skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The gpg web of trust might be a better example, but it's a moot point either way.

The claim I'm refuting is that digital identity was impossible before the blockchain (Edit: or more difficult, either way, point stands).
Digital identity is a cryptographic thing and a distributed thing. That doesn't mean it needs a blockchain.

People have been proving digital ownership and identities for longer than the blockchain, and the blockchain brings nothing new or interesting to the table in terms of identity.
I can't for the life of me understand why the icon couldn't just be a link to the AMP version (or be located near the current cached link is), and the link would link to the normal page
Berkeley Tree Database
I think that Bitcoin has done one thing really well and that is to make people understand more about money and how it works. This argument that it has no intrinsic value can be applied to every fiat currency used the world over. Whenever someone asks this I ask them what intrinsic value EUR, GBP or USD has, some people genuinely think/thought that the bank of England will exchange you £10 worth of gold for a £10 note. Explaining to them that not only is this not true but that there is nothing that gives a £10 note any value other than other people believe it to be worth £10 is a real eye opener for them. Explaining then that bitcoin is worth $x because people think it is worth $x makes so much more sense after that.
I could never understand why Poughkeepsie isn't thriving as a tech hub. You've got IBM hiring & firing employees in droves, good universities nearby, and NYC as a client/talent pool. I can only assume government incompetence or shortsightedness.

The growth in tech over the past decade had some clear winners, but any city that is just mobilizing now is entering a crowded pool. Anyone thinking ahead should consider how remote work will change businesses in 5 - 10 years, and start planning from there (schmooze freelancers instead of VCs and prepare legislation that would benefit the employee, rather than the business).
Why would you pay with dollars when you could buy Bitcoin with those dollars instead?
But those are just hypotheticals. Is there actually any evidence showing this happening?
YouTube isn't always "great content" their feed algorithm is overflowing with click bait and misleading thumbnails and titles. There's no question that there is a place for YouTube, but the quality definitely hovers around what cable-access-television used to be.

Though perhaps with the advantage of advanced technology in editing and video capture.
Welfare state was the term used in the post-war period where Britain re-imagined themselves. America is having this debate now so perhaps that is why it sounds "modern" to you. It comes from the book: Christianity and the Social Order (1942)

Wikipedia has a good etymology section on the term if you are interested: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Welfare_state#Etymology
> If it does not fundamentally provide some value that you care about, you will stop using it

This isn't quite true, where addiction / compulsive usage can be implicated. Still, it's true that FB isn't completely in the pocket of advertisers and such. To the extent that they do make transgressions against their users, they will tend to not be overt.

FB doesn't have to make its users happy (whatever that means) so much as not piss them off.
Every economy needs a slight inflation, otherwise people stop consuming, instead save all their money and it gets worse => deflation.

That's the claim, where's the evidence?
Kaboose – Wealthfront for Crypto
the market determines the prices, thats like saying a company with a finite number of shares has protection from currency debasement
You're right, I assumed you defend the type of policies I disagree with without clarifying whether that is the case - I'm sorry for doing that, you were right.

Regarding your reply: I agree with most of your reply and enjoyed reading your blog post. I feel I understand your position much better now and can see where you are coming from.

> Is there a different policy you want to discuss?

I'd like to clarify whether we agree or disagree on the original argument - hypothetically, regardless of any specific policy. I hope I don't misrepresent your views in the following.

In your blog post you seem to argue that feelings of unfairness by the over-represented group in response to positive discrimination are built on a misconception [1]. My original reply to you was in the same vein and I'd like to understand where exactly we disagree on that.

I believe discrimination based on group membership is not justifiable. The only way in which positive discrimination can be justified is therefore if its application does not actually cause discrimination but only corrects for existing discrimination.

As we don't know for sure yet how much of the representation gap can be attributed to discrimination, we should not use positive discrimination to correct for it as we potentially do more than correcting for it but actually discriminate.

