skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A very small (~1%) number of people are responsible for the overwhelming majority of sexual harassment. Most harassers harass many, many victims, before they are called out on it.

This means that if you are actually doing harassment, your odds of getting called out on any particular interaction are low.

This also means that if you aren't actually doing any harassment, your odds of being falsely accused are even lower. While you're not more likely to be hit by a bus on the way to work, it's not that far off.

Getting falsely accused by more then one person (Which is what the article points out as the big red warning sign) would be like winning the lottery. It's best not to structure your policies about landing 6 for 6 on the 6/49.
I think he's just saying you need an actus reus to go with your mens rea.
Carbonite Accounts Targeted in Password Reuse Attack
I second this! I have never done a project that I fully regretted or gone to a job wishing I had stayed at a previous job. While I have gone to a job that I hated almost immediately, I still didn't see returning to the previous job as a viable option.

Every new venture I take, I feel I couldn't have done without the accumulation of all my past experiences (both professional and nonprofessional).

Where you are is also a function of where you've been, which can be hard as the human mind sometimes likes to dwell on regret.
> only a handful of problem domains are best modelled as interacting graphs of mutable objects, and the set grows smaller over time.

Indeed, the CRUD service itself is an OO interface (send it GET/POST messages to an endpoint). How that's implemented behind that need not be OO.
That's interesting, care to elaborate on why?

On the surface, it would seem that the engineering requirements for space tend be greater than those involved for the deep sea. But you have a different set of trade offs; for example, you may end up disturbing the natural equilibrium of the biosphere in the deep sea, whereas in space you wouldn't have such an issue.

Also, they would still have to man the station underwater, whereas in asteroid mining, it's relatively easy to send a fleet of drones for resource gathering and discovery. The only station really required would be a fueling station.
For example, take the observation of a law like PV=nRT. Does pressure cause temperature or does temperature cause pressure? The questions about causality seem to be in the domain of "not even wrong". It just isn't a topic for science.

Are you saying the above law isn't science and must have no predictive skill since there is no claim of causality involved?
A couple of jobs ago I didn't give any sort of notice when I quit. I waited until the CEO and CFO (a husband and wife duo) left for the day, said my goodbyes to my coworkers, and left a note with my office key under the door of the CEO informing him that I was quitting effective immediately and requesting that they do not contact me for any reason whatsoever. Frankly I'm inclined to think I was too polite. The way they treated their employees (not so much me, but the others) was cruel. A textbook example of psychopathic tryanny writ small. I wish them nothing but the worst.

My last job, however, I gave my employer three weeks notice. I cried when I had to tell my boss I had taken a job elsewhere. It wasn't the hardest thing I've ever done, but quitting that job definitely cracks the top five most emotional moments of my life. I'm happy where I am now, but I was happy there too, surrounded by good people and working under a manager I not only respected but admired as a person. I am keenly aware of how rare a thing that is. The only reason I left was because of the company policy that allows people to leave and then come back no questions asked if they left on good standing. I needed to take a personal risk and they actually encourage that.

The point of my anecdotes is: you reap what you sow. Treat people like shit, pay them poorly, humiliate them publicly and they will quit the moment they can with spite instead of hesitation. Show people kindness, pay them what they're worth, and give them chances to learn from their mistakes and you will routinely have people work for you for decades. If more people are quitting without notice then employers need only to look at how they treat people to see why.
Solar keeps getting cheaper. People are wagging their fingers about bad financials, when SolarCity is still building a huge state-of-the-art factory.

When investing in something like this, it doesn't really make sense to look at what they're doing now, but where they're going to be in the near future.
That's good to know. I'll have to check that out. The packaged version the FreeBSD port didn't have that last time I looked, but that could just have been me missing something.

Edit: just noticed the 'sign_networks' and 'our_networks' settings. Thanks for that, and thanks for rspamd and rmilter! They're great software!
The chemicals they use to keep the animals foodstuffs free of pests and weeds, along with the antibiotics pumped into them to keep them healthy while in packed conditions?

Its all chemical engineered now, unless you can afford to buy a piece of land and DIY.

-Avid Meat Eater.
If he's using these for the SuperCharger network and plans to "gas-up" cars with solar... I don't think they can get that level of efficiency from panels spread through a gas station lot? Because that's where this purchase would seem to make sense to me, is with a nationwide network of SuperChargers powered by solar.

I'm sure some value would also come from selling to residential buyers with Teslas?
Most of the jobs I've lost as a teenager were because of normal teenage things like SAT/ACT/AP exams. Like they really wanted me to value the job more than my future.

Another thing they liked to do was change the schedule after publishing it. But it's my fault for not checking the schedule everyday.
> That said, something about the tone of this blog post is utterly repellent to me and I'm struggling to put my finger on the reason why.

