skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It works well enough for most applications and games although I have had issues at times; for example with firefox installs. Using portable version of apps will make it easier in such situations.

It is mostly trial and error fiddling with the level on f restrictions you want while not breaking apps. In my case, i have a template profile of permissions, most of which are for restricting access to personal/confidential files/folders like Documents, Browser profiles, etc. Instead of blocking access outright though , i usually make the files/folders write-only..

So, for example the other day i wanted to download a 60fps video from youtube, and the only practical option was to use an adware ridden java downloader.. So i just downloaded it created a new sandbox (based on the template sandbox) for the app, installed it (i recall i had some minor kinks in the install process but managed to get it to work in the end). After i was done with it , i deleted the sandbox and i was off on my way without having to worry if the application had left some unsavoury bits on my system..

edit: I might add that a key advantage of Sandboxie as opposed to other solutions like VMs is that afaik, Sandboxie mostly works by intercepting API calls to the underlying OS.. This maybe more leaky than a VM, but it is also much more lightweight, and as a consequence it has given me good performance for stuff like games, etc.
No, it wasn't the government - just a private company running within a state-sponsored accelerator. The government withdrew their funds after finding out about it.
Man Who Built “Water Bicycle” Offered a Full Scholarship at His University
"Only you can prevent overclocking fires!"

Nicely written. Seems like the intended headline was "why it's bad to overclock", though!
The whole industry is.
The problem is- games do not age out as we are all made to believe. Well made games are fun, even twenty or thirty years after release. And while graphics are important for selling them- they are actually irrelevant for playing them once they fulfill there purpose.

Thus Southkorea still plays StarCraft, and if it weren't for backwards incompatibility slowly grinding old software to dust- a lot of people instead of buying new, dlc infested - constructions sites that might contain fun in the future- would play the old titles.

The industrys idea of revenue here is to churn the wheel of decay as fast as possible, with as much as additional sales while the customer does not buy the actual product.

The old idea of a game was to provide as much entertainment, often as long as possible (bind the customer to you)- and this means there are still shards with Ultima Online, still people playing RedAlert2 and CC:Generals. From a business point of view- this is the secret oil of the industry- there is a finite amount of people, with a finite amount of time. There are different grades of people (aka income) but that can change.

Something like MineCraft is a world destroying catastrophe in these eyes.

If you carefully look, you can see the ripples of "Long Value Release" and Studios closing due to people not buying games for years after.

So, what does the industry fear? A summer where all play some old forgotten modded title, while not even the flys circle over the loot boxes in the stores.

Thus, loosing control over the online service- has nothing to do with piracy, but everything to do with loosing control over the end-of-life of your product.

You cant patch some games balance into oblivion to sell the successor- if you do no longer control the servers.
At least they have a sense of humor.

Edit: Oh, 2014. The sweet irony.
That's a very confused and uninformative article. Some of the assertions seem reasonable, but I'd much rather see articles with more substantial content being linked on HN.
I don't think it's easier to lose points here. Gaining points is easy if your comments are constructive and actionable. Opinions and anything argumentative generally isn't very useful.

One thing you can try is looking through your comment history and see which of your comments got the most upvotes. One of my highest upvotes was in a thread about whether software engineers should waste time doing telephone customer support, and I linked to a story of when William from Microsoft took a customer support call:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15813387

Another was a comment about where I got my first customers:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14192711

Or linking to a strategy for finding product ideas:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14040708

Checking your most upvoted comments can also be a way to find topics that you should turn into a blog post. If the HN community found it interesting and suddenly gave you 10x the upvotes you usually get, then it's probably also useful to the wider world.

When I've been downvoted, it's usually because I've poorly researched something & provided incorrect information.
Pyramid schemes destroyed Albania, so it seems reasonable for Poland to warn people of the dangers.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pyramid_schemes_in_Albania
To communicate we need names for things; "thing that has a suitably associative implementation of flatMap" is an important concept, and "Monad" is the name that exists for it.
The cooperative crowd
Even if, culturally it does because people know what it means.
Node.js and MongoDB – simple location controlled driver application (Heroku)
The central bank (allegedly) works for the people. The central bank using public resources to tamper with the desires of the people is a loss of purpose. The ultimate goal of the central bank is not to have the power to control currency, but provide value for the citizens.

It is absolutely grotesque that public institutions engage in any kind of propaganda. It is also , might I add, incompetent, as a central bank revealed to do this shows that the radical crypto libertarians hating on central banks were right.
Serious Concerns for Banks as WhatsApp Adds Payment Service
Blogging is my way to get clients. The great thing about it: Once you reach a certain grade of credibility, clients will approach you.
As always HN has this sore anti-crypto bias.
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While innovation to substitute an expensive ingredient from a potentially unreliable supplier is laudable, from a chemist/metallurgist point of view I wish there was more innovation in mining and cleaning up the process of getting rare earth in the first place. Every rare earth element increases option value and the potential to make further progress.

