skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>they are unsolved, which was the entire point.

I thought the point was that "they are known to be worse."

>Every solution proposed so far is a huge regression for privacy or coercion

Can you please elaborate how is the solution proposed in the paper linked in the first URL a regression over non-blockchain solutions?

>it’s dishonest to claim that

I replied to the question of "what problem is this technology solving," and the paper you mentioned claims that "it seems reasonable that blockchain technology can help to achieve some of the desired properties." What exactly am I being dishonest with? I cited a paper where a protocol is proposed to help solving the eVoting problem. It directly answers the question I was aiming to answer--I never said my list was about already working, deployed, tested solutions.

>File storage is similar: lots of people want you to buy their pet project but if you want reliable, secure, and cost effective it’s all “maybe sometime in the future when we have something different”. Talk about it as an advantage when it’s competitive for most people.

Right... so your counter-argument is that "it's not yet ready" despite claiming that "they are known to be worse." No one said they're ready. They're using experimental technology and they're small teams. They already have beta implementations out if you want to test them. Yes, they're not polished and ready for consumers, is this your entire point?
Flight pricing is opaque, but there is no comparison possible with Uber since that price is based on your individual profile. United doesn’t use my recent travel history and detailed personal information gleaned from data brokers before quoting me a fare class ticket.
Haha, you're forgetting the whole Python 2 vs 3 fiasco. But also, if you look back at JS back in 2012/2013, there were 6 or 7 popular UI frameworks (AngularJS, Knockout, JQuery, Ember, etc). It was churning very fast. React has been dominant for 3 years now and I don't see it slowing down.
So 'tooling' is it's real selling point? Wow...
Last I checked it still used the same mean arrays and dicts, too. Scala's default libraries blow/blew it out of the water.
Here's another great book that touches on this subject: https://www.amazon.com/Lost-City-Deadly-Obsession-Amazon/dp/...

The main story about explorer Percy Fawcett is also incredible
I’ve actually had the opposite experience. Figuring out what parts to use is pretty easy, just takes a little time and attention to detail. Actually getting everything assembled can be a huge pain in the ass, I feel like it’s all designed for people with tiny hands.
That’s a facile complaint. There are obviously classes of data that are far more sensitive than others; a breach of usernames and hashed passwords, while serious, is arguably distinct from a compromise of more sensitive information.

I don’t think there’s anything odd about clarifying that certain data wasn’t compromised.
So "Nobody forced you to give Facebook all that data" will no longer be true. If you don't have your data on Facebook, and it doesn't match your government records, you'll be marked as Suspicious by the secret police.
Thanks, we've updated the link from http://www.baltimoresun.com/business/under-armour-blog/bs-bz....
Can we see a picture of this robot bee? I saw a story about this and they had a cheerson drone as their picture. Apparently they are serious. Is the robot bee better than the bees they are killing? Is it self replicating? Bees cost nothing to produce and one person can maintain thousands of them with only a little training. And they make honey.
> Are you possibly just giving your opinion?

Well yes, in the same way everyone here is... But no, if you look at the features of the languages there's a clear difference.
Oh yeah, maybe the syncing only happens from phone to Mac right now. I've never noticed or tested that, since my phone is basically always with me when I'm on my computer. I've had occasional issues with my Mac having out of order or missing messages, particularly when powering on my Mac after lengthy downtime, but it seems to resolve itself in a few minutes.
That's true, and they would proactively look out for compatibility issues if they knew what your project was. Amazon can check car parts for compatibility, but as far as I know, they don't have anything like that for PC parts.
Doesn't some other countries already do this? I was asked about my LinkedIn for a work visa in Canada.
I'm curious that with the addition of APIs like forwardRef, if it wouldn't make sense to just add some HOC helper that does the HOC ceremony for you. For example, if you look at withRouter[0] from react-router

1. you need to set the display name

2. you need to set the wrapped component

3. you need to hoist statics

4. and with this update, you'd forward refs

Granted, I could just write it myself real quick, but it'd be nice to just have an API you could use that doesn't require you to fully grasp all the complications that come with using a HOC. I've recently just deferred to using render props instead of HOCs. Render props also require way less complex type definitions if you're using flow or typescript.

