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Ask HN: Why have communities?
The original Internet was basically a network of networks. Today, that has resulted in essentially a feudal society online, with GMail hosting most people’s email, Facebook hosting their “social” timelines, Twitter hosting their tweets and so on.

In the early 2000s, networks like Bittorrent used Kademlia trees to break this apart and make one giant decentralized network. The SAFE network continues that today. Scuttlebutt is a way to propagate one-writer append-only logs.

So I want to ask: why do we really need communities like Craigslist or HN? They can have admins to censor and ban you, but what if a small subgroup wants to hear what you have to say? Why does everyone need to know that joe22 is the same guy in the community, and upvote/downvote his posts? Why do you need to put your real name on a server? Is it just so that classmates from 20 years can find you? Bill Gates doesn’t put his real name on his personal FB profile, or list his email address publicly. Why should you? You have an address book, those are the people you care about. They may have different identities in your addressbook than someone else’s, and it’s up to them to prove they are the same person, or not.

Perhaps it’s enough to not have centralized hubs at all, and just have each person’s network start from the address book on their personal client device. People should choose how to sync and share their information, and servers should just be dumb boxes storing redundant encrypted info. Why not?
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Come on, let's stay on topic. All I'm trying to figure out is, have I been scwned?
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Efficiency isn’t the purpose, safety and anti corruption is.

You’d need to hack the majority of the nodes to alter the data which isn’t going to happen unless a government wants to steal a container.

It doesn’t matter that it’s expensive either. It currently costs more to transfer the claims papers than it costs to ship the actual container, so the cost-benefit is easily obtainable.
I bet it’s pretty doable to program a robot to detect a yelp and then pull back 20%.

Many human reflexes are pretty simple heuristics.

Let them play with other baby robots and human trainers and they will learn. Same as animal babies.

Dogs are quite dangerous, but they learn how to not hurt other creatures.
What?

This was obvious. The only people who didnt see this in tech were the tech optimists.

Anyone else who has had to deal with humanity at large has warned that whatever was created would be used to help the powerful retain power.

The time for revolution was back in the 1990s. But that got lost in the baggage and dreams of being a unicorn.

This is just reversion to the mean, if anyone missed this, they havent developed the right balance of cynicism and optimism which helps identify the koolaid from the water
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> Nobody wants to manage assigning people to groups

Instead we really should use NLP to automatically categorize contents.

e.g. I wanna make my 50% for seriously thought-provoking articles, 20% for shitposts, 20% for news and 10% for memes.
Facebook Groups are a different thing and they're huge now. I believe your thinking about lists or something like that.
The hnofficehours link in your profile is dead FYI.
So is my thought. Surely they have yet to come up with something akin to an onion routing layer where the machine performing the lookup is not owned by the same entity as those who know its origin?

How is the middle path between current DNS and Tor-level anonymity defined, exactly?
This tangentially reminds me that when I landed my first software development job I had just a 10in 1gb netbook. It was a remote gig where I supplied my own equipment, so right before I started I got the Acer C720 (4gb ram and added a bigger ssd) and put Ubuntu on it. Luckily I did mostly backend then. Most the frontend devs seemed to need 16gb to spin up Vagrant and all the webpack watch tasks etc.

Edit: not to say that was the way they should have been doing things, haha.
Apple supports and hosts MacPorts

https://www.macosforge.org
Exactly right. What do they know about it? They have an expensive firewall, and SSL on their website, they think they are covered.

Companies like this would be better off not on the internet at all. It's not like anyone needs to visit the website to know where the nearest Panera Bread is. Google will tell you, if you don't know.
This will never work.

Look, corporation etc. etc. are just tools for humanity to deal with complexity. To break it down into parts which we can manage.

IF we had larger brains we would have bigger corporations.

If we were a hive intelligence, we would have different configurations of corporations.

But we would always create a tool to expand into complexity for the efficiency gains or productivity gains we get.

