skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The likeliest explanation for that is always the simplest one: we didn't see it. Obviously, though, breaking the rules isn't justified by other people breaking the rules. It always feels like the other person started it, so one could use that to justify anything.

Re your comments, personal swipes like "you seem very confused", "you are unable to understand", "rather than wild accusations and hysteria, I'd recommend calm collected analytical thinking" are certainly uncivil and violate the site guidelines. We ban accounts that make a habit of this, so please (re-)read the rules and use the site as intended from now on: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Oh my gosh are they doing nonce reuse for a password manager? Amazing. Better not change your passwords ever!
One of the advantages mentioned is:

> Single point of failure: if the server/database goes down, there goes your passwords

I haven't investigated Blockchain too extensively, but: is there not a risk that this blockchain goes down if nobody uses this password manager, much like how you can't download a torrent if nobody's seeding it? Or does it bootstrap itself on Ethereum's blockchain or something?
And never have one of your passwords leaked.
> b.lock saves the encrypted passwords/secret notes on the Nebulas blockchain

What possible benefit could there be to storing my secrets in a public blockchain rather than private storage? I only see downsides.

The readme mention 2 'problems' with existing solutions:

"Single point of failure: if the server/database goes down, there goes your passwords"

This is not a reason to use a blockchain - it's a reason to use a highly available system.

"Trust issue: can you really trust that these closed-source softwares will not just read your passwords?"

This is not a reason to use a blockchain - it's a reason to use OSS.
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I'm I the only idiot who would back up the files and make the change, and thinks that the hero contractor's wrong here? Version control is nice, but it's not a prerequisite to shipping, and not using one isn't "extremely dangerous and irresponsible" unless you're working on control systems at a nuclear power plant.

Maybe you shouldn't make the change until you have a Selenium suite, automated rollback, blue/green deployments, a bulletproof status page, and an on-call rotation with a regularly tested runbook. Maybe we should just sit on our hands and make internal improvements until things are perfect.
I love it. I use it heavily every day. The hardware is awesome, the software is not quite there yet but they keep shipping updates so I'm hopeful it'll get there at some point.

I do not write that often on it though. I usually solve math problems on it and also comment on PDF docs.

All in all, I'd buy it again :)
I don't understand your point? Of course there are a whole range of datasets, this paper chose some of them, and performed evaluations on them. If you want to reproduce their research, you can use the same algorithms on the same datasets. A quick search shows that hundreds of published papers have used these datasets just in 2018.

Did you somehow already know the findings that they've made?
That's discussed on the linked page (under the 'Why blockchain?' heading).
If anyone can make invincible cardboard, it's Nintendo.
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I don't see myself moving from Jekyll for a long time.

And it's mainly because of Jekyll-Assets. It's just too useful for not only bundling assets but effortlessly md5 tagging everything for caching on the nginx side of things.

Hugo and others have nothing like this, and rolling your own set up isn't feasible for that because for it to be done right, it needs to be supported at the generator / plugin level so your template helpers know how to deal with looking things up from the untagged file name.

My site has about 170 blog posts and dozens of other pages and Jekyll's incremental reloader refreshes in a little over 2 seconds. That's about 1 second longer than I'd like to see a blog post get live reloaded in development, but it's good enough.
Another great example is CSD (client-side decorations). Classic X window managers do not handle them well, and many users do not want them, but they were added in GTK+ 3.10 with no reasonable way for the window manager to disable them. Basically breaking all environments besides Gnome. Thus work-arounds like https://github.com/PCMan/gtk3-nocsd
Grand Rapids has become a midwestern economic star generating industrial jobs
Not showing your videos because you don't want to contribute financially to the for profit platform you chose to host them on is not censorship.
They don't make any hugely successful competitive multiplayer games. They have the luxury to not care if their players cheat.
I think wasm needs some years of evolvement. Many of the good languages like C#, Java, Go or (God forbid) PHP will need a functional cross language and per language framework incorperated shared/cooperating GC which will allow a cross language interchange of objects. Otherwise all wasm will be only app solutions and not an ecosystem like JavaScript.

I am not a super expert and maybe someone can enlighten me but I think that is the biggest hurdle.
> ... and distributed ledger development.

You are careful not to say "blockchain" :)
The most important line in the article:

"And it’s teaming up with Universal Studios to create theme-park attractions based on Nintendo characters, the first of which will open in Osaka in time for the 2020 Tokyo Olympics."

