skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
" there is just no comparison between the technical and mathematical simplicity of the cryptocurrency transaction as opposed to a bank transaction."

A bank transaction is this:

MoveMoney(FromThisAccount, ToThisAccount)

One with decentralized checking is this:

MoveMoney(FromThisAccount, ToThisAccount)
PostToLedger(CurrentStateorChanges);

On other system, CheckChanges(CurrentStateorChanges).

That's it. All the extra stuff is for extra requirements or overhead from traditional, bank designs. It's not requirements for centralized banking. You can do the basics of banking, with crypto, on 16-bit microcontrollers on smartcards. You can do the ledger in memory with snapshots for persistence. You're talking load and store instructions plus some I/O. Super simple. The stuff proof engineers are mathematically modeling, implementing, and verifying down to the assembly is much more complicated than this.

Now, with cryptocurrency, it starts with some pretty math. That turns into a way more complex implementation than what I just described. Inevitably because their protocols are intrinsically more difficult than centralized protocols that just publish ledger for decentralized checking. Even the tools for verifying them are more in infancy than those for traditional systems. Then, there's the mass of code they use like Linux to operate. Then there's developers that can make changes. There can be lawsuits forcing things to happen. A lot more than math goes on with the cryptocurrencies even though proponents talk like it's just math that you can trust.

Now, someone might say their complexities aren't nearly as bad as traditional banking or weaknesses are worth it. The former might be true, but nobody has proven the latter given a centralized non-profit can do almost everything better. I haven't even seen opponents of traditional banks attempt to do better with centralized design. I have seen for-profit companies like PayPal, Western Union, Venmo, and an online bank in Go language vastly improve on the situation with clean-slate designs getting lots of market share away from bankers. Had idealists done that, they'd have millions to billions to spend on experiments like cryptocurrencies plus made a huge, positive difference in people's lives. That's because they are actually using the centralized alternatives based on traditional currencies. Can you imagine how much better they'd be if they were public benefit or non-profit companies with stuff in their charter and agreements protecting the customers? And that leverages existing laws that lawyers understand well.
“Life is mostly froth and bubble,
Two things stand like stone.
Kindness in another's trouble,
Courage in your own.” - Adam Lindsay Gordon
The advantage of having lots of monitors is that it lets you organize your workspace spatially, rather than having to constantly deal with the cognitive load of manual window management. Tilting my head a few degrees to look at my email client which is _always_ in the same place on my right monitor is significantly faster and more intuitive than having to grab my mouse and click the email icon on the taskbar, or Alt+Tab through a stack of recent programs until I find my email client among them.

There are practical limits, sure. Most people are not going to want to turn their entire body around 180-degrees just to look at another window. Within those limits though I find that more space is generally better.
> Similarly, Times Newer Roman is only useful for hitting larger page counts; if you have a strict word count limit, you’re out of luck.

For that, you'd want a font that includes ligatures to render things like "t h e" as "the", so that it counts as three words but looks like one.

Hypothetically, of course.
Prehistoric children as young as eight worked as brickmakers and miners
Does UEFI start the same way as BIOS (firmware on LPC bus, PC starts at 0xFFFFFFF0)? Or is there a different top level mechanism?

My understanding was that the CPU still starts in 16 bit real mode (with an evil hack to sign-extend IP) but that by the time UEFI hands off to code on a hard drive it is in long mode.
I have no deep insight into the workings of Linux development, but from the outside, this CoC looks to be a distraction from solving any actual problems.

Put simply, it is just a txt file, and nothing about it suggests any actual change in how issues are handled, nor does it (or its predessesor) describe the actual process beyond 'contact the technical advisory board with issues'. If Linux is having issues, the problem would have been in how the TAB handles them; and the new CoC offers no changes or insight into that process.

Beyond that, neither version offers any significant insight into what acceptable behavior is. Again, not nessaserilly a problem (let TAB point out problems as they come up), but CoCs like the new Linux one seem to just be about saying they have a CoC.
You're ignoring any concept of competition.
The underlying issue is convincing vs. exercising force.
One problem I find with the CoC is the grey area, which are not defined, but left to the appreciation of the enforcer, like 'Other conduct which could reasonably be considered inappropriate in a professional setting', which would vary from country to country and 'Representation of a project may be further defined and clarified by project maintainers' regarding representation of the project in a public space. With this, an enforcer may easily trump charge against any contributor.
FWIW, I just checked and they don't use an iFrame approach. This means their entire checkout page must be in scope for SAQ-D.
Massdrop has a really nice one.
I must be weird. I've always been afraid of dying from some stupid accident when doing something potentially dangerous, even when I was 16. Thankfully, it hasn't stopped me from flying gliders or rock climbing. (I did get some criticism from my peers for being too careful, after not going 20 meters above the terrain at 250kph, but the older folks seemed to rather comment that I had some sense).
> Zig reads to me as something actually trying to displace C

Shout out for DABC, another really enjoyable-to-work-with system in that space!

https://dlang.org/spec/betterc.html
This is a generalization. As an European too, there's plenty of places here where it's common to just have some salt and oil and the protagonists are very much the different vegetables (and other stuff!) you put in the salad.

