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For me it was interesting to see just how successful he was
with relatively little effort. Holding the #1 spot for several days _seems_ like it ought to be a big accomplishment -- yet he was able to succeed without any major obstacles. This story pulled back the curtain a bit and showed just how quickly the system can break down.
I know a large amount of married straight couples who don't have children for whatever reason - are they in a fake marriage too? Is there as much moral outcry about this, should there be law to enforce that married couples have children?

I also know married straight couples who've adopted children rather than having their own - are those fake families? Would a gay couple who adopted a child be creating a fake family?

The only thing consistently binding marriages across cultures in the US and my own country, IME, is that two people have agreed to love and care for each other "until death do us part".
Good one too.
"Without electronics" except for the computer devices that have to be dedicated to monitoring for the back-scatter created by the 3-D printed objects and translate it into something meaningful.
Well, it's not doing anything like that for now. Even though the algorithm, in an abstract sense, is the same for all three games, in fact it's a new network for each of the three games, with architecture and input features adapted to the game, and then trained from scratch.
> doesn't work as well in chess: it works better

That's not how "as well" works.
It certainly goes hand in hand with a good culture, which is also one of the strong point of Buffer.

Their transparent webapp thing[1] is really nice to play with btw, it feels like a no bullshit vibe for newcomers as well as current employees.

It makes me think that these "formulas" will probably not age well with time. They're already at their version 3, which would probably not be a good formula at the early days of the start up and will probably not be a good formula in 3-5 years.

Somehow related, I remember having something like these to rank posts on one of my boards (similar to the weight ranking of HN). I had:

* time influence negatively

* number of upvotes and downvotes in the comments influence positively

* number of heavy posters influence positively

* number of upvotes for the post influencing positively

It was really tricky to tweak, in the end with the website scaling up I was constantly tweaking the formula. I don't think there is a "always work" formula.

[1]: https://buffer.com/salary
Innocent until proven guilty is a fine principal for a court of law, but I feel no obligation to apply it to my own decisions. I see enough evidence (not proof, evidence) to make my own decision that Moore’s accusers are telling the truth.

To each his own.
San Francisco has a similar problem to the one described in Pittsburg. We use an old, single pipe, gravity based system that carries both storm water and sewage. When it rains heavily, the system backs up at various bottlenecks. Unfortunately, some of these are in heavily populated and residential areas, which get flooded with human waste. Even areas not at the bottlenecks may see more mild drainage backups.

Sadly, SF has done a pretty bad job managing this:

http://www.sfweekly.com/news/shit-storm-why-wont-sf-stop-flo...

SF's esponse to this problem has shaken my confidence in the city's governance. SF is going in the opposite direction from what is suggested in this article - we are paving over (with non-permeable surfacing) more than ever. The common practice of paving over your front year for extra parking is generally illegal, but like most quality of life issues in SF, enforcement is so rare that the city created an entitlement - and it has become the norm in some neighborhoods.

I know some people my chuckle that this particular issue would cause me to question SF's government, considering what is going on. But I think it's the straightforward nature of this - the clear engineering failure, the cause and effect between excessive paving and storm system overflow, the unenforced legislation to curtail it, the massive city budget and projects without adequate funding for critical infrastructure... it's the mundane failures that really drive home how badly SF's government is handling serious problems.
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Well they cut it close but they did finally release an app for the AppleTV "by the end of the year"

https://sixcolors.com/post/2017/12/amazon-prime-video-now-av...
transaction fees.
Also, there is always a hidden opportunity cost. Bitcoin using green energy would still increase worldwide energy consumption, and simply push other energy consumers onto more dirty sources.
Is Redis a one-man show? (plus contributors)

I am still using memcached, but consider Redis in future.

I am looking for a Redis-based high-performance message-queue that can be filled from Nodejs and consumed with PHP. Basically a high-performance message-queue that doesn't need dozens of servers to start with.
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That helps, thanks.
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They were implied as "execution of server-side content" in the sentence: "It is relatively easy to look for and identify any execution of server-side content."

It is correct that it would be complicated to do for an arbitrary hosted app that may inject server-side rendered content with scripts in them, but this is not the case here.

There are very few places where "external" content is inserted into the DOM (decrypted mailbox content that may be HTML, account info), and those should all employ proper script stripping techniques. Finding DOM append or assignment (including attribute assignment) points is relatively easy.

