skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So the entire thing starts with everyone having a balance of zero. Then A signs a transaction that he gives $1000 to B and we broadcast that transaction, new balances A $-1000, B $+1000. Now B wants to buy something for $500 from C and signs a matching transaction. What does C do? Is A a bank that provided a $1000 loan and therefore C will be able to actually get $500 from A? Or are A and B one and the same poor guy who just created two keys and invented $1000 out of thin air?

Maybe I am missing something but I have no idea how that could ever work unless this is essentially just the current banking system were I know that A is a trustworthy bank and I will be able to redeem your $500 check. Augmented with the anti-feature that we are now all broadcasting our balances and all our transactions to everyone.
> Northern Telecom, for all its faults, put out good stuff

Yeah and then suddenly a Chinese company called Huawei started releasing very similar products with a fraction of the R&D budget. I wonder how they pulled that off.

http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/former-nortel-exec-warns-aga...
As the page explains: it prevents Facebook from tracking you across the Web.
Unfortunately, using Dagger for DI with Kotlin requires using the Kotlin annotation processor, kapt, which is still incredibly slow, and works non-incrementally.

If you value your build times or your sanity in the slightest, I'd recommend either severely limiting use of Dagger, e.g. by only using it in certain, small Gradle modules, or using a different DI solution.
Amazing talk, here's another great one:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ahvzDzKdB0
WD TV Live Won’t Play MKV Files? Fixed
Parts of Japan's climate are in many ways like New England's climate, though Japan has more subtropical regions obviously, and also more mountains.

Both get plenty of snow and get humid in summers.
"Musicians get better by practice and tackling harder and harder pieces, not by switching instruments or genres, nor by learning more and varied easy pieces"

You do however becomes a better musician by playing different instruments, even if you're only really good with one. Learning drums as a piano players helps you focus on rythm precision.

I'd take a general developper that knows both mobile and backend over any specialized mobile developer anytime.
EDIT: I am still able to send and receive messages through the app. Looks like a partial outage only.

Seems like this could be related to Russia's attempt to block the service [1].

Since the 500 message is served under a valid TLS certificate, it seems likely that Russia managed to down their backend, leaving nginx with nothing to proxy to.

Since Russia has attempted to force Google and Amazon's hands by blocking wide swaths of cloud subnets in the country, they might have caved under the pressure and suspended Telegram's VMs. Alternatively, perhaps the FSB pulled off a successful hack.

1. https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2018/04/in-ef...
Anybody here have knowledge into why it wouldn't be possible to just formulate the pavement itself to be lightly colored? I'm wondering out loud here why you couldn't mix something into it that would alter the color and be a more permanent solution than a top coat.
The MNN story is totally mute on the cost, which is relevant.

I don't think the concept is a bad idea, but I would like to see a representative trial first before assuming it is a consequence-free benefit.

That's how sound walls along freeways came along. Nobody considered that the materials were not at all sound-absorbent and therefore would just displace noise a bit farther away from the freeway.
I feel like a little background would help this thread. I vaguely know/knew some of the founders, but am not really in touch anymore

Zulip was started as, and basically still was last I used it, a modernization/web-ification of the BarnOwl[1] curses/terminal client for, mostly, MIT's (and CMU's, inter alia [2]) legacy Zephyr[3] IM protocol. (though BarnOwl also has support for XMPP, IRC, AIM, and Twitter). MIT students who were into the zephyr community also tended to like the interleaved-thread with option to narrow to specific filters view. The Subject part of threading comes as largely an accident of Zephyr's implementation[4]

Zulip was acquired by Dropbox in 2014: https://techcrunch.com/2014/03/17/dropbox-acquires-zulip-a-s...

and subsequently open sourced in 2015. Zulipchat.com is a second company formed around Zulip by (OP) one of the original founding members of the pre-acquisition company to (I'm speculating) keep the project healthy and active and give people a hosted option. It is not primarily aggressively pursuing market share, capitalization, etc. That is why it doesn't like price aggressively to compete with Slack, etc. as someone EIT was confused about

I took the time to spin this out from memory, etc. but then I found it was mostly covered (or if you prefer corroborated) here: https://zulipchat.com/history/

Anyway its a good model for organized communications once you get used to it and I'd recommend it if you are in a small enough company/team with enough latitude to experiment with such. It would also be cool to see a decent large public instance as an alternative to ~Mastadon

[1] https://barnowl.mit.edu/

[2] https://www.quora.com/Where-are-some-places-the-Zephyr-messa...)

