skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I was yelled at more than once because of that—but how else do you clean a pan?

Steel chainmail is awesome for cast iron, and probably safe for anything steel wool is safe for. For pans with coating (enamel or nonstick) where that's not safe, soap, water, and sponge works (sponges have the same shedding problem as steel wool, but usually higher contrast and harder to miss and fail to rinse out when they do shed.)
It is. These speculation cycles come and go regularly. HN general knowledge of blockchain is similar to HN general knowledge of AI: slightly above average. There are many smart engineers laying down the foundations of the Bitcoin protocol as we speak, and the hype cycle will come back.
> cases where one must store state, accommodate multiple writers who do not trust each other and does not have access to an always-online trusted third party

Ya, that's distributed adversarial consensus. Decentralized currencies are an excellent instance of such conditions. They really are a useful and interesting application. That doesn't mean they deserve all this hype in the form of investment from the average person, but if they weren't so hyped, they'd have a serious use-case as a world reserve currency and they'd make a very nice international settlement layer. Because all of the countries in the world would know that the currency was politically neutral. I think that's a pretty sweet/useful property to have.

There are definitely a few other cases where adversarial consensus problems exist too. I think decentralized prediction markets are a pretty great application of smart contracts, for instance. But yes, a lot of these things are way way over-hyped and being pushed for things way beyond their useful scope.
SEPA Instant Pay allows transactions of up to 15k in 10 seconds (bigger transactions fall back to the 1 day SEPA rule, I think), and some banks provide it for free. This is only relevant within the EU and associated regions, obviously.
Ah, gotcha. Thanks for clarifying.
Apple CEO Tim Cook says he wouldn't be in the situation Mark Zuckerberg is in
Just so people know, these are generally known as 'complimentary' or 'covering' bids in the public procurement world. Market allocation agreements are also another heading that this would fall under in these specific examples.

Those terms should give you a wealth of information about how and why these strategies work to conceal collusion between competitors.
I know (hope?) you're joking, but we know so little that allowing for that possibility means we can't rule out the opposite. Maybe "aliens" (or some unfathomable event) are responsible for populating all other galaxies with dark matter but missed one.
What's your current job if i may ask? I'm in the same boat as you now.
So, redesigning a barely useable UI, making it harder to use and prioritizes unrelated ads is bad for business?

Wow, TIL
Its funny to watch someone get slapped down with the ole' "name one," Rush Limbaugh tactic. He uses it because people can't reply, since radio is one way. Of course, if you use it on a two way communication, better look it up first.
Why is it not? It's slow, expensive and wasteful. You could host a regular MySQL on commodity hardware that could handle ten times the rate of transactions of the bitcoin blockchain. You could publish signed dumps publicly for people to replicate and monitor as they see fit.

The only interesting feature of bitcoin is the trustless consensus but it's not as useful or revolutionary as the hype would have you believe. In particular it's only working as intended as long as you remain withing the digital world, as soon as meatspace is involved you need trusted third parties and arbiters. "Blochain technology" whatever that is, is a solution in search of a problem.
If the Americans had been immune to the old world diseases, the Americas would most likely not have been colonized, and would have been full and equal players in world history ever since.

That world is very hard to imagine.
This reminds me of the safe point mechanism in IBMs J9 JVM to make GC cheaper by shortening the mark phase.
I’m curious, how many of the issues enumerated could be fixed by a firmware upgrade? Personally, I wouldn’t be too surprised if the dock isn’t upgradeable at all.
> If you change the consensus ruleset...then you need an oracle to tell you which chain to choose.

