skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Do you feel the same way about the wine market? Or do you feel like that market is different somehow?
This is awesome! Just a few days ago, as part of my schoolwork, I made this: https://www.geogebra.org/m/xcfev76v

The color schemes we used are similar, I kind of copied mine from this image on Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trigonometric_functions#/media...
I wonder if the author of this site did the same?

What would be REALLY cool would be a connection between this diagram and the graphs of the functions: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trigonometric_functions#/media...

something like this: https://www.geogebra.org/m/cNEtsbvC
In 2 years I've had 5 macbook pros. This is the least faulty of them all, I'm not risking this one.
Afaik you can still configure it this way in Pro and higher skews using the group policy editor. And it's not like they didn't try the "asking the user" thing before. It's just that many users will happily keep dismissing any kind of warning that doesn't immediatly make their computer stop working forever. That's just no longer something that's acceptable for a machine connected to the internet.
It's a toy novel that sure does put you through a cool psychological experience.

But there's no additional depth to it, I see it as a horrors-of-bureacracy/system-vs-individual-themed amusement park attraction.
Kierkegaard is pretty great too. And much in the same vein.
It’s fascinating to see people reinvent some form of ITIL and genuinely think they stumbled on some unique or new way of doing things.
Interesting.

They do have Mark Russinovich of colossal SysInternals fame as Azure CTO though.
It looks like desktop linux/ unknown browser is negligable in userbase.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usage_share_of_operating_sys...
From the video that Banksy posted, the shredding mechanism just doesn’t make any sense. X-acto blades at that angle wouldn’t shred in the way it come out of the frame. There’s clearly something else happening here.

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-bristol-45770028
Can you elaborate on why the sale broke your heart? Was it because the beer itself changed? Or you were concerned that future development of new, different, beer would cease or move in a direction you didn't like? Or was it a political/philosophical issue of not wanting to support foreign corporations?
From user tweets, people notice washingtonpost.com, theguardian.com, vice.com, other bigs have verfied. From our own announcements, Dow Jones Media Group, Town Square Media, and more to come.
Digital Publishers Put Brave Software on Notice for Substituting Ads (2016)
Yeah, if you want to serve the most optimal image for Safari (iOS or desktop) JPEG 2000 is the way to go.

The ideal format would be HEIF but there's not a lot of conversion support out there, Imgix doesn't support it for instance.
And Che Guevara t-shirts are on clearance.
Probably with Norse as an ancestor. The Swedish for Good is bra, pronounced very similarly to braw.
Manuel Araoz did a very early benchmark, one site, where we beat uBO. I don't cite it as fresh or large-N/controlled, but Manuel noticed and asked why. The reason is extensions must be in JS, in API and process sandboxes. uBO does great, uses the chromium extension background page facility to share code among tabs, but still must use JS. C++ beats JS. Also, we block ASAP in the network threads, in the browser "kernel" process. That helps win too.

If anyone wants to benchmark, results welcome, but we do not view uBO on Chrome as competition -- rather we cooperate on blocking tech where we can with @gorhill et al. We are out to take unblocked Chrome user share.
An IP address is an identifier. If it weren't, there would be much less reason to use a VPN or Tor.

Suppose I understand you correctly and you do see the network IPs and timestamps of submitted tokens and ballots. Is your argument then that you can be trusted to follow your privacy policy? If we rely on trusting you to follow policy, then why not get rid of your zero knowledge proofs entirely?

By saying that you "have two options", it sounds like you are saying that there are two mitigations for the privacy problem that you could use but do not yet.

(1) is the one-hop proxy, which used to be used in the form of Private Internet Access service, but it seems like it is not currently being used by Brave. If you did use such a service and encrypted the publisher identities under Brave's public key, then that would be a improvement, although still not really private because Brave would receive the results in a batch from Private Internet Access. Browsing histories are essentially fingerprints for each user. The ten sites I visit each week are almost certainly not shared by any other Brave user on the planet, and moreover they are frequently identifiable (consider sites for individuals, companies, sports leagues, scohols, etc.). From [0]: "Our results show that for a majority of users (69 %), the browsing history is unique and that users for whom we could detect at least four visited websites were uniquely identified by their histories in 97 % of cases."

