skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Static" is definitely the wrong word. I think you are looking for "immutable", which is mentioned on https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suspect_classification . However, note that "the [Supreme] Court has not declared that any particular set of criteria are either necessary or sufficient to qualify" as a suspect classification.

In any case, the idea of a "protected class" is not "based on being something you can't change about yourself".

That you may want it to be something else is irrelevant. What you believe is wrong and absurd (using your terms), based on the decades of established law and court cases on the topic.

You wrote: "mere opinions protected from critics on the ground of fighting discrimination. It should always be possible to say to someone that what they believe is wrong or simply absurd"

It is (almost) always possible. The question is, should that expression of an opinion be free from negative consequences? The answer is, for the most part, "no".

Furthermore, having "mere opinions" is one thing, while expressing those opinions are another. You might be of the opinion that women are incompetent and should not be hired, and if a women is hired you might express that general opinion to her.

However, as https://www.eeoc.gov/laws/types/sex.cfm points out, in the workplace "it is illegal to harass a woman by making offensive comments about women in general."

(Note: "Unless the conduct is quite severe, a single incident or isolated incidents of offensive sexual conduct or remarks generally do not create an abusive environment. As the Court noted in Vinson, "mere utterance of an ethnic or racial epithet which engenders offensive feelings in an employee would not affect the conditions of employment to a sufficiently significant degree to violate Title VII." ... A "hostile environment" claim generally requires a showing of a pattern of offensive conduct". https://www.eeoc.gov/policy/docs/currentissues.html )

There's plenty of examples in the EEOC guidelines to help understand when something goes beyond "mere opinions" and into the realm where the courts may decide that a given workplace environment is "hostile or offensive".
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I think Apple's hand will be forced by major content providers. Hulu, YouTube, Amazon, Facebook, and Netflix all want AV1. YouTube and Netflix in particular want to adopt AV1 quickly. Netflix has been talking about supporting AV1 by the second quarter of this year:

https://streaminglearningcenter.com/codecs/netflix-on-av1.ht...
The discrete/continuous analog would cellular automata and PDEs respectively.

Essentially, even if interaction is taking place, the hope is that such a regular and patterned formation could keep the qbits you care about, in perfect shape. There may be other interacting factors that oscillate but they are not used for storage, just for nonvolatility.
What is the SMACK Stack?
Uh yup. You can traverse the complete repo of the website.
Even if that were true it takes about 7kg of plants to make 1kg of meat, so eating plants is still causing a lot less suffering.
Bear in mind that there are many legal grounds for collecting, using and sharing personal data under the GDPR (depending on the circumstances), and consent granularity is just one of the issues you'll face if you decide to rely on consent rather than the alternatives.
+1, i am curious too, can someone answer this?
I started more companies and work even harder now. What is the point of doing anything other than what you love?
It reminds me of a nice song with a similar title : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kpj3ra3AeJk
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yup! and it worked great.
It's trivial for gamblers to get round such a regulation and trivial for bookies to plausibly deny it
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Both YouTube and Netflix support VP9:

https://medium.com/netflix-techblog/more-efficient-mobile-en...

And YouTube doesn't do 4K encoding in H.264 anymore. If you want 4K video from YouTube you need VP9 support (or AV1 when YouTube starts AV1 encodes):

http://appleinsider.com/articles/17/09/21/apple-tv-4k-wont-p...
You don't apply. You get nominated; and nominators are invited by the foundation.

https://www.macfound.org/fellows-faq/
Part of it is managing high end vacation rentals. I don’t want to mention the rest because it could out me too much.
They're also often seen in cryptography!
Thank God, and good riddance. At this point I actually made a preliminary announcement to my friends that I might be hosting a party on 25th of May, to celebrate GDPR entering into force.

I'm not naïve - there definitely will be problems, and various "entrepreneurs" will find creative ways to skirt it. But I am hopeful for a meaningful change for the better.
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Do you find being physically fit, skiing, having sex and napping fulfilling enough? I think I'm too obsessed with creating, be it writing novels, video games or new products to be happy living like you do but I also think that can hold me back - I enjoy creating too much whereas the focus should perhaps be to make money instead so you can get the life/freedom you want.
<Space> navigates through them linearly. The arrow keys navigate (in a way) through the "sections".
In all seriousness, who would want to build a game on top of a platform that’s currently limited to ~15 state changes per second? And where each of these state changes cost money?

I get the interesting aspect of creating a game with a limited supply of some virtual good, but how much energy does it make sense to put into a game of this nature when the underlying platform prevents your game from becoming successful (because it can’t handle that kind of load)?

