skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It takes some understanding of how the pieces fit together as a whole but Bitcoin is really the first distributed system of trust. Its a new idea but there it is the first digital thing that is unable to be forged and therefore it creates a system where you don't have to trust a counter party.

It combines the following to achieve this [ hashing algorithms as proof of work, public key cryptography, solution for byzantine generals, game theory incentives to secure network and transactions ]

The result is something that is both digital and scarce so it is a novel way to store value digitally.
Uber is scaling back on US car leases as expenses pile up
Behind the Scenes of Software Marketing: Guarantees, Math, and Educated Guess
I have a project that I'm trying to turn into a product. I got it from spotting a new tech in use in a restaurant, and applied it to another market. Fingers crossed, I'll have investment coming in around Christmas.
In spite of these subtleties, a number of solutions to the technical frame problem now exist that are adequate for logic-based AI research. Although improvements and extensions continue to be found, it is fair to say that the dust has settled, and that the frame problem, in its technical guise, is more-or-less solved (Shanahan 1997; Lifschitz 2015).

Yes, I read the article.

> Animals who are paralyzed from birth are blind, not because they have no eyes, but because they have no embodied experiences to allow them to interpret what they are seeing.

That's interesting. Where can I learn more about that?
That's unfair. As the other comments have noted, this is a difficult situation with few options, all of them bad. It's easy to say we should do something about the people suffering there, but what can be done without either war or the regime's cooperation?
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Maybe listen a bit more? Pretty clear differenches to my ear, and other commenters agree. Listening is not passive, it is a skill of focusing attention on minutae.
Free speech, and throwaway usernames FTW!

What are the times you are referring to? The times of breaking company policy? You can argue all you want that he was sacrificed on the alter of liberal witch hunting. But the reality is that his employer found it reasonable enough to have rules regarding what you, as a representative said employer, are allowed to say, then you will be fired. Full stop.

No one is talking about a lawsuit, or revoking his citizenship. He is perfectly entitled to his opinions. If I go and shit in the company sink because it seemed like a victimless crime and that all the waste water goes to the same place, I will expect some sort of company push back on me. And sure as hell wouldn't expect anyone to start a fundraising campaign so I can take my special brand of colon evacuation somewhere else.
If it was free anyone could post ads looking to hire. It's exclusive advertising to a high value potential customer.
Lithuania is a NATO country. For NATO to mean anything it has to have teeth, and I don't think collapsing in the face of Russian aggression would set a good precedent. If they sensed weakness and gained momentum I doubt they'd stop no matter how many Baltic countries we fed them.

So what, you'd have us return to the traditional "obvious" war and fire-bomb cities to the ground, with long-term and oppressive occupational forces? The Russians tried that in Afghanistan in the 80s. Didn't work out so well for either side. Many more innocents and soldiers died. Why resort to those tactics when drones/special forces can arguable be more effective with less blood on both sides?

It's not a straw man. Genocide has a very specific meaning: the intentional, total destruction of a particular ethnic group or nationality. Not all war crimes are genocide. We can debate whether US strategy in WWII constitutes war crimes, but by definition it did not involve genocide. Nor have any of our actions in the wars since. We were not trying to wipe out all Germans, all Italians, or all Japanese.

I'm not even going to get into the "war for oil" conspiracies. The Iraq war was a mistake, but if we did it for oil then we did a really shitty job.

And North Korean threats don't keep the US at bay, their massive conventional forces stacked along the border do. Their threats merely inflame the situation and make their own position worse. They come off as childish temper tantrums at best and invite direct retaliation at worst, and only serve to make it clear that North Korea has zero desire to peacefully co-exist with the rest of the world.

I wouldn't be surprised at all if, upon obtaining a reasonably large nuclear stockpile, they threaten to use it in order to extort food aid among other concessions.
Link can be found in the footer. In my experience it's more commonly placed in the top nav which is more prominent.
I don't think they actually found living microbes in the pH -3.4 wash, though.
An Introduction to Epipolar Geometry
Compression ignition is more an evolution than a revolution -- it's an iterative improvement on an existing technology.

Skyactiv exists in the first place because Mazda does not have the money or engineering resources to build a hybrid or electric car by themselves. I suspect that in a decade or two, Mazda's decision not to start building hybrids and electric cars when the other major brands were doing so will be regarded as a serious mistake.
I have no experience with this stuff, but I wonder if they could use a laser record player to capture the record, and then replay it with different simulated stylus sizes. Not exactly kosher probably, but could be an interesting experiment. Plus scanning time could be greatly reduced I imagine.
> It's such a superficial appraisal of the reality

The reality is exactly as described, namely:

As the feminist movement gradually took hold, women conquered one of these fields after another. 51% of law students are now female. So are 49.8% of medical students, 45% of math majors, 60% of linguistics majors, 60% of journalism majors, 75% of psychology majors, and 60% of biology postdocs. Yet for some reason, engineering remains only about 20% female.

