skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Discord is already being heavily used in the less nice gaming communities revolving around cheating, compromise/hacked accounts (not just game) selling/malware and game related phish/keylog.

But incidentally the same people selling hacked spotify and netflix accounts also provide "support" over skype, so opsec, meet window I guess
You beat me to saying it.
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Radio varies quite a bit across metropolitan areas. You could grow up and not really be a "radio person" based on what's available in your market. I have found when traveling to various cities that a few of them have multiple, really fun radio stations.

Regardless of local radio choice, some people just aren't radio fans. If you are into EDM, for example, you probably won't find satisfaction in radio.

Another factor is how much friction there is in your particular car and car stereo for hooking up your smartphone. Not all cars have Bluetooth and those that do may not have it for audio (voice calls only). Finally even if your car has an aux input it may not be in a convenient place. For short trips you may not want to spend the overhead hooking up your phone each time.

So there are many factors that go into whether an individual is a "radio person" besides age.
Try again, working on my side.
You mean like the advertising companies do with tracking you? The hypocrisy here is thick.
I thought that self recursion was fine so long as the calls were provably "smaller problems" than the function calling them, something like "bounded recursion".
Yeah, but it's still a "problem" in that it technically doesn't change anything from the current system.
I would have loved to hear Sagan reconsider his statement when he learned that a large oblong extra-solar object (Oumuamua) passed through.
And in the U.S. it should be predominantly African Americans and European Americans (whites) but it's not. Hmm. Hopefully in the Midwest you'll have better luck hiring African Americans!
Forget "will" and try "do." If power to the cell towers is out, you get no emergency info. This used to be a yearly occurrence back when I lived in a more rural area. Just as you keep flashlights around, you've got to keep an AM/FM radio around.
I've never understood why people buy phones from the carriers rather than from a retail store or online and insert the SIM (for GSM carriers).
There has been a huge amount of change in the language since 0.9, so this is probably wildly out of date.
Ask HN: Is Tinder-like networking based on shared interests a good idea?
I've met very few people whose interests/hobbies overlap with mine in the real world. The specific problem I have is that all my interests are either too obscure or technical.

More generally, it seems like in 2018 I should be able to find and make friends online (if we are compatible mentally). More specifically, right now you need to be "locally" present and meet in person for friendship to develop.

For example, I am interested in:
=> Programming Languages research
=> Machine Learning
=> Hard SF (like Greg Egan, Vernor Vinge etc)
=> Progressive Metal (Animals as Leaders, Guthrie Govan, Steven Wilson, Squarepusher etc)

For example, I am just about to start reading Vernor Vinge's Deepness in the Sky ― I want to be able to `match` with other people who've read it once I finish. Friendships commonly develop through shared activities, so perhaps matching people who're reading the same technical book or learning the same thing would also work. This could also potentially help introverts who prefer one-on-one interaction to hanging out in groups.

Does anyone else have this problem of not being able to find people who share your interests? Or am I the only one?

I want to know since I might be interested in building such an app. I don't want to embark on a quixotic project to solve a problem only I face.
Nvidia CEO clarifies its GPUs are ‘absolutely’ immune to Meltdown and Spectre
LN's security model relies on being able to close a channel before a certain block. This means that there will be periods of time that paying the fee to close a channel in time will be cost prohibitive and the security property evaporates.

That being said we really should see exchange -> exchange txs be conducted over large LN channels, it could off load a lot of pressure off the chain.
Recording reverb from real space is as simple as recording an impulse (firing a gun or anything that makes a short high intensity noise) in a room and then convolving that with the audio you want to add reverb to.

The only limits to this is how close to a perfect impulse you can generate.
Great marketing but pretty much total bullshit.
Generating rhythms is a problem that has been solved by arpeggiators, step sequencers, analog modular rigs and more sophisticated tools like KARMA. You don't need machine learning for it.
Can someone clear it up for me. How likely is it that my google searches are being swept up and stored indefinitely, because I'm foreigner. I've disabled google search history, though I doubt it will help. Similar question - do they have a profile for every foreigner they can identify?
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Inmates can no longer receive book donations. They have to buy them
Yep. You can use Signal Protocol over XMPP by using an OMEMO-compatible client [1]. You can pretty "easily" host your own XMPP server using Prosody [2] on a Raspberry Pi.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OMEMO
2. https://prosody.im
The Light Box: A DIY STEM Toy
I think they suggest that people can be made aware of their incompetence after feedback, but the right kind of feedback often isn't given because of cultural factors that make it unacceptable to give "negative" feedback and also hard for people to accept "negative" feedback.

That idea seems positive to me. If we could change our feedback mechanisms (via education and so forth), we could increase self-awareness and reduce incompetence.

Also, we tend to think of "incompetence" as extremely negative, but they use it in a specific way that is meant to be descriptive and not an insult.