(2) has the same batching problem as (1). It would be superior, though, because it would be harder for Brave and the proxy system to collude or (more likely) be forced to cooperate with some authority.

To handle the batching problem, you should at least choose to upload each Anonize ballot at a uniformly random time in each month and on a separate connection (i.e. TCP connection or Tor circuit). You should also explain how this works in a technical document to give people the ability to understand what exactly they are signing up for when they enable payments in Brave. Ideally you would use a cryptographic protocol more suited to strong anonymity than a proxy network, such as a verifiable mix network or a secure-multiparty-computation protocol.

[0] Olejnik et al., "On the uniqueness of Web browsing history patterns", 2014, <https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s12243-013-0392-5>
Those statements are equivalent. If p and q share no common factors, then p^2 and q^2 also don't, so p^2/q^2 is still irreducible.
Is there any way to verify that this iso hasn't been tampered with?
Well, when I was in school, it was honestly a toss up whether the median student had ever looked at source code prior to college. Tech company booms and busts do stuff like that.
Joel also writes “If you have customers, never outsource customer service.”. I think “security” is in the same category.
This one of those things that sounds simple to do, but is rarely done. And there’s lots of cultural forces that work against it.

I think it addresses a big problem with important tech decisions- how to weigh engineering value and focus energy on the technical merits, not on political buy-in.

I work within a decent size government org where leadership is almost exclusively non-tech (makes sense because we’re not an org with a tech mission), and almost all tech management is program mgmt, business analysis, strategy. And the building is almost exclusively contractors.

This means to make a technical decision, it’s hard to evaluate because the tech manager doesn’t known whether MySQL or Postgres is better, and contractors have incentives to not invite review by other contractors and making it “good enough” for contract acceptance.

This means if a developer picks mysql, and the project manager is happy because it’s projected to be delivered in time, then there’s two big forces that don’t want comment on design.

We just started to try a request for comment process, but the extra effort to review is challenging. I think that on the surface it’s because letting large groups see your design before start introduces organizational risk.

And then a bit deeper is that it requires a greater level of technical depth in decision makers.
That's right. Effectively we measure everything and have multi-factor performance metrics with our partners. So it's a bit more objective than Uber which is entirely based on user feedback. If we detect that a node in the system is performing poorly we will not use it.
Yes, in this case Banksy is clearly trying sell his name and idea, I can't dispute that. But the comment I replied to implied it was done in partnership with Sothebys in order to increase the value of his art and therefore make more money from it. At least, that is how I read it. That kind of 'marketing stunt' is one that just doesn't fit into his MO which makes it hard to believe.
> Even today we see 80 year olds learning all sorts of new paradigms.

I said nothing about old people's ability to contribute, rather I was speaking about organizations staffed with the same people for a long time.

See also: "Science advances one funeral at a time." http://www.nber.org/digest/mar16/w21788.html
If you want a person to change you have to tell them something they don't want to [hear].

Instead of telling, try teaching.

