skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Some /really/ old titles are actually out of copyright (or the publisher has gone under and the license has been lost), but they're still sold through some services cause that's how public domain works.

Nobody has been dead long enough for any computer game to enter public domain by the lawful way of inaction.

There are some games that have been made available by the license holder. Like "Beneath a Steel Sky" which was released as freeware.
No She just pays even more on an already more expensive tariff
Bitcoin also hashes twice, i.e. it computes sha256(sha256(.)). Supposedly, this is to protect against extension attacks [1].

Was wondering, any specific reason to choose RSA vs ECDSA? Signatures would be smaller.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Length_extension_attack
You should just evaluate his points instead.
Where's the zip version for Windows? I can only see installer download.
And just as the US accuses Chinese entities of IP theft, this is how the US got its industries established as well. Some famous examples include the spinning mills (actually an amazing story involving memorizing how the mills work: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_Cabot_Lowell_(business... or https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_Slater) and ignoring foreign copyright (http://blog.tavbooks.com/?p=714 for some discussion or a more interesting one here showing how even then book piracy helped authors: http://www.trademarkandcopyrightlawblog.com/2017/01/charles-...)

Of course the British had smuggled out the design of Italian silk factories and rubber seeds from Brazil, breaking the Portuguese monopoly....it was ever thus.
See if you can get anywhere with Python first. Making a 5 year plan before you even get started isn't going to help you do anything except stall.
Elixir multiple processes: Basics
Mandarin to a level where I can read most texts on Chinese websites. Why? Mostly for fun.
I bet you received a counterfeit item and you did not realize this. This post suggests that you may be suffering a textbook example of confirmation bias [1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confirmation_bias
In the US people can change the government peacefully with a vote. But that process only gives them two choices that largely represent no one but corporate interests. I hope at some point the US adopts a better voting system.
Amazon allows people known to sell reviews for money or product into their special review program (I forget what it's called, but it highlights someone as a good reviewer). I know this because a family member got caught and effectively nothing happened.
I have explained utility maximization of reading using monte-carlo visual in the past. I appreciate your comment.
That's amazing! "A 2013 global study on homicide by the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime found that males accounted for about 96 percent of all homicide perpetrators worldwide."[1]. I wonder what's so unique about Japanese culture that keeps homicide rates by gender in balance?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sex_differences_in_crime#World...
Which would be what percentage of internet users? 0.00001%?
Get a Raspberry Pi computer and start working with the educational tools, projects, and languages they support and those built and documented by their community.

You don't need to learn a specific language as much as you need to learn basic concepts to begin with and the Raspberry Pi project offers great resources for that along with language specific resources to play and learn with.

And don't let the "it's for kids" angle put you off. Yes, the project does focus on teaching kids to program and integrate hardware but most of those computers are sold to adults who use them to "hack" and learn and develop on, and yes, we adults use and learn with the same resources "kids" do.

https://www.raspberrypi.org
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There are plenty of people who wouldn't mind doing that at all, and plenty more who could get used to it for the right wage.
What’s in the new tax bill
About centralization: IOTA is not any more centralised than Bitcoin where a very small number of people control most of the miners and exchanges.

The difference between IOTA and Bitcoin in that respect is that Bitcoin can only get worse whereas IOTA can only get better.

I don't believe that the founder of IOTA would buy OP's silence in such a blatant way. There are tons of people bashing IOTA all the time - The founder would go bankrupt if he tried to pay everyone off to buy their IOTA... And why would the founder want to acquire IOTA if it was in fact such a toxic asset as claimed by OP? It just doesn't add up.
While that is true, if it's a low effort 1 star review, E.g. "It's crap", with no explanation of why it's crap, I ignore that. If there's a lengthy 1 star review with details, then I factor that in to "Was that one just bad, or all them are like that". I don't just look at the 1 stars, I work my way up. More details for me equal a higher weighted review. Pictures, video and stuff help too, but of course those can be faked. Lately I've been looking at audio equipment for S&Gs (Microphones, audio interfaces, phantom power injection, etc...).
Sharpen your coding skills these holidays with Advent of Code
SF built one new home for every 10.4 new jobs last year
Cyan claims the source and original assets have been lost.