I suspect there’s a genuine use case for limiting the supply of virtual goods in games, but I doubt the solution involves all games performing state updates using on-chain transactions in a single, shared blockchain.
Wow... That must be embarrassing...
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Hi there, would you share your experience with taking vitamin D supplements and resources & studies you found about the subject? The only good summary of research I've found is from several years ago: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2908269/

What did you take it for? Did it work or improve your condition? Any regrets ("not taking it sooner" counts)?
what were they?

(or better: do you have a link?)
> IIRC, the only way to address the issue was the addition of the AES-NI instruction set, which came a few years later.

Another option would be to use a bitsliced implementation of AES, at some cost in speed. I could also imagine an implementation which read the whole table every time, using constant-time operations to select the desired element(s), but I don't know how slow that would be.
The secret is that having money is the fastest way to make more money and it’s a much greater multiplier than effort / intelligence / even luck.
You can say the same thing about DRM, but even 98% effective is good enough to be very useful. It's the same reason you can't buy lotto tickets with a credit card even if credit cards let you get cash advances that's an extra step that really makes a meaningful difference in people's lives.
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What industry was the startup? How many years did you work on it? How old when you started? Did you have any previous startups?
Sometimes the desired behaviour is actually generating a Docker image with specific contents. Think of the pause container image that every Kubernetes cluster out there uses. To put it in other way, this is for build targets producing Docker images that are needed by an arbitrary set of projects, possibly from third parties.

Suppose you have an organization-wide Docker image from which tens of other images from a number of teams are derived. You could add a test to make sure that the ca.crt file is always packaged and never empty or you could let tens of downstream tests and images fail in mysterious ways when it's missing (unless you replicate the check in all projects depending on the base image).

The use case is more for infrastructure that explicitly deals with or supports containers. Generic applications, as you say, shouldn't bother.
How interesting. I'm happy for you that your life has turned out the way you wanted. I do wonder what your 60-70 year old self will say about you now.
Here is a reddit thread for those having upgrade issues.
https://www.reddit.com/r/Stellar/comments/7jf9yq/solving_upg...
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I knew that the only way I'd learn is by doing it a lot in different contexts. Which led me to strategy consulting. Which led me to McKinsey, due to it being the preeminent player in that space.

I applied to a then nascent part of McKinsey (that is now very mature) called Digital McKinsey, as someone who could help clients build and transform engineering and product organisations. To be a CTO/VP Eng for hire, almost. Then I slowly moved more and more into the non-tech topics.

I was there for almost exactly four years. Learned all kinds of things, but most importantly how to communicate and structure my thinking in a way that works with people senior people from non-tech backgrounds.
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It's true that the encoder is very slow at the moment, but it's also true that Bitmovin managed to produce a live AV1 stream 9 months ago:

https://bitmovin.com/bitmovin-supports-av1-encoding-vod-live...

They also have an AV1 demo page which works with Firefox Nightly:

http://demo.bitmovin.com/public/firefox/av1/
> The first question could be: are you in the EU?

Just to be clear - it's about EU citizens, not EU located-people, and your location can change. You have to ask if they're EU citizens.
Wow. I use Etherpad every day. Really enjoy Colbert. Colbert is really innovative in his use of tech. He uses Adobe to make the cartoon Trump and gives regular updates to Adobe to improve the product(the name escapes me).
Good catch! QB is a wholly owned subsidiary (and it feels like a VERY different company) so I tend to think of them as separate entities. And yes consulting into operational role.
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Yeah it helps. I got a $500k line of credit with something like a 2% interest rate last year. Makes it easy to pounce on opportunities.
Was expecting "Do they know its christmas"
The US forces it laws on other countries by getting them to change their laws. If the EU wants to convince my country to change our laws then so be it, but why do I have to abide by a law that have I have no say in writing and have no way of changing it.
Could you add some more explanation here? What is unreasonable about it?
> Any insight from HN insiders on how seriously companies big and small are taking this?

We stopped selling online training in the EU because of it: https://www.brentozar.com/archive/2017/12/gdpr-stopped-selli...

I actually love the idea behind GDPR, but as a small company, the cost of compliance (and heaven forbid, responding to an EU inquiry) is just too high relative to the low amount of revenue we get from EU citizens.

