skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have yet to see a convincing argument that proof-of-stake can be made trustless. The only designs that I've seen that seem realistic rely on some notion of checkpointing to prevent large scale chain rewrites.

While it may be possible to make that checkpointing distributed, the only way that I'm aware of is to use proof of work. The easier path is to just checkpoint in the client, so that the trust comes from the github repository that pushes the client, or gets trusted updates from some trusted authority.

That's not to say that trustless consensus is necessary for a currency. I used to be a very strong believer that that was a necessary component, but I've begun to question that belief. The notion of censorship-resistance is an important part of why I liked Bitcoin in the first place, but may turn out not to be sufficiently valuable to people to impact coins that don't have that property.
As good as this will be for the environment and aesthetics, just have to think the bubble tea vendors as well as regular green tea vendors who sell their drinks in sealed containers to be pierced by a sharp straw are not going to be fans of this ban.
Exhibit A: CSS centering.
Exhibit B: The so-called "Holy Grail" layout. [^1]

[^1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holy_grail_(web_design)
The Worst Part Is Not (2013)
Doesn't really surprise me when you have other issues like this (https://github.com/npm/npm/issues/17929) that have persisted for a long time. NPM 5.x in general hasn't been very stable.
The Sea of Crises (2014)
Seems to be a combination of cost-of-living and demand. Consider the following cost-of-living comparison between Vancouver and Seattle:

Consumer Prices in Seattle, WA are 20.02% higher than in Vancouver

Consumer Prices Including Rent in Seattle, WA are 22.54% higher than in Vancouver

Rent Prices in Seattle, WA are 26.38% higher than in Vancouver

Restaurant Prices in Seattle, WA are 19.51% higher than in Vancouver

Groceries Prices in Seattle, WA are 21.84% higher than in Vancouver

(https://www.numbeo.com/cost-of-living/comparison.jsp)
The "best" part is how good an AI would be at privilege escalation. Go ahead, build out that security camera network, automate your cars, store your money using cryptography. I'm a geek and I love the way technology increases our collective prosperity, but most of our security relies on the attackers being approximately as smart as any other human. To a sufficiently capable intelligence, encrypted machine code is just as understandable as the most elegant source code. Once you fully understand something, anticipated edge cases are easy to find and exploit... every day we expand the capabilities of a future strong AI.
Potassium is also important, whatever mechanism you are losing Sodium (Sweat, urine, diarrhea, vomiting), there's a good chance you're losing Potassium too. Some ORS products also include Zinc because in the developing world it has been shown to reduce the duration and severity of acute and persistent diarrhea. Source: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/11101480
It will be interesting to see how we look back on the moderators' decision to stifle political discussion on HN. In my opinion it is a horrible abdication of responsibility among technologists to simply hide any content that pertains to politics.

But it is fitting that the political monoculture of the valley would give rise to an HN moderation regime that includes aggressive censorship.

I love HN and have learned a great deal from the articles and comments, but censoring political discussion is a form of sides-taking and HN mods are unabashedly responsible for it. It's a truly shameful dark cloud in what is otherwise a vibrant and flourishing ecosystem of ideas.
The problem with these devices is that they want to communicate via a vendors server, so a firewalled network will certainly improve security, but will massively reduce usability.
And it taints the whole piece.

"Instead of having to write and then rewrite for each platform, he used Rust’s cross-compilation capability" also does not make a lot of sense.
Missing from that list is everyone's favourite feature:

Using code blocks as block quotes so as to make them almost unreadable on mobile. Especially when the post is already indented a few levels.
> What's the argument for night owls being better learners at night?

I would say that the argument is that many people report this to be the case and there are some studies pointing to the existence of such an effect (sometimes called chronotype). Even in the absence of rigorous studies, a reasonable default view is to say that such an effect may or may not exist and we just don't know for sure if it does.

