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> the less successful ones stay in college and promote "safe spaces" to prolong the coddling.

This is not in any way what a safe space is - stop promoting this completely inaccurate meme to further your own personal viewpoint. It has absolutely nothing to do with being unprepared for "real-life" or some other such nonsense. In fact I'm so confused why you would even bring up such a non-related topic, you must have quite the talent for shifting conversations to your favor.

"In educational institutions, safe space (or safe-space), safer space, and positive space are terms that, as originally intended, were used to indicate that a teacher, educational institution, or student body did not tolerate anti-LGBT violence, harassment or hate speech, thereby creating a safe place for all LGBT students."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Safe-space

(Just to be clear, I have no intention of derailing this thread into the merits of safe spaces - this probably ain't the space. I just felt it was necessary to call out.)
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Do you mind if a write a version of the comment you've just written (making it a bit less harsh) to the author of the white paper, and quote here any replies I receive?

(I also notice you list a contact in your HN profile, so I'm happy to include you on CC - but I think we should share any eventual response to your questions in this thread after we get it.)
Thanks for not reading the linked article, I'm explaining this very same example in the first paragraph :)
It is much easier as a Google employee to publish open source projects under Google's copyright rather than getting them to grant the copyright to you.

To have Google give you (the Google employee) full copyright of projects you work on while at Google, you need to go through a committee[0] that reviews the project to make sure it doesn't collide with some other project Google already is working on. As this is really hard to do for many projects, it's easier to just let Google keep copyright ownership of it and have it opensource under them.

[0] https://opensource.google.com/docs/iarc/
Little late to the discussion so I am not sure this will be seen...

I think I can change two works of your statement and make it a criticism of the Bay Area.

From my perspective, I don't want to work in an environment where people are voicing their opinion that (e.g.) supporting Trump is illegitimate or wrong. How am I supposed to work with someone who thinks a huge part of my life is immoral? I would have an incredibly hard time believing that that person was taking me seriously, really wanted to work with me, wasn't going to undercut me, or trusted me.

It's not that you can't have these opinions or voice them -- but it's also not the case that the people who are most affected by those opinions are going to feel OK about it.

The issue I have with this perspective is that it is not applied equally. I do think you should get protection but I think that same protection should be applied to all groups. Next week I could say in front of my team "All Trump supporters are deranged psychopaths." I would get a few odd looks, my manager might tell my privately to tone it down. If I said the same thing about LQBT folk I would guess I have a 50% chance of being fired.

This feels like a double standard to me and makes me question if the people who support diversity and inclusion really mean it or if they only want what they approve.
When you post like this, what people hear is the story of how right you were on the internet, how wrong others were, and how they cravenly downvoted you. This only leads to more downvotes, and rightly so, since it's off topic and also a kind of pose.

This doesn't mean, of course, that you're wrong about genocide, ethics, Rwanda, etc. It means that if you want to post about these things you're responsible for separating out the dross that people will otherwise react to. The contrast between the magnitude of those topics and the pettiness of I-was-right-on-the-internet only calls attention to the latter.
Those are all very good points I didn't think about, thanks for these.

I'll fix the two bugs with verify_block and the possibility for a miner to inject invalid a output > input transaction.

I'll add a note for the 3 others.
It can be more of a judgement on society if this person ends up in jail, while IoT makers keep making hefty profits being rewarded for their negligence, and ISPs keep making profits being rewarded for lying to their customers when shit happens and causing more damage than he ever could overall.

Masked comic book vigilantes aren't ever going to be a reality on the mean non-virtual streets of cities but on the Internet it seems we're confronted with something pretty much equivalent.

So here can consult all the old issue of Marvel and DC for a compendium of moral dilemmas and result.
Another problem is the fact that all new housing tends to be semi-luxurious. No developer wants to develop affordable housing.
A basic practice of software engineering is to put every change request into an issue tracking system and then put the id's of the changes into the version control commit messages.

If each feature, user story, bug fix, whatever, has a ticket in the issue tracking system you have documented what the application does.

Automated testing, unit and otherwise, is also effective for giving you some confidence that a recent change hasn't broken something obscure.
Bitfinex stopped trading with US Dollars after their bank accounts were closed / blocked / whatever. To workaround that, they invented a custom cryptocurrency called Tether, which they claim is pegged to the US Dollar by keeping 1 USD in their bank account for each Thether that is issues.

