skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's what the phrase "scare quotes" means: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scare_quotes
I'm confused by all the confusion about "western" here. It refers to a family of civilizations, cultures, and nations. Despite the geographic specifier, it is primarily about people and traditions, not a location.

Pick up any book about "Western Civilization" and it always refers to the thing that nucleated with Greece and Rome, and then all the things that descended from it. Byzantium is absolutely part of this lineage.
If all the mobile traffic is being routed through a single Microsoft-controlled "super-duper peer", then there is no P2P traffic.

Or to put it another way: If I accept the choice is between routing mobile traffic to Microsoft, or no mobile-Skype support, I don't understand how it follows that all traffic needs to move through Microsoft, or no mobile-Skype support.
They are actively trying to pass laws on this.
I explicitly called out the value they provide while being in the school. I doubt that they provided $100k in such value, but I could be wrong.

I don't care about where waiver "should" be used as this is subjective, I'm merely talking about what's "fair" economically which is theoretically objective. If the US hands out "good job" money in the form of net-economy-negative subsidies, then it explains a lot of what's going on in higher education.

I wouldn't limit this to just internationals as well. If you get a huge subsidy to go to a US school and then leave the country it's the same situation even if you're a US citizen.
Looks like you can read this without the paywalling here: https://www.seattletimes.com/nation-world/how-robocall-mogul...
You'd be surprised. Heart disease, for example, is one of the deadliest age-related diseases, but it's by no means exclusive to the wealthy. See for example the World Health Organization's statistics[0]; they report that three quarters of deaths from cardiovascular disease occur in low-income and middle-income countries.

[0] http://www.who.int/cardiovascular_diseases/en/
I've only heard First Nations used in the context of Canada - Native American I believe is still the preferred term in the United States.
>People don't value confidence over competence, they just use confidence as a proxy for competence where they don't have the competence to judge your competence.

You can have it both ways. I've seen competent people go ahead with someone's cocky ideas because their confidence was so strong that they suspected their was probably a gap in their own understanding, and so they put aside their own doubts.
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I own some amount of Siacoin, but what I don't fully understand is how the value of Sia is supposed to work with the platform itself.

As the value of the currency increases, doesn't that make actually using the service prohibitively expensive?

Also, the Sia wallet has been completely inoperable for about a week, which is what has caused its latest price inflation. It went from .02 to .10 so I figured I'd get rid of it, but I can not send it from my personal Sia wallet to an exchange.
Such time is possible if terminal is using dial up and establishes connection only when transaction started.

Seen it couple times.
I'll steal a comment from elsewhere [1] that gives a perfectly reasonable justification for this.

> A few hypothetical reasons why light speed attacks are not common despite being so effective:

> - A capital ship's particle shields can usually tank smaller objects, like fighters, traveling at relativistic speeds. Only very large objects can attain enough kinetic energy to punch through the shields. However...

> - ...the size and complexity of the engines required to accelerate an object to light speed increase geometrically with mass. Outfitting a dense asteroid with a hyperdrive system would make for a hideously expensive one-shot missile; it's almost always more practical to invest your year's worth of Mon Cala's GDP in a ship, which has broader sustained applications.

> - The calculations for hyperspace jumps to or from gravity wells are incredibly fraught. Because of latency issues and certain limitations of droid cognition, an extremely skilled pilot must be physically onboard to perform the jump; no one wants to waste a pilot like that on a suicide run unless there's no other option.

> - Even a skilled pilot is going to find targeting an individual ship very difficult because extreme velocity and distances turns small errors into big misses. The timing is also crucial; in the Star Wars universe, ships enter a hyperspatial dimension shortly after hitting light speed. If Holdo had accelerated too quickly, she would have passed "through" the Supremacy without hitting it; too slowly, and she wouldn't have accumulated enough energy to overwhelm its shields.

> Holdo only succeeded because a bunch of factors aligned: she was a good pilot, her target was very close and very wide, she had no nearby allies in the blast radius, she and her ship were expendable, and the math broke her way.

