skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Your comment isn't very helpful. How about your share some of your insights about the "whole picture" instead of posting some giant list of random links about something called "cryptoeconomics". To me, cryptoeconomics currently seems to consist of designing unscalable systems to convert fiat currency into CO2 and useless digital tokens, some of which can manipulate other useless digital tokens, etc, all achieving pretty much nothing.

So how about spreading some light?
> People are completely ignoring the existence of pedestrians and cyclists.

just because the lights for cars are gone doesn't necessitate that the pedestrian crosswalks and buttons be removed. they might even work more effectively, if they can communicate with all the vehicles in the vicinity.
Serverless for your engineers, serverfull for your ops people.
What’s the current queue look like, how long does it take for someone to get invited? How does moderation go on, what if a discourse gets way off track? There’s no perfect community, but I have high hopes here.
Trump Might Finally Get His Shutdown
I just tried the extension on this file[0] and it didn't create the Props :(

[0]: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/s-yadav/react-number-forma...
if 99% of websites you visit work great, and 1 website you visit tells you to fuck off and fix your browser, are you going to do that or are you going to just not use that site?

Remember: incentives. The goal of a web developer is to make sites people use.
Ok, so people make money by running mining hardware that keeps a blockchain network decentralised and trustworthy.

The value of the token increases with the number of people who participate in the network (Metcalfe's ...) and due to speculation on the underlying value of having trust and consensus without a centralised authority.

The problem with centralised authority is that, despite the very best intentions of those involved, the centralisation of power reduces the overall ability of a market to operate freely, and the blockchain is the product of Anarcho-Capitalists who believe markets should be free from any central power.
Thank you. I edited my comment after looking at the Flow website. My incorrect understanding came from seeing the atrocious "block comment Flow annotations" in CoffeeScript 2 (an otherwise adorable language) and thinking that was how you had to specify parameter types with Flow.
Considering that mozilla is one of the founding members of Let's Encrypt, I think and hope that they are pretty competent in PKI.
Isnt the author, well, supposed to keep his private key private? It was quite easy to create a text file with that 1b0be2162cedb2744d016943bb14e71de6af95a63af3790d6b41b1e719dc5c66 key and "geth account import key.txt" into a ethereum wallet to get a seemingly valid account. Please tell me that i am missing something very important here.
Did anybody read about or see the NBC segment where they were exploring the exact D.O.D. bunker in Hawaii where the emergency phone, and I assume alert system computer, were held. Did this actually happen? Was NBC actually in the same room as the computer where the alert originated before the alert actually was sent out?

Let me know if I'm being misinformed by low-life YouTube conspirators.
Position is onsite. Sorry.
I am really conflicted about this.

On one hand, I think that it will provide a valuable resource for a large group of people, which is good! On the other hand, an online tech community designed solely for men would be met with hate and massive backlash.

If equality is our goal, how will self-segregation help meet that goal?
There are plenty of things being called a bubble that aren't, but cryptocurrency is almost certainly one right now. The formal definition of a bubble is something that's priced far above its inherent value. Unless you want to argue that there's currently $500B+ of actual value in cryptocurrencies right now and not just speculation, it's absolutely a bubble.

