skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah, I have no idea what he's talking about.

I know that people get their kicks by pretending like Americans have a nightly ritual of peeling the toenails off the nearest poor person and grinding them up for use as seasoning, but we're stretching the limits of believability here.

Check writing became popular in the late 80s and early 90s. Checking accounts were widely available by the mid 90s. I personally know several welfare recipients who wrote checks in this era.

In present day, checking accounts are practically free (but not literally free, so it's not good enough for some people). Some institutions even pay interest on them. I've never had my credit pulled when trying to open one. Banking is a fairly competitive business here, even though there are strict federal and local regulations, but it's getting worse since the dominance of electronic payments is making bank/credit products an increasingly indispensable convenience.

And let me add that it's not just McDonald's employees who are distrustful of banks. Bitcoin was invented to help address classes of problems arising from strong centralized control of the money supply, including the government but also the [potential] chokehold from large banks. One of bitcoin's price spikes was caused by the Greek government's 2015 stoppage on withdrawals, which left millions of Greeks without the ability to access their money for weeks. [0]

While it probably makes a lot of yuppies feel better to believe otherwise, getting mired in every financial instrument that the bank promises is good for you, trusting that the government will never issue an errant levy (as a result of identity theft, for example), opening yourself to the imposition of arbitrary fees, etc., does not automatically make you an intelligent person.

[0] http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/07/07/greece-capital-cont...
The reduced-resolution thing has been a trick for ages, I just refused to use the 4k screen I paid a premium for at half res with horrid (seriously, horrid complete with artifacts and fuzz, I even patched xrandr to disable bi-cubic filtering trying to make it ok and still couldn't stand it) looking text aliasing.

I'm impressed you'd call that "pretty much perfect and comparable (if not better) to macOS with a recent distro"

Pretty much sums up why I don't think I'll ever really be ok with a Linux DE for daily usage. If that's what your users consider comparable to macOS why bother aspiring to reach macOS's perfect (seriously, perfect, even when you mirror across a low res screen and a high res screen it lets you use the high res screen at a higher size with perfect scaling) handling of any mix of resolutions.
Top 5 YouTube science channels that will make you smarter
Norwegians are buying Teslas mostly because of tax breaks and parking/toll discounts.
> I truly love the country of México [...] but this terror is too real and I found myself living in constant anxiety of my friends and colleagues being in danger

To be fair with Mexico, those issues don't affect the whole country. Mexico City is pretty safe for example.

If you want to travel to Mexico, here is a list of states and cities to avoid: https://travel.state.gov/content/passports/en/alertswarnings...
i think you have to go back to the 18th century for that. i'm thinking britain where science was something acceptable that gentlemen could do in their spare time (with smart+poor doing a lot of heavy lifting) and in particular Antoine Lavoisier in France who literally bought the rights to be a tax farmer so he could do his research. he lost his head in the revolution so there's that. YMMV.
It is hazing.
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TL;DR: The Copyright Office was a money-wasting complete clusterf.ck under the prior administration, but don't you dare let the new administration or Congress change anything. Um, what?
Head of US military testing slams F-35, says it's unfit to fly
Did you go to CMU? Just curious as I've seen your name pop up a few times with regards to self-driving cars.
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I generally agree with this point of view, but a look into history (you don't even have to go back to Hitler or Stalin - the last 10 years should be enough!) proves that "free speech without limits" as done in the US is a path to disaster.

For what its worth, there are not small groups of people running around with Hakenkreuz flags and SS uniforms in the US. A dishonor to all the victims of the Third Reich. Please do not tell me you find this acceptable in any way.
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Alan Turing suggested in 1951 to create a child artificial mind with the capability to learn, and then proceed to teach it.
I propose that relevant human behavior can be characterized as skills, and that skills are composed of more primitive skills, and in particular that being a student is a skill.
Thus, create a conversational computer system which interacts with human mentors to learn new skills. The critical skill of course is self-improvement. Sufficient investment shows that nearly any human intelligence skill can be automated to human-level effectiveness — witness: Question answering, Chess, Go, Poker, speech recognition, image recognition, stock trading, insurance risk assessment, accounting, etc.
How so? If he's found guilty the 680 million, he and his investors, received from Uber is obviously going to be rescinded. The 120 million he received from Google may also be challenged considering his deception and the side businesses he was running.
e.g. I can tolerate anything but the out group?

http://slatestarcodex.com/2014/09/30/i-can-tolerate-anything...
I am currently designing food machines, which have security concerns equal to financial machines in some senses (you don't want people to get poisoned through environmental contaminants, malicious reprogramming, etc.).

