skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I can see how a bit of outrage about this is how the NRA got to the place it is today. This by itself isn't that meaningful, but anything can be politicized, turn public opinion and gain momentum. That's why the NRA's position is to say NO to any kind of gun regulation, because they know that's how you ensure guns are made available and gun culture is for sure secure.

In the tech community I see people rising up against any kind of movement against net neutrality. And I do not want to see it erode. But I worry that by becoming averse to any reversal, any compromise, the communities stance will eventually be so politicized that it is just another part of the unreasonable and ultra biased political landscape that grinds progress to a halt.
> Is an O1 Visa dual intent?

Maybe. US immigration law and the implementing regulation is complex and there's some confusing grey areas. This source seems to indicate that O-1 is (or was as of 2011) treated as dual intent in that you can apply for permanent residency while on it, but also seems to indicate that you still need to return to your country of origin rather than transition in place. [0]

> Also is there a rough estimate of how long wait times are for different countries of Origin?

This might help, though it's technically how long people now being admitted in each category/country have waited from establishing eligibility rather than how long people entering the queue now with wait. [1]

[0] http://www.americanlaw.com/dintent.html

[1] http://www.immihelp.com/visa-bulletin-movement/
I agree with this too! A special laptop cover or huge laptop sticker, a special phone case, something you can attach to you bag --- all seem like better ideas than jackets or shirts or bathrobes (which I guess was also a thing at Google?).
Yea, meanwhile AMD tends to keep the features across both desktop and server lines of CPU the same.

And the pre-release Skylake server procs seems to be gimped as it's missing a few features versus the actual official release Skylake server procs.
Yes, the submission title could arguably be better. Given the bug ticket title is "mixing ({...}) with VLA leads to massive breakage", there wasn't a lot to work with.

However, the title of the submission is beside the point. All of the things you're including now would have been great as part of your initial comment. None of that is conveyed in "So?".
The advances of research and computing power are vastly outpaced by basic things like digest size. If you came up with a complexity reduction of the order of the one developed against SHA-1 for SHA-256, you won't be able to find any SHA-256 collisions.
Start here: http://www.politifact.com/personalities/donald-trump/stateme...

How about:

* Lying about his past opposition to the Iraq war

* Lying about Russia only hacking the DNC (they hacked the RNC too, or at least tried to, but didn't release anything)

* Lying about the size of the crowd at his inauguration

* Lying about his "historic" electoral win (it wasn't)

* Lying about the election being rigged against him (before the election)

* Lying about the state of African American communities

* Lying about inner-city crime rates

* Lying about Obama and Clinton literally "founding" ISIS

* Lying about Ted Cruz's father being involved in the JFK assassination

* Lying about his charitable donations and activities

* Lying about his inability to release his tax returns because of an ongoing IRS audit

* Lying about his association with David Duke and the white national movement

* Lying about his history and relationship with Vladimir Putin

That's just a taste. I could go on.
> Theft involves deprivation

Not necessarily. Theft is simply taking something you shouldn't. That includes taking by duplication. Or perhaps you'd like to think it as the deprivation of potential profits.
Or anyone with a financial interest in Uber doing well.
Tilda should not be left off the list.

https://github.com/lanoxx/tilda
See also Jane McGonigal, who has done some work specifically around those self-defined goal posts.

One reason why AI is being employed for some problems is based on what we know about human problem solving. For instance, a human could come up with a near-optimal solution to the Traveling Salesman problem in under a minute. Long before a computer could get even close. How is that happening? What are we doing that's so special?

Which makes me wonder if we could gamify NP-complete problems and use gamers to come up with better solutions. Like a game to lay out circuit traces, route delivery trucks, or organize a warehouse.

