skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Kerl is Keccak I.E. SHA-3, the international NSA standard. They called it Kerl for fun in homage of Curl, which is still under active development with the absolute world-leading cryptographers of lightweight cryptography. Curl had to be invented to push LIGHTWEIGHT cryptography which is necessary for the Internet of Things. It's quite astonishing how much misinformation is spread around.

https://blog.iota.org/iota-foundation-hires-cybercrypt-615d2...
>In a CBS poll

Hillary was going to win 275 seats according to those polls.

I wouldn't pay any attention to those anymore.
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I do not own IOTA - thought about it some months back but decided against it because I don't fancy doing trades on or supporting Bitfinex.

Another HN user swayed me away from Monero - which I owned a large part of as he told me about scaling issues.

But my question is to your advice about: look to other experts. As someone coming outside the crypto-universe it is kind of hard to distill who the real experts are - so any advice on how to distill/find credible sources of information in this space?
Latency is a problem -- typically 180ms to US-west and a little more to EU. Singapore is 100ms-ish and a good option if AU is too expensive.

Laws and/or customer requirement often require that data be kept onshore, of course.
> Links to Spotify, Deezer, et al. would be great (I particularly care about Deezer, because they offer(ed) the most comprehensive selection of classical music).

Does Deezer support gapless (not cross-faded) playback? Because as far as I can tell, most of the streaming services miss the mark dramatically here. It’s definitely most painful when listening to classical music to have what should have been a seemless transition from one movement to the next have a jarring stop.
> nobody seems to have developed a Shamir's secret sharing approach to cold wallets

I mean, what is there to develop? Take the wallet's private key, and run it through your favorite implementation. I'm not really sure what a bitcoin specific implementation would do! Just autoload it into your specific bitcoin client for you?
So much misinformation, where to begin. IOTA is using Keccak/SHA-3, then they are developing a new kind of LIGHTWEIGHT cryptographic primitive together with the world leaders of this field

https://blog.iota.org/iota-foundation-hires-cybercrypt-615d2...
No you're right, now I remember - some people got replacement home in other neighbourhoods and they didn't want to move. Either way, doesn't really change my point.
Indeed, that's my peeve as well. This work wasn't credited anywhere in the credits, we even contacted movie staff and they didn't know. We contacted the cellist in the scene, and he said it was some random score he had with him, but he didn't have his old notes with him and couldn't find the piece in storage.
This is the second version of this reaction I got, so I think I made my point wrong.

I don't mean at all to say "it's not education". I did get educated in a northeastern public schools, I had a lot of excellent teachers who worked incredibly hard and committed their free time and money to education.

My point is that K-8 public schools are both source of education and - intentionally, explicitly - daycare alternatives. Not "school is useless, it's a holding pen", but "schools intentionally provide non-educational support for parents including childcare".

My public school had full-day kindergarten that was about 70% recess. When budget cuts hit, there was a public discussion of whether to go to half-day kindergarten, and the two sides were "it'll save money" and "parents will have to pay for childcare". My district had after-school activities with no real educational value to help keep kids occupied until ~4PM, and then another hour of unstructured study hall after that. The formal purpose of the thing was to provide a place for kids who didn't go to daycare or go home alone.

I don't even think this is a bad thing! The parent comments suggested "free college is a vacation" and "well by that light, so is K-12 education". My point was that children don't take vacations, and the daycare role of primary schooling is a benefit, not a hazard.
NoSQL is a very wide field. There are lots of special cases in which certain NoSQL data stores can help a lot. One of the points the posted article makes is that native multi-model databases help you not to sacrifice relational and yet reap some of the benefits certain NoSQL data models (like graph) can provide.
Any idea what this (https://github.com/iotaledger/ccurl/blob/master/src/lib/curl...) is for in their c implementation?
I'd be happy to elaborate.

Only speaking from my experience in the US but many CS or IS graduates do not have the real world knowledge to excel in a job squarely in their field. They learn 90% of what they actually need on the job.

My uni's CS degree required a ton of math that is irrelevant to 90+ % of development jobs, lots of language and liberal arts classes that are also useless in the field, etc, etc...

at least here, uni is a total money grab. very expensive, not a whole lot of practical knowledge imparted.
How is it mad? Government's are capable committing atrocities of unprecedented scale against their own citizenry. I wonder if the Russian Kulaks could have organized an armed resistance, or perhaps the Chinese peasants during Maosism.

Also, I recommend to you the fascinating history of the African-American tradition of arms in the US. Black's used firearms to defend their families and communities against KKK and white mobs.

