skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sure, associating a large number of assertions about personal information with a blockchain-held identity is possible. However, this still doesn't solve the question of "who put it there", "do i trust them" and "to what degree was this information vetted?"

Currently, identification documents are defacto vetted by various portions of government, legal threats thereof and (partly) the incovenience cost (re: physical presence, wait time, overall hoop jumping) of actually going to get a new drivers license / passport / etc.

By removing that inconvenience you basically make it cheap to create fakes unless you have some overwhelmingly new approach to identity verification.

Unfortunately that's unlikely.

Finally, if we observe one of the key properties of the current-era systems as absolute national segmentation within identity verification systems, this startup seems to actually be more interested in providing a heavily US-centric solution on an international blockchain, which doesn't strike me as a good fit.
Bill Maris (The Google Ventures VC in this article) followed up with more thoughts on Secret: https://medium.com/gv-notes/a-few-thoughts-on-secret-3cb50a3...

"I want to correct and amend a few things. I wanted to let you know how my views had evolved since we spoke. I aspire to be someone that says when that’s the case and it is here. I hadn’t spoken to David Byttow when you and I chatted, and I should have done that. I’ve spoken to him now and have a better understanding of things."
Back to the roots: why cyber security needs more collective intelligence
>> An IOActive spokesman said the company has no indication CyberLock will take any legal action.

Well, IANAL, but I can pretty much guarantee they are going to get sued.

As many people say, you only get one reputation, and you must defend it vigorously.

And as many other people say, don't piss into the wind and expect not to get wet...
I think what jane_is_here was trying to say is this:

Malta is essentially selling EU-wide* permanent residency permits and is making mad money out of it. Greece is in dire need of money, and is also entitled to the issuing of EU-wide permanent residency permits, so it makes sense for Greece to follow suit.

* Technically speaking, Schengen-Area-wide.
Or you could just store that in a cookie.
At least we still have Coq
It's a bit like text editors before the "solarized" theme ;)
Anyway looks like a good piece of software!
I don't personally have any plans to add it (too busy now, and not sure how to structure it), but since the documentation is part of the Rust repo, anyone can submit a pull request adding it. It'd probably good to contact Steve Klabnik and talk about how to structure it if you're interested in adding it.
When you start decapping chips and hitting them with lasers, there are all sorts of "cleartext" data you will be able to obtain.
Half the battle is coming to terms with the controls.

If you wanted to make it easier to use (i.e. if it's not part of the charm that it's hard to control, like QWOP), you could go with "click and hold where you want to turn towards".

(One of the nice things about turn-towards-click is that it's very resilient against lag. If the command occurs a bit late, you turn a bit more; compensating automatically.)
> limit ownership of firearms

Slavery limited, among other far more obvious things, access to firearms.

> control speech to stop anti-american and pro-british propaganda and the like

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alien_and_Sedition_Acts

In general and in specifics, not even the founding fathers agreed on the appropriate trade-off between security and personal liberty. Perhaps the one thing they did agree on is democratic self-governance and the rule of law.
As the commenter ploxiln on the site noted, it is questionable if the author presents the codes which are actually equivalent.

As far as I understand, at least if the less sign from one function should become greater or equal in another.

It also appears to me that the starting function by definition has a fixed end limit number over which the f() isn't called, and that this limit gets set by every Foo<x> differently.
Does it get crowded playing?
Read these:

http://www.paulgraham.com/before.html

http://www.paulgraham.com/mit.html

http://www.paulgraham.com/hs.html

For the lazy:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ii1jcLg-eIQ
I love it. It gives me options when we have undesirable tax laws in the US.
"Ask Hollywood producers, and they’ll confirm that there are only a limited number of proven, reliable craftspeople for any given task. Projects tend to come together quickly, with strict deadlines, so those important workers are in a relatively strong negotiating position. Wages among, say, makeup and hair professionals on shoots are much higher than among their counterparts at high-­end salons. Similarly, set builders make more than carpenters and electricians working on more traditional construction sites. It helps that, despite the work’s fleeting nature, Hollywood is strongly unionized, which keeps wages high. According to the rate card of the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees Local 728, which represents union film-­lighting crews in Los Angeles, even entry-­level electricians on a major film set make more than $35 an hour — i.e., more than 40 percent higher than the national average for electricians — and make that wage over 12-hour days."

