skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A fully public, fully transparent, immutable ledger is "useless?"

Only if you don't believe in accountability and transparency.

What with modern voice and face morphing technology, I'd expect major news organizations to start signing their releases onto a block chain to allow us to spot mutations.

Currency is just one potential use case of block chains; there are many others.
That's exactly the issue privacy currencies like Monero and to an extent Zcash solve.
> Firstly, the media currently are too lucrative for my taste and thats why we have everyone being a journalist and publisher.

As someone who works in media: I'm sorry, what? Publishing is certainly not more lucrative than ever, and publishing online now is a far worse business than publishing a physical newspaper pre-cable TV. The proliferation of outlets is due to lower barriers to entry and less need for capex. Plus a little bit of VC optimism.
Mix HiDPI screens and non HiDPI ones, lots of very real corner cases that you hit daily make the experience terrible in ways that can only be "fixed" through terrible hacks and tweaks, if at all.
The problem is that then the battery and the entire electric half of the hybrid system is then deadweight for the rest of the flight.

Now that doesn't mean it's not viable, but it's going to be a difficult calculation to make without actually have specs in front of you.

The catapult solutions elsewhere in the thread seem to make more sense.

But once again we're all back to actually having to do the math on these.

Commercial flight is viable because the engineering safety factors and economic margins are so close to 1. This means that changes actually have to be considered carefully, unlike some other fields where the greater safety factors and margins let you get away with more assumptions.
> In fact, I think the author is underestimating the impact, right here: "Of course, making this change will have a dramatic impact on your revenue for single-visit traffic, because you basically have to design your ad model to work completely differently from how it works today."

To add to this, the quote paints complying with the legislation as a simple redesign. It would require much more than a redesign. The technical, administrative and legal costs of implementing the new system from scratch would be magnitudes higher than implementing the current system from scratch. And add on changing requirements as the legislation is in its infancy.
I wrote "poor black". I think being poor gets counted the most but being black also gets counted against you. I think the point of this thread is that bad behavior gets treated differently for different people. I don't even want to consider what would have happened if a bunch of illegal Muslim immigrants had attacked the bus.
By dating. Date English native speakers and you'll learn the subtle and contradictory parts of the language.
I think it's pretty clear that with kids the solution is a tablet with known content and no connectivity.
German public media is not state sponsored. It’s an independent entity which is paid for by public fees (not taxes, the money never goes through the governments coffers). There are some levers that could be used to exert some level of control, for example the height of the fee is set by a commission that is partly under government control and many ex-politicians get elected into high positions, but all in all, public media is fairly well removed from the governments control here. The constitutional court watches over this pretty well, too. The system has been set up in such a fashion exactly due to the experiences under the nazi rule.

I’m currently more concerned about private media having an agenda that promotes the right.
Perhaps they use something like Gravatar?
(CircuitLab dev here) Thanks for the link. I've also been writing an online electronics textbook with simulations built in https://www.circuitlab.com/textbook/ which should be relevant.
A lot of valid points here, but ultimately very short sighted. Firstly, the author does not mention many of the highly plausible use cases for trustless and permissionless services such as replacing rent seeking P2P marketplaces like eBay (where the advantage is cost reduction) or online Poker sites (where the advantage is manipulation resistance). He does not mention DAOS, where strangers can trustlessly enter into contractual obligation to create e.g. a crowdsourced Venture fund. He does not mention the potential to provide financial services to the 2 billion unbanked people in the world. He does not see the potential for innovative and completely new financial products coming out because of the permissionless nature of public blockchains.

The use cases that he sites include buying an e-book using a smart contract or its use in the supply chain or voting. The e-book example is slightly misguided, because this is not an use case where decentralization provides much value. So the entire discussion about auditing smart contracts is rather unnecessary. But it is nonetheless an important objection that may become important in DAOs. But it's short sighted to think that this problem won't be solved. Some companies are already starting to tackle the smart contract to natural language translations (e.g. Iolite).

Supply chain is yet another use case where it is unclear whether blockchains will add value. Perhaps cost saving. But note that the blockchains used in supply chains will most likely be private, therefore permissioned. It's unfair to put private and public blockchains in the same basket, because they are very different beasts.

Finally the use case of voting. The author thinks that whoever is in power might distribute a few additional addresses to their cronies to manipulate the system. He is missing the point that all data is public in public blockchains. So anyone can audit the voting results later if they want and discover that those addresses do not belong to any real people (assuming there is a KYC type identification system built-in). Voting is an use case where blockchains are sorely required. All we need is for the knowledge to reach public consciousness and for the people to tell their governments that they want it.
With Bitcoin or ether, I can hold the currency on paper wallets without Central storage, and immediately spend it if needed.
Not as easy with cash, and impossible with checking/credit accounts.
> Call me crazy, but I partially blame the dualist world view of the Western world for that, even if most people aren't even aware that they have been raised with a dualist mindset. This whole mind/matter division makes people think that mental problems have to be solved by thinking.

