skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't think it's wise to pay a company to let you work for them. I'm a rather skeptical person, and I'd be leary of anyone taking my money in such a scenario. Seems like a good way to lose $10K and wind up in the same place a few months later.

You haven't said what you've done to try to get a job. You should talk about that before people can give you advice. I have nothing to go on there, so take this with a grain of salt.

Did your bootcamp give you a promise of any assistance in finding a job? Have you kept in touch with any of your cohort? Reach out to them for help (explain the problem, ask if they have ideas that could help). These are two things that I'd try, right off the bat.

As someone else mentioned, talk to several recruiters. Present your resume and see what kind of feedback you get. If they tell you that they will be unable to place you, ask them if they think you don't have enough experience, and what they think you are missing. Recruiters are not your friend, but they are in the business of making money by placing people in jobs. If they think that they can make money by putting you in a job, they will try to do so.

Next: NYC has a smorgasbord of tech meetups with free or low-fee entry costs. Go to as many as you can. Most such meetups have an initial 30-minute period when you can stand around and talk to people about their jobs. Take notes, then go home and use the Internet to find out more about the parts of these discussions that you didn't understand. This should help to make you more technically competent.

Next, you want to do some "informational interviews": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Informational_interview
If you have friends, friends-of-friends, relatives, etc. who are working in an area that interests you, tell them you'd like to spend 30 minutes or an hour to ask about what they do at their jobs. Keep in mind you're not going to ask them for a job. You're just asking for information. Take good notes, bring them home, and again research the parts that confuse you. You can do phone informational interviews if needed, too.

The informational interviews and tech meetups are intended to help you build a network of people who know you, know that you are looking for a job, and may be able to refer you to an open position. They will also be a goldmine for learning more about the field that you want to break into.

It may help to build a small side project, and have some code samples in github. I can't speak to that, since those things never helped me.

Good luck!
Saw it in the theater when I was six or eight (not exactly sure which re-release I saw). Loved it, couldn't wait to see it again. Oh, for sure I didn't get most of it. But even as a kid I viewed it as I think Kubrick intended: an experience of sight and sound. Did I "get" the pre-human monolith sequence? No, I was a kid. Psychedelic sequence? Nope, but it sure was pretty. Space baby? "I dunno", said my little skull full of mush. The consequences of an artificial intelligence that is given conflicting objectives, all while placed in a new environment that it might not have been prepared for? Umm, that would be a "no" for that eight year old. I was still a little sad when HAL got unplugged, though.

So I dunno, I'd say it depends on the kid. Might also depend on the era in which it's viewed, because I viewed it shortly after we had first landed on the moon. After forty years of Star Wars, maybe it doesn't seem so cool anymore.
Why are women being pushed away from the tech industry?
Uber ex-CEO Kalanick selling nearly a third of stake for $1.4B:
$4B Crypto-Promoter Ordered to Halt Fraudulent Sales
a lot of ICOs just bar US citizens:(little US with a bar across it icon)

https://www.smithandcrown.com/icos/
How you weight the entropy sources should be a function of the entropy sources, making it much more difficult to predict.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hardware_random_number_generat...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Randomness_extractor

...the easiest is the von Neumann extractor where you just extract a zero if both randomness sources are zero, do the same thing for ones and discard all the differences. Half the output with more entropy than any single connected source (if they can't read or influence each other).
>Note that that option was not at all available for those for whom their stated sucked due to the issue that was the original focus of the “states rights” controversy in the US.

Because that would be a massive moral crusade tangent that nobody wanted to read and was hardly relevant to the discussion.

>It's kind of interesting that you point to the Confederacy’s difficulties in raising revenue for the Civil War as a potential drawback of state over federal power, but not the issue which motivated the Confederacy.

Everybody knows the issue that motivated the Confederacy that has half a brain. I assumed everyone on here did as well.
Expectations are a big deal.