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zephyr_(protocol)

[4] https://stuff.mit.edu/afs/sipb/project/doc/izephyr/html/node...
I don’t think it’s about how often. It’s about that one time it happens, you want protection. The skid distance on a motorcycle isn’t comparable to a bicycle.
Eh probably not, Zulip was acquired by Dropbox in 2014, long before Slack was popular.
I adore Mode - i find it the best SQL editor and dashboard by a huge margin. I mostly just use it as a SQL editor and then there’s an amazing ability to turn that SQL into exceptionally useful dashboards.
Yes, "likely" is expressing a probability. Substitute "unlikely" into their sentence and it would still be expressing a probability, except it would be a believable one.

I stand by my original comment. There's nothing overboard about it, and nothing demanding absolute certainty.
In India I find the android app Walnut very useful.Instead of interfacing with different banks to get transaction data, it mines your SMS to know about transactions, and builds up a ledger automatically.It generates quite informative reports as well. While GNUcash is a good tool, I think it would be far more convenient if it were a web app or at least a phone app; if it was so, one could use it on the go while traveling for example.
On a related note, the other Chinese telecom devices provider ZTE looks to be half dead - ZTE will probably lose Android licensing soon. https://www.cnet.com/news/zte-may-lose-android-licensing-fro... And lose access to vital parts for 7-10 years.

Huawei will most likely try to focus its attention on Europe and Asia. However, other countries might follow suit with US soon, following FCC's proposal to withhold money from suppliers (such as Huawei). https://www.fiercewireless.com/wireless/huawei-moving-from-u...

South Korea, for example, has started questioning Huawei's close ties with the CCP https://venturebeat.com/2018/04/03/south-korean-carriers-fac...

looks like Nokia, Ericsson, and Samsung will be the winners here, with Samsung most likely winning the 5G race in US, and Nokia/Ericsson in Europe
Yes, congress just passed a bill that takes this ruling to its logical extreme. The CLOUD act forces US providers to hand over data without question to foreign government workers (“police” or “courts” would probably be to narrow a reading of the bill...)

I’m hoping this gets abused in the midterm elections to replace the people that backed with more reasonable legislators, but I doubt it’ll play out like that.
Today: Leather; Tomorrow: Space travel!
Nah, you need to make them think it is going to bring them money. They'll happily take someone's else idea in this case ;)
Yes, I know, I'm familiar with both "NLP"'s.

My point is I think it's a fascinating and historically important fact that Neuro-lingustic programming grew directly out of Chomsky-informed analysis of the communications between therapists and their clients.

If you read "Structure of Magic, Vol. I" it's basically using Transformational Grammar to detect missing information in the surface structure of clients' statements in a therapeutic context.

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I've got to say that that wikipedia article is one of the very few that I have encountered that badly misrepresents its subject. I have direct experience of NLP. I would describe it as the operating system of the human mind.

I don't really know what to make of the idea that it "has been discredited as a pseudoscience by experts" except that they must not have been very good experts.
They offer free hosting for open source projects. It has been really great for Mixxx (floss DJ software), allowing our ~10 person distributed dev team to work together much more effectively.
Well ...

* the author is Russian

* the operators are Russian

* the latest state to want to shut it down is Russian

* the telecom operator that was working hard to block it was Russian

So I think we can conclusively say that whatever is going on, it was "the" Russians !
check-out https://www.asyncapi.com
Does the OP's method allow third party cookies while isolating them from other sites?

