skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
51% of the network means you singlehandedly get to decide consensus. And if you decide that consensus is that every new block in the chain is yours, then who's going to stop you?
The movie "Live Free or Die Hard" explores this idea in the context of terrorism - the plot revolves around a "fire sale" in which transportation, transcommunication, and power/utilities are effectively shut down. It is a Die Hard film though so it's not quite based in reality.
It's not a legitimate legal threat. Why aren't you worried about all the other laws across the world that probably apply to you?
Did you read any J programs? It is just as terse as APL. (Probably K is pretty terse too, but I won't comment on it as I only know J.)
I mean at that stage you've probably mastered tricks like self-modifying code (I remember learning how to do that for the midpoint circle algorithm, but I can't find the source on-line any more). Pointers are simpler than that.
With respect to that last example: a flip like that can be very disorienting, and even a skilled swimmer can be imperiled like that if they fail to disentangle their legs. She did manage to free her legs and right herself, but at that point in her panicked state she failed to tread water. I would say she was a poor swimmer, if not a nonswimmer. Possibly able to swim while under normal ideal conditions but forgot how to when disoriented. It's not impossible but it seems very unlikely that she was a skilled swimmer.
Buxfer (https://www.buxfer.com) lets you do this to a certain extent. Transactions are auto-synced, then you can add/identify your recurring bills and your budget will tell you what's left after taking into account any bills or future-dated transactions you may have entered.

Disclosure: I am the founder.
Owning a home is overrated, it owns you.
I've seen this argument/fallacy said over and over again and it's time to speak up. This is called the "black and white" or "false dilemma" fallacy (https://yourlogicalfallacyis.com/black-or-white).

The premise is "Either you support the GDPR" or "you're running a shady PII sales scheme". The problem is that there is another option, you're not trying to abuse anyone's data but you don't have the time or interest to protect yourself against a vague legal document with Draconian fines and no track-record to know how it will be enforced.

And some of the requirements sound good on paper but less good in front of a screen. Take the request to see my data or download it. I either need to build in a process to automate it or do it manually, both of which take effort. Deleting data is another sounds-simpler-than-it-is problem. What about deleting PII like username from log files?

There are lots of people that are making this out like it's not that big of a deal - but it's not something I was expected to do until now and that most of the countries in the world require me to do. I'm not selling people's data or misuse it or them - why should I have to jump through these hoops if I don't need the EU audience or their threat of serious fines.
Of course removing it reduced your CPU consumption. What did it do to p99 request latency? That was the trade-off being made by OOBGC.

Does Github use SOA? The more backend services that are involved in handling a user facing request, the more the latency of frontend requests will be dominated by the tail latency of backend services. So in distributed systems it makes much more sense to focus on those tail latencies. Who cares about average latency?
> people on the Internet don't know what they
> are talking about

Is there some law that prevent experts from sharing their knowledge on the internet?
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You are free to do that, of course and I applaud you for fighting for your rights. However, the video gives the wrong impression that this is a method via which one can go through a checkpoint with less hassle, whereas in reality if this method works, you're dealing with cops that won't bother you needlessly anyway; but if it doesn't, you're dealing with cops that will make your day a living hell for standing up for your rights. From a game-theory perspective it's absolutely the worst choice. No matter of standing up for your rights seems to have any systemic effect anyway.

My perspective might be different because I grew up in the Eastern Bloc, where the winning strategy was always complying while hiding contraband and bribing officials. No amount of anyone fighting for any rights ever had any effect, what happened in the end is that the economy collapsed and things had to change at the top forcibly. If you want to fight because of some personal sense of honour, of course you should do that. But from an everyday practical game-theory perspective, the winning strategy for both the game and the meta-game is to comply with whatever the cop wants to see.
Also, Fava adds budgeting to Beancount. Beancount itself doesn't really have the concept, but Fava lets you add budget lines and compare your spending against your budget.
Not sure why not. And what would you want to extend on a checkbox? It's a boolean switch.
No, I have nothing to do with his cult. I've been following his business for a while and I've been able to predict some of his moves. That's all.
Is the law only effective at protecting privacy in your mind if it kills Facebook's and Google's business model?

Because I suspect that is what GDPR advocates truly want.
No. After one small slip up nothing would happen, unless someone notices it and reports it to the regulator. At that point they'd write you a letter and explain where they think you're going wrong, and point to best practice, and ask you to confirm what you're actually doing.
J and K are extremely terse, though. They just chose other ASCII symbols that exist on everyone's keyboard.
My guess is that the lack of liquidity is protecting the coins from the attack. You can't get much money out of most markets on 1 hour.

