skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> You want to be able to reliable exclude

As a vendor - oh, yes, of course, I would absolutely enjoy as much control as possible.

As an end-user - nope, I want to decide on my trust vectors on my own. Even if I'm utterly delusional about my abilities to do so.

I just believe that a freedom to make a decision - even a terribly wrong one - is better than a secure lack of any. I don't want "trusted" authentication tokens to access sites from a "trusted" browser on a "trusted" OS to be displayed on a "trusted" monitor and so on[1]. Even if that makes world much more secure place.

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[1] Yes, that sounds far-fetched and alarmist, but it's really all the same - end user is out of control and "their" hardware is attested for the sake of security. We're already knee-deep in there, please don't let it spread on more things, gradually gaining acceptance.
Of course there will be corrections. There are a small number of people who own a large enough percentage of BTC that when they cash out the market will correct significantly.

There are some forces acting against this:

- The general usefulness of BTC, which reduces the incentive to move wealth out of BTC

- The incentive for these large holders to transact slowly, preventing an abrupt correction.
Actually, this has been available in Power BI for a while. I just went to a meetup last night and saw it in action.

It's fairly trivial to get this to work with well-formatted data.

I'm currently evaluating BI solutions for my company and just about every single one has something like this.
If the use case isn't security critical, and you know for a fact it won't become security critical later, and MD5 is convenient for whatever reason, then just use MD5.

Pardon my frustration, but: Jesus Christ, people. Why do we need to sell everyone on the fancy new thing in a hypothetical situation where it is defined not to matter?
Mistakes have been known to happen, like carving the wrong value for pi into a wall:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Washington_Park_MAX_Station#El...
FYI the person who wrote this paper has a long standing hatred of google ever since they warned people his website had malware. His motives might not be entirely academic.
Turing Lecture: Algorithmic Accountability
"So high-schoolers donating their blood are not aware that it might be used on healthy adults." http://www.cnbc.com/2017/05/31/blood-transfusions-from-teena... Really it's the lack of transparency and the payment imbalance that concern me.
It's really cool that starting today, App Engine flexible environment users can deploy to the latest version of Python, 3.6.
There is no learning without invariance
Different Approaches to Modeling Data with TypeScript
We considered that as well. We have a smoke test for the chart that hits each service with a generic ping RPC. I thought that was good enough upon reevaluating it. The generic ping RPC comes from an inherited service which means _any_ or our Thrift services could respond correctly with a pong. Which means the correct service may run on the same port. I verified this is not the case. I'll update the smoke test to use a different test rpc as regression for this possibility.
They're not challenging Google's dominance of search or projecting responsibilities on them as a service due to that monopoly.

They're simply objecting to Google using its dominance in search to gain dominance in, for instance, digital translation.
The very framing of "both sides" is a fallacy: most issues have many distinct sides, not two.
> I actually assume the project will fail and prepare for it

I do as well, but it is always a bit of a conflict in the back of my mind wrt feeling 100% dedicated to someone else's project. I want to feel that I'm committed 100%, but always have to be preparing for "this will not work out, what is plan B?".
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Mostly a matter of trust. I trust Quantopian more than I trust some random asshole on eBay purporting to sell accurate historical data. Plus, Quantopian is convenient.
The US would be fining the US arm of a Chinese company, and has already done so multiple times.

Similarly, China has fined a bunch of Chinese arms of foreign auto companies for monopoly issues around spare parts.
The entire Bitcoin network consumes about 2GW at the moment, which is something but not much compared to China's total generation capacity which iirc is something like 900GW
Life of a BigQuery Streaming insert
That the author would focus purely on his PoV fits with what I read about the author's character. I was reading and wondering why he wouldn't inquire and link to an official statement.
There's a concept in economics whereby the gains from trade tend to accumulate to the owners of "fixed resources" in a system. In this case that would be the people selling the blood. So I would expect that in the long run the market would stabilize with people selling their blood getting paid the full worth of their blood (decreased by transaction costs of all the middlemen involved in getting the blood to other people, of course).

The reasoning is that if a blood bank is trying to grab a bigger slice of the pie than just its operating costs, a second blood bank can open and compete with the first one on price, and the only equilibrium is to have blood banks charging exactly at cost and no more.