Not crazy at all. I strongly agree with this.
Oil is always a liability. It would be better to claim you ran out. But the Russian subearth nuclear boring machines don't need to invade.
TLS and HTTP are different things. TLS is being used without HTTP in lots of cases.

Besides, even if such extension had existed it would've been easy to write X in TLS header and Y in the HTTP payload to circumvent the ban, like the domain fronting[1] trick currently being used by e.g. Signal.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domain_fronting
Video is superior on mirrorless though.
2004

Zuck: Yeah so if you ever need info about anyone at Harvard
Zuck: Just ask
Zuck: I have over 4,000 emails, pictures, addresses, SNS
[Friend]: What? How'd you manage that one?
Zuck: People just submitted it.
Zuck: I don't know why.
Zuck: They "trust me"
Zuck: Dumb fucks

2018

Zuck: Yeah so if you ever need info about anyone at Facebook
Zuck: Just ask
Zuck: I have over 1 billion emails, pictures, addresses, SNS
[Friend]: What? How'd you manage that one?
Zuck: People just submitted it.
Zuck: I don't know why.
Zuck: They "trust me"
Zuck: Dumb fucks
A stupid question, does this mean i now need to figure out a way to mask any IP addresses in any AWS logs? Like ELB/Cloudfront/VPC logs?
What’s the issue with Better Touch Tool?
Who caused the Bay Area’s housing shortage? (Hint: It’s not just tech)
The subway equivalent of gridlock :(
Supposedly Frisian is linguistically closest to English, but Dutch is second yes. Others following close are Danish, Swedish and German.
Did you try to investigate the stack trace or file a bug upstream? No snark intended!
Norway is already well prepared for a green energy future. Statoil, their state-owned energy company, is a leader in offshore wind power and the whole country has been shifting to green power for some time.
LRB?
I think the simultaneous juxtaposition of GDPR and the Cloud Act is hilarious. Just another reason not to live in the US.
> Right, but they can be thrown overboard

That might work for disposable rockets launched from the south Pacific, but it does not work for a reusable aircraft flying over populated continents.
the decentralization of cryptos like bitcoin refers to the source of the money (the miners), not its end location. most of the "contradictions" come down to misunderstandings like this. there's nothing that forces me to use a particular exchange and if the exchange crashes it will not affect my personal wallet, and i can feel safe knowing no 3rd party can come bail out the failed exchange at my indirect expense.
See my other post[1]. Yes, they are not storing all of the IP; they are simply storing the most interesting 3/4 of it (including the ASN). The most difficult problem they have to solve is a 1-in-256 guess, if-and-only-if the other 255 neighboring IPs in the same "anonimized" bucket also generate similar types of GA records. In practice, the realities of IP distribution and not-perfectly-uniform host behavior will make this one of the easiest records to correlate.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16787053
No, that's chroma aberration(of which longitudinal is a type), the Canon 100/2 exhibits the exact same purple fringing on high contrast areas. I know because it's what I moved from when I got my 135L.

If that was out of focus you'd see a clean transition from black->grey on the edges and a lot more of the detail would be lost.
The problems with the subway are not due to excess demand. Delays and closures have been rising far faster than ridership.
But it didn't actually solve anything. That's just tax evasion and/or money laundering by another name and there are countless ways to do that.
The "shit shelf" allows a large shit to adhere vertically, temporarily becoming a pillar. The shit may then tip over, with the lower part acting as a joint. If it tips forward and the shitter is male, then it smacks the scrotum.

It's a weird surprise, suddenly getting touched there when not expecting it. Then there is an additional body part that needs cleaning.
As an exercise in showing how LR works, this was an interesting article. However, I'm unconvinced that this would be a good approach to implement in a real system when the grammar might change in the future (and they pretty much always do). When things change, I think it'd be difficult to keep it correct, and there are lots of tools to help (such as bison and ANTLR). I've implemented several recursive-descent parsers; their simplicity makes it practical to do directly. But recursive-descent, if you're going to use it, seems to cry out for tooling. Does anyone have a different experience?
As other have already suggested Read. Even if you don't fully understand just read and look up word in paper dictionary. This way you slowly start to build your mental map.

Second is view movies with subtitle even if you don't fully understand them.

You can get lot farther.

Also how about using https://www.cambly.com/english?lang=en
lol, I can drive from bear mountain to downtown manhattan in 60-90 minutes. Usually that involves finding a carefully chosen parking garage and walking fast, but still quick and painless
Nah. Zeolite is just kitty litter.

