skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Of course they have a choice. It's not very princinpled to sell your children's online privacy in exchange for some "grant" money going to an oppressive-dictatorship supporting company like BlueCoat.

(Also it's possible can do server address based blocking without MITM)
Melting permafrost exposes ancient organics. I wonder if ancient plants or microorganisms can revive because of this? Or ancient viruses/deceases?
Or you know, polluting with vast quantities of SOX. You're dreaming too big, and not dirty or dumb enough.
>I can't imagine why you wouldn't want navigational assistance.

Most navigational aids are terrible at picking good routes to places outside a few very highly trafficked city.

Sure it might pick a good route if you just want shortest distance or least time but if you're willing to add 10sec to avoid a shitshow intersection you're gonna have to do that yourself.
What brought you to botting on Wikipedia?
Chlorine. Just Chlorine.
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I recommend that you read Brad Stone's new book on Uber and Airbnb. You'd get a sense of how much Uber means to Travis. In my opinion, the last thing he'd do is to step down (I am not making a comment whether he should or shouldn't—it's just something that I clearly don't see happening voluntarily.)
I think the idea of "victim-blaming" has morphed into its own beast. We're so scared of doing it that asking for evidence or asking critical questions is now in a weird way associated with victim blaming. Everyone in this thread who's said what you said has ipso facto gotten downvoted.

I find myself suspicious of this new culture of "standing together in solidarity," "letting vulnerable people tell their narratives," "being supportive," etc. These all sound like perfectly upstanding things to do, but nowadays they dominate discourse. Facts, reason, and inquiry are now considered oppressive.

I've met some people who have asked, why is this a problem? Who cares if a couple people make things up, when there are so many people hurting out there? Well, people who make things up make real stories less believable. And it incentivizes victimhood, which nowadays carries with it the reward of not having to engage in debate, because anyone who voices doubt is considered a monster. Someone earlier got flagged for saying what you said. Not just downvoted so his post would be light gray, but flagged so his post would disappear.

And really, at the end of the day, what can trigger-happy moral outrage accomplish that a quiet sense of justice backed by reason, fairness, and determination can't?
I've used navigation apps that do this on iPhone, but the navigation portion of the app didn't realize I was in the tunnel, so it kept telling me to make turns on surface roads...
You do understand that exponential growth is mandated by our system of government? The government sets growth targets as a matter of policy, and to meet this growth target it inflates the currency, (key concept: inflation is a policy, not a rule of the universe) to stimulate economic activity. You don't have a choice to not participate in this.
Really a nice article and I especially liked the finish when he mentions Douglas Rushkoff's latest book 'Throwing Rocks at the Google Bus' that is largely a prescription for building new types of companies and organizations with more stability and robustness - similar to advice offered up in Nassim Taleb's book 'Antifragile'

Edit: a short video where Rushkoff summarizes the big ideas in his new book: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mAOyOULWKUo - recommended!
So it could all have been avoided if they'd made it unnecessary to identify oneself and paired app with toy via decent public key encrypted communications. I think the toy is a good idea, it just had a shit implementation.
I don't think Uber should go down but the guilty must be punished even the CEO if found guilty shouldn't be spared.
Joe Rogan had Niel degrasse Tyson on for a talk (2 hours)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PhHtBqsGAoA

I was quite surprised when he said we close ourselves off from space travel because of the garbage heap floating around us (at around 1:45 of the video).

NASA Orbital Debris Program

https://www.orbitaldebris.jsc.nasa.gov/
I think the blue lights only show when its connected. You would get pretty red lights
He does admit that there was a Google accusation.
I meant the San Francisco offices. I think this office is something like half (corrected) Asian American. I thought about this a bit more and it makes even less sense.

I have worked for a number of old generation US companies and some were a part of the military-industrial complex. The employee population in them was significantly biased to the right (white, male, middle aged), up to the point that it would be "Trump crowd" today. Yet, I have never heard anything like this. Uber as any other tech company is full of younger and more liberal people. So this particular allegation (open expressions of racism towards Asian Americans) just seems extremely unlikely.

Unless... Well, there are indeed some countries that are culturally very casually racist. Ex-USSR comes to mind. Yet, even ex-USSR crowd is not that stupid and by now there enough self awareness to not say things like this out loud.

This is fishy.
And, shortly thereafter, mass extinction of the human race and most other multicellular life.
>Even if you are the victim of an accident, there's a decent chance that there is something you could have done to avoid it.

Sounds like a politically correct way of saying "you screwed up but the other guy had a 51% chance to do something that would have avoided the outcome but you had 49%."

