skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Why haven't advertisers noticed this is why we install blockers?

Maybe because not enough people install blockers for it to matter.
I've never heard of "Real Mail Notification" notification before. https://informeddelivery.usps.com/box/pages/intro/start.acti... says it only works on 'letter-sized' things, so it would be useless to me - I only care about the occasional packages, and USPS already notifies me about package deliveries, just 4-5 hours later...
Mostly maintaining and improving https://www.libhunt.com
> Couldn't another response to someone attacking with 51% mining be to physically destroy their hardware?

Sure, if you can identify the location of the hardware and you happen to be a sovereign nation that can field the matériel required, who also doesn't have a problem instigating an international incident.

Now, if you're a single entity or a cartel of entities with the financial and technical resources to launch a majority of hash rate attack, you'll have considered what vectors a counter-attacker would attempt to come at you with.

For example, I expect the (simplistic) response to the hypothetical risk vector of "a physical assault on our mining hardware" to be migrated by distributing hardware across a number of data centers and pooling mining computations. Solved blocks are then propagated to the network through a single, obfuscated network node.
Most of the startups that I have been a part of have been deeply dysfunctional. I wanted to document this, by describing what I'd seen, so I wrote "How To Destroy A Tech Startup In Three Easy Steps". The intro is here:

http://www.smashcompany.com/business/how-to-destroy-a-tech-s...
I don't think Mailgun expose that in any API, I'm afraid. Good idea, though, I'll see if there's something available.
I have to say that's pretty slimy of the prison administration.
It's great that there are now cheap, online options for glasses.

However, I'm getting sick of friends who got their glasses from Warby Parker telling me that I'm a fool for buying frames from Luxottica-owned Oliver Peoples.

Some of us are willing to pay the extra money for "just a piece of plastic with a name slapped on" because we can tell the difference - it is possible for designer frames to be subtly more attractive or constructed a bit better.

But again, that said, if you don't care or can't afford it, the cheaper options are great, and I wish they had been available when I was younger.
How was the second guy dishonest in any way? I don't see it.
All you did was wave your hands here. What trade off? What subtle disadvantages? What in PoS is weaker than PoW?

You assert these things exist without going into any of them. PoS is very new and complex and there are many differences between implementations, much more than in PoW.

Any dismissal you might have read would most likely been based on a previous version because the latest versions of PoS are quite new.

There doesn't always have to be a meaningful trade-off between different technologies that do the same thing. Is there a meaningful trade-off between a zipped wav file and one compressed with flac?

Jeez, just stop spreading FUD.
A bit more:

* Everyone talks of serverless as FaaS or single-file, but most people are not writing single-file contained applications. They are depending on the ecosystem of the language they are using, which means using npm/maven/rubygems/pypi libraries. The dream of merely uploading a single file with a function is just not true, folders have to be hoisted up, packages/dependencies have to be installed and isolated per-function. Buildpacks are there for a good reason.

* Pay-per-request sounds fun until you run into scale.
Why build an application that nobody uses and optimize it to remain unused? What happens to business continuity when it receives a huge surge of traffic and runs out of budget? Granted yes, we're talking about idle billing, but anyone running applications at scale - the benefits of having 1-2 always-on, always-budgeted containers completely overwhelms idle billing when it comes to per-request pricing and business continuity.

There are always tradeoffs with any technology. The article comes across as trying to sell unicorns, which is not healthy. It must be more transparent with the bad/ugly sides when trying to cover "serverless in 2018".
I know that people patent things for various reasons but would people truly expect the holder of that patent to litigate against another company using that method to ensure "more true" randomness in whatever application they were using? I, personally, imagine the patent holder would be glad to see others using their method to ensure true randomness so long as they were using the technology for anything other than evil.
In that event, I am certain that I could find another place to read about javascript frameworks and watch people misuse the phrase a priori.

