skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sort of. That other developed countries do it cheaper suggests that having sufficient safety/environmental regulation is not the problem, but our particular implementation of such could still be the problem (if it was particularly redundant or cumbersome).
It's probably not even a decision so much as a probable consequence of having a much smaller population and opening of new frontiers to settle over the course of the country's history, ending up today with about half the population spread across about the same total area, and not uniformly. What has been our decision is to respect individual and local preferences (NIMBYism) and to ignore certain infrastructure improvements.

Given that sprawl is not a new phenomenon but obesity is I don't see how you can claim this is responsible for making us fat.
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Which is a fine attempt by their legal team to wash themselves of all liability by declaring that their coins are basically nothing, but words wont matter in the eyes of judges and regulators when a speculative market appears.
Postage faster than PGAdmin3 and PGAdmin4 again
Yep, was expecting iPad client as well.
I'm curios about travel arrangements: i have spoken in many many events locally where I live, but never abroad. Thinking to propose a talk for a conference abroad, is it acceptable to expect them to cover travel expenses? (Not talking about pay for the talk itself, just flights and hotel)
If a large number of people all have to go in the same direction at a similar time, isn't that what public transit is for?

Cars are more useful when people need to go to random places at indeterminate times.
In Detroit, lawmakers recently passed legislation making it hard to sue the city for crumbling sidewalks.

http://www.freep.com/story/news/local/michigan/2017/01/05/si...
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I absolutely hated watching Mr. Robot. Gave up after 4 episodes.
Squad isn't (or wasn't, at least) a game company. I can't remember their actual line of business. Viral marketing or some such. The guy who started KSP made his pitch and had a fair amount of freedom to do what he wanted, but I don't think the company management ever really knew what to do with the game or the developers involved.

Also, game companies are famously bad places to work. I can only think of two for which I would even consider working, and I turned down an offer from one of them.
This is very cool. I wonder which company will actually try this out.
One of the reasons capitalism is so efficient is because of how quickly it deallocates from failure. Abandoning failed areas allows resources and people to be redirected to more profitable areas. Keep in mind the places we are talking about were quite possibly wilderness 200 years ago, and 200 years from now they could be again.
It's not that hard to work with the GC in Unity to make the game smooth, especially if you do so from the beginning. https://unity3d.com/learn/tutorials/topics/performance-optim...
you can apply this analogy to literally anything with benefits and drawbacks.
... and bitcoin of course.
I've noticed that Pex has taken over new construction in my area. I built my house 17 years ago and copper water pipes were still standard. I just assumed cost was the big driver since copper has gone up about 200% in that time.

You say that copper will eventually corrode, but how does that compare to the lifetime of Pex?
CUDA meaning GPGPU. All I was pointing out is that there is definitely a bandwidth doubling going from 8 to 16 lanes. It's used extremely often by people using the cards for compute. Mining may not have that issue, but deep learning and other applications do.
If the only thing you can do with a token is sell it to a greater fool, you're participating in a Ponzi. It's all fun and games till the music stops, then lots of people are going to be left without chairs, and in these cases, life savings. This space has existed for over 6 years now, which ICO has generated revenue near it's "raise" ? Even 1M of revenue?

Bitcoin is boring, but it's a real currency you can use. Move fast and break things is a bug not a feature. If you can't buy things with it, it's not a currency, it's Russian roulette.
Probably no compliance requirement given all the derivatives. SPARC is another open ISA where you might have to comply if saying it's SPARC-compatible along with a sub-$100 fee. I don't think there's a requirement if you give it a different name or say SPARC-like.
Quantum-secured blockchain
..and I wonder for people affected by hyperthymesia if they have memories of remembering a memory
Nah, drip coffee is gross, and I say this as someone who comes from a country where espresso is the "default" (if you want drip, you'll have to make it yourself, every coffeshop/diner/restaurant sells espresso, and for ~60¢/cup).

