skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I was asking myself if the intention is to state that it's one of the website nobody knows most visited one (in the list of website nobody knows) or just pure clickbait.

As the first possibility is impossible to nkow (if nobody knows about them...), I agree with you and vote clickbait !
The timeframe of the report is 2014 to June 2018. The trade sanctions with China didn’t happen until July, so probably unrelated.
Definitely the vast majority of them.

Bitcoin and Namecoin are the only really compelling use cases I've ever seen. Even Ethereum kind of falters because there's not much you can really accomplish with a purely digital contract.
I've reviewed startups this year that had genuinely useful uses for blockchain (I can't go into details as I'd violate confidentiality). They key being that it was "just a tech choice" based on need, on the backend of a much larger idea. They could have done it without a blockchain, but it was a good fit for what they did.

That said, I've also seen a bunch of "X, but with blockchain! Can we have money now?" startups looking for funding.
Germans and Americans 'worlds apart' in view of relations
Amazon EKS Workshop
Why choose Medium and not Blogger for this post?
Unfortunately, this is not a managed Kafka service by AWS. It's a marketing page that says, "Operating Kafka is hard, have you checked out Kinesis?"
Entrepreneurship is dying in America and it should concern us all.

https://www.census.gov/newsroom/blogs/research-matters/2018/...

While unemployment and asset prices have recovered in the past decade, business starts have remained at historic lows. When these small businesses die they aren't being replaced by upstarts. I wish we knew why.

I'm worried the future will be a small handful of oligopolist mega-corps. You see this consolidation in every industry: banks have consolidated (there are fewer banks now than at any point in modern US history), a few leading tech firms, agriculture, energy, etc.
Holy moly, what a waste! Thanks for clarifying.
Sorry to hear that. I guess in a sense I am lucky as the ordinances only restrict height not species. I suspected HOA's were worse. I'm with you. Hopefully this madness will end.
I think the threat implied would be that if all of our beliefs are essentially meaningless then nihilism might appear to be the logical outcome.

That is largely what I believe (about beliefs) - they are cute but meaningless.
You did see something like this on Black Mirror, specifically because Black Mirror wrote the episode based on the Chinese social credit system.
Errors of the Tech Entrepreneur, by Brad Wardell (Stardock)
> I think blockchain is staring us in the face as a solution to the collapse of trust in institutions.

In a world where people genuinely believe Hillary Clinton received millions of votes from illegal immigrants, I don't see how a specific (and complex) technological implementation is going to solve those trust issues.
How the Renault Sport Formula One Team Uses AI to Race for Success
Will Taiwan Be the First Domino to Fall to China?
They will replicate the results, quietly implement a different protocol and never talk about it again for sure.
That example picture looks perfectly reasonable. If there were a few more flowers it'd be even better.
Historically speaking farming has been a bit of a gamble as far as occupation / running a business. Booms and busts abound.

There's a bit of a myth about how farming should be, or was, but it really just had some booms here and there and then busts rather than any real golden age that lasted very long.
The Philosophers and the American Left
You can tell how old a car is by the extra words on the back under the name. "Fuel injected"? 1980's or 1990's. "Hybrid"? 2000's or 2010's.

Similarly, you can tell the era of computer software by what strange thing they decide they need to customize. We're in the era of "slight variants of Helvetica". (Nobody's asking for a Zapfino clone, strangely.) For whatever reason, fonts and logotypes are the axis on which everybody seems to need to compete today. And gratuitous 2D animation.

We already went through the "custom sound" phase, and it (mostly) went out of style, thankfully. Splash screens are also on the way out, since we no longer need a way to hide long loading times.

I wonder what's next. Gratuitous 3D animation? Custom smells? Plaids?

To be clear, I have no problem with nice fonts on my computer, but I think it's funny that everyone is so focused on showing off their creativity on this one very specific axis. You really can't think of any other possible ways to have functional style?
I'm not saying that use case doesn't matter, but one could make the argument that the deep integration between Apple Music/iTunes into the Music app combined with a 30% premium on competitors selling music subscriptions in an app could be a non-level playing field.