Kind of like how in 100% of "oops I missed my turn" rear ending the second guy pays but the first guy deserves to be slapped for doing something dumb.

FWIW I agree with you on following GPS instructions being far from the optimum.
I think the idea is to use advertising and finance to capture all the profits from brick and mortar corporations. Similar to a comment I saw from someone that worked at a stodgy old fabric manufacturer. They paid Oracle more in the last ten years for licensing than profits in the last 100.
dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13747414

PS: Thanks for clearing the tracking part of the URL, but you deleted an f at the end of the identification part

Your version: c6d6541e632

Correct version: c6d6541e632f
> It sounds like a perfectly reasonable behaviour if the goal is to "fail closed", to provide more security in a fashion similar to a whitelist.

This reminds me of firewalls that weaken security by filtering unrecognized HTTP headers: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12655180
Empires need a reason for expanding. If the inside is the same as the outside, there is absolutely no reason at all for the empire to expand or to exist at all. Most imperialistic nations also come with a nationalistic sense of exceptionalism.

While the Chinese might have a sense of exceptionalism, Americans also do, as well as many other countries.
The Chinese have objectively received many humiliations historically and it is understandable if they do not feel good about it: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Century_of_humiliation
The accusation of racism in another nation or culture is often a symptom of racism and ignorance in the accuser.

I.e. A western person claiming Russia or China to be racist and sexist (based on nothing else than that "everyone knows that") shows that this western is themself a racist because they hold prejudice views against hundreds of millions, or billions, of people of a certain ethnic background.
I don't mean to suggest this is something Amazon would bring to market using an Echo. I mean do you really need Amazon/Apple/Microsoft/Google levels of hardware to run a voice interface for an individual's digital assistant?

Is it feasible to install hardware with the capability of Alexa in the standard user's home?

I think the answer to that is probably "yes", more or less. Some things may be a bit harder to do but I don't see why I need a huge black box in the sky to parse my voice or do some geolocation.
The thing is that right now, there's zero evidence that even the best driverless car using modern (as in, not future) technology makes is safer than a decent driver.

The only driverless car on the road now in the hands of users is the Tesla, and it's gotten into its share of accidents.

Now, we're talking about a driverless car written by a company that tries to skirt laws.

You think it's going to be so safe?
No, I'm highlighting that nicky0's phrasing over-generalises.
Not if it is configured to connect to a server in your home with all the data it needs to function.
Apple is in a good position to do this. Unfortunately, they keep paring down their product line and I could reasonably see them dropping the Airport products.

Maybe the OpenVPN guys can do it? They've got clients for every platform and seem to be present in some consumer-grade routers. Infrastructure-wise, iOS has on-demand VPN capability and I'm sure Android does too.

All the pieces are there, the only thing it needs (as though it's a simple problem - it's not) is someone to wrap it up in a slick and easy-to-use interface.
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Agree. I've lived both places. Clearly, NYC has more slippery characters. /bash
Embedded FPGAs Come of Age
Snap expects some IPO investors to make year-long commitments
"Self-driving vehicles will be bad for American city development"

Cities don't have rights. Why are you equating "good for cities" with absolute good?

"and reinforce existing patterns of inefficiency, waste, and self-segregation."

What you call "inefficiency, waste, and self-segregation" other people call "living the lifestyle they want, having a nice yard, and being able to raise their kids away from the dirt, crime, and horrible schools found in the cities".

Efficiency is not the end goal of human life.

If we were really after maximum efficiency, we could have everyone sleep in bunks (maybe even hot-bunk it with three shifts) and eat all their meals in communal chow halls.

But we don't. Why is that, do you suppose?
Chinese people have been discriminated against for so many years since 1840s, yes, we Chinese people are racists, please keep a distance with China. Do not let China be infected by political correctness and "holy war". When extremists attack your noble Westerners, they are terrorists, but when they attack the Chinese people they become "freedom fighters". interesting, lol
Bushnell is one of my all-time heroes. He struck the motherlode with Atari, and then parlayed that success into a bunch of different ventures that were way ahead of their time, most of which failed spectacularly, none of which failed spectacularly enough to dissuade him from pressing on to the next thing.

I truly believe he is as much a visionary as Steve Jobs ever was, the difference being that Jobs had the patience to wait for technology to catch up to his vision, whereas Bushnell did his level best to invent it.
And this, is why the current US president scares the shite out of me. There are a bunch of jobs with a breadth and depth requirement where this is the reality. The first people liars lie to are themselves. (and I'm not being glib- I've done a heap of fraud cases)
How does that person ask for help? Not knowing their limits of competence.
Site built on pure JavaScript (React) shows why it's a bad idea
Probably, yes. It's looking more and more like 'The Great Filter' hypothesis is valid, and the filter is in our relatively near future. That said, I'm sure tardigrades, bacteria, plenty of fungi and the like won't even notice.
I'm Chinese American. I won't claim to represent everyone and everything Chinese, here are my two cents.

