skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The Collector's Edition of the game came with a bonus disc featuring a 20-minute video of unfinished content not present in the final game, the development seemingly went through quite a bit of trouble, most obvious by Kojima splitting from Konami after it was finished.

It's not that unthinkable that Kojima's grand ambitions ran into budget constraints and they had to cut down the story content. I can easily imagine dozens of more hours of voiced and animated cutscenes polishing out the content that's already in there, but voicing and animation are expensive.

What remains is imho still quite good and entertaining, I really enjoyed the open world parts, the base management, hunting for new soldiers or grooming favorites.

The multiplayer part made it all a bit grindy, without some story fluff in-between, but I think it was a smart game mechanic to add to a sneaking game where you have the option for non-lethal take-downs/straight up bypassing of enemies, especially in the context of the "lore".
A lot of deep learning workloads aren't necessarily bounded by things like disk transfers, though, but stuff like bandwidth to the card itself. You probably have enough RAM to just pre-warm your disk cache anyway if you have exceedingly large training samples. This is more useful for things like massive CAD models, if I had to guess.

On Nvidia if you want this, I think you can basically achieve it using GPUDirect anyway if you really want to bypass CPU transfers and go straight from SSD to GPU, via PCIe. I guess it depends exactly on how this card is connected to the disk.

Having it on-card is pretty convenient, though. GPUDirect has practical limitations on what boards/systems it will work with.
"The problem arises when multiples are inferred from incomplete data."

I heard the collective clacks of Command-W's at that line closing the tab from every single Crypto investors laptops sighing relief saying "See yeah crypto isn't overvalued it's just ya know people have incomplete information"
These kinds of attacks are already happening. It has actually happened in the apartment area where I live:

We have a hot water central heating system that distributes heat to the apartments buildings. To improve efficiency, this system was upgraded with "weather forecast" functionality. The supplier stated that this system would not work behind NAT or a firewall, and required a public IP address, so it was connected directly to the ISP's switch.

A couple of years later, in the summer, the system got cracked and the heating system was turned on and the system temperature was increased to the maximum. Because all radiators have (analog) thermostats on them, it didn't affect the indoor temperature, and it took a week until it was noticed.

If nobody had noticed, it would have resulted in a huge district heating bill. And if done on large scale, I guess it could overload or underload power plants (if using electric heating). So I disagree that there are little incentives (to bad guys) to crack heating systems.
Happens sometimes amongst my friend groups with Facebook groups. Though I also don't really have a problem with going "hey, I'm not headed home, want to go get a drink at the next place?" with folks I've just met through a friend, and nobody really ever seems to have a problem with the question.
..and guess how this system is activated? Using traditional FM (some form of RDS, I think). Which is why not all the transmitters have been turned off yet.
The charitable mission of mozilla ended with their deal with google in 2004.
Let's not forget that mozilla had frozen 15 millions dollars because of the IRS audit related to this deal and mozilla status, ending up settling outside of court for 1.5 millions.
Vivaldi!

+1 for mentioning Otter though - those guys are doing amazing work

https://vivaldi.com/
https://otter-browser.org/
It's not transactional like that. You know when you are with someone for whom "listening" is just another word that means "waiting to talk again," or when you're just a receiver for whatever they want to talk about.
How does .NET JIT a method? (also featuring 'Tiered Compilation')
I've heard this response before, but do you really feel it addresses the issue? Or are you just utilising whataboutism to cloud the issue?

This is a matter of people refinancing their homes, and funds putting money into futures of an asset that has potentially always been valueless

But to answer your question: yes, that bothers me too;
Neither of these links you provide have to do with Damore's rant, nor are they mentioned in his claims.

Damore wasn't arguing that men's and women's bodies were different - he was taking papers about biological differences and stretching them to supporting his unfounded claims that social differences are based on biology, not social constructs, because he was upset at Google's programs that fight social biases. Some of his citations are cherry picked nonsense, for example the big five analyses saying women are neurotic [1], which have been discredited as being weak lexical factor analysis that can't be attributed to biology [2] (like gender).

The fact that you think these papers are relevant to Damore's memo just further proves the vagueness of his diatribe, and demonstrates your own willingness to project your own views onto it.