Sometimes one just doesn't realize how crappy the previous version was until one tries the new one.
>I'm curious about the statement that SHA-3 is slow; [...] I wonder how much relative attention the SHA-3 winner (Keccak) gets compared to other alternatives, like BLAKE?

Coincidentally, I ran a bunch of hash performance benchmarks last week. These were my findings:

test: hash a 500MB block of memory.
hardware: Intel Core i7-5820K Haswell-E 6-Core 3.3GHz
compiler: MSVC2017 (19.10.25019), 32-bit exe:
blake2sp - official reference code[1] 153MB/sec
SHA3 - Keccak official reference code[2] 12MB/sec
SHA3 - rhash sha3[3] 45MB/sec
SHA3 - Crypto++ library v5.6.5[4] 57MB/sec
SHA256 - Crypto++ 181MB/sec
SHA256 - MS Crypto API[5] 113MB/sec
SHA1 - MS Crypto API 338MB/sec
MD5 - Crypto++ 345MB/sec
CRC32 - Crypto++ 323MB/sec

The conclusion is that the fastest SHA3 implementation (Crypto++ lib with its assembly language optimizations) is more than 2x-3x slower than SHA256. I can't speak for SHA3 implemented in FPGA/ASIC but as far as C++ compilation targeting x86, it's slow. I've been meaning to try the Intel Compiler to see if it yields different results but haven't gotten around to it yet.

Blake2sp is fast. The official reference code is not quite as fast as Crypto++ implementation of SHA256 but it's faster than Microsoft's Crypto API of SHA256. (There are several variants of BLAKE and I chose blake2sp because that's the algorithm WinRAR uses. I think the specific variant of BLAKE that directly competed with Keccack for NIST standardization is slower.)

[1] https://github.com/BLAKE2/BLAKE2

[2] http://keccak.noekeon.org/files.html

[3] https://github.com/rhash/RHash/blob/master/librhash/sha3.c

[4] https://www.cryptopp.com/

[5] https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms867086.aspx
I actually enjoy work more after being at the team a bit longer - after I proved myself and they trust me. When you change the team/company, there is that period when they do not trust you and you have to be proving yourself constantly + dealing with colleagues who try whether you are suitable for being micromanaged or try to socialize by picking on you etc.

I like the work much more once these factors are settled - e.g. once I established boundaries and once I am trusted.
The telegraph in the UK does this, they even show you a full screen Matt cartoon that begs you to turn off adblocker, on EVERY new tab/window.

Even if you're a paying customer.
For those wondering how this can happen - AWS' command line tools and SDKs by default upload files as private. Scarily, some other libraries set uploads to public by default, for example: https://www.smore.com/labs/tinys3/

For those who say cloud isn't less secure than on-prem... that may be true. However, the cloud is generally just one incorrect click or setting away from being completely open.

Anyone know how the security researcher found the public bucket? Does he just crawl for buckets made up of common words? Does AWS not limit the amount of crawling from one IP?
America's elite have been gutting our society under a guise of building a "service economy" for decades now in a long line and history of the elite exploiting the systems they have a strange hold on. Silicon Valley and the tech industry have their role to play in it too.
I don't believe the author is looking down on people who work on boring, critical systems.

Rather, his point is that people who go _out of their way_ to hoard knowledge on ancient systems and make themselves critical are people you want to avoid. As a single point of anecdata, the best engineers I know want to democratize information - they hate tribal knowledge because it creates a point of failure and bottleneck in the Keeper of the Tribal Knowledge.
Fwiw, Ethereum uses Keccak for pretty much all hashes other than the proof of work (which uses an ASIC-resistant function).
Burn-flip-burn is nice. It'd be nice to see them performing realistic burns to alter orbits, but that might be too much to ask for.

>minus the epstein drive which is basically magic

It's canonically a fusion rocket, isn't it? So beyond today's means, but hardly "magic".
If I may (hopefully accurately) summarise your argument: the sponge construction means that we could just implement a single permutation in hardware / optimised software and build everything from it, thus saving die area / code size, and complexity.

