skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
To extend upon that:

Canada's recently begun to test implementation of tech on the Ethereum chain for a few different purposes.

The National Research Council is testing its use in a platform to aid in transparency of government funding:

https://www.nrc-cnrc.gc.ca/eng/stories/2018/blockchains.html

Prototype: https://nrc-cnrc.explorecatena.com/en

At the WEF in Davos, Canada (w/ the UK and Netherlands) announced join work with Accenture (/Microsoft) to create a digital ID system for travellers as a pilot project:

https://www.newswire.ca/news-releases/canada-to-test-advance...

(Similar to this project, I imagine): http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-40341511

Edit: Link to the below-mentioned WEF report:
http://www3.weforum.org/docs/WEF_The_Known_Traveller_Digital...

---

Excerpt from the press release:

The prototype and pilot result from two years of thorough cooperation between public and private sector partners in the World Economic Forum's Security in Travel Project. The Known Traveller: Unlocking the potential of digital identity for secure and seamless travel was published in consultation with Accenture, AccorHotels, Amadeus IT Group, AirAsia, Airports Council International (ACI), the Government of Canada, Google, Hilton Worldwide, International Air Transport Association (IATA), International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO), International Criminal Police Organization (INTERPOL), the Kingdom of the Netherlands, Marriott International, NEC Corporation, SAP SE, Sedicii, UK National Crime Agency, US Department of Commerce, US Department of Homeland Security, Visa and World Travel and Tourism Council (WTTC).
>> Third, the search intermediation agreements prevented publishers from using search services of competing search engines.

> I have no idea what this means. Any ideas?

This refers to widgets on the search results page. E.g. when you search for flights, you'll see flight quotes right in the result page, with data that comes from travel companies. In this case, travel companies that partner with Google aren't allowed to sell their data for similar widgets in the results page of Google's competitors.
I'll note that OWASP ZAP scans don't appear to be picking up on this vulnerability :(
VLC is one of those programs that has really proved itself a stalwart of the FLOSS community. I feel like VLC is in a rare category of software that is great because:

1. It's existed for long enough that we know it won't just go away and break our hearts. (I used VLC to play videos on BeOS back in college in the late 90s.)

2. No matter how many iterations it goes through, it's still intelligible to would-be time travelers from the past. I.e. didn't get caught up in the "must change the UX around for change's sake" epidemic that still seems rampant.

3. It's always had acceptable performance, perhaps owing to being born in a time of no goddamned Electron apps.

4. It's dependable across platforms, even platforms that I'm unfamiliar with or don't like. Need to play a video on Windows? I don't even know what crapware to download, because I download VLC, because I know VLC runs on Windows and will greet me as a familiar friend in this strange and foreign land.

My hat is off to you, VLC!
Thanks for weighing in! It's true it may be a bit science-lite on actually communicating details but we're definitely working on that. We have found a lot of inspiration from esrl.noaa.gov but we want it to look nicer (beyond this shallow need, we believe there are other benefits). I'm created https://github.com/giving-a-fuck-about-climate-change/carbon... to track :)
> the customers are unhappy and soon Amazon will be unhappy if they don't figure this out.

Yeah, AMZL's awfulness opened my eyes to how uncompetitive Amazon's prices have become. The one-two punch of that broke my Amazon-first shopping habit.
The JRE has just become modular with Java 9 and it even has AOT compilation these days, plus it has tools to create packages for all OSes.

As for slow startup, just be careful with library selection.
Non-free and thus irrelevant.
Perhaps anecdotal, but my opinion is this basically comes down to two general types of workers: those who know what competitive salary rates are and those who don't or don't care.

The first category knows exactly what they're worth and they'll push to get that worth. They know that if their current company won't pay that, they'll easily find another company that will. They end up switching jobs relatively frequently and get a raise each time.

