skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Mathematically, in terms of the semantics of e.g. JavaScript, these attacks should not be possible. But practically, they work.

Obviously this is badly stated.

It's not correct to say "mathematically they should be possible given the semantics of Javascript" and then say that "practically they work" as if implying that the mathematics somehow broke down.

It's not the mathematics that failed you, but the assumptions (axioms) you've used. Mathematically they are absolutely possible -- when you correctly account for the real processor behavior. And if you had mathematically modeled the whole "JS semantics + CPU behavior" accounting for Meltdown, mathematics would have shown that it's not safe.
Your black font is very hard to read on the red background. I recommend changing that so it's more visible.
But...

But what about...

But what about lambos?
That, ah, really stands alone
There was a rumored proposal, but USCIS announced the other day that it was unlikely to happen, and also mentioned that if it did happen it would not apply to existing AC-21 holders, as their employers could file extensions in one year increments.

The DHS has said that they want to propose the end of the H-4 visa giving work authorization for spouses of H-1B holders.
We can safely assume that black hats have moles on these lists.
Perhaps the issue isn't the posters statement, but the prevailing wisdom that there are absolutely no difference between genders in practical functionality.

Differences should never lead to inequality - women are better at some things, conversely so are men, but you need to treat (and pay) people equally - and this next part is the most important part - you also need to ensure that you have positions for all kinds of people in your organization - and that culturally, you allow for diversity, and have an organization that allows people from diverse backgrounds an experiences thrive.

The latter part is a key flaw of geek culture (most often seen in engineering organizations) - we often fail at inclusivity, because we've spent our whole lives being left on the outside, so we develop a fundamental distrust of people unlike us (look at the interplay between sales and engineering in most old line companies), and have not learned the skills to create an inclusive environment.

Because of this we tend to create 'old boys clubs' that are full of people who are remarkably like us.

But, we can do better, and should - however shutting down the discussion is not how you solve these problems, it just makes them worse in the long term by creating a new culture even more intolerant of dissent.
It is an indirect correlation. BMI is a factor related to the likelihood of having diabetes, and what's considered a safe range for white people is an unsafe range for Asians. Thus if you have a white person at a 25 BMI and an Asian person at 25 BMI, the Asian person has a higher likelihood of getting diabetes.

"The educated [Asian] population knows that they're getting diabetes and hypertension and all these things at a much lower BMI, but if you're in a culture where everybody's really fat and you're thin, you tend to go around and think, 'Well, I'm protected,'"
I’m glad I’m not the only one. I feel like it’s some sort of reference to popart but like, you are a company that’s doing documents, let’s not get too Warholy.
They certainly used to I worked on an elite campus at my first job early 80's and there was one Chinese exchange student doing a masters or phd of course in those day he did wear the mao uniform and had a flying pigeon bike.
If an organization intentionally builds tools to enable illegal activity, does this not reveal criminal intent?

Am I confused to see Uber as an immoral and borderline criminal organization for the way it treats drivers, the way it treats its female employees, for the ways it pressures local governments?

I have trouble understanding its popularity in the presence of competition.

I also can’t imagine how women would be OK with using Uber after the numerous allegations of the company’s toxic culture.
The Continual Condition/Bukowski,published in the 80s,predicting social media
This comes up a lot but the reality is that its really only nerds and spammers that self-host. It's hard to fault spam filters of being suspicious of random domains. This doesn't mean there aren't many alternatives -- just about any personal email provider will make sure they're off the blacklists.
Yes, that is indeed a shame, although I'm glad at least WhatsApp has it by default, which is a lot of messages already.
I am using rclone to copy specific files (image backups of my disk).
Does Microsoft Security Essentials fall under Windows Defender for the purposes of this article?
Signal the app uses OWS's servers, but Signal the protocol can run on anything. WhatsApp etc definitely aren't using OWS servers.
There've been a number of criticisms of Dunning-Kruger in recent years, many focusing on the sample-bias problem that Animats brings up (which is also common to a lot of attempts to reproduce it), and some also mentioning the possibility of floor effects (i.e. if you have a natural statistical variance around some quantity that is close to the bottom of what your test can measure - as if you're unskilled - then your average will be skewed upwards because for most people "there's nowhere to go but up"). Here's a relatively recent literature overview:

https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/a387/04facf73e00523bff8182d...

tl;dr: It's complicated. Science is hard. Effects similar to Dunning-Kruger's result have been observed in multiple different domains, but because competence usually has a power-law rather than normal distribution, it's hard to say whether observed effects are due to real metacognitive skills or sampling biases. Controlled experiments are also very difficult because "training people up" inevitably results in some fraction of the sample dropping out, which also introduces sample bias.
I actually wrote a prototype to manage that:

http://lettergram.github.io/AnyCrypt/

The problem is we need to stop worrying about end-to-end encrypted <insert name here>. We need something that blocks javascript, and encrypts our messages before they even enter the pipeline (there will still be meta data though).