The article claims there is essentially no authentication between disparate modules, only simple XOR encryption. That seems a clear fail.

In my experience, ATM control boards (I was literally at a factory in China for these a few weeks ago) tend to be custom PCBs but there is a move towards genericization. Presumably because their designs tend to date from bygone eras, they do not use software-based approaches in favor of hardware and security through obscurity. Perhaps it is time for a software-oriented modular ATM redesign project with an emphasis on modern internal security? Anyone want to collaborate? Serious question. (I have an existing ATM component factory group potentially on side already.)

Second, to 'notice' the independent activity of any given module, power draw should be easy to detect. Again, the lack of such a feature probably harks back to a bygone-era hardware-oriented design psychology.
Agreed! I loved the article.
http://www.vox.com/first-person/2017/3/17/14950296/sexism-na...
"Levandowski was able to collect more than $120 million in incentive pay from Google"

lolwut
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Yeah, so see above... This one is 100% my fault. I wrote Byobu as well as purge-old-kernels to solve a really annoying problem. And I jammed purge-old-kernels into Byobu because Byobu is always installed every I have Ubuntu, and I always want purge-old-kernels everywhere I want Ubuntu. In any case, you're right. This is a distro-level problem that needs to be solved properly.
The article talks about a laptop team and only mentions a "power management guy" who builds better benchmarking tools, so not sure where you've got that from.
This connected vibrator's camera is disturbingly easy to hack
This is why we can't have nice things.

Should Tesla add such an algorithm: yes (if it doesn't comprise safety in other ways)

Should they be held liable for not having done so, yet: no
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Insofar as coding DNA sequences are like computer instructions in that they instruct to replicate proteins, I don't see why it can't be thought of as computational. I get that there is more to it, and I agree that vi is a terrible analogy to CRISPR, but I don't think genomics and turing-model computation are two worlds apart. It is silly to see CRISPR compared to text editing, because it is significantly more restrictive than that. However, by definition genomics and computation share a basis on logic and combinatorics.
Like in MN! Yay, go my home state.
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Though the code challenge hazing makes it easier to screen out "old dudes" who are not using the latest and greatest.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BK-tree

A BK-tree is... specifically adapted to discrete metric spaces.

There are others that have a similar principal for real valued metrics.

• Ball Tree (also known as VP-Tree) (implemented in sklearn)

• GH-Tree (rough description in this large PDF https://github.com/searchivarius/nmslib/raw/master/docs/manu... )

• Multi-Vantage Point Tree

As for the rationale, I think grouping them together is an efficient way to exploit the triangle inequality for each subtree.
Betteridge's Law in full effect.
ARM has a reference design which includes drivers.
The OEM is responsible for the final design and validation.
ARM cannot take responsibility for validating 1000s of implementations that vary in both hardware and software configurations and validate them for billions of devices.
Neither can the FOSS community.
For the handful of boards which are popular enough to have sufficient tracking for the FOSS community to take the wheel if an open source driver was available the OEM has sufficient incentive to support their platform.
For the other 4,999,999,990 LowHo NiHao industries unbranded boards it wouldn't matter in the first place.
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German corporations do quite well with workers represented on the boards by law. There are lots of ways to organize a capitalist system.
Come on.

Human pilots are legacy. The present and future are drones and UAVs.

And by the way, a super carrier at sea or in harbor is just a trillon dollar target in a hot war with say China. Been quite a while since the US Navy lost shiploads of sailors.
#1 is a complicated way of saying that almost everything that a distinguished elderly scientist has an opinion about is possible. Did Clarke really believe that truly impossible things will cause elderly experts to be unsure? Or did he really just mean "almost everything is possible"?
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isn't 'get better run unions' an option? Germany for instance has worker representation at the board level. I find it hard to believe that they tolerate members en masse dialing it in.
I also had this happen 'live', one of the major problems as I recall was that Windows XP (and earlier) had the bad habit of enabling a ton of internet facing services by default, and these services contained lots of vulnerabilities so you didn't even have to manually 'go online' using a browser or some such in order to be infected.
> You have the right to publish anything you like without fear of retribution from the government or anybody else.

