skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Why on the earth they don't just do a telegram based digital money without any block chain but just an N nodes database Geo distributed? So that you can pay real money to have telecoins (or whatever) and that's all. Oh wait... This prevents earning 1 billion of dollars to give back monopoly money.
Unblocking the supply chain with blockchain?
China has a problem with its popular AI-powered news app Toutiao
I'd be happy to give the Android app a chance, as long as it's available to install from somewhere other than Google Play Store, which I don't use.
First Python 3, now Go, fantastic. Plus that X-Ray support looks great.

The only thing that surprised me is that the Body struct element is a String, not an io.Reader. Can we not stream large bodies through API Gateway into a Lambda? Does it always read the whole thing before passing it onto my Lambda? Or what's the reason behind the String? I haven't tried this yet, so I'm curious.
Speaking of virtual keyboards I always liked (and still use) the one from Blackberry and I never had such problems (you should be able to install Blackberry keyboard on any Android phone). I switched to Google Pixel from iPhone once I found out I can use Blackberry keyboard there.
> It seems like the web is being optimized for casual users, and using the internet is no longer as skill you can improve to create a path towards a more meaningful web experience.

No. _Google_ is being optimized for casual users, and using _Google_ is no longer a skill you can improve to create a path towards a more meaningful web experience.
Maybe, but your 50% left cover your expenses for food, clothing, shelter, medicine, etc. I doubt that the 93% the average Indian laborer or farmer had covered his basic necessities. And as another posted said, this was just the salt tax.
The worst injury I've done to myself at training was when I wasn't patient and did deadlifts not long after a sprain. It's impossible to pinpoint the exact moment you're okay to train again, and it will feel okay before it is okay.
A practical introduction to blockchain in the supply chain
Dangote has been in business long enough to know exactly where his taxes go.
My hope is that big businesses put a ton of money into creating new products, and when the space is understood, someone makes an open source version. Then the consumers of those products start to resent the people making money off of them and the private thing dies off. There are not really any models of this though, sadly.
> In fact, it was this very story that makes me wonder to this day if Obama's move to normalize relations with Cuba in 2014-15 was the inciting incident behind Russia's decision to start the Digital Cold War in the first place.

I think NATO's assassination of Gaddafi was a disaster re: relationship with Russia

2011: "Putin blamed himself for letting Gaddafi go, for not playing a strong role behind the scenes" [0]

2012: US threatens military action in Syria: "red line"

2013: Russia gives refuge to Edward Snowden

2013: John Kerry gives Syria a week to destroy their chemical weapons. "(Syria) isn't about to do it and it can't be done". Lavrov immediately negotiates a non-military solution. [1]

2014: Direct Russian intervention following the overthrow of the Ukrainian government (cf Yugoslavia)

2015: Full-scale Russian military props up the Syrian government side in the Syrian civil war (cf Libya)

2016: Russia is accused of manipulating the US election

[0] http://www.nola.com/opinions/index.ssf/2017/04/obamas_red_li...
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Nations_Security_Counci...
Indeed. None of the above are typically used (as in most of the time) on desktop systems where swap is the most problematic.
As for compession, the only engine I know of that wants more than 128 MB of RAM is lrzip and other rzip derivatives.

Common offenders that bog down the system in swap for me as a developer are the web browser, JVM (Android) and electron based apps (messengers, two).

I would also like a source that substantiate the claim that using swap in map-reduce workloads actually helps.
Or perhaps in database workloads. Or on any machine with relatively fixed workload.
I have no real data to back this up, but when these news reports came out I looked up the symptoms and lead poisioning also seemed very plausible.
Lol. Anyone on an hourly rate should use this line to their fee-payer.