That might be more usable than blocking third party cookies for sites that break because of SSO.

Personally I use Containers and block third party cookies and I don't have any troubles.
While you don't have to report that you failed to calculate a hash, it matters that, had you succeeded, you would have reported it. Someone who calculates hashes with no ability to report them shouldn't count as a participant.

To put it another way: if there is a group of participants with spotty Internet that, after succeeding in calculating a hash, have only 10% chance of actually reporting it, then working backwards, we need to divide by .1 (multiply by 10) to calculate the number of participants. But if they have a 0% chance of reporting success, then we'd have to divide by zero. This is because they aren't actually participants. It's attempting to count non-participants.
We can still call it ES6 right?
For cheap glass with big error bars on refractive index, dispersion, and defects, the process is entirely automated - think window glass or beer bottles. Quality control is still hard, and a lot gets recycled as cullet or discarded, but that isn't too much of a problem, since it's cheap. When you're working at that sort of scale, the furnace/melt behavior tends to be quite predictable and stable as well. Once you've dialed it in, it's good for quite a bit.

For such small batches of glass (500kgs is nothing!) with very tight tolerances across lots of variables, and considerable compositional diversity (Nikon isn't melting just one glass, it's melting quite a few, to do clever things with dispersion), there are so many variables that you can't really automate everything.

(As a glass melting nerd, I'd really love to see all of the proprietary information that they left out - but I guess that's why it isn't there.)
To me the hermit is different because the hermit is not looking for approval at all --the hermit is only looking to be by themselves and be of themselves.

They don't care if they are admired, rejected, remembered or forgotten.

Sadly even when they just want to be forgotten, Journalists looking for a story to tell hunt them down, sometimes[1]. Some people just want to be outside of it all.

[1]https://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2012/03/homeles...
Also: after years of reddit not caring about email addresses, it will now nag me every time I log in to verify my email address.
Very differently. Slack does threading on the basis of replies to a message and hides/collapses those under a thread, showing them only to people who expand and notifying only those who are already involved in the thread (by replying to it or being OP)

Zulip's threading is based, more like email, on a Subject which all messages (can) have. Though Zulip subjects are more likely to be one or two words.

In this way threading is tacked on to Slack whereas it is as at the heart of Zulip
They don't really have any control over the name though. Agressive action to control it would just further alienate a community and cause a push back that would be damaging to Oracle...oh if only there were a push back.
I should add that a couple of years ago, I received a check in the mail for several hundred dollars due to a class action settlement launched on behalf of the Claims team. Management really pushed for employees to hit that 3 claims a day mark , granting overtime in the most limited of circumstances by suggesting that we could eat and be driving to an appointment during the lunch hour. In effect, they encouraged us to skip lunch if we needed to and/or to eat while driving. Remember, this is coming from an automotive insurance company.

As someone who only worked there for a month, it was a pretty nice unexpected bonus.
Lithography/Mask Challenges
I'm still holding out for JawaScript
The valid sha ties this block to the exact point in time at which the solution was found.

It does not, it just sets a lower bound on the time. I can totally mine a block linking directly to the genesis block today. All it proofs is that it happened after the previous block was created. And so does SHA(<GenesisBlock>) without any mining.

Also that no other block happened at this same point in time.

Also not true, I can totally mine several blocks all linking back to the same block. And with some luck that might also happen at the exact same point in time.
In this case, it's possibly the spin of fox, or at least their intentional inclusion, to act as a dog whistle to conservatives about liberals (mentioned as possibly running for president) wasting money to fight some imaginary thing, at least how their viewers will see it.

The closing of the article is quite telling:

> "Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti, who may make a run for president in 2020, has used the project as part of an overall plan to reduce greenhouse gas emissions in the city by 45 percent below 1990 levels by 2025.

