skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Bitcoin Is in Wild Upheaval After the Cancellation of Segwit2x – Fortune
Yes, you're mistaken. Responsibility does not mutually exclude. You don't decide on the specifics, but if those specifics are unethical then you are responsible for them because you set the incentives which cause them to be prevalent.

There are a lot of organisations where top level management obtain plausible deniability by formally setting policies against abusing employees, but also set incentives such that low level managers can only succeed by doing so.
I would like to see a spaceship operator for floating point comparison, where a<=>b means a is less than, equal to, or greater than b. It would be useful for checking that a and b aren't NaN. If either were NaN, then the comparison would return false.
Define a PDF thus:

1 when n = number, 0 everywhere else
By most measures, progress in happiness and quality of life in has stalled compared to other industrialized nations. Fewer people are getting married with many citing economic pressures. The world happiness report lists the worlds 3rd largest economy in 56th place in the list of happiest countries.

From my own experiences living there, Japan may have a strong sense of community that shines during crises, but that connection is often only surface level. Relationships are heavily compartmentalized. You may have drinking buddies, golf friends, etc. But they aren't friends in the sense that you'll visit them outside of those activities or really open up to them to reveal your vulnerable side. If an older person loses a spouse, they often don't have anyone else for companionship.

Japan's suicide rate is still among the highest in the world and 2nd highest of rich, industrialized countries. It is the leading cause of death for women 15-34, who are amongst the longest lived in the worls.

Career satisfaction is also pretty low. The reality of work. The system is based on seniority. Hours are unecessarily long, most likely hurting produxtivity. Gaining advancement based upon merit is rare.
Those tests can "disprove" that a sequence is random (quotes because of course a true random generator will occasionally generate suspicious sequences of arbitrary length)

But you can't prove that a sequence is indeed random: the sequence [sha256(1), sha256(2), sha256(3), ...] passes the usual tests and isn't even clever. For any set of tests you can write a pseudo random generator that passes them
When you stop to think why every major nation in the world today spends tens to hundreds of billions of dollars on military spending each and every year, it should be clear that it is.

We have all grown up in an era of unprecedented peace, and I think it's easy to take that peace for granted. But that would be unwise. When you look at history since time immemorial people constantly have disagreements on the right path forward. And the group that decides which path is taken is the most powerful group - which is often decided by force. I see no reason to believe that this has changed. But the peace? What has changed is that we've created an international stalemate thanks to nukes. Mutually assured destruction makes military enforcement of will a nonstarter.

Consider the very recent comments made by USAF General Kwast a few days ago [1]. He is not concerned about China militarizing space - that is taken as a granted. He is concerned about the militarizing space before we do. In his words: "Militaries will soon work more extensively in the space between the earth and moon. That realm is the next high ground, where nations are straining to gain a strategic advantage." It's not even a question of if there will be another great conflict but rather when will it be. Whenever it is, it's likely that this conflict -like so many before- will be decided not by man, but by the technology of man.

[1] - https://www.cnbc.com/2017/11/10/usaf-general-steve-kwast-chi...
Maybe because the upper class and the educated class have abandoned the lower classes.

Scientific excellence is not worth very much economically if it does not trickle down into society. This didn't happen in the UK and that's why the economy is suffering.
It seems like those kinds of more removed scenarios point to a strategic void in compartmentalization.

We (US, Soviet Union, etc) had this figured out in the 60s when we were primarily using human intel. [1] Except the danger that now, instead of walking out with rolls of film covering a few thousand pages, someone can take everything they have access to in < 24 hours.

My only explanation is all those long-won counter-intelligence lessons were thrown out when the Young Turks showed up with their "we can do it all and more via software" ways. Because they delivered (and you've probably seen this in your org) they were excluded from having all the pain-in-the-ass rules applied to them.

It seems our intelligence agencies now look exactly like our commercial software -- more featureful, more agile, less secure, less stable.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/T._A._Robertson https://www.cia.gov/library/center-for-the-study-of-intellig... https://www.salon.com/2015/09/26/how_to_explain_the_kgbs_ama...
Thanks! Definitely one of the hardest things to do getting products into a school is having them approved for support by IT. This doesn't apply to websites, unless they need to manage logins. While there would be some workflow optimizations with a fully managed web app, most districts wouldn't want to have a special gradebook for a single subject/department. This also simplifies development for me early on, so I can focus on the rest of the user experience without a bunch of dev ops work to keep the service up.
Security Breach and Spilled Secrets Have Shaken the N.S.A. To Its Core
I also found this: http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/O/one-liner-wars.html about APL one-liners
We should try to increase the per capita GDP in the US then.
After a few moments of searching I'm going to assume that whoever specifically scraped and uploaded the page may have removed the adsense javascript. Doesn't look to be a normal archive.org thing.
I think a high reserve price is actually a really neat idea - you'd think that might have the knock-on consequence of reducing the attractiveness of adblockers, and furthermore of reducing viewer fatigue (so that the ads you do show have more impact). If you're smart enough, and take into account the "damage" to your relationship with the viewer when choosing an ad (i.e. aiming primarily for the ad the viewer is most likely to appreciate, and only secondarily other effects such as how likely they are to click and how much the advertiser is willing to pay), you might even be able to make ads the viewer actually wants to see; which in the long run is probably a very good place to be.