[1]: https://fanfare.metafilter.com/10441/Star-Wars-The-Last-Jedi...
A couple of years ago I was in your position.

I went through the whole process with Google and Amazon, just to get rejected at the end. I prepared by cramming Cracking the code interview in 2 weeks and reading classic algorithms books; it wasn't enough to meet the bar (anecdotally I remember Google being much harder than Amazon).

Fast forward another couple of years and I got contacted by Microsoft and Amazon recruiters, went through and got offers from both companies. Recently I also got approached by a Google recruiter but I politely declined since I recently started a new position.

What changed in those couple of years?

This time around I prepared by solving problems in leetcode and other platforms a longer time. For about 2 months I spent almost all my free time writing code out of the office.

But that's only half of the story. I noticed that as you apply to more senior roles, the interviews focus more on behaviour and experience rather than hardcore programming. I would say that the weight of these factors was between 2x and 2.5x this time around.

Finally, I myself changed during that time. I adopted an 'abundance mindset', where opportunities are plentiful instead of single chances that we can't let get away. Now I see interviews as two way streets where companies need you as much as you need them. Lastly, when I go to an interview I don't see it as 'I practiced x days for this interview', but as 'I have 10 years professional experience, if that didn't prepared me for this job, no amount of cramming in a few days will'. That doesn't even touch the

So my advice is to just relax, do your best and don't get discourage if you are rejected. If your goal is to break in one of the big 4, continue accruing experience and improving yourself and try next time, it will just get better.

P.S.: In my comment I don't mention luck, but personally I think that it also plays a huge role in getting a job. One time recruiters from a company got in touch with me; two years later they wouldn't even read my CV for the same position. Get to the right position at the right time, and the right set of people can be the difference between an offer or none. It's hard to come to terms with the idea than something other than yourself can dictate your future, but the sooner you do it, it will save you a lot of grief.
American drone companies aren’t built to compete
Ripple is not necessarily targeted at end consumers. In some cases you may notice lower fees and faster transactions, however, they are targeting banks and payment providers.
Likewise. A blog post like that would go to the top of my To Read list.
Ask Twitter?
Personally, this was one of my biggest disappointments from the Obama administration. Before he became president, he was critical of the Patriot Act and seemed legitimately concerned[0]. After election he signed a four year renewal[1].

[0]: http://obamaspeeches.com/041-The-PATRIOT-Act-Obama-Speech.ht...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barack_Obama_on_mass_surveilla...
> Also I've actually fact checked, and I couldn't find the 3 generals at all in Chinese astronomy

Well that one is easy. Kinda. Chinese signs have many different readings. Looking at your link (edit: following from there to [1]), the sign used there (宿) reminds me of the signs used in xingqi, chinese chess, because the repeated use of the left part of the sign caught my eye.

The sign consists of three major parts. The lower left part of the sign is 亻 which is a short form of the obvious sign for person - 人. The rest is far to complex for me to learn on the spot. Wiktionary gives many translations for 宿 among which one means night guard duty, and one means highly regarded person.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three_Stars_(Chinese_constella...
>The same problem exists with children.

I feel like the problem is worse with children due to them having a developing brain, where the impacts of medication can have impacts into changing the very person taking them. I am especially concerned with medication for mental illnesses that are prescribed to children, often times off label, but the risk exists for most any medication.
Correct. It's kinda out of the way unless you know what you're looking for. On iOS:

- Open the app to the "Messages" tab.

- Tap the compose button in the top right corner

- Tap the "Secret" button in the top right corner.
This. Also try to phrase dissent as questions, such as

"How likely is it we will be sued?"
"What will we do if we are sued?"

Put the onus on the advocates to address all of the concerns before the plan can even be considered. If they don't have good answers to scary questions, it will be the best help you can have.
Try doing it when not going to sleep, like maybe when you have free time and might take a nap.

