skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Just reducing fraud and otherwise cutting costs could be a big win.

I mean that alone is a several trillion dollar a year improvement that will continue on indefinitely, and that's only one of the many applications for blockchain.

Consider that roughly 75% of American adults of working age are either unemployed or underemployed, and in most countries it's vastly worse than that. The reason most of them are unemployed or underemployed isn't (for the most part) that they're unable or unwilling to work or that they don't have valuable skills, but rather that double entry accounting doesn't enable a broad enough spectrum of economic relationships to capture the long tail of human talent.

When I say this is going to be a multi-quadrillion dollar technology I'm not kidding around. 99% of the stuff you own today wouldn't have been possible without the invention of double entry accounting, which vastly expanded the types of economic relationships that were possible and thereby vastly expanded the types of goods and services that could be produced. DLT isn't a replacement for your MySQL instance, it's a replacement for double entry accounting, and a 10x improvement at that. When people look back 500 years from now they're going to see that the vast majority of the (then) modern world wouldn't have been possible without it.

It's going to largely replace the middle class in the same way that automation has largely replaced the working class, because if you go down the Bureau of Labor Statistics list of jobs it's pretty clear that most middle class American jobs are basically just fulfilling glorified accounting functions.

Even just considering supply chain, as the profitability of creating counterfeit items decreases that doesn't just reduce the percentage of things you buy that are counterfeit, but it also makes it possible to make entirely new classes of (genuine) products that wouldn't have been economically viable previously.
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im not a big fan of their UI either
I wonder if the folks defending Apple by referencing the "cheap $30 battery replacement fee" knew this was just a temporary response to the outrage. The new price ($50-70) still isn't too bad, but that's still a 140-230% increase in the price you have to pay for Apple to not slow down your device on purpose.
That's not the same thing, you funded your company on credit cards...
No it is not interesting, someone obviously compromised his account and posted a random word to test it out.

Your friends are smarter than you are.
Tesla reportedly achieves Model 3 production rate of 1,000 a day
I'm pretty sure most people in the Bitcoin community know this, but it's generally avoided as a topic of discussion out of respect for Szabo.
I don't trust VPS's.
Intellectual synthesis in mentorship determines success in academic careers
Do you see a difference between one person learning a process inside and out, and reproducing it elsewhere, versus the work product of thousands of engineers being stolen, far more information than a single human could ever possibly know? The former is like watching a chef work and seeing how he cooks a beef Wellington and doing it yourself, whereas the latter is like just taking his whole recipe set.
If you build something that DevOps can use, then there is no problem. I can't tell you how to navigate the waters from the start of the project to success -- that's all dependent upon the people involved and requires a fair amount of people skills to do well. On the other hand I've seen enough "convenient for developers, impossible for devops solutions" to know that sometimes developers lack the background to get it right. Couple that with a bit of hubris and you get the classic, "Well, I did my job. It's not my fault that devops are clueless and can't do their job".

I'm not in any way saying that this is what you do. How could I know one way or the other? I'm just saying that it's a pretty common occurrence in my fairly extensive experience (hint: all my hair has been grey for a decade and I still work as a programmer ;-) ).

Thus my answer: No, having problems with DevOps is not being a "diva". Ignoring the problems of DevOps so that you can have things easier for you is an unfortunately common, but none-the-less disastrous approach. Are there teams where DevOps are inflexible at the cost of everybody else involved? Of course, that's common too: hence the "No".
Neuroscience says listening to this song reduces anxiety by up to 65%
Very strange post title. Is there context I'm missing?
> It’s about making fraud harder and more expensive, increasing visibility, and streamlining the whole process

It may cut fraud costs, but there are other ways to do that. Blockchain replicates computing costs relative to centralized data stores, so implementations have non-zero scaling costs.
The Role of Emotion Regulation in Moral Judgment
> When a candidate is up by 8% on Election Day and then eventually loses, and especially when that candidate is in the opposite party of those in charge — there is certainly some room for a reasonable person to question the system

More than half of Californians vote by mail, and the majority of those arrive on or after election day so they're not counted until later.[1] So, no, it's not even facially suspicious. I am skeptical of the new rule which allow someone to deliver sealed vote-by-mail ballots on the behalf of multiple people, but so are some legislators, including Democratic legislators. As I said, California is also continuing to improve auditing and other safeguards. Easier voting and the integrity of elections are not mutually exclusive.

[1] For example, "In Alameda County only about 5 percent of vote-by-mail ballots arrived before Election Day." https://www.kqed.org/news/10347248/mail-in-ballots-will-soon...
If money is the root of all evil, give technologists and futurists the ability to print money they can swindle muggles into pouring their life savings into as a get rich quick scheme or espouse at a pitch about how life changing it is and how much excessive amounts of money they need to get paid to copy paste half the Bitcoin Core or Etherium repo.

