skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't know much about PoS, but as it was explained to me, it should equal out to the same. Eg, if you have 1% of the wealth you'll get 1% (on average) of the awards. Likewise if you have 10% of the wealth, you'll get 10% (on average) of the awards. On average you're getting the same percentage of rewards as you originally held, meaning on average everyone ends up with the same percentage of coins. No stake holder inflation. That's just how it was explained to me, not my words.

Now, with that said, if it's purely coin based and not distributed based on some type of percentage, than I imagine it would start to get out of whack.. no?

Eg, if you have 10% and you win the next coin giving no one else money, then at the next lottery you have 10.001% to get the next coin. If that is how they design the system, I imagine that would start to snowball a bit.

Still, on average not nearly as bad as it immediately sounds, but nevertheless a problem I would think.
Only if you count Napa as a suburb, too. Otherwise, SFBA's opinion of its restaurants is slightly exaggerated.
> Chinese versions popped up and they are not missing anything.

They're missing the censored content that the CCP wants to suppress.
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> Typed OM landed in Chrome 66 and is being implemented in Firefox. Edge has shown signs of support, but has yet to add it to their platform dashboard.

Sigh. What happened to standards? This entire update is a bucket of changes that nobody can use because IE, Firefox, Safari, and mobile are not even close to implementing them.
No. The block reward will be replaced by increasing transaction fees. If at any point the net income of miners is negative, miners will stop mining, and bitcoin becomes impossible to spend, driving transaction fees up. If the total amount of electricity wasted is ever small relative to its market cap, there will be a financial incentive to launch a 51% attack on the blockchain. Bitcoin does not scale. Bitcoin's design relies on not scaling.

Bitcoin will either be wasteful in proportion to its market cap, or it will be vulnerable to attack. There are no other options.
We're coming from Freenode as our only real-time communication so the difference is night and day. Slack is a no-go for many due to not being FLOSS and I'm concerned about vendor lock-in if they were to stop being so generous or run out money and shut down.

Slack's threading model is much worse than Zephyr/Zulip's IMO. Especially on mobile. The streams/topics flow in the "all conversations" view is an incredibly intuitive way to keep track of everything that is going on.
Not to mention the security issues. Its hard to call security on a suspect person in a secure area when you have 50 people, plus 2000 possible visiting corporate employees, plus customers, vendors, girlfriend (NO GIRLFRIENDS!!! GIRLFRIEND=SPY). I say everyone should have a walled office with walls that go all the way to a real ceiling not just tiles and a chambered entrance to the office and marine antifouling paint and faraday cage inside the walls and automated badge reading gun turrets at hallway intersections.
> Fastmail do the same, i.e. acquiring certs for their customers' domains without asking or informing, with a view to moving them to HTTPS.

Not sure about the the down-voters, but I was just about to post a 'citation needed' comment dismissing this as crazy talk, and I was surprised to discover it is actually true: https://www.fastmail.com/help/files/secure-website.html
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They have a newer version that can handle custom isolated tab groups not just Facebook.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-GB/firefox/addon/multi-account...
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If you only socialize with co-workers I'd say that is the bigger problem. All my interaction with people outside office hours are with people I don't work with.

Should I consider myself privileged in this respect?
Can you open an issue on http://github.com/zulip/zulip/issues/new? We haven't heard similar reports in the year since the GitHub auth backend was added, so I'm guessing there's something special about your account (or maybe a problematic browser extension); I'd love to debug this with you.
Kinda shocked that someone would apply for a patent for a tool that is essentially a decision tree.
Bottom bar on Android is gone. It is so hard to get used to top bar again.
I feel this pain, but when I return to the office the next day the existential dread of experiencing the hellscape I am now a part of just to have a handful of meaningless unfulfilling conversations with pseudo acquaintances most of whom I'd never see again if I, or they quit, is soul crushing.
Agreed mate.
I think it is kind of funny, in a tragic sort of way, that just when humanity is coming around to the idea that climate change is real, someone goes and invents a get-rich-quick scheme that involves burning large amounts of electricity.
For your comment about Laravel and PHP, I think it is a valuable exercise to complete a project using a framework like Laravel and PHP.

Realize that the people who contribute to Laravel and to PHP are trying to solve real problems, and there implement patterns used in other frameworks and languages.

Without deep-diving some, you won't be able to recognize those patterns in other frameworks and languages.

For instance, I did a very brief stint with Ruby on Rails. I've also tried out Django with Python, Laravel with PHP, Phoenix with Elixir, and Caliburn with C#.

In each of these cases, I became more familiar with common patterns (Model-View-Whatever, Dependency Injection), and how each framework attempted to solve the problem.