I would argue that the burden of proof is on the person making the claim that this effect doesn't exist, as that's a stronger statement about the world. It also seems to contradict a lot of anecdotes without proper evidence that casts doubt on their accuracy; the simplified model that you mentioned, about sleep flushing toxins from your body may not capture all the relevant aspects here (for example genetic components to concentration ability).

Wikipedia references a few studies, but I'm not an expert and can't tell how conclusive or rigorous they are: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chronotype
That second paragraph is exactly what he is talking about. Your first paragraph is more of a semantic argument.

I'm a huge gamer, my twin brother is not. When we both try to make a 'game' out of cleaning the house, I think it is easier for him. My bar for being entertained is just much much higher than his, because I get super high quality entertainment from video games.

I want to finish the dishes so I can get back to killing all the orcs in Mordor. He wants to finish the dishes so he can go meditate... The result is he does the dishes a bit better than I do. (Although I often complete the same task more quickly)

I definitely still prefer my choice to his, I am aware that my decisions changing the reward centers of my brain. Mowing the lawn will never be a fun game to me, because I have actual fun games to play.
Sorry, no it is not. There is no nash equilibrium in PoS at all. The only thing preventing it from collapsing completely is hidden centralisation in all the PoS protocols.
"after users reach 500 Karma, they gain the ability to downvote another comment"

Ahh that's why I don't see a downvote button :) - I thought it was a feature reserved to super privileged users
We use Bloom filters at Datamaran (https://www.datamaran.com) to check if the news site source is in one of the ones we follow quickly.
Can you email me at hi@greenpine.co with your requirements? I'm still planning this put so I'd love to get your input on multiple things.
The model seems to be to land some whale client who will pay you enough to get it and then you use it for all of your clients.

That will work for Nielsen ($100k/yr!) but likely not for Google.
Apply “The Secretary Problem” to Save Money on Gas WITHOUT Shopping
Another thing I noticed is the number of articles claiming that "college is overrated" or that "CS is not useful for the real world" and in general downplaying the importance of a formal education, and then... "I don't understand Graph Theory". Yes, not saying the same people claim all these things, but surely there's some connection between deriding a formal CS education and not understanding a prime example of a CS topic like Graph Theory?
Still about 4x as much as Hetzner cloud. Too bad they're only in Europe..
More simply, Facebook will change when users stop using it. People vote with their time and attention. Many complain about Facebook's stance towards privacy or whatever, but they say one thing and then go back to using it (yes, I know, you, the person about to reply, you are different; that's great, but you're statistically invisible).

Facebook measures how people behave, not what pundits say.
MSI packaging tool PACE Suite 4.5 adds management of Custom Actions and Drivers
I second this. Because it keeps forever and is relatively small, I keep it around in the medicine cabinet. If you've ever had a guest lose a fight with a Norovirus, you appreciate having some of it right at hand.

By the way, the Amazon product searches for this return a cesspool of magic woo. I recommend going to your local drug store, looking for the powdered Pedialyte, then looking in the meter-or-so surrounding that area for the cheaper store-brand version.
> the old ones

Charging for bags was commonplace in the UK in the 80's ... how long have you been keeping these for??
I think it does.

I have, in the past, seen [dead] comments that (IMO) shouldn't have been, clicked on "vouch", and when the page refreshes they are no longer [dead].

Or maybe HN just shows it that way to me and it is, in fact, still [dead] (kinda like hellbans).
Definitely. GPS can't be relied on: there are lots of places with naturally bad reception and the military sometimes tests GPS jammers, like during the recent exercise.

It's interesting to note that the first in-car navigation system used no GPS: it relied solely on inertial navigation and map-fitting to determine its location. For navigation, an autonomous car needs something like that as backup for GPS. All the actual driving needs to be done with on-board sensors, though.
More readable, yes. But not as pretty. One can obviously go too pretty and lose all readability, but the socialization of the web has to some degree required we embrace more diversity in design.

