skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You are a bit off. As a preface, I really recommend reading https://github.com/ethereum/wiki/wiki/Proof-of-Stake-FAQ.

For your first question, if people are on vacation and there are no validators then Ethereum would be dead. It wouldnt make sense that the global pool of validators would disappear, but even so, it would wait I assume. IF half the validators left, it would choose from the other half.

2. THe main chain is currently defined as the longest defined chain fully validated. To fake someone out, you would need to tell them your vote for a block, and they would need to blindly vote the same without doing any due diligence on the block (which would defeat the purpose) and they would be rightfully burned. That is the same as a miner who just copies the work of other miners, they do nothing.
3. I dont understand this at all. You do not need to stake. You are rewarded but lose liquidity. It is your choice, just as lending compute was your choice with PoW.

Hopefully this is good, the link goes into a lot of detail that should clear things up!
Informative read. I do like how they answered one of their own questions later on:

> Why is it that someone who worked at various tech companies, has an active GitHub profile and a blog, is asked to go through programming puzzles? I digress.

> While they said I shouldn't spend more than a "couple of hours" on it, it took me pretty much one and a half days to finish.

Bingo. (Combined with the disappointingly obvious statement that there are somehow people with a decade of industry experience who can't actually code, necessitating some way of determining that for an individual candidate)
Oliver Peoples, like Oakley and Ray-Ban, was a Luxottica acquisition that was once independently successful, so it’s more than a clothing fashion label attached to a generic frame. However, like many big company acquisitions, the best and brightest talent leave to start a new company and the parent company has its own approach to supply chain management.

Barton Perreira and Salt Optics are independent lines from California, with some roots in Oliver Peoples.

Prodesign is an independent line from Denmark. A few of their models have features like screwless hinges and flexible frames that cost two to three times more from designers like Mykita. Modo from NYC is also a solid mid-range independent line, frames made in Japan.
So a disclosure can be irresponsible but don’t call it an irresponsible disclosure?
FWIW, water jets produce about 100000 psi through special nozzles which mix garnet grit in. I wonder how specialized this nozzle is vs the standard cutting ones.
> He had his girlfriend tell the authorities that he would reveal his plan in exchange for a few privileges: an extra visit each week; the ability to receive food packages and take photos with his girlfriend and her 6-year-old daughter.

> Mr. Sweat and Ms. Malanik met after his infamous 2015 escape. She was among many people who wrote to him after the Clinton escape, and she and her daughter eventually began visiting him regularly at Five Points.

I don't think I would bring my six year old daughter to visit a convict I had been dating for two years, and had never met outside of prison. It seems like a lot for her to process.
Wouldn't you just cover their camera with paper or some other known pattern, if you were going to try that?
We're using different definitions of "reputation" here. Coinbase has a good reputation in that, unlike Mt Gox, it appears to be run by adults and is highly unlikely to get massively pwned or do a runner with your money overnight. But it also has a bad reputation in that their support is abysmal and/or overloaded, and if you run into any sort of trouble with transactions, ID verification etc, it tends to take a very long time to sort out.
This approach shifts the effort on constantly changing the source JSON data and specification on how it needs to finally look to the client. Lazy devs will inevitably post solutions online.

This approach also requires the client to implement ratelimiting, but you could fix that by having the data POSTed to your servers instead.

I unfortunately can't remember the name of it, but a service was presented on here a while ago that presented a series of security challenges then connected successful applicants with employers and managed the whole process. Methinks that's the right way to do this kind of thing.
Is it? Cloud isn't apples to apples to other options because it covers both hardware and at least some if not most of your operations costs. The less magical your infrastructure, the more (very expensive) people are required to maintain it.
Ask HN: What technical due diligence do you perform before M&A?
> I wonder what was the biggest factor in making him decide to reveal the plot instead of trying to execute it.

I'd wager it was the gunshot scar from his previous escape attempt.
I completed the registration process. Can you explain more about what the app does?
In a post-labour society, labour is completely divorced from productivity, so you have to tax productivity somehow to get the resources you need to take care of your population.

So somehow, sometime, we have to stop relying on income-tax, and start relying on some kind of productivity tax instead, and forge a new social contract based on that.

Otherwise we end up in the situation you describe, an ever-decreasing sliver of the population is taxed to support the masses. And even though their productivity is multiplied enormously by technology, a lot of people will still think it's unfair.
>smaller town and down sized everything

You can very much pull that off in lots of small towns in the US, but yeah, you're living a close to thread bare lifestyle.
Stop allowing a flood on migrants for no reason other than a feel good policy. Social safety nets exist for the populace that contributes over time, not for new fully grown males to suddenly appear with or without families expecting benefits they and their predecessors never contributed to. Down votes show HNs continued ignorance to actual world situations.
Only if you define income taxes to only include a subset of income taxes and ignore social security. Further, income taxes are only a subset of the overall tax load and you need to take earnings with a grain of salt as multi generational wealth can accumulate without being considered as 'income'.
Love that quote: "the main job of theoretical physics is to prove yourself wrong as soon as possible."

