skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How about the part where the founders hold enough tokens that they could crash the price or manipulate the market at will. I understand that they have loose structures in place to keep them honest, but they could absolutely still act badly. We trust that they won't.
I don’t see that much benefit paying for Dropbox or Google Drive. At work my company pays for OneDrive. Personally I use OneDrive because it already comes with my Office subscription.

For $8.25 a month I get Office on all my devices and 1TB per 365 user.

I have gigabit internet and there isn’t much difference in OneDrive or Google Drive.
Max Schrems on funding his privacy NGO and retiring from the front line
I think it's really only comparable for online transactions, where all credit card transactions are Card Not Present and you aren't able to 100% guarantee that the delivery went to the correct person or that the card wasn't stolen, making fighting the chargeback sometimes not worth it. A brick and mortar doing swipe transactions should have everything they need to effectively fight chargebacks, so I wouldn't consider that money to be 'gone' the way it would be in a double-spend.
> They could make "discord for business" that is literally the same app and have great success.

Discord is sometimes known as "slack for gamers" so you're effectively describing Slack :)
Theory turns out to be nowhere close to sufficient for defining musicality.

If you write a rule-based counterpoint solver - this has been done, with varying levels of success - you'll find that not only do you have to include an extra set of rules that aren't defined in any of the standard texts, but that the best output you can expect is musically mediocre.

The other approach is to create a patchwork of idiomatic cliches. That usually sounds more convincing, but still isn't musically interesting. And you can usually hear where the edges are glued together.

It turns out that there is no theory of "good" music. It literally doesn't exist. All the standard texts for each style - and it doesn't matter which style you pick, from Palestrina to pop - are very incomplete guides that rely on human intelligence and creativity to fill in the gaps.

Throwing neural networks at this problem doesn't make it any easier, because no one knows what to look for.

Features in artistic style transfer are easy to parse - shape, texture, and that's pretty much it, all packaged in a ready-to-go 2D distribution.

What are the musical features that define not just one possible musical style, but all of them, and would allow anyone to morph smoothly from Wagner to Taylor Swift to Balinese Gamelan to DubStep?
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Yeah, especially since Walmart2Walmart is powered by Ria / Euronet [1], a direct competitor to MoneyGram.

[1] https://corporate.walmart.com/_news_/news-archive/2014/04/17...
Given the OP's description of the situation, I strongly agree with eldavido. Both his assessment that the time to convince them to step back is past, how to think about the current situation, and how to handle subsequent events seems spot on to me.
I'm not knowledgeable about this -- is signal's e2e encryption even viable for a service with N users, and one where new users are being added?

Put another way, if I have a group with 10 users and it's encrypted and then another person joins and can see the old messages, was it actually securely encrypted in the first place?
While Kodak is easily baiting, this is actually a payment company.

That accepts money payments.

This seems like the entire purpose crypto is designed for.

Totally thought Kodak was BS, but I can't deny when money companies are working with money companies.
Maybe this makes more sense when you working at Facebook or Google and already earning top dollars with your stock options rising every year. In a situation like that you start looking for higher meaning with your work.

But for the vast majority of folks they get less than satisfactory salary, uncertainty about the prospect of the company. In a situation like that may be the dynamics and incentives would vary widely ( work satisfaction could just be a little piece of the puzzle)
How do you reconcile that with charter schools being rife with physical, sexual, drug, and emotional abuse? They are universally horrible for everybody involved and (predominantly Caucasian) parents voluntarily recusing their children from these institutions is the best way to ensure a future for them.

Latinos that send their kids to the private schools would argue very strongly that their children should not be forced to endure the charter schools. Those that can afford it make every effort to leave.
It sounds like your build process is not well designed. Why would a build script need to generate a shell script to call? And why would a python script fork a process for each plugin?

I think waf, which I've plugged before, would be a good choice for your project. Without knowing the details, your build script would look something like:

def configure(ctx):
# Load C compiler support
ctx.load('compiler_c compiler_cxx')
if ctx.env.DEST_OS == 'win32':
# Special thing for Windows
def build(ctx):
for plugin in ['a', 'b', ...]:
ctx.shlib(source=ctx.path.ant_glob('ext/'+plugin+'/*.c'), target=plugin)

You get cross-platform support for free. The code will create an 'a.dll' on Windows, 'a.so' on Linux and something else on OS X. Note that while the build function above looks like imperative code, it actually is not. Instead it is Python code to create a dependency graph which waf rebuilds for you when it is needed.
Now if only they can partner with someone to get chat working as well as it used to or get syncing between multiple devices working...
No, Ripple Isn’t the Next Bitcoin
This reassignment and movement of people to the iPhone/iPad side has been happening for a long time. That's why I referred to the organizational structure, because the company is not equipped to handle so many things quite well (which has its advantages and disadvantages). One write up about this topic, which I share somewhat often is on Stratechery. [1]. That's worth a read.

