skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Engineers have built new methods to secure blockchains that don't require mining. Maintaining a blockchain can be almost free. You could do it using an unnoticeable fraction of your computer's power and bandwidth.

To clarify, I wasn't talking about just transaction fees, I was talking about economic transaction costs: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transaction_cost
> In the short term Go may be stealing from Python and Node, but in the long term

Go is a niche language.As a niche language it will perform well in its niche, but it will never be as big as Java or C#. Go total lack of expressiveness makes it unfit for a wide range of applications.

Java is rigid, but I think version 8 makes it more enjoyable. But it will not make all the terrible java core apis and framework go away.They are still here.
The $8B Dollar iPod
Remember that processes in (D)isk Wait state count towards the load average even though they are not running or runnable.
Building a Culture for 1099 Workers
Your point was to say you and your SO don't wear rings.

Did you grow up under a rock? Have you never, ever interacted with people wearing wedding rings?

If not, fine, fair enough. Judging from your comment history, this doesn't seem to be the case.

To answer your question, you can tell if something is "a thing" by comparing said "thing" to other known and accepted "like things." Does that not make sense?
I would start with Rhodes' The Making of the Atomic Bomb (http://www.amazon.com/The-Making-Atomic-Bomb-Anniversary/dp/...). It has something for everyone, although many want to e.g. skip the initial 300 or so pages on the relevant developments in nuclear physics. And the author will sometimes go on excessively long digressions, like all about Swedish village where Lise Meitner and her nephew Otto Hahn did their Christmas vacation when she was the first to get the news from her colleague back in (Nazi) Germany that uranium fissioned.

More later, or email me (check my HN profile).
As in you personally believe, or you have read research/theories suggesting? I couldn't find any mention of neanderthal on the Wikipedia page for "troll".

It wouldn't surprise me. Seems plausible at least.
On OWebl and the State of Web Development in OCaml
libuv is for C projects that miss the joy of javascript callback hell.
http://lmgtfy.com/?q=burgle
I'd love to see this study replicated, only instead of "proprietary (expensive?) product", it was just 40% of your daily caloric intake.... in soylent.

There's been multiple studies I've seen now indicating that fasting does this, the questions I want to know are:

1. How much of a caloric intake drop is required?

2. How much does it matter what specific types of calories are used for the lower-calorie period? (ie, 500 cals of
fast-food vs. soylent vs. prolon vs. ensure)

3. Is there any tell-tale sign we can test for indicating when a sufficient 'period' has occurred for the benefits, thus knowing we can resume normal diet?

I can only imagine if these scientists are associated with a specific product, they probably don't have a huge reason to find out if a cheap existing product (soylent/ensure) works just as well as their most-likely-more-expensive-proprietary one. But it's the first thing I want to know.
I say we axe income tax completely. Two reasons: 1) even a progressive income tax is highly regressive when one considers that the wealthy mostly don't even earn employment income and therefore don't pay tax on it, and 2) taxation on income is the source of most discontent with redistributive policies.

I propose a multi-layered tax code operating in coordination at each level of government.

1) Land Value Tax collected by local governments, with land valuations determined at the state level and the revenue redistributed as Universal Basic Income by the Federal government (your SSN becomes your UBI account number). Local governments may in turn add a percentage to the LVT to replace property tax revenues. Minor recipients of UBI (below age of 18) receive their income as a school voucher. The LVT replaces income and payroll taxes as the majority of aggregate national tax revenue, and the UBI replaces SS, EITC, and a host of other safety net programs.

2) a Progressive VAT to be collected by the states with Federal revenue sharing. This becomes the second largest source of tax revenue and funds the majority of state functions, with the Congress taxing a portion of state VAT revenues to fund the Federal government. Most domestic spending programs would be devolved to the states to fund and manage directly rather than redistribute as block grants. The VAT would be progressive in that it would primarily target non-essentials (not food, for example).