I'm sure the authors of the article would recommend you read the linked piece on http://geekfeminism.wikia.com/wiki/Tone_argument

For me what sits a little uneasily is that a huge amount of this directly conflicts with the startup culture and stories of early tech, especially ones which may actually have appealed to certain "nerdy" personalities. Be it your Apple or Microsoft with people staying extremely late living on pizza, throwing themselves entirely into the project, people being almost 100% responsible for their particular portion be it QuickDraw or the SID chip or CP/M or such things, building a sense of camaraderie through the shared struggle to deliver. I agree that long-term it's harmful, and I certainly wouldn't want to work in a company that tried to make it the indefinte norm, but I dislike the insinuation that it is so bad that there is never a time or a place for it (due to leading to harassment etc).

If some people want to draw life satisfaction primarily from their work and getting acclaim for it, is there no place for that in the world?
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That was bad but forgivable. We've killed the other comment and marked it as a dupe.

We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11949754 and marked it off-topic.
Very curious what he chose for his new set-up.
Related to the wireheading problem [0], [1]

[0] http://www.wireheading.com/ - David Pearce's ideas are.. interesting.. to say the least ;)

[1] https://wiki.lesswrong.com/wiki/Wireheading
The memmap trick is pretty clever, though I wonder what the syntax is to make grub reserve multiple unrelated bytes instead of a 1-byte contiguous 'chunk.'
Not "the shootout". Not since 2007.

Perhaps that was the last time you looked ;-)
This sort of "internal" approach to AI safety, where you attempt to build fundamental limits into the AI itself, seems like it is easily thwarted by someone who intentionally builds an AI without these safety mechanisms. As long as AI is an open technology there will always be some criminals who just want to see the world burn.

IMO, a better approach to AI safety research is to focus on securing the first channels that a malicious AI would be likely to exploit. Like spam, and security. Can you make communications spam-resistant? Can you make an unhackable internet service?

Those seem hard, but more plausible than the "Watch out for paperclip optimizers" approach to AI safety. It just feels like inventing a way to build a nuclear weapon that can't actually explode, and then hoping the problem of nuclear war is solved.
I feel bad about it.

Specifically: I feel bad that I didn't come up with it. It was funny!

Instead, I ended up subjecting someone else to the shitstorm you and Nadim briefly generated. Just weeks ago, you were on HN --- unbidden! --- to inform everyone that I'd been "joking about Nadim's penis". You two deserve each other.

I'm going to bow out of this part of the thread before we start litigating a different monster in the security/privacy community.
I've found that the engineers who build products on open source software very rarely have the authority to donate company money, and the businesspeople that do have the authority rarely understand the benefits of it.

I think a guide on how to get your company involved in donating to OSS projects would be beneficial. Has anyone come across any good advice, or have any experience in influencing your employer to donate?
Haven't tried it yet, but there is this for smartcards. Not sure if it will work with blank java cards, I mean they provide the cap file and source.

https://github.com/LedgerHQ/ledger-u2f-javacard
well could argue that the work of others may give some with certain talents more time to create meaningful innovation e.g. funding research, but i guess its true that many things lack any large purpose. if people were more productive as individuals maybe that would be different, i dont know.
This is neat!

Is there also source for the firmware that runs on the secure element?
The huge down-side risk when giving notice is that the company can take advantage and fire you as soon as you give notice, cutting your paycheck, health insurance, etc. that day. I've seen this happen on more than one occasion, and have since been extremely wary of following the "tradition" of giving notice. When you're living paycheck to paycheck or close, you don't need that kind of risk.
ASTs are fighting back these days! I work with a system at Oracle for going straight from AST to JIT, with no bytecode, and it's proving to be very fast and very easy.
here is the crux, for me.

understanding the thermodynamics of gases and mechanical properties of steel are what help you build a combustion engine. i think this is the point of the article, that stepping through code doesnt help you understand why things happen.

when you know that pressure is proportional to the temperature and the inverse of the volume, and that steel yields at 36K psi, you understand why the piston shaft keeps breaking. those transparent materials and magic devices lets you watch the engine block crack in slow motion -- do they help you learn why that happened?
It seems like there has been a growing body of "bad news" for Airbnb lately. Several major European cities (Paris, Berlin) are tightening regulations and limiting short-term rentals. NY, one of Airbnb's largest single markets, if not the largest, stands ready to essentially ban "whole apartment" rentals entirely as other cities seem to be gearing up to consider their own measures.

