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This article is a great explainer of the basics underlying anonymous credentials. I look forward to the promised follow-up explaining real-world examples. The key issue however is …

In case you don't already know - set noprocrast in your HN profile to limit the time you spend on this site.

It's great that you slip into this mode automatically. For me, the reframing of "goal" to "quest" helps enormously with this change of mode. A "goal" is something I hope/want to ac…

(very late reply, but in case you see it) This Joel On Software article [0] is a good starting point. Incredibly it's now over 20 years old so that makes me feel ancient! But still…

Yes, this has happened. See this example from OpenJSF: "The OpenJS Foundation Cross Project Council received a suspicious series of emails with similar messages, bearing different …

With Google->Alphabet and Facebook->Meta, we can now use MAAAM instead.

Not for trains - there's a shared expectation that pedestrians should not access the track. Similarly, not for a freeway. Where some feel the balance is wrong, is at local-level st…

> If you’re in a group and talking about something factual A good rule of thumb for this that a few of my circles use: you can check, but only after 10 minutes have passed. Of cour…

They are not sailing downwind in this case - they're sailing across the wind, which is why they are able to travel so much faster.

Do you check everyone's card when you split the bill? What makes you think the others are debit rather than credit cards? For info: the debit & credit cards from my bank look almos…

Easy! People have lots of different reasons why they may choose not to eat meat or dairy. "Not liking the taste" is one possible reason. If that particular one isn't your reason, t…

ELO ratings start at 600 for absolute beginner. With a good amount of effort, a dedicated amateur can reach ~1500 without too much difficulty, and at that level you'll beat any cas…

For a very large set of people, motivation to study is absolutely key. If your motivation comes directly from learning the concept itself, you may be right that studying it directl…

You're right - though it's more about the precise timing of the tones than the frequencies themselves. The T.38 protocol exists to allow faxes to send over a packetized network. Al…

That's not the case where I work. It's a sound business decision for a company to invest in its people. Better-trained staff, happier staff, longer retention. It sounds like the pl…

To be fair, the article does explicitly call out that the system won't work for arbitrarily hard or impossible problems. That's addressed in the opening paragraphs, and again calle…

Yes - this does happen. [1] https://www.cnet.com/news/dutch-chipmaker-sues-to-silence-se... [2] http://www.eweek.com/blogs/security-watch/german-software-co... [3] http://www.secur…

Be aware that 'free range' and ('organic', FWIW) are close to meaningless in terms of animal welfare. Both give a set of definitions for what meets the label, which is then achieve…

For self-driving cars, I'd much rather your code control _all_ the cars, not just an individual. Individualistic driving leads to worse overall performance for everyone. One of the…

True. But also the pendulum of which is better (Firefox vs Chrome) has swung back and forth a couple of times since Chrome first came out and overtook FF. At this point though most…

I'll second brusch64 here. I used SVN for 7 or 8 years and then Git for the past 3, with about a year of overlap (on different repos). To me, Git is vastly superior. I tend to use …

> if you don't have the official engineering degree, you will never be considered an engineer The same is true in the UK - apart from the fact that we overload the term 'engineer' …

As per jacquesm's comment below[0], your example would, by default, be compiled out if NDEBUG is defined. So in production you'd never release the lock. [0] https://news.ycombinato…

Catch-22. In a similar vibe (but a fair bit shorter), Slaughterhouse 5. Both cover the hell of war by examining its absurdity. Catch-22 is also the funniest book you'll ever read. …