Swipe some from your cat.
1. Your bank account balance is a number in a database. There are multiple organizations much more powerful than you that have the ability to alter that database. Your protection against them is the legal system which is adversarial between you and these giant organizations, and run by government employees. If you’re fine with that, great. If you aren’t and you want to take responsibility into your own hands, try Bitcoin.

2. Blockchain doesn’t make it easier to distribute and process information. Blockchain makes it harder and a lot harder. Blockchain makes it possible to verify a set of rules going back to the genesis block. It makes it possible for you to prove that you own the book, if someone wants to create a book ownership registry smartcontract. I don’t disagree with this element of the article, a lot of people are trying to use blockchain tech to “solve” problems where it offers nothing.

But that fact that shock therapy is worse than useless doesn’t mean electricity is a bad vision for the future. To paraphrase Drake: the real will live forever, the fake will be destroyed.
Most transit projects are funded at a state level, but the townies outside of cities vote down every initiative because they "don't want to pay fer those gal-dern city slickers and their fancy jerbs." They're blissfully unaware that the city folk subsidize their entire existence through taxes.

At least, that's how it works here in Washington State.
The biggest problem in linux is not directly HiDPI.
HiDPI works (mostly).

However if you can't use wayland you will have a problem when you need the following:

Multiple monitors with different screen resultions.
Lets say your laptop has 4k and you use two external monitors with 1080p than it gets tricky with older wayland or x.org.
However on later stable/edge channels most things are probably better than when I tested this and I even have a colleague which has a 13" xps with ubuntu which works pretty will with its docking station.
>I don't recommend a Master's degree unless you'd like one to pursue a research position in academia or an industry lab

Even if their Bachelor's degree is unrelated to the one they want to get, like the OP? I'm on a similar boat, unrelated degree, but doing programming work and don't want to be stuck doing the mundane forever.

People keep telling me conflicting advice. Get a MS if you have a bachelor's already. Get a BS in CS, your degree is unrelated. Or DON'T get another degree, and learn what you need online. For me I have an end goal in wanting to partake in space exploration because I really like the mission of some companies and agencies to put people on Mars and possibly beyond.

That's not a hop, skip and jump away but I want to know if it's really worth for more than a research. Especially if you consider there are career-oriented MS degrees, like the programs at DePaul for example. What is your opinion on career-focused MS degrees like that one?
The issue with the «chopping» is noise level. Counter rotating propellers are more efficient than a single propeller. «Contra-rotating propellers have been found to be between 6% and 16% more efficient than normal propellers.» https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contra-rotating_propellers
Alex Halderman: I hacked an election, so can the Russians [video]
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Shipamax (YC 17)

London, ONSITE

https://angel.co/shipamax/jobs
You don't think people already bet on wars? Why is there wars? You think that Putin invades countries just for fun? Opening the bets for everyone should make a more peaceful world, because wars don't benefit the majority.
They’re only expensive because they’re so heavily taxed. Putting some of that money to consumer health in the form of more advanced filters would be great harm reduction.
I'm a skeptic, but knee-jerk skepticism is sometimes as bad as woo. I'm guessing that the downvoters have no experience with these kinds of conditions or what it's like to deal with the medical system around autoimmune conditions.

I could tell you many stories about it. I know one person who didn't get his autoimmune disease correctly diagnosed for 20 years. He now has serious problems due to lack of treatment for all that time. Even today, many doctors do not know basic information about those conditions (or sometimes even basic anatomy). The current state of autoimmune diagnosis is still absolutely terrible.

Woo is dangerous, but so is knee-jerk skepticism. I'm not complaining about modern medicine -- just that you shouldn't necessarily be so quick to downvote something if a medical doctor hasn't given their stamp of approval. Science does not have enough information yet to confidently and safely treat these problems, and it has provided many clues about the microbiome, intestinal permeability, and water fasting on the immune system. If you haven't heard of those things, I suggest reading some studies before downvoting.
I'm on a P51 Lenovo, I had been using Apple laptops for the past 15+ years, I run Fedora with Gnome on it and have no 'major' issues with HiDPI, I highly recommend switching to Lenovo hardware, luckily I don't need any Mac specific apps, but if you did, there are certain configurations of Lenovo laptops that are relatively easy to get OS X working on.
Zeolites are in cat litter and laundry detergents, they are made industrially at massive scale. Cost probably isn't the issue here.
His argument wasn't that all state-funded news media is a propaganda machine. His argument was that it easily can become one, and you won't have a better option, since all the other news media would be choked out of existence.
There may have been countless ways of doing money laundering, but give me another way of paying for drugs online anonymously. There's a reason the darknets markets are so popular.
Its going to work out that if they are under the coverage area for GDPR (have EU customers / EU nexus) -- they have to have visitors opt in to be tracked by GA, unless they can guarantee it cant be used to tie the user to any other PII.
I work in game development. In my experience for every big title that makes it to shelves, there are several more that never see the light of day.

