skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> We don't call that a 'Legal way to blackmail,' and neither is this

I mean, if we're just going by Wikipedia, my non-lawyerly brain would parse this:

> It is coercion involving threats to reveal substantially true [...] information about a person to the public, a family member, or associates, or threats of [...] criminal prosecution.

as being precisely what's happening here. Breadcrumbs were thrown out in public with an implication to settle in order to avoid more getting out.

That sounds like "legal blackmail" to most laypeople.
Good point. And I would agree that the error lies in choosing to use strings for inappropriate places.

Also, ETX might have been a good terminator :) I assume NUL was chosen for easier checking (if (char) ...) vs (if (char == 0x03) ...)

But my argument was against length prefixing somehow being "more fundamental" than having just a sequence of characters "raw" in memory addresses.
Curious if you can comment, but is it in the roadmap to define a standardized language agnostic gateway interface for Lambda so a binary written in any language could be deployed by simply implementing the interface?
Feature detection is equivalent to user agent string, from a fingerprinting perspective.
They already exist. Check out the stellar consensus mechanism.

https://www.stellar.org/papers/stellar-consensus-protocol.pd...
Why Sundance, America’s largest independent film festival, matters
Now that's a scary thought.
Nerv is a React alternative that's been built with TypeScript. Check it out: https://github.com/NervJS/nerv
Indeed there will always be exchanges if there is demand.
Well, there's this system in Hawaii....
So then....they chose correctly?
I disagree almost absolutely with all of this but am comfortable with how persuasive our respective comments on this thread are or aren't to the rest of HN. I'd rather not re-make points I've already made.
If nobody mines it then it really can go away.
One technology related bubble eventually succeeding does not imply the eventual success of every technology related bubble.

There are plenty of bubbles that never really recovered (ex. the Japanese stock market crash of 1989), and technologies that petered out (ex. tablets).

Pattern matching to the first chart that comes to mind isn't a great way to predict the future. Instead, look for arguments why something will or will not be useful, since that's what actually will determine the eventual success or failure.
Let's Encrypt validates during each renewal if the server still controls the DNS and/or HTTP endpoint. The point of the limited duration is to ensure that an attacker who got a copy of the certificate, but who doesn't control the DNS or HTTP endpoint, can't keep using it for long.

In this case, I don't see any automated check that can verify that the client trying to renew the cert is the original device, so there's no point in limiting the lifetime of the certificate, unless you send a person to do that verification manually.
Will Apple finally pay a price for keeping secrets?
It's great to see continued maintenance of this important project, and it'll be interesting to see the results of a visual refresh.

thunderbird has over 20 years lineage, and I've screenshots of the major stages at:

http://www.pixelbeat.org/docs/netscape_email/
Cynically? I think they are fans of centralization, and they're trying to own the narrative by confusing what the word means.

The emphasis on centralized publishers hides a meaningful difference between distribution and control. The article complains, not wrongly, that optimizing for engagement rewards clickbait and bad facts. But they're not actually centralized news sources, and it looks like the op-ed writer is ultimately lamenting the loss of centralized content control.

As OP here points out, most of the article relies on naked assertion with no real argumentation, much less evidence. The standout to me is:

> This is not a call for nostalgia... But back then, every political actor could at least see more or less what everyone else was seeing. Today, even the most powerful elites often cannot effectively convene the right swath of the public to counter viral messages.

If it's not a call for nostalgia (or a legally-enforced return to the past), it's hard to see what it is a call for. The article repeatedly asserts that more true speech is useless against bad speech, so it can't be that. That lament for the 'most powerful elites' who can no longer convene "the right swath of the public" to propagandize to? Really doesn't seem like the writer is eager for everyone to have a voice.
> have gigantic well-funded security teams triple-checking what they do

Yes! This is the answer to almost every "Well, it works for Google..." that comes up.

Alice: "It works for Google!"

Bob: "Sure, but how many PhDs does Google have on payroll managing it?"

Google has the resources, meaning dollars and reputation, that if they want to do something, they can hire anyone they want to make it possible. They frequently hire the authors of the programming languages and environments they use (that weren't already invented in-house), who can then customize everything to fit Google's needs just so.

Assuming you're a normal mortal corporation, getting the inventors of your platforms on board and committed to your problems specifically is no trivial matter, and you don't have an army of bona fide, credentialed computer scientists on payroll to patch any intervening rough spots, so "Google does it" is not really applicable.
Just to clarify the title, they will put a "superfridge" in he ISS to do some experiments, they will not cool all the ISS to a very low temperature.
Have you seen Reason yet? It has pattern matching.

https://reasonml.github.io/docs/en/pattern-matching.html
Author publicly admits to giving insider trading advice.
> ...especially since integer handling in C is so treacherous.

