skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No matter what your ISP does you can still verify the proof of work. So your ISP's forged blocks still need the full difficulty PoW that the real chain had at the fork point. Which means that in order to generate a forged block more often than once a day, your ISP will need a significant fraction of the hash power of the whole network, costing probably tens of millions of dollars to buy and operate. Even so the forged blocks will come much, much slower than the real blocks, and that will become noticeable after just a few blocks.
Why does location services need to phone home? Or the App Store? Or push notifications? I think most of these are obvious. I am not aware of any non-obvious ones, but if so they are more likely for crash reporting or usage metrics than for advertising.
Indeed. The founder of Greenpeace, a PhD in Ecology, is a "climate change" skeptic. Or maybe he just thinks it's better for trees if the oceans destroy our coastal cities? Not really clear here, but the point is, he disagrees with the prevailing line of thought. :P [0]

I have done very little research on climate change and have nothing to discuss with reference to the matter, but the suggestion that such a person should not be allowed to express his views because they violate the narrative pushed by the corporate media is absurd.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patrick_Moore_(environmentalis...
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Thanks to all who read the piece and contributed. I stepped away for a day to rest and came back to a piece that caught fire in this arena and others (re: screenwriting audiences). I'm going to respond as able with honesty because that's how community works. I do appreciate your time.
I know that credit unions (and banks, for that matter) in my area don't require a high credit score to open an account - I was able to open two accounts - one in a credit union, another one in a bank - while having no credit score whatsoever after arriving to the country. The bank did actually run a credit check on me, and they told be that it basically came up as "no history", which to them is the same as not passed... but they didn't care, so long as I didn't ask them for a credit card.

The credit union that I'm banking with doesn't have a minimum account balance or account fees:
https://www.firsttechfed.com/bank/checking/carefree_checking

Am I missing something?
Wow, Anthony Levandowski sounds like a real classy guy. The side-projects and conflicts of interest, plus waiting for his payout before disclosing Waymo really show that Levandowski lacks integrity and most likely did steal technology (to what extent, we'll eventually find out). This does not bode so well for Uber or Anthony. The evidence seems to be adding up and we don't even have the full picture or evidence yet.
Eh, if you're not black and also not acting in a threatening or irrational manner, in the US, you're pretty safe.

Now, if you're either of those, much less both...
Neither does Navient.
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The 18 GB is for just the hashes. The dataset is several terabytes.

A bloom filter is useless, as it doesn't let you do searches within an edit distance. Basically, I use a BK-tree of perceptual hashes (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perceptual_hashing). Then, I can find similar images by searching within a certain edit-distance.

Basically, the end result is a system that functions very similarly to how google's reverse image search works.
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Nail on the head, re: the criticism. I just think it's important to be up front about the odds. By comparison, Script Revolution basically says "You probably won't make it, so join us to show there's merit in not buying into the old system" and that, to me, was a point of inspiration. The idea that the money paid could be a "Who Knows?!" type black-box of critical integrity just rubs me the wrong way.
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Hashing is the correct term here, but it's not a cryptographic hash, but rather a perceptual hash: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perceptual_hashing
> but instead of a tiny 1Kb diff patch

Wouldn't this require phones to compile their own kernels?
PDF describing the AI system written by the Author was discussed previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12235532

If you read this article and want to learn more, click that link.
I was thinking about having a service to mix a group of users' exposed information so that other parties could not figure out what a user did. Just like groups of animals do. Very similar to VPN in some way. Anything like this out there for us?
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Or the data was wrong.
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Did Reddit’s April Fool’s gag solve the issue of online hate speech?
Yea, of course private sector will rationally benefit when government is running around like a chicken without a head throwing money around. I don't want to get into the reasons why the incentives are setup like they are - that's a very broad discussion. I agree (without being a fighter jet expert) that F-35 seems like a terrible idea of near-infinite complexity that no amount of money will make right.
Yeah, it's definitely sad and ironic to see people citing dictators, whose first actions are to consolidate the press into a state-controlled outlet and then to swiftly and ruthlessly crush all political opposition, as reasons to place more limitations on what people are allowed to say/think. Are these guys even listening to themselves?