That said, bubbles don't always have to end in a burst. If real and sizable use cases for cryptocurrency arise, the value could eventually catch up with the prices.
Apple Supplier Workers Describe Noxious Hazards at China Factory
Ask HN: Smart TVs with best track record for firmware updates and patches?
My previous smart TV was abandoned by the manufacturer after 6 months. What brands/models have the best track record for security/bugfix/feature updates?
What people think of push notifications – 1,000-person survey
I've been a member of Leap for many months now, and I have been amazed by the incredible displays of women helping women in this online community. I've become personal friends with a handful of women that I've met through Leap, and wish that Leap existed years ago when I first entered (and felt lost navigating) the tech scene. Thanks for creating this, @cbcowans. It is already a huge success.
No, I'm implying that central banks are less prone to booms and busts than not having central banks. Just because they're an imperfect solution doesn't mean they're not addressing a real problem.
Caveat emptor. Except there’s no SEC or FDIC to cry to when you’ve lost everything.
Where do you live, so I can know never to visit it?
What if i identify as female?
Isn’t the quality of a platform with upvoting and downvoting predicated on the assumption people care? If the upvote/downvote signal doesn’t matter, then there’s no incentive to produce quality content that (hopefully) gets upvoted, and there’s no point to having those voting buttons anyway.
You don't need a shower after bike ride on a level surface less then 10 km. Unless maybe you have a heavy headwind.
Is there going to be support for moderation transparency? Moderation bias seems to be an issue in these kinds of "closed" discussion platforms.
Suicide Among Native Americans Is a Plague from the Great Spirit
Testing Vue.js in Rails with Webpacker and Jest
Japan issues false alarm over missile launch, days after Hawaii alert gaffe
Reasons to get excited about KDE in 2018
This is the future of cities. Doing this would open the door for massive efficiency gains. Within these controlled "back-alleys," you could lay down metallic guides for the cars to glide down (dramatically reduced rolling friction losses), and couple vehicles moving in the same direction (dramatically reduced aerodynamic losses). Eventually you could electrify the whole thing so that cars wouldn't have to carry fuel while in the back-alley network

.

It needs a catchy name though. Back-alley is too harsh. Something that represents our aspirations for the cities of the future. I'm thinking "Metro."
The "Western developed" world uses more energy per capita than most developed countries (the gulf states being an exception), with the US having one of the highest energy consumption per capita ratings.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_energy_co...
It can all go to zero
Uh, do you expect there to be any money in there?
>Once you've got that, maybe some higher level can back-seat drive the short-term system to achieve higher level goals.

http://slatestarcodex.com/2017/09/05/book-review-surfing-unc...
Let me know if any of the articles below serves the purpose better for you.

https://medium.com/@jpa_of_snc/blockchain-the-revolution-wil...

https://medium.com/@jpa_of_snc/ethereum-the-machinery-of-cha...

edit: at least you could read the definition of cryptoeconomics....
How to write autonomous vehicle scenarios
Of course the propaganda was a part of the laws being created, that is clear. But the article is trying to say they are the sole reason. That is not clear and is up for debate.

Sometimes people dont follow accepted standards unless that standard is legislated. If the standard is important enough, it should be legislated. This standard will vary from person to person, but eventually we resolve the issue and either legislate or not.

I think enough people would have agreed that jaywalking should be legislated about to have it actually written into law with or without auto industry marketing.
"Redux for babies" sounds like an insult.

It reminds me of this Nathan For You episode:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BNuuiydKlI0
Embedded Engineers Needed: Please Take the 2018 Embedded Systems Design Survey
It's always relevant to look at what the root cause of the failure state is. In a phrase it seems to be "outrage culture" relevant video: CGP Grey "This video will make you angry" www.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DrE3j_RHkqJc&usg=AOvVaw19LNbXnWxQ6ChEZfLZ5kGn
Definitely. Mature (in terms of process, not age) companies realize this and design planning, update, post-mortem processes accordingly.
They are able to capture rocket launches so it should be OK. A hypersonic plane will be very high altitude so it won't move across the sky that fast. The ISS needs several minutes to cross the sky.
”Interesting is, that this resource is only loaded when it is needed (for example when a link is clicked).”

The resource is retrieved using GET, so I wouldn’t think that is required by the http standard. If so, browsers can mitigate this kind of attack by pre-fetching these resources (even pre-fetching a fraction at random already might be enough)

It is a neat hack, though.
Alternatively, a foreign adversary is taking its hacking to the next level, and this is damage control pretending that it's not. Advanced warships that "accidentally" run into other ships. Paralyzing remote islands with missile warnings. This is like the beginning of a Tom Clancy novel, and our cool, calm, collected President with his military and CIA experience will see us through.
Last time I checked generalizing and marginalizing a group of people was pretty bad and somewhat dumb, no?

