skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"The advance of the bull's charge means we are all better off, means our children will be better off than we are. It means progress."

Yes, and if that's a lie, the Girl takes on more significance. The moral argument for not diluting the Bull message rests on whether its location and attitude represents its known intentions. If this is instead a mistake or a lie, that message is best disrupted. And that's absolutely a political argument, not an artistic argument, but all the same it IS a significant public argument that's increasingly mainstream.

If we're not better off and our children will be poorer and more desperate than we are, then this Bull is not progress and some form of counter-argument needs to be made. And you can defend the Bull's right to be its own statement (not actually challenged by the Girl) but this doesn't extend to legislating that the Bull's statement must go unchallenged. Even by index funds, selling something ;)
Yup, I'm in the middle of porting something over to Rust that's C based and this works really well. You can stub in the Rust parts piece-by-piece via FFI and incrementally bring up the port testing along the way instead of a big-bang integration at the end.
Just the write-up of what he did would take me more than a weekend.
But I am a physicist, who works in this field. I know people in the article personally. You can't become an expert by watching documentaries, even though they thrive on making people feel like that.

It's my personal opinion that popular science articles on new research (like this one), are ultimately unhelpful and are just an excuse for us to get funding.

All that said it's great to see people interested in high-energy astro. If you wanted to know more I'd recommend Longair[0], even though it would be tough going for a non-scientist.

[0] https://www.amazon.com/High-Energy-Astrophysics-Malcolm-Long...
Only if it's been ported to Scala.js; in fact, same goes for Scala to Scala.js, all libs need to be cross compiled.

The only thing you get for "free" in Scala.js is Scala, which is of course no small accomplishment, but the JVM ecosystem as a whole does not come with it.
Berlin has bears:

https://creamskyeyes.wordpress.com/2013/10/21/bear-hunting-i...

and cows:

http://www.atlasobscura.com/places/dott-return-cows-kuhunst

And Prague has babies:

https://www.tonyeveling.com/blog/baby-sculptures-in-prague/

Not to mention giant anuses you can stick your head in, and public urinating sculptures writing text messages with their penises:

http://www.boredpanda.com/bizzare-sculptures-by-david-cerny/

You can climb a ladder and stick your head in the sculpture’s arse to see a video of two Czech politicians feeding each other slop to a soundtrack of "We are the Champions"

[...]

The idea is disarmingly simple. Two bronze sculptures pee into their oddly-shaped enclosure (Update: actually it’s the shape of the Czech Republic – thanks Cirrat).

While they are peeing, the two figures move realistically. An electric mechanism driven by a couple of microprocessors swivels the upper part of the body, while the penis goes up and down. The stream of water writes quotes from famous Prague residents.

Visitor can interrupt them by sending SMS message from mobile phone to a number, displayed next to the sculptures. The living statue then "writes" the text of the message, before carrying on as before.
> digging through post history to find character attack material really isn't great on multiple levels.

Not to mention being kind of pathetic
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> Why is a temporary monopoly even necessary here? I've written about this before, but every time I see "patents" mentioned anywhere, I find myself thinking "Do we need this system?"

In biotech and medtech no one will invest in your startup, even at the angel level, unless you have a sound IP strategy that includes patents or a very well-considered trade secret plan. The time from discovery to translation and commercialization is long, risky, expensive, and too difficult to predict to permit investment without some sort of period of exclusivity. If someone can clone a product as soon as it is developed and on the market, how could a company recoup development costs?
What a fluff piece. It makes no points whatsoever, just pretends like it can make janitorial, secretarial, and waitering work fun and exciting but doesn't offer a single idea on how they plan to do so (because it's impossible). Talk about delusional! This reads like an ad because it is. No content whatsoever.
True, but prostate pills are the equivalent of a strip-mall with a karate studio and dollar store -- usually dying.
I would argue that productivity would increase and social stress would decrease. I can't think of any harmful effect of Facebook disappearing except for a few lost jobs.
"The gains from technology instead are accruing to the already rich."

There's so much rent-seeking from network effects and lock-in, after decades of monopoly laws not being applied, that the profits from automation are largely being vacuumed up by the rent-seekers as the government accepts political donations and looks the other way. This isn't something essential to automation, it's how we choose to do it - through self-appointed monopolies that aren't expected to obey laws.
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Persevere, it will make sense eventually. But then again when can one say to really understand things.
I'd be more interested to know whether there's a practical use of understanding it on this level. I wanted to learn about monads and wrote some smaller Java examples using streams and flatmap. You can see the benefit and understand how it's implemented very easily. However, the academic explanations and notations were not helpful and I'd argue made understanding the concept needlessly complicated.
Tom Cargill managed it. (-:
I'm not certain it would signal defeat -- the Defiant Girl would be equally defeated without something to oppose.
I prefer a take-home coding exercise for interviews, paid at an hourly rate. Equal parts subjective and objective.

