skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In the context of HOTT? That most code in the real world can be embedded in low dimensions, and when you embed something on a surface of small genus you can do a bunch of optimizations.

Also, that you can use the finite set of minimal graph minors for a surface of genus X to do case analysis instead of having an infinite amount of cases to test with.
We have computers that demonstrate such behavior, but few would refer to them as intelligent or grant them higher moral worth than even animals.
title: "Bitcoin is no long the only game in crypto-currency town"
Might be hard to make/use a trebuchet in space ;)

(Or at least low gravity)
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And I agree with all of those statements, but phrased as it is now, it's blatantly wrong.
There needs to be some way of determining the relative size and scale of these projects. Market cap is useful, but it needs to be normalized given the various different distribution models. So something like fully diluted market cap, or market cap using today's prices and the 2025 supply.
It's easy to see graphs trending down and say, oh, interest is waning. But the initial spike could just be lots people going through a learning curve. It tells you something about popularity, but ease-of-use, quality of docs, etc. must all factor in as well. I tend to see the high number of questions on certain frameworks as a red flag.
2018 Will Be a Plateau for MarTech (AI, VR, AR, IoT)
That helper tool maxes my cpu every time I’m on a call. It’s amazingly terrible.
The cache timing is not a physics phenomenon. It's an isolation phenomenon. Speculative execution is loading data into the cache, exactly as designed. The instructions that used the speculatively loaded cached data were not retired, exactly as designed. Requesting that cached data later (in actually retired instructions) is faster assuming it's still cached, which is a reasonable likelihood given the locality of the access. That's the timing attack vector. There's no physics here - it's all architecturally operating as designed. That's why the design has a security flaw, and there is no physics problem here. (There may be others, elsewhere, of course, but none in Spectre or Meltdown that I am aware of.)
> trust Disney content around my kids.

Ehh, I really don't trust their content and consider it actively harmful see my other comment.

> fix anything from the inside

I have wondered about this, there are some really dark themes around cannibalism in the lion king just under the surface. Most animals talk, we still eat them. But, I think the whitewashing is still rather pervasive relative to the source material.

> "Evil" is a black and white narrative

'evil scale' is a useful shorthand for harm outside of simply outcomes aka an earthquake is harmful but not evil. However, simply referring to it as a continuum means it's not simply a black and white scale.
On the other hand, some of those criticisms were, like, obviously foolish, even at the time.

Like: "The only problem is that you have to install something."? Regular users don't care and they didn't care then.

Linux users can build this quite trivially? Yeah, but your average person can't, so who cares?

"Not income generating"? It's storage. People pay for storage all the time.
Agreed. We need talented sales and marketing people to help re-connect privacy to freedom. You literally cannot have the latter without the former, but that truth has been blurred and mostly lost.

It started with the war on drugs and is now the war on terror.

One big catastrophic terrorist attack perpetrated via computer networks and the internet will be all it takes to wipe out any vestige we have left of privacy and anonymity. Could easily see TOR and the like being outlawed worldwide.
The host country has the right to accept or deny a diplomat's credentials. Here's the US Ambassador presenting his credentials to Queen Elizabeth.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S4E9LMK46oo
Ask HN: How do I prepare for an interview for AMZ/GOOG/APL/FB?
Hi there,

I have a CS degree and I've been working as a software dev for about 2 years now for a smaller company doing backend stuff. I want to make the switch and get a job at one of the BIG 4 tech companies (Amazon, Apple, Google or FB).

Before I start applying I want to make sure I'm ready for the technical interview since I've heard the interviews are intense and I need several months to prepare for it. I'm up for the challenge and I want to do it, but I'm not sure where to start.

Where and how should I start getting ready for a technical interview? How much time would I need to be sufficiently prepared for one?

Thanks!

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"no long" -> "no longer"
I get what you're saying. Quoting this in a discussion will likely bring more harm than good. But on the other hand, this is just research. If uncomfortable facts surface, we need to be ok with that. All areas need to be studied, including those that shine a poor light on society and those who inhabit it.
> a less optimized part of the network

To me that reads "smaller miners", which means further centralization of mining.
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That's the secret: EVERYONE can do this.

If you've written an IOU, you've created a kind of currency. Same for arcades, carnivals, etc. Any time you acquire a service or good in exchange for a promise of a service or good in the future (and that promise could also be in a tangible thing like gold, seashells, or bottles of Tide, but often it's just word of mouth), you've created a kind of currency. The real ticket comes when you can convince third parties to accept your promise and trade goods in exchange for it.

