skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You'd think so, but there are a lot of things that have a big commercial market but are basically non-existent in the consumer space unless you're willing to rip them out of commercial products. As just one example, you can buy one 7" HDMI touchscreen (just the screen) for $100 shipped [1] or for the same money you can buy two Amazon Fire tablets with the same size screen but twice the resolution, plus it has a full mobile SOC with a quad core processor and a camera and I mean it's a full tablet. Not just the screen. And it's half the price.

Even if Amazon is losing money on each Fire sold, I can't imagine they're losing that much. They're getting those screens for a hell of a lot cheaper than I can, and better quality too. I imagine LCD touchscreens have a far bigger consumer demand than LIDAR sensors ever will, so the dream of cheap LIDAR sensors from Sparkfun will forever remain a dream. Grabbing one from a junk yard will be the better option.

[1] https://www.adafruit.com/product/2407

[2] https://www.amazon.com/All-New-Tablet-Alexa-Display-Black/dp...
No. Julia and Haskell are my go-to suggestions.

But I'd even take Scala at this point, and you could do worse than Clojure.

Python code isn't especially "ugly" as in line noise. It's ugly in the sense that it's a deluge of outdated and ineffective programming paradigms that maximize the difficulty of writing code.
Well, it only takes one report to the relevant authority.
50 million people? Simple dismissive answers to complex problems isn't going to solve anything.
Our algorithm is close to that;

1. We don't partition it into fixed size blocks, but rather index directly into the array

2. The site calculates a salted hash and sends us just the hash. We recommend at least a 32 byte CS-PRNG salt

3. We HMAC the hash with a 64-byte site-specific token (AppID) to produce the seed

4. We generate 64 uniformly distributed locations from the seed and perform 64 reads of 64 bytes each to form a 4096 byte buffer which we HMAC with the AppID to produce a second salt.

5. The site uses this second salt to HMAC their original hash, and store that.

This design allows multiple sites to securely share a single data pool and also means that our service a) does not see usernames or passsords, b) does not know if a login is valid/invalid, c) cannot do anything to make an invalid login look valid to the site.

There are some additional details to handle upgrading hashes as the data pool grows, and also to provide virtual private data pools for each site (so I can give you a copy of your data pool if you ever want to self-host). This is all detailed in [1] above.
It is in a lot of countries.
Just a reminder: the "smartphone market" was a pitifully small creature when compared to the behemoth that iOS and Android service today... I wonder why that is?

It's a painful reminder that Microsoft doesn't do "blue ocean" strategies very well. They need someone to compete against and dominate over and coopt the marketshare.

All their successes involve "parleying" a beachhead on someone else's turf (VisiCalc/Lotus123 -> MS Excel) into dominance or buying outright the dev team (Delphi -> VB 4/5/Studio).

Microsoft wanted to "evolve" the PC into a mobile device, but they could never create something from scratch that didn't smell like Windows.
> The company said that, on average, people log into the app 11 times a day

https://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/30/fashion/tinder-the-fast-g...

But yes not every 2 minutes
It depends where; in Brazil, for instance, WhatsApp groups are becoming the main social network for a large amount of people—nevermind 1:1 chat.
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Lacking features is not what the “don’t buy first version” people are talking about.

They’ve warning against unknown bugs, not the obvious and known lack of 3G
> You may use a graph database

There you go. I need 6 more months to deliver now.
> Bpost [...] has been on an acquisition spree

Illegal, state-funded acquisition spree. Bpost is 51% state-owned, using negative interest loans (ECB policy) for its acquisitions.
www.tonymacx86.com is where a lot of the hackintosh community gathers. Plenty of folks in the forums there who understand the kernel / IO / driver stack.
This is obviously a huge can of worms being opened up here by the topic itself, but to keep it short and general, here are a few considerations, by no means exhaustive:

1. Are there cultural factors and discrimination preventing men from being nurses or women from garbage/construction like there are in tech?

2. Say there should be an aim for other thing X - whichever leads to more equality in power (aka is currently a big inequality of power) should be a focus, yes? Do women have less power because they are not garbage collectors? I think the answer is no.

Tech is focused on because of the reasons for the imbalance, and the resulting unjust power imbalance.
The question is where the $90+ million Parscale spent on FB and other places came from.[1]

My issue with all these articles lately is that it addresses the stupid obvious ads that came from Russia that amount to very low dollar amounts in spend. I suspect the answer to where the $90m+ Parscale referenced came from is a lot more interesting than this <$100k campaign.

