skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I was once invited to a recruiting event by palantir (it was in Israel) where I noticed a bunch of good looking women talking up other people. The weird thing was they were all dressed practically the same, wearimg a small black dress. Now, this event wasn't formal or anything, so I gathered that they were 'atmosphere models'. That was a very weird experience , to think that someone paid for pretty women to have human interaction with me. I don't get how this passes as a good idea.

Later I found out the organizer was a woman, so bizarre. Silicon valley is weird.
Stupid question: in all of those calculators, I never know if I should include my personal income or household income (including my spouse). Is it an obvious thing that everyone knows? as it's never in the (?) tooltip... in any calculator I found online (I'm an expat, so perhaps I just don't get the obvious)
How about ranking some ambassadors and heads-of-state who prevented or avoided war? Less thrilling, I know ...
Who is being bullied in the article's situation?
If anything, CA/NY subsidize many of the other states.
> The last time I took a serious look at Rust I thought it took things too far in the other direction; you weren't able to use two (nonoverlapping!) data members of the same struct in a function, and the suggested workaround was to wrap it in a smart pointer. Has that issue been fixed now?

I think that's largely been addressed. Are you talking about doing something like this?

https://play.rust-lang.org/?gist=cf5835d28946df6c5093d57b7ca...
Unfortunately I have nothing yet to add to your discussion with parent, but I was wondering if the two of you might peek at the following paper, and let me know if and where it fits into the picture:

[1] Jose Luis Rosales, Vicente Martin, "Quantum Simulation of the Factorization Problem", 9 Nov 2016. (https://arxiv.org/abs/1601.04896)
Implicit in Bitcoin's price is the assumption that the US government will continue tolerating BTC and allow easy conversion of BTC to USD. So much for a safe haven asset.
I was sortof hoping for LetsEncrypt to offer S/MIME
I'm not sure where you are looking but there are Australian VPS providers with comparable pricing to overseas vendors. A$20 will get you 2GB memory easily enough.
There are lot of people that can't understand the use-case of bitcoin, and can't understand why it has value if it doesn't meet theirs, yes.
OTOH, the dev boards are the reason why people have been able to run desktop OSs on their ARM-based boards.

Do you know why no desktop software is optimized for Xeon Phi, SPARC, POWER9? Because almost nobody plays with them.
There are some rights it should not be possible to negotiate away.

For example, a contract in which I forfeit my right to life or ownership of my own body would be considered invalid.

The same should be true of a contract in which I forfeit my right to sue. Half the point of the courts is to serve as a final arbiter when a contract is insufficient.
3. currently, there's no adhoc way to query in-memory data. wallaroo while having a couple database like features isn't a database. you'd need to export that aggregation or the results thereof via a sink into some other system for adhoc querying. we've had discussions about providing adhoc querying but it isn't on the immediate radar.

4. we've worked with folks who want to do what you are describing but the "answer channel" was different than the "question channel". so the question came in over a source (in their case TCP) and the answer would leave over a sink (also TCP). in that case it was something like:

client -> persistent web socket -> server -> streaming system -> server -> persistent web socket -> client

having a combined source/sink is something that we've discussed but we have higher priorities at the moment. if we were to start working with someone for whom it was a priority, we'd move it up in priority.
Service Unavailable explanation message from NiceHash
I don't know, the last line is pretty critical. "But the trade-off is giving more power over your life to a company that probably already has too much."
Perhaps because it’s meant to be a tax calculator, not a political scorecard.
Show HN: Serve Golang GRPC methods as a JSON API, no configuration required
As a lifelong programmer that pursued programming even before I had a computer I am very biased here but... teaching people how to code at school is very empowering because the devices they carry around with them and the servers they interact with are not magical in anyway, yet they seem that way if you don't understand the basics of how computers work and what a program looks like.

For those who have not considered programming, being forced into it school may not be pleasant, but for many they may find it as delightful and fun as I do and we will bring more people into the programming community.