Random reinforcement (giving out not just merit based rewards but also random rewards) keeps people coming back but it's a higher goal than beating a raid boss in a game that 95% of the human population has never heard of.
You don't have to speculate, it's cheap:

https://arstechnica.com/business/2015/08/how-a-small-city-of...
who would be interested by an online website doing the job?
Well, do your research and come to your own conclusions. Most people are going to agree that UTF8 is the way to go. You can advocate something else, since you seem to take affront to my opposition to Python3's Microsoft-oriented implementation.

If you know anything about Swift, it was designed with a primary goal to being a smooth transition from and interop with ObjC so like other legacy implementations (such as CPython3), it had sacrifices that limited how forward-looking it could be.
There is a huge difference between bias and a straight up lie.
Well, a sample pair of PDFs would be nice, so we didn't have to go looking for or creating the JPGs...
There's also an "overheated discussion detection" algorithm that takes into account comment rate, which I'm sure got triggered for this submission.
Your point is still incorrect. CloudFlare is NOT playing "internet cop" for DOS. They're providing armor against it, but they're not "policing" it in any sense of the word.
This reminds me of "The Wikipedia Game" we'd play at school.

You'd all start on one random page, and race to get to some completely unrelated target page, only by clicking through links to other pages.

It was always surprising how few degrees of separation there were between wildly unrelated topics.
Think what "navigating" should mean. If it's a vague, abstract thing which could mean a million different things in practice, the answer is likely "no".
With the cloud version, it's impossible to run jepsen-like tests to validate consistency and to observe cluster's behavior when the network is unstable and nodes tend to crush.
According to wiki a bee has 1 mil neurons and 1 billion synapses.

Even if we consider one synapse=one parameter, that would be bigger than the models which learned how to play Atari games.

So I guess it's not such a big surprise.

Of course, bee neurons also do other stuff besides learning a game.
FastMail is my first pinned tab. It never slows down, never leaks memory, and has completely alleviated my need for a native mail client.

My entire family has an account with no ads and I'm absolutely happy to pay for it.
The parent post is a little hyperbolic, but ISPs are certainly willing to artificially limit capacity upgrades as a way to extract tolls from content providers. Remember the spat between Verizon and Level3/Netflix?

http://web.archive.org/web/20160405105037/http://blog.level3...

Both networks had plenty of capacity internally; the bottleneck was a single router at each interconnect location which Verizon refused to upgrade.
I still think that it is incredibly important that we make tools for validation of primary source material easy to use and friendly for non-technical people.

Tech for faking video is getting more powerful day by day.

http://graphics.stanford.edu/~niessner/thies2015realtime.htm...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ohmajJTcpNk
Could you point me in the direction of any good resources you've come across for managing sciatic and lumbar pain? I have had sciatica since high school, and it has caused me problems with employment in the past. Labor jobs severely aggravate it so even if I didn't love software it's still the best choice for me. It seems to feel a lot better the last few months but it comes back often without warning and sometimes prevents me from being able to walk.

My L4 and L5 are also fusing, and I have pain from my toes to my shoulders.

I don't have reliable means of transportation, so I'm limited to at-home exercises. But I need to do something about this before it gets even worse.

Thanks in advance~
The Civ games sound perfect for him!
Cre-Lox systems predate CRISPR/Cas9 or CRISPR/Cfp1 approaches by quite some time. If one exists for the system you want to study, they also tend to work better. (floxing the original mouse is, however, substantially harder)

I don't think it's entirely accurate to say that conditional editing of DNA is a new thing. The ready accessibility and combinatorial possibilities, yes, but for targeted conditional knockouts, floxing mice has been a thing for about 20 years now.
I've worked for the DoD on tons of stuff, from operating and maintaining research supercomputers to operating and maintaining M2A2 Bradley fighting vehicles.

The DoD is the single largest employer in the world. This sophomoric implication that all three million people live and breathe to slaughter the innocents is downright stupid.