The main reason rare earth are expensive is that they mining is done in decades old tech fashion, and dirty as hell. China does not seem to mind as much, as long as it is controlling a strategic resource. Finding higher concentration deposits, and improving the process of extracting the rare earths elements is something I wish to happen more of...
Sadly it can’t because gun manufacturers are legally not liable for shootings this has been argued in court.

Want that to happen change the law.
I'm guessing there are better ways to try and "educate the public" than secretly paying influencers to shape the public's opinion.

And now that they were discovered they've just made it a lot worse for themselves because they lost all credibility on the issue.

Also, is it even the central bank's role to do stuff like this? Shouldn't it be a political or governmental issue?
That is a) a great project b) not category theory.
> Sometimes even your credit scored is lowered just for purchasing them.

Got any links about it? That's at least unexpected. One of the parties in the transaction would have to explicitly report that. I'd like to see what that credit line would look like.

The rest I'd expect, since those issues are directly related to Visa / banks protecting themselves from specific transactions. It doesn't even matter that it's specifically cryptocurrency on the other end. Just like they charge more for using credit cards for preorders at standard currency exchanges.
Seems like an incredibly long winded way of saying 'To go faster you either need to split up each instruction into lots of parts or increase the voltage for the transisters. We've split the instructions as much as we can, and power consumption is proportional to Voltage cubed, so it's not a scalable plan.'
The concept of "alpha", "beta" and other greek letter males is based on a flawed study of the social dynamics of wolf packs. Not only is it inaccurate in the context of human behaviour, it has also been since found out that it doesn't model the behaviour of wolves accurately, and these categories do not exist in reality.
LOL you have no idea what Cryptocurrencies are. The fact that you even compare the two is unsettling to say the least.
> If those investments fail, you will now probably have to use government funds to bail them out in some way

Why? Should I then expect the government to bail me out after I lose all of my money in blackjack, provided that sufficient amount of people do the same.

Sadly, the current party seems to be on the side of stepping in and bailing people out. Once in the instance of mortgages in Swiss Franc, which were taken in '00s (CHF went up significantly several years after, raising people's morgage almost 200%), and secondly in the case of a big precious metals investment scam (Google "Poland Amber Gold").

Those government interventions will not come without costs. A direct one resulting in forcing the taxpayers, which were responsible with their money, to reimburse those who were willing to risk taking a 30-year loan in a foreign currency, or those hoping for high profits from a precious metals investment by a company that existed for less than 2 years on the market. Another cost, which I would argue is a more dangerous one, is destroying fiscal responsibility in the mentality of people. In case of something like bitcoin it can only lead to three outcomes for the ruling party: a) the government regulates/defames or bans bitcoin, b) government accepts that it will need to bail people out at some point once a sufficient amount of "victims" complain, c) it loses the next elections to a party which will promise a bitcoin bail-out

> (...) to try to educate it's indirect users on good and bad risks to take to try to make the country as a whole more competitive. (...) Given that attribution would probably have reduced it's effectiveness, I can see why the country would want it without attribution.

I agree with the educational part, but not so much with the argument for concealing the attribution. The moment someone spills the beans, the smell of "propaganda" can have an opposite effect, i.e., "they did that in secret, because they want to keep taxing you through inflation, that's how powerful bitcoin is".
Well I found this video by vice https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jhXaM_r80_c which claims that they found the source in zug island across the river, but were not allowed to investigate further due to cross-border politics.
My good friend has a great story about how he and an account exec went to go pitch a client. They met with client for about a half hour and the three reps from the client side said they were going to go bring in a larger group to continue the meeting. About 30 seconds after everyone walked out the account exec said “Let’s get out of here there’s no money here“. I don’t think you’re there yet.

Assuming you are CEO/founder, the pain you’re experiencing is a gift to help you change. You also have to consider how future investors view the guy who walked away when his company is doing “okay”, not seeing it through to a liquidity event, instead choosing to take investor payday off the table either through shut down or the company failing after his departure. Do you trust your replacement to not fuck it up?
Beware of Java's inconsistent MIN_VALUE
Easy, like 1, 2, 3. Go out, drink beer. These noob these days.
Let us imagine a world, that is powered by solar panels. The only source of energy that we have is electricity from solar panels. So it would be a world poered by electricity.
How would you make vehicles? I mean you need to melt metal, produce concrete (for buildings) etc.
You would need to power the whole infrastructure by electricity. It might be possible, but it is not easy, and its technological feasibility is not demonstrated.

