skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
" Turning things around would require changes of a pace and scale that we have no idea how to motivate and coordinate."

Things like electricity, the automobile, air travel and the internet went from nonexistent to universal in developed countries in phenomenally short time spans. Renewable energy appears to be following a similar trajectory, leaving all the estimates in the dust and emerging faster than most people realize or can keep track of. Fast enough? Well, we'll find out. But at this point you can't say it's slow.
Jobs eventually wind up where it's economically efficient for those jobs to be. Are you implying that tax and trade policy have no impact on economic efficiency?
Dodging Russian Spies, Customers Are Ripping Out Kaspersky
Disclosing cryptocurrency holdings can make you a target for hackers. Many people have been targeted by tweeting blockchain news on twitter.
It's the "Web everything" trend, and personally I'm not too fond of it --- especially given how even the original goal of being a massively hyperlinked document repository is often being ignored now in preference to "Web applications" for everything.

Then again, here's another reason to keep JavaScript absolutely off, except for sites you really trust and actually need JS on.
T440s, but I was on a T430s earlier for work.
I get sidetracked by learning new stuff, the mathier the better. Sounds like a humblebrag but it sucks to keep jumping into rabbitholes.
It's really not my area of expertise, but it seems to me that today you could use subresource integrity to serve everything static from a CDN without having to trust it a lot.

The real problem is the other stuff they do, like defense against DOS attacks.
Actually extracting data this way sounds like the kind of hack that would gain someone an impressive reputation as a hacker, instead of triggering serious privacy risks.

Compare it to the iPodLinux project, when nilss extracted a bootloader using a piezo buzzer. Yes, this type of hack can be done, but something tells me it's not going to be a frequent worry.

https://web.archive.org/web/20050301010451/http://ipodlinux....
https://youtu.be/vPKhhne8mCs?t=1m37s
I absolutely agree that this would be a great idea, but it would be much better to solve this at a higher level - the website should provide a light and dark stylesheet, and then the browser should pick based on whether the user has a dark theme or not. Giving a website information about your physical surroundings (GPS coordinates, ambient light, audio input, etc) should be an extremely conscious choice, made only when there is not a better option (Google Maps cannot recalculate your route upon making a wrong turn if it doesn't know where you are, for example).
This time around, it looks like that's where the phrase ends. Until the next CEO perhaps.
Well, actually, they kinda do.
Also,
https://arxiv.org/abs/1002.2284
Her story did run, it was "gutted", not "killed":

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/12/13/business/media/miramax-sue...

If you meant, "the story that proved Weinstein was a sexual predator didn't run", sure, but that begs the question. That story didn't run because that story didn't exist -- inasmuch stories "exist" when reporters find the supporting evidence.

But the story that did run is the kind of story that feels like the kind that Weinstein, if he had strong influence over the NYT's editorial desk, would kill. Because it was, as you say, the kind of story that is not too important to ignore. It's the opposite, it spotlights an otherwise obscure lawsuit about a minor Hollywood figure who is basically accused of embezzling from Miramax/Disney, a theft made possible by Weinstein's favoritism. If the NYT killed it, no one would really know or care because scandals about insignificant foreign film companies (Mirimax Italy) aren't the bread-and-butter for NYT's investigative team or Culture section.

But Waxman herself says that her foreign-reporting trip was green-lighted even before she knew the extent of the allegations, or the possibility/difficulty of gathering evidence:

> In 2004, I was still a fairly new reporter at The New York Times when I got the green light to look into oft-repeated allegations of sexual misconduct by Weinstein. It was believed that many occurred in Europe during festivals and other business trips there.

I haven't worked at the Times, but I do feel comfortable saying that a "fairly new reporter" whose beat is Hollywood would not have the easiest time to convince bosses to fund a trip to Italy on an enterprise story that lacks hard evidence. But now we're supposed to believe that the NYT editors would approve such a project, during a time of falling revenue, in which the initial premise is that rumors of sexual scandal about their friend/secret-boss Weinstein are true? Even when it would be completely easy to just say No? To what end?