These figures are accurate, as far as I can see. The only objection could be to the word "conquered", which sounds to me like an attempt to mine outrage out of nothing. The discussion is about why there's 51% of female law students (despite huge gap existing not so long before) but only 20% of CS students (despite having 40% 20 years ago). Clearly, there is something going on, and that's the interesting part, not discussing whether 51% of female students is "conquering".

> it's insulting that he then mocks people who think there may be systemic issues

I still had no examples of "mocking", but given the reality as described, there should be explanation why "systemic issues" exist in CS and engineering, but not in law, medicine, math, biology, etc. If the concept does not explain that, it is not fitting the facts, and as such can be dismissed.
A Google employee inflames a debate about sexism and free speech
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> I don't claim to know the author's intent

What so many comments about this memo don't seem to understand is that it it isn't possible to derive the author's intent from the text of their work. The intent of the author isn't included when the reader interprets their work, because the author isn't there[1] to explain their intent. The reader only sees the work.

As you said, intent doesn't matter. When authoring a work, it's important to consider how the work might be interpreted.

[1] http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/DeathOfTheAuthor (apologies for using a tvtropes link. It was better than Google's other suggestions)
I never had to look for sideproject ideas. They are there all the time by the dozen. The time to start and finish them is usually what's missing.
As far as I understand it: All kinds of stuff is happening in the universe that can only happen if there's much more gravity than we can explain with the matter we can actually observe. So there has to be something more than the observable matter. But we can't find it, so the assumption was that it didn't physically interact like normal matter (except for gravity), otherwise it would give at least some indication that it's there. Like infrared or something, I dunno.

But if it turns out it's black holes, I'm guessing it would have physical interaction with other matter but still be hard to detect and not interact in the usual way we expect of normal matter.

All this is speculation though, and I don't really know what I'm talking about.
Google employee fired over diversity row considers legal action
I wonder how valid this is?

http://www.news.com.au/national/western-australia/miranda-de...
I take a different view of this. I remember the dot com bust. This is a lot like the old IPO mania. Out of those ashes the real companies with real products survived and the culling of the vaporware was healthy for the market.

There are a lot of people in the blockchain space that believe deeply in the technology and are working to see it to fruition. There's plenty that see a quick buck and will leave their "investors" holding the bag. This cycle is not new and I don't think it means everything regarding blockchain is a scam. It's just very reminiscent of mid-to-late 90's Internet mania
This is a cliché but honest answer — I was using a similar tool and thought to myself “man, I could make something better than this.” I have this impulse a lot, and usually I stop myself from actually following through (there is always so much complication hiding below the surface!) but I kept coming back to it.

Eventually, I set a deadline for myself; I said if, six months later, I couldn’t scratch the itch to make something better (or at least find something better) than what I was using, then I’d start working on it.

The six months passed, and so it was born:

https://buttondown.email
>Frankly, I have a hard time seeing how anyone over 30 could find this piece compelling. It's founded in a childish self-centered view of the world, a self-indulgent bubble that finally popped for the author, but not until age 30?

Meanwhile if you go to rural red state America, the 90% of the country that doesn't live in cities where people can remain proud of the ignorance while also not even being aware of it, will tell you, upon being informed the mixed world opinion of America? You will get variably surprise, denial, and anger. And that's for people over 30. They have no idea what the world thinks, some will deny it and others will scoff why they should care what someone else thinks, they're all stupid socialist countries anyway (and therefore their opinions don't matter, sort of logic).

I think you're in deep denial yourself about how deeply ignorant most Americans are by presuming only the young are this ignorant. I'm willing to bet the millennial generation is more well traveled than baby boom generation (I'm X) and most of the ignorant cluelessness about the rest of the world comes from the most clueless waste of space generation in America which is the baby boomers.
Can you compare/contrast with Fluture? https://github.com/fluture-js/Fluture
I'm surprised they didn't just move him to a worthless team and let him languish until he moved on.

Perhaps generating training data for AI-based toilet scrubbing robots.
I quite liked it. The struggle was interesting. Reminded me of The War of Art by Pressfield, but less or more extreme depending on how you look at it.
Scala Native 0.3.2 release
I'm tentatively excited about this release.

