skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I like the idea of loading only the icons used on a page.

After digging around, I see that it's a framework composed of a client-side library and a server [0] that returns requested icons in JSON. The icon collection is its own repo [1], which looks useful in itself. And an icon finder [2] to browse/search a collection of over 20,000 available icons.

[0] https://github.com/simplesvg/website-icons.js

[1] https://github.com/simplesvg/icons

[2] https://simplesvg.com/test/search.html
> To ensure that nobody else does. Google uses .dev pervasively for projects - if someone were to buy .dev and sell domains in it on the global DNS infrastructure, then myfancynewproject.dev would resolve to something entirely different from within Google than from outside it.

So basically Google decided to break everyone else, because they were afraid someone would break them. They should be more considerate of other developers who use .dev internally like them.
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And don’t forget nail #2 long confirmation times with high price volatility .
Houses are a good example. When land is plentiful, the cost of a house is usually a slight discount over what it would cost to build a similar one for new.
I guess a first good experimental step would be to point a directional Wifi antenna in the direction of the door and monitor what it receives at what strength.
Fasting for even a week is no problem when you have been well fed before. It's not so much fun and not so healthy when you are already underfed or malnourished when you start.

Recommending fasting to poor people is pretty arrogant.
The biggest drawback is that only some operations can be supported. E.g., without strong consistency you can detect double-spending from an account but you can't prevent it, because the validity of an operation can't depend on operations a datacenter hasn't seen.
Even there people occasionally suggest electronic voting as a means to speed things up.
> Assume that what everyone knows is good until your next steps push you to reexamine assumptions, and don't be reluctant to do so.

This is a fantastic summary. I like it a lot, and may steal it for future use.
> In both Bitcoin and Iota, we never reach an absolute certainty.

That's not correct. You are only uncertain in bitcoin when there are two equal (hash wise) blocks. This happens very rarely. That's not the case in IOTA since it does happen all the time and I'm guessing somebody could calculate txs to make it happen on purpose.
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But -- Oh, I see what you did there.
Poor people are poor, not necessarily stupid. There's an art to "paying bills" when you don't have the money to pay in full. You have to know the payment and delinquency policies of every last one of your utilities, just like you have to know the discount, coupon, and return policies of every store you visit.

It's almost a full-time job in itself. You have to work every system to the bone and have a side-hustle in order to get past the current crisis until your next windfall.

You have kids? Give them a box of $0.05 things and tell them to sell them each for $1.00 . They'll have to learn how to live as poor folk sooner or later, and sales is a marketable skill, whereas panhandling is not. If you can work two jobs, they can work one and still go to school.

Being poor sucks. Don't be poor. If you find yourself being poor, stop as fast as you can. Don't fall for the traps that keep you poor. Don't let the crabs drag you back into their bucket. And never take out a loan in your own name unless the money you take is going to make you more money than what it will cost you to take it.

And for the sake of your mother's honor, if you take a job as a debt collector, tell everyone that you sell heroin and mug people instead.
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Here's an idea. Ethereum smart contracts to short bitcoin. You borrow my BTC for 30 days, with a 5% fee. Someone could make a killing off of that idea.
http://www.scotusblog.com/case-files/cases/henson-v-santande...

They were simply confirming the plain meaning of the FDCPA, which applies to people who collect debt that is owed to another person. Junk debt buyers buy their debt outright, so they're not collecting on someone else's behalf, so FDCPA doesn't apply. If people are upset about this, they should direct that toward Congress for not having amended the law.
Modern society works by having everyone contribute for the greater good. One of the principal mechanisms by which this occurs is taxation and spending on government services.

You go really far down the civilizational chain if you remove these mechanisms. Almost all the way down to primitivism.
> You're saying that what we should not have done, is okay for Google to do.

