skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's almost shocking how transparently dishonest they are. And yet people put real money (well, I suppose real bitcoins) into a black hole like this...
> Ponzi scheme work because people believe the fraud (promise of high returns).

Lotteries work the same way and are legal.
> because of the energy consumed.

> but we're legitimately not there yet.

Maybe Directed Acyclic Graph technology (instead of blockchain), such as iota and raiblocks? Iota seemed to make its enterence into the top 10 of cryptocurrency, so I guess we're there.
May I have a pure theoretical argument about high order spying based on a naive moral principle, i.e. Treat the others the way you like to be treated.

1.I don't like to be spied. So I don't spy anybody not spying on me. First order spy is not good. Don't do it.

2.If I found I'm spied by a notorious group(Maybe CIA), then I have to find out how I'm spied. I'll use spy method which the other group is using, bribery, steal etc. to get the information of the informant stealing my secret. Because this spying is high order spying, i.e. spy on spy, then it is justified.

Does that make sense?
I think this is a bit overthought. There are 2 classes of errors: Errors that can manifest in a problem (we usually call these "bugs") and errors that can not manifest in a problem (these are usually called "software errors"). The second class of error is not really an issue until you change the code (or some other factor) and the error manifests as a problem (and then it is a bug). You might imagine some off-by-one error, where by chance it doesn't affect the result. However, if you modify the code, then the off-by-one suddenly matters and you get a bug.

Apart from that, software either has some functionality or it does not. It's actually not particularly meaningful to discuss whether or not software was originally supposed to have functionality, unless you just want to finger point. There may be a bug that stops the functionality from working correctly or it may be that you got the requirements wrong and implemented the wrong thing, or it may be that you never even tried to implement something. It doesn't matter -- the functionality doesn't exist.

When you are designing code, or implementing, or refactoring it, or whatever, then you need to consider how easy it is to modify the result. It's tempting to look ahead and assume that you know what you will need in the future, but you should also consider that you might be wrong (The YAGNI (You Aren't Gunna Need It) rule is surprisingly effective). Generally speaking, as a programmer, your goal should be high throughput of development throughout the lifetime of the project. Attempts to cut corners are usually repaid with interest later down the road. Similarly YAGNI work not only ends up being wasted, it complicates the code base and slows you down later. Because of this, you should usually attempt to just keep the code as simple as possible to modify in general. You should also make the functionality you have developed as accessible as possible (i.e. hiding your functionality under 1000 layers of abstraction is usually a recipe for slowing you down later, even if it looks cool now).

Worrying overmuch about if your code is wrong is probably a class of YAGNI. As long as it is easy and obvious to fix, then it doesn't really matter if it is wrong. Concentrate on making sure that it produces the result that you want and that you can modify it if it turns out to be wrong. Incidentally, it will be wrong. Eventually. You can pretty much count on it.
Well clearly Twitter should just acquire TWiT and turn the platform into their own talking head political commentary network.
Let's go one step further.

No states are allowed to favor FC because it might risk an incumbent. FC takes business to Canada. Canadian economy is now slightly stronger than the US, USD drops slightly. Zero US jobs were created.
What would it mean for a corporation of this size to be aware of a highly specialized finding in the research literature? Intel has 100k+ employees, so it's quite likely that an Intel employee has read this paper, but what kind of effort and incentive does it take to successfully escalate this kind of thing to high enough that the ship turns?

edit: apparently I just restated the latter part of your post, nevermind :)
- By the time the technology is at the 99.999% level, the game will already be over.

- Things are legal by default. If self driving vehicles are not explicitly made illegal by a state, they are legal.

- Peoples' trust changes rapidly. I think as a culture we've become much more scared of technology and change, but the change from horses to internal combustion engines and brakes was many magnitudes 'scarier' than having AI manage navigation.
All the new code in Visual Studio for Mac for .NET tooling is being shared with Visual Studio, written in C#.

The new plugin architecture, replacing the COM one, is implemented in .NET.
RSUs =/= stock options. At a reputable public company (FAMG, Twitter, Linkedin, Snap, etc.) you will be given restricted stock units. These are more like cash than options (they may have a vesting schedule, but once they vest, you can sell them immediately for cash value).

Also I'll note that you can bump up the SF numbers by 1K/mo for rent (which puts you well into the can easily afford a 1BR apartment range) and still be ahead on savings compared to the canadian salaries.
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That’s probably a very acceptable outcome! It’s been years since I followed Twit and similar video content, but it was a big part of my “nerd upbringing.”
How, all human activities have adversarial components to it- especially when there’s a financial pay off involved. People will just got the comments.

