skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If it's backward compatible, why would they kill Hangouts, instead of just upgrading everyone automatically and calling it version 2? Google makes no damned sense. With all of the confusing product names, I can't figure out what they even want me, a regular Hangouts user, to do.
Alternatively, the Urban Dictionary defines 'nour' as a very attractive and funny girl.

I find the Satoshi puzzle to be far more interesting than bitcoin itself. The level of operational security Satoshi has achieved is incredible - 'The wise one who lives in the middle' has proven to be a good choice of name. All things considered, I would not be at all surprised if Satoshi turns out to be a small team inside GCHQ, or somewhere similar.
He is famously (or infamously) rhetorical in most of his work, but even his harshest critics (at least, those in academic circles) praise the fecundity and depth of his work. This possibility for interpretation was criticized by Pareto ("words are like bats - you are never sure if you are looking at a mouse or a bird" OWTTA) but has also provided the ability to use Marx's critical analysis on himself, and not only in the most narrow philological senses as one might imagine philosophers and political economists quibble over newly discovered German manuscripts.

One could spend their whole life studying Marx and not get through half of the work in Marxology (and two lifetimes if we include mathematical Marxism), value theory and classical economics - but to me that makes it all the better.
same here, by title I wondered how can spectrum, the ISP can give anything at all for free.
Sorry for the low quality comment but what a nice thing to say.

You guys are hosting my email and I couldn't be happier.
Your suggestion of weight only is even worse than BMI. That's like saying a 15 lb turkey is fatter than 12 lbs of lard.

BMI doesn't account for muscle mass. If you have decent muscle you're overweight according to BMI.

weight only < BMI < caliper measurements

Any article that equates fatness with weight is not accurate.
Typically the HSM will be part of a tokenization service that is located in a separate security zone also called a data bunker or data vault. The customer facing application will pass in the sensitive data and in its place a token will be returned. When the calling application needs the data it will pass in the token and the data is returned.

An attacker that compromised the customer facing application only has access to tokens and would be forced to access sensitive data via the data bunker. That application is heavily monitored and would hopefully be quickly noticed.

The HSM adds an additional layer of protection against loss of sensitive data via backup tapes or some insider attacks.
Conversely, I had recently installed FreeBSD on Thinkpad X1 gen6, and had zero issues with any hardware (although I did have to disable Secure Boot first, but it's hard to count that against BSD).
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I enjoyed one of the replies,

> The reason balance of the system is important: if it's going to be used for payments, you don't want to have large changes in the value of the coins. It would lead to distortions, I believe, by continually increasing the "purchasing power" of a single coin.

Stability of the coins' value is desirable for long term use.
I've noticed that the amateur radio community tends to gravitate towards developing closed source software.

It really confuses me, given both the FCC rules about keeping the airwaves open and unobfuscated, as well as amateur radio being exclusively a community of hobbyists.

There are exceptions of course... The MD-380 firmware, FreeDV, and GNU Radio all being some good examples of open source projects. But it's far from universal, and less common than I'd expect.
I understood well enough.

You're assuming that those White/Black people were Japanese because they were born and raised Japanese.

From a certain perspective, that would not be correct.

Many people (most of the world) view race as fundamentally intertwined with ethnicity, ergo, the white folks in the video may never really be considered 'fully Japanese', although surely they are mostly accommodated as such.

'American' really isn't an ethnicity so 'new world' people often have difficulty grasping how others might view ethnicity.

As longs as people are treated reasonably, frankly, I don't care.
Tim Bray made a comment at re:invent this week that most of Amazon's internal work loads rely on DynamoDB and a ledger database that is the pre-cursor to the new QLDB service Amazon released this week.

To qualify this, when Tim used the word 'most' I don't know if he meant "most data stored" or "most DB instances". He also didn't give any percentages, so it very well could be 99% Dynamo and 1% ledger DB. Lastly, Bray didn't include Aurora or Redshift in that list of "most used database at Amazon", but Dr Vogel's keynote alluded to a ton of internal Aurora usage.

So, at least some people are claiming successful usage of blockchain in production. It's just not clear how much. Amazon seems to think there is a future in it, since they just released 2 new blockchain related services this week.
The more general cost is if your country ignores IP while another doesn't you have an immense competitive advantage if the country you are "stealing" from can't in some way punish you economically for it.

I'm personally an IP abolitionist but can recognize that China is abusing its position here. It doesn't hurt the US nearly as much as it does Southeast Asia, India, Japan, Korea etc that by and large obey US IP law. That was in part what the TPP was meant to enshrine in more formalized, consistent, and persistent terms - the Asian nations agree to obey US IP imperialism while the US gives them advantageous trade opportunities over China. A large degree of why it was so heinous was because of how biased it was in favor of the US because of how desperately the countries surrounding China wanted a competitive edge over their ability to ignore US IP.

