skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is on their road map. Consoles/mobile are where they are still hesitating due to the experience they had with FTL porting.
Nobody said they'll be injecting anything in their apps, where did you read that?

I know a bit about how Stellar works, and I can't imagine any kind of software they could "inject" in their apps besides perhaps a way to post a Stellar address into the current merkle-tree they host and a way to fetch that through an API. How is that worse than having a Bitcoin address optionally includable in the same way?
My stream is in Golang but we did write a lispy parser and interpreter during one of the projects!
> There was a DDoS attack directed against the Proton network. We have mitigated the attack and recovered all services.

This was issued at about 11:15am eastern time.
What is a multiple family home?
Twerking teen thieves make their parents proud
Paving over San Joaquin County with detached single family homes on quarter-acre lots will never fix our housing problems and certainly runs against our climate change goals. We have to build walkable neighborhoods a sensible distance from job centers, along existing transit corridors.
I'd like to use this as an opportunity to remind everyone that Node.js v4 is going to be dead in about a month (support for it has ended long time ago, and now it's the end of extended support).

If you haven't upgraded Node in the last two years, this is the last call.
Nice work and grats on getting to the elusive "done" stage :)

Income tax is a big piece missing from the expense model. I'm guessing it's easy to add that line item, but it even if so it would be cool to have it computed automatically since its mostly just a function of {domicile, entity_type, pretax_rev}.
> --inspect-brk now works properly for esmodules

When ES Modules landed in Node? How do they work? .mjs? :(
Maybe it would be helpful to consider what it means to have a crypto wallet (because that's the likely endpoint here, otherwise why would they have to partner with Stellar?) on production servers. Consider explaining to a client that, no, it's totally fine, it doesn't do anything. I promise. Doable, I'll grant you. Consider explaining that to an auditor. No, nobody can ever compromise this, nobody could use this for shenanigans, it just doesn't do anything!

An auditor who did not bug his or her eyes out at that and ask some very hard questions would be doing a bad job as an auditor.

It is harsh--but, one, I thought they were legitimately better than this, and two, it's a problem. Keybase wants to be infrastructure, and people have different needs for infrastructure. That's an argument for different tools, not a multi-tool that makes its use in some situations problematic.
this guy has a few F# videos:
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCAiiOTio8Yu69c3XnR7nQBQ/vid...
I would say it’s unusual. Most places I’ve worked, it was more or less a bimodal distribution: lots and lots of people with tenures of less than 5 years, a bunch execs and highly paid in-crowd folks who were there for 15+ years, and a vast emptiness of people with 5-15 years in company.

I think a lot of people leave as soon as their stock vests (3-4 years) and it’s obvious they are not on an upward track. And the few who got on to the upward tracks are set for life and have no incentive to leave ever. There’s no middle ground.
Great article! Thank you for writing this.
I always though the problem is with the "collapse" thingy. You don't observe Green marble. You just entangle yourself with the marble pair. And so does the guy with other marble.

In the end two marbles, you, and the other observer become a single entangled system, who has two states: you've seen green marble (and the other guy red), and you've seen red marble (...).

And now if I "observe" that system, I also become entangled, and also will have two states: "I saw you claiming you saw green", and "I saw you claiming you saw red", and so on.

From a physical point of view, in that description there's no mystery. What might be interesting is how you (as in your mind) seemingly experience only one outcome. I even suspect we don't.
Counter points: heroin, gambling, alcohol

Exploiting addiction is not exactly good
Depends on what age you are, if you are less than 30 it's not very difficult to get to Dumont d'Urville.

I went to Kerguelen island myself as a sysadmin (14 months, a winterover). I had the choice between Kerguelen, Crozet, New Amsterdam and Dumont d'Urville, I don't regret my choice at all even if Kerguelen lacks the special distinction of being on Antarctica.

