skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> “Lack of citation cannot be interpreted as meaning articles are useless or valueless,” says David Pendlebury, a senior citations analyst at Clarivate.

On the other hand, presence of citation can not be interpreted as meaning articles are useful or valuable. For one, there could be chains of useless and valueless papers citing each other.
> Believing absolutely in a specific scientific result and refusing to accept that it may be wrong is as harmful

You are missing the primary thrust of the argument. They are saying: "This goes against known science -- proving otherwise would be a massive scientific discovery which would require reconceptualizing a century of work. This is highly unlikely".

Assuming the commenter is operating with robust scientific understanding [1], then there isn't any dogmatic belief here.

[1] I haven't researched this cellphone cancer thing personally so I can't strongly argue that point one way or another. However, my cursory understanding is that there isn't strong evidence for it.
Any next system is likely to be bootstrapped from Bitcoin. That's the crucial difference.
At the moment I'm using waterfox, but also uzbl, netsurf, otter.
I deleted my Facebook because of this and I'm much happier as a result.
> Then, checking on Google Scholar, Heneberg saw that many of the remaining papers actually had been referenced by other works indexed in the Web of Science, but had been missed because of data-entry errors or typos in the papers

I wonder if you could look at the number of citations to non-existent papers to find these typos. If you collected such a set, you could do a loose search against the list of published papers, and see how many are a close match. For instance, a typo in an author's name or the paper's title could be ignored while matching the journal, date and page could give the auditors a list of best guesses for this missed citations.
For comparison, the 11:1 payouts in roulette are a 7.89% chance.
What specifically are you referencing? Or which social justice issues?
It also says that the clients transmit private keys and PINs to the SGX nodes, which presumably allow spending of their coins. Maybe it's designed in a way that they lose their money, but maintain the privacy of their previous and other transactions going through the node.
So, it's using DRM to hide the blockchain, is that right?
> There's no reason to value altcoins over sidechains, for example.

> Surely some better technology will come along, but it won't be altcoins as you know them.

There's no reason to value sidechains over other coins. Better technology will come, but it could come in the form of other coins.
Well, and the more mainstream reporters who asked who Bitfinex's bankers were after Wells Fargo closed their accounts, and they refused to reveal, except under an NDA...
If the community didn't reject Segwit2x, it would have been much, much worse.
Hoping to see a public statement about the uncertainty surrounding the foundational math of cryptographic hash functions instead it's the same volatility argument where the response is 'that's why I'm interested!'
Sapolsky is just arguing for us to understand each other a little bit more, recognize unconscious biases, and move towards judging one another on individual merits rather than groupthink. These are basic free-society, founding fathers kind of ideals. I think you're projecting modern (maybe justified) worries onto these old and common ideals.

> and then LITERALLY ARGUES FOR an us and them attitude :|

I'll argue that he doesn't refute his own point by closing with a claim that we're all the US against a THEM of eternal evil embodied. It's like the non-overtoned version of saying "it's all of humanity vs satan".

To say bluntly -- Sapolsky was not arguing for us to strive towards including the principalities of timeless spiritual evil in the _us_ group.
Why not? Trump didn't win them by much, but it can still be a big swing if Obama won these states by a lot. A quick google shows that this appears to be the case.

Trump may have won michigan by only 10k votes, but Obama had a margin of half a million in 2012.
1) Both Kin and MobileCoin have moved to Stellar as their back end this week. I haven't paid Stellar much attention before. Anyone have any good links that explains Stellar and/or discusses the technical pros/cons? Trying to avoid any shill/pump or baseless FUD.