In many ways Trumps China tariffs are giving a lot of these nations what they wanted without getting anything in return from them.
I get the joke, but not all 'mainstream' (non falun gong) buddhists are vegetarian, google "tibetan buddhism meat eating" for example.
It's hard to imagine an SQL injection scenario ever being worse than structural buildings collapsing (Rana Plaza Bangladesh comes to mind), but anything is possible I guess.
And yet Bitcoin is one of the most volatile currencies I can thing of, somewhat flies in the face of all of the promises made for it.
I firmly believe that Nick Szabo is Satoshi. Academic background, studies currencies, highly intelligent, worked on bitcoin-esque project before. Perhaps he had some help from a few close friends who do not know him as Satoshi.
Given the markets in the 17 and 18th centuries weren't as vibrant and open as today, and the amount of technology stolen by the Chinese today, compared to the amount "stolen" by Europeans back then, this comparison is plain disingenuous.

Edit: expanding: the technology wasn't stolen in the same sense as today, because the Chinese couldn't not wanted to export and sell the technology back to the West. But US/Europe today are getting their IP stolen, and immediately sold to them. That's the asymmetry.
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Maybe Satoshi is a Japanese-Brazilian? (Or -Peruvian, -Uruguayan, etc.) Brazil has some pretty good coders (cf. Lua) who might often find themselves with nothing to do (poor job market) and who have direct experience with the downsides of capital controls (protectionism), plenty of whom are of Japanese descent and who could get away with pretending to be Japanese to throw people off.
Doesn't this require you to trust the source? And if you trust the source, there is no need for a blockchain?
Hahahahaha yes that's exactly what Manjaro is.

And, sure, it's not Debian or CentOS, so you don't have as much attention focused on the packages. Their record of keeping malware out is pretty solid, though, as far as we know.

I think a lot of security has to do with simplicity: if you don't understand how your software is configured, you're likely to open up a security hole on your system.

Arch's "don't start doing stuff until the user tells you" posture does a good job of making sure the user is aware of what's running on her system. Contrast this to Debian, which will often start running random services as soon as you install a package (e.g. Apache).
Very interesting that for a website/forum operated by people with a high degree of technical skill, I see no https (TLS1.2) anywhere. All plain http.
All valid votes should count. I just registered to vote in California and at the DMV there was a question about getting ballots by mail even if you intended to vote in person. While I know the intent of that, the reality is that you will inevitably have people voting twice. Of course only one of those votes would be valid, but what if they are conflicting votes? Which one has precedence? And voting twice is a crime, so should both votes be thrown out and the person arrested. Are counties cross-checking that someone moving from LA didn’t vote by mail with that ballot, then vote in person in San Jose?

How many votes by mail were cast by people that received the ballot for someone else in the household? Voting by mail is such an easy fraud vector that it makes no sense to allow it. If you are overseas, vote at a consulate. Extend in-person early voting to allow for contingencies that prevent Election Day voting.

There should be a voter registration number tied to a social security number instead of doing subjective things like “comparing signatures.” That voter registration number should be in a national database and validated on the federal level, something like e-verify for voting.

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.
Write a blog post every hour? Really?
While Linux may support 10,000 devices, FreeBSD support 9734 of them. And you only need one. FreeBSD probably supports every piece of hardware you use.

Source: me. A FreeBSD workstation user for 16 years who has built his own machine with off the shelf parts since the beginning with a current machine running the latest and greatest.
I agree and my situation in regards to Uber/public transportation is the same. People who say a car isn't a necessity in America, have likely never lived out of a big city. I live in a rural area (not quite USDA definition), where the closest store is 12mi one way. It's a convenience store/gas station. The grocery store is 3mi more up the road. I have kids, animals, and somewhat of a small hobby farm (chickens, garden, etc).

It is an absolute necessity for me to have a car and all the costs that entails. I'd rather give up my cell phone than the car.
I assume it is patented, so won't this matter only for the Chinese domestic market? I assume internationally, they'd lose all their court cases, and injunctions would block any Chinese companies trying to sell these components to Western, Korean, or Japanese integrators.
Normal looking hybrids are definitely out there - take a look at Kia and Hyundai. They have several models of hybrids that look just like a regular car. There's a Toyota Avalon hybrid too. I think they are out there, but you don't notice them because they don't look stupid like the Prius or all the EVs.
I have a feeling mexico is a huge factor in that, but have never seen height in US broken down to by race/ethnicity.
Any pictures of it flooded?