> "Climate change is a fact of life that people in Los Angeles and cities around the world live with every day. It is a grave threat to our health, our environment, and our economy — and it is not debatable or negotiable," he said in a statement last year after President Trump said he would walk away from the Paris Climate Agreement."
Damn :/

I have come to love Telegram. Its mobile client is impeccable, which is all the more impressive after you look at its open source code..

Web and native osX clients are just as great (the OsX client is even a great example of a native app done well).

And sadly, not being owned by FAAMG is a big plus nowadays.

If the worst happens and Telegram is definitively down, what do you suggest I use to replace it ?
Love the tool, but is there any way to view the GraphQL schema / docs in the UI?
< That makes no sense, or the meaning is at least not obvious. What does it mean to make creation of information one-way?

A one-way function is a function that cannot easily be reversed but can be easily computed. One example of such a function is a hash function, such as what is used in bitcoin's proof of work.
I like Proof-of-Tick :)
I think if you look, the bias is clear there. The ending is a clear conservative dog whistle as far as I'm concerned. I see no reason that the mention of a possible presidential bid and a statement against Trump is relevant to this otherwise.
Giving up on Reddit is just the same response to stimulus, but the web is vast and varied. You’re giving up on a lot of good to spite a lot of bad, but you’re just going to hurt yourself. Use uNlock and uMatrix and after a few days of regular surfing and a little tweaking you won’t even realize that shite is still there.
Depends a lot on who you believe about FDR and her. I think Barbara Bush probably raised a bit more money and had a bigger impact on more people even if some don’t realize it. The loss of her daughter at a very young age had a profound impact on her charity work.
> Analytical philosophy: we don't care about morals, what it means to be human, and meaning.

This is a strange claim, given that Rawls, Anscombe, Nozick, and Williams (all on the list) are analyticists explicitly concerned with morality. Anscombe and Rawls were more or less single-handedly responsible for reviving virtue and deontological ethics, respectively.

You might be thinking of the positivists, who were an early (and important) influence on the analytic tradition.
Yep. I believe I read that the real Paul Stamets is an advisor for the show, too.
Time for a Blockchain version.
what is the supercomprensation recovery phase?
Database Design for Mere Mortals by Ray Hernandez. Best book I've found to give a running start.
Wow, 11' version is even under $100.
(worked at FoundationDB)

Me too.

Back on topic, I really enjoyed Zulip as well. It wasn't perfect, but it very much did feel like they were actually getting the marriage of email and chat closer to right. Slack just feels like a shitty chat client that uses all of my RAM.
a naive question, what about GNU mailman, yes it does not have the fancy GUI but it gets the job done?
Not yet but it's been discussed in the past [1]

Seeing as how Insomnia has become fairly popular in the GraphQL community I will likely take a look at implementing this soon :)

https://github.com/getinsomnia/insomnia/issues/451
You probably could. But there are a lot of roads that already exist.
Your post contains Chinese that most people here cannot read. Care to explain?
Ya it has. I didn't realize it was so long ago. Made a landing page for it today and thought I'd toss it up on HN for fun. Didn't expect it to jump up so high. Woo!
And George W Bush's children?
US issues national security letters to US based cloud companies for access to data, and has tried to force a US company (Apple) to create back doors to its encryption.

This is perspective on at least one major reason companies like Facebook and Google were blocked in China.

If all Chinese people developed a habit of using Facebook it would essentially (in theory at least) allow the US government to spy on Chinese citizens.
> It seems like your criticizing his analogous use of "identity", but not the underlying idea.

I was pointing out the anomalous use of "identity".
Concrete topped roads are lighter than asphalt. But yeah, no reason they cannot have some coating mixed in with the paving material to make it lighter.

Whenever I'm in Vegas, I do wonder why they don't use lighter paving material --you see the warped asphalt from the Summer heat.
> A single train can carry 1,000 people. It's not a "rush-hour event."

> Train frequency is slowed down significantly during non-peak hours.

Agreed. So with the exception of the outlier events there is A LOT of idle capacity. Capacity that was VERY expensive to build and maintain.