2) Am I correct that if any vulnerability were found in the SGX, an attacker would gain access to the encrypted private keys that are stored on a server node and would just need to brute force the PIN?
iTunes won't be in the Microsoft Store this year
So I'm an iPhone user as well, and what he said is correct. The phone normally displays LTE when full LTE service is available. In my experience. when you're in a normal LTE area, the 4G display usually indicates a really bad signal, as in it can't establish a full LTE connection, so it's trying to fall back to an old protocol, and thus your data performance is really bad.
Indeed, and it's also a necessary skill if people are going to buy bikes online. I think it's pretty likely that a bike receives its initial adjustment and testing after it's assembled by the recipient. And I've read about quality lapses such as bearings with little or no lubrication, and insufficiently tensioned wheels.
Some of the blocks appear larger on Bitcoin Cash even though they have a lower transaction count because they contain transactions that are consolidating unspent outputs (example: https://blockchair.com/bitcoin-cash/transaction/5254e22a6a5f...).

These kinds of transactions aren't feasible on the Bitcoin chain since the fees are prohibitive, so all those small unspent outputs remain in the UTXO set forever and are essentially unspendable.

I'd also argue that increasing the block size scales fine as long as network speeds and storage continue to scale as they have been over the past years.
Can't you already do this using Swagger Codegen?

I use swashbuckle to automatically generate swagger
https://www.nuget.org/packages/Swashbuckle/

Then paste swagger definition into the online editor to generate TypeScript client: https://swagger.io/swagger-editor/

(You can also generate offline).

How is RESTyped better than Swagger Codgen?
Yeah, I'd love to know who the unnamed bank is that's handling $60MM/day in deposits for Bitfinex that they refuse to name except under NDA...
Modern agriculture is turning Oil into Foodstuff anyway.

That's why Oil is so expensive while agriculture is universally subsidied.
I feel like the real appeal of Bitcoin is the decentralized aspect. I am not totally intrigued at the idea of having a controlled system, even if it offers complete privacy and faster transaction speed.
It is because data, unlike water or electricity, isn't a finite resource.
Your electricity bill includes the generation in the power plant and the transmission over the power lines.
When it comes to Internet access, you're paying for the transmission (bandwidth), but there isn't a "packet generation plant" that you should have to pay for.

Also, data caps mean people will use less data, meaning using less bandwidth, meaning ISPs will have less of an incentive to upgrade their already ancient infrastructure. It would be giving them more money to use less of what they provide.
His contributions seem to be the inane dialogue, impenetrable cutscenes, and nonstop flogging of his own name in the constantly repeated credits, plus the "problematic" take on women. does he actually do anything with the parts of his games that aren't terrible? i see no evidence
Someone else replied pointing out that what you're referring to are called imposters. I would also like to add they're a very very common technique, and something Wolfire Games added to their indie game Overgrowth in 2010, with a complete explanation: http://blog.wolfire.com/2010/10/Imposters

Yes, you can expect modern games to use any and all tricks available to squeeze performance. Imposters are an example of a LOD (Level of Detail) technique, which is standard in all game engines.
I'm surprised Sam said this. However I do applaud him for it.

The point being is you can argue against speech you disagree with. "Gay people are evil" can be met with "That's ridiculous, and most people find that incorrect and offensive." And leave it at that.

Shutting down speech is the problem. Why? Because once you've made it acceptable to shutdown speech that is offensive, suddenly the definition of offensive gets expanded and it's used to bludgeon any ideas that don't align with current thinking. That's dangerous.
Packet prioritization for "phone" communications is actually an obvious example of a conflict of interest for ISPs, since they are the ones benefitting from that. VOIP services can't compete because the ISPs don't allow them to.
Sets could be reordered to improve compression. Not a big benefit but it would depend on your data.
Why Meghan Markle’s Engagement to Prince Harry Is Controversial
I don't understand why they say going to the movies will cost 25,50 or 100$, with a (better experience?). I would never pay that much. Am I weird, is this what consumers want?

I won't even downgrade to the 3D version for an extra 3$ -> I'd rather miss the movie than pay extra for something that looks worse.