[1]: https://stratechery.com/2016/apples-organizational-crossroad...
Quinto: Resurrecting an Abandoned Board Game
You might want to give https://github.com/nextgens/anti-paywall a shot.
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I would be interested in a cross-cultural evaluation of the Dunning-Kruger effect. This study was performed in the US. Is the effect as prominent in Russia? Sweden? China? South Africa? Across racial boundaries? Across class boundaries? I suspect a strong cultural and environmental influence.
Interesting that a bunch of arm-chair downvoters "know" this won't work, but in practice, it does...
Secondary markets. Both SharesPost and Nasdaq Private Market (Second Market Solutions was acquired by Nasdaq) offer this service. Pre IPO, FB shares were floating around secondary markets. Note investors are usually looking for household name unicorns on these markets.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424052970203833004577249...
And if Trump and the white non-college working class have their way, the US wouldn't even be desirable place to go for higher education.

These white non-college working class people really do want to turn America into full stupid, and we need to do everything we can to de-citizenise them and disempower them.

A good way to fail is to do what failed people do.

Note that there is no possibility of the US dominating tech forever. This is the neoliberal world order that America must come to accept. The rest of the world is industrializing, and we are best when we can stand with them instead of avoiding them. This is also why we need things like TPP and NAFTA. China isn't the only player out there..
How well will that work out for poorer states?
Actually environmental factors are a big portion of clinical research. Most people think of just the precision medicine approach, but often taking in environmental factors and developing treatment plans that take that into account are a big part of clinical research, and most of the envioronmental/cultural focus on this has been toward white american culture.

While we "focus on medical" clinical research isn't just testing new drugs, it's determining if one diet is better than other, it's finding prevention mechanisms and much much more. We work with any center that is running any type of research. And while we focus mostly on cancer treatments (70% of research dollars are spent here) we're building technology and want to expand to cover all types of clinical research as we grow.
Can you explain this further?

XRP is the currency to move money at Ripple.

They have some minor currencies for some situations like debt IIRC.

But Ripple is going to use their currency for transactions.
Sound (as we perceive it) is 2d by the time it reaches the brain. The cochlea works as a "discrete" fourier transformer, with little hairs that resonate around certain frequencies. It is the fact that sound could be encoded in 1d that was, at one time, astounding.
Unfortunately most of this is opt-in and not opt-out. Opting in for E2E encryption in a Facebook message really stands out.
While langsec can't easily mitigate spectre because the processor is trying to hide where the performance comes from, it's worth noting that several new languages are working on ways to write code where you can actually assert and have the compiler check that the timing of the code you write is bounded and uniform.

It's very easy, I think, to throw up our hands and say, "Well gosh all this language stuff is useless because timing attacks are so scary!" But in reality, they're pretty well studied and many of them are actually pretty simple to understand even if they can be hard to recognize.

Both hardware AND software sides of our industry need to start taking correctness, both at compile and runtime, seriously. The days where we can shrug and say, "But that's too slow, don't run code you don't trust" are dead. We killed them by ceding the idea of hardware ownership to big CSPs. The days where we can say, "This is too complicated to do!" or "This doesn't deliver customer value!" are also going away; the threat of combination attacks easily overshadows any individual attack, and small vulnerabilities tend to multiply the total surface area into truly cataclysmic proportions.

But also gone is the day when we can say things like, "Just use Haskell or OCaml!" We've seen now what these environments offer. It's a great start and it's paved the way for a lot of important understanding, but even that is insufficient. Our next generation of programming environments needs to require less abstract category theory, needs to deliver more performant code, and needs to PROVE properties of code to the limit of runtime resolution. The hardware and OS sides of the equation need to do the same thing. And we as engineers need to learn these tools and their techniques inside and out; and we shouldn't be allowed to sell our work to the general public if we don't.
That's what fix point combinators are for. The Y combinator won't work in a language like C++, but the Z will work fine.

For example, here's Z in C++14, used to compute 5 factorial: https://godbolt.org/g/se5B8u
Ah you are correct! I couldn't' read the original article due to pay wall, but I found info on other site. Well this is great news for XRP hodlers.
Technically Congress can empower Executive agencies to perform responsibilities granted to it under the Constitution.

e.g. Congress empowers the FDA to enforce the Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act. Congress created the FCC to enforce the Communications Act of 1934. Congress created the CIA in 1947 in the National Security Act, etc, etc.

AFAIK none of those 3-letter agencies, nor the countless others would exist without the Congress approving it first (and then of course being approved by the Executive, to quiet the pedantic's...)
> And [jQuery is] a breeze to figure out and read the code too: even when it's 10s of thousands of lines of code.