But deciding to skip SHA-3 doesn't preclude any of that. SHA-3 is the hash standard itself, and even the Keccak team appear to be pushing K12 rather than SHA-3. It seems unlikely that a full set of primitives built around the Keccak permutation would choose to use the SHA-3 parameters at this point.

Indeed, SHA-3 adoption might inhibit that ecosystem by pushing towards those bad parameters. (I think there's wide agreement that SHA-3 is too conservative.)

On the other hand, you might want SHA-3 because you believe that it'll result in hardware implementations of the permutation and you hope that they'll be flexible enough to support what you /really/ want to do with it. I'm not sure that would be the best approach even if your goal was to move to a permutation-based world. Instead I would nail down the whole family as you would like to see them and use small chips to try and push it. K12 is probably a step in the right direction.
How to drive 10B miles in an autonomous vehicle
The government and its workers are not immune from litigation either, both have been sued, and successfully held responsible for damages.

Actual construction is performed by contractors, corporations that are contracted by the government. In the US, it is rare for a construction project to be built, or even be designed, by government workers. These corporations and their workers can be sued, and take on additional liabilities due to the contracts and laws that apply specifically to them.
Similar one in Croatian, where the entire rhyme consists of nonense words:

En Ten Tini,
Sava Raka Tini,
Sava Raka Tika Taka
Bija Baja Buf.

It kind of looks related to the English/Welsh "Yan, tan, tethera" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yan_tan_tethera) mentioned in the article, which is a bit surprising to me since Croatian (and southern-slavic in general) languages haven't borrowed much English words before the second half of 20th century and this is certainly older.
I recommend against Alpha since Intel acquired the IP and had a licensing partnership with Samsung they shut down. Quite proprietary despite wonderful advantage of PALcode. Also a simple architecture used even recently for CompSci CPU's (eg SAFE).
MiTM as a service. Install their root certs on your ios and android devices, no thanks!
This isn't about me. My comment was about a perspective shared by many people that unemployment numbers are fudged because they are a political football and how this further undermines reporting.

Project less, empathize more.
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It's possible but will run much slower with some of the restrictions in webasm.
Oh, you are probably right and I'm probably wrong
Some thoughts cause I'm bored:

* There are a lot of parallels to Acemoglu and Robinson and their Economic Origins of Dictatorship and Democracy, which puts a strong emphasis on inequality. This seems like a decent review:

http://neweconomist.blogs.com/new_economist/2006/01/book_rev...

* "Forming and coordinating groups is the hard problem of the human condition; the reason we have religions and corporations and criminal undergrounds and political parties."

Weirdly contradictory, if forming groups is hard, why are there so many religions, corporations, etc? Forming groups seems to be exceedingly easy and it is perhaps human to want to be part of something larger even if its nonsensical or bad for us.

* "Of course, the power of crypto to organise surveillance-resistant communications lines protects everyone from the coercive power of states: not just nice activist groups that want a fairer society, but also whacked-out white supremacists and Islamophobic conspiracy theorists."

Kind of feels weird to take a shot at "Islamophobic conspiracy theorists" when Islamic terrorist groups are the very "insurgent groups" he's talking about and probably as effective as any other group at using this tech.

