skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
To be fair, success has a lot to do with luck, circumstance, hard work, and political/social skills too.
why are you equating space on a global ledger with space on a lifeboat?
Mensa does not actually base membership exclusively on IQ tests, so your assertion doesn't accurately reflect the content of the study. There are other ways to get into Mensa, such as submitting your SAT scores. I was coached in gifted classes on how to take the SAT. Is it any wonder I did better than average? Should we not expect kids with training in test taking to perform better than those without, generally speaking?

If we are going to discuss some correlation between supposed high IQ and various disorders, is it meaningless to talk about how one ascertains IQ and what on earth that even means?

I think it is not terribly different from asking "What color is your aura?" but I am quite sure that if I went around asking that on HN (or, you know, posting articles about auras, chakras, etc), it would be flagged to death. Yet, IQ is equally invisible. You cannot look at someone and say "brown hair, 6 feet tall, IQ of 145." That just isn't a thing.
Strange definition of vaporware you have, considering I just showed you lightning network operating across three different implementations of the protocol on the main bitcoin network.
Part of what makes the Cajun Navy far more efficient is that it is completely separate from the government, which has to worry about things like liability, legal hiring, risk analysis, proper management and dispatching, and legislators adding unnecessary red tape. If the Cajun Navy tries to interface with the government, all of those efficiencies would be lost in order to meet regulations and standards that the government would require.
That's not the definition of free market. For one thing privately owned businesses are not required.

"In economics, a free market is an idealized system in which the prices for goods and services are determined by the open market and consumers, in which the laws and forces of supply and demand are free from any intervention by a government, price-setting monopoly, or other authority." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_market

The requirement is for individual trades to occurs without duress or manipulation outside of the trade. Also, prohibiting information exchange by government regulation is not allowed as that interferes with the market.
Simply that you get hired. It sounds simple, but getting a job, at the end of the day is a matter of having what an employer is looking for AND a big heaping of luck. Even seasoned experts can sometimes got 3-6 or even 9 months between jobs. Why? Blind stinking luck. Just don't stop applying.
"The record-breaking A. solidipes clonal colony passes the test based on a definition of being made up of genetically identical cells that can communicate, and that have a common purpose or can at least coordinate themselves."

Definitions...
You're evading the question. If you can't at some point in the chain trade your fancy bitcoin beads for services or goods, then how is it any different than monopoly money? Right now it is useful because it can be easily traded for currencies that can purchase those things.
Where I am we have a huge amount of wolf spiders and parson spiders. Both of them have (from what I've heard) pretty painful bites[1] so I like to keep them out of the house but I almost never kill them. I usually just let them outside.

I'm fairly sure it's not a coincidence that I almost never see a mosquito even though I live near a pond.

Now if only we could train them to eat deer ticks...

[1] Like a bad bee sting. Not dangerous unless you are allergic (possibly?).
Those are computer science advances. The nobel prize for economics about economics, not comp sci. There isn’t new economic theory in bitcoin.
With 520,000 subscribers, is your argument that Reddit is -not- a statistically notable segment of Bitcoin investors?
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It's classic goalpost-moving.
But note that the Stopify portion is completely optional and composes onto the end of an existing JavaScript compiler. So you can offer a faster-but-no-stopification mode versus a slower-but-with-stopification mode. While modes can be annoying, the point is that you don't have to be forced to pay this price due to the Stopify infrastructure. In contrast, a language like Pyret has the stopification built into its back-end, so you always pay the price (for now), whether you want it or not.
Yea, no. Lightning network still depends on the bitcoin network. All it means is any two parties can transact off chain and settle up later. Not sure what the problem is.
It makes me a bit sad the way bitcoin has gone, I remember buying things with BTC a few years ago.

Some sites even built "order status" page that gave direct feedback of the transaction e.g. confirmations. I thought that was really cool.
It's kind of like the argument against trying understand the brain by modeling one: ok, so let's say you have a perfect model, all that's left is to understand your model.

Or another way I've heard it explained. If we were trying to understand Mario and could perfectly emulate its circuit, would that translate into us understanding the concept of saving the princess? Probably not, we'd probably venture a guess that collecting coins is the most important thing in the game.
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This is true for the app store top 10, but from what I've seen not much out of that.
In practical terms, the bigger problem is Android 8, which does not trust user-added CAs for app traffic (https://github.com/mitmproxy/mitmproxy/issues/2054#issuecomm...). It's a really odd move by Google against privacy researchers.
I'm glad to hear they are organizing after the disasters, for the next one. It's easy to jump in, in the thick of it. But the training, preparation & organization can't be faked on the fly, and it's critical to getting the best outcomes.