I'm still learning C, having not had much reason to do so until recently, so I'm not quite sure I understand this statement. How is integer handling in C treacherous (any more so than any other language, especially other languages that operate as close to the metal as C)? Is it something to do with signed vs unsigned, and beware of over/under-flow when doing math? Or is it a more insidious subtlety I'm ignorant of because it has been biding its time for a more perfect opportunity to bite me in the ass?
Give one example where users benefit from the website forcing a special font. And even if that happens, the website can provide the font to the user. None of this requires the user telling the website host which fonts are installed.
In that scenario there would likely be a fork of the software to do something like lower the hash power requirements and continue using the network.
here's a hint at one possible mission profile:
https://taskandpurpose.com/kinetic-bombardment-kep-weaponry/
KWin/X11 is feature frozen
Hi Turtlebits.

I'm sorry you got stuck setting up docker on your local machine. We have put a lot of work into making sure local clusters "just work". It would be a big help if you could start a thread on the forum so we can help identify the issue.

The reason we are using docker to run Prisma locally is that we believe it is super important to have the same environment locally when you develop as when you run in production.

If you are familiar with docker you can follow the guide in the docs to set it all up without relying on the CLI. That should give you a little more transparency into what is going on :-)
I was going more toward "closer to reality". But I take your point. Somewhere we're going to need extra info about the string itself, whether that extra info is a magic terminator or a magic prefix. The magic prefix gives great benefit, but also is more complex to implement if you want to store an arbitrary-length string.
spoiler: yes in js it can

now that you know the answer try to come up with a solution.
Was actually watching this last night on Deep Winter Greenhouses:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tRJUUPEKtsI

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tJ6s0mwm2ec

Some interesting findings. What happens if its just a matter of putting the technology together to make local produce actually cost competitive for the consumer, profitable for the producer and more sustainable and secure for society.

The key is to focus on high value winter crops for high end restaurants (micro greens, asian greens, arugula, beets etc.).

Some more links:

https://www.extension.umn.edu/rsdp/statewide/deep-winter-gre...

https://www.extension.umn.edu/community/research/reports/doc...
So your claim is that if one person is employed by another, they're obligated to always act with their best interests at heart, even if the employer doesn't do the same for the employee?

Levandowski didn't purchase her ears, memory, and voice. Just her labor for some relatively low wage however many hours per week.

I'm sure in the end he'll purchase them, but at a much steeper cost than if he had just paid for them up front.
Same with bitcoin in log view.
Actually there are a couple of things that I'd like to clarify:

1) There is no WordPress backend to maintain as it doesn't exists unless you turn it on in a temporary/hidden/virtual environment to make your changes. For the rest of the time it simply doesn't exists. No PHP, no MySql, nothing that can break. You don't even need to keep your installation updated if you don't want to.

2) The pages are not served from an S3 bucket but from a CDN with 20 edge server around the world. The bucket is only a "source of true" where the CDN loads the files when the "cache" is invalidated. This reduce the TTFB (Time to first byte) up to 10x from any location respect a traditional hosting service.
Stocks are an investment, currency is a medium of exchange and hopefully a stable one.

Something that you want me to use to buy things with should not be so volatile that it goes from pizza to luxury home in less than ten years years. If I had some bitcoin "lost in the cushions of my couch"from that era I would be a rich man today.

Crypto currency has become a massive misnomer. To that end I'm not sure WHAT it is any more because if it isn't stable as a currency and it doesn't have intrinsic value then what good is it?
What? Of course you want to draw lines in the sand and create an us Vs them mentality. That's the entire point of the large efforts you are making to exclude men.

Don't deny reality. It doesn't help you or your ever more dubious "cause". You have created an explicitly sexist community.
I meant Microsoft as in throwing the full weight of Visual studio integration and tooling!
> there are deep, deep flaws with proof of work as a concept because of the energy consumed

What is the energy consumption of all the bank offices and computer systems in the world? Even without this comparison, I think the amount of energy required is not a flaw in itself, but rather an aspect of the technology we should seek to improve upon (for instance, proof of stake is an attempt at this). I don't think it's sustainable long term (2400 baud internet wasn't sustainable long term either), but that doesn't mean we don't have the kernel of a great idea today. I agree with you 100% that we're not there yet, but I disagree with those who say this road leads to nowhere.
I remember this documentary. It basicly chronicled him setting out too design and build his own airplane which devolved into chaos. It was kind of painfull too watch. In the end he had too purchase a kit plane and get outside help building it too simply have a show that ending in some form of success. An interesting example of how projects can go wrong. I can't remember the name of it though...
One or two out of hundreds of openings. For a definition of "nobody" that really means "next to nobody", you're making the parent comment's case.
Because people unfailingly pushback against it. The pushers should start their push acknowledging that it is possible if it’s really such an elementary claim to them.
Or even without ADD, you might wish to look for a correlation between your attention span vs. how well you slept the night before.