Finally, just kind of disagree with the premise. If tech made the Saudis rich, if it is empowering the Zuckerbergs and the Erdogans of the world, then there's nothing inherently good about it. Technology only gets applied within a larger social context, which is why it's not the tech that matters but the civic institutions and social morality which discourages invasions of personal rights and greed which are what really matter. Robert Putnam has some really interesting stuff on this.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_capital
2TB of structured, epigenetic data increasing at rate of 50GB/week
They also weren't working in contraints of 1000+ design rules today's nodes would need for custom design.
i am not sure compliance, security and marketing etc. are cultural. I am pretty sure they are well defined skills/disciplines. The reasons why i believe devops is a cultural thing is because its not just about the technology, it is also about the process of executing work. you can use the tools and automate the shit out of everything, but this isnt devops. but if, as a full stack autonomous team, you are experimenting your way towards a target condition, (think lean), to elevate constraints, then you are working in a devops way. You cant work like this unless the organisational processes support it. We can then throw in all the great modern tools, software engineering methodologies, shift left, involve everyone in the organisation and then it does become a cultural movement. There is still a place for specialisation, but good specialists know how to work in loosely coupled way yet, function in an interdependent world. So,to summarise. its about the people, processes and technology and these things combined make it cultural.
Yes, but it wasn't EA who did the purchase.
I don't know but it's here and it is an epidemic. That's why I asked my question.
Sane dependency management isn't free! I have some tips, though:

# find how all node_modules on *nix under the cwd (gsort is for mac with homebrew coreutils; use `sort` otherwise)
find . -name "node_modules" -type d -prune -exec du -sh '{}' + | gsort -hr

# exclude node_modules from time machine backups
mdfind 'kMDItemFSName == node_modules' -0 | xargs -0 tmutil addexclusion
I watched it happen in the auto industry. You had all these small vendors selling headlights, grills and bumpers. Then someone came along who had bought out some of the little guys and offered the Big 3 a packaged front end of the car. They handled all the engineering post design and had a complete front end of the car that just clipped on.

They were non-union and in a rural area where wages were lower. The price was lower than buying everything individually and the Big 3 saved lots of money on their very high labor costs.

What's to stop people from doing a roll up, buying a bunch of litle SaaS companies and offering a package that is a complete solution? It would be discounted of course like MS Office back in the day which killed off the category leaders like Lotus 123, dBase and WordPerfect.

That is a far more plausible scenario than what this guy proposes.
If people don't bang on about it, nothing will ever change ... seriously, everyone will simply move on and build the next urban sprawl center, and the next shitty road, out to the next desolate subdivision because that's what's easy. No one wants to be agitated. Well, too bad, we _should_ be agitated. Those without the good fortune _should_ raise hell to the city planners, and attend city council meetings, and vote in local elections.

btw, I live in a place that definitely is an urban sprawl, and is in danger of getting worse as more and more people move here (Orlando, FL). So, I'm in the same place as it sounds like you are ... and I wish _more_ people would bang on
Let me be clear that I was not calling for violent removal of the president. I would like to see people with the power and influence of Musk do more to pressure those who have the responsibility and duty to protect the republic to actually do so.
It turns out that I might have the concept correct but been slightly incorrect. Instead of being used as the basis for micropayments they will be sold to advertisers who will then use the tokens to buy ads on the platform. Same concept, where you have a bunch of users who "invest" by buying the initial coins and then sell them when the service takes off, but I was wrong about what they're being used for.
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AI as a Service is what is next.

No UI is the next step, in my opinion.
Similar Booz story: I took an interview with them while with a competitor. I had no real interest in the firm, but was interested in what they had to say and offer for competitive intel. Ended up having a great interview with the guy who ran one of their larger accounts, who happened to be one of my clients at the time. Got a phone call from their recruiter that evening who was excited to offer me a position at a 30% pay cut and a more junior title. She didn't understand my confusion, tried to convince me that "our managers are basically partners at all the other firms", and eventually got the picture when I started laughing.

I think it was also Booz who tried to get me to tell them confidential compensation information because, quote, "C'mon, I'm not going to tell anyone."
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I agree. It's simpler, but it's also often a lot higher. In the AWS case, you can build an app that costs almost nothing to run, until you have usage.