What is quite ironical, because if any of them just become a useful currency, that means it would get instantly attacked and worthless.
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> In this case the advice is good and worth keeping in mind

How do you know? You can find a population on the Internet that will tell you almost anything is a good idea, especially groups of people in the same online community. Anti-vaxxers come to mind.
You can't directly steal or create coins. Except for the coins you get for your branch of the blockchain if it becomes accepted. The trick is that you can double-spend.

The downsides? You need capital to spend and double-spending is fraud.
You obviously don't know how the EU works. If a Data Protection Agency comes to know your wrongdoings, they'll first try to resolve peacefully the matter, by telling you what you're doing wrong. Only if you persist multiple times you'll be in danger of being brought to court.
The previous president did that many times on purpose. The goal is to show immigrants positively to widen the gap with the far right (their main political enemy).

BTW this guy is a real hero and deserves to be recognized.
There are a couple companies that are working in that space:

https://datacoup.com/

https://datawallet.com/#protect

A more detailed reddit thread about them:

https://www.reddit.com/r/beermoney/comments/8btjah/16_passiv...
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Problem is, a lot of non-experts give very, very bad advice very confidently. A layperson has no idea if someone on the internet is actually an expert giving good advice or is just spouting nonsense.

I've see some incredibly bad advice here on HN.
Months ago, our current president, Enrique Peña Nieto, announced the capture of a corrupt governor that was on the run. When the governor was at large, people complained that he let him escape because they're from the same party. When the governor was captured, people complained that he was captured because elections were nearing.

Peña Nieto said to his detractors: "no hay chile que les embone" (there's no dick that fits you). Typical Mexican humor, juvenile but very concise.
The guys I meet who are pulling in good money are all union vocational workers. We're talking dump trucks, cement mixers, sometimes roll off (dumpsters/skips), and the holy Grail: heavy haul. I know a guy in New Jersey who works for a well known hauling and rigging company. Makes 130k/yr. Small shop of a dozen guys, no one makes under a 100k, and home just about every night. But good luck getting into those shops. Cronyism and nepotism abound.
Sewage is “the information superhighway under your feet,”

Life imitates art?

https://youtu.be/DJklHwoYgBQ
Depends on the profit margin in a field. Some industries have razor thin margins. Unless your competitors do the same as you do (and in some industries, your competitors are in other countries with different standards of living), you don't have a whole lot of choice.

Software/SaaS is able to give ever increasing wages because of near infinite supply of investor money and/or insane profit margins (which won't last). Some other industries, not so much.
A lot of unaccounted for psycological effects show themselves from underneath the veil of unknown unknown factors once you shift the tools engineers have developed, like logging and testing, into a different domain, an ecological environment different from the one they evolved out of. The fact that there's a stigma to mentioning that things that are hyped up cause you discomfort only exacerbate the problem. Not everything that worked in engineering is necessarily a good solution to problems in physiology.
To block EU visitors, one probably uses IP geolocalisation. IP address is considered a personnal data (in the EU at least). The fun part is, forbidding access to a website according to IP geolocalisation might probably fall under GDPR law for automatic decision processing.

So, either you block access to your website using non-personnal data, or you probably actually are non-compliant with GDPR.
It's the same freedom you have in any country. You can do what you like as long as you don't upset the authorities.

The US has just as many (maybe more) laws and regulations as anywhere else.

Edit: upsetting individuals and companies may be a bad idea too.
Got it - you won't draw any line; that way nobody in particular is responsible or has to do anything. This sort of maneuver is surely just what the author means when he says a central tactic of the 9.9% is: "the pretense of being part of the middle as one of our strategies for remaining on top."

The OP argument in a nutshell:
"In the United States, it’s the children of the bottom decile and, above all, the top decile—the 9.9 percent—who settle down nearest to their starting point."

So how would using just a function, so as not to embarrass any one class, fix that?
> You seem to be claiming the GDPR dictates who is allowed to sue

Yes, it literally does do this. Please can you point to the bit that allows anyone to sue?

> Go look it up, it's a "guilty until proven innocent" system, which guarantees loss to the accused, guilty or not.

Completely untrue. That would be incompatible with human rights and European law.

You're scared about stuff that isn't in GDPR or that cannot happen under EU law.
I have a high definition monitor and TVs. It looks gorgeous on them.
> "Not as a replacement for lifeguards, but to help them."

You'd need very careful lifeguard training for such a system at the very least. If it worked 95% of the time, a lifeguard may become complacent with manually scanning each swimmer.

I'd wager the most effective measure is hiring redundant lifeguards and encouraging them to keep each other honest. Have overlap in each lifeguards area of responsibility, and cycle lifeguards through different posts a few times per hour to combat fatigue. Of course this costs more, but frankly lifeguards are damn cheap when you consider the importance of their job.
I do get your point, but we should make it clear that OS X is a pretty UNIX, not Linux.

In that regard OS X succeeded in where NeXTSTEP failed.

