skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Interesting. I work from home most often, and I find that not having to tack on a 2 1/2 hr daily car commute leaves me time for actually socializing IRL as opposed to trying to cram that need into the office.
Europe is full of city bikes with coaster brakes. Everybody here has a bike, not just the hard-core bikers.
Emphatically agree. No child picks which family they are born into, let alone the circumstances, or the cycles they will have to break in any socio-economic bracket.
Just ask if they like goldeneye or metal gear solid
Reminds me of the time I learned Dvorak.
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> it is not the mining itself which creates the bitcoin

It is the hashing power of the mining which secures the bitcoin. It's nigh impossible to steal / double spend, and this is pretty revolutionary IMO.

That said, proof-of-stake and other options exist that might also provide adequate security while posing a smaller cost to the network.
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No. If you must talk to yourself then you should "seek employment somewhere with a dedicated office or work from home" -- if you were so important that your productivity should come at the expense of those around you then you would already have an office.
I bought Sennheiser HD 280 Pro for this reason. Am pretty happy with them so far (which is just a couple weeks).

I had a pair of QC25s and while they were nice, they did the worst at blocking out the noise I most wanted to block out.
And lots of teams have single developer offices. Saying “at Apple” is meaningless because there are a wide variety of situations.
Let's take the case that it's a local machine - on your local network - acting as the ODNS Stub. The DNS request is then encrypted from your machine to the trusted ODNS Stub - but then from that ODNS Stub out to some resolver on the internet, there exists the DNS query (whether encrypted or unencrypted) - sourced from your same public IP that your machine would have sourced it from in the first place, correct?

I'm certain I don't understand the entirety of ODNS - but the basics still have to exist - something still needs to make a query on behalf of the initial user to some authoritative server (unless the answer is already cached). I guess, what I'm picturing in this case, is that if the trusted resource (ODNS Stub) exists in your local infrastructure, then the source outgoing to the internet might as well just be your local machine in the first place - because that's how 'the internet' sees it anyway.

Anyway, I'm all for making DNS more secure...and this seems to be one way to change where your trust lies, but not a definitive solution, to me.
> It various industry to industry

This should read "It _varies_ industry to industry"

The whole point of the article is kinda moot if the reader finds these small errors like these
Tell HN: Rejected from Y Combinator? Don't be upset or quit
I've spoken to a few people who got rejected by YC and they take it too personally.

In this business, you're going to be rejected a lot! If you received the famous YC rejection email, keep pressing forward.

Honestly, if this slows you down, then you're most likely doing something wrong anyhow.
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It would be great if we could have "FPI on by default with whitelist".

I think the stats are iffy because a lot of the breakages are things I would want broken.
That's the issue; how do you lean left to start with? If the human-bicycle system has its center of gravity over the wheel line, shifting your weight relative to the bike doesn't move the center of gravity - you lean one way, the bike leans the other, and you end up in the same overall position. The only way to initiate a lean to the left is to countersteer to the right.
This kind of thinking is not helpful in maximizing adoption for any technology, period.
Rim brakes either grip too hard or not enough, and sometimes don't work very well in rain, and need regular maintenance and replacement. Coaster brake supplemented by hand brakes for emergency stops just feels safer and more in control in traffic situations.
I imagine you could automatically score a tennis game, using the accelerometer in the watch (detect sudden impulse upon striking the ball, and communicate with your opponent's watch). I assume from reading the app description it's not doing anything like that. Could be a cool enhancement / technical feat.
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Slight off topic rant:

It's 2018 and we still don't have a better alternative to email? Almost everyone is on Facebook but even if you do follow a page, FB deprioritizes your posts unless you pay. A mobile app gives you the opportunity to send notifications but then people have to install yet another app. Web notifications don't work on iOS.

I guess text messages are better and I haven't received any unwanted messages from the few companies I opt in for notifications.
> ACME account you are revoking from has a valid authorization for all of the DNS identifiers on the certificate being revoked

Does this mean that if GitHub did what CloudFlare does and batched multiple domains they serve into the same cert you wouldn't be able to revoke it?

I guess with a 90-day expiry it's not that big of a deal...
Man, I was thinking about taking on this challenge next. I have 2 of the extended batteries that work excellent but the regular battery wont hold a charge for more than a few hours.

So the main issue was not damaging the case? Did you have any references or guides?
This is a feature, not a bug.

You asked them to host your site. They secured it.

Github is the designated endpoint for your site traffic, so they can not be 'rogue'. You explicitly granted them control over that endpoint, and their securing that traffic does not diminish your security in any way.