And that’s over the naturally noisy data set of human behavior.

Not to mention cultural norms across all nations in the world - I know many Indian user forums where even mildly helpful or unhelpful videos/posts will receive “thank you, could you help with...” posts.
I don't know. What would it take for an HN commenter to continue reading an HN thread before making suppositions about what Intel was and wasn't keeping track of?
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does anyone remember the name of the alternate microblogging platform leo laporte was using when this first came up ~ 10 years ago? I remember one episode he just gave in and used twitter.
maybe by sending to an address which couldn't be possibly generated. Such as maybe address 0 (or another address which could be provable to not be able to be generated).
Future of WPF is UWP.

WPF is for pre-Windows 10 desktops.
Miles Davis is not Mozart:brains of jazz and classical pianists work differently
Leo laporte is not a cool guy.
> Could I do the instagramming-yet-another-fusion-sushi-roll metrosexual lifestyle? Sure. But I think having a car opens a wider breadth of experiences.

Looks like your car hasn't given you any breadth in experiences.
I like your "keep it simple" approach here.

Can you confirm re: your recommendation for random "bearer token" auth, are you talking about just short-lived tokens that are the response to a regular user auth flow (ie login in one request, get a token, use that for subsequent requests in this "session" ala a session cookie) or do you (also) intend it for long-lived tokens used eg for machine accounts?
The parent's point is that most alternatives to Google are a "second-rate experience". Almost nobody else has the data input to meet Google's offerings or compete on price. While the additional configuration options is a huge perk when getting rid of "we just do the best thing" products like Google and Apple, the alternatives are often a little dumber and cost a little more.
Kansas is a good example to take a look at, but I'm not quite convinced of what went down there.

To the very least, it was very sudden and the benefits of lower taxes and increased employment cannot be immediate. Businesses change their expectations on daily decisions, not throw all the plans out the window on a tax reform. There are questions: where did the tax money saved go? Did people hoard it? did it go out of state?

It merits some analysis. Trickle-down is a moniker for an economic policy that is pretty straight forward: that which is not spent by the state its spend by the constituents.
Some thoughts on security after ten years of Qmail 1.0
That's a false equivalence if there ever was one. When you get stuck in traffic, you aren't choosing conditions of adversity which will guide you towards higher difficulty. One could easily make the comparison between traffic jams and monotony. When one practices a skill, they get to choose the level of difficulty as well as a number of other factors related to the activity. A traffic jam is hardly comparable and it's not surprising that monotony does not really improve anyones' driving skills. However, compare your driving skills to someone from India where there are no traffic lights, and you'll probably go running out of the car. They are able to take higher risks because they deal with it every day.
This is false. Netflix is like 30-35%, Google is closer to 40-45%. And that's US-specific numbers. Netflix is much less successful internationally than Google AFAIK.
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Wouldn't it be better to use data abstraction instead of abusing primitive types?

For instance dates are often abstracted as a Date type instead of directly manipulating a bare int or long, which can be used internally to encode a date.

So, age, which isn't an int conceptually (should age^3 be a legal operation on an age?), could be modelled with an Age type. This, on top of preventing nonsense operations, also allows automatic invariant checking (age > 0), and to encapsulate representation (for instance changing it from an int representing the current age to a date of birth).
extract($_REQUEST);

Look, one-line register_globals polyfill.
You can also get a state ID; that way you can uphold your no license principle as well as get into bars.

But if I went all the way to the DMV for a state ID and there was no appointment required for a drive test I'd just get a license.
Worse, fake BitConnect support accounts on Twitter are “helping users expedite” BCC to BTC by having them send their BCC to these pop up Twitter accounts. One has over 30k BCC. Yes the price crashed but still..

@bitconnectw
https://twitter.com/bitconnectw/status/953432382119514112

@bitconnectstaff
https://twitter.com/bitconnectstaff/status/95333597084946430

@bitconnect_team
https://twitter.com/bitconnect_team/status/95340164519865139...

@bitconnectteam
https://twitter.com/bitconectteam/status/953500671558512640
I don't mean this dismissively but Typescript's type system is insanely flexible, and _should_ let you do basically anything you want. Especially when you look at union types, sum types, type guards, the `never` type....

As a bonus, if you are willing to generate type definitions from other sources (like your backend code) you can go super far.

I do agree that the current `@types` solution without versioning isn't very great. Though I've found that for libraries without good definitions, hacking out a simple interface for the layer you use is good.

Just doing interface SomeLib {}; declare var lib:SomeLib; and then filling in the errors can be pretty quick in most projects.

It makes sense to use libraries, but writing up an interface definition for a library you use is usually quick enough.