The exercise requires candidates to git clone, unit test, document, submit PR, and walk a reviewer through the solution.... basically go full lifecycle on a coding task.
NOT a trump fan, but not sure how this is relevant to HN. Maybe you should try reddit.com/r/politics
Kind of like how I may have a LEGO star destroyer, but I need to assemble it first. Maybe it's actually just a giant brick. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
The Bull isn't a public work of art. It was guerrilla art: a very rich man needed to make a big symbol of power and stick it near the Stock Exchange because he thought people should not be intimidated by the latest stock market crash.

That's a pretty specific statement to make, even a political one in its own right, and it wasn't 'public', it was one guy with a lot of money and time on his hands. I've seen art critics be pretty scathing about the Bull on the grounds that it's tacky bad art. It's popular as hell: unsurprising and not really the point.

It was never public art. It's exactly the same context as the Girl, and represents its time about as well as the Girl represents 2017, with all her contradictions and sketchy motivations. The symbolism of the Bull is just as deep as the Girl, it's just that the message is wildly different.
No, I'm using the historical meaning of "u", from before Russian and Ukrainian were even distinct languages. Here's the "Tale of Igor's Campaign", 12th century, in the contemporary East Slavic:

Игорь ждетъ мила брата Всеволода.
И рече ему буй туръ Всеволодъ:
"Одинъ братъ,
одинъ светъ светлый -
ты, Игорю!
оба есве Святъславличя!
Седлай, брате,
свои бръзыи комони,
а мои ти готови,
оседлани *у* Курьска напереди.

Note last line. English translation:

Igor awaits his beloved brother,
and Fierce Bull Vsevolod speaks:
“You are my one brother,
Igor,
my one shining light;
we are both sons of Sviatoslav.
Saddle, brother,
your swift horses,
for mine are ready,
saddled ahead *at* Kursk.

Ukrainian translation:

Дожидає Ігор брата Всеволода.
Каже йому буй-тур Всеволод:
«Один брат,
один світ світлий,
Ігорю,
Обидва ми Святославовичі.
Сідлай, брате,
свої коні бистрі,
Мої-бо вже готові стоять,
*Під* Курськом осідлані.

The word "ukraina" was first attested at roughly the same time these lines were written.
> Yes, and doing so may be illegal, and Google's actions here actively invited people to do so. Do you see the problem now?

A Betamax machine shows you a record button at all times. This invites people to record. This does not invite people to perform illegal actions. I don't see the problem.
For anyone interested to start on this subject, Philip Wadler's Category Theory for the Working Hacker [1] is an excellent introductory lecture for building an intuition.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V10hzjgoklA
Okay. What does that have to do with "war of aggression" and "imperialism". We weren't there on a lark.
First of all, the vast majority of Japanese kanji are not pictographs, but ideograms. But I wasn't referring to reading that at all -- I was referring to my reading speed in just kana, which is a syllabary. Each symbol represents one syllable (mora), and there are only 48 of them in each of two sets, hiragana and katakana. That would be analogous to the number of characters to learn in two cases of a cyrillic alphabet.

As for cognates, well, you'd be surprised how much English is floating around in the Japanese lexicon these days.
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Really need to be careful about this, shorter term limits for congress Supreme Court strengthen the power of the president.
The fundamental problem isn't that grant funding based on peer-reviewed evaluations of research proposals is a bad idea. It's that:

1. The pie has shrunk a lot because federal funding of research has seen a huge decrease when measured as a fraction of GDP.

2. There's also a lot of political pressure to not "waste" public money on research that doesn't yield useful technology NOW.

3. But at the same time, there's an ever-growing supply of people who love doing science. These people are willing to do pretty much anything to get and maintain an academic research position, because like it or not, academia is still the among the best places to do high-impact research.

So there simply isn't enough money to fund all the good ideas, BUT there's political pressure to fund only sureshot research, and an oversupply means that scientists are doing what it takes to be productive in their academic positions.

The obvious solution is to increase federal funding for research. Accept that not everything is going to pan out as intended. It's not like every product a company makes is going to be profitable, so why should we expect science to work any differently? And then just wait! Some of this research will in fact succeed and we'll see the next internet happen.
Logic cell density is still increasing approximately exponentially [1].

[1] https://newsroom.intel.com/newsroom/wp-content/uploads/sites...
It's very hard to make use of any of it, I don't get it either. It's not like you need to understand monads (the category theory idea) to use monads (the PL idea) in, say, Haskell.
If (academic) politics weren't bad enough in the basic sciences!