In short - EVERY tool made that gives an advantage moves the system onto the next level of complexity till we fail.

If you have small corporations, then they will band together to become quasi corporations.
That's a bad analogy because the Linux project isn't dedicated to auditing the Linux project.

It's like calling a home security system pointless if it doesn't detect any forced entries.
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These are mostly image classification cases, though, aren’t they? not to mention these rules are partially enforced through human moderation, same as text.
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They keep the coffee that hot because customers like hot coffee. That's the main reason I get coffee at McDonalds, not because it's great coffee (though it's not bad) but because it's HOT. Half the time I get coffee at Starbuck's it's only a litte better than piss-warm.
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Hell theft is the best form of business. Theres no reason to be so enamored by business as the best form of organization - it has its uses and weakenesses.
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To have a glimpse of things we are up to, look under the hood of our mobile website (https://www.urbanladder.com). We are in process of transforming experiences across our web properties (including desktop website) and that makes it an excellent time to join!

We are looking for programmers with high regards to clean, performant, and secure code. In recent times, our team has invested a lot in shipping code which adheres to the style guides and stringent code review process the team has put in place. We need skilled developers who can leverage, or better evolve, this ecosystem to deliver features in a fast-paced environment.

We are a lean and nimble team of engineers and believe in working with right tools to deliver our best. We have an excellent professional learning environment for people who want to grow at an accelerated pace. We encourage open source contributions from team members and are open to open sourcing things we build.

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I suspect if Apple designs a desktop CPU, performant x86 emulation will be a key design criteria. I know very little about CPU design, but I imagine it would be possible to have hardware optimisations for x86 emulation just like we have today for video codecs.

Or even further they could bake a "rosetta" into the chip's microcode and have their CPU natively support the x86 instruction set along with ARM or whatever they come up with.
I set it to Most Recent, changed my password to something I didn’t take note of, and haven’t logged in since last Wednesday. So far this is working great.
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Zenbooth.net | Manufacturing / Software / Mechanical Engineering | Berkeley | Part/Fulltime

We're trying to get more quiet space in every office. We've been selling phone booths thoughout the US like crazy, and we're looking for our first engineering employee to help us solve a range of problems.
* Manufacturing engineering - Implementation of lean manufacturing systems and processes. You'll get mentored by ex-boeing lean coatch.
* Software engineering - there are some VERY interesting software solutions we'd like to build to solve classic manufacturing challenges that don't have good solutions (ranging from inventory to efficiency monitoring to QC)
* Mechanical engineering - Automation, structural calculations, etc. Fun.

Only email hiring@zenbooth.co if:
- You're an engineer or similar that prefers rapid prototyping
- You're interested in working for a gritty manufacturing operation rather than some cushy mobile-social-local-crypto-AI-platform startup.
Or, data is so slippery you don’t need to own it, you can just sip leaks.
I don't understand you guys, it significantly depends on the programming language you use, what you said would apply to certain languages only, for example we use Delphi and Delphi runs only on Windows, I believe c# programmers are in a similar boat too.
Ask HN: Will Facebook become another MySpace?
I remember MySpace faded and Facebook emerged around 2006/2007. Is Facebook following the same trajectory?
Why do you say they don't work? The videos seem impressive.
I almost agree, except that I definitely prefer 24" 1920x1200 over 1920x1080.
I just got bite by this. If your ISP is AT&T (I have AT&T fiber) don't use 1.1.1.1, only use the CloudFlare secondary DNS resolver 1.0.0.1.