So to answer your question: yes, "mastering" a technology can transfer to another similar technology. So don't be afraid to dig in, best of luck!
> Writing comments explaining your motivation

This. Comments saying what you are doing is a code smell - not always wrong, but always worth a second look as to why the code wasn't clear by itself. Comments saying WHY code just did something are great because they convey the real info future me will need.

Despite the quoted statement, the article proceeds to give assertions/comments that don't fulfil that purpose. Assertions are fine, but (unless I misread) this is solving a different problem than good comments solve.
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I think this is brilliant. We might discover more about society through the algorithms that spin off from profit based ventures.
For the record I've been using this for separate Amazon, Google and Facebook browsing amongst others. It works really well.
Yep, that would be 36m^2. If it helps, think of a grid of 1m by 1m tiles laid out on the floor. How many tiles could you fit?
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It would need to be fork-able.

It would need to be extendable.

It would need to be versioned.

The index would need to be distributed.

The extension and forks would be need to be open.

The query language would probably need to be open, version-able, fork-able, extendable.
While the analysis contained in this article is rather arbitrary, blustery and imprecise, there is a mechanism by which blockchains can serve as 'partially synchronized clocks.' One interesting facet about Bitcoin is that the model under which you analyze the effect of network delays can give you different results about how unsynchronized local copies of the blockchain can become. In the paper, "Analysis of Blockchains in Asynchronous Networks" [0], a certain (and more realistic) model is used in which adversarial miners are allowed to delay forwarding of blocks that they receive. The goal of this model is to describe how networking can account for changes to the probability of selfish mining [1]. The authors of [0] prove that for Bitcoin, under some assumptions about the maximum delay an adversary can use and the block production rate, is consistent because it has both a lower bound on how much chains between different participants can differ as well as an upper bound about how far ahead a single participant can grow their chain. Note that all of these statements have to be interpreted as statements "with high probability" relative to security parameters.

In [0], the authors argue that Bitcoin, in particular, is a partially-synchronized global clock, and they take advantage of it in [2] to make a hybrid blockchain-DB system that provides more traditional eventual consistency guarantees.

NOTE: I'm not an author of any of these papers, just a casual observer

[0] https://eprint.iacr.org/2016/454.pdf

[1] https://arxiv.org/abs/1311.0243

[2] https://eprint.iacr.org/2016/917.pdf
I'd think that anyone that's bitter about being rejected won't send them an email so they can make more money.
> But try this: Try following a straight marker on the road on your bike. It's very hard. When you start going too much to the right, you will find it impossible to actually nudge the bike back to the left, unless you accept that you have to go further to the right first.

This holds in general for any motion where velocity is a continuous function of time, doesn't it?

Let f(t) be your deviation at time t perpendicular to the desired straight path, with positive to the right and negative to the left.

If you are "going too much to the right" at time t, e.g., f'(t) > 0, then because f' is continuous there must be some interval around t such that f' > 0 at all points in the interval. That means that f is strictly increasing throughout that interval, e.g., "you have to go further to the right first".
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MITS were not dependent on Gates and Allen for BASIC; MITS didn't even have plans to have a BASIC interpreter. They were approached by Gates and Allen out of the blue, and had no contract in place If they had not delivered, it wouldn't have set MITS back at all, though it certainly would have not helped sell more Altairs. MITS would have (likely was) free to entertain offers from other entities.
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The Commie64 didn't really have competition in its market space, which is a big reason why it was able to sell so well despite being kind of crappy.

This laptop is competing against Chromebooks, Netbooks, old but still functional laptops, etc...
You're wasting your time arguing with people like that.

Explain the facts and if they choose to stand naked in the street wearing a "kick me" sign then that's their choice. (just an expression)
More like it's funny how designers have no clue about basic human needs.

Our brain is wired for habits. We form them to ease our cognitive burden, it's a built in mechanism. You don't have to think about reversing out your driveway because of habits, brushing your teeth, checking your email, etc.

People don't want to hunt for a desk every morning because it is fundamentally incompatible with how our brain works, not because they're being difficult. So they adopt a desk. And then someone takes 'their' desk, which is a burden, a bit of thinking they shouldn't be doing. So they naturally mark out 'their' desk.

So in reality, it's a stupid idea because of the way the human mind works. Might as well rage at the tides.
Is there like a pest exterminator you can call, or...? "Hey, we have a Marissa Mayer infestation can you get her out by the weekend?"