I'd love to hear about cases where type definitions really messed you up.
Great thing for false flag operations.
Foxconn / Hon Hai had an extensive record of doing exactly this in Taiwan. I would be surprised if they haven't done the same in China.
You say that, but my clutch control jumped leaps and bounds (back when I drove a manual for commuting), to the point that I could keep distance with the car in front while half a sleep and without needing to tap the break peddle.

Some of the other skills I learned were less admirable. Eg learning to use a touch screen phone while keeping an eye on the car in front (I'd only do this if traffic was stationary though). And learning how to accelerate quickly because I needed to steal a small gap at a busy junction.
By "corrected" surely you mean "entered the dump stage of a pump-and-dump scheme".

That's essentially the underlying story of litecoin and the common thread of all so called cryptocurrencies.
Are you referring to the paper you mentioned by Onur Aciicmez ?

I think the same kind of pondering about organizational awareness applies there.
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The audacity..
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16164617

60+ points
Jaiku or Pownce?
Was it Pownce?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pownce
sorry i didn’t see the reply... i meant “js blocker” and auto correct happened. i use ublock as well, because it picks up on regexes for things like piwik (you could have something like https://somesite.com/piwik.js allowed because you just unblock somesite.com, or ga hosted locally etc)
Which central bank will create the world currency that everyone in the world can easily use?
Isn't nearly all voting power of Google still owned by the founding folks/executives? Non-voting shares has become a big thing these days to prevent shareholders from affecting company direction.
> Er, what? No search engine finds "It never rains on a Wednesday in Rockshire".

Now:

Google: https://imgur.com/a/tbOzE

Yandex: https://imgur.com/a/LB2qx

DuckDuckGo: 0

Bing: 0
Does that result in less accidents/fatalities at this scale?
The official twitter @bitconnect mentions this ICO..

https://twitter.com/bitconnect/status/953002461400313864
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Hard to believe that people watched this and still invested in this shitshow.
I think this is a way that google kind of _forcing_ you to participate in contributing to their AI development.

By _improving_ their system, it creates some difference, if no one cares or no one can justify the necessity, then google doesn’t need to care.

The constant increasing amount of information on the web nowadays is certainly a burden to Google. And if such AI can handle 99.99% of what’s matter to user, this AI is already a brilliant one.

After all I don’t think google ever wanted to be an archive searcher.
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It will be illegal to drive a car.

There will be car clubs where people interested driving car can go and have the experience.
> When you get stuck in traffic, you aren't choosing conditions of adversity which will guide you towards higher difficulty.

Neither do you or anyone in general when working a 9-to-5 job.

Hours spent on a job do not represent skill increases. They only represent how much of your life you spent on something.

I'll also add that "5 years of experience vs 1 year of experience 5 times" is a known thing.
I presume you're familiar with altheamesh.com? You might find them interesting (based locally)
How does the printed tether enter the market?
Where can you find feedback for your team?
Doing native development for Windows, of new .NET applications, during the last 4 years.

Many business don't want anything browser related, or need applications working in disconnected environments.

Enterprise has many special needs.
Care to elaborate? I never got too into his shows, but he never seemed particularly uncool to me.
A lot of text for your argument which is x isn't secure. Not very compelling.

Signed rest requests ensure that auth tokens can not be leaked as each request is individually signed by a private key.

Your extreme example btw is hyperbolic. Providing signing sample code to clients is pretty typical
"For a split second, NESTOR-10 had forgotten that the other NESTORs could not detect the difference between infra-red and harmful gamma radiation..."
Please tell me you've seen this before? https://www.nccgroup.trust/us/about-us/newsroom-and-events/b...
I totally agree with you. I especially think this is counter productive advice:

> Many programs which are correct when viewed at Level 2 are not correct when viewed at Level 3, because they rely on behavior which is not guaranteed to hold in all future versions.

Some level of modularization/abstraction perhaps just keep the system clean, or maybe assist mocking for tests. Maybe even to prepare for some likely changes down the line, but absolutely not "guaranteed to hold in all future versions."
I worked on this recently, free space optical system... http://www.doncio.navy.mil/chips/ArticleDetails.aspx?ID=5550

The parts are extremely expensive if you want a high data rate.

The acquisition logic for creating a link is very difficult as one has to aim their beam just perfectly.

I'd say it's not ready for prime time.
Because the GPS time scale is fixed. UTC drifts by leap seconds, GPS ignores them. I'm not sure what the point of the stackoverflow link is, because it certainly says as much itself. Yes, I understand that additional leap seconds are added as time goes on, which makes the difference between GPS and UTC larger as the years go by. But this doesn't mean that the GPS time scale isn't fixed.
> anyone who opposes it can only be a bad actor.

