skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It seems like there's significant overlap between people that are afraid of AI and those that think e^x has a "knee in the curve." It's amazing they're not called out considering "the derivative of e^x is e^x" is memorized by HS calculus students daily.

- [1] Elon Musk
https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/702534707464896512?

- [2] Kurzweil https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Singularity_Is_Near#Expone...

- [3] Gates apparently endorsed the book: http://www.growth-dynamics.com/articles/kurzweil.htm
I wonder if it's a stripped binary.
It's part of France and so it would make sense to give it the same color as the rest of France. But on the other hand the don't color Greenland as part of Denmark, so who knows.
Oh yes, I read, and I read what Bannon himself says is the most important part, which are the comments and both go into the pile as, at best, disgusting and ignorant racist drivel and more accurately as smug inane rantings.
I just read a book about writing science proposals. You would think that writing a proposal intended for an audience of scientists the advice would be 'stick to the facts' and make a 'scientific' argument. Yes, sort of. But it turns out that if you want to convince people of the importance of your idea, you need to invoke emotion and the best way to do this is with a compelling story. So to convince people, even scientists, of the importance of any idea the best way to do it is to use a good story.

Interesting, and not obvious to me. Though I'd guess standard knowledge for people in marketing and sales.
Here's a still-working mirror of the Bitbucket repository which was deleted: https://notabug.org/141243/presto.
> I dialed back to half time and am UNBELIEVABLY happy!

You live my dream life.
So where does Certificate Transparency fit in? It is definitely meaningful application, very much not horrible, and large part of it is just blockchain.
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There are also cases where most of the computer case surface is an actual heat sink and radiator. Heat pipes are provided that you can attach to the processor and graphics card.

A free business idea: create decent looking fanless radiator cases for computers. Make them look like minimalistic furniture, not like kid's toys or faux Apple imitations.
Thanks for that thorough and articulate response! It seems funny to me that a person who works at stripe doesn't see the value in a fraudulent-transaction-free processing network, but hey, it's cool.

I tried to pick apart the rest of your post but damn if you're not an eloquent writer. You pretty much covered every angle. My only real complaint is your point that "Bitcoin is claimed to be a global financial network and ready for production right now."

Bitcoin isn't claiming anything, it IS a global financial network being used in production right now.
One thing you may be interested is numerical analysis.

You can take this course as part of your major (it's usually required, but sometimes it's an elective).

This will guide you through some basic programming and teach you big O notation to boot.

You'll also do analysis on same basic algorithms.

The only drawback in my opinion is that the course is usually taught in MatLab which you won't be able easily translate into building a small web app or something if you wanted to.

Overall, was very happy with the course - served as an intro to programming of sorts.
Sigh.

[1] "'They' are not even 'they' anymore. At this point, Opera is pretty much just a brand name making a mockery of the former program."

[2] "That the fork will outcompete current Blink-based Opera?"

[3] "they would risk competitor using 1/4 memory, loading instantly, and with zero UI latency(load 40 tabs in anything Chromelike and then try fullscreening YT video- takes almost one second)."

Again, at the time of my comment there were only 7 or 8 in the thread altogether. So... "so much", then.

If you wish, you could quibble over whether these are sufficiently "salty". I don't care if our opinions differ. Regardless, you're implying that a positive counterpoint to negativity over Opera is out of place here, and that's nonsense.
Counterparty - create and register assets. Create secondary markets for those assets.

STORJ - (storage in a southern dialect combined with startup lingo) - A Counterparty asset that is used as fuel for a decentralized unlimited cloud storage platform. Farmers offer storage, consumers upload shards of their files to a variety of different farmers. Encrypted, unlimited, redundant. I believe the STORJ company now has VC funding as well.

OMNI - create and register assets. Create secondary markets for those assets. (Counterparty and OMNI compete for market share)

Tether - An OMNI asset which is used to create stable value cryptocurrencies that are representations of national currencies. The Tether company has a centralized account of USD and EUROs, but this enables people to hold stable value cryptocurrencies, or "cash out", but not have to worry about the long delay of getting national currency from a bank. Primarily used for trading.

All of the above metalayers create transactions on the bitcoin network, and settle on that blockchain, so if that disqualifies them all because they use bitcoin underneath, then Dogecoin has a Counterparty layer as well :)
Actually, the issue (as I understand it) was that a web standard requires at least three different implementations (otherwise, it's less of a standard and more of a plugin). Chrome basically exposed SQLite to web apps, which meant other browsers would have needed to reimplement SQLite in order for WebSQL to become a standard. That said, I do wish they had gone the SQL route vs NoSQL.
> Only in the wet dreams of California ultra liberals

why would they want Zuckerberg?
Compsci 101. Garbage in, garbage out.
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They have a VR app and produce some of the best content for cardboard, in my opinion.