The article tries hard to make it a bad thing that big computer companies want to be able to hire qualified staff in the future, but clearly it is not. Any country without programs that nurture young programmers and encourage them to pursue it as a career will be behind the rest of the world in software, which is not a place you want to be.
Thank you for this good response. I didn't notice the NYT covering this story before, because I have cut NYT out from my life due to their malicious, partisan reporting. So maybe I should be less bold about my evaluations of them and just continue to enjoy my personally-curated, high-information-dense feed.
Quite frankly, I think Americans won't tolerate intelligent people in Silicon Valley much longer. American patience with technology is running on fumes. Americans hate Silicon Valley, and they'd rather have models pretending to work than actual people who make things. Americans are sick of it, and they want it to die.

Americans will look forward to the day when all employees of Silicon Valley companies are models: people who are incapable of actual work, actual thought, yet pretend to work. Americans will happily turn Silicon Valley into a Hollywood casino.

In fact, I think there will be a trend to reward such companies and punish companies that do technology research. Governments exist to protect people from technology. Americans will accept a fake technology industry because they see a real technology industry as a threat.

In fact, Americans will give a great sigh of relief when they realize they don't have to worry about the next technology company because it is staffed entirely by bombshell blondes who never studied a technical subject, or beautiful men who know only golf, tennis, big houses, and fast cars.

The issue of jealousy will be entirely beside the point; Americans want relief from technology anxiety, and they'll accept a show business version of Silicon Valley if that's what it takes to get a good night's sleep.
Interesting, but it really needs to include state taxes to be accurate or relevant.
There's an interesting psychological effect there. Maybe before people buy it, the idea of it being a bubble is first and foremost in their mind. After they buy some, and they see it make them money, it's probably not a big concern for them anymore.

Once they've convinced themselves that it's a valuable investment and have purchased multiple times, the very idea that it could be a bubble is something they will be purposefully be blocking out to keep their view of themselves as rational actors intact.

So you'd probably be surprised how many people will very quickly refuse or mock the idea that Bitcoin could be a bubble. This is especially so if people do the usual thing and actually merge the idea of being a 'Bitcoin investor' into their own personal self image. At that point, all bets are off, and a Bitcoin crash can quickly become a suicide event. It's why we have laws around investments and gambling to try and protect people.
Kata Containers uses KVM; QEMU, which is the userspace KVM client, is configured so that it looks like you are running on a container.

However, what you get is indeed a virtual machine. It is simply impossible for "real" containers to provide the same isolation as virtual machine, simply because the attack surface is that of the shared kernel; a hypervisor presents a much more constrained interface to a VM than the full kernel, even if you add QEMU to the mix.
Are you used to paying for company?
Certainly, this is a good point. However would you use that expression if what I said was "you can not make a perpetual motion machine"? Or if I had said "NP probably does not equal P"?

A scalable analog computer goes against some "first principles", not mere technicalities. If you want to claim that it is feasible to build it, you need a way to address those first principles.

For instance, the existence of scalable analog computers implies that we can solve NP-complete problems easily. This is a claim as crazy as "perpetual motion machines". It would be great if either of those claims actually become feasible, but there is a gigantic wall of "first principles" that have to be addressed - mere optimism is not enough.

This is what I want to stress - do not trust people when they rely on technicalities to shoot down your argument, but if they are pointing out fundamental laws of nature as impediments, maybe it would be interesting for everybody if we try to learn and discuss those fundamental laws.
Here's the email I got at 11:23AM this morning:

"Dear patron,

Your support is truly changing the lives of creators around the world. You give creators a reliable paycheck that enables them to do their best work. Thank you thank you thank you.

In order to continue our mission of funding the creative class, we’re always looking for ways to do what’s best for our creators. With that, we’re writing to tell you of a change we’re making so that all Patreon creators take home exactly 95% of every pledge, with no additional fees.

