skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We use automatic feedback directed optimization[1], which lowers the cost quite significantly in practice

[1] https://research.google.com/pubs/pub45290.html

Performance gains are even higher now than they were then.
In the UK there was something of a "conspiracy" (misselling is probably more like it) in that initially DAB was presented as high quality, giving a big reason to buy in, but it was quickly downgraded in quality once momentum had built for the change.

My impression is a simple radio set is now about 4 times what it was before DAB, not sure where that fits in ...
It might be semantics but NSA being a national defence organization, under the same parent umbrella which forks to Army/Navy/Airforce/Marines, I believe it's fair to lump them in with the 'military':

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/73/Do...

The NSA play(ed) a very large role in modern military deployments overseas, especially in the middle east and africa with their targeting systems.

The best counterpoint is the bill Obama passed before leaving office, expanding the data sharing between agencies and the more general significant expansion of scope of the NSAs activities in recent years to involve plenty of domestic and civilian issues (beyond politics) including supporting the efforts on the War on Drugs, DHS, and FBI activities.
That is what the right of first refusal is, you have to match the price they are selling for.

ROFR isn't that bad. What is bad is some contracts have a call option on your stock at FMV price, even when you exercise.
What does the price for a Virtual Reality app depend on?
Kraken is down
Janet Damore?
Not scare quotes. The impression I got was, they’re not competent so not real researchers.
Intel Management MEDC Dream Control
Leave immediately there is no job on the planet worth going to prison for. Even if you don't get caught will you be able to live with yourself? Since you just posted this it seems like that you want to quit. Just do it.
Think about how complex machines fail. Reliability theory is a good tool for this, and has been used to effectively model how aging works, as failure of units in a system of redundant units.

https://doi.org/10.1006/jtbi.2001.2430

You will see that there is no good way to compress the tail end of mortality and consequences resulting from accumulated unrepaired damage. The only cost-effective path is to postpone it indefinitely through periodic repair of that damage.

Aging is damage, and mortality/disability rises with damage. Effective treatments for aging are forms of repair of damage, of which only senolytics presently exist in any form that is available. Once you accept this model, you can start to reason about the effects of various approaches, and everything makes a lot more sense.
In your experience, what is the welcoming part of immigrating to the US?

Unless you have family sponsoring you or $500k or $1m to invest, then there is no reliable path to permanent residence/green card. You are at the mercy of an opaque organization that answers to no one and also at the mercy of having an employer willing to take you on and jump through many hoops.
Even assuming they meet all their product goals, who is going to choose this over AWS?
Google doesn't run VMs. Or, rather, even VMs that make up GCE are actually running in containers. From the Borg paper:

https://pdos.csail.mit.edu/6.824/papers/borg.pdf

VMs and security sandboxing techniques are used to run external software by Google’s AppEngine (GAE) [38] and Google Compute Engine (GCE). We run each hosted VM in a KVM process [54] that runs as a Borg task.

There might be a few machines here and there running actual VMs on bare metal, but those are going to be very special cases. Using Infrastore, it's easy to find which teams are running which containers whose binaries were built before the new compiler defaults.

https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/issues/44095
That one's easy, no one need to pay US military to safe your property from Russian attacks because there won't by any.
Consensus for Geo-replication
Uber for water
There is plenty of technical discussion of all things blockchain on this site, it's only that the enthusiasts don't like the conclusions of the community so they get defensive and lash out with insults like "old bitter nerd".
I actually enjoy all the birthday messages I get on FB. Not because they say happy birthday, but because I actually respond to every single one of them, and catch up with people who actually made the slightest effort to wish me a happy birthday.
Specifically AMD and Intel have cross-licensed everything connected with the x86 because way back in the day IBM did not want to run the risk that some tiny company like Intel would go out of business so they insisted on having multiple sources.

Since AMD and Intel have both made major contributions to the x86 platform, this situation continues. This duopoly has also worked to the detriment of Cyrix, VIA, Transmeta and everyone else who has tried to break into the x86 space.

Patents are a mainstay of anything that involves physical manufacturing because they let you contract out to a manufacturer without the fear that the manufacturer will produce the product on their own account and cut you out.

For instance, this patent

https://www.google.com/patents/US4560358

let the inventor (a "non-practicing entity") outsource manufacturing and marketing to third parties without a fear of getting ripped off and offering those third parties a chance to have a unique product.
Then how can you make a statement to the effect that we may one day know how to measure consciousness, which you have just agreed is fundamentally unmeasurable?
Sure. The company rejected the sale between me and a third party. They instead arranged for an alternate sale at the same price with one of their "preferred buyers." They were obligated to meet the price I had arranged privately with my broker and my buyer.