What are you talking about? The rule to choose the correct chain is well defined and simple. The longest chain, i.e. the one with the most work done, is the correct chain.
I've always been a fan of assigning maintenance tasks to junior devs (or anyone who's new to an existing codebase.) These are tasks that are often lower priority so there is less time pressure to get them done right, and they give the devs the opportunity to learn the codebase. Working on existing code you don't know yet is also a lot easier than new development on code you don't know (and coding standards you don't know), so that makes it a better introduction for the new devs too.
I use a steel spatula to scrape the obvious stuff off, but don't really bother cleaning a grill very thoroughly. It gets hot enough to burn off most of the funk and germs.
Scala Native 0.3.7
> Mining is decentralized

Cryptocurrency mining is as close as one can get to a theoretical free market in the real world. Free markets have known modes of failure [1]. One of these is where first-mover advantage and economies of scale combine to produce a barrier to entry; the result is oligopoly or monopoly.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Market_failure
if you're talking about these: https://www.buygrilldaddy.com/assets/images/TriBrush_other2%...

I think that's just as bad. Small enough to be easy to miss, only attached at one end. There's also this kind of wound one, where the wire is a heavier gauge, and is attached at two ends: https://smile.amazon.com/Clean-Grill-Brush-Bristle-Barbecue/...

those are, afaik safer, though I don't think anyone has studied the issue.
Good point. Having a strong 3rd party intermediary moderating/backing transactions is a feature not a bug. This is why people bank with JP Morgan and similar huge banks. Although they charge fees you do get something for the money. They are governed by laws, have physical locations, people to talk to, fraud prevention and raw financial, legal, and regulatory power. I have no love for them but I believe they will guard my money effectively.
This is actually how the aliens who discover earth will describe what we now call Seattle in a hundred thousand years or so.
30k isn't much for insurance coverage. The point is these arrangements have no legal recourse if they simply deny you coverage, and the fact that they aren't bound by any type of insurance regulation means that nothing is stopping them from doing so except some feelings of charity. When that feeling of charity is overruled by financial sense for the group, people will be screwed over.
> Fire the editor.

Seriously!.

Taking the word out to the public is his paramount duty and he did just the same.
Ask HN: Why you look for a job?
Hi HN,

After graduating, we start looking for a job. Why do you not create a job, innovate, or invent something new?

What is missing?
Don't think of it as removable/constantly swapping storage. Think of it as upgradable storage.
I think this blog and the linked documentation[1] is about the current build system in the main release, not the dev channel (ie the best channel :-).

I believe[2] in the dev release the system is very different, and I don't think there are docs for it yet.

[1] https://www.sublimetext.com/docs/3/build_systems.html
[2] http://docs.sublimetext.info/en/latest/reference/build_syste...
Nothing.

Decentralisation is the selling point of blockchain technology.

Anyone building on a blockchain that doesn't think decentralisation is beneficial in and of itself is a conman.
- Pair coding
- Periodic code reviews on codebase as a team (on weekly diffs)
- Providing team a development guideline and enforcing it.
What is this "newspaper" of which you speak?

Seriously though, i only buy newspapers now when i need the paper for table coverings for craft activities and such.
We did at first, but then removed it after realizing it was just another obstacle in the way that doesn't really do anything to remove spam or anything since anyone can make a new email account in mere seconds.
If they fixed my two biggest pet peeves with Windows 10, I'd be so, so happy.

My number one pet peeve after switching back to Windows from Mac is the search.

On Mac, I used a hotkey for Spotlight to launch apps. It always found the right stuff, even with typos.

On Windows, the Search results can be ridiculously bad even when you spell things correctly. Given how MS owns a search engine and that Apple doesn't, you'd expect it to be much, much better.

My number two pet peeve is that there are two types settings - the new Windows 8/10 settings and the old Windows Control Panel. I don't know why it's taking so long to consolidate them, it unnecessarily complicates the user experience. Just pick one and go with it.
I hope the new windows chief will take updates mess on top priority.
I once watched an episode with a unit full of money ( on a pallet ).
Migo: the latest anti-Facebook
"I didn't know about it therefore nobody did"
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Because at a fundamental level, distributed adversarial consensus commoditizes trust. Institutional trust is an enormous bottleneck in our economy. It is a virtuous cycle that ossifies industries, e.g. banking, and consumer finance. Why does it still take longer to send money to someone in another country than it does to mail them a package? Why are credit cards a pull architecture, even though that is pretty obviously incorrect?

