skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
To be more precise about this, the Ripple consensus paper (https://ripple.com/files/ripple_consensus_whitepaper.pdf) says in Section 3.3, "Since the UNLs for each server can be different, agreement is not inherently guaranteed by the correctness proof." This of course doesn't mean that Ripple is never safe if UNLs disagree. (A node's UNL in Ripple serves the same function as a node's quorum slices in SCP.) It just means that the analysis from Section 3.2 does not apply. SCP was designed to be decentralized in the sense that we assumed different nodes would want to chose different quorum slices and wanted to achieve the best possible safety for any such choice.

A particular concern with Ripple is what would happen if Ripple validators failed not by crashing, but by getting compromised and acting maliciously (so-called Byzantine failure). The Ripple paper states in Section 3.2 that "it would take (4n + 1)/5 Byzantine failures for an incorrect transaction to be confirmed" (where all nodes are assumed to have identical UNLs and n is the size of that UNL). I believe this is an error, as with a quorum size of 80% of n, it is easy to construct a counter-example. Suppose nodes v_1 and v_10 are honest, while v_2, ..., v_9 maliciously deviate from the protocol. Now consider the two 80% sets (v_1, ..., v_8) and (v_3, ..., v_10). Those two sets overlap at only malicious nodes that could prevent v_1 and v_10 from hearing about each other's transactions.

The nice thing about SCP is that it is optimally safe (Theorem 13 in the paper). That doesn't mean it guarantees safety under all possible configurations (e.g., two disjoint sets of nodes that don't know about each other). But it means that in any configuration where there exists some protocol that could guarantee safety, SCP will guarantee safety as well. That includes Byzantine failure scenarios. So you could translate UNLs into quorum slices and substitute SCP for Ripple's consensus algorithm, and if RPCA was already guaranteed safe, then SCP will be, too. The converse is not guaranteed; you could choose a configuration that is safe under SCP and risks forking under RPCA.
Perhaps nEXT[1]? It's claim is to open up the entire internal API for public extension, as firefox once (ahem) did. I haven't started messing with it, however, and so can't verify said claims.

1: https://next-browser.github.io/
Creating a new python package and deploy it to pypi
Yes (Japan), most definitely not (England), yes (India).

Assumes we are talking about tech of course, England has more diversity than the USA in that area, especially in London.
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For those not familiar with Bradbury's work, Seth Macfarlane's comment is a concise summary of the problem:

"Oprah is beyond doubt a magnificent orator. But the idea of a reality show star running against a talk show host is troublingly dystopian. We don’t want to create a world where dedicated public service careers become undesirable and impractical in the face of raw celebrity."
If we want to search Mars for life before we contaminate it then we need to launch a crash program to do so now, because our window is swiftly expiring. Right now a small group with minimal resources (on the to build and launch stuff into space scale) could likely launch a cubesat with some sort of bacterial payload that would eventually get to Mars. Such a stunt is only going to get easier in the next few decades.

Explore Mars, in depth, ASAP, or someone will render the issue moot by starting their own terraforming project on the cheap. (Or the not so cheap. I don't believe Musk's colonization plans -if they ever come to pass- would be able to prevent contamination, no matter how hard they might try.)
Its already a pain in the ass to put on and set up the Vive...who's going to want to jump into a wet suit just to play video games?
Well, most of Damore's memo is not that shocking indeed although :

- there are parts like this quote that made me go in one second from 'this is reasonable' to 'ok I see why he got fired'

- some parts are just stupid .. even though neuroticism is the right term and is not negative, it is had deep negative connotations for many people (not to mention that the big 5 is not exactly an uncontroversial model). Just don't use these words when arguing about a sensitive topic.

And yeah, there is a fringe of the feminist movement. Like all fringes, it is the loudest part of the movement. I think it is toxic to feminism (although that's just a feeling, hard to quantify the influence of such a fringe). I just try to ignore it, I don't really know how to argue with extremists tbh.
It might be even worse. I actually doubt they'll allow you to get your info deleted, even for a fee, unless forced by law: it would only be worth it for them (as in, producing revenue that is a significant fraction of that they would be getting from selling the data) if enough people bother, but in that case, deleting their information would make the data a lot less attractive for the potential buyers...
Thanks for responding.