[1] https://www.bradley.edu/dotAsset/165918.pdf

[2] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3903487/
Having lived in and worked daily with the former for about 15 years from 1985 to 2000, and the latter for a similar period afterwards, I would say: don't bet on it. Culture matters. And China has demographic scale problems that dwarf those of the Japanese. But! We'll see!
I'm not sure if you're trying to imply that Lightning Network is vaporware, but there are currently three implementations that pass the integration tests:

https://github.com/lightningnetwork/lnd
https://github.com/ElementsProject/lightning
https://github.com/ACINQ/eclair
https://cdecker.github.io/lightning-integration/
What's your take on these? http://truffleframework.com/docs/
Actually, I think that it's he doesn't understand that trying to uncover anonymous identities in financial transactions is a problem that governments have been solving for decades (I'd say centuries, but I'm not sure the problem is that old). Pretty much the only difference with a blockchain is that you can no longer rely on banks cooking their books to protect you.
The model is irrelevant to my point. E.g. Lab and Cieluv may become obsolete if it turns out that we can remap "the bindings between color and wavelength" in our brains as easily as "the bindings between color and wavelength" in our vision libraries. The fact that purple doesn't associate to a wavelength should be a clue that binding the two at all is a mistake, not a clue that purple is exceptional.
Striking similarity to PageRank and Link Farms.
That would have been my guess as well. I wouldn't have guessed that those paintings had such a planar palette

Well, not that flat actually, the way the image were processed also makes them flatter than they really are see

https://uploads2.wikiart.org/images/vincent-van-gogh/the-sta...

for example.
Making money may not be the mission of the mozilla foundation, but it is the mission of the mozilla corporation fully owned by the mozilla foundation.

And money it makes, in the hundred of millions, for serving its users to the worst known worldwide privacy offender, collecting and profiling user to sell advertising.

The "good" non profit charity foundation is governing the "evil" for profit corporation giving away users to the worst opponent of the mission of the charity. Quite a contradiction in this.
The whole thing read like an only mildly more coherent version of the Series of Tubes speech.

And kept harping on about voice call quality. What.
A cover letter is your sales pitch. I've never understood why there is so much instruction in them when all you're doing is trying to sell yourself. Write them a sales letter hyping YOU the programmer.
Try explaining to your colleagues at work that the distribution of certain traits is slightly different in different genders and see what happens. In at least one company this didn't go well. The reaction is the same because those in power punish instead of explaining, only the aspect is different. Obviously I much prefer the SF version as at least I'm not in jail and can look for work somewhere else, but the feeling of lost freedom is in there, in many people.
Especially when you include being a PhD not bound to the salary of an academic career.
Announcing three new journals
What I really do not understand is why this game thing was installed automatically given that websites can ask the user to install an extension when they land on a webpage. A popup that is part of Firefox shows up and asks the user if he really wants to install it.
Does anybody know who actually owns Fox Engine at this point? Afaik it was Kojima Productions who created the engine, but Kojima and Konami split.

Yet the Fox Engine wiki lists Metal Gear Survive as the only upcoming Fox Engine game, not Death Stranding. Death Stranding's wiki says it uses the Decima game engine. That, in turn, was developed by Guerilla Games and Kojima Productions.

So from that situation, I guess it's Konami who now owns the Fox Engine? I wonder how that ended up happening, Kojima's own studio developing an engine and then he doesn't even get to keep it.
You could also say that Canada doesn't respect freedom of speech. But apparently even they don't fine people for calling themselves "engineers".

Again, if someone wants to be a "Government certified professional engineer", that's fine. But taking claim over the entire english language to fine people for using the perfectly clear description "professional engineer" is a violation of US constitutional rights.
> You've done a bait and switch on me.

No I haven't.

> ... that has nothing to do with the tech industry and they can't change that...

So what you are saying is that:

a) We don't know if this is a cultural issue or not

b) So the tech industry shouldn't do anything about it

Huh?

> You have studies trying to raise kids as neutrally as possible and still finding boys prefer trucks and girls prefer dolls. It's definitely not culture.

There's definite proof to the contrary: certain cultures (like Soviet Russia, for example) had a much bigger female representation in STEM fields than others [1]. Heck, even Mexico today has a higher representation of females in CS degrees than the US [2]

How do you explain that if "it's definitely not culture"???

[1] https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/soviet-russia-had-...

[2] https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2014/03/th...
You don't have to actually reify the conversion (as in, create a data structure that holds the new representation in memory). When they say that they converted the image into RGB 3D space, it was probably mainly conceptually, to give meaning to "nearness." I'd guess the only data they kept track of as the image streamed off the camera were two integer counts.

I wish I had more examples of algorithms where it is best explained as acting on a data structure that is not actually present, but all I can think of right now is using generators to represent a list.
Ric Jacobs letter submitted as evidence in Waymo v. Uber
Works fine on ubuntu 14.04. Radio is a nice touch. Missing composer is Charles-Valentin Alkan.
I'm sure I must be exhibiting some form of hetero-privilege here, but I never got offended by any of the people who referred to my wife as "my partner".
Google is among the worst privacy offender there is and mozilla has been sending their users towards then in return for a small share of the google mega profits.