This is essential. The only reason the worker sees any of the massive amounts of money that are thrown at these projects is because of collective bargaining.

It's an important lesson we should learn given the massive profits our industry sees.

If you're a 10x engineer why don't you demand 10x pay?
It's the dropbox discussion all over again. We know how that turned out, don't we?
Don't worry, I've been living with the feeling for a long time ;)
EURJPY: Reverses Higher, Eyes the Further 135.27 Level
Great work. Loving the new avatar of Microsoft, please pass those along to your team.
Uber ceases operations in Kansas
"Too bad those crazy kids ended up building a $250B company, huh?"

I actually don't know which company you're talking about. Facebook?
In this thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9496561
Lille accueillera le concours de Miss France 2016
Hey man, awesome writeup. I have a suggestion for you: try and architect off those EBS volumes -- as you unfortunately learned the hard way, they just aren't that consistent. DynamoDB is a good option, or adding some redundancy so that you can just use the ephemeral disk would be even better (and probably cost neutral compared to the "consistent" I/O EBS volumes).

Happy to help if you'd like.
He might be talking about Canadian law which I would admit can be goofy with respect to startups. But I still don't think it's that big a deal.
Yeah, in a certain sense it's a lot like mathematics. You try your hand, perhaps you get it right the first time, more often than not you don't but at least you learn something out of it.
This repo was forked from pngjs. png-coder adds support for encoding and decoding 16bit images along with 8bit images. Its a simple PNG encoder/decoder for Node.js with no native dependencies.
He did just now:

https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=cperciva
PyPy.js: A fast, compliant Python implementation for the web
True. Had to go through all this shooting just a short 2 minute video recently. Everything goes a lot smoother when you have a detailed shot list and everyone knows what it is.
That'll just get you unrestricted access to that one area. This flaw lets you get the master key, and with that, you have unrestricted access to every locked room in the facility.
Seems interesting based on the HN post. But no upvote because there's no english button to allow me to learn more.
I've only ever had violent and threatening interactions with unions. Why would I ever want to join one?

I've had friends beaten, others threatened. They've consistently threatened other friends with forced membership.

No thanks.
The DFW quote is from the following Harper's article: http://harpers.org/wp-content/uploads/2008/09/HarpersMagazin...

A vacation is a respite from unpleasantness, and since
consciousness of death and decay are unpleasant, it may
seem weird that the ultimate American fantasy vacation
involves being plunked down in an enormous primordial
stew of death and decay. But on a 7NC Luxury Cruise, we
are skillfully enabled in the construction of various
fantasies of triumph over just this death and decay. One
way to 'triumph' is via the rigors of self-improvement
(diet, exercise, cosmetic surgery, Franklin Quest time-
management seminars), to which the crew's amphetaminic
upkeep of the [ship] is an unsubtle analogue. But
there's another way out, too: not titivation but
titillation; not hard work but hard play.
Finally !! I've been looking for a 16bit png decoder for a while now.
It's rich/immature to tell entrepreneurs how to spend the money that is invested in them? What world are you living in?

There are always rules on how you are allowed to spend money that you borrow, it's never just a blank check. VC funding probably comes with the most freedom but it's still meant to be used to build the business, not cars/drugs/entertainment, regardless of the eventual outcome.

It's basic integrity.
MIT alumni in their 50s
VA Innovation Creation Series Launch This Saturday at VA Palo Alto
The only thing is that you have to seek out good machines these days, and there are relatively few in public unless you know where to look. I got into pinball in junior high right when TAF came out. At that time I could randomly walk into any movie theater, bar, or video arcade and find new pinball machines. These days when you find a random pinball machine, it's either a new Stern (rare) or it's run down to the point that you can't even play it seriously.

