skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> However, that's pretty much it.

That's not quite it. The other thing you get is "and this database guaranteed to have some properties". In the case of bitcoin for example you are guaranteed every transaction was authorised by the owner of the bitcoin being exchanged and there are no double spends.

But even that's not quite it, because those properties are flexible - even for bitcoin. They are actually assertions made by computer programs, something the lines of "if the database says X an Y are true, then I say Z is true". For example X might be "I have the put $x in an escrow account". Y might be "I have not paid the supplier $x in the agreed y days". Z might be "The escrow agent is allowed to deduct an fee from $x for himself, and pay the balance to myself and the supplier as he sees fit".

And thus we have gone from publishing the checksum of a database to controlling what can happen to $x in the future.

In general taking a snapshot of a blockchain at a single point in time and saying "all I have done is published an immutable database" misses the bigger picture. The blockchain is a chain of assertions about what has happened in the past and based on those what can happen in the future - and you can't alter the control of those future assertions re-writing the past, which is prohibitively expensive.

We currently have another way of doing a similar thing that has been refined over the centuries - contracts, interpreted by courts rather than software, enforced by governments, police and guns. Right now the new boy on the block, blockchains, only thrives where this existing system refuses to play - which is to say illegal transactions. (And maybe its detractors are right - maybe it will always be too clumsy and slow to expand beyond that.) However to say the blockchain is merely a snap shot of its database rendered immutable by a published checksum is like saying our system of law is a just the series of title deeds on house, rendered immutable because they line in some government office.
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Unrelated - are you accepting public pull requests for your AnitaFramework project on GH? From a quick glance there are some resource leaks and some such, should be easy to patch up.
I don't think anybody here is denying that Google has done a lot of great things, and on the whole they still have a great reputation as a company to work for.

However, past good deeds don't excuse current bad deeds. Even if they are the "least evil option", that doesn't mean they shouldn't be criticised.
Huh, interesting!
How do you think your site compares to say, Feed43?
He's the co-founder and CTO of Amarisoft.
Absolutely! The Art of War is excellent for general strategy. I've found it good as an abstract strategy book and have applied it to negotiations and business, but because it's so general it might be a bit of a stretch to get programming strategy out of it.
"save locally" you mean like in my browser, or I can setup my own server?
Stripe is a payment processor for online payments. They are a company which take those credit card details you enter and actually take your money on behalf of the shop.

Apple Pay is supported by Stripe, so it's a non-competitor (Apple Pay is just a way of giving your card details to a processor).

PayPal is the closest competitor, but their APIs are quite old (although improving) and when Stripe launched PayPal's pricing was very cmoplex. Also people just don't like the PayPal model for business.

Square is a payment processor, mostly, for physical payments mostly seemingly for hipster coffee shops. They do online payments, but nowhere near the same level Stripe do them.
> The temperature peaked at 143 Celsius

Most electronic devices say operate between x and y degrees and if in full sunlight the temp may have exceeded y, which in a device that generates heat itself led to runaway overheating?

Either way plastic could melt at that temp and you'd definitely burn your hands touching it. Pretty crazy.
Don't you need a central controller for seamless roaming?
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I have it too, running Fedora on it. It's not my first Thinkpad but certainly the best (and overall best laptop I ever had).
layman's question: how can it be ruled out that these events result from bounce particles or decay particles of the standard model?
Sadly, I believe Facebook will truly respect their users in the face of backlash.
The salt has to be random, and stored locally.

You propose a new hashing algorithm that does: IP -> h. If the salt depends on the IP, you can create a rainbow table offline.

If you can generate the salt on the machine (on the fly), you need an algorithm that must run on the machine - what do you base that on? Hostname? local IP addresses? Hardware?... And known_hosts(5) can't be moved to a new machine anymore, as it's tied to a machine.
> The card companies could have done it

That's not how card companies work. There's 100s of payment processor out there and the card companies let you shop around and pick one that's right for you. They do however require said processors to have large amounts of money just to access their systems.

Stripe has lots of funding to do that AND get good developers to build a decent payment processor.
The 'Real You' is not a myth, and it is not based on thoughts. It is what you truly are, and what is lost when you die.
Easy to experiment / the Graun should enforce real names in its own comments section and see how it plays out
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Lately FB says when I go on there "Add a profile pic so people know who you are". Huh? I've always one.
I've been with Webfaction since 2010 or so. Between all the shared hosting cookie-cutter sites out there, they really stood out. SSH access by default. Knowledgeable support. Generally good availability.

I was recently so happy that webfaction finally added letsencrypt certificates, as a (long overdue) step to improve their service. But this acquisition is definitely a bad direction.

Funny that the email landed in spam, and was sent by some kind of a marketing mailer mta1.sut9.co.uk. I'd hazard a guess that it's the first sign of things going downhill...