I realize I'm writing a lot of words for your side note tangent, unrelated to Indonesia. But like I said, I haven't read Chomksy's book. But I would bet that the universe of facts and connections for arguing NYT/Weinstein complicity are far more accessible and direct than what Chomsky would use to argue for media+U.S+Indonesian massacres. But if Chomsky's hypothesis is so permissive/vague that a reader like yourself (whom I assume to be reasonable and thoughtful) could argue that it applies to NYT+Weinstein, despite the published evidence (including the facts in of Waxman's own accusatory essay) and reasonable application of Hanlon's and Occam's Razor, then I feel justified in thinking that Chomsky's hypothesis may not apply to the much more complicated situation of U.S.Gov+media+Indonesia. Or that it's not much of a useful hypothesis period for assessing world events/media fuckups in general.
This year, I left a portion of my lawn unmowed. I seeded it with a $10 bag of wildflower seeds. It's given me 4 months of beautiful flowers, loads of polinators, many butterflies, and it's given me less yard to mow. I now think that lawns of neatly trimmed grass are about as dumb as it gets.
Not about insects, but birds:

In the Pacific Northwest, on the coast of Olympic National Park, (Ruby Beach, Kalaloch, etc) 30 years ago (when I was a kid) the beaches were teaming with seagulls. On a given day you would see hundreds.

The last two years I've taken my own kids there, we are lucky to see even 1 seagull each day.

Maybe it's something else, heck maybe there was an open garbage pit 30 years ago and it's since been closed, but as discussed, most of these ecological changes (even human caused) are too slow for individual humans to detect.

So thought I'd share my own anecdote :P
There's nothing inherently regressive about a universal income

Except that universal incomes are basically adult allowances provided by Daddy Government. So they are regressive in the sense that they're an idealistic childhood notion that immature adults keep trying to carry forward into adulthood.
Andrew Lo's test for long memory/fractal order of integration is standard in econometrics packages such as RATS, Eviews, Stata, etc.

It's a technical clarification of vaguer ideas put forward by Mandelbrot, Hurst, etc. but it still means the man's no Taleb, he's the real stuff.
The post I was responding to had an article specifically about a set of jobs going to Mexico. It's also worth talking about China, but that's not what this particular discussion was about.
At this point, there is no evidence that the limiting factor in these cases is AI/software.

The limiting factor with the neighbors cat is the robotics of having a robust body and arm attachment. We know that the scope of current AI can:

1) Identify a request to feed a cat

2) Identify the cat, cat food and cat's bowl from camera data

3) Navigate an open space like a house

Being able to clean an arbitrary building is also more the challenge of building the robot than the AI identifying garbage on a floor or how to sweep something.

It is not clear there are hard theoretical limits on an AI any more. There are economic limits based on the cost of a programmer's attention. There are lots of hardware limits (including processor power).
Note that very few ICOs are even a year old so even in the best case we shouldn't expect to see many successes.
The elephant in the North Korea shop is the obvious exception from that idea. Yes, he's "elite" in economic terms, but he was never, and will never, be part of the social and intellectual "elite" traditionally holding power.
Gaming and debating with people on the Internet.

I like progressively increasing my skill. I have to force myself to do passive things like watching TV. Even then, I need shows that are 'active', like Rick and Morty or Game of Thrones, where I can reverse engineer characters, think up conspiracy theories, or do something.

The problem is that my choice of relaxation is active, and thus draining. I get better at these things, but it sucks away my attention from things like programming.

I like the pain of improving skills, and games are perfect at this. Online debating too, because it takes only 10 minutes to come up with a well phrased answer.

