skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Why lie about the viewer count though at this stage? Thats an incredibly cynical view. In good fun, if someone asked how I would tackle HQ's scale problem my first response wouldn't be "the viewer count is bullshit."

Besides you can also see the amount of people who responded to each question up until the end. If you really wanted to catch the act you could go through the process of verifying the last couple winners yourself.

In any case thats besides point, weather the view count is 100k or 600k, starting the game has problems. Once the game has started, the participant count, weather 300k or 50k is smooth. I think chis is right, their question/answer logic has trouble delivering the questions to all their users as you can even notice the host has trouble loading the questions so he can read them out.
I assume you mean Sid Vicious rather than Johnny Rotten, a smart and articulate guy whose other band, Public Image Ltd deserves plenty of acclaim regardless of whether or not they are punk “enough”.

It’s not like Malcolm McLaren was the Simon Cowell of his era. He started out as a shop keeper, had deep ties to the scene, and was an artist himself.

Plenty of worthwhile bands have had a leg up from well connected people over the years. At the very least it brings visibility to other artists in the genre and it certainly shouldn’t detract from your enjoyment of Holidays In The Sun.
At a lot of big retailers try to make you sign a "confession" whether they call the police or not.

Later you get a letter from a law firm demanding hundreds of dollars or they'll take you to small claims to recoup their cost for "investigative expenses". With the promise that the amount will go up if you don't settle.

This is completely separate from any criminal charges and paying them doesn't effect any outcome of that at all. But if you don't know that you're likely to pay to get them to "drop the charges".

http://www.cbc.ca/news/retailers-demand-shoplifters-pay-secu...
And they will always happen - once you send a first transaction of the pair, if anything goes wrong (eg. overloaded exchange timeouts on API call) with the second one, there is no undo.
Those are just some of the examples and yes it has quite a lot of value. Many things in the physical world is also built on these simple principles.
People value proxies, like cash.

It goes like this: proxy (cash/cryptocurrency) -> belief -> result/other resource
Commercialize early quantum technologies [pdf]
It’s not just the carriers and manufacturers, Google doesn’t even support their own phones beyond a few years (e.g. the Nexus 5).
Designing Fast and Programmable Routers [pdf]
"We were burning: Japanese Entrepreneurs And The Forging Of The Electronic Age"
I always thought the route was precomputed for maximum efficiency.
Approximate String Joins with Abbreviations [pdf]
I started working remote 80% of the time about 2 months ago and I'm getting to this point as well.
She's a weaver, fabric artist, and teacher of fabric arts. Travels the country giving courses. Sells instructional materials and occasional tools and materials. Not a bit of shadiness involved. Your comment is inappropriate for this site.
After working for myself for > 30 years, and the last 10 remote - I think I am basically unemployable now. In the sense that, similar to yourself, I don't think I could ever work for someone again.

All the niggly details about office work in a big organisation now horrifies me. I had to assist a colleague with a government tender he was submitting last month, and even after one meeting with a government committee, I had to tell him I was out. Just spending a couple of hours in a meeting room with people that had no idea about anything going back and forth and playing politics and power broking almost had me running, screaming out of the room.

Its very similar to another scenario I am in. I haven't had television in our house for nearly 10 years, and every time I go to a friend's place and they have it on, I am astounded by the sheer volume and regularity of nonsense and ads being blared at you. When you are immersed in the situation day to day, it is easy to become numb to it and just accept it - but when you take an extended break from it and then come back, you really notice it.