The extension I built was a POC just showing how it could be done easily with Keybase.
You refer to the ICO as fraud but I'm curious; what evidence do you have of that? If it comes down to "our app really doesn't need a token" then that isn't fraud. If it's "we're going to sell this token knowing that we're going to phase it out and just use fiat after launch" then that's fraud. I understand that as the technical guy in the room you might be uncomfortable with shoe-horning a token where another tech is a better fit; however, that doesn't constitute fraud, just bad engineering.

Save the report man. They aren't interested in the technical reasons of why a non-blockchain solution is better. In fact, they're not interested in the tech at all - they are approaching it from a fund-raising perspective. If it's fraud and you know it - leave. If it's not, do the ICO, raise the cash and save your company.
Compare with https://cryptopanic.com
Ukraine announced the possible release of its own cryptocurrency
Coffee and whipped cream works for me. Not cream IN the coffee -- that's disgusting -- but 2 dl cream and 3 dl coffee separately. Works wonders when I need to focus on some problem intensely for many hours. Are you a fatass? No, it is SUGAR and cream that makes you fat.
looks neat. I'll have to give it a try on neovim.
And again: your supposition that it has majority favorability is based on polls that are suspect.

Have a good one.
What would you say if a Chinese national asked you the opposite question: Why is data privacy the de facto standard all humans should enjoy?

Just because we're American and we sort of have that here? No privacy allows for greater systems efficiency and easier time in law enforcement investigations.

Doesn't make it right either; I'm a US citizen after all and abhor state-based intrusions of privacy more than even the average HN reader, but projection of societal norms is kinda silly.
Why focus on age-related disease when massive racial and economic disparities still prevent a large proportion of the population from even reaching an advanced age?
My post assumes that because there's no good evidence that, as you put it, "reality is sexist" in the relevant ways and that we should reject the null hypothesis. There are plenty of plausible alternative hypotheses (the Damore memo vaguely alludes to them), but I have not seen strong reasons to accept them, just post-hoc rationalizations like "the average woman scores worse/better on $metric, so here's a story for why the job requires more/less $metric". Tellingly, those rationalizations have changed as programming went from a low-status to high-status position: there was folklore several decades back about how programming was obviously women's work because it was like dinner planning.

If you do find a scientific reason to reject the null hypothesis, hopefully such an analysis will come with some specific number other than 50/50 - and we can see if Google's processes match those numbers.
This makes sense by the simple observation that, all other things being equal, most people will want to live and work in what they consider their homeland. For many people who have come to the US, they have come not to find a new homeland but rather to get wealthy and pursue opportunity.

This is an admirable thing. But as China develops and grows - conditions becoming more equal between the US and China - it's only natural that Chinese expats will find that they can seek "riches" in what they feel is their homeland.

There's nothing wrong with this, and in fact will be good for people of all nationalities as competition increases for talent.
Seems like there's a demand for an objective layman friendly list like this (only more accurate). Wonder if that'll ever happen.

I suspect security will remain a privilege of the technical elite or those that can pay the technical elite. I guess maybe that's OK, but a bit concerning at a consumer level where it could be another factor increasing the class gap.
Q: What does the publishing industry bring to the Web?

A: PDF hosting, comments, a community of experts

FWIU, Publishing@W3C proposes WPUB [1] instead of PDF or MHTML for 'publishing' http://schema.org/ScholarlyArticle .

How do WPUB canonical identifiers (which reference/redirect(?) to the latest version of the resource) work with W3C Web Annotations attached to e.g. sentences within a resource identified with a URI? When the document changes, what happens to the attached comments? This is also a problem with PDFs: with a filename like document-20180111-v01.pdf and a stable(!) URL like http://example.org/document-20180111-v01.pdf, we can add Web Annotations to that URI; but with a new URI, those annotations are lost.

[1] https://w3c.github.io/wpub/
If you can prove that the recursion is bounded, great!

But sometimes it is hard, and I'm afraid it's equivalent to the halting problem in general case.

Without recursion, though, finding the maximal depth of the call graph is definitely solvable, and likely not even very hard.
∞ × 0 is one of the most bog-standard indeterminate forms, not 0.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indeterminate_form
>And it's a breeze to figure out and read the code too: even when it's 10s of thousands of lines of code.

Not at all. The issue with an application written in jQuery is a lack of sane state management. Forgetting to initialize (or re-initialize) values, not expecting things to be executed in a different order, and just poor organization in general led to mountains of runtime errors.