(hopefully HN readers understand the differences, as well as similarities, of academic vs governmental politics. Seems like the distinction is lost in the general public).
I think a lot of on-site consultant roles are for young recent graduates. My friend worked right out of college for Epic Software as a consultant managing their medical software integrations. He was supposed to fly home once a month for 3 days off (he had normal weekends off too, but stayed at the client's location in a hotel) but often deadlines would cause him to have to stay. He wound up drinking a lot, smoking way too much weed, and essentially had a nervous breakdown after a year of doing this.

To add insult to injury, because he didn't make it long enough to fulfill his contractual obligations, Epic made him pay back his signing bonus and moving costs they reimbursed him for.

He then moved back home with his parents, got his shit together, and a few months later got into IT project management at an eCommerce company. No travel, normal weekends, normal hours. He's back to himself again.

The consultant life just seems so brutal, you don't make close friendships, you're never home, difficult to have a romantic relationship, difficult to eat healthy and exercise. No thanks!
The Lagrangian answer covers this a bit more obviously by stating a solution which results in a closed curve of states around some equilibrium point(s) for certain initial variables. I think that matches your understanding of this as two peaks in a closed circuit.
I'd agree with you but in the past year there's been a trend of making fake Instagram accounts (finsta's).
Some people prefer to exclusively hire blond women with D cups. Or white mainline protestant men.

Both of those things may be a big part of how a hypothetical company works. Problem is, it's illegal.
Yes, it would obviously make more sense to have a pre-interview for international teams.

But I do know folks from India who did not get a pre-interview request but did get called for interview and eventually got selected.

The pre-interview content in one case was just some clarifications on application.
I was quibbling more with the idea that the patent represents an "invention" of the transistor than whether it was valid.

I mean, da Vinci drew something like a glider once. Did he invent air travel?
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I've always thought of the operating system basically being everything in kernel space and as user space being peripheral.

I think we both have our biases.
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Still though, Cyrillic was imposed on Kazakhstan and was adopted fairly recently, it's not the same in Bulgaria. Fully agree on the rest though. And nice blog! И аз съм живял в България за няколко години. :)
TrueBit uses a layer above the blockchain to verify computations
I think they would be more concerned if we didn't evolve. For example, Twitter isn't just an SMS service anymore
They held up fine during the Boston Bombing.
Consider reaching out to the team at Algorythmia, they seem to be a leader in the space.
Nice explanation, very in depth. I had to check one of the algorithms a number of times, thinking I was missing something as I couldn't see why it wouldn't iterate beyond the array. Figured it out as the initial arrays are labeled with the 1 as the first index, but as you pointed out the whole iterator changes subtley and looks alien.
Wow! Not sure where all these assumptions came from, but let's try to get back to the simple point of the original post. Financial advisers, at their best, inject common sense and steady judgment into the lives of some highly successful people who might make reckless money decisions otherwise. That's impossible without commanding the respect of your clients.

Consider a guy I know that we'll call Jack. He's rich and headstrong. On his own, he'd be buying jets and chasing hot tips in the stock market. A financial adviser helped Jack keep his money decisions sane enough that after the inevitable divorce, there was still enough money for Jack's kids to be able to go to college.

Focusing only on portfolio modeling (with or without index funds) misses the essence of the job. Getting the person-to-person stuff right is huge. College helps make that happen.
I can't provide an official response (I'm an engineer at Netflix), but I noticed to answer the question "How much data does Netflix sell to Third-Party Advertisers?", did have the response[1]:

"Hey there, Cliff Edwards, director of corporate communications at Netflix. Wanted to point out that we don't sell ANY data to third-party advertisers. And we provide pretty good support for anyone who wants to learn about our tracking and how to opt out:
https://www.netflix.com/cookies"

That's in line with what I expect too.

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/netflix/comments/2uffl9/how_much_da...
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> 1) both of our MTAs do STARTTLS. And gmail is only TLS.

What you're implying here, i.e. that the communication is encrypted anyway, isn't how E-Mail works at all.

Even if the GMail MXs are configured to only accept E-Mails over TLS, the user's sensitive E-Mail may, depending on his settings, traverse multiple servers with less secure settings before a connection is ever initiated with the GMail MXs.

If someone's E-Mail is going to be MITM'd it's far more likely to happen between the Internet café he's sitting in and his ISP's badly configured SMTP server than between his ISP's SMTP server and GMail's TLS-using MTA.

GMail using TLS will do nothing to protect against the message being MITM'd, whereas GPG would, because it's end-to-end encryption, unlike TLS settings for individual MTAs in a possibly long chain of mixed or no encryption before a message reaches you.
The last of the astronauts stared back at a tiny spec in the sky, their old planet, J2EE.