The Polar Institute, IPEV, recruits about 10 or so IT-related personnel each year (though only two recruitments are for pure sysadmin types - Kerguelen and Dumont d'Urville) under a civilian service contract. It's worth trying it if you're less than 30.

Otherwise it's going to be difficult, and even more so for Concordia I'm afraid.
A project I was working on was a much more useful bot. The number of affected repos for that problem was over 35,000 (although 95% of the value from fixing would be gained by only fixing the top 3,000 repos, when weighted by popularity)

The task of verifying correctness of a pull was much more time consuming than this one. Even if it only took 30 seconds to verify (optimistic), that's 290 hours. Which isn't necessarily all that much for an organization of verifiers (or Amazon Turk), but it is a lot for an individual.

Maybe that should be the cost. But perhaps some things you might be fine with letting a bot do (after manual verification of a statistical sampling, and thorough testing).

The project is currently on hold.
I would like to run the jepsen tests on my own with the current versions of Mongo and Redis, does anyone know how to do that?
>So clearly there is still some significant dissonance out there.

And not only that, but useds aren't expected to try to quell their dissonance by being more adversarial to these mostly free services (some would say its not even an option because it is just impossible™ for them), and companies are expected to try to coddle to useds desires that they won't try to rectify for themselves by being more adversarial.

I don't see this ending well for the useds with cognitive dissonance.
The Ghosts of Cyclists That Haunt City Streets
We don't sell any data to 3rd parties. You can also see our source code here https://github.com/ghostery/ghostery-extension
Amazing soundtrack ? I think it's entirely forgettable, almost as bad as XCOM2 (generic American war movie). To the point I would advocate spending that money on more sound effects.

But my point is that this kind of GUI approach is very much like a board game. In board games you have a few standard types of pieces, like cards, tokens, meeples, and you design a game with them in mind. The more of these objects you have, the more players have to move around and keep track of. More complex mechanics often add more physical objects. So as a general rule, good board game designers design games with as few objects as possible. Because there's no computer to keep track of things for you, unnecessary complexity is more apparent in board games. Best board game designers design exciting mechanics with creative use of small number of elements. Those games, with high "compression ratio", tend to be my favourite. A few examples are Tigris&Euphrates and Lords of Scotland.
If anybody is interested I'm making a new currency called the Points on the internet, so literally making money on the internet, it's called https://pointsproject.org
I'm hyped! When is the ICO?!
Hey Michael, your blog post isn't finished, what is the "much more complicated (and useful) bot that I was working on" supposed to be, if it's not a secret will you let me know, it's like watching a movie with no ending.
I've been wondering this lately. Does the photon actually exist in the space between where it is emitted and where it is absorbed? In other words, if nothing interacts with it along the way, is it really there?
Given that stellar/lumen is a fork of ripple/xrp, and ripple/xrp seem to have a massive head start with what 100+? bank and payment providers already on board - are stellar/lumen not just competing head to head with Ripple with essentially the same technology but with a handicap of being behind in terms of development and not having an in-use production network and settlement solution?
Why Did Amazon Buy Whole Foods?
Not in Florida... Our primary industry is tourism, it allows us to not have any state taxes to pay. Having a 'longer' day allows for tourist to do more tourist related activities later into the night, increasing the Florida economy. (Summer is our big family tourism season, while Winter is our big snowbird tourism season).
I'd support a voting system where your vote is proportional to how long you've been a resident of the area that elected position or ballot question covers. That would save a lot of cities and towns from losing their identity to inter and intra state immigration.
Fixed, thanks for letting me know!
Perhaps long periods of sitting on a flight?

If you suspect this is happening to you (all of the sudden you can't really breathe), is there anything you can even do? Or just hope it's not bad enough to be fatal?
The meaning of words change when the rest of humanity takes it for their own. Claiming "crypto are not crypto" will just leave you behind as the guy with his fist in the air cursing the world.