On the flip side, you have the people that simply don't pursue higher salaries. They tend to get a job and stick with it for a long time. They'll take the 2 to 3% COL adjustments and an occasional promotions, but typically they'll stay with a company for years. While they certainly could find a better paying position, they won't. Perhaps because they like the lifestyle, the type of work, or even unaware that other companies are paying significantly better.
I've had the same thing happen to me a couple of times on Amazon. I've actually started taking a screen shot of the original "Guaranteed Delivery Date" and complaining to customer service if it gets changed. The odd error is fine, but when it starts to become a regular thing, something needs changing.
This statement right here is the entire philosophical disagreement between (liberal) YIMBYs and affordable housing activists: given that price controls (esp. affordability requirements for new construction) are well intentioned but don’t produce housing at a large enough scale to help, do we double down on them or back off?

One side is hammering on the noble purpose, saying that if price controls don’t work, we must take housing entirely out of the hands of the market. The other is hammering on the practicality and implementation detail of particular regulatory regimes, and we talk past each other for years.
Measles Deaths Fall to a Record Low Worldwide
How and Why Athletes Go Broke (2009)
GWAS of Insomnia (n=1331010) Identifies Novel Loci and Functional Pathways
I don’t think such large metal hulled ships are used for mine clearing. Usually smaller, wood or composite hills are used.
is the iOS version 3.0 in review? I don't see it on the Apple Store.
Relevant XKCD: https://xkcd.com/1866/

Personally I'm still waiting for someone to actually do this and put a literal teapot into orbit.
IOTA an insane cult driven by fear of losing money. No one uses the software. They use social media to attract more bag holders.

I read the "rebuff". He looked up the wrong company named "Helix"... I'm not affiliated with the entity he mentions.
A compromise that would please nobody: how about mild rent control, say a limit of a 5% increase a year, doubling in 15 years?
How quantum dots supercharge farming, medicine and solar, too
Is there any motivation for Waymo and Uber to work together to burn Levandowski?

If not, he's {probably} off the hook.
It is not about a ui pretending to look native. It is more about form interaction patterns that users are subconsciously habituated to.

For example:

- Pressing enter submits a form.
- Clicking on a label focusses the input box.
- In OS X readline style shortcuts are available in all input boxes, eg. Ctrl+a takes you to beginning to line, Ctrl+e takes you to the end etc.

When these things don't behave the way you expect them to, it really destroys the user experience. Building on browser runtime gives a lot of these platform specific accessibility features to you for free - which may not be very trivial to arrive at through cross platform native gui libraries.
In the UK the practical skills are taught postgraduate in a Legal Practice Course.
I assure you there's plenty of native code that is the same quality.

I write a lot of it professionally.
From this perspective, the correct answer is "assembler". Everything else is just fancy tools to generate that, right?
His experience is what I would expect from anybody trying pre-alpha software which is probably what IOTA is right now (at least, that seems to be the common defense from it's proponents, "it's temporary, it's going to change"). The absurd part is that it's pre-alpha software that has a market cap in billions of dollars thanks to the wild speculation around cryptocurrency/blockchain stuff.

I mean, the simple fact that IOTA currently de-facto centralized, doesn't plan on using PoW to secure the chain and promises almost-free transactions should make investors very cautious. They're promising what nobody has managed to achieve yet and the only thing they have to show for it is a whitepaper and the promise that very clever people are working on it.
This. Secure facilities might not be used 24/7/365 and so going in to collect the bug would be the mode used.

It is yet another clever way to extract information and I expect to see CPU coolers with ferrite flux redirectors to appear at some point to counter it.
I have a facebook friend who is a driver at UPS and she absolutely loves it.
"Taxes should be based on revenue, not on profit"

Net margin varies wildly by industry. That would be hard to implement in a way that wasn't slanted to disproportionately reward high margin industry...further increasing their margins.
Facebook is different though - it's interactive, which creates a self-reinforcing feedback loop. That couldn't exist with a TV show.
at my university's law school, which is a T14, the average starting salary is 125-150k.