And don't talk to me about commuting. I have friends that still regularly commute 2 hours each way every day for work. My commute is walking downstairs to my home office. I think of all that time people spend sitting in cars and public transport, and wonder about all the lost creative time they could be spending doing something with.
I’m waiting for Bluetooth mouse support. It’ll be a game changer. Fingers aren’t precise enough for pro tasks and touch isn’t ergonomical for long duration tasks. The mouse as an option will allow the iPad to blossom into a real capable post-pc workhorse that I could use professionally.
I don't understand how they go around the confidentiality. If you are a trader at big bank A, the last thing you want is traders at big bank B and C to know everything you have in your book.
Net Neutrality: Time to Use Mesh Networks to Build Your Own Internet?
For many products, the store is simply an artifact of a technical limitation, one that is now going away. Record shops, electronics shops and the like at best add little value and often (in the case of Best Buy/Frys/Circuit City etc) remove value.

Bookstores are a funny one: I miss the days when there were 7 bookshops in Palo Alto an still refuse to buy books from Amazon. But in other places books are sold sealed in shrink wrap, I see no reason to go to a physical shop rather than buying online.
Because this is not a black and white matter. Lack of purity doesn't imply lack of local reasoning.

A program that is 10% impure and 90% pure is not considered pure yet is still 90% easier to understand than a 100% impure program.
The exodus to Google (including the CEO and CTO), which Nan Boden's bio itself describes as an acquisition, happened months before the sale to CSPi. Draw your own conclusions.
It’s just the UI. Most of the underlying logic code and magic sauce can stay the same I bet.
Do you think that there are not engineering consultants making five figures a week?
You are right it can also be used for digital certification of art but I actually did mean digital certification of digital art.
I hope you take this post positively. I certainly intend it to be.

You need to focus more on using prepositions. Chaining 4 modifiers like you did in this title is very awkward. For example you could have used something like this: Plotting performance trajectories for deep learning models. Rightly or wrongly you and your posts will be more respected if you use good writing style.
I work at a seasonal company in the office and it sounds like fun, but that fun wears off quickly. The demand to get packages out the door is intense, being on your feet all day wears you out. Most of these jobs are in a warehouse, so it's colder, dirtier, and just out right hard work.
After rereading my initial comment and the responses to it, I absolutely agree that my tone was unduly harsh and condescending. I did not at all intend that when I wrote the comment, but it was clearly the result regardless. I apologize to everyone in this thread for not communicating my concerns more constructively. I have tried to reply to each comment in a much more constructive way.

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> Heh, every company I have worked for, I have had to share passwords to tools in some form or the other - private keys, certificate files, shared account passwords to name a few.

See my comment acknowledging that I was flat out wrong to argue that users never have a need to share passwords: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15996129.

As a developer needing to share passwords, there are plenty of secure ways to achieve sharing passwords without resorting to using email. For example, Hashicorp Vault [1] is a free and secure option which has gained lots of traction in the marketplace in recent years.

> So, you are willing to "vouch" for some random closed source software without every seeing the code and yet here you vilify code that is open.

It is quite widely accepted that password managers are the best practice for sharing passwords. The SecurityPlanner project recommends LastPass [2], has some very well respected folks from the security community on their advisory and peer review boards [3], including Bruce Schneier, Gary Belvin, and Iulia Ion. Also, the EFF recommends using a password manager [4]. Troy Hunt has an article explaining and recommending password managers (e.g. 1password) [9].

Also, most of the mainstream commercial password managers publish white papers on their security architecture and often undergo pen tests, security audits, etc. For example, see [5] [6] [7] [8].

Password managers utilize end to end encryption by encrypting the password on your device before sending it to their servers (for syncing between devices, etc). Without seeing the source code, you can observe the traffic over the wire to prove that these password managers are implementing end to end encryption and only sending cipher text over the wire to the remote server. In contrast, the Pass.sh service sends plain text passwords over the wire to their servers, which means that their servers have access to the plain text password.