That's my take on it anyway. I really don't know.
But if another instruction reads from the same cache then that one could retire.
Every time I've witnessed in person the Dunning-Kruger effect being used in real life, the person bringing it up was under its spell...
To me, the interesting thing about Dropbox going public is how comparisons to Box could/will drive Dropbox's valuation. Any investor can easily check out Box's financials https://finance.google.com/finance?q=NYSE%3ABOX&fstype=ii&ei... and easily compare Dropbox's numbers to that.

So Box suffered the pain of being the first in the easy consumer/business online storage category to IPO -- but Box's numbers are now driving valuation of their competitor.
Ask HN: Favorite front end choice for Django?
Vue, React, Angular, Ember, Jinja2, DTL...
ExtraSensory Dataset and ExtraSensory App
When you're main concern is "What is a minority" rather than "minorities are dying" that is very indicative of the problem still existing
What about something like https://appear.in?
Recommendation systems are a deep learning perennial since the Netflix contest.

My impression of Youtube, Amazon, Tumblr and other is that the recommendation process in practice is close to useless. And this isn't because I don't want recommendations.

Moreover, in all these situations, I feel like it just be improved by asking the user instead. There are thing I'd love recommendations on and I'd be quite willing to tell these portals about my preferences. But it doesn't seem like they want to know, don't have internal search worth much, don't take my search terms account when recommending, etc.

It seems like in practice, most sites actually want the effects of not being able to immediate drill past items that leverage their crappy interface to get exposure since I assume there are extra profits in one form or another to be made with these.
> 850,000 AI engineers

I've seen recruiters at companies I've worked for throw AI/ML/Vision on job postings that have nothing, and I mean absolutely nothing, to do with AI, Statistical Machine Learning, or Computer Vision.
It isn't set yet. This is basically a leak -- the process isn't done yet.

The day gets set much further down the line.
We need university curriculum for these. BSc/MSc in Technical Interviewing and all doors are open!
Behavioral Context Recognition: automatically recognizing a person's context (what she is doing? where she is? whom with? etc.) from sensors on every-day devices (smartphones, smartwatches).

The ExtraSensory Dataset contains data for more than 300k minutes, recorded by 60 people in-the-wild (while they engaged in their regular natural behavior in their natural environments - home, work, commuting...). It includes sensor-measurements and combinations of context-labels, describing the behavior of the people.
It is publicly available for free at http://extrasensory.ucsd.edu .

The ExtraSensory App is the mobile application that was used to collect the dataset in-the-wild. It automatically records sensors on the phone and watch, and it has a flexible UI with many methods to self-report your behavior.
You can also use the ExtraSensory App to run in the background of the phone and provide real-time context-recognition (the classifier on the server-side provides probabilities for 51 context-labels) - and you can integrate these recognized context with your own application.
The ExtraSensory App is publicly available for free (full source code) at http://extrasensory.ucsd.edu/ExtraSensoryApp .

Cheers,
Yonatan Vaizman (http://acsweb.ucsd.edu/~yvaizman).
Bitcoin is also one of the least interesting when it comes to innovation. Bitcoin has one of the worst max tx rate.

What bitcoin has is the network effect and security, but if the friction from tx fees becomes too high it could be dethroned.
There's one important datapoint in this article: "The Bamboo Ceiling".

When the whole fuzz about gender discrimination started, Microsoft and Google published numbers, claiming women got the same pay at the same positions as men. Knowing there's discrimination from personal experience/feeling, I theorized, that women are discriminated in a different way: they don't receive promotions.

Under otherwise similar circumstances having children does not feel to be enough to explain why of 100 women hired in tech on professional roles less are promoted to higher positions, than of 100 men. That trend is (at least anecdotally for me) observable even before people become parents.

This "Bamboo Ceiling" shows the same effect for another potentially discriminated group of people.
It's like they counted up the number of people who know what a linear regression is, and called them all 'AI engineers'.
Yes, but decentralization is a difficult problem. I think eventually it will become like email, where everyone just uses GMail.

NAT, Firewall, etc all make it very difficult to do true P2P as well.
What does the J1 in J1-slave-driver mean?
I was curious about how this was different from Ripple's approach, I thought this was interesting:

> Generally, membership in Byzantine agreement systems is set by a central authority
or closed negotiation. Prior attempts to decentralize admission have given up some of
the benefits. One approach, taken by Ripple, is to publish a “starter” membership list
that participants can edit for themselves, hoping people’s edits are either inconsequential
or reproduced by an overwhelming fraction of participants. Unfortunately, because
divergent lists invalidate safety guarantees [Schwartz et al. 2014], users are reluctant
to edit the list in practice and a great deal of power ends up concentrated in the maintainer
of the starter list. Another approach, taken by Tendermint [Kwon 2014], is to
base membership on proof of stake. However, doing so once again ties trust to resource
ownership. SCP is the first Byzantine agreement protocol to give each participant maximum
freedom in choosing which combinations of other participants to trust.
Their Nexus 6P wasn't great... and they didn't honor their warranty for my brother. https://www.xda-developers.com/nexus-6p-bootloop-fix/ These guys aren't ready for a US roll out.
Well, the law is that it's illegal to not hire someone based on their race. The lawsuit contains screenshots of people saying they don't want to hire people who are white.