I suppose I shouldn't be surprised, but I assumed that this sort of thing would have more traction outside of the U.S, which would then sort of (maybe) jump on the bandwagon.
Box's revenue for this past fiscal year is about 600M, so more like 5x.
This is probably the real answer
Note: Google makes a ton more profit than those companies.
Do you speak in a tone that reflects the more authentic you? Maybe try to write on a personal blog (or even on a notebook) to find your personal style of communication? For me that was the root of my problem to start promoting myself: I wasn't speaking in a style that was authentic to me which did not yield good results :)
No, most of that is in the heads of employees and management. It leaks out through those mailing lists but that is not where it starts.
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If the use of "alleging" and "claiming" is proper for one side of the argument, and I allege and claim that it is, it is proper for the counterargument, especially when both are presented in the same paragraph as a contrast.
making it less painful to start would get my cash
Huge black hole blasts out 'double burp'
It raises awareness about issues. Change takes time. Look at the fight of blacks and women for equality in society. We must not stop pointing out the issues, and always demand change.
You should actually give it a shot. It’s so much more than that, it’s simply so much more than you could do with a Chrome extension.

It has privacy in mind to its core.

As an example, in a recent interview Brendan Eich mentioned that they are working on making private browsing tabs go through tor in order to make them truly private.
How much does the car cost?

Also I don't think it would last very long driving around 20 hours/day every day.

It would be like airbnbing my apartment. Huge pain in the ass all the time with maintenance and dealing with other related issues.
The modern DOM API has forEach on NodeList so you can skip the Array.from.

document.querySelectorAll('.my-component div').forEach(node => node.style.background = 'yellow');

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/NodeList/fo...
It doesn't have to be, per se - and really shouldn't be.

Practice the principle of charity. Assume the best of your debate parter(s). Argue in good faith. Desire truth, not for your claim to the correct one. Find shared values in others, even amidst disagreement. Decouple political beliefs from your identity as a person.

There's no real good reason discussions about politics and religion ought to be divisive.
I'm surprised if PG did say that. If disagreement should lead to downvote, then unpopular opinions would not see the light of day.

Also, if one's sick of discussing a topic, s/he can simply don't read about or discuss it. Why prevent others from discussing it?
What do you think of Mega? [1]. I switched from Dropbox to Mega because of that same pricing issue. I'm not a power user but it certainly works well for syncing files and photos across by Linux and Android devices.

[1] https://mega.nz/
No one has to watch it, but when the primary audience of the channel is children there's something not right about treating a recently deceased corpse like a sideshow exhibit. Suicides can come in clusters and behave almost like an infectious disease (I'm sorry if you've experienced this firsthand). It's perhaps not that surprising to see that people are more likely to commit suicide after a relative or friend does. Even media coverage of a stranger's suicide can cause an uptick in suicide rates. While Logan Paul may not have any obligation to handle the subject in a respectful way, Youtube also doesn't have any obligation to give preferential treatment to his shitty videos.
Congress writes laws so it makes sense many politicians in that body are lawyers for the reasons you state. The court is made up not merely of lawyers but judges, their skill set is interpreting law, and dealing with their inevitable conflicts including legal hierarchies.

I don't agree the president needs to be a lawyer. That person can surround themselves with many good lawyers. The office of the president has the White House counsel, to deal with executive branch legal issues. The attorney general is completely separate, who is the head law enforcement official representing the entire government.

Ostensibly any issue arriving in front of the president is something important and difficult to decide on or someone else would have already done that. Good presidents have such decision making ability without getting stuck in minutia and petty arguments that serve no purpose, rather than acting like it's a TV show. They should have a firm grasp of ethics because often they're going to have to choose one among many good choices, or one among many bad choices. They should have a very good executive reasoning skill, cause and effect, consequences for their actions a decade or more down the road, rather than merely the next election, or the next Tweet. A good president needs to be a decent orator because they get their political capital from the people, and there will need to be many inspiring speeches, and condolence speeches. In this I'd include when to speak, and when not to speak.

Blah - there's more to it than that. But the point is, the president does not need to be a lawyer.
Thanks!

I do a lot of blogging. In fact, I am trying to monetize my blogs, but I am open to other things. I even applied for a job recently, which did not pan out. (I am medically handicapped, so I can't do just anything.)

I have tried many approaches to various subjects and things have improved some, but nothing is leading to enough money. I need my income to go up so I can stop living from crisis to crisis.
I know next to nothing about browser plugin development, but my guess would be the logic around preventing bots and click fraud? Maybe this wasn’t achievable without forking the browser?

I’m curious because the plugin path sounds like a good idea.
1. Add a (python/js/whatever) linter plugin to the VR text editor, which will deliver a shock for violating linting rules;

2. ???

3. Profit!
Not sure what you mean.

England is 91% white, 5% Asian, 4% other. I would expect workforces in England to follow those trends.

London is 60% white, 13% black, 7% Asian, 7% Indian, 13% other. I would expect workforces in London to follow those trends.

That anyone would expect a workforce to reflect world numbers rather than local ones is very odd.
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Your mistake is to treat a year of person X's life as equal to a year of person Y's life.