The people who come to HN are what's valuable to me, not the specific web property.
Anchovy Pineapple Pizza on the way!
Still in beta, but also consider Firebase + Cloud Functions on GCP. Very fast to build with. And easy to upgrade to GAE or K8 containers if need be.

Cloud Functions for Firebase

https://firebase.google.com/docs/functions/
From the article:

> I'm ashamed of much that happened, and I think one of the first and most important steps we can take is to embrace explicit codes of conduct throughout our industry.

I think that there needs to be some sort of internationally recognised - and legally binding - code of conduct, something like a hippocratic oath for software developers.
Visual Basic's relatively strong ranking is interesting; my recollection was while VBA could be an extremely productive language, it was also a very "brittle" one.

I recall many VBA projects where I was flying along using my favorite toolkit / framework for a specific domain, until we hit something that wasn't "in the manual" - at which point, peering inside the beast became very hard. So 30% of time spend cranking out useful code and 60% of the time spent clearing some arcane roadblock because a client wanted something that didn't neatly fit the standard.

Python's standard library has always seemed much more flexible (and when necessary, comprehensible) in comparison...
For far more reasons than I care to go into, the Dominos PULSE system[1] sucks at making delivery time estimates. The CSMs in store don’t use it, but can’t control what online orders see.

As a former manager, blowing through unrealistic delivery estimates for online orders were over half of the complaints I had to deal with.

[1] PULSE is the in-house Point of Sale system Dominos created. Except it’s not just a POS, it does inventory management, labor management, shift scheduling, delivery routing, etc. Theoretically it has every variable it needs to estimate delivery times. But there’s a disconnect between theory and practice, as most franchises don’t learn enough about the ins and outs of the system to customize a lot of the defaults or even to use all of the modules.
For a few seconds I was thinking...Bacon.
About the car. The producer for Corvette Summer was Hal Barwood, who was also the project leader for Yoda Stories.
You think this roulette is mean spirited you should see the Russian version.
Not only that but your cameras are going to have to be precisely in the same place as theirs, with an identical view and be identical models with identical sensor variation, dust on lens etc etc etc ad nauseam.

As you say, that might raise a few eyebrows.
Both projects look fantastic!

How does listenbrainz differ-from / compare-to Libre.fm?
CPU INFOrmation library: a cross-platform library to discover supported instruction sets, microarchitecture, and cache parameters of the CPU. Started as a "oh, I can do it over the weekend" project at first, took close to a year to get to production quality.

https://github.com/Maratyszcza/cpuinfo
Then you're constrained by the existing window and input systems, which probably makes many interesting new concepts impossible to implement.

I don't know an alternative except to do everything new within one window, which would be at least as bad.
Well, it's kind of neat?
Generating a random number by using microseconds as a seed is more than enough for practically every single case. It still hasn't been cracked or predicted.

Some people say that, in theory, it could be cracked however, i tried and its impossible, modern computers are so complex and fast that it gives enough entropy.
HNY HN! Wishing all a prosperous and productive 2018. I get a lot from this community. And hope to give as much as I receive.

As far as new year's resolutions. Mine never changes: I vow to spend even more time out of doors this year ;)
I'm sure there's... an app for that. ;-)
Real Mail Notification and Informed Delivery are different services. The former emails you when anything is delivered to you.
Possible… I'll go with the bees, after years of guilt for enslaving humans to care for them realized the only way to free the humans was to kill themselves, so they hired a hit from Craigslist to end their existence and free the poor humans from a lifetime of servitude.
Having worked heavily in MUMPS for almost 3.5 years at a previous job, I'd actually agree with MUMPS being a very productive environment. I think the main reason for this is that the semantics for working with in-memory and persisted data is identical, but still explicit due to the naming convention. This combined with the extremely limited language resulted in code that always was straightforward to read and modify as long as the previous author used decent variable names. I certainly wouldn't advocate for MUMPS, but I have been longing for something similar to its database access semantics since I stopped using it.
There is a related book, Strategic Intuition [1], by William Duggan, which speaks to the nature of creativity. Highly recommended read if you are interested in this topic.

