skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That 16x number is specific to a set of assumptions in the article.
Is this just the Curse of Dimensionality in action? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curse_of_dimensionality
The Struggle of Keeping a Roadside Attraction Alive
It's not something that I chose in particular. I work at a Salesforce Commerce Cloud[0] partner, with half a dozen clients. The language syntax is Javascript (in fact, I'm sure that it's built on the JVM's JS engine), but uses a proprietary API. The platform is laser focused on doing scaleable e-commerce, although it has somewhat competent CMS and CDN functionality, at least enough as necessary to load pages fast and sell things. Once you start doing things like newsletter list management, file uploads, and even product reviews, its less than optimal.

[0] https://www.demandware.com/
oops. one of the homepage links points to their dev site http://theparisreview.tierradev.com/interviews/6806/the-art-...
*Docker (Update to title)
How secure is this crypto wallet scheme
This example uses Ether, but should be applicable to any other crypto.

Set up:

Connected laptop and an a laptop with WiFi card removed and MyEtherWallet reliably installed

USB flash drive with file containing private key, encrypted with a very long, random password

Procedure:

Open MyEtherWallet on connected computer to determine transaction info (gas and nonce for Ether)

Use a third party (untrusted) QR encoder on connected computer to encode destination address and scan it on disconnected computer via third party (untrusted) QR code reader. Copy and paste the destination address into MyEtherWallet on disconnected computer, enter gas price and nonce by hand and sign the transaction

Scan MyEtherWallet generated QR code of signed transaction from the disconnected computer to the connected computer, and copy and paste the data it into MyEtherWallet

MyEtherWallet pops a confirmation dialog before sending a transaction which contains the destination address. Copy that address and compare to actual destination address using, say, a command line script

Yes this is a bit painful, but should work for infrequent transactions.

I think I will be asked about hardware wallets -- IMO these are companies with employees, proprietary code and hardware design. There is obscene amount of money involved, and anonymity -- probability of a bad apple worries me.
The beauty of choice is that you and I can have different favorites - so long as we can get our work done, who cares?

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Is this a real problem? Databases have been handling massive volume of transactions for decades.
> First link has historic data, showing no reduction in the last three decades.

The movement (including within the LE community) mostly was one of concern without concrete action till the early 2000s, and the wave of new restrictive policies came in the 2000s.

Even ignoring that, the chart in the link you provides shows much less growth over it's 30 year period than would be expected if the practice remained equal in danger over a period where population increased by ~40%.
El Paquete: Cuba's Underground Network for File Sharing
We need to balance consumer protection with chilling effects on innovation. If regulators had applied strict interpretations of securities law to cryptoassets and exchanges, only accredited investors would have been allowed to invest and only big banks could have afforded to comply with exchange regulations.
That's not the troubling case.

The troubling case is the company hosting the DB shutting down, and therefore the entire system becoming worthless. This is what prevents you as the customer from trusting such a system.
It's amazing to me how researchers spend a day or two looking into something and come away with tens of thousands of bots, in this case some that are nearly a decade old. Seems like Twitter can't be looking that hard, though it's far from a simple task and it's probably all they can do to stem the tide of new bots day by day.
MobX 4: Better, simpler, faster, smaller
If the person receiving the delivery has to bear the delivery cost, instead of transferring it onto bikers, drivers, bus riders in the form of obstructed streets, I would call that an upside.
And just like that, Compliance becomes a virtue.
> This "social credit score" is nothing more than an elaborate system to enforce misdemeanor laws.

I don't agree. It's more about making people compliant with what the government wants in society, and making those who don't follow the "social" rules in the country subject to various restrictions, essentially limiting their freedom if they don't do what the government wants. In essence they're attempting to legitimize their arbitrary policies by making it about something vaguely enforceable.
A Peek into Goldman's Black Box Charity Reveals Tech Billionaires
Some traditionalists never cottoned to the isometric angled view, and prefer the original overhead style.
Evangelism that embraces hyperbole while demonstrating ignorance does little to further adoption of nascent technologies.
I think G-Suite found the sweet spot on what most users need from office productivity tools and enhanced it by doubling-down on collaboration.