3) the rest of Federal revenue sources would come from taxing financial instruments (capital gains, etc), as well as its traditional sources like corporate tax, tariffs, duties, etc. It would also have the option of increasing its share of the VAT. The Federal budget would be significantly smaller than it is today but would be free of the large domestic spending programs (which it would still regulate), as well as from pork barrelling which would instead never leave state borders to begin with. Federal spending would instead focus on interstate and international commerce, defense, national initiatives (nasa, nih, etc).

So yea, just a simple adjustment ;)
A slight note on the terminology - reads and writes of ordinary disk files technically do not "block"; they "Disk Wait" instead. The difference is visible for example in that ordinary files are always considered by select()/poll() as readable and writeable.
do you mind articulating what you think is actually wrong with the post?
> Until reading this I was not aware Rust had a CoC. Can anyone comment on the process that was used to create this, and how its going?

I don't know how it was created, but my perception is that it's working extremely well. There's a high emphasis in Rust spaces on being friendly and polite, and as a result places like the IRC channels, email lists and other online forums are extremely pleasant spaces, much more so than the average. Even the Rust subreddit (http://www.reddit.com/r/rust) is a very pleasant and polite place; note the permanent link to the CoC at the top.

http://scattered-thoughts.net/blog/2015/06/04/three-months-o... summed it up beautifully:

> The Rust community seems to be populated entirely by human beings. I have no idea how this was done. I suspect Graydon Hoare deserves a large share of the credit for leading by example but everyone I have interacted with in the community has been friendly and patient.
personally believe for sure, would be interesting if there was any papers or research into it
No doubt part of it was trying to "have it all". They wanted radios that could act as VSAT terminals (for field to base comms), data terminals (for which P25 is poorly suited) and for operational voice with fallback (UHF, VHF, HF).

Otherwise yes, you can buy (today) hardened P25 handsets with IP66+ rated fist microphones and all that.

(my opinion is that the project was madness on a hardware level: all of those filters and FPGAs were competing with size, battery life, cost and complexity)
Good to see some clarification. I can tell it means a lot to you since you've become aggressive and belittling. Don't be aggressive and belittling.
google phones (nexuses) pretty much turn it on as u hit next next next on install
thats actually pretty similar the chrome
tvs also warn you usually - but nontech ppl dont notice. next next.
> See, e.g.,

> https://esdiscuss.org/topic/weak-event-listener#content-2

> It's hard to find something fresh. I will stir the pot at the July TC39 meeting and get the committee on the record for weak refs with turn-delayed notification, or bust!

As recently as September last year you told me it may happen... but with an indeterminate timeframe: https://mail.mozilla.org/pipermail/es-discuss/2014-September...
This is awesome. For high latency connections, and migrating mobile devices, it save a lot from the aspect of setting up a TLS connection every time.
this is just a list of things that i personally stopped saying--so i wasn't ignoring boys, i just never stopped saying it because i had never started. :)

i also would have included "lame" on the list, though, if it was something i'd previously said.

what's your problem with npm though? i love it.
The referenced Bolt blog post is a bit more substantial: https://medium.com/@BoltVC/how-it-s-made-series-beats-by-dre...
The plan for Common Lisp originally was to have a "core" and a standard library. From Daniel Weinreb's blog post "Complaints I’m Seeing About Common Lisp":

It’s just too big. Actually, the real problem is that the core of the language is not cleanly separated from the built-in libraries. The Common Lisp designers had originally intended to do this separation, but there wasn’t time enough.

https://web.archive.org/web/20100706204555/http://danweinreb...

(Daniel Weinreb was, among other things, one the designers of Common Lisp.)

Zach Beane has some more information on this at https://xach.livejournal.com/319717.html

EDIT: "time enough", in the quote, may seem strange; after all, work began in 1984 and the standard was finalized in 1994. But remember that many stakeholders were companies with jobs to do, and they had to assign employees to the design/standardization work at real costs for said companies.
"Online enabled patches can allow developers to be a little more cavalier ..."

That just means that we get to deal with buggy crap while they tell themselves it's OK because they can ship another update.

