skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Now that I have Global Entry which also gives you TSA Pre security is a snap. I don't get to the airport 2 hours before, usually 15 to 20 minutes before we board if I am flying at a non-peak time. No taking off the shoes and no taking laptops out. Simple metal detector and that is it.
Am I the only one getting a "Certificate Error" from the link ? The link seems to be broken .
Only a single data point, but Scratch has definitely sparked an interest in programming in my 12 year-old daughter.

Though still early days, she has taken her first steps into learning Python. The concepts of loops, variables, counters,
and even objects has definitely carried over from Scratch.

She still spends most of her time in Scratch though, sometimes creating her own games or drawing programs, sometimes playing others' creations, sometimes looking behind the curtain to see how her favorite games work and doing light remixing.

Will this turn her into a career programmer? Probably not, but she has told me that she now really appreciates what makes programs work, and every time she sees a new app she can't help but think about how it might be structured.

Overall, I think that's a pretty good argument for early exposure to visual editors.
Well, I guess that explains why people like GOG and hate Origin.
I (very) rarely watch technical videos because:

> I find it a bit difficult to actually stop and watch a full technical video while trying things out.
As I recall, a few years back they tried to push their way into train stations but Amtrak put their foot down and set get out. That's a good call. Trains are on rails and the amount of damage you can really accomplish with one is quite limited. Plus, is it even feasible to reach the engineer's position on the front of a train from inside the passenger cars?
This is so beyond the pale as to be far beyond the realm of logical discussion.

If I have pooled my 'right of personhoop' contributions into a corporate asset base and thus absolved myself of liability laws regarding the disposition of this asset base -- what basis do I have to have to claim 'my' personhood rights over how this asset base is distributed to political campaigns?

If what you say is _actually_ true then it should be illegal for corporations to disperse campaign funds in anything other than an amount that _exactly_ reflects the relative ownership amount of every single stockholder in that corporation -- otherwise an individual shareholder's claim on the percentage of personhood ownership of the corporation has been rescinded.
Nintendo solved the problem of the Yakuza needing playing cards for their gambling halls.
You seem to be confusing encoding (base64 for example), and encryption (AES for example).

I don't.

Where a side channel attack studying the decryption speed/power use can reveal information, the encoding of said encrypted data can not as far as I ever heard about. (It will still be encrypted after base64 decoding has taken place).

Encoding/decoding a value to/from base64 depends on the value, and many implementations use a lookup table or branches. While the table is small, so it fits in CPU cache thus making timing differences harder to detect, it's important for code dealing with secret values to avoid any timing differences by using simple branchless instructions that we know are constant-time on CPUs.
Similar articles were written 5 years ago when it crashed from +$1000...
Can you explain the voltage squared thing? To me, power = voltage * current.
There are many reasons that network speed can vary from request to request on a mobile device, right? Detecting some differences, applying statistical tests and then definitively calling it a "net neutrality violation" does not seem to me to be particularly reliable.

So if Apple's point of view is something like "making this available to unsophisticated users will create a lot of drama, much of it probably unjustified," then I have to admit I'm sympathetic.

Net neutrality is a emotionally charged issue right now, and I'd suggest that proponents are best served by being very confident that the abuses they report are actually abuses.

On top of that, wireless networks were are least partially exempted from the Title II rule anyway, so even if it were still in force, iPhone carriers would still not be subject to all its rules.
By the same argument you should never use node.js or ruby or python or whatnot to write your app and should always use something like C++ or Rust.
> Unbelievable, some of the stories I could tell...

.... go on...
It’s a well paved road. Think suburban mainstreet. Thanks for your help!
Garlic ice cream :)

The Stinking Rose in SF.
Even if they were licensed, they could literally drive anywhere to hide.
My wired Elecom M-DT2URBK is the best mouse I've ever used. It's great if you have small hands.
Actually campaign contributions weren’t the issue. Citizens United decided that’s Congress could not take away the right of flesh and blood people to air a political advertisement just because they were organized as a corporation.
The first game theory book I read was Compleat Strategyst [1]. Less interesting flipping through it now, but at least at the time it was a good sales pitch, leading me to read a bunch more on the topic.