So, if there's no rebuttal (e.g. Google's lawyer doesn't come back and say "this is a fake screenshot" or "it's taken out of context" or "the hiring practice is not illegal for this reason" or "this person has no say over what the hiring practice is" or whatever), those screenshots would be the only evidence at trial. Uncontested, they depict a company that doesn’t want to hire white people because they are white. Google has to provide evidence to the contrary in their response.

That's how any court proceeding works. All I'm saying about the lawsuit is that it's not on-its-face without merit. That doesn't mean Damore is right, it just means Google has to offer a defense since the plantiff has at least shown that there is a reason to believe the claims might be true and demonstrate illegal behavior on Google's part.
I guess you mean psychopaths, Sociopaths are anti-social, so my guess is they are not charming. It's a generalization but you do not get to the top without being persuasive at decent level and to stay there, you better be good.
Note what Yoda says before he destroys the tree: "There's nothing in those books she does not already possess."

And then remember the final scene on the Falcon, where you can clearly see that the books are safely with Rey. She must have taken them before she left, and Yoda knows this.

In that period of time, though, the audience (and Luke) is left to believe that Yoda truly did choose to destroy ancient Jedi artifacts. Which really makes one wonder what the heck is going on—and leaves you to question which side is good, and which is bad? It really blurs the lines between Light and Dark, and crescendos at the throne room scene where Snoke is murdered to when Kylo asks Rey to join him. You almost want her to say yes to his offer! Unlike ESB, the offer isn't just theoretical. Snoke was just overthrown.

In my opinion, the whole sequence was masterfully done.
That was an awesome read. Never knew the Colonel was a real person. A little sad how they managed to screw him over with no stock considering he founded the company. Good news though as of late, is that KFC is going back to its roots: http://www.bizjournals.com/newyork/news/2016/04/04/kfc-redo-...

Might have to try it again :-)
I was being casual about my phrasing. Yes, we expect there to be benefit from the general execution of science as a practice at the macro scale. My point is simply that the same expectation cannot be applied to the micro scale of an individual research effort because, as you said, the benefits are unknowable in advance.
India has a hole where its middle class should be
Wrong. They locked away 55 billion XRP and are releasing a certain amount monthly for purchase by investors and institutions. If that XRP is not purchased, it goes back into escrow.

https://ripple.com/insights/ripple-escrows-55-billion-xrp-fo...
> The founders have free reign on their 20 billion XRP, but I don't see why they would ever use it to crash the price.

Profit motive?
There is some overfitting happening here but generally speaking I agree with the analysis. People I interact with from my own generation and younger can see that our established institutions may have failed to secure the near future for existing and arriving generations, and they are permanently shunning those institutions wherever possible.

You can see this in IT as well where we have myriad foundational problems at the levels of W3C, ICANN, MITRE, NIST and other standards/governing bodies. Cynicism spreads about whether they are sincere about delivering their core missions; meanwhile a "move fast and break things"/disruption culture thrives.
Shouldn't make much difference, at a guess. Poorer states will generally have proportionally cheaper cost of living, real estate, etc. and should be able to do more with less as a result.
The rise, fall, and rise of MDickie–or, how to be the best worst game developer
>public

This is a big part of the difference between traffic cameras and unchecked surveillance of individuals.
No. You still go thru 6 month lock in period
I can't speak for him, but I don't think there is any sort of hidden implication.

As for the problem? Well, the 72% illegitimacy rate among African-Americans is an absolute social disaster (1). No amount of school funding or social welfare programs can fix an economic problem of that scope. And yes, I believe that this is a cultural problem. What is the solution? I don't know, but I'm open to debating, engaging, and supporting policy that will help.

(1) https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/nvsr/nvsr61/nvsr61_05.pdf
If you have no other prospects for investment, raise your concerns, but let them go ahead with it. What do you have to lose? Companies are adding "coin" and "blockchain" to their name, pumping their stock, and increasing their valuation 10x. ICOs are the new penny stocks.
Shoe doesn't feel as nice on the other foot I guess.

In all honestly from the few products I see that come across the various tech review outlets I follow, Huawei seems to do some decent work. But the whole economic situation with China is complicated...mostly due to their own heavy handed protectionist policies.