In the US, 1st amendment freedoms only protect against government retribution. There is nothing stopping someone from misinterpreting a tweet and getting you fired, nor is there anything to prevent someone digging up what causes you support outside of work and using that as cause to harass your employer into firing you.
> That's why publicly-owned mass construction needs to be a thing.

Agree 100%. I would support a "public housing option" in a heartbeat.
,,While the volatility of Bitcoin has decreased significantly since it launched in 2009, it is still not a good unit of account or a stable store of value. ''

I will gladly accept his BTC from 2009 and give him USD from 2009 for the 2009 price.

Sorry, but stability is not holy grail in itself. I would prefer constant supply to it for long term store of value
People who believe magic exists don't believe magic is beyong comprehension
Does the constitution list fraud as an exception to the free speech provisions?
It's clear the comment you're responding to bothered you a lot because your thinly-veiled compliments do nothing but reveal your insecurities.

The guy you are responding to is correct - this is more a story of a lazy person taking advantage of a system than it is about "searching for passion".
CT is the design pattern of a kind of programming that - as P. Wadler puts it - is discovered rather than invented.
You're right, it is not the same thing, and I don't mean to imply that the two are equivalent. Just that we already live in a place where people feel unsafe as a consequence of posting things online.
Suppress Nazism? Lol that what our governments did after the initial denazification was the exact opposite. The early Secret Service was mainly former NSDAP personnel up until the 70s. Many right-wing groups, including terrorists (NSU! And thst's just one of them), were covertly supported and aided by the Verfassungsschutz (Office for protection of the constitution).
I think you misunderstood the scaling part. I'm scaling down from 4k to 1080p for my old monitors.

The 4k screen is at its native resolution. Anything else would be sinful :)
This is what emulated Breath of the Wild looks like at 4K resolution
Verizon is going to learn the hard way that taking two pieces of shit and mashing them together will not magically turn them into a piece of gold, no matter how many billions of dollars they spend on it.
Sure it does. A huge problem.

Here's reality: 100% of the technologies I work with today did not exist when I was in school. The only thing that has remained constant, useful and relevant is basic science, math, physics, etc.

What, then, make an engineer a good engineer in any domain? This applies to all aspects of engineering, from software to manufacturing engineering?

If I had to pick one thing I'd say their ability to remain current, learn and apply new unknown technologies through self study. Their flexibility and willingness to do so. Almost their drive to do so.

What I am interested in is someone who has the right approach and attitude for the job, an ability to solve problems creatively and a significant enough desire to learn. I am not looking for a robot that can memorize a hundred coding solutions in a month.

Part of the discrepancy here might lie in a difference in environment and stated goals. I have never worked in Silicon Valley but I have a feeling it is a dog-eat-dog mercenary environment where people are chewed-up and tossed out as quickly as others are hired.

If you are looking for quick hires and you are not looking at the idea of adding a team member for a long term relationship with the company and the goals of the business, yeah, sure, filter them through some quick "can you code this shit fast" puzzles and move on. Great! You are hired. Here's your desk. Here's your ankle chain. Now code away!

If, on the other hand, your industry and approach is such that you view people as a long term investment you really should not care about those skills. Anyone with decent ability can memorize coding problems. And it is worthless. What you are looking for is to bring someone on-board who will become a true asset for the business. I see it as almost short of looking for a partner. I don't care about memorized performance, I care about the ability to problem solve and the creativity, culture and thinking they can bring into the business.

These are two very different views. One is hiring cattle. The other is hiring people.
To be fair though, the practical upshot Lamport's work on distributed is let people try to produce systems which let other people pretend they live in a non-Einsteinian universe.