What infuriated me was that I had to do all the leg work and paper work and it was only when the money for the sale went into an escrow that the company rejected the offer. So they wasted a lot of people's time unfortunately - mine, the broker and the buyers time. The companies "preferred buyer" turned out to be some Hollywood big wig. And my guess is that they never had any intention of letting my proposed sale go through.

One curious thing I learned is that although this practice of selling options on the secondary markets by "worker bees" was strongly "discouraged" because it was seen as a sign of not believing in the company, it turns out the execs were all selling their options left and right and had been doing so for years.
I had a number of Chinese-national friends at university (a big public university) who received significant scholarships from the school.

(It could be it was a subsidy-exchange between the university and a chinese institution but I didn't get that impression. It could have been a private party as well. In any case it was definitely a scholarship by a US institution - not sure if public or private.)

These friends were brilliant and couldn't have afforded to attend without it. However: last I heard, they have all since moved back to China and are doing quite well for themselves.

This is objectively good news for these people, but that scholarship money was effectively just given to China. There are ripple benefits that aren't so tangible (added diversity, the chance that they could have stayed, the impact they had while here, etc).

Overall it seems "fair" that scholarship money should be converted to a loan if the education isn't used long-term in the same economy as the scholarship.
>US companies don't want to let the government eavesdrop on their products, and Chinese government doesn't want US products and services that prevent the Chinese government from eavesdropping.

Rather, US companies get pressure from the government to make it so that only the US eavesdropping works on devices. ATT has quite a history here. I don't think he's wrong; why are most devices here only available through carriers?

http://time.com/money/4808996/fastest-internet-countries-mob...

We’re #28. Among the 62 countries included in the latest
State of the Internet Report from Akamai Technologies, the
United States ranks 28th for average mobile Internet
speed.

China puts their thumb on the scale when it comes to foreign companies operating in China, true. Does that mean that us doing the same is the best course of action? Many US companies practice profit offshoring, tax evasion / minimization, and lobbying to reduce their tax costs.

I don't believe that trying to look at this through the lens of ~what country is more hypocritical is very useful. US mobile broadband sucks, US mobile carriers suck, and the market for phones here for consumers isn't as good as it could be.
Curious - how would gender affect promotion rates?
Yeah it actually makes a difference now.

You still have to watch out for the California AMT (which I didn't know about) - it's 7% and will still trigger at the lower value. As a bonus you can no longer deduct it either past 10k from federal taxes (though that may change with the charity thing).

The ability to do early exercise on unvested shares is also often not an option at startups so when you are able to exercise the spread is higher and the tax penalty is worse.
Yea your right maybe law isn’t the best use case still doesn’t make a valid point. You can take the weakest use case for anything and rant about how that thing is useless. Also sounds like OP takes the phrase “smart contract” literally as in a replacement for normal “contracts” as if they were designed specifically for law
>(1) how much of these people's education or experience was subsidized by the American economy

I suspect that US actually profits off of foreign students, atleast thats what I've heard informally (since we have to pay much higher fees than natives), but I've never checked the fees to be honest.

In a profitable system, its a fair assumption that those who pay the most make atleast some contribution to profits right?
That report was just NSA being mad for not being able to intercept Huawei routers just like they intercepted and hacked Cisco routers. [1]

And let's not forget NSA's Juniper router NSA backdoor hack [2].

So the NSA banned Huawei since they wouldn't play ball with them and decided to spread FUD about Huawei instead... so that companies buy hacked/backdoored routers instead.

[1] https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2014/05/photos-of-an-nsa...

[2] https://www.wired.com/2015/12/juniper-networks-hidden-backdo...
A way of reformulating the author's argument is to recognise that there exists an intermediate block of programs that do not appear in any source-code, and that's the re-scheduler in the CPU, and that you can't reason deterministically about its behaviour, because its state is common to all the processes hosted on the system at that moment in time.

Formulated thusly, the author's argument seems eminently valid to me, and exposes the old bug-bear: the root of all this evil is nondeterministic execution. Elsewhere in this thread I bemoan the defunct IA-64 (Itanium) architecture because it delegated explicating inherent parallelism to the compiler and allowed the core to be shorn of rescheduling circuits, and (it now emerges) enhances security.
Interesting - are there any particular studies about this in Germany?
There is no denying the fact that it's hard to get permanent residency in the US. But immigration should be a two way street, if people decide to stay in the US they should try to assimilate. Is there a "bamboo celing", yes there is; so is a "curry ceiling" and what have you "ceiling". But if you do not push yourself to better your communication skills and other relevant skills required to be successful, you can't expect to shatter this ceiling. This was true for other immigrants too (18th/19th century Irish, Italian etc.)