Which is why I have mixed feelings the "IMDB pre-check". I've watched some middling-reviewed films that I found awesome and vice-versa (Spy Kids had an 8.0 - was a bad movie even for kids).
Blogging in 2018: A Trend on the Wane?
An excerpt:

Let's do a thought experiment. Suppose there was overwhelming evidence that 95% of women were terrible at technology and 5% of women were awesome at technology. There are roughly 7 billion people on the planet, roughly 3.5 billion women, roughly 1.5 billion women who work outside the house for a wage. In this scenario, where only 5% of women love technology, there are 75 million working women who are awesome at technology. According to the Bureau Of Labor Statics, the USA had 1,256,200 software developers in 2016. The BLS also tracks some other minor categories, such as Web Developer, which have about 150,000 jobs. Lump all the sub-categories together, and let’s say there are 2 million such jobs in the USA. Let’s be wildly generous and double the number for the EU, and triple it for Asia. That gives 12 million software developer jobs in all of the advanced and developing economies. So even with exaggerated assumptions about women’s inherent weakness in technology, we still end up with a scenario where every single programming job in the world can be filled by a woman who will be awesome at the job. There is no need for men, at all, in the tech industry.
> Why?

Uhm, for the reasons I stated, that Oracle doesn't mind if our industry implodes in return of a $1bn API copyright payout. Is that the sort of attitude you want to reward with your mindshare?

If the above concern isn't cogent to you, then perhaps their poor custodianship of other open source projects might convince you instead (Open Office and OpenSolaris).
In both of those cases the products can cause serious harm without any third party implication.

Sorry, but in the 21st century world of the internet, cracking needs to be taken as a given. In many cases, "normal use" for a computing product means exposing it to use and therefore potential attack from anywhere on the internet. CPUs certainly fall into this category.
I loved these games as a kid, nice to read a bit about their history.
We're talking about bitcoin here - the talk of fees extracted and of centralisation as a bad thing look somewhat odd given that context.
Yeah, just like I totally get why today's computer and video displays are all LCDs.

I still get wistful and sad when I hear someone dimly recall "those TVs with the big things on the back".
China loses control over Tiangong-1 and it will crash somewhere on Earth soon
That one's all feel. It's gritty and realistic, but unsettling and dreamlike at the same time. Take out the pointless cinematography and that goes away :-)
Original sw (and other old movies with action sequences especially) feel more like plays on film instead of naturally flowing movies.
It sounds like something like Okta is what you're looking for to help with provisioning, authentication and deprovisioning
Cellphone and Computer Searches at U.S. Border Rise 60% from 2016
Just because outsiders consider something a "problem" does not make it so. I find it odd to talk about someone else's baby like that.
To compare it with torrenting: The only incentives to "seed" a torrent file is usually just good will, or to build a reputation to get into invite-only sites.

We lose the latter incentive with IPFS, and so Filecoin is replaced as the new incentive to give up storage space for the P2P network.

You can still put your content up on IPFS for free, it's just that only your IPFS node will be hosting the content, and thereby won't be truly decentralized. You're the only "seeder", so to speak.
No, he didn't. Intel specifically states that the errata can allow unauthorized access to protected memory. Theo then says "oooh, that sounds scary!". Yes, of course it is, which is why it appears in the errata list.
On 12/31, Reddit received several reports regarding password reset emails that were initiated and completed without the account owners’ requests.

We have been working to investigate the issue and coordinating with Mailgun, a third-party vendor we’ve been using to send some of our account emails including password reset emails. A malicious actor targeted Mailgun and gained access to Reddit’s password reset emails. The nature of the exploit meant that an unauthorized person was able to access the contents of the reset email. This individual did not have access to either Reddit’s systems or to a redditor’s email account.

As an immediate precautionary measure, we moved reset emails to an in-house mail server soon after we determined reset links were indeed being clicked without access to the user's email, and before Mailgun had confirmed to us that they were vulnerable. We know this is frustrating as a user, and we have put additional controls in place to help make sure it doesn’t happen again.