Getting a good night of sleep seems to get more difficult as we get older. Lack of sleep impacts many aspects of mental performance, including attention span IME.
I'd say the difference between dead and stable is if you encounter bugs all the time. I find Thunderbird stable (only triggers a bug roughly once per month and nothing critical) while the Lightning plugin for calender functionality is dead (fails to sync with Google for months).
a footprint is not a fingerprint. This whole thread is about non-anonymous tracking.
Head over to MGTOW and see why. Maybe the need for men only groups in a society we generally have dominated is intrinsically different from women doing the same? In the same way that MRA’s inevitably raising the issue of female-on-male spousal abuse is both true, and a smokescreen. It is the “all lives matter” approach to scuttling honest debate.
Sure, there are certain spices and ingredients where it won't be so relevant.

But, At the end of the day, most people want to keep their calories to a minimum while maximizing their nutrients.
Can also confirm. Recently a convert and it's a breeze. It makes for more maintainable code, ultimately, and has even cleaned up some of my poorer JS habits.

Also, for those who get caught up rewriting types for existing libraries, I recommend you check this library first:

https://github.com/DefinitelyTyped/DefinitelyTyped
As defined by merriam-webster.com I certainly do. Why do we consider all sexism bad?
> Absent the markup from prohibition, a day's supply of drugs would be cheaper than a day's supply of food.

Which would be a rebuttal if doubling food cost wasn't an expensive luxury in context; people choosing drugs without food is a self-limiting problem, and most optimistic (and, unreasonably so, in my view) near term UBI proposals barely hit the federal poverty line for a one-person household.
It's very possible I completely misunderstood your suggestion, however in case I didn't.

If you're storing the key on the client (cookie or w/e) and in the database and solely using it to authenticate, aren't you going to run into timing attacks if you're using it for retrieval?

What I typically do is also store a unique identifier like email for the lookup and then use a random key for comparison / validation.
Did this for a year. Saved £30k - enough to go to Asia, but not live like a backpacker, actually live in places and spend roughly working hours on my own projects.

Just need to win the lottery now and do it full time.
If the mining ceases then you could always just mine your own transaction to buy all of it. But so could everyone else!
People who see and call out bubbles are always wrong N-1 times where N is the number of times a prediction is made.

Look at the fundamentals. What we have here is a bad currency (volatile and deflationary) whose utility is diminishing as its price increases.

There aren't a lot of value investors in cryptocurrency at this point. The vast majority of the people who hold it are holding it on the theory that it will continue to appreciate, but it can only do that if more money comes in. If these "HODL"ers start to believe that no more money will come in they will sell to lock in their gains. Once it starts this will easily become a self-reinforcing panic sell-off a.k.a. a bank run.

Let's say it goes higher. Let's say it goes up another 1000%. That doesn't change these fundamentals. If anything it makes the situation even more volatile. Most people look at price charts in linear not logarithmic mode, making moves look larger at higher prices. This makes panic selling more likely.
Can you support alternate forms of identity verification? I'd like to join, but I don't have a Facebook account.
First of all, I have not said in any way that Esperanto is a romance language. I'm aware about the sources of the language's vocabulary.

For the rest, I really appreciate the "insider" view you give. A couple points, though:

- It's not said that a language that borrows a word will keep its original pronunciation too. The very word pronunciation, for example, the various pronunciations thereof in English, French, Italian, Spanish would not be easily recognisable as a cognate to the untrained ear. "Transformation rules" need to be learnt to make use of vocabulary similarities across languages.

- The "near-impossible consonant clusters" do occur in many natural languages. Armenian and Georgian, for one, are known for some wild consonant clusters they have. Furthermore, that "ksts" one exists in English: texts, sexts; and not radically more difficult than say the greek φθάνω.
If you have Amazon Prime - the show is available for free with your subscription.
I haven't yet thank you. I like the ocaml influence.
My understanding is that now I have to also manage type definitions. It ends up being more code in my files and more files.

I'm a big fan of keeping files as minimal and simple as possible. I virtually "count" the number of language concepts that exist, and try to keep it as low as possible. Makes it easy for other developers to on-board and for me to re-on-board.
Very true that rhythm plays a huge role in jazz.