Nowadays we use Elm. The difference is night and day. I wrote a post on this topic a few months ago: https://charukiewi.cz/posts/elm/
How about the ability to move large sums of money around the world without having to trust or be limited by any government or bank?
---Any update on what they did with the $257 million they raised

They are paying people to write and release quarterly updates. Without any inside info, I can tell you that that costs money. Maybe they setup trust funds to issue such updates well into year 2087. What more do you want???
Evolving the Dropbox Brand | https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15393684 (Oct 2017, 67 comments)

> mugsie: Wow. that is (from my perspective - but only mine) terrible.

> supernintendo: This is the worst UX I've seen in a long time. Not only that, it's visually garish.

> chrissnell: That typeface is just dreadful.
This is such a great news. YC is focusing its efforts on areas of biggest change and need in the coming decade, and life sciences is really critical.
I'd suggest a blockchain project

or a web server
Two engineers placed side by side are never "equally qualified." Their competence will differ. If you look solely at their degrees and work history alone, you'd be ignoring the individual abilities of the engineers.

The parent comment to yours was poorly worded and snarky, so you have a right to be upset. But still, I think your reasoning is flawed. People are generally promoted by their competence and their negotiating/office politics skills, and you can't claim that those are the same across all genders. Why would women, who are fundamentally different than men, have the exact same competence and negotiating abilities as men? There's no reason the two genders should be equal.

If you really have two equally skilled engineers, one male, one female, and only the male is promoted, that's sexism. But two engineers are never the same, so you can't make that argument.
Counterpoint: Why not slap some hyperdrives on an asteroid? Or otherwise accelerate a lot of (cheap and already widely available) mass.

Regardless, I really enjoyed this scene because it falls well within the jurisdiction of the Rule of Cool (http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/RuleOfCool)
In retrospect, much "unreasonable tinfoil" has turned out to be fact. Assuming collusion is the safest bet, these days.
Seems like something that should be in r/theempiredidnothingwrong.

I went into this movie full on ignoring the metaphorical connections to the real world and let it exist in my mind as just an entertaining movie and story and to my surprise, it blew me away (although obviously far from perfect).

Its interesting to see people pick this movie apart, as if the originals had perfect acting, no flaws, and were the epitome of originality (were you expecting your life to change after watching this?)

Personally, I think Luke's change in demeanor was perfect, which not so ironically, he is pretty far from. Luke is human, which he conveys very well and is probably what upsets people the most because he doesn't reach this state of perfection upon which he has mastered the force, his feelings (he's not Leonard Nimoy), and has total control of self (again, not a Leonard Nimoy).

Could it be possibly that people are still holding onto the idea fed to those of us born in the 80's and onward that every one of us is "special", that our dreams will come true if we just believe in ourselves and never give up? These may be the people that do not care for the more realistic approach to Luke Skywalker, as opposed to the "one who will bring balance to the force."
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Project Veritas Exposes Twitter “Shadow Banning”, Blocking Opposing Views
>That in general the well being of Native peoples in the US, of African Americans is devalued. It is witnessed in the exclusion in drug trials, in the diseases that pharma considers worthwhile to address...

Speaking about medical research specifically:

You seem to say these outcomes are because of white racists "devaluing" black and native peoples' well-being in an evil act of collective racism.

A simpler explanation would be: There are far fewer blacks and natives than whites in America, which means fewer sick people to help and fewer customers, which means their unique illnesses get less research focus.

The same effect happens between common diseases and rare diseases irrespective of race. Common diseases get studied first, because that's where the most good can be done. This isn't because the well-being of people with rare diseases is "devalued".

Frankly I'm concerned you jump so quickly to a mass accusation of collective racial evil (which echoes historic hatred against other high-performing ethnic groups) when a simpler explanation is so obvious.
Dark theme hurts to look at, light theme isn't contrasted enough. HodlFeed seems to be the clear winner in terms of UI design. Can't speak for algorithm effectiveness and whatnot.
I feel like even without this, there's a fair argument to be made that Google is better at running hardware than most little guys are.
The Facebook interview process was a bit of a joke. Writing code without being able to evaluate and test it is for people just out of school, but that's what they gave for an editor (which didn't have emacs keybindings either IIRC, just some generic code sharing site). Sometimes people with experience do things differently and have learned to USE the computer and not do everything in their heads. Age and skillism to the extreme. I suspect they just want coder drones.
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Some phones have optional removable components like extra batteries, higher-quality speakers/cameras, or even projectors. It would be cool if someone made a SDR add-on for these phones.
One day at a time.
"Why work on this burning city when this earthquake-ridden city is in shambles!"

a) There's no obligation to work on earthquake-ridden cities over any other issue.

b) Mythical Man Month problem; firefighters might be good at extinguishing flame but not repairing earthquake issues, and there's only so many civil engineers to go around.

c) Your comment is proof that no good deed goes unpunished.
But the ability to short an asset more easily won’t necessarily overcome the power of investor excitement.

