skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>It seems odd that an absolute would depend on something subjective, doesn't it?

Go deep enough and eventually everything is subjective. Even things like fundamental axioms.
He's blogging on a medium blog, he can't do better. That's the shallow medium BS I always rage upon.
Cellular substrates are just a different kind of machine platform.
The NSA doesn't define "collect." It defines "acquisition" of data, and their definition matches the definition you or I would use. https://www.aclu.org/files/assets/minimization_procedures_us...

There were some conspiracy theories about ​the NSA's definition of "collect" around when the first Snowden documents were published, but those were never substantiated in the documents, while the normal definition was confirmed in Snowden's documents (above).
Great well written article
I'm wondering how such a person will cope with unexpected medical expenses in old age that aren't covered by medicare.

As a US citizen, perhaps immigrating to a country with universal health care is a necessity.

Come to think of it, the rat race really is a fear driven thing. Fear of not having health care when you need it, fear of not having retirement income, fear of keeping up pretenses of "success" vs your peers and classmates, etc.
Thanks for the follow-up! I'll settle for "no tier-1 US provider publicly admits to using QEMU". :)

I didn't dig too far into the AWS vulnerability list to try to find QEMU; XEN shows up right away! Ok: QEMU is last mentioned July 2015, and in none of the mentions is AWS vulnerable.

https://www.google.com/?q=site:https://aws.amazon.com/securi...
Seems a lot like Xandem [0] that has been up here before [1], [2].

[0] - http://xandem.com/

[1] - https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/xandem-monitor-an-entire-...

[2] - http://www.securityelectronicsandnetworks.com/articles/2014/...
In addition to all the other great responses you have received, I would add that many consumers identify with a "person in our home town earning money" since they live in a town and need to earn money. Or end up like Detroit.

Racism blinds people. So does anti-racism.

By providing a simple derogatory label one avoids the need to think and instead imposes their prejudice upon the world - ultimately doing the very thing they are decrying. Ironic. Both ignorant bullies lacking self-awareness, compassion, and empathy, but on opposite sides. If only they realized how much they have in common.
Which, unless it's a post-apocalyptic future, isn't coming any time soon.
> funny that sometimes I am a bit jealous of people when their houses burn to the ground. They get to start over... I always hope they keep offsite backups of what really matters.

As someone who has had a house destroyed by water damage twice... It's not worth it! The stress from dealing with insurance and displacement is far more than the time you could spend minimizing!
There are lots of mathematical people on HN, so it's not too surprising. Then it also wouldn't surprise me if there were more people like me: I have a romanticized idea of geometric algebra as a better way of understanding things I know and things I'll someday learn, and will upvote/bookmark/save-for-later a lot of what I come across about it on the chance I get the combo of time+motivation to overhaul my linear algebra knowledge and go really deep into geometric algebra on both the analytical side and the computational side.

Thanks for the summary.
What a stupid analogy. How many people have jet engines in their houses?
Global warming aside, as a Canadian, I'm disappointing in what our government has down to protect our sovereignty in the Canadian northern archipelago.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canadian_Arctic_Archipelago

Had we invested in a navy base in the north, and a few ice breakers, then we could have been the owner of the "panama canal of the arctic".

We would have a monopoly on what traffic goes through the Canadian archipelago which would help offset the cost of policing the north.

We would be able to do things like prohibit oil tankers and other hazardous materials if we wanted.

At this point I think we've all but given away any claim to being able to dictate who travels through our northern islands. The arctic will be policed by the American's and Russians, and used heavily by ships travelling to the east coast of the US and Europe from China.

Hopefully at the least, we'll be able to push for things to protect the arctic waters like no resource mining, think offshore oil rigs, and no oil tankers travelling through those waters.
> My expectation would be that employers would offer lower wages so that employees will have roughly the same take-home pay.

You are absolutely right, in the absence of a reasonable minimum wage, this is exactly what happens.
> cause your application is not as complex as others

I work with Openstack. I don't think you're going to find something more complicated :). (it does use eventlet for most services , though it's starting to move away from that model back to mod_wsgi / threads).
This is a really important point that seems to be overlooked in a lot of discussions around AI/consciousness and such. The key piece is that much of what we consider to be "consciousness" derives from formative experiences of physical reality that aren't available to fetuses. For example, this article[0] discusses whether fetuses can feel physical pain and makes a strong case that in early stages of development (at least until 23 weeks' gestation, if not longer), the physical neural connectivity necessary for the sensation of physical pain are incomplete.

The article also suggests that what we consider to be an experience of physical pain involves certain basic aspects of consciousness that require more advanced postnatal development based on interactions with other people. If this is necessary for physical pain, then more abstract psychological pain would be even further down the road of development. So it's not as simple as whether something is a "real brain" or not, and growing mini-brains from human cells doesn't mean that sentience automatically happens.