Regarding advanced usage, I just completed a G-Suite project that leveraged some of the advanced features of Google Sheets and was quite impressed. If you haven't done so already, test out the IMPORTHTML/IMPORTXML, IMPORTRANGE, FILTER and QUERY (with group by and pivot) functions. You can build some very nice dashboards, pulling data from multiple sources (web, worksheets) and summarizing into one view. I'll admit that the syntax was peculiar at first, but once you get used to it, it's very powerful--even without App Script. As a web developer, IMPORTHTML/IMPORTXML is actually pretty fun.
>"The reality is that there are plenty of places around the world that have transitioned from car-centric to mass-transit centric / self-propulsion-centric cities."

Indeed and I think that is the OPs point. NYC simply has not, that is what I believe is what he meant by saying that "better civic planning" is the answer. NYC simply "bolted on" the promotion of biking in the quickest way possible - using some paint. It's not a holistic solution. Getting mad at violations in the half baked implementations like this seems counter productive. I also don't see much in the way of self-regulating behavior with the biking community. People constantly ignore directional bike lanes on one way street(that's why there's arrow.), run lights at intersections, weave between pedestrian in a cross walk etc. I could walk around with a pedestrian cam and spot just as many violations. My point is that is not productive. The current half-baked system is bad for everyone not just bikers.

If NYC wanted to get serious about biking they would adopt permanent bike only streets say a couple in uptown/downtown direction and couple int he cross town direction.
It would be great if Twitter had a way of accepting community contributions to addressing their bot/troll/spam problem.

I see a lot more efforts like this coming from outside of Twitter than inside, and these kinds problems are rampant.
It should be blocked by all public mailing lists too, quite frankly. Its users cannot be bothered configure the webmail properly and often send atrociously formatted replies to threads.
Overall my retention is currently higher for audiobooks just because I get through them much faster in comparison to physical copies. Also, I’m more likely to finish them - I will listen through boring sections, due to which I would probably put the physical book aside.

I can not imagine listening to technical books though (popular science seems to be fine, I’m listening to Walter Isaacson’s Einstein biography right now), the reader must be a fit (Stephen Fry is gorgeous); and I can only use the times when my head is not engaged otherwise (commuting, groceries, food, housework).

To those unaware: Spotify has a huge audiobook collection now. I wish they would add increasing playback speed as a feature, if readers are too slow my thoughts will wander. I also have an Audible subscription, they have a quite convincing library now.
same here. I was having great fun travelling around with the little carriage and exploring the world. Took like three playthroughs to realize you can and should build a city with it. And being super proud I've learnt a new english word - "granary" was probably in the first 100 english words i knew
Basically, the Shoup/SFPark system:

https://www.accessmagazine.org/fall-2013/sfpark-pricing-park...
They were probably looking for a specific type of growth (one that includes jobs) but failed to specify. Oops, but lesson learned.

But there's also a second issue: even if the bitcoin operation had brought jobs, it still used enough power to raise everyone's electric bills by $100-200 a month. That's huge, and it's not obvious that it's even worth it.

Of course, you can argue that if a business had high labor costs, it never would have expanded as much as or as quickly as the bitcoin mining businesses did.
It takes a special kind of person to probe someones feelings when its obvious they are upset. Most people don't want to share the baggage - although the term awkward is more commonly used. But Mr. Rogers was all about feelings.
How VR Can Spin the Odometer Forward for Simulated Self-Driving Cars
I think you're redefining "everyone" as "people who drive cars" here, and cyclists as "non-everyone".
A small oversight in the censoring of the onion addresses: some of the screenshots show websites that list the full address somewhere on it (e.g. 'gunbizme…').
Of course they do. Just look at the stock market and the valuations in relation to Book Value.
This is interesting, CydeWeys is a well known, respected and long time administrator of Wikipedia.
Sure, but it's decentralized in a sense that there's nothing special about any of the clones. If developers lose their shared clone of the repository, they can re-create it easily by seting up another shared clone that anyone can access and push there from their local repos. Nothing will be lost.