Hypothetically, if the split would be 45/55 in a perfectly just world, aiming for 50/50 through positive discrimination would in practice discriminate and not just correct for discrimination.

Please note that I agree with the outcomes of positive discrimination until the effect of the original discrimination is canceled out - I just don't feel we can distinguish both cases and should not dismiss feelings of injustice in response to that as "built on a misconception".

[1]

> In any discussion of positive discrimination there’s a risk that the overrepresented group (usually white men) may feel threatened. Unsafe. People aren’t born aware of their comparative advantage or disadvantage, and sometimes never see it, so when other groups seem to be given a leg up it can feel unfair.

> Feelings of injustice may be built on a misconception, but they still exist and are natural
Planet Money(POD cast/NPR) have done it. I don't believe they made any money/trade just yet.
botus: Bot of the U.S.
But the Salmon probably isn't real.
Seen this as well. Does somebody in management really expect leadership roles to sit down every 6 to 12 months, discuss everything their employees have done, and do it objectively? That's a fast track to giving everybody but the absolute worst a 5 out of 5 every time.

I'm a big proponent of the one-on-one approach, and giving feedback as needed. I am curious, however, typically the review cycle is correlated with the raise and bonus cycle. How would you go about handling that process with the data points that the review cycle provides, however artificial they may be.
Perhaps it doesn't fit your political viewpoint. Teaching is notoriously left wing. I know teachers myself, and they have told me that education has changed in the way I have described.

I'll just leave thus here: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2815147/Why-trendy-t...
Go deserves a lot of hate because they set out to create a language from scratch without any legacy baggage, but instead of learning from the mistakes of the past and consulting people who actually know a thing about programming languages, they repeated all the same mistakes and then some.
Thank you for clarifying this
> it's an arrogant and misanthropic view of Facebooks two billion actual users as ignorant victims of something that sounds almost like a scam)

Do you really think most of Facebook's users have any idea of the value of what they're handing over, or of how it's being used, or of the potential for abuse?

> And so it is with Facebook. If it does not fundamentally provide some value that you care about, you will stop using it, and in that important aspect their interests are aligned with yours.

Yes in the same sense that a heroin dealer's interests are aligned with the addict's.
HBO includes Warner Brothers, DC, and a huge catalog. So, I think they probably have a pretty good shot on their own.

Amazon and Netflix are the wildcards given their smaller original content.
Andrew NG believes that AI is just as important as electricity. I tend to agree.
Sure, it's affordable for me now - back when I was making $32K/yr on a MSP's help desk it would have been almost half of my wage - and that's good money for the majority of the population here. Lucky me, I make $85K now working from home - but 4 years ago it was a different story, and there's still plenty of people in the area who are trying to make ends meet.

Boise has been really slow to recover from the recession, where many people used to be able to get decent jobs at Micron, HP, Simplot, etc. there's much less available - call centers and other service industry positions have begun to dominate. The median cost of a house in the area is back to pre-2008 levels and rising fast, but wages aren't.
An unfair advantage that Amazon and many other online retailers have is they either do not collect and pay sales tax at all, or they only selectively do it (e.g., only in states where they have a physical presence such as a warehouse and can't get away with it).
A Startup Suggests a Fix to the Health Care Morass
Might as well add the non-anonymous PM salaries from Buffer. Not sure if they have that exact job title though (Product Creator? Operations Champion?): https://open.buffer.com/transparent-salaries/
XTS mode for block storage. Can't be CBC or CTR, where would you Store the IV or counter/nonce?
You're talking about something completely different. If you don't care about asymptotic behavior that's one thing, but you do need to recognise that you're talking about something different, and unless you are really clear and really precise you won't be able to communicate effectively with other people, even if what you say is relevant and important.