Having said all of that, I think that because iOS is Apple's platform, and they should basically be able to do whatever they want with it.
I assume most pointless uses of the most holy and almighty blockchain could be fairly easily ripped out and replaced with a merkle tree (and in many cases, probably with a linked list).
>By default, Go does dynamically link to some things--it will prefer to use the system DNS resolver if one is available, for example. But you can disable this by setting `CGO_ENABLED=0` at compile time. If you do this, a Go program needs nothing more than a linux kernel (no system libraries or even libc) and whatever other files it requires (certificates, for SSL for example).

Ah, sounds similar to what it says in the osso.nl link I posted below. Good to know.

>I'm sure you can make statically-linked C programs which are smaller. For example, the musl libc implementation is quite small and designed for static linkage. But lots of libraries break (often in bizarre and hard-to-debug ways) if they don't link against glibc specifically, so it's not a panacea.

Didn't know this, interesting. But actually, I didn't mean making statically-linked C programs smaller by using leaner libraries like musl. I just meant that for equivalent code, the resulting C binary (even when using the default libc) was smaller by a lot than the Go binary. And so were the Free Pascal and D binaries smaller than the Go binary, but they were both slightly larger than the C binary. But it was only an anecdotal observation based on writing a few small programs in C, Go, Free Pascal, and D, and comparing the resulting binary sizes. Not a thorough scientific study.

>Agreed, but again, Go does allow for dynamic linkage in those cases so you can conserve disk space.

Got it.

>>There's no doubt that if you're golfing, C allows for smaller binaries than Go, but Go can meet 99.9% of real-world requirements when it comes to size (if you're at the extreme end of what Go can support, you've probably already ruled out Go for other reasons).

It wasn't about golfing, it was about equivalent code in the two languages, and the relative sizes of the resulting binaries. But good last point (about 'other reasons').

>There are still many reasons to pick other languages besides Go--if you're working on a hard real-time system, if you're working with a team of people who all prefer a different language, if you're working in a domain (iOS app dev, for example) for which there are no good Go libraries, if you're willing to trade all else for extreme performance or extreme correctness, etc. But Go is actually a pretty good little language for most things that aren't at those extremes.

Agreed. In that sense it is somewhat like Python, which is sometimes described as "the second-best language for almost any domain", an interesting description that I read only somewhat recently. I wouldn't necessarily fully agree with that description, it is probably the best language or at least equally the best (with some other language) for certain areas. Similarly, there are probably areas where Go is, if not the best language, one of the best, for certain kinds of tasks, such as the command-line utilities, web and network server applications that it is often used for.
Serverless Container support is coming to GCP: https://services.google.com/fb/forms/serverlesscontainers/
>Nobody is "focused on separating families" and if you think so you've just fallen victim to divisive propaganda.

It's pretty clear that Stephen Miller has been pushing specifically for family separation. He appears to be fairly "focused" on the issue as a strategy in his goal of limiting immigration (legal and illegal) in general.
>There was also a plenty of evidence that the U.S. wanted to "test" the bomb in a real-world scenario and to demonstrate its military might to a much wider audience than just Japan.

Ascribe whatever nefarious motive you want. Those two bombs brought about the end of the war with a lot less casualties (on both sides) than the runner up option (invasion).
It's not just the censorship. Let's say Google opens up in China and then a month later China comes to them and says "we need the names of everyone who searched for the term 'Uyghur
concentration camp' and lives in such and such region." Google then has two choices: give over the names to the Chinese government or immediately pack up and leave China.