"Central" server is not special in any way, other than being readily accessible by everyone in the team.

Some services break this by piling other stuff on top of git that's not distributed (like issues, ci, etc.), but that's not a problem of git.
But isn't there still a cost advantage? Rather than securing a centralized database you simply create a coin secured by the Blockchain?
Nimoy did all the vocals on Civ 1
> I merely bring it up because it's something we can improve in the U.S. It does not excuse China, which seems to go two steps further down a bad road.

However, the actual effect of bring that up is to:

1) Blunt criticism of this newly implemented Chinese policy.

2) Distract everyone from it with a debate about US policy.

No one's talking about improving the US OR China here. Because of the whataboutism, we're derailing on if the two are morally comparable or not, which suits the Chinese authoritarians just fine.
You've reversed cause and effect there :-)
Yeah I am also concerned about more cameras. Why are you against more cameras? What are your concerns?
CCP is truly the Facebook of governments. No wonder Zuckerberg was trying to get the Chinese president to name his kid.

Hopefully I'm wrong on this, but I expect a similar program to end up in the US within the next 5-10 years. At first, US citizens/media/government officials will collectively point and say "look over there, China is doing bad things". Next, companies like Facebook/Google/Palantir will start (officially) working with the US government to implement something nearly identical, but slightly less bad in some relatively meaningless way, here (or, in other words, bring whatever they've already been working on behind the scenes up to the surface), and the party line will change to "b-b-but China did it first!" / "at least we aren't as bad as China" / "something something what about the children / the terrorists / [bogeyman of the week]".
Thomas Edison Was an Early Adopter of the Word ‘Bug’
Most of the concepts HN members love to use to sound well educated while arguing on the internet are in this list: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cognitive_biases
Ask HN: Which are good README.md examples and why they are good?
Late Blooming Startups Can Still Thrive
Well said. Many don't have any class or manners. De mortuis nil nisi bonum.
Maybe we should also train a computer that can catch scofflaw bicyclists that ignore stop signs and red lights.

http://www.nyc.gov/html/dot/downloads/pdf/dot_bikesmart_broc...
They removed them from what I understood. It's mostly filled with prank sites.
The one thing I've seen help with this problem is to physically separate the bicycle lane from the other traffic. A series of bollards are cheap to bolt to the road or with more effort a grade separation can be made.
Tweet at me, https://twitter.com/Bellspringsteen and I will DM you my email
"You start out in 1954 by saying, “Nigger, nigger, nigger.” By 1968 you can’t say “nigger”—that hurts you, backfires. So you say stuff like, uh, forced busing, states’ rights, and all that stuff, and you’re getting so abstract. Now, you’re talking about cutting taxes, and all these things you’re talking about are totally economic things and a byproduct of them is, blacks get hurt worse than whites.… “We want to cut this,” is much more abstract than even the busing thing, uh, and a hell of a lot more abstract than “Nigger, nigger.”"

--Lee Atwater

Just because you don't directly say "nigger", doesn't mean the policies aren't directed towards african americans.

And we also know for a fact that cannabis was made illegal because "it would make blacks want white women". And, it was also easier to criminalize the peaceful actions of citizens they see as "undesirable" and then throw them in prison for a long time.

So yeah, bigoted.
A Templating System to Generate Provenance
What if it just took 3 days to count the votes? People looking over each ballot and calling out the results, seconding them, and having someone keep a tally on a big chalkboard. They could even close the markets during the counting process to prevent the rampant speculation from causing wide swings. Does it need to be that efficient? If America can wait 2 months to swear in the new president, surely it can wait 3 days for the results to be counted. It's not like the world stopped spinning in 2000 when it took several weeks to finish the Florida count.
Kaspersky is currently widely considered to be a security threat created and used by a hostile power to illegally control and use American's computers in ways they do not want and do not consent. Recommend changing the url back to The Verge so as not to support Kaspersky.

http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-42202191

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-07-11/kaspersky...

