skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't think I suffer from a disorder like you seem to have, but I, too, can't keep any habit, regardless of my motivation. The most annoying 'habit' that I can't keep is sleeping. I never fall asleep and wake up at the same times. Trying too hard to setup a sleeping schedule only worsen the issue.

This is kind of frustrating when you see all those self-improvement books and people saying they 'achieve success' by twisting their will and forming the right habits.

I also use taskwarrior, this is really a wonderful to-do list manager. Along with Khal[0] to plan things (even if I can't stick to what I schedule, this is still stimulating to layout tasks in a calendar), it gives enough confidence to keep the head high and not sink under all the work that awaits me everyday.

The last sentence sum it up for me, these tools just help me to accumulate confidence and get things going.

[0]: https://github.com/pimutils/khal
This has to be my number one gripe with Obama. I was so for him repealing the Bush Era Surveillance. I wanted more checks and balances. I wanted the secret courts to be dismantled.

Unfortunately Obama almost quadrupled funding to these agencies[1]. Throughout his administration he allowed the Alphabet boys to try and steal more american's data without warrants (See FBI v Apple and the FBI attempting to get access to your browser history with out warrants)[2][3]. Obama even EXPANDED surevellience on his way out of office[4]. Obama also said he was pro whistle blowers we all know what happened to Chelsea.

Let's not even get into the fact that he dropped a bomb on average every 20 minutes of his presidency. The is just 2016[5]

[1] https://www.wsj.com/articles/surveillance-in-the-obama-era-1...
[2] https://www.cnbc.com/2016/03/29/apple-vs-fbi-all-you-need-to...
[3] https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/fbi-w...
[4] https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2017/01/obama-expands-surveill...
[5] http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-presiden...
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> AEI is being very strategic here: they've found a legal position that is wholeheartedly aligned with mainstream liberal and left-wing ideology

Nope, liberal and left-wing ideology doesn't actually support the idea of federal regulatory agencies inventing preemption authority not granted to them by Congress.
Equally qualified is generally taken to mean they have comparable skills accross a broad spectrum of criteria. Maybe Al knows a bit more about vue.js but Marcy knows react. If I'm doing a project in Vue and I give Al more to do that's fine.

But say I'm doing a project in Java and they are about equal, I keep giving Al the meaty work then use it justify a promotion, which I can't justify for Marcy. It's not that she's that much worse, I just never gave her the chance to prove it (blah blah peter principle, perform at next level, etc...). That just might be a bit sexist.
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>> if an encrypted shard of [illegal file X] is sitting on my IPFS node without my knowledge, could I be held responsible legally for holding/distributing that illegal file?

It's a very interesting question. If it ever happens. So let's freeze it for now. I mean if they use the funds to develop the company, instead of buying Ferraris and mansions.
On rule based solvers - this is true if you simply stop at "be within the rules" and do strict constraint solving ala the coloring problem.

I think there is potential to do something by blending all 3 (rules and constraint checking, rewards (perhaps based on idioms, riffs, and cliches), and some additional discriminator/critic/metric learning) if you narrow the criteria sufficiently (3 voice counterpoint in the style of Josquin de Prez for example).

I would really be pleased to see something that can fill out "theory 101" counterpoint worksheets against a cantus firmus, even if the results would be poorly graded on "style" it is someplace to start getting feedback and collecting data to try and quantify that it factor for a narrow narrow subsection of the wide world of music.
With the risk of being down-voted, I would like to ask does "fight for freedom of expression and social rights" really has to be the polar opposite of "pro-business and more money-driven"? To me, those are answers/attitudes towards two potentially orthogonal questions. To put it another way, is a "pro-business and more money-driven" a good predictor on a person's opinion on "freedom of expression and social rights" and vise-versa? Since there are so many potentially orthogonal questions to ask, it seems to me it tells more about those who ask those questions (which questions are more important to them), than those who answered.
That's hypocrisy, not cognitive dissonance. Though I suppose a lot of hypocrites also experience cognitive dissonance.

But if you're going to accuse someone of hypocrisy I think you should be a bit more specific about exactly who you are accusing.
Came here to say exactly this. Thanks. Researched this years ago with our first child and discovered that most of the FUD about U.S. infant health care boiled down to honest reporting by the U.S.
In one of the sibling comments I linked to a good page on those.