With the DOM out of the way, you only have places where the application intentionally executes JavaScript through eval and new Function (potentially wrapped in whatever frameworks they use).

It really isn't very hard. And yes, I have done it before—and no, I couldn't have missed something when I did it, as only interaction I had found would succeed in my sandbox.
kerl comes from the fact it wraps & extends keccack hashing library. So the name is actually quite fitting.
> Garbage collection is already implemented with high performance in Java and other platforms, what's new?

A simple language that can be used for both 'scripting' projects and larger applications, natively, statically compiled, with a modern standard library aimed at what a lot of "ops" development is currently in need of. Hence the explosion of tools written in Go targeting that field. Maybe it's not suitable for your applications, but there is clearly a market for this.

> but AFAIK embedded devices programming goes to very low level details and thus I can't think how a code that is tied to the specific hardware would be portable, no matter what the language is.

That depends on the type of embedded stuff. I wrote a ton of embedded code targeting various embedded OS's on POS systems running m86k, MIPS, ARM and other stuff. I was responsible for designing and writing a generic hardware abstraction layer. It took considerable resources, but once streamlined, porting to another platform took about 3 months (if the hw and compiler/toolkit vendor were helpful, otherwise it could take years). It gave us the massive advantage of being able to develop/debug/showcase the application logic on a PC or on alternative hardware, and then finally target the real hardware when the HAL was finished and work out some kinks there, taking another month or so. So yes it's absolutely possible to write portable embedded code.

> I thought Google had smarter language designers. At least Mozilla did a decent effort with Rust.

Given the adoption rate of Go in the ops field, which incidentally is what Google needs a lot, I'd say they at least got something right.
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I’d imagine with conductive filament and a cheap microprocessor or bluetooth radio you can so the same or much more.
Matter of taste, I believe... For me this public floor wouldn't be a waste. You could have boutiques, newspapers stand, florist or cafe, you name it, similarly to ground floors. When you have 50 floors "wasting" one or two for the connection shouldn't be a big deal. Of course everything boils down to how well is it designed and implemented and how many people actually uses it. In my place there are skyways between big department stores. Only two and not that spectacular but it works nice, is convenient, doesn't spoil overall architecture. I'd gladly see more such solutions in future.
Probably yes. More probably if the interaction was validated with an EV-cert.
> Go back to an empty slate, with the same exactly "untrained" AG0, and now teach it Go, to the same result. No fine-tuning for the domain of the game you are training -- it is general(ized).

Not quite -- different input features, which implies slightly different network architecture at least at the front.
How does online tracking actually work?
You're correct that addicts won't stop using because of decriminalization, but it does open new ways of helping those people.

Instead of forcing them to hide, prosecuting, incarcerating and labeling them as undesirable members of society, you can create infrastructure and programs that could help many of them deal with their issues over time.

Sometimes the hardest part of exiting addiction is that the only people who understand or tolerate you are other addicts, creating a very hard to escape circle.
I would argue that the top 10 sites aren’t using EV because they don’t need to use EV, precisely because they’re top 10 sites.

If I’m visiting Amazon, I’m pretty sure that I’m getting the security I’m expecting simply by seeing Amazon’s domain, the pages I recognize, and some semblance of SSL.

It’s the lesser-known sites, I think, where this sort of “trust” (for some version of trust) matters more — random-ecommerce-site.com doesn’t have the brand value or trust factor of Amazon, so they need every (perceived) advantage they can get, EV being one.
Actually I think we could. It just hasn't been implemented. (not to say it's practical).
The economic drain of welfare spending is often overestimated. The IRS for example shifts a lot of money from A > B, but it does not cost a lot of money to do that shift. Mostly what changes is who is allocating resources, not the total number of resources to allocate.
I'll worry about this when I need to worry about someone breaking into my home and finding a reason to modify electronic devices utilizing the debug ports on stationary products.

I also don't take myself so seriously when I don't find a need to.
If I mute the TV and go to the bathroom while the commercials play, am I stealing? If I read a magazine and flip past the ads, am I stealing? If I change the channel on the radio on a commercial break, am I stealing?

I understand what you're saying about the producer's dependence on ad revenue. But never before has a media existed where someone could force you to consume advertising against your will.

If you provide content with ads and people decline to look at your ads, you've got a problem with your business model.