The really suspicious thing is that over the last couple of months almost 1 Billion Tethers have been issued, which is highly suspicious because we wouldn't expect sane people to send such a gigantic amount of money to a shady Bitcoin exchange in the other end of the world, in exchange for a crypto token of dubious value. The most likely thing is that Bitfinex is using these unbacked Tethers that they are printing to purchase bitcoin in their exchange and push up the price.

It feels similar to the last bubble, which started out in MtGOX. MtGOX was insolvent (due to having a good chunck of their deposits lost to hackers and fraud). Eventually, they stopped letting people withdraw their US dollars so the only option people had was to purchase bitcoin and withdraw that instead. This extra demand pushed up the price which attracted outside speculation (the bitcoin price was higher than average in MtGOX but also quickly rose elsewhere) and kept MtGOX afloat for a bit longer than it should (because new investors kept throwing money on the dying exchange to get into the action).

For more Bitfinex news, I would recommend following https://medium.com/@bitfinexed
The whole point of this article is that good data science involve detecting and avoiding these biased feedback loops, because software can amplify them.

It literally says: “It’s not that data can be biased. Data is biased.” Know how your data was generated and what biases it may contain. We are encoding and even amplifying societal biases in the algorithms we create.
Bitfinexed has been covering the Tether situation for a while: https://medium.com/@bitfinexed
I think you misread what I wrote. I meant that society has not been made worse by "death to the jews" being considered hate speech, i.e. we're (weakly) better off having 'banned' such phrases.
"They don't want to have to deal with more applications," Stein said of the government's requirement the settlement details be kept confidential and out of the public eye.

Cooperation is complicity. If you're party to a gag order and it's not obviously geared towards protecting the basic (not political) safety of specific persons, then you should consider whether you have an obligation to circumvent it, and how.
Forgot to mention Ripple which is an interesting case with its mission to "The world’s only enterprise blockchain solution for global payments".

However, searching for useful things to do with Ripple as an individual leads to nada. All the use cases are provisional.

All the top 20 google results are for how to buy Ripple itself(in order to speculate).

I've started and stopped mining various currencies since BTC in 2011. Each time I stop because I do not see meaningful progress in usability.
Right, those are two different names for the L_1 distance, but why does that show that they're not the same? For binary vectors v,w we have abs(v[i] - w[i]) = v[i] xor w[i], and the L_1 distance is the sum of the former whereas the Hamming distance is the sum of the latter.
The dev is also talking about it in the Show HN thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15892621
How would the insurance work on something like this? Would the construction company which cut the line have to cover loss revenue for the entire airport? Airlines? Passengers?
> This article is paywalled.

To quote https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14989998

> If you prepend "facebook.com/l.php?u=" to a wsj link, it will let you read the full article. Like so:

> http://facebook.com/l.php?u=https://www.wsj.com/articles/how...
I'm saying distance techniques are related to covariance, and there's a lot of useful info from stats when you go to higher moments. I never see this in ML and I'm wondering why so I'm pointing it out.
As a Norwegian with extensive personal experience with the drug community (both from my parents generation in the 60's/70's and from the millenial generation), I just want to say that I really don't agree with the victimization of these people. Most of them are completely to blame for their own poor lifestyle choices and should be made to take personal responsibility for the outcome. I certainly hope these political changes don't usher in a new period of increased drug use, or somehow lead to an increased burden of undeserving youth abusing the welfare system. But that is what I fear.
I worked at a supermarket when I was a teenager and on slow days I would front and face the shelves and go waaaaaay to the back and find cans at the end that hadn't been touched for five years. Not everybody is careful!
The time to let it burn is now, gradually, while we're not that interconnected yet. It may inconvenience a lot of people, but continuing the status quo will lead to a lot of people being ruined or killed in the (not so distant) future.
The accepted answer is not accurate, ZCash is also decentralized, private, digital.
Back in the era where this was somewhat common on games it only had to work once. In those days you burned a master for a console game and once it shipped that game was done. There were no zero day patches (or any other kind of patches) and no updates to the game once it shipped.