No, what we should not have done is used an unregistered and unreserved TLD for testing/development. What Google has done is registered the .dev TLD, and started to use it for development.
Netflix Doing a Choose Your Own Adventure TV Show for Adults
It's a government sponsored project so one would expect their publicity to be limited. That's part of the reason I posted it. Stuff like this is extremely exciting.

It's at the cost of playing by the rules of CRDTs. Making CRDTs consequence-free is ongoing research.
> Should we block LoL now then, or are it's communication tool(s) different for whatever reason?

Blocking LoL is fine by me. China's blocked Google.
I think personal experience here is the answer. Even an excellent academic study, peer reviewed, conducted by experts in the field, published in a prestigious journal, is still at best one single experiment. Pretty sure the common answer to this is question is, try it yourself. Do it consistently 10 minutes a day for at least a week and see if you notice any benefit. That should be more informative than any study and as relevant to you as any experiment can be, you are the test subject. Also probably take as long as any review (a thorough one anyways) of academic literature.

If you see a benefit, consider it "proven," if not consider it a still unanswered question. That being said, I recall having once come across some interesting research in neuroscience dealing with meditation. However, it being neuroscience and not psychology, I don't think the research set out to ascertain any proclaimed "perceived" benefits. Just understanding the impact on the brain, neurologically, of meditation. I will try to link if I can recover the source.
Thanks for the analysis
This isn't an either/or situation. The ReactOS developers collaborate heavily with the WINE developers, so many updates to ReactOS also benefit WINE and vice-versa.
Rather than maintaining a list of HSTS websites which isn't cross-browser, why is there not an optional HSTS flag attached to the DNS response? I don't know anything about DNS requests, so changing the protocol in a backwards compatible way might be impossible, but that seems like a much better way to maintain that information than with a separate list.
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It's locking literally every individual and business out of a "development" domain, solely for one corporation's for-profit use.

And? What entitles any of us to use that domain? And as far as that goes, you can, as I understand it, still use that tld, since your local DNS resolver or hosts file can always override how hosts are resolved in there. The only real issue is if you hit the specific issue where a change in Chrome behaviour w/r/t this specific TLD, breaks something in your workflow.
I think the claim might be something similar, but not quite that extreme. I don't think it strains credulity to think that the majority of large corporations take advantage of loopholes to drastically reduce their taxes.
People design hash functions. Repeating that ‘creating a hash function is stupid’ doesn’t make it true. There is a need for an efficient, lightweight cryptographic standard for low resource devices. Curl-P attempts to be this solution utilizing ternary logic. They aren’t making it just because they can. There is a real need for it.

Recently, with the Foundation being established (therefore giving them access to sufficient funds), they hired CYBERCRYPT to vet and improve upon their prototype.
I feel like a good place to share some of the resources I've compiled from HN regarding compilers/interpreters construction:

MOOC/Courses:

- https://cseweb.ucsd.edu/classes/sp17/cse131-a/

- http://cs.brown.edu/courses/cs173/2016/index.html

- https://lagunita.stanford.edu/courses/Engineering/Compilers/...

- http://www.craftinginterpreters.com/

Blog posts:

- An Intro to Compilers (https://nicoleorchard.com/blog/compilers) and the accompanying Hacker news comments (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15005031)

- Resources for Amateur Compiler Writers (https://c9x.me/compile/bib/)

Other resources:

- Tweet (https://twitter.com/munificentbob/status/901543375945388032) by Bob Nystrom (works on Dart VM and creator of Crafting Interpreters) -

- Wren (http://wren.io/): another project by Bob Nystrom, a scripting language written in C with beautifully documented code (I recommend checking it out on GitHub (https://github.com/munificent/wren))

- Ask HN: Resources for building a programming language? (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15171238)

- Mal – Make a Lisp, in 68 languages (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15226110)
The numbers of votes for the current president were not remarkably higher than for the Republican candidate in 2012. The remarkable difference was a loss of votes for the Democratic candidate compared to 2012.