Which is a lot, but not as much when considering that most law grads have mountains of debt plus the opportunity cost of not being the workforce for 3 years. Plus they average 55+ hours per week. And usually cannot work from home.

You're better off doing CS undergrad and working for a Big 10. The hours are on average and can be flexible if you're an efficient worker.
The distribution of cryptocurrency and unfair access to minting and production of what's claimed and marketed as currency is completely relevant given the subject of the paper.

The math behind Bitcoin or altcoins reveals a system that grants production of the supply to a minority which worsens with time. New users aware of the game theory behind the math know it's not worth buying or mining. Of course, one can gamble on an irrational market or the other users who lack understanding of the mechanics.
Nano is a great alternative and was thought out before IOTA. It was one of the first paper to be published about Block Lattice.

It is what Bitcoin said it would be fast and fee-less cryptocurrency.

https://github.com/clemahieu/raiblocks
I think Amazon needs at least 2 real competitors.
I'm the kind of guy who loves Electron. It lets more developer get software on the Desktop. That's pretty cool, right?

But here's the thing. My current Markdown editor is Typora. Visually, it's all I want. But on the performance side, well, you can feel it's powered by Electron.

So I'm going to give a go to Abricotine (I mean, it's even open source, so that's great!). But I really want a markdown editor than can render a 100Ko file without difficulties.

Edit: Now that I've tested it, it's effectively way faster than Typora on the files I regularly uses. So I'll probably switch right way.
I disagree, GP is absolutely correct. The reason people think that programming or software engineering is hard is because they were told that it is hard. US and the West in general has this strange culture where those that are supposed to know (teachers, parents, professors) like to tell those who are learning (students, children, etc) that whatever is done is hard. Math, apparently, is hard. Algebra is hard. Trigonometry is hard. Geography is hard. Physics is hard. It does not matter what it is - if it is worth doing it is all "hard".

Students that "get it" are the ones who managed to ignore the "hard" label. That's it.

In the industry I keep hearing that everything is hard:

Dev: "Logging is a solved problem at the rate we are looking at - it is what, 100 messages per second?"
VP of Eng: "I dont know man. Logging is hard. We should outsource it."

SRE: "Just build images and spin them up"
CTO: "That's hard. We should outsource it"

Dev: "Lets fix this reliability issue. We keep getting disconnects and it does something wacky to our API"
CTO/VP Eng: "That's hard. Lets just see if we can spin up enough instances not to notice"

Most of stuff that we do is not hard.
Jesus, this is a feature now.

I am voting with my money and saved about 1,000 last year from now buying anything Apple anymore.

I think tech companies need to focus on features that are only good for marketing less, and more on what consumers want.
They were asking for about $1b in damages, according to an article I just read. This is a substantial fraction of that.
Show HN: Free lunchtime talks, in your city, on any topic
> I think the point of QUIC is to provide a reliable protocol. I'm not sure if this complaint is relevant.

I found it easy to include support for unreliable streams in my protocol, I'm just not sure why they did not even try. I heard about a hack-proposal where you could just use a new stream for one packet and then forget about it, but it's not really the same, and I am not sure they did even that.

> It's annoying because you need to try decrypting with two different keys, but it simplifies the handshake for both side as the state machine is now super simple

The issue I have with it is that now it's the application that needs to be sure not to write too much without an additional round-trip, otherwise you could end up with an amplification attack. I remember reading that there was an additional call to be made by the application just for that. But other simplifications in the handshake are actually great, yes.

> if you're talking about 0-RTT, I think replayability is a much bigger problem than forward secrecy as forward secrecy is bound to the server config rotation, so you just need to rotate frequently.

Yes, see above. But if I remember correctly rotating keys also makes client unable to use the 0-RTT, so you can't do it too often. QUIC has a weaker PFS than TLS. Still secure, just weaker, and basically disabled unless you explicitely call a key rotation. I am just afraid that the implementations and servers out there will not use that.