When I do it before bed, I often fall asleep before getting anywhere interesting.
Napping works better for me because there is no pressure to get sleep. Maybe as I become better at this I'll have more success doing it before bed
I would pay to see a movie during the peaceful years of the Jedi showing the struggles of a child being taken into the Jedi order trained up through to Jedi Knight. Emotional trauma of losing family, the rigorous training, confusing philosophy classes about magic, tension of building the first lightsaber that could explode in their face, first mission under a master as a padawan, and so on.

There are stories to tell that don't involve how Anakin screwed over the galaxy for multiple generations.
there has been an amazing amount of innovation in bio the last 5 years, but the biggest bottleneck to making more progress is lack of seed funding and shortage of entrepreneurs. So this is great to see

I wrote about the opportunity in bio earlier this week and run a program connecting top tier scientists with life sci VCs. If you are interested in bio and don't have a science background, this is the best time ever to get involved: http://newbio.tech/blog.html
nobody's safe
I like this behavior for web pages. Not sure it's appropriate for chat history... so I think you are right that Skype probably shouldn't work that way.
> Implicit bias testing and training is pseudoscience at best, especially when you consider that 95% of the professors in that field of study lean left.

This strikes me as kind of like saying that evolution is pseudoscience because 95% of professors in the field are not evangelical Christians, or something.

There may be other reasons to believe that implicit bias is pseudoscience, but "People who believe certain things about it tend to end up with personal worldviews that are consistent with their research" doesn't seem like one.
It does look like IBM does own a p2p instant messaging patent[1]. So I think this checks out.

- https://www.google.ms/patents/US7675874
This sort of thinking represents all of the things wrong with the current hype-cycle of cryptocurrencies, damaging both their long-term credibility and short-term stability.
The issue is not whether the federal government has the authority to regulate the activity in question (which net neutrality advocates obviously agree with, since they argue that the federal government should do so in a particular way), but whether the States are preempted from regulating in this area. It's clear and not in dispute that Congress has the authority to regulate in this field. It's more controversial (though, ironically in the context of this piece, it's a large subset of neutrality opponents who dissent from the AEI position here) that the FCC has authority to regulate here, but the AEI claim is stronger than that, and it is that not only does the federal government in general and the FCC in particular have authority to regulate internet service, but that that authority is exclusive of any state authority to regulate internet service provided within the state.
>> If the US hands out "good job" money

>> If you get a huge subsidy to go to a US school

The "US?" The school is the US? In the vast majority of cases, the institution hands out the waiver, not the government. Furthermore, international students are regularly charged a premium to attend.

If Microsoft pays me a huge salary, I learn a ton before contributing significantly back to private software industry, then quit and move to Canada, do I owe... taxpayers... Microsoft?... remuneration?
I just didn't think the movie was as 'fun' as the previous movies. I think the Disney movies are good movies, I felt like the Lucas movies were fun movies. All the rest of it is secondary to that for me.
Run!

But first go get a good lawyer.

I'm guessing there is a playbook for "fundamental disagreement among execs/founders in a startup" and a chapter in said playbook for "CEO doing questionably ethical stuff".
To summarize, if I may, your observation using the familiar template:

Low-latency memory access, low-latency conditionals, secure isolation ... choose two.
Really? I thought the problems were equivalent, of proving that e.g. a loop vs its recursive equivalent were bounded.

Side note: an interesting case is the Stable Marriage Problem. It's easy to write the O(n) algorithm and prove its bound, but it's hard to translate into a bounded recursive algorithm that does the same thing.

(At least as far as I understand -- I searched it on Stack Overflow and that's what it said, and I've tried the problem itself. A Coq fanatic insisted that "if you can prove the run time is bounded it's easy to write the bounded recursive equivalent" but somehow that never translated into an actual insight on how to do it.)
Is the clerk.house.gov link the right one?
It has "BILL TITLE: Rapid DNA Act of 2017" on its header, doesn't sound like a surveillance law
The linked (OP) article is not thorough, here is a slightly better one. [1] In particular, the NYT article doesn't go into enough detail about the FCC state law preemption and what the states are realistically able to do here. A relevant lawyer is quoted, and he cites case law.