I do agree that Democrats should be more inclusive and less impractical with the issues they take, and it's a valuable lesson. However, they should bear in mind the reality of what happened: they fielded an unexpectedly unpopular candidate and the votes show it.
> 7k+/acre

Assuming this is pure farm land (no premium for possible annexation or commercial development), is that not an absolutely batshit insane price? I'm no expert but that seems at least 4x what is reasonable.
Wow, is it so hard to use a self-signed in your local dev config for nginx/whatever? I have a bash script that auto-spins up a new dev environment ala: ng create something.dev apps/php/laravel/app/public -- auto makes a self-signed cert, reloads nginx, and should still work in new chrome, since it uses https.

Am I missing something or are they whining over nothing? I would get a little perturbed if only .dev domains show up if you're on a google ip or something, but for now, using https is totally do-able.
I understand, I am asking you what exactly did she regret about doing business with him. Its important to know since she regretted it before he was outed. correct?
Data science, data science, data science. The company I'm involved has some blog posts you might find useful:

- https://www.dataquest.io/blog/how-to-get-a-data-science-job/

Feel free to email me if you want to chat more about data science careers, etc (srini at dataquest.io)
You could also use the destruction of open source projects committed by Oracle as examples. It would be interesting to see the time from invasion to time of death for Solaris, Hudson, Open Office, etc.
https://archive.fo/B98Ft
I really wish we would stop wasting energy on this. I mean literal energy, as in the electricity.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tuskegee_syphilis_experiment
How do GraphQL remote schemas work?
> I'd rather have a Heartbleed impacting nearly every server on the internet than a...whatever we're calling this, impacting every macOS computer in the world.

I think I must be misunderstanding this, or else the rest of your comment. Did you really mean it this way (more Heartbleeds is better than more personal-OS vulnerabilities), rather than the other way around?
I always get bad feelings when I see avoidable casualties on a space mission. Without giving too many spoilers, it's very unlikely a small nudge with manoeuvring thrusters wouldn't do the trick.

Space is unforgiving, but one thing you usually don't lack is time.

Also, any crew that feels they didn't train for all possible events in the mission feels too unbelievable. The guy in Prometheus that takes off his helmet as soon as they figure out the atmosphere of an alien habitat is breathable... don't be that guy.

As a contrast with a crew that seems very credible, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_Odyssey_(TV_series) is an awesome series.
I don't know why either. As it stands right now, the parent poster is vaguebooking.
No. All major browsers use the HSTS preload list.
Thats strange, they swore it was a unique incident?

LOL , it has a happened with numerous friends and family members of mine, that have tried to cancel their service.
The argument I hear by people like Ari Paul of Blocktower Capital, is that many emerging market currencies are already less stable, so you can use bitcoin as a way to escape inflation/government control in those markets.
> You expect from any service that they can cancel your account for any reason

Yes, absolutely. "We reserve the right to refuse service to anyone." I expect to be able to do that for any service I run, and I expect others to be able to do the same.

I also expect that doing so lightly, without a very well-justified reason, would get reported on and lead to a massive backlash. So, in practice, I expect such a clause to be used as, effectively, 'if you try to find a "creative" way to weasel your way out of our specific terms like "don't be disruptive, don't spam, etc", such that your activity meets the letter of the ToS but not the spirit, we'll kick you off anyway". Personally, if I were writing a ToS, I'd write the relevant term along those lines instead.
Sure, polling places are still offered in that case. The benefit of voting from home greatly outweighs the cons IMO.

I wasn't implying that voting coupons would still have the issue of people bullying you, just why we don't use that system anymore. And honestly coupons seem a little archaic to me, not to mention easy to manipulate.
Nicehash hacked?
I wonder how many bitcoins Steam has, and how many of those they've even cashed out on.
"It's astounding to me how these articles and videos get passed around without some cursory fact-checking."

So lets do some in the article.