In that model, Very Clever People build a consistent distributed database which merely mortal application developers can treat as if it were a single instance. I think Crowley wants application developers to just accept nature of distributed systems.
Civil asset forfeiture might result in all his money being taken from him.
The story of public key cryptography [audio]
Canonical vs. OVH: the battle is over
I wouldn't want my paycheck in Bitcoin, but it has so far proved to be one of the few fairly well adopted technologies for handling micro-payments.
You are quite correct, she could have declined and let her license remain suspended for months while it was all ironed out. Better hope she didn't get stopped and charged with driving on a suspended license, because that just starts to get too meta - "We can't go to trial on this yet your honor, because I'm waiting on the previous trial to prove that it wasn't my license that should have been suspended in the first place!"

This is like standing in the crosswalk screaming at the cars that you have right-of-way. Truth, Justice, The American Way, Honor, Beauty and everything else may be on your side, but that bumper at 30MPH is still going to hurt like hell.
I've been alive and in the US for well over 10 years, and I pay a lot of attention to speech issues. What proof do you believe shows us to be on a path to disaster? I could agree that there are a lot of people who think their feelings should matter more than expression, but "disaster" seems ridiculously hyperbolic to me.
Why bring gender into this? People get death threats in many countries. This is all a far cry from what's happening in the article.

* http://www.sfgate.com/opinion/article/I-m-a-scientist-who-ha...

* http://www.wlwt.com/article/ncaa-referee-recieves-death-thre...

* http://www.bostonmagazine.com/news/blog/2016/11/14/racist-th...

* http://abcnews4.com/news/walter-scott-shooting/man-who-recor...
The guy in that video you linked has the douchiest face I have ever seen.
Those were presumably earn-outs from the companies Google acquired from Levandowski, not employee incentives.

http://spectrum.ieee.org/robotics/artificial-intelligence/th...
Vecna launches an army of warehouse robots, seeks up to $50M
Is believing in Moore's Law science or religion?
Nobody believes this. This pure PR commissioned article. Shame on The Verge to publish this.

I am all for competition, but at the moment, we are not seeing any of what this article describes.
Wow! --that is pretty damning stuff. If even a fraction of it is true, it looks really bad for Tizen
In Alaska, the right to privacy is enshrined in the State Constitution...

§ 22. Right of Privacy - The right of the people to privacy is recognized and shall not be infringed.

I think only Alaska and Hawaii have such state constitutional rights explicitly listed.
It's not decentralized if there's a trusted oracle.

So many schemes in the "blockchain" space fail to understand the core problem Bitcoin solves. Bitcoin solves trust. You can transact Bitcoin with anybody and you don't have to trust a single person, even the sending party. If someone sends you Bitcoins and the transaction is 6+ confirmations deep in the blockchain, you can be certain that you own those Bitcoins and nobody else can take them from you without your private keys. Not a bank, not a government, not a miner, not a "core dev", not a full node operator. The only necessary assumption is that 51% of the hash power is not conspiring against you.

Whenever you see a new "blockchain" scheme coming out, ask yourself who you need to trust for it to work. If the answer is not "nobody", then it is not worth any more of your time.
The interview process would presumably be shorter and less complain-worthy than the current industry standard.
What I said was that psychology should be used as an extension of interpreting neuroscientific findings.

We haven't learned anything about the brain through psychology we have learned about how humans interpret the brain but we don't have a lot of raw data. That's what neuroscience gives us and so it allow us to focus on interpreting the data rather than making a lot of flawed experiments which are often anecdotal more than anything else.

Again I am pretty sure psychology will be seen as alchemy in 50 years if not before.

And yes I know you didn't downvote :)
I would like to suggest that we try fixing the rent-seeking zoning density restrictions and if that for some reason doesn't work, then try another plan to further stimulate the construction. But, again, my bet is the economists are right on this one and that simply eliminating the zoning density restrictions will allow for more construction of more affordable housing.

If a developer can make a profit, I don't see why some enterprising firm wouldn't go ahead and do the construction -- if not incumbents then developers who are new to that market.
A better whitepaper than the one linked in the article, https://github.com/makerdao/docs/blob/master/Dai.md
The nVidia driver stuff worked for me about 3 years ago through rpmfusion. So in addition to working on things for the future, they're supporting the people who built the stuff that already works.