I respect your decision not to engage with military operations, but this bizarre ranting isn't productive, and isn't going to alter the course of wars. Consider running for office instead.
I should just bite the price bullet and move to them. I've moved everything else off Google (even search), it's about time I move my email too.
I'm not a fan of javascript being used for the clicky handlers, even if the element being clicked is a natural clicky element like an anchor tag.

It's much better to rely on a toggle like input type=checkbox and CSS to visualize tree expand and collapse based on checkbox states than to install click handlers in javascript. I suspect you could make such an arrangement more accessible and keyboard navigable as well (via grouping.)

Javascript should only be used to dynamically load/unload subtrees on click in the case of especially huge or costly trees.
That made it stand out. It might not have got to the front page of HN otherwise.
this is a pretty cool project, but the title is misleading at best.

tldr; So when you enable proof mode on your android phone, it grabs your pgp key(auto generated), gps, datetime, hash of photo, etc; and signs your picture.

This could be useful in court, or any time you need proof that the photo is 'real'. As in, you were there, at that time, etc.

It doesnt address taking things out of context [1], presenting only certain facts, etc. Those are the tools/weapons that I am worried about.

rant:
Am I the only one getting tired of seeing some technical tool which is essentially trying to prevent lying or bias? Or the fact that people believe ridiculous things if it confirms their worldview? This is not a technical problem imo... Look at lie detectors. If you can control your pulse, then you appear to be telling the truth. These days those devices are no longer trusted. I feel like these types of stories are lie detector 2.0(not this one, just the title). Sorry for the rant.
/rant

1. http://imgur.com/CMykxFC
>>Here in Germany, you might be in trouble if you look like a young male refugee from syria

Can you tell me more about your experience. How did you come to this conclusion?
>I'm also sure that SHA-1 remains pervasive in many codebases

I've done a lot of security reviews of backup solutions over the years and nearly universally they use SHA1 for de-duplication. Security professionals have been providing warnings about this practice, but when you are dealing with a cloud backup solution as an example, speed and low compute requirements are a must and it's hard to win the argument when someone tosses "theoretical" onto the table. Well, we are now past "theoretical" and that's what matters.

I just tried out the SHA1 collider: https://alf.nu/SHA1 and created two PDFs containing entirely different bits of text in JPGs. It took seconds and indeed the output of the files were SHA1 identical. This is no longer nation-state level stuff and computing colliding documents to upload to cloud backup providers who de-dupe across the file system and not just restricted within the boundaries of each account could result in the ability to wipe out and change other people's data. At a minimum that could be an annoyance. At worst, it could result in the intentional change of someone's content to cause significant financial or physical harm.
Tale of two asian americans
Truly, he was a grape man.
Ask HN: What is your personal experience with decentralized storage networks?
What is your personal experience with decentralized storage networks like Sia, Storj, and others?
You can't preemptively criticise Rodeo for using electron whilst praising RStudio.
2.26.1-1.fc25 from Fedora 25
Active duty members can sue the military. The general rule is that under Feres v United States, a service member may not recover under the Federal Tort Claims Act (FTCA) for claims which arise out of or in the course of activity incident to their service. Courts often refer to this as the Feres Doctrine. So the claim has to fall outside of "in the course of activity incident to service" -- Feres is an interesting case that went to the supreme court in the 50s. He was an LT that died in a barracks fire. The cause of the fire was determined to be a faulty heater. His spouse sued -- the supreme court ruled she couldnt sue.

One of the reasons that the Feres Doctrine has not changed, even though many service members have challenged the law, is that Congress has always had the power to change the law and has not done so. In 1985 and 1986 some members of Congress tried to pass a law that would have allowed active-duty service members to sue for medical malpractice. The law did not pass. In 2009 members of Congress introduced another bill that would have allowed service members to sue. It was called the Carmelo Rodriguez Military Medical Accountability Act of 2009. The proposed law was named for Carmelo Rodriguez, a marine sergeant whose military doctors never told him about potentially cancerous tumors on his body, even though the tumors were noted in his medical records over the course of 8 years. This bill never became law. (Dec, 2011)
Nice, and you've really polished that onboarding experience. Smooth and no head-scratching moments.