The reason is that the institutions that created these things are extremely well insulated from competition. They are well insulated from competition, in part, because they have acquired the public's trust, through a long track record of not stealing everyone's money.

Solutions to the distributed adversarial consensus problem provide a way to give new businesses access to the same, or even greater, levels of public trust. Now - obviously there are still scams in this space. When I say 'trust', what I mean is, in the sense that two counterparties can transact in a way that doesn't require intermediation to ensure the completion of the transaction.

This really is a fundamentally novel and socially significant innovation. It really does reshape the competitive landscape of a number of industries. At least, it has the potential to. But it is also true that there is an enormous amount of greed and hype floating around. And this isn't in any way intended to justify the ICO scams, or the sky high prices of the existing currencies. It's not clear that anyone has yet figured out the right interface and set of practices for actually realizing all these economic gains. Nobody has yet made the iPhone of blockchain.

But the basic technical problem - distributed adversarial consensus was indeed solved by Satoshi. And that really does have substantial, positive social implications for the future. And I fear that people here are losing sight of that because of the gyrations of these silly markets.
The Art of Thinking in Systems and The Goal are must read.

https://www.amazon.com/Art-Thinking-Systems-Critically-Strat...

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B002LHRM2O/ref=dp-kindle-redirect?...
One of the main problems with missle defense is probably achieving intercept speed. Ground based means you need to fight gravity.

Why not have high flying solar powered long endurance drones that can swoop down and use gravity to get speed, in addition to rocket fuel? You put the drones up there. Kind of like the smart space rock, but you don't need to put it in orbit. Or you can use balloons to keep them up there. Lasers are just stupid retreads of failed spacewars.

Or maybe balloons that can spread out with nanotubes or strong wires that will slice up an incoming warhead. I've wondered about setting up such things for a cheap anti-aircraft defense for guerilla warfare. Like if you make a huge balloon-lofted array of basically dental floss.

Edit: I guess these are called barrage balloons
> In 2008, approximately 7,300 participants made Fedwire funds transfers. The Fedwire Funds Service is generally used to make large-value, time-critical payments.

seems like maybe the crux of this discussion is that, all of the sudden the features of banking have been automated. that’s definitely not the same as “the features of banks, regulation, etc...” have been automated.

But certainly, we can see that the Fedwire is not a consumer product, where BTC clearly is
Funnily, Google invested in a file storage blockchain solution.
One is that I sort of accidentally ended up becoming the keeper of a whole pile of family history -- documents, photographs, memorabilia, handmade things -- and I trust the fire suppression and security systems in my storage unit much more than whatever small apartment I'm renting at the time.
Re: "uncured" is really also cured, but using celery powder which is a source of naturally occurring nitrates, vs "industrially extracted nitrites/nitrates". The result being the same, the same substance used to prevent spoilage. Incidentally Celery is also high in oxalates, so if you tend to accumulate those (kidney stones) you might be better off with actually "cured" products in comparison with "uncured"
So, use steel chainmail just like for a cast-iron pan.
Sounds really awesome - any mailing list or social media where I could follow the project?
those chainmail squares are often marketed for cleaning cast iron based on the canard that soap is bad for cast iron. I'd much rather use soap than steel. Steel's certainly gonna dig into the seasoning.
This is a good read:

hackernoon.com/ten-years-in-nobody-has-come-up-with-a-use-case-for-blockchain-ee98c180100
EVEN the Chinese government? You say that like they're in business of scamming people.
And honestly reading the original Chinese articles it doesn't look like an official government position or anything. It's just a newspaper that happens to be owned by the ruling party posting an article on things happening in the west.
Oh i see, that is what i firstly thought reading your comment.

Yes, that surely would work out pretty well and would be slightly lighter too. But it would lack flexibility and simplicity that are my key points for libmodule.

Thanks for your suggestion and feedback though, they are really appreciated. And thanks for the hint on recv(), how could i miss that!
My favorite from my management consulting days was what we called a "butterfly".