From a cursory following, it certainly seems like the Chinese market in particular is biased at regulatory levels against foreign companies.
Cost. Many people can't afford hundreds of dollars all at once for a phone, but can afford to subsidize it through a contract.
Obviously there is a trade off, either you get a large amount of low quality streams or a few high quality streams. You can do the same thing with FM, if you only allow stations to transmit mono audio you can fit more. I don’t know how many channels you get in the UK on FM vs. on DAB+ but it seems like the list of digital stations in that link is longer than would be possible using FM.

This all doesn’t change the fact that DAB+ uses the spectrum much more effectively. Of course, on low bitrates you can learn to hear the artifacts. Just as you can hear the distortions in FM. But you need less spectrum for a stream where you can’t hear the artifacts.

There isn’t some big conspiracy selling you digital radio, it’s just better.
Disney didn't pay a few billion for the Star Wars property to just end the war. The resistance/rebels will be fighting forever.
The root of all evil is nondeterminism. A program which executes deterministically cannot receive a timing channel! So "all" we have to do to end this entire class of problems is deny all nondeterministic features, including shared memory threading and timers and two way network communication, to all untrusted code.

A practical vision of computing without these things is challenging, though!
Every time you say...
Everyone is assuming the author is giving up on Langsec. Read carefully, he called Spectre/Meltdown a setback. I think he’s making a subtler point that the fundamentals of programming have become more of a pragmatic activity than a mathematical one, if you’re being practical about your goals that is. I’m currently on the kubernetes multi-tenancy working group (which isn’t really a working group yet) and its really funny to see how much effort is going into securing containers, but core bits like the CNI receive little attention. A wise security professional, ex hacker said that he actually liked over engineered security systems as a hacker, because it told him what not to focus on. Container security pretty good? Okay then figure out how to do what you want without breaking out of the container (definitely possible in the case of Spectre/Meltdown).

There is a fundamental cognitive bias in our field to solve the technically challenging problems without realizing that there are practical vulnerabilities that are far more dangerous, but a lot more boring to solve (the most common way orgs are exploited is through a combination of social attacks and something really trivial).

I think the author is frustrated because he feels the interesting work is unimportant in comparison to the practical.

That isn’t to say that this work isn’t helpful. I’m very glad to be working daily in a typesafe, memory safe language, but I have bigger fish to fry now as a security professional on the frontline.
Hodling is the worst thing about cryptoccurencies most people don't realise. Deflating currencies act as value holders, not as currencies, they don't promote trading or commerce, buying and selling it for physical things. It promotes holding and not selling. This is the opposite of what a currency is.

The more people hold, the less chances there are that Bitcoin or other protocols will be ever used to buy a burger from local shop.

Look at this, even Bitcoin conference doesn't want to accept BTC in payments for tickets, so where can you use use BTC if not on a BTC conference?

https://news.bitcoin.com/miami-bitcoin-conference-stops-acce...
XRP is only used as a spam deterrent. There is a 0.00001 transaction fee to change ledgers (send money, but not XRP) in Ripple, that is actually destroyed, and there is a requirement that every account in Ripple maintain a $20ish balance of XRP.
They'll still cooperate but they'll have much less data to provide.
Why would they stay? China is seeing a huge boom in the tech industry and it's only the beginning. The future is there, not in SV. I'm kinda jealous of my friends who learned Chinese in college and are now working there.
> save you from having to support internet explorer, did it?

I showed IT how we can keep firefox updated on all our machines using AD.

External sites said best viewed with firefox and mentioned ie6/ie8 a steph-child.

My solution not acceptable for everybody, but my employers were happy and I could continue being productive without worrying to much about ie.
I'm running Skype Lite on android.
You're understanding is 1/3 correct. XRP is only used for xRapid protocol. Ripple Labs has 3 protocols (xCurrent, xVia, and xRapid) and the other 2 do not use XRP. However, it does look like MoneyGram is using xRapid.
I am curious what the definition of an 'AI engineer' is.

Is it:

a) someone with an undergraduate/graduate/doctorate degree in CS with specialization in AI/ML?

b) someone with a non-CS degree (Math/EE/CE/Other) who specialized in AI/ML?

c) someone who attended an AI/ML course on Coursera?

d) other?
Sorry dropbox, I was one of your first few paying customers, but then you started taking features away one by one and I had to just cancel.
They should have deployed this just once for a US case. I assume some of their communications travel across state lines and that would make their obstruction of justice and evidence tampering a federal crime. With our beyond vague definitions of such crimes, every Uber executive could have been in jail for decades by this point.
This is what most people don't get, these technologies are all open source. So even if some random coin comes up with a great new feature, bitcoin can just add it or at worst someone can create a fork of bitcoin with the new tech. The value is not the tech, its the network.

Bitcoin has good liquidity and been tested though many drops and spikes. Each time it makes the network more antifragile. No one wants to trust a new currency where a large percent of holders have never been tested and might sell off their entire share at any time.