Traditional buses? Or a rethinking of above ground transportation, congestion, flexible work hours, whatever, etc.

BTW, I didn't notice anything here about off-hours / peak-hours pricing.

http://web.mta.info/metrocard/mcgtreng.htm

Given the cost to add more (excess) subway capacity, I don't see the warm in a pause and asking "what if"? What they tried once, where the only goal was a twist on the status quo, isn't the type of mindset I'm proposing.

p.s. If climate change goes as planned, (lower) Manhattan is going to be prone to more and more flooding, etc. Does it make sense to sink more money into the ground, for unrealized capacity?

I understand your example. Unfortunately, it's red ocean. We need a blue ocean approach at this point.
You could alternatively OAuth sign up for the chat.zulip.org server used for project development and see the feature in action there (https://zulip.readthedocs.io/en/latest/contributing/chat-zul... ) so long as you kept testing traffic to the `#test here` stream :-)
In Slack threads are an annoyance. They lead to missed answers and discussions, because they are rarely used in average user groups. When they are they default to private only for the writer and appear out of the natural flow for the reader.

In zulip every message belongs to a topic. (Well there is the "no topic" topic, but it shouldn't be used and even if it is it appears exactly like every other topic). So no surprises.

I have used slack (and irc and xmpp) for a long time, and Zulip for 2 months. Zulip is certainly much better for the geek.

Slack user experience is somewhat more straight forward for the naive user not caring about things done "right".

For hacker news readers zulip is likely to be the preferred choice. Expect resistence from your non hacker news colleagues / managers / team members.
GNOME Web (Epiphany) lets you easily save a web page as web application, so that it gets an own desktop icon and browser profile to separate it from your normal browser.
I don't think your spouse is considered a blood tie.
> The finished preforms are packed in vinyl trays, with a number of preforms in each carrier - at least for smaller lenses like these. I imagine that the huge front elements for the like of a 600mm f/4 might call for more robust packaging.

It looks just like a muffin tray, though each muffin is a lens element!
You mean to say, when they can identify you. Most of the time, powerful people have the power to retaliate against anyone.
How is this not a driving hazard? I’m all for fighting climate change but won’t this make driving during a sunset basically impossible and dangerous? I can only imagine how horrible the glare will be.
I’ve lost people to slow deaths from cancer, and Alzheimer’s, and while both are horrendous, Alzheimer’s scares me more. Nobody should go through that, and no one should have to see someone else lose everything they ever were. It is a total nightmare, and yes as you say, very costly. The person I knew lingered for the better part of a decade, and in addition to being emotionally devastating, it was financially difficult as well. Most people are not going to be able to afford decent care, and even with money it’s hard to find good care. You have to make a lot of surprise visits even on the best places to make sure the person you love is being properly taken care of. In the average care facilities it’s grim, and the below-average ones are hell on earth.

If I developed dementia, while I still could I’d kill myself.
Now do it for Google!
Threading in email works via message-ids and references to preceding messages, nothing to do with subjects. That is, except as a workaround for garbage email clients and services too incompetent to use email correctly.
The Verge is reporting Russia has blocked all their hosting IP addresses. Where by "their" I mean AWS IP addresses they might use. only 15 mullion of them. No biggie, right?

https://www.theverge.com/2018/4/17/17246150/telegram-russia-...

I wonder if there's some low level network tech who knew _exactly_ what he was doing when his bosses bosses boss _demanded_ to know every IP address Telegram's hosting company used, and just happily handed over a bunch of /15s and went to buy popcorn? (That's what _I_ would have done...)
Hopefully it's still useful! The nice thing about CL is that it never fucking changes so you can write something and 25 years later it still runs. Really, the only moving targets are the bundled ASDF version implementations ship with and libuv itself. I've had some reports of cl-libuv not compiling against the latest libuvs, but that shouldn't be too hard to fix (I still merge PRs =]).

All in all, I think I just hit one too many problems using cl-async/wookie in production to justify using it vs Node which just kind of works and has a plethora of maintained packages.