Show by example, ideally not in heated moments when people will reject the advice, a better way to handle resources or stress or confrontations or whatever.
I didn't offer that solution.
The QA team got folded into the main org a while ago. I'd be surprised if the person today in charge of the full test coverage has anywhere near the resources or weight to make an impact.
If you can, I'd suggest you edit your options to "no copyright" and "current copyright." The double negative is confusing. Does "no" mean "no copyright" or "no, I don't prefer no copyright?" (I assume the latter, but still.)
That depends on your needs and values. As far as freedom is concerned, Windows is a far cry from what Linux offers. Windows restricts you to NTFS as root filesystem, for example. Windows offers no open-source disk encryption. Linux distros come out of the box with great integrated tools and workflow, something Microsoft only wishes to emulates with its Linux subsystem. But Windows aims to restrict your workflow to singular proprietary applications like VS. Windows as a whole is a packaged product that makes choices for you, and restricts the user in the process. That may be OK with you, but in no way does that make it "light years" ahead of Linux, only the opposite. This isn't even mentioning privacy.
I’ve been thinking we were getting close to peak craft beer for a while now. I’m thinking that a lot of independent craft brewers agree as there has been a lot of these breweries selling to the super majors in the past few years. As others have mentioned there is simply too much to choose from that really isn’t all that different. This is my own opinion, but the recent trend of sour beers hasn’t helped matters either. Sour beer is just gross.

In the Houston area, there has been a few casualties in the craft beer market as well. Karbach sold to InBev in 2016 which was a huge disappointment to pretty much everyone in the area. Since the sale they have trimmed the selection and eliminated the seasonal beers I really liked.

Another brewery near me, Texian, gave up their brewery and now contract out through another brewer. However I’ve not seen any of their beer on the shelves lately so they may have suspended operations completely.

There are 2 independent breweries here that I think are doing things the right way- saint arnold and 8th wonder. Both are in my fridge most of the time.
It's tickling to see this dynamic new company with a name so close to an event that inspires such fiery passions in my country.

Recently I've noticed that The Sun, Britain's foremost tabloid and an ardent supporter of aforementioned event, have started shortening the name to "Brex" in a few of their headlines. [1]

And now I'm also thinking of another company that ended up renaming themselves to avoid connotations with the name of the original event that inspired the name of the subsequent event that may or may not have inspired the name of this product. [2]

[1] https://twitter.com/TheSun/status/1046513253843718144

[2] https://qz.com/510040/grexit-the-unfortunately-named-softwar...
While I generally think things like this article are great and helpful, I think incentivizing individual behavior changes is a good way to distract from actual changes that will make cities more liveable: actual infrastructure and road and transit changes. That's the real answer to all of this. The unsafe nature of many cities especially in the US is a systemic problem, not just a personal behavior problem.
Oh yes, I think Microsoft made incredible strides in the UI/desktop design front from 98 to XP and even on Windows 7 (2009). Windows Phone and Windows 8 introduced Metro to the world, and Microsoft seems to have plateaued there.
Yes. And its a bit creepy you think the answer should be no.
Where does the customer's vehicle go between ordering and pickup? Some places have an order station followed by a waiting lane of N car lengths to the pickup station. That limits throughput to 1/N prep times. More waiting lane space costs real estate. It also means you can't sell anything with a long prep time.

So the temptation for fast food sellers is to make customers order ahead. This is an economy for the store, not a convenience for the customer. Thus, efforts to encourage or coerce customers to order online.

This leads to a proliferation of ordering apps, all different. That will be followed by consolidation: "Uber Eats", "Amazon Fresh", "Google Chow".
How many people were involved in the recording of that video? Who did the editing? What a publicity stunt...
Nobody at Brave is getting richer right now, we are a startup. My salary walked back to late 1990s level. The tokens locked up for the team and advisors are nothing compared to years of RSUs at Google or FB.

Anyway, as the last sentence reminds, attacking us based on compensation shows a strange double standard. The huge super-surveillance companies pay people way more than we make, and they do it by raiding user privacy, page load time, radio and so battery life and data plan, and safety from malvertising.

We are out to transplant -- with user consent always, creator too if they are involved -- the necessary minimum viable ads components into a clean ecosystem, to capture some of the huge funding from ad spend ($100B in US on digital this year) and give 70% or 85% to user or user+creator. See other replies on how our ad model preserves privacy.
It's a classic Mafia shakedown scheme. We'll remove monetization from publishers unless they pay us. Even then, they'll get paid in a cryptocurrency we made up and own the majority of.