And by the way, I don't block ads on, eg, StackOverflow, because the ads are tasteful and useful. But if a site with news articles wants to show me animated, sexually suggestive ads for cheap pharmaceuticals, yes, I'm going to block that. I'm not going to let them steal my bandwidth and my mental calm for that.
Turned out to be Firefox Trust Shop:

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/troubleshoot-SEC_ERROR_...
This is an ironic comment for this particular HN submission, as it’s a story about women whose single testimony brought down industry leaders.

And Roy Moore has eight independent accusers to date.
If you're talking about the triplebyte data (https://triplebyte.com/software-engineer-salary), Buffer's SF salaries seem comparable.
Yes, it is; while the idiom standing on its own implicitly includes a leading “at least”, it is also idiomatic to use it in exactly the way used by the grandparent post, in an explicit contrast with better, where it comes with an implicit (or sometimes explicit) leading “merely” instead of “at least”.
Now I'm not arguing against you that this seems a bit weird and not gonna solve the problem in itself, but humor me here.

As I understand it from the article, the blockchain is suppose to prevent people from wanting to tamper with the product, since every logistical-step from production to delivery is stamped and you can easily trace where the product is coming from.

So once you discover that a product has been tampered with, you'll follow the log and investigate everyone along the way, in the end you'll find who is messing with it.

Not exactly sure why they would need a blockchain for this, but I guess it's because no one in the chain trust each other.

But, all of what I wrote might be wrong, I might misunderstand how it works or why it would work.
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Ripples sounds more legit to me. I mean look at this thread about IOTA: https://www.reddit.com/r/Iota/comments/70ya29/time_for_a_par...

Anyone putting their money in IOTA is an absolute idiot.
Apps haven't sold themselves for a while now, unless you have a specific reason people should share you (see HQ Trivia's growth.) If you build the world's best todo app it will have zero traction without a massive marketing budget because the competition is already settled. And if you build something new, but niche, you have the same problem - you need to get to the top of search results, but you can't do that without download quantity.

You do get retention stats from Apple, I think it also breaks it down via source (organic vs search ad). Also I'm not sure why people are just realizing this now, these ads have existed for the past 6 months or so. This is just a way to set it up faster for people that don't want to configure their targeting.
Ask HN: Who uses the HN api and what for?
Hi all,
I’ve seen a few comments/posts lately saying that they or a service they know use the HN api. I’m curious about more of these services/uses.

Please post projects you made or services you use which utilize the HN api.

I’d also love to know a bit about “why” for each of those.
> We’re looking at other ways to recognize loyalty such as profit sharing, 401K matching, bonuses based on profitability, dividends, and future stock buyback programs.

So, yeah, ti doesn't make much sense in practice. But it's nice to have the numbers open.
I'm developing a monster-taming/breeding game that offers dynamic breeding and the "base" type of breeding interpolates values to create the new child.

Items in-game of course can "nudge" the formula.

Doing this on the block-chain is an interesting idea a few people have suggested to me, but ultimately it didn't mesh with my idea of what the game should be.
It's not premining because it was publicly announced so you at least had a chance of getting it
sure, usually the performance related stuff...
Yup, only plastic is also misleading since they need some conductive antenna. It's still very interesting and impressive, but somebody please fix the title.
> Imagine a bottle of laundry detergent that can sense when you’re running low on soap — and automatically connect to the internet to place an order for more.

Why. Why why why do all IoT-related articles always use awful consumer goods examples like this. Nobody, or next-to-nobody, would want to have that. There are so many good ideas and existing uses of IoT tech outside of the consumer goods sector, and pretty much every application in the consumer goods sector is hot garbage, and consumers know it.
I don't see how these two things are at odds; said "central project" could author individual crates? They could even live in the same project, thanks to workspaces.
Why do companies continue to pay out higher salaries to devs in high cost of living areas? In this case, their payscale pays out 30-50K more in high cost living areas vs low cost areas.

Rather than blow revenue rewarding bad life choices, offer to move them to an area with lower costs of living. Do that for only 10 employees and you have 300-500K EVERY SINGLE YEAR to re-invest into your company. In practically any other industry, this kind of saving would be obvious.
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> It's 100% premined, which smells as scammy as Ripple. It's not a coin, it's an entity handing you gift vouchers with their name on it.

