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Hi HN,

ethnode is actually built mostly by my dear friend @vrde.
We had quite some frustration setting up our own private nodes for Ethereum. Ganache-CLI didn't always work for us.

That's why @vrde took the opportunity to build ethnode. It's essentially just a JavaScript wrapper around geth or parity in clique (Geth) or InstantSeal (Parity) mode.

With geth it's compatible with http://remix.ethereum.org. Both Parity and Geth are compatible with truffle.

The tool is pretty young still and if you have feature requests or bugs, please open an issue on GitHub.

I use it on a daily basis to develop my smart contracts.

Feedback, usage and contributions are obviously welcome :)
Give it a try!

$ npm i -g ethnode && ethnode
"People who swim while they have diarrhea and unleash even very tiny amounts of germs like Cryptosporidium (or 'crypto' for short)"
Transfer Learning with PyTorch
Can't a password manager use the TPM to encrypt/decrypt the passwords in real time, a la Windows Hello?
Show HN: Automated Pokemon Catcher with Raspberry Pi
Seriously, the "only reason"?
2 articles on the HN front page have "toxic" in the title. Indeed, "toxic" was the Oxford dictionary's 2018 word of the year[1].

We're sheep.

[1] https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/word-of-the-year/word-of-t...
Great idea, poorly executed
I would love to feed GPT2 with movie scripts when it's completely open source.
Thanks for your reply!

From your experience so far, do you think that the overlap requirement is essential to successfully running a distributed company? Did you have it right from the start, or is this something that you discovered you needed as you went along?
Amazon's New Virginia Data Center Is Getting a Bunch of Tax Breaks
As a legally protected property, ownership of IP is not usually contested. Why shouldn't a single organization control writes and publish an open database?
On the other hand I've had a few companies reject my application without even giving me the chance for an interview although I was qualified.
I know it happens to the best of us, but it's still frustrating when you hear stories like this.
Herbicides for dessication seem like a terrible, terrible idea. If I wanted glyphosate to end up in food, that's what I'd do.
For fucks sake man. You and the others leaving comments on his site about green tea, olive oil, diets, fasting, "ayurveda", and god(s) that will save us if we really believe... wtf.

This is a guy that has a death sentence over his head. He's being doing treatment for years, his body is weak, probably has or will have pain regularly. Is this the moment to do fasting or drink freaking green tea?

It's cancer guys, not a simple cold.
Where I live (Poland) it's not uncommon for a bike lane to be effectively a part of the sidewalk with trees and parked cars between the sidewalk and the road so it's not that obvious if you're visible to drivers or not.

I agree that putting unprotected humans on the road should happen only after other traffic calming measures have been put in place.

Regarding your last remark. There are basically two styles of bike infrastructure. You described the dutch way quite well. But there is also a Copenhagen style of bike infrastructure where it's directly by the road. Sometimes separated by the curb but still on the road. https://goo.gl/maps/QWTfALXSbsj

I won't judge which style is better. It probably depends on the city.

More about differences between Amsterdam and Copenhagen styles
https://robertweetman.wordpress.com/2017/11/04/amsterdam-vs-...
Thanks for posting this here :)

One thing I forget to mention in the article is that the RISC-V Vector Extension doesn't really have to be used to compute long vectors. In theory you could set a vector length of 4 and depending on the architecture you'd still get good performance. But in that case you'd also lose some of the power efficiency advantages I talk about...
Neat. Brings me back to the 80's!
> No it isn't. Just make a good movie

"Good" is not a single-variable problem, you know? Sometimes you have a good script, but you don't have the perfect cast. Sometimes you have decent actors and all but almost no marketing budget so nobody hears about your movie. There's so many things that can go wrong even with the best intentions when trying to make a good movie that "just make a good movie" sounds really naive.