Seriously, though - it's a shame that she's given so much press constantly; there are so many brilliant people in the tech space more deserving of the spotlight.
Which in my opinion, those user engaged clicks signal to Google that the link is relevant to that user for that query, especially if they stay and interact on the site. I believe that gives that site a ranking boost for that query. Those are just my opinions and cannot 100% confirm.
I stand corrected, also I should’ve added “on Macs”. I’ve been keeping an eye on Doogie[0], but its maintainer doesn’t have the resources to maintain another build.

Curious if anyone can weigh in with similar alternatives available on macOS.

[0] https://cretz.github.io/doogie/
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Does this mean consumer GPUs will come back down in price?
Thanks. The official sites might be the better place doing that. I'll see what I can do on my side as well.
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PHP is crap. It's actively hard to write good code in it. Not good code like SOLID or pretty code that's self documenting, it's hard to write code that's not going to break in unique and interesting ways.

Sure, you can knock up a contact form in it really quickly, but that ease of use hides significant dangers.

I've programmed it, it's a terrible language.
Yes, indeed, but such comments are not without basis.
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On the flip side, the toughest thing sometimes with startups is to decide when to draw that line in the sand where you can say "okay, this isn't working, time to move on." You tend to bias yourself and your success. The YC partners are smart and have generally been right every single time when something I was working on wasn't going to work.
CloudFlare "Flexible HTTPS" is not HTTPS in the traditional sense. The connection between GitHub and CloudFlare is unsecured.
She's super wealthy. Its likely that her money people suggested she have office space and expenses instead of doing business deals or meeting with people at one of her homes.
I think it's more nuanced than just blocking ALL third-party cookies. If you have visited the site before (e.g. facebook.com), my understanding is that those cookies are allowed. It's only blocking third-party cookies from sites you have never explicitly visited before.
That's quite the repertoire, so you mind if I ask what your role/position is?
angelpad [0] too!

[0] https://angelpad.org/
Manny many years ago, I read a story about Oracle:

In a big budget project, they had implemented a report, like sales per month or something similar. The requirement was to sort the result by month. Any sane person would sort it by the order the months happens in a year, like January, February, March, etc... But not Oracle: April, August, December, February, January, July, June, March, May, November, October, September.

Technically they are sorted... and they requirements only said sort by month. To get it fixed the customer had to pay Oracle more money, since they changed changed the requirements.
In fact, reality is the exact opposite as what you describe. The more you know right? Let me educate you, in africa, whites are preferred in sales meetings because empirical evidence shows that simply having a white person present increases the chances of a sale.

So in REALITY elon musk had an even bigger advantage being white in africa than whites do in america.

You are now smarter and hopefully less racially bias
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My plan is to print and frame the rejection and use it as a motivator. For me it was an accomplishment to reach a point where I felt I had a solid submission. I know a few things (at least) I can improve for the next time I submit. So, time to get to work.
I suspect YC has become similar to the Ivy League schools, in that its primary value is in signaling and networking, rather than the education itself.
> I also can't remember whether there's an API for legitimate owners to revoke a cert issued to someone else that's no longer OK. Let's Encrypt does have to be able to do that, but if there's no API it might be very manual.

You can do that by going through the usual challenge process in ACME and obtaining an authorization object for all names on a certificate. Any ACME account who is authorized to issue certificate for these names can also request revocation for existing certificates (even if owned by different ACME accounts).

(You're a bit screwed if the certificate you want to revoke also contains names from other users. This is a good argument for a "one name per certificate" or "only the names of one user per certificate" policy for such implementations.)
I've been working in Erlang* for almost 7 years. We mostly hire smart people and give them an Erlang book and help them get settled. I think only one or two hires used Erlang before they worked here, everyone else learned it on the job, myself included. It might be easier to onboard people if our stack was more usual, but Erlang is a perfect fit for our application.

* And to work on all the surrounding bits, of course also C and PHP and Perl and even python if it comes up.
We applied to YC once and were rejected. Didn't take it personally but since we were in a very early stage, we dropped the idea.

I've personally found the YC application extremely gratifying to write. It does help you answer those key difficult questions that you'd have otherwise glossed over because of complacency or over confidence.
What I've thought of doing is to fill the YC application for the next idea that I get and keep refining it as I build upon the idea. Kinda use the application as a good idea refining template. If at any stage you feel that you are confident in all the questions, you can either apply - literally no cost or just keep building. Having solid answers to all the questions - means that your idea has some potential of turning into something big. Of course, your idea could turn out to be a better business even without having all the answers. What I've experienced is that as you write the answers, you'll feel really confident if you are doing the right thing.

Another aspect in the application that I had a conflict with my co-founder at the time was the amount of time to spend on the application. He was anal about getting every aspect of the application right. We shot the video like a 100 times. I contented that was unnecessary but eventually agreed to disagree.
I feel that if you are on the right track, you shouldn't spend more than a couple of hours on the final application, regardless of the stage you are applying at.