There is valid concern on how predictive the implicit bias test is in non-test conditions. But "implicit bias" is only the start of the conversation - it is one easy thing to measure in a sea of difficult to measure issues. If you want to jump into this rabbit hole, I have found the researches that work in this field to be eager to describe their more up-to-date work on addressing them (I do try to play a devil's advocate in such conversations and have gained much respect for their rigor). Regrettably, as usual in academia, the easies way to be exposed to those conversations is not that easy: going to talks given by those researchers.
Hey,I would probably say the white paper for BitCoin is a good place to understand what a blockchain does, I find the yellow paper for Ethereum more useful for development. You probably want to run a private nodes for ethereum, & a dev node for bitcoin, cheaper & no issues of space to experiment on both. Genesis file for bitcoin is quite interesting for a soft fork. I've tried to used both React & Meteor as webframeworks for a possible dapp..had more luck with Meteor-:) Tried to connect heroku to a private chain as well..Got distracted but it seemed feasible -:) Lots & lots of solidity code on github by Ethereum developers & & even an open source framework to do static code analysis for security -:) Lots of stuff on developers on bitcoin.org. Ethereum has diff versions, so you want to look at the documentation for the latest version byzatine, i think & it was also quite interesting thar they have multiple clients in diff langs, i just started with one & got used to that -;) Information from previous versions is also useful. Lots of altcoins are also opensource so Good Luck building -:)
One of the big problems with Spectre and Meltdown is that they are due to behaviours and components of a processor that are not well documented. Caches, branch predictors, out of order execution and superscalar execution are all things that processor vendors refuse to disclose any information about because it is so commercially sensitive. Indeed CPUs are now primarily differentiated by these features. We are no longer getting processors with faster clocks or even smaller transistors so a lot of research has gone into making individual instructions run faster (or at least run faster most of the time).

Neither Intel, ARM or AMD have disclosed why their CPU design are, or are not vulnerable to Spectre and Meltdown. If the developers of compilers or even operating systems don't know exactly how the hardware works then it is pretty hard for them to know that they haven't written vulnerable code. By the same token, it is also hard for them to know if they have written performant code.

And we know even less about other types of processors that exist in almost every chip such as GPUs, digital signal processors, video processor units (VPUs) and other hardware accelerators. Those processors can almost certainly also leak data from other parts of the system, they have their own caches and sometimes branch predictors. Although it is hard to specify the code that runs on these devices it is almost certainly still possible to exploit bugs and timing attacks in them.

We are essentially getting security through the obscurity of the devices and security through obscurity is no good.

So should we have processor architectures which are completely open? In some ways that would destroy most vendor's business models. But having more openness could lead to more divergent processor architectures as vendors try to differentiate themselves and it should improve the security of our systems.
It is difficult to make a p2p app on a mobile device work even between devices on the same LAN.

A simplified explanation: Mobile devices will often ignore almost all incoming network traffic to reduce battery usage. The only way to reliably communicate with the device is through a centralized push notification service (e.g. APN and GCM).
Large sheets of ice may have been spotted on Mars
It seems that Mill's combination of a single address space and speculation-before-permissions-checks is still quite vulnerable to an ASLR leak. Have you made any changes to mitigate this, or do you just consider address space layout leaks acceptable behavior?
Allowed. They left the back door open for two months. If "good written procedures" weren't followed, what good is that? When carelessness is systemic, where does the buck stop? https://www.wired.com/story/equifax-breach-no-excuse/

I agree that a federal agency barreling into this space is likely to be ineffective, but I'd rather nudge them to build policy with security experts than continue allowing every freaking company to police itself. The latter has proven to be ineffective.
Ask yourself: would this argument make sense and remain consistent with AEI's overall ideological commitments if Democrats controlled Congress and the presidency?

If the answer is "no" -- and, seriously, the answer is most definitely "no" -- then your "AEI isn't partisan" claim goes out the window.
Thanks this is great advice!
> The average time my friends spent on this process was roughly 90 hours total

That seems much shorter than I had expected, considering there's so many questions on Leetcode. Do you recommend focussing only on the marked interview questions on LeetCode or start at the beginning and work my way up to the hardest?
> it's only natural that Chinese expats will find that they can seek "riches" in what they feel is their natural and original homeland.