If it were that simple, every "good" director would make great movies one after the other. I struggle to find more than a few who could pull that off (and even then, that's highly debatable), among the the tens of thousands of directors who have been active in the past 50 years.
I think people keep 2 compartments in brain and never let them interact. E.g. when it comes to salaries it goes like why the hell European/ canadian companies do not pay like US companies. And when it comes to personal life or health they go like why is US so hostile for health care, vacations.
While nice in theory, it'll be bad for business for public swimming pools. Think of how many young kids are in the pool (under 3 years of age). Whether you like it or not, there's pee in the pool.
Bromine is more stable at higher temperatures, so that’s why it’s commonly used in places like hot tubs.
You can pretty reliably guess correctly if you look for ghosting/blurring/chromatic aberration along sharp edges, e.g. around the eyes, on the chin, and in hair. ML hasn't quite mastered the fine details yet
It's not foolproof because the malware could also hook your browser and sniff your passwords from there. It's better than nothing though (instead of getting all your passwords they only get whatever you've entered).
Type12: Tech Interviews in a Real Production Environment
Especially Christianity?
> As I understood it, and as far as I can remember, the Mill AOT compiler has an easier job than that. The generic image already contains the parallelized instructions, the AOT just has to split those who are too wide for the given CPU.

In my opinion, this just moves the problem on a meta level. For the EPIC instructions of Itanium, one could encode multiple (parallel) instructions into one VLIW instruction. It was a huge problem to parallelize existing, say, C or C++ code so that this capability could be used. The fact that such a "smart compiler" turned out so hard to write was one of the things that broke Itanium's neck.

I openly have no idea by what magic a "sufficiently smart compiler" that can create such a "generic image [that] already contains the parallelized instructions" suddenly appears. How is it possible that compilers can suddenly parallelize the program, which turned out to be nigh impossible for the Itanium?!
I do think you don’t need citations to know that over-surveillance is a consistent happening, my apologies if you aren’t American.

New York recently finished settling and paying out a case where they were accused of heavily, unreasonably surveilling a number of muslim people and properties. In the end, they still admitted to no misconduct.

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/05/nyregion/last-suit-accusi...

This is just a single drop in heavy policing that NYC pushed for and is still dealing with the effects of doing so. Stop and Frisk comes to mind: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=846365
Oh nice, that's simpler to follow! But the other one is helpful in suggesting the specific alternative.
Facebook, Google, CDC Under Pressure to Stop Anti-Vax Garbage from Spreading
Everyone as a kid who has gone into a pool is probably right, but I doubt all adults who’ve been in a pool have done so.
The cure for bad information is usually more information.
Well, I'm sure that will help the guy with cancer. C'mon.
An Inside Look at Verizon's Edge Computing Capabilities
>"provide pointers to a more traditional decentralized P2P network like BitTorrent"

What does this statement mean, links to IPFS? trackers to bittorrent?
On a tangential note: The actual execution probably did not look the one depicted in the engraving, just for the simple reason that the priests and other onlookers would be splashed with gore. I know this is an artistic engraving from the 19th century but if you search google for art on the execution it's usually shown like this, probably to show Boleyn in a more dignified, praying pose. Compare with portrayals of Queen Mary's execution.

You may be surprised (or not) that there are resources on the Internet that really examine the details of Anne Boleyn's execution, e.g. https://www.theanneboleynfiles.com/resources/q-a/why-was-cat...
IIRC, it tries to "generalize" CSP, or rather just make it usable, because it isn't in its default form at all. CSP is not as general as actor model. But you can't generalize actor model into a more general concurrency model, unbounded nondeterminism is as far as we can go.
I know I’m not the average movie-goer, but I strongly prefer to see movies at either end of the spectrum: really bad or really good. Those are usually experiences I can fully immerse into and enjoy.

Anything in between (I.e. mediocre) does nothing for me, no matter how well produced or marketed it is or how many hundred millions it cost to make. It’s just gonna be a dud.

Most movies made to please the most people end up here: high budget, great looking, but mediocre, predictable and utterly boring.

To me, using ML to optimize movie audience targets sounds like something which will make a bad situation even worse.

I guess cinema as an art form is truly dead.