I'm not saying that any or all of this threatens what Airbnb is trying to do, and in fact I think such restrictions will make model better and more sustainable in the long run. Still, for a company that is, out of the necessity of their valuation, as bent on maintaining growth as Airbnb, the skies appear to be darkening.
No, I'm saying it in fact has tons of predictive value.
It makes predictions of the form:

R = PV / (nT)

P = nRT/V

etc.
> If the on-premises Solar City model (front the cost of the system and installation in exchange for being able to sell the electricity produced) was proven they would be doing it.

No - this completely ignores the way the electric grid, generation, and distribution work. Just because 'utility solar' is more efficient for large scale generation, that doesn't mean it doesn't also make sense for individuals to be able to produce their own electricity.

My solar system has a break even point of 5.9 years - in another 3.4 years I will be pocketing several thousand dollars per year that would otherwise be going to PG&E. Doesn't sound like a gamble to me.
Nobody is saying that there isn't a place for that; the reason it seems like a live argument is that people are deliberately taking the least charitable interpretation of the post possible and then beating up on it.
Well said.

Although I think it needs to be pointed out that sometimes, someone is a Rockstar because they earned it. Which seems to be a possibility left unexplored in this piece.
You can walk out on the spot and should if you really have to, but it's been my personal experience that if you do then the employer just doesn't pay you what they owe!
Yeah, this decision makes no sense, AWS is not even cost-effective past a certain, relatively small, amount of resource usage. Netflix could have easily built their own infrastructure for this, plenty of smaller companies do it and save tons of money. The only thing that would make sense here is if Amazon offered them their services at a huge discount, which could be a move looking to either acquire Netflix in the near future or cripple it.
And given that "police" have access to your fingerprint and your token/card then the only thing protecting you from self incrimination is your password !

http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2016/05/iphone...
What languages/frameworks are you using now?
Excel can name columns using tables. Tables make Excel much nicer to use for complicated things.
This part confuses me:

" From 2010 to 2014 it went from about 60 percent black to two-thirds white, while the still-undeveloped section north of Liberty Street has remained over 80 percent African-American."

Is the neighborhood becoming more white because white people are moving there? Or because black people are leaving? It sounds like the population dropped dramatically with the crime.

If it's because there were 4000 blacks and 1000 whites and now there are 4000 blacks and 4000 whites, that doesn't sound like a problem to me.
One in 10^24 seems like really easy odds to beat. Basically anything should happen more often than that, right? But if we choose a random 17 letters of the alphabet, the odds that they spell "probabilistically" is less than that. If we gave 17 letters to each of the 10^24 planets, we expect the word to happen on only one star (actually less than one). It's not too hard to argue that life is more difficult to get by random chance than the word "probabilistically."

So before taking this article to mean that life is actually pretty likely, consider that an event having to occur at least one in 10^24 odds is actually extremely difficult for complex probabilistic phenomena. Who knows how likely life is, but we can't just assume it's higher than one in 10^24.
If you (or anyone) wants to help the community by pointing out that an article lacks substance, it muddies the waters to do it like that (or even like you did here, though at least your point was clearer). People often post that sort of comment to vent or be snarky, and those things impede understanding.
The person who runs it changed the interface to make it usable with touch screens.

"Why don't you include language X?
… my favorite language implementation?
… Microsoft® Windows® ?

Because I know it will take more time than I choose. Been there; done that."

http://benchmarksgame.alioth.debian.org/play.html#languagex
I'm glad I'm not the only one wondering that! It would have been nice if the linked article explained this concept.
Resolving homelessness in the digital era
The number of people who need to be on a keto diet is incredibly tiny though. Most people who are on them do not need to be, all evidence shows low carb diets are equally effective regardless of ketosis or not.
Firefox will be happy to make use of this. They've always run into LTO limitations, especially with the address space of a 32bit MSVC. Maybe with this in place and Clang's CL.exe emulator frontend, they could use it for Windows builds as well, though I suppose there are some blockers like MSVC having the best win32 codegen and them wanting to leverage that. At the very least this should allow more Linux distros to build with LTO.
Great point. But not only are we becoming a nation of renters but we have also become a world of urban dwellers. Additionally as wealth becomes more concentrated more residential real estate purchases are not primary residences but income properties and in many cases a means of hiding money. The majority of new construction in many large cities appear to be "Luxury Condos", glass and steel structures designed to attract "hot money" inflows and not targeting the working or middle classes.

I encourage you to read the following:

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/02/08/nyregion/stream-of-foreign...

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/07/nyregion/more-apartments-a...

These are in now way restricted to New York either. This is happening in Shanghai, London, San Francisco etc.
In every language I learnt in my CS degree, the debugger was integral. One of the first things you are taught in CS is how to use truth tables to determine the expected outcome, debuggers are just an extension of the whole "I expect this to be x value" - In my development now I see it as just as integral and it takes me a fraction of the time to track down a bug as it does the developers on my team who don't.