"In 2012, about 17% of EA’s revenue came from stuff like loot boxes and season passes. This year, about 45% of their revenue did."

That paragraph talks about revenue, while this paragraph discusses profit;

"In 2012, EA made $76 million dollars, and in 2017 they made $976 million. The kicker is that we know $800 million of that comes from FIFA, which means all the rest of their games combined earned the other $197 million."
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Financial examples are bad because in fact the financial world IS eventually consistent. It's quite possible to withdraw the same $100 from an account via multiple ATM machines.
Tom Scott has a good video about this: https://youtube.com/watch?v=w3_0x6oaDmI
Space flight is essentially a systems engineering enterprise. You live or die by your systems engineering expertise.

The fire forced NASA to become a systems engineering center, probably the best such team ever assembled. The fact that they were able to land on the moon on schedule, with no schedule margin, given where they were in 1966, is astounding.
Having read https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc6761, I have a use-case which I've seen often but doesn't seem to be covered: What TLD should I use for internal, production domains? ie. names that are only resolvable within my network, but are definitely not "test" domains and calling them .test would generate confusion.

Mostly I tend to see companies either inventing an unregistered TLD, often using their own company name, or they use ".local", which can cause issues - some systems treat this name specially.

A third option would be putting all internal names under an "internal.yourcompany.com", but that's long and annoying.

Ideally I'd like to see a ".private" or ".internal" TLD recognised as special-use under the same semantics as ".test". Does anyone have any better option?
http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:pxXMUXY...
2 months ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15498685

11 previous submissions: https://hn.algolia.com/?query=listening%20thing&sort=byPopul...

5 more: https://hn.algolia.com/?query=theremin%20soviet
> Intelligence is not necessary to survive

It's even debatable whether it is an asset.
but you could set transaction fee to 20 cents, it would just take much longer to get confirmed?
Are they the real results or the exit polls?
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> There are no pencils needed, no ambiguity.

I could argue that a system such as that is easier to have fraud simply because all of the tickets for a particular voter look exactly the same and there is noting unique on each ticket (the way it is marked) that can differentiate in a way to make fraud less likely.
Well, sure. If everyone had just followed the RFCs and used “test”, this wouldn't have been a problem, since lots of people didn't, most of them were going to get broken at sometime (unless someone submitted and got approved an RFC to reserve “dev” like “test”.)

Once the gTLD landgrab was announced, it was too late to push the new RFC approach, and it was likely someone was going to get the gTLD.

Someone who was using it for internal use like Google is probably less disruptive to existing users (even with their HSTS action) than if it had been someone who wanted to sell it for public use, which would have produced real chaos.
Were you responding to a different comment? I was writing about political development, not economic.
Ambiguous user interface is not the user's fault.

If I up vote when I agree with a post, then I down vote when I disagree. We should have an "off topic" flag for off topic posts and hide the off topic posts, not unpopular ones.
Bought my first Bitcoin in 2011. Recently had my credit card stolen and deactivated, wanted to buy something from Steam, and needed an alternative payment method. Considered using Bitcoin, and decided against it for exactly these reasons. Valve is absolutely right. Bitcoin is not useful for day-to-day payments anymore.
Same situation here, except I mildly suspect the debt may be legitimate, in that the onus is probably on me to fight my insurance company to have covered the money they decided not to, not the hospital.

In either case, first the hospital kept sending me bills with an account number that didn't match mine, and when I legitimately tried to pay it, they couldn't find me through account number lookup. This set off my suspicion, so I just kept asking for "proof of debt." Every time they sent it, some detail would be off, and I'd call them and tell them, and about a month later they'd send a new one with some new error.

This kept on, until the (fairly new) hospital moved its accounting office or something that caused them to really fuck up their records. I didn't hear from it for about 4 months until I got my first call from a debt collector. They really tried to hammer me on how they could work out a "deal" with me for reduced cost (I'm sure they probably paid 10% or something for my debt), so as usual, I asked for proof of debt.

