skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"If Galileo had said that people in Padua were ten feet tall, he would have been regarded as a harmless eccentric. Saying the earth orbited the sun was another matter. The church knew this would set people thinking." -- Paul Graham, What You Can't Say [1]

"And worse than simply thinking these things or saying them in private, you’ve said them in a way that’s tried to legitimize this kind of thing across the company, causing other people to get up and say “wait, is that right?”" -- senior Google guy, in condemnation of the essay [2]

[1] http://www.paulgraham.com/say.html
[2] https://medium.com/@yonatanzunger/so-about-this-googlers-man...
Agreed. Just switched from X1 Carbon to T460s. Got it with 4GB of RAM and stuck a 16GB stick in the slot (total: 20GB). It's hard to tell the difference with the X1 Carbon and the extra USBs, HDMI and such are welcome.
So you like free speech except when people use their speech to call out speech they don't like?

Let's stop bullshitting, this isn't about any core principles, it's just another battleline in our ugly politics.
Maybe the industry has changed.
Political Partisanship: A Look at the Data – Towards Data Science – Medium
I looked for claims in the manifesto that women and/or minorities are inferior, and I failed to find them. Would you mind providing an example of what I seem to have missed?
Any sufficiently complex system will always run in degraded mode, because the individual mtbf rates for distinct elements will compound. Even a stop-the-world overhaul can't fix that, it will reduce the failure rate but it won't get rid of it. The trick to running such a system is to assume it is broken and still figure out ways of providing continuous service.
What they don't mention is that Makani has thoroughly proven that the concept is not viable. The wing-on-a-string is too unstable and too expensive to compete with plain old wind turbines.

Edit: removed unsourced claim about the future.
At least Lenovo provide a choice. If you want a mobile Xeon workstation with 64GB ram, they sell it.
>Any middle class family can get raise 90k.

This was not a group of middle class people coming together. This was a single couple, spending their own money.

I agree with you that some middle class people could raise 90k if they needed to. Maybe to pay health care expenses for a loved-one. They would not be spending it buying private roads.
OP means Original Poster, or the person who started the thread/posted the article. Do you mean GP (duncan_bayne)?
>So widespread has this become that a number of independent fact-checking organizations have emerged to establish the veracity of online information. These include snopes.com, politifact.com, and factcheck.org.

As long as it remains an assumption that these are 'independent' non-partisan fact-checking organizations, I would discard any conclusions drawn here.

Also Breitbart is highly editorialized news and commentary, but it's certainly not fake. The fact that its CEO strategized the largest political upset in recent history is very, very real.
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One of my first exposures to this "manifesto" was on Twitter with someone starting a thread with "Google has a Nazi problem." The majority of the other responses I read either attacked the author, dismissed the entire text in whole, and/or refused to actually argue the paper's points because they saw them as so ridiculous or "obviously" wrong.

I read the paper. I don't see at all how it relates to fascism, Trumpism, or whatever you want to call it.

I am against discrimination, and that includes positive discrimination.

If there were factual inaccuracies in what the author wrote, why not discuss them? Why not use high-quality sources to validate your argument? I wish it was the opposite, but I don't have the time to research the psychological/sociological perspectives on these issues. Human civilization has grown thanks to being able to specialize. I specialize and (hopefully) make contributions in one field, but I depend on others that have specialized elsewhere to provide knowledge and resources I can depend on.
From the article "But it is only last year that we successfully drilled into the impact site, and only now, for the first time, do we really understand why the impact was so fatal. And if the meteorite had arrived ten minutes earlier, or ten minutes later, it would still no doubt have inflicted devastation, but the dinosaurs would still be here and you wouldn't."
+1 for Tower (there's also a windows version).

It's the only git GUI that has made me consider switching from the CLI interface.
Converting Skin Cells into the Elements of Any Organ with a Non-Invasive Touch
> the known plaintext attack breaks pretty much every crypto system

This isn't true at all.
What Would Linus Do?
After Sliced Bread Came Ramda.js (Part I)
My first reaction to $class was the following: since we are talking about metaclasses, why not use that name instead, that is "metaclass" in place of "$class"?
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Exactly. The article I linked makes a pretty good case for why free parking is not a net public good: "Transportation is now the largest source of greenhouse gas emissions in the nation. Pricing parking, on its own, could make a significant dent in the nation’s carbon pollution, not to mention the terrible loss of life on the roads."