But alternative currencies have a really long history, as old as society and maybe older. They tend to arise during depressions when fiat currency is hard to come by. I don't think it's by accident that Bitcoin was first published in 2008 and released in 2009, during the Great Recession. This is liquidity being popped out of the ether due to demand for more currency (in spite of pumping by the Fed). And this is why I never really bought the "infinite" deflationary story for Bitcoin: people can just start another cryptocurrency if there's actual demand for it. Of course, that doesn't take into account irrational speculation...

The current ramp-up in cryptocurrencies is occurring now, during a relative economic boom. This is pro-cyclical and probably bad. It'll eventually pop, but no one knows when.
Are you really faster if you won the race by tripping your competitors?
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Trump has not signed this yet. It's not even on his desk yet IIRC. And he's tweeted about, implying that he disapproves.
I’m not convinced that a software update slowing down your phone or computer a few percent while performing certain operations should automatically qualify you for a refund. It’s widely understood that keeping your computer secure requires installing software updates, and it’s even more widely understood that installing updates often slows down your computer. If that’s going to be your bar, I think an iPhone would have to sell for about $25,000 so Apple could afford to give you a replacement every year for the rest of your life.
If you increase the number of bits in a hash, you do not guarantee against collisions, but you can make them so infrequent that searching for them becomes impractical.

If the randomizations have such an effect that data sniffing is still possible but its speed is 1 bit per week, trying to sniff something interesting becomes impractical. (Or not; depends on your threat model.)
I recommend you check out https://raiblocks.net if you're looking for a currency that could compete with Bitcoin as a means of payment. The tech is smart as hell.
I love this. The more encryption is used, the less journalists talking to their sources, lawyers talking to their clients, etc. will stand out.
It seems like your comment ignores the relevance of proximity in the likelihood that an ejected object with the necessary velocity ends up at Earth. Wouldn't the probability of such an object hitting Earth from Mars would be many orders of magnitude smaller than one from the Moon (like trying to hit a target from 100x further away)?

I always understood the large numbers of meteorites from Mars to be related to the fact that Mars is closer to the asteroid belt and therefore has had a lot more impacts historically...
And right back to where he started. Its contingent on the UK to decide Assange's fate and their is no indication that they have changed their mind.
Erm... it hasn't been the only crypto in town for a long time now. But I guess these kind of publications have only relatively recently caught up with the fact Bitcoin exists at all.
Mathematically, if no population is a majority, then the country is 100 percent minority.

You might be hang up on the additional narrative attached to the word “minority”. Consider using “underpriviledged ethnic group", as a. not even today all ethnic groups are equal and b. it is entirely possible some other ethnic group to raise to demographic majority status, and still exhibit the socioeconomic characteristics of a poor population.
Ask HN: React adds more complexity to your project than it's worth – agree?
ISPs don't want smalltime subscribers to be able to reach huge audiences without paying them for it.
If you're a behaviorist, you would define intelligence as "demonstrates problem-solving behavior".

If you're not a behaviorist, then it's perfectly reasonable to presuppose some definition of intent. You could further debate how I would define the coffee table itself (https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/object/), but that's the wrong level of analysis.
HodlFeed – a Cryptocurrency Newsfeed
Not just self-recursion, but all recursion, including transitive mutual recursion. I think it may be possible to do this via strictly lexically-scoped symbols (so imagine C with no forward declarations). Might still be ways to sneak recursion in there though.
it is this tweet https://twitter.com/AP/status/951486396618956802
Crypto does nothing to prevent rubber hose attacks. And as you note, it is very difficult to prevent traffic analysis, that being the only thing the government really needs to find what it's looking for anyways.
Trust me, there's a Dunning Krueger snake oil for EVERY woe.
The Google Brain Team – Looking Back on 2017 (Part 1 of 2)
No it isn't bad, but the comment I was responding to mentioned that they like to see a company built up over time. I just don't generally know what Dropbox has been building over that span that wasn't present very early on.
Come on, software engineers love writing crypto software to hide information from the government…
I recently created my own cryptocurrency, UCaetanoCoin (UCC), with a supply of 100 trillion and one coins, all owned by me.

I sold one to a friend of mine for $0.01 yesterday, which made me not only the richest person in the world, but also the first trillionaire, as the coins I own are valued in $1T USD.

And my UCC has a market cap of $1T USD (and one cent).

Then I exchanged a single coin with myself for $0.01. As my coin has zero transaction cost and instant transactions, I traded it back and forth with myself 100 quadrillion times.