Sigh.
That's nice, but why can't it simply do what latex does and figure it out so that it looks beautiful without me having to manually edit every word I want to publish in a way I would never have to anywhere else?
I believe you meant to say "it proves your business isn't as squeaky clean as you make out". With a response like that, clearly their business was operating in some kind of grey area. It's unfortunate that when this happens, the company (ex: Stripe) can't come back and disclose specific details about the scumbag making a stink on HackerNews over something that the company was perfectly in the right to shut down.

Unfortunately, a lot of businesses want to accept credit cards online with little to no effort in managing the risk. 1-2% doesn't sound like enough wiggle room, but if a company isn't using misleading marketing, is not defrauding users, has a product actually worth what they are charging, and offers instant support for refunds - then staying under 2% is not difficult. Too many businesses want the risk to be handled by external forces. If you want to accept money online, make sure your business is prepared to manage the risks. You can't just drop in the payment processing and wait for the money to roll in.
It's expanding the language, but adding such sorely needed features.

I've been working in it for a little while now, and egads is it painful to go back. Block scoping, arrow functions, and destructured assignments are all a godsend.
> With that in mind, SourceForge pledges to present third-party offers only with the projects that explicitly opted-in to that program.

As long as those offers are there ("malware" or not), there is still a problem. I can not recommend software that uses such offers to others, otherwise I need to then perform surgery on their computers to remove the anti-user results of the offers.

Making money is important, but being pro-users should be more important.
Apparently laminated windows can help.
Neanderthals died out about 40,000 years ago. Why would the Scandinavians have trolls in their stories but not other cultures?
It's only O(n^2) for each paragraph, isn't it?

A "Rejustify" button that would recompute the proper justification is an interesting idea.
Likewise with this statement:

"CloudFlare makes websites faster and more secure, but can’t suspend a site’s domain name or render it unreachable."

Obviously it can render a site unreachable (at least as long as the site is using cloudflare DNS servers) which is the point.
The Jaws theme?
Actually, you basically just rephrased my point: the argument I was responding to applies to everything from mild dysfunction (inter-generational family addictions being passed down and celebrated) to perfectly benign (similar habits regarding board games instead of drugs).

Hence, it applying to teasing doesn't say anything at all about whether or not teasing is a good thing -- the argument applies to nearly anything at all, both functional and dysfunctional.
I am not a Scientologist, but I have read a fair bit about it --not all the bashing, but actual information about it, including some of L. Ron's books. Perhaps the organization itself is as sleazy as everyone says -- I have never had any direct contact with the church -- but the ideas it presents aren't all that crazy and could be quite useful. At worst I would say some of the ideas are overly naive or simplistic, but nonetheless mostly harmless. At best, it is easy to see how it really could help a lot of people find a better life.
Conveniently computers are getting orders of magnitude faster and cheaper, while the software on them - by virtue of complexity - has an increasing attack surface.

I will happily trade a video player utilising 4% of my CPU power and with fewer potential vulnerabilities than one using 0.4%.
This is so cool.

And just going a little overboard:

What if in some years they manage to create some Jump "scenery" from Google Brain data? The progression from this would be to make videos, and then Jump... no?
A Fearless Culture Fuels U.S. Tech Giants
Albert Woodfox's Forty Years in Solitary Confinement
Ninja web browser for Android
If it's running on a desktop in your apartment, you don't need replica sets.
As have Zynga with "With Friends" and Scopely with "With Buddies" and Microsoft with "Windows" or MikeRoweSoft [0]...

You can quickly lose a trademark if you don't actively defend it (weird, considering patents and copyrights) so companies quickly get over zealous.

That said... For reasons that defy explanation, courts have been known to uphold trademark protections for common words ("Windows") even though trademark law explicitly forbids trademarks on common language words and phrases.

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_vs._MikeRoweSoft
"I'm going to give you the best advice for home security you will ever get: Window laminate.