We are continuing to work with Mailgun to make sure we have identified all impacted accounts. At this time, the overall number of confirmed impacted users is less than twenty. For those affected, we have resolved the issue and assisted in account recovery.

Additional information about Mailgun’s security incident can be found on its blog here. We’re committed to keeping your Reddit account safe and will continue to monitor this situation carefully. u/sodypop, u/KeyserSosa, and I will be sitting around in the comments for any general questions.
That is your mistake. You should have forbidden your kids from seeing 2001 and they would have devoured it.
> traditional banking will long-term be on the losing end as people who buy into crypto (even as novelty) won't want to "cash out" due to difficulty

There is context for this. China and Venezuela's capital controls are why everyone wants to hold renminbi and bolivars.
This subreddit put me onto the TED video [Do Animals Have Morals?](https://www.ted.com/talks/frans_de_waal_do_animals_have_mora...) which is well worth a watch.
I changed the title to take the focus off of Trump and into the issue of warrantless border searches.
> It also means you don't need to trust the server to send you the correct content, since everything is automatically checked against its content hash.

This is the confusing part to me. How does updating content work? Lets say I want to visit the jstanley blog. Does this mean you can only ever publish once, because adding an entry would change the content hash? Does everyone have to contact you for the new info hash? Does ipfs work with existing DNS?
I meant only that the subject of the article, Coinbase's architecture's vulnerability was the same as Chase's, instead of "your money at Chase is safe regardless of the bug."

You are correct, as they mention in the first paragraph of the article you are responsible for securing your own machine and wallet.

Your USD is insured and covered by the FDIC at Coinbase and Chase. Theft is not covered by the FDIC at either.
> Why not? We do this everyday as individuals. A company a coherent group of people acting collectively.

Because companies are concerned with profits. Even individuals should not be skirting laws for the sake of profit as that would be immoral.
"Most papers are now freely available somewhere on the Internet, or else you might choose to work with preprint versions."

This is a huge win for proponents of free information sharing like Scihub and others. Germany's argument seems to basically boil down to, make us a favorable deal or we'll just pirate or obtain from other sources and Elsevier will lose out completely. Brilliant! I love their boldness and willingness to have some balls to fight for science instead of corporate greed in this negotiation.
Agreed. This was the best of the explanations I've read, and it helped me to finally wrap my mind around the exploits.
> Not sure why am going after you on this, but surely there are better examples than those guys.

If it makes you feel any better, I'm with you on this. A single line from "Avengers" really sticks out to me, and it seems all too Whedonesque:

> "What were you lying?"

I can understand that Whedon was going for a cutesy play on "what were you saying?", but it just feels so clunky. And it's delivered by a fairly widely recognized as at least competent thespian. This, and the fact that Whedon wrote the screenplay for "Alien: Resurrection" tells me that Whedon is not world-class. He's certainly very good, and definitely mainstream successful, but not in the same class as Kubrick, or even Nolan.

Abrams also feels to me like a one hit wonder, relying far too much on his "mystery box." I actually liked most of "Lost", and his Star Wars and Star Trek were entertaining enough popcorn flicks, but not really memorable.
> Not really, they could have gone forward with either program with the budget they had

The goal of Space Shuttle was to reduce the cost of space flight.
Amortize the time he took figuring it out / getting his systems in place across that weekly schedule, though. I bet even after 20 years that's still closer to two days a week. ;)
The Nokia 6 (2018) arrives with a big spec upgrade and on-screen buttons
Surely this is only true if the point of cryptocurrency for those people is to get things done. If it's mostly speculation, as it seems to be right now, not so much.
Comcast fired 500 despite claiming tax cut would create thousands of jobs
> While that's true, just blindly mixing all you've got is a bad idea. Let's say you have "randomness" sources A, B, C and D, and you just use A+B+C+D. Now an attacker has total control over D. Then she could adaptively feed you with a D value that is canceling out A, B and C. Result is deterministic output.

This is only true if the attacker knows A, B, and C, in which case you have already lost.

