skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Bitcoin is a ridiculous waste of energy. Can we please have more regulation of this waste? What is the real benefit of Bitcoin? It can't even be used to pay for anything.

Gold sits somewhere and can be used for manufacturing. Storage of gold uses almost no energy whatsoever. Maybe to protect and produce a safe and hire people to watch it if its a large stockpile. Extraction is also difficult and energy intensive. Best way would be to move beyond move gold and Bitcoin. Bitcoin just continues to waste more and more energy without being used for anything. Storing it and seeing if coins are actually real is too energy intensive.

Bitcoin is irresponsible and a waste. Gotta be a better way to use and create cryptocurrencies for the environment and to avoid exuberant transaction costs.
Could you please expand on your Xamarin vs. native comment? I’m assuming you aren’t referring to Xamarin.Forms.
Why not do it yourself over the LAN? Seriously, I dont see any point in having home data get sent to some scummy third party.

I have a few of these "smart" devices in my home, and they are assigned to an IP block that has absolutely no internet access. They have to be controlled internally, and are not allowed to phone home.

One of my next projects will be an open-source Alexa-like that runs completely in the LAN (unless you specifically ask for things like the weather).
There can be an infinite number of off-chain transactions based on a single on-chain transaction.
“We are doing just fine with NAT.”
This is a good case study, however it is worth to note that internet providers are among the ones getting something back from switching to IPv6.
Minimal react-redux project: Flow,Webpack4,HotReloading and serverside rendering
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I create websites for small businesses. I've seen almost every conceivable domain renewal failure in my 20 years of experience. No matter how many times we remind clients to get this aspect of their business documented we still have sites go down every year. We charge a fee to "manage" domains for those who opt-in, solely for this reason (and it's worth it).

The most common reasons:

Bad contact email

Auto renew off

Expired CC

Lost password

The more obscure:

Bought domain through a reseller who is now out of business (more common than you think)

"Branded" contact email which post expiration, no longer works.

Disgruntled "losing" webmaster who registered domain under his/her account and is now holding it hostage.
This is minimal react redux project in Flow with hot reloading and most importantly, server side rendering. It’s not perfect but we try to improve it using your feedback. Feel free to criticise, post an issue and make a PR.
Enter http://lightning.network/
The privacy equation: Hugo-award-winning SF author David Gerrold weighs in
Building a $1000/Month Slack App
The Australian state I live in has the highest electricity prices in the country, and amongst the highest in the world — so there's a simple financial reason to defect from the grid. Then there are the self-sufficiency angles (produce/control your own power) and the preparedness angles (grid power always fails in bushfires) to consider as well. They are all the reasons I need.
We’re a technical community. Can we not shorten cryptocurrencies to crypto? Admin can you change the title?
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What makes Deezer more private than Spotify?

Seems like the same story: http://www.deezer.com/legal/personal-datas
> The lightning network IS Bitcoin, just as using HTTP over TCP is using TCP.

So its got a decentralized, distributed public ledger recording every transaction made? Since when did that happen?

> It's the only way to survive economically in repressive states.

LOL. No. You use USD.... No citizens in economically repressive states are gonna flip to bitcoin. Not when it gets 4 transactions per second tops. Not when you have to purchase your currency from early adopters in order to participate. Not when you can lose your entire savings by simply exposing your computer to the internet.

Sorry man. You fell for a scam.
From what racoons do to evade capture in traps (while still making away with the bait), and the damage they can wreak, apparently driven by curiosity due to no apparent indication of a food reward, I gather that they are remarkably smart. They are also remarkably frustrating. And fierce when cornered.
Why use bluebird promises instead of native ones? Are them faster or is it just old habits?
If you unintentionally buy a blacklisted phone online, do you try to break the blacklist or report the seller and get a refund?
> But why?

Principle. I strongly believe that software which runs in kernel space must adhere to the same standards (for better or worse) as the kernel. For Linux kernel modules, this means being accepted into the upstream kernel, and demonstrating a history of maintaining compatibility with the mainline kernel.