I still have trouble not underlining clickable links, for example. But sometimes in a design it's just as obviously clickable without it, and less cluttered too.
Only until the hash is broken.
And https://news.ycombinator.com/active
> uniform invoices – widely used in Taiwan

I wondered what this meant, so I looked it up: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uniform_Invoice_lottery

To encourage businesses to report their earnings, Taiwan's tax authorities operate a receipt lottery. Genius.
The video had 200,000+ views on youtube, 100,000+ shares on Facebook.

The tools we in the technology industry have built are undoing a millenia of societal progress towards structured and factual debate. Utter panic wins the day, Googles top minds clocking in each day to ensure the next suggested video will enrage and outrage, truth be damned, all to keep eyeballs pinned and share buttons clicked..
So much name calling and low information in this article..

Last month I visited the website of The Pirate Bay

Unless you specify the URL this doesn't mean anything ? I feel like there are multiple pirate bay out there, am I right ?

Seeing how The Pirate Bay has now transformed into a propaganda outlet for the Sweden Democrats was a bit shocking in itself

I don' get it, so the alt right speaker on the video was actually for Democrats ? Hum
But not it made me wonder, how a positive enforcing behavior is only allowing down vote until you reach a threshold. It makes you engage and understand the community better before making your judgment.
Those Singer quotes almost killed me: "limitless ignorance of swaths of the human race". He's absolutely correct, but, deep down, secretly a little upset he did not purchase Ripple at 2 cents
No, "Last blog standing" is part of the article title. Said blog is kottke.org (which is up), not niemanlab.org (which is down).
Unexpected functional programming in Go
I was going to just brush this off as silly, but then thought of all the NewYork things that you see around (NY Bagels, NY Fashion, etc) and realize they suffer at least as much... so I can almost forgive the NYT.
i dont believe so. can you give an example?

duck duck go, for example, has 0.3% market share.

you need to look at the typical john and mary on the street.
paper straws really suck, please don't let them be the solution.
I am baffled by your comment because she spent most of the piece talking about the gender-neutral demands on academics in research universities.
When we post things like this, can we at least put a summary of what this thing is about? For those not already familiar with IOTA, there is nothing in the first paragraphs of the article that actually explains what it is and why I should care.
This is a great write up, and answered a question I had about comments which are automatically collapsed. I understand the frustration around the lack of politics/diversity discussions, but I agree with the way it’s handled here. Those discussions need to be had, but do they need to be had here? They are divisive, and often leave lasting wounds which lead to the creation of factions.

Mostly though, the internet is short on places like HN, and long on places to endlessly discuss politics, usually in a very predictable circle. I don’t believe that much good comes from anonymous text exchanges online where politics are concerned.
> the scientific community systematically favors the unsuccessful approaches

The scientific community doesn't systematically favor unsuccessful approaches. Again, if the author was in the field they would know that's not true.
Don't new comments get momentarily bumped to the top before dropping, before they get any votes?
If you're willing to not support the iphone you have plenty of good options. Unfortunately for many people iphone is a requirement.
I'm currently building a link shortener just for fun. There are plenty of link shorteners out there but I just like to work on it for the sake of it
I think it's probably better than that though, because while some supermarkets have switched to using heavier bags, some are still using the lightweight ones.
Umrah Packages
> I have seen a handful of AR-15 injuries in my career. I saw one from a man shot in the back by a SWAT team years ago.

If the AR-15 causes a problematic amount of damage for a gun, then SWAT teams should be banned from using them. While they're at it, they shouldn't be shooting people in the back either.
> So he had two “tests” to take: frontend or backend. I chose the backend. Which was foolish because there isn’t just a backend anymore.

> I did the app in Meteor and it’s impossible to do a Meteor application without knowing and using a frontend framework.

Not saying sexism doesn't exist, but I think there's the author's problem right there. She tried to use a front-end framework to complete the back-end test. It is still possible to create a fully functional app using a back-end framework and Bootstrap. Web forms using submit tags, POST data, and full page transitions still work fine, although it may not be trendy anymore.