I wonder if part of the reason that never happened is simply that ads are in a sense "reserved" layout space that need to be filled consistently and cannot be filled later on (due to layout jumpiness).
In the first case, the tech lead discarded the candidate without looking at him/her seriously or interviewing, just by looking for a few minutes at the submitted piece of decent code and finding it somewhat unusual.
It seems pretty clear that there is a reason why they got the leaks - they paid attention:

> Obermayer told me that his source for the Panama Papers, whom he refers to as John Doe, had tried to get the attention of several large international outlets, including a U.S. paper, before he got in touch with him. “The leaker didn’t say, ‘Here’s the biggest leak in history, are you interested?’ ” Obermayer said. The first documents that John Doe offered him were not journalistically compelling, at first glance. But Obermayer recognized that they had come from Mossack Fonseca, which he knew operated in extreme secrecy. “I thought, If somebody has obtained data from inside Mossack Fonseca, this could be really interesting,” he said. Knowing the implications of the firm’s name, Obermayer speculated, may have been why he ended up with the Panama Papers.
IntelliJ and Scala IDE to speed up Scala coding
The comment was constructive. You brought the attention to "GDP per capita" yourself, so pointing out the obvious problem with that metric singled out is as ad rem as it gets.
Did you try to see what happened if you increase the load time above 4 seconds?
Q. I'm designing my first DTD. Should I use elements or
attributes to store data?

A. Of course. What else would you use?

I giggled.
I love how he refers to himself as an "operator" - like he's going downrange with SEALs or some shit.
The Cost of My Mother’s Cardiac Care in the United States and India
I wanted to take a look at the source code, but https://github.com/jaltekruse/Free-Math is giving a 404.
Amazon barely makes profit in the divisions that treat employees this way.
It's interesting that we tend to ask for advice from rich people. Once I've heard a very annoyed George Soros saying in an interview - CNN or similar - that "you got me here not because I know stuff but because I'm rich".
Data Breaches, Phishing, or Malware? Understanding Risks of Stolen Credentials [pdf]
I’m not sure about H1B status or how that impacts comp.

Netflix does outbid Google and Facebook routinely in one key component: base cash salary. I think you can request a portion of this in stock but the default is cash.

So you’d get $350k handed to you straight cash versus the traditional approach of base + stock + other variable components like bonuses, performance based comp and refresher stock. The 500-600k numbers you’re suggesting are not realistic for an average mid level engineer though.

But in general, Netflix’s comp philosophy is a complete outlier in the Silicon Valley ecosystem. Might be more common in hedge fund or quant roles but I don’t know much about that world.
Why didn't they replace all GTK with Qt and proposed to upstream it? That would have been really good.
Whenever I hear someone claim china is leading on the environment, I know they’ve never been there before.

Your analysis is harsh, however: there are still rich people left who haven’t migrated. China is all developed, developing, and undeveloped at the same time...it is a huge place after all. There is plenty of trouble on the Chinese eceonomy to work through, and the propaganda is incredulous, but they have made a lot of progress that isn’t going to go away even when the inevitable crash comes.

China could go through a decade or two of Japanese-style stagnation if they refuse to reform and allow the market to work out bad economic blood with crashes and failures. They could also go the other way, focus on real growth and start avoiding white elephants. Let’s see.
Imo his regret minimization framework and work/life harmony are legitimately worth thinking about.

I've personally experienced the "unhappy/bored at work -> bad at home" connection in my life.
I believe this is the underlying cause of their security issues. People involved cannot voice their dissent so they act it out.

The NSA and CIA are institutions established to protect a nation that abides by the rule of law.

When the rule of law is brushed aside the people who are part of that system rebel.
It would be helpful if there were some explanation as to what a 'bullet subtitle' is...
Well I've had quite a few heartwarming experiences with ORMs, when used in a specific way.

I've found the right ORM a joy to use on small-medium size projects, with a simple data layer using a database driven approach (ie not code-first).

The key has been to be able to blow away the ORM code and recreate it at will with no more than a few seconds work (an application of the Factory pattern..).

With this approach the ORM got out of the way and didn't cause friction. Then combine the generated classes with functional LINQ/map reduce to enable complex, expressive querying code in the first class language of choice.

