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> What you are proposing is similar to video game stats -- if a character has 10 points to allocate, putting some in charisma necessarily means taking some out of intelligence.

It seems similar, but it's really not the same. There's a comment in this thread suggesting if a surgeon spends more time fitting in, that means they have less time and energy to spend on being a surgeon. I totally disagree with this.

I don't believe there's some finite amount of energy (that you could call willpower or character points) that's somewhat consistent across people and you only get to spend in certain ways.

To keep overusing the surgeon analogy: let's pretend New York surgeons suck compared to Boston surgeons. For every measurable metric, Boston surgeons are better on average. Everyone knows this. Accent becomes a reasonable indicator of skill.

You go to a top-tier hospital in a different state. Everyone there is great at their job. You meet two doctors. One has a Boston accent (indicator of skill) and one has a New York accent (indicator of lower skill).

The suggestion of this article is to look at the New York doctor and think "What's so great about this guy that even while walking around with something that every single person is going to judge him for, he still made it all the way to a top-tier hospital? He must be damn good at his job to make it this far."

An attribute can be an indicator of value. But, if it is overvalued, it becomes an indicator of overvaluation.

When people are discriminated against but still successful, the discrimination criteria becomes an indicator of skill.

Shit, call it the Jackie Robinson Effect. When no one wants you around, when you don't look the part, you have to be damn good at your job to keep it.

I'm guessing here, but I'd bet money that in the first few years of desegregating baseball, the average black player in the MLB was way better than the average white player. They had to be amazing to get a spot. Being black in the MLB was an indicator of value. Now that those pressures aren't the same, I'd bet they're equivalent and being black in the MLB isn't an indicator of skill.
Also had this happen to me and had my parents call me asking about it. A few warning bells did go off in my head, but as far as I could tell it all looked legit. Kind of disturbed by the lack of communication by Google though, since it seems to be affecting so many people.
So why is he calling President Trump 45?

HN is a place for serious discussion, I think we should call people by their name.
This has nothing to do with the focus on laptops and everything to do with the simple fact that the new Nvidia cards are not supported, and there doesn't seem to be any indication from either Nvidia or Apple that they are committed to providing that support.

It's a strange problem, because there is plenty of demand for it, and I think we all appreciate the outsized role that GPUs play these days; to not offer support for 50-80% of the GPU market seems like a rather poor strategic decision. Particularly since you're really only talking about a team of 30 or 50 within Apple to help Nvidia, the drawbacks are minimal.

This has been an ongoing problem since the summer. Some have reverted back to using several 9xx cards (which have spiked in price) while others have switched platforms. Lacking any real progress on this, I would suspect many in this situation would abandon OSX permanently by the end of the year. And if you give up OSX on your desktop, the incentive to stay in that environment on your laptop, tablet, and phone go way down.

This is a serious problem and the only outcomes are either a) Nvidia GPUs are supported, or b) OSX is abandoned, because the simple fact is that Nvidia GPUs are more important long-term than the entire sum of Apple's hardware; I can replace a tablet or desktop or laptop, but I can't replace a Pascal TITAN X.
No MKL, just a mix of AVX2 and a bit of AVX512 written with intrinsics in C++. Working on benchmarking Eigen at the moment, which is also AVX512-optimized.
AES-GCM-SIV: Specification and Analysis
It comes from the politics sub, which - to put it mildly - is one of the most suspect subs for manipulation on Reddit. They let that sub appear on the homepage, yet they ban a lot of other similar subs that are on the other side of the spectrum. It's one of those issues where I look at Reddit and think... something isn't right.
In organizations I've worked for, we use AWS because it's politically correct to do so; non-technical leadership has heard how "Cloud" is an alternative to "IT" and have golf buddies that buy "Cloud" from Amazon.

Technical management can sometimes be persuaded, given overwhelming evidence, that competing products/services are superior or more cost-effective but ultimately conclude "we'll never sell this solution to leadership".
No, I think you're missing his point. If people succeed despite the fact that their looks/behavior make others biased against them, then it means that they must be really good.
I'm considering buying an XPS 15. Can you give more details on driver problems? Which OS are you using?
I suspect those are factors as well, but I think we're both trying to make sense of the timeline. I came to OpenStack after the dust had settled. The stories I've heard focused on how exhausting the process of getting NASA approval to open source Nova was. I can't see all of the NASA contributors being motivated by $$$ money. It seems NASA wasn't configured for continued stewardship and for their hackers to keep on hacking.

A point of correction, NASA Nebula became OpenStack Nova and one of the spin-offs was Nebula.com which folded and some of the team went to Oracle. That Nebula is completely different than (the European) OpenNebula: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenNebula
When I first watched a movie about the slavement of africans and their marine trade, I was just as flabbergasted as you seem to be about this story.