Her 10 or 15 years is worth more, because we can already know that she is a good person. The young person could haunt us for decades.

Also, why should we extend life? Well, some people are worthy of it. So again, my grandmother wins.

I see no benefit the maximizing the value of random abstract people. Merely maximizing total longevity fails to distinguish desirable people from undesirable people. This is partly why death row exists; in that case we certainly aren't maximizing longevity, and we are declining the obvious choice to extend life.

If maximizing life were really the goal, we could ban birth control or even force people to become pregnant.

Past accomplishments count. My grandma has earned the organ.
The employees at Google that are invested in these discussions seem to care a lot about improving Google, they just have different ideas on what needs improving and how to make it happen (to get a sense of how different consider Holzle's 'the majority of your coworkers' comment). Other organizations might manage this by setting up a one or more day workshop or retreat in order for selected employees to hash out the vision and action items.
No one ever has, doesn't mean no one ever should.
Important downside explained half way through: "if we were to convert every vehicle, or even just a significant number, to wood gas, all the trees in the world would be gone and we would die of hunger because all agricultural land would be sacrificed for energy crops."
But why should XLM have any value? Isn’t it just a means to transfer other things?
Not that it's a source you can point to, but I have also heard the much stronger language — don't push this microcode — trickle out of Intel.
As an example - Microsoft is going to use the public Bitcoin and Ethereum networks as a secure means of storing decentralized identities information.

https://www.slideshare.net/bernardgolden/blockchainanchored-...
Is HN an authority on the proper way to write English? Ironic quotation marks are a fixture of the language.

In context it is very clear that the use is sarcastic, given how tight-lipped Intel has been about admitting any fault so far.
Black people have worse health outcomes controlling for obesity and poverty.

Blaming genetics for such a wide range of negative outcomes is silly if you're looking for a simple explanation. Consider this[1] paper on cervical cancer. There are nine different genes linked to it. Now do that for every relatively worse health outcome. That's the opposite of simple.

Lifestyle is even more nebulous. It encompasses so much that suggesting it's a kind of verbal jujitsu to suggest it's an adequate use of Occam's Razor. There are hundreds of lifestyle factors and you can weight them however you want to get the result you want.

All of those are about as broad and as simple as racism, which you appear to categorically disregard as a plausible explanation.

[1]https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19347305
Correction, ISRO launched 100 satellites in one go
> more people are likely to read an article about her. Therefore news sites want to write things about her.

This is what journalism is supposed to do. Oprah switched channels from talk show host to potential politician. I want good journalists to inform me on her.
Politics means "everything that affects society" so how can a company like google ignore "everything that affects society?"
Oprah v Trump would be straight-up two cable television stars running for “leader of the free world”. (A phrase that already sounds even more ridiculous than it did a few years ago.)

One popularized the racist Birther / “born in Kenya” meme. The other is biggest promoter behind Dr Phil, probably the most prominent modern American quack doctor.

They’d be representing opposite parties, but they have a lot in common. Both have publicly promoted the uniquely damaging lie that vaccines cause autism.

Both are media people first and foremost, hucksters, promoters, peddlers of false hopes and false fears.

Waves of dangerous Mexicans are not, in fact, “pouring across our southern border”. Dr Phil does not actually have a magic solution for weight loss. Trump does not now, and never did have a plan to “Make America Great Again”.

It’s all for show.

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Just curious, if it comes to Trump v Oprah 2020, how many of you currently in America would consider starting or joining a venture outside the US?
> sins of others long dead

You are suggesting that there isn't widespread racism now? What knowledge or basis do you have for all this?

> if free will isn't a thing

So either there is no free will or there are no systemic problems? Are poverty in Somalia and Kirghistan systemic issues, or is it just a failure of the people there that they don't live like people in the Bay Area? In the U.S., is poverty on Native American reservations, and among almost every group that isn't white men, just due to laziness? Society, health care, schools, the economy, racism, etc. - all have no effect?
ripple is a contradiction of Satoshi's white paper. I don't support contradictions to it.
Yes. Every validator in Stellar has a copy of the complete ledger. However, different validators may be authoritative for different types of token. Say bank_A runs a validator and issues digital dollars on Stellar, while bank_B runs a validator and issues digital euros on Stellar. Each validator will store both banks' token holdings and prevent double spends. However bank_A should offer to redeem its digital dollars for real currency only when the redemption transaction commits on its own validator, and similarly for bank_B.