I wish I had space to start a collection, but even if I did I would the casual competitiveness of the golden age. No one gives a shit about your high score on your home machine, but the time I got Lost in the Zone twice and scored 6B on the TZ in a bar in London (The Pipeline FWIW), that turned a few heads.
Because unlike those other professions, we can always easily leave for something better. In fact, a dozen something betters. An engineer in this industry staying at one place longer than 18 months is pretty rare. There is a lot of ship jumping to get higher pay, less work, more benefits and it is a constant struggle to keep good talent. We don't need unions. In tech, labor does hold the power. We always have the option for taking our ball and going home (start our own company).

And the so called "wage-fixing" was an attempt to slow down the wage arms race that is killing cities like SF with ridiculous rent. It's not sustainable, and it will pop.
ITYM consistent, available or partition-tolerant...
That's a lovely example. I was going to post that I don't like structure editors, but your example is two keystrokes in Emacs: c-m-F and c-m-T -- which I now (after 35+ years) realize is a structure editor.

(one of the first things I worked on when I started at PARC was adapting an Emacs clone since I didn't like the Interlisp structure editor. Little did I know!).
What an unsavory answer.

I guess I can kind of answer my own question, though. An adult woman who shares my values wouldn't care if I lived in a van.
Remember reading this a few years ago, and at the time I was pretty sure this was a submarine ad for Tide.
Handling Software Design Criticism (2007) [pdf]
Massive 78% U.S. Depopulation Predicted by Military Website Deagel.com
The chef-client cookbook does a similar thing in its cron recipe:

# Generate a uniformly distributed unique number to sleep.
if node['chef_client']['splay'].to_i > 0
checksum = Digest::MD5.hexdigest(node['fqdn'] || 'unknown-hostname')
sleep_time = checksum.to_s.hex % node['chef_client']['splay'].to_i
else
sleep_time = nil
end

https://github.com/opscode-cookbooks/chef-client/blob/master...

This is random enough so you won't kill the server, and deterministic so the resource isn't always changing every Chef run.
From 'Ripple_Facts.pdf'

On September 30, 2013, XRP II negotiated an approximately $250,000.00
transaction by email for a sale of XRP virtual currency with a third-party
individual. XRP II provided that individual with a “know your customer”
(“KYC”) form and asked that it be returned along with appropriate identification
in order to move forward with the transaction. The individual replied that another
source would provide the XRP virtual currency and did not “require anywhere
near as much paperwork” and essentially threatened to go elsewhere. Within
hours, XRP II agreed by email to dispense with its KYC requirement and move
forward with the transaction. Open source information indicates that this
individual, an investor in Ripple Labs, has a prior three-count federal felony
conviction for dealing in, mailing, and storing explosive devices and had been
sentenced to prison, see United States v. Roger Ver, CR 1-20127-JF (N.D. Cal.
2002);
Landing Page Analyzer
Sneak Peak is your new band name
Ask HN: Anyone using Amazon CPM Ads?
I've been using Amazon CPM Ads for a month now but the low fill rate is disappointing.

How is your experience with Amazon CPM Ads ? How does it compare to other CPM Ad networks ?
These machines also use vastly more energy than a human brain.
I don't think you understood what he said.

Even in the article, the GV guy tries to disown relations with the founders (even though they are ex-Googlers), as if trying to elude that Googlers wouldn't do that. Reality check: Googlers are just ordinary average people that have desires and temptations and no amount of genius will remove that fact.
Google Cloud Bigtable
Thanks for all the comments! Looking forward to reading them in depth and tuning up the ole' preso :)
-- Matt

Twitter: @mattbajor
The Mentor-MOOC Continuum
And the link to the sources is the first link in the first reply to the original post:

https://github.com/crosswalk-project/v8-crosswalk/commits/ma...
What about when EFF tries to kill bogus patents and trial lawyers lobby against it because they make too much money from bogus patents? Can we blame then lawyers then?