You see pretty fast the dissolution of values in the face of potential fortune. Its an ancient aspect of humanity - the first European explorers in the Americas would slaughter whole countries on the whisper of treasure to be had.
Thomas E. Dickey's software development projects
Organisations have a "conversation" feature. Personally I've never found it particularly useful.
Not sure why you are getting downvoted. 6’5” here and I was disappointed that I wasn’t replacing my 1997 Accord with a 2018.

Safety regulations make cars heavier and efficiency requirements make them more aerodynamic. End result is that I cannot physically fit in an Accord without reclining the seat.
It is not useful to define a demographic of the destitute at a standard relative to the median. (Note: Advancement of inequality of outcome beyond poverty is a _virtue_ of free society.) It is more virtuous to define an absolute poverty value and seek to ensure that the societal wealth distribution minimum never reaches the minimum - then allow maximal opportunity for all individuals to achieve any outcome they desire. If this model is achieved, all are then maximally provided for and maximally contributing to the civil society.
It’s the closest thing we have to something out of a comic book, maybe besides Elon Musk.
The Convergence of Nanotechnology, Brain Machine Interfaces, and AI
This type of insecurity is not what the article is referring to. Racists yes, but certainly not insecure (in food/shelter/safety terms that the article refers to) with a million dollar home and a head of household who is a doctor and would likely be able to get a well paying job anywhere in the country if not the world. If non white people vote will this family be out on the streets? If immigrants come over will they starve? Of course not. I don't even see how you can consider that insecurity. Hate and racism have nothing to do with being insecure.
Light triggers gold in unexpected way
> Blockchain replicates computing costs.

Which is about as relevant as the cost of tea in china.

Or, to steal another analogy, counting on database efficiency as the competitive advantage for your business is like picking up nickels in front of a steamroller. Especially since DLT efficiency will eventually be figured out. Even if it takes another five or ten years or even twenty years, that's nothing in the grand scheme of things.
Not promises, but predictions. I don't think Nakamoto anticipated the massive interest in speculation, which is driving the lack of stability.

Long term, I'm more bullish on solutions like GNU Taler[1][2] that don't try to invent a currency, but instead work with existing currencies to simply transactions. I don't think Taler will necessarily be _the_ solution, but something like it could work out.

- [1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Micropayment#GNU_Taler
- [2] http://savannah.gnu.org/projects/taler/
It seems to be doing a pretty good job of crashing on its own, at present.
I think the word "Nour", meaning "light" as people have pointed out, is also commonly used as a woman's name in the middle east. Maybe irrelevant but who knows?
The rise of esports as a spectator phenomenon
HN discussion about 51% attacks: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17173051
> But in some cases an industry mutual doesn't exist, and the regulator doesn't want to manage the database. Then what?

Then you have a people & process problem, not a technical one. The Blockchain, A Real Database™ or even a CSV file won't solve your problems here.
My AirBnB guest is shooting pornography in our rented room – legal advice wanted
Webojis: Animoji Face Tracking and Expression Detection Library for the Web
Great response dude. I'm so concerned because China is moving up the economic ladder when it comes to production. China is no longer a place where the British own the land and the people make T-shirts. These guys are stepping it up, China is making phones.. cars.. they have their eyes set on aerospace, they are building islands in the sea and infrastructure on other continents. Look at what China is about to do to Africa, seems downright colonial. China has taken blue collar jobs in America. Are they now about to start making microprocessors? We have one of America's greatest sources of IP generating talent (Google) ready to risk it all and re-invest in the country, China is about to become an equal power. We don't seem to be prepared.
wow. someone defending google and the main point is that their Advertising Business is less predatory than Baidu's?!
>If `Maybe` is an output then existing callers SHOULD be broken, because they must now handle a new possibility of failure they didn't before.

Look at the example again. The output was Maybe y "yesterday", "today" the output is y. Existing callers shouldn't have to change - there is no new possibility they need to handle - they no longer need to deal with the possibility of Nothing.
China can allow access to Google whenever they choose.
Unlike the EU, credit cards in the US have crazy perks.

2% cash back on all transactions for example mean that you're essentially getting a free discount on everything.
A single CPU core and 1 GB of RAM isn't enough for a build host.

I think DigitalOcean would support this better than Linode. You could keep the build host filesystem on a block storage volume instead of having to recreate it every time, and you could store the built packages in DigitalOcean's equivalent of S3 instead of needing a VPS just to host them.
Twitter user hacks 50k printers to tell people to subscribe to PewDiePie
Love everything but the landfill
They take a cut from every transaction you make. They make money even when you always pay off your balances. Your benefits were paid for by the transaction fees absorbed by merchants.

So if you want to take a stand, use only cash.
>the common sense of waiting for a massive crisis before doing something by which time it is too late for millions of investors who lose everything

That is the conventional approach, I think Mr. Bogle is suggesting that we act to prevent such issues ahead of time for a change.