Progress at programming is also very jerky. You end up hitting a lot of walls, being forced to debug something, or realize that the plan you spend 2 weeks on was wrong. The problem is usually very vague so there's a meta where you have to figure out what problem we're trying to solve first and whether we have resources for this solution.
But hard to argue with, it would take significant efforts that are unimaginable with modern politics/lobbying to reverse that.
It's not about subresource protection, it's about them essentially man-in-themiddle-ing each and every connection to your website which defeats - imo - the whole purpose of using HTTPS in the first place. What's the point if it isn't end-to-end?
Not asking for many. Asking for any.
Somewhere between 150 and 180 seems reasonable. So you should negotiate up, but don't be surprised if they won't go all the way to 175.
The article and post I was responding to was specifically about jobs leaving the US for Mexico. A discussion about tax and trade policy which led to so many jobs going to China is also worthwhile, it just wasn't relevant to the article posted by the GP.
I only opened this because I thought "Ever-Pregnant" meant never not pregnant.
Where the heck do you live? I'm in a small town in the south east coast of the US. I'm pretty sure our city crew would get fired (or shot) here for trying to forcibly mow someone's yard without their consent.
I fully reject that "Why bring a child into this world facing..." argument. (And I'm going to skip the fact that this is probably the best time in the history of the world to be born.) Sure there are big problems in the world. My son may help FIX some of those problems.

And if not, he may end up being the mayor of Bartertown.
AT&T is a special case. It held a monopoly on a near universal service across almost the entire United States for close to a century.

I just can't think of any company comparable now. By the time of that first Nobel Prize in 1937, AT&T had basically had its monopoly for 30-50 years depending on exactly where you start counting, and it would continue to maintain it for nearly another 50.
Not that it's Maine specific, but Ocean State Job Lot is a weird f-ing place, too. I actually love it, and was in there the other day opining to my wife that were the zombie apocalypse to go down, OSJL would be a solid place to hole up, if you could get some barricades in front of the big sliding glass doors.

I just bought some shampoo there for dirt cheap and when I got home realized all the copy on the bottle was in Czech ;)
That's not how the word is commonly used. By your definition all taxation is regressive.
To protect civilians and troops, drone detection tech ‘hijacks’ enemy UAVs
The US, for whatever reason, has given up on the concepts of "public good" and long-term thinking. Perhaps this is a product of quarterly profits taking center stage in capitalism, perhaps it is a loss of vision, or a confluence of factors. Whatever the reason, the fact that an 18-year old is expected to take on a debt of around 280K for a bachelors degree from a decent, but non-exceptional university like USC speaks volumes about the non-sustainability of the US higher-ed system.
Ethereum has pretty much delivered on both the technical promise and financial return
71% of Americans between 17 and 24 can’t meet the minimum criteria for service
Just wait. Universities will start offering on campus "job-training" where you work as interns. Students will receive "income" through their student loans, which they have to pay back, while the University sells the student's labor to make more money.

Treating researchers as students is just the beginning.
George Carlin called it.
Immigrants are taking our jobs, China is taking our jobs & manufacturing, Mexico is doing it, Canada is doing it. Every other country is trying to take our jobs away.

C'mon stop whining and start competing. This is what you signed up for, the thing called global economy.
Single-Link, Complete-Link and Average-Link Clustering (2008)
If you factor in dividends and stock splits, it’s just about doubled since its dot-com high.

But, yes it has generally under-performed compared to the S&P 500 until recently.

http://stockcharts.com/freecharts/perf.php?MSFT,SPY
I highly doubt Informa is keeping TnF around as a charity cause. They need to keep doing what they do, sell books, to make corporate happy.

