skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They even know unlisted data, like which buyers are currently looking. If they combine it with data from social network partners and other providers they can know the school-friend networks of the buyer's kids, church affiliations, how racist they are, etc.
What I really want to know is if this means first class Python support in Qt Creator?
Encryption is a subset of cryptography. There are also digital signatures and other things.
It is already true that most (nearly all?) breeds of domestic animal are no longer used for food: they are kept as pets, in effect, in farms that specialise in preserving unusual breeds and displaying them to the public, with notices next to the pens explaining how there are only 150 of them left and feeding time is at 3.30pm if you want to watch. The same fate awaits today's popular "production" breeds, whether they are replaced by Quorn or by an improved breed.
This is quite an impressive display of hubris for most of these people to claim to have "built the internet". And of the fraction of them who have built anything at all, most built things that were intentionally designed to do the things they're apologizing for now that the public has become annoyed by them, so this "apology" rings hollow. This isn't a "sorry we did this" apology. It's a "sorry you're mad about it" apology.
Ethereum Classic also hard forks in order to make changes and other upgrades to it's protocol.

Ethereum has not yet hard forked to enact this proposal. At the moment it looks very unlikely to gain the support needed.
Cryptography is a broader subject that encryption, including for example message authentication, not just message encryption.
Chronic conditions can flare up unexpectedly. Just so you know.
> also because of the insane attitude of web people that it should try and compete with native applications

To be clear, the cause of the rise of the “web application” was that there was no other cross-platform, automatically updating, mostly standardized and stable application platform available on every device.

Simple economics demand those features from an application platform, but nothing else offered it. Not Java, Flash, QT, nor any of the mobile native app platforms.

Web apps are the “least bad” solution that meet those critical requirements. And they will never die because of it.
It only takes a couple of gigabytes to build a dataset that can get painfully slow to go through in Ruby. Especially if you're not using the right techniques to store/parse it.
It was just after WannaCry was big news. They had installed some Blucoat or something along those lines. I think Firefox didn't play so nice with the monitoring software hence it was classified a risk. I have to add that the Security Director wasn't a security expert, highly ambitious and was never going to entertain anything he didn't understand.
Probably data center.
Very interesting. 'Learning to Play Dumb on the Test' was the most surprising one to me, followed by the alien-turned-car that lead to 'novelty search' algorithms.
> Homophony is extremely common in Mandarin; eliminating characters would make reading very very difficult.

Well, it would be as difficult as understanding a spoken phrase that uses such homophones. (NLP people would probably hate that though :) )
> we are probably not even close to insect-level intelligence

I think the problem is that we do not have a slightest clue what is (even insect-level) intelligence (or consciousness, which is often mixed up in the discussion).
One quarter as many deaths as World War 2, all of it in southern China.
It's not a full rewrite, but many core parts have been rewritten. (Possibly most notably the UI).
You talking about Theranos ? Never knew what they were doing was Lab-on-a-Chip.
I mean, you probably shouldn't - I'm being kinda overly dramatic - I don't actually think Chrome listens to your calls and texts or reads you receipts from shopping online - Google has other tools at their disposal (Android and Gmail).

But I like the analogy because I think people don't consider what online tracking means, and creepy dude on backseat is easy to imagine.
Sure writing a compiler can help there, but like I said, there are probably better ways to test that taking into account the design goals of the language. If you find that writing compilers is a pain in your language, but no one in your community is using your language to write compilers, are you going to invest resources in making your language better at writing compilers, or are you going to work on things important to your community?
There would be some, but not the full amount because pensioners will pay federal tax on the pensions.
I think the problem is that blockcain fans mostly don't care about real crypto :) and use "crypto" as a synonym for digital currency.
To me, saying "crypto" means blockchain seems like saying "paper" means book. Sure it is needed, but it is not really the most relevant thing to its function. We surely wouldn't call a pdf "paper" but I think some might call Ripple or even a simple sql database "crypto", and cryptography probably still is used in there to some degree but I think it is very far from the core.
That’s a deliberate strategy on the part of the conservatives.

Ferishizing the past while simultaneously ignoring everything they have to say is a cynical way to anchor modern policy position with the distant past.
Given the context, likely Data Center.

Many of your recent comments are asking for clarification of acronyms. While I sympathize with the desire to understand, it would be good practice to take a stab at it yourself (my preferred search engine is a common starting point for me—they're remarkably good at narrowing in on an answer given the acronym and some context); and ask for confirmation or clarification if it's still necessary.
Brad Feld – The Price of Free Is Actually Too High
Roon Labs – Nucleus white paper
There's a lot more to Types vs No Types than Java vs Ruby would imply!
Depends on what you do. I don't see much different in general browsing, but youtube takes much less battery in Safari.
lol as if banks are actually able to avoid conflicts of interest.
If `extensions.pocket.enabled` doesn't sync (I don't know if it does by default), consider adding `services.sync.prefs.sync.extensions.pocket.enabled`, then it will synchronize across devices.