I don't expect private cars to ever disappear, but starting to line up the economic incentives to to disincentivize private car use makes a lot of sense if we're really serious about addressing global warming.
One interesting thing about this: You are performing known operations on unknown data. But theoretically you could simulate a generic computer whose program is encrypted data as well, thus enabling unknown operations on unknown data. However, with speeds in the ms per gate we are a long way from that being practical right now.
protip: do this before having children, as it will be virtually impossible after.
Great idea, but I don't need an app for that. My fiance takes on this role - we've been living in another country for almost two years because of one idea she had. I'm picking the next place once both of us get bored with this one. Suggestions, as always, welcome. Has to be in the EU though.
it is my favorite neural network library as well. Tensorflow is very heavy for testing.
In the history of science we are apt to celebrate singular voices that overturn conventional wisdom. What we don't see is the large number of cranks with TimeCube theories who imagine themselves to be geniuses.

The history of science has a kind of survivorship bias toward good ideas, and most people who think they're the next Galileo are almost definitely wrong.
You want to lump (a) people who simply think, as a technical opinion, that there are population statistical differences with (b) people who desperately want an excuse to cleanse society of black people. They are not the same thing, and to pretend they are is to oversimplify truth in order to make a virtuous statement.

Some people argue that this is a good thing to do, but if you do this you can't complain about the phrase "virtue signaling," as someone prioritizing virtue over accuracy.
Have you tried keeping your left hand stationary and clicking with your left thumb, while mousing with your right hand? I find that position to be equally convenient for both the trackpad and the trackpoint.

Or setting the entire trackpad to respond to clicks / taps?

When I'm casually browsing, I find it very comfortable to put my thumb on the lower lip of the machine, mouse with my right index finger, and click with my right middle finger.
They have garages, for sure. The street parking are extra spaces. Still they can be rented out to non-residents.
Maybe you want to buy a nice house or yacht, because you think those are more practical and/or fun than a number in a database/blockchain. Obviously, you'll leave as much as possible in bitcoin.
Well, yes. That's how words change. Phrases, too - I've given up the "begs the question" battle.
> I once booked a flight to Iran departing hours after I bought the ticket, simply because it was the cheapest option for an interesting place to fly (under $180 round-trip.)

...

...

I'm trying to decide which part of this sentence is the least surprising part. It's definitely not the part where you could fly to Iran and back for a grand total of $180? I don't think it's the part where you figured out that this was a thing you could do, and then decided to do it with only hours notice.

There has to be a follow-up question, but I'm still too baffled by this sentence to think of it. Bravo? I would not have the fortitude to try this, as a white American of European descent. Even knowing some Arabic (if you know any Farsi, that would obviously take some of the surprise out for me...)
Part of what makes the subway system worth bragging about is that it runs at night.
I kind of wonder about the 'high-stress.' Why is programming (or whatever you want to call it) high-stress? I mean there doesn't seem like there would be an inherent reason for it to be high-stress just considering the task. And what about women in jobs like nurses and teachers?
Worth pointing out that Numerai actually doesn't use encryption in any standard sense (including structure-preserving encryption), but instead seems to be using some heuristic method of obfuscating their data.

Their (closed-source) method of obfuscating their data apparently does have the property that it preserves the structure of the data, but calling it "structure-preserving encryption" is misleading imo since it risks confusing it with standard notions of encryption and structure-preserving encryption which have much stronger security guarantees.

(Their marketing seems to encourage this conflation by, for example, citing academic advances in standard notions of homomorphic encryption and SPE and implying that these advances have enabled Numerai's technology)

https://medium.com/numerai/encrypted-data-for-efficient-mark...
indeed, there is one thing i don't understand: why $class and not metaclass...
Makes sense. I would think, even without testing, most people would expect vue etc to render their content on various browsers, rather than render nothing. I myself am sometimes surprised/confused when code that runs elsewhere fails on WP. Might not affect this fun project, but worth knowing down the line. Often it related to promises, if you are using them.
Yes, I understand. I was thinking about:

a) smart contracts controlling something within the encrypted data based on publicly available data;

b) encrypted key-value store where you traverse the tree structure based on encrypted query and encrypted tree buckets, but get a publicly available result about which bucket is next (similarly to how it was done in Arx paper using garbled circuits).
Why are people so outraged at this guy? I read what he wrote and it honestly sounds like he's trying to be helpful. It's at least polite. The knee-jerk "SEXIST!" reactions to him come off extremely self-righteous and immature.

There are a hundred other male-dominated careers and I never, ever hear women complain about not being equally represented in them. Why? Because they're not attractive careers.
I am pretty sure they are not including the contacts. They are only including the subsidies. As far as contracts go, SpaceX landed deals totaling more than 5.5 billion from the US Air Force and NASA alone.
Act 20 applies to any company or freelancer exporting services from Puerto Rico. Act 22 only applies to passive income, so it targets investors moving to the island.
White women are the biggest beneficiary of Affirmative Action. If you think that AA is a race only thing you are wrong.
> This work leaves much room for improvement, however. For example, the throughput and latency can be significantly improved by using GPUs and FPGAs to accelerate the computation.

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/wp-content/uploads/...