It claims to fix the biggest complaint about atom: speed of editing and memory usage of edited files.

They did it by re-writing backing store for documents from JavaScript to C++.
> You likely feel that your capability is more in question

I don't really understand this. It's not like female engineers at Google had never noticed how few of them there were until this memo was published. Obviously you're a deviation from the average in some way if you're one of a few X in a large group of mostly Y.
> Probably because financial success is more important in such countries, gender stereotypes be damned

I don't know that you can say that financial success is more important in those countries, but I think you can say that tech is a more viable path to that financial success in those countries since careers like finance, law and medicine (the stereotypical high-paid professions in the US) mean working in their own country rather than coming to the US. If you're primarily motivated by money, as an American, there are surer paths to getting it than writing code. But as a foreigner that wants to work in the US (and therefore make more money), writing code is one of the best ways to do that.
Except they don't relinquish what they gobble up, so they're not making a finite resource (memory) available for re-use, they're a total resource sink.

Whether that's ’cool’ or not is a matter of persona preference.
To be fair, if bitcoin had improving institutional support, adoption, technology, etc., you would observe the same trend in HN discussion about it. That would seem to make it a problematic indicator of a bubble, at least on its own.

Of course, if one rules out the possibility that cryptocurrency is going to be a thing, then it's in a bubble by definition any time it's worth more than zero. This appears to be the underlying view of at least some commenters here.
China would never allow it. A massive influx of SK/NK refugees would absolutely destroy their economy. They also do not want to give the US a reason to gain a stronger foothold in the East, especially with Trump, who has been very critical of China, as the current president.
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New Shapes Solve Infinite Pool-Table Problem
It's funny to me that you trust fiat money that can be devalued at the whim of governments and central banks.
We're doing a port of OpenSSH to Win32 right now that includes the SFTP server and client that ships as part of OpenSSH: https://github.com/PowerShell/Win32-OpenSSH/releases

Key configuration is a little tricky right now, but we've got some helper scripts (eventually to be released as a module on the PowerShell Gallery) that it a little easier:

[1] https://github.com/PowerShell/Win32-OpenSSH/wiki/Security-pr...

[2] https://github.com/PowerShell/Win32-OpenSSH/wiki/OpenSSH-uti...
EFF and Kashmir Hill studied fertility and pregnancy tracking applications
I am sceptical about dark matter. It feels like it was invented because the theories we have do not match our observations.
And they should be. It's a big continent with lots of people a growing middle class and lots of room for all sorts of development. Im sure there will be some pushback about foreigners investing and making money off locals, but that's kind of the price of progress. Someone has to be the miss moneybags, be it locals or non locals.
Many weeks end with an interview that might be interesting independent of the course -- the first is a long one with Hinton.

https://www.coursera.org/learn/neural-networks-deep-learning...
For crying out loud, the top 20% of earners shoulder 84% of the tax burden of the federal government[1].

A few years ago I went to a seminar put on by Fidelity about trading options. A person asked about minimizing tax liability. The trader who was doing the seminar said something that stuck with me since: "if I'm being taxed, I'm making money. So I don't worry about the tax burden."

All your stat shows is that the top 20% are making the money, and the rest aren't.

As for an answer to your question, you should know that it isn't as simple as a single number. For instance, why come about October do I no longer make Medicare and Social Security payments? Of all people more capable of taking that hit, I instead get a discount. Everyone else gets taxed on every dollar they make, but myself (a relatively wealthy person in that 20%), I don't pay Medicare and SS tax on about 25% of my income. Why? I make a pretty good sum on capital gains every year. Why is that taxed at a lower rate than income, when all I did (at most) was click a mouse button a few times?

IOW, any single sentence solution for a complex situation, be it the Middle East or taxation, should be ignored.
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Insomnia is the best graphical HTTP client for me. I've been using it and recommending it since the HN announcement. At my previous workplace it sticked and now they also use it everyday. Props for a great product.
Same question for a ton of science fiction and fantasy. Some things that could be excellent on the silver screen, or as a television series:

• Fritz Leiber's "Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser".

I've not seen anything indicating anyone has ever even started development on a movie for this.

• Richard and Wendy Pini's "Elfquest".

Warner Brothers announced this in 2008, but canned it because they thought it might compete with another project of theirs, "The Hobbit".

• Larry Niven's Known Space series.

One Known Space short story made it to TV: "The Soft Weapon" was adapted to the Star Trek universe and became the Star Trek: The Animated Series episode "The Slaver Weapon", with Mr. Spock taking the place of Nessus the Puppeteer.