It's practically a given that China will eventually demand this of Google, which means that Google has presumably already evaluated this possibility and decided to go into China anyway.
The Ohio Treasurer has a very dry sense of humor.
Literally what is the point of tether? Can someone explain?
Because China has political internment camps.
Extracted from a (french) song and roughly translated :

In life, son, you have two choices : you work or make money
Quite a few languages people declare "dead" are doing just fine. We tend to associate languages like FORTRAN, COBOL, and RPG, with the term legacy which implies old an obsolete. Yet these are behind systems we use everyday but just are not aware of it. Plus these languages serve their purpose very well, FORTRAN is excellent in scientific solutions, COBOL and RPG excel in business math and similar.

Solutions to problems are not one language dependent. Exiting systems can have new modern customer facing solutions implemented all the while exploiting the existing code base. In fact there are times were its desirable to keep what is known to work and just give new means to access the code and data behind it.
Ride-Share Lending
You wouldn't need mining for such a blockchain. It could easily work on proof of stake.
Definition of blockchain is fluid because a blockchain is a combination of many technologies.
I think it's better than 50%. Besides, how could I be offended at that? I actually think Mrs bitcharmer sounded funny.
black mirror anyone?
These instances already deliver better cost efficiency. The a1 instances are within 5% of the performance of similar c5 instances, but are 40% (!!!) cheaper.
But what is their reasoning for this?
I'm not sure the lack of self destruction in a short time frame means much, the events that have occurred were one decision away from the destruction part.
> If you can get a job at Google, you can get a job almost anywhere.

Yes, but the job probably will pay less, at a smaller scale, with fewer perks, and be less interesting. Instead of judging them, perhaps you should support them in condemning their employer for this particular act.
How One Man Is Teaching America to Speak Navajo using tech
I've long suspected this was the only remotely feasible way to remove bias from recruiting (and possibly interviewing itself) -- I'm interested to see how this will go.

Politics about bias and diversity aside, if your goal was to objectively disable people from being biased, the simplest solution always seemed to be to remove their ability to apply any of their biases.
Additionally, unless you do an mdadm software RAID using full disks, you cannot ensure that the EFI system partition will be RAIDed. But if you want to avoid having your mdadm metadata at the start of the drives, you can have it placed in various locations which may help, see: https://raid.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/RAID_superblock_forma...

I use mdadm RAID1 on full disks on my desktop with the metadata at the end of the disks (superblock version 1.0). Partitioning tools will complain that my backup GPT partition table is invalid and offer to fix it (I always politely decline) but the primary one is fine. My Dell desktop doesn't mind this situation and also does not ever write any data into the EFI partition so it works well for me.
I still use an iphone with a headphone jack, but when the time comes I think the solution is to buy a bunch of dongles that dangle (hah) from every headphone cord I have.
Very interesting article with rational points but felt too short. Would be an interesting tech talk for Dmitriy Zaporozhets to do going in depth (I searched but couldn't find anything).
That's better, thank you for clearing that up.
wild speculation here:

both the US and China want Dragonfly for different reasons. each thinks it will benefit from Google's presence in China.

China is confident it will control the flow of sensitive information Dragonfly might obtain, and, at the same time, gain valuable insights about how Google operates, paving the way to ultimate replacement of Google in China (and perhaps outside China). plus, in the mean time, Dragonfly gives China some new leverage over Google's current global operations (e.g. calling Taiwan "China", promoting positive news about China to the outside world, etc).

the US government intelligence agencies are confident they will gain valuable information about China's society, government, military, and economy through Dragonfly (somehow). they want any inside presence they can get.

google is lukewarm on Dragonfly but thinks of it as a necessity. google knows it won't be profitable, but also knows that running Dragonfly gives it leverage to keep the US government's regulatory and anti-monopoly enforcement at bay, protecting its leadership in its most valuable market: the US.
It's unclear to me what the problem is, here.

Are you picturing bored teenagers doing this as a joke or something? In practice this is incredibly rare.

Such 'feral children' will be causing way worse problems elsewhere anyway.

If you're driving in London and someone gets a bit close to the edge of the footpath and looks like they might walk out, yes, you slow down and get ready to stop. If you actually think they're walking out, you brake hard.