Brave is by far the least ethical of all browsers. At least the other browser vendors try not to be evil, even if they fail.

When I steal from publishers, nobody should benefit, including the browser vendor.
Yes, there isn't (in my view) such a thing as a singular 'Scots'.

The 'Scots language' is effectively a 20th century invention by early century poets like Hugh MacDiarmid.

They created a pan-Scottish 'Literary Scots' combining language and grammar from across the country. It's beautiful literary work but it is an artifice, not a reflection of a language actually spoken.

The language of the Scottish Borders is a very different thing from the language of the Highlands from the language of a Dundonian.
It's amazing to me. With the resources MS has, they could rebuild a new OS from the ground up and finally get rid of all the cruft and legacy issues in windows once and for all and still support legacy software via emulation, virtualization or even a compatibility layer a la WINE or WSL. Why don't they do it? Google is building fuchsia, Apple/NeXT was able to take BSD and build MacOS X, certainly MS can do it right?
Of note is the Minecraft website from 2011 [1], where Markus Persson said: "Once sales start dying and a minimum time has passed, I will release the game source code as some kind of open source. I'm not very happy with the draconian nature of (L)GPL, nor do I believe the other licenses have much merit other than to boost the egos of the original authors, so I might just possibly release it all as public domain."

[1] http://web.archive.org/web/20110920065648/http://www.minecra...
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That is indeed far easier to read and understand. :)
Presidents can wet sign bills into laws using an autopen[1]. Would it be possible to sign a form on your phone and have an autopen wet sign the form?

[1]: https://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/28/us/politics/28sign.html
> and yet a thousand light years away from Windows

Yep, in the front.

Stuff works. You don't need 32GB of memory to run anything. The system doesn't get locked down all the time while the OS uses the entire IO capacity. The computer does not misbehave all the time and instead does what you order. You get software for almost everything right from the package manager, and it works for you, instead of shoving ads or licensing constraints into your face.
It seems like they forget people pay for this crap. I wonder if there is a class action possible against them.
As a piece of performance art, the stunt wouldn't have as much impact if it was shredded during the auction. The idea of establishing a classical 'value' of an object by process of auction only for that object to be classically devalued moments later allows you to explore what gave that thing its value in the first place and what takes away its value after its 'destruction'. Without having a clear moment of delineation between these two states, you don't have a clear way to discuss and understand this question.
They're the same, surely?

(p/q)*(p/q)
= p*(1/q)*p*(1/q)
= p*p*(1/q)*(1/q)
= (p*p)/(q*q)

Or

(p/q)*(p/q)
= ((p/q)*p)/q
= ((p*p)/q)/q
= (p*p)/(q*q)
This. A binary poll doesn't accurately reflect societies options
Sounds like they found a corrupt official. Is anyone planning a lawsuit? If not I doubt a medium post is going to do the trick.

Seems a classic case of idealistic technologists running into squishy and yes, sometimes corrupt human systems they aren't prepared for.

Not excusing the behavior of the official, but I really hope this goes further than an angry blog post.
+1

From my experience you're absolutely correct. This idea that Glasgwegians speak the same "language" as Dundonians or Aberdonians or (heaven help us) Edinbuggers, is just weird.

We don't. There's lots of local accents and phrases and words, but not some "scots language" that we start speaking when foreigners aren't around :)
I think this has a similar purpose as a design document. But the examples they show for the RFCs are more tactical. And are distributed broadly across their company.

Design docs get a bad rap for “big design up front” because, I think, they get fetishized as risk management rather than accomplishing their functional task.

For this post, I think the best part is being able to gather good review and edits, and track changes as decisions are made and why.
We switched to Windows 10 LTSB. Even the Enterprise version of Windows 10 is mostly consumer-level garbage.
If you want to use Windows, just do it. But if you had to experience what it feels like when Windows thinks it is time for an automatic-forced-reboot-update which takes 4 hours the day you have to submit a thesis, then you might know why I am not so fond of Microsoft products anymore...