I searched and could only find pictures of it empty.
That would possible be good for the low cost areas. Right now everybody crowds in high cost areas so if this would cause them to spread out I think this would be good for the country.
>I don't believe there's a shortage of talent in this country.

Do you have any experience in hiring people? East coast here and its impossible to find citizens who can code FizzBuzz. Those that can already have a job and don't come to interviews.

There are multiple thousands of very high paying security related job openings that need citizens only, because of clearances.

Zero percent unemployment: https://cybersecurityventures.com/cybersecurity-unemployment...

https://www.monster.com/career-advice/article/tech-cybersecu...
I alluded to this problem in my comment. This is the crux of the oracle-problem.

There is no way to reliably (key word here: reliably) take non-cryptographically provable information and achieve consensus on it in a decentralized manner.
This is interesting because Iv'e had countless discussions with Bitcoin Maxamilsits who assume that all of Satoshi's coins are never moving and that he's gone forever.
I also expect the productive work output of a foreign spy to be pretty low.
I have read the book, and found it frustrating for the same reasons I mentioned. For example, the core concept of System 1 vs System 2. He says somewhere in the book early on that they aren't actually "systems", i.e. a physical brain structure. But then he uses language like "System 1 does X and System 2 does Y," implying there's some grounding in neuroscience, when there is in fact none. They are just a grab bag of functions that don't have much in common, but we're led to believe he's describing something fundamental about the brain.

The other thing that annoys me is his pessimism and nihilism of seeing human beings as fatally irrational. One response that I found interesting was the book The Enigma of Reason by two evolutionary psychologists who argue that reason evolved in humans specifically because we are social animals, and the purpose of reason is to persuade others. It's why we are so much better at catching other people's poor reasoning than our own. The implication is that reason is designed for group settings. Showing that isolated individuals reason badly is like riding a bike on an ice skating rink and saying the bike sucks. We test human reasoning in conditions its not designed for and then come away with an overly pessimistic view of humanity.
Yes its cool but your time-frame of 5 months is a bit excessive, it could have been done in a day by the right person.
Blockchain can't fix the problem of lack of trust, where it is trust that is desired.

The trustless consensus idea is inherently abstract and paranoid, for better or worse. But life in human society requires constant acts of concrete trust and mutual consideration.

The cypherpunks who invented the blockchain don't seem to have explored the idea taken to its "logical" conclusion of ripping out all trusted entities and (somehow) replacing them with exchange of anonymous cryptographic tokens. The blatant truth is that doing away with trust altogether would paralyse every aspect of civilization.
I think there is the possibility of integrating the source maps and the WASM with special purpose execution envs to apply these checks.
> Why would you choose to take on a $40/mo expense when you could buy an entire fully functioning low end Android phone for $40?

I've used $40 Android phones, and they're barely usable with modern apps.

Once the battery starts to degrade, which happens quickly, performance drops from barely usable to intermittently usable, with frequent freezing and reboots.

Looking at Sprint.com, iPhones are available for $18 a month.

Do you own a laptop or a workstation?
Great level of precision in this measurement.
You seem well read in him, and philosophy/philology also. Can you recommend works in each you found worthwhile?
when you want to build an interparty database-driven application, and cannot find a suitable place to put the database, because of business concerns or regulation

Technology can't solve this problem.

If multiple entities need to coordinate inside a mutually used product don't trust each other, then the problem is structural and needs to be solved with interpersonal, regulatory or political action.
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Don’t be too quick to discount it. That’s a massive market.
If you think they aren’t trying to steal your ideas if you use their products you’re nuts.
The fact that a blockchain can’t always be guaranteed to always represent the ground truth about physical assets is certainly a limitation. But I agree with you. This isn’t about 100% guarantees. It’s about making fraud harder and more expensive, increasing visibility, and streamlining the whole process. I remain something of a skeptic but there’s certainly a lot of interest in and money for things like provenance and supply chain tracking. Just reducing fraud and otherwise cutting costs could be a big win.
500 years from now we will likely have strong AI capable of rapidly processing the exabytes of data we produced in this day and age as a unit test for the self-modifying system updates.

That being said, on a timescale as long as 5 centuries, I don't think anyone can even begin to fathom in the slightest with any degree of confidence what anything will be like. I just hope the advances this century might make it a possibility I can exist long enough to see it myself.
How do you enforce that at a govt level when companies okay with it? Why didn't your company ask for interviews of contractors? We are seeing a free market failure here that is better fixed by companies rather than complicated and cumbersome regulation.