Rough heuristic is that in most projects, delay + downside-uncertainty = go-nowhere failure/death. You need to chip away at one or the other with your loop of actions to get anything done. Otherwise it is just luck.
Not to mention that support gets really demanding once you hit version 13.0. Also, for Daughter 16.0+ I hear a good firewall is essential.
Yes, they have newsroom developers and newsroom web designers. That’s how they managed to create well integrated pieces like the 2013 Oscar trailers article [1] or the many d3js interactive dataviz.
[1] http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2013/02/19/movies/awardss...
The original Xbox was x86 and the XB360 is 3-Core PowerPC - but the Xbone is x64. I’m curious how they were able to emulate PowerPC with acceptable levels of performance (my guess is high-level emulation by reimplementing the XB360’s APIs) - I’m also curious if the Xbone’s original Xbox emulation is just CPU virtualisation - or actual emulation.
Why are there so few female engineers?
> I question anyone who would chose any other plane over the 787 if they had a choice

Often that choice is also linked with picking a different airline company. For routes I care about I would need to fly United, American or BA and I rank all of those very low on my picks of airlines. I think for my personal comfort the airline matters much more than the difference between a 787, 330, 350 or 380 make.
> it was ignored how pro-US Russia in 90s was, largely for intertia from Cold War times

Russia wasn't “pro-US” in the 1990s; after the fall of the USSR, Russia, after a brief moment of inward-focussed stabilization, returned to active geopolitical competition based (in Europe, at least) largely on fanning the flames of pan-Slavism.

At best, under Yeltsin, Russia could be “pro integration into the neoliberal regime of international trade”, but that's a far cry from being pro-US.
The odds are better for people rejecting the ranting against a Flat Earth than accepting the concept on it's own. So flat-earthers must be Bayesian.
Blockchain team for ICO
I am assembling a team to help support the effort of my upcoming ICO project.
I am looking for people with backend and frontend skills that want to join on a volunteer basis and later have equity in the ICO.

I am looking for a head of the project in terms of daily operations:

You must have had experience in tech prior to joining or have exceptional good programming skills in either front end or backend. Prefered 3+ years. Please show projects on Github.
Be enthuastic about the valuecreation we as a team can make And have solid technical faith in the power of the blockchain to run and comodetize applications that we wish to develop.
Be a peoples person that not only understands who we should hire for the various coding languges, but also why you think interpersonal they are great and devoted candidates.
If you do not fit this discription but have valid coding skills in blockchain related languges you are welcome to shoot me an email.
Best of regards and best of luck!

Ben

Benandersen@protonmail.com
Reminds me of the thing my mother sometimes said, when complaining that terms in democracies are too short, leading to each government not being able to finish anything before having it undone by the next one. She quoted some historical figure from old times (Ancient Rome, I think?) - that a politician will always want to line the pockets of his and his friends (in the past it involved oppressing local population with taxes), but the amount of wealth lost to it is limited, and after that the politician will not care for money that much - so it's better to keep the politician for longer than to replace him, because the new one will start the pocket-lining process anew.

I can't find the exact quote now, unfortunately.
Adding to @megamindbrian2 's answer, seeing so little care in the public sector.

Here, in France, there's basically no security, all governments' websites and university services, including identity storage, registration, medical traces etc. is completely unsecured, e.g. no HTTPS, no real password etc..

The worst may be when you actually try to speak up and denounce, or at least signal, such flaws, which only receive two types of response:

- Ignorance: they just ignore said signals (e.g. attacks that went down, getting silenced)

- Disdain: either think we are crazy or they think we're some kind of suspicious terrorist warning them of an imminent attack.

As a developer that's concerned by security, seeing such behaviour really pains me and makes me fear for my future
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Attack people with stupid weapon then make spooky noises to confuse - I like the theory.
Drawing Vegeta's NEW FORM BEYOND Super Saiyan Blue
Maybe your data isn't worth what you think it is these days. Maybe they actively index what is recently used. It's cost benefit for them.
Bitcoin and Cryptocurrencies Under Attack from Hackers – Stay Safe
Pre Obamacare, the son of a friend of mine broke his collarbone skateboarding. His parents decided he should just tough it out, because they couldn't afford to take him to the ER.

We tried to intervene by offering them money, but they refused to take it. We got their church to intervene, after 3 days.