China is what happens when you enclose a really big population in a box. And this box is really comfortable; you have little incentive to go outside of it. You have the company of millions of other Chinese folk, and Chinese culture and its derivatives (to this day many of us see Korea and Japan as copies of Chinese culture) can entertain us indefinitely. The average Chinese has little incentive to run off and seek interaction with other races, other bits of culture. I suspect (but might be wrong) language barriers also play a role in this.

Even today in places outside China, you can notice how Chinese will naturally gravitate toward each other into little "bubble" communities. The fact that there are just so many of us makes this very easy. I know other cultures do this as well, but like I said, we have the population advantage.

Chinese are racist because we have very limited experience with other, non-East Asian cultures. Oftentimes you will see Chinese follow straightforward stereotypes regarding ethnicity. For example, Chinese attitudes toward blacks easily stem from what they see in the news or media (Movies, crime reports, etc.). Confirmation bias does play a bit in here: Chinese culture already has a pretty simple ideal in which darker-skinned people are unfortunately shafted and considered undesirable.

When it comes to history, Chinese people again suffer from the box-syndrome - many are proud and fervently study Chinese history, and thus barely scrape the surface of world history. My immigrant father could recite many Chinese emperors by name, but knows nothing about American, European, even Japanese history (except WW2, of course). One thing I found interesting was that my dad is totally fine describing the brutality of ancient and medieval Chinese rulers, but as we get closer to the present, the spotlight turns to Japan and then things get quieter. Even today he watches media pretty much exclusively on Chinese apps - no Youtube, etc. I can tell there's so much there for him, he has no incentive to look elsewhere.
>environment was not that much different than today

Okay, mate.
Don't change the subject. Explain how consciousness arises, and describe an experiment that replicates it.
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Even simple tls handshake filtering is broken with BlueCoat's implementation.
I have some ideas for a more strict but more user friendly household firewall device and corresponding UI, if something really really needs the Internet.

But your lights, TV, etc. don't live in an Amazon datacenter.
> * The internet was supposed to democratize this stuff. We have people like Balaji Srinivasan saying the FDA should be replaced with Yelp for drugs. Why isn't Glassdoor more effective? Why wasn't Uber's toxic work culture public knowledge, gorgeously pinned to the top of Google's search results, long before Susan or Amy started interviewing?

"The internet" as a decision making body rewards the loudest, most obnoxious, easiest to use, quickest to strong arm someone into joining its network. Not the most just, or best for its own well being.
one of the linked to articles has the following excerpt:

"Most jobs are never available publicly, just like most worthwhile candidates are not available publicly (see here). Information about the position travels at approximately the speed of beer, sometimes lubricated by email."

How does interviewing.io plan to attack this problem? I recently have had a lot of trouble getting placed - through one of interviewing.io's competitors (still not employed), but am now somewhat cynical about the process.
My controversial 2 cents, which might be very wrong:

There is a major difference between the two countries: China sees itself as a single "people", in the sense that there is a clear dominating national identity linked to a certain culture and ethnicity, similar to other old world countries in the past century (some of which are still like that).

The US in this sense is closer to other "new world" countries, with a national identity not clearly tied to an ethnicity. Sure, there are groups who try to make the US a more homogeneous country (and not by intermixing to oblivion), but the US identity is largely multi-cultural and multi-ethnic.

So the Chinese who move to the US eventually become Americans, but Americans who move to China will never become Chinese. For China there's no cultural assimilation, no integration, no coexistence. There's not even "separate but equal", because there's no "equal".
If they'd had a Pacific test site, they might well have gone with 100 MT.
It actually IS nice when they have to patch your email server personally.

* They're ALLOWED patch it. When the org gets too big, any patch is going to break someone else's workflow. Everything freezes into place behind change management by people who don't know the full system for people who are too busy to read every sub-organization's change management announcements.

* They WILL patch it. They know you, your boss knows their boss, you all matter. In a large company the individual asking for a change is an idiot, and annoyance, and a nobody- no matter how smart the change is.

