skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Last time I've checked you couldn't write applications on bitcoin blockchain and mostly that's why Ethereum is so popular.
This. I feel we should all be wary of a for profit institution trying to manipulate the government to force adoption of their product, be it a small or very large business. What if Comcast was forcing a commercial internet safety product?
It seems like the root of this entire problem is that Javascript is single-threaded, but current browsers want to be multithreaded (and specifically to do rendering and scrolling in a separate thread).

Does JS need to be single-threaded? I wonder if browsers could speculatively run JS event handlers in multiple threads, then block and transfer to a central "main" thread iff they mutate any global state.
I'm not the person you're responding to, but I have, and will continue to assess a company's "mission" before working there. I also look for companies in my community that I'd be exceptionally happy to work for from a mission standpoint.

It's way easier to be passionate about your work when you're doing it for something you really believe in.
This type of tweets or ideas are not useful, and they are just too easy to produce.

We all know people can have nice words and hearts. That does not prevent them being indifferent to what they did to other peoples or their country did to other countries.

I do not want politicians to use tweeter so much. Neither to say kind words or hateful words. Tweets are not for serious work of solving society problems.
One of the main reasons we moved to Portland 17 years ago was there was almost no traffic, whereas Seattle, where my wife is from, had a ton of traffic. Now Portland has a ton of traffic. I recently read an article in the local newspaper that there used to be certain hours in the morning and afternoon when traffic would be heavy, but other others would have no traffic. But, that is no longer the case. All hours now have heavy traffic. It sucks ;-)

Of course, everytime we go back to Seattle to visit the family we are reminded of what real heavy traffic looks like (though that still isn't anything like what LAs traffic look like where I once got into bumper to bumper traffic at midnight on a Sunday from Anaheim to Santa Clarita - now that is real traffic).
Pretty sure, it leaves a trail.
That would be relatively low grade error. Specifically errors have to be valued and not just counted.
Yes.

1. I want to be working on helping scientists, and this influenced current job search. Beyond personal satisfaction, this also has practical benefits: all things being equal, if you're motivated by the company's mission you'll be more focused (more at https://codewithoutrules.com/2017/08/03/stay-focused/).

2. There are jobs I simply won't take, because I think they're immoral or unethical. Other jobs I'd probably only take if I was desperate for money, since they seem pointless. (more at https://codewithoutrules.com/2017/08/07/do-something-useful/).

That being said:

* If you're bored, you will enjoy your job less.

* If you're working crazy long hours, you're actively undermining your ability to do your job. Doesn't matter how important it is, working longer won't actually help. (more at https://codewithoutrules.com/2016/08/18/productive-programme...)

So basically, my take is: finding someplace that you think is worthwhile and is a good work environment. Any, of course, pays you what you need. Living below your means can give you more flexibility in what jobs you need to take.
Alt-righters will occasionally shitpost stuff like this to derail any real discussion. I've seen dumps of dozens of misleading links to support points like the above. Forcing the thread to disprove each one is an effective method of hijacking the thread.
surveillance cameras at the checkout, not to mention the ridiculously high reload fee.
Visualizing THAAD
Chromeless allows for the setting of cookies. I noticed in an issue for Puppeteer that it wasn't seen as a high priority. Our use-case (session based cookies) rely on a cookie being set in order for our PDF screenshots to work.

Any chance you could give us some insight on when this may be available?
And the deification continues.
Stores have cameras and Visa cards have unique numbers. Not too hard to put the two together.

Bitcoin let's you transact without having to interact in physical space to acquire or spend them.
Right on -- we need more supply and local activism seems to be the only way to make that happen.

NIMBYism cuts supply because existing homes are worth more when there are fewer new homes available. Any economically rational homeowner would want that (even though it sucks for everyone else).

Demand is high because people have gotten rich! Google and Facebook stock prices have increased over 2x in nearly 2 years. That probably made a $1M+ for a few THOUSAND people. Then extrapolate all the other big exits or stock growth in time period... unreal wealth creation for many people. Demand isn't going anywhere. It's a supply issue.
Right. The reason my house is brown is: lack of exposure to blue paint.

No one is saying you can't convince babies, or anyone, not to be racist. Actually, if history proves anything, it's that you can convince anyone of anything if you get to them early enough.
So you think Obama hired a focus group to test if quoting Nelson Mandela would work?

And to call Trump's statement unemotional and unadulterated seems weird, because the teleprompter driven statement was delivered in a way that seemed so forced and inauthentic, it rang as false.

Sometimes emotion is needed to convey gravity and authenticity of a statement. I'm pretty sure if Obama was still President, he could have given a morally strong statement on the recent events. Did you see his press conference after Sandy Hook? That's what the nation needed when 2 dozen children are murdered, not a lifeless set of talking points written by your communication director.