Very fortunately, xrays showed it was a minor fracture, no surgery needed. But that poor kid.
> Bitcoin is not remotely usable as a currency now. The fees are incredible, the confirmation times ridiculous.

A currency does not have to be its own payment system. Not exclusively, anyway.

Hell, before bitcoin came out, the two concepts were entirely different things. It seems that everyone is quick to forget about this when dissing bitcoin.
Good questions. It's clear from this comment thread that I need to explain Oil better on the blog (which I mentioned in the conclusion), but I'll respond here briefly.

I somewhat agree with your spectrum of strictness, but the other dimension is "how suited is this language for shell-like problems?".

C++ is strict, but obviously not good for writing "shell scripts" in.

Oil will be somewhere around Python in terms of strictness, but at least as suitable as bash for shell-like problems (of course). The goal is for it to be more suitable, but I haven't gotten there yet.

As far as what it offers, that is scattered over the blog, but this tag might give an idea:

http://www.oilshell.org/blog/tags.html?tag=oil-language#oil-...

As a concrete example, Oil will be based more around arrays of strings than flat strings. The "Thirteen Awkward Ways..." post hints at that. FWIW, the Ion shell, part of Redox OS, was influenced by this way of thinking.

Also, I need to write a blog post entitled "Python Is Not an Acceptable Shell". There was a nice blog post that translated shell to Python that inadvertently proved this point.

I'll keep your questions in mind when writing future posts explaining the project.
Europe is tired and sick.

You can’t blame the tick or the flea for sucking on a sick animals blood.
Doesn't work consistently for me.
As MySQL uses a custom binary protocol, it should be fine. On the other hand, anything using a line-based protocol is in danger.

https://bouk.co/blog/hacking-developers/

So, if you have, say, telnet bound to localhost without a password, you are not safe (modern browser would drop the response as it's not valid HTTP, but with telnet you don't exactly care anyway).
> Bitcoin's 7x max

1 block per 10 minutes with 4000tx per block results in 7tx/s ... well, why not use blocks of 100x size for starters, that would immediately produce 700tx/s. Still not VISA, yet that would be at least something. The main reason it is not going to happen is probably that that the major Bitcoin stakeholders are completely satisfied with the current situation where they are collecting higher and higher fees (reaching 10BTC+ per block!).

The main promise of Bitcoin - the scarcity of coins - has even been much more exceeded by the scarcity of transaction slots.
> No system is foolproof, and even the best one in the world is going to have upwards of 2-3% fraud

I agree, and that’s why I would never say it was virtually impossible to cheat one.
The auto mechanic can't really ask for permission to use a fire extinguisher if the car catches fire either.

No one minds if there are common sense exceptions.
Baby's First X64 ASM Program
Also check out https://helix.startuplab.io
In my experience, it depends a lot on how much competition there is from content farms. If your niche isn't targeted by those, it's easy to find the good blogs. Otherwise, it's very difficult.

I suppose that this is a use case where ML could help a lot to recognize "content farmed + SEO optimized" content. Hopefully Google could improve the situation in the future - supposing they are trying.
Does anyone really think Bill Gates is a superior moral person with no ulterior motive at all? And if you think so, can you provide proof, or just assumption?

History almost universally shows that the rich and powerful manipulate both the people and their image for their own good, not for the well being of the peasants.
FWIW I wrote a post that touched on that debate last year:

http://www.oilshell.org/blog/2017/01/13.html

(I didn't come down on either side of the debate -- it's more of an exploration.)

Comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13477842
The Bitcoin Unlimited team tested on a tiny network ; ~6 miners with a highly simplified set of transactions that made some of the statistics collected so meaningless that they explicitly left them out of the talk. Under these conditions, they found that 1GB was the point where the network broke under its own weight [0]. If you were to run the full sized bitcoin network, you would likely see problems much sooner than 1GB. As far as I recall, they did not even address the centralization argument (eg. the network may "work", but give a disproportionate advantage to large miners).