The Starry Expanse project is recreating them from scratch.

http://www.starryexpanse.com
*booming
First essential step: learn how to Google. This has been posted here countless times: https://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Anews.ycombinator.com+...
There's two versions of Riven, the multi-CD version and the single-DVD version. The DVD version has (slightly) improved visuals and a couple of extra (cosmetic only) locations, and is quite rare.
^^ what he said. You need to get your feet wet and see if you even like programming before deciding on it as a career. And know that programming as a hobby is something entirely different from career software engineering, meetings, JIRA, and all that (sometimes) nonsense.
ridesharing is inherently different to travel accomodation. ride sharing needs a local network to work well, travel accomadation needs international (or at least vast majority of) to have a useful, valuable network

most hotels dont list much. it is more search aggregators putting them all together to try and have fuller coverage

it takes a ton of time to manage additional platforms, manage cross/overbookings and handle communication. 80/20...

or in this case 99/20
They have been cuting the uk police budget year on year for ages - this isn't a one off cut.
You're saying this editor is the hacker or that he fabricated this text? Would he really know enough to sound that credible? If not someone on here should be able to see right through it
The correct way to get past a paywall is to pay. If you don't care enough, just move on. There is enough free stuff on the web.
Austerity.
Enjoy! http://andywoodruff.com/blog/beyond-the-sea/
I'd love to explore how this framework can be applied to Nakama (https://github.com/heroiclabs/nakama). I'll see if I can find some time to experiment with it over Christmas.
The Generalized mean[1] linked to in the blog comments was similarly insightful.

It unifies the inequalities:

max > root mean square > arithmetic mean > geometric mean > harmonic mean > min

that I remember from highschool math competitions.[2]

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Power_mean#Special_cases

[2] https://artofproblemsolving.com/wiki/index.php?title=Root-Me...
Words have power. Hitler was voted into power legitimately based on the power of his speeches.

Want to guess how that worked out in the end?
I remember this in the US also when I was in grade school. (Utah)

I do remember it was more for 2nd/3rd grade though.
"Mozilla will learn from this" When, at 0.1% user share? Did you look at the browser usage graph recently? This is a pure CFIT action, and I doubt that the browser still has altitude to recover - especially as Mozilla has repeatedly shown that learning from such incident does not, in fact, happen. A single incident, back when FF had ~50% of the eyeballs, could have been acceptable^Wexcusable; in current situation, this seems like deliberate sabotage when seen from outside.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Controlled_flight_into_terrain
No real change has ever happened in America without blood being spilled.

* Labor unions had state militias called on them and thousands were massacred at the hands of private security agencies during the Mine Wars

* Women had to die in the Triangle massacre before safety became a concern.

* Martin Luther King along with tons of other black people needed to die just to be considered humans.

* Vietnam required the Kent State Massacre.

* How many children and civilians have we had die needlessly at the hands of the police? You can't get a jury to convict them.

The American government has never represented the people. It will take nothing less than large amounts violence to change the country if history is any indicator of the future.
This old phrase is still relevant today: "caveat emptor"
If you won't have credentials, you'll need to build standard real world stuff, with conventional languages. You aren't likely to do interesting stuff for the next couple decades. Is that what you want? Head to (an interesting) University, if not.
>and your insistence that you know enough is frankly disturbing.

I'd appreciate that you not make accusations like this, and I think this violates HN conduct guidelines.

In any case. I've presented evidence that includes quotes from the testimony. You're argument rests on the jury having deliberated for 30 minutes. Juries are incredibly stupid. They can be misled, they can and do get things wrong, all the time.