In 1936, John Maynard Keynes suggested why. He played down the role of quantitative analysis and probability estimates in human thinking of the assessment of ambiguous future events. People in such situations are vulnerable to a play of emotions and at times a “spontaneous urge to action” that he called “animal spirits.” He argued that much of what happens in financial markets has to do with people learning, from price movements, about each other’s animal spirits.
Nudging doesn't help poor people retire,  it just makes them poorer
What kind of relationship do you think the person in question has with the current federal intelligence community?
It sounds like she DOES understand, you're just trying to convince her that privacy-fighters are right, which she may simply not agree with.

In other parts of society, there's a tradeoff behind what's good for society and what's good for individual freedoms.

Some people (say) don't want mandatory health insurance or helmet laws or whatever because they think freedom to choose is paramount. Others think it's insane that you'd EVER be opposed to something that might save even one life (what about the children??)

Sometimes these arguments are couched in terms of personal responsibility, the nanny state training us to rely on it and creating worse overall outcomes, etc etc.
> This paragraph does not explain how they are different from Ripple's approach only that they are in fact different.

I think the last line sums it up: "SCP is the first Byzantine agreement protocol to give each participant maximum freedom in choosing which combinations of other participants to trust."

As opposed to Ripple, where the trust is heavily biased towards the starter membership list, making it more centralized than one would want.
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Yes, I meant any recursive calls via a chain of calls to other functions.

I think proving that no recursion exists should be relatively simple, just keep following the call graph and keep a set of the nodes (functions) called; you either reach the terminal node(s), or reach an already-visited node again, which means a recursion exists.
That's not a problem that's a potential opportunity which isn't as absolute as the claim I was responding to.
Unlike other fraudelend coin startups, Ripple made its self subject to regulations. They cannot simply put all their XRP onto the open market. The 55bn locked in escrow are meant to be sold to institutions partnering Ripple, as other comments have already stated. Regulations aren't a bad thing. They are mandatory and prevent us from being scammed in many cases.

The only thing you can blame Ripple for is the insane amount of ripples their founders are holding.
> Indians do much better in SV/tech senior management positions than Chinese.

Please be careful about making generalizations based on race - they're generally incorrect/unprovable and rarely provide any value to a conversation. You can rephrase this to be "I've seen more Indians do better..."
I wonder how true this is if your project does not involve anyone but you.

I always suspected such people succeeded more with that attitude because others are more likely to help them. The attitude gives people a signal of likelihood of success, so they are willing to put in more to help them. People often decline to help others if they think failure is likely.

I'm sure the YES attitude does help you a bit internally, but I suspect most of the gain is in others helping you than you somehow performing better.
You did your job, and should feel no guilt. You could have gone to the other executives and board, but having been in the same boat I can guarantee your odds of success would have been slim, and your odds of being pushed out good. If you were super skillful and political, you might have been able to approach key execs and ask them if your questions had been adequately examined, and maybe someone far higher than you in the company would have taken up the torch.

As an aside, this is a great example of crappy managing. A good manager should prize getting opposing opinions. This person valued getting their ideas implemented more than they valued making the best decision for the company. As you saw in your meeting, it's incredibly intimidating for rank and file employees to publicly disagree with managers. You were special because you did so, and that kind of public honesty should always be encouraged and cultivated in good organizations.
I didn't set up any kind of false choice. It's possible that Western Europe, for instance, decides to stay away from both.
Less competition? Discrimination can be perfectly rational.

Going back to the subject of this article, we generally find it morally permissible for a country to have employment / visa policies that strongly incentivize companies to find qualified but mediocre employees from the same country instead of hiring exceptional workers from other countries, even if the foreign workers would be better for profit / GDP / economic growth. (That is, the country might decide to have more or fewer visas based on whatever policies it wants to implement, but we don't think that the zero-visas option is immoral.) And the overt and stated intention is to protect the employment opportunities of the countries' own citizens.

This doesn't seem fundamentally different, to me, from discrimination on sex / race / whatever to protect the employment opportunities of members of the more politically powerful sex / race / etc. - it's just that we tend to find it morally impermissible to discriminate between a countries' own citizens on those categories if we believe that membership in those categories is irrelevant to aptitude, but we find it perfectly permissible to discriminate between one countries' citizens on another despite knowing full well that citizenship is pretty irrelevant to aptitude. (I am personally leaning towards the viewpoint that actually both are morally impermissible, and protectionism in visas is justifiable only as the lesser of two evils as long as it's necessary for a country's economic stability, and no longer.)