[1] https://www.amazon.com/Strategic-Intuition-Creative-Achievem...
You understand the difference between something that's not very nice and something which someone cannot possibly eat at all, right? As a vegetarian, I can imagine some pretty gross combinations of pizza that I still can eat, but I'm at a massive disadvantage if I get something I cannot eat at all.
Already submitted earlier today and still sitting on the front page: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16041164
It was on HN early into its life, I recall seeing it posted here. I also recall being solidly impressed by the quality of the presentation for what it was and how it worked. The value proposition clicked immediately. I think they did a pretty good job of hooking people on the concept quickly (ultimately it's pay for results, which can be a potent offer when education is increasingly expensive).
Increase of the military budget has been bipartisan, its the one thing that never stopped growing in decades budget-wise.

Thats where money goes today, so if you raise taxes you have to take into account that the military will still eat a chunk of it. Its yet another argument of why raising taxes is not the solution to poverty.
I think the intent is for this to be a functional art installation more than anything. Of course there are less expensive (and more "practical" ways of accumulating entropy), but this is a very cool art project that provides a pretty core function. Yeah, maybe it's kind of expensive to run, but that's not that extreme. A lightbulb is like 100W too right?
This bit

"An important part of any art is for the artists to escape the "part of the present that is the past", and for most artists, this is delicate because the present is so everywhere and loud and interruptive. For individual contributors, a good ploy is to disappear for a while"

reminded me of John Carmack explaining in his .plans how he would go off and seclude himself for a couple of weeks to start a new iteration of the id technology.
This sounds cool! You seem high functioning. I know someone who's low functioning, about grade 2-3 mentality and can't keep conversations going for long. No savant level skills either. How does your work affect people on that end of the spectrum? Do you see any of your work applying to them? Sorry if you've answered any of this in your research. I'll check your site out more tomorrow.
Unfortunately they're not cool, a single lava lamp puts off a lot of heat, I can't imagine the heat generated from a wall of them. Seems like you could get similar randomness from a wall of betta fish and have a lower electricity bill.
No, but the drivers and kernel will be updatable independently, and the drivers will be sandboxed to their own process with limited permissions.

The quality of the user experience will be better as a driver crash won't bring down the device.
Not sure why you would avoid a still relevant question.
I saw Dominos pizza tech guy interviewed a while back about their delivery bags. He spoke of one day of not just keeping the pizza warm, but having it having cook while being delivered. Custom vehicles could make that happen and I'm sure somewhere in that organization someone is trying to mount a pizza oven in a 92 chevy.
I like this, but that's probably because I buy 5 pizzas or so fairly frequently and hate choosing the toppings.

That said, I'd prefer roulette on their medium pizzas that seem to be on sale perpetually. That with a modest upcharge and I might use it.
Things wouldn't be too different without the mouse. We already had the trackball.
Looking for it, I think I am remembering either http://10years.firstround.com/ (which says, specifically, that experienced founder returns aren't better because their increased success rate is already priced in, which is not quite what I claimed) or https://www.econstor.eu/bitstream/10419/90815/1/777058081.pd...
I generally use my vision insurance to get my vision test and daily wear glasses. Then I go online and purchase prescription sunglasses. In my anecdotal experience the fit and finish of "brand name" glasses is better. However, I've never had any of my "cheap" glasses fail in any way.
The Right Way (TM) to do it is to always have V-SYNC but use a screen with high enough refresh where you can't notice the latency. 60 Hz is probably good enough for 95% of people, and Apple is moving to 120 Hz in devices like the iPad Pro.
Sent this to my friend in the next room, he yelled back his exact thoughts.
He wants to say that "you're a monster and why is this a thing"

I for one welcome adding an element of chaos into food ordering
I've been on GAE continuously since 2008. Can confirm virtually all comments (pro/con) in this HN thread.
I would guess it's a lot easier and less risky to find a few vulnerabilities than to successfully exploit them and get away with it at the first attempt. After all, even his previous "successful" escape resulted in him being shot and recaptured and years added to his sentence, and his colleague being killed.