> Just adding in more is not always good. You need to trust every source. Or more precisely: You need at least one source in the mix that an attacker can't predict/read out.

You sort of contradict yourself here. The fact that you need a source that the attacker cannot predict is a reason why it is good to just add more. The more sources you have, the more likely there will be one that the attacker can't predict.
More than a few times have I seen absurd wpm numbers mentioned in a blasé manner here. 500wpm is quite achievable for a light thriller, skimming the odd paragraph. Approaching 100% comprehension provides dimishing returns with this kind of stuff. I am very happy to average 50wpm with technical or entirely novel material, since here the opposite is usually true.

Maxing at 200wpm is absolutely fine. All that (imo) matters, is it's a total waste - and a mentally taxing one at that - to spend those words/minutes reading crap & looking at adverts!

Edit: no rudeness intended to the fast readers ITT!
Canada new grad tech offers vs. USA offers
"i'm not sure what the point is" - people use random numbers for things besides crypto.
Or: http://scihub22266oqcxt.onion.link/
And thus you hit on exactly why the problem exists in the first place. The tech industry has been acting as a cushy jobs program for mediocre men for decades now and there's real panic about the push for an expanded talent pool driving them permanently out of work.
For what it’s worth, the first time I watched 2001 it was on a 3.5 inch phone screen. Still blew me away
> Sometime later the guilds required credits include all craftsman, [not] just stars.

Don't forget studio executives, marketers, accountants, IT support staff, and babies born to all of the above.

And today with the rise of the post-credits sequence, it's getting hard for the audience to skip the credits and still see all of the meaty bits of the movie.
Vouching for this to say that pretty much every assumption in this post about Hacker News is completely wrong. Posts about consulting and "the little man" get upvoted all the time.

Also, I recommend reading the Guidelines/FAQ about what content is appropriate for the site, and also to not be personally offended if something does not get upvoted.
One way would be to use the rdtsc instruction, which reports how many cycles have been executed since the processor was reset.
Tim Cook Stumbles at His Specialty, Shipping Apple Products on Time
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Thanks. I went to the Filecoin site to see more but it said the same has ended and to not fall for scam sites. How do I obtain filecoin? When will I be able to earn filecoin from hosting content for others?

Is hosting content the way that it is mined? Or is mining it something else?
You might be interested in reading about Fortuna https://www.schneier.com/academic/fortuna/. It's an example of a class of PRNGs that are explicitly designed to generate cryptographically secure random numbers from a pool of sources including sources under an attacker's control.

I don't know the first thing about cryptanalysis, but what I gather from skimming the PDF is that yes, it's possible to advantageously influence a PRNG with bad inputs if the mixer sucks.
Is that question meant to be a joke? Ocean waves most definitely have external triggers.

The most common one is wind, but changes in atmospheric pressure can cause them, as can a sudden change in the sea floor due to an earthquake or volcano (this is what causes tsunamis). The rotation of the earth and the gravitational pull of the moon can cause waves when it moves water confined spaces - this kind of wave is usually called a tidal bore.

Is there some kind of ocean wave I'm unaware of that can spontaneously occur without some external force/trigger?
Interesting. I am using "Mikrotik hAP ac" device and it works flawlessly in pretty noisy environment too.
Salaries are high, but taxes and living expenses really take a bite out of it. Nonetheless, I feel I've saved more money than I would have living in my home-city.

The perpetually mild weather has done wonders for my mental health, I hate the cold, dark winters in Vancouver BC. I keep telling myself it's only a 2 hour flight away, but I never seem to go back enough.
Personally, I always assumed a "flying car" is something like a quadcopter, which does not have to drive at all. Just take off from your roof and land on the roof of where you want to be.
I got the last one on Seeed Studio :]
Blast. I read this, it was in stock, I added to my cart...then the office lunch order showed up and I had to deal with the delivery for 5 minutes. Came back, out of stock. So sad.
This brings back memories of a similar port of Graphviz to the web I started (then unfortunately abandoned) years ago; it's likely this is way more optimized, but perhaps my project can serve as illustrative of what's needed for an Emscripten port: https://github.com/bpartridge/graphviz.js

EDIT: or rather, what was needed for such a port a few years ago; I think it's been made much simpler since then!
Google the "Do no Evil" company, decided to scumm Sun as proven by Andy Rubin's emails instead of playing by the book like everyone else in the Java eco-system.