TnF claim to publish 1,500 new titles each year. Informa isn't just eating that entire cost.
Welding the Big Ring (1904)
http://www.paulgraham.com/submarine.html

"
Why do the media keep running stories saying suits are back? Because PR firms tell them to. One of the most surprising things I discovered during my brief business career was the existence of the PR industry, lurking like a huge, quiet submarine beneath the news. Of the stories you read in traditional media that aren't about politics, crimes, or disasters, more than half probably come from PR firms."
Spellcheck and corrections can be faked, I think, if you decide to compile your own hunspell (or whatever). IME (i.e. entering text for languages that do not have a one-to-one mapping of key press to character), though, is a lot harder; you have no idea what languages the user has configured, and showing _everything_ in a list is impractical.
Upon re-reading that, I wonder how often "politics, crimes, or disasters" occur in the _same_ stories ... ;)
More on the actual ROCA vulnerability for anyone curious:

https://crocs.fi.muni.cz/public/papers/rsa_ccs17

https://crypto.stackexchange.com/questions/52292/what-is-fas...
Too bad about the x64 limitations, as there are some 32-bit installs out there that would make use of this.

That said, there is no way this will work for GUI stuff on older installs, because certain elements of xorg has changed too much over the years...
> They claim they had a large team working on the project for 4-5 years full-time.

There are two repositories. A public one and a private one. The Breitmans contracted with an OCaml shop

> They have absolutely no incentive to continue the product or work another day in their lives.

The article disproves your point. They haven't walked away. I think it's commonly accepted that if you pay someone upfront they either don't do the work or do a shitty job. That isn't always the case.

> I didn't even think it mattered until I heard they were incredibly rude to just about everyone in their Slack channel

I was there for most of its existence. They weren't rude. He never posted memes and wasn't that active in the chat compared to others and their community manager. It was pretty cool to see him respond to questions, but they were mostly short answers because A) he's busy and B) the questions tend to be quite repetitive because no one reads the white paper.

> Later they would delete channel history and eventually shut them down completely under the guise of "preventing fishing attempts", though I never saw a suspicious link anywhere

I was there for the end. Because of the way Slack is setup anyone can join and message other members. The scammers were messaging everyone telling them the ICO started and they should contribute at a fake URL. Because there is a lot of FOMO in this space their strategy works quite well.

The scammers also tried to take control of incoming webhooks. I'm not sure if the configuration was wrong or whatever, but I was quick to point out who was causing the deception. They were banned but the channel was shutdown shortly after that. I can dig up the screenshots if necessary.

> IMO they have no intention of delivering anything, except maybe to save face. If the past is any indication, they don't give a shit about saving face either.

The commits on Github prove that isn't true. They have put a lot of work into this blockchain and smart contracts that can be formally verified.

These are a lot of untruths in your comment.
I wouldn't call that an aspirational income, though — would you? That's just your real household income. It's also not an option for most adults, who are almost all older than 18.
The ICO funds are controlled by a Swiss foundation. See my other comment in this thread regarding the board members of the Swiss foundation.
I think knowledge transfer is hard, because teaching requires time for neurons to reorganize or maybe fix themselves in place, in order to properly cement a retainable fact. It’s just a quirk of the human condition that amounts of memory persist at limited speeds.
This is basically one of my problems with self driving cars and putting your life in the hands of neural networks. It could theoretically be possible to find vulnerabilities in these systems. Someone could possible create some sort of genetic algorithm to evolve a sign that could cause a car to veer off the road and crash.

Maybe i'm just scare mongering or worrying about nothing.
I just don't really feel comfortable putting my life in the hands of something that no one knows exactly how it works.
> [Fill in the blank company] has sponsored hundreds of studies to show [fill in the blank] is [good/bad]

Now it's applicable to nearly everything
You need to go through it to unmask it.
It's about getting terrified/stressed and then coming out on the other side relatively unharmed a number of times until your mind starts making association that every time you felt this way before and told your self that it will be alright, everything did indeed turn out ok.
Thus the term : learning to trust your self.
Good old Farmington, but I'm actually in the midcoast, which is a world apart from central and northern Maine.
Of course the planet is conscious. The entire consciousness of the human race combined is a lower bound on the consciousness of the planet.
Putting aside the household income for a moment: "Many" being able to report 6 figure incomes seems quiiiiite a stretch to me, 7 seems insane.