I'm looking forward to revisiting that in 2019 as WordPress, WooCommerce, Gravity Forms, etc make it easier to be compliant, but right now there's just no way.
Any turnbased game?
Because of the constant speed/constant bearing problem that makes it impossible to scan while moving and having a blind spot.
They don’t care. It’s Google, Netflix, and Amazon and their concern is recurring bandwidth, not onetime cpu costs.

http://www.streamingmedia.com/Articles/Editorial/Featured-Ar...

"We will be satisfied with 20% efficiency improvement over HEVC when measured across a diverse set of content and would consider a 3-5x increase in computational complexity reasonable."
Yeah, it's almost like it would be an amazing feature if you could... replace the battery.

Oh, what's that? That's the sound of my Samsung S5 not needing to be throttled because I bought a replacement battery for $10, and replaced it by simply removing the detachable cover instead of needing a professional tech or special tools and a steady hand to avoid damaging it.

And yeah, I replaced my wife's iPhone 5S battery. It was a PITA.
Imagine driving towards an intersection. There is no sign telling you if you have priority or not. There is a red car coming from the right. Then you notice that the red car has a stop sign in front of him (you recognize the shape). You infer that you are on the main road and you can ignore the right-hand rule.
Really? This is an incredible amount IMO, regardless of profession. That is a massive amount of debt that can't ever be absolved without paying, and an incredible amount of interest.
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All modern hashes are designed for 64-bit architectures and some even rely on recent instruction sets. So a benchmark on an old 32-bit CPU isn't indicative of the performance you'll see on a modern processor, e.g. Metrohash will definitely not be 5x slower than xxHash.
Just like highlander II predicted!
> In Denmark, a lot of high speed roads (excluding motorways, of course) out in the country have separate dual-way bicycle lanes near it but not attached to it. (Example: https://i.imgur.com/dS6jqXS.jpg)

Yes, there are many many of these in southern Jutland. However I can count on one hand how many cyclists I've seen using them. And I've spent months down there.

I cycle every day and am pro-bike, but they seem wasteful of both the countryside and money.

I would be opposed to building similar in the UK since more strips of asphalt throughout the countryside is the last thing we need.

My experiences cycling on fast country roads have been hairy at times, but we also need to recognise that there are problem spots and tackle these rather than copy/paste concepts blindly.
On my i7-2600k, encoding a Blu-ray takes about 10-12 hours for H.265 or 18-20 for VP9 with handbrake's default 1080p settings for each.

So yea, quite a bit slower, at least on my old hardware.

I still go with VP9, though. I don't buy that many movies, and leaving it running in the background doesn't seem to make a big impact on gaming.
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I remember seeing this. Actually the main thing I remember is Alexei Sayle singing, to the tune of Cole Porter's "You're the Top":

> I'm the top

> I'm Cesare Borgia

> I'm the world's

> greatest forger
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It explains in the two subsequent paragraphs:

>>“Historically the only way to make money from a protocol was to create software that implemented it and then try to sell this software (or more recently to host it)… With [cryptographic] tokens, however, the creators of a protocol can ‘monetize’ it directly and will in fact benefit more as others build businesses on top of that protocol.”

>>Previously, the creators of open communication protocols for the Internet, largely DARPA researchers and non-profit contributors, could not align financial incentives with protocol development. In contrast, protocol creators today can issue “tokens”, like Bitcoin and Ethereum, that represent the value of their decentralized protocols.

The key is that it can "align financial incentives with protocol development".
You're right, but most people can't do the distinction properly on emotional level, and unless they actually go through it, have no clue how they react. Once you're sure it works OK 100% of the cases, on both ends, then its probably healthy for relationship.

Anecdote - one of my ex was talked into a threesome with another girl by her ex, thinking how refreshing it would be (and she is not a typical nice girl with a good heart to start with). She couldn't handle it at all, and it contributed to their breakup quite effectively.

Nothing for me, I prefer quality rather than quantity (maybe not the best comparison, but I lack better in this case).
That's absolutely not true. Brazil has legislations and regulations for things many countries just use common sense.
If by alternative medicine you mean homeopathy, that's highly regulated and you need to be a registered medical doctor to use it.
If you mean something else, then that would depend on what remedies (s)he was using.
I’m still very creative but I consciously prioritize my happiness which I’ve found largely correlates with low stress, physical health, and sleep.

I’ll do a few productive benders a year where I shut myself in for a week or two at a time, but invariably I start feeling crappy and need to get back on a healthy schedule.
Should I hire a freelancer or an agency?
People conveniently forget to adjust the speed to road conditions.
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This seems incredibly fast. Taking the benchmarks on the sites at face value, this seems like it's roughly twice as fast as xxHash.