I try and apply it to programming and computer systems. Test test test, prototype before you commit millions of dollars and hours to something that might not work very well.

Unfortunately not everyone sees it my way.
No, there is a chance of 10^-31 that there is any solution
Legit hackers for good reasons
For over a year i have been trying to take down a website that put up bad contents about me , after spending alot of money on impotent hackers, i was finally able to do the job,thanks to ecodatasolution@dr.com
Try this one. freedns.afraid.org
I think this is a cop-out.

As a developer, your software makes it easier to do certain things and harder to do other things. Not all use cases are equally well supported.

Software is categorically different from something dumb like a hammer. Telling yourself you're just making hammers is a dodge to salve your conscience.
Nice, but similar to Scandinavian countries is exaggerated. I'm from Austria and we have up to 3 years of state paid m/paternity leave, contracts must not be terminated before and after that, employers must not pay you less after your leave or give you a lower job. Mothers typically can leave the job a few months before birth being paid 80% of their salary ("Mutterschutz"/"mother protection"). At least 5 weeks of paid vacation + holidays + unlimited sick days.

Guns for school officials? Wtf.
I’d never heard of that before, and my friends call me “Pizza Larry”. THANK YOU.
ISP protester's problem solved by police called to remove him from store
For those wary of clicking the Buzzfeed link, it is exactly as content-free as you would expect. (Although, surprisingly, they have done some pretty nifty journalism from time to time.)
the link for torch is borkened
I'm in my final year as CS major and was really excited about graduation. After reading this I think I'll switch majors.

Why didn't anyone tell me that I will get treated so poorly just ten years out of school?
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What do you need from the early adopters who register?
I worked for an international organization in Geneva, Switzerland that used to give out work permits that wouldn’t allow spouses to work, neither could we get a credit card. These were more like seasonal permits extended up to 3 - 4 years. Then with the change of leadership this was phased out. At first we thought that we’d have to leave, but then we saw that we were still needed, so they started to give us better visas.
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Kick the door in and physically shut down the equipment? Or more easily, cut off the power supply somewhere upstream?

Not wise to presuppose a State actor will play by the limited set of rules requiring them to spend billions on hashing equipment to shut down a crypto operation.
Cixl – a minimal, decently typed scripting language
Cool! What company and product? I'd love to see a positive example.
Underrated.
I doubt the 3DO ever developed an extensive enough games library to begin to match all that he had lost. He was cheated out of a lot of games and memories. By society.
Coinbase had yet to process wire withdrawls from over 13 business days ago.

What trust can you have in an exchange in which you cannot withdraw your money. Also I dare you to try and get a hold of support at Coinbase. Hint hint you can't.
The important point is it runs on any GPUs. If you think then saying it runs on GPUs is wrong the counter sounds more unusual, that it doesn't run on GPUs.

They could have been more precise but there's nothing wrong or particularly misleading about what they said, and what they said conveyed the most important aspect.

> would argue we would not generally claim this software "runs on CPUs"

"This software does not run on CPUs" sounds wrong for this scenario.
I reliably see gains from unrolling relatively simple loops on very recent cpus. Going to 8+ iterations is usually overkill, but it can help. Sometimes one can split a dependency chain by unrolling as well.
oooooooo. I really really like this webpage :) full of interesting things. The click-to-change background FTW. (Is... are some of the bitmaps from DESQView/X?)

Thanks so much for the Apple fonts, I've been meaning to poke the Alto source for ages!!

Hmm. This idea I've had for a while may interest you, and you may have more success with it than I have: I want to get the fonts off a Psion MC400. https://sites.google.com/view/psionmc400

(I don't have one.) I found whiffs of conversation about ROM dumping one somewhere, but nothing substantive. I'm not sure how the author of that page obtained their screenshots, but if it's possible to convince the UI to display every possible char from every possible font (telnet, anybody? :D) it seems the process wouldn't be too hard.