Aside from Patreon’s existing 5% fee, a creator’s income on Patreon varies because of processing fees every month. They can lose anywhere from 7-15% of their earnings to these fees. This means creators actually take home a lower percentage of your pledge than you may realize. Our goal is to make creators’ paychecks as predictable as possible, so we’re restructuring how these fees are paid.

Starting December 18th, we will apply a new service fee of 2.9% + $0.35 that patrons will pay for each individual pledge. This service fee helps keep Patreon up and running.

We want you to know that we approach every change with thoughtfulness for creators and patrons. By standardizing Patreon’s fees, we’re ensuring that creators get paid to continue creating high quality content. If you have questions or would like to learn more, please visit our FAQ here.

Sincerely,
The Patreon team"
so does that mean we need more or less vitamin D?
It looks like something that Distil [1] is doing, among other things. AFAIK they will be expanding this functionality in the coming months.

Disclaimer: My company have been using Distil for a few months; mainly for detecting and blocking bots, but they provide a range of other security features.

https://resources.distilnetworks.com/customer-stories/accoun...
well that's sad for you and good that you do not live in germany. most post services will actually give the package to your neighborhood if you are not at home.
the first week in my new neighborhood took me a while to track some missing packages down. (well instead of bringing me the packages, which the people now do they wanted to know me, so they waited till I came to them...)
This tends to be a widely held misconception. It turns out that CA and NY pay more in federal taxes than they receive back in federal funds. It turns out that it's mostly the low tax states that take in more from the federal government than they pay. Here's one chart: https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2014/05/which-s...
if you are running NoScript, I'd suggest temporarily allowing the page. its hosted by typeform that in turn loads most of its content from various cloudfront urls.

you'll definitely need javascript enabled.
Yeah honestly I don't see why it couldn't replace Slack, it is a very similar product but I feel like by marketing it primarily to gamers they are positioning themselves in a far less profitable market than Slack is.
Can you detail that math? I've seen math thrown around all over this thread, much of it contradicting. To me, this seems completely negative:

Before: 7-15% net fees - $100 = $93 or $85 dollars

Now: 8%+ net fees with near 30% fees for $1 and 10% fees for $10

That math is using net fees when considering the amount the patron pays vs the person gets. Patreon is pulling some shady math by pretending that the patron isn't paying the original fees as part of the total amount.

To me, it looks like for nearly all cases, fees are going to increase. I would revise my statement to "loss, not gain", even if all patrons stay on the service.
Slapdash startup-ism in an exchange for a Brave New Currency is just as scary as a conspiracy. It may be more scary.

At least with the Cabal theories you know someone knows what's going on. You might even have someone to blame/jail at the end of the tunnel!
Seems like there are two rather different meanings of "binding arbitration."

I agree that the kind where both parties come together and agree, for a specific case, to engage in arbitration and be bound by the result is OK. The kind where you agree beforehand, when no damages have occurred, that if any case comes up then you will both go to arbitration instead of court, is not OK.
Interesting approach. Unfortunately the code apparently has no licence so we can look but cannot touch (possibly this is an oversight).
Colorized vertical tabs like TabKit2 used to do would also be nice.
These kinds of discussions aren't very rigorous and reveal a basic philosophical illiteracy and philistinism at work. There's quite a bit of question begging going on. The elephant in the room is that the prevailing materialistic/naturalistic (MN) understanding of the world is completely impotent where intentionality, qualia, consciousness, etc, are concerned. Philosophers like Thomas Nagel talk about it; the incorrigible Dennetts of the world prefer to shutter the windows and live in their intellectual safe spaces. To say that the notion that computers are intelligent is problematic is putting it very lightly.