> We demonstrate CryptoNets on the MNIST optical character recognition tasks. CryptoNets achieve 99% accuracy and can make more than 51000 predictions per hour on a single PC. Therefore, they allow high throughput, accurate, and private predictions.
The first step is to want to help.

Too many, all across the spectrum, have his mindset that people that do or think things they don't like should be destroyed and locked away from "civilized society." A common rebuttal I see from these sorts, after being questioned why they don't take it upon themselves to sit down and understand one another (I will concede there is a very very very small minority that this shouldn't be done with, but you're unlikely to ever interact with them), is that it's not their duty to help these people.

Unfortunately, this makes the issue worse when you start exiling certain groups and radicalized with hate.

Here's an interesting article (isolated incident) where those with extreme views were shown compassion and understanding, and ultimately disavowed their ideas:

Black Man Gets KKK Members To Disavow By Befriending Them:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/black-man-daryl-davis-be...
> In my estimation, shoving onto the train just wasn't worth it.

In my ~17 years of living in NYC, I've never found it to be worth it trying to squeeze myself onto a train. The ride itself is awful and literally you're at most saving a few minutes at the expense of a terrible, terrible experience in the car. The next train almost always has fewer people on the car, and if that's not the case, the one after that most certainly does.

[Edit: I've also been fortunate enough during my time here that I could always afford to be a few minutes later to my destination, that is not always the case amongst those who take the subway]
How did we first find the speed of light?
Sure, people that call themselves middle class aren't necessarily using some degree of financial security as a measure.

That doesn't mean that there is no argument to be made about financial security being a defining aspect of middle classiness.
Not sure what you mean exactly, but $class is just an example, you can also have $interface $sometypeofstruct $unmutablevaluetype etc so prefixing that all with 'meta' would be a mess
San Francisco & California's property laws are certainly not thousands of years old.
> Only trouble is that once people find patterns like this, they have a habit of disappearing.

It took me a few seconds to figure out that you meant the patterns and not the people as the targets for disappearing.
How are potential infinite loops handled? Say you reflect, multiply, and reflect back.
1. Classes itself can be improved, but at this point, will they date breaking compatibility? Maybe from that perspective this will be given a shot.

2. More code at compile time would work. Pythinizing may work. Lisp is quite different.
Is there a site to sign up on so people can find you and find out that you are not on facebook? That would be great! Maybe facebook could integrate those results into there people search. "John Smith, Anytown, USA isn't on facebook. Try emailing him".
> The thing is, the guy wrote what many people think - outside of tech.

Sure, but tech is a field that requires intelligence, and Google a company that hires specifically for intelligence. The fact that people are stupid isn't news. The fact that a Google employee is, and that apparently a large fraction of the company agrees with his views, is definitely news.

The entire foundation of this essay is based on assumptions, anecdata, and debunked science. It is not an essay rooted in intelligent thought and an honest examination of the facts by any means. It is an ideological position and nothing else.
Looks interesting! If your service gets popular, won't the price have to go up to scale with the time spent playing games and the number of games in your catalog?

$5/mo seems like way too little to go around.
But Knight was never really alone. Sure, he didn't live with or talk to people. But he couldn't survive without stealing from the people around him.
Yeah. I rewrote the code with a state machine pattern but haven't uploaded the new code yet
This article is part of a series called Thinking Places, described:

> Grand ideas have a way of turning up in unusual settings, far from an office or a chalkboard. Months ago, Quanta Magazine set out to photograph some of the world’s most accomplished scientists and mathematicians in their favorite places to think, tinker and create. This series explores the role of cherished spaces — public or private, spare or crowded, inside or out — in clearing a path to inspiration.
New Yorker profile of Makani, from 2013:

http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2013/05/20/inherit-the-win...
Personal Audio loses its appeal for podcasting patent
My fruitless, previous attempts at not loosing history of changes in Rails apps
Did you read the memo? It doesn't seem like it.
I would apply it instead of garbled circuits here https://eprint.iacr.org/2016/591.

Although slower, it feels like TFHE would provide better security against an active adversary. So, at least, simple server-side encrypted queries would well be possible
Check fork out. I use it for quick overviews [MacOS only]: https://git-fork.com
This is the plot of the indie movie called "Buggaboo": http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0206610/

The main character, who is an Indian engineer living in Silicon Valley, says to his friends : "What if you could randomize your life?". That's all I'll say. It's a good movie. I'm not going to spoil it for you guys.
WannaCry hero gets bail; pleading not guilty over Kronos malware
I'd be frightened too if I was writing an article on Techcrunch that could potentially be seen as supporting the memo too much, since as we've seen that's the sort of thing that gets people fired once Twitter finds out about it.
I personally wouldn't want to work with people who can't handle the slightest adversity.
SV/YC culture is extremely toxic, and people hate having that pointed out to their faces.