Ringworld has been in planning as a movie or miniseries at least three separate times, but never got past development.

• Anne McCaffrey's Pern series.

This actually got so far as casting and set building, and was within a few days of starting shooting for a pilot for a TV series for Warner Brothers Network, but when the showrunner presented the final pilot script to Warner Brothers for approval, they sent it back with so many changes it no longer resembled Pern (the changes have been described as turning it into something like a cross between Buffy and Xena). The showrunner, Ronald D. Moore, was a fan of the books and quit rather than accept the changes, and the project died.

There have been a couple of announcements since then, but as far as I know none ever went past announcing hiring a screenwriter and maybe an executive producer and then never being heard from again.
I have a bad habit of buying video games that I will probably never get around to playing, and I used to keep a list of those games in a spreadsheet in the order I wanted to play them. I decided to build https://www.grouvee.com to keep track of that list instead of the spreadsheet. Apparently there are quite a few other people that have this same issue!
> This termination will sadly haunt him and he will miss out on many job opportunities because of it.

But his employment is at will, Google can terminate contract any time, and it is not Google who caused that damage, but news outlets and information leakers, who distributed these information..
Oh, whoops. I misread that. <insert gif of homer disappearing into a bush>
Unless that documentary is backed up with hard data, I would dispute that "vast majority" claim based on the following:

* About two-third of the FFF were West African, so if that was true there would have been at least a very noticeable small 'epidemic' of black babies in West Germany. (EDIT: apparently that ratio fell to 2/5th in mid-1944, after Vichy fell and the 'new' French government was able to draft a lot more people.)

* The FFF were non-segregated, it would seem odd that only 2 out of 3 dudes in any random squad would take part in this, but not the third guy? In any case it would make it much more complicated to keep those events under wrap , which matters because...

* ...More importantly: ALL officers/cadres were white, and I do not think they would have allowed non-whites to have a go at white women, that would have crossed a line. The racial world-view was still very much a thing.

* The FFF were in much lower numbers than the US and Commonwealth armies (after all France had just come out of complete occupation), so I doubt they would have been able to do disproportionate damage on that front.

* Also, the "French occupied part of Germany" did not in fact exist until sometime in 1946, when the US & UK (sort of retroactively) created the "French Zone" to have 3 Western powers in Germany and counter the USSR influence. By that time I believe a large number of colonial troops had been sent back home (where, in fact, many of them took part in local independentist movements to end their occupation -- troubles in the French colonies started brewing as soon as mid-1945).

That being said, the scale of the rapes committed by the Allies has been a big taboo until a few years ago (except, famously, for the Russian army, since they were very quickly moved into a different category, "not-so-much-Allies-any-more", so it was OK to report that they raped their way to Berlin), and current evidences indicate that the allies also took part in war-rapes, a lot, and not just in Germany. So if the statement was "FFF did commit a large number of rapes", I would say: yes they probably did, all armies did it.
As the author mentions, this solution doesn't create identical distributions between the found case and the not-found case.

One other concern is that a db hit and miss could take very different amount of times (e.g., L1 hit vs miss that travels to disk).

* Don't waste server time hashing a password if you already know the user doesn't exist.

doesn't seem like too big of a concern, since you're spending the time anyway, it's just increasing server load marginally.

To solve the first problem, how about running two queries in parallel against the db, one for a fixed username and one for the given username? However, depending on the database, now you may run into caching issues with the fixed username, speeding up that query. Querying for a random username at the beginning might also push that row into the cache.

Maybe keep a large, randomized linkedlist of usernames on-disk (initialized on server startup), read out the next link, and use that as parallel username?

For these ideas I believe you would need to enforce a max-password-length and take up that many steps to check equality for all passwords.
I usually go at 75-80 on a "55" highway for my daily commute, never had issues even while passing cop cars. In general, as long as you're not driving like an idiot (switching 3 lanes without signalling) or running old tags, or basically have a red flag hanging, they won't bother you. Although if they do stop your for one of these reasons, they'll probably also ticket you for speeding. Speed limits are enforced far more strictly in residential areas though.
Was going to correct (posts don't have edit function), my other posts mention he has a Masters.
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You should see the amount of esoteric knowledge on the reviews of Grateful Dead shows hosted on the Archive. It's impressive.
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thanks- appreciate it! Hopefully I'll see you on there ;)
And you'll need to be well past "crappy speakers" land for the DAC to matter. A good DAC helps with things like lower noise and better EQ at the extremities of the frequency range, and we're talking about 78's. Anytime a transducer (mic or speaker) is involved, it's the vast majority of your coloring right there.