[0]: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1440624/
Agreed, that claim is the worst. Even more so because hes comparing product searches, while his claims are about all searches.

Its like saying.. more people search for images in imgur than on google, so all of google search is going downhill.
As I understand it, nobody has used synecdoche in this conversation yet. The closest thing is metonymy, and even then, "companies" is way to broad for that.

I think toponyms are fun (Silicon Valley / Wall Street).
In my younger years, I had a neatly mapped out plan of what I'd be doing in 5, 10, 15 years.

I'm in my 30's now and I've come to realize that it's nice to have a plan so you can test out the waters, but just as important is to adjust to the new information you acquire every year about both yourself and the world (I didn't do this well at all in my 20's).

So I really have no idea what I'll be doing in 5 years. It'll likely have something to do with technology, and it'll be something that interests me and find to be worthwhile (for me personally, that means Snapchat-like things are a nonstarter), with smart and pleasant colleagues.
Yeah. Get rid of it and RegNMS. Now we can delay ticks it doesn't mean much anyways.
I've read about coral being used as temporary structure for bone replacment but eventually the patient's own bone takes over replacing it.

You'd think a liver would be the easiest organ to grow since in adults a liver can regrow from a healthy piece. That's why you sometimes read about people donating part of their liver.

I think there will always be one big problem and that's the health of the patient. People who need a new organ are so sick they probably won't survive the operation to get a new organ. Anesthetic is like a controlled drug overdose but add age and poor health I can't imagine being an anesthesiologist that's one tough job!
I'd love to also see something like FLIF get browser support. http://flif.info/ where the user agent could set a preferred quality for images/variants based on network/device constraints. Or download the first say 20% of images on a page, only downloading more after staying on the page for a length of time.
You are over analyzing it. The question isn't about defining what a hard problem is. It's about sharing how you overcame problems. And the interviewer is looking for stories that demonstrate how you overcame those problems. Times when you lacked the necessary skill to achieve something.

Not being able to answer this question is just a telling as an answer itself.
the ability to emit words on the screen gives a human-like intelligence all kinds of abilities

especially if the human-like intelligence doesn't need to pay rent, fear the police, follow laws, sleep, eat ... etc
Please don't make suggestions like "libvirt is too convoluted, just resort to [QEMU] command-line" -- FWIW, I'm saying this as an every day QEMU command-line user -- without having the complete picture. Yes, there are some valid scenarios where people who know what they're doing can (and they do) directly use the QEMU command-line. But for the most majority, libvirt makes life far simpler, because of the following.

Daniel Berrangé (lead maintainer of libvirt) articulates it much more succintly than I could, allow me to quote him:

"It is a common attitude among people who look at QEMU and see a deceptively simple command-line syntax for launching a VM and don't realize that you'll enter a world of hurt when you go beyond the initial simple command-line syntax.

This[1] was written in 2011, but is pretty valid and probably more besides:

https://www.berrange.com/posts/2011/06/07/what-benefits-does-libvirt-offer-to-developers-targetting-qemukvm/

Recently, we had a very nice example of benefit of libvirt to security when the VENOM bug came out. Anyone using libvirt automatically had anti-VENOM available thanks to SELinux/AppArmour which would prevent exploitation in most cases."

More on it (from his very detailed response on this thread[+], specifically from the 4th paragraph on):

"Also note that this kind of bug [VENOM] in QEMU device emulation is the poster child example for the benefit of having sVirt (either SELinux or AppArmor backends) enabled on your compute hosts.. With sVirt, QEMU is restricted to only access resources that have been explicitly assigned to it. This makes it very difficult (likely/hopefully impossible[1]) for a compromised QEMU to be used to break out to compromise the host as a whole, likewise protect against compromising other QEMU processes on the same host. The common Linux distros like RHEL, Fedora, Debian, Ubuntu, etc all have sVirt feature available and enabled by default and OpenStack doesn't do anything to prevent it from working. Hopefully no one is actively disabling it themselves leaving themselves open to attack...

[1] I'll never claim anything is 100% foolproof, but it is intended to be impossible to escape sVirt, so any such viable escape routes would themselves be considered security bugs.
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[+] http://lists.openstack.org/pipermail/openstack-operators/201...
Man it looks really cool to use this in an enterprise. It seems like you'd need a lot of support to introduce it into an Enterprise environment. Ramp-up time for learning and it looks like it runs really slow, so you'd need buy-in for the runtime too.

Any advice for those of us who'd like to introduce this to a team rather than play with it on our own?
Talk about a problem of the same type as those likely being faced by the interviewing company.
So all it would take is for them to change their policy at any point in the future, even only for a few minutes, and instantly "collect" all current and historical emails from Americans.
Why should commerce be above free movement of people or other things?