<<>> DiG 9.10.6 <<>> google.com @1.1.1.1
;; global options: +cmd
;; connection timed out; no servers could be reached
I'm familiar with Kuhn. I'm not saying we should be quick to accept anything, nor am I making any point related to science vs tinkering. All I'm saying is that there are two sides to the statement I was originally responding to, and that they should both be considered.
Depends on your definitions, I guess. If you define "easier" as "decreases the difficulty of doing X" then it makes sense as you've reduced an infinite difficulty down to a finite difficulty.
2 Founders of $32M Centra Virtual Currency Project Are Arrested
Didn't you say you liked command-line interfaces, not GUIs?
Engineers in other disciplines are held liable for their mistakes. Imagine a civil engineer signing off on a building and then having it collapse. If it was found that the engineer was negligent then you can bet your ass there will be reprucussions. As an engineer, you are the top of your field and with that comes a professional responsibility that is important to fully realize. Mistakes are mistakes sure, but if those mistakes end up being responsible for criminal activity then you’re fully responsible. It’s why the chain of command exists.
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> Awkward text selection. If I didn’t mainly use vim over ssh I would have given up on iOS for this reason alone.

I think this is a really salient point. For those of us still doing Cut and Paste, a tablet isn't going to cut it (pun intentional).
All you're doing is deflecting and avoiding meaningful conversation about very serious issues involving data privacy and information manipulation in an effort to equivocate. I can read your other comments, and I can see how you play this game.

I'm uninterested in continuing with you in any capacity. Thank you for your time, but we won't speak again while you use this name. Goodbye.
Amazon is probably more well placed to make an informed decision, as it’s most likely the products you look at, but don’t buy, that you are probably interested in.

Unfortunately in reality that doesn’t seem to be the case. Last week I bought some wireless headphones, and now my feed shows a bunch of those. It also keeps showing me books by an author who I bought a series from, but never finished (on Kindle). And a selection of Spanish books, that my wife needed once for her studies. And for some reason a load of large kitchen applicances.
nah, not really.

I log in, check if close friends or family have sent me anything, then log out.
I honestly wonder how Mark and SS sleep at night? Can’t they afford to do better than this? Does their greed and shame know no bounds? I don’t get and it seems like it’s something that will bite them in the long run and open them up to competition, whereas there might not really have ever been a reason for a natural competitor to emerge if FB had just treated its eco-system with a bit more respect and stewardship. Why don’t they want Facebook to be like a curated garden, not a landfill?
>If you really think that the military industrial complex

Please put some effort into reading before replying. The military funding for Stanford is one of the main reason so many tech companies started there. There are now massive network effects that make it the current tech capital but that doesn't mean new incentives can't start new tech hubs elsewhere.

You completely missed the boat about Uber being headquartered in California and still acting completely outside of sane ethical boundaries (their police spying program, etc). In other words, California rolls out the red carpet for these garbage tech companies already. The moral or consumer focused high-ground you are trying to imply doesn't exist. There is only NIMBYism.

Google built the testing headquarters in California because that's where their talent is at, nothing more, nothing less.
I’m about a 1.5

Any good resources you could suggest for learning more about what you describe as the relevant areas?
Wow, I did not realize this. Thanks for the 'heads up'.

I had a similar experience with ZeroNet where extremist groups swiftly occupied the ground and toxified the budding discussions.

So in conclusion, are the idiots keeping us from having a decent solution for a social network?
It's a bit hard to do currently - there's no "pull" support for any Ethereum wallets right now, so the user has to approve every request manually and usually has to be on the site for the site to even make the request.

However, one of the concepts I'm working on to make it easier for the average person to use Ethereum is to introduce a hosted wallet option. If Etherglade hosts wallets, we could then introduce easy subscription functionality (which the user can manage). So definitely plausible down the road!
I'd go one step further and say that any device without mouse support wouldn't cut it outside of a terminal-exclusive programming environment.
Since a number of people who worked on Eve are watching the thread: what's next for you? What do you feel like you learned about human-computer interaction? What are you going to bring to your future work on these kinds of ideas?
Not aware of any negative news.

I presume it was because prior to my comment, no one had yet explained to the guy that you don't need to deal with such a proxy setup to block ads in browsers.

So, your comment sort of made it sound like ad blocking not being too great for him, was because of Firefox and that Brave would be better at it, whereas it really just was because of a missunderstanding of the guy.