MN is rooted in the expulsion of the mind from the reality under consideration, in the process sweeping many things under the “subjective” rug that don’t fit the methodologies used to investigate reality. But now, when the mind itself becomes the object of explanation, when someone remembers that minds are, after all, part of reality, it is no longer possible to play the game of deference and one must deal with all of those things we’ve been exiling to the “domain of the subjective”. MN is wholly impotent here, by definition. Qualia? Forget it. That’s why MN tends to collapse into either some form of dualism or eliminativism, the latter of which is a non-starter, the former of which has its own problems.

And yet, despite the terminal philosophical crisis MN finds itself in, the chattering priesthood of Silicon Valley remains blissfully unaware, hoping to conjure up some fantastical reality through handwaving.
Certainly don't pay to go to movies and watch ugly people
Criminal prosecution against a company?
If internet ads were as unobtrusive as newspaper print ads (I'm not talking about the shitty free tabloids), a lot fewer people would be using ad-blockers.
That's not what their VCs want them to do, unfortunately.
> someone with no background in software development

These people are often management, unfortunately.
Because there's fundamental value behind most traditional securities, even if it's well below the current market price. If you hold a bond, it will (usually) pay interest and principal. Equities carry the value of the cash holding of the company, plus the potential for future dividends. These cash flows act as an anchor on the value of those securities (in both directions, up and down.)
Summary of C++17 features [slides]
Thanks.

It does seem specific to machine learning / Tensors. But that's still cool. I'll have to sit down and grok the paper more carefully to fully understand what they're doing.
Just because that good autocorrect AI or AGI isn't available today doesn't mean that we should dismiss it as something that we don't need to worry about. Because the change to our way of living is so great, we should start making plans, even if it is 10 or 30 years out.

Personally I believe we will see really interesting animal-like AGI demos in 2018 and 2019.

It's just dumb that people can't take this stuff seriously until all of the engineering and research is 100% done.
It might, there are few crypto-billionaires who have a big headstart now in investing in other things.
Corporate values do align with human values in a free market

It's just that the values and goals of many humans are unaligned with the values and goals of many other humans.

Which results in a cacophonous marketplace.
Because there are some rights it's bad to be allowed to give up. You can't sign away your right to life or freedom. Being able to have your grievances heard in a court of law should be considered a fundamental right, like the right to life.
Didn't know about this one. Must be pretty new. Thanks.
Press Release: Spectre Aims to Eliminate Fraud with Decentralized Liquidity Pool
While true, that shouldn't be overly relevant in this case. They are one-time codes that you will be sending once the person is at your door.

There is a potential issue if you're talking about sending someone a code (or multiple codes) several days in advance, but I don't think the systems are set up to do that currently.

Plus you get an alert and a picture/video whenever one of the codes is used so it's fairly high risk for a burglar. You get an entry alert and it's some dude in a mask you call the cops. I tend to think that they'll stick to the old fashioned way of just breaking a window instead.
There are hundreds of engineers working on RHEL (disclaimer, that includes me), so it's not as simple as you put it...
List your best Bitcoin related blogs and news sources
It also depends if the implants are visible / detectable or not.
Jan 2016 to now is 23 months. Still big but half as much.
You have layoffs and turn servers off. This isn't rocket surgery. They're skimming a ton of money off these trades every day, down time is a loss.
If you're shorting, you get the $ up front and have to supply the security when you "cover". Not having to "cover" the short would actually be better.
Debit card(Durbin covered banks) interchange is 0.22 fixed fee + the variable amount. Add on processing fees and its easily 0.30.

Visa has a microtransaction(sub $10) framework where you can roll up 3 auths into one interchange but most processors don't support it.
Sure. Merge first, then that.
US media claims on Kaspersky short on essential detail
In light of the #metoo movement and the numerous sexual harassment accusations, all across the board, this is what I see: things aren't that different SV.

Where is the "In SV we're supposed to be innovators, why aren't we leading the way towards a more equal society?" narrative grounded?
I have not. Thanks for the tip! I'll give it a whirl when I have some time.
You guys really don't have experience in the space huh?

Bunch of douchebags in this forums that like to talk like they know what they're saying :D
That makes me all the more eager to see it. I would like to do this but I'm not the biggest fan of having a discernible social media presence.