Running a validator protects a token issuer against double redemptions, as might happen in a mining-based blockchain where anonymous miners fork the blockchain and thus create twice as many tokens. That's fine for pure crypto tokens, where you can create Ethereum [classic] or Bitcoin cash out of thin air. But if you were using colored coins or ERC20 tokens to represent claims on bank deposits, these forks would be a problem.
> "Astronauts could essentially just go there with a bucket and a shovel and get all the water they need,"

That's so awesome.
OP said English, not white. From a nationality point of view London is one of the most diverse places around.
Trump derides protections for immigrants from ‘shithole’ countries
Count me sceptical. Traditional companies have been doing fine for more than a thousand years. I'm not sure DAOs have managed to launch a single productive enterprise. Given that companies are basically groups of people doing some enterprise there is something to be said for them being able to meet in a room and chat as opposed to the DAO model of semi anonymous crypto holders voting.
My broadwell (i5-2500k) windows desktop has started blue screening like crazy if I do large continous network transfers (i.e. saturating gigabit ethernet). I didn't have this problem before I rebooted for my most recent update.

I thought it might be memory, but an 8+ hour memory scan (windows internal one, not the normal linux one) didn't tickle any bad bits and its not erorring in any unique component, each time, it seems to be a different one (first I caught the blue screen, it was the network driver, that made sense, so I upgraded it, just in case), but then it started being ntfs and other things. wondering if its just limited to those arches, or others.
Pulling a Kodak for me would be something else. It would be when a company that boomers love can no longer innovate and just starts licensing it’s image to the highest bidder. We’ve seen this many times with action cams and so on.
I am not sure why maintaining a TCP connection to Google or Apple is somewhat more battery friendly then maintaining it to your own server, or providing a TCP-server to provide some service for someone else. (UDP is different here)

I am using CSipSimple to my own server, battery usage is the same. Yes this is anecdotal evidence, but one can always check.
Interesting... So, you know, you mean Google should hire representatively for Texas, Florida, Indiana, etc., cuz you know, their workforce should represent essentially "their customer base". And while they are at it, why not make them hire representatively amongst conservatives and liberals?
To what degree are Facebook and Twitter responsible for this?
Funny this was reason I've been using G+ to share photos with friends and family since they 'stay' in the news feed.
There is no one here saying that there is a runtime that can protect against Spectre. Spectre is just one of extreme example of timing attacks which have been troubling our industry for the better part of a decade.

It's entirely possible to prove that some types of code do not significantly very they're running time based on the character of their input. A classic example of this is hashing algorithm whose execution time is only dependent on the length of the input.

I'm not sure if people recall password oracles but they're still valid attacks today. We can only eliminate these by starting at the bottom and working our way up.

If your response to Spectre is to give up on your computer security, I don't think I want you writing software for me. These are the challenges our industry has to face. Failure is not really an option.
This is really true. How many times have you seen a party vote against an issue, only to turn around and vote for it it's their own party leadership leading the charge?
Here is a link to another video where a guy wears the suit, has it setup, and gets 'touched'.

https://youtu.be/BBePpDsdzLw?t=148
Nope I don't mean a merging lane, I literally mean a side road where you have to give way to a main road but the safest thing to do is to speed up to 60-70kmph and merge into like if it was a highway. It's completely legal and most safe. In Europe the "give way" sign doesn't say anything about your speed, just that you can't cause others to speed down. Btw the same sign is used on freeway merging lanes, having to slow down as you imply would be extremely dangerous; the correct way is to use the merging lane to match speed with the lane you're merging into.

I'm talking about this place:
https://goo.gl/maps/2JwZGyzLPGG2
Thank you for your interest.

Respectfully, I said what I wanted to say. Your interpretation of my posts is not necessarily correct. Yes, I am being circumspect.
Parent said English. Also, tech != everything else. Tech workforces don't necessarily follow the demographics of the places where they are located.
It also signals that someone who got 60% doesn’t necessarily have a “mandate”. People may have just really hated the other front runner.

If 20% cast a ranked vote for a more centrist or extreme 3rd party candidate you know which way you have to lean your policies within your comfort zone to do what you meant to without tanking your approval rating.
Making the Internet of Things possible with a new breed of ‘memristors’
As the article notes, lots of people worked basically round the clock on this as a top priority. That isn't to say they did nothing else, but Paul et al. definitely didn't just happen to do this in their spare time :).

The relevant quote from the article:

> For months, hundreds of engineers across Google and other companies worked continuously to understand these new vulnerabilities and find mitigations for them.
> a large oblong extra-solar object (Oumuamua) passed through

Just the one. What are the odds that another passes through our solar system, and another, and what are the odds that any of those lands on earth? Close to 0.
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The book (or rather books) is even better!
Native Americans used to live in North America, the colonists who became the United states nearly annihilated the native americans, and certainly annihilated their way of life.
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Note: I own $GOOG stock. Just saying these political PR nightmares never happened under Steve Jobs for example.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/intel-warns-its-patches-for-chi...