> How is it a hack? It allows the server to be stateless and it works quite well. How would you make it better?

Are we talking about the same thing? I meant the entropy bit. Really dislike it. (Then again, it works, eh...).

Yep, my bad, I said "ownership of connection" instead of "ownership od the IP".

The ownership of the connection is derived only from the connection id and crypto keys, that's a nice simplification, yes.
so much this, and it's repeated over and over ...and over in the book.
Hi folks -

I made Brown Bag Talks because it seems to me there lots of people and companies who want to give talks and lunchtimes are a great time to do it.

So I made Brown Bag Talks which is specifically for lunchtime talks.

Talks have a hard limit of 30 minutes, and Brown Bag Talks has a set of rules that require talks to commence at the appointed time, and to finish 30 minutes later. The rules also encourage attendees to set their phone timer alarm for 30 minutes. The rules also make it clear that it is both polite and expected that attendees will get up and walk out after 30 minutes. Lunchtime is limited to 1 hour and people need to have their time respected and that's why there are rules in place to prevent talks starting or finishing late.

There's a few rows of sample data in there. Hopefully a few people might be willing to give the first talks on Brown Bag Talks.

It is brand new and in beta so please let me know if there's any problems.

Andrew
Working with a modern tech stack?
Looking for a great backend positions as a go/php/python dev? - VISA

Fullstack Engineer - https://www.simplesurance.com/careers/#fullstack-software-engineer-fm

Go / Golang Developer -
https://www.simplesurance.com/careers/#golang-software-engineer-fm
Language Agnostic -
https://www.simplesurance.com/careers/#languageagnostic-software-engineer-fm

Software Engineer in QA -
https://www.simplesurance.com/careers/#software-engineer-in-qa-test-automation-api-
> Any way you look at doing software development as a career you come to see that it stinks. I'm not going to recommend it to my kids.

What are the alternatives though? Lawyers work much longer hours and only the ones who went to top schools and get into top firms make more. Doctors make more but have 6+ more years of education and training. Finance is competitive and also has long hours. Programmers have it pretty good.
> it took several conversations with support staff, and after a few rounds of "free prime extensions", they stopped the shipments via amazon.

That's what it takes. IIRC, they'll only consider deprioritizing AMZL if you've had 3 misdeliveries (by their reckoning) in the last 6 months. I haven't had the time to basically go to war with them to get them to stop, I just shifted my shopping habits instead.
He claims in interviews [1] that he reads everything that goes through there (but obviously doesn't reply).

[1]: https://www.recode.net/2016/6/1/11826718/jeff-bezos-amazon-f...
5 of my last 6 orders from Amazon have been bumped.

We've been Prime customers for years, but we're getting incredibly frustrated that we're paying for an annual subscription and being promised two day shipping - but consistently missing.

At this point, I'm starting to look back to smaller sites that offer more traditional 4-7 day shipping. They might still be slower than Amazon (which is about a 3.5 day average for us), but at least they're never missing their delivery window.
He's probably going to be sued by Waymo, likely with Uber's full cooperation. The part of Google's case that always seemed the strongest was their forensic evidence of his misconduct just before he left. He could also be sued by Uber if he lied or omitted anything during the Otto acquisition.
What's the future of Unix?
It seems the new UNIX is due from either a) Google or b) Facebook.
Of course, the attacking drones are also a health risk...
Those two issues are orthogonal. It's not people on benefits, immigrant or otherwise, who are causing skyrocketing college tuition.
Oh that's interesting! Thanks for sharing.
They are great, but I really wish VLC looked better.

You can tell from their website that design isn't their cup of tea.
No, but it's not like they are privately emailing me with their complaints. They drum up threads in the subreddit and rally others to complain as if they are being personally wronged.

I suppose I could offer a refund, but refunding a $5 donation is just another example of how a donation box is a waste of time.