NeXTSTEP was never about UNIX, rather their Foundation framework, Postscript display, Renderman and everything else that the Objective-C stack provided.

Having UNIX underneath, even if in the form of BSD and Mach mixture, was just a way to get a foot into the UNIX graphical workstation market, fighting against SGI and Sun.

So real NeXTSTEP developers, and the related OS X culture never really cared about UNIX culture as such, they had their own.

Microsoft just realized that many brought OS X devices, just because they wanted an UNIX CLI experience with pretty face, after anyone serious about Linux would never use OS X, given that syscalls and file structures, on good UNIX compatibility tradition, aren't really the same.

So having realized the mistake it was to ditch the POSIX NT personality, and that nowadays Linux syscall compatibility is more relevant than POSIX, Microsoft is offering an UNIX experience to those that only care about bash, awk, perl, docker, ... without any regard for the actual kernel running them.

So yeah, as you say, it is all about those that were buying an UNIX experience with a pretty face.

With GNU/Windows on one corner, and ChromeOS with an upcoming official Linux userspace, I am curious to see what WWDC will bring, if at all.
Try some grinding poverty and come back and tell me how much you care about what happens in 100 years. Now try some grinding poverty with children. Tell me how much you care about the great Pacific garbage patch after you watch your kids suffer a bit.

That’s a strong argument for ignoring the desperately poor where long term survival is concerned, is that really the argument you meant to make?
Perfect can be the enemy of good, in the sense that in a city of people there must be compromises so that everyone can coexist in a small space.

Sure, the US isn't fair. In practice it is grossly unfair. But talk to anyone with, eg, a congenital disability and it is apparent that this isn't because the US is doing something wrong, it is because life is unfair.

The US is very free. Some people have to work orders of magnitude harder to excercise their freedom, but in freedom of speech and action the US compares well with, eg, the UK, China, Russia, Middle Eastern countries, etc, etc. There are a few very small nations (eg, Luxembourg, Sweden, New Zealand, etc), where the numbers are smaller and the results are arguably better. But recall that human communities are governed by absolute numbers (see Dunbar's number) and reflect that the US does pretty well for its size.

Basically, don't conflate freedom and fairness. The US has a lot of freedom, but freedom is a pretty basic idea, and exercising it is crazy hard for some people.
I suppose that, given you can have limitless pgp subkeys, the size of payloads can be arbitrarily large as well.
I saw this recently here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16892211
Wonderful novel, though. The book is by the great Friedrich Dürrenmatt, and is basically a deconstruction, as well as a subversion, of the detective novel (in fact, its subtitle is "Requiem for the Detective Novel").
Lil Tay Challenge highlights the worst part of YouTube culture
Just stop being so confrontational. Styled-components enable you to use SASS, not having have to invent any classNames or worry about them conflicting, enables you to easily extend those styles and gives you the ability to mix code with your styles in kinda effortless way. Okay granted that mixing code is not as clean as I'd like it to be but still I haven't found a better option
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People have many usage patterns. I prefer commenting rather than submitting, some people just lurk, others might submit without commenting. It wouldn't surprise me if there were people who just lurks and upvotes because downvoting requires participation.
#4 I grew up in ISLAND_NAME and went to the beach all the time.

At least that's my answer, but I do have to say if you're not physically fit you may not want to go too far out to sea. Swimming is fun but also a form of exercise too and will tire you out.
It's a race of who can get to N blocks first. The higher N the "steeper" it is. N is set by the merchant so as to balance security with quick transactions
Technically it is GNU/Windows, but Linux was won the market share among common people, and yeah I don't think FSF will find it amusing.

However, I bet if Microsoft had improved the original POSIX personality on NT instead of the way it dealt with it, Linux would probably never won't the hearts of the other UNIX vendors.

Many of us only jumped into GNU/Linux, because it provided a path to use the work of the university computers at home, Windows 95 wouldn't do it and getting NT 3.51 with the respective hardware was too expensive.
India’s Biggest Competitors to Walmart and Amazon? Mom and Pop
J seems to have its fans ( http://www.jsoftware.com/ and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J_%28programming_language%29 ) and uses ascii instead of all the different symbols.

Some of the code CAN be quite terse (and cryptic) like

quicksort=: (($:@(<#[), (=#[), $:@(>#[)) ({~ ?@#)) ^: (1<#)

I spent a small amount of time learning the basics a while ago, but never really used it for anything. But it was interesting and I'd have to spend a lot more time with it to get into the mindset. Popular with some Code Golfers as well.
I lurked for four years before I finally wanted to submit something and bothered to make an account, then I started to really enjoy it. Patterns are not only varied, but changeable. I wouldn’t assume that someone was a bot either, maybe submitting one article a day is their way of giving back to a community they appreciate.
For the Bitcoin attack perhaps it is cheaper to open an asic factory + nuke reactor.
Frontend architecture as a dev platform
I remember this blackout. I was in college at the time and this was a big deal back in Long Island. A lot of us got together and had a lot of fun in the dark as everything was shut down including labs, libraries. It turned out to be a great fun time with friends while we sat and discussed our lives without power.
> This Regulation applies to the processing of personal data in the context of the activities of an establishment of a controller or a processor in the Union, regardless of whether the processing takes place in the Union or not.