Although, I'm not sure that I agree that dynamics and tone aren't as important in jazz.
Yup, plan on something not very favorable to their dev community coming out when they go public.
Interesting some Unix command line utilities will send null separated records if you pass a flag (often -0) because it's the least likely character to show up as part of the string.

find and xargs are examples of programs with this feature.

It depends a bit on what you call a "string". If you're thinking "something a human will want to read", then yeah, there's no much need to encode null. If however you take a looser view of "an 8 bit vector" then encoding null becomes important. Otherwise your system can't be 8 bit clean.

Overall I think the null terminator has caused more problems than it has solved, but prefixing the string length isn't a panacea either. You end up with systems with 256, 65536, or even 4294967296 byte limits on their strings. It's also more difficult to pass around an index into the string so you end up having to make lots of copies and then possibly merge them later or your language is cluttered with index values everywhere strings are used.

It's quite possible that if K&R had gone with length prefix strings that we would have a different class of errors where the string index gets offset or malicious values are inserted in the length field.
Wow so it can you drop to zero in a very real sense before it even drops to say $40?!?
I see your point, but I also think that most of the value in what we are offering here is the ability to turn WordPress on/off on demand, so you can forget about it after the changes.

How could this be achieve without hosting files and DB?
The CSharpLang github[1] repository would be where to look for this. I didn't find anything that mentioned adding language support for it, and IIRC, in the past they rejected the idea of inline XML or JSON support.

Going the other way of C# inside HTML, you have Razor[2] and Blazor[3], the latter of which is a prototype of Razor running in the browser via web assembly.

[1]: https://github.com/dotnet/csharplang
[2]: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/aspnet/core/mvc/views/razor
[3]: http://blog.stevensanderson.com/2017/11/05/blazor-on-mono/
CoreRT's WASM support is being worked on:

https://github.com/dotnet/corert/tree/master/src/ILCompiler....

There are some instructions here:

https://github.com/dotnet/corert/blob/master/Documentation/h...
bitcoin is subdividable but transactions end up costing 30 bucks and taking hours because of the overinflated price
> As long as we have a civilisation

That is a crazy claim.
what's the point of this kinda of interview question?
You could also view it from a different perspective: it's interesting to see what people get offended by these days.

Of course, a lot of it is tied to the culture you live in. For instance, I do not feel like the same shift in what's deemed acceptable today has happened in Europe the same way it has in the U.S. since the 1990s.
If you are getting collisions from 128 bit (and up) numbers coming out of a system CSRNG, your service is likely to be meaningfully affected by bigger problems like plate tectonics and lunar orbital decay.
Just in case you are not aware, PST files can go horribly wrong when they get to 2GB in size.
Bridgy: a cloud inventory and ssh and tmux and sshfs tool written in python
Two bottles of beer on the wall, two bottles of beer.

Take one down, pass it around, one bottle of beer on the wall.

One bottle of beer on the wall, one bottle of beer.

Take it down, pass it around, zero bottles of beer on the wall.

Zero bottles of beer on the wall, zero bottles of beer.

Take one down, pass it around, four billion, two hundred ninety-four million, nine hundred sixty-seven thousand, two hundred ninety-five bottles of beer on the wall.

(Yes, you pretty much have it in your question; the Google search you want to make to learn more is [integer overflow]).
Both points definitely true. I guess my argument is you can accomplish the same (probably more?) massive increase in quality of life without the suburban auto dependent monoculture. Look at quality of life (especially with regard to ease of mobility) of some bike infrastructure leaders like Copenhagen versus SF Bay Area where you pretty much have to own a car.
Overflow of a signed integer - even in intermediate values - is technically undefined behavior, with the concomitant nasal demons, etc.
The way I understand it bitcoin is guaranteed to go to zero by design because there is a fixed limit on issue and so eventually there will be no incentive to mine and the network will collapse.
But for your test suite and testing OS build systems to wring out incompatibilities and bugs it might work a treat (if it detects certain environment variables).

Sounds great! You put so much effort into your blog posts, it's impressive…
Binding arbitration is societal and legal poison, and must be killed. I strongly encourage everyone in the mean time, to opt out ASAP!

Edit: At least you’ll be in court, or part of class action, rather than stuck in their arbitration system!

For example they can use it to argue that sending an opt-out mails indicates that you have read the clause. It also indicates that you have read the TOS in general. It also indicates that you agreed to the rest of the TOS. Etc etc.

Edit 2: It doesn’t, it implies that you read this thread, or their announcement.
Everyone here should check out https://github.com/apex/up... No exaggeration: it's the serverless platform we've all been dreaming of.

Also, it is VERY easy to migrate to for many projects, and has great language support... and it's developed by TJ Holowaychuk.