[0]: https://github.com/ReactTraining/react-router/blob/master/pa...
Most of the power goes along the path of least resistance. It's an oversimplification, but you'll make much more dangerous mistakes if you let intuition lead you into assuming a pretty spread-out flow.
> No, unlike gun owners and manufacturers, software developers have no effective lobbying organization

They just haven't been clever enough to organize their own customers, or some other mass front, politically the way the gun industry has.
You've already hit a limit when you're having to pepper your code with C style union type checks, imo.
Oh absolutely - but GR won't sell me a kit for $300 either... I wonder though if rolling doesn't make proper feedback less important - 'if the surface isn't level, start rolling!'
How would you even think this would happen?
I used to have a Boxee years ago. It was an awesome little device.
Same thing happens on Windows.
IMHO only http://fairpixels.pro and http://airbnb.com are good. They both immediately tell me what they're selling and don't bombard me with visual information.

Stripe's page has so much detailed graphics and distractions on their site that it took me a moment to even realize I was on stripe's page. They even display a bunch of other product logos on their page more prominently (and in color!) than their own - as if intentionally trying to mislead me further [1].

Dropbox's page seems to have an identity crisis but they get away with it because people know what they really are. They're selling me some abstract "workspace" - I have no idea what that means and it's probably not what most people use dropbox for. They immediately want to sign me up for it though?

1: https://i.imgur.com/IcpYiOR.png
https://brickset.com and http://lego.brickinstructions.com have almost all Lego Instructions available for free too.
Who said that international cooperation is feminine weakness other than the guy who wrote it? Having a thought doesn't make it a reality.
But back in the P4 days man was it easy to melt your expensive processor. They didn't have fancy things like thermal shutdown then either.
I think there is, have you spent time within the Freenode IRC server? There seems to be a little older of a generation of devs. In there, most are able to answer and give good feedback.

You solve the commute issue and get a little more in-depth of a knowledge base.
Improved project permissions to support your workflow – The GitHub Blog
Yes, map iteration is explicitly randomized for just this thing.
Take a look at https://onepagelove.com/ if you haven't seen it.
What would the alternatives to it be anyway?
Hey guys,

That's basically what I'm doing with my new Mindmapping tool in dev, Wigwam. I'm pre-launch, but you guys are welcome to check it out.

https://www.wigwams.io

Let me know what you think!
Hey this sounds very interesting! Is it open source / where can I read more?
What’s wrong with it, out of interest? It seems to work perfectly reliably for me, and I’m super happy that they aren’t getting all change-happy with it.
This is why I hate HN. Someone here has an opinion that doesn't toe the line and instead of asking about the opinion, instead of considering he might be right in at least some way, we downvote to oblivion.

Bunch of assholes, really.
This is an announcement of a future prototype. It is literally not useful. It is hype.

I'm all for people trying things out; prototypes are how we learn. So good for them for trying it and seeing what happens; maybe one day it will be useful. But it's maddening that people keep confusing marketing-driven press releases for actual delivered utility.
Same happens on DoorDash as well. I don't use it often so my delivery is cheaper and my wife uses it often and her delivery is expensive.
GDPR, the new EU Data Protection legislation, will actually require companies to issue notification of a breach of PII, within 7 days of becoming aware of it, I believe.
I agree, this is very obviously a policy area where the US should be leading (or at least not setting new negative standards).

It's curious though, as the popular thing to claim today is that China is obviously the future. They're going to supposedly dominate everything, from AI to robotics to insert-tech-thing-here.

Article after article proclaimed that China would take advantage of Trump's immigration policies to do a massive global talent grab.

So what happened to that fraudulent premise? There are almost zero human rights in China. The few they had acquired, have increasingly been stripped back away.