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
NINTENDO LAAAAAAaaaaAAAaaaaaaAAAAAADDDDD!!!!!!!!
IT'SSSSS HAAAAAAAPPPPPPEEEEEENING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

It's like Disney Land but a millions times better. Actually screw Disney Land, Disney Land sucks.
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Thank you! I will definitely check those out :)
You mean I can rewrite several hundred thousand lines of VBScript for you for free? Sounds awesome. Do reach out.
I'm not seeing the benefit either. If your credentials are stored under strong encryption, then it's the encryption that's providing a confidentiality and integrity assurance, wholly independent of blockchain or any other storage solution.
A blockchain is a database with virtue. This solution provides social acceptance.
Blockchain 2018 == NoSQL 2009
Zeno’s Paradox is solved with real numbers and calculus. This paradox is explicitly on the natural numbers, meaning you have a well defined notion of “smallest” for any nonempty set of them.

I don’t think the solution is related to time. Rather, it’s simply a matter of recognizing that it’s ok for something to be well defined that does not exist. The notion of an interesting natural number, such that it’s a binary property and being the smallest natural number, just doesn’t work. Thus we can conclude that there’s no such thing as “interesting” as defined like this. You can fix it by making interestingness a continuous value, or using a definition such that being the smallest number in a set isn’t enough to be interesting.
Nintendo is awesome - they’re absolutely obsessed with making games as fun as possible, which is shockingly rare.
I agree both systems are rubbish. One leaves more dismantled families than the other though.
Just submit it and if they are interested you can ask them in person?
Thanks for the suggestion, I will check out her work.
So basically L2 regularization.
How do they solve the torrent liability problem?

My understanding is that if you download something via torrent, you are also uploading/distributing, and as I understand it, that makes your liability rather higher if the content happens to be illegal - you are not just in trouble for downloading/possessing said content, but you are also in trouble for distribution of said content.

I thought this was a big part of the rise of 'tube sites' for questionable content.
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It would be great if someone made a UI framework with Rust and made this the scripting language (making the experience Elm-like, but with a better type system and without web technologies)
I don't care. Amd people can VPN.
How are they in any way related? Nintendo's experience isn't designed for VR and that fact means they don't have nearly the same design considerations. It's a completely silly comparison.
generally you are correct. But most blockchains have a central "seed" server that is supposed to always be up. Furthermore if the seed server goes down and none of the peers you have previously connected to are reachable you are an island in those cases.

With that said, from the repo. This one is based on https://nebulas.io/
Seconding Home Assistant, it's really the glue that allows for the leveraging of other systems.

I was able to set up something I had wanted for a long time which was to turn off my TV/Stereo/Kodi after idling. I built the conditions which caused the the whole thing to shut off via Harmony hub after 10 minutes of idle after being played.

The one downside is the project moves really fast so you have to keep up with breaking changes sometimes.
Maps reveal hidden truths of the world's cities
Home cooking marketplaces might get uberized. That's a good thing
> I can count on one hand the number of times I've used the Switch outside the house

Do you live in the US and in a non-urban area (e.g. not NYC)? If so, you probably have no reason to use the Switch outside the house. You may have a car commute and live in country where playing handheld games outside isn't normal.

I say this because growing up in a suburb, not many people played their GBA/DS/3DS outside. We all just brought them to each other's houses or played them in cars.

Now that I live in NYC, you might see me playing on my 3DS or Vita during my subway commute (I'm too scared to take the Switch out since it costs $300). In Japan, handheld games and consoles are becoming the norm, so it's very common.

I will say the ability to go from couch/TV/projector to bed and still be playing the same game is awesome.

And yes, FFVI is the best JRPG of all time.
Nintendo, unlike most companies are focused on making games with gameplay. Most companies are making movies with gameplay segments in between.
Back during SQL Slammer (IIRC) I was working in security and subsequently SCADA security for critical infrastructure. There was a well known story about a nuclear plant in the US that had its network taken down by the worm. The problem was they had become so reliant on automation that only had two operators on duty, not nearly enough.

The lesson too often ignored I quickly found all over in the critical infrastructure space was, yes, the software is terribly insecure, but more critically when all is well organizations develop an overreliance on automation always going well meaning they’re under equipped for when it stops going well.
Hiroshi Yamauchi was a very harsh man in some regards (at least most would agree that he was blunt) but the way he built Nintendo is admirable. He knew what many managers don’t, that you need to find talented people that you can trust and have a hands off approach to their work if you want to scale and that there is probably not a single person or division in your company that deserves all the credit. He had by all accounts equal respect for Gunpei Yokoi who built a lot of good hardware, Satoru Iwata who built a lot of good software and Shigeru Myamoto who created a lot of good content.