One minor nit: It is quite nice that you provide links to jump to the right place for each step, but I would suggest adding images of the equivalent spot to click in the UI.

So, what's the registration code?
I cleared several hundred percent off of call options on EDIT. I did so based on closely tracking the USPTO case, its filings, studying both sides of the argument, etc. The oral arguments made it overwhelmingly clear who was going to win.

You didn't need to be an insider to see the obvious outcome.

If you did nothing else but follow Jacob Sherkow's posts on Twitter, a novice investor could have taken his information lead, done some further due diligence, and come to the same conclusion.

Or here, read document 891 in the case:

https://acts.uspto.gov/ifiling/PublicView.jsp?identifier=106...

That's Berkeley desperately attempting to respond to having been smoked at the oral arguments. Look at how the panel chose to respond to Berkeley trying to submit new evidence. The panel had already made up its mind by that point in my opinion. There were numerous things the panel could have pursued further after the first (and only) oral arguments, that they chose not to tipped their hand again.

Still don't like the odds involved in buying call options on EDIT? Ok, easy, hedge: NTLA also had call options available. To make matters even better, both CRSP and NTLA had sold down heavily leading up to the verdict (CRSP crashed by ~40% in a month). NTLA was available for $12 or $13 per share for the whole month prior to the verdict (it's IPO price was $22 or so). When an outcome is so dramatic for a stock as this verdict, if you hedge call options, the huge spike will trivially compensate for the downside on the other stocks.
Yes, but I doubt most would follow through.
We played that too, I think we called it "five clicks to Jesus (or Hitler)" or something. After a while you learn which pages will probably be very long and general and will be good jumping off places to head in a new direction.
What's the smallest file you can make collide? Could you make two files collide that are actually smaller than their hashes?
FastMail even supports push notifications for Mail.app on iOS (which AFAIK has previously been limited to iCloud accounts, I think possibly Exchange, and, oddly enough, Yahoo).
I was always impressed with one of my past IT managers at how he could "wing it" when explaining the latest services his teams offered in front of a hundred people. He also happened to be a pastor so I figured he had learned something I didn't. I asked him if he had any secrets of the trade, and I'll never forget his answer. He said "Yeah, I know what I'm talking about." So simple, but don't forget to really know what it is you're explaining.
I disagree. The hesitant feeling goes away in first year anatomy. Many doctors do not become surgeons because they prefer another field, don't have the scores, don't have the personality that gets recommendations from surgery preceptors, don't want the long residency with bad hours, or were simply unlucky and didn't match.
Yep, this is most communities are started. Either through literal fake users (sometimes set up by the staff, sometimes 'imported' from other sites) or by deals and exchanges with other communities (aka you use my site for a bit and I'll do the same on yours).

Not surprising at all that Reddit did the same thing.
What Google Hopes to Gain by Suing Uber
That right there is currently my biggest concern about universal basic income. It might work for a generation, but it's possible that many people who grow up in a cultured where work is unnecessary will fail to develop the ambition and work ethic required to be productive.

There's a huge difference between UBI and being a trust fund kid. The latter has the income to have literally anything they want. There is no need to push for more. The former is going to live a basic life, by definition. If they want more, they'll have to work for it.
It's not remotely close to $100m

Editas acquired Cpf1 exclusivity for just $16 million upfront [1], in the form of cash plus a note. Intellia and Crispr Therapeutics, as two examples, will be able to license Cas9 from Broad for their various programs for a lot closer to $20m upfront plus royalties (so far as their therapy paths don't directly collide with Editas).

http://ir.editasmedicine.com/phoenix.zhtml?c=254265&p=irol-n...
I get anxious when I've played video games for too long instead of honing a skill or working.

I get anxious when I've been working or cramming info into my head for too long.