> Is it just me

Probably.
>Anecdotal but

Also anecdotal: my grandfather (along with many other rural students in the country) went to school in a one-room schoolhouse. The funding was extremely limited. This didn't hold back their educational performance.

It's the Heritage Foundation so obviously it has an angle to push, but here's a study about school funding and performance: http://www.heritage.org/education/report/does-spending-more-...
This will be interesting as it seems to follow the Japanese and Korean models of growing talent abroad and returning home.

Unfortunately, the home they return to is not an ethnocentric utopia like Japan/Korea. It's an ethnocentric, smog/corruption ridden dystopia that just so happens to now be the world's economic superpower.

With America's global standing in the crapper thanks to decades of anti-immigration fearmongering policies lead by the GOP, it'll be interesting to see for how much longer it can stand as the de-facto place for global STEM talent.
Your inconsistency is more straightforward than that: you started by writing "it isn't clear that a coffee table isn't intelligent on some level", but it is if the "few would regard..." form of argument is acceptable. You are also demanding proof from allenz while presenting a "few would regard.." argument for your own position.

I agree that intelligence is largely mysterious at this point, but I think you are pushing it too far in the unknown-and-unknowable direction. A debate in which the intelligence of coffee tables is an issue is not likely to provide much enlightenment about intelligence.
The other nation doesn’t get to decide what happens in the UK because the UK is also a sovereign nation.

Although it would be unusual, impolite and probably unwise, if the UK decides to enter the embassy by force and just take Assange, there isn’t a whole lot Ecuador could do about it, apart from making a big fuss. Ultimately it is the UK who decides to allow Ecuador the right to have an embassy on their soil in the first place and they can come back on that decision whenever they want.
Thanks! I was contacted by a recruiter couple years ago and they sent me the practice list, but it seemed super generic and intimidating so I never replied back.

I've heard really good things about CTCI so I'll pick that up. Having a Github checklist and a study plan would be super useful (I'm sure there's other people asking this question). I wonder if something like this exists already?
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Maybe it’s beside the point, but to be clear, Signal Server source is available here: https://github.com/WhisperSystems/Signal-Server
> the dossier wasn't the beginning of the investigation, as
> we've seen in multiple articles that came out over the
> last few weeks.

Yes, a pile of articles, stating without proof, the same thing, all coming out at the same time .. almost as if they were coordinated. When specific facts of said articles are proven to be incorrect, small retractions that never make the news cycle are issued.

> the only reason his "associates" were caught up in
> surveillance reports is because they called criminals
> who were already under surveillance. It's like if the
> FBI is wire-tapping Al Capone, and you called Al Capone.
> Sure, you'd get listened to, but they aren't tapping YOU.

It was the unmasking that was illegal and blatantly politically motivated. NSA has wide discretion to conduct surveillance on people outside of the US, but there are supposed to be legal barriers to snooping on US citizens. If the NSA picks up communications from a US citizen in the course of monitoring a foreign national, it is practice to "mask" the identity of the US person. Additionally, the identification of a US citizen mentioned in discussions between two foreign nationals is supposed to be masked.
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Also, I highly recommend the book "Elements of Programming Interviews".
Thanks for posting this, this is my understanding.

Ripple is the company that controls 61% of the worlds XRP. XRP is the medium to move money.

While I personally dont like centralized currency, this is how ripple works. Ripple basically decides the price of their own currency since they have sooo much supply.
When will these conmen end up in jail where they belong?
That was in the mid-19th century, which was a very different world from the Medieval period. From your own link, during the 18th century Swedish 10-year-olds lived on average into their mid-50’s. From that it can be reasonably extrapolated that 10-year-olds lived on average into their 40’s in (civilizations at the level of development of) Medieval and Classical-period Europe.
How the robocall industry outwitted the government and wrecked the DoNotCall list
Don't forget EFF also gave it high grades. What I also would like to see is meta-data eliminated in chat, without having to bring up a Tor server on your phone. Build it into the client/software, make it invisible.
Main reason is cost to secure vs profits to be made. We technically could have more secure chips, but that would delay the regular release cycle of processors that businesses, investors and consumers have come accustomed too.

Now if things were secure by default with no option to disable it we would be in a much better place right now security wise (not sure about how easy the use-ability would be though at first) as engineers would have to adapt to programming more securely on the hardware and software level. Though I did find it strange that when you read the Intel documentation everything is not accurate and there is a large amount of illegal opcode [0].

There is a chance that these vulnerabilities were reported internally and externally, never made it past a manager or never reported to the vendor, seen as not exploitable or theoretical by management or higher level engineer until someone else found it and figured out how to exploit it with time.

This is the same case with encryption algorithms that have been implemented on chip, in theory they are hard to brute force, but with time normally a method is created that can reduce this time by using artifacts found in the algorithm or certain symptoms that occur during the process of attempted encryption/decryption that could be a game changer that was not thought of or documented.