> 'd be interested to know how those in the EU whose livelihoods depend on trade with the UK would view it

Yes, because nobody in the UK would lose the jobs and people won't suffer with higher prices.

Yes, the title is apt
I find the comparison with Slavic languages quite funny :) Just keep in mind, simple transliteration is easily reversible. Spellfucker - not.
BDD tools might be useful here: I've heard of people getting good results from getting everyone in room and formally specifying the requirements that way. Don't even need the tests to be executable, just well structured.
> Your business is the database. Models matter.

If you tie your model to your database, you might be out of business sooner that you think. Just ask any of the oracle customers who paid $$$ to migrate away from that license fee sinkhole.

> Anyone who wants "database neutrality" (least useful common denominator), vs leveraging the awesomeness of pgsql, mssql, oracle, should just use flat files. Or mysql.

Alternatively, simply invest a little bit more time into proper design and implementation. In one of my products I am "leveraging the awesomeness of pgsql" but switching to another storage engine is still a matter of one or two hours. After all, it's only about 200 lines of code: The connection itself and the adapters for the query engine (and no, it's not loosely coupled - it's strongly typed and my compiler inflects on the model and the constraints imposed on it by the storage backend).
Well, I see some products listed that I would not want to buy. But I also see the Samsung Gear VR and Google Daydream, and some USB battery packs that seem perfectly good. (In fact, I bought one of these results just the other week, and am very happy with it.) And generally, speaking, the star ratings are about what I would expect of most of these products, given my (modest) knowledge of these brands. Certainly the star ratings, generally speaking, appear to convey useful quality information.

But what I certainly don't see is any support for the claim that "All that ever pops up when I search for a product is cheap chinese knockoffs with round numbers of mysterious, broken english, 5 star reviews and one pixelated photo."
PIOMAS (arctic sea ice volume model) is showing ice on the edge of collapse: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/C9SaElxXoAAl0zU.jpg
Am I misrembering this coming out a few months ago? Maybe it was merely announced, but I could have sworn I heard people talking about using it.
The Toyota Way includes the idea that continuous improvement should increase quality and efficiency, and that the efficiency should be re-invested.

If the smartest thing your company can imagine doing with a person who is able to automate their job is fire them, your company is wasting valuable resources.
They already monetize it. Lots of companies pay for it.
I'm going to need a cite for that.

Pure craziness. A minimum wage contradicts the policy objective of the EITC to work and to to earn more money, get raises, etc.
I've maintained that async is better suited towards web services and lightweight databases like redis, and is not useful for relational databases. However, it's very hard to get async to make your code actually "faster", as opposed to just handling very high throughout with less resources. If people stop saying "faster!", I'll go away.
You should check out the Churchill Challenge (http://churchillnavigation.com/challenge/) and the 54 solutions (source code available at https://github.com/churchillnavigation/challenge1). I came in at #7.

Beyond the classic spatial search data structures, the fastest solutions all used SSE instructions (see https://github.com/sDessens/churchill-challange for nice writeup). People did try pretty hard to win the grand prize of $5000, and the fastest solution was 7 times faster than the best optimized code that Churchill's team had previously.
If you need advanced features such as graphs and charts, you should have a look at https://www.neomobili.com/products/slidium-markdown-presenta... The question is : can we use gitpitch with it? Both seems to use reveal.js internaly
No more than any other form of public assistance, and probably much less. You can make the same argument for food or cash assistance programs too.

With other programs the worker would be discouraged from looking for a higher paying job or pushing for a raise. He's disincentivized, along with his employer, from being paid more.

With the EITC he directly incentivized to look for a better paying job, work more hours, or get a raise.

While not perfect, it is far better than other forms of public assistance. It about as good as you get with a welfare program in terms of aligning motivations and interests.
Contracts are irrelevant here because there is no competition in that market, you have to accept the contract or walk to your destination. For contracts to be meaningful the parties have to be of comparable power and both parties must have the opportunity to choose a competing good or service. This is plainly not the case here.
The assertion in the OP is that forward stories are practiced beforehand and are thereby less likely to be true. I am introspective in nature, so I do have many (true) stories thought over again and again.

I would rather disagree to the idea of telling stories backwards. We aren't doing Memento things after all! :-) It's best to tell the (true) story the true way, the way it happened.
Sure, but certainly not to code, content, project assets, and documentation.

RMS explains the difference and the intention behind the confusion well: https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/not-ipr.en.html
so, any repo code available yet?
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It should be cautioned that this book gets killed by a lot of people who have done philosophy for various reasons. But Phil Jackson is apparently a fan, and anyone who wins 10 NBA championships and got the best out of MJ, Kobe, Shaq, and the Worm, and is a "Zen Christian" must know something interesting.