[1] https://twitter.com/parscale/status/876079606092230657
Makes this law a moot point https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/2017/04/27/whats-your-s...
A common issue in corporate environments: https://i.ytimg.com/vi/_tmHvZRKFMM/maxresdefault.jpg

Female-heavy workplaces to me have the connotation of being especially white.
If I were to pick a tool to stick with for container storage, wheee would I start?
Just like it failed to deliver so far for humans, it would fail for the AI world.

All three approaches only work if one accepts them, and then goes on to implement them all the time, for all the decisions made. Not possible, hence evil in the world. Hence conservatism is correct. I have been wrong all my life. Any philosophical means to achieve a better world that assumes good humans being good all the time, or even most of the time, is doomed to fail.
I’ve made a huge mistake – the dangers of ignoring expected value
This is an email response to daily beast journo joseph cox (former vice) https://twitter.com/josephfcox/status/916321986174996480

Even if they acted on a subpoena, it means they had the logs nonetheless. Which still makes them liars and they are deceiving their customers.

I believe choosing a trustworthy vpn is an actual challenge.

The fact that this nut-job called Ryan Lin got caught is fantastic. But I want to choose if a company has data about me or not. What if the data exchange doesn't happen with FBI, but with malicious individuals.

I use https://protonvpn.com and I trust it. A transparent team with an already successful product (protonmail) working towards making privacy the norm. A group of scientists, not hackers or liars.
I agree that it's worth making this distinction whenever this comes up. Thank you.
That depends on the country. In the US, people still tend to text a lot, but in most of Europe, Whatsapp totally replaced texting.
I guess it really depends where. I believe here, where WhatsApp is pretty much the _only_ method of communication, people most definitely check it every few minutes, and especially before they go to bed.
it actually becomes less and less useful nowadays, due to the fact that most sites are running https instead of http. privoxy can not proxy https well.
Single player Games and Multi-core don't really work well together.

The problem is you generally need the results of step 1 before starting on step 2. Further, using more cores makes each of them slower due to heat and memory bandwidth issues etc.
They're saying that their emphasis on doing it this way has helped avoid the traps everyone else is falling into.
It's sad that the person who co-wrote Zero to One would fall into this orbit. It remains one of my favorite business books in spite of the fact that its co-author has gone off and hopped on the crazy train politically.

Of course many of the original Italian Futurists became Fascists too. There seems to be some tendency for unbridled futurist thinkers to fall for fascism and similar ideologies.

Some futurists also go for left-leaning forms of totalitarianism too. I know several really smart authoritarian Marxists.

I see it as a pathology of futurists who have gotten themselves too far from the coal face; of futurists who are not actually Doing The Work (or aren't anymore). There's a temptation to think that politics is the thing holding us back from progress and that progress can be accelerated politically. If we could just get rid of all that slow painful democratic consensus and replace it with some kind of dictatorship of know-it-all smart people all that magic futurist technology would just materialize out of thin air.

There's also this tendency to think regulation is holding us back. That can happen, but it typically happens after things are invented. Regulation is not preventing us from achieving immortality or true AI or free energy because we have no idea how to do those things regardless of whether or not there are laws against them.

Edit: Thiel's case is honestly more mysterious though. Here's a guy who's spent years ranting against the fact that our culture is controlled by know-nothing windbags who don't actually do anything and are hostile to progress and what does he do? He gets behind Donald Trump, a total know-nothing windbag who has absolutely no skills, abilities, or understanding beyond the ability to promote himself and manipulate people. Trump is the emptiest of empty suits. There is literally nothing there except primate dominance gestures. I have no idea what Thiel thought was going to happen, but it's not happening whatever it was.
I buy stocks from near companies. I keep contacts from people in R&D.

Some companies do partnership on research with universities. So you can easily network and hear about their public projects.

But be very careful if you intent to create a full portfolio with all companies in the same place, it's very risky (I do it because Switzerland is a small country)
(I work at OpenAI.)

Correct, we've been playing a number of pros using the same bot played at TI. We do have a stronger version which is just two days more of training (gets a 70% win rate vs the one at TI), but haven't seen a need to test it out. We'll likely do a blog post in upcoming weeks with more stats and commentary from the pros; would be curious what people would like to know!

Incidentally, the various exploits that people used are all similar to how we actually develop the bot. We try to find areas of the strategy space it hasn't explored, and then make a small tweak to encourage it to explore that area. Lots of progress comes from removing hardcoded restrictions, which are nice to get started. So the fact there exist exploits wasn't surprising to us — what would be surprising would be exploits we couldn't fix.