Because you don't want to hit them.

But on a very basic level pedestrians have right of way in old world cities anyway.

There are junctions in Central London whereby cars often struggle to pass even when the light is green (Kings Cross station is a good one, taxi drivers like to "push" people out of the way by edging closer)
The fact that politically-motivated HN users can downvote legitimate comments to the point where they become hidden (basically squelching alternative views) is also deceptive. It makes it appear that everyone is all for GDPR
> Developing a custom typeface can eliminate the recurring licensing fees that must be paid to foundries. IBM [4] and Netflix [5] claim to save millions of dollars per year by switching from Helvetica to IBM Plex and Gotham to Netflix Sans, respectively.

I wasn't aware that these common fonts charged royalties...
No one cares about the jobber or the technician. People only care about themselves. A jobber falls off a roof, there is zero chance of the whole city being affected. A technician slips up and there is radiation exposure, there is a NON-zero chance of the whole city being affected.

Same reason people protest the windmill, and the dam, but not the solar roof. The thinking is, "The solar roof doesn't ruin my view or change my waterfront."

When it comes to NIMBY's, the N is more about the M than it is about the B or the Y. That's one constant in infrastructure projects that never changes.
I'd like to highlight Google Noto Fonts, which seem to have been made with an entirely different purpose - i.e. not brand recognition:

https://www.google.com/get/noto/
Dynamite recently had a Nancy Drew miniseries comic
You could ask them.
Or some kind of decentralized wiki. It's not that far off from IPFS. If you want to keep history immutable, then a blockchain would do it.
well that's cute... but meaningless :)
I don't think that this is true. Race-based division is popular both in Europe and in say Japan for example.
Of course, unless they know exactly where they are on the demand curve, how would they know whether it’s negatively affecting their bottom line?
Do you know of any learning opportunities such as internships where one can learn and apply Fortran?
According to reviews that's a lowly electret microphone capsule ($1) in a big housing. For podcasting you want a directional microphone. In defense of electrets, they sound great, but pick up everything.

The shape of the microphone suggests it's a directional microphone (and if you read the reviews, people think it is directional). That's perhaps not a scam, but certainly deceptive.
According to wikipedia: "Activities in the service sector include retail, banks, hotels, real estate, education, health, social work, computer services, recreation, media, communications, electricity, gas and water supply."

Retail, banking (loans), education, healthcare, energy, all very large portions of the average persons expenses.
Do you want to help ruin the planet by wasting a tremendous amount of power? If yes, consider Blockchain
Quite interesting how such a thing affects salaries as all yearly personal incomes data is public in Finland.
Isn't this exactly a way to collect taxes in a way that doesn't require somebody to recognize gains? They can just fork over some bitcoins to Ohio.
It's a magazine article, not an inverted pyramid news story. Different style. It might not be your cup of tea, but you're probably the minority in terms of the overall NYTimes magazine audience. The Hacker News demographic tends to be pretty non-representative about things like this.
Making everything that is immoral illegal is putting the government in charge of defining morality, it's a bad idea. It leaves little room for disagreement. Little room for nuance. Slows the ability to adapt to new situations or improved understanding. Opens up the process of deciding what is moral to abuse. Etc.
How to Break Integers (StairCases) Using Dynamic Programming?
“All men are created equal” - “before God.”

The last two words are how the founders interpreted that statement when written.

They were all male, wealthy and white. People allowed to participate in government were the same.
A linked list then essentially?
Fixed format was gone in the late 70's (for new developments)
The design progression of our browser extension
Perhaps relevant: ebola outbreak 3D from last month:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18393509
They have a pairing button like any other bluetooth device. They work in my car and on my windows laptop.
In my experience data interoperability issues are usually resolved by writing adapters, and using a datastore with strict integrity constraints. This is essentially what creating a blockchain transaction is. The chain code is responsible for running strong integrity constraints on the submitted data, and the client must adapt the data as required by the chain code before submitting a transaction. You can't get rid of the work required, but you can create a system that enforces the rules.
Agree. I think it would be wrong to sell in that situation.
Well! This explains some odd behaviour I've seen on some servers that were wiped and reinstalled frequently, often with differing legacy BIOS vs UEFI vs GPT vs MBR settings.