Movies are fine the way they are right now. Just concentrate on the core experience -> making a good movie with great characters and plotlines and scripts.
Instead of posting like this, flag it yourself by clicking the comment's timestamp to go to its page, then clicking 'flag' at the top. In egregious cases like the above, you're quite welcome to alert us at hn@ycombinator.com too. We catch up with the flagged comments eventually, but email is the hotline.
Segwit2x was an initiative to increase the block size. It only required replacing Bitcoin Core because Bitcoin Core refused to merge a block size increase. If they had agreed to merge a block size increase, then btc1 would not have been necessary.
“SGX” and “trustless” aren’t two things that really go together.
Yeah, no possible problems there for any Western investors, at all. Rely instead on the hope that the US government won't figure out where $60MM a day of deposits is ending up. It's not like the IRS and Treasury Department have forensic accountants or anything like that...
Tax Cuts and Jobs Act [pdf]
Something like this could make sense for "petty cash spending"
Also discussed here previously:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6842338

It seems that the solution is not the top voted comment, but due to mgraczyk.
>It's a little insulting to marathon runners to claim this is a 'marathon' IMO.

Well, the guys participating were three of the best marathoners in the world, probably one (Kipchoge) who is the best ever, so I doubt whether they or anybody involved were concerned about "insulting" marathon runners. Everybody was well aware that the conditions were different and would help create a faster time than possible in a regular marathon race.

Baby steps. Once they have achieved sub-2 in "artificial" conditions, the idea of going sub-2 in an actual marathon race will seem easier, and will be the next item to check off.
That seems odd. It feels to me that Twitter is vastly more oriented towards one-liners. Though different people use different mediums to different ends, and I understand that.
Trump gives ugly speech saying legal immigrants come from a “bin”
That comment broke the HN guidelines but so does this one, as you'll see if you read https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html. The better thing to do is flag; how to do this is at https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html.
Not if the core devs had implemented it.
Not falsified. But literally stated "This is not in any way an audit and does not meet the requirements of an audit".
If you were a vimperator aficionado you might want to have a look at uzbl.

Pale moon is not as good as waterfox, at least for me.
This is pretty cool, I hadn't seen it before!

RESTyped has a couple of advantages over this:

- RESTyped definitions are extremely lightweight and don't require shipping an API wrapper with a bunch of generated code

- No build/manual copy step required. Easy to distribute typings on NPM.
Interesting. So it has the same privacy protections as Monero, the only cryptocurrency with a track record of being untraceable so far?

I wonder if the Stellar network is "leakier" than a decentralized network would be, though.
> Pounds weight is a terrible way to measure toxins.

But it is one thing: undeniably objective. The alternative would include a "rating" system which the industry can use to say "yeah we emit x hundred tons per year of chemical y but it is next to harmless, better go after company z and their waste"... leading to inevitable chains of lawsuits dragged over years.

For what its worth for many industrial processes there exist technical means of greatly reducing emissions (e.g. for smoke stacks: gas washers, desulfurization technologies, fine-dust retainers), but as long as environmental costs don't get billed to companies or required by the state, companies have no incentive to reduce emissions, as every dollar spent is a dollar less profit.

Maybe it's time to introduce legislations that allow the government to hold the shareholders accountable e.g. for Superfund sites, that would at least provide a decent incentive for companies to clean up or to provide enough cash to compensate for environmental damages after closure - right now companies can simply close/be liquidated and the taxpayers have to foot the cleanup bill.
If you don't restrict yourself to civil, substantive comments from now on, we will ban you. Any good-faith view you have is possible to express thoughtfully, and that's what you owe to the community here in exchange for the right to post.

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

https://news.ycombinator.com/newswelcome.html
So you're saying that everyone who disagrees with you isn't paying attention to the evidence, which you find totally convincing.

Somehow I suspect that is not the case.