Saying the front-end/back-end distinction itself is sexist is a bit of a stretch. Perhaps more women only know full-stack development in a front-end framework like Meteor just because the demographic shift towards inclusivity happened simultaneously with the rise of full-stack front-end frameworks. I think it would be a welcome change if more women tried to learn the traditional back-end web stack via frameworks like Rails and Django, which are definitely not dying out.
I completely agree with you.

But in fairness, I can't count the number of times that I've needed to fix things after people treated `sudo npm` as Simon Says[1].

I'm sure they struggled a lot with that issue before coming to this solution. Was it the right solution? Absolutely not. But that's not the point I'm trying to make.

It's all too easy to tunnel vision on a particular solution. I've done it plenty of times, and I'm thankful to those who have helped me to see other alternatives in time.

[1]: https://xkcd.com/149/
Not American Democrats:

> Sweden Democrats or Swedish Democrats (Swedish: Sverigedemokraterna, SD) is a nationalist political party in Sweden that was founded in 1988.[11][12] The party describes itself as social conservative with a nationalist foundation,[1][3] however the party has been described as far-right,[13] right-wing populist,[4][14] national-conservative,[15] and anti-immigration.
Python is an open source project with well defined rules for evolution. If you want it to be faster, make it so (following the rules).
Disregarding the sweetness angle, what's interesting is that we perceive the saltier solutions as tastier when we are dehydrated. If you try drinking an ORS product when you're not dehydrated it will taste worse than when you are in that run down sweaty state on a hot day.
Ask HN: Whom do you follow for personal growth?
I'm not a parent yet, but I don't think monitors at a very early age are contributing to helicopter parenting. An infant has all sorts of risks that could cause very sudden death that I'm sure most parents want to avoid. Being able to leave your baby in another room without anxiety over those things probably helps a parent develop a healthier "concern, but don't need to be ever watchful" attitude.

My counter example is my sister in law who is very helicopter of her first child, even now that he is over a year old. They've been in small apartments, and have traveled a lot with him in arms(no car, so no car seat). I doubt they have ever used a monitor. I bet if she had had more opportunities to put him in another room to sleep without concern, she'd be more willing to let family play with him in other rooms of my parents' house during holidays.
Maybe, but instead they added measurements that the event itself shouldn't occur at all in the first place. Since tweets are very short-lived I feel it's more important to proactively prevent spam rather than reactive.

Besides that, while it's quite easy to "detect" some spam wave as a human within a given context, implementing such a detection in an automated manner is a lot harder, because a machine doesn't have intuition and have the context required to notice it.
SpaceX misses catching Falcon 9 rocket fairing with a giant net on a big ship
You don't need a map for that, just a sense of direction and distance. I have often navigated someplace by making seemingly random turns - I knew where I was going was southeast so any east or south road was fine. Once I got close street signs got me the rest of the way.
Why do any votes need 'accountability'? Their purpose is to identify comments worth reading. Almost everything people write about voting itself is not worth reading and the less of it, the better.
... I've done this.

At the start of my bachelor party (and possibly later on that night? It gets blurry) we brought workout hydration powder, the kind you use during and after a gym session. Drank a lot of it ideally to prevent or reduce hangovers.

I have no idea how much it helped, because I was still hungover the next day.
A mesh network that requires YOU to be online to receive funds. Also you must have funds to open a channel. So in order to receive funds you must have funds already.

It seems like a really big step backwards in big big scheme of things bitcoin. All of the above problems can be solved by increasing the block size. I'm not saying it's the definitive solution... but right now it is a better solution.

A good talk about really big blocks on bitcoin and what the ramifications are; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5SJm2ep3X_M
Just a side note, but... why are people using github as a content publishing platform? It just isn't a good UX for that, and there is no lack of workable CMS systems out there.
Using code blocks as block c

What's wrong with that?
> I have yet to see a convincing argument that proof-of-stake can be made trustless.