Same for vinaigrettes and all sorts of dressings. I actually think salads drenched in greasy stuff are a bit too much.
So how come is Comodo selling certificates to domain squatters? This seems to be one sore point here.
It was appended to "Modernizr.js". That suggests a number of further possibilities by which that may have been replaced on a developer's computer, or at the point of download by a package manager (are packages authenticated?)

It could well have been included in a legitimate re-deploy if that was the case.
Corporate and office politics are so frustrating the higher you climb the corporate ladder. I'd love to be able to show up to work and for everyone to do their job and leave emotions and what not out of it.
I would say Go is more a competitor to Java.
This write up not only oversimplifies, but it totally neglects one of the more interesting motivations of the original paper [1]. The authors are probing whether or not quantum mechanics is consistent with a single-world interpretation---that is, whether or not there is a unique reality. Formally, the claim is that there is no physical theory that is (1) consistent with QM, (2) consistent with a single-world interpretation, and (3) logically self-consistent.

1. https://arxiv.org/pdf/1604.07422.pdf
Depending on exactly what you need to do, don't discount being able to run Linux boxes on a VPS for very cheap.

For example, I have a small dev/bastion box that I just use Mosh to SSH into. If you're comfortable on the command line, this has a huge number of benefits. E.g. doesn't have to sleep, huge network pipe (especially to your other boxes), using tmux to re-attach to long-running processes, use a tablet or even a phone to do some things, etc.

If I need something that requires a ton of resources, I can spin up a really big machine, do what I need, and only pay for the hours I used it.

This allows me to have a really tiny if slightly underpowered laptop. Even if you don't have your "dev" box on a VPS, offloading your bigger tasks to them can allow you to still get a smaller laptop.
I don't see how I'm being rude. Sources aren't a sufficient excuse to stop the conversation short of first principles.
GP, I hope you heed this person's advice.

To make a food analogy, if you're trying to learn how to cook, you don't need the latest kitchen gadgets.

Just ingredients, pots/pans, and a reliable, controllable source of heat are enough.

Adding extra pieces (especially when you're getting started) is only going to make your learning curve steeper.
The Greeks Really Do Have Near-Mythical Origins
"and the pasta sauce “Alfredo” served at places like Olive Garden"

Shots fired!
That's because you're looking at it in black and white, but the world is greyscale.

There are ways to abuse CoC to harm people, instead of protect people. That's "weaponization".

That doesn't mean you either always enforce it or never enforce it.
Hey! Thanks, @mooreds, for posting this here. I'm curious if others have feedback regarding what has worked or not worked for them in the past as well as whether or not I've missed anything critical.
The early stage is the perfect time to start charging. You get to see if it's got any real-world value for users. If nobody signs up then you can change direction or move on to something else.

Besides you don't want to be dealing with desperately trying to convert free users later, or worse, having to grandfather everyone in at free forever from your initial launch. Gotta pay the bills somehow.
> I look at him and say: "What do you want, you don't have a clue about this stuff anyway."

I know you specified this was 10 years ago, but I can't think of a single situation where this would not be a douchebag move.
Ahh found out the problem. I had to update 1Password in the app store for it to show in there! Thanks!
Actually quite surprised, their claims of increased performance ring true. My iPad Mini 4 and iPhones 5S and SE all seem significantly faster after upgrading. On older devices it is more noticeable. No more animation lag, hitches/delays, etc.

Would like to see a continued focus on these kinds of improvements.
I do.

I have a tiny $5 Onion Omega2 on an independent cellular connection that checks file integrity on the production web servers every 15 minutes.

If the content of any of the files change, I get an e-mail.

If the alerts start coming in when I know I've just pushed a new version to production, the mail has a link that I can click that will re-scan all of the files and build new checksums.

If the alerts start coming in in the middle of the night, then I know something is up.

Obviously, this only works in small environments like mine where I'm the only one capable of updating the production servers. But it managed to catch a backdoor left in by the previous developer, who for some reason stored and updated his resume on the production server.
I grew up in rural PA and ranch was not "literally the #1 condiment". There is an urban anti-ranch sentiment that sees it as too provincial to be cool. Once you subtract that sentiment, rural PA does not eat more ranch dressing than the rest of the country.
My favorite manager taught me how to navigate the workplace. He managed 20 very different people and always found time for one of us if wee needed it. He would fight other people to say that we (graduates) were valuable to the company and would always feed back to us the responses he was getting.