Besides that, Brave is also controversial. As much as some people have screamed bloody murder, because Eich's free speech was supposedly taken away by journalists/SJWs/Mozilla or whoever, a good other percentage of people do think that his donation was wrong and that he should have reflected on it and distanced himself from this (past) opinion.

Furthermore, many people think him basing it on Chromium was wrong. No matter how pissed off he might've been at Camp Mozilla, and no matter how much journalists would've slandered him again, if he started supposedly trying to work with Mozilla again by starting a fork of Firefox, there's just no way that you can work for 17 years on anything and then a few months later go "Actually, this competing product is better".

Chromium being Google software and him trying to sell his Chromium-based browser as privacy-friendly does not help it either. There's millions of lines of code in there with tens of thousands of design decisions, all made by the biggest data broker on the planet. You're not patching all of those out in any reasonable time frame.
This kind of dishonest design is all too common now. If you pull back the curtain, you can find all sorts of other ways that the user is gaslighted.

One example is that the youtube mobile website will prevent you from playing a video in the background now. It didn't used to. This is to "encourage" you to use their Youtube RED app.
It sounds like the term they're looking for is "robopsychologist", I was hoping for a mention of the great Susan Calvin.
and why is this being downvoted, besides for the shameless link sharing? PS.. I hope the downvotes continue. I'm going to look back at this and have a good laugh.
This really is not a good argument. You can still write php like in 98, that doesn’t mean you shouldn’t learn modern php if you want to work ever.
I’ve seen people explain why Proof of Useful Work doesn’t work for a blockchain, but I can’t repeat the argument.

Something about monopoly players in the industry of usefulness being positioned to 50% attack because they get “extra” value out....
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sh ./dnstest.sh |sort -k 22 -n
test1 test2 test3 test4 test5 test6 test7 test8 test9 test10 Average
yandex 56 ms 56 ms 56 ms 57 ms 5 ms 57 ms 58 ms 5 ms 58 ms 58 ms 46.60
comodo 58 ms 6 ms 56 ms 57 ms 53 ms 56 ms 56 ms 56 ms 56 ms 56 ms 51.00
google2nd 55 ms 54 ms 56 ms 57 ms 55 ms 57 ms 55 ms 60 ms 55 ms 59 ms 56.30
opendns 54 ms 55 ms 56 ms 56 ms 56 ms 57 ms 59 ms 57 ms 57 ms 56 ms 56.30
google 58 ms 58 ms 56 ms 56 ms 55 ms 56 ms 55 ms 56 ms 57 ms 57 ms 56.40
norton 55 ms 56 ms 59 ms 56 ms 57 ms 56 ms 56 ms 57 ms 55 ms 57 ms 56.40
cleanbrowsing 59 ms 56 ms 57 ms 57 ms 56 ms 61 ms 57 ms 59 ms 55 ms 54 ms 57.10
quad9 62 ms 55 ms 56 ms 60 ms 56 ms 57 ms 55 ms 57 ms 56 ms 57 ms 57.10
cloudflare2nd 59 ms 57 ms 60 ms 56 ms 57 ms 58 ms 58 ms 59 ms 54 ms 56 ms 57.40
adguard 57 ms 59 ms 60 ms 58 ms 57 ms 59 ms 60 ms 61 ms 60 ms 61 ms 59.20
neustar 62 ms 59 ms 56 ms 58 ms 61 ms 61 ms 64 ms 61 ms 59 ms 57 ms 59.80
cloudflare 257 ms 241 ms 55 ms 139 ms 168 ms 163 ms 123 ms 157 ms 58 ms 58 ms 141.90
I think if we can let user control algorithms themselves, to a certain extends it does really help us to gain higher quality of information.

e.g sentimental analysis , fake news filter ...
He has "old eyes" but can work okay for hours on end on a 10" screen? I wonder what font size he runs his terminals at.
Like someone else said, mostly licensing. The place where I work is a bit unusual (non profit, don't really have "products" and when we do it's typically a small team so everyone gets to be on the patent). I'm sure it's harder to divvy up at Intel, where a new CPU generation might take advantage of dozens of patents.
I switched to Macs quite a while ago, when many things usually didn't work out of the box with Linux. Wifi, bluetooth, hibernation, full disk encryption, GPU support, and external monitors were all things you would either spend a lot of time configuring or even compiling kernel modules from source.