Some of those were axed early on in development, but I have personally worked on a game that was cancelled after spending at least $10M.

Publishers know when to cut their losses.
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I think your concerns are very reasonable. However, I think that thinking them all the way through is cause for more optimism than you're applying. For example,

> no longer working for peace because it's not always required to make your economic schemes work

Is this really a possibility? Peace is always good for bounty. Everybody everywhere wants peace. Along with justice, freedom, and love, it is one of the most unifying characteristics of the human condition.

It is precisely those middlemen whom blockchain tech might undermine that have seized upon these soft parts of human kind and turned perverted them.

In a world without fiat currency, I am quite confident that there will be less money for bombs and cheap plastic nonsense. This has been a critique of fiat currency for thousands of years, and only now does humanity have a tool to visualize it.

And it's not hard to imagine blockchain technology replacing currency and consumerism altogether. Of course this will take a massive social movement - advances in the technology alone are perhaps necessary, but certainly not sufficient.

> a "human-less economy" enabled by smart contracts - long before autonomous "un-owned" corporations run by AIs take over the world, they will be used for all sorts of shady things, money laundering, toxic waste disposal by buying it but never paying to store it etc.

But again, humanity has a deep desire for the verdant. The deprecation of "easy" money, global theft, and warfare-as-the-norm - these are continuing imperatives and are good prayers for our earth. And on long time scales, it seems that blockchain tech tends toward, rather than away from, these things.
Think back even before technology. The police weren’t allowed to sneak on your property and search it, or hide on it to surreptitiously listen to your conversations, without a court order. This was to protect your privacy rights, as well as restrain over-reaching government agents.

Now let’s assume 200 years ago all of your property was exposed so that any potentially dangerous people (robbers, horse thiefs, politicians) approaching your house could be easily seen. But this also means that federal agents coming to serve warrants could be seen with enough warning to allow you to destroy evidence, and anytime they’d try to surveil your house, you’d know they were there.

Should it be illegal for your property to be so exposed? Should the government force property owners to plant shrubbery on approaches to their homes to make them easier to secretly surveil, and so surprise searches can be more successful?

The difference between this and wiretapping is that wiretapping didn’t require you to change your property to allow it. The police merely tapped into existing infrastructure.

I say “didn’t” because that stopped being true years ago. The feds were successful at forcing telecoms to alter their systems and equipment to make survellience easier, especially mass survellience. Now the FBI thinks that since they can force telecoms to put backdoors in their own equipment, they can also force companies to put backdoors in customers equipment.

Let’s go back 200 years again where encryption was a popular way to assure the privacy of important messages and papers. Let’s assume public/private key encryption was discovered, and companies spring up where they create unbreakable private/public combos for citizens to use to encrypt their messages and letters. The companies agree to protect their customers by never recording the private keys they generate for them.

Federal agents are outraged, and demand the companies record citizens private keys and store them permanently so whenever a court ruled federal agents could have them those agents could read any citizens private papers and letters. And that the citizens aren’t allowed to know when their keys have been compromised. Can you imagine the theft, blackmail and other possibilities?

That’s exactly what the FBI wants now.
NYC needs to be like the tube in London. When I'm at a platform, I expect to see the exact route of the train. No guesswork. The NYC system needs more redundant labeling. Don't assume tourists will see the 1st or 2nd sign. Just keep posting them clearly with too much detail
I worked for a small photography studio way early in my career. The studio owner was definitely a Canon guy. I guess he was on the right track, heh. He lauded the variety of their lenses for many things.
Salesforce Is Working on a Blockchain Product
Love index cards, there are knockoffs but the Levenger Pocket Briefcase is the consummate personal index card repository.

Also just learned recently there are whiteboard index cards used for flash cards and they’re awesome!

Cheap, bright white (good for small signs) and radiused corners so they stay nice as long as they don’t get bent.

Dangerous track however, because Staedler makes a line of (refillable!) LumaColor fine point correctable pens which are amazing but not cheap. Basically dry erase but needs more friction to remove.

Finally, NUBoard is a “blues clues” style whiteboard notepad, in pocket versions and larger letter sized with tracing/overlay sheets, expensive, cool, still looking for a good use case.
Liquid rocket for launching, batteries for cruising.
Ye moving to Moscow it's been great how cheap the metro is here, and it's reliable and very rarely packed. London is good but the price of Moscow beats it.

I know for the underground, all profit is reinvested, maybe that's the problem in America? Many contractors all wanting their share? At the end of the day you just have to accept that while a good public transport system looks like a big loss on paper, it brings so many benefits.

Too often, excuses are made, and nothing gets done, and then the next election cycle, the same decision is made until the problem starts to appear insurmountable.