[1] https://www.vaultproject.io/
[2] https://securityplanner.org/#/tool/password-manager
[3] https://securityplanner.org/#/who-we-are
[4] https://ssd.eff.org/en/node/23/
[5] https://lastpass.com/enterprise/security
[6] https://support.1password.com/security-assessments/
[7] https://keepersecurity.com/security.html
[8] https://www.dashlane.com/download/Dashlane_SecurityWhitePape...
[9] https://www.troyhunt.com/only-secure-password-is-one-you-can...
What was it like making the transition from software engineer to software engineering consultant?
I preferred Joy Division, early Talking Heads, EARLY B-52 and Ramones over anything of the Sex Pistols. They just were famous for being jerks.
No, I think blockchains provide many useful functions. However, providing a token with value is a necessary feature. I’m very excited about things like Rootstock which add smart contract functionality to the bitcoin blockchain.
30 Days of vacation a year?

That's insane.
Password Guessing GAN
Tweak your tests till PostgreSQL looks like the best choice. FTFY
San Diego has been suffering a hepatitis outbreak and city health workers have had to sterilize downtown streets. It's hard to believe this is happening in an affluent country.

http://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/news/health/sd-me-hepati...
This is a particular use for a public database. The public database must be writable (only) by the corrupt authorities. What exactly does a blockchain do to make the authorities non-corrupt here?
There was a few users on reddit recently that claimed to have gotten robbed by Bittrex, not sure if it has anything to do with it: https://www.reddit.com/r/CryptoCurrency/comments/7lfhfu/bitt...
Yesterday some Fed-Ex delivery people came by, driving a U-Haul van. Followed by a pickup truck which parked in front, and drove off after they did.
Kotlin Expected to Surpass Java as Android Default Programming Language for Apps
If what is what a consultant is?
> In 2013, the Snowden revelations revealed the existence of a campaign to sabotage U.S. encryption systems.

Is the information assurance directorate even active any more? It's interesting that they played a role (perhaps unwitting) in reducing security, or at least that their efforts to improve things were surfed by the people who gave RSA $10M.

Back in the days when Brian Snow ran it I actually thought the ISD was on the side of the good guys, especially when we learned (via IBM) that their changes to the s-box had improved things.
Please don't treat UAC as an 'annoyance' or convey to anyone the truly insane idea it should be disabled. UAC should for all intents and purposes just be called 'basic security'. Every other OS does what UAC does, which is creating a basic elevation/isolation for system management functions. It's the equivalent of why a Linux box refuses to do certain things unless you are root.

You should never, ever shut off UAC.
You listed only the cons but none of the pros.
Not OP but I would watch for mutations in the subscribed columns, then test the changed rows on the query's constraints and fire an event if it satisfies them.

I'm sure there is a more clever/efficient way of doing this though, and I can't wait to see how he/she implements it.
I agree that as a starting point for experimenting with an ad-hoc query, a "1 = 1" clause can make sense.

There were two reasons I was mad:

1. Using "1 <> 1" to disable a branch of a WHERE clause is not something I would have done. I would have commented it out. If you are used to this idiom, it might feel like the natural thing to do, but I think commenting it out makes the intention clearer.

2. I understand that queries can get a little convoluted when you start experimenting with them until you get the results you need. It is perfectly natural, and it is how the views I have written started out, as well. But before I put my views into production, I cleaned up the code, removed the parts I did not need or added a little comment to explain why the code was there.

Actually there were three:
3. The entire view was written in such a convoluted way that I was pretty sure the person who had written it was drunk at the time (he was an alcoholic, so this is probably true in the literal sense). When I inherited it, the view had about 700 lines and was mostly unreadable. When I was finished cleaning it up, I had reduced that to about 300 lines. I checked very carefully, but it still gave the exact same results. It still was not pretty, but if I could throw out more than 50% of the original code without affecting the result, you can probably imagine what a mess it was.
All very true. I was more thinking from the company's perspective (who often are the ones overtly discouraging inter-office relationships).
I was with you right up until the last sentence. However there are a few - though admittedly niche - platforms that Firefox has been ported to but which Chromium has not.
>buzzing in when he didn't know the answers to prevent other contestants from winning money

How does buzzing in when you don’t know the answer (not betting less when you’ve uncovered a daily double) keep others from winning money?