I kept asking myself: how could something like that (people being transported on the basement of a ship, chained to one another) possible?

For someone who was not part of that culture and time, seems impossible that so many people could act in such an evil way.

A community culture can shape peoples minds. A company is just a community.

Gender discrimination is real. Very real. What makes this story appear unbelievable is that very few women will risk their careers to speak up against it.
I think what you're reading is an recounting of history, rather than a prescription of how things should be.
I can only see one cure to this pervasive issue that affects every website on the internet that allows for user comments:

First, verified accounts, like Twitter, are visually separate from non-verified accounts. The distinction has to be visible on every place the username is displayed or when their post is displayed.

Second, only verified users have upvote/downvote privileges. To me it is downright foolish to allow any jackass or botnet to make a ton of accounts and up/down vote the conversation as they please.

I have seen this forum management all over the web and it's turning me off from social media more and more by the day. Newspaper comment sections used to be insightful, and now they are generally cesspools of shills and bots. Double or more for forums like Reddit. I even see it on Hacker News.

We can have open discussions and we can have discussions free of paid influence, but I do not believe it is possible to have both.
I'm no expert, but intuitively it would seem that encryption-inside-encryption would be snake oil when they're meant to guard against the same layer/attack vector/threat model: for example, if you nest Serpent inside AES for a single local file encryption operation (ahem, TrueCrypt), that seems very gimmicky.

But if the encryption are supposed to protect separate and independent OSI layers or operation steps, then it would seem to me it's fully valid - specifically, in this case:
- TLS dissolves inside HTTP-HTTPd endpoints or any reverse proxies, if used
- additional SRP-negotiated AES dissolves inside client to the process doing key handling
- final "actual" key encryption, handling at-rest encryption, and to make sure it's zero-knowledge to the storage handler

They seem to me to be guarding information leakage against very different parts of the key mangement process (storage, manipulation, http transport), and that doesn't seem to be snake oil to me.
> Sit down, look at the world around you, and ask yourself if the account seems plausible at all.

OK: Yes, it does. Absolutely.

Have you worked in tech?
This approach is probably the most reasonable. Stackoverflow seems to have implemented it fairly well.
Why There Are No Tabs on This Site
Nope, only on Xeons.
>I've heard from a Vancouver recruiter that "engineers who ask for money are bad engineers".

A simple retort to this could be "$profession who ask for money are bad engineers", for any value of $profession (in this case, recruiters).

So if a recruiter isn't happy to work for minimum wage, then he's obviously a bad recruiter.
Thats not true though
Show HN: This Boulder startup will rewrite the rules of encrypted messaging
If the pyramid was 524ft tall it would have taken at 29+% more stone which is kind of a large difference assuming they did not need to change the slope. Anyway, scaling buildings is a lot more complex as every extra foot get's harder than the last. In design you don't really build up, you keep adding layers under your existing structure that need to hold it up.
I have been reluctant to use a service that keeps my passwords for me in the cloud.

Instead I'm using KeePass. KeePass is open source and has its "full stack" of encryption available for review. For LastPass I need to trust they're doing everything right, and that a government actor hasn't asked for some kind of backdoor. It's so easy to screw up security that I'm more comfortable trusting two levels of security: That KeePass has its encryption done right, and that Google Drive keeps my KeePass file out of the hands of bad-guys.

LastPass would become a single point of failure compared to what I'm doing: They just need to make one mistake and suddenly any bad guy gets all of my passwords.

Nice feature for LastPass, though.
All I'm saying is it would be better if you knew what you were talking about. AMD has been outsourcing verification to its customers for many years.
I like the idea, but who the hell is ever going to go through all of that? Yes, you made some checklist, great. But no other lab is going to go through all of that. And in your field, if you are very lucky, you may have just 1 other lab doing anything like what you are doing. It would be a checklist just for yourself/lab, so why bother recording any of it? Yes, do it, fine, but how long should you store those records that will never be seen, even by yourself? Why in god's name would you waste those hours/days just going over recordings of you watching a mouse/cell/thingy to make sure of some uncountable number of little things did/did not happen? If you need that level of detail, then you designed your experiment wrong and the results are just going to swamped in noise anyway. You are trying, then, to fish out significant results from your data, the exact wrong way to run an experiment. Just design a better trial, there is no need to generate even more confusing data that has a 1/20 chance of being significant.
It's not about saying everyone or even most people in the US are racist. It's about considering whether a visit would be marred by the current miasma of (institutional?) racism/anti-immigrant sentiment.

For example: would you, as a US citizen, choose to visit Iran vs going somewhere else?
We announced with Intel back in November that we would be getting early access to Skylake [1]. Today's announcement is that we're ready to let more people in the door.