BTW, my aunt went to welding school and then had to sue the union in order to be able to get an actual job. Is a study of that sort of discrimination a sufficient counter-example to welders being overwhelmingly male, or is it just that most women don't want to be welders? It's totally true that my aunt is an unusual woman. Not only did she want to be a welder, but she was willing to sue.
There's a chain of Trek stores. And Trek owns Gary Fisher.
Just switch to waterfox, you'll get the best of firefox and none of the mozilla nonsense. This is what I did after finally getting fed up with mozilla not caring about user and just doing as they please to try to get more revenue and marketshare.
Where can I invest in this?
> "Nobody actually transacts in cryptocurrency," Goldbard says. "So making something that people can actually use is our first goal. And then we want to find additional ways that people can implement it over time. But initially all we want is to make it so people can actually complete transactions."

This is being solved by Shapeshift.io and XMR.to. I transact in cryptocurrency all the time using these intermediary services with BTC as the usual medium of exchange. It's opened my skeptical eyes about the future of how things will work.
>Almost any time that a client asks for a cover letter, my response is "Here it is, and I hope you never have to use it".

That seems kind of absolute. If I were applying to, say, an auto manufacturer, the cover letter might be the obvious place to state why I'm interested in working there. And why I'm a good choice. Like, "I've always been a car nut. I even wrote an open source library to access CAN bus data here: http://whatever "

Basically to say that a personalized, per-company, cover letter might have significant value. A generic one, perhaps not.
Not just social media either, but traditional media as well.
Google Using Immense Power to Censor Content That Doesn’t Fit Political Goals
On micro- to millisecond intervals, plus the dampening effect of a 10K to 100K ton ship, waves are pretty managable.
My complaint is that the usability sucks.
Early adopters had to throw out their DAB receivers and buy DAB+ receivers.
You regularly have to factory reset them because they keep moving the frequencies.
Bad UIs for handling 20+ stations.
The stations are just niche playlists, no content. I can just stream those ad free instead...

The car adapters are even worse.
In multiple verticals of the industry, there exists a clear trend of utilizing hardware security modules for cryptographic operations. Almost all mobile phones have them, cloud providers offer HSM services, and Trezor wallets generate bitcoin private keys. It makes sense to build a service that relies heavily on HSM.

Adapt or die
I believe that was the intent of Stellar.
No, but probably worth a shot. I think AMD's Secure Encrypted Virtualization (SEV) sounded better, though. But it's a shame AMD only offers it on the EPYC server chips. they ought to make it a mainstream feature in Zen 2 chips if they want it to gain popularity and use. That said, that's probably not an obstacle for a company that plans on using server chips anyway.

https://developer.amd.com/amd-secure-memory-encryption-sme-a...
> The point wooshed above your head.

Uncivil swipes like this are not welcome here. Please read https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and clean up your act.
Nah you can do something like:

1. Sort your bits by importance.
2. Encode them as a real number using arithmetic coding.
3. Transmit that real number in an analogue way.

That means the more noise you have in your signal the fewer bits you receive correctly.

There are probably much more clever ways to do it than that but I don't think much work has really been done on it unfortunately because it's quite complex.
U.S. considers ending rule allowing spouses of H-1B visa holders to work
"Her lawyer, Steve Zissou, said she was sending money overseas to help Syrian refugees."
To repeat an earlier comment, this scheme encourages a centralization of trust into a private key managed by processor manufacturers. You might say that by integrating SGX mechanisms into your security model, you create a set of 'feudal lords' [1] who can wield their power over you.

A manufacturer may 'legitimately' establish an enclave in your most trusted hardware which you may not audit or even measure. And if that security model becomes commonplace, for example when only allowing Widevine DRM inside SGX, you eventually cannot use your self-chosen hardware, but will have to pick a feudal lord from a limited set of 'ecosystem choices'.

[1] https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2013/06/more_on_feuda...
At the end of the day, trust is still required. For example, if you use Bitcoin, you're trusting the people that wrote the code and the libraries it linked to and the people that ran the server you downloaded it from, and you're trusting that Koblitz didn't put a backdoor into the ECC somehow. I could go on for a while here but I think this describes the basic idea. You can change the level of trust required or who you're trusting but not the mere requirement of it.

