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It's not just a matter of encryption or compression; there are always better and worse ways of doing things. We have seen large advances in the past there and elsewhere, you're predicting progress won't happen again - a bad bet.
The Social-Engineer Toolkit (SET)
If at all they mean that black women receive comparatively speaking a lot funding - if we can trust the numbers in the TC article.

But there are also a lot of factors left out. For example, geographic factors, how many startups receive funding in Poland?
What if (hypothetically) a large majority of investors started investing into index funds? For example, an enormous amount of retail investors are won over by this bet and believe passive investment in index funds will always lead to higher returns. Are there any ramifications of this situation that may cause inefficiencies where investing in hedge funds may lead to better returns over a period of decades? Should we all just dump our money into SPY and VTI now that Warren Buffett has won this bet? Or maybe Ted was just unlucky to take this bet during successive rounds of QE that pushed interest rates to historic lows and perhaps artificially turned more risky assets into the only vehicles for returns?
No Two Neurons Are Genetically Alike
It would be super cool if amateur cubesats could interface with this network. I've always wanted to run a server on orbit, where energy is free and regulations are limited to RF spectrum issues.
How to find a great co-founder?
I'm struggling to find a great co-founder. I am a strong iOS developer at Brown University, so finding co-founders for ventures has rarely been hard. But, I have yet to work with someone who I consider to match me on my work ethic. Many friends put drinking and partying above work. I'm really just trying to find a co-founder, coder or not, who is willing to work and obsess 24/7 on a mission. I have many weaknesses beyond my strengths, so finding a co-founder is so important. But, I am not willing to compromise on others having a below-exemplary work ethic. Any tips on how to find a great co-founder?
Podcast: How Marble Sent AI Food Delivery Bots Rolling Through San Francisco
Very true.

Puerto Rico is a look into the future. Illinois and other states are <20 years away from the same fate.
This is a general point, probably should be directed to the article itself, not a discussion on whether the bibliography given there exists or can be found; your URL risks being overlooked at this depth on a different point. Thanks for it, though.
Chrome apps are being discontinued on most OSes, so they recommend migrating to Electron or NW.js if a normal web app or extension won't work. https://blog.chromium.org/2016/08/from-chrome-apps-to-web.ht...
> many banks in Canada are now fully virtual or offer next to no fees.

Uhh, which ones? Free chequing accounts have transaction fees for Interac, and with unlimited Interac accounts you pay monthly or must keep a minimum balance. I'm sure there are a couple exceptions, but certainly not with TD, CIBC, NBC, etc.
Saying the iPhone 7 Plus can do bokeh is like saying the iPhone 7 Plus can do zoom: Technically accurate, but it's completely and utterly outclassed by a real camera.

Scroll down to the bokeh section on https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2016/12/mini-shootout-can-ip... for example.

Speaking of zoom, if you think the only thing interesting about the 1st and 3rd pictures is bokeh, then you're not noticing just how much zoom is used on them. The new zoom lens on the iPhone is a 56mm equivalent - just slightly more than a quarter of the lens used for those pictures. The iPhone does not have anything on it that makes it capable for the same sort of shots a real camera with a telephoto lens offers.
>boasting a big resume but unable to tell a mutex from a semaphore

Is it bad that I have no idea what either of those are?
> What shapes our legal systems the most IMO is the idea of guilt and punishment.

That may true today, but that simplistic model waxes and wanes with the times.

Notice how prisons departments, in particular those formed in the late 19th century on the east coast of the US, are often called "department of corrections" and the jails "penitentiaries". During a reformist period the idea is that the criminal would have time to reflect on their crime (be penitent) and correct their error. It reflects a more hopeful, less manichean view of society.

The gradual abolition of the death penalty happened at the end of such a period; it's revival in the US happened as a more binary world view returned.

Victorian England was definitely hard core on the "punish" side, even punishing the poor, but did abandon some of the more extreme ideology (e.g. dropping the practice of trying and hanging animals that killed humans).

I actually think your characterization is not quite correct: I think what's reflected is a re-emergence of the idea of the christian idea of original sin: certain people are inherently bad and deserve punishment; thus whatever they do can be taken as an excuse to exact justice (and even have them finance it!) while others are deserving of "charity" (i.e. being judged by a more generous standard)
For comparison, the Iridium constellation gave a mode of 1300ms latency with a constellation of 66 active satellites orbiting at 780 km in 6 planes.

SpaceX launched 10 new Iridium satellites in 2017.

