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I think you are wrong, given that it is based on Webkit components. In what way does it use Chromium code?
Chrome 70 Will Allow Users to Opt-Out of Automatic Sign-In Feature
I agree that it's a buzzword,

but at least intuitively, a signed blockchain (in the true sense that each block contains a hash of the previous block) does seem to confer some additional security over a plain database.

A plain database would give you a log of events and who logged them, but security and trust resides in the database and how it's authenticated. Anyone with sufficient permissions could modify the database.

A signed block chain would give you a log of events where each party in the chain signs the new block (which includes a hash of the previous block) using their private key. The block can then be verified using each entities public key. To modify this system you would need to be able to breach the trust of the private keys.

{Lettuce from Farm A on date, <>}[Signed by farm A] => {Received lettuce on date, <Farm A block>}[Signed by shipping agent] => {Received lettuce on data, <Shipping agent block>}[Signed by Walmart store], etc

In theory then, Walmart would have a registry of the public keys of each agent in the chain, and upon receiving produce could verify the events of the whole block?
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It will be a single party keeping this information. That single party is IBM.
So because they make more useful products people give them data as opposed to money?
This is not valid evidence, but rather conjecture from the board itself. It is however what he referred to. https://m.imgur.com/gallery/5P1N1GI
Since so many comments on this thread are so absolutely negative, I will try to play devil's advocate here.

Is a given blockchain a more efficient database? Not efficient measured by percent of data stored in any given entry, which of course throughput and any other, "engineering metric," will suffer because of that. As an engineer, the idea of wasted energy, memory, space, etc., makes one cringe.

Efficient from the standpoint of preventing loss of human life or preventing sickness? Well, in the United States where likely most of us live, this is not as big of a problem, but likely in many other countries such as China, "food authenticity," is a problem. Let's keep in mind that Walmart has more stores and customers in China and more problems with food than the United States by orders of magnitude.

If I'm an actor within the food system in China which presumably has multiple middle-men, and I want to move one product up the supply chain through multiple, ultimately ending up on the shelves at Walmart, then I will not want to give away my source, because I want to get preferential pricing. However if I can convince my suppler upstream to use this tool (it doesn't matter if it's IBM, Google, Alibaba, or some startup or whatever, it's just a tech tool), to track and register when food was, "picked" or "harvested" then I don't have to give information to my buyer about the source, yet the database is all, "standardized," in terms of labeling. Keep in mind the alternative would be some kind of bar coding system which perhaps Walmart would have to impose. Well, I don't want my upstream partners knowing that this is going to Walmart either, otherwise they will jack up the pricing. If everyone is using some IBM tool, and assuming the IBM tool sees increasing adoption, then no one (hopefully) knows where or who a particular food is going to, yet any problem foods can be tracked back to their source by the end seller, without having to impose multiple types of key-value pair, bar-coding database systems, which - while technically easier to implement and run more smoothly from an engineering standpoint, perhaps do not take the entire use case into mind, because parties within the supply chain may be unwilling to share their source or destination due to pricing incentives.

Mind you, I am no food systems expert, I am just trying to talk hypotheticals here. I think the knee-jerk reaction on Hacker News within this thread is an almost Redditian "reaping karma" approach by putting down Blockchain, because many of us have had bad experiences working with corporate executives who have no idea how various types of technology work, and implementing non-technology buzzwords ends up being painful. That being said Blockchain at its heart, stripping away the history, is just a mathematical concept, and it's a math tool that can be used to point from one source to another. Calling it a, "mind disease," is losing sight of that.

Typically the types of discussions on hacker news that I enjoy reading are more angled toward how do you reverse engineer things, not just insulting an idea without backing up one's insult.
Google Names New Privacy Chief – Keith Enright
You don't really need a Code of Conduct/Merit for that.

If what you're alluding to is "Hitler will call for genocide if his PRs are rejected", then we already have something for that.

It's called "The Law".
This is, as always, a local maxima— new strats may come along which change everything again. Summoning Salt's WRP videos do a great job of showing how the strategies for a particular game evolve over time as new things are uncovered:

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCtUbO6rBht0daVIOGML3c8w/vid...
Yeah blockchain seems like overkill here.

But the world of corporatism is just as susceptible to fads like every other subculture.

It's like execs are desperate to force blockchain on every problem because it's the hip new thing. Even though most problems don't need blockchains and there are far better and simpler solutions.