[0] This actually happened a couple of times earlier, but those were fixable with straightforward software optimizations.
It's worth noting that in general there's no "the banking system" (unless we're talking about particular single systems e.g. Fedwire), there's a mismash of many different, highly diverse systems used by different organizations having quite opposite properties - for example, in the context of the comment above, I happened to participate in a cards system migration some 15 (?) years ago where the old system did have the eventual consistency issue described above (mostly mitigated by limits, there were just a couple times where double-spending happened), and the new system ensured strong consistency. So it can be one way, and can be the other.
O'Reilly sells their books DRM free on Google Play Store [1] in both PDF and ePUB formats.

But the quality of the produced ePUB and PDF books may vary. You might be able to get a idea by checking the content in the provided "Free Sample".

[1] https://play.google.com/store/books
20 critical startup truths no one will tell you
So happy to hear that I am not the only one suffering of #6 \o/. This has been really bumming me over the last months.
Top Digital Customer Experience (CX) Trends for 2018
What do you think to be some best reader and other Android apps optimised for bw eInk displays?

By the way, OnyxBooxx runs a rather ancient Android version - 4.0.4.
The plane feels more spacious (taller ceiling in the walkway), the seats are bigger and spaced further, at least on Emirates. Added doors on some airports makes the embarkation and disembarkation feel about the same as on any other plane. I prefer aisle so I haven't noticed anything wrong with the curve of the walls.
I have flown the A380 in economy multiple times. It is a premium experience. The plane is so big that you don't feel turbulences as much. And it's relatively new, so it's very silent. On the upper deck, because of cabin curvature, window seats have a large armrest opening and doubling as a generous chest where you can put all your stuff and keep your legs free of clutter.
> I also happen to be reading The Phoenix Project. Which is...strangely therapeutic ;)

Huh, I started reading that earlier today. Between the book and replaying levels in Infinifactory, the words "bottleneck" and "backpressure" loom large in my mind.
FWIW this post is related:

Pipelines Support Vectorized, Point-Free, and Imperative Style

http://www.oilshell.org/blog/2017/01/15.html

I started writing a series on "what shell can do that other languages can't", but I put it on hold until the shell is in better shape. I hope to resume that series in the next few months.
Internet of Things: How Much Does It Cost to Build IoT Solutions?
They made an offer that was below what I’d given as the bottom of my range (it was about 20% lower than my current salary!) and tried to argue that the tiny equity portion outweighed that gap. When I said I couldn’t take that, they said they could add $5k to the salary by reducing the equity offer by 25%. Wtf.
A more correct title would be "Bill and Melinda Gates Are Paying Off Nigeria's Polio Related $76M Debt to Japan." So Bill Gates wants to eradicate polio and has been funding countries. In this Japan loaned it to Nigeria and Bill Gates paid it off.

Paying debts for third world countries (is this still politically correct?) is not efficient, might as well give it directly to their leaders--you save on fees. A corrupt to the core, third world country would issue even more debt to buy votes with projects (after taking a 20% "fee" for the leaders,) hire more of their supporters in state jobs etc etc.
Haha you're more than welcome to https://paiboi.herokuapp.com/
5 REVENUE GROWTH STRATEGIES YOU SHOULD ALREADY BE FOLLOWING
RIO: A standard library for Haskell
Good XML Viewer – Nice to have in rainy days
Qantas announced last year that they're interested in flying direct to London and some other European cities from the eastern states of Australia. They're still waiting for a plane that can economically I think. A variant of the 777X might be an option.

https://www.sbs.com.au/news/qantas-eyes-sydney-to-london-dir...
Agree. At some point you have to give away your Legos
I really do not think this statement is true. AFAIK the limits are in place to limit fraud (if someone has skimmed or stolen your card) and to prevent theft (someone mugging you as you withdraw a huge amount of cash).

If what you are saying is true it would be possible to go overdrawn at an ATM. This (again AFAIK) doesn’t happen as there is a call to check your balance.
$ mangle find -delete
ACTIONS
-delete
Delete files; true if removal succeeded. If the removal failed, an error message is issued. If -delete fails, find's exit status will be nonzero (when it eventually exits). Use of -delete automatically turns on the
-depth option.