So much for the advertised protection of user privacy.
Welcome to Journalism in 2017. Impartiality is dead.
This is like saying that socialized healthcare is a dogwhistle for communism. It's a modified form of a slippery slope fallacy, suggesting that any movement in one direction will cause an extreme movement in that direction[1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slippery_slope
Based on my experience, both England and Tokyo sell cigarettes in packs of 10. The US tobacco industry doesn't want moderation.
I wasnt quite sure what the point of the article was, but if the author is a VC, his job is to turn his LP's money into more money. If it is a seed fund, the only way for him to fulfill his obligations to his investors / do his job is to invest in companies with 10x potential, most of which will fail. His goal is to generate a return of 15-20% a year for his investors, and his strategy is to bet on 10x companies with expectation that most of those will be 0x

so ultimately it is greed driving all this (wanting uncorrelated above-market returns), but VCs aren't making 10x -- if they're lucky and good, most funds will make 2-3x overall over a 10 year period -- which is what youd get if you bought S&P 500 index funds 10 years ago
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I see 3 scenarios right now:

1. Bitcoin + lighting network solves everything

2. Bitcoin's dominance ends and a more scalable payment-focused currency start to dominate (like Dash)

3. Bitcoin remains the main store of value, and people will convert some of their bitcoins to an altocin to do daily paymnt where there will be debates on the level of decentralization, but is designed to be extremely high (Visa level) tx/sec, and very low latency. My bet is currently EOS.

I still think any of these can become true, but I am more and more predicting (3) to be the case. (That is why my main investments are BTC and EOS, but I also have some Dash in case (2) becomes true.)
One person doesn't make a game, nor a whole movie, but certain positions hold quite a bit of influence over the direction of any complex media property like a AAA video game or a movie.
For the same reason, many people go see movies based on who directed them.
> OK, but I'm talking about those cases where people have already provided reasons not to trust them.

That's perfectly reasonable.

I was still focused on the "Us vs. Them" attitude, which doesn't apply here.

If you haven't met or interacted with someone, but you choose to categorize that person in the "Them" group, that is unreasonable.

It can be tricky when individuals seem to put themselves in your "Them" group. When that happens, it's probably a good idea to stop, and take care to define what "Them" entails, and how that individual fits there. If you don't, that person may be unjustly labeled by you, and you by them.

When we label each other, and create meta-groups to dislike, that creates a divide that isn't helpful for either side, because each side is mischaracterized, and all nuance is ignored.

> until they abandon such choices

My advice is to be careful not to judge others solely by the things you dislike about them. The details you focus on are not the entirety of their character.

If someone only finds friendship in a group that promotes ideas that you are opposed to, that person is likely to promote those ideas. If you befriend that person, you can begin on common ground, and work together toward ideas that you agree to be worthwhile. That person will thereby have less focus on the idea you don't like.

None of us is perfect, and we can certainly all find faults in one another. If we all reject others for the faults we find in them, we will all be rejected.
Cover letter is email body, resume is role description and bulleted list of accomplishments/value added in each role. I found a way to work languages used in each role in without using a vertical list.

For the "cover letter" I try to match tone of whoever wrote job description and convey excitement and cultural fit. I believe this to be very important in hearing back when reaching out and will iterate until I get more responses; though each is taylored.
Agreed! Bridges aren't technologies either, only rivets and steel beams! I keep telling people, but they just won't listen.

Cars? Not a technology, only wheels and motors are technologies.
yep, the day Candy Crush reinstalled itself and re-appeared in my start menu after I explicitly removed it was the day I removed Windows on every single one of my machines, and it's never, ever coming back

MS have always been known for producing poor quality software, but they'd never been actively untrustworthy and hostile to the end-user... that completely changed with Windows 10

2.5 years later and I don't feel as if I've lost anything, I guess it was the push I finally needed to dump Windows forever
In general I agree with your feelings. However...

> Um, no. The foundations of Facebook are "Wow, we can get rich shaming and and objectifying people? For the cost of bandwidth? I'm in!"

I think it's an exaggeration. Sure they want to get rich, but I don't think they have bad intentions nor use shaming. Objectifying people - yes, but they do it in a similar way most other companies do.
I use it on my small weak 8 inch Windows 10 Dell tablet because it works much faster than Chrome on the weaker hardware. I like how it now has all the same extensions I use on Chrome. I also like how you can just double tap, like Safari IOS, to zoom to a frame. I still use Chrome on desktop as I am just used to it.
If you ever get around to making a private OSCAR based server and publish the code somewhere please let us know.
This would be a major blunder and showing that the merge into production process is lacking a lot.

Luckily this is intended and seems to be a paid for marketing/advertising scheme
This is secondary to there being no benefit to the average user for transacting in crypto vs Visa. What incentive is there for an end user to use even a hypothetically optimal crypto system? Then is that incentive sufficient to overcome network effects?

The appropriate and interesting applications of crypto seem to be totally leaving p2p cash behind - it just doesn't seem like a good fit.
The title here is neither the original not even coherent. If the issue is space limitation, ”Sam Altman complains SF political correctness hurts innovation” would be a natural shortening of the source title.
Why do you keep using the large phrase "chinese government controlled crypto bcash" instead of just calling it bcash?