My argument can be summed up as "the jury is wrong, here's why". Your counterargument is "the jury disagrees with you". And to that I'd say "duh, that's why I said they're wrong". Using the Jury's conclusion as a counterargument to the statement "The jury is incorrect" is not an argument.
I was using this exact same analogy to explain this to someone earlier, although I have to admit that I agree with the person above. Going out and starting forest fires in national forests without official government sanction, even if your intention is to create controlled burns and prevent a bigger fire will still land you with a verdict of arson.
uber ride is worth what, 25% of $10-20

airbnb is worth 10-15% of $50-500

the fact that you can use uber in other cities doesnt matter. it only matters in your home city. the travel platform however needs to be ubiquitous

it is too easy to compete with uber and almost impossible to compete with airbnb 1 city vs 100 cities...
>So I'm going to give you the benefit of the doubt because based on what you've posted, that you're not familiar with gun regulation in the U.S because you're from the U.K.

I am well acquainted with US gun laws.

Do you need to apply for a license in advance of buying a gun in a majority of states? No. Do you have to take a test and prove that you are competent before you can own a gun in a majority of states? No. Is there a national registry of all guns with mandatory reporting of all transfers? No. Is there a requirement for third-party liability insurance? No. Is there a federal agency responsible for researching and reducing firearms fatalities? No.

In a majority of states, you can walk into a gun store, show your driving license, wait for the NICS background check and walk out with a gun within a matter of minutes. In a majority of states, you can buy a gun from a private seller with no background check.

Guns are far, far less well-regulated than cars.

> Criminals don't care about laws, it's a fundamental issue that gun control proponents continue to ignore.

The police care about laws, because they can enforce them. Criminals care about laws, because they can be arrested and prosecuted for breaking them.

Firing pin microstamping and pre-sale collection of striation data makes it far harder to commit a crime with a gun and get away with it. Mandatory safe storage makes it far harder for criminals to steal guns and far less likely for children to access them. Improved background checks reduce the availability of guns to known criminals and people with serious mental health problems. Mandatory registration reduces the supply of guns to the black market by creating a paper trail from factory to crime scene.

If you treat gun crime like a public health issue, you can use evidence-based interventions to mitigate risk. Seatbelt laws save lives. Drink-driving laws save lives. Mandatory driver training saves lives. Speed limits save lives. Exactly the same principles apply to gun control. Practically every other developed nation on earth has taken this approach, with great success.
Yeah, kids walk more when adults walk more. It makes sense: more pedestrian infrastructure, and people are more used to pedestrians. When drivers aren't used to pedestrians, they don't look for them.

A lot of places in the US people are wary of adult pedestrians. They see someone walking and assume something is wrong--a car broke down, or the pedestrian is somehow up to no good. If people have the attitude that walking is weird and a cause for alarm, they won't want their kids doing it.

Plus, in lots of suburban areas, there's nowhere for kids to walk to. Wooded areas, if they exist, generally belong to somebody who doesn't want strangers messing around on their land. If there are Main Street shops, that could work, but a lot of Main Streets now are either pawn shops and check cashing outlets or high end restaurants and boutiques, with nothing really there for kids. And it seems less pleasant to send kids to a corporate store like CVS than to a mom and pop business.

I also think there are fewer kids in lots of suburban neighborhoods than there used to be, with family sizes shrinking and fewer retirees leaving the neighborhoods where they raised their kids. And kids seem to form cliques around interests earlier and earlier, which means their friends could be halfway across town. Adults don't automatically hang out with their neighbors much anymore, and neither do kids.
No good reason for RSA vs ECDSA. I was just more familiar with RSA, but apparently pycryptodome supports ECDSA as well, so I guess the change should be minimal.
Robots will soon be able to taste and smell your bad cooking
PHP. I have seen a lot of improvements these past years and it feels like a solid choice for backend. I quickly got tired of Python complex syntax and poor performance overall.
Yes, but he's comparing them against Rotation Matrices (which don't suffer from gimbal lock), not Euler angles:

http://work.thaslwanter.at/Kinematics/html/04_Quaternions.ht...

