skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> To do it properly, you need to store the file in multiple places since you don't trust any individual stranger's computer. But how do you differentiate between three honest servers with one copy each and three cheating servers with one copy total? Anything you ask one server about the file it can get from its collaborator.

How about just storing three copies of the same data, where each copy is encrypted with a unique private key (before sending it off to storage)? This way the servers essentially don’t know that they’re storing the same data three times.
The Essence of Accountability
> (hear me out)

You knew that this was coming.

> this is in any way related to Spotify's censorship of Alex Jones

It seems quite unrelated with any more information.

> unlike Apple, YouTube or Facebook, Spotify is a subscription-based content service

Apple Music and YouTube Music have subscription services that compete with Spotify.

> We can assume the number of people who actually care enough to boycott a service would be in the neighborhood of 20 million.

Your calculation is based on a lot of assumptions all skewed in one direction, to add more people.

You don't even have into account that there are people around the world that may see this as a positive move that will add more subscribers to Spotify.

Your comment seems to come from no-where. It seems superficially informed, but it does not stand to a deeper scrutiny. It contains falsehoods, a lot of data and a low amount of information, and it follows some agenda that you only know about it.

If you want to make a point about "Alex Jones" banning from different platforms this is not the post to do so.
Make sure to try commenting out the first two lines to see if your computer can compile the atmospheric scattering!
Wow, I was not expecting this, but "Empire" was the name of the game I have been looking for for a few years. I even asked on Reddit about a year ago (https://www.reddit.com/r/tipofmytongue/comments/6wq2t1/tomtg...), but without any luck.

I played empire (in the classic text mode) together with my dad probably more than 20 years ago.

Thank you for the game (I have lots of fond memories playing this with my dad), and for reminding me what the name was!
I don't think the 5e rules are available publicly. If you can find a link somewhere legit (such as wizards.com) then I'll happily put a link up in the FAQ.

As for the older DMG rules that you have, I'll post them up if I end up implementing that version. Otherwise I'll cause confusion :)
Wow, client-side source.

Expect a giant blob of sensor hoovers to request authorization and suck up all data at all times, with post-hoc rationalization for necessity. Par for the course, no?

Pretty sure all the extremely interesting stuff happens server side.
Sure, but it's more that he felt he had no power and wanted to invert that powerlessness.

The (afaik) plan started after they repeatedly denied him the ability to create his own path to his property, and hit him with fines etc due to a forced rezoning. The guy (apparently) tried to negotiate and got hung out to dry a bit.

Don't know the exact details of whether they were in the right to do so, but the point is the guy felt like he had his back against the wall and had nothing left to live for.

Not condoning the guys actions though.
Only industrial smoke alarms use radioactive sources and even then only some types (you need different types for different situations).

The radioactivity in a smoke alarm is already negligible when you hold it in your hand, never mind when it's mounted on a ceiling.

Additionally the americium-241 used in smoke detectors is mainly alpha decay and a sheet of paper will stop it, the remaining radiation that is dangerous is gamma and it's exposure is so far below annual average background that you might not even bother. Flying in a plane will expose you to a thousand times more radiation.
Ya revenue's the wrong measure though. GDP is a measure of value added, but revenue includes all sorts of passthroughs including, for example, components imported from overseas (which are part of the GDP of their origin country and origin companies) .

He goes out of his way to correct other journalists without himself offering the right answer.
I don't think it's too pedantic to mention common non-interview uses. They're pretty core to search and spell checks problems. Or url routes in a webserver. Or routing IPs. Or keywords in a compiler. You know, anytime you have a set of a bunch of strings and you need to find one?
How do you know he doesn't have funding lined up? Usually, if Musk says something like this it's true. (And don't start with he has a history of underestimating deadlines etc., this is totally different)
Remember that the alternative at the moments is literally pumping that energy into the ground as waste heat. I think that renewable resources otherwise wasted being used for mining instead of that seems like a win-win.
And why is it a college's "job" to have a medic for emergencies? Isn't that what emergency rooms are for, along with ambulances?

It seems as if your opinion is that a college should have a baseline minimum for protecting students. Some think that minimum should encompass mental health, or financial education.
Sure, it's fine to own your own brand–but personally (being blessed to not have a brand image), I tend to put more weight on what other people have to say about someone than what they say about themselves. Though, of course, it's often interesting to see what people tend to put on their personal pages; often what they're proud about differs significantly from what they're famous about.
Donahue, Peter Arnett, Chris Hedges and more sacrificed their careers and lost corporate-sponsored, mainstream audiences for doing the Right Thing(tm). Layer waves of journalists and talk show anchors like Cenk Uygur and Jesse Ventura (post conspiracy theories) were out at places like MSNBC because they offended powerful people in Washington. It's a shame when the mainstream media loses all integrity and sides with corporations regardless, and do like Rachel Maddow: kowtow and just barely scratch the surface with limited, incrementalist imagination that would be okay for upper-case corporate Democrats. It's very difficult, nigh impossible, for any cable TV anchor, reporter or talk show host to speak their mind freely without going to RT or similar organization not beholden to DC politics.
> these are the the folks that benefit the most and contribute the least to society by several orders of magnitude

Let's not assume there are only 2 groups, one rich/evil and other poor/victims.