I know that Iwata took the company to great heights after Yamauchi stepped down but sometimes I worry that as time goes by Nintendo will lose what made it great, which is their big picture thinking. They’re not a console company, or a game studio or a game publisher; they’re a game company and to create the best experience they sometimes need to reimagine how games are played while not looking too gimmicky. It takes a special kind of philosophy to pull that off and over time I’m afraid it’ll go away.
You're putting a lot of weight on a very brief period in which Nintendo's hardware was at the top of the hardware performance pile. Nintendo hasn't been doing that for well over 20 years and it's worked out very well for them, for the most part.
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One thing not mentioned, that I think will be adding to their legend toward the end of the year is the release of Smash Bros. Ultimate. Smash has always occupied an interested space, Nintendo intended it as fun-for-the-whole-family type of game. Which it didn't necessarily fail as, but it accidentally succeeded as one premier competitive esports titles. There's always been tension between Nintendo's original vision and the competitive scene, with the 3rd game in the series, Brawl being summarily rejected in competitive circles. As esports has gone mainstream over the past 5 years though, other companies have figured out how to embrace and profit from the competitive scenes surrounding their games. With Ultimate, Nintendo seems to have finally started thinking of Smash as primarily a competitive game. Everyone I know who's played Smash at all seriously is incredibly excited for the new Smash. I personally will be buying a Switch just to play it, which is nothing new to me, I often joke that I should just hot glue Smash into my Nintendo consoles when I get them, I literally never take it out, I don't even own other games for them.
You're absolutely right on giving credit. I've added this: https://github.com/underscoreio/creative-scala/commit/6ecaa4...

And thanks for mentioning the paper. I'll give it a read.
idk I play it when I poop. Best feature of all time.
Breaks the distribution and cost model. You either need to join the swarm or pay to watch the video from a CDN. There is a cost to deliver bits, it's just been hidden from you by corporations subsidizing it. Therefore, it can't be default (although a modal could be provided that informed you prior to streaming and gave you the chance to bail out).
curious why you are scraping instagram for this purpose and not something like flickr which has a reasonable public api and tagged creative commons licensed images that are suitable for your ML purposes. at the very least, it's worth investigating archive.org's many freely licensed archives for this sort of thing.

as somebody that has fielded numerous emails from friends asking me to remove tagged photos of them from flickr, i sort of wonder about the ethics of harvesting these sorts of images from instagram, a community whose norms sort of revolve around semi-public sharing of photos. I don't doubt that there's some rationale for harvesting the images from ig, but aside from thumbing your nose at their TOS, it feels like it's a greater violation of trust to harvest your friends and strangers photos for an ML project without their informed consent.

at the very least, it's worth considering pointing your app's gaze at a set of images licensed for any purpose whatsoever rather than ones that are explicitly licensed All Rights Reserved by their respective photographers.
I disagree with the author that zeitgeist and dogma are the same thing. Dogma is something imposed top-down from cultural elites. Current dogma is multiculturalism and relativism (or "otherness" following the article). Trumpism is against it.
:)

For comparison, reader variables in Common Lisp:

CL-USER> (setf *print-circle* t)
T

CL-USER> '#1=(person . #1#)
#1=(PERSON . #1#)
Centralized systems aren't vulnerable just because of uptime. They can also terminate your access at will, like if you forget to pay a bill, or if some government actor comes knocking on their door.
Can you explain the architectural details behind why this is?
I had a similar experience: After earning an MA in 1993 and going into the world of business, I decided a couple of years ago to have a go at another MA. I only did it for 8 weeks, because it became clear that it wasn't a good fit. During that time, I was surprised (1) at how easy the coursework was, (2) how pedantic all the busywork, (3) how inefficient the learning process. I've been self-educating in every area of interest for a long time, so this was a "real eye-opener, and no mistake" (imagining Rob Inglis putting on a hobbit accent...)

The structure of our education system is still industrial-aged, in which the way to be 'educated' in an area is to go through the proper production process. But I would rather have a good conversation with a master. I read a book a few years ago that defined a good education as "Thomas Jefferson on one end of a log, and the student on the other," free to talk. [1]

[1] _A Thomas Jefferson Education_ https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0048EJXUC/ref=dp-kindle-redirect?...
Google also does it although I suspect it may be accidental when they pass it through gwt or something else. I wanted to read value from simple table in Google developer console only to discover it is 27 levels deep in dom.
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You don’t really have too much of a choice, so what’s the point in feeling guilty? It doesn’t help anybody.
This seems to be true of any hardware-based business. Hardware is expensive, has long development cycles, and can't always be fixed with a patch. Maybe they're pulling rabbits out of their hats, but they seem to have an inexhaustible supply. People have predicted Nintendo's demise at least since the GameCube. Somehow, they keep surprising cynics every other hardware cycle.
If you use DMARC, your domain is less interesting for spammers, because lots of providers will now bounce the emails they send using your domain.
I absolutely love Hugo.
"What they found out is that judges are more lenient (give out lesser sentences) at the beginning of the day (right after breakfast) and right after lunch - the opposite was true as well, the harshest sentences were given right before lunch and by the end of the day."