edit: sv/yc are toxic for how they actively shame outsider opinions, then headhunt the individuals who put said opinions forward. from sama's what i heard from trump supporters, "Almost everyone I asked was willing to talk to me, but almost none of them wanted me to use their names—even people from very red states were worried about getting “targeted by those people in Silicon Valley if they knew I voted for him”. One person in Silicon Valley even asked me to sign a confidentiality agreement before she would talk to me, as she worried she’d lose her job if people at her company knew she was a strong Trump supporter."

like for instance on this website, where flagged & downvoted comments lead to rate limiting. sorry guy i can't respond to, it's the mods' fault. minority opinions get to say 1, maybe 2 things, before being silenced. controversial threads are flagged or removed by dang and co from the front page within an hour. ever have a convo with a conservative on here, where they just stopped responding to you? was probably silenced by the moderation team.

this discussion is flagged to obscurity, while the stupid circle jerk post about "google engineer breaking his bubble through global travel!" is on the front still.

http://blog.samaltman.com/what-i-heard-from-trump-supporters
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"But it goes further than that: If you specify zero as the destination register for an instruction, the entire instruction may be optimized out by the processor"

What's the logic for adding logic to the CPU for doing that? It may make such code run faster, but if programmers want faster code, they can just leave out such instructions.
I wouldn't consider that a change in worldview, which tend to be far more deeply ingrained.
It's predatory when the state seizes property using eminent domain and then gives a sweetheart deal to a private company to run the tolls on the road they build there.

It's not predatory when private property gets seized to pay for thirty years of back taxes and then sold to the highest.

These are two quite different practices.
Interesting. Any insight into what specific algorithms these are ? I would love to play around with my own data this way.

It wouldn't be a simple hash or something, would it ?
This is the one place where I actually do agree with the author of the essay: computer programming is now seen as a high-status field, so it's worth it for men who seek high-status careers to displace women and construct rationalizations. It wasn't high-status in the 1960s.
"Crippled" is a weird word to choose here. They made a design decision to prioritize battery life over fancy graphics. I don't particularly care about the fancy graphics, so that's a clear win for me. Is there something more I'm missing to justify the claim of "crippled" software?
[slides] #DeepLearning in Trading
Not just for Mac, there's a Git Tower for Windows as well.
The Fake News Problem Is About to Get Worse (And More Believable)
That seems like a really cool idea. I know at least a few of those games support OSX - any plans for a mac client?
Let's be honest. Many companies and people - such as yourself - don't want dissent. And that's fine. You'll have total agreement and get a lot done.. for a while.

But then the clueful people will leave and be replaced with yes (wo)men who know what productive work looks like but are incapable of actually doing useful things. A great organization that makes leaps and bounds will turn into an okay company that grows by a couple points a year.. and then get wiped out when the new thing/idea comes along.
Adios Adobe Flash, RIP
App nap is really great, I agree. But you know you can still run Snow Leopard, right? You could get an older pre-retina MBP for like $400 to run it at about the same speed as a Chromebook will run ChromeOS.
Really cool idea. Glad to see the subscription model being used in video gaming. How do you install and control game software? How do you uninstall it when someone unsubscribes? Do you use an application manager similar to AWS WAM to manage the application locally?
It can be $meta-class::class :)

Keep in mind simple=elegant is not in everybody's eyes.
Ask HN: What are your thoughts on multiple jobs?
Hello friends,

I am a recent graduate, employed full time at a startup. Since I have not started a family, I do have some spare time on my hands. This is a rare/short opportunity as I believe when I have kids, I would like to give them a lot of my time.

I was wondering what are your thoughts about doing contract/part-time work during the week in evenings?

Would I simply burn myself out?

My goal here, other than having more income, is to learn as much as I can. I believe the best way for me to do this would be to work on "real world" projects.

Note: I am a person that prefers full transparency so, if I end up doing something like this... I would have made all parties aware of the situation.
Yeah, the execution unit differences are really complicated.

Ryzen has four ALUs plus four partial vector units. These vector units are all 128 bit. Two can add and two can multiply. An adder and a multiplier can combine to do FMA.

Skylake has four math ports total, all of which can do basic ALU operations. Two of them have 256 bit vector capabilities, and each of those can add or multiply or FMA. A third has limited vector capabilities.

10 core (and higher?) Skylake-X chips upgrade those limited capabilities into an entire new 512-bit vector unit, also capable of FMA.

Depending on your exact needs, Ryzen can be slower or faster than Skylake, but it's usually slower on programs stuffed full of vector math, especially FMA.

I think I got that mostly correct.
Overview on Baidu's AI
This rings of the classic 'that billion dollar startup's idea is so easy I could have done it' with the classic response of 'fuck you, you didn't'
California didn't invent a new property system. It was developed over centuries in the common law which goes back to England.
> We dont need to know how everyone thinks. We dont want to know either.

So ignore it?

You must hate graffiti.