skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
yep and therein lies some power. There have been a few wars within bitcoin already. In the real world, people would have died. In the coin world, people just voluntarily chose different pastures.
http://threewordphrase.com/presentation.htm
It's probably better to talk about this budget not in terms of dollars but in terms of man-months or FTE-years or something like that.

There's all kinds of reasons why the same thing will cost wildly different amounts of money (e.g. the cost of a good back-end engineer depending on your location), and you can get a lot of work without paying the full amount in cash, but you still need to budget that you'll need to obtain x FTE-years.

Quoting the article, "I worked for free until the founder could pay me." ... you can't rely on hopes that you'll find a good deal like this, so you anyway need to budget money or effort or time (to find such people) for this amount of work instead of just saying $0.
> Those techniques work well for design systems.

That's true! I find that enforcing a consistent and quickly-changing design system is way easier than when I was using old techniques.

> Instead of doing the "configuration" in your CSS when you're coding, you basically have an intermediate step where you set up those rules in advance, and can just focus on composition itself.

You summed it up perfectly
PBS's Secrets of the Dead has a nice episode about finding his actual route through the alps. Looks like this article and episode is about the same research.

http://www.pbs.org/wnet/secrets/hannibal-alps-full-episode/3...
The site hosting this seems to be dead, probably from the load but hopefully from action taken by the company now that it's public knowledge. Does anyone have a list of the affected phone numbers? I would like to check if mine is in there
If you used a fingerprinting library as the seed for random, it would be repeatable per user.
Why? Just because you swapped Company A with B? Neither of them are trustworthy in regards to privacy.
Unless you're in the 'all potential evidence is faked' groupd I'd say the imagery provided by the flock of geostationary meteorological satellites is enough evidence to prove the earth is anything but flat. How else would it be possible to piece the overlapping imagery of these satellites together into a flat surface? Any flat-earthers around here who want to give it a try can get some imagery at [1] and start puzzling it all together.

[1] https://en.allmetsat.com/
All three of the points raised are just dismissing the root of the problem and offering a "solution" using plain CSS classes that relies on everybody following some bespoke convention to work around the problem rather than addressing it head-on like CSS-in-JS solutions do.

1. and 2. attempt to address the lack of modularity in CSS through convention when you can have guaranteed modularity through auto-generated CSS classes that are content-addressed and thereby globally unique by definition with CSS-in-JS. Not to mention you can use a real module system for sharing styles instead of being limited to sharing variables through some global context, which again opens up the possibility of name clashes.

3. recommends a solution for dynamic styles based on yet another CSS feature that relies on global namespacing, and then a fallback based on string concatenation that can't actually address all dynamic use cases. Then it goes on to dismiss the use case entirely, when in a single page application, all styles are inherently dynamic based on the state of the components that are currently being rendered, which is why there's such a painfully obvious impedance mismatch when implementing anything that's truly dynamic using CSS classes, when you have to resort again to concatenating lists of static classes together rather than mapping state to styles directly like you could with CSS-in-JS.

Of course, I'm not saying those approaches can't work at all, nobody is saying that. You can obviously make them work, and people have used those approaches for ages before CSS-in-JS came along. But using the existence of those approaches to dismiss a different approach that tangibly addresses the inherent flaws of those approaches doesn't feel like a particularly compelling argument.
I'm surprised that for something this simple there isn't an easy to use approach through netmap and friends.
Many things are important, and most things require making tradeoffs. When a thing that is only a little bit important prevents something else that is more important (albeit more subtle and requiring experience to see), it's probably better not to choose the first thing.

Generics are abstract. They lead to bad error messages. They make the language more complex. They require syntactical support as well as special magic under the hood. Look for various resources by Russ Cox and Rob Pike (and maybe other Go designers). For example https://go.googlesource.com/proposal/+/master/design/go2draf...
"Betamax was technically superior to VHS"

Surely that's the point of this museum. These aren't rubbish products, but they failed, and they failed for a reason, and we can learn something from that.
Exactly my point.

The "deal" resulted in anyone being able to download the full books if they go to a university library which is a partner of Hathi Trust. Of course, after that download, you have the full PDF and you can do whatever you want!