There are also rich who contribute positively to the soceity at large.

I've no problem with with poor people who contribute their share.

There are also poor people who negatively contribute to the soceity.

Money is not the only way people contribute. Social interactions/behaviour/attitude also matter.

Are rich people shitting on BART escalator?
Continuous Testing at More than 200 mph
Does any major platform really "dwarf" any other at editing text?
I was at a tour of Skærbækværket many years ago, and as I remember it, when you produce power, you need to be able to control the voltage somehow. If there is a surplus of power and you cannot turn down production, you need to dump it or the voltage will go up, destroying electrical systems. One of the simplest ways to do this is to heat water, and when you have well established district heating it's almost a no brainer what to do.
Just anecdotally, most of my friends stopped using Snapchat after the horrific redesign and moved to Instagram stories. Can't say I blame them
Debug Adapter Protocol: standard protocol for debuggers
hold up, how does that figure? I thought you could only get up to the amount invested back, which is why it is a really not great idea. Investing $3k now might net you up to $3k if the stock hits 0, but it could triple in which case you lose $6k.

Bounded upside, infinite downside. I'm sure it's more complicated but what am I missing?
18 minutes to get your goals
How to explain Zero-Knowledge Protocols to your Children [pdf]
Wow 250kmh. May as well be limited to C like the rest of the world's auto makers at that speed
No, this one. https://github.com/samoconnor/lambdalatex
Ask HN: How did you pass hard college classes?
I'm currently on my 3rd attempt at college, 10th semester overall. (I studied Computer Science and Teaching in university, dropped out of both after six and two semesters respectively, and am now doing Applied Computer Science at a technical college.) You'd think by now I'd know how to deal with difficult classes, but I'm absolutely stumped. Previously I was able to just drop out of classes and try again the next year, but at my current college there's a strict schedule and you have to pass all your classes the same year.

I failed three final exams and have to repeat them at the end of next month. The drive and motivation is there, I have no problem sitting down and putting in the work. But it feels like (especially with maths) I'm just treading water. I'll sit down, try to do a problem, but not even know how to approach it. So I'll look up the sample solution just so I know where to start - and sometimes that still doesn't help, I might understand how those steps get you to the correct result, but I have no idea how you're supposed to think them up if you don't even know the solution already. It's so frustrating trying over and over again and still not getting the material. And even more so when I see all my classmates pass with ease and I'm still stuck on classes that I'm already taking for the 2nd or 3rd time.

It's giving me massive anxiety, even though I know I still have enough time to study, but whenever I try, it just feels hopeless. But I know there has to be a way since I already got so far and everyone else seems to be able to do it, too. So how did you get through difficult classes?
> Kowloon, except for the walled city

I thought Kowloon was the walled city.
I've noticed a similar effect with fast food restaurants. Fast food up-and-coming competitors tend to offer higher quality, fresher food at a slightly higher price. Problem is that when you look back at McDonald's 50 years ago, it had higher quality and fresher ingredients than it does today. Profit motive drove slow incremental decreases in quality till eventually new competitors could differentiate by offering a product probably somewhat similar to an original McDonald's burger.

Are we destined to see this same cycle with social media? Profit motive slowly degrades the platform privacy and feed quality till a new player can enter simply by offering something closer to the original product Facebook offered?
>What in the article would lead you to make that decision?

The fact that Sony has also sold their shares, and Universal is contemplating it.

If they see Spotify as failing (even if they don't admit it -as Cooper pointedly denies at the end of the article) then that potentially leads to a situation where Spotify cannot offer content from major labels ...at least not at current prices.

>What would you replace your subscription with?

I just started a trial with youtube premium, I already have amazon prime. The article mentions a few alternatives to subscribe to if no longer has the music or content I want.
This is nothing new businesses already have the option to buy a Windows Subscription including Features like Update and Configuration Management (and if bundled with Office 365 this is called Microsoft 365).