Alarms, dogs, all of that are either useless or reactionary. The only thing that ever really shut me down were laminated windows."

Interesting, certainly hadn't heard that before.
I've seen this claim several times in connection with different studies. I believe the hugest benefits apply to organisms that eat a restricted number of calories for all or most of their lifespan.

And it's probably not only the number of calories, but also the quality of food that matters. Nutrient-dense, low-calorie diets could be worth a try, but how long could you stick with them?

Giant page of research: http://qualitycounts.com/fpcalorie.html
I have a lot of experience fasting. All the stuff that you mention is complete BS. Theres always hunger and no hyper-alert focused BS.
I don't know why the EFF is praising ICANN for not becoming the Internet's trademark enforcer. Every new gTLD must deal with the Trademark Clearinghouse.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trademark_Clearinghouse
Downvoted, because your comment adds little else other than bile.
Founder here. I wouldn't describe what we are doing as cloning Google's Knowledge Graph. Rather, we're trying to build a machine that autonomously learns from reading the web, and makes that structured data accessible and queryable to any app, smart device, or business that uses data. You can also tell Diffbot what part of the web to crawl.

Our APIs power consumer services including Instapaper and DuckDuckGo to enterprise applications like content management and market intelligence.
I'd love to see this study replicated, only instead of "proprietary (expensive?) product", it was just 40% of your daily caloric intake.... in soylent.

Why? Soylent's just another proprietary product.
Even if an operating system were provably secure in the software layer, it might still be vulnerable to hardware backdoors:

http://www.eteknix.com/expert-says-nsa-have-backdoors-built-...
Which brings us right back to the beginning - today, on youtube, you can for all intents and purposes stream whatever music you want, on demand (i.e. Not Internet Radio), for free with limited to no interruptions with Youtube.

Is it just the case that nobody knows this, so it's not a big deal, but everyone is going to know about Apple Music?
Who said anything about teasing being a default mode of social interaction?

You. You and everyone talking about teasing be a normal way that you interact and which is a non-trivial fraction of your interactions -- that's just a more wordy way of saying "a default mode of social interaction". A "default mode" is one of a handful of ways that something happens, which is regarded as a normal way for it to happen. So quite literally, I just used other words to describe what you were already talking about.

> additionally, i think you'd do well to cite your sources for the assertion in the last sentence because right now it sounds like you're both attempting to diagnose me and misrepresenting my statements

The source of my comment is partnering with a large corporation to review the HR comments by abusers fired for workplace harassment of coworkers.

Across thousands of cases, for the ones which didn't stem from a single incident (eg, calling your coworker a "fucking nigger" and going on a rant about how he should "go back to Africa" in front of the entire office (not an actual example)), the majority asserted that they were merely trying to be friendly and teasing their coworker, and they they should learn to not take themselves so seriously and lighten up, ie, that months of teasing someone after being asked to stop until they felt motivated to involve outside parties should be excused because they meant well.

I just find it interesting that no one seems able to point out a difference between their arguments and yours.
Opal's core contributor deemed transphobic, people demand to have him removed
Why Doesn't Creativity Matter in Tech Recruiting?
How did you find this, who's behind it? It's genius but searching back from 'mauke polyglot' I can find nothing about it!
Soylent open-sourced their recipe afaik, that was part of the whole appeal for many, they could replicate the entire formula and tweak as desired. There's other food-replacements as well, like ensure, which I cited.

Edit: Soylent has an entire forum of various varients of their recipe: https://diy.soylent.com/recipes
> traditional local government

Some counties don't have much traditional local government. Some cities are very well regulated, and HOAs aren't needed. Others are just unregistered unregulated cities for the most part.

I mean, most counties do provide police and school services. But my HOA resolves parking issues (including the cost of towing vehicles), as well as pothole repairs. In another nearby county, the county presumably covers those sorts of issues and HOAs are much smaller (the other county is more urban)
Actually, not eating for an extended period does have one very significant effect. It radically changes the makeup of your microbiome. I suspect that people who experience health benefits from "detoxes" typically suffer from dysbiosis, and by restricting food supply they essentially hit the "reset" button on their gut bacterial populations.
A $23 pair of Sennheisers http://amzn.com/B003LPTAYI has better sound than any pair of Beats.