"A good revolver is the best response to the slave catcher" - Fredrick Douglas
Well, if Pittsburgh is using it, it is terrible. We have so many potholes (and huge ones). It has become much worse over the last ~5 years. For several months we had a multi-foot hole blocked off by cones until the city could fix it. It essentially was in the middle of a two way road. It was terrible. I see more and more each winter.
I'm laughing at '82
>Why does everyone repeat that Byzantine consensus requires maximum 33% of participants to be dishonest?

Not 33% of participants, 33% of the hash power, could just be one participant with a pile of GPUs or ASICS or "JINN" chips lol. That's the claim made by the IOTA author, anyway.

Right now it wouldn't surprise me if someone could amass 90+% of IOTA hash power anyway.

>If messages cannot be forged

Tbh this is not even a given with IOTA.
Yeah, like H&M, there's no reason for them to enter the AU market with US pricing. They might as well come in with pricing similar to other AU retailers and hope that the other benefits (convenience, fast shipping, better shopping experience) are compelling for consumers.
I’d keep building and tinkering on projects. Probably with less worries about monetizing
Yep, thanks for your clarification!
The civil war?
Hello galobtter! please have a second look at the website. Listening using YouTube is not the main feature of this website. It's just a tool that you can listen to some work without doing effort searching for it. You can also use it do listen to lists created by you, or others. Also you can listen to top works filtered by category, period, century or composer using it. However, the website is intended to be more of a social website so that you can discover new works, ask for recommendations, find top recordings for some work, discuss and review classical works
> leaving aside details where you already may have an Amazon account

This ignores the most salient part of the whole scenario.
You are so full of lies...

"know enough about blockchain to confuse a lot of non-experts". Yes, they just INVENTED full Proof of Stake, they did the first decentralized voting, asset exchange, supply chain and so much more on top of blockchain since 2011.

They pioneered so much of this space that to hear you lie flat out is almost too dumb to even spend time correcting.

There is no one on Earth with more blockchain expertise than the IOTA team, not even Etheruem (they are largely basing their future on the work IOTA's team did in 2013)
They don't divide when the topic actually does not matter to you. That is when you can easily be detached. When the outcome of the discussion affects you personally, then it is much different. Speaking about Christian fundamentalist specifically, if the consensus in work ends up being that I was supposed to be more with children anyway or that I should be naturally submissive, then my position and career will be fundamentally different then if the consensus ends up being radical aggressive feminist women-are-always-right stance.

Those debates have consequences and that is why they are heated. Alternatively we can make work about work where impact of these things is minified.

"So, if you don't want to discuss these things at work, why not at least be curious about other people's thoughts and honestly ask them in a non-condescending way about why they think about something in a certain way?"

Because I am here to do the job. I picked up this job because I liked programming and problem solving. If I would be interested that much in someones that was randomly assigned to the same team opinions about my gender, motherhood, health care or tax policy, I would pick up different job.

I also strongly hate when people discuss topics like that for hours, then have to stay late and then frame themselves as hard workers who stay late or demand that I stay late too, because they need my support.

Discuss those things after work, with or without colleges.
Does anybody reading this have any experience with the performance of AWS Neptune? I would be very interested to hear about the performance of deep graph traversals on large sharded graphs.
Petty solid selection of an important thing happening at the time.
You still need to worry about it being found in the pure software case - there's far higher odds of me seeing some suspicious traffic than a small custom bit of RF gear inside. If someone's taking the thing apart and sees your physical extra bits, odds are they're doing so to dump the firmware, just like this guy... if they're not doing that, they're not necessarily skilled enough to spot whatever modifications you may have planted either. It really depends on the target though I suppose. Of course, at the point you have physical access, all bets are off, they could swap chips on the board with identically labeled ones which serve different functions - replace the firmware and signing with their own, etc. An essentially undetectable hardware modification.
Of course maintaining some kind of "libsodium for rust" is more work, but on the other hand, a central project for rust crypto stuff is highly desirable: Even if initially run by mere crypto enthusiasts, such a central place is needed for the real crypto experts to condensate. Then, obsolete crypto can centally be deprecated and put with a warning, and competing implementations can be resolved at a central place getting (hopefully) all knowing people together to discuss.

What's the alternative? That each individual developer has to pick and combine their favourite set of crypto libs, making crypto libs spread by popularity (which is more often than not a self-fulfilling prophecy) rather than actual quality.
For some reason Tim Cook thinks China will allow VPNs to return to the App Store
Water flows through them, they don't really 'absorb' water. Of course there will be moments when it freezes when there's still water in them, but it's not equivalent to freezing a sponge. The parking lot on one of my buildings is paved with blocks like this (condition for getting the building permit), works great. Never slippery in winter, either. They weren't even more expensive than alternatives.
I know it first hand. Our app has an auto-renewing subscription, and they are nitpicking every little detail on it (Not letting us say "Free Trial" even though it is literally a free trial for a week, with the subscription price/renewal stated clearly on the same view.) Yet an app like iHeartRadio has a "Free Trial" button with no visible terms, no visible price, and no renewal frequency listed gets a pass.