Nuclear. Hacker. Patriot. Rubber. The audience matters. Besides, I doubt that any cryptanalyst would mind writing out cryptography any more than they'd mind writing out TLS_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_AES_128_GCM_SHA256.
We have done a similar thing and build a tool to just do this in house. We have a team of human moderators who look at each review and do moderation.
Took a few weeks for a dev to build a hacky solution. Would have liked to see it then, may be we could have given you a try.

Curious, How is this similar to GitHub ?
Related (and 7 years old) article concerning US grid: "Power grid change may disrupt clocks" [0]. It was on HN [1], but with just two comments.

[0] https://web.archive.org/web/20110701065839/http://old.news.y...

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2703264
I'd agree with that (though not to point of voting gp down): the aims and benefits of blockchains should be seperate from their definition.
Yes. I don't believe Keybase will not store Stellar private keys in any way, this would be horrible.
that's not praising paypal (or btc:), just picking the lesser of two evils
'Exciting' is the opposite of what I want in production systems.
No. See the Kochen-Specker theorem. You can choose which way to measure in ways that sort of interact with one another statistically even after two particles are far separated.
API Rights Management on the Blockchain
They're available right now behind the flag `--experimental-modules`, and planned to be released without a flag in node 10.

And yes, still requires .mjs unfortunately.

https://nodejs.org/api/esm.html
https://medium.com/the-node-js-collection/an-update-on-es6-m...
I wonder if some nominal fee might filter out those who wish to troll him and his content. Like maybe a buck a month to read his content, 2 to be able to comment and add to the discussion.

It could still be moderated to filter the trolls with means, but I haven't run across too many people who are willing to contribute 24 bucks a year in order to scream at someone else online.

Maybe a scheme like Pinboard, where each user raises the cost in a small way as a selective pressure for handling user growth.

But I could be deluded. I believe his ideas and content are worth far more than the prices I mentioned, but if he'd give them away, why not to folks who are willing to put some skin in the game?

For me, he's one of the few writers online where I'd pay for consistent thought pieces.
Chrome has made significant improvements but has several support issues when navigating the web using assistive technologies (ATs). The Lighthouse feature is good for looking at the accessibility tree and testing though. For your testing efforts, I would focus on IE and Firefox for Windows as that is what most users of ATs will be using. Freedom Scientific, the makers of the JAWS screen reader, suggests using the ESR version of Firefox until some bugs that were introduced last fall are resolved (http://blog.freedomscientific.com/mozilla-and-freedom-scient...).

This link might be a bit intimidating but you can review the WCAG (Web Content Accessibility Guidelines) content to see what is required for digital accessibility support.

https://www.w3.org/TR/UNDERSTANDING-WCAG20/

If you want more concise Best Practices that map to these standards but are a bit less intimidating, check out the Best Practices on webaccessibility.com.

https://www.webaccessibility.com/best_practices.php
NYT posts correction due to effects of “Millenials to Snake People” extension
Ultra-miniaturized electronics made possible thanks to new type of inductor
The term "lifecycle" in web components has a completely different meaning compared to its use in vdom implementations. Compare the semantics of "lifecycle" events in web components against React: https://reactjs.org/docs/react-component.html

They have virtually nothing in common. Web components are essentially just new DOM events, albeit more restricted.

I started this thread by mentioning Surplus, which has no lifecycles because it operates directly on the DOM, and so React's lifecycle callbacks have no use.
Okay, but FYI my last comment started with:

> I think we're arguing past each other and I think that is my fault.

I'm sorry that I caused you to feel like I was being disingenuous (or however you would describe your emotions), but I was truly just trying to reconcile and understand our disagreement.

Also, the speaking about evolutionary forces in anthropomorphic terms like 'want', etc. is pretty common. In The Selfish Gene, Richard Dawkins at one point goes into a lengthy digression of why this is a useful way to talk about evolutionary processes and what exactly is and isn't meant by this manner of speaking. Realizing that me doing this was the primary source of our disagreement was what prompted my last comment.