It also sounds like he really wants to spend more time with his girlfriend and her son, while he was single during his previous escape.
Same thing at some large Sainsbury's, very annoying. They are also the medium-weight plastic bags instead of the light ones; I suppose people like to feel they are getting something of value for their five pence, but I find these bags far less useful for re-use at home. At some point I am going to have to figure out how to order a 50-pack of Waitrose bags just for scooping the cat's litter box...
They don't seem to be meaningfully different. For example, https://www.usps.com/business/pdf/informed-delivery-overview... also says it only tells you about upcoming mail, when what I want is exact minute of delivery.
In the US this would be 100% legal. For almost all jobs, you can fire someone for any reason (I don't like your shirt, your jokes weren't funny, it's a Tuesday) or literally no reason at all. The exceptions are few and far between - unions provide additional protection via collective bargaining agreements; you can't fire someone for being in a protected class (i.e. because of their race or gender); and you can't fire someone in retaliation for something like a wage complaint. You could almost certainly fire someone for making a video you don't like (unless they're in a union, which is very few tech employees.)
$34.61 estimated for my random pizza. That's a hell of an expensive pizza.
"Nothing is Cheaper than Proof of Work" - http://www.truthcoin.info/blog/pow-cheapest/

I'm glad they're finally launching there PoS fork so it can have its inevitable outcome.
This is wrong, on every count. Usage of microseconds as a seed trivialize the search space for the testing of potential seeds by an attacker.

The speed or complexity of computers is irrelevant.
Where did you travel? About to set off on a trip of roughly the same length in Europe. Any recommendations?
lots of examples of currencies getting inflated pretty badly. agreed the US $ has been stable for the last 30 years, and seems like a fairly safe bet. but it also doesn't seem outside the bounds of possibility that something will flip and we enter another period of bad inflation. (to me, gut feeling, zero expertise in any of this -- just some guy on the internet, thinking about it for fun.)

are contracts being written in bitcoin yet? if so, that'd be some momentum to help keep the bottom from falling out.

and i don't think taxes are really denominated in USD: they are paid in USD, but they are denominated in % of «taxable event», converted to USD, at whatever the conversion rate happens to be. right?

i guess a national currency is a little more "real" than something like bitcoin because you have one more-or-less guaranteed believer in it, the nation issuer. but it still doesn't seem that different to me than something like bitcoin. it basically just has value because it's useful for it to have value, and it's made scarce enough that it can serve for that purpose.
Bees are vital to our food production. Is that a big enough positive externality?

It doesn't matter if this is done for profit, for charity or just to irritate the neighbors. Bees are a vital pollinator.
From all of the research I've read, autism seems to be a neurological disorder. Is this not the case? Genuinely curious what led you down this road rather than others as I've been struggling to reason about similar issues and tendencies I've had.
> Also, salesmen/saleswomen are being automated by websites. But their job is not beneath human dignity

That is disputable.
FWIW, this 1000 word, entirely offtopic comment that you whinged up the opportunity to post sort of speaks for itself.
Do you have a reference for that claim? This is the first I've heard of your scenario.
I'll second that. Just got a switch, BotW and Mario Osyssey for the family for Christmas, and I've been logging a lot of time with Zelda at night when the kids are in bed. The game is massive and dense, which is awesome in an adventure/exploration game.

I was a little worried I would be let down because of all the hype, but it's delivered so far. I haven't even really started Mario yet, but I loved Mario 64 so I imagine there's a lot to like there too.
I'm happy with 2 open source projects I've published:

- ssrf_filter (https://github.com/arkadiyt/ssrf_filter): a ruby gem for preventing server side request forgery attacks

- bounty-targets-data (https://github.com/arkadiyt/bounty-targets-data): an automatically updating repository of all Hackerone/Bugcrowd in-scope domains (for use in scripted bug hunting)
It would be a pizza-loot-box. That actually sounds like a nice product.
>> Why can't they just put towers that allow emergency calls only?