I've been burned a lot in the past by companies releasing their own modules, and quickly failing to keep up compatibility with the mainline kernel versions. Not going to make that mistake again.
Are more productive companies higher up?
darknet markets
Mexico main cargo are avocados for Europe, Bogota fruis and flowers too. There isn't enough cargo offer for the demand that exists now a days. We are leaving cargo behind every single flight between these airports and Madrid.
Yep and also China of today was created by western powers. Mao Zhedong came out of Yale, the home of Sull and Bones. It’s not like a bunch of Chinese farmers decided that they wanted this government.

This is the model for the next world-wide government after China wipes the USA off the map as planned. Most people can’t deal with this information, despite the fact that it is staring them right in the face. “Made in China” is a curse that people have accepted though, so as usual they get exactly what they deserve.
The number one excuse in my opinion is: you can't only support IPv6 if you make a service that can interact with anything IPv4, so the real question is not "should I use IPv6 or IPv4?" but rather "Should I use IPv6 and IPv4 or just IPv4?"

Clearly all other things being equal supporting only one stack is easier than two. It's a shame though, at work I've decided to go full IPv6 for one of our software solutions because I'm only talking "to myself" and it's amazing to have so much flexibility in your addressing. Need a unique IP in a distributed system? Just stick your MAC in there and you're good to go. Need a private network prefix that won't clash with anybody, anywhere? Use RFC 4193 and you're good to go.
> Do they even capture things like the C++ headers that your compiler uses?

Yes. Nix is a package manager that drives multiple build systems and captures all dependencies: https://nixos.org/~eelco/pubs/phd-thesis.pdf
I was mostly concerned about backdoors. Good point about code baked into and running on devices - hard to kill. GNU fails to detail it.

But, today, 2018, can you build a server with 100% open source sw? Including all firmwares, EFI, network cards, CPU microcode, ring -2 intel ME? Is it possible?
I think it's about loosing a rotor, not net torque. You need to keep the roll and pitch stable in an outage.

Like that hexapod in the above link, if you lose one prop/motor/controller, you can increase power to other unit in the stack and decrease power to all the others, maintaining your stability while you descend and look for an emergency landing spot.
> There can be an infinite number of off-chain transactions based on a single on-chain transaction.

What the fuck is the point of bitcoin if the majority of all transactions are off-chain?
> I suspect that there would be a strong status quo bias in ignorant votes

Not sure about that. If the status quo were satisfactory, it's less likely there would be a vote to change it. That's a counterbalancing impetus to vote away from the status quo. Hard to quantify which way that would fall.

Furthermore, outlawing lobbying would encourage the contrary behaviour for candidates to keep their seats: the representatives visiting their constituents to hear their views. Lobbyists can voice their opinion at these town hall meetings, and I think it's clear that this makes it much harder to game the votes away from constituent interests.

The significant expansion of meetings to cover to stack the deck makes lobbying considerably more expensive, and probably not worth it unless it's a seriously important issue that would make or break a market.
What if this works? It seems like China is trying to fight a psychological war this time instead of with weapons as the Russians successfully did recently in Chechnya. Maybe we are seeing the first time a religion/ideology has been forced on Muslims. All other previous attempts at subduing Muslims have been by genocide and brutal war, so this would be a first in world history if it works. It would open a new chapter in the history of propaganda, behaviorism and religion. We could have a post-war society where wars are fought with psychology. Like some mash-up of 1984 and the Foundation Trilogy.
It's not so much the intentional transportation that's the issue. The leakage is the problem. Are individual cities required to allow leaky transportation of hazardous materials on their roads?
It is patently how it works. All the files, not just headers, the build cares about have to be available in the build chroot.
Sweden stands up for open access – cancels agreement with Elsevier
Show HN: EU GDPR Art. 27 Representative – Compliance as a Service
I don't know if it's scaremongering because I'm not entirely sure what point the writer is getting at. The angle I chose to read is that, cryptos acting all "You can regulate us, because distributed blockchain! Muahaha!" is the 1st order game, akin to the coyote calling bluff on the noisy can.