Time to look for alternatives :-/
Ask HN: What are the most annoying things about tech recruiters?
Haven’t heard of them before, I know there are some tools to generate feeds by selecting elements on the page and then the tool figures everything. One of the tools I tried didn’t work for the site I needed it for and so I just wrote it myself, mostly for fun.
Banned so publicly that it was regularly on the evening news, and so was a roaring success.
But what if it's your self-delusion making you think your non-delusion is a delusion?
While the other pieces would be nice, I am primarily concerned about search. That product seems like the toughest nut to crack.
Maybe someone here can help.

A few years ago I tried to implement what is shown on that page but without using something like SC, i.e. I was generating list of samples directly. I recall I was stuck trying to find how the 2nd order resonant Low Pass Filter (BLowPass [1]) was working.

Any good pointer to help me write it would be appreciated. I didn't spent much time reading SC source but I think it was not very clear for me without much sound synthesis knowledge.

1. http://doc.sccode.org/Classes/BLowPass.html
Except that a phone number is as quickly and easily disposable and changeable as an email address or any other identifier?
The TCK was recently open sourced!
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There is a classic book by the sociologist Erving Goffman (https://www.amazon.com/Presentation-Self-Everyday-Life/dp/03...) that covers this phenomenon. All the world's a stage.
Is there any advantage in using A, B, C etc. as variable names? W and H seemed to be potentially more readable for the with and height, X and Y for the ball position and in particular O and I for 0 and 1 etc.? Also, I think I have spotted a few remaining 0s in the saved file?
Just my feedback: The 2% transaction fee on top of Stripe is a big turnoff for me.

My main use would be selling digital files via Stripe (ebooks, etc). Other services like getdpd.com offer that as a cut-and-paste button for static sites at a fixed monthly price plus they handle hosting and delivering the files to the customer for that same fee.

I'm not saying you need to try to target the same niche, I'm just offering one potential customer's feedback :-)
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Can you just use the name “Reddit” in your Domain like that?
That's great you even realized it and made changes in your attitude towards your work.
Are you sure you didn't access it from the same IP address? There are so many fingerprints you are willingly sending to the public.
Ask HN: Cannot get past the recruiter/HR call, any suggestions?
Cannot get past the recruiter/HR call, any suggestions?
The Thing [2] is also worth reading. Soviet Union was well-aware that RF/LO leakage was being constantly monitored by the NSA, so they made a passive eavesdropping device in 1945, that didn't use a power supply. Instead, when eavesdropping was needed, an agent near the field would transmit an unmodulated carrier wave at 330 MHz, which was received by The Thing with an antenna and tuned circuit, thus activates the device. The recording is then rebroadcasted at a higher harmonic frequency. When the device is inactive, it's almost impossible to detect.

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Thing_(listening_device)
How? Which keys do they trust?
Thanks! Good to hear it.
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Well, Instagram and FB being 2 separate domains , they shouldn't (in theory at least) be able to access each others cookies in browser. The tracking is most likley still server side based.

Based on what the OP is writing, the unique identifier foe the user can even be the IP address...
I am proposing 2 (assuming it applies to all business) if we as a country actually have a problem with the Chinese government's treatment of their citizens. As far as I can tell we don't have a problem with it so we continue doing business with them.
I get all the hate for Oracle the company, but they've taken the time to systematically open source every closed source thing they've had: JFR, ZGC, GraalVM (partially), and finally the crown jewel the TCK.

They've even been involved in getting the open community up and running.

I sincerely can't imagine what more you could want from a corporate steward.
Real me. Right. Which one is that? 2 Year old me? 10 Year old me? Current age me? Me yesterday? Me today? The me I experience phenomenologically or the me other people perceive, interpret and interact with? The different me's others perceive individually?

Will the real me please stand up.
Google Docs might not go away but Google might charge for it. Or you will be locked out of Docs because you uploaded a video on YouTube featuring your toddler listening to copyrighted music.

Wordpress is here to stay and relatively under your control
The url should point to the Gizmodo article; not the sensationalizing tweet.

https://gizmodo.com/facebook-is-giving-advertisers-access-to...

The actual story is FB enriching your profile with shadow contact information about you when you or third parties provide it with details it wasn't aware about yet. For instance when a friend of yours has your landline number in their address book and gives FB access to the latter; or when an advertiser provides FB with the same as part of targeting an ad campaign.
This is a great initiative. Feeds need to be promoted with the wider public, or they will gradually and silently disappear.

Really like your starter packs.

> Are you sick of big websites trying to decide what you should see, despite what you’ve subscribed to? Sick of "the algorithm" shuffling what order you get told of things, if at all?