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Well, 10km^2 is pretty tiny in a country the size of China, and I'm not sure how high up the pollution goes (higher than buildings but lower than planes).

So it's still a lot of pollution, just much less actual mass than I would have guessed.
This - all things that can by done by SomethingSpecificCoin can be equally well done on smart contract platform ala Ethereum.

There is no reason (except for rewarding founders and early investors) someone who want to provide taxi rides own specialized mining equipment for maintaining blockchain of a proprietary coin.

I rode a taxi few months ago, and I don't remember having to change my currency for a TaxiCoin which would be the only token the taxi driver accepts. In fact, it is illegal for him not to accept the national currency.
I view the current cryptocurrency wave as proof of concept experiments of some very exciting technology. Building blocks that allow new design oportunities for things that were not viable or easily previously.

Hopefully we do leave the laughable ICO era behind, and even if traditional relational databases get cryptographic features, but I feel the sum of capabilities the new technology can offer is larger than that.

I'm unsure if incentives (the coins) must be a part of every application of this technology. I was open to thinking that it might not, but recently saw this presentation from a Andreessen Horowitz's partner [1] where he strongly asserts that yes, it must, and I'm thinking he might have a point.

[1] https://a16z.com/2017/12/08/summit-crypto-alex-rampell/
Or just pay your employees. Probably way cheaper than having her pissed off.

She is probably a very valuable witness. If some of the stuff she is saying is true. He is going to jail. Probably going to be broke too.
CSS padding won't save that menu.

I still can't believe how terrible it is.

It has the same feel as a dropdown on a blog.

Nothing of the level of severity is presented. I'd expect such a serious button to be part of a well designed dashboard.

Plus I'd expect it to be an actual button, with colours.

The section of test systems should be separated with distance from live systems.
Thank you for touching on my deepest fears.
That's a really good question actually and shows the problem with sites like this (especially when connected with Facebook)
There's also https://transform.now.sh/, which can handle a bunch of related transformations as well.
Not when it increased by 100% over the last 3 months...
> then leaves the mystery for the reader to go and find out more.

When the reader is interested by the mystery and really goes to find more on his own, isn't that wonderful?
I think this whole thing could be seen as a blessing in disguise, but I don't hear anyone talking about it. We seem totally unprepared for this kind of event. The message said take shelter, so why were people running around screaming and crying in the streets?

People were throwing their kids into storm drains. Clever, but what happens to them after that?

Where do we go? How long do we have to stay there? Who is going to pass out the iodine pills? Where's the clean water? What will we eat? Who will come get us when it's all over?

It seems like we gave a damn about this many years ago during the Cold War. There were drills in schools, public service messages, people bought bomb shelters, there was the Civil Defense. Once in awhile I see one of those public bomb shelter placards on a building and wonder if there really still is one or if it is just some old artifact someone forgot to take down.

We laugh at all this stuff like ironic hipsters and now we see the results.
Wouldn't you then count as a woman?

EDIT: If you're not "out" as trans I don't see why you'd use this service that would ask you for your real name and identity. If you are "out" as trans then you're just another woman, I would think, and would do just fine.
Well that wallet address is empty now anyway! Looks like someone got ~.01 ETH.

https://etherscan.io/address/0x6c2ecd6388c550e8d99ada34a1cd5...
Nothing that a little `var unsafe = original as any;` couldn't solve!
did you read it, or are you just trolling?

> If you identify as a woman and are interested in joining Leap, please sign up for our beta here [https://leap.ycombinator.com/]
Does it need to be practical? It's just a proof of concept, as is displayed in the very first sentence in the README file.

This seems to me more like "wow, something cool has been done in an unusual way" material, rather than "this is something you should consider using".
Not "duckling"?
Remind me who's building the road infrastructure again?