The chances are if I pipe up in a bunch of retrocomputing forums someone will probably turn out to have one or two, but all my assistance would be remote unless there was a unit in Australia (I wouldn't want to risk mailing one here and back).
Be more aggressive in my job search. I need to move away from the online applications and cold call some places. If they can cold call me, then I can cold call them too.
And perhaps it's fueled by nostalgia, but games like Super Mario 64 and Final Fantasy VII are still acclaimed today despite their aged tech and the creation of better successors. And in some ways they are timeless, in the same ways NES or Atari classics are.
3D ganes were introduced in the 90s, before the dark age I described. I did mention 4: Doom (OK, pseudo-3D), Ultima Underworld (full-fledged 3D in 1992, almost modern controls and has aged better than many games 10 years newer), Daggerfall (extremely ambitious full 3D with a world of a size and scope never since seen) and Quake (full 3D, essentially the same game gameplay wise as most of the later FPSs released until today, just with less detailed textures, and a breakthrough in scriptability and moddability). In the console world I could of course mention Star Fox of the SNES, and Mario 64 of the N64, which were also seminal games, but quite prior to the age I'm criticizing. The 3D games of the 1999-2005 era didn't really introduce significant new elements that weren't in these, they were mostly variations of the same thing, sequels or incremental improvements.
I put time into my search engine for talks (https://www.findlectures.com/). I did two conference talks on it, at Solr/Lucene Revolution (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e_ia1DRz3l8) and AI With The Best (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dvUf9LZxEv8).

I've also been working on extracting the UI components into a library of UI components for Solr (https://github.com/garysieling/solrkit) and a project to generate email alerts of suggested talks based on interests (https://github.com/garysieling/email-alerts).
I don't like the term you made up. But fine, I think this is "Irresponsible Disclosure." Is that better? Did anything change?

Vendors and non-vendors alike are all responsible for good security, and that includes working together to make this happen. If you are working against vendors because of some preconceived notion that they are "evil," that's not a good thing.

If it turns out that the author did submit to the vendor and worked together to minimize damage then I'll retract my statement. Until then I think it's irresponsible, not just "uncoordinated".
IIRC, I grabbed the 3DO in 1995 for around $500 CAD (and the dollar was weak against the USD at that point). This was just prior to the North American release of the Saturn and PS1. It's been so long but I think I got a Japanese import of the PS1 prior the North American release for about the same money a month or two after getting the 3DO. At the time, a friend and I had opened up a video game shop, and until the PS1 releases really started ramping up, the 3DO games were actually pretty popular with the kids who came into our store.
I spent some of my time creating realtime procedural animations in 64kB, as part of the demoscene. 64kB is the size of the Windows executable (including all models, textures, music, etc.).

Youtube capture of my last work: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=27PN1SsXbjM (but please try the executable if you can)
IOTA has other issues which smell big scam to me.

Can you expand on unproven (for my education?). Thank you.
The "problem" is not the doctor who struggled through med school to make 250K a year. The issue is the billionaire making tens of billions a year (and in some cases paying LESS in taxes).
Actually that applies only to a small part of what I wrote, which is why I still posted it. The bulk of my argument remains valid.
You're welcome :) If you had any idea how many hundreds of thousands of locs I've thrown away over 30 years. Yet I wouldn't want to be anywhere else, and it was all leading here. These days I'm comfortable just going with the flow without rationalizing, it's not as if my stubborn attempts at controlling life were working out that well anyways...
> What do you mean the office pays tax?

The office pays rent, which presumably goes to the property owner (taxed)

> Yes employees do, but it is the nature of that business that headcount is low in proportion to revenues, so this is not a big number.

So corporate income tax should be inversely proportional to how many employees you have?

For example, if you have a large construction company, and you make your workers use teaspoons instead of shovels, you should pay fewer taxes? That sort of logic leads to the depriortization of efficiency and automation.

> It really isn't hard to find out where the revenue was, when you buy Facebook advertising you choose who you want it shown to.

Sure. Maybe you're saying "football fans" if you're selling jerseys (either US or European football).

So the jersey was manufactured in China, sent to the UK, and shipped to Germany. The advertising company is based in the states (like Facebook or Google). Which country should Facebook/Google pay taxes to?

Industrial manufacturing targets interests more then geographic location. For instance, if you're a UK company primarily buying ad space from a US outlet but primarily selling to China, where should the revenue taxes be sent to?

> Operating in is where you are making sales, or have operations.

How does that work? Most large IT/hosting companies have data centers in foreign nations. Do they have to split up revenues based on traffic patterns? (For example, 5% of our traffic goes through London so we have to pay British taxes on 5% of our hosting revenues.)

> Facebook has a UK registered subsidiary making sales in the UK.

The question is not that simple. Who cares where the sales are being made? That completely discounts the costs of R&D.
Oh my I feel so sorry for apple security engineer's right now. I'm curious the motivations to release such a serious, and complex, 0day on new years eve!? Makes me wonder who brushed this guy the wrong way, or if he just wants to watch the world burn.

That said, seriously impressive work and I give him props.
Acme Blogs, the first service of Acme Center. Very minimal MVP for what is planned to be a feature-rich blogs platform service.

Developed using Firebase (Auth, Functions, Hosting), React, GraphQL, and MongoDB.

Give it a try, and let me know what you think, and what you would like the service to provide.
In the national park in NZ where I have done most of my tramping, there is limited cell reception around the main village in the park (population 38), and the mountains surrounding this village are where 90% of overseas visitors experience the park - and get into trouble.