No scam. There was an announced, publicly available crowd sale available to anyone paying attention & interested in 2015. Sorry you missed it.
I give you a magazine for free with the stipulation that you not cut the ads out; you are correct that I couldn't stop you from doing so with the magazine you currently have but I can certainly refuse to give you another magazine.

// We should each be free to instruct them as we wish.

That's not what you are claiming at all. If the company's server determines you are preventing ads then it is within the company's rights to instruct the server to stop serving your browser content.
I'm also very interested in hearing the answer to this.
I don't use D myself, but I'm curious how often someone actually does that. Is it about the same as how C++ can technically be connected with a GC? Because no one does that, despite that it is possible.
What a great tool/site. Thanks for sharing!
App Review hasn’t been outsourced to anyone.

As far as every single time having to appear — have you considered making the change that wouldn’t require an appeal?
Actually, from the article, it mentions this:

> Leanne Kemp, an Australian who in 2015 founded a company called Everledger, has now encrypted the distinguishing features of 1.8 million diamonds and their provenance on a blockchain.

> More than 40 features are logged to create a fingerprint for each diamond, logging it from mine to ring.

So it seems, in the case of diamonds, they are unique enough to create a fingerprint. I'm no expert on diamonds, so that might not really work in reality.
> For example, it's fairly well established that the less guns there are, the less gun crime there is

But that's just a talking point. It's like saying if there are less silver cars, there are less car accidents involving silver cars. That doesn't tell you anything about whether it makes sense to ban silver cars. You can insert literally anything into that sentence and it's still true. If there is less food, less people will get food poisoning. If there is less water, less people will drown in water.

It doesn't prove anything, it's just sophistry. We obviously shouldn't ban water, which implies the question of whether we should ban guns is more complicated than that.
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Registration is not necessary, you can just press on the "i'm feeling lucky" button and get some major/important work randomly. However, when you are logged in, you will be able to get recommendations based on your starred works and followed composers.
I think a great example of a good outcome when people give a hoot about stormwater (and other water removal options since it is an low lying coastal island!) and the environment is Hilton Head Island, SC. The town is aggressive or even militant about unnecessary tree removal.

The result is really interesting suburban infrastructure that reducing demand on the storm sewer. The Walmart parking lot isn't 5 acres of asphalt -- they left trees in place and have soil buffers with grass or other landscaping. Curbs are designed to direct water flow to those buffers.

I live in upstate NY, and even in that very different environment, those types of techniques as well as things like retaining pounds can really improve the situation with respect to flooding. Otherwise, the only way to remediate the impact of the increasing number of high volume thunderstorms is to dig up streets and build cisterns to sudden inflows.
why would you ever install a keyboard from someone you don't trust?
Neat data visuals. Especially the networks of letter tpancisions when words change spelling, I never saw this idea expressed before. I showed this article to my friend and he got mad at me, he was always correcting poor souls on evil of eXpresso ;-)
I think you're breaking the rules here with the tone of your message.
I’m on 2 weeks waiting for Coinbase to unlock my account, no response yet. My Authy was on an iPhone 7, and when I upgraded to the iPhone X I didn’t think much about it, but “multiple devices” was disabled so I couldn’t retrieve my account anymore.
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If you search for "desk pad" on Amazon, Google images, etc. you'll see them. A large rectangle of paper, typically being held in a base at the corners, top and corners, etc., sometimes printed with a grid, calendar, etc.

My father's desk featured one of these, used exactly as described.
That is not exactly what "zero knowledge" means, even in modern times...
This is a major factor.

People in general are easily impressed by shiny new baubles.
yeah I was thinking they were powering a microcontroller via motion or ambient radio waves
Doesn’t stop them from buying it. Even if my tech-illiterate friends are vaguely aware that e.g. “smart TVs” are, in fact, dumb as shit, they still prefer them to simple TVs.
Most likely, they have found that some really good developers want to live in specific places with really high standards of living and since they are good, they could easily get a job somewhere else and stay in the city they want to.

Not everyone is willing to just move for a job if not necessary.
SHA-3 is not an NSA standard. It was invented by Guido Bertoni, Joan Daemen, Michaël Peeters and Gilles Van Assche who are researchers at various companies/universities and are from Italy and Belgium.

Your curl function is not even listed as one of the major lightweight crypto primitive on Lux' zoo: https://www.cryptolux.org/index.php/Lightweight_Hash_Functio...

Your post is full of shit.