Seeing analytic techniques applied across competitive games was a revelatory moment for high-school-me, in the mind-candy sense. In an odd way, learning to try to wrap math around human activities shaped how I approached programming for a long time. Not that I was trying to apply game theory to programming, rather the general approach of thinking about the world as a sort of meta-word-problem. Wish I had started trying to get rid of that habit earlier.

[1] https://www.rand.org/pubs/commercial_books/CB113-1.html
If that is why out failed, then wouldn't wasm fail for the same reason?

It looks like LiveConnect was a much bigger thing that MS pushed.

I'm not really understanding how this means anything. Why not just compile js et al to java bytecode? Or is wasm just another NIH protect in a long list of them in the JavaScript world? That is what it is looking like.

Sure hotspot itself couldn't be used straight up, but the changes are certainly much less than creating a whole new vm.
Yes, it puts drug companies into unfairly advantaged position (as it gives them extra value) which centralizes the system, therefore decreases its security.

This is detailed in the original Hashcash paper from Adam Back
You can retire for life with under half a million in lots of places if you're willing to live (very) frugally (and single/have no dependents).
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Another thing about trains is, they only go on tracks, so you can't hijack them and fly them into famous buildings.
>> The pages you're referencing are all crackpottery.

So... I can trust Ramanujan and Abel, that published results on these things, and Terrence Tao that has a nice writeup, and a bunch of others, or I can trust HN user "Kazinator", who... published some middle-school algebra "proof" on HN.

Guess who is crackpot here.

>> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ramanujan_summation
Cassini Finds Saturn Moon Has 'Sea Level' Like Earth
Adjusting for inflation (using the only date in the article, 1991), that's $0.11/lb in today's money! Hmm, still can't think of anything I can buy for that amount.
But then there's ginger hot vs pepper hot.
I'm not convinced that it's as obvious as you say, once the listener has "raise[d] themselves to appreciate culture." Once you've gained some appreciation for and understanding of music, within styles to which you're accustomed, you develop a sense of what will reward further listening and what will not. Is it infallible? Probably not. But even if it's not good enough for a published critic, it's enough to find me good music to listen to.
Minecraft boss is now in charge of all Xbox game efforts
Hmmm... might be worth looking into. (The trackball I was referring to was that, not the Marble). It wouldn't be bad to have a spare, though if this one holds up as well as the ancient Trackman I retired, I won't be needing it for a while.
If you consider creating a ~10 line site config in nginx equivalent to developing an entire application in Rust... sure?
It might be possible if the work was provably altruistic. Otherwise, any value the miner gains will be factored into the cost of mining.

http://www.truthcoin.info/blog/pow-cheapest/
Getting free of toxic tech culture
I have no problem limiting campaign contributions and certain political activities. The constitution does, though. The law generally likes to treat corporations as separate from their owners, but no such notion exists in the constitution. And if it comes to a question of constitutionality, then it doesn't matter that our laws limit the financial liability of a stockholder to his or her contribution because that's not a constitutional question.
Visa could easily declare all transactions irreversible and close down their call centers if it made any economic sense to.
I don’t know (how could I?) but I think the range of possibilities is wider than what you’ve mentioned. Perhaps it’s related to what they were quoted as saying, a problem with a discrepancy between the possible perceived reliability of the information and its actual reliability. I repeat, perhaps. I don’t know.
But it's difficult to get 70 hours of views already for most of the small channels now making some money. Let alone 4000 hours a year accumulated. So basically YouTube is saying we don't want to pay the smaller guys. But the fact is a lot of the smaller guys do good videos and deserve to have a stake too.
My point is that if you want to punish the other half of all Americans (including poor grandmothers living on pensions) as a means of taxing “the rich”—which is exactly what high corporate taxes do—that an injustice has been done. Advocating for the interests of a diverse half of the population is many things, but “elitist” is not one of them.
Not really. The platform-to-platform time from LA to SF is going to be, at best, a little less than three hours. That's comparable to the time it takes to fly from LAX to SFO plus the ~30 minute BART ride to downtown SF.