Normal trip would be:

Week 1 Mon - Week 1 Thu: RT CHI-PHX
Week 2 Mon - Week 2 Thu: RT CHI-PHX

Butterfly is

Week 1 Mon - Week 2 Thu: RT CHI-PHX
Week 1 Thu - Week 2 Mon: RT PHX-CHI

Butterfly was often far cheaper due to the almost 2-week stay on the outer ticket and a Sat night stay on both tickets. We got the spend the difference on better hotels/food, or that middle ticket could be PHX-SFO for the weekend.
I'm on iOS and signed up for Uber long before the privacy scandals went mainstream. iOS would have required that I be prompted for access to contacts, but I don't remember what the justification was.

I do know it knows where "Home" and "Work" are without me explicitly telling it. I assumed I'd be able to type in the name of a contact and it'd resolve that to the contact's address I have listed (an actual valid use case), but I just tried that and it didn't work. So I don't know OTOH what valid justification they have for using it.

I do see if you go to invite friends (for "free rides"), it allows you to connect contacts to send codes to. I don't think that's how I got prompted, though.
Different classes of failure though. Older USB ports would just fail to work (in the majority of cases), whereas with USB-C there is the risk of damaging the device.
Aluminum is just being wasteful honestly. Not sure how clean you're expecting, but this does a fine job at getting all the big chunks off (which is what you want). Heat will nuke the rest of it.
Every author of virus, worm or ransomware in the wild. Even some cryptography programs were illegal to use not long ago. Specific programs with the intent of committing crimes.
If distributed trustless consensus is useful, there are cheaper ways to get it than PoW mining. It's just that most folks don't understand them.

The principle value of Bitcoin as a protocol is its incredible (even detrimental, from a technical perspective) simplicity.
5V to 20V can be fatal?
newspaper is also very useful for chimney starters, the best way of starting a charcoal fire.
Microsoft Diminishes Windows Role in Cloud-Focused Reorganization
Think about how demoralizing it must be to work on that project. Especially if you're a new person and all full of hopes and ambition. You end up stuck on a dead-end project that was designed to fail, and it doesn't matter how hard you work, it is bound for the roundfile.
There are already open file storage protocols, and open source clients that supports many storage providers. I use git-annex, which supports about a dozen commercial services, plus any machine that supports SFTP, SMB, Webdav or rsync, among others. And of course, it encrypts everything locally before uploading.

What's the point of the blockchain?
Phil Zimmermann didn't actually do anything illegal, if we believe that the export of PGP was done by other people.
And your retort to the “more importantly” part?
The answer below assumes the following:

- You are talking about the application of general systems theory.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Systems_theory

- You would like to learn to apply 'systems thinking' principals and analysis in many domains or to new problems

- You would like to learn to model systems

- It is also important to note in many domains there are specific branches of systems theory that may be more applicable. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_types_of_systems_theor...

- You could spend an entire lifetime learning in this field as many have done.

Types of systems:

Systems can be broken down by multiple dimensions:

- Complex

- simple

- unitary

- pluralist

- coercive

Systems thinking approaches:

- Hard systems thinking

- Systems dynamics

- Cybernetics

- Complexity Theory

- Soft Systems

- Emancipatory systems thinking

- Postmodern systems thinking

Learning More about Systems Thinking:

- A great website is the systems thinker, that covers quite a bit of topics. The articles are actually archives of a newsletter called "The systems thinker" https://thesystemsthinker.com/

- To get an overview of various approaches to systems thinking from an organizational perspective:

Systems Thinking: Creative Holism for Managers by Michael C. Jackson. https://www.amazon.com/Systems-Thinking-Creative-Holism-Mana...

- For general systems theory: An Introduction to General Systems Thinking by Gerald M. Weinberg
https://www.amazon.com/Introduction-General-Systems-Thinking...

- For systems thinking and the learning organization:

The Fifth Discipline: The Art & Practice of The Learning Organization by Peter Senge
https://www.amazon.com/Fifth-Discipline-Practice-Learning-Or...

- There is a great course that covers soft systems methodology, specifically to solve social problems: https://www.plusacumen.org/courses/systems-practice

- Habits of a systems thinker: https://www.watersfoundation.org/systems-thinking-tools-and-...