Most people nowadays consume news from social media (Facebook), and are not truly aware of the issues that arise from this (filter bubble, echo chamber, targeting, etc.). This could be explained better on the front page, or even have a sub-page with more detail and examples. Increase the incentive to use feeds.

Lastly, you present yourself as a not-for-profit initiative. But your About and whole site does not mention who you are. Be transparent.

If non-profit, you could be open-source as well. Have a crowdsourced place where people submit and improve starter packs.

(If I have overlooked something, then I stand corrected)

Edit: I just shared your link, on LI, and you seem to lack an open graph image (og:image) to be added to the link preview.
Cheap luxury goods like TVs and phones and financed cars?

I don't think this naked materialism really improves quality of life for the average schmuck, it just adds a gilding.
I have no interest in living in a world where Google decides what is right and wrong. I don't even agree with their default browser options.
Agreed! The sheer amount of landing pages borrowing from Stripe's wide shadow button style is a testament to this
Maybe I've misunderstood: maybe a Topre Realforce suit you ?
Or... what endures when you die.
I think the form factor is the key selling point. Even with wireless you are still effectively tethered to a PC and the hard mounted tracking space which is still dangling wires everywhere. In comparison the Quest works in larger spaces with zero setup (unless you want a safety barrier rendered) and they don’t fight with one another. Due to that you can just sling it in your bag and take it anywhere, won’t need a dedicated space at home and can just stick it on a shelf when not in use without having to break down the tracking space or leave unsightly stuff in place.

I also think this will help push VR onto office desktops. Companies I’ve visited tend to keep their VR gear in one central location or worse in a store. Use is sporadic so adoption is really low. Having a simple unit on your own desk is much more accessible and much less embarrassing to experiment with.

Also given the way the tracking works it should be reasonable to share data between devices and take part in shared VR in person. I believe there is a demo at OC5 where they are doing this already in a big hall.
Google added another feature in Android Messaging App
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Thanks for the words. I'll keep that in mind.

I'm actually planning on leaving this place soon. I've been with the same group of people for a while and it seems nothing is going to change.

I'm planning on letting the new place, wherever it is, know from the start about my desires for getting work done as well as R&R.

...or just start a business of my own. We'll see.
Oh, interesting. Didn't know that.
UK, EU, US?

If its UK I would suggest you find some reputable 3rd party recruiters (yes some do exist although rare) and start talking to them. Even if nothing comes of it, practise makes perfect.
Maybe I'm not being clear enough.

I have dropped this issue as it is not worth my time. I'm simply relaying what another $600/hour professional told me as best as I can.

I apologize if I misrepresented any part of what that guy said. Since both you and the attorney I contacted seem to enjoy this legal stuff, if you have any confusion over what I've related, you two are welcome to chat. I'm happy to hook you up. Coming online and casting doubt on whether my story is true or not doesn't seem to be a very good use of either of our time either, and this is the reason I replied to you in the first place, not for some free legal consultation, online or otherwise. I'm happy to adjust my story if there's any part any HN commenter found that was in error. I've done the best I can to relate it.

As far as what I would think and why, I was just guessing. What I think is fraud or a civil matter or the prosecutorial leanings of my state AG? That and ten bucks will get you a nice cup of coffee. This kind of thing was the entire reason I spent an entire morning talking to the other bozo.

I'm not a California resident.

I appreciate your taking the time to reply here. I'm not sure either of us educated any of the other readers. My entire point was to offer to correct any errors in my story. I apologize to the rest of the forum that this line of discussion ended up rather pointless. My offer still stands. I have no desire to relate stories that are untrue, online or otherwise. If anybody has any questions, I am happy to do what I can to clear them up.
As a pathologist I worry less about false positives and a lot more about false negatives.
You are reading wrong papers :)

Clients A and B connect to a rendezvous host. R looks at A and B's ports, guesses which ports they will use for the next connection and instructs them to connect to each other respectively. First SYN packets are lost, but they poke holes, so on the retry the symmetrical open kicks in and peers hook up into a shared TCP connection. The end.
I still think that science should be automated in some way, shape or form. I'm imagining something like you have a dataset and you have to upload that dataset to some third party that checks it for it's validity. Then you write exactly WHAT you are going to do with the data and then you send the proposed "routines" in, this should give automated generated output and an automated report of what was done and why. Of course, this is a completely silly idea but I'd love to know if someone has like any tangential related thoughts on this
I fear that science is slowly going awry, particularly in fields where outcomes have grave and immediate implications for businesses. In this respect, physics is simpler than social science. Not getting the results you expect is fine and often teaches you something.
FB's terms of service do not allow pseudonym accounts.
I have had a good experience using the Hashicorp stack of Nomad and Consul, integrated with nginx for load balancing.