As this is a controversial topic for some, I want to make a few disclaimers ..
- This has worked very well when I've kept the database simple, with logic in the application not the db. (Constraints in Db though).
- Extending the DAL domain can be done through partial classes, that are kept when the ORM code is blown away and recreated.
- As a bonus of this style, the database is done with standard sql, and could be swapped for another relational one easily.
- Upgrade scripts need to be created for database migrations, tooling is available to autogenerate these from snapshots of development databases, and manually extended where needed.
- I treated the Db as a Db, not some magic object oriented thing, and handled the (fairly minor) impedance mismatch in application code.
- You can always hand optimise some sql if needed, or even call direct bulk update APIs if you need top performance in specific parts of the application .. I use the ORM was used as a unit of work pattern so it's possible to do other units of work in other data access technologies, when optimising for something other than developer ease.

On the other hand I've seen configuration heavy ORMs suck a lot of time and cause heartache ..

Of course, ymmv, but using the approach outline above it has literally been a breeze, and a heartwarming experience for me and other devs when they get used to it, on dozens of projects done this way.
There is something called Rainbow Gathering, where a bunch of people go into the wilderness for one month(but people come and go as they like), to do exactly this. No electronic technology, except for torches. Xooking over open fire And quite some more, but also some weird things. So there are spaced out hippies as well, but usually also quite many ordinary people who just like to live differently for some time. And in my experience the human interactions there, are in general much deeper, since people live more in the moment, than on their phones half the time.

I have been to some very nice ones in europe (but also left some bad ones). In the US I heard, they are much more extreme, so I can't talk about that.

But if you can't stand naked people dancing around the fire to drums etc. at all, than I recommend a simple mountain hut off the grid, or something a similar.
I like both ...
Neither cost or ability of the everyman to use bitcoin define whether it's centralized or not. It is a decentralized algorithm by design, and will remain so no matter what changes in block size or how many people use it or who uses it or how much it costs to use it.

You are talking about concentration and consolidation at the human and social level, which does not change anything about how the blockchain is designed or functions, and is orthogonal. And nothing is going to change that. The government could shut off all electricity and the blockchain is dead.
Totally irrelevant!

Its doesn't matter if the person's movement lags by 200ms, even if you were in the same room you probably would not notice. For meeting with someone over long distance really doesn't matter.

Typically in VR applications you buffer the last 3 packets just to make up for lag and frame jitter. It doesn't matter how much the lag is, it's much more important that the user doesn't experience it.

I have been writing applications that do VR meeting for 17 years, so I do know a little about the subject.
There no heroism. They fumbled their way to survival. Unless they want to further humiliate themselves, I don't think there's any deals here. There's no Gofundme either.
The problem with async await is that it is build upon promises, which sucked already from the start.

For all those Promises proponents out there ready to burn me down, this is how you do it in C:

delay(1000);

And here the amazing Promises with await:

var wait = ms => new Promise((r, j)=> setTimeout(r, ms));
await wait(1000);

Is it really that difficult to at least abstract this wait function away in the Javascript language?
Well at least they all got replies. I have had at least 3 interviews where I did a take home exercise and didn't even get a reply. Unless I really want the job I refuse them now. I have a decent score (top 5%) on Stack Overflow for my tech of choice, so do I really need to waste an afternoon or more writing some mini application for you?
Living in Maryland, I've met several young people who put in a few years at the agency (including TAO) who then left for industry. Millenials don't care about a government pension, especially when you're in a windowless SCIF hacking Perl.

The US Government as a whole has a massive talent retention problem. Only the mediocre will stay at NSA / CIA now and we'll probably see more of these leaks / hacks.
Yes, agree with you.

The way I look at it is that it's not even because of the global competition it's simply that technology gives you such a big advantage compared to those that don't use it and thus we are basically improving our own short-term situation for long-term rendering ourselves insignificant.

Instead of looking at the last 200 years of industrial history I find it much more telling to look at 200.000 million years of evolution.

To take it even further out there. To me it seems like evolution favors the best information carriers which might mean that "silicon" will replace carbon based lifeforms simply because it's a better information carrier than us.
>Russia issue as a large and embarrassing failure.

Are you saying it is not?

>In Hanoi yesterday, Trump made the statement that, "I'm with our agencies, especially as currently constituted with their leadership," regarding Russian intervention in the election. USA Today reported that, "Trump says he believes intelligence assessment that Russia interfered in election — but Putin does not."

Sure, he said that. But he also said the other things. Does intentionally making conflicting statements somehow justify the ones that don't sound so good?
Professors in China get cash bonuses for publications in major western journals. The average payment for a Science or Nature paper is $44k and the average university professor makes $8k per year. See [1] for details and other journal payout rates. Imagine if US professors got half a million dollars for publishing in Nature or Science. The gaming going on to get published would be even crazier than it already is.