Do you have a source for this? Or can you define "many" some more?
> In the US it's frowned upon, but I hear it's quite common in Europe.

It's frowned upon by (most, not all) employers, but they are legally prohibited from banning sharing of employee salaries (as long as you are sharing your own information, not others). The culture of not sharing salary between employees is more an artifact of American culture to limit discussion of politics, religion, and money to those you are closest to (which has been changing to varying degrees).
tmux send-keys is fantastic. I recently added a shortcut to run the test that my cursor is on in a different pane.

This changed my life.

I thought I had to decide between having a separate pane to run my tests in and having a convenient and precise way to run to exactly the test or test file I want to run. But because of send-keys, I can have both!
There's more to bottlenecks than throughput. Latency also needs to be considered. A 5MB webpage will load much faster when served from a 100Mbit connection with 10ms of latency, than a 1000Mbit connection with 300ms of latency. Especially when you consider that web page requests (pre-HTTP/2) consisted of many separate requests to fetch all the different assets (e.g. CSS, JS, images, etc).

Secondly, the majority of websites that make up the Internet (and Intranets) are not serving 10k/second. They're serving a 100th of that.

Third, because your database can handle 10k queries, and your database can aggregate and manipulate data, and it's optimised to do this -- it might be a good idea to perform these functions at the DB-level, as opposed to the web application.

Finally, as stated previously, for most businesses, it's easier to buy more beefy servers, or get a more experienced PHP dev (that understands how to optimise code) than it is to find a Go programmer.
To my knowledge, both Australia and the US have compulsory vaccination requirements for schooling (both countries) and receiving government benefits (Australia). I fully support compulsory vaccinations (see: Hepatitis A, Measles, Mumps, Etc).

http://www.vaccineswork.org/vaccine-preventable-disease-outb...
Haha same difference. Mathoverflow is just a lot more hardcore :)
I feel that article could have condensed the same ideas in 5% of the length. Basically it all comes down to an expected value calculation in a situation where almost everything is unknown.

What surprises me is that Alcor doesn't have more clients. 200K (80K for a head) is not a lot of money relatively speaking. Any senior engineer in a tech company could afford to put apart 80K in a trust fund for this and sign up. And you'd expect most engineers think the same way as the article: cheap for a potentially infinite payoff. But afaik they only have a few clients.
The iPhone X will be sold out everywhere until 2018.
Allahu Akbar.
I’m the author of Quill and I will attribute my decision to David Greenspan of Etherpad. Not sure if they are the first but it certainly predates all the examples I know of.
Just another reason for the list I give clients to avoid California when they are considering hiring California residents or having an office in California.
That unsuredness may be true about the collective data here but we definitely know that one particular species is in precipitous decline - the Monarch butterfly with it's 3400 mile annual journey to go north/south with the seasons. Since they only eat one plant, we could eliminate some causes directly (although they could be secondary causes - like making other plants/insects thrive).

https://www.csmonitor.com/Science/2016/0301/Mexico-s-monarch...
Seems like you've stumbled upon an opportunity both exploit your employees and bias your hiring towards candidates who don't realize you are exploiting them!
Same law getting passed all at once in multiple places: makes me wonder if (bigger) companies with access to government figured out some angle on this.
Of course the broader the corpora the better in general (sometimes more narrow is better), but Wikipedia is certainly better than nothing.
Here's the list of deans at Harvard Medical School: https://hms.harvard.edu/about-hms/leadership

Which positions do you think could be eliminated or merged?
uMatrix is more granular. From example, you can tell it to allow images and CSS from a domain, but not cookies or JavaScript.

Or, you can tell it to allow JavaScript from Facebook while you're on Facebook's site, but not when you're on other sites.

I find both uBlock Origin and uMatrix to be useful.