Bookmark sync is currently getting a complete overhaul to fix the various shortcomings: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1WoM7JEatr_QJ1CrGk2rwoSDy...
For a long time this article [0] was my go-to when explaining Bitcoin transactions to others but this submission is more recent (has SegWit, etc.)

[0]: https://curiosity-driven.org/bitcoin-contracts
Yes, I've encountered them. It seems really hard to do them in a way that doesn't touch heavily on style. To the extent that the preferred solution to trying to shift the focus back to deeper issues is to go one step further and mandate auto-formatting tools. So individuality-of-style has been dismissed out of hand.

Can they be helpful? In some cases, perhaps yes. But they're definitely pushing a collective-ownership, try-to-smooth-away-individual-differences agenda.
Definitely not another housing bubble. No way.
Why this shit is here?
>"I don't know of any literature that says that a sedentary lifestyle is healthy for the brain"

Here are two I found:

>"More sedentary behavior was strongly predictive of more depressive symptomatology and, unexpectedly, of better cognitive performance."
https://journals.humankinetics.com/doi/pdf/10.1123/japa.13.3...

>"Self-reported sedentary behavior was related to better performance on one cognitive task (trails A; p < .05)."
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4861254/

Obviously these are "undesirable" results, so you have to look a little bit deeper to find them.
Salaries are ~2,5x higher than in Germany with slightly higher living cost. You can win if you don’t need 4 bedroom apartment and kindergarten.
Stuff like this is why smart contracts won't work for the general public. Nobody wants to live in a world where a bug in a contract lets people steal your money and you can't get it back, even when you can prove who did it. We have contract law to deal with this stuff in the real world.

The problem is, if smart contracts are subject to human governance, what advantages do they have over any other kind of contract? How can they be trusted more than anything else that is subject to human governance? Automatic execution of contracts is nice, but if history can be rewritten later, you can't really build a deterministic system on top of them.
The Jim Shinns of the world are often LPs in VCs like Edison Partners. And/or they have led a major exit for the VC. Either of these situations gives them ample leverage for a "vanity" Series A/B. Even without the pool or country club.
You speak so forcefully about empathy and thinking about other developers, and how your decisions impact others.

And yet:

- https://github.com/ampproject/amphtml/issues/13597

- https://github.com/ampproject/amphtml/issues/13623

- https://github.com/ampproject/amphtml/issues/13600
> The everyday person has never once in their life, ever, heard that viruses are good.

Uhm... I'm shocked to find someone who seems to think that viruses have an effect only when people "believe" in them/have heard about them. Sorry, that's not how anything works. It is of exactly zero importance whether or not anyone has "heard" about viruses. I'm shocked to read stuff like that in this forum.

We were talking about the headline, and I repeat, it's a faithful representation of the main point, pretty much 1:1. From my perspective, I felt well informed when clicking on the article - for once I actually knew what it would be about before I clicked. That is a good thing.
I think it would be almost impossible

http://wiki.c2.com/?SufficientlySmartCompiler
I've sent you an email about reposting it.

We're always looking for good submissions that didn't get much interest, so if anyone knows of others, please email links to hn@ycombinator.com and we'll take a look.
I'm mostly on your side on this one, but you have to remember that a lot of folks see decentralization as merely having more than one option for centralized law/money/etc.

Today, I (generally) get one set of a laws if I live in a particular geographic location, but a "centralized" ETH committee/board could serve as an authority for some set of actions by individuals unbound by geography.

Some people just want that choice.
So it's purely for risk free investing? Investors are after a high reward but don't take on the risk?
You don't need to pay it, but people feel that it is worth it/ You can definitely get a broker who works by the hour for you.
This EIP has not been enacted via a hard fork and from the looks of it doesn't have the required support.

The ETC fork happened very early and affected some large percentage of available tokens - I think 15% or so.
CSS Mint-Lightweight and simple to use UI Kit. Fully responsive just 3KB gzipped
Chrome only collects information on you if you “sign in” doesn’t it? Which it doesn’t do by default although yeah it does push you to make that choice.

And all the browsers need you to sign in if you want multi device sync.
Why would you need to change the constitution anymore? Now we just twist into a pretzel to reinterpret the meaning of things.
I use Nightly on OS X for web development work every day and don’t see anything like this. Including using multiple screens with scaling (although I almost never work on the battery).

The one annoying issue that I do get is occasionally Dev Tools will stop working for a window and I have to close and open the Tools windows. Outside that, no complaints on OS X.
What's peculiar is that they don't use OPM for this. There are literally a million of these flippers out there. Why not just work with them to buy it and sell it, and Zillow gets a percentage for providing the lead? It's like zero risk for Zillow, all upside.