The short of it is that it's totally grandstanding. In New York, the plan isn't to try to affect the consumer market directly, it's to limit any state agency from purchasing telecommunications service with any provider that doesn't fit net neutrality rules [2]; which is obviously unlikely to do anything meaningful except make the government pay more, and hence is grandstanding.

In California, Wiener proposed the following [3]:

> * Regulate business practices to require net neutrality

> * Condition state contracts on adhering to net neutrality

> * Require net neutrality as part of cable franchise agreements, as a condition to using the public right-of-way for internet infrastructure

> * Condition the right to attach small cell or other broadband wireless communications to utility poles on adherence to net neutrality

Every point except the second one is likely to be challenged successfully in court, bringing us back to the New York problem-- pushing net neutrality by throwing the government's purchasing power behind the issue. It's legal, but the other points are likely to tie up the courts for a predictable outcome. I'm not saying that it's useless to have it play out in the courts; I think it's worth doing. I'm just saying that every representative pushing these plans forward knows that the potential effects of their legislation is primarily limited to restrictions on government spending, and thus, it's reasonable to suspect that their motivation is primarily to grandstand rather than to make a difference.

[1]: https://reason.com/blog/2017/12/19/can-states-reimpose-net-n...

[2]: https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2017/12/new-york-tried-e...

[3]: http://sd11.senate.ca.gov/news/20180103-senator-wiener-intro...
Put a blockchain on it
> sadly leaving

Why is it sad? They get to go back home instead of on the other side of the planet from the place they grew up, and they don't have to give up nearly as much to do it.

Good for them.

> My China-born colleagues seem to in general be more conservative, and Silicon Valley has become violently intolerant of anyone that holds an opinion different than the predominant view

Had to get that "oppressed conservatives" narrative in.

I keep asking what views people are so intolerant of. Tend not to get real answers.
I think you could use this quote to justify both sides of the debate.

Unlike Google, which generates money from ads, Apple is a hardware company, so data security is both economically viable and integral to their brand.
This doesn't explain why after the change Skype started routing calls between machines on the same LAN through Microsoft servers.
New York City Officials Hunted Down 10 Food Poisoning Outbreaks Using Yelp
From what I can see, they're doing everything that they can to eliminate sending anything to servers. They recently launched private contact discovery which is really interesting.

https://signal.org/blog/private-contact-discovery/

Moxie has said repeatedly that they're working to do better on this front, but it's not without its technological challenges. He's written repeatedly about this and has also called for anyone willing to try to make it happen and offered to help them. Just one example springs to mind:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12883410

And federation is possible over XMPP with Signal:

https://signal.org/blog/the-ecosystem-is-moving/
73 Rules of Spycraft (2009) [pdf]
SAFE Network has been around for quite some time. I believe the project has been around for longer than both filecoin & storj, but it is still in beta phase. Filecoin AFAIK has not reached beta, while Storj is already online, as is it's competitor Sia.

SAFE Network's stack is mostly Rust, which is novel.[0][1]

Among other things, SAFE Network has no blockchain. It has an alternative approach to consensus: "To directly compare the language for the security of the bitcoin vs safe network, bitcoin is secured by ‘proof of work’, safe is secured by ‘close group consensus’."[2]

SAFE Network adds a cryptocoin (safecoin[3]) component to the Beaker browser[4], which builds on the Dat Protocol[5] for distributed apps.

Basically I'm interested in these types of technologies as well.

[0] https://github.com/maidsafe/crust

[1] https://github.com/maidsafe/routing

[2] https://safe-network-explained.github.io/safe-for-bitcoiners...