If that's true, and I can imagine it may hold some weight, it is a depressing reality we live in.
What is GeoMesa?
Abraham was very very high profile in his area. So everyone around him would have watched this whole story take place.

It wasn't a later minute change of hearth, it was basically a dramatic way to drive home the message DO NOT SACRIFICE humans!

It's got the "hook" "Abraham is going to sacrifice", to get everyone's attention. And then the powerful message "don't do that".
That's a pretty nasty imputation so I don't want to let it go unanswered. Obviously "threads full of misogyny" are not fine.
Equally obviously, other people behaving badly doesn't make it ok for you to.
For background there was a loudness war/race as has been an increasing tendency to increase loudness of music songs and by so removing dynamic range.

Background article on Loudness Race
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loudness_war
>... their hardware and success seems largely based off of gimmicks.

Nintendo’s gimmicks of today are tomorrow’s table stakes. See: shoulder buttons, analog sticks, rumble, wireless, motion, portability.
I had an Uber driver who was watching an extremely graphic and violent movie in his phone setup directly in his field of view. I had him drop me off early and reported it to Uber. Apparently it’s becoming more and more common talking to friends.
An asset pipeline (and templatized at that) is being added to Hugo as we speak. Just Sass support to begin with but more later. Once that’s added the reasons to use Jekyll, which is essentially abandonware, will shrink to zero.
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For me, it is easier to decide what to learn from a interest-in-topic and fun view point. But I don't know how to pick one topic/skill (or maybe 2 or 3) purely from a money making perspective. Is there any trick you use to pick something that is at least somewhat interesting and monetarily rewarding?
Maximizing total synapse strength would as useful as maximizing the number of 1-bits on your hard drive. It's not what you want :)
Dupe of? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17387453
Some related previous discussion https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3617074 2012

And a blog post by me in reply to those comments, which is how I remembered it :) https://williamedwardscoder.tumblr.com/post/18065079081/cogs...
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The AgingHashmap is basically a rate limiting device. Nowadays, Guava provides something like this "out of the box".

Oh, and thanks for Mailinator.
Haha, I didn't see that one comming.
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Sony is the most guilty of this imo. Even Microsoft's 1st party games are more "gamey" than Sony.
The "blockchain" is an extremely inefficient self validating database. There is no virtue.
Script responds with 404.

I was looking if this would be a nice addition for my smartwatch.
Are you joking / trolling? The article clearly instructs to _avoid_ refleciton...
Surprised to see this here now after 11 years.

Needless to say, this is incredibly out of date. Mailinator now runs across several servers with a real-time websocket system tied to Redis channels for incoming emails. The multiple server system is more for fault-tolerance than scaling issues.

The Websocket-to-redis connection allows incoming emails to be available the instant they arrive (fully) at Mailinator. Instantly - no polling front-end or otherwise. Public email storage is still in-memory with a system that chunks emails into common parts and reuses them. A reference counting garbage collector cleans them up once no email in the system is still using that part. I tried compression a million different ways but nothing beat reusing parts of emails.

http://mailinator.blogspot.com/2012/02/how-mailinator-compre...

The 2007 article is a valid picture of things then, but the system has come a long, long way since that time.
You can use a message queue, to which you add the webhook payload. Then your Jenkins server can listen on this queue.
This is the first time I've ever heard of "seed servers". Do you have any links explaining such a precedent?
This decision enables a state-imposed tax on inter-state shipping of goods purchased in other states (via mail-order catalogues or internet e-commerce -- aka "virtual showrooms" as Kennedy's decision calls a website, in order to drop the now-abandoned requirement for "physical presence").

Don't be fooled by it being labeled a "sales tax". In actual fact, the Supreme Court has enabled tariffs between the US States. Which is exactly what the Commerce Clause was intended to prevent.
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If you've never read Helen Keller, I highly recommend it. She's a fantastic writer, nevermind the backstory. Like a mix between H.L. Mencken and Will Rogers, she's folksy, sharp, and quite a bomb thrower.
As someone who does work in security: the field is far wider than you seem to imply really.

When you say "IT security" do you mean pentesting? Access management? Network security? ISO 27001 auditing? Working with any of the many security-related software suites around?
I agree, it's complicated to fire your wife.
That's been my biggest gripe with modern gaming. It feels like 2 of the first 3 hours of most modern games are cutscenes. I miss powering on a game, hitting start, maybe reading a paragraph, and going straight to the action.

Luckily some recent indy games have filled that itch. Yooka-Laylee, A Hat in Time, and Hollow Knight have felt like modern updates of what I grew up on.
Imagine waking up in the morning and thinking, "This world needs another blockchain."
That's exactly what the blockchain is doing, distributing the data across multiple devices.
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