[0] https://github.com/xoreaxeaxeax/sandsifter
How does Signal's chat security compare to Keybase.io's chat? Keybase has more features, but if it's not as secure, then it doesn't matter.
You'd think what was once one of the most intelligent communities on the internet would be discussing the merits and potential benefits of each alt-coin, how they differ both technologically and from a theoretical standpoint. But instead the only thing this forum is riddled with is what looks to be a bunch of old, bitter nerds.
That's not quite right, the NSA is a DoD agency and the highest ranking civilian in it is the Deputy Director. The Director of the NSA is a military officer also in charge of USCYBERCOM.

The FBI and the CIA are indeed civilian agencies (though the CIA has some caveats there).
Takes about 6 secs or more to fully load the feed on my work desktop.

Looks like this API request is to blame:
https://api.hodlfeed.com/coin-types?
IPv6 flow label: misuse in hashing
Why can't we just get a software-defined radio in the hardware...
How expensive would it be to put space heaters in every classroom? Even window heaters are only $500. Surely a school district that spends $17m a year on maintenance can come up with that. My guess is bureaucracy/mismanagement is the real problem. The larger a school district is, the more bureaucracy.
https://github.com/jwasham/coding-interview-university
Disagree. Moving funding to a federal level might be more efficient but gives me, as a resident of one particular state, less control over how much is spent on education. I have zero interest in seeing a nationally funded education system gutted because a party I don't support is elected from states I don't live in that have outsize influence.

Further, the "laboratories of democracy" model means that if I don't like how my state is doing education, I'm free to move to another one.

> People move all the time, focusing at the state level concentrates costs while defusing benefits.

Not sure I understand what you're trying to say here. You don't think states are big enough to get economies of scale?
Re: #1 the constellations of Orion and Taurus are relatively modern - 6000 years ago they would have had some other name.
Worse than making no money, you could have exercised your stock options for any number of totally valid reasons and lost some or all of that cash.
Suburban areas in the US aren't old enough to get hit with infrastructure maintenance costs like the urban areas are. This is a really interesting article about the profitability and maintainability of growth: https://www.strongtowns.org/the-growth-ponzi-scheme/
Wideband FM does sound lovely - FM Stereo however, less so - much.. uhh, crappier signal to noise radio, and relatively low channel separation depending on conditions.

All told, I generally prefer analog FM to FM HD Radio - though I also listen to AM extensively - and I like how it sounds on a receiver with more than communications grade bandwidth - AM can push upwards of 10 khz - before 1982, it was not uncommon to find stations who ran closer to 15khz though - I've heard test recordings that just sound fantastic.
I would love to see the practice list.
The original Star Wars was about a son and his father, with redemption, forgiveness, and self-sacrifice. "I am a Jedi, like my father before me" still gives me shivers. But now Luke Skywalker says: "It's time for the Jedi to end." In other words: "it's time for patriarchy to end."
I think the UK tried to pretend Assange isn’t a big issue anymore and Ecuador called their bluff. It’s an easily dismissed abuse of diplomatic process though.
100B of value?

You mean market cap?

There might be 100B in solving the problem of Moving Money.

But market cap for Ripple is intentionally misleading. only 19,000,000,000 ripple are owned by the masses. 20,000,000,000 ripple are controlled by 3 people. 61,000,000,000 is held by ripple labs.

The 20,000,000,000 ripple held by the founders are included into the market cap.

Its basically 2x overvalued.
I think I might actually try this out.
I get what you're saying, but this seems close to pushing science as a goal in itself rather than a means to an end.

Pure research is often useful to society because we don't know what's going to prove useful beforehand. Knowledge can also be useful to a person because simply because it satisfies their curiosity.

But in both cases it's the potential benefit to people that make it worth doing.
> Of the more than 850,000 AI engineers across America, 7.9 percent are Chinese, according to a 2017 report from LinkedIn.

850,000 sounds way way too high.

> While Chinese engineers are well represented in the Valley, the perception is that comparatively fewer advance to the top rungs, a phenomenon labeled the “Bamboo Ceiling.”

American culture does reward asshole-behaviour a lot more than one can tolerate sometimes. It's definitely not just a conservative problem, so don't go blaming it on Trump.
https://github.com/jwasham/coding-interview-university is what you're looking for
That was Joe Kennedy. JFK's father
Nope - I don't see myself using a social network ever again in my life.
He did not invite the entire world to look at that LinkedIn profile for any material reason. You're playing fast and loose with the term "published" and holding Damore to absurd standards that you obviously do not even adhere to yourself. If you held yourself to the same standard you held Damore, you would not have published the reckless, incredibly unprofessional, and possibly even defamatory comments about his coding ability. When called out on it you would have apologized and maybe done some soul-searching about why you felt so comfortable engaging in such careless slander of a young engineer you have never met and know almost nothing about.