It was once a teeming garden world, but after replacing every species several times, the increasingly abstract creatures failed to thrive. Many wars were faught, poisoning the planet itself with leaky abstractions and broken factories.

They knew many years ago, the planet was dying. The most enterprisey scientists of the world gathered in secret to build a colony ship, free from abstraction. A chance to start over and build a more functional place.

And now on this new planet, they cast off the old ways of objects and threads, embracing monads and async promises for a better future. This time, the scientists reasoned, it would be better. And so they replaced their first species, the monoid.
It even works on iPhone !

https://twitter.com/ontouchstart/status/853683865113722885
Sure, you can absolutely write a new program with the same feature list instead of more closely porting the old logic over to the new language.

But now you have a new problem: a Chesterton's Fence (https://www.chesterton.org/taking-a-fence-down/) problem. The old logic is in the form it is (knotty and complicated, most probably) because previous developers made it that way in response to problems they were facing at the time -- problems you may not be aware of, because their old changes made those problems go away. Those knots represent places where those previous developers learned that the problem they were trying to solve wasn't as simple as it first appeared.

You can definitely simplify the porting job if you just ignore all that and write new logic that does The Simplest Thing That Could Possibly Work, but by doing so you can set yourself up for future heartburn as all those forgotten edge cases come roaring back. You end up re-learning the hard way lessons your predecessors learned the first time around.
Same here on a non-hdpi screen (Dell Chromebook 11). The fake padlock appears inside the body and it's quite clearly not part of the browser. Not sure if something changed since it was built or maybe it only works in certain browsers, but certainly doesn't seem like an exploitable issue here.
This is just an idea, not really even opinion piece, but has some good insight.

I was interested that she coined the term FANG and not FANTA (Facebook, Amazon, Netflix, youTube, Apple). I am a big fan of Apple but continue to be dumfounded by how tone-deaf they are about the Internet. It's as if they have Jim Sensenbrenner on their board.
I went back to the article, which does say more or less what I wrote:

What astronomers hope to finally see when they add
up all the signals is a halo of light surrounding
a dark circle -- the shadow of the black hole. The
crescent of light comes from luminous gases, heated
to hundreds of billions of degrees, that orbit just
outside the black hole, tracing the region just
beyond the event horizon.

So when the grandparent said, "a completely black rectangle", that's probably not true. Which is was what I was responding to.

Please feel to correct us non-experts (but it's not terribly useful to shut down discussion without explanation other than "I am a physicist").
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One of my favorite stories about genetic algorithms is how they made an e ink display work. Taken from a Stack Overflow thread:

>In January 2004, I was contacted by Philips New Display Technologies who were creating the electronics for the first ever commercial e-ink, the Sony Librie, who had only been released in Japan, years before Amazon Kindle and the others hit the market in US an Europe.

>The Philips engineers had a major problem. A few months before the product was supposed to hit the market, they were still getting ghosting on the screen when changing pages. The problem was the 200 drivers that were creating the electrostatic field. Each of these drivers had a certain voltage that had to be set right between zero and 1000 mV or something like this. But if you changed one of them, it would change everything.

>So optimizing each driver's voltage individually was out of the question. The number of possible combination of values was in billions,and it took about 1 minute for a special camera to evaluate a single combination. The engineers had tried many standard optimization techniques, but nothing would come close.

>The head engineer contacted me because I had previously released a Genetic Programming library to the open-source community. He asked if GP/GA's would help and if I could get involved. I did, and for about a month we worked together, me writing and tuning the GA library, on synthetic data, and him integrating it into their system. Then, one weekend they let it run live with the real thing.

>The following Monday I got these glowing emails from him and their hardware designer, about how nobody could believe the amazing results the GA found. This was it. Later that year the product hit the market.

>I didn't get paid one cent for it, but I got 'bragging' rights. They said from the begining they were already over budget, so I knew what the deal was before I started working on it. And it's a great story for applications of GAs. :)
Hijacking these controls as a way to prevent copying/inspecting used to be far more prevalent. For the most part these days it's not done to intentionally interfere with these actions, but rather as a misguided attempt to replace core functionality with something supposedly more "user friendly / beneficial".

The worst offender now is the applying of click event handlers for links that simply navigate to a URL. The inability to open a link in a new tab only because the developer chose to use a <span>/<div>/<li> that triggers a javascript framework routing action, instead of using an <a> tag pointing at that route... sigh.
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Seems that suing your former employer and airing their dirty laundry is turning into a silicon valley trend these days.
Organizations also benefit from economies of scale.

Generally small companies move faster and can innovate much faster, large companies can bring those innovations to massive scale. This is why you often see the model of large companies acquiring small companies then scaling the business (think Facebook and Instagram).