It's free hosting, version controlled, and now with a free TLS security upgrade. That's actually pretty awesome.
And whos going to create the blocks? It's still mining. However, tx fees might not be enough to pay for security in the network.
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Paul Stamets has one, and says he's only seen it smolder when someone lit a joint near it.
Well, debit cards have strong protections here too.

If someone uses a debit card or SEPA debit on my bank account (german), I have 6 weeks to report that to my bank and I'm out. The bank then has a week to get the money back of they're responsible, etc.

Here it is definitely their money and they want it back.
I really like the approach.
Flat foods only.
There will still be mining, just no block reward. The "payment" would instead be solely from transaction fees.
To eliminate what such questions?

To eliminate any questions about social context or bias or agenda? Totally not possible, social context is an inherent part of science, as in all human endeavors.

I think the purpose of reproducibility is to well, make science _possible_, it is the fundamental bedrock of science -- to determine what and how we can make reliable predictions about the world. It doesn't mean bias and effects of social context no longer exists though. Science exists anyway, in a social context -- as evidenced by the past couple hundred years!

In general, I don't think science exists to eliminate _any_ questions, science exists to ask questions. Eliminating questions may be a goal of ideology or religion, but not science. (and in the real world, they certainly influence each other. science is a goal to strive for, not a fait accompli. Scientific understandings of the world are always changing; science is an approach to understanding the world, not a set of settled conclusions).
And they also treat that open plan “like a library.” Vastly different than the frat house open plans of most companies.
It's called 'hot-desking'. In practice everyone still sits in the same place every day, and sublimizes their territorial marking. Sitting in 'someone else's' spot is seriously frowned upon.
This trend happened when the 'open plan' needed a next level of hell.
It's funny, about six or seven years ago, most of the companies I worked for had gone to an open floor plan. Within a few years, all of them had gone back to cubes for a number of reasons.

I just started at a large corporation three years ago and they spent millions going to an elaborate open office plan which was similar to what others have referred to as "neighborhoods". At first it was called "hoteling" where we just had a ton of desks with monitors and a dock so you didn't have a set place or cube to work.

After about six months, teams had taken over areas without telling anybody, they pushed other teams out to other areas. Then they shifted a ton more people to our building so now space was even more limited. They started moving desks into common areas meant for collaboration where people met and ate lunch in order to handle in the influx of new people. People started "squatting" on their desks, putting personal pics and their mouse and other stuff to claim their desks so nobody would/could sit there. This clearly was not what the architect/designer had in mind. I quickly got to the point where I was so frustrated, I just tapped out and now I work from home almost 100% of the time.

It's funny how they had this great idea and it was totally ruined by standard human behavior.
If you weren't located at Ramat HaHayal that could almost become relevant.
Right but there's a law about that for cars. There isn't a law about it for computers.

I can understand him wanting them to service it. I can't understand him being indignant that they don't want to and seemingly not being about to wrap his head around that fact.
He wants a gpu compute cluster, not a notebook mining machine. They would be on the market because bitcoin's price is so tightly linked to many others including ethereum.
> Let's be honest, the patent will be granted.

Is there any kind of public comment period where the patent's claims to novelty could be disputed? I feel like a lot of the worst patents may be granted because no one else was watching.

You might even be able to find prior art someplace you don't expect, like some sociology academic paper.
>programmers with little experience in a domain...write software to solve problems in that domain and iterate...Disruption!

I don't think that will change much until the overwhelming demand for more software is mostly met with a sufficient number of properly trained Software Engineers. At that point we should start seeing real competition on the quality of the solutions. (and a move towards professional licensing)

It seems likely that the first civil engineers saw a similar pattern. When you have a creek to cross and no one around is qualified to design a bridge, someone gives it a shot anyway. If it collapses they try to build a better one (iterate). Hopefully this can be accomplished without killing anyone.

Now that the world has a decent number of properly trained Civil Engineers though, we don't need to wing it most of the time; especially for the big, consequential projects.
My only experience with an open floor plan was in academia :-) ... terrible thing, I suffered a lot and made other people suffer as well, since I'm a loud typist ... I have never understood how some people think open floor plans are a good idea for getting work done.
I'm really curious about the logic of this move. As I understand it, PoS will award miners who have the most coin with an increased likelihood that they'll be able to mine a coin. In other words, the more coins you own, the higher probability you can mine more.

This seems to be designed to fail, or at least designed to create a mining market which is highly central to only the wealthiest players.