The situation today is a lot better. I believe some research into Linux support is still a good idea before purchasing, say, a laptop.
The issue I have is that if the topic could even remotely sell me something, those selling or reviewing the thing sold in order to sell it will be the only results. The communities actually interested and talking about the things have disappeared from the results.
The sound in big arenas is horrible also unless you're in front of the stage. I saw Red Hot Chilli Peppers on their last tour and sat in the upper level. It was just a loud fuzzy noise. You could barely recognize what songs they were playing, and the vocals were totally illegible.
The risks of vaping are unknown. Just look for the mention of "popcorn lung" from the chemicals used for flavoring.

It's also more addictive than cigarettes because the devices can be tuned to deliver much more nicotine than a cigarette.
> we have 2 political parties that dominate most elections

Here in Argentina we use the two-round system (also known as the second ballot, runoff voting or ballotage) to avoid that issue. To win the presidential election, a candidate must get more than 45% votes or 40% AND 10% of adventage over other candidates. If this condition doesn't apply there is a next round where the candidate with most votes wins.

Imagine the following situation:
You got three candidates for the elections: a. Trump (39%) b. Clinton (38%) c. Sanders (23%)

There is going to be a second round, but maybe Sanders voters are going to vote for Clinton to avoid Trump winning. In the current system Trump would have win. You could argue that in the current system Sanders voters would have voted for Clinton but maybe they thought Clinton was going to win since Trump didn't have much chanced.

With the two round system this becomes explicit.

This let's you vote for your favorite and in the second round you pick between the two big candidates.
The new bash env is a bit of a let down for development currently, at least for me. I love this move by MS though and am willing to give it another go in the future once it’s more complete.
Please take a look at a few of his video, you will see. If for exemple you look at the antioxidant effects in blueberries there is probably hundreds of published papers. If you want to explain the scientific consensus in a few minutes video so people can take action in their food choice you need make some simplifications.
Also, you might need to discard the papers that got financed by the blueberries association if their finding are wildly differents than the general consensus.

And by all mean, you are still free to read all the papers if you have the time, but that is probably a one man job just for the blueberries.
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Did I indicate I was on board? Absolutely not. I think it's a disgrace that polite society is gearing up to wreck free speech on the internet just because we didn't like the result this time. But of the people calling to punitively regulate the tech industry now, only the tiny minority who've drunk the HN kool-aid are approaching it from a data-privacy perspective. The actual movement here is about Facebook's assistance to Trump and other extremist politicians, effective or not.
There's no reason you can't have both.
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I've come to the conclusion --- maybe wrong? --- that Go doesn't want you to do ORM this way. For awhile I thought Go didn't want you to do ORM at all (which would be problematic for me, because I think writing SQL is a huge waste of time). But now I think it just doesn't want you to use ORMs that look like Django or ActiveRecord.

Instead of defining and marking up structs and setting up hooks and configuring registries of objects and stuff, just give up on dynamic ORM and switch to codegen.

I wrote a codegen ORM in a weekend that turned out much more pleasant to use than anything like gorm, not least because everything was just plain-ol'-Golang-code. All I really needed to write was the minimal Go code to dump a schema from Postgres, and then a bunch of text/template templates for all the functions I wanted. I got associations in just a couple functions.

I would have published, but it looks like 100 people had this thought before I did. sqlboiler seems like the most mature (I didn't look that carefully). But you could seriously just write your own. If I had to do it again, I'd probably codegen something on top of Squirrel.