- Systems thinking resources: http://donellameadows.org/systems-thinking-resources/

* Update added additional resources.
Spatula does the same thing, only problem is that you have to clean between grooves separately. Wood forms channels inline with your grill.
This. I’m always completely bemused when I first connect a USB-C charger to a USB-C battery pack before plugging into the wall - the LED on the charger lights up like the battery is powering the charger.

There’s also tons of times where the device you want to power from the battery starts charging the battery instead. With both ends of the connector being identical I’m not sure there even is a _good_ way to fix this that ordinary consumers will understand, the better solution might have been to still keep different cable ends. I hope this mess eventually gets better.
The Industrial Age happened. Dept of Education taught us to goto school, get a job and work for 40 hours for 40/50/60 years. They dont teach entrepreneurship for a reason. They want us working, not creating assets etc.
Dumping your USB
Fundamental data types in C++ Programming Language
All I have ever done is give the BBQ a bit of time to heat up before I plan on actually cooking the food. A few minutes in high heat chars any remnants of the last BBQ session and then I just knock the stuff of the top with a spatula before throwing that day's food on.
I'm not sure if you've spoken to any Bitcoin developers recently, but they'll tell you you're wrong and that it is the valid chain with the most work, not the chain with the most work. They'll then tell you what valid means.

Some developers would agree with you though, like Gavin Andresen [0].

Either way, you end up with either centralized miners deciding the fate of the chain, or centralized developers deciding the fate of the chain. Both outcomes are contrary to what Satoshi envisioned.

[0] http://gavinandresen.ninja/a-definition-of-bitcoin
Good idea. I added a link to a mailing list, which'll do the job until I make something better.
Also worth noting that the MIM-104 original and PAC-2 were developed by Raytheon, and I suspect that the PAC-3 was awarded to Lockheed Martin because the PAC-2's problems were so severe.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/laurengensler/2017/07/20/micros...

Since 12 months ago profits have doubled, shares are up 19%, revenue is up 13%, cloud revenue is up 11%, cash reserves are up, oh, and PC-related revenue is down a whopping 2%.

Actually the latest quarter shows cloud revenue up 98% (I assume year-on-year), so Azure is doing pretty well.

https://www.computerworlduk.com/it-vendors/is-microsoft-azur...
That's doing it by proxy, though, and isn't what I took OP's question to mean. S/he specifically mentioned a comparison to income tax, which is much more direct.
No. You don't need "local currency". With widespread adoption you can just pay sellers directly with cryptocurrency.
No, I think interest based matching is overrated. I think shared experiences, storytelling, setting common goals will be more effective. I have a list of a bunch of mechanisms I want to test this with.
Doesn’t it actually disprove the conspiracy theories, considering how open these schemes are handled?
Iron rusts, so it breaks down in your body pretty quickly. Brass doesn't rust, so brass wires stick around forever.
Agreed that they should mention an alternative in the article.

Another article on the CBC from last summer has a good list of alternatives that I found helpful: http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/bbq-cleaning-alternatives-bris...
Ruby 2.5.1 Released
I'm not sure how you jumped from 'similar levels of people brought in also don't have the skills to scale a company and simply optimize for the signals that the people who hire scalers look for' to 'scaling a company isn't a skill and the only things that matters are code.'
Brave browser getting closer to Chrome – including its extensions
Savings.
...by forcing possible riders to pay, whether or not they use the service, although your point is an astute one.
It's the receipts, they are printed on paper that has these chemicals and handed to people right before they eat. As a test try not to touch the recipe when they attempt to hand it to you and get ready to be just about assaulted by the clerks as they try to force you to take it.

https://cen.acs.org/articles/95/i35/Touching-thermal-paper-r...
More of a trade-off between flexibility, cost, and safety.

Safety features tend to constrain or eliminate various uses, which may be needed in some cases.

Alternatively, safety features may be expensive (e.g., the mechanism that instantly stops a table saw when it touches flesh).

In some cases, great design can improve safety at low cost while retaining utility.