Outside of cities, "first responder" is a more literal than official term. The off-duty nurse needs to be able to call her buddy with a truck who can get to the scene faster than the ambulance. The volunteer search party wants to coordinate their activities via their personal cellphones. The lost child wants to speed-dial 'mommy', not try to figure out whether or not to call 911. Emergency numbers only just isn't practical.

Also, cell coverage would probably reduce the number of "emergencies". Hikers who are two days late is an emergency, but not if they can phone someone to say they safe and waiting out the weather.
Java 8 became available on GAE about 3 years after it was released. If Google continues that trend, Java 9 won't be available until 2020.

Slow adoption of new Java versions is a pretty big downside. Even if you are satisfied using Java 8 on GAE today, you may want to use Java 9 in the near future, and you won't be able to. By choosing GAE you are committing yourself to being stuck with Java 8 for a long time.
a kay oop lisp machine, full reification from low levels to gui layers
Even if you did either of those... the bits (at least the hotbits algorithm) works off of the detection of multiple events. Bringing in some Iodine 128 into a place (half-life of 25 minutes) into the area, that would change the rate of bit generation, but not actually influence the bits themselves.

Lets say you've got some cesium that's creating 800 bits per section. That one (now that I go back and read it closely) is based on four events: E1 <-(T1)-> E2, E3 <-(T2) -> E4. If the time between E1 and E2 is less than the time between T3 and T4 - its a 0. If its greater, its 1.

Bringing in some other source wouldn't change that algorithm unless one could control the "when" to some degree so that the gigercounter detects your events with greater frequency than the other source... and at that point, you might as well unplug the gigercounter from the com port and feed in your own data.

This could be done with background radiation too - but that's many fewer events and so a lower rate of germination. The time between two events is random and will remain random even with more radioactivity in the area.
Hotmail started it, Yahoomail (nee RocketMail) quickly followed, and Gmail had a more low-key viral roll-out without any ad footers on messages.
Without wading into the larger debate, is it possible that low stable interest rates are expected in a successful society?

In a chaotic world where the government and property rights might not exist in five years, the time-value of money is high, because the enjoyment of that money in the future is uncertain. A house might only be worth five times the annual rent, because some warlord could steal it in five years. And a bond might pay 20% for similar reasons.

The interest rate, cap rate, or P/E ratio I'm willing to tolerate for an asset is closely related to my level of confidence in future economic stability (combined with my willingness to wait a long time to recoup my investment).

What if a low natural rate of interest is just a sign of a more advanced economy where people are thinking long-term? This lines up, I think, with the fact that super low yield bonds and 100 year mortgages are common in Europe.

Why should the owners of capital automatically double their money in just ten years? Maybe we have enough capital to go around already. It seems like the owners of capital are willing to invest with much lower returns these days because there is nothing else to do.

I'm just musing about what it means. I've considered buying a house to live in with a price-to-rent ratio of 25 years. This is a lot higher than the US average, but maybe that's not a bad thing? Even if the value stops increasing, I'm patient, and I have nothing better to do with the money other than rent a nicer place. This is a mix of FOMO (if I don't buy now, I won't be able to afford later) and anti-FOMO (if the price goes down in a correction, I could buy an even nicer house, but this one is nice enough already).
http://store.steampowered.com/app/652000/Quantum_Pilot/ + video streaming apps for clients
Coming to terms with missing out is part of abstinence. If you're going to entitle yourself to the accommodation of others every step of the way, then maybe you aren't cut out for it.
Both of which will soon be available on FreeBSD. Yay free software!

By the way, amdgpu does not appear to be GPL, just GPL compatible. https://github.com/wkennington/linux-firmware/blob/master/LI...
Just use fossil.