In the future I would at least consider a Patreon system where donations renew every month since server and development costs certainly do. Way too many people think they're buying an annuity against your free time with a one time donation/purchase.
Yes, because AES in that configuration IS INSECURE!

Just like my analogy, AES encryption with a password of nothing is "unsecure", and no matter how much you try to argue that it's still perfectly secure, you are wrong..

Just like this, the AES is pointless when ANYONE can set the password (or in more correct terms, when anyone can create one with the user in a DHKE). If you can't tell that the server you are talking to is actually the server you meant, then AES does fuckall, because the man-in-the-middle is the one that is setting the password!

You are doing the equivalent of telling me how secure your new house door lock is, while wiring it up to always unlock when someone rings the doorbell... All the security in the world won't help you when you give everyone a way to bypass it instantly.
You can seriously equate the 2. TV networks did not know 1/1000th of the information Facebook collects about people.

and of course...using Facebook sparingly does not mean they are precluded from, nor do they stop collecting or connecting information about/to you.
This absolutely. As someone who started later (in college) I was unbelievably dismayed at the amount of effort it took to output something that was nowhere near comparable to the software I used daily and took for granted.
What if it wasn't 50/50 though, and the flight instructor took actual measurements and found that 80% of praised cadets did worse on the second try (vs. no praise) and 80% of scolded cadets did better on the second try (vs. no scolding)?

Wouldn't that indicate that indeed no praise + lots of scolding is the best approach?
Not if your house is the one next to it.
How do you apply that principal to the last mile problem?

To be fair, Amazon is fair at handling Customer Service complaints. I ordered a package with a scheduled 2 hour delivery window ({Fresh, Now}) and it came 2 hours late. The package needed a signature so I was at the delivery site for a total of six hours. My $100-$150 package expense was credited to my account after a short call to customer service.
From the bgr article:

> Dubbed “Shipping with Amazon” (SWA), the service will pick up packages from businesses and deliver them to customers.

> Sources claims that Amazon will begin rolling out the service in Los Angeles within the next few weeks in Los Angeles with third-party sellers that do business through Amazon.com.

Seems like the same news.
Bitcoin Mining Calculations
How bad should I feel exactly? Is this equivalent to murder? Had we foregone some luxury many could be saved from starvation.

I don't even really disagree, but the weight of the burden you assume responsibility over is very great. Why not devote your entire life to helping others if you are responsible for them, consume no luxuries, or anything but the most basic of needs.

I'm sure you could save thousands.
Postal service in my country is good enough to guarantee next day delivery without Amazon Prime bullshit. Free delivery Amazon, get on it.
He made very little off of Uber since his comp was tied to milestones related to Otto's technology
Or, it's the best they thought they could given what's provable about the case, their experience in court so far, etc.

Presumably it's possible there are settlement terms having to do with the use/disuse of certain trade secrets, but we may never know.
How to Choose a Tech Stack for a Blockchain Startup: 3 Things to Consider First
A Visual Overview of Stack Overflow's Question Tags
The author uses CMC I:c (and somewhat incorrectly claims it's also called Delta E, which normally refers to one of the CIELAB metrics). Then he notes the asymmetry of that quasimetric, and a workaround -- averaging the C1,C2 and C2,C1 distances.

I wonder if perhaps he would be better served by simply using the actual "Delta E" metric, specifically ΔE*₀₀, which doesn't have this symmetry problem?

PS. Sexy interactive color matrix table. Small error in the text below -- values >=40 are highlighted, not >45.
Chrome 65 Beta: CSS Paint API and the ServerTiming API
What you said would make sense if GV owned a much higher percentage of Uber.
Sorry, FCC: Charter will lower investment after net neutrality repeal
Everyone has multiple jobs, some include ME and EE that are hard to agilify

- Managers don't really want to turn over scheduling authority to the team

- Exploratory and learning takes a backseat to knocking items off the backlog

Yeah, that's usually what happens. It's a shame too. :-(