I've met some of the people working on this at Intel and I do have confidence that this isn't some conspiracy, I do think they have the intention of improving the crypto space with projects like this.
160,000+ bitcoin nodes are not interested in your centralization schemes.

http://luke.dashjr.org/programs/bitcoin/files/charts/softwar...
It has little to do with epistemology. The main cause for human conflicts is the fact that we are playing zero-sum games. Humans are constantly fighting/jockeying for status, acquiring resources for themselves, and simply getting ahead of the others.

This is in the genome unfortunately.
Sort of

If what you really mean is it'll solve any problems in bqp

but you bring up an interesting point implicitly: do people who support cryptocurrencies deny the results and predictions of quantum hardware research?
Don't know about the expensive part. But it also requires farmland, soil, chemicals. The idea is, dispense with all that, including transportation, and create starch, sugar etc at the point of consumption directly. Or baby steps in that direction. Heck, even 'organic' farming can be seen as working in this direction if it wasn't so expensive otherwise.
Perhaps we should come up with better methods that people can use to critique/improve their own epistemology as needed, and spread the idea that it is highly worthwhile to do so? The mindset that "realizing you are wrong" can be a joy, not something to fear.

After reading Kuhn's "Structure of Scientific Revolutions", it seems to me this difficulty could also be described as people operating from different base layer paradigms.

E.g. "Natural laws are sufficient to explain everything we see" vs "A supernatural element is needed". Or "Power dynamics are the primary force that steer human activity" vs "There are many important factors to consider".
This is pretty standard in AAA games, if you look at some of his previous breakdowns there are a similar amount of passes. What was surprising to me was how much work was done post tonemapping and gamma correction.
https://www.wired.com/2008/09/comcast-disclos-2/

""Comcast's practices are not minimally intrusive, as the company claims, but rather are invasive and have significant effects," the commission said, demanding an end to the practices by year's end."

This was under the Title I classification that was struck down by the verizon lawsuit, where the court said that the way to enforce these rules within the FCC's existing powers was via Title II.

As for Rogers, http://www.michaelgeist.ca/2007/04/rogers-packet-shaping/
I don't have a good link for Stellar but it's been around for a while, and the Rust creator even worked for them for some time.

Regarding the second point, since it's on the server, wouldn't a vulnerability just mean the server operator might potentially be able to get at the keys, not any random attacker?
Fahrenheit 451. That’s where we are getting into. I keep saying it.
You should. There's nothing wrong with asking for donations especially since it's helping fund an open source project that people use. If anything not asking for donations is worse since there's nothing really supporting the project but your interest in it. By asking for donations your making the project stronger.
If you use Apollo as your GraphQL client, there's apollo-codegen [0], which supports generating both Flow and TypeScript type definitions.

Relay Modern's query compiler also generates Flow types AFAIK.

But that's only for the client side. I suppose if you'd like to use typed JavaScript on the server side, something like the library you've posted might be your best bet, since client side solutions like apollo-codegen generate types based on the exact set of queries in your client-side app, which might not be all that useful for implementing the GraphQL server itself (unless maybe your API is private and you can afford to implement some form of persisted queries?). Having access to all the individual base types specified in your schema would probably be more useful for that purpose.

[0] https://github.com/apollographql/apollo-codegen
> doing some validation on the content of the values is easy

How can you validate a JSON string to see if it matches a TypeScript declaration?
Yeah but... Way more people have phones. Just send your emergency broadcast by SMS. There's even an official way to do that.
Litecoin uses scrypt and mutliple rounds of sha-256 for the proof of work. Are you referring to cryptographic signatures in general?
https://xmr.to/ looks waaaay too complicated for the average person to use, which is a nonstarter for the average person.

And it still processes a Bitcoin transaction, correct? So it will be no faster than Bitcoin?