Edit: This news seems to confirm a claim made by screenwriter Max Landis[1] in a RLM podcast: Hollywood used to have a recipe for making “successful” (i.e. profitable) movies, but these days none of the recipes work anymore and they are desperate, feeling blinded, and as a result being even more risk-averse in their productions.

This definitely sounds like a desperate move.

[1] https://youtu.be/DR-Dry8Qb4A
https://www.laarc.io/ uses it. It's a HN clone created by an ex-employee from S2 (which develops Heroes of Newerth, a Dota clone). It's available on github as well. https://github.com/laarc/laarc
On your homepage, right under the title, you claim to be "The #1 Boutique App & Web Development Company". What do you mean by this? Is this an award that some other organization granted you, is it just marketing fluff, or is it something in between? What sort of metrics were used? Can you tell me who the #2 boutique app and web development company is? My first reaction on seeing that line was "oh, they're willing to say anything to make a sale, I can't believe anything here."
When I moved to Texas I did not anticipate this. As a cyclist, I will definitely keep the types of vehicles in mind when choosing a place to live from here on. Texans do worse, as "grille guards" are particularly common: http://www.frontier-gear.com/products/grille-guards/

When I first saw one of these I thought it was something out of Mad Max. The vast majority of these people don't need these grille guards as they don't work on a farm or anything similar. My guess is that they are bought to make their truck or SUV look tougher.

In contrast, I grew up in a rural area where grille guards might be useful and I never saw them. Big trucks don't seem to be as common as here either.
I haven't really tried. Blockada never gave me a reason to.
Saw a cat with a bunch of garbled motivational poster text. Drove me over the wall with laughter at work.
English Words Coined or Popularized by George Washington
Human-cat hybrids: https://imgur.com/a/mqBA8IM
> My Synology NAS is backup (with regards to the DNS-based Pi-Hole blocking)

Could you explain this a little further - is the Pihole also running on the Synology? Or is secondary DNS the Synology?
Terrifying that you could download apps that aren't in the official store. Why, it's almost like having an Android
Are there any decent password managers that do not charge monthly fees?

I don't mind paying to buy a good tool but the Saas model is getting out of hand.
This is a little worrisome and I think it's a bit irresponsible of The Verge to be publishing something like this without being clearer about what potential issues and vulnerabilities something like this could expose. They're making it sound like such a great thing without even attempting to talk through what possible attack vectors this exposes and what this could do to someone's device. "so long as you’re willing to hand the keys to your security and privacy to an unknown, likely China-based entity" doesn't cover it well enough, in my opinion. They need to give examples. This only highlights the disconnect in technology of people who know "how to use devices" but not how those devices work.
I think the issue here is, once you have been properly brought up with faith, 'indoctrinated' so to say, it becomes part of your core personality. You can't live rest of the life without it, there would be a gaping hole in your heart and mind that screams to be filled in +-similar way heroin addict feels the need to get another fix.

On the other side, being brought up in environment where (a bit religious non-practicing) parents extorted 0 influence over me and let me find my own belief (or lack of it), I really don't have this 'hole', nor the need to put author on everything I see around me. Matter can self-organize pretty well on its own and we currently don't have a good mind capable of comprehending true complexity of interconnected reality of our universe.

I could cross over to faith group (as did my cousin who was brought up in similar environment and is now priest happily), but every single cell of my brain would have to be vaporized for me to be OK with it for rest of my life, when I see glaring proofs around me every day that tell me there is no creator in the form all major religions imagine/hope for.

And whether there is another type of creator, is a question that is not that important for me, since answer to it won't change a single thing in my life, nor my morals nor any behavior or decisions. We all (sane human beings) have a moral compass, and apart from the part about believing in one and only true god, it aligns pretty damn well with most religious moral doctrines.

I don't think true believers can ever come to state of mind to even seriously toy with the idea that there might not be immortal soul of them. That its only this world, and nothing more, no higher meaning or purpose. That we are not special, and universe will be just fine even if Earth is consumed by black hole tomorrow afternoon. They just can't do it and be happy full people anymore.