LA is so spread out that departing from LAX or Union Station doesn't make a big difference. Most people are going to have to fight traffic to get to either location.
What RDBMS are you comparing to pretty much everything is MVCC so writers don't block readers and readers do not block writers mature RDBMS also are fairly highly optimized written in C with critical paths hand written in assembly so again would be interesting to learn for what workload Datomic is significantly faster. The biggest performance penalty in a modern RDBMS is GC of snapshots so if you need a design that is append only it will make modern RDBMS more performant.
Ask HN: Can I see answers to Google's Local Guide questions?
After I visit places, (e.g., restaurants) I am prompted by Google's Local Guide to answer some questions about the place. Here is an example [1]

Is there any way to access the answers of other people's questions? Knowing the statistics around these questions would really help me find places that I might be interested in visiting.

[1] https://imgur.com/a/YL5fN
Very cool. How do you switch to a particular subreddit?
Really, Steam seems to be the closest thing Windows has to an application/package manager[0].

It's almost kind of a shame that it's more or less entirely for games and game development software - something like it with sourceforge/github integration or an API for general purpose Windows installers would be nice.

[0]notwithstanding whatever Windows 10 might have, because I still refuse to touch that, but it's probably not as good as the Steam client.
I know of KDSI! We ended up selling to a guy starting a new business called RCOM in Kearney, NE. I worked with him for half a year getting everything transitioned. We sold our Kansas operations to telco called Nex-Tech. At the time the business was funded by my good friend's dad. Collectively we decided it was best for us to focus on our further education and go to college.
Yes, tech never 100% goes away, you can still find brick and mortar movie rental stores.
> Like the jump from on-premises to the cloud, the move to Serverless is more or less inevitable.

Speaking as a fan of AWS: neither of those is in any way inevitable.
It's the tradeoff made for a distributed money supply. Satoshi just as easily could have made a fixed supply of money which is also stable and doesn't rely on proof of work.

That said, at the time, I don't think this was really the tradeoff being made. When bitcoin originally came out, proof of work was the only decentralized consensus mechanism available.
Blizzard's client is pretty but has its own drawbacks. I uninstalled it recently after it tabbed me out of a competitive match with a UAC prompt to update itself. The Bnet forums are full of people complaining about that particular issue.
It might be fun to make a source-based distribution where every binary in /usr/bin started off as a link to a script that built and installed the requested executable (over the top of the link), before executing it.
Don’t you think cycling on a slippery road is quite dangerous since in US you have to ride your bike on a road with cars and can’t go on a sidewalk, so as soon as you fall down - you are very likely going to skid to a path of an incoming car. I don’t think saving a penny is worth this risk
There's Italian tamerindo. It's great in carbonated water.
It's in progress:

http://www.caltrain.com/projectsplans/CaltrainModernization/...

As long as you're still alive in 2022 (and there are no more funding issues caused by the tie-in to HSR), it will happen within your lifetime.

Should have happened a decade or more ago, but Caltrain is the underfunded stepchild with the bulk of transit dollars going to BART.
There are various posts on DSLReports from my early days. Unfortunately a lot of the pictures I posted are no longer available. Here is an example: http://www.dslreports.com/forum/r3891399-Split-Wire-WISP
The Future Is Quantum with Dr. Krysta Svore
Ask HN: Why hasn't a “Warby Parker for condoms” taken off yet?
Also, have you checked out Conal Elliott's Tangible Functionla Programming (Eros) work? It is a bit dated (2007) but explores being more direct in a Haskell-like language.

http://conal.net/papers/Eros/
Wow. I forgot about that video!
Gemnote (YC S15) Hiring Back End Engineers in Bay Area
Size. The San Francisco trees database is around 50MB, and I've successfully tested it with multiple GB sized SQLite databases.
I wouldn't assume it was intentional, could very well be a bug. Anyways, as long as they fix it soon... ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
LinkedIn is not useful for you. Fine. But recognise they make a billion+ in annual revenue. Clearly they are useful for some people.
Caltrain is being electrified right now and due to be done in six years, and of course CA High Speed Rail is going to be electric.
What if Steam had to, by law, share your game library with other services?

i.e., just like you can take your phone number to any other phone company, or how banks in europe have to share info, you were able to take your game library with you to any other game distribution service?