If you've got the appetite, learn about ICS/NIMS. They are built on a history of mistakes & missteps due to weak organization. NIMS in particular was commissioned after preventable errors in interagency operations trapped & killed firefighters in the towers in 2001.
That's not true at all. If the power were not used by Bitcoin miners, it would be used by other industries, and less more-expensive (coal etc) power produced by other power plants.
Yep. We're fixing that now.
Let's elaborate on "curried" since that was what OP was interested in. How are functions in Haskell "curried" by default? Sure, you can write

f x y = 2 * x + y

and that will define a function that takes an Int, say, returns a function. But why is that any more "default" than

g (x, y) = 2 * x + y

?
- You wish birds would eat them.

- You get birds that eat them.

- You don't want to get said birds.
not really. by default, bitcoin core rebroadcasts your uncofirmed transactions periodically (not sure about the other clients). so as long as your client is open once every 72 hours, it won't disappear from the mempool. whether it gets confirmed is another story.
If you are not the type of person to run your own business then you would need to get a job working for someone else. Now it seems the issue is not you really working for someone else, but not properly being compensated for performance.

Now, the good thing is until you have enough time, money and feel comfortable taking the plunge into being your own boss you can work on gaining the skills by working for someone else. If you are working at a company that does not conduct additional compensation based on performance leave the company for one that does. You owe nothing to a company that is not properly compensating you for the value you provide, especially as your time increases there and you are a top performer.

There are companies out there or should I say sections within companies (even the big ones) that will normally do the following: Annual raise based on performance, annual bonus based on performance, spot bonuses, quarterly bonuses and increasing your base salary to keep competitive with the market (i.e. if your showing mass improvement beyond what you were originally hired for or your actions keep improving your coworkers productivity you could see your base salary increased by 10 to 20 percent or more to better place your skills and talents within the company and insure you are being properly compensated).

A company that cares about attracting top talent, growing and retaining top talent will properly compensate you to where you could technically become rich within (within reason of their income and the value you bring to the table) a few years of working there. As the good companies see that the value you bring to the company increases their bottom line and will make sure to keep your pockets filled with cash so you do not have to worry about it and can spend time doing what you do and have fun doing it.

I would recommend you do some searching for areas near you and compare your skills, talents and abilities to what the average household incomes are near your next possible employer - https://www.incomebyzipcode.com/

Insure that what you ask for in salary is a minimum of what the average household income is for the zip code of your employer. Also ask about compensation based on performance and how any bonuses, raises or salary adjustments are calculated. If the potential employer looks at you funny and doesn't know what your talking about move on to the next potential employer until you find one that does not just pay a base salary and does raises but also pays bonuses based on performance.
We are more confined than to The Local Group[1]. Andromeda, the closest galaxy to us is in The Local Group and is 2.5 million light years away.

We are confined to our galaxy. In fact, we are confined to a small region of our galaxy. It's 100,000 light years wide. Without faster than light travel, very little is accessible to us.

[1] "The Local Group" is the name of a cluster of galaxies which are gravitationally bound to each other. Our galaxy, the Milky Way, is in that cluster. When all other galaxies drift away from us in billions of years, the local group will be the only thing visible to us.
For most of the population this is very bad advice.

It’s important to remember he’s assuming you have or can afford legal counsel. If you’re like most people and you can’t, ignoring or refusing to answer the questions of a police officer can seem rude, can make you appear guilty, and can get you singled out for charges, that later you won’t be able to afford to defend yourself against.

I knew someone who took the advice of this video. He was driving in a car with multiple people, there were drugs in the car, cops pulled them over. “Whose drugs are these?” Everyone says “not mine officer.” This guy remained silent. “Are these yours?” Silence.

All of the possession charges were put on him, and everyone else was free to go. The drugs weren’t his.

I never followed up to see what happened to him, but he was completely broke, so I can’t imagine it was good.
1. I blame a corrupt board of directors for not making Mozilla a great organization that can attract great altruistic leaders that don't need to take so much.

2. Mozilla has blown almost every dollar it has ever earned. Hundreds of millions wasted on failed projects and useless activities. No one disputes this.