My snotty nephew wanted a pair of beats for Christmas, I recommended they get him these instead. He wanted Beats, they got him the beats - he promptly broke them. Money well spent.

They're more of a fashion statement than anything I guess.
I like VHDL, but SystemVerilog does have some very nice features.
TL;DR: they put little metal weights inside of them
I use the holy hell out of stored procs and UDFs, and they have saved my bacon plenty of times.

Once you get past building todo lists, you'll end up with complicated transactions that do many different data mutations, usually along with some simple logic. You can either maintain your virtue and pay the latency price for each of those, or just code a proc that implements the whole thing. It might offend your software dogma, but it'll get shit done so you can get home to the wife in time for dinner. These days, that is the only deadline I care about.
- SmugHaskellWeenie: cabal sandbox init, cabal install this, cabal install that, write code, add ghc pragma, wtf! add ghc pragma, wtf! add ghc pragma ... Yeah, it compiles! Job done. Almost, time to get rid of the warnings. add ghc pragma, and another, and one from the top Carol and ... yeah, it compiles with no warnings.
You joke, but many terrorists and terrorism suspects are engineers...
Many Ask, Why Not Call Church Shooting Terrorism?
The main places to look are https://internals.rust-lang.org/, https://github.com/rust-lang/rfcs, https://github.com/rust-lang/rust (for actual implementation), and the Rust IRC channels such as #rust-internals on irc.mozilla.org.

IRC is used for quick casual conversation. The internals forum is used for discussion, "pre-RFC", and the like. The rfcs repo is use for actually discussing formal RFCs, as well as wishlist language and library bugs. The rust repo is for the actual implementation of rustc and the standard library itself.
Actually, it depends on the protein. In particular, proteins rich in the amino acid Leucine (such as whey) are actually more insulinogenic calorie for calorie than white bread.
You mean you expect other major codecs to be merged with Daala and out of respect for the contribution there will be a change of name?
GoFundMe Confirms Its Funding Round, Which Valued It at $500M
Dockerising Puppet
Systemd and containers
What do they record to?
RDS makes it trivial to have high availability if you can't afford a DBA worth their salt. You don't need 10x replication to beat the uptime of your shitty web app.
More details on Intel “Purley” platform
The idea is that personal computers are ubiquitous and cheap, pack plenty of computational power and storage. Bandwidth is relatively cheap as well. Running a node or a thin client thus doesn't prevent you from using the computer to do other things.

People will buy computers anyway, why not use them to run a blockchain network as well as for word processing? The costs are amortized by the users.
IMO, corporate censorship is a far more common occurrence and most likely has greater effects on society. I too wish there was more scrutiny. EFF seems to largely deal with legal matters though. Possibly there should be a sister organisation to the EFF, or maybe they should extend their mission. I dunno.
JS heavy everywhere but not where it matters
Actually, research has demonstrated that the lifespan extension benefits of calorie restriction can be obtained by consuming a diet low in sulfur-containing amino acids, particularly methionine (not sure about the other benefits). Have a look at http://www.benbest.com/calories/Meth.html for more information.
Redis is easy. Redis is trivial. Redis is HARD
I had a cheap chinese camera as a kid. Dropped it and it broke open. There were lead weights inside it. Similar technique.
You can buy a $2 plain tshirt that will last longer than a $450 Givenchy one.

People care about how they look. It isn't some new concept.
Bought into the hype early on, bought a pair of the in-ear headphones. A month in the left earpiece stopped working. Tried the solos, sounded like utter crap, no way can they justify the price. I'm no audiophile, but they also sound like utter crap.
The article mentions that you power the Bing infoboxes (or whatever the equivalent Bing term is).

How does that relate to Bing's use of Probase (their concept-graph)?