skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Anything where decentralized trust is useful: money, anonymous messaging, voting, etc.

I completely disagree with your examples: trust in money is centralized because I trust a central government will ensure it is legal tender, and that a central bank will act in the best interest of stability. If there's no centralized trusted party in messaging - how can I trust the messages? Trust has to be rooted somewhere - when a newspaper quotes anonymous sources, I'm implicitly trusting the newspaper and its source-vetting process. When it comes to voting - confidence in the vote counter is essential.

I suspect our difference is more fundamental - I assume that just like any other system - decentralized systems can be subverted, and there will be parties who will subvert it. The only difference is that for centralized system, I usually will trust the central authority to fix/mitigate problems. When "decentralized" systems are subverted, you will discover that they were centralized after all when it emerges that someone (unilaterally or by way of some vote) can make "fixes" that affect the entire system (forking the blockchain, dropping some "rogue" transactions, changing the algorithm, etc).
This article is about quitting from the FAANGs entirely. Moving from one FAANG to another does not entail a financial or reputational hit.
Further articles on this:

New Scientist:

https://www.newscientist.com/article/2082809-the-three-hares...

and someone's passion project book:

http://www.chrischapmanphotography.co.uk/hares/page7.htm
Would that also work the other way? Someone providing a lot of input within 2 years is to be considered senior?
Can you really blame him? The brushes are so apparently so good at cleaning that it's worth his time to inspect the results after than switch to an alternative. It's not like his approach is unsafe.

bristle brush cleaning time + inspection time < alternative cleaning time
That just means you can build your pressure vessels much lighter. But you can't not have your habitat built out of pressure vessels, people can't breathe pure CO2.
Many would, sure. It has advantages and disadvantages.

But the point is to give people choices.

Some people do indeed prefer deflationary currencies, and that's OK.
There was no physical evidence in the case.
I see your arguments as a meld of two separate ones:

1. Very good IDEs — which may be proprietary — do exist and have existed for a while (the Visual Studio argument); and

2. Free Software IDEs do exist and have existed for a while (the Eclipse argument).

However, neither Visual Studio nor Eclipse on its own fulfills both arguments. I think your parent was trying to say that their customized install of Emacs does.

As for the point about people being able to make a living off of an IDE for two decades ... well, that's a low bar, isn't it? Lots of people make a living off of no IDEs (the Vim argument) for decades. The argument wasn't really about acceptably good IDEs for the general public, rather about IDEs sufficiently good to the parent's standards. Something they can invest in and reap rewards off of instead of merely using it, thus implying a higher standard than just "does the job".
How bad CenturyLink is and how this level of incompetence is evil
Fermentation is another naturally-occurring thing that has been used by humans to prepare food since forever. I think it is myopic to focus on fire.
Karen and I think that Prism is best suited to AR glasses.

The future of Prism (and any kind of AR) certainly lies there. We're very interested in developing our own AR glasses in the future— our focus on the utility of the AR gives us an immediate leg up.
Where are you located? I am in Europe as well and we consider Junior 0-2, Mid 2-5 and senior 5+.
However, because it was USB-C compliant (followed the darn spec) and robustly engineered, it will work with the Switch even though it came out nearly two years before the Switch was released. (Hooray!) Innergie had the foresight to add 15v as an "optional and extra" voltage level and now it reaps the rewards. (It also has $1mil in connected device insurance, so I can recommend it.)

I think maybe I just found a new preferred provider of cables and chargers.
Interesting, probably not.

The streaming app was almost rage inducing though. Seeing periodic commercials in and of itself wouldn't be that bad. But NBC seemed to have more ad slots than ads, because I kept seeing the same dumb 3 or 4 ads over and over, and many weren't even relevant. There was a Comcast ad that made no sense to show me. I'm not in a Comcast market.

Worse, you basically couldn't forward through an event since it would stop you at an "ad point" and make you watch that ad. You could then forward to the next "ad point" and have to sit through that one. And if you skipped backwards to re-watch something to earlier than the "ad point", it would show the ads again.

By contrast, CBC basically shows you 90 seconds of ads up front, then lets you watch the rest of the event including skipping around ad free.

The NBC app could have used logic like, for every X minutes of program time you watch, you have to watch Y minutes of ads. That would have been okay. But no, the NBC app was basically "we're going to force you to watch these ads" like that episode of Black Mirror.

And BTW, this was for the paid NBC networks as I had to pickup a Sony Vue account to watch anything not on the main network. For the main network, I recorded everything on my Tablo from OTA where I could skip around as much as I wanted.
On-Topic: Anything that good hackers would find interesting.
That includes more than hacking and startups. If you had to
reduce it to a sentence, the answer might be: anything that
gratifies one's intellectual curiosity.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Assembly language is really fun to write! I think that it's really important to know the basics of modern computer architecture and their ISAs. All abstractions are leaky and I don't think that you can be a truly proficient systems programmer if you don't know the basics of the hardware your code runs on.