[1] https://cloudplatform.googleblog.com/2016/11/power-up-your-G...
Shouting "racism!" is a good way to shut down the discussion

Shouting "culture!" doesn't really work as well.
It always asks me, and I can delay it. You've actually had it force an update right then while playing a game, and without having told it "no, delay it" multiple consecutive times (I believe it will only let you delay it 2-3 times)?

Edit: Also, have you set your active hours? Windows allows you to define the times you use your system so it won't attempt to update during those times. Additionally, you can set a specific custom restart time for when it will restart.
The best line of code is one that doesn't get written.

The first question you need to ask is How important is this, really? It's not a matter of whether Angular is "ideal", but whether Angular is tolerable. Is Angular actually preventing the team from implementing new features? Is it the primary source (or a primary source) of bugs? Do you have to do complicated workarounds to get real work done within the Angular framework?

What problem are you trying to solve?

Keep in mind that every line of code you write that doesn't directly increase the value of the company is an opportunity cost. The man-months of work involved in switching frameworks are man-months that aren't being spent creating new features or new products, that aren't fixing known bugs, etc. Moreover, it introduces risk - what if the engineering effort fails to produce something that a: works, and b: is substantially better than the existing Angular code?

If it is truly important, if it's really limiting the company's bottom line or the stability of the engineering team (which is just another way of saying bottom line), then talk about how to get from A to B. But first, decide just how important this really is.
The 2015 interview at a start-up awards show linked [1] in the article is pretty interesting. Evan gives a few startup ideas who failed before he succeeded with Snapchat, how he initially marketed Snapchat with flyers in a local mall , and that the amount "his father was tired of paying" in Snapchat’s bills was around $5K a month.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R-UAjGVPFIE
Here's my best effort at explaining:

The Lindy effect describes cases in which real-life outcomes get better as one progresses down the "bad odds axis". For example, a 95-year-old selected at random from the general population might have a higher likelihood of being alive one year from now than an 80-year-old selected at random -- e.g., due to fact that living 95-year-olds tend to be people with good genetics who make healthy life decisions [0].

Taleb is somewhat sloppily trying to tie this phenomenon to the broad assertion that the relative aptitude of two given individuals at any given pursuit is often counterintuitive to first impressions. This ties into Taleb's favorite argument, which he predictably makes in a slightly different way with each new book or essay: what is often rewarded by society / companies / etc is the appearance of being good at something, rather than actually being good at it, and the pursuit of being perceived as good at something is not only not helpful to being better at it, but often actively counterproductive to said task....but if you ignore people's perceptions about what it means to be excellent, and "put skin in the game" by focusing on being excellent rather than cultivating that perception, you will be less susceptible to unforeseen bad events ("black swans").

[0] This very well may not be statistically true, just trying to put forth an illustrative example.
Mutagen: Python 2/3 module for handling audio metadata
When OP added the word "alienware"
They won't stammer. They will without the slightest bit of shame attempt to cajole/badger/guilt/etc you into revealing the information. Then they may also engage in a background check / credit report goose chase to get or infer the information.

You say "you dodged a FUCKING BULLET", and I agree in principle, but in practice, a lot of employers do this, and a lot of people submit themselves to this kind of crap which makes you stick out more (like a sore thumb) when you don't.
Yeah, I have been focusing 100% on external positions since then.
> I know that stormfront regularly organizes brigades and disseminates talking points to disrupt conversation on Reddit

Any proof of this?

I am a bit skeptical of right-wing astroturfing/brigading having happened on Reddit, because it would have been a total and utter failure, given that Reddit is really left-leaning these days, even in non-political subs.
You're so far off it's not even funny. The British robbed his country blind because it was divided. It was splintered in dozens of small states the British pit against each other.

Britain could have never conquered a fully united India, the same way it couldn't conquer China (though it chipped away at it for the better part of a century).

Regarding invasions, who's going to invade you? Canada? Mexico? Even if someone wanted to/could, they wouldn't be afraid of your personal weapons but instead they'd be afraid of your nuclear arsenal, of the largest navy, airforce and military budget in the world. A military budget equal to that of the next 10 countries.

All your guns do is promote unreasonable policing practices where people are shot on sight cause you never know if a suspect is carrying a gun. Oh, they also have a great side effect: if you ever have major internal problems or say, a civil war, millions of people will die cause everyone has a gun. Not that a lot of people wouldn't die either way, after all we've been using knives and machetes for millenia, but there's a reason all of today's armies use guns as the main infantry weapons.
This article opens talking about a novel in which a character commits multiple murders, confesses, and evades prosecution by being in an area with ambiguous jurisdiction.

But loopholes like this don't work, because the legal system is implemented by humans. Imagine you're a judge, and a murder suspect is arguing before you that they can't be prosecuted in your court because it's not an appropriate jurisdiction. What do you do? You ask their lawyer what would be an appropriate jurisdiction, and you don't accept "nowhere" as an answer.