But bottom line is that you're talking about something different.
Getting ~1 fps when trying to scroll around the demo page on a reasonably new iPad.
How the IoT Will Make Our Lives Longer
Besides tenure at the company, why not also include a column which is # of yrs PM experience?
Jim Kjelgaard wrote a kid's fiction book, "Hi Jolly", about this that I remember reading 30+ years ago:

http://www.gutenberg.org/files/41700/41700-h/41700-h.htm
Using YouTube as an Accelerant for Video Games
Reminiscent of the hilarious story "Space Rats of the CCC" (Combat Camel Corp) by Harry Harrison.

I highly recommend reading it if you can find it - my google-fu is failing.
People will get a cheap throw-away Android phone, install the app, sign up, turn on tracking, then hide the phone somewhere near the restaurant, then go do their daily chores.

Under the stand up ashtray is probably best, no one will look under there.

Not that I would condone such a thing.
> Someone known in the field does not bother reading it but says you are probably wrong

Sounds like most academic paper reviews!
Chill: Robots Won’t Take All Our Jobs
Fact is, Google would already have a complete profile on you for advertising purposes even without AMP. They offer more than enough services that track you that they don't really need AMP for tracking purposes.
I sort of thought you might be :-) No, for me, the reason to live out here is to be more or less rural (certainly exurb). It would be barely tenable as a daily compute into Boston (though I did a sometimes commute for a year) but works for the 495-belt companies.

I guess it's just a function of overall population but it's nonetheless interesting that while Boston/Cambridge have indeed gotten very expensive, there's a lot of pretty reasonably-priced housing not all that far out.

I don't know. I work with someone who recently sold their house in Leominster (next to Fitchburg for those not from the area). He said there had been very little appreciation over a long timeline.

ADDED: The problem when these old small New England manufacturing cities gentrify is that you end up with a dozen square blocks of upscale and the rest is like it's been for decades. I worked in downtown Nashua for a long time and it was like that. Which, for me, makes it get boring quickly.
Do hackers not have doctors? Do hackers not have children? Is our daycare going to "chat" me to ask me to turn my phone on if my kid falls down and breaks her arm? Is my doctor going to "chat" me to tell me that the test came back, and that I need to go to the hospital and check myself in right now?

Your solution doesn't just not work for some small, irrelevant section of the population like "old people", "parents", or "anyone outside of SV".

For that matter, if people are chatting you and asking you to answer the phone, why not just use that app to talk?
Yes, but if you were building a car and used materials that were cheaper, easier to assemble but resulted in a 10-metric-tons car that consumes 200 l of gas for 100 km, would you still think your customers would be happy? Because that's, mutatis mutandis the state the web-app space is in, today.
Unfortunately, I believe a count of law would side with the company with the TOS.
A DEEP FLAW IN Your CAR LETS HACKERS SHUT DOWN SAFETY FEATURES
Wow those are much lower than expected.
I meant the Westchester comment as a bit tongue-in-cheek. More of the stereotypical opinion among my generation, rather than my own opinion. I'm actually shopping around in the Hudson Valley with my fiance atm.

Regardless, the "corporate campus" will need to go through a reimagining if it wants to appeal to city-weary knowledge workers. This will require some more lateral thinking beyond replicating Facebook's Headquarters in White Plains, NY.
But it's _their_ bloat.
DVD sales peaked in 2006, and are down about 50% from then (~$10 to ~$5 billion), so that goose is already terminally ill. Disney is smart to get ahead of it, not wait until DVD sales drop another 50%.
Some things to avoid early on so you can get a working app out quickly:

1. Don't build OO abstractions, just use structs as data and operate on it with free functions.

2. Don't be afraid of long argument lists with lots of references, where the last one is possibly mutable, C-style

3. If something needs e.g. 2 different structs as inputs and mutates a third one, make it a free function, don't impl it on any of the structs.

4. Don't overdo it trying to use the functional idioms for options and results like and_then or_else etc. Just use match and eventually it will be obvious where those fit.