Since you say that the business is predatory on the blood donors, do you think it's just that the market hasn't had time to settle, or that there's some funny business in this market maybe?
The US only fined 5 billion to Goldman for the financial worldwide crisis.

That's peanuts

Ps. http://fortune.com/2016/04/11/goldman-sachs-doj-settlement/
Why do programmers feel the need to convince other programmers to switch to a different language? How does it affect Programmer A, a C++ programmer, whether or not programmer B prefers to use C? I like both C and C++. I also like Objective-C, Ruby, and Python. Each one has its place--and if I'm starting a new project, I'll use the one that makes the most sense to use given the project's requirements--or a mix of them if it's appropriate. If I'm joining a project in-progress, I'm happy to use whatever language has already been chosen. Why get into religious wars?
You're free to google that for yourself. I'm not your research service.
Right, but it does so by giving them money to spend on expensive stuff, which treats one of the symptoms instead of the root cause.

What I'd sooner advocate is to instead give that money to organizations working to make that expensive stuff actually cheap for everyone (or at least cheaper than the alternative of sticking with fossil fuels). That way, it's more economical for everyone (not just rich countries, and not just poor countries) to skip the fossil fuels stage of industrialization and jump straight to green energy everywhere.
A similar thing recently happened when Blue Bottle wanted to open where Bean There used to be on Steiner at Waller.

http://sfist.com/2017/05/15/blue_bottle_blocked_from_opening...
This will discourage voluntery doners from blood donation. It's really shame that there is no regulations to prevent this behavior.
My statement was written in such a way, so as to deliberately avoid this part of the conversation, forcing you're use of the word "seem" to be injected into your conclusion.

I am aware of the charged concepts of Bell's Theorem, Fate and Determinism and the interplay of Quantum Entanglement and that unique quirk of particle spins seeming to solidify into concrete realities, only after observation.

Basically, I'm taking the position of the agnostic, and concluding nothing. I am aware of the conflicts and debates you've enumerated, and eliciting no opinion or stance.

What I am saying, is that all of these things I've avoided are human interpretations of observed realities for now, and remain mostly unresolved, with neither side really giving in, regardless of numbers and head count on either side.
> it's an illiquid market for them at the volumes they are looking to trade

This is the case with any market. Try liquidating a few million shares of any stock.

There are large volume desks already (associated with major financial institutions) who can handle very large transactions. They will take a bit of a margin on the transaction, but that is a function of market dynamics and has nothing do do with cryptocurrency vs fiat currency.
Not bay area (though there fairly often) but if you do it please have it recorded and posted somewhere. Would be a great resource.
Looking at this completely coldly and amorally... The governments aren't considered 'illicit' under French law. Perhaps search result manipulation isn't illegal under US law (I don't know). That's irrelevant as the laws of the land where the acts took place were broken. The companies breaking the laws must have known that and taken the risk anyway. They lost. They got fined. The more fines that happen the bigger the incentive for the other party to reciprocate.
just make it a market, regulate it to ensure there's no abuse and let people sell their blood if they want to. this could lead to improvements in people's health - to donate your blood it gets tested for diseases.

edit: grammar
for real? i mean isn't that something those secret agencies should have done so already by fancy machine learning and stuff?

And i remember, if you ask something, like a phone-number (of a girl in a club), you don't always get the proper information!
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http://www.cs.yale.edu/homes/perlis-alan/quotes.html
Interesting piece on the wiki page: there appears to be confusion re: drinking blood vs transfusion.
I think you're reaching here.
The heart symbol is a silphium seed pod.

(See also: Cunningham's Law)
In the words of Dennis Ritchie, "If you want PL/I, you know where to find it."
He contributed 800 words and 4 large pictures of food porn as publicity for Magnolia Bakery. I would hardly call that a "damning" action. He's done his share to promote them more than once over the years as well.[1]

Here is a list of his Eater articles fetishizing things like donuts, Croque Monsieurs and porridge as well as articles with titles such as "How to eat like Anothony Bourdain, "How to do a Pho Tour" and "Where to get the Best Dim Sum."[2]

Can you explain why you don't believe such articles promote conspicuous consumption?

[1] https://www.villagevoice.com/2011/01/28/cops-love-magnolia-b...