Now every Java developer that wants to target Android needs to write Android Java, instead of pure Java.
It's not that simple.

Some years ago I used an analog TV card tuned to an empty channel that was giving seemingly white noise and captured frames to generate entropy. I only used the least significant bit of each RGB value of each pixel.

When I supplied the bits to the diehard testsuite, it complained about a number of patterns and failing tests.

The hash function will of course save you, but it's hard to tell the amount of real randomness that's coming from the sensor.

update: Oh, I may have misunderstood. If the whole images changes in random ways and is secret, then of course this is fine.
So it was you! lol. Enjoy!
As someone who has worked on AI for drug discovery, I would say that the title is correct, but not for the reasons stated. There is also some annoying speculation in this document that is completely incorrect, and unsupported, so I caution people when reading it.

Anyway, the primary reason that AI for drug discover is overhyped is that the sort of problems AI is good at solving don't line up well with the unsolved problems in the drug discovery pipeline.

This article, for example, focuses a lot on lead generation. Lead generation is the easiest aspect of the problem to tackle using AI, and so most people doing research start out trying to build a foundation in this space. However, it doesn't actually represent the majority of the cost.

Drug makers typically spend about ~$800M on failed drugs for every ~$900M in revenue. They aren't spending that $800M on leads, finding leads is fairly easy. They are spending that money on drugs that fail in Phase 2 and Phase 3, which is more about off-target side effects, bulk formulation and synthesis, patient population differences, drug-drug interactions, etc.

It would be nice having better leads, but there aren't a shortage of them that look good in vitro or even in vivo. It isn't until much later in the pipeline that the costs really add up, and failures there are expensive. If we could solve off-target side effects using AI, then we'd be in a whole different ballgame. Having banged my head against it for a while, I think it is possible, but will take a huge amount of investment.

The work this article talks about is more foundational, which is necessary but should not really be taken as anything more.
calling any existing technology "AI" is overhyped
Which is precisely why Firefox is releasing an update that tweaks high resolution timing. I guess tweaks probably means breaks for some uses cases but that’s likely unavoidable and worth it.
Realities:

1) Bitcoin is a terrible vehicle for value transfer. Slow. Expensive. Impractical. Unpredictable. Unforgiving.

2) No coins have meaningful consumer uptake, and there is no meaningful demand for other integration.

3) Normal people don't want the responsibilities involved with being their own bank.

4) Normal people are fine with the existence of credit systems (and thus "fractional reserve")

Note: my bank has coinbase integration. This is how any such thing will work. there will be slow uptake as consumers decide they care about it. banks will support it if clients want it in meaningful quantity.
Or just grab some hotbits: https://www.fourmilab.ch/hotbits/
You need some additional processing, otherwise ‘intellectual image processing’ in modern digital cameras will fuck you up big time.
That's exactly what CloudFlare does with their lava lamps. https://blog.cloudflare.com/lavarand-in-production-the-nitty...
> His films are good and incredibly entertaining, but Kubrick is on a completely different plane.

I agree perhaps I misclassed Nolan with Kubrick. That being said, "Memento" and "Inception" really stand out to me. Could be that I just really relate to the themes of romantic loss, and as a musician I found the scores for both made a big difference to me. Granted, Zimmer's score for "Inception" was bombastic and could justifiably be called Wagnerian; I still find listening to that soundtrack cathartic, and in spots it's even very cerebral.
Using rdtscp is better in this case than rdtsc, because it's a serializing instruction. So speculation (instruction reordering) itself doesn't affect the results.