Perhaps the same could be done for iOS/Android portability
I cant see that being an issue here libraries for unofficial languages / runtimes would likely follow the same api as the official ones. There's precedent in the form of unofficial AWS SDKs...
Apple to Pay $38B in Taxes on Cash Overseas, Build New U.S. Campus
Where's Sir Andy Flurry? Keeping Track of Scotland's Gritters
The Toyota Pickup Truck Is the War Chariot of the Third World (2013)
I think the point is that they’ll be electric.
Minecraft has really grown over the years.
Also http://gumho.github.io/codehn for HN.

Disclaimer: mine
Given all these direct-to-consumer business models (mattress, clothes, glasses, contact lenses, razors, toothbrushes, shampoo) I'm surprised a subscription model business for custom fit condoms hasn't taken off yet. I know many men (privately) complain about poor-fitting condoms that come off during sex or are too small (and hurt). Seems like another one of those regular purchases (along with contacts, razors, toothbrush head startups that have raised so much $$) you could make a case for as far as another consumer subscription-based vertical goes.
Damn commies!
I find this hard to believe. I recently worked at a firm that is making top-of-the-line cell phones in the United States. Even if you took the LRIP BOM cost, quadrupled the cost of parts and then doubled it all for good measure you still wouldn’t sniff $10000.

This looks like a writer trying to justify the abuse of workers and the environment overseas in the name of cheap stuff.
Boston/New England folk cuisine was (and is) still very bland. Pot roast, baked beans, mashed potatoes, brown bread, apples, etc. Very similar to the "English cooking" that used to be derided all over.

Even today, I have a friend from Boston who treats ketchup as a spicy condiment, almost like midwestern friends treat Tabasco.

Other parts of the US had a spicier food culture -- the Cajuns, the Southwest, African-Americans, etc. But the wealthy parts of America liked very bland, well-processed food.
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Half (46% in 2013) of all Americans owned some financial wealth, that's already counting indirect investments -- I believe this number came from a study by Ed Wolff. In the same year (2013), the bottom 80% together owned about 5% of the financial wealth in the US, under the same definition counting indirect investments (80%-99% owned about 50%, 99%-100% owned about 45%). So no, "everyone" does not benefit in the same way from corporate wealth and "regular people" (the bottom 80% seems like a pretty good proxy) have basically nothing to do with it, even in aggregate -- forget about per capita.

As for not taxing corporations at all and instead fully taxing dividends and gains, that's a different discussion with its own merits.
I think the best ones I had in Vietnam were on Cat Ba Island, in Ha Long Bay. They used used a sort rotisserie kebab to cook the pork, and added an egg.

I found it really interesting how every region had its own way of making them. Before I went to Vietnam, I had this idea that there was a "proper" banh mi, but the only thing they all had in common was the bread roll.
Being the product does not have to equal a bad experience. You linking to two problems that don't have to be.
Having just moved to PGH, I had wondered about the viability and comfort of riding the rails for a weekend trip to the Big Apple. This is encouraging news.
Probably not hard to fill in the gaps.

Step 1: encourage people to put the vast majority of their material possessions in someone else's vehicle, and pay for the privilege to do so.

Step 2: drive away.
Will it work with a key stored in the "software security device", rather than a hardware token?