Anyone care to refute this?
I don't know if all 20,000 people are hard-core. Its just that road bikes are very, very common. Kids bikes might have coaster breaks, sure. But hardly anybody over 15 has one.
Funnily enough, the index update this month is: "April Headline: Perl is having a hard time"

Source: https://www.tiobe.com/tiobe-index/

"At the moment there are 2 programming languages in the top 20 that have lost more than 3 positions in 1 year's time: Objective-C and Perl. The reason for the fall of Objective-C is clear. Apple abadoned Objective-C a couple of years ago and replaced it by its successor Swift. Moreover, mobile app development is moving to platform independent languages and frameworks, so even Swift, which is only available on Apple's systems, has a hard time. But what about Perl? Till 2005 it was the most dominating scripting language in the world. In 2008 we said in an interview with Dr. Dobb's Journal that Perl would go extinct based on the trend we saw in the TIOBE index at that time. After this a religious war started with Perl diehards who claimed that this won't happen and that the TIOBE index was being gamed. Stevan Little gave a ground-breaking talk in 2013 called "Perl is not dead, it is a dead end" indicating that once software engineers leave the Perl language they will never come back. Personally I think that the fork of Perl 6 (and its delays for decades) together with the unclear future of what was going to happen to the language was the main reason for engineers to look for alternatives such as Python and Ruby. And still today the Perl community hasn't defined a clear future, and as a consequence, it is slowly fading away."
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It would be crueler to butcher or consume them without killing them first? I'm not sure what you're looking for, here. We were talking about tachypsychia.
> you can do anything in any (Turing complete) language.

Exactly. The point of the parent was what to choose between learning a new domain or a new programming language (when you already know python) and what would give most value combined. I agree that knowing python+3d will be more valueable than python+haskell.
I use shadow-cljs as a replacement of figwheel. shadow-cljs is quite powerful already, in development and bundling.
I work for viasat as well, and I think your group is the only one using that collaboration area :).
It irks me that the wastefulness of bitcoin is proportional to how valuable it is, and I don't think that changes even when miners are only competing for transaction fees.

edit: Waste might even be exponentially proportional to bitcoin value...?
It didn't originate there, they acquired the rights to the name when they bought sun
On the contrary, patents are one of the few mechanisms available to small players that 'BigCos' respect.
I haven't found a place that explains the big picture and how everything fits together. Is there a good resource to learn clojurescript for someone who's never done web programming and without having to learn JS?

I'm learning Clojure now (coming from years of C++) and I love it. There is a bit of black magic (lein/cider make cmake look like a shell script) but CJS is a bit daunting b/c it has so many layers. CJS on Lumo on React on JS on the DOM ... I don't actually know what any of those words mean :P
I thought they were there to prime a laughing response, because people are more likely to laugh with others than alone.
I'm always puzzled when average people argue that taxes are too confusing. It seems to me like people make it out to be a much larger burden than it actually is. If all you have is a W2, and deductions less than the standard deduction (which is what I'd argue is average), then you can fill out a 1040 by yourself in 30 minutes or less. Even faster if you use some of the software solutions out there.
Yep, that's what I ended up discovering and going with.

However, shadow-cljs REPL integration was also pretty hard to get working with my editor (spacemacs), because most of the tutorials assume you're using lein to build your project.

shadow-cljs is pretty dope though. Almost instantaneous rebuild times and basically no setup besides a small, understandable config file.
Now make me a Slack bot so I can torture my coworkers.
Do you want to continue working with your company? If they have offices based in the US, they should have people who can help you get the right work permits.

If you want to shift to another workplace later, it's typically easier to apply for different visa types when you're already legally working in that country. It's also more likely other companies will sponsor you if you're already there.
There seems to be a lot more information within the section of docs focused on developers like https://zulip.readthedocs.io/en/latest/development/setup-adv....
> it's worth spending more time to get it write

Was this an intentional pun? :)
> The DNS request is then encrypted from your machine to the trusted ODNS Stub

No. The stub is doing the encryption and sending the encrypted query to a resolver in the internet.

> but then from that ODNS Stub out to some resolver on the internet, there exists the DNS query (whether encrypted or unencrypted)

Yes. But since it's encrypted, the resolver only knows that I have made a DNS request, not what the query is in it. The resolver can't decrypt it, it can only pass it on to a server that can decrypt it, but won't be able to see your source IP then.