But anyway, I agree that this conversation is getting long in the tooth.

Good day to you!
I am of the same conclusion, however, the dreaded blockchain has those that are true believers. They will cite the Estonia example and they will cite Wikileaks and how that show was able to be kept on the road thanks to Bitcoin payments that were provided when Visa and their ilk in 'fiat land' decided to take their payment methods away. They will cite a land registry in some poor African country and tell you how good it is that their evil government cannot take the 'peasants' land away.

If that is not enough to suppress your questioning of blockchain they will also roll out the commerce examples, e.g. the Walmart supply chain or whatever it is.

You will be told about some of these '541t coins' (as you call them) in venerated ways, as if the goals of their founders put the efforts of everyone from Mother Theresa to Elon Musk in the shade as far as noble ambition for humanity is concerned.

It is like they are trying to fool ninety percent of you for ninety percent of the time.

Maybe you work in some computing discipline that is tediously dull compared to the parsnip science that is blockchain. Perhaps you are a small cog in supply chain management or maybe you are at the cutting edge of some new 3D printing technology that is revolutionising something important, e.g. dentistry. Up until now you have felt that you may have been pleasing your clients and delivering value not just to your company but to the wider world. You think deeply about any conceivable way that blockchain technology could revolutionise things for you. Or maybe do what you are doing already but better because of the magic blockchain.

Even though you know your sector inside and out and your industry pretty well, your mind draws a blank. This is despite your code being used in many different parts of business applications. Your only conclusion is that there is no use whatsoever for blockchain in what you do.

The blockchain bore who has not spent 'a career' doing some useful industry thing will be able to declare that you are just not getting it. Clearly your mind is just too limited, you are old in the head and unable to grasp what blockchain is about, how it works and how it is going to change everything. If you can't even see one use with all that stuff you know and work with then clearly you have not understood what blockchain is all about.

By now you have also had time to think about the examples of blockchain use presented by the blockchain bore. With Wikileaks it was all a scam, it conveniently kicked off the Arab Spring, confirmed a few things we knew already, led to the Assange sideshow but lead to little change.

Plus how much does it really cost to host a few web pages? £200000 a year in hosting fees? What fools they were to sell their bitcoinz!

So what remains?

As you say, gambling on unregulated securities. Paying for illegal things online is the second use for the dreaded blockchain.
Sorry, I'm not actually confused as to how the word neural network is used. I'm saying that it's stupid nomenclature. But thanks for clarifying anyway :).
I like the attitude, that we can't throw anything out completely if we're to be open to new learning...but let's categorize these effects as "epigenetics" broadly and leave Lamarckism at rest :)
or check out www.talkspace.com for online therapy if going somewhere is too much
> A clear analogy is cycling.

Yeah, that swissgrid website linked in the parent comment even has a "Everyday comparison with a bicycle" section. :)
This comment breaks the HN guidelines, specifically the one that asks you not to call names in arguments (e.g. "pathetic", "loathsome", "condescending"). I understand the temptation to do this—I have to resist it all the time myself, and sometimes succumb. But it really is just verbal discharge, not information. We're hoping for the opposite here.

Could you please (re-)read https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and stick to the spirit of this site when commenting here? The idea is: if you have a substantive point to make, make it thoughtfully; if you don't, please don't comment until you do.
I'm stating crypto is cryptography. There's not multiple cryptographies as far as I'm aware so 'crypto are' doesn't make sense.

And yes, words change over time, but in that case I can just refer to (all) cryptocurrency as 'Bitcoin' since that's the common definition. In fact it's far more popular to refer to cryptocurrency as Bitcoin than it is to call that 'crypto'. Short version: this one isn't settled yet.

How did nuclear, patriot and rubber change?
Anyone older than 55 is allowed to transfer their basis to a new property.