By the way, later that month I learned that I had been lucky as some people ended up being stuck within the update.
It would be really cool if Minecraft, Minetest [0], and Terasology [1] development communities could somehow join together to create a cross-compatibility between their games. There are a lot of open-source developers in those communities who can combine efforts take voxel gaming to new heights.

[0] https://minetest.net
[1] https://terasology.org/
I upvoted this option.
Do they even practice TDD or they just run tests on the clients?
GitHub pages is literally like this, no?
Indistinguishable*. But even then I don’t think that’s the right word. The way different products are qualitatively differentiated is not clear from the packaging, but you will generally expect two randomly chosen beers to taste different. I don’t see why that’s bad either. I enjoy the novelty and lack of expectation even if all beer is bounded within a certain range of taste.
Pandoc is kind of neat but why not just use markdown?

markdown input.md > output.html
Adding to that, I often find that trying to write documentation (spec or otherwise) tends to help reveal which things lack clarity or understanding. In this way it can be useful also in unknown territory.
I've never had a issue with Windows Update, but it can sometimes take hours and I like to imagine wth it's doing. My theory is that Microsoft has acres of test computers, so that when I run an upgrade they spin up a computer that match mine, install all the apps and drivers I have, runs the update, and runs some automated tests ...
The articles addresses this:

> Vote.org strongly disagrees with the Secretary of State and is exploring all avenues of recourse. We suggest that the Secretary of State implement Online Voter Registration, a common sense solution to increase voter registration rates while reducing costs. There are no downsides to online voter registration — unless, of course, your goal is to suppress voter turnout. We hope that this isn’t the case, and look forward to Texas joining the 38 other states that have taken steps to secure and modernize their voter registration solutions. In the meantime, we will do everything in our power to increase voter turnout in Texas — including pursuing legal action, should it come to that.
Please read up on GDPR "purpose limitation". We cannot use IP address except for antifraud, so it is not legally viable for us to try to link zero-knowledge proofs into a profile based on IP address. Also, my home AT&T IP address wanders often, so do many others; mobile is even more variable. But my main point here is purpose-limitation where we take IP address for antifraud. Which we must do, or our user growth pool would be quickly taken by fraudsters.

As we are all open source and will get annual audits when scaled beyond trials, I think you are mistrusting prematurely.

On linkability for users who buy their own BAT and so do not require the antifraud terms: as noted in my item 1, we are talking to PIA about using an IP relay (not full VPN). This got delayed by their work on handshake.org but we're restarting it.

Tor (item 2) is better and batching is not an issue. We do not make cross-site/channel linkable batches in any event. Each ANONIZE session paying a given domain or YouTube/Twitch account is separate from every other. Putting these through separate Tor circuits is possible, as we also randomly space them out in time.

I don't know why you are telling us to do things we already do. Did you find a bug in the open source? We pay bounties.
I recently went through what I'm calling a "conversion experience" with Prolog. I was writing a compiler and a link to Warren's 1980 paper "Logic Programming and Compiler Writing" went by here on HN ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17674859 .) After a brief learning curve I now have a much more powerful compiler in about 1/5th of the code.

There are a few problems that don't fit well with Prolog, but not many. For everything else, if you're not using Prolog you're probably working too hard.

Consider that achieving feature parity with 1/5th the code means 1/5th the bugs, right off the top.

But often Prolog code is more useful than some equivalent imperative code, for example, a Sudoku relation defined in Prolog serves to solve puzzles, but it can also generate new puzzles and verify partial puzzles (count the solutions and assert that there's only one.) https://swish.swi-prolog.org/p/Boring%20Sudoku.swinb

Prolog is also old.

I keep thinking, "What about FOO?", only to find that FOO has been explored years ago by a group of researchers, and often there is working code off-the-shelf and ready to go to solve whatever problem.

Anyhow, TL;DR: For goodness' sake please check out Prolog. It's like time-traveling into the future.