This one doesn't apply, because the controller or processor is outside the union.

> This Regulation applies to the processing of personal data of data subjects who are in the Union by a controller or processor not established in the Union, where the processing activities are related to:

> the offering of goods or services, irrespective of whether a payment of the data subject is required, to such data subjects in the Union; or

This one does apply, and look, it mentions services, but also...

> the monitoring of their behaviour as far as their behaviour takes place within the Union.

...this applies too. You're monitoring the behaviour of EU citizens; those people have protections.
In my experience, responsible professionals do not give free Internet advice in situations with potentially serious consequences. Serious situations require very carefully considered advice; you could leave something out or misstate something; it could be misconstrued - and someone dies. For much less dire situations, I don't give professional advice without giving it far more care than I give an HN comment.

Authoritative sources are great. They probably bring to bear far more expertise than HN commenters, they've already performed all that careful consideration, and in many cases they've also tested how the information will be understood. Again, misunderstandings can be deadly.

The proper response is not 'here's what to do'; it's 'here's a link to an excellent authoritative source'.
I believe Yodlee also offers this type of API.

https://www.yodlee.com/products/
> I think it's important that we don't overly focus on one isolated experience point like yours, because empirically this is highly disputed.

I'm not saying my experience generalizes, I doubt every environment would see the same benefit. My point is that even though I started exclusively preferring one side, I can see value on the other side.

> It's a very shallow notion of information sharing, which could happen asynchronously through code, documents, email, or with a scheduled video call, or a short scheduled meeting, etc.

Far from shallow. Technically anything can be communicated in any environment, that's not very interesting. What's interesting is how pragmatically an environment actually works and what it's real life pros/cons are.
Not sure what these countries have in common that gets them on this list:
Citizens of Argentina,
Citizens of India,
Citizens of Colombia,
Citizens of United Kingdom,
Citizens of Germany,
Citizens of Panama,
Citizens of Singapore,
Citizens of South Korea,
Citizens of Switzerland,
Citizens of Taiwan,
Mexican nationals

Learned today that in Mexico to be a citizen one must be Mexican National, 18 years of age, and have an "honest way of living".
So you mean a JIT compiler?
I think the thing is, if you want to write at a Clojure-level-abstraction, Haskell won’t stop you doing that and I get the impression that it’s actually the way a lot of Haskell programmers operate. (Chas Emerick has recently been advocating this approach and I get the impression it’s actually the style of GHC itself.)

We don’t all have to be at EK, BM or GGs level.
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Usually I write a batch file or shell script.

Works great, no bullshit, easy to debug.
Perceived Physical Activity and Morality would also be an interesting study.
But there is nothing stopping anybody from starting a new news network.
SIGSALY: a World War II secure speech system for very high level communications
I actually think this is going to be the next big thing. Some sort of data broker app that helps users market their own data for a commission. Like an app that can look at the data and basically say, "okay, so judging by your data, we think you are a big fan of Nike products? Is this something you would like us to market on your behalf and if so would you like to make this data more valuable to advertisers (and yourself) by filling out a survey that provides a better understanding of how important this product is to you?
Correct. Master Primes, Cookes and Leica Summilux are all PL-mount, with which the Red is completely compatible. Seeing such a bullshit attack as the top comment is really unfortunate.
I hope you're not talking about Tommy Robinson.
This is so amazing. What struck me the most is how, of all the hundreds (thousands?) of names displayed, we're only taught a handful in history. Being from the East but raised in the West, other than a couple of the "Eastern" rulers and their massive (land-wise) conquests of Europe were never mentioned in any of my history classes.
> No, MRV being a language construct does not allow that at all (you can't do any such thing in Go because MRVs are language structures rather than properly reified).

Oops, I meant "because MRVs are a first-class language construct in CL (if only because of macros), you can abstract over them ..."

Secondly, tagged unions are a very standard way of simulating sum types in languages that lack them. All I was saying is that MRVs can be used in a similar way. E.g., an option can be replaced by a pair of values, one of which indicates whether or not the value is present and the other indicates what the value was.

As far as the boilerplate issue goes, if you really need to make sure that a field is present, you should be using hash tables in CL, you use a class and when you try to access an unbound slot, it throws.

Finally, it's just wrong to say that Options are only useful in statically typed languages: any _strongly_ typed language can use them effectively, whether or not those types are checked at run time or compile time.