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

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iridium_Communications#Iridium...
And if the left actually pushes the idea that free trade, global free movement of labor, financialization and asset inflation are good ?

Brexit is the first real anti-globalization decision made in decades. You'd think the left would be beside themselves with joy that finally, after all the shouting, demonstrations, activism, ... finally ONE correct decision was made. Finally.

If large amounts of the left are convinced this decision is wrong. Does that count as stupid as well ? The result of fake news ?

Newsflash: globalization, and the very existence of the EU, works against everyone but capital owners. It works against the working class, it works against the middle class, even against most of the upper class.
What's the context, what'd the Waymo lawyer do?
I converted to JetBrains products for a few different reasons, but one of the biggest was jump to definition that _just works_ across all language products. I suppose I could be made to consider something like this if it supported a number of other languages.
Yet one more thing developers have to worry about, as if the list wasn't long enough already. The developer world is still full of people creating sql injection attacks, I think you may be raising the bar to well beyond what is practical.
Yes.. Its left to the API provider.

Try https://learngraphql.com gives a very good idea of what graphql is. Way better than reading the official documentation or spec.

Once I went through it, made up my mind that our API as a service product should support Graphql.

Note: I am in no way related to the site.. It is free and I finally actually understood what graphql is in 15 mins.
Is there any chance that you'd ever open-source the original Aurora demo? Seems like it would be a great foundation for further exploration in this space.
Not really. GraphQL mostly provides an alternative to REST when you want to select specific fields and traverse down into relationships with a single query.

The closest you could get is the users who rated the business:

business(id: "garaje-san-francisco") {
reviewers {
rating
user {
name
}
}
}

If Yelp wanted to enable that use case, they would add a field to Business like `related_businesses` like:

business(id: "garaje-san-francisco") {
related_businesses {
business {
name
}
}
}
Any change in equilibrium will be expressed as "higher risk to default" and will make interest rates higher no? Seems like everything will continue to work as intended.
I'm not a shader programmer, but I think the key to making proper shaders is to understand that the shaders are a parallel computational system based on vector/matrix math (linear algebra), and being able to conceptualize how to use that for graphic purposes (within the context of a pixel vs vertex shader).

It seems that some people (software developers) can do this, and others struggle. Myself, I'm kinda in the middle - then again, I haven't really tried anything with shaders beyond simple examples and such. But my "aha" moment in parallel calcs of this nature came to me during the course of the original 2011 ML Class (MOOC) taught by Andrew Ng - it used Octave as the programming language, and we had to implement a neural network.

The "serial implementation" was first implemented (and was really slow), but then we were "challenged" to do the same using only vector/matrix math. I struggled wrapping my head around it, but then a lightbulb went on, and I realized what it was all about. Granted, behind the scenes a still very-much serial process was happening (likely using BLAS), but I could understand the conceptual underpinnings (and that they applied to all similar parallel systems - like clustered processors and GPUs). It was a real revelation to me at the time.

Even so, there is something special about these people who can see and do similar things at a "frame buffer" level; some of that stuff is down-right beautiful and amazing to watch (and the code oftentimes so small, as you noted).
> I suppose tech companies could give them a backdoor and call it a front door?

They're more likely to go "LOL, no" and as it's both impossible AND compelling speech is impossible per 1st Amendment the Government would end up losing in the courts.
They should release an API that caters for the victims of their shake-downs.

Automatically pay to have unfavourable reviews cleaned up, warnings that bad reviews will start to bubble up when payments aren't met etc.
This time phones and China exist. Phones will continue to drive display and other tech. China has a dynamic manufacturing sector, to keep churning headsets. And has internet cafes, to support game dev. And VR seems to be catching on in US non-governmental industries like realty.

This VR wave seems much more a "look what we can do with current societal phone experience, and phone manufacturing tech", than a "let's struggle again to make something novel and hope it catches on".

As for AR, how about this - picture sitting down at your work desktop/laptop screen(s), and having lower-than-screen-resolution 3D, with direct hand manipulation, surround you. Not interested?

What else might go badly? The patent trolls are spinning up - BillGates/IntellectualVentures have announced it as a focus. But asia seems still insulated enough to keep going, even if the US sidelines itself. A media freakout seems increasingly unlikely (about VR at least), and would be limited to the US. A game market may grow more slowly than expected, but no longer seems able to vanish. What else?