It takes some practice to get the video right. This again depends on the co-founder dynamics. I would use the video prep as a proxy to estimate the efficacy of the co-founder dynamics. If you took really long to nail the video - I'd spend some time introspecting. All said and done, if you take a really long time just to nail a video, how would you fare in dealing with more complicated company decisions.

So IMHO there is a lot of value in writing the YC app, regardless of whether you make it or not.
Agreed.

Just to clarify one thing: I wasn't dissing Haskell or anything, I was just giving a real autobiographical detail. I actually did start learning Haskell, and at some point realised it wouldn't let me build anything new. I'd still love to learn Haskell and still plan to, because I like the art of programming. I just deprioritzed it compared to other things.

(And I totally forgot the Op was clojures’ author, that’s not the reason for the example!)
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That "might" is doing a lot of work. None of those options are really options yet (if ever).
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Hah this hits close to home, literally just getting off being sick the last couple days cus someone in the tiny aisle between a sea of desks coughed a few times directly at my face last week as I passed to and from the kitchen.

My current spot is particularly bad because they have us jammed up 5' away from 4 conference rooms with thin glass walls so we get to hear loud conference calls every day all day long.

Edit: to too two? I can English
Of course it is. Bitcoin is mined via the cheapest possible available source of energy.

Generally that isn't renewable (at this time).
I was going to say the same thing. And when I wen't back to QWERTY, it eventually switched and I could type fast.
That assumes you want to log in and be tracked.

It's annoying to follow a link from a search engine and not notice it's Reddit only to be hit with the "INSTALL OUR APP. EVERYTHING WILL BE BETTER!" shtick every time.
Our traffic wasn't "monetized" directly -- we never had ads of any kind on the site. We offered a service that people who were interested in the topic we blogged about generally found desirable, so our content was generated to bring people in to the site and expose them to this service, hoping they'd decide to pay for it. That sounds like an "actual business" to me.

Most of the aggressive SEO players I know about are supporting "actual businesses", not content farms that survive on ads. Our aggressive competitor had no content to monetize directly and no ads, they were competing with our service.

Note well that suggesting Google may not be all-knowing draws out the lackeys accusing anyone who may speak this heresy of not running an "actual business". Implying, yet again, that the only reason someone would speak ill of Google is because they're too perfect. Give me a break.

All of this misses the point regardless, because it's not "gaming" the system when you're playing by the rules. Google wants you to believe that its algorithm is perfect, so it says the best way to rank is to write good content, which they will magically identify and publicize. So you pay someone to write good content for your site and, as long as this content is actually original and useful, you're doing exactly as Google directs. That's not what "gaming" is.

SEO is still a thing because people come in naive enough to believe that good content will stand on its own merits, like I did, and then quickly learn it doesn't actually play out that way in real life.
It's as on topic as the parent comment. I have to yet to see even a single fact to back up your claim. If someone is going to spread disinformation and not present any facts, then I am going to post a sourced rebuttal. Feel free to change my mind with actual facts instead of undermining the voters who disagreed with your political outlook and then blaming the results on some ludicrous notion of a bogeyman.
It has one of those goddamned AllWinner chips in it, I wouldn't hold my breath on the HDMI or any of the GPU acceleration working in the foreseeable future. Hardware drivers is not their business, nor is releasing docs that might allow someone else to write a driver.

I have a dev board with one of those chips and getting any of the peripheral hardware working turned out to be a complete nightmare. I eventually gave up on it. Hopefully whomever is doing the Ubuntu port knows Mandarin and is living next to the factory in China so he can sneak out some driver specs.
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The Facebook container is the "newer" extension, IIRC, released after the Cambridge Analytica news. Both extensions use an API called contextualIdentities: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/Add-ons/WebExtensions/AP...
That’s like saying “if you’re not using <ESx feature released three months ago>, you’re doing it wrong”.

The vast majority of websites still use traditional, yearly carts without automation. It may not be perfect, but it’s not the worst thing in the world.
@xiphias comment shouldn’t have been flagged. The same priority-based booking nonsense happens in our open floor plan. Similarly, you need to be important enough to have priority. We love touting how “we are so flat hierarchy that our CEO doesn’t even have a office!”...except he just has a conference room permanently booked instead.
Thousands of years ago, people didn't generally live much past 30 years old. UV has been proven to have negative effects that show up later in life than that.
Difficult, but not impossible

A US judge ordering a person to turn over their BTC wallet would be check.
Of course, but you want to get to the point where you can - if you don't really want to help them out, making fun won't necessarily be constructive for them, and will get you a bit of joy. It's something to look forward to.
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