skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Egmont BC. Only 80km (50 miles) from Vancouver. Not exactly remote by Canada or even British Columbia standards. It is also only 79km from Whistler, but look at what stands between Egmont and whistler to get an idea BC terrain.

https://www.google.com/maps/place/Egmont,+BC+V0N+2H4/@49.750...

I've looked into every option. The irony is that the nearest cell tower is just over a kilometer away. The problem is the rocky terrain and dense pacific coastal rain forest. Trees heavy with water droplets suck up everything, from sound to radio. It is shocking how a heavy mist dulls everyone's cellphone boosters. Voice calls only last a second or two even on dry days. Everyone uses text messaging.

There have been many multipoint proposals. The problem is the rugged coast. Even a 1000' tower wouldn't have line of sight to every house. It would take all sorts of relays atop individual hills. And those relays need power, which is tricky. Buried lines aren't an option (rock) and towers are expensive (forest).
They have tried! Equifax has a service where you can pay them to verify your users' identities by quizzing them on their credit history.

That said, given the equifax breach, I literally can't think of someone I'd trust less to handle it.
You pass it the update function, the one function handles all updates. Typically, you'll have a case statement in that function to dispatch it out to something more specific.
An Open Letter to the SEC Regarding Bitcoin ETFs
Ask HN: Where can I get a whole project reviewed?
Often when learning a new programming language I am be interested in getting an expert review on a non-trivial project. I looked at using code review stack exchange but it seems to only be used for small snippets of code. Happy to pay for a review as I recognize reviewing a whole project by an expert is unlikely to be free. Anyone know of sites which do this?
Chemical and biological really should not be grouped into the WMD label. They are not nearly as effective in the M and the D. See the saran attack on Tokyo. One small nuke would have been thousands of times more deadly. For a chemical attack to be as effective as a nuke one would need hundreds or thousands of bombs dropped on a single city. If you are going to do that then a firebombing raid can be much more effective for destruction. 300 B-29 caused more damage in a single night over Tokyo than either of the nuclear attacks later in the war (modern nukes are much bigger though).
Oh, we lost a car. No big deal, we'll just send another copy!
"On the one hand, if I live at home for much longer I’ll go stir-crazy. What I need is a place to go. Friends. Work. Moving to Marin and doing another game for Broderbund would give me that...the games business is drying up.

Karateka may make me as little as $75,000 all told, and it’s at the top of the charts. Tere’s no guarantee the new game will be as successful."

What. $75,000 for a 21 year old in 1985? ($180,000 today.)

Why did he seem so upset about that?
Having been running WireGuard in my router for a couple of months now I have to say it's just the first ever VPN to offer no bandwidth penalty and a very easy setup. Now I have IPv6 through the VPN, all traffic from the house is routed through anonymous servers and I've had no problems with the connection dropping. Very nice work here.
It could still support e.g. function templates (not sure if it actually does).
Don't know why you are getting downvoted, MVC is the combination of the observer and strategy patterns, no more, no less.

All the pieces have a single responsibility, the view reacts to model changes and redraw itself, the controller executes the business logic on UI events and the model to broadcast events when its state has/was changed by the controller. Data flows only in one direction.
Rather than questioning if the experiment failed, perhaps we should question if recent participants considered it an experiment in the first place.

I.e., I don't think most bitcoin miners / companies / investors saw this as a knowledge-gathering exercise.
I'm surprised that these topics about McCain are appearing and sticking around. From HN's guidelines:

"Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon. [...] If they'd cover it on TV news, it's probably off-topic."

If this is the new standard then it's a worrying incursion of US politics into HN.

Can someone make a convincing argument as to how McCain's death is of particular interest to hacker culture? My feeling is these topics are sticking around because they're honoring a guy that seems beloved by both sides of the political spectrum (no dispute from me there), but it doesn't change the fact that this doesn't fit HN guidelines.