As soon as you start to think about the whole cycle, it becomes clear that having electricity form solar panels is not enough.
It shows a red crab on a beach in front of the bright blue ocean with a blue sky and white clouds.

I guess transfer of the wooden house amidst yellow fields with a reddening sky might lead to a wooden crab on a yellow field in front of a reddish-yellow ocean with red sky and clouds, or something.
Not allowing you to directly contact people you know or work with is a feature not a bug.


Welcome to the world where Google intermediates all your future communication. No doubt for your own good.
The most obvious class of transactions which may see a benefit is those which are a matter of public record in nature, such as buying a house or car.

"Private" business networks such as the likes of SWIFT have different reporting requirements and may not require it.

I am probably missing something, so as Andrei Alexandrescu said one in a talk "go on, ruin me". :-)
Firstly, it's pretty common for companies to ‘investigate’ various new technologies, sometimes seemingly at random, just to see what they can “imagine to get out of” the new technology... think of it as some kind of “basic research” kind of thing (like Microsoft investigating the Halting Problem and publishing their Terminator algorithm).[0]

The obvious answer to your question is that they're looking into using it for the sake of expanding their online payment system. Sending money between users with Messenger is something I've read of (but haven't ever come across, maybe because here where I live (IT/EU) it mightn't be enabled).

The slightly more disturbing answer is that they've latched-on to some of the arm-waving about blockchain technology being the future of distributed computing (or something like that), specifically an enabler for storing one's social data in a distributed environment and therefore prospecting the idea of social graphs being distributed onto blockchain thus obsoleting their current business model, and have therefore decided to investigate this technology, see if they can somehow insinuate themselves into the role as a centralising force, and/or have decided to develop it so they can patent it and use that patent defensively to protect their current business model.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Terminator
I think parent commenter meant among humans.

From the very Wikipedia article you linked we also find:

> In humans, the concept of an alpha male was challenged as being largely nonexistent per an article by Dean Burnett, who found that human leadership roles vary wildly based on the current social context, and traits attributed to an "Alpha" might be exhibited in one scenario, and traits attributed to a "Beta" might be exhibited in a different scenario by the same individual.

Also from the same article, since wolves are often used as an example when talking about alphas:

> Researcher L. David Mech, one of the primary creators of the Alpha male hypothesis for wolves, later found additional evidence that the concept of an Alpha male may have been an erroneous interpretation of incomplete data and formally disavowed this terminology in 1999. He explained that it was heavily based on the behavior of captive packs consisting of unrelated individuals, an error reflecting the once prevailing view that wild pack formation occurred in winter among independent gray wolves. Later research on wild gray wolves revealed that the pack is usually a family consisting of a breeding pair and its offspring of the previous 1–3 years.

Whereas among chimps and gorillas for example we do find alpha males like the article says, but I don’t think anyone was contesting that.
yea, and also when copy-pasting the password.
Unfortunately, the main reason these journals get used is not because they are better at selecting reliability, but because they provide authors with the credentials needed to advance their careers...

Edit: See also https://medium.com/flockademic/the-ridiculous-number-that-ca...
Why does CSS even have access to this stuff?
Fair enough. It does not seem to have undergone the level of scrutiny that one would hope for. But for me it seems to make sense to trust one app rather than having to individually trust the dozens of random apps i encounter day-to-day use.
I am pasting an example i gave in a reply to another comment :

"So for example the other day i wanted to download a 60fps video from youtube, and the only practical option was to use and adware ridden java downloader.. So i just downloaded it, created a new sandbox (based on the template sandbox) for the app, installed it (i recall i had some minor kinks in the install process but managed to get it to work in the end); after i was done with it , i deleted the sandbox, and i was off on my way without having to worry if the application had left some unsavoury bits on my system.."

edit: It seems Sandboxie was acquired by Sophos, so now you have to decide whether you trust Sophos or not.
Dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16422696
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> "usually, within a democracy, it is illegal for state actors or contractors to engage in propaganda directed at their own citizens."

the real issue with this is "then how should some gov. agency stop malicious external/foreign media influence?"
Open Question: What's the consensus of opinion regarding Dropbox while they still have Condoleezza Rice on the Board of Directors?