Your freedom comes at a high price, direct and indirect. Countries with functioning public transportation are providing a lot of this freedom, to a broader population and at a fraction of the cost compared to personal cars.
Also, colors.

Make all tests blue, all real alerts red. A tiny and simple change, but makes such a difference.

EDIT: I decided to create a mockup with only tiny changes:

1. the current version https://s3.kuschku.de/public/01_current.PNG

2. Color-coding added https://s3.kuschku.de/public/02_colors.PNG - already a significant change, with only one line of CSS

3. Semi-Sorted into groups, and always moved drills to the top of the group (so a person searching top-to-bottom finds the drill first): https://s3.kuschku.de/public/03_sorted.PNG

The result is done with 3 lines of CSS, and an additional class on each link. Tiny change, costs you a single-digit dollar amount to implement, and can be so much more effective.
There is a communication mode that can't be used to make false statements, really?
Did Ken, Ritchie and Brian choose wrong with NUL-terminated text strings? (2011)
Sure, but they don't have to go faster than 30km/h in the city.
> ("anonymously" assuming I'm blocking their cookies, which I would if I were that paranoid)

Note that cookies are mostly a convenience vis-a-vis tracking. For user tracking, there's nothing really stopping the server from vending you a version of their site with custom CSS that loads images with a fingerprint in the URL, which would still work with cookies disabled. That'll get you coherent signal on a session (gluing different sessions together would be a bit more challenging, of course, but I wouldn't be surprised if it were possible).
WIP's community helped me become more efficient
The handwringing in this article over how a few publishers now control almost all distribution is also odd to me. Certainly I'm not thrilled by that situation, but why the pretense that it's a novel situation?

People like Hearst and Murdoch have had massively outsize control over news distribution in the past. And before that, when the supposedly-outdated First Amendment was being written, control of publication largely accrued to whoever could get distribution into a given spot.

These are not unprecedented challenges, and seeing an article like this casually discard their historical context makes me worry that it is in fact criticizing free speech for all the usual reasons.
If it's all moved to the backend, then we win, because then we can easily control what data is being collected.
If you think the tokens on a blockchain serve no useful purpose then "CLEARLY YOU DON'T UNDERSTAND" the blockchain.

Try something different; show me that you know how a blockchain works and you understand the purpose of the tokens.
So your claim is "USD is backed by X", it's just that I can't see the X, so tell me, what is USD backed by, without mounting an assault on the term "backed by". Backing means, some concrete promise or claim. USD has no concrete claim or promise behind it.
It can be equally well done with a Postgres database.
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I think it is time to split the web into:

* user and machine readable content (text with hyperlinks, pictures, audio, video, rest)

* universal app store (javascript, css, intents, permissions...)

Every user could consume or style content as he wishes. If my IDE has dark theme, I want all web pages to have dark theme. Why do I need javascript to read news or browse pictures.

If user wants to installs app from app store he should accept software license and give permissions to that application.
Mueller subpoenas Bannon
Supposed she did sign a NDA. How is it going to help him. He can sue, but she isn't rich. Plus if stuff he is doing is illegal I am guessing that trumps a NDA.
Start Your Own ISP
"Scolding the ape" is not a viable UI option. The time for "carrot and stick" has passed. Today's solutions need to leverage volition and obviation, to prevent the opportunity for human error to occur.
I would add appear.in .
I’d like to see the modified UH60 used in the bin Laden raid. The only hint of it’s existence is the remains of the tail section.
Well, it would have been to hillarious if there was, but it was transferred about an hour ago. :D
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There was
https://etherscan.io/address/0x6c2ecd6388c550e8d99ada34a1cd5...
My boss is both understanding and willing to listen, after working with him for 6mths I really can't blame the system on him.

The out sourced developers however...very much yes I can.

Half the things do the wrong thing wrong, the other half is the wrong thing sorta working.