So while takeoff trajectory is perhaps uncertain, I'm having trouble seeing how this wave might fizzle?
I'd probably be more willing to dive in with Kotlin if there were a reliable way of translating back to passable Java. In other words, an escape hatch in case it doesn't work out, or the use of a not-Java language causes too much trouble with other employees down the road.

I'm not sure how feasible that is but many features seem to have fairly direct translations. For others like co-routines I'd be willing to put up with the Java project depending on a Kotlin runtime jar.
Ridiculous. When will these numbskulls understand that you can't regulate people's use of encodings? It's right there in human language. You can't force everyone to use the same one.
Automatically generating my resume with JSON Resume in two languages
Infosys to hire 10,000 US workers in two years
The time needed to build the amount of knowledge needed to act on my dreams.
Async is fine but Vert.x's version of it is kind of retarded. Callback hell. Might be better with 3.4 now that it supports Scala and Futures.
Network effects are mostly local. You can be rideshare for a major city and the residents will use you even if it isn't worth it for others.
This along with the whole TV licence fee both seem so odd.
And the upside is that the economy is much larger than it could ever have been while stuck on gold.
This has to be the best non-tech-documentation piece I've ever read on Hacker News. The author makes great points with a well-placed sarcasm.

I know, I know. Corporations go where the money flows, and they don't want to change the status quo if there's no money in that revolution (case in point: not attacking the rental cars / hotels / airlines). I am well aware.

But the author is still very correct on a conceptual level.
I'm pro minimum wage, but states that have higher minimum wages tend to already have their heads on straighter economically. E.g. Washington state invests heavily in education and caters to high tech more than other states, while California has of course always been a gold mine. Correlation is not causation.
Miranda was used as the implementation language for the "Implementing functional languages: a tutorial"[0] book co-authored by SPJ. The book is well constructed (and free).

[0]: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/publication/impleme...
I thought parens around any SVG would make it valid JSX.
There isn't merely one vector in which superior programmers are superior, there are many; see the Feynman example. Your search for simplicity is misplaced, I believe.

Nobody's said there aren't unsolvable problems, the question was whether nearly every massive failed software project (and they're common) represented such a thing - obviously no.
Very sophisiticated indeed, eyeroll.
Your experience is greatly different to mine in webstorm. Better, sure, but I get about a 60% success rate. This was a vast improvement on basically anything else but it isn't _just works_.

Might be a pathological case however, the primary js project I work on is composed of about 12 modules, uses ES5 and Angular 1, except the build tooling which is ES6, has bower and npm dependencies, and has at times used every class/object pattern under the sun.
The weight issue (actually, distribution of pressure and weight) was pretty much solved years ago: It was called the Forte VFX1:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VFX1_Headgear

The display itself could "flip up" so if you were doing world building back in the day - you could continue to use your keyboard and see your monitor, then "flip down" to try your world out.

Bad part about the system was the terrible FOV combined with very low res...
That is effectively the law right now (at least in the US). But between a media circus of demonization (which frequently arises in cases like these), the government's demonstrated aggressiveness and zeal in pursuit of hacking charges (see Aaron Swartz), and public ignorance and fear, it is difficult to receive a truly fair trial.
Isn't that due to FCC regulations. It's not illegal if you work out how to do it yourself (hard, not always impossible).
I enjoyed the story, and got it!

The one part I miss to be able to claim understanding of zero-knowledge protocols is anchoring the story to what one uses (modern) ZKPs for. Hoping to read that connection here in the HN comments.
Last I'd heard (KQED, a couple months ago), she was raising money for the race. So, unfortunately, probably not.
I wonder if Google can pull that kind of detail up on just their employees or if they're capable of doing this for anybody they care enough about.
Mapcode doesn't identify a place/business/venue, it identifies a location on earth. If the building moves or a business changes offices then the Mapcode changes, too.

Take a look at Mapzen's gazetteer project "Whose on First". It aims to generate a unique identifier (and store with it concordances for other venue IDs, opening hours, images, etc.) for every venue on earth and is designed to handle situations where a business is started, changes location, or closes.

https://whosonfirst.mapzen.com/

(Disclaimer: I work for Mapzen)
This is definitely not a documented "API" but if you want to take the user to sourcegraph for a specific repo/file:line@commit then the url (currently) is:

sourcegraph.com/[repo]@[commit]/-/blob/[path/file]#L[line]

afaik repo must be on github.com (iirc bitbucket and GCP support was in the works) and commit can be either an absolute commit hash or a relative one like a branch name.