Are you saying Holloywood doesn't know what is and is not a bad actor? Who would have thought it!
This doesn't make any sense, because nobody would buy the $150 a month add-on for an IoT device. This is why net neutrality makes no sense: The arguments for it are based on illogical premises. Verizon could charge $150 a month, but nobody would buy that service, and they make no money. But a $5 a year plan, gets a TON of new sales, hundreds of thousands of IoT devices, hypothetically, and the network limitations keep it from being hacked and abused in ways that make it unprofitable for Verizon to offer such a $5 offer. That connection could be restrict to only talk to $IoTDevicesServer, and it becomes incredibly worthwhile for Verizon to offer, as the cost of connectivity chips gets drastically lower, and IPv6 means they no longer need to worry about wasting IP addresses.

Fundamentally, ISPs are already charging the most money they can get away with at this point and time. The law doesn't change that, and net neutrality doesn't restrict that. They like money, so they set their prices as high as possible. The only thing net neutrality laws prevent is cheaper, limited internet plans BELOW that. For smaller things, low income families, etc.
Reminds me of that "intelligence test" that just generates endless pages of questions until you hit a "cancel" or "give up" button (it's been a while) - your score is based on the number of pages it takes before you figure out what it's doing.
1: isn't that the business plan of most vc backed startups
I guess they figure "real users" don't use VPNs.

I see this occasionally, but just change servers. And it's typically just temporary. Affected servers are OK in a day or so.
> Notifying the FreeBSD devs so late is a slap in the face to the FreeBSD community and makes the internet as a whole less safe.

Absolutely. That is quite the proper response to FreeBSD leaking privileged information about vulnerabilities in the past.
What are you running on your PowerBook? Linux? MacOS with Firefox? If it's the latter, do you still get browser updates? Do you never have the urge to watch web videos at native resolution, or do you use it precisely because those kinda distractions are not available?

I'm asking because I still got a 2005 G4 12'' somewhere, and I'm wondering whether I should do anything with it.
Some, not all. The German scientists definitely gave us a huge boost, unfortunately Russia got most of the technicians.
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Who the hell wants to clean highways for a living?

Isn't it used as a punishment for some offenses?
You can criticize any interview technique by questioning whether it can really effectively measure <X>. The answer is always no, and even if it were yes, you can go on to point out that <Y> is also important and is not effectively measured.

I would probably not give this question in an interview, but if I did, I'd care a lot more about how the interviewee reacted to it than about getting the right answer. The people I want to work with are people who respond to weird questions with curiosity, not with guesses and a lack of followup. For a question that presumably would only take a few minutes to ask, it's decent enough. A bad question would be one that by design gives no information (or worse, gives misleading information), and this question does better than that.

Am I guaranteed to learn about their curiosity? No. In particular, candidates who are very nervous are more likely to clam up than start teasing out the details of the question. That's unfortunate, but hopefully this isn't your only interview question so there are still other opportunities for the candidate to show their stuff.
Spot on.
The article focuses a lot on 'artistic genius'. Actually it jumps a lot between a great deal of things. There's a leap between the photographer who invented new technology, to Jason Padgett who began seeing the world in a weird way, to dementia-patients who begin drawing as parts of their brains decay.

There's not much mentioned of geniuses in the meaning of people who further scientific theories like Einstein or whatever example one might give. They only hint that such people might often have autism, and try to explain that with left/right brain development.

Which if I recall correctly has been highly disputed since the 1960 Nobel Prize. If nothing else the explanation of autism and savant autism in the article are gross oversimplifications.
I thought VS for the Mac was just a rebrand of Xamarin Studio?
That just may be the current administration’s specific policies, the next one could very well be different.
Seems highly unlikely unless you're not including the gains from your capital gains in your ratio. Do you know how the marginal rates work?
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This reply seems poor logic. It feels like (apologies if I've misinterpreted) by claiming if a born citizen can turn there is no reason not to treat naturalised citizens desperately. It would be like me pointing out sober drivers that have had accidents to explain why we shouldn't limit drink driving.

And I respect the ideology of once some someone is a citizen, they should have full rights. Though ideology and practicality do not always meet efficiently and in something like this I feel practicality is needed.

So circling back for clarity, my point was I suspect (note, saying I suspect not know) there is higher risk of a naturalised citizen harbouring loyalty to their origin country and/or being more easily manipulated via family ties etc. This would vary by country and circumstance so is not black and white but in this situation where you know Chinese agents are very active, I find it amazing, for right or wrong, an agency would take that chance. And with hindsight, this is a very correct view.