5. Don't worry too much about error handling, just use expect and explicit panics

6. Don't implement your own data structures, compose the std lib ones

7. Get good at using match and enums to represent state and transitions

Once you've got some more experience and you want to try to write more elegant code, you will run into ownership issues.

1. Use guard types. Basically a struct that owns a pointer into some larger data. Write a lot of these with useful utilities for manipulating that data

2. Use guard types for mutating data as well. I tend to have a type which is a big bag of data (often carefully laid out in memory for performance), and then separate types whose only purpose is to contain references to e.g. 2 or 3 different pieces of data that need to be simultaneously used. That type allows you to do whatever that operation is. This saves a lot of borrow checker fighting.

3. Think in a data centric way. What data do you need? What operations need to be performed? Then design your ownership hierarchy such that that can happen.

Finally you will run into frustration structuring large projects.

1. Use cargo workspaces. Isolate self contained chunks of functionality into crates.

2. Implement stdlib traits like Iterator, From, Into

3. You can use associated types to do statically checked dependency injection. In combination with default trait implementations it's a decent way.

4. Use free functions liberally inside modules, but export mostly traits, data structs, and operation structs.

5. Use rustdoc comments in your code and refer to them.

A lot of the above is opinion and might not work for everyone. I submit that it's "a path" of many for getting productive quickly and then scaling up to writing larger systems.

(Crosspost of a comment I made on Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/rust/comments/6rxw21/comment/dlb048...)
Carnegie Mellon Method Enables Telescoping Devices That Bend and Twist
I think the class numbering over-summarizes things to the point of having almost no meaning. It pretends too much that we all care about the same things.

Each of us is willing to accept different sets of terms. If standardized terms were available, matching up what I am will to accept (presuming a register such information somewhere) against a ToS could algorithmically show me whether or not the ToS is acceptable to me without me having to read it.
Hello, use this form to feed in data if the sheet is locked: https://goo.gl/forms/eu9NXb18EvolaizN2
A Computer That Reads Body Language
Did Elon Musk’s AI champ destroy humans at video games? It’s complicated
Ethereum has a faster confirmation time, if it shows to become a better developer platform, a lot of money will be thrown at the scalability problems, for example a solution from Microsoft https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/announcing-microsoft-...
Few days? HN bug?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1325103
> 2659 days ago
Primer?
+1 on envsubst, it's the minimal solution to the problem of templating kubernetes (of course YMMV, we are a small team and don't need more complex stuff)
How Moss Helped Machine Vision Overcome an Achilles’ Heel
Might consider cribbing off of this: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1a1Df6dg2Pby1UoNlZU2l...
> You get intellisense alright. But using C#, I never need to #open the namespaces myself for it to find the types I am using or the extension methods I need. (Maybe this is because I use resharper, but still, it really slows me down).

This is actually added in F# tooling for VS 2017! Both via a lightbulb code fix and with IntelliSense itself. If you have a reference to a .dll with symbols, the IDE can suggest an open statements for you.
Fiat Chrysler joins BMW in Intel's self-driving super group – The Verge
I recently moved here, I am not experiencing pain. Inconvenience is strictly in the eye of the beholder.
You need to make a new username
Upgrading to an Older MacBook Pro
The merkle tree's root is pushed to Bitcoin's blockchain.
What if it gets mounted just before you run chattr +i :)

I agree setting the flag is the superior option.
??? The term "Welfare State" was not what captured my attention. The whole article reads like very modern vocabulary. Here is an article on how your vocabulary can be used to predict age/gender/personality.
https://www.vocabulary.com/articles/under-the-hood/how-your-...
Aren't they funding The Witcher series?
You could store it in the block metadata, which SSD flash translation layers already use for wear-leveling purposes.
The fast, non-blocking content loading is the main feature. I took a radical path when developing my site and made it AMP-first. Instead of having an AMP version of each page, every page is its own AMP version because it's an AMP page.