Plus they let those scam VPN apps through with a "Free Trial" that immediately charges you $99, and they stayed at the top of the grossing charts for days. It is insanely frustrating. The app review process at Apple is a joke now, honestly. I'm pretty sure it has been outsourced to some third party, we always get through on appeal, but why should a year old app with a 4.6 star rating with thousands of reviews have to appeal every single update submission.

Sorry for the rant, just dealing with this exact problem as we speak.
Graph really is fantastic and I personally see it as such a competitive advantage in many applications.
ArangoDB rocks my personal world
When they see $800 million from loot boxes in FIFA, they don't see just 'hey this can work, lets try to make it work elsewhere.' They see 'hey, this is what gamers actually want.'

When pablo escobar sees $800 from cocaine sales in the US he didn't see just "hey this works, lets try to make it work elsewhere" he sees "hey this cocaine shit is addictive, lets sell them more and kill anyone that gets in our way".

This is why we tend to make predatory things illegal, because they use their vice to corner the market and control the user.

> In other forms of media, the audience vehemently defends their chosen medium, combatting censorship, responding to exploitative practices with substantial actions to back up their complaints, fighting for the rights of the audience over those of the publishers, etc.

Eh, I don't really think you know too much about other mediums then. Television and Radio have had massive amounts of censorship in US history. Between the FCC and MPPC the government has been very hands on in those industries.

The reason it seems different in video games is sales are not restricted in the same manner. There were only a limited number of radio stations, television channels, or movie theaters in the past. With games, especially recently, digital distribution is effectively unlimited. You don't have to fight for the medium because there an unlimited number of games you can play or places you can find them. Why fight, you'll just die tired and have less time to play a different game.
Knock them down, build more apartments and sell them to the Chinese.
The incredible work that goes into ReactOS is truly awe inspiring. It gives me hope for Haiku
> I thought Google had smarter language designers.

They do, but you may be misunderstanding the purpose of Go for Google. It's to take recent untrusted grads and have them be quickly "productive" generating reviewable code.

It's not an accident that Go's feels a lot like a somewhat improved and simplected Java (1), very much tuned towards network services.
Be careful judging others based on your quality of life standards.

You might get angry realizing everyone has it better than you; but perhaps debt, lost love, resentment and bitterness is funding those extravagant purchases.
Aren't those called incinerators? We have those.
I'd argue that the exonomic value is in the opposite direction.

is the salary of a graduate higher than those of someone without a degree who has been in their career 4-5 years already? plus the huge cost of uni weighed against the 4-5 years worth of salary accrued during that time?

i think this is trending towards that gap being smaller as a generation disillusioned with the value of college moves into upper management

speaking from my experience only, and with regards to the US only as I'm not familiar with the situation in other countries
The big tragedy with the widespread availability of firearms is suicide. Guns are a quick and easy way to end it all, where if you had to search out a tall building for 5 minutes the suicidal urge would subside.

Anyone who has dealt with depression can tell you how this works. The suicidal urge doesn't last very long, but guns are waaaaaaay too convenient. Guns are far from the only way to kill yourself, but their widespread availability and the immediacy of the action are unique among suicide methods.
"connect to WiFi" is not remotely accurate. It should be: "Reflect wifi signals in a predictable pattern." This technique, while impressive, requires custom hardware/software to detect and interpret (presumably via filtering and a fourier transform) the back-scatter signal.
I don't know if it's fair to say that it's not the issue. Unless we have a crystal ball that will reveal the exact breakdown of causal factors, it certainly seems reasonable to address the big ticket items that we are aware of, and are reasonably sure will have a positive impact on the homicide rate. Let's not let perfect be the enemy of good when it comes to incremental social improvement.
Everything in that blog post is very much what the rest of the industry is agreeing with. Sources backing this up is even cited in the damn blog post man.
In marketing, optimizers VS humanists
Cray CPUs are commodity tho'. The secret sauce is Aries, the interconnect. I ported code to the XC30 in a previous job.
I am very curious about what 'LIGHTWEIGHT' cryptography is
defined as. I am also dubious about anyone that claims to have 'absolute world-leading cryptographers' since many strong cryptographers are quietly employed by intelligence agencies and most others are academics.