Lately I have been writing a lot of code in x64 asm for fun. I've found that it's impressive how much functionality you can fit in such a small amount of space. Randall Hyde's book got me started but I think that a much better introduction would be Paul Carter's PC Assembly Language https://pacman128.github.io/pcasm/
I just finally rid myself of boxes worth of old computer parts and cables. But what if I need 7 VGA adapters???
Well yea, if, for instance, it cost $6 or so to get the season through itunes then that would be clearly higher but not yet stupid... we're not talking about the price scaling for buying things in bulk, itunes it just asking you to burn money for no reason... It is cheaper to get all of netflix for a month than three episodes of a show on netflix. That price step moves us beyond "more expensive" into crazy land.
Apple bought PrimeSense - the company that owned the depth camera technology used in MS' Kinect - in 2013. I wouldn't be surprised if the iPhone uses a descendant of the Kinect.
I wonder how far apart those three nodes are and how much the latency between them matters?
Similar to the sibling's comment, be sure to look at the freshly released 2018.1 version: they finally included partial commits, and did so in a fantastic way

https://blog.jetbrains.com/idea/2018/03/intellij-idea-2018-1...
Available in print from No Starch Press, last updated in 2010 https://nostarch.com/assembly2.htm
This works, but guidance is needed otherwise frustration and demotivation could occur. New developers need to be told that it is ok to not figure out everything right away and asking for the solution is not "failure" but rather part of the learning.
I dread that this will become standard when applying for visas elsewhere. It's already difficult enough.

Also, could this be another route for backdoor revocation of permanent residency and/or citizenship? For instance, you piss off the wrong person in government, they learn you failed to disclose your MySpace profile, revoke your visa for lying, then deport you? It's my understanding that some of the visa questions (e.g. have you committed war crimes) are there to enable precisely this kind of thing.
And their fucking stupid name..... if they fail, they surely will be remembered as the company with the idiotic name.

I can't see serious engineers working on a company named "Cockroach".
I guess you've never heard of CQRS then. Blockchains are not on-demand databases, but rather sources of truth from which derived, queryable databases can be constructed.
Mathematics is tautological, by definition. In what sense anything within a tautological system can be an abstraction? It's a whole package. There is no à la carte Fourier transform without philosophical commitments.
Syed's fingerprints were in the victim's car, no other suspects were.
Now you're just being needlessly pedantic. I wasn't writing a paper, I was making a comment aimed at the public at large. There's no confusion about "energy" in that context, the observer is obvious, the reference frame is obvious.

Also, I made no mention of a "heavy neutrino", again you keep reading beyond and misinterpreting my words for no good reason other than to jump into a thread and shout "well, actually!" Which is not helpful towards educating the lay public on the matter whatsoever.
I think you can still drive some insights. I clicked on the TPC-C results you shared and read their executive summaries.

The Oracle on SPARC cluster (at the top, 2010) performs 30.2M qualified tx/min vs the 16K tx/min in this blog post. The Oracle cluster also costs $30M, which is clearly higher than the Cockroach cluster's cost.

That said, the TPC-C benchmark is new to me. Happy to update this comment if I'm misreading the numbers.

(Edited to incorporate the reply below.)
The $500,000 DuckDuckGo Privacy Challenge
You could reduce almost any feature to "users are bottom-feeding troglodytes who barely know how to breathe so we shouldn't make this because they will just be confused."

I don't think it's the case here. The person who cares what their Bluetooth devices are named and is invested into renaming them would be able to figure that they renamed the device just on their phone, even if they were a bit confused.
I think some are just interested in your data, such as current salary and location.
They could always ask the user if they are that confused then remember the answer so they don't have to ask again.
Not sure what your point is here. Google went to-the-max apeshit insane in their censoring/blocking of gun-related product searches recently, to the point that Google Products search wouldn't return anything labelled with the color burgundy. Surely Google thinks gun manufacturers are so intensely bad as to have 'punished' them via search controls Far, far more than they have here with Kodi.

Aside: Neither of these seems like useful exercises for Google.
By the time you get it in the mail, it might be double. Or half.