But all that aside, recreating print on the web isn't an answer, in my opinion. Leveraging what makes the platform unique[0] will be what ultimately separates some of the billions (trillions?) of written words on the web.

[0]: http://www.nytimes.com/projects/2012/snow-fall/#/?part=tunne...
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That piece of advice will save you more heartache than pretty much any other, but its a little more complicated than that.

For example, you wouldn't want to wear loose or baggy clothing around a lathe.
The democratic candidate obviously.

Cause he wouldn't win the primary.
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You've never met a bitcoin user or tried to use it yourself. Most people whose bitcoin are not incredibly tech savy and set it up in minutes on their smart phones.
How does a project like this get started / maintained? It's incredibly well done, looks like a ton of work went into it. Is it a side project or apart of some bigger org?
Alas, this ambitious project appears to be not currently under active development.

My largely uninformed armchair opinion as to why, is that the author is very performance-driven, and in the end it's very difficult to beat the JVM performance-wise. Lesson: if you want high-perf Clojure, you already have it on the JVM.

Personally, I think there's room for a simple small native Clojure implementation where performance is not top-priority. Small footprint, quick startup, access to native C libs. Still holding out hope for that one.
Nice name and interesting API: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13421321
PicoLisp is very small and extremely powerful at the same time. It has a built in Prolog...
Personal opinion based on anecdotal evidence: population mobility has increased career opportunity at the expense of the opportunities afforded to young families through staying close to home. From newborn to age N, local gandparents can be a godsend. In any family's case, which grandparents are nearby may be crucial, but if you came from a nuturing home, moving to a different timezone has definitely negative, high stress consequences in the young home.
Because they keep publishing fake news, hiding inconvenient truths, and lying. They report any and all unverified anti-Trump rumors, no matter how ridiculous, but refuse to report fairly when legitimate accusations are made against others. I used to like CNN, but over the past 2 years they have embarrassed themselves terribly, and their ratings show it.
That's what I got out of it too. I don't think the important issue was whether he was a hero on that day but whether he was, in fact, a faithless elector that viewed electing a belligerent vulgarian as president to be a rather negative thing.

Furthermore, what about Trumps oft repeated claims of "losing so many friends on 9/11" and after pressed, decided to not ever mention it again. Perhaps not stolen valor but stolen sympathy nonetheless.
More like http://quetzalcoatal.blogspot.com/search/label/mailnews
Because of stories like this I am generally against publicly praising individual employees. Whenever you do that there is gonna be somebody who did something great you don't know about and aren't praising. There might even be people who think that what the person you are praising did something bad. I remember a all-hands meeting where somebody got praised for working all weekend. Later in private several people were disgruntled and claimed the person only had to do so because they had messed it up before despite being told to use a different approach repeatedly.

Just praise people in private, actually trust them and listen to them and reward them accordingly comes compensation time.
Yeah I just read their HR document yesterday and I really like how the company culture is described on paper.
In my opinion, 538 did some of the best analytics work in the 2016 election. They were the only ones who came anywhere close to property estimating the chances of the outcome that actually occurred, and they were one of only a couple models who took sufficiently seriously how unusual things were - particularly, the massive unpopularity of both candidates.

I'm getting really irritated with people (in this thread and other) attacking 538 along partisan or personal lines for not making the same predictions they did personally. 538 made a model, not a poll; they are only ever as good as the polls they represent, and even then, they still managed to be better than quite a lot of public polling and commentary. If Hillary Clinton had won, the same kinds of people on the other side would be attacking 538 for being too bullish on Trump.

The worst part is that a lot of this is predicated on the idea that giving something a 1 in 3 chance is the same as saying it'll never happen, when it's almost the opposite. There are some critical misunderstandings of statistics going on here, on all sides.
> sort-of like Clojure, but not all the way,

I tend to agree... but doesn't 'all the way Clojure' imply at least some exposure of an underlying runtime, be it either Java (Clojure) or JavaScript (ClojureScript)?

I'm admittedly a bit behind the curve wrt the latest developments in the Clojure along these lines.
Good recruiters (there are some!) won't do that. And will only get paid when you're hired.
Good.

I wish that he would just pardon her, though. I don't want the next administration to somehow undo this.
I'm pretty sure 538 were the only ones not predicting a strong EC victory for Hillary. And they kept mentioning how terrible the polls were in Wisconsin and Michigan, and that they had to interpolate based on national polls. And in the popular vote Hillary won by a landslide.

So this is a statistics package by the people who best interpreted the available evidence. Missing a 66% confidence forecast happens 1 out of every 3 times, it's not a big miss.
There's a point where salary stops meaning increased consumption, and starts meaning increased control - not control in the narrow sense that "Rich vs King" discusses, but in the broader sense of being able to push your ideas.