In practice, game engines use all three methods.
Over what timescale?
Thanks for your hard work. I'm onboard since that 0.4 Phoenix version. Left you for Chrome for some time... now back to Firefox thanks to Quantum project. You should learn from these kind of mistakes, but I won't leave Firefox, nor stop recommending it instead of Chrome or Edge.
Hell's Kitchen for startups and tech with lots of quality expletives.
If you aren't a doctor and you start poisoning your friend with cancer's food does it really count as chemotherapy?
Coelacanth – Wikipedia
List of U.S. Metropolitan Areas by GDP
Leatherworking. I like leather goods and the craft seems somewhat approachable for a newbie. It doesn't need to use any power tools, so it's quiet and relaxing.

Leatherworking goes hand in hand with a lot of my other hobbies, and I have a nice workshop space I can put it in.
I agree. I'd also like to add that I think that generalizations of the median for higher dimensions should get explicit coverage, as well as a few related (and often neglected) concepts. Since the Wikipedia articles on this constitute a hot mess of not linking to each other in a sane way, I'll provide a list of articles on this topic here:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fr%C3%A9chet_mean

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mode_(statistics)#Use

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central_tendency#Measures

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nonparametric_skew#Relationshi...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geometric_median

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weber_problem#Definition_and_h...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Centerpoint_(geometry)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trimean

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K-medians_clustering

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medoid

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generalized_mean

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quasi-arithmetic_mean

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lehmer_mean#Special_cases

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logarithmic_mean#Generalizatio...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stolarsky_mean#Special_cases

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Facility_location

See Also:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Problem_of_points

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chebyshev%27s_inequality

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L-estimator

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M-estimator
The Resulting Fallacy Is Ruining Your Decisions
I’m not sure what the implication is here. That the author’s words aren’t important or true because she has a book coming out?
I want to know the answer to that as well. Judging from travis's callsign (and name) he is based in the US.
So yeah, 3rd party. Also, seems to be a reasonable online price. I'm sure you could find stuff locally, if you can find it. But unless I can find it and also buy the same one you found for the same price, it's not really the same thing.
How disgraceful, conflating matrices with linear and affine transformations.
From https://twitter.com/GossiTheDog/status/941462338233946112 :

Before anybody else sends me the “Internet Chemotherapy” link or retweets it - it appears to be a wonderful piece of fan fiction. Deutsche Telekom suspect was arrested earlier this year, key details wrong, TR069 modem stuff was bad implementions crashing devices etc.

(I haven't confirmed this myself)
Read books and articles. Read and write a lot of code by trying to solve a problem. When you have a problem, study to solve it in the best way possible (that even means rewriting from scratch if you think so). Try to deploy a complete product online in some way, even the simplest one.
This should help finding the spot that fits better for you. For example, working on frontend or backend, focusing on security or UX... there are a lot of specific topics you might want to dive into based on your tastes.
After some time, you’ll be able to drive your knowledge by your own. Asking now will not help that much.

Good luck ;-)
Quote:

"Visa currently processes about 3,674 transactions per second; the best bitcoin network might be able to process seven per second."

Bitcoin Cash can do 25 tx/second.

With 8GB blocks that is 25k/sec
I don't fully understand the question. What would your expectation from PH be? And why is it deluded?

This kind of sites are followed by people who want to know the next thing. By definition, these people will try a lot of new apps/saas/etc., and so hardly they would be very engaged with yours, as with anything else. However you can get quite some good feedback on specific parts of your project.

I don't see PH to be particularly different, in style and "how to get around the system", than Show HN. The population is prob just different.