This stack doesn't offer all of the same functionality as the Kubernetes ecosystem, but it has the benefit of being vastly simpler and composed of relatively small, independent parts.

We did examine Kubernetes, but for various reasons we need to manage our own cluster and the engineering overhead was too high for our team to take on.
That's called franchising and I wouldn't call it a trick since many brands, especially restaurant and hotels, have been doing it for a long time.
Isn't that part of the cannibalisation ?
For instance their push for the iPad Pro killed a lot of their own desktop sales I think.

It's often overlooked because the iPad is not squarely a desktop replacement, and compared to the iPhone it's small potatoes. But it still sells a ton more than the Mac.
This happened to me after Facebook acquired Instagram.
I had my mobile no in Instagram profile. Instagram cross-referenced my mobile with my Whatsapp contact list(I haven't given Instagram access to my iPhone contacts).
I suddenly got suggestions to follow my colleagues on Insta. Colleagues with whom I interact only on Whatsapp.
Since then my trust level in Instagram,Facebook & Whatsapp has gone into negative.
> Luckily a throwaway Google account with BS info and a temporary backup e-mail address is easily created every 3 months.

Sigh! Google makes phone verification compulsory when you try to create the Google account (mandatory to use Google products).
I use RSS feeds quite extensively, but as others have mentioned, its noisy and not every site lets you filter on categories and search terms. So I have my own little python script which fetches, regex filters and pushes to my phone. https://torvald.no/rss-regex-reader
“About connecting people”. Well, and getting as many eyeballs on the newsfeed ads as (in)humanely possible. Does that count as connecting people?
> Big business ideas took over and killed innovation. Simple lightweight modular systems all got annihilated by Kubernetes and now it's pretty much a monoculture.

I don't work with K8S or even docker on a day-to-day basis, but to me the ecosystem looks rather good. There are several solutions of orchestration and containerization competing from different vendors, and things tend to be standardised to make them work together :

- https://github.com/kubernetes/community/blob/master/contribu...

- https://www.opencontainers.org/

No later than yesterday there was that post on HN : https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18050781

People experiment, dissect, keep some old things, hack new things. K8S is still in active development, new initiatives like Istio and Knative are built on top of it. It looks like an healthy innovative ecosystem to me. I guess it depends of point of view and interests.
This is very nice of you. I'm due to visit my 94-year-old grandma tomorrow and will be printing this out and showing it to her. Cheers.
The KLM which had barely reached minimum takeoff speed and started to take off still flew 150 meters after it had plowed through the upper half of the PanAm and lost an engine and the main wheels. There's a lot of momentum in a moving plane, and they're stacked very close when holding on the taxiway
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History podcasts are pretty good, in my opinion. I currently listen to Revolutions, The History of Byzantium and The History of the Twentieth Century, and they're all quite well scripted, no babler at all.
The "Worlds Theory”, according to Seinfeld:

https://youtu.be/uPG3YMcSvzo
So zero rating but for "the cloud" instead of mobile wireless end users?

Not great. And it's beyond disingenuous to call peering "free". How does DE-CIX make any money? Do your line cards and optics and cross connects get donated?
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Hey
That's good feedback, thanks.

I'm definitely happy to talk to potential customers about alternate pricing models....

Basically the fee is a % field in the DB, if I wanted to reduce it, or zero it and work through invoicing or direct payments for individual customers, that's cool)l with me.

If it's of interest, drop me a line on rg@trolley.link and we can work out a model that's better for your use case.
That's a good suggestion, thank you!
In my experience tech recruiters do not know anything about IT and seem to have no ability to reason logically. So they call and email about jobs that absolutely don't match my profile nor CV. On the rare occasion that I call them about an advertised job they seem to ask masses of irrelevant questions.

It is extremely rare to come across a tech recruiter who has actually worked in IT and has a minimal level of understanding.
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I used this several years ago (five or six, I think? Maybe more) with some of Ettus Research's USRPs. It's quite amazing. We used it for prototyping -- the gear wasn't (or we couldn't get it to be) fast enough to replace "real" LTE gear, but do bear in mind this was many years ago. But at the time, this was basically the best way to experiment with, and develop solutions for LTE, in a price range that was mostly affordable for a small company. I know cheaper options exist today, but I don't know much about them.

And, of course, this warrants a shout out for Ettus Research's equipment. It's pricey but if you can afford it, or if you manage to strike a bargain, you'll love it. The higher-ups at the company I was working for at the time were kind enough to let me spend several evenings there using the equipment for my own hobby projects. I mostly used it with GNU Radio -- it worked without a glitch.
Some might say the real you is the one which is aware of all the other ones.
(I'm already looking at digital downloads as a feature, too :-)
Got confused there for a moment, thought it was about PDF files...