This isn't protection for copyright holders. (Hathi Trust got its books from Google Books scans and doesn't pay copyright holders.) This "deal" isn't helping anyone and it hurts researchers.
That might be the case now (I haven't looked either), but back when this was introduced that wasn't the case.
Every time my dad takes something to the till and they say "this is actually on buy-one-get-one-free" he says "can I just have the free one?". Every. Time.
The recent QuadrigaCX fiasco shows this very clearly. The entire exchange (one of the biggest in Canada) was somehow just running on the encrypted laptop of this one guy, and after he suddenly died in December, there is 250 million Canadian Dollars owed to 100k+ customers that nobody can recover, because the guy with the password is dead.
It's probable that Harris would not have been given as much rope had the Luftwaffe not changed tactic. Switching away from mainly strategic and airfield targets to the blitz, and attacks such as Coventry. Had they kept plugging away at airfields, they even might have won the Battle of Britain.
People run pen testings every day. You might know https://www.shodan.io/ ?
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It would harm google far more than it would harm any government. Google users in other countries would abandon them en mass for alternative services, in case the same thing happened to them. It doesn’t even matter much whose fault it was.
> The Foreign Exchange Regulation Act of 1973 required many multinationals to hand over 60% of the equity in their local subsidiaries to Indian partners. Coca-Cola would have had to release its top-secret syrup recipe and IBM its computer codes in order to comply. Faced with an ultimatum from Fernandes, Coca-Cola—along with Mobil, Kodak, and 54 other companies—left.

How interesting. Meanwhile, when China asks the same of foreign companies today, the foreign companies seem to offer half of the local subsidy and the entire IP on a silver platter.

Just one recent example, but there are others involving Microsoft with Skype, Windows 10, and so on:

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/12/10/qualcomm_layoffs/
We anyway have ended up with a centralization of nodes onto datacenter servers, so it's hard to argue that it would have made a difference.
The lack of a minimap is pretty awesome. There is a careful balance between preserving adventure vs making the game frustrating; between convenient and immersive.

I very much liked the early days of D2 when you had to legitimately watch out to always have scrolls of town portal. Or in D1 when your mana didn't auto-recharge and you had to meter out potions, trips to down for free heal/mana, and just getting in there and doing physical damage because you were out of mana and needed to wait for a potion to drop.

Convenient features always take me out of the world a bit, and stuff where you have to die, try something new, die again, etc to win always makes me feel like I'm actually learning to play better.
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You would teach your kid to be accepting of any random belief anyone would ever have and to apply no filter? To engage with every ridiculous and proven wrong or not even wrong belief in the world?

Tremendous waste of time and most importantly invalid way to approach current complexity of the world. You would get instantly tangled within insanity of you actually did that. Never learn anything because the opposite may in some alternate universe be true.

Most people who progress open mind actually use availability heuristic instead or more complicated filters on top of that.

At some point, you have to rely on at least pools of experts. There is no way anyone who isn't immortal can even come close to understanding enough about basic physics, biology, much less everything relevant to life. The world is too big and complex for that.

How do you know who is an expert and even if they are one, when they're incorrect? That is a billion dollar plus question.
As it is, for simple small area practical questions the proof is in doing. For complex and wide ranging ones? Who knows.
Perhaps the most trustworthy experts are the ones who know their and the field's limits.
But then, every field had its stages where it failed badly at interpreting world while everyone believed the predictions to be true and they were, given the context... Some multiple times.

The rules I found is to distrust simplicity, simple explanations and prefer data with known methodology to credentials. Distrust higher order sources and especially direct opinions. (But not experience. That's data.)
That is also what horse-and-cart sellers said when they saw the first car. The lack of digital proof of payment is obviously not felt when you don't have it in the first place. The same for multi-signature contracts. The same for atomic swaps. None of these things are needed if they do not exist in the first place. People did not even need a roof over their heads until they built the first one.
> I mean Bitconnect used to be in the top 10 before it was exposed as a massive ponzi scheme.

and after
Any random distribution will be leaky when it is centered around the real location and multiple samples can be taken. Quantization to a desired lack of precision is the answer, nobody will be able to tell a point that happens to be rounded to itself from one that happens to be rounded from close to a neighboring cell.

If for some reason the data needs to appear random, you have to store a fixed random offset/alternative per point so that there cannot be multiple observations.

If for some reason the data needs to appear randomized between repeated lookups, you need to store a fixed offset/alternative per point and then apply an additional random offset per lookup. Repeated lookups will only leak the (badly) hidden permanently randomized stored alternative.
I can touch type both qwerty and Dvorak and have been for almost 30 years. Dvorak definitely saved me from RSI. I was genuinely losing my hand use due to a data entry job in college. As a developer, I would not have been able to continue, successfully, without Dvorak.

I have never been that much faster on Dvorak because I keep stopping to think. Keyboard can't help that.

Beyond all that, Dvorak just feels good to use.

Although phones & other qwerty biased situations are a pain, I still think Dvorak was worth it.
Matchmaking is a double edged sword. It makes the newer players feel more welcome, but it will make the dedicated players (who likely invest more $$) feel less rewarded.