I think they overstate the usefulness against the kind of attacker they describe though, since such a powerful adversary could correlate across servers.
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Or ask if they like Napoleon Dynamite: https://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/23/magazine/23Netflix-t.html
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Agreed. David definitely knows that.
I'm curious as to how this handles high temperatures. Almost all welding gloves, aprons etc. that I have seen are made of leather due to this property.
The great thing about the EFF is they're not as narrowly focused. Open Media is pretty good, but they pick their fights more carefully and don't tackle social or ethical issues the same was the EFF does.
NPR recently (in the past few months) ran an interview where the guest compared Alzheimer's to a "Type III Diabetes" of sorts
>It's also very safe to try out and do, which is counterintuitive to most people who haven't tried. Overwhelmingly the most common failure mode on a unicycle is that you just stop riding it, and then it either gets ahead of you or behind you, and you hop onto the ground.

Ha. My experience with a unicycle was the exact same as my experience with Segway and Hoverboard: flat on my back, knocked-out cold, with back-sprain that lasted months.
Gold mining is wasteful also but it's not fundamentally necessary for gold to exist.

I think the problem with bitcoin waste is that it's proportional to how valuable it is.
There are tons of incubators and VC around the country. Surely these people didn't apply to just one? or does YC have exclusivity requirements?
Half the people filling out taxes were in the bottom half of their math class. Its not easy for everyone. This forum may suffer from selection bias?
That was once true about software patents, but it's no longer true. I've seen some legitimately interesting / intellectually surprising software patents get denied not because they weren't novel or industrially useful, but because they lacked an inventive step.

Inventive steps are hard to come by if math isn't patentable and the fundamental principles of software creation aren't really changing.
Completely agree with this!

And I think a lot of people look at network effects right now primarily as a growth lever, but wouldn't think to use them (when they're working) as an argument with investors that their product is defensible.
don't forget about lubrication
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Open plan verdict: Too much mayo.
Just to be clear: "theory" has a lot of different meanings, depending on the context. It can mean "hypothesis", but I can think of at least three other meanings, with example phrases: "Marxist theory"[1], "the theory of evolution"[2], "group theory"[3]...

As you're probably aware, this confusing patchwork of similar and overlapping yet distinct meanings is ripe for abuse: it's what allows people to get away with saying things like "evolution is just a theory".

[1] Here it means "the collective body of work of some school of thought".

[2] "A widely-accepted, well-tested scientific explanation for a phenomenon".

[3] "A subfield of mathematics; the set of definitions, theorems, and techniques related to a particular type of abstract object" (in this case, groups).
Lead developer of ClojureScript here. Agreed, we take Windows support quite seriously.
"Wearing headphones will be treated as insubordination, management wants you participating in conversations".

This was only slightly paraphrased from written policy at a former workplace.

You have to show some political savvy; wearing headphones in a open office is exactly like being noticed playing games on your phone or sleeping while the CEO speaks at gathering, or making a big production of refusing to answer phone calls or questions from certain coworkers.

There's a critical distinction of scale; if "they" don't want you working and prefer talking and distraction to the level that they bake it into the physical architecture of the office, that's really bad for the company on a large scale, but on a small scale trying civil disobedience by wearing headphones will just get you fired. Personally on the downside you're better off crashing the company than getting fired and on the upside the people responsible for the large scale operation of the company probably have quiet private offices anyway and aren't going to reward you for fixing the company anyway even if by some miracle you did it.

Open offices are literally in the most straightforward sense a declaration the company has no idea what its doing so talking about it is a good first step. Cutting yourself off from that with headphones means they may as well not pay you.

Civil disobedience in this case has no positive outcome; ditch the headphones.
Indeed, but it should still be a business decision.

It's absolutely clear that suing, say, Google, over JavaScript mark misuse would be a big deal business decision at Oracle, while sending a cease&desist letter over some piddly app in the iOS store is almost certainly not. But there is a cost to the latter, in that it destroys goodwill to be overly and unnecessarily aggressive in enforcement of a mark that arguably is now generic. This should be a business decision, not a legal one.
It's helpful to post doc problems / questions on the clojurescript-site issues so that it can be improved.

https://github.com/clojure/clojurescript-site/issues
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I didn't think of it that way, but you are very correct.
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This seems like something you should have replied to the parent with. I wasn't asserting what happens at Apple, I was reacting to what he said. If he is making stuff up, call him out not me.
I've wondered if following a painted line on a road with your bike is an example of Zen. The more I try to follow the line, the harder it is to stay on it. But when I stop trying/thinking about it, I have no problem staying on that line.
In case I'm using the wrong terminology, I mean 6 metres x 6 metres rather than sqrt(6) metres x sqrt(6) metres.
Even in a corporate network there's some plugin drift over time depending on job role especially for developers. And GP specifically has installed a container add-on which probably makes him/her fairly unique among all the corporate traffic coming from that IP/group of IPs.
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