When you buzz in and get the answer wrong it doesn’t affect my ability to buzz in and get it right.
The blockchain is not just a support for currency, it is a decentralized ledger. A bit like git, but more secure.

A use case that doesn't involve currency is product tracking.
> officials questioned the legality of asking people for money under threat of criminal sanctions

Thank goodness -- the state is supposed to have a monopoly on violence. You can argue as to how effective that is (I believe it's commonly believed to be ineffective, though for reasons that are polar opposites depending on political views).
>I also find it ironic and somewhat disturbing that prosecutors are mentioned throughout the article essentially saying that the State should have a monopoly on extortion because of the legal protections afforded to criminal defendants.

What article are you reading?

Only one current prosecutor is mentioned who states an opinion on the program, and he says: “The justice system should never be a profit system.”

The second mentioned prosecutor doesn't have any quotes, but did sue Corrective Education for extortion and false imprisonment.

The third mentioned (former) prosecutor is the founder of one of the companies.

Your statement is pretty blatantly false.

The one government official who does (explicitly) say that the State should have a monopoly on extortion is California Superior Court Judge Harold Kahn, who issued the injunction against Corrective Education.
> with the implied threat of criminal prosecution without the actual threat.

I wonder how much difference this really makes. A stronly implied threat might be just as much a threat as an actal threat.

Law isn't maths, after all.
I know what you’re saying and see where you are coming from, but that’s not how it would work in reality. Presuming sufficient voltage at the the cable (ie no extreme loss due to internal cabling resistance) the length of the cable should not matter.

The real limiting factor is that a basic USB plug charger puts out only 2A while the iPhone’s peak draw at the same 5V can be well north of 2.5A if you’re using the GPU to its fullest.

However it’s not just the power cord that’s supplying current when you’re plugged in - if it were designed correctly there’s no reason those 2A couldn’t supplement whatever your battery is already putting out and only charge it with what’s left over. In fact, that’s how iPhones can stay at 90% while plugged in to a car charger, running GPS, playing audio at the loudest, and streaming some data in the background while some android models would discharge even while plugged in... but both would be dead a lot sooner if they weren’t plugged in.

The real problem is just shoddy engineering. Hardware isn’t much different from software: what all this boils down to is the equivalent of someone writing code that went into production across millions of devices around the world that assumed input x would always be greater than y and didn’t bother with any exception handling or bounds checking. And when that voltage/current combination coming in is insufficient.. an unhandled brownout exception occurs.
Surge models can afford to be inefficient, they are needed rarely and the other 364 days a year your don't want extra overhead.
http://articles.extension.org/pages/18868/stall-waste-produc...

A horse defecates 4 to 13 times per day; a 1000 pound horse produces 9 tons per year.

https://99percentinvisible.org/article/cities-paved-dung-urb...

'Per one observer at the time, the streets were “literally carpeted with a warm, brown matting . . . smelling to heaven.” So-called “crossing sweepers” would offer their services to pedestrians, clearing out paths for walking, but when it rained, the streets turned to muck. And when it was dry, wind whipped up the manure dust and choked the citizenry.'

On the whole, I'd rather have electric bikes and cars.
I'm not sure why you're being down voted here but you're pretty close to correct. There have been many recent studies showing fast food really isn't cheaper than buying other types of healthier food. It is pretty close because there are an incredible amount of low cost high calorie foods like beans, nuts, rice, cheap cuts of meat, the list goes on. Here is one from the UK Economic Affairs: https://iea.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/Cheap-as-Chips...

The conclusion to save you a click:
Food in the UK has never been more affordable and healthy food is
generally cheaper than unhealthy food. A day’s diet that meets the
requirements of the Eatwell Guide can be purchased for less than the
price of two cheap supermarket ready-meals and for much less than a
single meal at a fast food chain. Switching to healthier versions of many
staple products can be achieved at no extra cost, and a wide range of
fruit, vegetables and carbohydrates can be bought in supermarkets for
less than £1 per kilogram. Five portions of fruit and vegetables can be
purchased for as little as 30p.