3. Mozilla revenues should be growing every year and not never reliant on a competitor's goodwill. And just because Microsoft wastes billions on something (or claims to for tax reasons) does not mean that is the fundamental cost. See: SpaceX.
How is allowing two parties to transact off chain, and settle up later on chain, not a decentralized solution?
Oxford

https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/free_market
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Just Don't Die – Reflections from a Reject
This morning I read a tweet by Alexis Ohanaian about being rejected and eventually getting into Y Combinator. It reminded me of my own rejection post from 2007 on Hacker News.

Back then I started labeling Bandsintown, a "Y Combinator Reject". Looking back on it, 10 YEARS LATER!, it wasn't smart. I was implying an association which we hadn't earned. At the time being rejected, and eventually seeing that they had accepted a competitor, really fueled us.

My post back then was two parts; the first part, which I regret, is that I thought Y Combinator had made a mistake and I wanted to prove them wrong. The rejection felt like the start of an underdog story and I wanted to capitalize on it. The post, the association, etc, had zero impact on our success or lack of it, so it was silly labeling us that way and in hindsight I think they made the right call.

The second part, which I don't regret, is sharing our story of rejection. That's what I found fascinating about Ohanaian's tweet. Rejections are relatable and helpful since ALL eventual successes have their moment of rejection and subsequent perseverance. At the time of that post I KNEW I was going to make Bandsintown successful and I wanted the post to offer hope to others who might be in similar situations. That's partially why I am writing this post now.

Ten years later, I would like to say sorry to @pg for trying to capitalize on Y Combinator without having earned it. I would also like to say to all the future rejects to just keep going. The company that was rejected now has ~40M registered users, used by nearly every musician in the world, listed as a Time Magazine Best App of 2016, and Business Insider "100 World's Greatest Apps". It's def not a unicorn, and debatable wether I would even call it a personal success or failure, but it's 10 years later, it's alive, and it's providing for it's employees. I'm grateful for that.

The most important three words @PG has ever said "Just don't die".
Congrats on the launch and thanks for using mitmproxy! :-)
Depends on how good their security protocols are at the point of attack.

If their security is really really really good they should be able to publish (and advertise) the details of every step and still be secure.

Unless I completely misunderstand the essentials of security, which I might. Can someone school me?

In the end though their security is only ONE point of detail to concern yourself with when investing. The really really really important detail though is your belief in the rock stead control of your emotions. That should be 60% (or more) of your calculated risk. Because, as we know, humans are always the weakest link in any system.
If clonal plants count, could that mean that Henrietta Lacks (HeLa cells) is technically worlds heaviest animal?
And he (the officer, Philip Brailsford) was just found not guilty of second-degree murder 2 days ago. Fucked, indeed.
Many cryptographic protocols are much less efficient. I asserted that only as someone who was in that space an personally knows the people who were doing research on this in the 90’s and 00’s. Nearly all effort was focused on finding a solution that had finality of settlement guarantees.

There was also some work on hashcash money, but it made the economically naive and inaccurate assumption that value of the currency must be linked to the cost of production, which is also explicitly not the case in bitcoin.
I didn't mean to imply it'd be "justified" in a legal or moral sense to shoot someone because one feels threatened.

But I can imagine being scared shitless and pulling the trigger because of a sudden perceived threat, which is why this video felt shocking to me.

I obviously don't see why the shooter thought shooting was reasonable, but I also cannot imagine why he felt so threatened to be forced to shoot.
I implemented a similar model based around the amazing out of core linear learner Vowpal Wabbit. It did pretty well in the Precision FDA challanges despite being developed in two person months. I has the benefit of using fantastically less compute to train than something like deepvariant. (https://github.com/ekg/hhga)

The approach is the right one for small genetic variants. But it will be hard to handle more complex kinds of variation without adapting the alignments to training example synthesis.

I think the field should cool it on calling the results of something like deepvariant "genomes". These are genotypes, not fully sequenced and reconstructed genomes. The evaluations are typically on easy regions and we have no reason to believe that those are the only ones that are important. One important tool to dig into this is syndip, which is a simulated synthetic diploid where the full haplotypes are known. It is a mixture of two haploid human genomes that were de novo sequenced with pacbio technology. (https://www.biorxiv.org/content/early/2017/11/22/223297). For the curious these haploid human genomes only exist in molar pregnancies, so even this isn't ideal but it is maybe the best resource we have at present.
I think that cossatot is saying exactly the opposite of what Borges was making fun of.
I don’t think I ever claimed 20 t/s was sufficient. Just pointing out the throughput has increased by an order of magnitude and there is a tremendous amount of ongoing innovation in this space.
> I think the concept of immutability confuses people.