Edit: And before someone mentions it, I'm aware that I myself am breaking the guidelines by questioning the appropriateness of this topic. I think it's a fair discussion to be had when neither the flagging mechanism or HN's moderation staff are enforcing what should be the principal rule of the site.
I remember it very well on my Amiga 500, together with Another World the movements felt wonderfully fluid and natural. Used it as reference when paining sprites in Deluxe Paint, my brother coding in Amos etc. good times.
And when someone claims that they support Bitcoin or see a future for Bitcoin, chances are they too are talking about cryptocurrencies in general and not specifically Bitcoin.
... why would you?
It's also tough to accept the fact the market will buy things that one thinks is "stupid". Back in the 80s, NBC executives hated "The A-Team" despite the immense success it had on the NBC network. They felt the show was low-brow and cartoonish, "a hamburger show on a caviar network."
What is backing bitcoin? Gold? Cpu cycles?
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Why lose sleep over this considering that 0.18 still works? (Genuine question, not criticism.)
Choosing one partner for life, while not impossible, is pretty flawed because you never know how both of you will change over the next 10 years.

The one thing you can be certain of is you and your partner will change. Perhaps the solution is to develop some tolerance to that change if you want a long relationship.
One partial solution to having a single power hierarchy is having multiple power hierarchies. Then no one person is the boss of me, and when someone wants something done, they can't just order me to do it. They can't be a jerk to me or they might find their work assigned to my lowest priority.

It can go horribly wrong, too ("I have eight different bosses, Bob!"). I don't think there's any power structure which can prevent selfish or malevolent people from harming the organization: "The machinery of government is always subordinate to the will of those who administer that machinery."
Though interestingly, a lot of the solutions they arrived at are also generally seen as a good foundation for even printed letterforms (or other high fidelity formats) when the goal is readability.
NET monitoring, chaos engineering, Pat Helland,Alpakka, and other cool topics
Compared to India, Estonia is so small that it is not even funny. India is too big, too complex (16 official languages plus hundreds of dialects). Estonia's population is ~1.3 million, India's is more than one billion. The sheer scale of it changes the equation dramatically.

Add to all this, corruption is a way of life in Indian government(s) - central and local. Even if a system is solid (technology wise), there are tons of social problems to deal with.

Comparing Estonia with India is not fair at all, at any level.

This is not to take anything away from Estonia's achievement. Kudos to them for setting a great example! But their small size, having to support just one language etc gives them a tremendous advantage
They knew how to have a better attitude about it than me. Didn't last long.
redux-loop is harder to use, but so is Redux itself. They are both having to fight the language (JS) to do what is so simple in elm.
How did you sell Bitcoin? For cash? Was it dangerous?
I certainly agree with you. The idea is indeed great but one has to be very sure about its economies of scale when setting up a vertical farm. I have a small setup in my apartment and it needs a lot of upfront setup cost and recurring monitoring, electricity cost etc.

Vertical farms, if designed in a sustainable way, can be profitable in a long run. Since it can be automated one should automate it completely saving on man power.

Also, understanding of what crop to grow, how to grow and most important how to sell it will make any vertical farm profitable.
It is their natural way of being, but that doesn’t make it inherently morally superior to captivity by humans. The way humans live in the wild is pretty different than in civilization too.

As an aside: I personally don’t think it actually matters whether captivity is better than nature, but I’m pointing out arguendo that it probably isn’t. I think it is fine, short of wanton cruelty, for us humans to use animals for our own ends.
"Predicting which software businesses will find this fit is extremely hard."

Often a business is about the team, not the concept. Given any talented team, they an take any concept and evolve it to fit the market.

Also, there's no way he was able to take any of those concepts far enough given the numbers and time frame.

It can often take a small team several months to a couple of years to find out if it's going to really work or not.
Extreme temperature changes? Solar flares?
Also Tukey, Chambers, Cleveland (all three from Bell Labs), Breiman, Tufte.
The microarchitecture reference also has some educational illustrations of microprocessor design plays out in the real world. E.g. section 9.9:

> Register read stalls has been a serious, and often neglected, bottleneck in previous processors since the Pentium Pro. All Intel processors based on the P6 microarchitecture and its successors, the Pentium M, Core and Nehalem microarchitectures have a limitation of two or three reads from the permanent register file per clock cycle.