This is not deification as another poster commented, it's the fact that other leaders, including Bush Jr, were far more effective at delivering moral clarity at times of national crisis or sadness. Remember Reagan's address after the Challenger explosion?

I'm still wondering at what point, Trump dead-enders will see something that finally makes them realize his extreme flaws as a leader and a person make him pretty unsuitable for the job he's been handed. It's not the left wing media, it's not the establishment, it's not fake news. He's doing it to himself.
Tokens will allow for increased liquidy. However, the greater liquidy comes @ a premium, & will increase the price of the asset.
Programming language syntax that I don’t like
All authoritarian, violent actors want you to think that violence (especially of the preemptive variety) is justified for their particular set of ideals. The viewpoint discussed in that MLK quote is not my viewpoint, he talks about people who are against violence even in the instance of retaliation.

I am all for equivalent response when it comes to a conflict, but "punch a Nazi" et al was about preemptively escalating a political discourse to physical violence. That's what my whole disagreement was with. As you can see in my original comment, I effectively said that if it's the case that the violence was initiated by the white supremacist protesters (which the initial evidence appeared to indicate) then counter-protester violence was justified.
The trouble with VPN providers is that even with reproducible client builds, it's much easier for them to intercept the traffic on their side. Plus there is a near-zero chance of detection, unlike on the client side where the binary can be decompiled.
No, you would not.
May I ask why you are asking for my email address. My first impression when someone is asking for my email to download something for "free" is that he is a lying piece of cr*p and he just wants to spam me later on.
Obama's response is so level headed. He doesn't blame the people, just the process, that of teaching hate and bigotry.

He is a humanist at heart. No matter his politics.

And one can only imagine how careful he would have had to be in his speeches, actions and approach to issues.

He represents the true spirit of the Idea of America.
What can be done to make sure the incentives don't align?

Right now the fringe groups get what they want through "any publicity = good publicity" and low effort journos get what they want through stirring up fake outrage and getting more views by writing exaggerated clickbait about these fringe groups.

Thus they both keep doing what they're doing, which poisons the public debate (by making fringe groups seem more significant than they are, sometimes to the point of drowning out the more reasonable voices)
What evidence is there that it's a search for truth? What have you done to show good faith? What sources have you already consulted? What answers have you already considered? And a hundred other questions that you MUST ANSWER before we can move on. Why not? By what right do you do all the grilling, and suffer none yourself?
Hi, I am Amit, the other cofounder.
Thank you. We would love any feedback!
Flights New York - Nashville for Sunday - Tuesday (I didn't check Monday evening return flights) seem to go at a bit over $1000, and some still available hotels $300 to $1000 per night.

Could also check prices to fly to some other cities on the path in the map. Kansas City?
Maybe you have a point, I should look into this and see if there are forums where women are trying to push into this field. I have family that works on off-shore rigs, and I've never heard a peep about it. But that is anecdotal.
I certainly agree with that. The Bay Area takes itself too seriously in this respect.
There are many points there:

1 - Regulation. You can do ICOs and Token Sales legally. If your tokens are not securities, you can do ICOs open to everyone. If your tokens are considered securities, you can do so on Coinlist.

2 - Tokens natively track the value of the network. For these networks, its value is not tracked by company shares. Ethereum is a good example of this. Ethereum Foundation is a non-profit and all the value accrues to the token. You can also do a hybrid system or none. Depends on your specific use case.

3 - Funding. Internet Bug Bounty is a good example of this https://internetbugbounty.org/. If TCP/IP would have been able to capture a billionth of a cent for every request things it wouldn;t be needed. Maybe, our infrastructure would be really different today.
This seems as good a place as any:

I find it very interesting how strongly the reputation/actions of the successor president effect the previous one.

A great many people disliked Bush. It seems like that really helped Clinton.

Bush's reputation doesn't seem to have been helped by having Obama follow him (in general). If he was followed by Romney or McCain I get the feeling he wouldn't be remembered as harshly.

If Clinton has succeeded Obama would his reputation be as high as it is now? This is still a 'work in progress' but I feel like the strong contrast is only pushing him higher on the scale (and may have happened to a lesser degree Bush or Perry or Kasich (etc) had won).
Note the FP of FPGA - "field programmable".

What this means is that to implement the hardware the FPGA represents, you have to "program" it; this is typically done in one of only a couple HLLs (VHDL and Verilog, known as Hardware Descriptor Languages or HDLs).

At one time, Xilinx (Altera's competitor) made an FPGA which could be programmed "on the fly" very quickly; it (well, many thousands) were used for an interesting machine, of which only a few examples survive (the whole thing at the time was surreal, if you followed it - it seemed like a scam more than anything, but real hardware was shipped).