One thing I am really grateful for is that he expected me to be able to find and point out the policies and procedures for anything I needed him to do. This meant that I could keep him honest, and he could learn from me instead of having to search himself whenever I came up with an unusual problem (like being a graduate and getting called for an incident while not on call). I still do all my own reading before I go to my manager now with things I need them to do, and it helps me to help them help me (for the most part).

He was also always there for me if I was getting beaten around inside or outside work (even after he stopped being my manager). He is the best manager I have had by far, and I would work with him again in an instant.

I am still amazed how he managed to do so well after being thrown into the job managing a large group of people working across the department, while other managers I've had who have only needed to look after a small team (10 people) seem to never have time for us.
And how does the hash of the DLL on some server relate to the content seen by users?
All true but I think the more central issue is, whether or not the person who will live in the house (or drive over the bridge) is present during construction, and knowledgeable enough to notice whether things are being done well. In general, the answer to one or the other is "no". The only exceptions are, as you say, in multimillion dollar custom homes, and then only sometimes.
> The modern discussion whether it's a mental illness or not is just tiptoeing around the issue for non-medical concerns.

It's not; there's actually a medical difference between "mental illness" and "disability".
Use your hours to make money? That's what you spend time at work for.
How much energy went into not having him get evicted? The CoCs invite witch hunts and time wasting.
Check this out:

https://membarrier.wordpress.com/2017/04/12/qnx-7-desktop/
I haven’t spent any time in Kansas City to know what the parent referred to — but with a lack of knowledge I could imagine this aesthetic could lead to some pretty bad designs if the feeling was that each mixed use function needed its own entrance and each entrance needed to be as close to parking as possible. Such could encourage all the buildings to be islands surrounded by a moat of parking lots which would help ensure that walking anywhere would involve a lot of walking through parking lots ...
Since we're being nitpicky, neither of those claims are true.

>To get a professional engineer's license, you must graduate from an ABET accredited program.

In some states you can take the FE and PE exam with a related non-ABET accredited degree and work experience based, and in some states you can take the exams with no degree based on experience only. For example, NY let's you substitute work experience for a degree. There's a table where you can see how much experience you need based on your degree (or lack of one).

>Unless you have a professional engineers license, you can't testify in court as an engineer

Courts determine what credentials qualify someone to testify as an expert witness, not state licensing boards.

In some states, testifying in court as an engineer does qualify as practicing engineering without a license, and the state licensing board could fine you after the fact. However, in other states testifying in court doesn’t necessarily qualify as practicing engineering.
>The fact that this is regularly and explicitly clarified indicates the original document is poorly drafted.

Would you say the same about the US constitution? It was designed to be updated and changed, rather than be written in stone. To you, is that the same as saying that it's "poorly drafted" and they knew it?

To most people, I think they feel that's a sign that they were wise enough to know that they couldn't think of everything, and that the document would have to change over time.
I see what you mean https://simpleanalytics.io/adriaan.io
> Take diversity for example. What does it have to do with professional conduct?

If someone is acting racist towards others for example, or displaying sexist attitudes, then that will absolutely hurt diversity because the people at the receiving end will not want to stick around.
The Sleeper Hit That Makes the Most of Screen Time
I think the idea here is to get a competition for the government. In other words, an ideal government does serve those purposes and and provides features not bugs; however in reality government is far from perfect and does its job rather poorly, from the point of view of many. So they propose to create a virtual one for the area of financial transactions with the hope that the new "limitations" of new "government control" will work better than what we have right now.
Explain, then, the Caesar salad, king of all salads.
As someone with many Aspergers tendencies, I can tell you that most work, school and social environments are not great for us.

While I think it is annoying to have Aspergers and be expected to act “normally,” I can see it would have many downsides for people to claim Aspergers status and bring this into regular office environments rather than develop coping strategies.

It takes very, very little time for normal people to come to understand that I am “weird” and that I don’t provide expected responses to normal interactions.

This year, my social weirdness has resulted in situations where I have gotten into fights with my coworkers who decided to attempt to bully me after they realized that I don’t have normal social skills.

Unfortunately, the only techniques I have at my disposal are to make it very, very costly for people to bully me. I don’t have the ability to come up with proper responses to nasty comments in real time. When people say things to me I don’t like, it takes me a long time to articulate to myself what the problem is and why it made me mad and by then it is too late - That person now thinks I am an easy target and persists in their behavior.

After reading and learning more about Aspergers I realize that this trait and many others are common. It was very helpful to learn from other people with this sort of condition and have developed coping strategies. I truly recommend doing a lot of research (not on the internet, I mean real books written by qualified people) if you suspect you have Aspergers.