Obviously each to their own - but when I see one of my team putting print statements after every line and constantly going back in to run the code it drives me mad - 90% of the time you can sort it out in 1 pass with a debugger.
For the most part these aren't aimed at people making bad AGIs deliberately, but rather, at well-intentioned developers launching AGIs with serious bugs. Those developers will want to include safety mechanisms, and will, hopefully, be the first to make AGIs with major capabilities.

We should also be working to secure the channels an AGI might exploit, but most of those are already tied to an economic incentive to invest in security, and are already getting large investments compared to the relatively tiny field of AI safety.
And arguably that's the biggest problem with the modern web: the non-idempotence of GET in a world with PUT (and POST).
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Please step-up and do that!

"If you're interested in something not shown on the benchmarks game website then please take the program source code and the measurement scripts and publish your own measurements."

(And remember to include the license file in your redistribution.)

http://benchmarksgame.alioth.debian.org/play.html#languagex
This paper seems more concerned with near-future and non-malicious AI safety - ie: your self driving car not running off a cliff or your rumba not spewing it's dust bin all over so that it has new work to do.

The stuff you talk about is farther in the future, and a much tougher problem.
"Who are you?" is the most expensive question in information technology. No matter how you get it wrong, you're fucked.

Passwords suck. But virtually everything else sucks far worse.

Biometrics, as many have already noted, 1) aren't passwords, 2) are usernames, 3) aren't universally present, 4) aren't immutable, 5) retain the problem of having to be stored as data to be verified, 6) aren't replaceable, and 7) can still be stolen, copied, faked, or otherwise misrepresented. At the very least. (Is there a "Myths programmers believe about biometric identifiers" page yet, because there needs to be one?)

Attesting to identity is a long-lived problem, though one that's changed through the ages largely in the scale of how many people it applies to and in what priveleges are granted based on attested identity.

Absent some alternative of a convenient, replaceable, inexpensive, repudiable, and effective portable token of some sort, I don't think the identification problem is ultimately solveable.

Electronic data are fundamentally different from data-on-physical-media. Electronic information tend, as Quinn Norton noted, to deleted or public -- those are the only possible end-states.

(Arguably paper-based records do as well, though the ratio of deleted to public is far higher.)

Electronic information lacks mass, and the attributes of mass. It has no, or very, very little, inertia. It can be transmitted around the globe in a fraction of a second. Multi-gigabyte, approaching terabyte storage, is now possible on fingernail-sized devices.

Data transactions unlike financial ones aren't reversible. It's possible to reverse or undo a financial transaction. The seen cannot be unseen, the heard cannot be unheard. Backing out data disclosures is not possible.

The World Wide Web was created as an information distribution system, specifically for academics. It's been extended far past that, but the fit has quite often been very, very poor.

There's a strong benefit to in-person physical transactions. There's a very high locality cost: getting to, and being present in, a specific location will cost you. Current rates are approximately $0.50 per mile traversed, plus other considerations. Being present in multiple locations simultaneously (or even in brief time) is exceptionally difficult to arrange. Physical reality has high attack costs.

Data presents low attack costs, and increasingly, highly appealing targets.

Devices, systems, users, administrators, vendors, and more, all exhibit exceptionally poor practices.

As one comment on this thread states, "If this replaces passwords, I am quitting this industry to raise chickens in a cave." To which I respond: stay out of my cave.

Because I'm already there.
> How about that stick of beef jerky I carry when I go out hiking ... replacing something that artificial

Artificial? Where the heck are you buying your jerky? Jerky is one of the least artificial mass produced foods you can find - a big hunk of solid beef, dried, and flavored with some salt and salt-relatives. If at anything else it's not jerky.
"Therefore people in Ecuador, Kenya, Tanzania and Indonesia are all a bit closer to the moon (not much, only about 13 miles closer) than people standing at the North and South poles."

I may just be pedantic, but isn't this off by the equator's radius? The moon's orbit is only inclined by 5 degrees, so it's roughly above the equator.

Also, this is a rather meaningless metric. Sea level is defined based on local gravity, so ignoring winds and temperature, air should be at the same pressure at a given altitude ASL at any latitude. Right?
They only require you to give them predictions, not a model. So you can reuse the same model over and over if it works, and they won't be able to cut you out, if that's what you're asking.
> LN on Ethereum, where it's much easier.

Genuine question? What makes it easier? Thanks!
They also know the curator of the Dark DAO that performed the initial attack [1]. This could allow recovering nearly 100% of the funds with only a soft fork.

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/ethereum/comments/4p7mhc/update_on_...