Similar to the nosql fad. Who needs ACID compliance? If things fail silently and we lose a few transactions here and there, what could go wrong? Get with the times. The cool kids are into nosql now.
Jake Chervinsky explain how Bitcoin, law and terrorism financing works
With respect I'd like to ask if you don't have ethical issues. The military forces of USA has been doing pretty bad stuff in the last 50 years, so I have the feeling that you're not saving lifes but rather ruining them. War became such a common thing and nonsense in the US that at this point thatnpeople is not sure if they're at war or not.
This. The REPL allows you to incrementally discover the way to do it, and all the while you are exercising the language. You learn the other primitives quickly in the mistakes you make, so its all productive. Soon you know how to do certain things for future problems, and you just use these up to the next level.
Perhaps, but there are far easier ways to solve that problem. Digital signing of data to protect against alteration has been around for ages and doesn’t require “blockchain.”
Many comments are saying here "it's just a database, you don't need blockchain for the public events log".
Private blockchain become more understandable when you dive into the level of corruption and data manipulation happening within big corporations.
It's just much more complex to change a row in blockchain than in good old SQL database, that's it.
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I think the fact that the Turing-Welchman machine is called a Bombe in a nod towards the Polish blurs the connection a bit. The British Bombe and the Polish Bomba pretty much only have the name in common. The Polish machine wasn't usable by the British by the time the Poles told them about their techniques.

However... The Polish codebreakers are without doubt the first true heroes of the Enigma story during the war. Their genius, bravery and dedication opened up breaking enigma and saved a lot of time for the British codebreakers early on. As Welchman says, the Polish provided details of the machines that helped immensely in breaking into the military enigma. That said, the British were already working on it and had in parallel come up with some of the same methods as the Poles. The Turing-Welchman Bombe was designed from the ground up to attack the military enigma and used different principles than the Polish Bomba.

This is not to underplay the Polish role in all of this. They are without doubt in my mind as much the hero's in this as Welchman, Turing and the others at Bletchley. Without them the allies would have been way behind the game at the start of the war and therefore many additional lives would have been lost. The Polish codebreakers need more acknowledgement in this story. Glad to see the new Dermot Turing book out on this subject: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Real-Story-How-Enigma-Broken-ebook/...

Thanks,
James
Yes, Matomo! Easy to use, and I love the fact that it's a self hosted solution.
you have to assume good intentions. otherwise it will end in a mexican standoff, everyone with weapons drawn and waiting for someone to fire first.

but to get to your point: on a merit based system every reason to decline a contribution should be based on the contribution, not on the contributer. everyone should be able to validate those reasons. if you got a sexist and he declines your contribution with a sexist reason that should lead to consequences for him. thats what your quoted line entails. the high ranking member violated it because he took your sex/gender into account when considiering your contribution. did he decline with racist remarks? he violated it again because he took your race into account. for me that would be a far better system because it does not put the control in the hands of the few maintainers, it puts the control in the hands of the whole community.
>Or when all user interfaces were done in Flash?

Or in JS.
For me, the nicest way to program is to use imperative code that executes from top to bottom and deals with elements one by one. With other approaches, I don't feel as comfortable growing the program incrementally, because they require large changes to the program when the problem statement changes slightly. James Hague said it well in "Puzzle Languages": https://prog21.dadgum.com/38.html
Not particularly. From the inside here and knowing people working on Brexit projects, there doesn't seem to be any plans to move people and businesses out of London. Certainly in the short term at least.

I'm more worried about the government and their IR35 reforms in the private sector to be honest.
I have pretty much the same type of machine, and while it's true browsers are hevier than they used to be, I suspect it's the rest of the software on your machine consuming too many resources to leave anything for the browser... With my x session and window manager my machine only uses about 300MiB RAM, browsing is not unlike using a modern machine.

If you are using a big DE consider switching to something lighter and you might be surprised how little RAM you can use.

(My anecdote is from using both Chromium, FireFox and qutebrowser more recently - I haven't noticed much performance difference in the latter but it wasn't struggling to beggin with)
People finally waking up to the what Google really is, perhaps?
Ask HN: Need a layman friendly template system with WYSIWYG editor
What’s a viable way to achieve the above?

The system was for admins to use where they will build a survey using SurveyJS then build a templates to be filled in with answers from the survey. The tricky part is the template has to be rich text, with table support and input by a layman admin.
We tried quill, then pass the html generated and the variables to handlebars to form the final output. For simple usage it’s fine but it breaks down when we render a table with dynamic rows, because we were naively wrapping .each on the table generated by quill. It’ll be very easy done if the admins were able to write proper handlebars template.

And so we believe we need to look for a rich text editor with template support. Any suggestions?
Honest question: what makes you want to come back? Why not settle there for the long-term?
I would say that this is the most negative interpretation possible that you have there. It can also be interpreted in the way that the maintainer is breaking this code of merit if the maintainer is evaluating the contribution on anything other then merit.