It's hard not to overlook the fact that a lot of would be immigrants make no effort to assimilate and cluster themselves off from mainstream society; especially in a immigrant welcoming area like Silicon Valley. I bet if you were to go to China/India etc., no one's going to go out of their way to accept you.

(BTW, I'm an Indian citizen on H1B and I'm saying this, you can downvote my post but it doesn't change ground realities)
In other words you can implement arbitrary dynamic trust, Opening up the possibility of arbitrary hierarchies, and much more efficient and robust mechanisms of establishing truth. Authorities could be designed arbitrarily and evolve on top of this core protocol. This so far sounds closer to tcp/ip foundation. Bitcoin would be more like Series of children with a dynamic system of never ending strings and Styrofoam cups.

I bet there is already CS research theory ready to apply to this design. (Easier said than done and I am just guessing really).
They are the same company with a fatal boot loop design flaw on my $500 Nexus N6. That thing failed right after the 1 year warranty expired and they tell me there is no way to fix it as there are no replacement parts available. If it failed after 2 years I could have lived with it but 1 year is too short for outright failure. Right now I'm trying to get a claim through my credit card extended warranty to get my money reimbursed.
This. I wish Signal's own native apps had the user experience of Telegram.
I mean... Ecuador could, it's mutually assured abduction that keeps nations from doing this, but it's hardly unprecedented.
> Are you truly having a hard time understanding how life under a Communist dictatorship and a Representative Democracy would differ for the average citizen?

The difference aren't that great. The most heavily surveiled society on earth is britain.

> It's really confounding to me that the younger generations seems to have such a hard time with this.

And it's confounding how the older generation thinks the west is any better.

> Do they not teach comparative history in schools anymore?

They do but just a lot better than they did in the past.
I don't think millennials saw TLJ as a metaphor for baby boomer disillusionment so much as a crushing disappointment that Ewan MacGregor didn't stride into a cameo as the inexplicable forbearer to Rey.
You do not need to hate women to be sexist. You do not even need to be aware that you have biases for those biases to be affecting how you act.

Check out the literature on "implicit bias". While there are problems in some social sciences, this particular research area has a lot of high-quality reproduced studies. Of course, it is only the start of the conversation and there are many caveats, but I believe it will address your comment.
Has YC had successful Biology startups with real exits? Just curious I couldn't find any.
What part of this is interesting to you?

This paragraph does not explain how they are different from Ripple's approach only that they are in fact different.
"Tenuous at best" is too strong of a term, there is a lot of debate on that.

Though it is I think broadly acknowledged that simply throwing money at the problem won't solve anything. The Brookings Institute side of the argument even acknowledges that. [1]

However, the Brookings Institute does argue for long-term state education finance reforms changes, with linked studies that show some improvement with overall school performance, with funding equalization structures. Another Brookings article [2] argues for spending on resources that matter where they are lacking, particularly well-qualified teachers and high-quality curriculum. Seems reasonable to me.

That does not change the socioeconomic factors that also are a large factor in current school performance. This is unfortunately a lot harder to solve.

But it's not going to be solved by being too broad in scope. "One school was 100% Asian-American and a neighboring school was 100% white" is too broad. After all, Appalachian whites currently have an educational gap, and Cambodian Americans currently having an educational gap. There are many other factors involved in school performance, such as socioeconomic status, parental and community involvement, etc.

[1] https://www.brookings.edu/research/its-not-nothing-the-role-...
[2] https://www.brookings.edu/articles/unequal-opportunity-race-...
Beats me, I've been rejected by all 4, along with Microsoft and Netflix :) My only advice would be to take a refresher course on Data structures and algorithms (Coursera, et. al.,) and just practice doing programming problems. I've used Crack the Coding interview and some online coding sites (topcoder, etc.) which has definitely helped improve my interview performance. I'm a lot more confident nowadays, at least :)
I like this feed - a more centralized collection of cryptocurrency news, however it is unfortunate that left sidebar does not show currency. At the moment of writing this comment it BTC is worth 13081.8 of something.. is it USD, EUR, LTL?
Well, true, and the meta-point that I hope is coming across through my comment is that you should evaluate each opportunity according to the specific terms in front of you and your assessment of how likely the organization is to succeed in your future. Nobody on an Internet forum can do that for you: we have much less information about a specific job offer and specific company than the prospective employee does.

But the point I wanted to make, bringing up the Google example, is that I didn't expect Google stock to have much upside in 2009. Most people didn't expect Google stock to have much upside in 2009. Google stock still had much upside.
The excitement was all in Web 2.0 startups (like zillions of other people, I founded one), but most of them had little success. We're talking about Dropbox now, but Dropbox was a desktop app startup, perhaps the one thing less cool than a big tech company in 2008.