This generated a total traded value UCC-USD of 1 Quadrillion Dollars yesterday.

Anyone wants to invest on my UCC?
Dropbox must have expected people to play their invite game. Not agreeing with original poster though
How to Build a Training Program to Meet Deadlines in 5 Easy Phases
I have a subscription to this but I'm not gonna renew it because I don't like having to schedule my blocked and unblocked hours.

I just want to be able to set a daily or weekly budget of hours and then once I've used my hours up I get blocked.
On MacOS it's present in Mail app at least - if you click on the grey bar at the top of the email list it will scroll to the top :).
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Its actually not that much work. You definitely got time for that.
"Even Facebook has reportedly started looking into creating a token. Should the world’s biggest social network ever make that move, bitcoin’s days as the leading crypto-currency would almost certainly be numbered"
> this is a paradox, blockchain technology's best use case is decentralization of data (and power from companies like facebook). And if Facebook issues crypto coin and it starts dominating the market (not necessarily) then we are back at square one.
Federal funding for schools shouldn't exist, imo. I'd prefer to see states handle everything related to funding and operating their education systems and the Dept of Ed perform a metrics/analytics/analysis/recommendation function, so that effective changes made by one state can be propagated out to the others, if they want it.
The sheer number of market making trades provides ample cover to hide some of the less legit trades if/when regulators come a-knocking.

As you said, market making is super low profit.

HFT certainly used to be a fairly rich source of profit. Not sure if what it's like these days.

This is all probably just a coincidence.
Yes, this has a “proof of concept” feel to it.
> some humility about the boundaries of "correctness" would probably be a good idea for many of the pontificators

I'm probably biased, but in my experience the people actually pushing for correct-by-construction tools tend to be acutely aware of the limitations of their approach, especially when it comes to having to trust hardware to do what it says. For example, all of the people I've seen advocating for seL4 tend to be very transparent that their proofs assume hardware correctness and that they don't think it's realistic to exclude much of the hardware from the trusted computing base. Further, it seems to me that the Rust developers have been extremely pragmatic about what is possible to mitigate and what they have to trust the hardware for.

I'm sure there are some examples of what you're describing, but without any sort of references, the generalizations you're making have a whiff of bad faith.
Actually, that's exactly why self hosting is the best solution.
Yes, DARC is used to broadcast public transit arrival times over one of the public FM radio stations in Stockholm and Helsinki (and probably other places): http://www.windytan.com/2013/11/broadcast-messages-on-darc-s...
"and publishing the news in a responsible manner."

\s ?
What is “trivial encryption”? This is something that keeps out “bad guys” but not “good guys”? Pretty sure that doesn’t exist.
The Google Brain Team – Looking Back on 2017
I see some people assume that a possibility of a single chip that can do both is not option. It is. It's only x86 that has to do everything in hardware and hide everything from the user for backwards compatibility.

Imagine instructing a compiler for an architecture that does everything in software, like Mill, to make every operation constant time or to speculate aggressively and unsafely depending on what the program needs.
What about web workers or service workers? Don't browsers force all script execution in the workers into a separate process?
yes, and so does orphans
Smart contracts formalize contracts.
Some groups being more equal than others?
> I just hope that with such reasoning you're ready to have your animal protein have its price tripled then or see your dog die of pneumonia

Yes, absolutely. In fact higher meat prices probably wouldn't be a bad thing :)

On topic: maybe I was a bit extreme, what I meant was that if we limit agriculture usage of antibiotics, then we can hopefully avoid the kind of dystopian rationing for humans that the article talks about.

I'm certainly willing to see higher meat prices before we ration antibiotics away from humans who critically need it.
(not talking about a cold that would go away on it's own)
Agree with this. It's a great feature other than in messaging apps. In those, I wish there was an equally useful feature to get back to the bottom.

I've noticed that most people find the feature accidentally, but then once they realize it's an option, use it extensively.
You can contact them and ask. They're working for you, after all.
If you somehow convince them to require it of themselves you'll just get page after page of disingenuous paffle.
Although I suspect the authors were being tongue in cheek, I think there are spot on with the older generation falling into familiar patterns and the younger generation rejecting that in their own ways.
GitLab is actually better than GitHub, and not just because it can be self hosted.
What I’m looking for from front end in 2018. (hint: more consensus)
Japan uses 76-90 MHz for FM broadcasting, so my guess would be that most might be able to go down to 76 at least.
That's way harder to pronounce.
Sure. That's the ticket. "older infrastructure". Of course!
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> It's obvious to everyone what the problem is, yet we're not able to discuss it.