Sincerely, someone that isn't involved in all of this.
ARM Trustzone doesn't do anything related to remote attestation, which I'm guessing this thing is all about (even if the article doesn't seem to mention it). So I'll claim it is impossible.

Edit: You could still check the signatures signed by the trusted Intel CPUs on your ARM device of course, but any mining would have to happen on a SGX-enabled Intel CPU. (Or anything else with Intel's private key.)
VC math dictates that they need roughly one 10x (or higher) company to make up for a couple of roughly break even companies and several companies in which no money is returned. You can twist the nobs a bit to adjust returns, but ultimately the 10x and higher companies define the returns of pretty much every fund. The rest of the companies are just noise in terms of influence on ROI. Note that this is why VC is sort of a deal with the devil -- you need to be a 10Xer, or you rapidly become much less interesting.

This article is just about the math of those returns that factor in things like dilution. Many people fail to account for this, and I have seen some spectacular failed estimates of YC returns when people somehow think that YC still owns 7% of a huge multi-round company. I don't really see this as a "lust for more" type of article.
I even read some of the forms of "I" in that first paragraph as "he" and "his".
I've done some work with Stellar and the implementation in the whitepaper sounds very different than how Stellar currently works.

For example, users control their own private keys and they're never exposed to a node, so I'm not sure why the whitepaper mentions storing private keys in the SGX. Perhaps they're going to host wallets for a user and store all keys in the SGX?

I'll be very interested in more details about this project since it doesn't appear to use the Stellar network, only the consensus protocol.
> Feminists with far more extreme beliefs can talk about their opinions at work.

Please give examples.

> Even policies that intentionally discriminate against men, which is insane.

Again, provide examples. I hear this argument a lot "poor men are being discriminated by women!!!" and yet I have to see a single shred of evidence of this. Again, for context, I'm a male working in the tech field and I have worked at Google.

Do you personally feel that a field where 80% of the workforce is male (vs a 50/50 split in overall demographics) is "actively discriminating against hiring males? I find that argument very, very, VERY difficult to defend.

> Then somehow you are an evil sexist that wants to discriminate against minorities.

What exactly do you propose was Damore's original intent?
Yeah, there's a push towards asynchronous communication (e.g. Gchat -> Google Hangouts), but what makes real-time synchronous chat so great was the attention from both parties.

When messages have a lag in response, there's generally not as much excitement and before you know it, one person is preoccupied with something else.
It's not worth the risk. What evidence would you like them to present? When progressive people take it upon themselves to call up the employers of people who they disagree with until those people are let go, the evidence is there, in plain sight.
Yea, but they lost me today. EME annoyed me, and I took note of it, but I didn't leave over it. But now I feel like Looking Glass is the straw that broke the camel's back.

The world doesn't need another browser that sacrifices principles for market share. Chrome, IE, and Safari are perfectly good browsers for that. What I wanted was a browser (and software in general) that promotes security, privacy, open standards, and open source. You can accuse me of misinterpreting the situation, but that's what I thought Firefox was 10 years ago. It's not what Firefox is today. It's turned into just another organization that's optimizing for the continuation of the organization over it's own founding principles.
Tire Rack has done this to the tire retail business. You can get the tires you want from Tire Rack, and get referred to a shop that will mount and balance them. That's what should happen to bike sales.
Stellar is run by a set of trusted third parties, which makes it permissioned. If it gains any sort of traction, it will undoubtedly come under the control of any number of governments, thus negating the "peer-to-peer" part of cryptocurrency, and making usage conditioned on approval from some set of intermediaries.
> 1. Bitcoin + lighting network solves everything

As far as I can tell, the Lightning Network's design isn't robust enough to solve everything. It allows for an arbitrary number of back-and-forth transactions between any two parties. It will be good, but it's not clear to me that this extends to solving all of the scalability problems.
> do you really think they would proudly entitle their tracker "Looking Glass"

They actually called it telemetry, but IIRC in the early firefox version it was a proprietary extension (I don't remember the name) which spurred the gnu iceweasel into existence to provide the browser without the proprietary spying extension.
Google, Apple in Coding Custody Battle for 371K Chicago Public Schools Students
Exactly. It is nuch more nuanced and dynamical.
Depends on your purpose for running a node. I use it to validate transactions and to query transaction histories, for which the full state is necessary.

It would be nice if they could implement a version that allows this, without the bloat.
I think this is like saying gasoline was a contributing factor to a house fire. Social media and its constant bombardment of drama, stress, and politics has done more to amplify divisions within our country than anything ever before seen in the world.
They developed it while they were owned by Konami, so yeah its pretty natural it falls under the ownership of Konami by contract.