The only new thing about this is that Microsoft adding a bundled subscription that includes their software services and the hardware that runs it.
Working with Pandas: head, tail, slice and subset, add and remove columns
I have actually sat down and used an Alto - it was not impossibly hard, if you'd used or touched some early XWindows stuff
Granted; however the fact that Warner (and from what I read Sony) have lost confidence in Spotify that could easily lead to cutting off their access to their content (artists and music).
I am curious what considerations your company had before switching some projects to Go. Python multithreading has been an issue for us as well. While asyncio looked good in the tutorials, gevent was much easier to work with. However, we still face multiple issues moving our celery workers to gevent and I am not sure if there is a better production friendly alternative for celery-gevent in python.
KEEN – Technology Blogs
Remember that even Myspace is still around. Betting zero is a radical act.
The problem is that the type of engineers that work on OSS takes own integrity very seriously, and they build their network of trust on that integrity.
> Why don't you like the guy?

Maybe I've just become weary of him, but it feels like his personality has devolved into something so narcissistic that his primary motive is no longer the technological advancement itself, but to be worshiped as a Messiah on Twitter for it.

Case in point: at a time at which he claimed he had so much work at Tesla that he slept in his office at the factory, he suddenly needed to be at the front of the Thai cave rescue, he needed to pick a pointless fight with one of the rescue divers, he needed to fix the water in Flint, Michigan, etc., and all of this naturally on Twitter.

>I am always surprised that people could have a net negative opinion on someone who is trying hard to push technology forward in multiple directions

What he has done with SpaceX is just... incredible. There are no other words for it.

However, to me, it seems as if he's taken his success at SpaceX as a life lesson to mean "If I attempt something very hard, and if everybody is telling me I'm doing it wrong, I'm actually doing it right". I think he actually considers himself infallible now. At least, we know how he reacts to criticism, especially from within his own ranks.

In effect, it's not moving technology forward. It's subjecting technological progress to a single person's whim, and results in the technological mess that we have seen at the Fremont plant, for a technological problem that others have already solved a long time ago.

Case in point: how long do you think it would take VW to build a plant that can build 10.000 cars a week?
Inside the Updated Windows Console – TechRepublic
Do they have individual control per outlet? Those loads namely ask quite a bit of power. The last mile with respect to control in the sense of a smart switch or plug per device is the most expensive part till now. That, assuming you can for internet access use the smart meter connection or the consumer's WiFi.
Just guessing.

That could be Softbank. They already have $200 billion in investment lined up.

And apparently they are to some extent disillusioned investing in internet companies.
You are of course spot on. You have to asses the cost of implementing vs the risk/cost of the attack

For a spurious one time threat from an unknown actor, then most of these are overkill.

However against a known adversary with an MO for doing drone attacks, these might be legitimate.

An example, a sports event: stringing a fine net from the building/all weather lights, directional GPS blocking (its RF so can trivially be localised.) is cheap and proportional. "RF snipers" with 900 watt converted microwave "guns" (or more likely a beam forming radar type affair)
Let's Encrypt Is Now Officially Trusted by All Major Root Programs
Why do you use additional versioning?

1.0.0-v1, 1.0.0-v2 istead of just 1.0.0 and 1.0.1

are vX meant as pre-release?
Ah yeah that’s not happening. Instapaper it is :)
As TFA mentions, this works fine for private storage, but we're trying to incentivise people to back up publicly accessable data like the blockchain or chunks of the internet archive. We want a way for possibly-malicious servers to prove that they're storing distinct bottom-layer encodings of data they do know is the same.
Woops... well, but at least Android core is not, which is better than "everything close" (Apple).
At least is better than 100% closed (Apple).
thanks, this was a great read. keep writing on elixir
https://youtu.be/-B0dqvXyx84?t=38s
I'm choosing the lesser of two evils here, glad you downvoted me.
> Would you hire an engineer for a web-company who doesn't go to any websites?

It really depends, but if the person is tasked with automating server fleets or optimizing compile-time kernel settings, it makes perfect sense (except for the fact all important documentation is on the web these days).
Three arguments for hackintosh on the desktop:

1. Apple desktop hardware
2. Windows OS software
3. Linux OS software

Laptops are another matter, I buy actual Apple hardware. But then I don't want a super powerful laptop, I have a desktop hackintosh for that ;)
There’s security benefits (probably why it’s funded by darpa). It makes producing a lot of high performance chips economical outside of SE Asia.
Dick Cavett in the Digital Age
Mm, a fair critique. This is one of the classic arguments where people feel strongly in one direction or another, and it takes very little effort to essentially set up a yay/nay vote.

We can find common ground, but I wish it were possible without restricting what people can say.
A lot of people bitch and moan about it.

... and your best people will leave. Over time you’ll be left with just the ones who don’t have any options to go anywhere else.

It’s kind of a self-inflicted Dead-Sea Effect that you’ve set up.
In no way has Warner lost confidence in Spotify, go read the last paragraph again.
Check out https://mixergy.co.uk which recently came out with a nice solution.
> If the website has links that don't work, generally poor UI.