I had a `dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sda bs=1k count=1000` or similar to wipe the disk just enough that the provisioning would be happy... Or, at least, it was happy most of the time.

I bet this was my root cause!
Being in an enterprise doesn't mean you have ultimate trust of every single individual with write access. There's a reason many orgs operate under a two-person rule for access to some data, have change controls, and so forth.
Good point, I missed that.

The next report may be a doozy, then.
I don't see any Distinguished Fellows on that list. Please, distinguish yourselves! Put your clout behind a cause.
> If you write your own app you can install it on your iOS device.

That's not quite true either. Because an app installed like this will only function for a very limited time (a few weeks i believe) and then it expires and you can no longer start it.
This means it is not practical and NOBODY will use this: which explains why there are none/hardly any of such apps available on Github, etc.

I did this with the f.lux app in the past and it was very annoying/not usable because of the necessary "recompile frequency".
I'd like to see any significant report indicating that Apple is making serious money off its patents and is trying to push more into that business. Besides, patent agreements aren't exclusive to Apple; I'm sure a portion of my iPhone purchase is going to Microsoft.
At a Guess CERN and places like that
>Once registered, companies are able to use crypto to pay 23 kinds of business taxes from sales tax, utility tax, to employee withholding taxes and more. BitPay, a crypto payments service provider based out of Georgia in the United States, will process all crypto tax payments.

About the processing volume

https://support.bitpay.com/hc/en-us/articles/206003676-How-d...

They look like the anti money laundering limits, anyone know how much bitcoins they actually take with a single transaction?
Previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18543815.
Ninety percent of everything is crap
arbitrarily concludes that a mechanistic understanding of the brain is "a threat" to our "distinctiveness" i.e. we are not unicorns anymore. zero-information garbage if you ask me
In your opinion, is git source repository a blockchain if you cryptographically sign each commit?

How about ZFS filesystem?
> Last time I checked people are free to marry whoever they please.

Untrue, though closer to true than it was five years ago. I mean, gender restrictions are gone, but consanguinity restrictions remain (most people may agree with them, but that doesn't mean they aren't restrictions beyond mutual consent of the parties.)

> Marijuana is legal in the majority of states.

While this is frequently stated, it is sloppy and inaccurate; marijuana is legal in zero states. Many states do not have additional state level criminalization of some subset of cultivation, sale, use, and possession of marijuana on top of the federal prohibition, but that doesn't make it legal in those states in th same way that states not having additional state-level criminalization of lying to a federal officer doesn't make that legal in those states.

(And, in any case, marijuana isn't the only substance prohibited to adults in the US.)
Who's saying anything like that? My thoughts are, if a markets in a steady decline with no signs of improving, is it a good investment?
Thanks, I'll have to check it out more in-depth.
The Social Credit System on Chinese Online Media vs. Western Media
Satya Nadella: Microsoft's First Futurist CEO
> he's going to have to go back to surf boarding and substitute teaching in 2020.

Lol, nothing like downplaying the achievements of the literal leader of a country ( one of the most successful possible positions for a person ).
That’s true of all decentralized algorithms.

Decentralized just means someone else can own it too.
So, rely on OPEC and domestic facking for fuel? At best, biofuels from canola & palm make up <10% of diesel fuel blend.
How Restaurants Got So Loud
The Depravity of Climate-Change Denial
As an observer, history teachers have taught me that Rome, Napoleon and maybe Alexander worried about logistics. I theory the message is that they were superlative in their logistical prowess, but in practice we only see a few examples.
I think it's about the looks. Everything needs to be tidy and clean.
Neuroscience is the most powerful science, because the human brain is what does science in the first place.