How will USCIS and consulate officers be able to do a better job determining if someone is suitable to work in a company than the company themselves? Why should tax dollars be spent because companies are too lazy or incompetent to filter and vet people they are hiring?
You misread the quote, that quote is talking about Ram Dass being gay, and his friend having a theory that his guru (Maharajji) made him gay for Ram Dass to find him easier. It's a messy quote and easy to get lost if you are not familiar with who is Maharajji and why is he important on Ram Dass' life.
Ask HN: What do you think of employee-owned engineering consultancies?
0. Do you think they would experience less office BS?

1. Do you think they tend to have actual work-life balance?

2. Do you think they have lower turn-over and better morale?

Thanks for your input. deuces
How exactly would you use the attributes of a VM for tracking? You can have a separate one for fb and for google. All they are going to be able to track is what you want them to know
I guess I'm trying to argue that Americans are more voluminous, and trying to approximate volume through mass since body volume by population isn't a commonly available stat. I'd argue that mass is closer correlated to volume than BMI.
That's what I thought, lol.
Absolutely correct. Safety is about managing risks, not eliminating them completely at all costs. An airline which truly saw safety as the top priority would never put a plane in the air. Making money is the top priority; safety (or security) is one consideration that influences how you go about it.
You've completely missed the point. There are people who are using Onion routing with nodes who are economically incentivized to behave in a non-malicious fashion. If caught acting malicious, then your node can be penalized. It's not like you're actively putting all traffic on the blockchain. You're arguing a strawman here.

I'm not going to speak for these projects directly because I know very little about them, but I can speak as to how you would incentivize non-malicious behavior.
You Infosys colleagues might be slightly underpaid than you, but not by much. But real cost saving Infosys offers to your employer is the team that works offshore. Your Infosys colleagues are acting as bridges between that team and yours.

Infosys made almost $11B in 2018. They are not going to sweat the salary of few H-1B engineers. If American engineers, or Indian ones having Green Card, will do the job - liaison the communication between onshore and offshore teams - they will hire those if H-1Bs are not available. Or, your employer might move the whole operation to India, laying off the onshore team.

TL;DR: You are probably barking up the wrong tree. The "cheap" H-1Bs you hear about are hired by American staffing companies, not outsourcers.
Well I can trust Facebook Messenger to always keep my data there and never delete it.

Which for a chat service is really good.
Security is baked in <--- LOL
I've never encountered a system where an un-trusted middleman didn't get out-competed, driven out by the buyers or (in one case) actually killed.

Hasidim don't seem like they have that problem.
I agree. But following best practices is a completely different thing from treating security as the top priority. Best practices include tradeoffs that balance security risk with cost and businesss needs.
Lambda has had VPC support for over 2.5 years now: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/new-access-resources-in-a-v...
Minor point, it’s a cryptocurrency not a currency. I don’t think it’s fair to compare it to government backed currencies because of its novelty and decentralized properties.
Nour/Noor is a very common name for girls.

It is also my name. I am a guy. Thanks Mom and Dad.
I think a better comparison would be owning the original manuscript. I might own the original manuscript to The Hobbit but that doesn't mean I can publish it.
Counterpoint: FreeBSD doesn’t support CUDA which would be a deal-breaker for a lot of people.

This seems to be NVidia’s fault rather than the FreeBSD project’s, though.
Airbnb is getting people to buy houses, a high priced asset for most, while they run an asset-light business that devalues physical assets. Crazy
yes, I'll be damned if I ever use Allo, no matter how many ads I receive about it.
At all, according to the contract. If you're predicting a change, I'd love to have more supporting detail.
Putting people in a medically induced coma also prevents suicide.
That site isn't even served over TLS. I don't doubt somebody easily compromised it.
Did the anxiety occur during the initial onset of the MDMA (aka the comeup)? The onset of MDMA creates strong physiological effects that can trigger anxiety. One way to mitigate this is to split the dose of MDMA into two equal parts, and taking them 10 minutes apart. This creates a more gradual onset that greatly reduces the feeling of anxiety for most users.

More discussion about MDMA anxiety: https://www.reddit.com/r/MDMA/comments/5v4h9z/panic_attacks_...
ambitions != promises
True, but I also assume Samsung could take this case to the WTO and would get other nations to file friendly supporting briefs, perhaps leading to trade sanctions.

Eventually, the international community made be forced to make this expensive enough that the costs outweigh the benefits.
Also interesting: https://lists.cpunks.org/pipermail/cypherpunks/2018-November...

That's from 2018-11-28, before the ning post.