Some studies that have come to the opposite conclusion have used a
cost-per-calorie measure of food pricing which makes high-energy food
appear expensive regardless of the cost of a meal. Others have compared
a small selection of food products which are classified as ‘healthy’ or
‘unhealthy’ on the basis of relatively minor differences. By looking at the
cost by edible weight and studying the price of typical food portions, this
report has been able to make better comparisons between the cost of
healthy and unhealthy diets in Britain today.

We conclude that the real question is not why unhealthy food is so cheap
but why people consume unhealthy food despite it being more expensive.
The answer, we suggest, is that taste and convenience often play a larger
role in people’s food choices than price or nutritional quality.
Algorithmic Solution to My Insomnia
Still confused. What’s the difference between this and the typical NDA that a sexual harassee signs?
You could buy some Instagram ads or run some promotions (e.g. "post a picture with the hashtag #printpost for a chance to get it printed").
Visualizing Company Culture and Cultural Change
How Did Fans React to the Empire Strikes Back in 1980?
LibBSON somewhat humorously has no error handling for OOM and just kills the whole process if a malloc fails. Bit of an annoyance when porting to embedded hardware.
Part of the problem is that the real estate industry isn't subject to the same "know your customer" rules as other financial services. If a foreigner wants to invest in US stocks then the broker is required to do at least some basic validation that the customer's money is legitimate, and report suspicious transactions to the government. So a lot of the money laundering by corrupt foreign politicians and oligarchs now goes through real estate instead.
I would bet there's more to it than just wanting "recognizable" trucks for residential deliveries. Using a box truck is less efficient because they don't typically have access to the box from the cab, so the driver has to get out and run around to open the door at each stop. But this isn't quite as big of an issue when they're doing commercial pickups/deliveries, because there's usually numerous packages at each stop, so getting out open the back isn't as much of a time sink per-package.
Jealousy and greed is driving the opposition to the tax plan.

If you look closely, you'll see that most complaints aren't about not getting a tax break, because 99.99999% of people will get one.

No, the chief complaint is "the rich are getting more."
RNG state entropy is not a resource that is exhausted by using the RNG.

But even if it were, and assuming entropy limitations are relevant in this context (which I'd argue they are not), the total entropy requirement would not change by merely deriving the same set of values in another way. You might only need more bytes (!= entropy) from your root RNG to seed two separate RNGs. In which case you could just stretch the same number of bytes you'd normally request using e.g. HKDF.

But again, it doesn't make much sense to think of entropy as something you can count or use up, really. There is no way to tell, and just a few bits (say 128) of entropy would be sufficient for almost anything...
Yes, it did. I know both of them and have heard the story from both.
I don't necessarily believe this myself, but here goes:

A database under control of any one entity is prone to undue influence by hacking or bribing or other leverage. An append-only database that is controlled by consensus of all club members is safe from malfeasance on the part of a minority. There is value in that. Of course this has nothing to do with mining coins and stuff.

Now you can argue the society already solved these problems with rigorous administrative processes around existing databases. I would reply that blockchain-based process may end up being cheaper and/or faster to settle and reconcile. In the same way the computing previously done by humans was turned over to machines. It may have looked like the problem is under control and there is nothing to solve here, but it turned out there was a lot to be gained from dramatically increased computational power.
Talking about distributed ledgers, blockchains is kind of misleading.

Fundamentally, this technology implements distributed trust.
You can put some information there and it will remain, forever.
Everyone can see that this data (and hence, some event in the world) is there, was created at particular time by a particular person. You can tell someone: "Hey, I did X and you can see it here".

Sure, it's slow as hell now, but look forward 10 years.

What if people in year e.g. 1000CE suddenly got telepathy (internet) and ability to persist each other's thoughts? How would that change their society?