Often it would be the lead programmer on the game who put this array in and it wouldn't necessarily be known about by everyone. It wouldn't have worked well if people were constantly grabbing bits of memory from it during development. It worked because it was a 'secret' and its use was reserved for shipping.
I definitely don't do those things.
Yes, sorry about that.
I changed them to pbulic repo access, which is needed to write to issues. That's the idea.
Thanks for pointing that out, though!
My first thought was parking assistance which might trigger a sensor in the other house.
Singapore has also upheld imprisoning people for homosexual acts in recent years. It is not a society that tolerates behaviour outside the mainstream.
Hmm, interesting. I wasn't sure if they were only name dropping that formal verification was possible but they say their developers have backgrounds in it. People mention about making Ethereum more secure using formal verification for example but it's not something you can just do as an afterthought.
I am actually very familiar with the topic and I am thus aware that one can find many, seemingly contradictory, sources. But thanks anyway.

I was simply justifying my downvote.
This theory has always seemed pretty outlandish to me.
Do you have any sources or interesting leads?
Swift will rise and fall with iOs. Rust will gradually eat Unix tooling, and supplant C.

WebAssembly will be really interesting. It could finally be the tech layer that replaces the JVM. I'm not sure what the winning language will be though.
That's quite interesting. What we repeatedly see in others is an image of ourselves, usually inverted or passed through some transform, but still an image of us. The other doesn't feel seen by this, because they aren't.

Sometimes the other accepts this mirror role because it fits with an image they have of themselves and the other (i.e. you). Then you get an agreement. But it is an agreement of two distortions that happen to be compatible.
You know, woodpanel, the reason I chose the structure I chose is because when I began to write it, I thought that I would be able to find that the whitepaper easily meets the criteria I selected beforehand for intentional indecipherability. In other words, I thought I would be able to show that it is just fishy.

For this reason, I decided to be very thorough in my review methodology, so that I wouldn't be accused of cherry-picking. After all, no paper is perfect. That's why I set up criteria beforehand. I had never read the paper.

As you can see, the paper actually (to my surprise) totally fails the intentional indecipherability criteria I picked.

The top-level comment in this case was totally unwarranted.

This is not the conclusion I expected to come to when I did the review. It would not be honest of me to hide my actual results.

(In addition to myself, you will notice that another person wrote "It is a good paper. I could follow everything".)
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I did cs50 and can highly recommend it. It is a very engaging, well organized introduction to basic computer science concepts as well as several languages, and will give you exposure to a variety of different applications from implementing data structures in C to building web apps. You'll get a sense for 1) if you like programming (since it is one of the more engaging courses that actually deals with CS concepts rather than just engineering) and 2) what sort of projects you want to work on

I found that, while the first problems sets, all in C, were more challenging and not super relevant (implementing a spell checker, resizing BMP files), the later problem sets are much easier and do more useful things (building simple web apps, interfacing with APIs)
The trick here is that it is currently impossible to sell Tethers for USD. The only Bitcoin exchanges that trade Tethers do not trade in USD and artificially treat Tethers as being worth $1 USD. So instead of a devalued Tether resulting in a fall in the price of Tether it reflects as a rise in the price of Bitcoin.

The thing that is harder to explain is that if this theory is true we should expect that the price of Bitcoin in Bitfinex to be higher than in other exchanges. I suspect that what is happening is that the rising prices in Bitfinex are helping attract a new wave of speculation and/or price manipulation, which is what is pushing up the price elsewhere. (This is what happened in the MtGOX bubble)
The update from IOTA was included in the linked article from The Next Web.

The IOTA founders' statement is: "We have never stated that there was any formal partnership with Microsoft, and instead always referred to them as a participant to the marketplace."

You can link to a Twitter thread where they threaten to sue someone, but that doesn't mean anything. (If anything, it's another black mark against the IOTA team that they'd use this technique straight out of the Donald Trump playbook -- threaten to sue, then never follow through.)
I hesitated writing this because of the push back I knew I'd get.

But I think YCombinator needs to take this problem seriously. The Sam Altmann piece made it completely clear he has no idea how some of the ideas he thinks are bad are promoted and grow on HN.

The fact we can't talk about how ridiculous downvoted on that post are means it just keeps happening. I think there is complete blindness about how completely outrageous that is, and how it reinforces the negative stereotypes of silicon valley.

I probably could argue the point better, but honestly I don't think arguing about it is the point.

Really, all the moderation team here could read this article.
The reason why there are homeless in SF and other US cities is because of rent-seeking: a market failure which creates artificial scarcity in housing through zoning density restrictions, overuse of historic landmark status, and overregulation.

This is an explanation of homelessness in particular in the midst of plenty. The report was not simply a report on homelessness but on poverty. Poverty in the US has increased massively in the last twenty or thirty years. With less mass homelessness, that poverty would be harder to see but certainly be present - for examples, you could actually read the OP.
The issue is that most of the time a cause of death is completely clear, but the full picture is not.