I suspect having to pay capital gains taxes on appreciation over > $500k is a way bigger barrier to moving.

e.g. Even if you can't basis transfer, imagine you bought for $500k 20 years ago; it's now worth $1.5M. You should be paying $19k a year in property taxes, instead you are paying maybe $9k.

That extra $10k year going forward is not all that much (16 years of time to matter!) compared to the 33%*$500k = $165k in cap gains taxes you will owe on the sale.
PoW is not from Hashcash and wasn't invented by Back. PoW was first formally conceptualized in 1992 in the paper "Pricing via Processing, Or, Combatting Junk Mail, Advances in Cryptology" by Cynthia Dwork and Moni Naor. Hashcash was proposed 5 years later, in 1997.

Satoshi is the first one to come up with a way to leverage PoW into a permissionless and global consensus mechanism instead of solely being a cryptoeconomic spam filter.
Is it just me? I can't find anything to click to subscribe.
I would agree that it is clearly EEE, but would argue that it is also a bait and switch. My intention was to rephrase the gp's comment, which I felt was unfairly positive toward this general practice.
My wife passed away in her sleep in 2016. It was unexpected. I woke up like it was any other day and then it wasn't. I never imagined something like that would happen. Learning how to carry on without my partner and my best friend has made these past two years the most challenging of my life.

In this time, I've learned a few things about grief. That it affects everyone differently. That there's no right or wrong way to grieve. Some of us feel guilt, anger, sadness, depression, or numbness... or all of the above.

I also discovered that my wife's passing and my grief made other people feel uncomfortable. I sensed it was hard for folks to know what to say or do. And that's ok—there isn't much you can say or do that will change things for those closest to loss.

But, speaking for myself, it does mean a lot when someone reaches out and shares their thoughts. In my experience, the best things to say are to acknowledge the hurt and to share how you feel. Avoid trying to make sense of it (you can't) or that things will get better (you don't know). If you're able, say the person's name. If you knew the person, tell your grieving friend how much she meant to you.

Matt, I didn't know your wife, Cindy, but I met you once and recall being struck by how smart, genuine, and kind you were, aside from all the great work you've done to help me learn about SEO. From what you've shared about Cindy, I can tell she is an amazing person, that she is loved, and that she is missed dearly. My heart goes out to you and your family.
Yes that's what we are actually trying to fix. What we have seen from personal experience and from talking to people in other places, almost everywhere they build a hacky solution and takes up a full time dev's time to build it and maintain it.

We realised we could build a good solution around this and do a really good job at that so that others can simply use us.

Its similar to github as in you collaborate with your team on a central repo w.r.t datasets.

We are currently looking at feedback from folks on what features we can add more ?
> The term has become so widespread that it’s quickly losing meaning.

I mean, that's how language works, right? Words mean things at certain points of time and then over time those things sometimes change and new words appear to better distinguish between the new things. Or words get contextualized within a specific industry and take on different meanings depending on your perspective.

Such an evolution does not mean a word is "meaningless" it just indicates you'll have to provide more context in order to communicate your idea, which, again, is how language works.
Indeed; while Quantum compute is an exciting development, I am suspicious of the conclusion that cracking classic crypto is just around the corner. There are enormous challenges yet to solve; reducing noise in the results down to a useful collection is just one. If the quantum computer gives you a correct result 1/2^64 times, or a result within range of the actual result to within 2^64 values, then it is far from complete doom for classical cryptography.

It's very useful for lots of other things, so undoubtedly we'll see plenty of gains in in quantum applications.
"All while integrating certain Stellar features directly into Keybase's apps."

The rest of their announcement, I legit don't care about. This is the deal-breaker here. You don't need a Big Announcement or to hire more people to add a Stellar address for verification. I know a bit about Stellar as well (granted, you probably know more) but this reads to me as a let's-be-a-wallet game.

And this is worse than having Bitcoin addresses: active functionality versus passive functionality. Difference of kind, yeah?
PhD students could face significant mental health problems
What AI needs before it can teach math like we do