[1] https://www.technologyreview.com/s/608266/the-truth-about-ch...
Right-click and drag does not work in Firefox, Windows 10 either.
I'm currently interviewing with a company where the HR person in charge of my case left the company. My emails to him were getting Postmaster responses, so I emailed someone else asking what happened, and apparently no one knew that I was just hanging out in interview limbo.

Being proactive in your interviews never hurts; so long as you aren't bombarding them with emails it's unlikely to hurt your application.
Don't worry, we are working on robots that will replace these employees. Then they'll not even have what to eat.

On a serious note, I don't think this is Amazon issue. Stop blaming individual companies. You can't expect them not to compete and cut costs.

It is the responsibility of the government to set and enforce the minimum wage and provide social services for the lower tier.
So you really believe quantity trumps quality? That is a bearish indicator also.
I am not impressed. China has been sending students abroad for years, and that was a significant shortcut to the state of the art.
Security by obscurity? No it doesn't work.

Good to know our systems aren't private.
I think you underestimate the lengths to which some people will go for fame.
public implementation link https://github.com/ARM-software/arm-trusted-firmware. its software running in privileged cpu mode.
"if no one follows up, it does not mean no", that is what I learned after doing recruiting for some time: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u6PTaTDHUG4&feature=youtu.be...
1493: Uncovering the New World Columbus Created covers it in some detail, along with a number of other interesting consequences of the Columbian Exchange.

https://www.amazon.com/1493-Uncovering-World-Columbus-Create...
This would be your person opinion, given that the militaries of the US, the UK, China, Russia, Vietnam, Korea, Japan, Mexico, Spain, etc. (probably easier to name those that haven't) have officially performed such actions, with the soldiers in question receiving official honors and rewards?
That is an interesting question and one I've thought a bit about.

There is a strong sense of 'wrongness' in the US culture when Alice tells Bob a lie and Charlie knows it is a lie but Bob doesn't. Later Bob will be offended and ashamed that he believed Alice's lie to be the truth so in anticipation of that wrong, Charlie feels compelled to 'out' the lie and save Bob the embarrassment and hurt. Then when Donna, Edith, and Frank come to Alice's defense and double down on the lie Charlie goes apoplectic trying to defend against it for Bob's sake.

I think the challenge here is that uncontested lies that end up in the group consciousness as possible truths can have consequences that effect the group. Perhaps a bad example but one that has happened, is a community that gets a cell tower removed, reducing cell service to everyone in the community, because a group of them believe the cell tower is causing medical conditions to manifest in them.

Alice tells Bob his headaches are being caused by the cell tower, Charlie argues that she is mistaken, Donna, Edith, and Frank side with Alice and the tower is removed and now Charlie has to stand on the back corner of his porch to hit the cell tower one neighborhood over to make reliable phone calls. That is the sort of scenario Charlie fears that the lie persisting will create.

When people have a few experiences like that, where a lie they knew was a lie, came back and made their life poorer because it wasn't identified as such early on. They start having stronger and stronger reactions to lies like that. Sort of an escalating immune response if you will.

That is my current theory on why people get so worked up over stories like this.
SUTVA (users are not independent of each other when A/B testing)
The Symptoms of Protracted Dying
Rigid methods for flexible programming
Lead yourself before leading a team
I remember a one-liner in BBC basic that gave you the snake game.

I wish I could see that again. Not sure if it was in one of the old acorn electron mags.

It seemed like magic, did some pretty low level stuff.
That was done several times before, but Mozilla rejected such proposals.

Even if that means Firefox breaks every few weeks due to a new GTK release.

Even if that means Firefox never will properly support multi-monitor HiDPI on Linux (and not at all on X11).
Me neither. Also the "Why PPC" isn't exactly convincing. I'd happily buy a non-x86 notebook but I don't see any reason for choosing PPC honestly.
> But if Bitcoin is competing with another crypto such as Bitcoin Cash when buying the pizza...

Is it? Where do I have the choice to pay with Bitcoin Cash?

> People don't want to spend extra money.

So they shouldn't use Bitcoin Cash, which at current exchange rates buys them fewer pizzas per unit than Bitcoin does.
The moral judgments are important on a societal level if we ever hope to address problems like suicide being one of the leading causes of death for westerners between 25 and 44 years old.
Sorry, I forgot to mark the repo as public. Should be fixed now.

The project is a bit messy, I still need to set up proper dependency management and a build system. For now the app all lives in the index.html file.
USA GDP per capita is $57k. Luxembourg is $100k. Does that really qualify as fractional?
> I have to say though, having chrome that is virtually indistinguishable from a webpage is a phisher's dream.

That's not terribly hard to do today either. That's why browsers implemented those obnoxious fullscreen animations and notifications somewhen last year.