It balances out. Besides, it's important to allow yourself rest periods between bouts of learning to allow your brain to consolidate the new information and subconsciously draw inferences and review detail. Otherwise you reach a point when you've bitten off more new information than you can comfortably chew.

I also tend to play games that involve exploration of worlds I will never experience in my own life, mastery of skills that require cognitive precision and dexterity, or philosophical rumination. I find these experiences to be a positive addition to my world and my understanding of people around me.

Now that we are seeing real potential for VR, this is about to reach a whole new level. The line between games and educational tools blend more and more every day. Imagine a war game so visceral that it makes you cry, gives you PTSD, and completely makes you rethink the wars you support. Or full job or skill training courses. The potential for video games to positively impact our lives has never been greater.
I found this to be a good analysis of the situation with more backstory than other reports on Levandowski's background in autonomous vehicles before Google. It will be interesting to see how this effects innovation in the self-driving car space.
I know people who replaced drug addiction with video game addiction. It's impossible to know how things would have gone if they didn't get involved with one or the other, but I wonder if some people are vulnerable to addiction through a combination of biology and life experiences, and it's just a matter of which thing they become addicted to.

If that's the case, video games are probably one of the most benign things that a person can get attached to. Not harmless overall, just less harmful than some other options like certain drugs. A little more harmful with micro transactions. But a lot of games offer a social network as well, which might help in development of self-awareness.
The vast majority of Americans live in neighborhoods far more dense than that, even deep in the suburbs. I can't find the figures for America, but according to this presentation 100% of Europeans live within 500 meters of their distribution cabinet: http://www.wik.org/fileadmin/Konferenzbeitraege/2007/VDSL-Co...

I agree DOCSIS has been good enough. But with the shift to services like Hulu and NetFlix I would argue that it's nearing a threshold. And even if it weren't, I bet if a telephone company had somebody as highly motivated as Elon Musk, they'd be able to eat their local cable company's lunch.
End-to-end encryption app Wire will be open-sourced
Any such ISP would be lying to their customers with a false dichotomy. The smart way of shaping network traffic to ensure consistent performance for all non-video traffic would have the side effect of ensuring consistent performance for all video traffic, up to the limit of the ISP having oversubscribed their lines—and that limit obviously still exists for non-video uses too.

Video is not the problem. Congestion is, whether or not video is part of the traffic contributing to the congestion. Congestion can be managed reasonably without discriminating against video, and even if an ISP wants to discriminate against video (eg. due to having a conflict of interest in the form of a separate video delivery service) the ISP should still want robust congestion management in place to handle growing volumes of non-video traffic.
This is something standard OS X Terminal does, too, although it's either a right-click or command-doubleclick. Terminal actually does a lot now that it didn't a few years ago.
Where in Michigan? Here's the fee schedule in my county: http://www.aacounty.org/departments/inspections-and-permits/.... Fairfax County, where my parents live is similarly expensive: about $25,000 for a smallish house.
There's nothing wrong about what I said - that investor can't block a future round.

These terms are pretty common in the valley, to think thy suddenly give investors a right to refuse other investors in future rounds is frankly ridiculous

The terms Jeremy had with Snap were different, and they didn't get in the way of the entrepreneur in any case since he agreed to move out of the way (his reputation is worth more than follow-on rounds one snap)

That's the best protection entrepreneurs have - investors build their business on their rep. No good or reputable investor is going to burn that for a single term
Full disclosure: I now work at Google on Cloud Spanner which competes with both products you mentioned. These are just my personal (and probably highly biased) opinions.

I have some concerns about CockroachDB on both the performance and the reliability fronts. But I hugely admire what they're trying to do and I've heard that they're rapidly improving in both areas. TiDB is an exciting project that I've heard great things about but have never tried myself. I think it's also relatively immature.

Honestly if I were starting a project right now and had neither FDB nor Spanner available to me, I'd probably try to push Postgres as far as I possibly could before considering anything else.