> This bottleneck has now finally been removed in the Sandy Bridge and Ivy Bridge. In my experiments, I have found no practical limit to the number of register reads.

This (and the preceding related discussion) gives you a ton of insight into the limitations Intel engineers were facing and the trade-offs they made. Here, ports on a register file have a cost--they require transistors, may limit cycle time, etc. Intel realized that in many cases, the operands to an instruction would be available on the bypass network, and you could get away with having fewer ports on the register file than you'd theoretically need given the number of functional units.
Oh look. A letter written by another one of 10 million different cryptocurrencies.

I'm so tired of seeing ten new cryptocurrencies pop up every week.
4096 bit keys, comparison, aah. Sounds like the crypto stuff is really badly off in this article. Key length alone doesn't practically mean anything. Classic VPN lies and hype.
In the UK a capital gain (or loss) may occur when you use Bitcoin to buy something, whatever that thing is. (Buying something with Bitcoin is effectively selling Bitcoin for that thing. The thing has a value, and that is some evidence that the Bitcoin is worth that much.) This is a taxable event and if the gain is large enough then you'll need to pay the tax on it.

I imagine many countries have rules that are quite similar.
I also wasn’t trying to do that. The large majority of these were me just trying things out to see what would happen. It’s how I learn. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Was this with Crypto or stocks?
What does it take to actually make BTC ASICs?

In my understanding, the hash functions are quite simple and just do things like XOR, and SHIFT, and perhaps ADD/SUB, but not multiply or divide. So the main difficulty would be to do everything at the lowest possible amount of power.

But I could be wrong.
Discovery of superhero material that is light and strong like nothing we have right now. Somehow I feel that making rockets more reusable and cheaper is going to win short term.
Did you read the article? The author agrees with you, and talks about why 4096-bit keys are not inherently more secure...
Probably not, but expectations change through time - especially if you make such a successful game. Quoting from The Making of Karateka Journals:

"February 13, 1982
Scott Barnes from Hayden called. Will they ever publish Asteroids? It’s been over a year — fifteen months — since I submitted it and they accepted it. (Sigh.)
If they only sell 1,000 copies, I’ll make $4,500 — if they sell 5,000, I’ll make $22,500 — ridiculously high sums of money. Right now I only have $500, counting everything. So why am I not on the phone with them every morning, pushing, pushing?
Oh well. When I finish Deathbounce and sell it, I’ll be rich and then I can stop worrying about money for the next few years."
Good article, although in reality removing 60Hz hum isn't so simple, because it's never a pure sine wave. You get harmonics too, and the ear is more sensitive to those higher frequencies so they can be a problem even at lower amplitudes.
No, it's not supposed to be secret. It's not like SSN. Aadhar id is just a unique identifier. Your authentication happens through biometrics.
Cool, but I wish prostitution were legal as well
Chile has highest rate of AIDS in South America, reveals new study
Intel's documentation is unbelievably bad. A damning statement on their documentation is that Google staffs a project to parse their horrible PDF and compare the supposed instruction latency and throughput figures to real measurements. https://github.com/google/EXEgesis
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Google is not entering the crypto space. Quoting from the article:

> Google finally officially entered the blockchain space, announcing on its blog just before the Google Cloud Next ’18 conference in San Francisco in July 24–26, to be supporting distributed ledger technology, aka blockchain