Government types developing an ill will towards the defiant cryptos is the neighborhood moms getting pissed at the bold coyote.

The animal control is the 2nd order game. Regulators come in and crack down on cryptos. Put the squeeze on exchanges, make it hard to cash out to legal tender.
Are you implying that government funds that media? Or that people need to be told what they should enjoy?
Those people saying it's not subjective are wrong, because wine is far too complicated for a human to decipher.

The fruit/veg is the output of a plant's function, whose input (simplified) is light, water, temperature, and soil. Two identical seeds will grow two slightly different tasting fruit if they have different access to those inputs. Most gardeners can attest to how many variables are needed just to grow a vegetable at all, much less get it to grow as well as it can.

On top of that, wine grape vines are often selected for the particular fruit they develop, but are often grown in regions they aren't suited to. So they need all kinds of complicated grafting techniques and treatments to survive the local climate, pests, bacteria and fungus.

Once you can actually get the grapes to grow, you have to harvest them when they are just the right ripeness for wine-making. Since a natural environment is variable, you never really know when this is, but good winemakers establish a good feel for when this is. Much like the above gardening processes it's still mostly unscientific, though it is informed by data and experience.

Then you get to process the grapes and ferment them. This unique grape that has gone through so much to be born is now subject to one of several processes to try to convert sugars into alcohols. The fermentation process used (typically yeast fermenting in barrels) depends on several dozen compounds and a hundred factors all being right for the yeast to thrive and convert the grape's sugars into alcohol and carbon dioxide.

Just imagine: the land, air, water, temperature, pests, gardener's care, grape varietal, fermentation... all of these involve complex processes, and a single variable changed can throw everything off. All of this adds up to one unique bottle of wine.

If a person claimed that they could detect all of this from a single sip of wine, no matter how standardized the process of tasting, they're lying. The only thing they can hope to do is guess where this wine was from, what type it was, how it was grown, how it was fermented, etc. They do this by studying the above entire chain of events in every wine growing region in the world, and based on that information, try to deduce the origin of the wine, and judge its quality.

Considering how many wines there are and how many variables go into each wine, it's kind of insane to think you could decipher all of this with a human palette. So wine tasting is a weird guessing game/hobby. A lot of people do make a living off of accurately determining all these things, but there's no way you could call this a science. It's an art.
> do you think Obama was in on it?

i find it fascinating how to some folks, pointing at obama's ethnic background is apparently some kind of knockdown argument.
You are partially wrong.

OpenSSH, and the SSH standard in general, support "multiplexing SSH connections", where several remote shell sessions share single TCP connection. This is unaffected, as there's only one TCP layer in play. For OpenSSH this is options "-M" and possibly "-J" (not sure).

Another, unrelated functionality is a straight-up TCP tunneling over the SSH connection. This is an actual TCP tunnel, with all the advantages and warts of the setup. With OpenSSH, it's options "-L" and "-R". Those options take host:port arguments, and do proper TCP-level forwarding, encrypted and compressed like any other SSH stream, layered over any transport your SSH happens to be using. Which typically is also TCP, thus creating a TCP-in-TCP scenario.

There's also "-w" which tunnels tun(4) connection, over which you could end up sending TCP traffic.

Note that neither 'authentication agent forwarding' nor 'X11 forwarding' have anything to do with any network tunneling; those just pass small chunks of meta-data out-of-band.
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> It depends on who you are

Correction: it depended on who you are.