There was clearly no attempt to understand what the user wanted or any attempt to ask the simple questions like "Why do you want X, is X related to Y, would it be handy to pull in related Y for display X" beyond the terrible code quality (and database architecture, I wish I was kidding when I say it took 49 to 69s to search for a quote (I timed it on repeated runs), it now takes ~400-600ms and I still think that's too slow (and I search more things) there is just a complete lack of any thought/effort or consistency.

Even the tables aren't consistent across the system - sometimes click a row opens the related entity (with no indication that's what it does), sometimes there is a "view" button in the row on the right, sometimes on the left.

It's just pile after pile of UX disasters/architecture code disasters, no wonder the original lead dev came close to a nervous breakdown, I just don't think he was capable of dealing with a system of this complexity.
That probably won't endear me to the general commentariat, but...

Slower roads (max 20MPH/30KMPH) should be bicycle and pedestrian-first.

Spot on! 100 points!
They are doing ok, but remember it's a country of a billion people and the second biggest economy in the world. So they are not nearly as innovative as they could be.
They don't count as people who have to deal with squirrels. Bears are also cuddly.
I love Lojban from the point of view of "eliminate ambiguity as a language feature", but the choice of turning classic punctuation characters into full fledged "letters" is.... odd. It also makes reading somewhat more difficult from anyone who uses a Latin character set and english-alike sentence structures (IMO, a single 100 level linguistics course does not make me an expert)
In some ways I think the poor design decisions start with making a system of this nature, with this purpose, digital in the first place. With the current state of weapons systems, multi-domain tactics, and the technical capabilities of near-peer rivals, or the types of state actors capable of launching a ballistic missile, a massive cyber/electronic attack will almost certainly precede the kinetic weapons wave. Really, I would want a ballistic missile warning system to be as simple, physical, and reliable as, literally, a big button that sets off the warning broadcast over loudspeakers. It is impossible to prepare for every contingency that may arise from an unexpected all-out attack, but the obvious ones with clear solutions should be mitigated.
> The original console has to decode the data and get it to the CPU somehow, and if you can run your own code on the CPU, you can always dump, even if it is just by displaying a series of 2-d bar codes on a TV screen and taking photos of them.

That would be a novel hack, and I've considered something similar with an old IBM computer with an almost-dead floppy (probably a stretched drive belt?) The floppy will read something like the first 50-100KB from a disk, and fails on the rest. That'd easily be enough for a little program that reads the hard drive sector by sector, displaying them on screen as a colored grid, or something. Then it'd be an exercise in video processing to extract the data.
“We couldn’t have made the engine itself—it would have melted down into slag if we had tried to produce it five years ago,” O’Banion said. “But now we can _digitally print that engine_ with an incredibly sophisticated cooling system integral into the material of the engine itself and have that engine survive for multiple firings for routine operation.”

They made a computer model that wouldn't immediately destroy itself. Let's calm down a bit.
Will look into it. Large files shouldn't be a problem.
Short answer: no one knows. He, or someone using that identity, has been hanging around technology media since the dim mists of time. Sometimes insightful, but no good information on whether that is pure chance or not exists.

Long answer: https://www.cringely.com/bout-bob/
I would assume that the Lambda team is more likely to fill in gaps in support for things that already have official SDKs before starting to officially support something that the rest of AWS isn't yet working on.
Direct sign-up link:

https://leap.ycombinator.com
seems wonderful! just requested a membership :)

I've been part of some online tech communities for women, but I found they were too US-centric and it was difficult for me to obtain value from it, hoping Leap will be different
Putting Customers First
New Android malware with never-before-seen spying capabilities
Then we would love to have you join!
I'll go straight to the difficult questions:

1. I thought gender-based discrimination was illegal. How is Leap not illegal?

2. One of the main objections of "gentleman's clubs" was that their (male) members had access to important networking contacts, putting women in unequal foot in an unfair way when it came to businesses. Wouldn't Leap be unfair in the same way?