The introduction of that cell coverage, limited to the one valley as it is, dramatically decreased the amount of search and rescue call-outs with helicopters etc., often people can be guided off the mountain by phone.

I miss the wilderness aspect in that area - getting texted an hour above the bushline is weird, but luckily I have plenty of other valleys to choose from.

So yeah, limit it to the rescue hotspots, I reckon.
Dominos is available in dozens of countries around the world, since 2017, about half their shops are outside the US, and they even offer fully robotized deliveries in parts of Germany and the Netherlands[1].

And yet, roulette.pizza is US-only. I mean, you had to specifically go and restrict the location, compared to what the site you’re getting the pizzas from offers.

Why?

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[1] https://venturebeat.com/2017/03/31/soon-your-pizza-will-be-o...
We basically need some fresh eyes to look at what we’ve built and provide us with honest brutal feedback. Like all parents we think our baby is amazing but good testers are like good teachers. They can tell us about all the imperfections & we must listen with diligence :)
You could make plasma based radar cloaks. Could revolutionize stealth technology.
No, the cost is NOT a necessary requirement for creating a secure network. Capital/stake is.

What you say is true for Proof-of-work: The more capital-intensive mining is, the harder the network is to attack.

One can say that PoW currencies are secured by a display of capital investment into mining. The stake is the electricity and hardware deprecation that goes into mining a block. Cost is used as a proxy for capital.

Proof-of-work takes the middle men out of this: You proof your capital investment (your stake) directly within the protocol.
Ultra efficient plasma antennae maybe as well.
They do have a well-funded and well-publicized bounty program for security exploits.
Because your local computer is not where you will run your production. You absolutely are not required to develop on the cloud, but you should at least consider (and in fact this should be “must”) test you code in thr cloud before you enable the knot to ship it in production mode.

I’d argue if cloud is convenient for you and cheap as hell, no reason not to try. However, it is not cheap because you would need to setup your own cloudfoundry or kubernetes in AWS and whatnot (or the cloud provider’s native container solution), which often means renting a machine.

So that’s why most people don’t do development in the cloud. They test their “just committed to my feature git branch” latest version in the cloud by means of automatic (Jenkins etc) or by pushing to the cloud manually.
I understand the the benefits of using a fully managed platform like GAE, but wonder if it would be the right choice for most scenarios. Personally, I would prototype with GAE, but go into production with GKE, under the impression that the application would be a little more decoupled from the platform.
Density of visitors and their respect for the resources, seem more important that whether or not cellular exists (leaving aside visual impact since it was not described). Lots of voice call pollution can only come from lots of people.

Besides what’s the point when within a few years, multiple next gen satellite systems will be up that make that avenue a lot more practical than it is today.

Regulate traffic, visual and environmental impact, noise pollution, whatever. If all of that is done right what’s the benefit of cutting off what will actually save a few lives over the years?
Why not just set up a few sting operations? I wonder if there's a reluctance to act on these crimes because of the theory that allowing minor crimes like these contribute to less crime overall.

I had my car window smashed. Calling SFPD didn't seem useful, they took my verbal report over the phone and emailed me a copy for insurance purposes. End of story. In my neighborhood, an entire residential block will have been hit overnight, with broken glass every few cars. SFPD must get many calls in the morning.

>> "The latest data come after the Police Department decided in September to eliminate its 18-person citywide Patrol Bureau Task Force, instead assigning more officers to foot patrol in hopes of deterring criminals"

Anecdotal, but I've never seen a single one of these officers.
Sure, something leading to cyberbullying and girls committing suicides is obviously a very, very bad thing along with objectification. Many people are not even in control over their health and body for physical, psychological or social reasons. "Successful in their career" doesn't work the same way, it is a bad analogy. For one, this doesn't influence kids/teens, career success is all about grownups and doesn't degrade people to mere objects.
If somebody holds 51% of the capital in bitcoin (In form of 51% of the mining hardware), he can mount a 51% attack as well.
I'm going to do the same and I'm going to click on every single one that comes up. I bet the CPC for those things is obscene.
Even if the escape is doable, life after the escape is full of complications. Maybe that's part of it, for him.
No I haven't.
https://www.qkast.com the most influential web app of our time that almost nobody cared about in 2017.
I noticed hiking yesterday a sign for UHF deep in the forest, presumably for emergency fire response at this time of year (summer).
Ironically the mobile reception is sub-par in East Gippsland but I got a, relatively, strong 3G signal from the top of Genoa Peak, where the nearest phone tower is perhaps 10km away on the valley floor.
I hear a guy named Mike Meyers made a lot of it happen in practice!!!
2min Demo of How a Decentralized Twitter Could Work with Encryption [video]