1v1 has always been a proof-of-concept for us. The fun part is really 5v5, which is what we're working on now (and hiring for! ping me if you're interested: gdb@openai.com).
There's an obvious incentive they haven't tried: guaranteeing a lower app store margin like 1-2% instead of the 30% cut that Microsoft currently takes.

Google and Apple have already convinced a sufficient number of users users that their app stores are essential, so they can continue to charge whatever they like.

Microsoft didn't have the same luxury, so they needed to change this. They never made the change and it's too late now, but I think if they did this a few years ago they would be in a better position.
I don't think the southbridge is that bad.
Aren't their cell phones just linked to credit cards?
Teams – a simple tool to manage multiple workflows
1.2, 1.31, 0.9 and 404331557902116024553602703216.58 – Hierarchy Problem
They ban your IP. Anyway with some effort you can deanonimize a lot of numbers (eg: status/name/profile photo).
you are not the customer
In other parts of the article they specify that they look at "women" this way. It's implicit.
The Art of the User Interview
This is super interesting, thanks! I love articles that dive into the historical context and philosophy underlying important math discoveries. Context is everything!
I loved this article. It is beautifully written, given both the hacking curiosity on display as well as the real-world privacy impact it demonstrates. Most of my family use whats-app and would be mortified if they actually understood most of this. Not saying they would stop using it, as the trade-off is a great social app, but it would make them think more broadly about how the world is changing.
Definitely not true. While many companies have active G Suite subscriptions, they still pay for Office 365 because Word, Excel and Access (yes, Access) don’t have any real competition.

Word and Excel are gargantuan pieces of software. VBA aside (which is used very very heavily, and Google’s Scripting Framework doesn’t compare given that everything is executed on their servers), there are some really niche features deep inside of Word that people at big companies use daily.

Also, Sheets is slow as hell compared to Excel, even on small time spreadsheets. Not going to work on the trading floor.

Then there is the whole “kind of sort of works offline” bit that really diminishes the value of using Google Docs. Docs basically doesn’t work on low bandwidth connections, which is a daily reality for a lot of business people that travel. That’s the main reason why I prefer Office; it is a lot easier to work on talks and blog posts offline with it.
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>cushy government grants

Dare we say… 'handouts'? Gee, seems like that might not be such a bad thing after all.

Want flyover America to grow economies and produce stuff to perk up SV's ears? Pay it to do so.

People treat economics as if it's a merit-evaluating system capable of managing the ground its actors grow from, and it's absolutely not. Money is better considered as a vote, or like water in the environment. You can't have it function both in its fundamental property of facilitating commerce, and as a score indicator. I think something akin to 'likes' ought to replace money as the score indicator, and money ought to be entirely allocated to population-wide commerce.

That means entirely abandoning the connotations of 'value' it has, reimagining it as 'abstracted power', and leaning much harder on the capacity of populations to innovate. It is stark madness to assume that the capacity to accumulate abstracted power (money) signifies ANYTHING other than itself, plus the ability of that power to convert back into actions (easily mistaken for merit or virtue!)

Anyone who's seriously dug into the genetic algorithm ought to be able to see the merits of doling out 'power' (money, ability to act in an economic system) across a massive population of organisms who're on the whole still individually more intelligent than AI could hope to be.

Starving populations of humans to death for the crime of not being as economically powerful as Silicon Valley is not only immoral, it's a grotesque and foolish waste of intelligence and innovation resources. Elon Musk is a clever and interesting fellow, but he's WAY less intelligent/innovative than a supported POPULATION of humans. You only think he's that much more clever, because his resources are almost unmeasurable compared to the fellow (times 10,000) in Boise Idaho with just a garage, who've got almost no resources at all.

Genetic Algorithm says to focus solely on giving more resources to Elon is producing a local maximum and screwing yourself in the long run. We can't afford to make that mistake.
That reminds me of a meeting I had with a Microsoft employee a while back --- while we talked, he was taking notes with... Notepad.

Seeing someone who probably had access to use whatever Microsoft software he wanted including Word, OneNote, and whatever else they have, using Notepad, was a bit surprising and relieving.
Damn. I have a secondary Ethernet card and a 7.1 sound card both on PCI slots (smaller than the one the GPU occupies).

Does that mean my GTX 980 is crippled? If so, wow.
> I very rarely see anyone trying to get into PC gaming considering a very reasonable $600 budget that would in real world performance get them 90% of the way to a system twice as expensive.

It's not especially mainstream in PC gaming culture, but if you search for "console killer" it's pretty easy to find people talking about such builds.
Upgrading from Skylake to Basically Skylake is a waste of money anyway.
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This matters far less than you might think. Go has simpler peaces without movement and it's still much more complex than chess.
Which traps are you referring to? The trap of hiring candidates based on their qualifications?
Commenting here mainly as I don't want this to drop off. It's a good interview with a really very wonderful writer.