Want to cure polio, go to Mars, put LED lighting in every home in Africa, fund research into fusion reactors, build flying cars, or push VR into the mainstream? You'd better have some cash.
Mozilla talked about why they didn't support it here: https://hacks.mozilla.org/2010/06/beyond-html5-database-apis...
Most of these discussions revolve around when and how sufficiently intelligent AI will be available to revolutionize society, but what about the hardware? As in, is there a limit to our ability to design and create (cost-effectively) the mechanical and other physical components that are required for building the precise robots and other machines of this automated future? At what point do we hit a physical limit of cost prohibitive machinery for full automation?

I'm not sure what "full automation" really entails, but those who envision to inevitable automation future don't really explain it either. Everyone focuses on the software without considering if there may be limits to the hardware, and by that I don't just mean the computing machines but everything in meatspace.
That would make me a data scientist, but I do not think I am and still have to learn a few tricks from this guy (and others).
Campfire horror story time! Back in 2009 we were outsourcing our ops to a consulting company, who managed to delete our app database... more than once.

The first time it happened, we didn't understand what, exactly, had caused it. The database directory was just gone, and it seemed to have gone around 11pm. I (not they!) discovered this and we scrambled to recover the data. We had replication, but for some reason the guy on call wasn't able to restore from them -- he was standing in for our regular ops guy, who was away on site with another customer -- so after he'd struggled for a while, I said screw it, let's just restore the last dump, which fortunately had run an hour earlier; after some time we were able to get a new master set up, though we had lost one out of data. Everyone went to bed around 1am and things were fine, the users were forgiving, and it seemed like a one-time accident. They promised that setting up a new replication slave would happen the next day.

Then, the next day, at exactly 11pm, the exact same thing happened. This obviously pointed to a regular maintenance job as being the culprit. It turns out the script they used to rotate database backup files did an "rm -rf" of the database directory by accident! Again we scrambled to fix. This time the dump was 4 hours old, and there was no slave we could promote to master. We restored the last dump, and I spent the night writing and running a tool that reconstructed the most important data from our logs (fortunately we logged a great deal, including the content of things users were creating). I was able to go bed around 5am. The following afternoon, our main guy was called back to help fix things and set up replication. He had to travel back to the customer, and the last things he told the other guy was: "Remember to disable the cron job".

Then at 10pm... well, take a guess. Kaboom, no database. Turns out they were using Puppet for configuration management, and when the on-call guy had fixed the cron job, he hadn't edited Puppet; he'd edited the crontab on the machine manually. So Puppet ran 15 mins later and put the destructive cron job back in. This time we called everyone, including the CEO. The department head cut his vacation short and worked until 4am restoring the master from the replication logs.

We then fired the company (which filed for bankruptcy not too long after), got a ton of money back (we threatened to sue for damages), and took over the ops side of things ourselves. Haven't lost a database since.
Because the UK was a (or even the) driving force behind that attempt, so Ms. May would probably be very happy to sign a quickly-relabelled draft - just s/EU/UK/g and off you go. After all, she will need a quick victory after the breakup, and a TTIP clone would be an easy one. TTIP drafts were always pretty unbalanced towards US interests, so Mr. Trump should be quite happy to sign it as well.

It would be very ironic, in the Morrissette sense: the spectre of TTIP ratification was used by Brexit supporter in the referendum campaign as a reason to leave the EU, and now we could end up being the only country that actually signs it.
its going to be fun when the banks and governments are issuing credit on blockchain assets, it is going to be a MESS when they go insolvent after the heist of their collateral.

2028? 2035? what year you guys think that'll happen
I have spoken to SFMTA staff about this as well.

There are a few more details, mostly that this whole problem started when the agency tried to save $1M in their IT budget.

This is what happens when an org focuses on giving away free rides instead of running their business. Free rides for youth and seniors, formally subsidized by Google, cut into budgets like this that impact the entire system. IIRC it is a $10M+ budget item.

I would say paying the $1M for the upgrades up front would have been a better insurance policy; having NB down for 6-8 weeks is not only embarrassing but unacceptable.

The real time arrival system is out for bid now. One of the requirements is to allow riders to know how full the next vehicle is(!).
All this time I've been looking for something similar, and that one hasn't come up. But so far, it's my favorite. Thanks for sharing that!
I don't mind either syntax, but what's essential is an editor that highlights balancing parens, etc.
Can you give some examples of things they have published which are fake, or lies that have been exposed? Most of the cases where people have claimed this, it's been due to a critical failure to read the reporting CNN actually did.

For instance, in the recent case where Buzzfeed released a massively unsubstantiated intelligence "dossier," CNN reported that Buzzfeed had done it and that it had been given to Trump and Obama in a briefing. Those two pieces of information are important and valid to report. CNN never said the document was accurate and didn't itself publish it specifically because it's not verifiable. How is that "fake news?"