I wouldn't want to have to try to explain the volatility of altcoin markets to a grumpy Florida lottery regulator looking to charge you with something.
I don't really get this sentiment. I get not wanting to see ads that have nothing to do with the service you're using, but I personally have never been upset or revolted at HBO running their trailers for other shows before the show I want to watch. Everyone has their own tastes and to each their own I just wish I could understand the absolute revolt some people feel at even content relevant ads.
> regulatory problems

They should be more concerned about federal prosecution for fraud

> I don't get this

Because it is a scam
30 Non-Financial Use Cases of Blockchain Technology. https://imgur.com/a/ShRoW
Murder accomplices tend to be liars. There isn't any compelling evidence of police coaching. The "critical witness" the defense failed to call disappeared for 15 years, and came back with a cash in book deal in tow once the case was popular again. The timeline wasn't perfectly nailed down, but that isn't a prereq of a murder conviction.
Yes. So it is systems theory applied in multiple domains, can be used as a framework to understand or model the world around you.

See my other posts.

It is a way of thinking about the world, and contrasts with traditional linear thinking. It is where interaction and interrelationships are understood to drive outcomes and behaviours of the system under study.

As mentioned it is a massive field.
It's hard to say without knowing the terms of the agreement between Netflix and Apple. If I were Netflix I wouldn't allow them to sell it for cheaper than me.
> the nodes constantly rearranging and floating around

Sigh. So there's like three decades of research on interactive graph layout stability. And almost none of it has become available as code. Much of graph layout is like that. Perhaps VR/AR will finally create sufficient incentive to make it more accessible.
It is impossible to mine ripple and it's cheaper to use Xrapid when making settlements, making XRP not neccesary but incentivized.
That assumes he held his stock. Everyone I know seems to sell as soon as it vests. If so he didn't get all the return you quoted.
Yea, presumably in the visual format you could connect to root nodes together. Or do weird ancestor joins which would be impossible to represent in this tabbed format. But I guess that might be breaking the "mind map rules".
Android is a really really low bar.
That is incorrect, Ripple committed to place 55 billion XRP (88% of its XRP holdings) into a cryptographically-secured escrow. You can read about it on Wikipedia.
I haven't done any assembly on intel chips. The Motorola 68k was so much easier to program I never even looked at anything else. I guess that has improved by now?
This will happen when all the smart people have moved on and only the less intelligent sales people and accountants are left.

It definitely will happen eventually but then a great ship-jumping will commence again.

I am paying Netflix to provide a service for me, I will stop paying Netflix if that service includes shoving an advertising pipe directly into my brain.
I think the proposal is directionally correct, but a bit too sweeping. Saying that "every paper should have a societal impacts section" is naively prescriptive, as can be seen by comparing to statements such as "every paper should have an experiments section" (false for theory papers), or "every paper should have a future work section" (in some papers, future work is folded into the intro).

On the other hand, I am in favor of the idea of holding claims about societal impact to a higher standard of rigor (although worry that the effect might simply be for people to stop making such claims altogether). I also think that encouraging (but not mandating) greater discussion of societal impact would be very positive.

Here is an alternative proposal, motivated by the often space-limited conference format used in computer science: allow for an optional extra page specifically dedicated to addressing societal impacts of the work. Reviewers are free to read or ignore this page as they choose, but crucially, this page does not count towards the page limit of the conference.

The goal of the above proposal is to eliminate the need for authors to choose between addressing societal impact and intellectual impact in a paper (even if I care a lot about the former, I know that most reviewers [correctly, in my opinion] care more about the latter, so there is a strong disincentive to spend space on the former given a strict page limit).
This is a time consuming process that requires going to court and being accepted/coordinated by the receiving party. That makes it near impossible if you've already received an offer, since many offers are time-limited.
> I think the fundamental assumption is that "Satoshi invented a useful solution to decentralized consensus".

And this very assumption is so untrue. What Satoshi invented is document
timestamping protocol, not consensus protocol.
Net Promoter Score - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Net_Promoter - is used to measure just this.

> Net Promoter or Net Promoter Score (NPS) is a management tool that can be used to gauge the loyalty of a firm's customer relationships

It asks one question:

> How likely is it that you would recommend our company/product/service to a friend or colleague?

The wikipedia article provides more details including criticism.
Based off that list are you saying companies like T. Rowe Price and Citigroup are offering ETNs and ETFs that have fund compositions that are random for each customer?
Distance makes things appear shinier than they are. It's not just new-to-tech people who find these companies prestigious. It's anyone who is sufficiently far from the industry, and especially people who are in other status-oriented professions. For example, bankers and lawyers, who are themselves in high-status professions and at high-status firms within their profession, find G/FB/AAPL very prestigious.

It's a credential, and like all credentials, if you can precisely measure the thing the credential is certifying, the credential loses its value. Having worked at these companies or at least worked with people who have, many of us feel the credential is not useful. We can personally evaluate each other's skills. But from outside of Silicon Valley, the credential appears, and probably actually is, useful.
Whoever builds the Whatsapp for Tox would achieve legend status. It's a cool protocol but still a diamond in the rough.
Fire substantially predates fermentation, though. We were already benefiting from fire-cooked food long before the rise of conscious fermentation.