Or could be just a bug.
In this dry year, a quiet question grows louder: What are we doing here
The last ice age (ie a sheet of ice covering a large part of NA) was about 4ºC or 12ºF colder.

So yes, that is a pretty massive thing, especially happening over a lifetime.
This is a problem that is not unique to this specific instance or Google product. Understand that by relying on Google products you are exposing yourself to massive risk that one day something will happen that - unless you get to the front page of HN - may never be fixed. This can leave you or your business essentially paralyzed.

You have been warned.
Accepting Crypto Payments in the Physical World, the Good, Bad and the Future
The viewpoint that college is a place for vocational education seems to be a very common viewpoint here on HN, a similar viewpoint seems to be that it's normal and easy to pack your life up and relocate so XYZ city because cost of living is low and wages are high, or some other reason. I guess being a tech-centred community this is to be expected.

I don't know about others, but for me university was an important experience as a place where I could grow as a person. It's a time where you get a few years to figure it all out before you spend the next 45 years working. Even if I could've done a 1 year course and then jumped straight into working full time, I wouldn't want to do that, and I don't think people should necessarily do that. There's more to life than getting a good qualification and getting a job that pays well.

I earn more than practically everybody in my friend group, yet I'm no happier than they are. I'm not more fulfilled in my life because I have a piece of paper that says I'm good with computers.
I remember that on one flight you could just walk to the front, and watch the pilots fly the plane through the open cockpit door

That changed in the USA even before 2001, at least by typical policy if not statute.

I recall a trip in the late 1990s flying Aur Canada (maybe YYZ-SFO) and while in Canadian airspace, I was invited in right behind the copilot to hang out for 20 minutes or so. I was surprised how much air traffic could be seen just with the naked eye.
Why criminals can't hide behind Bitcoin
Congrats Rob!
Researchers Unmask Anonymous Tor Users by Tracking Bitcoin Transactions
OneDirection – Nail horan gonna join Louis Tomlinson
Facebook Shows Interest in Banks for Chatbots and Not for Purchase Data
Do you build software systems in C#/JavaScript that are useful, correct, efficient and simple? If yes then you are a good developer.
Current discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17698264
Surely it would be enough in most cases to put an ordinary domestic single phase supply to each parking bay. No need to have big fast chargers. My Tesla S 70D gets about 1 km per hour per amp at 230 V. So if it sits there for an eight hour work day and can get 10 A (common for a domestic circuit in most of Europe) it would get 80 km or about 50 miles. Surely most people commute less than 50 miles each way?
People aren't really understanding Amazon's strategy. Amazon is playing the long game. Right now they are getting their foothold into people's homes with echo and Alexa. In time they will refine the process. I see a future where they have a visual part to ordering-- similar to an echo show.

As it stands now, digital goods are more practical to use with the echo. Example, I never used prime music until I got my echo. My Audible books were all played on my phone-- now I listen to them on my echo. It definitely gives me one more reason to stay with prime and buy more audiobooks.

Google's Android didn't bring much sales to Google early on. Now it brings in billions. It's too early to judge the echo's impact on Amazon's sales.
The biggest issue for me, when FB moved away from chronological ordering, was that if I clicked on a post in my feed, I could no longer go back to the feed and continue browsing where I left off, because the ordering appeared to change when the page was refreshed. I pretty much stopped using the service around that time, and though I didn't actually think about it, I think this change was a big factor in that.
My Motorola G4 was upgraded to Android 7 only 2 weeks ago :)
I've used the paper method in the beginnings of my English study and it worked well for me. SuperMemo was a really great tool and I liked it very much. Managed to keep using it for maybe 10 years, and I'm still sorry that I've stopped when the program and its community were in decline. But the method and algorithm remain the best and it's great to see it's used in modern applications - not just Anki but perhaps in all major language teaching apps. The fact that this article made it to HN front page speaks for itself.

As for using it for scientific paper study - depends what you expect from it. Spaced repetition is great for remembering and retention of facts. When I'm reading a scientifi paper, I rather struggle with the basic understanding of it :)
This never gets old...
I actually wish there was an Android release targeted for Dart support with more Dart promotion. Since this year Java got a lot more powers, they're moving the language and ecosystem much faster, functional targets for Java 12 (will be released in 2019) contain almost everything Kotlin has now.
I'm one of them. I deactivated my Facebook in January too.

I use Twitter for 5-10 minutes a day to keep up with a few topics of interest.

Instagram for 5-10 minutes a day to get some cool nature and travel photos, a few people I genuinely care about.

HN and Reddit keep in the loop for all the things I am interested in and allow me to discuss them anonymously with other people who are as into them as I am.

I just see my family and friends in person.