I can, easily, without a blink of an eye, and it feels great and empowering. Even if I may be wrong, which is not a bad outcome after all :)

Sorry for the long post, just putting down some observation between agnostic me and my fiancee who was brought up in pretty strict catholic ways.
Im curious what is generating the pictures? I want to play around with this toolset.
Exactly. Attacker is already in God Mode. Doesn't need to be probing password managers. The report has some value in testing a claim about how well secrets were hidden in or scrubbed from memory. Not like advertised...

Ill also add that mitigating stuff like this was an early, easy use of separation kernels. They put the secret-protecting components, like disk encryption and VPN, in dedicated partitions outside Linux VMs. That worked well.
Mixmax Releases Faster Email Editor, Grammarly Support
Supreme Court Rules Against Excessive State Fines
Load Everything Lazily with IntersectionObserver
You bet it doesn't...

http://imgur.com/gallery/1SkEEho
"are evil"
Complete tangent, but I’ve always wanted to ask someone else who thinks about toroidal gravitational physics: in the center of a toroidal cat (planet) of sufficient mass, does gravity “cancel out”, or are you instead being “pulled apart” in every direction at once, as if on a medieval rack?
great job, thanks
After much internet searching I found this course mentioned as one of the best ways to learn the basics of Haskell. I've only worked through the first couple weeks so far, but I'm having a lot of fun with it. Has anyone else here given this course a go? And does anyone have any other suggestions on learning Haskell?
accompanied by much stricter enforcement

This is the crux of the matter. If people really thought they'd get a speeding ticket, perhaps they wouldn't speed. I live in a big city similar to Boston and I've never seen someone pulled over for speeding though. After all, what are the odds that:

1. A car speeds

2. In front of a cop

3. The cop can safely pursue the speeding vehicle in city traffic
Imagine I happen to think that social and group dynamic factors are more important than individual competence. So I decide to start hiring prioritizing these characteristics over individual ability. If my hypothesis is correct, I'm going to be able to outcompete other companies in my industry and grow, achieve success, and so on. Having a large array of amicable charismatic employees at my disposal would even help for things such as favorably lobbying government to my benefit. It's win win all around.

This is the nice thing about capitalist systems. It simply selects for whatever works. At times this is not a good thing (e.g. - perhaps convincing people to buy drugs they don't need could be more profitable than making drugs people genuinely need), but in general it tends to be better, and more organic, than what any individual or group might try to dictate as what should be desired.
". I felt like I was hearing from Pelé that the key to becoming a great soccer player is wearing shoes."

It was just a movie, but in a movie about Pele, one of the memorable scenes was he was playing with the neighborhood poor kids, against the rich kids in a tournament. His team didn't have shoes or uniforms. And they didn't want to be made fun of . They rather crookedly got shoes, but weren't use to them, and they didn't fit.

By half time, they were losing badly. Pele took off his shoes, scored amazing goals and the team came back to within one goal.

Kinda random, but what should I believe about shoes being obvious.
Once someone has bought an iPhone from Apple, it's no longer Apple's phone. Apple no longer owns it. If the owner of the phone (who is, again, not Apple) wishes to trust only Apple-approved software, that is 100% his choice. But if he wishes to install software that Apple doesn't approve of, that's also a 100% legitimate choice.

Sorry for all the emphasis, but this stuff is important. Once a manufacturer has sold a product, it no longer has any claim to it — none. It belongs to the purchaser, who is the sole owner.
Jonathan Zittrain and Mark Zuckerberg Discuss FB Privacy, Ad Targeting, and More
>I had a cup of coffee this morning - normal

You casually drank a psychoactive drug. Is "normal" just another word for common?

If your culture demanded that you keep your dead refrigerated, and everyone around you did exactly that, would that behavior be promoted to normality?
This blows my mind. I’ve never considered doing this in a pool at any age and can’t believe anyone else would either. Yet half of the population apparently has, and they think everyone else does it too.
This reminds me of the movie Annihilation, it’s like it’s blindly mimicking something without knowing what it’s doing.