Edit: You also did not answer my second question.
Yes, it seems very cowardly and very much passing the buck and doesn't acknowledge that what she did was justified at all, just that mercy was granted.
I highly recommend visiting 21.co. They develop for some time technology to easily charge/collect/pay bitcoin on every HTTP request in the 21 Marketplace.

They have cool (afaik opensource) technology using standard HTTP Response 402 "Payment Required" - yeah, there is such thing :)

Nice initial set of demos and information: https://21.co/features/

Disclaimer: I'm not author/founder/investor/bitcoin evangelist. I just like what they try to do.
You are confusing 2 meaning of motivations:

- the one meaning "the stuff that will get you involved";
- the one meaning "the stuff that you'll want to get".

The first one will drive you enthusiasm to work, your professionalism, the quality of what your produce and your loyalty. It's a "motor" kind of motivation, and money can't buy it. Only a sense of purpose can.

The second one is just bound to the reality of life : you need money for food, shelter, logistic, health, hobbies, then a growing family, and an evolving lifestyle. This will make you choose something. It's more a "motive" kind of motivation.

You can get a lot of people with only the second one. You can get some people for some time with only the first one. But to get the best, and for them to stay, you need a balance of both.
I hope this will set the tone for how whistleblowers are treated in the future, and I wonder what the President Elect has to say about this.
The RPython translator generates views of the Mandelbrot set by default, presumably to give you something to look at during the long wait.
The polls weren't garbage. They were closer this year than they were in 2012. They were just slightly wrong in the wrong direction.
I am going to miss Obama.
How do you protect your wallet from theft? Back it up so losing your phone isn't catastrophic? Maintain separate wallets so one accident or compromise doesn't cost you everything? Confirm that a transaction was committed before exchanging anything of value?

Almost everyone knows how to handle real-life concerns like that with traditional currency. If you want something new to get any sort of adoption, people are going to need satisfying answers before they'll feel comfortable putting real value into it.
>As Whatsapp does not send any alert of key change by default

I don't think that's the case. AFAIK WhatsApp does warn people about key changes with this warning message by default: https://cldup.com/QdUQmjJoF9.png

In fact working with software, at least once a month someone will ask me "Hey, what is this 'Security code has changed' message that pops up every so often about? Do I need to worry about it?"
It depends on the jurisdiction, sure. But in this case the jurisdiction was California, the most pro labor state in the US.

I don't believe their lawyers or the companies are incompetent. I believe that they were actively malicious.

They thought that the legal costs of getting caught and losing the lawsuit, or settling, would be less than following the law, so they actively chose to take the risk and break the law.

And it turns out, they were mostly correct about that. Doesn't mean that they shouldn't be condemned for it.

This is backed up by all the statements that they made about "don't put this stuff in writing! ", ect. And the fact that they stopped engaging in these practices. (if they were doing nothing wrong, then they would continue, right?)
What's the leading cause of death in non-mothers of the same age group?
I suspect a declining UK facing a continental hegemonic superpower — anathema to British foreign policy going back half a millennium or more — would not have gone down quietly. And with an overseas empire behind it, the result could well have been an even more ruinous escalation of the Dreadnought Race of the 1900s, possibly leading to a full-blown naval war and/or British attempts to overturn the post-Schlieffen War settlement.

Whatever, it would have been messy — very messy.

(However, the move towards social democracy in Germany was a thing pre-war, and if anything it was the capitulation to nationalism of the moderate left that opened the door to the radical left and communist fringe across Europe; it's interesting to speculate where things might have ended up if the standard bearer for hardline socialism had been someone like Rosa Luxemburg rather than Vladimir Lenin.)
How on earth is SlackHQ's response reasonable? Let me count the ways it's not.

There are plenty of database systems (MySQL enterprise, Postgres, Oracle, SQL Server) that support encrypted data-at-rest and there are even more ways to run a DBMS on top of encrypted disks and volumes (dm-crypt, Bitlocker).

Running in the cloud? Amazon AWS provides EBS encryption (and likely more) and Microsoft Azure provides data at rest encryption for all storage types (tables, queues, page and block (disk) blobs) and transparent encryption for Azure SQL Database.

Want more control over the encryption in the cloud? Amazon and Azure both provide HSMs, called CloudHSM and Azure Key Vault, respectively. Azure supports additional encryption at the VM level integrating with Bitlocker and/or DM-Crypt.

There's really no excuse for not having figured out data encryption for customer data and secrets at this point.

Edit: It appears Slack has since updated their security docs and they now use encryption at rest. Good! It's inexplicable to me that anyone would believe that a database index would be incompatible with encryption.
This is great and I think pretty easy to see as a good thing by all sides (I hope). I never understand why pardons and this type of thing always seem to have a waiting period though; just being grateful the right thing (As I see it) is being done.
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