ie.
https://sourcegraph.com/github.com/gorilla/mux@master/-/blob...
US states are in big financial trouble too -- Illinois. Statehood is a distraction, not a solution.
Aside from this article,
why css as a whole is such a unmenagable mess? The whole frontend "separation of concerns" is fucking stupid: data - html, look at any modern website - you see div soup holding no data,
css - try making some runtime customizabily eg. change color, layout on ie11,
js - contrary to popular opinion, js does what it should do :p

Maybe it was holding water when all pages was as complex as hacker news but currently we need something which is little more sensible
I've barely played a single non-VR since I got VR. That's going back to mid-October 2016 so hardly a flash in the pan.
You can recurse in GraphQL so if they added a `favorited_businesses` field to `user` then it would be possible. Something like this:

business(id: "garaje-san-francisco") {
reviewers {
rating
user {
name
favorited_businesses {
id
name
}
}
}
}
> I am surprised anyone can still use the word "terrorism" with a straight face anymore after it's become so clear that there is no large existential threat

It was always just a ruse to snatch power. Parading a potential existential threat to consolidate authority goes back to antiquity and is a common theme in historical narratives, fiction, allegorical literature, popular political writings of the founding fathers...

It's like the political version of a 419 scam. I'm continually dumbfounded that people fall for these things.

In the modern era, there's accessible easy-to-read references at our finger-tips to learn about all the classic shams that are constructed to manipulate and seize power, but it doesn't seem to matter. It's really something.
> Wiretapping and search warrants...

True, but there is a big difference between presenting evidence to a judge to obtain a search warrant and subsequently manually wiretapping a phone line or two and the sort of massive-scale surveillance/capture we have today.

It's like the difference between a doctor examining an awake patient who has complained about a specific symptom... vs to a doctor sneaking into the bedroom of thousands of sleeping non-patients and performing a secret physical exam on their genitals just in case anything about their genitals seems alarming.

The crime (building the illegal infrastructure to do that surveillance) is now justified after the fact by a fairly quaint comparison to traditional police work.

As much as I'd like to, I don't believe that surveillance is about police work. It's about political intimidation which is identical to the kind of political intimidation that seems obvious when talking about other police states from history.

The effects of intimidation are not obvious as everyone expects them to be. I'll make an analogy with the North Korean regime to illustrate my point.

How is it possible that the leader of N. Korea is able to make statements to the public that are obviously absurd. Are people in N. Korea less rational than elsewhere? Less intelligent? No, but over time the range of ideas considered acceptable has adapted to include some of the most ludicrous (and contradicted by fact) claims imaginable.

How does this happen? I think it happens gradually. How likely are we to loudly criticize our government when we know all our devices contain a hot mic and all the audio might be getting recorded? Maybe we still offer a criticism but we couch it a bit or we follow it with some praise. Small things like this mean that we all hear less criticism, less scrutiny, less dissent. All because we are not sure who is listening or who will be reported to authorities for holding a controversial view.

Over the course of decades, perfectly intelligent, rational people in N. Korea are easily able to believe some fairly outlandish claims simply because of a few decades of secret police presence and fear of being reported.

What does this have to do with the US? By definition, terrorism is a political crime. It causes intimidation and fear. It is designed to be asymmetrical and sporadic, and is impossible to stop. The only way to fight it is with extreme social control... a more compliant society where holders of nonstandard beliefs are more easily identified.

If the surveillance data had not been used to fight non-terrorism crimes, or if the systems were designed with a cryptographically provable audit trail, I'd consider the possibility that this was just a more modern way of doing law enforcement. But sadly I think all of the evidence points in the other direction.
I think lenders have an ethical responsibility to not put borrowers in a bad position as well.
This would be like calling a linear model builder "Regression"
The oxide is conductive. The gold to silver price ratio used to be ridiculous compared to historical levels probably due to the death of film but its always been the cheap alternative.
US photographer captured moment of her death in Afghanistan
High performance models in TensorFlow
I keep getting this vision of America 200 years hence where RBG is as revered as Lincoln for saving the union in a dark time.
Zero-knowledge proofs are an extremely practical problem. If you could convince an algorithm that you know a password, without having to type it, you would be impervious to keyloggers or any loss of your password - you would never have to change your password, either.

Unfortunately, there are no practical zero-knowledge proofs anyone can use in their heads. For this reason we are left typing them at least into the local device we're using - or having to use a second factor. Passwords can't stay in our head. That's a shame, because there's no theoretical reason for this to be so. Theoretically, easy, practical zero-knowledge proofs we can implement in our heads could exist. But apparently they don't.