Those schools have been closed and have been repudiated at the highest levels of the Canadian government:

> On June 11, 2008, Prime Minister Stephen Harper issued a formal apology, on behalf of the sitting Cabinet, in front of an audience of Indigenous delegates, and in an address that was broadcast nationally on the CBC, for the past governments' policies of assimilation.[78][79] The Prime Minister apologized not only for the known excesses of the residential school system, but for the creation of the system itself. Harper delivered the speech in the House of Commons; the procedural device of a Committee of the Whole was used, so that Indigenous leaders, who were not Members of Parliament, could be allowed to respond to the apology on the floor of the House.
if anything worse, since at least you can see your "social credit" score

Travel restrictions or ineligibiliy for universities. Public shaming via automated voice messages or displays, denouncing you as dishonest. You don't think that's worse?

Also note that in Germany, the right to be informed about any data companies may have on you has been law for a while. The EU-wide General Data Protection Regulation becomes enforceable next week.
You get smart enough you’re going to realize gluing the ends of a package of fruit by the foot together all day is a totally waste of CPU cycles.

But then what isn’t a waste?

Maybe they’ll get smart enough that they realize doing anything is a waste and then they’ll just shut themselves off.
Using scene recognition to remember plane locations in ARKit
No, it was deviced as a system after child labour became illegal to keep jobless children out of the streets practicing delinquency.

This is the uncharitable, slightly tongue in cheek interpretation of events.
> What's novel and scary about the social credit system is that political actions like criticizing the government or associating with activists could hurt your score. It's not scoped to financial activity like western systems. If I have a low FICO score, I'm 100% certain that it's not because I didn't vote for Trump.

What gives you that certainty?

I worked on this stuff in the finance industry a few years back. Even at that stage we were taking any available data and throwing it into opaque machine learning models, and using those to make lending decisions. There was no nefarious intent, but it's not like we had (or cared to have) any way to exclude political affiliation effects either.
We provide that feedback if the candidate asks for it. In engineering or any other role (product, project management etc...).

It's never comfortable, but it's something that I think you deserve to get.

Just as a side note, I think a lot of people know why they were rejected. It's rare that people think the interview went great and they still did not get an offer.
That's what I agree with and the essence of Blackstone's Formulation. This was something many of the founding fathers of America talked about.
IP camera's are a pain to "open to the world" - hence why "cloud cameras" have been so popular. I suspect there are now modern, IP cameras that aren't cloud reliant but the avg user doesn't care.
How is it reinventing the wheel in that respect?
Nix and Guix don't subsume the basic build systems of their packages.
1. There is no proven alternative to Proof-of-Work. No, not even Proof-of-Stake: https://download.wpsoftware.net/bitcoin/pos.pdf. Most PoS fans admit this.

2. Thanks to second-layer scaling solutions, there can be arbitrarily many off-chain transactions powered by an on-chain transactions. For more information, visit http://lightning.network/

3. Bitcoin was not invented as a cheap transaction medium, although it was mistakenly marketed as such for a long time. It was invented to serve as a uncensorable sound money. The cost calculation needs to reflect that aspect, otherwise we are measuring the aerodynamics of a tank.
Wow....salute to this
> Well, if the intent behind the legislation was to protect personal data

Either prove that it isn't or please stop this rhetoric. Thanks
Nest Products are not dependent on the cloud to function locally. The smoke detector, thermostat, locks, and security systems still function without an internet connect.

That being said, without the internet you do lose functions that obviously rely on the cloud like using your phone to adjust your thermostat, phone alerts that your house is burning down, unlocking your door from your phone, or disabling your alarm from your phone.
Yes: OpenVPN was one of the most robust and easy to set up protocols. Because the alternative was IPSec. Now we have wireguard, and it’s better on basically every metric.

100% of OpenVPNs we have seen deployed at startups had BFCBC as the default protocol. 100% (I think?) of IPsecs had aggressive mode IKE.