Found that out when my dad died in 2000, and we asked for one - we didn't expect foul play but he'd struggled with alcohol problems in the past and for closure we wanted to understand if he'd gotten back into drinking and that might have been why he died (he had heart problems and were on drugs that would have made combining them with alcohol a likely cause).

The coroners office made it very clear that that since it was clear he died from his heart stopping and there was no immediate reasons to suspect that there were any external factors that'd make a difference to the primary reason of death and no suspicion of foul play, an autopsy was out of the question unless we were prepared to cover the full costs (which were fairly steep).

That he may or may not have taken his heart medicine or may or may not have combined it with alcohol was to them irrelevant as long as it didn't change the main cause and they had no reason to see the distinction as relevant.

If there was doubt about the major cause, such as e.g. if he'd had a head wound or something else that might have indicated another cause, it might have been different.

This might very well also vary from coroners office to coroners office in some countries depending on capacity. This was in Oslo, so would have been one of the busiest areas.
Yes go for it. A well articulated communication on technical details of IOTA scalability is needed, and I think the whitepaper need to be upgraded with such information.
Which you’d think would have a downward pressure on non luxury housing
I did this too at those ages in Eastern Europe and even in the US. This is hardly unique at all. It's hardly newsworthy. Keeping kids locked up at home under supervision until they become adults is a neuroticism seemingly unique to American (and possibly Canadian) culture. I wonder if parents really think through the consequences of their actions in these cases. Do they weigh the high likelihood of their children suffering and not developing into adults properly because of the parents' actions against the tiny chance they might be harmed if they were allowed on their own? Clearly, as a society, we have adopted the paranoid, scared point of view, a point of view that has defined culture in the US for the last two decades. It makes sense that the culture would appeal to the lowest common denominator, the most paranoid of the paranoid. Unfortunately, these people have codified their paranoid delusional culture into laws that now affect everyone else.

I simply cannot see myself raising children in the US. Just like my parents gave up everything to bring me here, I will give up everything to bring them to a society that respects them, where they have the opportunity to grow into adults without them or me getting arrested for being independent human beings. The way we treat children in the US at the moment is sick, disgusting, and simply unacceptable to me. Children are human beings too.
It's a problem when it's brought up for anyone. The fact that some people are unfairly victimized does not justify extending that victimization to others.
> I am aware that increasing ISP competition will nullify the need for NN

I see this argument being used a lot, but I think it is a logical fallacy.

Why do they assume that non-NN will increase ISP competition?

I have a choice of exactly one ISP in my area and I really don't see how the repeal of NN will make other ISPs lay fiber to my place.

Can someone break down this argument for me? I cannot.
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My guess is that the backup camera has an IR light to assist with nightvision. Some security cameras support triggering alerts if they get too much IR light because blasting them with an IR floodlight is a common way to blind a security camera.
> I have spent the past two weeks visiting the United States, at the invitation of the federal government, to look at whether the persistence of extreme poverty in America

I'm confused. This statement makes it sound like Philip Alston is a third party investigating the US on behalf of the UN, however the top results on Google indicate he's an employee and beneficiary of US-based federally-funded institutions.
You're saying you want to keep science out of the 'debate.' That's not a debate. That's religion. You refuse to allow scientific evidence into the discussion because you don't trust people with that knowledge. We can't discuss science is what you're saying. We're supposed to keep our heads in the sand and pretend that genetics don't exist to support your agenda. No thank you.
Being self-taught means being a self-direct learner.

The advice I give to those starting out programming is to pick something as simple, universal and quick to learn. Javascript and use it to create experiences for the web and/or mobile.

Don't dive into the deep end of Javascript (ie., React). It's perfectly OK to start on the shallow end and work your way through, or use something well documented and supported by communities that excel at creating beginners.

I'm becoming a fan of Daniel Shiffman's work, he has some great videos on learning both programming as beginners and scaling it up very quickly. His examples using tolls like p5.js will help you get productive much faster.

https://www.youtube.com/user/shiffman/videos

What's critical is to learn to complete small projects that you find interesting or help others and build some momentum. I have developed large enterprise systems for over 20 years, and they are all made up of small projects.

There is a high from finishing a project, no matter how small that fuels you to continue.

From there you'll slowly go to do more back end work, and then you'll realize all programming languages do the same things in different syntax.