It certainly does not sound to me like this Code of Merit is specifically for supporting sexism like you imply here. It is just specifically against the Idea that Merit or Meritocracy is "dead" which is a common view of those pushing for the usual Code of Conduct stuff.
Bandwidth Alliance: sharing the benefits of interconnected networks
Is the Ketamine Boom Getting Out of Hand?
Nott that this was your situation, but do you have any recommendations for learning advanced math as an adult hobbyist? I sort of missed the boat on doing advanced math in college, and while I likely won't be able to go back to school for it, I'd like to invest a lot of my free time in learning to better think about problems.
As long as OpenJDK remains open and maintained for a reasonable length of time, I don't mind. Right now it's looking good, but only thanks to Red Hat (et al.) and not Oracle.
Bandwidth Alliance: powered by smart routing on Cloudflare’s network
Microsoft Announces Keyboard and Mouse Support for Xbox One with Razer
CTO insignt – how we use AI and AR to build a Chatbot that can See
John McAfee Is 73, Very Stoned, and Running for President
You can do APL with pen and pencil (or stylistic calligraphy with fountain pens like the APL god Aaron Hsu), but the REPL is great. I was able to easily and incrementally build up a solution with the tryapl.org REPL.
"GM still isn’t entirely sure where this research will lead them, or what exactly it plans to do with the information."

Sounds like they were sold a fancy tracking concept without any actual practical applications.
And it doesn't really prevent bad food entering the food supply chain; at best it just documents where it originated. So the next time someone is sicknened headlines reading "The IBM food chain (TM) failed to protect consumers" seem inevitable. Seems like a big reputational liability for marginal upside.
Seems pretty great so far.

Is there a way to get the Firefox autoscrolling behavior, i.e. middle mouse click to toggle auto scroll mode?
To me great business innovations needs 2 equal forces: 1) The marketing and customer oriented drive 2) The scientific, technological and engineering side.

If you only have one of each, any success is surely fickle and will quickly dissolve.

If one force (Marketing in this case) overwhelms the other, then of course you have 'Blockchains' to track food. Not saying that there isn't a need for this, but it smells funny. I'm surprised there isn't a 'Deep Neural Network' used also to make things look even more 'cutting edge' ....
Low volume manufacturers are exempt from a lot of regulations from what I know. So there'll probably always be a space for someone to make a low-tech car, just not to sell it by the hundreds of thousands.
What are your metrics for success in life?
What does success mean to you? How do you measure it?
Not everybody can have a job doing something they find meaningful and fulfilling, best not to delude yourself into thinking yours is if it isn't.
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> And yes, many times it’s hit-n-miss, and someone walking by will tell you how it’s trivial with technique X

Substitute X/REPL.
Man I hate twitter as a delivery for content like this. I'd love to see it as a proper article rather than some toy.
I'm sure all the Linux distros are thinking the same thought.

The 'default' JVM for Ubuntu is OpenJDK, right? You'd have to go out of your way to get your hands on Oracle JDK.
Shocking the extent to which Vivaldi is innovating at the chrome level compared to Firefox(revenue 2016 > $500 million).
Currently happy about Azul OpenJDK.
But they are NOT any old ad-tech company.

They were built and grew out of their initial 'don't be evil' culture.
Sysdig Monitor 3.0 Adds Enterprise Grade Prometheus Monitoring
This is a little ridiculous. Do you think there is no value in password managers? It's almost certainly better to have many complex passwords managed for you and only one strong password to protect them all, than to remember the same few passwords used across many accounts, decreasing the overall security of those accounts.

I understand healthy skepticism of Google, but essentially claiming password managers (which is what this feature is) are bad, for the sake of criticizing Google, is bad.
If the article was talking about Walmart using PKI with business partners, this thread would be grousing about how dumb CAs are.

If you look at blockchain as something almost like a cousin of PGP in the sense that you distribute signing operations it’s actually an interesting and novel technology.

Fundamentally, you could use clipboards and wet signatures to get the same result. That doesn’t mean that this approach is flawed.
A couple things:

Many of the complaints that Chrome has gotten are not specific to technical communities. People were mad about `www` not because the technical communities have a thing for seeing the subdomains, but because there's a risk that average Joes can be phished when they're removed, and because on some domains the removal makes technical support for people like Joe harder. Similarly, the Web Audio complaints were not merely that the technical community wanted more control, it was that the changes broke the web for non-technical users in a way that commercially advantaged Google's own properties.

Secondly, Google's external PR has never taken this stance. Google invests a lot into interfacing with the dev community and positioning Chrome as a dev-friendly browser. I very much doubt that any Chrome dev on Twitter would agree with what you're saying. They would say that Chrome is trying to be a browser for both casual and advanced users.

As long as Google advertises Chrome that way, I don't see the problem with the technical community demanding a certain level of consideration. How many people on HN use Chrome (or at least did a week ago ;))? If Chrome isn't designed for people like them, than it seems like the obvious solution is for any tech savvy communities to en masse switch to Firefox and do the majority of their development/testing there.