So this social media grab is a massive problem for the US. Having zero rights in China means they're going to acquire all the world's talent and dominate the universe. Something certainly doesn't make sense in the storyline.
React API reminds of Microsoft COM for JavaScript. It was called Component Object Model. It was hell to deal with when lasted.
Well, the US political structure was designed to make such things happen.
Nothing of any value was ever communicated with these stupid buzzwords.
"Have these guys done any legal due diligence on any of this?"

Something, something, move fast and ask for permission later.
Basically every device with both Bluetooth and WiFi use a single chip for both.

I don't know the details about how the Smart Keyboard works but I'm confident it doesn't use WiFi.
I have 1Blocker and Crystal enabled, and while I can't verify how many ads it is blocking, I still very frequently see really bad fullscreen ads (like the "Congrats, you've won a free iPhone" ads that are inescapable without closing the Safari tab).
My point is: Both Democrats and Republics have been complicit

In fact, you bringing it up is causing more distraction and confusion regarding the original issue. Quite literally playing into the systems entire purpose..
In the unlikely scenario of Facebook's demise, how do you think the maintenance of React would transpire? Do you think some other tech company would snatch up the design leads, and pick up the torch? Would it go into its own independent organization?
https://www.canva.com/

is probably my favorite I've seen? It has very little information I admit but I like how a site made for designers has a very unique design itself. I am not a designer myself but I was impressed enough that I still remember seeing it.
The article presumed that the rise in the self storage industry is caused by overflow from the American dream and rampant consumerism, when I think it might be more characterized by the death of the American dream. How many people who rent self storage are homeless and storing their stuff away hoping they can retrieve it when they get back on their feet? How many people who rent storage units just can’t afford a house or a larger rental, but don’t want to abandon sentimental possessions like their books, clothes, childhood furniture, etc. A graph in the article shows investment in self storage increasing sharply after the Great Recession. Is this a coincidence, or is it because a new economic reality that requires thriftiness had arrived
These people are calling their ideological opponents cuckolds and yet I'm the one creating sexist divisions?
https://land-book.com/
I like that they are taking the deprecation of the lifecycle methods slowly. And the automated script to migrate to the 'UNSAFE' version of those methods in 17 is a nice touch. I don't know if I love the new context API, but it's great they're giving an official option.

Of the big JS frameworks that are popular at the moment, I think the React team is doing the best job of balancing new features with minimizing developer pain and breaking changes.

If I had one thing negative to say about this release, it's that I think the forwardRef is maybe moving in the wrong direction a bit. In my experience, higher order components should be the exception, not the rule. They are a neat way to provide some functionality that is otherwise difficult, but their cognitive and maintenance overhead are high. If it stops at forwardRef, no big deal, but I am not sure HOCs are something that deserve explicit API support (and the additional surface area that entails)
https://coinextend.com/
bitcoin exchange
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Sounds like he is a resident.
>Credit cards

Not anonymous nor decentralized

> p2p payments in various countries

Such as?

>cash

Not digital.

>All digital currencies in one form or another are inferior to existing financial instruments.

Then please explain to me how do I make an anonymous payment online without a third party using existing financial instruments.
Huh, this is discussed at the beginning of Descartes's Meditations on First Philosophy but I didn't realize it was such a widespread phenomenon in the time leading up to it.

... nisi me forte comparem nescio quibus insanis, quorum cerebella tam contumax vapor ex atra bile labefactat, ut constanter asseverent vel se esse reges, cum sunt pauperrimi, vel purpura indutos, cum sunt nudi, vel caput habere fictile, vel se totos esse cucurbitas, vel ex vitro conflatos; sed amentes sunt isti, nec minus ipse demens viderer, si quod ab iis exemplum ad me transferrem.