What I'm trying to say is that perhaps the sometimes it's not just the law's fault - but the lawyers also like having said law and abusing it.

Also, this is going to get even worse if Obama has his way with the new "enhanced" CFAA law that can jail people even for breaking a company's ToS.
Don't get me wrong - I probably still agree with Patrick and Thomas.

(Previous: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7731268)

[Edit: And I think the competing theories are an excellent lesson for that "kid right out of university who has never had a real job".]
In the 1950s, nobody would have believed that "genetic drift" happened at all. The reason was because back then, the thinking was that any genetic change must be adaptive and caused by natural selection. The accumulation of "neutral" changes-- genetic drift-- was very controversial when it was first proposed, and wasn't really widely accepted until at least the 1980s or 1990s.

This main thrust of this paper seems to be the idea that genetic drift is the primary driver of speciation (the process of creating new species.) The paper also makes claims about a "speciation clock" that seems to tick every 2 million years, for many different species.

These two claims seem somewhat at odds. Presumably genetic drift will happen more rapidly in species like fruit flies or beetles that have short generation times. Genetic drift should be slow in species like whales since they take so long to reproduce, and drift can't happen except during reproduction. So if species are splitting off every 2 million years for both whales and fruit flies, that suggests genetic drift can't be the only factor, since it's 1000x faster (or more) in fruit flies as in whales. Anyway, I didn't read the paper that closely, so maybe I'm missing something.

In general, speciation is a complicated and poorly understood topic with a lot of controversies remaining. For example, is it more common for a species to split into two because of a physical obstruction (body of water, mountain range, etc.), or because different sub-populations start occupying different ecological niches due to slightly different environments, and gradually grow more distinct? (allopatric speciation versus parapatric speciation). It's hard to actually measure how much mixing there was between populations millions of years ago, so this is still controversial. And parapatric speciation gives more weight to natural selection so it used to be the preferred explanation. But this is far from a settled debate.
> There is no perfect database out there, all of them will fail with network partitions.

Some of them will fail in a way that keeps your data safe, others will fail in a way that preserves uptime but gives you temporarily inconsistent data. Aerospike apparently does neither. Why is it unreasonable to expect them not to falsely claim otherwise?

The "crazy revelation" for me was not that Aerospike's software is, like everything else, subject to the CAP theorem. It's that they apparently think it's awesome to claim that it isn't, and charge tens of thousands of dollars for their product on that justification.
CSS4 Rocks
Maybe it's just me, but I find work to only suck when there is a long commute time and it's 2015 and our stupid company is still running Ruby 1.8 on rails 2.3, there is no automated testing, the javascript is an unreadable pile or .rjs mess, and literally every bug is some variant of "undefined is not a function" happening at run-time (for which I get yelled at).

In other words, work sucks primarily because it has been made to suck by a combination of extremely expensive real-estate in a down-town office and inattention toward the subject of how to make work fun.

The article calls this "the realities of work" and that the inherent difficulties and uncertainties are natural to the problems of the "real world" and must be accepted. But I beg to differ, there are tons of games that are extremely hard to play well (e.g. Sim City, Devil May Cry, etc.), yet still incredibly fun and addictive. And if you consider online games where interacting with other player can produce just as much uncertainty as real life, games are no less "real" than reality... yet they are fun while real work isn't.

Personally, I think corporations can take a page from video game design and analyze their own employees work flows and design it to be a more fun process.
This is what happens when the government represents corporations rather than the individual. Voters have a small effect compared to lobbyists for large corps. Is there also an effect in the US that individual states compete against each other in providing better environments to employers. The other extreme from this is a state that is anti business and has no jobs, but there has to be some middle ground. The Occupy Wall Street movement was useless, they should have created a political party and got some power.