This machine was called the CAM-Brain machine, and was the creation of researcher Hugo de Garis (who is retired, and is a seemingly strange fellow in the AI community - but not as strange as Mentifex):

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

http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=591856

https://profhugodegaris.files.wordpress.com/2014/02/arj-rev2...

I encourage you to research this machine, and Mr de Garis, as the whole thing is fascinating (and I will also say, from a design perspective, the shipped CAM-Brain Machine was one of the "sexiest" looking boxen since the early Crays).

CAM-Brain meant "cellular automata machine brain" - it was basically an effort to evolve a neural network using CA and FPGA; the CA would evolve the HDL which described the hardware representation of the NN, which would then be dumped to the FPGA for processing. The process (from what I understand) was iterative.

I don't believe the "kitten" ever went past much more than some early 3D models (maybe some CAD, too) and a software simulator. At least, that's what you can still find out there today (images of the simulator running on Windows NT, iirc).

The effort was noble, but it didn't work for more than simple things. I think it was part of the "evolve-a-brain" NN dead end, which seemed to hold out some promise at the time.

That's just a bit of background, but it shows how Intel and FPGAs can be used for building hardware to represent neural networks (a GPU/TPU is not a neural network - it is merely a processor for the software representation of the neural network). Whether that's their intention, or something else (maybe something like Transmeta tried?) - only they know.
The same AMP experience can be had with Firefox and uBlock Origin on old Android phones.
I would guess "environment simulators"? Environments are to RL as datasets are to supervised/unsupervised learning.
> SV VCs may be getting more cautious, but investors in other markets don't seem particularly eager to loosen the purse strings.

There is some sort of irony in SV VCs being at a keystone of the internet and yet somehow being unable to invest outside of SV.
Why do you think tokens make any sense? They seem like the equivalent of gift certificates for specific shops, and just as inconvenient. My money can buy everything, do you think that creating lots of different currencies for specific tasks is really a benefit?
"(The attacker) proceeds to create temporary security credentials using the AWS (STS) Security Token Service. These credentials are valid for a period of time ranging from 15 mins to 36 hours based on the parameters used when requesting the tokens. In this example, the attacker uses 36 hours."

I don't use AWS often. Does AWS provide a way to receive notifications when AWS STS commands are run? Or do some admins setup syslogging to capture these events?
P!=NP seems to be the general sentiment, though we're still waiting on the proof :)
Obama did a better job communicating with emotion through a tweet, than Trump did with a live press conference.
I think this can be ok. It's pretty obvious that the Webdriver protocol was insufficient. Let browsers "take it home" for remodelling and see if a new standardization effort will happen down the line.
I'll go a step further. There's a problem with language evangelism.

There is no "one best language" or even "one best programming style". Functional has worked for some people to address the problems they have, but not everyone has those problems.

For example: I once worked on a video switcher for TV stations. You have maybe 100 video sources, maybe 80 video destinations, and you can connect any to any. You also have about six different sources of commands to make connections. For responsiveness, each source has its own thread. So the nature of the problem is one giant shared mutable state. The functional people come along, and they say "shared mutable state is evil; don't do that". Yeah, well, that's actually not bad advice, but it doesn't help me at all with this situation, since I can't avoid it here.

There are other places where FP isn't the answer: Situations where you care about memory layout (high performance computing or just memory constrained), where one of the main concerns is sequencing (some industrial control operations, maybe robotics), where predictable timing is important (real time systems), maybe others.

Use the right tool for the job. FP is not the right tool for every job. Nothing is. The problem with evangelism is when it says "this is the One Right Way", instead of the humbler assertion "in some situations, this can help you with some of the problems that are slowing you down".

Don't get me wrong. FP has a good story. (Even if you don't use FP, learn its deepest lesson: Control your state space or die.) But FP is not always the answer. Evangelists might get further if they recognized that.
No surprise there. Does anyone think of the Bay Area as anything more than a way station in life?
"NO value" is a huge stretch IMO. Sure, it's entirely possible for gaping security holes to be introduced in future releases, but if past versions have been consistently vouched for as secure, that's still going to increase my confidence in future versions being secure. Or if I'm paranoid, then where possible I can just stick to a specific version which has been vouched for as secure.
I'm sure Facebook has two - WhatsApp and FB Messenger - and is struggling to figure out (and working on) how to keep just one and eliminate the other.
Even better to have someone else buy the gift cards and then hand them off to you in a dark alley. Bonus points if you're both wearing trench coats and fedoras.
I wrote a disk bootloader that could intercept BIOS disk writes, and then continued loading DOS. And then there was a DOS TSR that monitored... (don't remember). Needless to say, this was the late 80's/early 90's. It impressed some interviewers back in the day.
> I'm sorry to hear you feel that way

I'm not a fan of the trend for sorry-you-feel-that-way apologies. On the other hand it's possible I let this seemingly-unending argument get to me and got defensive, thanks for not taking it badly. Suggest we move on. For reference (no need to explain) the trigger was "You're the sexist in this case" which I now assume was hypothetical rather than accusatory.