[3] https://maidsafe.net/safecoin.html

[4] https://datproject.org/

[5] https://beakerbrowser.com/
>The answer is "not fascism." The Empire and First Order are fascist regimes. Fighting fascism is the answer. There is no perfect system. But systems that support the systematic oppression of all people via threat of violence are evil.

from the point of view of a regular citizen or a slave - the 2 fractions of the higher caste (consisting of, practically speaking, biologically different people, super-humans, basically almost different species), Jedi Order and First Order, are fighting for the power. Both sides are using super-power to enforce their will upon regular people. Somehow a regular person should be able to identify one side as not fascism, as not evil, and start to fight for it.
If your goal was a small hardware RNG and you don't mind spending some time hacking, then I can save you some money.

Buy an ST103F development board ($1.72 shipped to US from China): https://www.aliexpress.com/item/1pcs-STM32F103C8T6-ARM-STM32...

Also buy an STLink programmer for it ($1.98 shipped): https://www.aliexpress.com/item/ST-Link-V2-Programming-Unit-...

Build https://github.com/texane/stlink/ or install OpenOCD.

Clone the NeuG repo and build for the Maple Mini target: https://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/gnuk/gnuk/neug.git/

Now flash neug.bin to the development board via the STLink, then unplug it and plug the board into your nearest micro-USB cable.

You now have a hardware RNG running the same NeuG software on the same processor family as the FST-01.

This board doesn't have enough program space to run GnuK, I think. Nor is it in the tiny form factor of the FST-01 that makes it more suitable as a hardware token.
Wow! I thought I was the only one who did this. Never to accomplish lucid dreaming - but I noticed in classes in highschool (why was I closing my eyes in class?). When closing my eyes for a little bit, I'll see patches of glowing, slowly churning colors. Usually a paradoxically dark neon. Sometimes it's the afterimage effect from looking at a light - but I think some of it is just your eyes trying to make sense of the darkness.

When focusing on these for a while, and trying to force my mind to make sense of it, eventually these blobs turn into oddly abstract shapes with intricate patterns on them, that are very visible. I've never gone that far with it - very interesting.
the warrant was revoked, but prior to that he skipped bail, which is contempt of court

at worst it's a year in prison
Don't the FCC rules that were voted on also include provisions for preemption of any relevant state laws?

With that in mind, I'd personally place taking legislative actions that are doomed to fail from the start, wasting my representative's time and my tax money, under the banner of "grandstanding".
Not a single price of the top 100 crypto-currencies is reflecting their value. They are all over-priced by magnitudes and still "investors" insist it is not a bubble.
> Conservative socially does not have much to do with religion

It does in the US. Absolutely does.
I've suffered under a complete allergy to any form of organization for my whole life, having almost no native abillity to form even the most basic habits, remember things, or plan ahead. By habits, I even mean things like smoking (which I did on and off, liked it, but found it challenging to keep cigarettes on my person). By memory problems, I mean I am completely incapable of remembering stuff like the pin number on my credit card, my phone number, and so on.

So, to cover these deficiencies, I've resorted to technology. I use:

- Taskwarrior. It's a good todo list, fairly straightforward. I organize everything onto different projects.

- A python script that tells me what I'm supposed to be doing at any given time (it even asks taskwarrior if it has any todo items that are planned for the timeslot). It notifies me, and plays a sound every time I'm supposed to be doing something else, like eating lunch.

-Emacs org-mode. Just started with this. It's pretty fun, and covers some of the gaps that the other two don't fill.

I'm not the biggest fan of smartphones, since I inevitably either lose the charger, forget to charge it, or lose the phone - but I'm hoping that a cheap, long-battery life one will come out at some point.

With taskwarrior, I basically add items to any number of lists for different projects, like 'household', or 'work', or 'hobby', or 'learning german', and so on. Then I set out in my timetable how many hours per week I'm going to devote to each project. Then my computer tells me what I'm supposed to be doing at a given time. This is nice, because it means you can do something like devote 1hr per week to something like learning about vector calculus, and you don't forget you meant to do it, then feel guilty after a month has passed.