Dang, you've told me specifically not to mention this country's name here on HN so I won't. It's in the URL/ articles I posted, I hope that is okay. Kaspersky is not a welcome source of information, it is to be immediately distrusted and assumed full of lies intended to deceive.
I used to listen to lots of audiobooks b/c I had a long commute and I definitely agree that places get tied to specific passages. I believe it works both ways - re-reading books can sometimes make me remember the places and revisiting the places can remind me of the book that was playing.
I'm now in Grad School and frequently listen to lectures during the drive. It makes test-taking interesting b/c some test questions cause me to think about geographic locations and then thinking about nearby geographic locations can sometimes remind me of the parts of the lecture that preceded or followed the material. Its the commuter's version of "Method of Loci".
> Some countries have strict laws, but little enforcement, so marginalized people can break these laws as long as they fly under the radar.

Strict laws with little enforcement also means that the enforcement can be restricted squarely towards marginalized people and discretion used to avoid enforcement against anyone else.
I am Chinese and I can see how this can be exploited by both vigilente groups and the government to target individuals using the "spreading false information" clause alone. There are so many ways to trick people into spreading false information. More importantly, people are not the one to decide what is considered "false", the government is.

It might be ok to make people with bad credit harder to purchase non life-essential stuff such as cars (you heard it, cars are not essentials in many countries), but they shouldn't be treated as criminals.
I'm somewhat of a blockchain sceptic (or rather, unconvinced at this stage), but this sounds really interesting.

Meta: This is also a very well written announcement post, IMO, and I suggest anyone looking to launch something learn from it. It starts off with the most important soundbites up front, including the rather weird sounding "it's supposed to be fun". Then it gives a bit of backstory, but most importantly, provides interesting examples that back up the weird "fun" assertion.

It ends with a pretty clear explanation of what this costs and what the business model is.

All in all, great job. Good luck!
You are right that the bicycle community does itself no favors with some of our behavior. We are working on it. I think the bigger issue I raised was about the Busses.
Tool it's self seems really cool. wondering if this could output text snippets.
Also, some of the pages shown link to other (uncensored) onion addresses in the screenshot.
Nixpkgs is a whole collection of software (a distribution of sorts, but not a Linux distro), managed by Nix, which works identically on all Linux distros. It's also the package collection for NixOS.

Nix is cross-distro in the ordinary sense you describe, of course. It is also more deeply cross-distro in that:
• if you are trying to package for Nix in a normal way (the tools make it easy to do things this way and hard to do things otherwise by their nature), _all_ package collections for Nix will be cross-distro in this way
• The Nix community has a collection of thousands of cross-distro packages you can already use right now

`pkgsrc` is similar in this respect, and takes a more conventional approach, like the one you describe in this comment. I think that's a meaningful sense in which it is cross-distro.

Another way to think of this is that tools like `rpm` and `dpkg` or `dnf` and `apt` are portable between distros _as far as distro developers are concerned_, whereas package managers/package collections like Nixpkgs and pkgsrc meet the portability needs of users of _existing distros_.
Yes, it was clearly implied. There are indeed countries, like Saudi Arabia, where this sort of thing happens.
> or get your car door kicked when trying to make a right turn in the city

How about you pay attention instead of nearly running someone over? You could kill someone doing that.
Ned Kelly is considered by equal numbers as either a heroic Bush Ranger sticking it to the man in Australia, or a callous murderer who attempted mass murder when he ripped up the train tracks near Glenrowan.

You can be a hero to some and a villain to others.
So are you also OK with Camera Traffic Cops catching biking scoflaws who don't stop at lights, go the wrong way on one way streets, ride at dangerous speeds etc?
blockcipher is refering to a new type of attack LN enables, which would be a (large) node/hub having the ability to ignore/drop transactions. It's roughly similar to how pool operators can create custom tools to suppress activity passing though their part of the network.

https://steemit.com/ethereum/@dhumphrey/f2pool-manipulates-u...