I think it confuses people because it’s framed oddly. Immutability isn’t about being unable to mutate state, it’s about no longer using containers (registers) as variables, such that the equal operator actually means “equals” as opposed to “store”.

In most programming languages, the equal operator works as a “store” operation, which stores a value in a named container/register. In “immutable by default” languages like Haskell, the equal operator actually means “equals”, as in “is synonymous with”.

The essence of immutability is referencing values directly, through synonyms, as opposed to storing them in named registers for later retrieval. When it’s done this way, immutability no longer makes sense: is the number 3 mutable? Can the number 3 be mutated into 4, or are they just two distinct numbers?
Anonymous benchmarks are usually affiliated to at least one of the products being benchmarked. It's usually not hard to figure out which one.

Either way I wouldn't expect a real world benchmark to be reproducible, it's too hard to reproduce and takes too much resources.
As a trained member of the military I would sincerely hope that you realize there's a huge continuum in self defense that doesn't automatically begin any response to a perceived or real threat by shooting at someone.
For a smart person you sure missed my point.

You could have just conceded that you jumped too far from too few data, but whatever.
I've never had to have any sort of interaction with the justice system and have never talked to a lawyer (even a friend or in a social setting). I thought I was a proper adult for having a regular accountant I talk to once a year.

How do I know the phone number to a good lawyer?
freebsd-update works fine in jails, as long as you use it correctly. Unfortunately there are a few landmines due to versioning issues.
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> git doesn't actually create new copies of the content for each commit

More precisely, it doesn't create new copies of content that you didn't change. For example, if you have 100 files in your repo and you change one of them and then commit, git creates a new copy of the content of the file you changed--a new blob storing the new file content--and a new tree object that references the new blob instead of the old one, plus the other 99 blobs that store the contents of files you didn't change; the new commit object then references the new tree object (plus the message and metadata). But git never stores diffs between old and new content; it just creates a new blob every time the content of a file changes.
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It's not supposed to be "due to curvature". It's blindness to curvature, due to the colours.
> it turns out

Reality check: nothing conclusive has been proven yet.

IFF we get to the VISA network level of activity, then it has "turned out" to be "good enough".
The cryptography library currently already supports the most basic elliptic curve operation you need: scalar multiplication. Sometimes you need fancier operations. For example, this supports direct point addition and point subtraction, which for example is used in SPAKE2 to achieve blinding.

Right now these are focused on a tight binding between Python and C (specifically, OpenSSL). The function names are direct equivalents of OpenSSL function names. Most of the rest of the library provides an abstraction from OpenSSL -- but it turns out that providing a safe abstraction to cryptographic primitives can be very tricky :-)

(Disclaimer: I'm one of the founders of cryptography.io; I occasionally show up for cryptographic background. This project builds on that project, and is being considered for upstream inclusion.)
Yes, and I'm clearly blaming programmers at Mozilla for the problem ;-)

I hope you find Mozilla better run that it appears, and I hope you can do more great work there, despite its flaws, but it seems to me like you don't have the leadership or organization you deserve.
As far as I've read, it's more targeted at corporate deployments when the owner/administrator and user aren't the same person or authority. It allows things like remotely reimaging the machine if the OS install gets screwed up, deleting encryption keys if the machine is stolen or otherwise compromised, verifying that the mandatory "endpoint protection suite" is actually running, etc..
You're begging the question (petitio prinicipii) of whether initiatives have been successful. As far as I can tell tech is still mostly white and male. When it's not and ideologies are still the same then you'll have a case.
>> the absolute last thing you want is fairness to your competition or fairness to your consumer.

> I completely disagree with your assertion here. I want an advantage over my competition, sure.. but I still want it to be fair.

Thank you for that. I really dislike the common model of capitalism where the entrepreneur is viewed as a robot whose only goal is to maximize profit with the law being the only boundary.

In my social bubble the landlords that I know care about their renters' wellbeing even if it costs them a bit. I only know a handful of entrepreneurs personally but for all of them fairness and dignity have greater value than profit. Also the millions of small shops in cities around the world that are content just selling enough every month to make a comfortable living with no goal of maximizing anything.

Yes, huge cooperations are different than the guy selling Kebab at the corner. But still I would appreciate if people would see entrepreneurship and businesses not so statically as money-maximizers.