The words you're putting in my mouth is defence of specific policies. I'm not aware that I'm defending any specific policies.

One policy that's come up (not sure which thread, I've lost track and can't be bothered to reorient) is Google's policy (as I understand it) of ensuring 'diversity' candidates get considered, reducing the false negative rate. This was inaccurately described by Damore as lowering "the bar", which is quite inflammatory. That policy is designed to specifically redress two things; (a) decreased confidence in under-represented groups resulting in low numbers of applicants, and (b) unconscious bias in hiring processes resulting in fewer under-represented groups getting through.

While there are more elegant solutions (vested interest disclaimer here) this type of policy tries to address measurable issues and does not reduce quality of hires.

Perhaps it leaves fewer roles open for others, but ultimately you have to make a choice between Hire A benefitting from a diversity program or Hire B benefitting from hiring bias in their favour.

Is there a different policy you want to discuss?

More background on my post on this topic if you can be bothered: https://medium.com/finding-needles-in-haystacks/we-need-to-t...
To clarify a bit: the passive event listener idea is a good start because it means the scrolling thread doesn't have to block on the main JS thread.

But it seems like a big use of scroll handlers is to reposition some elements on the page, e.g. for parallax scrolling. Ideally that should synchronize exactly with the rendering thread, so elements don't jiggle slightly out of position as you scroll. The best way to do that is to run the scroll handler in the scrolling thread -- as long as you can avoid waiting for another thread.
> the problem is the policies of the city

That's more like a symptom.

Policies are shaped by people and people are motivated by forces. The motivating force in this case is probably money. There are lots of people who make money off real-estate and they're motivated to keep supply down to drive up costs. What better way than by influencing public policy to suit their agenda.

If you try to change city policy to make housing affordable then you're basically declaring war on a very influential portion of the population that has a lot to lose.
The problem with the supply of Bay Area housing isn't that there's not enough money involved. Adding more money to the situation will just make costs go higher. It's like healthcare or education.

The problem is that big tech companies have practically unlimited money at their disposal, but are surrounded by communities that like their low density housing, open space lifestyle, think the traffic is terrible already, and aren't really interested in giving it up for any amount of money.

The reason the big tech companies are there is because these communities are really nice and venture capital people, CEOs and top engineers want to live in these nice neighborhoods. If it was just a cost issue, they'd be located in Fresno.

Of course real estate developers are hungry to build new rental apartments because the rents are so high and frame it as some sort of populist issue. It's really just rich people vs other rich people. There is no way they're ever going to build enough for prices to come down. Every tech company would move their entire workforce here if they could do so affordably.

The best solution, IMHO, is to improve public transit, which would have all other sorts of beneficial side effects. The downside is that it would bring poor people into the area which would cause quality of life issues as far as the existing residents are concerned.
Yea, people don't have problems buying safety with cars because they are forced to. You can't buy a new car without a seatbelt or airbag (and other mandated features), even if you wanted to. If they instead were optional features that actually cost money, a sizable number of people would skip them.
The disturbing trend is records are being set based on reactions to terrorist attacks.

Ariana Grande used to be number 1 based on the Manchester concert terror attack.
What does that even mean? What possible power could I (?) have over you (?).

Again: your list is a large barrage of insistent questions that require your readers to contort to a set of terms you've made up. It is not open minded, it is treating the subject as already wrong and here's why.

It reminds me of when you have a "discussion" with someone and they aren't actually interested in listening, they're just waiting until you say something they can "ah ha!" you with.
Have you ever looked at Julia?

I mention it just because I've had almost a carbon-copy of that conversation but I showed them Julia and now that person actually is writing Julia for their startup. That person is doing technical chemical engineering stuff, so the fit is a bit more pronounced, but I think it's a neat language aside from that. Parametric types and multiple dispatch and lisp-macros, oh boy!
I think Science may be an incubator[0].

[0] https://science.tokenhub.com/2017/08/03/startup-incubator-sc...

Edit: stephengillie, can't currently use reply. Think I'm being throttled b/c of my VPN.

I guess Bing is your friend here! I've not been keeping an eye out for that particular type of thing (soz).
Every Obama picture seems so staged, and you must be kidding yourself if you think he doesn't have a social media team making sure his public image is always on point.

I don't even know what teleprompter statement your talking about, as I haven't been paying that much attention to this Charlottesville situation. I'm just talking about his tweets in general, which are embarrassingly unthought-out. For better or worse, we all know what's really going on in his mind. He's not going to pose for a cute picture the same day he's ordering another drone strike.

Personally, I don't need emotional statements, but I see how people do. Like I said, I don't care for either. It's just an interesting dichotomy.