I also appreciate this line in the README: "HighwayHash is not a general purpose cryptographic hash function (such as Blake2b, SHA-3 or SHA-2) and should not be used if strong collision resistance is required"

I am curious to know what the threshold for "strong collision resistance" is.
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> Animals like pigs (or rather, their very very recent wild ancestors) have needs and behaviours that simply aren't useful to agriculture, and they can't possibly life fulfilling lives (not to mention that they should also be living for about 15 years rather than under a year).

Why does it have to be about usefulness? They can live happy lives close enough to how they might live in the wild, at least until they're killed, if for food, no?
Yes it's very easy to keep track of who goes first.
If I am then I am unable to.
Sure, but I'd still love to know what kind of opportunities you can pounce on with $500k generating such a nice income.
Which is something you pay, at least in abstract, for someone else to clean up the carbon dioxide you litter the atmosphere with. If you dpn't want to pay the cleaning fee, don't litter -- take the bike!
> If it walks like a duck and quacks like a duck, it's probably a duck.

The situation here is more like: if it looks like duck and created/evolved for attracting ducks, it's probably a duck or a duck decoy.

While evolutionary value of pain response is clear, evolutionary value of suffering is not.
Sold last year (2 founders) to a very focused private equity fund from a weak position - We were bootstrapped and profitable but large competitors entered the space and we were slowly losing the battle.

From financial perspective it was personally a good deal. Now have a 3-year non-compete for a specific field. The new owner is doing well with a larger team, resources and synergies between their other investments.

One aspect that's not very often covered is the psychological side which was very hard for me. Soon after closing and moving forward, I absolutely felt lost, more than ever before - Kind of lost my purpose? No customers to care about, weaker connection with earlier team mates and professional friends from the industry, a lot of free time and no hecticness I used to have.

Started working on something new, validated and built the 1st version of the product, got very light traction but didn't find a profitable model for it. Had investment offers on table to get funded but declined as we were not confident about the business case.

Now investing slowly, doing the things I like more intensively (skiing & climbing) and trying to understand what would the next professional/entrepreneurial step be and what I want in life.
Apart from the practical problem of I have no way of knowing if someone who I do business with is covered by this law, why do I have to follow it?

Do you think it is fine for countries to apply their laws as they want on people outside of their country? What would happen if Fiji (just picking a random country here) applied a 10% income tax on all citizens of the EU. Would you think this was reasonable?
Better to do this on NEO instead. Their tech is better than ETH in every way; it can handle up to 10.000 transactions per second (whereas ETH can handle ~15) and it supports almost all mainstream coding languages. What's more, transactions are free.
To be doubly-clear, it’s both. GDPR talks about “EU residents”, and that potentially covers people born in EU countries, people who’ve taken EU citizenship, people who are resident in the EU but aren’t citizens, people on holiday in the EU and potentially even people transferring through an EU country while travelling.

https://cybercounsel.co.uk/data-subjects/
We mostly do FFM threesomes and soft swap (oral only) in larger group situations. She’s just not that interested in other guys, moreso the ladies, which works for me.

I like to see her happy. She likes to see me happy. The dynamic obviously isn’t for everyone but it works for us.
They might also be counting the 40 language packs. https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-hardware/manufactur...
Sorry, I understood what you meant, just not what the relevance was. What you are saying applies, and applies universally (regardless of whether there also exists multi-way-stops).
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Is there a downside or trade off? I’m a little skeptical that NEO is strictly better in all aspects.
Can you link to evidence of it being faster, and expand on what you mean by "more backend features"?

I believe you, I just can't find evidence online.

My application is not that big, around 10 million text files, but I would be interested in anything faster (or allowing more complex queries) than Lucene, which is what I use at the moment.
I don't think Cloudflare/CDNs are affected since TLS-SNI-01 doesn't work for cf-proxied hosts. (I've tried.)

Reading the detailed report[1], it sounds like tls-sni-01 requires being able to serve an invalid certificate temporarily. As far as I know, CDNs won't let you do that. This problem is probably more related to shared webhosts (which is hinted at in the detailed report).
>I suspect there’s a genuine use case for limiting the supply of virtual goods in games

There's many, but none of them include blockchains. Being "distributed" isn't a valuable enough attribute for games to make it worthwhile. What you get is stuff like CryptoKitties, which isn't a game but is just trying to be more speculation.
Honestly, I'm always a little jealous at people who possess that amount of persistence at something. It would probably get boring for me after hole 23.