But again, most of the changes that people are mad about aren't tech-specific concerns. I don't use Chrome for daily browsing; I'm mad that Google made a change that made it easier for them to spy on my parents. I'm responsible for protecting them. I'm responsible for mitigating Chrome's technical problems when they impact nontechnical users and customers that I care about.
More MBAs in management maybe.
Comparing Serverless Offerings from Alibaba Cloud and AWS
The author who coined the term "meritocracy", Michael Young, meant it as satire.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Rise_of_the_Meritocracy

> "It is good sense to appoint individual people to jobs on their merit. It is the opposite when those who are judged to have merit of a particular kind harden into a new social class without room in it for others."

Here are the two key criteria from the Code of Merit governing how contributors are rewarded:

> 4. Authority or position in the project will be proportional to the accrued contribution. Seniority must be earned.

> 5. Software is evolutive: the better implementations must supersede lesser implementations. Technical advantage is the primary evaluation metric.

However, these are inherently subjective measures, dependent on who is among the project's "managing members" and thus in a position to propose candidates and render judgement. At the very least it is an unstable system in the absence of formal governance mechanisms (e.g. 2/3 majority rule on proposed candidates) and committed leadership.

Ultimately, it is frighteningly difficult to avoid calcifying into an exclusive group, fulfilling the satirical prophesies of "meritocracy".
This essentially just feels like a PR push so that Walmart can claim 'better than the competition' food regulation, without actually opening up the system to be....regulated.

There's no wider benefit to the public from this unless the chain is publicly verifiable, imo.
That's not the alternative. E.g. the Linux CoC explicitly only governs activity inside the project, or while representing the project (the latter is an interesting but IMHO necessary scope problem). The board tasked with enforcing it is entirely built from high-ranking contributors.
I think it's easier to cope with this tension if you embrace the other parts of your life that are meaningful, as OP is alluding to.

It's a lot harder for a company to manipulate someone if they have alternate ways to derive meaning and emotional support. For me, this involves always having a side project that's fulfilling.

I think this sincere desire for unexploitable meaning is why a lot of engineers try to start startups.
I'm also worried about direct interference between EEG and TMS (and EMI is quite common) -- I'd prefer they let the user perform the action physically instead of being electrical-in, electrical-out. The researchers come from an accredited institution, so it probably checks out, but seems like an obvious oversight.
Of course it's about identity politics. Why else would the need to clarify "everyone" with a limited list of specific characteristics? The word is literally EVERYONE... How is that not inclusive enough?
your method is available as well .we are a startup company and now this is a MVP test that we can foresee what is need or not .thank you for your good reply and i will appreciate it if you have any recommend after use of our extension. could you have a try.
"X is a beautiful place with low population density and you can get away from most of the world's problems" is exactly the message you shouldn't be broadcasting if you want X to stay like that.

I guess you get a little more leeway with the Yukon because it's so far away from major population centers.
How recent PayPal alternatives are better
Java 11? At work we haven't even started to look at the migration from Java 8...
Assistive Technologies for Students with Visual Impairment
The US Military is a huge employer and there are a variety of jobs and roles in the organization. Your comment is like telling employees of a company they should feel ashamed because management cooked the books.
I do that with other browsers with multiple windows. Meta+left and meta+right (in cinnamon and many other desktop UIs) automatically place the window in the left and right half of the monitor.
Because now it's not only affecting their users but their competitors too.

Alphabet is too big now, it needs to be broken. Gmail, YouTube, ChromeOS, Google Chrome, Google Pixel, Android, Google Play, Google Search, Google Maps,Google Ads. They all need to be individual competing companies.
I think this is a very important part of our soul/system. It represents the meaning of others, life, or important emotions. And expressing it with time, care, subjectivity is the most we can do.
Why not integrate an open-source system like Firefox Sync?
I was speaking from a monetary perspective. The affluenza in SV is downright toxic.
Google may be "evil" or not, but we depend on it for our daily tasks. Unless we have another search engine , we have to depend on it.
It’s unfortunate Java is turning into modern day COBOL.
I’ve used Vivaldi for a bit, and it’s a nice browser. Coming from Chrome, there is a pretty painless transition since most extensions will work fine.

However, Vivaldi does nothing to improve the state of the web. It’s just another webkit, fostering the monoculture; and their business model and practices are basically the same as Google’s, just on a smaller scale.
I would draw the line relative to the project interest. People are not bad or good. Only acts are bad or good, and even in this case it may depend on the point of view.
If a pedophile or any other kind of criminal provide a pertinent pull request, I will accept it. Discussions in the project must be respectful and professional.

Rejects must be justified.
No need to uninstall Google Maps from Android as you don't need to allow tracking for the saving of home to work.

It's odd that Google Maps and Google Assistant both have different methods and rules for the storage of home and work locations.