They must be making a lot of money from this if they're going it alone. The 7% drop is probably not because of riks here but because it signals lack of growth.
Nope. Users are in charge when they make the choice of which software to use.
These windbags did not build the internet.
I never left!

There was a noticeable gap between the two browsers for several years. Not anymore.

The plugins to put my tabs on the side panel also kept me in the fold.
>dopamine cells

The quality of the article is horrifyingly low
Zero problems here with Opera on Android. Are you sure you are using a real browser?
I'm all in favor of that, but good luck raising taxes enough to make that possible.
In 1973, America and Russia Almost Fought a Nuclear War Over Syria
One is rational and comprehensible, the other one isn't. At least that is how I read "spiritual" and "enlightenment"
Do you have any proof of this, or is this or is it just your opinion that the comparatively smaller groups of researchers at hedge funds are well ahead of academia and the rest of industry?
That means antitax people should be for such proposals not against.
The disaster is only reversed in the main blockchain. There can always exist other Ethereum blockchains where it is not reversed.
On Computable Numbers, with an Application to the Entscheidungsproblem (1937) [pdf]
Interesting they do manual segmenting, who's working on image recognition to automate measuring of the various areas - presumably then all past scans [with patient acceptance] could be fed in to a system and the brain regions could be measured and classified.

The correlation graphs are awesome!

http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article/figure?id=10.1371/j...

Not sure you could get a better randomisation if you tried with just 35 points??!
My same analogy with cars would be : "Would you drive a car produced by Exxon".

Google interest is not the web, it's its own profit.
Trying things out in many tech fields is still expensive and often impossible. Like you can't go try your hand at micro(forget nano) lithography at a hack-lab.
Up until 6 or 7 years ago trying things in electrical design was hard because of expensive monitoring tools like oscilloscopes and stable power supplies (thankfully that is changing due to Rasberry Pi and Arduino).

I still hope that expensive university resources, like lab equipment, could be shared better. For example Columbia, CUNY, NYU could certainly co-own expensive equipment to lower costs and access instead of each of them owning their own, if only for the purpose of lowering tuition costs.

Right now this sharing is only true of information. The most liquid and sharable resource.
The "generalized mechanism for doing so", in this case, would be the EIP process itself, no?

It's a bit like those clients that say of their software, in its requirements, "I want my software to be customizable after-the-fact with any new logic I desire, up-to-and-including the power to completely rewrite the application." Some people try to solve this problem as stated, resulting in the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inner-platform_effect. Other people recognize what's happening, and just respond with "the customization mechanism is the source code. You can customize it at any time by contracting a programmer to do so for you."

The FDIC of the Ethereum blockchain† seems to be—as this example, and the earlier example of the DAO, would suggest—the Ethereum maintainers themselves. The way the Ethereum maintainers propose changes to the consensus protocol to fix problems is through EIPs. So, if there's an Ethereum "natural disaster", the natural thing to expect in response would be an EIP.

† (as opposed to the Ethereum Classic blockchain, which has no such entity, which is rather the point of the fork.)

You could create another layer atop the EIP process, formalizing specifically the recovery process from a "loss of money" event... but it's really going to boil down to a consensus-algorithm change in the end, so an EIP is going to have to be involved.

(Unless you're suggesting that there should be some way, within the Ethereum VM itself, to aribtrate disputes in a way that invalidates the side-effects of previous contract calls? That'd certainly be a trick... especially given that the said "arbitration" would seem to be a human-complete problem, and Ethereum doesn't even have oracle support yet.)
Both Justice and Stanley Kubrick are two of the largest influences in my life. Loving seeing this as the top comment on a front page article about Kubrick.
My guess is that it's cause they gained a community - that seems to be the #1 thing that keeps people in the sport.

I did MFF and got my A License and stopped jumping because I honestly didn't enjoy the community.
So it's either raise taxes now or raise taxes later.
If they're really tracking the same 100 identified people, with no replacement, then you'd expect the same result even without regression to the mean, simply because very sick people tend to die, and dead people tend not to call 911.

One would hope that they're not doing that, and it's just that the article is imperfectly worded.
I don't understand why there has to be a battle at all. What is this, a grammar nazi club?
A Yelp employee publicly complained to the CEO – hours later, was fired (2016)
I like it, thanks for sharing.
When the lie is essentially acting like the record was already expunged, that is a terrible reason to deny expungement. It's not quite catch-22 but it's getting close.
Ethereum is sort of like Bitcoin, but includes a Turing-complete scripting language. Programs written in this language are called "smart contracts", and can do a much wider range of things than simply dealing with currency.