It never came.

3 months later, another call, different agency. Proof of debt, never arrived.

3 months later, another call, ANOTHER DIFFERENT AGENCY. This time I just asked to be "added to their do not call list." They did.

Haven't heard from this bullshit in 5 months. I've checked my credit twice since then (once routine, once as a result of the equifax debacle), no sign of the debt. I guess I'm finally free?
Your political beliefs can’t harm them in any way though. Examples are a silly thing to get upset about.
EA got started with the idea of creating stars out of game devs, it flopped spectacularly.

http://www.filfre.net/2013/01/seeing-farther/
I think the point is that if the system is based on trust, you can't necessarily trust the system.
What's nice about building databases on compositions of CRDTs is that if you can validate the individual CRDTs via automated testing, you have a very high degree of confidence the composition of those CRDTs will do something similar.

No one's arguing that a Jepsen test shouldn't be done. Just that it'll probably be very different in character from more invented industry technology.
From my experience, I would offer the generalization that nobody hires mathematicians. Mathematics in society is more of a skill set than a professional title. The most challenging or cutting edge math that could be commonly used is the LINEST() function in Excel. A person who is good at math also has a lot of great skills to offer a company, it is just selling those features and not the calculus.

I started out as a math major, then I transitioned to a double major math AND stats because stats is more applicable. I struggled for a year looking for work (also US immigration sucks, even for Canadians) and ended up in a master degree program in Industrial Engineering. I chose engineering specifically for the word "engineering". I was lucky that I discovered the field of Industrial Engineering at that university otherwise I was headed for a BS in Mechanical.

Continuing formal math education will further limit the kind of jobs you can apply, increasing the level of competition. Even the BS in Math left me with the feeling people saw me as over qualified, lacking regular skills.

Math is super great by the way, just not the idea of being a "mathematician". It (unfairly) causes alienation of your true potential.
They were already using it for development. Just like everyone else. They "officially" took it away from everyone else, and then forced it to be TLS-only.

This is the internet development equivalent of the copyrighting of the song "Happy Birthday to You".
The term gets used to contrast with 'medium of exchange', as the reality is that for most people, most of the time, bitcoin is not very liquid.
I used to short/long bitcoin/eth on GDAX, you have to register as a business and turn on Margin Trading
Here’s a cache: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:pxXMUXY...

Looks like the instances they use are not GPU instances, so I’m not sure what the point of this is. Also they do not take into account EC2 spot pricing, which saves a ton of money and are the main reason I use AWS over alternate clouds.
In fact, it can be argued that intelligence leads to low birth rates and population decline that extrapolates to eventual extinction.
Just like crypto, unless you yourself code and design the thing, you can't trust it at all. This is what we're down to. I don't even trust operating systems anymore unless they are open source. Freaking Windows 10 is spyware.
0/10 - Landlord abusing his power.
Gtop is like htop but prettier
That's another good movie.
Deceiving the public with a fake narrative of popular support harms society.
> Judging a person's character by their sexuality alone is just absurd

If you rape someone, you are a bad person. End of story. There is no _other viewpoint_. There is no _other side of the story_. I'll refrain from name calling, but I do have one request for you. Really think about what you're saying. Try to see it from the eyes of the victim. What if your mom was the one that was raped?
The median house price is $533,800. Not sure where you work, but that sounds like a pretty sweet deal.
Apple Computer was not infringement of the agreement, but they had to pay $80k to get that agreement, because they may have infringed on the trademark. It's true that we don't known if they would have lost initially, but if it was clearly frivolous, they wouldn't have paid $80k to settle.
I am a mathematics professor (at a non-elite university).

If anyone has advice on how I can help our students (at all levels -- undergrad and grad) get jobs in any of these industries, I would be grateful to listen!
The third option IMHO is the best, although I'd consider using a domain just for this instead of a subdomain. (can be shorter and uglier then as well)
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