Our values and principles in favor of free speech have been a protection for us. It's crucial to understand this, because as we see in this thread, there are groups that are working hard to criminalize speech that they dislike.

Sadly, this is seeing some success. Americans are forgetting who they are and where they've come from. For me, the question is not whether whether the U.S. will continue to succeed into the centuries ahead, but rather if the U.S., as presently constituted, will hold together long enough to be taken over by a despot or if it will just disintegrate into regional warfare first.
They are more painless if you happen to have a Pixel. It downloads and installs the update on another partition, prompts for a reboot and comes up a minute later. The trade-off, of course, is space.
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That story was super interesting. I have always been fascinated by what has driven humans to explore. Human history as we know it seems punctuated by these inflection points of expansion. Post-expansion, we look back on how much progress was made, and yet expansions seem to only happen sporadically. I guess we might be able to conclude that expansion may be more common than what gets recorded, but only becomes sustained when it results in some type of major opportunity for the pioneers.

And even then, it seems as though expansion is a skill that gets honed by a society. I think of the Polynesians, the Vikings, and the Portuguese.

The value of ivory as a commodity makes a lot more sense out of why Vikings would have bothered with Greenland. It has always seemed weird to me that the Vikings made it past all of these hazardous lands to Newfoundland, but didn't really bother to do much in North America.

It's interesting that the article concludes in a rather off-handed way that Greenlanders didn't go native. I don't see why we shouldn't expect a few of them to have done so? I'm reminded a bit of Peter Heywood, from the Mutiny on the Bounty [1]. Although, I would suppose Tahitian life would probably be rather more enticing than Inuit life.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Heywood#In_Tahiti
I see your 42 million unemployed people in 1929 and raise you 100 million people not currently looking for work in 2017.
Eh, I saw enough anecdata to pick up on the "I've been ripped off" vibe more than just typical online bitching. He made it a personal mission to come into threads and offer "free alternate reviews" but so many people didn't even want to try again. That was very telling to me - not even repeat business when free? Ouch.

Part of my business model is to be Independent to a fault. If you go read the Reddit thread and compare it with the essay, they align. I told the guy I didn't need his site because I was aiming for the Nicholl, which, time and again, people were very positive about. He wished me luck, and me back to him with his objectives.

I used to be a Counter-Strike 1.1 Spray n Pray jockey. Not when I have to put up cash these days though...each shot has to count a lot...
Tunnel DNS over a VPN from your router. This would also avoid Comcast's paid "suggestions" for typo' domain names.
They can request a copy of the report.
> at the kind of scale, one engineer can drive that much value

For Google in 2007, I don't doubt that. In 2017, I'd have to see it.
We all moved on after finding out there were no weapons of mass destruction without even an "oops" from the public, so I wouldn't hold your breath on anyone launching a successful campaign there- still, if that's true, I would really like to see someone make a documentary or some articles about it in a format the masses will see. Could be really compelling to people not typically reached by advocates of drug reform.
It seems to be back now. In case it goes down again, here's a link to the archive:

https://web.archive.org/web/20170404025253/http://blog.plove...
>Looks like it's hitting android devices as well as ios devices?

The April Android security bulletin went out today and there were several new Broadcom wifi related vulnerabilities addressed on it too.

https://source.android.com/security/bulletin/2017-04-01.html
Good. Fuck the bodyshop consulting firms.

We work with a few of them, and they are universally terrible.
Re-read my reply.
I wasn't aware there was a condiment interior sticking problem. Weird.