It turns out that "trustless" is more subtle and not quite as discrete as we might've thought. While PoW coins like Bitcoin are probably ranked higher on this scale than others, it might not matter.

> That's not to say that trustless consensus is necessary for a currency.

Agreed. IMO these newer coins that are lower on the trustless scale would not have been possible without the high bar that Bitcoin set. But now, they are.
Last time I was in countryside Morocco, the waste management program consisted in dumping all your trash in the street and let the wind take care of it. There was indeed lots of plastic litter flying around. Looks like banning plastic bags is a good start but they have bigger challenges to tackle when it comes to environmental pollution.
That's because it isn't simple dead reckoning. Dead reckoning is just a part of inertial navigation.
Obscurity is a poor sole means of security, but as part of a robust system it’s a valid layer.
Infrastructure as Code: Best of Both Worlds with AWS and Google Cloud Platform
My Thoughts as a Publisher on the Built in Ad Blocker in Google Chrome
It is also a way to manipulate HN to allow those with similar views to prosper and reinforce those same ideas. Those who don't agree have less power...
"I left Facebook on September 23, 2017, and not a single day has gone by when I don’t get at least a couple of emails or some SMS messages trying to get me back with notes about what friends have posted recently, or birthdays or other milestones."

Uh, sounds like you didn't actually leave Facebook, dude. To leave, try DELETING your account, instead of just deactivating it.
I'm pretty sure it works in the obvious way.

I would guess that some comments take less vouching to be reborn than others though.
The Community Has Brought the Unity 8 Desktop to Ubuntu 18.04
There are lots of open source discussion systems, and lots of transparent ones. For whatever reason, the closed and opinionated Hacker News reached the popularity that it did. I don't mind it.

Something about the mystery and the relatively tight moderation has kept HN from becoming too off topic and silly. Do you think Hacker News has somehow avoided Eternal September?
Does saving more lives lead to overpopulation? – Bill Gates explains [video]
I've read that a lot of the limitations/errors associated with mapping data once you get away from fully maintained paved roads stems from limitations in TIGER data. You get into very secondary roads and there's not much that's really authoritative to distinguish all the gradations between unpaved but well-graded and maintained and in appropriate weather you can drive it with high-clearance 4WD if you know what you're doing.
. ./encpass.sh

password=$(get_password)

watch whatever.sh --pass=$password & # I'm using encpass.sh - security is magic pixie dust, therefore password is secured!

ps f # oh look, there's "watch whatever.sh --pass=hunter2"
Meet the New Java Local Variable Type Inference Feature Coming in Java 10
> I'm quite paranoid about this, yet whenever I speak to people about it either people don't care, or already accept it's happening and inevitable.

I have yet to see much in the way of concrete harms from the supposed privacy issues plaguing online advertising. Everyone has a favorite hypothetical situation where Google dobs you in to the Chinese government, but no evidence that anything of the sort is actually happening.
Two economists have claimed that the ban in San Francisco led to an increase in food-borne diseases. The proposed mechanism is that people don't wash their reusable bags, and dangerous bacteria gets onto them. It isn't clear to me how strong the evidence for this is.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2013/02/16/is-sa...
I think people in California, Cape Town, or various similar locales might disagree with the idea that conserving water is unimportant. How much electricity does a dishwasher really use, anyway?
Pretty neat, but you would still need to give it a starting location since this only tells relative position.
It could be multi-fold:

* It's free

* People are already signed up for it

* It brings exposure to your github profile
yes, I know, you, the person about to reply, you are different; that's great, but you're statistically invisible

Sort of like non-smokers in the fifties, but times change. More predictable and depressing than people who don’t use FB chiming in are the people who have endless rationalizations for why they need it. Often the reasons boil down to “network effects” which fits with the tendency of some here to cite Tragedy of The Commoms whenever a hard problem crops up.