Adding a blockchain service to your cloud platform offering is far from "entering the crypto space".
We are done with “Hacking”
If you want to take your indoor farm to the next level check out both www.growcomputer.io and www.openagriculturesupply.com!
Most of them aren't currently doing all that bad. But some of them are and most of them eventually will be miserable in the future. Point at a random lion or wolf in the wild and they are happy, loaded with itchy parasites, but fine. Eventually they will all either get sick or be injured. Prey animals die quickly, ripped apart by the lions and wolves. Top predators are doomed to suffer. Their final days, weeks, sometimes years of suffering with a debilitating injury are not pleasant. That misery is what a good zoo removes as compensation for captivity. It is the least we can do. Whether that exchange is fair is a judgement call, but when making it we must remember that our ideals of nature and natural existence are not necessarily universal. Many a wolf might gladly live inside a fence in exchange for never being hungry, cold or itchy again.
also relevant is cling, made by the folks at CERN

https://github.com/root-project/cling

https://root.cern.ch/cling
What are you otherwise using that money for? If you're using it as a means to fund activities that make you happy it would be worthwhile but if it's sitting in the bank then your bank is just using it to generate interest for itself. This could instead be going to you.
The problem really isn't term limits. It's the cost of elections.

If we set 2 term limits, it would just mean that the corporate elite would just buy a new politician every 2 terms rather than buying a politician for 6 or more terms.

If you wanted to run for a political office. You'd need money. So who has money? And now you are beholden to the wealthy.

It's amazing when you think about it. We can no longer ever have a populist or independent president or congressman really. Because of the money needed to run for office.
Just a couple of thoughts:

1. Prosecutors are afraid of losing and protracted court battles with all avenues of appeals pursued - making all but the slam dunk cases unattractive to pursue

2. A great deal of the acts the the public would like top executives to be prosecuted for when examined objectively typically are mix of moral shortcomings, Grey areas, and civil (rather than criminal infractions) - making them easy to try in the court of public opinion and less so in a court of law.

3. A lot of prosecutors don’t have the technical support to parse some do the data/complex aspects of the case - let alone make it digestible for a jury
Launch is only a vibration and acceleration problem which are mechanical issues. Payload electronics are mostly powered off until on orbit.
Think of it more as cutting your losses. You've already lost the money, so even if you can't make it all back you can make back part of it by selling the product at a loss.
..because in this thought experiment it's guaranteed to be deflationary...
Let me guess, this super secure one time password sent to your phone is sent via SMS?
> That's not how it works.

Obivously, the meaning of the original sentence is that miners will turn off the mining equipment when they decide that it's more profitable to leave it off than leave it on.

> …you can either sell it for $50 and only be down $50 on your electricity, or you can not sell it at all and be down $100 on your electricity.

This is a false dilemma, the question is not just whether you sell the coins, but also how many, with what timing, on what markets, and in exchange for what. The “either sell it and make some money back, or don’t sell it and eat the loss” is only true if you are paying for your electricity in Bitcoin to begin with, or if you know that the asset you have will only depreciate in value. If I spent $10,000 on a car that I don’t need, selling it for $8,000 might be a good deal because if I wait I will only get less. For Bitcoin, the exchange rate fluctuates, and you can divide it and sell parts at different times.
Another fork of bitcoin. So not actually bitcoin but still bitcoin at the same time. This appears to be an issue with cryptos. Nothing stops another fork later. It’s like people find a problem with a currency and start printing money in another one.

I can see blockchain currency being useful when it is backed by something solid. But right now it’s still just wasted electricity. Eg MasterCard and friends could easily create a currency and use it for exchange.

If I can’t actually use a currency to buy/sell or store value then what is it for? Or am I wrong?
5G is the 'largest existential threat to broadband providers
Are there commercial providers?
GP was not talking about using Bitcoin for crime, but rather the (extremely common) crime of having your money stolen via fraud or whatever. In USD you have recourse there to be made whole. In btc, you do not.
Can ICs fire managers?
It doesn't mean that adhaar is intently insecure, or it has been compromised. It merely says that people are not using it for authentication as they should.

The attack vectors already existed without a central source of authentication, say with fake birth certificate and no authentication.

I still don't see adhaar as a negative, merely being misutilized by different people.
Link to Science perspective. http://science.sciencemag.org/content/361/6404/758.
Story of Ensemble Studios: http://insidevoice.com/ensemble-figures-out-how-to-go-from-e...

A career narrative from Rich Geldreich (of http://www.binomial.info/): https://sites.google.com/site/richgel99/

The Making of Warcraft: http://www.codeofhonor.com/blog/the-making-of-warcraft-part-...