This can be a problem for minor crimes, and for courts that are severely short on resources. It can be harder to find detectives willing to work a case in an area like that. But a high-profile crime solves all of those issues.
Taleb wrote the article
If anyone wants to play a game of "how could HN be manipulated" ... https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13718417
That is strongly dependent on the field you're in.

You're probably not going to get a job in a Wall Street investment bank with a degree from Directional State University, much less with no degree at all.
Or SHA-512/256, which is the same length as SHA-256.
The worst part about this question is they try to get you to answer it before you've even really figured out what the role is.
Yeah, that's what I was referring to. Reddit is just a very strange place where they sort of let users and mods do what they want, then step in randomly when they get too much bad press or the admins (like the CEO) disagree with the content.

It really does feel like Lord of the Flies
Bloomberg: The IT person was paid too much so he didn't care about job security and slacked off. /snark
As a person with type 1 diabetes I would like to add that, just as one has to learn what amounts of insulin to inject when one first starts using insulin with his/her given diet, one would need to learn what amounts of insulin are appropriate for the days one is on this diet.

And if you had to abort the fast a few times before you home in on your insulin needs during the fast, that is not a life or death situation.

I feel you are being too cautious. Please chime in if you feel I'm being cavalier. Thanks!

I too use a continuous glucose monitor.
And HN and other tech sites are somehow exempt from this phenomenon? With billions of dollars at stake at Uber and its various competitors, is it impossible to think, for example, that Susan Fowler had professional authoring help, or was offered compensation to publish her recent blog post? Or that paid/professional/fake commenters downvoted, attacked, and drowned out any voice who simply requested documentation, or cautioned that judgment should be reserved until both sides of the story were made public?
I despise these forms and their presence almost always results in my deciding not to submit an application. The best companies I've worked for have either (a) not had these employment history forms at all or (b) asked for them to be filled out in minimal fashion after the offer had already been extended and accepted.
The latest news on Filecoin is that it's being built on top of Ethereum: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Itb_2EMgBUI

While Filecoin isn't available yet, IPFS and libp2p have been functional for more than two years, and can be used independently of Filecoin: https://github.com/ipfs/ipfs && https://github.com/libp2p/libp2p

(IPFS dev here)
Really? Uber won't pay full price for six jackets?

This is either sexist, or an example of their obsession for getting anything for less, including the services of contractor/employees.

Or both.
We update it all the time with new items as we see them announced. It won't contain all of them but whatever we stumble on or see in various places get added when there's an actionable thing a user can do.

We've added a handful of sites today that have suggested changing passwords after this announcement.

Kyle

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The other fundamental change is that most instructions now have masked variants, so you can apply an operation to only specific elements in a vector based on a mask register. This avoids branch mispredictions, which are a big performance hit in some workloads.
I've heard a lot of theories about Reddit, but nothing about HFT. Do you have any link/source?
Sometimes they make no effort to hide it.

http://i.imgur.com/M6wAJ1A.png
"The point is that a majority of all violence and sexual crimes is performed by immigrants"
I definitely read that as "the portion of sex crimes committed by migrants of the all sex crimes".
Why on earth would you do that? There's a great chance you just shaved a giant pile of money off of what they would have otherwise offered.
This guy is Nassim Taleb.
The git mailing list talked about using ubc_check() from here: https://github.com/cr-marcstevens/sha1collisiondetection/blo...
> Even if you admit only individual meaning, then certainly there are aggregates of those values across society.

This is what I said. There is no absolute ranking. It's groups of people thinking the same thing, and very few things have a majority, but even if they do it doesn't matter since it's a belief. There is no "right" or "better" yet you keep saying advertising is worse somehow. Even space travel is far from the top if you actually look at the entire planet and that's what I was trying to show with that letter.

> You cannot replace space travel with advertising and make the same arguments.

Yes you can. Every industry makes progress that is felt everywhere else. That is the point. Advertising has moved the entire internet into the commercial age and allowed the absolutely vast amount of content today, not to mention the success of every major business that you rely on and work for. I don't see how you can discount that at all.
There is a difference between "design tradeoff" and "design flaw." E.g. I'd rather have an SSD-only machine with a bigger internal battery than use that space for a 2.5" drive bay. But I don't consider that a "flaw" in my T450s. But coil whine (XPS), crappy screens with backlight bleeding and PWM (Lenovo), not using Microsoft Precision touchpads (HP). Those are flaws. That's not a trade-off between different peoples' use cases, but just the manufacturer skimping on some part.
Mercurial hasn't switched either for similar reasons, although the format did reserve space for a bigger hash (32 bytes over sha-1's 20 bytes) since 2006, less than a year into hg's existence.