I tend think about something someone said or did to me for several days and even months. I seethe.

Normal people tend to have situationally appropriate responses to small provocations, I develop anxiety about them.

I manage a team of people and get paid over $330,000 / year. The idea that I still act and feel this way is insane and so immature but that’s how my brain works.
I assume that it's more of a feeler/prototype than a real product, but even then it is really basic and through that it's ultimately useless.

A Summary page should show traffic volume, who exactly is driving it and where it arrives. That's the bare minimum needed to make shown information actually _useful_ and _actionable_. Things like "Top Domain Referrers" and "Top Pages" are aggregate vanity metrics, their effective utility is zero. If you have a spike in traffic, you want to know the reason and with your current design you can't.
How is India barred from buying Russian equipment? Russia is one of the largest suppliers of military equipment to India...
It seems to trigger even on non-mobile devices. If I shrink my viewport to a normal width (900ish pixels) the entire site is basically unusable. :/
I love the idea that where we went too far was in adding herbs to our sour cream lightened with buttermilk. We've all flown too high on borrowed wings!
Yup, my companies product is actually mentioned on the first page of the link
I've decided to look into using alternate Music apps at this point (some have pretty good reviews) because the "Apple Music" pop-up I get nearly EVERY time I launch the Music app causes me problems. If I don't happen to have a connection (say on an iPod) the screen sometimes freezes and I can't even get to the music stored on the device. They really ruined the Music app.
> And different researchers tend to draw different conclusions. “Most people claim that the experiment shows that their interpretation is the only one that is correct.”

Exactly like in the experiment ...

Edit: To be clearer, why not try to explain the way the paper is received with the very material the paper is about ?
> Can you imagine how much better they'd be if they were public benefit or non-profit companies with stuff in their charter and agreements protecting the customers? And that leverages existing laws that lawyers understand well.

Idealists opposed to traditional banking have done that, with significant success. Hence, public benefit banks, public banks, and credit unions.
Isn't a major part of Aspergers the inability to see that the human mind is irrational by nature.

And sometimes the inability to see that the objective world that exists is not the same objective world that we see. Due to how the brain interprets sensory information from the objective world.

An example taken from your own text:

The reason that you are not supposed to tell a fat person that they are fat is cause by saying you are fat you are essentially pointing to that persons irrational behavior(eating to much).

The fat person does not want to think about their own overweight, it will lead to them start thinking about their own irrationality. Something that will then cause them to feel that they are a failed person, causing negative emotions.

Reality can be analyzed in many dimensions.
Opposition to them is also all about politics and power, so there you go.
I'd avoid prescribing dietary advice based on sensationalist articles. Ketogenic diets work for many people, dieters as well as diabetics, celiacs, etc. The science is sound as long as you understand the philosophy that makes it work.
It was a joke, relax.
The problem comes from the re-defining of sexism and racism. Mainly that you can't be sexist toward men or racist toward white people. The same people that crafted the CoC hold those views.
Payday loans are coming for everyone
FanDuel not honoring bet that would have paid over $82,000 due to line error
"Evidence-based" seems to end up meaning practices like NHST where there is evidence involved, but the analysis is so messed up you can conclude anything you want from it.

And its really funny they use "evidence-based medicine" as a positive example. Basically this is what we should expect to happen:

>'“Evidence-based medicine has drifted in recent years from investigating and managing established disease to detecting and intervening in non-diseases,” Greenhalgh and colleagues wrote in BMJ in June.

Furthermore, the “evidence” favoring various treatments typically comes from trials in which companies decide which drugs to test, at what doses, on how many people. Often the experimental statistical “evidence” in such studies establishes a benefit for a drug that is of little practical value; the supposed benefit, while perhaps real in a mathematical sense, is so slight as to be meaningless for real patients. In other cases, perfectly sound evidence regarding a particular disease is rendered irrelevant in patients afflicted with more than one disorder (patients who are commonly seen in medical practice, but typically excluded from the trials that produced the evidence).

On top of all that, Greenhalgh and colleagues point out, the sheer volume of medical evidence makes assessing it all intelligently essentially impossible. Even the guidelines summarizing the evidence are too voluminous to be useful to doctors.

“The number of [evidence based] clinical guidelines is now both unmanageable and unfathomable,” Greenhalgh and coauthors note. In one 24-hour period in 2005, for instance, a hospital in the United Kingdom admitted 18 patients with 44 diagnoses. The relevant U.K. national guidelines for those patients totaled 3,679 pages. Estimated reading time: 122 hours.'"
https://www.sciencenews.org/blog/context/evidence-based-medi...
> She fought for us

That seems to be the theme with me as well, all of my best managers and supervisors shared this trait even if I disagreed with them in other ways.