And yeah, it's a book worth reading through, if grueling at times. I can't find the quote, but one of his points is that quality things have quality because their creators deeply cared about them and put that care into the product. It seemed very Jobsian (maybe not surprising given his own interests).
Replicant.
Note that handwriting styles are not called fonts, but hands. A font is basically a set of prefabricated letters.
But how else will I know the secrets to success? THAT'S THE ONLY WAY!!
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One of the main points of the Five Eyes agreement (originally BRUSA) is that the member states have a "no-spy agreement" with each other. That's why you see French leaders in the leaks but not heads of state of Canada or the UK. http://www.pbs.org/newshour/rundown/an-exclusive-club-the-fi...

The rumor that they spy on each other and share that data is not substantiated in any leaks and specifically goes against one of the main planks, making it an especially strange rumor.
Yep, at this point we're going to be unable to prevent its claim as international waters - we didn't make it, and it's a useful waterway for travel.
well, it's a secret interpretation of a particular executive order (EO 12333 signed by reagan, if you're curious), in the sense that it's not obvious on its face from reading the order that one should come to the same interpretation as they have, and that they don't officially divulge that interpretation.

prior to snowden, almost everybody (you and your clever colleagues excluded, obviously) would think it was paranoid to believe this was the case. at least, there's no way i could make the leap from:

'EULA's state that recording activity on a company's servers by that company [i assume this is what you mean?] doesn't require a warrant but the government reading it does'

to:

'the government records incomprehensible amounts of domestic traffic but it doesn't count as warrantless surveillance because they don't read most of it'
The data is almost all pre-financial crises. Is there an updated chart?
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I won't be in a position to say FU but will hopefully have the flexibility to spend a little more time staring at the sky rather than at pixels.

In contrast to other posters that expect more of the same in IT, I think we could see the start of a drastic change in hardware towards heterogeneous processing e.g. merging of processors and memory, more integration of specialised components e.g. DSP, FPGA, with CPU as coordinator rather than main focus. It's already starting to happen.
Google Assistant SDK preview brings voice agent to the Raspberry Pi
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It often depends on what the actual dimensionality of the problem is. If it can be embedded in a lower dimensional space, as many problems are, then a well tuned kD-Tree can still do a good job up to about 16 dimensions of used space, as you say. Cover trees also work well in this case, and are better at extracting just the salient dimensions than kD-Trees are, especially as the discrepancy between the subspace and data space grows.

If the dimensionality gets larger then a better approach is to instead remove overhead and improve parallelism, for example by pushing the problem to the GPU or discretizing the measurement space down to 8-bits or even 1-bit per dimension. I know of products that do both, and solve O(N^2) problems 20x larger than a naïve approach could in the same time. POPCNT runs really fast on GPUs.
love the ease of use
This.

It has the slowest and most limited I/O in the world: voice, and people think it's the future?

Seriously?

Google Now on Tap (which they cut out, so it seems) was far more impressive innovation, and the way computers should work in the future.
Front-running is an illegal practice that has absolutely nothing to do with order size.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Front_running
The government can exempt themselves from IP laws. For example, the government has exempted itself and defence contractors for violating patents (to build top secret devices) in the past.
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Uh, reporting in lol.
This is why for the toilet case they are coupled with auto flushers that fire too easily when you lean forward or backwards slightly - it keeps the user standing up suddenly to avoid the splash at intervals small enough to keep the lights on.

Apparently they couldn't figure out an equivalent invention for the standing-urination case, especially since hand sink sensors don't even trigger when you wave your hands entirely over them several times and so most certainly couldn't be used here in the case of the less endowed gentleman...
For those of you using GMail I'll repost a comment of mine [0] about gmvault [1]:

I have been using this for years and it's great software. One tip, store each different email account in it's own "database" my crontab looks like this:

#Email backup
0 0,6,12,18 * * * /usr/local/bin/gmvault sync -d /XXXXXXX/email-backup/joshstrange --resume josh@joshstrange.com >> ~/mail-backup-logs/joshstrange.com.log 2>&1
0 1,7,13,19 * * * /usr/local/bin/gmvault sync -d /XXXXXXX/email-backup/otheremail --resume other@otheremail.com >> ~/mail-backup-logs/otheremail.com.log 2>&1
....

I sync it all locally to my house then back it up to Dropbox as well. The reason to store them in different databases is you cannot "filter" them out when restoring so if they all go to the same DB if you restore you are restoring ALL your email across all accounts to one new account.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12987670

[1] http://gmvault.org/
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Personally I think you have added nothing to the conversation. Are you also correcting people who say "the government", "silicon valley", "France" or "the economy"?
Guns kept in proper gun safes are pretty much useless against intruders though.

Do you have any research to back that up?

and I also think guns for self defence are a bad solution in first world countries.

I don't have a gun for self defense but I don't think I should judge those who have either.
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