Besides that, fermentation at scale, for pickling, beer, or bread, requires containers - which are a product of ceramics, which is a product of fire. Fermentation as a humanity-changing technology is inseparable from fire that way.
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> I feel like 100+MP is going to be an enthusiast thing for a long time. It seems a lot like car speeds.

Is there anything in photography analogous to speed limit? Because that's often a reason why folks don't go over say 80mph not to mention well over 100.

If tomorrow 100MP cameras appeared and were cheap enough I don't think people would think twice about getting them.
> PoW is just one of available consensus algorithms.

No, because blockchain is not a consensus protocol.
I would use something like https://www.packet.net for that.
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blockchains have been on their way out since 2009.
2007 was 11 years ago. That's glacial on tech timescale.
A single resistor is seriously not challenging to get right. If they can't do that they sure as hell shouldn't be making a cable.
There are some fruits that are technically impressive and expandable even without much mainstream use or attention: e.g. Time stamping.
I have two things in place:

- recaptcha to avoid people creating spam accounts
- email validation with a grace period of 3 days.

This is a good balance so far.
That’s simply untrue:

https://www.nasa.gov/pdf/578543main_asap_eol_plan_2010_10102...

https://www.nasaspaceflight.com/2013/08/bringing-down-iss-pl...

https://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/casi.ntrs.nasa.gov/199600...

https://standards.nasa.gov/standard/nasa/nasa-std-871914
Here's a graphic that lists some examples. Most of them will fail, but these are still good-faith projects nonetheless. https://imgur.com/a/ShRoW
Unlike victims of gun crimes, the victims of copyright violation have the money and lobbying power to effect change.
when will they fix iMessage threading?
In my experience, pair program is especially valuable for learning workflow, tools, debugging tricks, etc. For instance, I remember learning how to efficiently navigate a project with an IDE through pair programming. For ramping up on codebase/architecture, I prefer a brain dump then go off on my own and ask questions as needed. Every person has their own method and preferences of course.
just for the record, "B" option is not helping here.
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Gotten worse if anything.

Chips are more complex, more features etc. Things pile up for compatibility. That is a good and a bad thing.
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Thank you kindly, sir
Probably, but it's not really true. It's more comfortable to hold a lighter lens but the heavier lens has more inertia so resists micro-tremors more effectively. In the end it's pretty much a wash.
If everyone takes that stance then NOTHING changes - your suggesting apathy - this is how the status quo remains in place.

OP literally has nothing to loose and everything to gain by being honest about his situation - the knowledge is already public and working against him.

Also thank you for sharing - happy for the dialog!
A short note that the total cost of that SPARC cluster was $30 million. You're not misreading those numbers, but it requires a little context.

We're focusing today on our improvements over CockroachDB 1.1, using a small-ish cluster. We'll be showing some more scalability with larger clusters in the coming weeks. If you've found CockroachDB performance slow in the past, you will be pleasantly surprised with this release!
The trouble is when some eager MBA comes along and sees a bunch of customers paying below market rates, so decides to shutter the program and bump payments up for the loyal customers.
> I think the average human being values convenience and low fees much more than privacy

I think it ends up being more nuanced than that, with plenty of gradations of all of those factors.

If it means, "Literally nobody can know whether I prefer pads or tampons, and where I get them, not even the person I buy pads or tampons from", then I'm going to lean toward paying cash at some random drug store. A brick and mortar because getting things shipped to me requires giving them identifying information, and cash because it has literally zero fees and leaves no paper trail.

If I have to buy something online, then I already have to give them my name and address so I can get it shipped to me. At that point I may not care if my bank and the credit card processing agency also have a record of the transaction, because the info's already out there. At that point it's just a question of whether there are privacy laws that prevent parties from selling too much information or not - either way, I'm guessing 1 and 3 parties will ultimately fall in roughly the same equivalence class, on the privacy front.

Personally, I don't see a middle path where blockchain is preferable to either of those options. If I want complete privacy, then I don't want that transaction appearing on the blockchain, either. If I don't, well, might as well get some consumer protection.
OP: https://gingkoapp.com/ will blow your mind
Had one stuck in my throat. It's absolutely terrifying
Very good postulation I had not thought of that. I think it will be important for HN to retain that level of quality as I think we have all benefitted from the higher-than-average level of thought that goes into an HN comment relative to other internet communities.
I'd been looking for other uses for my angle grinder, and this is way better than the other ideas I had.
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Equally sad as the existence of the terrible Kodi piracy boxes is that the legitimate set top box/"smart TV" industry is completely ignoring it. I'm not aware of any TV manufacturer building Kodi into their product, instead they invent their own junk, which is usually much worse.

Does anyone know why the consumer electronics industry is ignoring Kodi?