If this is made the makers better warn first or that ketchup is going to fly out like a rocket.
A simple solution for the consulting companies would be a rule requiring all H-1B sponsors to have at least 51% of their domestic staff be US citizens. That would ruin the wacked out business model of the body shops and return to a fair playing field for Americans in their own country.
It's pretty easy to evict a tenant in Texas, whereas its next to impossible in New York, which seems to have the perverse incentive of making it really hard for people to rent
Its becoming apparent that a lot of people do expect them to at least not be malicious. People don't want to be ripped off because of an information asymmetry, and when they have the information they don't want to waste hours haggling it down to an actual fair price.

I'd be willing to bet that played a role in the large number of those direct to consumer pre-orders and why Tesla is valued higher than Ford.
In his presentation, he observed that the AI reminded players of the first Half Life game, which came out seven years earlier. “It seems that we haven’t made much progress in seven years. There has to be more we can do with game AI.”

That's what came to mind reading this. I remember the AI and Half-Life, and while it sounds like they did better in this game (which I haven't played), it also sounds like an iterative step, and after seven years, that's not a lot. I happen to own this game on Steam from some humble Bundle pack or something, so I think I might have to break it out and have a play...

Edit: Sheesh. 17GB install for a 2006 game. That's steep.
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Yes, read Robert Ben Garant and Thomas Lennon's "Writing Movies for Fun and Profit" a couple times. There will be chapters that don't matter, and there will be incredibly important chapters (ex: "Every studio blockbuster should follow the structure of 'Die Hard'") but all of them will be fun to read.

One of the hardest parts is understanding the formatting expectations of screenplays. Read a couple (pilots for TV shows like "Breaking Bad" are great) and then use some software to help you get the hang of the format. You don't need to have blank page syndrome - in fact, I think the formatting of scripts is kind of liberating.

You don't have to be a writer to craft great scripts. You have to be a storyteller. The mechanics might overlap, but don't be afraid to try.
It's important to consider that genome editing tools existed prior to CRISPR and a novel technology is only as valuable as what preceded it. Tools such as zinc-finger nucleases, and TALENs were used and millions of dollars have been invested in developing those technologies to address the same problems for which CRISPR could be applied to. The author also posits that CRISPR could be used to edit any organism, which sounds impressive until you start to break down what that means. Take for instance that >99% of all micro-organisms haven't been cultured, which means that it's a really hard to make them genetically tractable. It's not like you just filter seawater, get some microbes and mix some CRISPR-encoded DNA with them. You would have to know their sequences a priori. And to sequence them, you would have to lyse the cells, generate large amounts of it, sequence it, thus leading to a classic chicken-egg problem.

I'd also like to mention that this technology can be imprecise/precise and due to the combinatorics of the systems you have to design in order to create edits, the ability to reliably edit different parts of the genome can be difficult to predict. It's not perfect. Furthermore, DNA self-replicates, mutates, and has external forces which dictate whether those changes actually should persist in the environment. What if a gene-drive mutates thus rendering it non-functional? The number of mutations that could render such a system to be non-functional vastly outnumbers the number of gene drives you would need to deal with said mutations. Although these types of mutations are unlikely, I'd just like to emphasize that DNA is constantly evolving, unlike say, a series of UNIX commands.

Also, spider-silk producing goats existed before CRISPR was used to create spider-silk producing goats. https://phys.org/news/2010-05-scientists-goats-spider-silk.h.... And so did glow-in-the-dark cats: http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-14882008. The only difference is that they didn't have to pay millions of dollars in licensing fees to the Broad Institute.

I get that this sounds like I'm saying CRISPR sucks. It doesn't. It's a very valuable technology, which has much to offer. I just want to readily identify the ceiling of the hype.
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You missed the point like the GP. None of those services are anything like what's coming. Car2go still has to be parked, has to be close, you have to live in the home zone. Zip car is just... Not even close. It's a rental service and you need to take the car back.