Even served from my cheapo shared web host and not Google's AMP cache, I have pretty-much instant loading of all pages: http://multithreaded.link/2017/08/lyft-customer-acquisition-...

It's a good framework for building super fast pages. I will admit it's a little riskier to build a site on top of technology a large company owns, but this is a risk that you also have when you use React or other frameworks.
Yes, OP is aware of the current state of the universe, and proposing a new state.
Yes, that is it! That is why the Ethereum website looks so different than other opensource software project websites. It's the speculation.
I don't know know if I missed it, it seems like author was really trying to cover all the arguments, but the Tex family languages are for hardcore typesetting automation. Author said all Latex docs have a characteristic look. And most typeset examples that I've seen on the web fit that description. Because for the most part they use the default settings, default libraries, and default fonts, etc. Maybe with some variation.

We can agree that everything that needs to be pinched and squeezed can be pinched and squeezed with Latex. So, creating stylish modern looking tables, full page width graphics overlayed with expensive commercial fonts, custom vector graphics and diagrams, is feasible. You would never even recognize it was done with latex. This makes sense at corporate scale painting reports, white papers, invoices, in company colors, logos, and styles. Churning hundreds of styled docs. That's the use case I see for Latex, but no one goes around showing these off, I assume because making styles like this is a job, and the styles themselves assets.
I suspect for what they pay this would be extremely inefficient with much more hastle free ways to make money. Just my opinion though.
So you are basically saying that you can be an ass and make it harder for others to contact you. Then if they are worthy enough you they will spend their time installing whatever communication tool you use. I do not get the feeling that I can be a princess and I also have to care about relation.
> Great investors provide more than just access to capital.

Like what?
Excellent! I think a "Show HN" post would be in order.
> The President’s Strategic and Policy Forum was conceived as a bi-partisan group of business leaders called to serve our country by providing independent feedback and perspectives directly to the President on accelerating economic growth and job creation in the United States.

This "Strategic and Policy Forum" existed for the sole purpose of promoting the individual company interests... Such as how to best offshore the work-force, pay less taxes, etc.

This backhanded manipulation and dealings did not work on Trump as well as it did on the previous presidents.

So now they are disbanding (as they serve no purpose), and using this moment to attempt to discredit the person they could not manipulate.
RLSL: A new Rust-based shading language
Ellen Ullman, programmer in the ’70s and ’80s, on building a career in tech
At least with the new order, you can choose to not purchase Netflix or Hulu or Disney's option. With the old order, it was all or nothing.
I hope we fixed that.
Here's some relevant reading

On the topic of monkeys: https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/mvxgwa/from-dragons-to-fo...

A transexual speaking of genders as a rainbow: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=drSXRW-4j5o
What kind of useful curated datasets do you imagine could be created by a game? Like driving data from a GTA-like game?
Knuth on why he believes P = NP and what it means [see question 17]:

http://www.informit.com/articles/article.aspx?p=2213858
Trust me, it's sensationalized to the point of being highly irresponsible reporting. This research first made the rounds early this year, and I analyzed it in depth. Properly explaining all the caveats behind this "attack" requires more space than this entire article.

Among other things, making a successful attack would require sufficient privilege level to bypass all layers of read caches (and probably also all write caches), a target SSD that doesn't use modern 3D NAND, and intimate knowledge of the internals of the SSD controller and firmware, potentially up to the internal state of the LFSR or AES used to scramble data before it is written to the flash.

There's interesting stuff in this research; it highlights aspects of the unreliability of flash memory that I haven't previously seen emphasized so clearly. But since everything about SSD design already assumes that the flash memory is thoroughly unreliable and untrustworthy, these corner cases don't rise to the level of a real-world vulnerability.
FWIW, I don't think you came off as pushy or predatory (as someone who is firmly on the atheist side of things), but any suggestion of religion can easily cross that line when someone is in an emotional malleable state such as this. I think that's why people tend to be a little jumpy about it.