One of the core principles of blockchain technology is immutability - that is, once a transaction becomes part of a blockchain, it stays there forever and can never be undone. In the case of Ethereum, this also includes smart contracts.

An advantage of immutable contracts is that users can trust that it will always operate in exactly the way the code was written, and the developer who wrote the contract cannot change the rules, or alter the "terms of service" as so often happens in centralised systems. A disadvantage of immutable contracts is that if there is a bug in the code, it remains there permanently and can never be fixed. In this particular case, there was a bug that allowed someone to instruct the contract to "self destruct" (refuse to process any more transactions), thereby locking away a large amount of ETH.

EIP stands for Ethereum Improvement Proposal. This particular proposal (which, as I understand, has not yet been accepted) would alter the Ethereum protocol to handle this specific contract address specially in such a way that reverses effects of the unintended self-destruction, allowing the lost funds to be recovered. This goes against the principle that the blockchain must be immutable, otherwise known as "code is law".

Breaking immutability in such a manner is highly controversial; the debate is about whether the development team should make a one-off fix for this particular case because a lot of people lost a lot of money (or rather ETH), or whether they should leave things as-is to avoid destroying trust in Ethereum's promise of immutability.

This has happened previously on one occasion; see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_DAO_(organization)
Yes for the most part, just check out weibo.com baidu.com xinhuanet.com for example, but its still possible to read at hn size, just not that comfortable.
I have used Firefox as my primary browser for as long as I can remember, so I don't know how to compare its speed to Chrome in general. But animations are stutter filled and janky in Firefox yet work buttery smooth in Chrome on the same laptop.

Hope that it is something which can be resolved eventually because it would be nice to not have to keep Chrome on hand for such occasions.
Paper seems to miss the modified-2Q algorithm which was in memcached as of the cited 1.4.33 (became default in 1.5.0). Has very different performance characteristics than straight LRU.

Still need to give a more thorough read, but spotting other errors, ie; FB memc (according to their paper) balances pages by tail age, not hit rate.

Seems interesting though.
Use of the term 'fringe' is a kind of name-calling used to casually dismiss. It's much easier to do than to articulate an idea's shortcomings (as is downvoting). It's intellectual racism.

And too often, the phrase "There’s little evidence..." means "I refuse to look at it". One more example: Too bad Milutin Milanković had already died before he was vindicated.

Rinse and repeat for the dogmatists, haters, jealous.
> Today, I (generally) get one set of a laws if I live in a particular geographic location, but a "centralized" ETH committee/board could serve as an authority for some set of actions by individuals unbound by geography.

I believe it should be quite possible to formulate such a thing as part of a smart contract in which the ETH committee/board may always interfer if they desire if this is what people want.
Living Out of a Van Is the New American Dream
It’s an expensive, yet ultimately entertaining lesson in why regulations and institutions exist. I suspect that most people knew this was silly going in, but saw there was money to be made. A smaller subset were sufficiently idealistic/ignorant, but quickly learned the lesson. The fun is in the remainder who aren’t just trying to pump money out of rocks, but still really believe in it, the real cryptolibertsrians! It’ll be years before they get over their dreams and crash down to reality, if they ever do.
In the U.S. the two major parties work to keep third parties off the ballot and to create rules making it difficult for them to succeed.

I can't cite chapter and verse, but I've seen stories about third parties being sued over every possible ballot application technicality, being excluded from debates, etc.
When I first heard “crypto” for “cryptocurrency” I was saddened because it seemed like the meaning was being coopted away from the “real” meaning of “cryptography”. But now, I think we're stuck with it. Words sometimes just have multiple related-but-different meanings. Like how a chemist's "organic" is different from a farmer's "organic". Or, perhaps more saliently to this community, Y Combinator's "hacker" is different from CNN's "hacker".
Playing it over and over again: how Casablanca was made
The Ethereum VM accepts opcodes like any other modern computing platform. There's a lot of work going into formal verification of contract code. There's nothing in principle that prevents compilation of smart contracts into VM code via a formally verified compiler that implements a functional language.
Google is the new Microsoft. Every time I click on a link on Gmail mobile app, it asks me, by default, to install Chrome instead using the default browser. Even though there is a “don’t ask again” checkbox, it always asks again next time.
Programmer Time Translation Table (2012)
> I always knew Google Chrome was sending back telemetry data or whatever and never looked back.
Then You may want to try Iridium which is privacy and security oriented Chrome fork.
I'd love to, but its still very clunky in some cases. Some examples:

It decided to make its interface language not English. Now I cant set it back, the stuff recommended from the net does not work. this also underlines all the text I type in English.

Tab tearing is way better in Chrome.

Scrolling with a touch pad feels...odd. Its lagging a bit, somehow the physics are off.