Also, since we are being pedantic, SHA-3/Keccak is an NIST standard, which is a federal agency of the United States.
I'm not a lawyer, but as far as I understand it antitrust law/regulators don't really make the distinction of whether a company has a full-blown monopoly. What primarily matters is whether they either exercise monopoly power (e.g. raise prices or reduce product/service value without commensurate loss of sales to competitors) or engage in anticompetitive practices intended to drive competitors out of the market (predatory pricing/dumping, tying products across different markets, exclusivity agreements, refusing to sell to a company in one market because they're a competitor in another market).
I've read about it and I'm still waiting for the definitive proof that his denials about sexual misconduct are false. Although, I understand the standard of proof required for the court of popular opinion is much lower than an actual legal court.
Which we do have, and they're doing their job by staying out of this. Amazon doesn't have a monopoly on online electronics sales.
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> But if they want to say "you must instruct your computer to download and display our ads", that's not valid, IMO.

Why not? I can sell you a video stream without ads for $1. Or I can let you watch it for free with the implicit agreement that you'll watch ads (which will cover the costs of the bandwidth you are using). You want the best of both worlds - you want to watch it for free and not watch any ads. How is that not stealing my bandwidth? If you are going to block the ads, that's fine, but it's your moral obligation to back out of my site and not to consume my bandwidth.
I like the idea of transparent salaries, but does a "transparent" formula ever become so convoluted, and open to gaming, that the company may as well just not bother?

It can be argued that not disclosing salaries is a way to suppress wages; an asymmetry of information. Is open salary information where "everyone at the same level gets the same salary, but there's some gotchas" another way to do the same thing?
Japan has spent a LOT of effort to mitigate floods. It does mean that all river banks anywhere near a city look the same, and very artificial.
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Why would someone reject the fundamentals of applied statistics?
What actually makes this a blockchain? That it uses a Merkle Tree?

Is a CT log a blockchain?
Case mix and case severity are real concerns. Physicians (and hospitals) vary tremendously in each, and often the best physicians get the hardest cases, which, if not accounted for in metrics, make them look bad.

Data are also often tremendously thin -- I've seen profiling efforts over tens of millions of patient-lives in which a given provider may only have a handful of records. That's not enough to draw strong inferences, and year-to-year variance is going to be tremendous.

It also turns out that there are very strong clusterings of patterns around facilities: a senior physician or surgeon can (and does) drive practice, quality, and methods for much of the rest of the medical staff.

The single best predictor of quality I recall was volume of procedures. Practice (and standardisation) help tremendously.
It's a bit like it sending out an audio signal (which would be another option I think) that can be interpreted by a receiver.
I'm not advocating for renters to be able to deduct a piece of the underlying property tax. I don't think it makes sense to have property tax as a federal deduction at all.

In general, I'm not sure how great it is that we favor home ownership over renting in our tax policy. My bigger issue is being able to deduct mortgage interest but not rent. Mortgage interest is essentially rent on money, so I've always thought it'd be fair to make rent (or a percentage of it at least) deductible as well. Or, even better, eliminate the mortgage interest deduction entirely.

Full disclosure, I'm a homeowner. Fuller disclosure, my home is paid off, so it's easy for me to say these deductions shouldn't exist. I would gladly give up the property tax deduction if that additional revenue was used for something other than cutting taxes for the wealthy, though.
Recently there was a discussion about salaries in SF. And the numbers there were much bigger. What gives?
Hey, just a quick note,

I'd personally enjoy a big fat action button on the landing page that just says "Play" (just like the "i'm feeling lucky" button on the "TV" page). I know you have higher ambitions with the site (social, etc), but, anecdotally, i'm studying for exams right now and don't really have the motivation to parse all that text and creating a new user, but you could've easily had me listening for an hour if the content was easily, immediately accessible.
good luck!

EDIT: Who am I kidding, I'm procrastinating so I might as well procrastinate right: It would be nice if the linked videos used youtubes timecode function, to skip intros. It was a bit jarring to hear the presenter in this video, for instance: https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=69&v=IInG5nY_wrU
I was under the impression that aside from a limited realm like the wake word, it's Hard to do voice recognition without centralized processing. Some combination of faster CPU (even with network latency detracting), whatever storage requirements there are for samples or fingerprints of every possible phoneme, 0-day neologisms (okay, strictly home automation wouldn't need that part), etc. etc. etc.
Okay but it was more of a general question. I see Hashgraph and others always saying that they need 33% of participants to be honest. But with unforgeable message signatures that limitation doesn't apply.
Because inputs are not tightly controlled. we don't know who exactly is answering these polls and we have no idea if preferences of poll answering population can be extrapolated to "republicans".

There is nothing "fundamental" about these polls, throwing a web widget in front of a self selected group of audience is not scientific or fundamental.

Why do you continue to assert that these polls are "fundamental" when they are proven to be to be totally bogus time after time.
You're forgetting about taxes, perhaps the single biggest reason why some dollars are worth more than others.
I wonder how the microphone on an Alexa compares to my smartphone.

But either way, smartphones can be rooted (for example with LineageOS), Alexa seems a lot more closed than a smartphone.