For that matter, the description shown on that page suggests that it supports using the key on the hardware token as the only authentication factor. That seems dangerous. Unlike a key stored on an encrypted disk, a U2F key typically works for anyone who steals it. Firefox needs to use that key together with another key stored in the browser, or otherwise ensure that someone who steals the U2F key does not gain access to every account secured with WebAuthn.
Just don't use SQL databases. Lambda will knock over your DB
Yay, the de-democratizing of online video.
The Grand Theory of Apple [video]
Oh, you said example policy. No, I do not know if they are actually different.
NASA Just Proved It Can Navigate Space Using Pulsars. Where to Now?
I've often wished that this would happen for movies / music. When I buy a streaming movie on Amazon I'd like to be able to transfer it to Google Play or vice versa.
This article is full of good observations. A shorter way to say it is that the distance between Steam and "perfect" is not very large, and there isn't enough margin to be had to justify the cost of building something to close that gap. And that's assuming you can identify the features that would bring you to perfect from where Steam is.

I cannot even imagine a game distribution product that would get me to switch from Steam, unless there were Very Important games on it I couldn't get on Steam, or unless the prices were at least 10-15% lower.
If I don't pay my taxes on time, I get fined... If Apple doesn't pay on time, they get a reduced rate.
Bubble wrap maybe.
Not even in feudal society. That "deed on file" was originally a relationship with the sovereign lord (usually the king) who actually "owned" the land. In fact, ownership in Anglophone countries is still referred to as "fee simple", derived from "fief"; you hold the land from your Lord the state, under a form of tenure that happens not to include any feudal obligations ("simple").
At those distances, BART speed is unacceptable.
STARTING a PROFITABLE AGRI-BUSINESS IN NIGERIA: RABBIT FARMING
Yeah, I should have. There's been prior work porting linear types and other stuff (think Rust safety) like that to ML since that's an easy-to-analyze language academics like to work in. Tolmach et al actually made a converter for it to Ada one time. ML is also the language that most formal verification extracts to by default. CakeML is a verified compiler for ML. There's flow analysis and concurrent variants for it. So, ML by itself is a good choice for correct code that will get a lot of analysis. Imperative ML, imperative for the needed efficiency gains, combined with type systems like Rust's to ensure its safety with numbers mapped to say 64-bit can go a long way.

When I wrote it, though, I was mainly thinking of recent work that converts functional, verified specs into imperative specs that extracts to ML. I think that has a lot of potential for producing a pile of verified data structures with low cost similarly to the COGENT language that was used for ext2 filesystem. Got a link for Imperative/HOL-to-ML below.

http://www.ssrg.ece.vt.edu/~lammich/pub/itp15_sepref.pdf
Because of verification. It is easy to check whether the generated hash is correct or not. How will the verification for protein folding work?
Yes, I have. Literally hundreds of times. I lived in downtown Manhattan for a few years not too long ago (2010). Took the subway multiple times a day, every day. 1,2,3,4,5,6,A,C,R all the time. Metro-North to CT quite a bit one year as well. Never stopped or questioned. Saw some DHS uniforms maybe a dozen times over a period of 4 years? Maybe more, never paid attention as they just seemed to be minding their own business.

Have you ever been on the NYC subway? Has something changed recently?
5 buses driving for Google, Apple vandalized, possibly with pellet gun
Isn't the root of the problem that fossil fuels are too cheap? If you tax carbon to include the costs of climate change then this problem will go away.
> Statements like the above are one of the reason we don’t see voting system reform in the US. Every time someone discusses reform, people make over-the-top claims like the above (“almost as bad a plurality voting.”)

Bucklin Voting's issue is that it can elect the candidate that is everyone's last choice.
For either end of the Northeast Corridor I almost always take the train. It's far easier and more relaxing. About the only reason I don't is if I have an AM meeting and can't head down the night before or if I have something odd going on that requires me to drive.

Boston to DC doesn't really make sense though unless I've just decided to work on the train for the day so I don't need to deal with the airport (and probably pay more to do so).

Other than that, it's hard to justify train from Boston. I looked at it once to Chicago and it made utterly no sense either in terms of time or cost given that I'm going to get a sleeper on a trip like that.
SingPlus Karaoke Launches New “Private Message” Feature on Android Devices
Is server less really as inevitable as the move to cloud? The extra moving parts don’t seem worth it for garden variety crud app so far imo.