Similarly, the common wisdom now is that startups are a losing bet and you should go ask for cash at an established company that can pay you well. Usually, in markets, when something becomes common wisdom it ceases to be true. So I will happily take the opposite side of that trade - I'm back to founding a startup, I work for equity, and if people want cash, I'll pay them in cash. I realize that I'm making a risk/reward tradeoff here and there's a fairly decent chance my equity will be worthless, but I choose to make it anyway, because I believe that at this point in time, the startup career path is undervalued.
I've been impressed with how long it took for this information to be "leaked"/"declassified"/released given the sheer number of people who knew.

The fact that hundreds maybe thousands of people knew and worked on this ahead of the press reports/rumors and subsequent information release speaks to how seriously everyone involved took this.
No-one in the field is particularly impressed with Calico at this point in time. Calico is the second coming of the Ellison Medical Foundation, which is to say they're just analyzing the details of aging and expanding on the NIH budget. Nothing they are known to be doing is likely to have the slightest impact on the progression of rejuvenation therapies.

E.g. some resources in which people are less than complimentary:

http://www.sens.org/research/research-blog/question-month-16...

https://www.technologyreview.com/s/603087/googles-long-stran...

https://www.vox.com/science-and-health/2017/4/27/15409672/go...

There are plenty of others if you want to go look for them.
The general opinion online is that women being promoted slower than men is a problem, and in high paying white collar professions, women being underrepresented at any level is a "bad thing". Make sure you dont use your real identity to question that, you might get blacklisted from ever working at Google :P
I would guess that he would have loved it, too! But in fairness, while it is 'passing through' Oumuamua isn't leaving any minerals on the surface of the Earth, either.
This style of providing updates seems to be standard amongst crypto / blockchain projects. Do you have any different examples? Thanks
Yeah, this book is actually more helpful than CTCI
Biology and AI could possibly be the next coal face
I remember something marketed as a “hypercomputer” by Starburst Systems or something like that (long since defunct, apparently... I'm referring back to the late 1990s and early 2000s) that “compiled software to hardware” by substituting parallel CPUs with FPGAs.
Google Maps appears to be completely broken
I've always had phones with FM receivers when possible. They're not rare (in UK) - my Huawei has it, my wife's Samsung has it. In the past our LG and Sony Ericsson phones had them.
It does fix the problem, although consumers of the package need to first verify they trust the original author.

For example, if Google published "Google/polymer", dependents would be unaffected if a new package was published from "badguy/polymer". I think you're saying it's still not fixed because someone could register the Google author name before the real Google gets it, but that is a understood problem across every website.
> Getting a US VISA is hard and painful when you come from a populous country like China or India

Getting a green card is harder if you were born in China or India, not getting a visa, but once you've been on an H-1B for a sufficiently long period of time, you can only keep that status with a pending green card application. Switching employers at this stage is more difficult.
The whole point of Ripple originally is that you could use it to send actual fiat money by using a network of trust relationships to chain together IOUs that could eventually be settled via actual transfers if necessary. Then after Bitcoin took off it was retooled as something more Bitcoin-like with its own internal cryptocurrency, XRP, and a ledger system to support it. (Except that the ledger is pretty much centralised.)
#1, if you think the company is going to go ahead with something fraudulent, leave. This has nothing to do with your CTO role -- applies to any job at any company.

#2: is it fraudulent? Some people think all ICOs are fraudulent, some reasonable people may disagree. If you think all ICOs are fraudulent, see #1 above. Or if you think they are legit but this one has fraud in it, ditto. But (not knowing the situation) you may be overreacting.

#3: Sticking tokens into the app may simply be a dumb business decision, but not actual fraud. It's OK for you to disagree with a business decision, but if you don't agree with the direction, at the end of the day too bad. "CTO" can mean a lot of things but it's rarely an executional job -- most often it's "chief talking officer". So your opinion counts, but shouldn't be decisive. If you decide "well, OK it's not fraud, just bogus" you have to stop complaining about it OR leave.

Finally...lots of good ideas look weird from a technical basis. I thought YouTube was weird: why sort content by media type -- shouldn't a video about X be part of a web page about X? I thought the Apple II was weird: who wants a home computer you didn't design and build yourself? Clearly I was wrong!

But if actual bad behaviour is the plan, do leave, even if you think they will get away with it.
I can't hire for things that 'cause' such increases, I can only use presented-information to make a best-guess about how an employee will perform.

Having a degree is a good indicator that you'll work hard and be disciplined. If I have to break a tie between two candidates, things that show levels of work/discipline/* will help me break the tie.
Why kill the goose that lays the egg? I mean, if XRP is on its way out then sure, they'll add fuel to the fire, but crashing the price is counterproductive. If they really wanted to cash out and they were smart, they would drip it over time so as not to eat up the market orders on the buy side.