... unless maybe I would compare myself to some sort of madmen whose brains have been weakened by such a persistent vapor of black bile that they constantly claim either that they're kings (when they're very poor), or that they're wearing purple (when they're naked), or that they have clay heads, or that they're pumpkins, or that they're blown from glass; but these people are crazy, and I wouldn't seem less mad myself if I applied some example from their situation to my own.
Facebook tries to prove it cares with “Fighting Abuse  Scale” conference
I’ve traveled a lot recently and was surprised by Lyft always being cheaper than Uber until I had my colleague check Uber rates for the same destination when together.

Uber has decided I’m a schmuck who must pay more for the same service. Not a fan.

For accommodation, the rates are usually a bit cheaper direct (often a few dollars), but unless you have/want hotel status, the rewards program at Hotels.com gives a lower effective rate.
But if we deport 90% of our programmers, how will the banks continue to operate?
If you are interested in systems theory, I would recommend Ross Ashby's Introduction to Cybernetics. It's a short book and free to download: https://archive.org/details/introductiontocy00ashb

Much of the pioneering work in systems theory was done in the 1930-40's by different (but related) groups of academics in the fields of Systems Theory, Cybernetics, as well as Operational Research. Bertalanffy and Wienberg are progenitors of those fields, but I would stick to people like Ashby, who are much better writers. The work they produced is profound and laid the foundation for much of our modern academic disciplines and industrial practices.

There are a lot of fascinating people and fascinating work that came out of those academic groups during that period. They are too many to list, but I would give William Grey Walter and his robotic tortoise's as an example: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lLULRlmXkKo

This might be beyond the scope of what you want, but I would also heartily recommend Carver Mead's Analog VSLI and Neural Systems: https://www.amazon.com/Analog-VLSI-Neural-Systems-Carver/dp/...
Oh, great memories. Those were absolutely terrifying, but luckily I never broke one and only had one instance of a friend breaking one. The absolute worst was when I (being a more experienced PC builder) was helping a friend with his first build, and the friend insists that I install the cooler.
JiLEX Anderson – Closure
I started using the app in 2012. I still use it.

I'm under the impression it's the best nutrition tracking app.

I've moved on to iHealth for tracking weight and exercise amounts, which I used MyFitnessPal in the past. This information is still in MyFitnessPal, and I will sometimes look at the graphs there, but not often. Apple Watch and a Bluetooth scale are great for the quantified self.
“Option<T>” is not an alias for “T | null”, which is apparent when you try to puzzle out how to represent “Option<Option<T>>”.
https://ninite.com/

You get the explanation, the selector and the recommendations all in one page.
I feel that such anti-piracy filtering is counter-intuitive because it promotes awareness. I had no idea what 'kodi' was until today.
There’s a book called American Holocaust by David Stannard which is just devastating to read. That’s where I first learned about the advanced civilizations which existed in the Americas before Columbus.
Looks like the main focus is on ad copy - while somewhat useful the golden ticket we all want is knowing their bids. Ranking by hour is somewhat helpful to know what modifiers they have but doesn't help that much.

In reality we want bids, negatives, etc. Not to mention it's impossible to know what audiences they are using, their remarketing strategy etc.

None of that is realistic though :P
The difference between centralized trust and decentralized trust is you can actually audit and reason about the system. In centralized trust you are typically hoping that human actors obey rules both written and unwritten. In decentralized trust the system is solely responsible and the code of the system is the exact rules it will follow. The tricky part of decentralized systems of course is have their designs been done flawlessly, so there are no vulnerabilities. (A very hard thing to do) In practice, perhaps decentralized systems do not have to be perfect, but just better than the centralized alternatives.
> But what if I need 7 VGA adapters???

All depending on what they were - you might wish someday you had kept one of them!

As somebody who "collects" old computer crap (ok, ok - hoards might be a better term), I had a situation not too long back where I needed one of those old adapters.

I had purchased an AMD motherboard that had onboard VGA; having gone so long since I last upgraded, I didn't read the fine print saying that onboard VGA was dependent on having an AMD processor with VGA built in (APU I think they called it). I had purchased a different processor for the socket, without that feature - thinking "naw, don't need it, because I'm gonna drop my GPU in there - and switch the BIOS over to use it".

