring service, in the memo field include "services through X", so you will always know that you were paying for services through a given date, and it won't matter if it's paid before or after the services are rendered.

Similarly, every invoice you got from Met Life should also have a coverage date range on it. Shouldn't ever be ambiguous.
> You might argue the price fluctuations are the price-discovery function of markets screaming "there is no correct price because there is no actual value"

That makes no sense. If the market were really 'screaming there is no actual value', the price would be around $0, not $14K.
Yeah I also met with them but they were waiting to hear back about headcount. It’s too bad, there product was useful.
American car companies cover up deaths all the time. I assume he has jail time because he is from Germany and doesn't have US politicians to protect him. This will lead to foreign car companies making donations to us politicians pet causes in exchange for protection.
> I personally think payday lending should be banned nationwide.

The problem is that this just moves the lending into the black market, and victims get even less protection.
Its odd to me how many people in this thread are either for or against this decision, not based on a fixing a problem rationale but on moral grounds that this person deserved or didn't deserve the punishment.

Does your computer program deserve to be debugged, fixed, and recompiled when it has thrown an error? What would that even mean? Was it evil or bad because it didn't perform how we wanted it to?
Properly calibrated monitoring should catch that scenario with near certainty though.
Yes, exactly. I don't think requiring fewer computing resources is a bad thing, having multiple nodes in the blockchain come to the same conclusion could provide a level of trust similar to the existing mining algorithm. That's wasteful as well, but not as wasteful.
Axlers book is lovely, but my (amateur) opinion is that determinants are pretty damn intuitive and useful in the applied world. They appear quite naturally in the systems of equations I have worked with.

Furthermore, some would argue that mathematics has lost its way as it becomes dedicated to abstraction alone.
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The last sentence is just completely wrong though. You can attribute revenue to a source, but not profit. They don't break out p&l for individual business units, let alone games.
I cannot see barely any cryptocurrencies really replacing fiat currencies unless stability is kept. It's for this, I personally bet on Ripple.
It would be a far better deterrent to spread this 7 years over a few more people.

Imagine what humanity could be capable of achieving with just a small increase in morality in the executive class. The problem in the world is not capitalism, as so many think, but corruption. Saying you are doing one thing, but actually doing something else.
So now the most open way to watch content is to get an expensive ass AppleTV? Dammit.
Bitcoin (BTC) is up by +22% in a single day, valued at over $14,600
Final probably wasn't pushing much volume as a Visa Signature card issuer, with a cut of around ~1% of all transactions on average[1], it would take around 100mil in processed transactions to net 1 million in revenue for Final. Visa may have also kicked them off due to having such low volume.

1 - https://usa.visa.com/dam/VCOM/download/merchants/Visa-USA-In...
I'm trying racket.
It was my understanding that the investigation in Germany is ongoing and being quite thorough, which is why it feels like nothing is happening. It might just be taking some time.