I had written some comments similar to what you are saying. Getting into e.g. PUBG right now would be very difficult.
Where did you get this idea that free speech would solve all problems of ignorance? Perhaps you could stamp out at least public displays of climate change denial or anti-vaccine messages, but then you'd also stamp out criticism of the government and any narratives that challenge the corporate power structure, whether true or not. It's obvious that lies would be worse if free speech were restricted, as evidenced by the many countries that have restricted it.

In any case, the idea of free speech is explicitly to support unpopular forms of speech. Challenges to the status quo are intentional, whether informed or ignorant.
Paywall:

http://archive.is/0UI9X

https://outline.com/nPSmqN
> The /e/ ROM helps enhance device security and makes your Android powered smartphone much more secure. /e/ is a project of the E-Foundation, which is focused on enhancing a user’s device security by restricting anything that logs user data.

Can someone tell me what this thing actually is without marketing blurbs? Because I still don't get it.
Absolutely — I would gladly trade all my gains for a world where governments have no control over the creation and regulation of money.
Not exactly as comprehensive as you are looking for but there is this: https://ultimatehackingkeyboard.com/
She's not, that's the punchline!
Why I go to hackathons
And all of them are full view if you are physically sitting in a Hathi Trust "partner" university library. These libraries are open to the public and allow downloading and saving of the materials you browse, making the whole point of locking them up completely pointless.
I interpreted this headline very differently at first
Defending someone is no reason to break the site guidelines. If you keep doing that, we will ban you.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19187633 was particularly unacceptable.
For those that don't want to jump to the twitter feed, we should be expecting a follow-up as there should be a push addressing the data loss and allowing changes to attempt speed enhancements without data loss.

Good, wholesome, internet collaboration right here.....
how is that generated point random in any way?

https://gis.stackexchange.com/questions/76498/how-is-st-poin...
Interesting story, I did not know about that documentary. A nice companion piece with lots of good info is this article here [0]. There needs to be more public education on recycling, as there are many local differences and frequently people think something is recyclable when it will actually end up in a landfill.

[0] https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/29/climate/recycling-landfil...
Hadn't heard of vault or Algorand before, but woah, what a team of heavy hitters: Micali, Goldwasser, Andrew Lo, Kenneth Rogoff, Herlihy etc. basically a who's who in CS, Cryptography, Econ & finance. If any group will do crypto right then at least on paper it would look like this team
Sadly those you think are too crazy to change the world, usually are
It's been pretty telling to watch sentiment on HN towards crypto slowly shift from complete disgust to mild curiousity
Elizabeth Holmes, who is currently on trial for fraud charges for covering up the fact that her magic blood testing machine was too magic to work in the real world.
Crypto 101: never let anyone have your private key. No-one who religiously followed that rule has ever had their crypto stolen.

Coins go missing from exchanges, which break the basic private key rule. People use exchanges for convenience because as clever as cryptocurrency is, it has no answer to the exchange problem.
Offshore wind, Japan’s answer to declining nuclear power
When it comes to helping other countries...
You are being sarcastic, right?
CSS is a tool used by web developers to style their websites.

Whether technically it's a programming language or not is tangential.
Without the marginal energy cost of mining blocks from proof of work, what do you think would drive the value of such a currency?
Well, in this case, it's the NIICT (National Institute of Information and Communications Technology) and it sounds like their efforts will stop at rainbow-tabling the devices such as IP cameras etc, to see which have default credentials or weak credentials.

The problem is that the normal, every day people who run these devices, on the most part, don't understand that not only are they open to the internet, most manufacturers provide Dynamic DNS making it painfully easy to search for them. Further still, these manufacturers set the same default password for every device. Some have been known to leave the "empty" credential slots usable. Due to poor programming, you could simply login with no credentials at all.

I have to agree, I'd be hard pressed to decide whether I would or wouldn't accept this "survey", but, with notice, like people are being given here, you can mitigate the risks (cover the cameras, remove the data etc) and be told there are weaknesses in your system, or alternatively, not know and have some unknown accessing them at any point they wish, for any reason they wish.
I can only speak for our project, Intercoin. The goal isn’t to sidestep anything. It is to provide:

Security that no third party can just take your money anytime, without your explicit signature.

Liquidity for new tokens issued by projects / communities without great access to global markets and exchanges.

Programmable money that follows rules you can rely on when you invest in a project / deposit money into a community / donate to Haiti.

UBI on a community level funded by community members or donors

Analytics on how money is flowing around available to everyone and not just stored in a central database with information asymmetry.

These can be combined. For example Analytics can help you figure out the cost of food in your community, then vote for a level of UBI that eliminates food insecurity, and adjust this amount on a daily basis through direct democracy (Provably Random Polling.)