Warnings: Don't forget that the find command line is evaluated as an expression, so putting -delete first will make find try to delete everything below the starting points you specified. When testing a find command line
that you later intend to use with -delete, you should explicitly specify -depth in order to avoid later surprises. Because -delete implies -depth, you cannot usefully use -prune and -delete together.
> I think if Android would not be using Java it would have died years ago.

I think you're seriously underestimating the amount of enterprise software running on Java for decades now. Not only it's not going away, but the language itself and its ecosystem are evolving. Slowly, but in the domain of programming languages that are actually being widely used slow progress is a good thing.
Probably what the parent post means by "backwards compatible changes" is that the app doesn't need any changes to use the new behavior of the library, but it needs to be rebuilt/repackaged/redeployed to get that new behavior.

An often seen scenario is that small changes (a one-line bug fix, a tweak in behavior) in application functionality happen to be in the shared library code, so to get that fix to production, you need to redeploy all apps after the library change. Microservices allow you to redeploy just that single shared service.
Yandex is pretty good but I haven't found a use case for DDG yet. Whenever I set it for "privacy" reasons (not that I really believe them), I have to go back to Google to get reasonable results. I can confirm the memory loss, though, ego-surfing confirms it for me. Much of my older stuff is gone and all the top links for my name are related to my current work. (So in my case, it's kind of beneficial.)
I think it mostly depends on whether it's always executed from source, or whether it's compiled and stored in fast access storage. If the latter, binary size becomes the main limiting factor (for pretty much all of those applications). Java is generally kinda slow to start up, but that may be due to all the frameworks. Python / JS IIRC are interpreted as scripts, not compiled.

Mind you the go compiler is also pretty damn fast, almost script language speed.
>If everyone decides gold has no value tomorrow, it has no value. There’s nothing intrinsic about it.

And then I will buy the entire supply of gold and abuse my market power to force manufacturers to pay exorbitant prices and become a billionaire.

Why? Because even if all the speculators have left people still want jewelry and corrosion resistant metals.
That might work for the intended use-case, but it does not use the blockchain, therefore it can't benefit from hype and deflationary expectations, so the "invitation only early investors" can't have exponential profits - the real motivation for the whole scheme.
I tried loading this on mobile safari and it looks ridiculous. The last cell of the table is very narrow and the text piles up vertically. For a company like Google the mess they make of how their pages display on mobiles is astonishing.
I'm not sure I've got a fully formed concept here, but I'm throwing it out in case someone finds it interesting.

Re: long-tail movements and switching contexts between work and home, I wonder if a better example isn't much better user or persona management. Every person is interested in more than just one thing, and can conceivably be looking for the same word in two contexts. Down below, a multi-lingual speaker has given up on predictive keyboards.

What if we could enable users to switch personas/contexts as intuitively and easily as people code-switch in real conversations? Setting up the profiles would be messy and cumbersome at first which probably kills the idea dead in my hands. I'm not knowledgeable enough about psychology or machine learning to figure out if that could be solved automatically.
...has interests in commodities in Nigeria and other African countries, including Benin, Ethiopia, Senegal, Cameroon, Ghana, South Africa, Togo, Tanzania, and Zambia.

In some countries, suitcases or wire transfers to secret accounts beat lawyers when it comes to saving in taxes. But then, now you have your fortune, now you don't.
Wholeheartedly agree that I prefer the A380, particularly for its comfort, low noise and high stability. BUT, I'd always prefer to fly as directly as possible so I'd pick a direct-to-destination flight any day. And as far as multi-leg-journeys go, for the Asia-Europe route nothing is more infuriating than adding four hours in the air just to detour through Dubai. Granted, it's the smoothest transit experience I've had, but I'd rather save time and run through Schiphol if that is an option.
> it very much does happen in all well-developed economies.

This type of statement is a logical fallacy (I'd like to know if it's formalized, and if so, what's the name), and I think it's one of the most common: "There is X in any country".

Of course there is X in any country, but can be a radically different quantity and quality of X between two countries.