So weird!
Storage is a factor too!
You'd better make sure you move into a neighborhood that already has wild lawns in it, otherwise you'll be in for some headaches from busy body neighbors.
A related company that uses the blockchain in an interesting way for DRM (which I have my own views on) that was in the same Cape Town startup program as my startup: https://custostech.com/
Great Collection of ML, DL, RL, Optimization, Vision, NLP, Summer School Courses
In Chicago they've reduced the speed limit on one of the most frequented bike routes to 20 mph in some areas but its had perceivably no effect. My perception is that cars still average 25 to 35 mph through these areas and I've yet to ever see someone pulled over for speeding.
I run unbound DNS + openvpn on a raspberry pi to do the same. Works pretty well.
Komodo and Amazon Create a 60-Second Blockchain Builder
4) how can you retract the film, should the necessity arise?
Yup. It's pretty crazy (and gross) that people think this. People don't have any trouble urinating in the proper place in other contexts.
This seems bogus to me. There are many more acres of agricultural land vs lawns. Without looking it up I would guess agricultural land accounts for over 90% of the herbicide and pesticide use. We are not going to save the environment by having tiny patches of chemical-free land while huge swaths outside the cities are being doused.
> requires "100,100" iterations to brute force

That phrase doesn't really capture what iterations means there. How you said it makes it sound like you only have to try 100k computations to brute force a valid answer, which is certainly not true.

It's talking about key stretching / key derivation [0].

That is not 100100 iterations to brute force it, that is 100100 iterations of PBKDF2-SHA256 applied to the password you type in as the master password.

It does look like the tables are not identical. However, since lastpass's docs [1] say it's 100100 (and configurable), I'd say that's likely the accurate default value.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Key_stretching

[1]: https://support.logmeininc.com/lastpass/help/about-password-...
They'll make money anyway. People will pay to watch those, so they have no incentive to do otherwise.

Like with every product that people refuse to go without no matter the quality.
A large part of that seems to be due to the assumption that the competition is irredeemable and malicious rather than simply mistaken.
That is because both are the same thing: sodium hypochlorite
Have you ever seen the south park episode, "minorities in my water park?" lol
It's... scary sometimes, reading comments like these.

On one hand, I identify with what you've written here. I too had issues (still have) with working on a team.

On the other hand, I find myself identifying with someone with clear narcissistic tendencies, or at the very least is supremely unaware of themselves.

Why write this little confessional here, a place that's clearly not about you or your specific issue? Why couch it with tons of "but I didn't actually do anything wrong" notes? Why write it in such a rambling, stream-of-consciousness style? Why put these weirdly specific anecdotes, and why would the reader (who is the reader, by the way) even believe you?

I see these comments, and I get scared, because I recognize that this is how some people view me, and that's... not good.
When you are blaimed individually for the failure later on, is that also "the group" consensus?

In the long run always individuals are blamed and not groups..
I've used both but recently there was a discussion on Github about Blokada secretly reporting analytics to the developer. Given that the app is primarily used by the privacy conscious, it seemed like a bad idea. They just added an opt-out yesterday, but it was enough to go back to DNS66. The Blokada dev has been posting surveys to get feedback on various monetisation ideas recently (an anonymising VPN, merchandise, a pro version with extra features, etc) so I doubt it'll remain free, as in its current state, for long. I know everyone is entitled to try and make some money from their work, but I always worry about security/privacy apps when the key motivator is money and not helping the community stay safe. Compare pi-hole.

So I switched back to DNS66. Which is great, but you might need to disable async-dns in chrome://flags depending on your device. On Android 8 (Oreo) tablet, Chrome ignores the device network interface DNS preference and sends DNS requests out the physical interface, and not via the local (filtering) tunnel. My Android 9 (Pie) phone doesn't have this problem. Blokada worked fine on both but DNS66 only worked on the tablet when I turned off async-dns (which I think is a terrible, network-breaking feature anyway).
What does this mean procedurally? Is this a veto? A statement that is likely to effect an upcoming vote?