Intercoin’s mission is to make access to local fintech more available to local communities and online projects, without having to rely on central banks for monetary policy or the IRS for collecting taxes and being able to calculate eg the Consumer Price Index on the community level

More info at https://intercoin.org see the presentations and whitepaper.
If they wanted to do it for a malicious purpose, they just wouldn't announce it.
> It is because due to Android being open source many apps can track you.

I already don't like it. How did this get to the front page of HN?

> Most important of all, these services are open source. Being open source makes it possible for meddling users to actually look at the source code and find out, whether they are sending the data to any servers or not.

> /e/ is a project of the E-Foundation, which is focused on enhancing a user’s device security by restricting anything that logs user data. As per the company, /e/ is a non-profit project, made in public interest. The E Foundation is building an open-source mobile operating system, which respects a user’s data privacy.

Well, maybe judged too quickly. Looks like there's more information at https://e.foundation/e-solutions/ – including a download link and gitlab instance. I guess the primary selling point is that it's an "un-Googled" smartphone OS.

There is a roadmap and a link to a list of supported devices on that page.

Here's another link I found when I went digging:

https://hackernoon.com/leaving-apple-google-e-first-beta-is-...

> At our current point of development, we have:

> an “/e/” ROM in Beta stage: forked from LineageOS 14.1,

> (formerly CyanogenMod)
You seem to be missing the point. The boss does not have to enquire if the information is already public!
I see this as a disadvantage of using banks. They act as if you can freely access your money in your account, but actually you can't. That money is loaned out for the most part, and it's a trick that keeps the current system going. But once you have a bank run, reality will kick in on how banks really work.
At least the cryptocurrency that you own is really yours today. The numbers on your bank account are yours some day.
While I emphatically agree with you, if the person doesn’t know what they are doing, following your advise can cause major havoc too.

As someone who has hosted hack days in many countries on six continents and prides himself on providing a reliable and friendly network (including hand-on supporting IoT folks) for said events, it’s really freaking annoying when someone starts blasting their AP at ridiculous power levels for their one-off use case effectively muddying to hell the RF spectrum of the event space.
Absolutely. But im not sure "bad code" is the same thing as code written for a purpose at a particular time. I think something can be good code if its lifespan is understood in the context of the business goals. I just get cynical when I hear people apply these principles to something that may live five years. Not every project is going to be maintained for 30 years
I'm not american, seems like I mixed up Flint with some other american city that made the news up here for having water catching fire and shit like that.

And indeed, I misread, it's not 16% total spillage but 16% of them spilling at all. This one doesn't really change much to my point that having one in six fracking points spilling out is extremely damaging.
The "funny" thing is, it wasnt using HTTPS, it was on the 443 port. But the data was sent unencrypted.
My suggestions:

Dasani (uk launch) [1]

Sinclair C5 [2]

[1]https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2004/mar/19/foodanddrink

[2] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sinclair_C5
How ?

I don't believe there has been any slippery slope : child molestation is just as horrible as it was one year or 10 years ago.

What have you seen slipping ?
Yuval Noah Harari is worried about our souls
Most infamously, Golang programs use their own syscall wrappers, so you can't hook that with LD_PRELOAD.
There have been several completely uninteresting posts about "slash e slash" on the front page already these last months. I think they are paying some spam farm for the upvotes or something.
Ok, so how is it any different than having your money in a numbered account in Panama or Switzerland, which the government can't seize?

And what's this Singularity nonsense of which you speak?
Or maybe put more things in the trash? It seems like recycling being good is such an article of faith now that we lost track of why properly-run landfills are bad.

Edit: to be clear, I'm asking this because I'm actually curious about the answer. A quick Google search doesn't find anything particularly convincing.
Shhh.. Don't give our secret out! I plan to be gainfully employed 30 years from now, just in time for the hot thing then(with a resume showing 35 years of experience). Beat it, young uns!
How much input did they have into Titanfall 1&2? Those weren't exactly gangbusters.
You can also use lodash with TypeScript, and get a great deal more safety than that...
When moon?
Bitcoin doesn't work in any meaningful sense. It can't be used for purchases in most contexts and you can't use it as a stable store of value. It is also controlled by dubious actors and mining is a horribly destructive practice, both in terms of environmental waste and the constant nuisance of people stealing CPU time. But you were saying?
We were talking about being genuine, and here you come implying I brag that I was smart.

That's really rude.
Why aren’t films like the one mentioned in the article “plastic china” free to watch? They seem like a great educational piece to use but I tried searching and I had to purchase it — I understand the creators need to make money off this to survive but I think government should subsidize these films so they are free for the public to view
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