Bisquit is similar I guess, in that he picks super obscure topics that interest him and vlogs about it. Lots of programming, but also a ton of esoteric Christianity, folk dancing, etc. Interesting guy.
> Large brains are just tools

That's an odd position to take. Surely there's a difference between the hand and what it grasps.
Open Source Cloud Skills and Certification Are Key for SysAdmins
> Bitcoin miners are no less motivated by profit, so it stands to reason that they will seek to become more efficient and employ the cheapest energy available, which generally means hydroelectric plants and other renewable sources

My sense was that this was only the case in countries that have effective environmental regulation, and that coal was cheaper in countries where you could legally operate super-dirty plants. Is this no longer the case?
No problem, hopefully you don't get caught with your pants down like I did.

I forgot to actually test that a proof-of-concept of a new feature using WebRTC in a WebView until it was already like 70% done. I heard it worked in iOS 11, I tried it in safari and developed it like that, then once I started more in depth testing and integration I saw the problem.

So now I make sure I test everything in a WebView (if needed), as an "added to homescreen" web app, and as a safari tab ASAP.
Graphic Design Is About to Be Upended by AI
It is profitable for the entire network to burn upto 12.5*price of bitcoin dollars worth of coal every ~10 minutes. At $15,000 a BTC, that means miners can consume $27,000,000 worth of electricity a day and still remain profitable. This amount varies linearly with the price of BTC.
This would actually freak me out, I would probably need to leave immediately once I understood what was happening.
Blockchain-like technologies are here to stay, for currency as well as other things. Whether it's the current incarnations (Bitcoin, Ethereum, etc) or some future ones, remains to be seen.

I am certain the concept will persist. I am just unsure which version(s) of it will carry on the torch.

> cryptocurrencies can never go bankrupt*

Well, memes die all the time. CCs can still die, but arguably it will be a "true death" - sort of like a global agreement that the thing has become useless.

I also want to point out that a lot of these algorithms are based on consensus. It is conceivable that someone with lots of resources could build up lots of fictional players to try and swing the "consensus" in a certain direction.
Seems you are into a light depression, what helps the most is routines! Go to bed the same time every day, wake up the same time every day, eat at least three good meals, at the same times every day. Go to work at the same time, and go away from fork at the same time every day. Get some exercise, like go to the gym, and you guess it, same day, same time every week.
Also how long time since your last vacation ? Get at least four straight weeks of vacation every year where you do not work at all.
And how does your life look like outside of work ? Do you have relationships, friends and family ? Relations are essentially how much time you spend with someone, so go work on your relations, eg spend more time with people you like.
IANAL but if their delivery guy commits a crime, it’s on him. If it becomes known that Amazon knowingly contributed to their delivery personnel committing crimes, or in some way covered them up, or is in some related way defrauding customers, they carry a legal risk beyond what arbitration covers. Everything is a trade off.
Cray Joins Big Data Center at NERSC for AI Development – InsideHPC
Location: Jacksonville, FL

Remote: yes (although willing to consider local positions)

Willing to relocate: no

Technologies: Python, relational databases (SQL Server, MySQL, Postgres), web crawling, GUI development, SQLAlchemy, ETL, Scheme, Prolog, etc (always eager to pick up new programming languages or technologies)

Resume/CV: http://aquila.blue/misc/resume.html

Github: http://github.com/zephyrfalcon

also: http://bitbucket.org/zephyrfalcon

and: http://gitlab.com/zephyrfalcon

Email: zephyrfalcon at gmail.com

Note: Looking for part-time work if at all possible, but not unwilling to do full-time again.
~60% of the developers on my team are women. It's not magic. Also, in a big company most employees are not engineers, so the relative lack of female CS grads shouldn't mean there are so few women that you need to hire them for events.
Except that you couldn't actually pull this off unless you were a large/powerful company.