HN'ers unfamiliar with his work might really enjoy Never Let Me Go, a very affecting novel which you could plausibly call sci-fi.
It's worth mentioning that some of those standards may not be producing the best outcomes (see https://lemire.me/blog/2017/08/15/on-melissa-oneills-pcg-ran..., for example).

In my own experience, I once wrote a paper in a much more casual and approachable style. I had what I felt was the same scientific rigor around the experiments and data, but tried to make the text more generally readable. I had Simpson's references sprinkled here and there, that sort of thing. The response was generally negative. The paper was accepted for the mid-tier conference I submitted it to, but on the condition that I revise to take care of reviewer concerns, many of which boiled down to "you should write with a more appropriate tone". No one complained that the paper was imprecise as a result. They just didn't like that it didn't read in the standard passive and bland academic voice. I found that somewhat depressing.
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I think it is really sad that affordable furniture has gone down in quality so much. Now I walk into most homes and its full of pressed woodchips in furniture form. When I visit my grandparents old house (who are not rich) I see custom made solid wood pieces with carvings all over everywhere. This is unaffordable for me nowadays. What happened?
Even the consistent style part might take quite a bit of effort. I would be happy already if I could make a certain kind of person drop ClipArt and WordArt, and I don't see this ever happening...
>while failing miserably to focus the election of issues that actually matter

They failed? They decide what they should focus on, or should you decide for them? Who gave you the judge position? Care to take any efforts into claiming that judge position? Why should I or they grant you that? They, or I, should change our ways because you don't like it? What argument you have to claim that people didn't focus on what they should have in voting for Trump? I see that as a supremacist statement. May be he would have won with bigger margin, if they had really paid attention to what was going on.

>This is only really true if you frame "democracy" as being whatever America has been, at any given time. The extent to which American security and prosperity have anything to do with democracy is debatable.

:s/democracy/utopia

You get the idea. No description of utopia other than in the utopia Hillary was president. Well, I reject the thought, as no argument was given. I quite like America and would rather live here than any place else. All are free to leave America if they don't like it. If you propose changing America, you wish alone is not going to cut it, put up an argument.

I am quite aware of Lawrence's work, and have supported/appreciated it. Above comments were a response to that article, not an attack on Lawrence. I am sure he can defend himself quite well, if he happen to read it.
Sweet! I'll finally have that gripping hand.
I feel like a change. There’s another side of my writing self that I need to explore: the messy, chaotic, undisciplined side. The undignified side.

His next book was The Unconsoled, which is on the way to my mailbox. I'm a bit scared of it. It's supposed to be a glorious mess and impossible to enjoy if you try to make the wrong kind of sense out of it. I'm extra nervous (and also excited) because I didn't get much out of The Buried Giant (or haven't yet, anyway.)
What is the definition of winning here?
No. Credit cards are fairly uncommon in China. Most people link an ATM card and load a balance into their WeChat account.
This brings into focus a very nuanced question of discrimination versus unjust discrimination. The affirmative action debate is divided by these lines. I don't think we're going to make progress on that here, but the summary is that people who agree with you believe both discriminations are unjust, while those who disagree see this discrimination as a temporary action that will lead overall to more justice long term. Along with that comes the question of consequentialism versus deontology, and if the consequential balance is accurate to the world.

> It is not for Sephora's (or anyone else's) recruiters to wax philosophical on what they think the statistics should look like for the population at large, when considering a candidate.

This is not a question of statistics of the population but one of morality. This is what Sephora views as acting ethically. As noted above, not all agree, but that is why they are doing this (assuming they didn't do this for PR, which would be a far stretch, even if this story itself is for PR, which I think is a case of both/and). It is the job of Sephora's recruiters to act within the company's ethics.
I've been working on a similar tool for a while now. Editor + API to create PDF and HTML documents [0]. Our main difference is that you can integrate the editor with your SaaS and allow your users to design the templates and generate documents via API.

[0]http://actualreports.com/examples
Of course, the elephant in the room is that all this info and much more is with WhatsApp, Facebook, Google and what ever garbage app is installed on your phone. I agree that the article is more about targeted surveillance towards certain users but that is where NSA and secret letters come in :).
Is it legal for employers to provide salary data on particular employees without permission?
I'm not even so sure that it's Futurism with Thiel so much as just unbridled avarice.

If it looks like a greedy scumbag, and quacks like a greedy scumbag, well...
I don't know a lot of project managers who have deep technical experience.