I get everything together and I boot it. I get nothing on the monitor, and beeping - POST code saying no video, and I'm like "wtf?". Some quick research and such reveals my mistake: Without the APU version of the CPU, I can't change the BIOS to use the GPU in the PCI-E slot. But I don't want to spend a boatload more money on a CPU just to get this setup. So I have a plan: Somewhere out in my junk I know I have a PCI slot VGA card (like an old S3 Virge or such) - I just have to find it.

An hour of digging around finally nets me the card - has 4 meg on it - I figure that's enough to see the BIOS, right?

I boot it - and it sorta comes up, but everything's all glitched out, nothing's really working right, then it dumps to a screen with a "not enough video memory" error, and now I'm wondering "huh?". So I go dig some more...

30 minutes of digging, I find a different PCI video card with 8 meg; surely this will work. I slot it in and boot it; finally it boots - and I am greeted with this entire super-graphical fancy GUI for a BIOS setup, complete with mouse and everything! That's how long since I last did anything PC building-wise (I was replacing a Core2Duo machine); my last BIOS was textual. It was pretty apparent why it ran out of memory; honestly, I thought it was stupid - but what'r gunna do, right?

So after some orientation and such - I find where on the BIOS it was looking for the video card (of course, defaulting to "on board" - but you would think that if it didn't find it, it would then try the PCI-E slot, but nooooo), change it out, save and shutdown, then re-install my GPU on the PCI-E slot, reboot...

...and it worked.

Had I not had that old VGA card (granted, it's not the oldest I have - I have an EISA VGA card somewhere) - I would've been hosed.
Mainly because known markets were shut down (maybe some new ones have cropped up which are not in that tracker?) and the dominant use of bitcoin transactions currently is wild speculation.
I've heard the logistics value prop from a number of people, and not a single person has ever been able to fully articulate an answer to "okay walk me through how it works". I once literally went through 5+ iterations of this with a friend that devolved into hand-waving.
Sure, but jQuery from ten years ago is still jQuery. What iteration is Angular on now? Its doesn't have the churn that more recent web frameworks have.
Well as the article says it's for "applications for all visa types" can you enlighten me how this would help with giving Brits or Americans a better chance of employment?

Any corporate bringing people in under a skill-based exception is unlikely to be affected - they already game the system, that they helped create, significantly. Any potential overseas worker wanting to emigrate will just add "make a FB, and Twitter account" to their to-do list alongside get a degree.

Social media accounts are not exactly rare things. Would you be happy for the subjective judgements to be required against everyone's (including natives) social media when applying for a job, bank account, holiday, or travelling?
Mosquito early warning app detects the insects from their buzz
The limit for a normal cable is 3A, the limit for a specialized charging cable is 5A.
Did have one thought: maybe see if you can compare landing pages - can you find out if they have an A/B test running - multiple landing pages, what parameters and tracking do they do?
That's unfortunate.

At least we didn't get the stereotypical "your passwords are hashed, so nothing to worry about" one liner I've been reading from a lot of companies during disclosures. All they said here is that the passwords are hashed and with a reasonably secure method -- bcrypt (although without knowing work-factor and percentage of passwords, it is hard to know just how strongly).

It has become pretty difficult to operate online these days without password managers. Password reuse has become a massive problem that worsens with each breach at a popular service. With a password manager you can just rotate the randomly generated password since you likely didn't know your old one anyway.

Off Topic: I'm surprised nobody makes a hardware "pepper"[0] that supports popular algorithms. Meaning you hash the password as you normally would (inc. salt) and then send it through the pepper-ing device for another round before storing it. That way even if someone stole the database, knew the salt, and the hashing algorithm+work-factor, they'd still lack the hardware pepper making their job significantly harder.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pepper_(cryptography)