[2] https://ny.eater.com/authors/robert-sietsema
Bees and Bombs – Animated Repetitive Patterns
The topics of impact of tech on society, and of ethics in technology, are something that I too would like to see discussed more. Separated from politics as much as possible, per your point 2.
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Which, architecturally, is a reasonable objection. But Google runs one of the largest ad networks in the world, so even if a given content creator doesn't run Google's ads, they've probably considered it, and have definitely heard of them. Unless you're deeply involved with online advertising, clicks, impressions, CTR, CPI, cost-per-action, cost-per-click are just noise; content creators want to create content, and be compensated for it.

It's a different market to chase money from people that actually read their content instead of companies who want to sell their products, and outside of a few large paywalled sites like Bloomberg or WSJ, many attempts to charge for content online have failed - but the conundrum is they don't fail for lack of readers, just lack of readers willing to pay.

As far as privacy issues, compared to 2 billion active chrome installs[1], the 611 million people that use ad-blockers[2] is only 30%, assuming they're all using Chrome (which I doubt), and even then, privacy tracking blocklists aren't turned on by default, so the percentage of Internet users that know about the privacy aspect, and care deeply enough about it to do something, is surely smaller still.

Google, then, is one of few parties with enough clout to create such a system and possibly prevail. Content creators have already explored a relationship with Google, many end-users already have logins for Gmail, and many have already paid Google directly in some fashion (Google Play store on Android).

[1] https://techcrunch.com/2016/11/10/google-says-there-are-now-...
[2] https://pagefair.com/blog/2017/adblockreport/
> I really don't understand the argument that people can safely type "SHA-3" but not "SHA-2 512/256". Would it help if we renamed SHA-2 512/256?

The name is a serious problem. If you work with this stuff regularly enough to know the difference it might seem obvious, but that's not the case for many would-be implementors and bug-fixers.

The name makes communication problematic enough to not recommend usage.
What's your end intent? (to get better at giving interviews? To get better at taking them?)
What industry?
Is it some form of tying? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tying_(commerce)
Right. In fact, I included your quote saying "the existing guidelines have it about right" in my essay. So I thought it was pretty entertaining that the top-rated comment here summarizes the discussion in the post announcing the experiment without paying any attention to the result of the experiment.
Google makes money in Europe, just like they do in the US. That's what this fine is about. If they don't like it, they can leave. Like they did with China, back in the day.

Markets have rules. Don't like the rules? Leave the market.

If Google were unreachable in Europe, this fine would not have existed.
Those two degrees along with work experience is a wonderful advantage and can help give you an extra boost as you move forward in your career.
WhatsApp Has a Viral Rumor Problem with Real Consequences
But a brute force test like the parent comment described wouldn't catch that either, unless it had 'correctbatteryhorsestaple' as a word in one of its dictionaries. And if you're going to go that route, it's just as easy to put 'correctbatteryhorsestaple' in one of zxcvbn's dictionaries.

Any common password pattern you could catch via brute force could also be detected via zxcvbn, except that zxcvbn would be much faster and more efficient at it.
The world is sitting on a $400 trillion financial time bomb
Truly a mysterious question: what could "I PAY YOU TO SHIP ME BITS SO SHIP THEM ALREADY" possibly mean?

If the people who ran ISPs ran a food delivery service, they'd be running a massive lobbying campaign to explain how not being allowed to shake down restaurants for extra cash ("lots of things could delay this delivery. You wouldn't want that, right?") is "burdensome regulation".
I did never say, that I gave a full record of why the 2nd WW happened. I just gave one valid reason that made it possible.

But of course, everybody just wants to see his view of the world and nobody wants to be questioned in his style of living. Just don't think about politics and make a ton of money making the world worse, is so much easier.

Snowden took a stand. You do not.
EClinicalWorks fate in question, and it holds lessons for all hospital CIOs
I wonder how much of the improvements are attributed to having more red blood cells in your body that normal, which would allow you to carry more oxygen. This is the theory behind blood doping in sports.
Well, I've tried plain C in one project. The compiler didn't complain when I did some invalid casts, didn't complain when I forgot to return values from functions, provided some warnings against using some undefined functions, but compiled the units anyway (failing on linking stage), I had to write my own implementation of vector (probably buggy and slow), and probably I've forgot to free memory in some situations because C doesn't support smart pointers and automatic cleanup through RAII. Lots of times I felt I'm programming in some dynamic language that doesn't support types, because types are so weak in C. This means that lots of bugs were caught in runtime, not compilation step. Trying to use a hashmap meant I had to pull additional dependencies.