SimCity, Part 1: Will Wright’s City in a Box: http://www.filfre.net/2016/06/simcity-part-1-will-wrights-ci...
do you have a write up of this and how you configured your router, etc?
Yes, see https://mullvad.net/en/guides/category/wireguard/
Fantastic assessment. I hadn't thought about it in these terms before, but agree strongly.
It sounds weird, but I think a big part of Bitcoin's, and other crypto's value, isn't in the day to day ability to use it to buy and sell things, it's the inability of the government to devalue it.

This isn't as big a problem in many richer countries with relatively stable currencies, but I sure as hell would prefer Bitcoin to anything the Venezuelan government or the Argentinian government would issue.

The kinks are still getting worked out for Bitcoin, but I still think it is a big game changer.
Ask HN: Best recreational math books?
Just finished these two books recently and enjoyed them

Madachy's Mathematical Recreations
https://www.amazon.com/Madachys-Mathematical-Recreations-Joseph-Madachy/dp/0486237621/

The Master Book of Mathematical Recreations
https://www.amazon.com/Master-Mathematical-Recreations-Dover-Recreational-ebook/dp/B0188FBZSY/

Are there any similar recreational math/puzzle books that you can recommend? To be clear, I am not looking for serious math, just high school/first year college level that I can enjoy and learn. Bonus if it deals has real world examples.

Thanks!
The Man Who Predicted the Venezuelan Catastrophe in 1893
Yea it's amazing how many different apples there are. But if you found a Honeycrisp in Germany it won't be as good as one grown in the Upper Midwest region or other select regions(Upstate NY and Washington State). There's a lot of Honeycrisp grown in Chile and New Zealand and although good they are not as good as a local apple and they are the same 4$ dollars a pound. In fact the University of Minnesota the creator of both apples actually will only let specific growers in the Upper Midwest, Upstate New York and Washington State grow the SweetTango to keep quality high[1].

[1]:https://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2014/11/10/358530280/wa...
We aggregate exactly that kind of material over in https://www.reddit.com/r/TheMakingOfGames/
12 cheeseburgers are more than 1, but pretty useless to me because 1 is really all I can use.

If current openvpn or IPSEC isn’t being cracked, there is only more energy wasted in going to 4096bit keys.

Edit: lol downvotes... ok, cool. Tell me who is breaking 2048bit diffiehellman exchange to 256bit AES in CBC mode. I’ll wait right here.
Did not get the whole idea behind www.growcomputer.io. Practically my need is a monitoring and automation suite. Something like autogrow (https://autogrow.com/product-category/hardware/) which can monitor PH/EC/TEMP/HUM and automate nutrient supply.
Note: Farming in that manner regularly is not sustainable. Also, at a certain loss point, you might as well compost the crop back into the soil to contribute to next year's crop as fertilizer. That stuff is expensive.

Hell, the entire economy makes no guarantees at being sustainable in the long run. The unsustainability period just shows all indications of being longer than a human lifespan, thereby making it easy for people to write off as not their problem.
Also, if you read the fantastic computer age statistical inference from Efron & Hastie (it's available online!), you notice they are both fans of data-science! The whole book reads like a big argument why we need data-science and why traditional statistics is not always the answer.

This comes especially obvious in the epilogue, where they try to give a quick oververview how the concept of a "data-science" formed and how statistics diverged into data-science + ML and the traditional statistics-community.

They end the book by arguing that both communities should find to each other, because fundamentally they try to do similiar things. I also think is badly needed. Unfortuntaly I experience some of arrogance on both sides, which makes it harder! (DS/ML-people have no idea what they are doing and only throw their algorithms on problems & benchmark them! Statisticians are obsolete & i can just automate them with NNs!)
Yep.

https://mullvad.net/en/

Many servers. Can pay with bitcoin. You only get a randomized account number. /128 subnet for IPv6.

https://www.azirevpn.com/

A bit less servers. No need to give email. /64 subnet for IPv6.