And the main barrier to entry he refers to is essentially the size of the established players. They have economies of scale that a new entrant would be hard-pressed to match. And the author is the man who essentially invented the index fund, and whose company, Vanguard, currently is the market leader in these products and has the most to gain from maintaining the status quo.
GitHub Commit Map (2012)
My concern is more about the ability for the Chinese to potentially reverse engineer these products at assembly and derive IP.

The Chinese are, along with the Russians, probably at the top of the world's best reverse-engineers. You can bet they'll have already reverse-engineered it even if it wasn't made in their country.
What does 'object oriented' database mean? A relational database is already an interface to data. Is it just storing serialized binary data with a key?
Disadvantage is not destiny: OECD report looks at equity
Security sure is inconvenient. :)

But really, what's your threat model? For a VPS employee/company to mess with your packages, they'd have to be personally targeting you. If you're only worried about systematic, automated handling of all company VPS to insert malware in the ones that have package repositories, then you can probably set it up in an unusual way to evade such a program.
I mostly read about passive firms voting more on special issues like climate change or good governance. Where did they they talk about voting out directors who didn’t deliver profits? (Honest question, I mostly read the article, then came back to it and hit a paywall.)
'Magma shift' may have caused mysterious seismic wave event
You must not use "Must", just let DragonFly die, use true google or stick with Baidu, in the meantime feel grateful that github.com is still accessible.
I think I can take apart a whole Toyota with an 8mm and 10mm socket wrench.
Despite CRISPR baby controversy, Harvard will begin gene-editing sperm
The fact that the police exist specifically to enforce the law and that they are invested with enormous powers to do so makes them fundamentally different from the other groups you mention. Please do not insult our intelligence with such specious arguments.
What do you have to do to get a run of the mill android or iphone to work on a network like this?
That is still a relatively accessible temperature, given that liquid nitrogen is about the same price as clean water.

Off the top of my head, I could think of one use, which would be to trigger a transistor to switch on and off some high power superconducting circuit when the small bit of superconductor gets cold enough to start superconducting.
OMG, those Russkies trying to steal our democracy
Sure, but did I imply it was? I’m genuinely confused.
Doesn't mean anything, anyone can create a protonmail address and post to a public mailing list. Grammar and sentence structure reads like a fluent native English speaker that is attempting to impersonate the clumsy writing style of a non-native-english speaker.
He offered to walk or take a taxi, but when I said I was fine with walking he just kept repeating the same the question with increasing emphasis until I agreed to the taxi.
It’s increasingly difficult for sceptics to explain away failed replications
Show HN: A prototype for an HTML5 multiplayer game
What I would do, is to start a new project, under a new pseudonym, to demolish representative democracy and move towards a direct democracy. The possibility is already there because of modern technology. The only ones who would fight this are the current representatives.
You absolutely are. If Google cared a decade ago they could have strong arm overhauled XMPP into whatever they wanted. Even Facebook Messenger (which also used XMPP until I want to say 2016? which is coincidentally when I stopped ever using Facebook messenger) would have bent to their will.

They simply chose not to, and instead make yet another proprietary non-federated protocol and practically single handledly fractured what was at the time turning into a reasonable communication ecosystem where MSM, Facebook Messenger, and GTalk were all the big games in town but were also all XMPP compatible.
Indeed, I'm planning to buy a (probably German) used car in Germany around April, and pretty much the first thing I've figured out is you never buy anything that doesn't have its full service history meticulously documented, with receipts.
This is a prototype for an HTML5 multiplayer game I'm making. This prototype is actually defunct as I'm now starting up a new game--a 3D multiplayer game, in fact. The data and experienced gained from the development of this prototype will be used for the success of the 3D multiplayer game.

Some of the technical aspects:

Initially, socket.io was used to establish real-time communication between the client and the server, but the ws WebSocket library was then migrated to.

A client-server protocol of binary data is primarily used to share game state between the clients and the server.

On the client-side, the Phaser game development framework is used to render the game and perform client-side collision detection. On the server-side, a small and simple custom made game headless game engine made with Node.js is used to manage game state and also distribute the game state to the connected game clients.

How to play:

To move, use the WASD keys.

To shoot, aim with the mouse and press the left mouse button in the direction that you want to shoot in.

You can shoot and eliminate other connected players, making them respawn after five seconds.﻿
That works even better if your product has no electronics at all: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18210950
>Also a well-timed first contact with arrogant aliens, that made humans want to show their best side.

In the same way the colonies wanted to show their best side when the British showed up to civilize them?

Sorry.. this is a utopia, I forgot. Per ardua ad astra and whatnot. Must not be cynical. Must not be...

the only reason there was a utopia at all was a global holocaust reducing the population, widespread genetic manipulation and subliminal cultural reprogramming by a race of alien telepaths. The entire franchise is Federation propaganda. The universal translators are literal propaganda machines.