Disclaimer: I don't love C++, I think it has lots of problems, but saying C++ is wrong, while C is right suggests to me that lots of people didn't take time to actually learn C++ but have strong opinions on it.
I'm a little confused about what to do with a community for index fund investors.

"So, you letting your investments sit there, not touching them?"

"Yup, you?"

"Same"
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Yep. This is a very important point. If you are experienced and planning on joining a startup try to negotiate for early exercise or a very long exercise window for your options. Either that or be prepared for a nasty bill if you ever decide to leave and the start up is doing well.
"But your honor, I only tried to kill my wife - I didn't succeed!"
I do a big data steamy insert every Saturday evening.
Yeah but the block chain is available to everyone. So potentially anyone outside - or even worse inside - the oligarchical/plutocratic can have an idea of just what the heck is going on. Best keep that genie in the bottle.

It reminds of what some Soviet leader (Krushchev, maybe?) said when asked why he was against an "open skies" Treaty.

"We have nothing to hide. We have nothing and must hide it"
Same thing here, except I did Sublime -> Atom -> VSCode.

Atom/VSCode are open-source and not written in C++, so they can evolve a lot quicker, with many more contributors than Sublime's one-man-army.
Also, "Reasons to Switch from TensorFlow to CNTK": https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/cognitive-toolkit/reasons-t...
Gary is a connoisseur for pixel-perfect large text that exactly fills the given space:

https://twitter.com/garybernhardt/status/780497807434100736
https://twitter.com/garybernhardt/status/760648828772941824

and

"What I really want to do is tell CSS to make text a certain width, but technology is not yet advanced enough!"
https://twitter.com/garybernhardt/status/754036917864247297
Their GUI Linux clients weren't much better when I checked a year ago. But this is the kind of thing that will probably work itself out, being open source and all.
Aside from their diet, the other factor these communities all have in common is that they are isolated, either socially or geographically, or both. Which means that their gene pool is also isolated. Which means that if they happen to have mutations that lead to long life, those mutations are likely to persist locally.
OMG, Google stole your idea. You should sue.
What's the advantage for the end user of this, over an ad blocker which is a free ad removal pass?
More traditional clinical trial is being run by Stanford. Estimated completion was January 2017, but data is not posted yet.

The official title is "The PLasma for Alzheimer SymptoM Amelioration (PLASMA) Study: Intravenously-Administered Plasma From Young Donors for Treatment of Mild-To-Moderate Alzheimer's Disease". More on https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT02256306
Make sure it can easily be replaced if needed though. I also use it in contexts where I need some consistent "randomization" (like your hash ring).

The thing is that even though security might not be an issue in your application, you might discover in the future that it is. For example python dict relies on hash table to store key-values, doesn't seem like something that would be concerning (you're not encrypting or keeping anything secret), but python applications then started being targeted by collision attacks. The attacks' goal was to insert many elements that hashed to the same value, which caused DoS. Their solution though was to use salt value which is different on every run.

The point is that something that might not seem like a security issue might turn out to be later on. It doesn't necessary mean we should always strong cryptographic hash functions (in many cases they might be too expensive) but at least write code in such way that we can easily replace it with something else if we need to.
The problem is that this approach requires well structured data and most corporations have data all over the place, in legacy systems or some half-assed backed solution that kind of works. So even if you provide them with some state of the art platform that pulls graphs out of thin air they'd still need shitloads of consulting and custom made tinkering to make it work.

The other problem is that most executives don't even know what kind of graphs/reports they need. Sure, they can have the classic sales by region and stuff, but the really important things are hidden and require a lot of digging and asking to get to.
Google needs to be put in check. They think they are above the law.
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What are you suggesting they show first? Most people would argue that Google's translation service is the best of the free/ad-supported options out there.

Even Bing shows Google's translator first (after their own inline version).
Maybe because it is less popular, this is first time I hear about it. Probably it's also not as widely available.
I second the above comment; you should write about the process and how it is working out for you.
Wouldn't that make "mechanical keyboards for everyone in the open floorplan" seem like a smart decision?
This also shows that measurements of entropy are always relative to a particular party's knowledge, which is an interesting concept. (When we say that we're measuring the uncertainty that an attacker -- or message recipient -- has, that naturally depends on what the attacker or message recipient knows.)