* They CAN patch it. In the small IT org, there isn't room for someone who doesn't know what they're doing. In the large IT org, there is room for enough people who aren't technical to hide out they can start hiring their friends and crowd out all technical skill, while maintaining a thick smoke screen that diffuses all responsibility.
Oh of course, but I wonder if by the time you'd created that system, you'd feel the result was worth it? Is what Echo offers really so valuable you'd go through the trouble? I wouldn't.
A VLIW doesn't "work on multiple, related thunks in parallel" but instead works on multiple instructions from a stream. What the GP is talking about would be something that can parralelize across function calls or loop iterations and there's now way in a conventional VLIW to do that since each loop iteration contains the same instructions.
I like this idea.

I honestly think most of the pieces are there. My old router, an ASUS RT-AC56U, has an OpenVPN server built in. It also supports dynamic DNS through an Asus-provided service. iOS (and probably Android) supports VPN-on-demand.

This is basically all of the infrastructure needed to do what you suggest.

The only piece missing is the easy-to-use provisioning/management piece.
> even universal use of IVF would not deliver more than maybe 4.5 IQ points

That still doubles the number of people in your population with a 130+ IQ. Assuming baseline 100 mean and 15 std dev.
A friend sent me a link to this - nice work, and I happen to be intermittently working on a very similar (and unfortunately similarly named) project - https://github.com/jarfa/ML_from_scratch/. Check my commit history if you suspect me of copying you ;)

I don't think I'll be implementing as many algorithms as you though, I should force myself to work on more projects outside my comfort zone.
The obvious is that they could go to places with similar culture. Syrians could go to numerous nearby Muslim nations, particularly Iran. Camps are not needed; these countries can offer citizenship just as well as Sweden does.

The other option I suppose is what Israel does, meeting the minimum treaty obligation: Israel has a refugee camp. It turns out that many refugees are uninterested in going there. This suggests that they aren't really all that fearful.
This is pretty neat. What is the competition, do there exist other "browser VNC" style stacks?
I'm definitely not on Uber's side in this and would not be surprised if it's completely true, but is there clear evidence that Travis is the root of the problem? I see that HR doesn't want to fire people he's fond of, but is that on orders from Travis himself?

I think he probably should resign anyway just as a good faith gesture, but I'm curious how culpable he is personally.
I was super excited to play with this tonight but sadly it appears the Borland C++ URL is giving 404s.

EDIT: Found Turbo C++ 3.0 and TASM and these work just fine!
I wish the North Koreans would get that memo.
> I know it's a cliche that bullies are always deeply insecure. I think that is the case for workplace bullies too. The brash, over-confident, aggressive act that these people put on works to help them find out who they can victimize.

I just don't agree with this thinking. Thinking that insecurity drives aggression ignores the simple fact that aggression is aggression. It's applying a victim card on top of asshole behavior.
I do the same. I have experimented with various solutions. Currently using haproxy. This also fixes problems with clients that are, thankfully, not SNI-capable.
The bear could have something as powerful as a $9 CHIP inside that could handle all of the storage/playback/approval/etc needs. The only thing missing is the remote access, which should be solved at a different place in the network.
Although I mostly agree with your comment, I find the subtext of it (and especially the fact that you had to put "racism" in quotes, as if Chinese prejudice towards other races isn't actually racism) quite distasteful. Racism is racism, and "limited experience with other cultures" isn't an excuse for it.

Update: I see you've reworded your post and removed the quotation marks, I appreciate it.
That's why Uber is doing buybacks -- with, naturally, a good haircut for the employees.

While Uber’s buyback approach can help it retain talent, it may also benefit
the company’s bottom line. Using its own money, Uber purchases common stock
for 25 percent to 35 percent less than the price of preferred shares from
its most recent funding round, one person familiar with the matter said. It
can then turn around and sell shares at a premium in a subsequent round.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-02-15/uber-give...
"Hacking lives on, if you can stay out of Federal Prison, but people are ultimately more enamored with the big money. The tech press, especially. Chasing dollars and begging millionaire 20-somethings? Networking, even? Not exactly what I like to call, the Hacker way."

The Hacker way, a lost art indeed; Linus, you rock!
With Trump hitting brakes on Caltrain upgrade, S.F. puts its cash on hold
Me too. I got a new 13" non-touchbar MBP pro after my previous 15" lasted seven years until Apple dropped support for it from the new OS. It still ran Xcode OK. Why would I not buy another? New MBP is great.
Wikipedia on the Nasser expulsions, didn't know about this before:

>As a result of the Suez Crisis, Nasser brought in a set of regulations imposing rigorous requirements for residency and citizenship as well as forced expulsions, mostly affecting British and French nationals and Jews with foreign nationality, as well as many Egyptian Jews. Some 25,000 Jews, almost half of the Jewish community left in 1956, mainly for Israel, Europe, the United States and South America.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gamal_Abdel_Nasser
I suspect Elon is saving himself for his Mars mission in 2031.