Personally, I want to love them. I think Drew has built up a decent company. However choosing Dr. Rice for the board, although she probably brings a lot to the table, was an unforgivable act. The creation of the foundation is laudable but feels a bit of a band-aid to solving their image problem. The choice of War Child UK just rubs more salt into the wound for me however.
I took a class that went over this in depth like 3-4 years ago. Basically the message was that serial performance is saturating, and the only way to get speed improvements in the future is going to be by exploiting parallelism. However, most programmers, and programming languages, remain stuck in a serial-by-default paradigm. I'm surprised that there hasn't emerged a "parallel-by-default C++" kind of language + hardware system to exploit it to keep things going forward. I find the apparent stagnation extremely depressing.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16422696
Most apps do things. But most apps don't do everything. Of course most business code is written in domain-appropriate monads that express some set of effects; why would we expect anything different?
But charismatic, self-confident, and maybe good-looking men exist?
Read it again, without your own bias.
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> It is absolutely grotesque that public institutions engage in any kind of propaganda

no it's not... then how would you stop malicious foreign/external media influence? let people get scammed?
"CPU manufactures will not allow a meltdown to happen."

No one in the office understands why i'm laughing....
Thank you, this is very interesting.

In what way are Python's lambdas restricted? Do they literally have to fit on one line?

Do you have to use a separate version of + to add complex numbers in Python?

Do you prefer loop because it's more concise or because you can say things you can't say in Python? Can you give me a couple examples of things that work better with loop?

(As you can tell from my questions, I don't know much about Python, but as a Lisp hacker I'm curious about other Lisp hackers' view of it.)
The first problem I thought of is that as the speed goes up, the centripetal force causes the pressure to increase. At some point there will be a transition from liquid to solid. Eg, for ⁴He, and if I read the phase diagram correctly, that's at 25 bar.

I searched for "rotating superfluid helium" and found http://physicsworld.com/cws/article/news/2018/feb/07/unexpec... , which is a summary of https://journals.aps.org/prb/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevB.97.01... . It says that there is friction, perhaps caused by "quasiparticles that become trapped within the cores of vortexes. As the vortexes accelerate, the quasiparticles gain energy, which they can then dissipate to their surroundings in the form of friction."
I find it odd that there's so much discussion about this. It's pretty simple, and I think everyone understands how they compare if you just list the facts:

It's in the same price-class as S-class/7-series, but since operating costs are lower it still attracts E-class/7-series customers.

It's nearer to the high end classes when it comes to tech-factor and autonomy. It's also arguably in a class of its own when it comes to software and OTA updates.

It's in a class of its own when it comes to engine performance, since BMW and Mercedes don't have EVs in that segment. EVs have very different performance characteristics, but Tesla is arguably better in many ways.

It's in the E-class/5-Series segment in fit and finish and various luxury features.

I think the Model S is attracting S-class/7-series customers, without a doubt. I'm sure some of those would sacrifice fit and finish for the unique experience that the Model S delivers. But it doesn't attract everyone in that market. That goes without saying.
I don't see how this is an attack unless you load random third party stylesheets yourself. It's the webmaster's role to ensure that css sheets included on the website do not contact dodgy third party domains.

It also won't work on vanilla html inputs, it has to be controlled by javascript in which case the javascript already has access to this information anyway (and much more).
I'm Polish and I feel offended by this article, especially the last paragraph. Whatever our national bank did, it's not OK to write about it in such a tone.
lol you have no idea about most recent ICOs and "ponzi schemes"
https://golang.org/

In case you dont know, Golang goroutines are a marvel of parallelism. They are coroutines which are dispatched on a few OS threads. So you can use 100% of a multi-cores CPU and yet, spawn, say, 10K of those light threads without worrying about context switches PLUS have them all run concurrently. I've found that golang is one of those rare language, like Lisp, that actually change the way you think about programming. Makes you feel really more powerful.

If you dont know that language, I suggest to run the following and watch your cpu activity and memory (or any metric):

import "time"
func main() {
for i := 0; i < 10000; i++ {
go func() {
for {
time.Sleep(time.Second)
}
}()
}
}
>Surely the one substitutes for the other.

If a roomba approximated a maid, perhaps. It very much does not.

>I'm generally struggling to understand what your model is here. Are you saying people make the decision about whether to hire a cleaner when they're born and then never change it?

No, I'm saying that:

A) building a neoclassical economic model on this at all is pointless because of the assumptions you'd have to make. You've just tried to make about four assumptions in order to build your model and they weren't just poor assumptions, they were cringeworthy assumptions.

B) the total number of people who actually own roombas or roomba like devices suggests to me that the effect on cleaner employment is likely, in any case, to be < noise.
Not at all. Sending off requests is a different thing entirely to controlled inputs, and you don't need a controlled input to do a request every keypress.
I think also because it's not run by companies who wants profit from their users. There is no risk of someone spamming ads, no risk of someone suddenly changing it. People are not the product.