Employees compete against each other, the two guys/gals in your office who work 80 hours a week will be put ahead of those who only work 40. If you don't want to lose your job in the next round of redundancies, you'd better be running faster on your treadmill than the next guy! Unions are dead everywhere except some specialised industries.
You could have contacted AWS support or emailed me. Either way, we would have investigated.
That Spectator piece is basically 100% false. Here's an explanation from a Princeton math PhD with expertise in voting system design.

http://scorevoting.net/BogusBeeQV.html
This sounds like one of those tasks where 'I inherited this spreadsheet that handles it' is probably the answer 90% of the time
10 Rules for Evaluating Web TWAIN Components – For 2015 and Beyond
Apparently Bill Maris of Google Ventures hadn't yet spoken to David Byttow of Secret when he spoke to New York Times. He changed his mind after the conversation with Byttow. Its only fair on NYT's part to reprint the Maris's updated note which basically takes back everything he told NYT.

https://medium.com/gv-notes/a-few-thoughts-on-secret-3cb50a3...

Here’s the text of an email I sent to Mike Isaac at the NY Times earlier, and thought it was important to share this context and nuance.

Hi Mike,

Regarding the article on Secret earlier today:

http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/05/05/the-lessons-google-...

I want to correct and amend a few things. I wanted to let you know how my views had evolved since we spoke. I aspire to be someone that says when that’s the case and it is here.

I hadn’t spoken to David Byttow when you and I chatted, and I should have done that. I’ve spoken to him now and have a better understanding of things.

We weren’t part of the secondary. I don’t know what the agreement was among David, Chrys Bader and those that did. And I don’t know the status now — maybe they’ve returned the money, maybe they don’t need to or can’t. But even if they returned all of the money, it wouldn’t affect GV, as we didn’t participate.

I do want to make clear that this was not a “bank heist,” and that was a poor choice of words on my part.

That implies that the founders were trying to line their pockets at the expense of others. After having a heart to heart with David, I don’t think that’s true. David rightly pointed out to me that he and Chrys worked extremely hard. They built something that captured the imagination of a lot of people and had a huge amount of users. The tone and content of my comments as printed don’t pay the appropriate respect to that fact.

As a fund, one thing remains true — we are not excited about founders selling stock early in a company’s life cycle. It provokes the question — if founder’s are sellers, why would we or others be buyers.

As for it not being “sustainable,” there is no way to ascribe that to the founders any more than the million other reasons a start up can fail. This one did. But credit to the founders for not just running out the clock and spending all the money — and instead returning some capital to investors rather than running it into the ground. That takes bravery. It doesn’t happen often.

As I now understand, David is doing a lot to make it as right as he can with his investors and employees. I’m glad your article sparked the conversation that had enough truth in it to help me evolve my opinions to some that I think are more correct.

Best,

Bill
Document Scanning: TWAIN, WIA, ISIS or SANE?
IOActive's findings allow an attack where you can obtain one sample of the lock and gain the master key for the entire lock system.

So you walk up to the unguarded bike shed, take your time chopping off the lock with a hacksaw, and now you have access to the storage area. Normally the guard would come around before you'd be able to cut off that lock, but since you now have a key it's much quicker, and you wouldn't look suspicious to the guard anyway.
When storing financial data, I'd certainly go with some kind of event sourcing: store deltas / financial transactions, not counters. The counters are just a sum over all deltas.

If performance is an issue, you can make the counters available in a second database that's only for reading, and updated from the original deltas.
Get Monsanto Out (GMO) – Gangnam Style Parody
One thing I haven't seen anyone mention in these comments yet is that Evan Spiegal and Bobby Murphy did the EXACT same thing after Snapchat's B round [1]. They each took out $10 million. It didn't demotivate them, nor did it misalign their incentives. That $10 million would now be worth upwards of $100 million in equity at their current valuation. Just like Secret, it's a deal that both sides agreed to; sometimes it works out better for the founders, sometimes for the VCs.

[1] http://www.cnet.com/news/snapchat-founders-reportedly-pocket...
try and architect off those EBS volumes

Yeah, that has been a work in progress for a long time. FWIW, I started using piops volumes when they were the only SSD option available -- they beat the crap out of spinning ephemeral disks.
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