The latter comment is in regards to the risk of providing liquidity in the more concerning design caveat of exposing keys in memory on an internet connected computer. The attack surface for theft of a LN node is now significantly higher than a normal bitcoin wallet.
I took a video of traffic flow on a NYC avenue: https://youtu.be/RXIyzdLl3vk

I wanted to see whether the lights were being used effectively to let the motor-vehicle traffic flow without stopping, and what potential causes for slowdowns are.

On the one hand yes, a double parked truck which restricts the avenue to two lanes, does cause a build up: more flow is coming in than going out. But then there are some less obvious things: cars changing lanes, cars taking a right turn having to wait for pedestrians, and delinquent pedestrians.
Thinking about my [2] cheat a little further, with a small black hole the time dilation gradient near the black hole is large, so the inner bits of the hyperbolically-orbiting experimenter will feel a drag compared to the outer bits (relative to the horizon). The "drag" is because the outer parts are winning a race with the inner parts thanks to gravitational time dilation, against a suitable set of local coordinates on the astronaut. If the astronaut is facing inwards with a rocket on his back, then inner bits are liable to be torn off and left behind. [1]

The gradient is much lower for a much larger black hole, so this sort of drag becomes apparent ever closer -- or even right at -- the outside of the horizon. For a sufficiently large black hole, dipping one's hands towards the black hole will probably not feel any different compared to deep space, even very close to the horizon. However, one would then expect a short sharp shock dipping one's hand into the horizon. Bye-bye hand.

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[1] Put the rocket pack on the closer-in side, and the intermolecular forces etc that hold the astronaut into familiar shape will decelerate the whole astronaut along a suitable choice of coordinates. The coordinates you want are probably integral over Fermi normal ones for ever-smaller components, lots of fun to calculate.
Yes, protect lanes for buses and bikes etc is the best solution. Hopefully this research adds emphasis on why those are important.
better to have enjoyed and lost than to never have enjoyed at all
> The majority of the lanes on the road are already dedicated to private motor vehicles

IME, having any lanes dedicated to private motor vehicles is extraordinarily rare. I'm not sure I've ever even seen it, though I do have a vague sense of something like that happening on the NJ Turnpike or one of the interstates going into NYC.
Chapter 1: hello world
For anyone who's interested in a detailed look at Sid Meier's history in the game industry from the man himself, I highly recommend this series of interviews from the Designer Notes podcast: https://www.idlethumbs.net/designernotes/episodes/sid-meier-...
It's long (4 parts, each of are 1.5 - 2 hours), but worth it. The interviewer is Soren Johnson (one of the lead designers of Civ4) which makes for some great behind-the-scenes stories/insights.
It's just a bit more effort. All companies sell convenience.
> purely non-sequitur

That's projection.
No definition was offered and the existing was discounted. Still a strawman. Good luck with whatever.
> Doesn't seem like you can (easily) buy a 25th of one of the kits

There are similar long-shelf-life food products on the market that aren't kits of the same size; it's true that Costco doesn't sell exact 1/25 increments of the kits (but they do sell a 30-day supply, 30-year-shelf-life kit from the same maker as one of the one-year kits, which lets you do the same rate of replacement with a purchase every two years.)

Gradual replacement is eminently practical.
Microsoft also has Dynamics CRM
Empire (or rather, Empire Deluxe) is still today one of my all time favorite games.
My solution to this problem is (1) avoid instant messaging at all costs, and (2) delay responding to any mail that is either (a) a contextless plea for handholding ("I have a problem, do you have some time?"), or (b) best solved by the asker taking some time to educate themselves.

It's a win-win, because either the asker learns they can solve their problems more quickly by Googling it themselves, or I can limit my responses to a rate that is below my daily (or weekly) annoyance threshold.