NO GET OUT CYNICISM YOU DONT EVEN FIT.
I still don't understand what you expect DataLoader or GraphQL to solve for you.

The list of problems you mentioned are not what DataLoader/GraphQL are trying to solve. I am even not sure if there is an individual library that can solve these problems. The solution to them are at architectural level and requires more discussions than the decision to use GraphQL/DataLoader or not.
Installing any sort of critical closed source software related to security or privacy that could potentially be influenced by the Russian, US, Chinese, or any other government has always seemed like a funny proposition to me.
Richard Branson says Virgin Galactic will take astronauts to space by Christmas
Not strictly adhering to you ideal needs, check out:
- Apache Commons lib
- OpenJDK
- JabRef
I'll get to my real pain point - anyone know of a replacement VOIP solution like Hangouts dialer that isn't subscription based? I've been giving my Hangouts number to people forever because its more convenient to have every device I have ring when someone uses the old PSTN but its not worth a recurring bill to me.
Reconfigurable Computing at Hyperscale [video]
But they won't. And that has real consequences for actual people. Google has the option to improve those people's lives by going there, even if it means bowing to the demands of Chinese censors. Nothing is gained by staying out. China isn't going to magically change its opinion on censorship because Google won't enter their market. The objections of the Google employees are shortsighted and naive.
So your solution to the Chinese people that wants alternative is to just pray? There is no easy way to "use true google", so not really an option. The situation is mostly the government's fault, the people just want options, any options would be better than nothing.
Pretty broad brush don’t you think?
Huh? I’ve sold many Nexus phones and my wife’s Gmail is perfectly intact.
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If we counted the number of people the PRC has killed by finding them through their "great" firewall, does the OP think that number is less than bad baidu medical ads?

I don't understand is the false equivalency between baidu's advertising and PRC's notorious human rights violations.

This post doesn't address any of the concerns brought up by the original letter they decry?
Funny, I'd say it is your objections that are shortsighted and naive: caving to the demands of an authoritarian dictatorship steadily growing in influence.
I would bet money it would have the opposite effective. Imagine the number of news articles, discussion, and hype that action would bring. Rational investors might see it as a negative, but...
There might be some constant factor penalty, but we can shard BFT systems much like we do with Paxos etc. See Shasper for example -- it won't have any practical limits on throughput.
Well it is way less, unfortunately. Baidu seems lacks basic morals and governing. It literally killed people, if you check out the links on that github article.
> Undergrad is very expensive in the US, even at some public universities. Correct me if I'm wrong, but doesn't this put American graduates at a disadvantage?

Sorry, I realized that I missed a word there when I wrote that line. I meant:

> But this biases the playing field in favor of those immigrants graduating from American degree mills.
China you mean the Chinese government, which is not the same as the Chinese people.
The actual content is supremely uninteresting, even ignoring its obsolescence. (And SCO never owned any Unix source code.)

But what a tour-de-force of passive aggression! I kneel.
One could easily draw a couple millions of people from mainland China who advocate google coming back to China.

And that’s money
SDRSharp has a bunch of plugins to scan bands and stroll through bands. You could pipe that to CW Skimmer and figure out how to get the data out of CW Skimmer (telnet server, log file, etc).
Al Lowe, if you're reading, I am humbly asking you to consider putting all the source code you have for Sierra etc. games up to GitHub for all of us to {gaze|look|worship...}. Let the collectors have the pleasure of having it all on the original physical medias, but let the rest of us mere mortals have access to the essence.

Edit: alas, it's pointed out that above may not be possible as IP is owned by someone else.

That out of the way - Your / Sierra games had such a profound impact on my life. I would go as far as to say that without Leisuresuit Larry,Space|Police|Kings Quest and others I might have never started [seriously] learning English and mastered it to the point that later I was able to move abroad and eventually immigrate to the new world. ( btw - that statement probably pretty much accounts for any possible problems with my English and poor choice of language at times ;-) )
I would be leery of upending representative systems that at least theoretically have an anti-majoritarian bias. Even if I'm in the majority today, there's no guarantee that I will be tomorrow, and a system that helps to preserve my rights against mob rule seems reasonable.
Yep, I can absolutely confirm this still works.

(And honestly, while I see the advantages, I'd rather we not have this feature so we can also not have .DS_Store files. .DS_Store files suck.)
Ok. Play your tape all the way through. What are the negative consequences of doing so? The positive consequences of entering the Chinese market are obvious.
> Doesn't this require you to trust the source?

It allows you to know the source, which enables you to make a data-informed decision about whether or not you trust the source.

As opposed to the current status quo, where you can never even know the source so trust doesn't even come into the picture.