Please, let us know what you think the problem is. Why hide behind an implication?
10 minute block generation time is not a problem at all. What's a problem is every block being full.
FPGAs are great because they are field-programmable and can adapt the hardware to a task. In all other aspects (density, power draw, cost) they are not that great.

We could consider something like Tilera chips working together with privileged "general compute" chips, the same way as current machines work with separate GPUs as privilege "vector compute" chips.
All of these semantic games miss the point of the term "minority". It's not meant to mean "numerical minority"; it's meant as a euphemism for "non-white person". When you read it that way, all of these terms make sense.
I agree with you, but that's idealistic. See: Ripple (https://ripple.com/)
Sell them in a private offering such as this -
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-uber-softbank-tender/soft...
> Skilled workers from non-EU country don't have many difficulties getting a work visa to the UK.

Oh? That's interesting. There are people in this comment thread claiming that work visa are really awful and restrictive.

> And unskilled work doesn't usually compete with skilled work.

Well, no, but we are forced to accept a ton of unskilled (and unneeded) immigration from the EU which means we have to restrict the total amount of potentially needed skilled work from non-EU countries.

> Every selection is biased in one way or the other, there's no purely fair way of doing that.

Is an immigration preference people of certain nationalises fair? Can I assume you agree with Trumps immigration bans by any chance?
> After all they seem to be quite conservative on the product development side and have always had courage to charge actual money for their service.

They've always charged for higher tier services but they've also always had a free tier where they provide service without charging anything.
It's easy to say "I'll sign anything you send me" if you're certain they will be unable to send anything. It is risky, sure, because the unexpected can happen. The next day he also gave a summary of the meeting that was very different from what attendees thought. The meeting was a made-for-TV moment, so you should take it in with lots of salt.
And who cares? Nobody is accepting raiblocks as a payment. There are more engineers working on Bitcoin and far more infrastructure around Bitcoin. All these altcoins are pump and dump schemes.
Even images, from an analysis perspective are far more than 2D. Think of the problem space: the types of lines, shading, coloration, blending of colors, overall structure, etc. All of this must come into play with style transfer.

With music, it's much more complicated due not only to the time domain, but also to the emotional content, the interrelationships of rhythm, tempo, chordal progressions, expression, timber, transitions from the simple to the complex, the way the music is layered, and how all these things are perceived by the listener. Like human faces, music elicits an emotional response that runs deep, and whereas the emotional content of a picture is relatively static, music's emotional content is dynamic and evolving. Music has its own "uncanny valley" between the machine and the human.

Think of a MIDI track that is generated by precisely laying out notes and velocities on a piano roll, vs. a track that is recorded live and captures the dynamics of the player. The difference is immediately obvious, and that with a track that is composed by a human.
> and why should we believe they're the most effective?

Whoever gave you that idea?

That practice has nothing to do with how the world is changed.

I believe most charities practice this, I saw a presentation on it with a bunch of accredited investors, don't have the source.

You can't will your alternate reality into existence.
The surrounding developer community is getting more and more active. I recently joined the #development chatter on Discord(https://chat.raiblocks.net)

Feeless, near-instant transactions could displace a lot of the coins out there, if they can solve all attack vectors.
First, yes it is more bullet-proof. We had 100% uptime last year with our GitLab.

Second, it is completely worth it. GitLab is better than GitHub, so that definitely makes it worth it.
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As developer, you'll be helping to build the next new modules of our service that will help employees' manage their day to day HR issues as well as help them save and reduce credit burden.

TECHNOLOGIES:

Python, Django, ES6 JS, VueJS, Git, PSQL.

PERKS:

Flexible working hours, stock options, flexible vacation policy, a shiny macbook air and infinite coffee, tea and beer.

YOUR BACKGROUND:

* 3+ years of software engineering experience.

* Proven track record of building products from the ground up.

* Strong communication skills, a positive attitude, and empathy.

* Experience with software development best practices.

* Advanced knowledge of how the internet works.

* Strong algorithms and data structures fundamentals.

* Proficiency in at least one scripting language.

* Experience working with web frameworks.

* Experience with systems design and architecture.

* Languages: English, Spanish.

If you are up for a challenge, we would love to hear from you!

Send your CV to talent@startegyvb.com
Who is buying this?
Is he a genius at finding insane markets or is this just bogus?
There's not a "Skype Lite" for Android... which returns back to previous form. Why that was necessary only Microsoft knows.