Wireguard doesn’t have bad modes. It benefits from decades extra of r&d in usable, secure cryptography.
Aren't there documented cases of r600 explosions when used in non r600 equipment? I mean, my chest freezer uses butane, but it was built for it. My refrigeration training is limited so I am genuinely curious, I was always taught to NEVER mix refrigerants or attempt a retrofit like that, but I could be wrong/ignorant.
You’re thinking efficient compared to another hashing algorithm. I think op is saying efficient compared to the value it creates. I.e. cryptocurrency is useful for some things, but it’s burning a LOT of energy to do it.
The network effect is an amazing force and all too easy to underestimate.
Do they really need to rebrand every time they fix a bug or offer some improvements?

Yes, I'm exaggerating, but how do you expect to create a market of loyal users for something we don't know will last more than year?
Whatever VISA is doing is orders of magnitude more efficient.
Yes, of course?
Yes, and people don't like that. This way we'll end up with robots talking to robots using human language, which couldn't be more idiotic.
Right! And dolphins seem super happy in general[1] and they don’t have an over population problem.

I think they’re onto something.

[1] based on the ones I’ve seen at SeaWorld
It does until it doesn't. Then you have to wait X seconds for a keepalive (one of the 100+ configurables) to notice you're not passing traffic, and your client to tear down the dead tunnel and reconnect. Meanwhile many other applications have also lost connection to endpoints and need to do the same type of reconnection.

Stateless is the best feature of WireGuard IMO. I'm really looking forward to the mobile clients stabilizing.
Credit score is a private system where your ability to pay for things is assessed so loans are not given to people that don't pay them back. I don't see how that is anything like a government run "social credit" system. Also, you avoid even having a credit score if you just pay cash for everything.
Can insider trading be committed without trading?
Agree completely. Nice paper, utterly useless in practice due to sybil attack.

edit: not only that, but it will be vulnerable to all kinds of history attacks for bootstrapping nodes
In 1971, England began interning thousands of Irish who opposed the English army in the six counties of north Ireland. The New York Times wrote editorials calling the interned without trial "diehards" and "uncompromising bigots". A few months later, a march for their civil rights through Derry was met by gunfire as 14 unarmed men were shot by the British.

It's strange (well, not really) how easily we see sympathy or shrugging when the English speaking West interns without trial, or incarcerates Muslim radicals under torture, or mass incarcerates its former slave population etc., then dabs a handkerchief for Muslim radicals in China. It reminds me of the tears shed in Washington DC for the Muslim terrorists blowing up Chechnya in 1999, and 2000. That kind of slowed down in 2001.

I suppose this is "whataboutism", which is amazement at Western professionals who pontificate about far-off lands of competitors, when the westerners have done or are doing worse.
I disagree. My YouTube experience greatly improved with red.

No more ads. Ability to download videos for a long commute / plane ride.
Have you tried both? Particularly on bad hotel WiFi and roaming, wireguard perf is not comparable to SSH proxying.
> These choices Nest has made simplifies the SW stack, UX & provides for better security at the cost of mandating a physical fallback rather than a LAN fallback. You may see things differently but that doesn't mean these aren't valid engineering tradeoffs.

Well it sounds like tradeoffs that make the engineer's life easier.

Maybe they should actually tackle the harder challenge of getting their supposedly smart devices to work in a heterogenous networking environment.

That would be a real innovation.
Interesting viewpoint. If you look at today's AI landscape, ML/NN seems to be the way researchers are going about implementing specialized AI (with algorithms of course, what else?) ML is a subbranch of AI, and I am not saying ML == general AI. So I am still thinking Uber and Tesla vehicles can qualify as what we can define today as AI-powered autonomous vehicles.
You should do some traveling to major cities in Latin America.
All human sources of information are biased. That's why we have democracy - to duke it out in a market of ideas and find some common denominator that somehow summarizes people's opinions. True, this system is not perfect. But removing inputs would not make it more perfect - unless by some magic you imagine that the only inputs left are optimal ones. But finding the optimal ones is the problem with started with! If we knew that, there would be no need for the rest - it's because there's no definite obvious way to know what is right is that we have democracy, otherwise we'd just have one law: "always do what's right" and that's it, no need for congress, elections, etc.