Comparing either of those or public transit to self driving cars misses the point entirely.
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HL2 AI was definitely worse.
You're just going to see more remote work. No one's going to want to lose those profits once they have them.
There is another major database called Early Warning [1] that also claims to be exempt from certain parts of the FCRA. I was an identity theft victim. After blocking credit checks at all 3 major bureaus and ChexSystems, I contacted these guys and asked them to block any reports they have on me. They essentially said that they don't have to, and won't, despite legislation allowing consumers to request freezing of credit files. I eventually got a nasty voicemail basically inviting me to sue them if I didn't like it.

These specialty databases need serious regulation...it's clear that credit bureaus and those that use them are tired of working within the confines of the FCRA and are going out of their way to create databases that are exempt.

[1] http://earlywarning.com/
It would likely end violence, but why can't these highly-organized, powerful cartels simply pivot into dealing wholesale, once legal?
Actually I liked that feature. We used to chat with each other using it when I was in school. It was definitely a right choice for Microsoft to disable the Messenger service, but I was a bit sad when it actually happened.
Gresham's Law / Market for Lemons.

Both have very strong information-theoretical roots.
The Nixon aide who allegedly said that quote died before it was published, so there is some reason to be uncertain about its veracity. It wasn't published until long, long after it was apparently said.

I find it completely plausible and it's very much in line with my political leanings to believe it, but still.
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That's pretty standard in most places AFAIK. Think about it - apartment salespeople are mostly women. Potential tenants are at least half men. When you walk in off the street to look at an apartment, they don't know you from Adam. And you're going into an empty apartment alone with a female salesperson. Do the math, they're gonna want some ID first.
The entire Spanish new world has been a failed state for the past 300 years.

Peruvian and Mexican metals kept them viable for a while, but that ran out long ago. Coke has barely filled the void, thanks to US prohibition.
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An owner can allow whomever they choose onto a property. The practice you are describing is probably the result of caution on behalf of either the owner or the management company, almost certainly due to potential liability for harms that might occur.
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I think making the statement is powerful and meaningful in and of itself, even if no one is still around from when it happened.
That, and not having to deal with the BS corporate yield management system trying to increase your rent, and some leasing office agent saying the "system says..."
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I think it's more of a birthday paradox type of deal...you get enough people in a thread, it becomes increasingly likely that at least one knows of a long-ass quote that is relevant to the situation.
Some people may be.

But the vast majority, who feed the dynamic, are not.

And hence the downward spiral.
This is just bringing up the Nebraska center up to speed with the California and Vermont centers. This is done because Nebraska will restart processing H-1B application which it had not been. USCIS clarified there is no change in policy.
F.E.A.R is definitely one of the top 10 best PC games I've ever played. There are not many games that blend Action and Horror so delightfully (other than Half-Life). That being said, I haven't been around in the gaming scene for a while and playing catch up after recently building a gaming rig.

I do agree with the author about the lack of progress in FPS enemy AI. The recent releases from the Call of Duty franchise are nice games, but the AI enemy combatants look dumb next to their FEAR counterparts. Why has not FEAR's AI strategy been adopted by other games/studios? The article does not mention anything about this.
Here's the deal though, if there's no consistency to the scoring, what are you paying for? Even if a piece scores highly, access to an audience isn't any more of a guarantee of feedback than posting a piece on Medium.

What I meant to get to, and as your response shows I missed something, my bad, was quality has a tendency to go viral. Getting into some outlets - most notably Contests - then backing things up with Hosting is a good order of operations long-term.

I know the whole song and dance of paying for "exposure" and never once did I recoup. That's what bugs me about the business model - most every client will be in the red. Even if they score high enough.

Or, in other words, it's nice to be the best looking person in the strip club, but business is business.
It was also the enemy of 'fear' itself, in that the game is a horror game with an omnipotent enemy. So while dealing with these clever enemies you're also facing the supernatural, adding to the experience. And the lighting/environmental effects.

The original Halo:CE had great enemy A.I. too. Though I think was more 'scenarios' being programmed in. What made the campaign fun asides from the big levels was that the enemy encounters were different every time.
Nice if Bastien could fix this bug:

https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=650371