If you paid $10-$100/month for every component just for simplicity, a lot of things would never get off the ground. One of the big differences is Amazon has also unbundled support from their pricing.
Countries that have limits on pre-election advertising spending generally include any and all public advertising expenses in that - TV, newspapers, online media, billboards, public space, physical mail campaigns, sponsorship of events/teams/whatever, etc. Pre-election ads by other people is limited - small amounts per person are exempted, but you can't simply buy a $10k radio ad praising whatever candidate you like, nor can a radio station do it on their own.

Also, in the pre-election time mass media have to offer equal conditions for all parties - if you own a TV station and run ads for one party for $1/minute, then you have to offer the same ad slots for the same price to all other parties as well.

I mean, it's not simple and it does require some limitations of what the people and media can do - which might conflict with USA 1st amendment, but in general the problem is somewhat solvable, it's somehow done elsewhere and so you can look at worldwide experience to pick out the bits that work best.
A lot of points in this article resonated well with me. Especially this:

> Companies that focus too much on technology without putting it in context of a customer problem will be caught between a rock and a hard place — or as I like to say, “between open source and a cloud place.”

I'm in the second year of a SaaS selling to entreprises. We are doing ok but all of our customers are nearly identical (it's in the public sector). We would love to have lots of different types of customers but we seem to be stuck. Our customers are probably buying our knowledge as much as our product.

I would say unless your tech is groundbreaking and not easy to copy, domain knowledge will likely be your differentiator. But that's harder to scale.
There is a substantial body of case law to consult when deciding reasonable constraints on free speech.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States_Supreme_...
I started with a weird mix, but mostly top-down: jumping through a QBasic programming book, picking up basic concepts as necessary to build things that sounded cool (a music player, an Asteroids clone, etc). Programming ended up feeling like a cool toy.

My serious education took a fairly strict bottom-up approach, and it explained roadblocks I'd been running into before, improved my mental model of the machine (and variations between machines), and provided a solid foundation to build on.

My opinion is that top-down is good for passion, bottom-up is good for correctness, and a mix of both is useful. You need passion to put in the necessary practice time. You need a solid foundation to let you build non-trivial software.
> "I hate that I get so stressed from my daily commute, but being able to drive to the countryside on the weekend is so nice."

I have truly never understood this line of thinking. These two are not tied together.

I grew up in a car-centric city, but moved away in my teens. I've never personally owned a car and haven't had one in the household since I was 17. I hear this supposed "upside" of cars from my friends who are still stuck in LA, and what no one has ever been able to answer is:

What prevents you from renting a car when you want to drive out to the countryside? I drive out somewhere beautiful on a sunny weekend probably 3x as much as any of my friends who own cars, and I'm still paying less for total transportation than they do (let alone the occasional hassle that owning a car exposes you to). The only actual negative I can think of is the mental friction of having to pay each time, and this is just an irrational speedbump that really isn't that difficult to surmount.
Im actually hoping that they don't make a sequel but continue the great style of continuously giving back to the community.

My personal guess for the future is that Kerbals will take off as a franchise, maybe even a movie, who knows. Lets face it, kerbals are just frickin cute :-)
A fair comparison is not what SpaceX is doing today, but what SpaceX could be doing with today's technology with multi-percentage points of US GDP as their funding.

In that context it's not at all impressive that they're just getting past beating 60s technology, and not even in all cases. Yes they've got reusability, but there's still nothing as big as the Saturn V.

Edit: To clarify, I think SpaceX is very impressive, but I think we as a species are doing proportionally less impressive things than in the 20th century given the level of technology we have. It's not their fault we aren't spending multi-percentage points of GDP on similarly impressive projects.
> If a large number of people all have to go in the same direction at a similar time, isn't that what public transit is for?

Yes, and in a sane nation, this would mean that people could live in small cities, take transit to work, then take transit back. But there are many, many places where this is not the case.

I lived on the outskirts of Dallas; it took ages for the rail system to approach usefulness, and individual cities along the route could opt out of having stations (and therefore, opt out of paying for them.)
I believe this is a good complememt to agl's post with a focus on K12 instead: https://cryptologie.net/article/393/kangarootwelve/