For example, I'm personally working on a password manager, and I chose to do a Show HN to gather technical feedback. When I'll work more on the ux/onboarding experience, I'll prob post it to PH to get some feedback on that. In neither case I'd expect to find tons of paying customers. I expect valuable feedback, and perhaps one or two advocates.
It looks like it uses sockets under the hood for client server communication -- are there reasons it could not be used in a game with much quicker state updates, like the plane game that was posted here earlier last week (think FPS MMO in the browser)?
> modifies headers and content

No, it doesn't do that until you explicitly activate it.

The "pretty reasonable" core idea is just having that flag available in about:config or on the addons website or similar.
That was a worthy exercise which explained well the concepts used.

Unfortunately, either the tools or the author were not up to the task of providing interesting insights.

(IMHO, YMMV, etc. Also, apparently undergrad work, from the pub header.)
Wrong person, those are different incidents
Like, the drivers manual? We're talking about basic driving skills here. Cars need room to stop, the higher the speed, the more room they need to stop safely. Most human drivers aren't perfect and leave a lot less room than they should, AVs won't share that flaw.
Although a recent Scientific American article had a few quotes suggesting wind and solar being complementary [1], these seemed more anecdotal than persuasive. Other studies do indicate that they are complementary, but don't seem to apply to Texas [2] and [3].

A nice (unpublished?) study supporting the complementary effect of wind and solar power for California concludes that these source of power are complementary [4], but makes an important simplifying assumption that will have to be investigated before we can conclude that solar and wind really are complements. It assumes that each day of a month can be approximated by the average day of the month.

A study that looks at fine grained (i.e. daily) variations in output concludes (among other things) [5] that

> A Wind and solar energy were observed to be highly complementary on an annual basis, but only slightly complementary on a daily basis.

I'm not an expert in this area, but it may be that within Texas specifically that wind is currently viewed as the easiest way to add renewable energy production and that we can expect the benefits from solar's greater or lesser complementary production to come along in the future.

[1] https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/wind-and-solar-ar...

[2] http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0960148113...
and http://iet.jrc.ec.europa.eu/remea/assessing-complementarity-...

[3] https://www.researchgate.net/publication/261172609_PV_and_Wi...

[4] https://web.stanford.edu/group/efmh/jacobson/Articles/I/Comb...

[5] http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/er.4440030202/abs...
It's also missing a lot of details that should be added from http://james-iry.blogspot.com/2009/05/brief-incomplete-and-m...
Mostly-joking-but-I-would-absolutely-make-good-on-it Offer: I will ask you one obnoxious* question at a time, with no deadlines, until you are a self-taught software engineer.

The first question is: What is the sum of the numbers from 1 to 1024. Please use Python, not the Gauss/two-triangles-make-a-rectangle mathematical method.

* - “obnoxious” means it's a leading question: it's simple to state, but you might have to learn a bunch of crap to even really fully understand the question.

Sample far-future questions:
- Does it seem magical that you can turn an NFA into a DFA?
- How does a shell pass stdout from one process to the stdin of the next?
- Why is the Frame Pointer technically unnecessary, but useful?
- Why do people complain about Go's nil pointers? What's wrong with them?
Plenty of us less successful ones simply become immature, dysfunctional adults.
I searched a few more well known and popular books (ones that HN would recommend) and they all come back with nothing better than a C. This doesn't instill much confidence in me.
oh my god! thank you dude, it was just a wrong commit :)
What they also need to present is how much lag they have towards demand and supply of housing and how city is improving or not improving that balance.
you're missing that the protections SGX offers will only be one layer of the security model
Alternatively, watch all of Casey Muratori's “Handmade Hero” stuff, and code along, and you'll probably be a better programmer than most of us here.
Hodlers, Consider This
Yes, after the Dark Ages, Browser Wars, and burying Opera, I am increasingly weary to use a browser, any browser. And I am getting weary of the new "this site best viewed in Chrome", but it's almost as if nobody else gives a damn. Off to Palemoon, I guess? (And just when I thought that the new FF was looking good)