I can see your argument about returning to an "original homeland" (i.e. for reasons of cultural or social affinity), but "natural homeland"? There's nothing about the nature (air, land, climate, flora, fauna, etc) of China that is uniquely suited to a Chinese person any more than anyone else.
worst exchange by a country mile.
It is to their credit, however, that they commissioned and publicized that report. I have a hard time imagining my alma mater up the street doing the same in a similar situation.
> Or do you honestly think there is a large number Chinese evangelical baptists who come to SF and work in tech companies.

There is a quite sizable evangelical Chinese immigrant community in the Bay Area. Whether they work in tech, I don't know.
Can verify that in the US it was off by default and I had to turn it on. It is a feature I like and use pretty often.
I'm specifically asking how they're holding on to the massive amount of funding they raised.

A traditional funding raise would be in USD and the startup may receive in a number of tranches tied to milestones. In the case of Filecoin I think they received a large chunk of it in crypto, specifically Ether, which has grown significantly since then. If they didn't convert it to fiat shortly after the funding round they could be sitting on a (paper) value of over $1 billion.
Disclosure: I work on Google Cloud.

Even if you aren't sharing with "strangers", applications may be vulnerable to these attacks. For example, the JavaScript attack clearly applies to people's individual computers. If you take untrusted code and execute it, you might be vulnerable to these intra-"instance" information leaks.

It all comes down to your threat model though. Some people are rightly worried about insider risk. If a malicious employee can go run a binary on your shared computing infrastructure to get root credentials out of a machine, that's actually a real problem. Then again, there are lots of ways for a rogue employee to do bad things, so this is "just" another one. But don't take this as "only applicable to shared cloud environments", because it's not.
what is the best way to combat individuals like this? People that swat down ideas with fallacies of logic, etc.
oh its mentioned in the linked research

> However, the impact of increasing BMI on risk of hypertension and diabetes was significantly greater in Asians. For each one unit increase in BMI, Asians were significantly more likely to have hypertension (OR 1.15; 95 % CI 1.13–1.18) compared to non-Hispanic whites, blacks, and Hispanics.

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs10900-013-9792-...
sia is trash
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I cannot speak for the original poster, but my observation in some of these circles:

Lots of bundling the "others" into one bin/box. If a liberal expresses opposition for DACA, then it is automatically assumed that they are a right leaning person, and several related policy attributes are attached to the person.

Often, simply being undecided and questioning a particular stance leads to the same effect.

I've seen it on HN: A general lack of tolerance for certain viewpoints, with perfectly valid questions resulting in accusations. Unfortunately, more often than I would like. Easy examples would be a lot of threads that involve Trump.

BTW, case in point is this other comment:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16127579

Just because the two are well correlated in the US does not make them the same, and if you come from abroad, you will find many things taken as a given in the US (like the conflation of conservatism with religion, or right leaning tendencies with conservatism) that will confuse you. I suspect their experience in SV has been that when they try to bring it up, they get labeled.

I'm guessing Europe has a lot of radically right wing folks who like their national health care just fine. Imagine they move to a very Republican part of the US, and ask "what's wrong with universal healthcare?" and then are labeled as being liberal. Now do that in reverse in SV.

If you've lived a lot in the rest of the world, you will probably easily find lots of examples where liberals are not acting according to their principles, and the same for conservatives. So when someone tries to be what they think is a "real" liberal (which may imply adopting stances that the "other" side is in favor of), then they'll feel unwelcome.

Some day I'll probably write a more thought-out piece on this. The above is just rambling.
I actively have business owners contacting me looking for editorial content creation to be published on my website. Good and effective use of print published press is highly effective to increase brand awareness.
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Kraken CEO promised major improvements in Dec (https://np.reddit.com/r/BitcoinMarkets/comments/7eboh7/sugge...). What came of it?
Craigslist is no longer the only game in classifieds town.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15843167

This was a discussion a month ago. I'm mostly basing my opinion on it.
Any of the available stock, forex, merchant, payment APIs anywhere. You have zillions of options (stripe, etrade, paypal, a bunch of banks have APIs, soon you'll have a Venmo API, other payment applications are coming up). The notion of a scriptable transaction has literally nothing to do with a blockchain.
I think your comment and painting people as "reactionary" proves the point of the parent.
> I feel they are so used to having the government or authority telling them what to do that they are comfortable with authoritarian rules and don't understand the importance of having independent thoughts and diversity.

In my opinion you can't value independent thoughts and diversity, without being inclusive of different opinions and setting the same standard of discourse regardless of which viewpoint you are furthering. Because if not who choose what the correct viewpoints are? And are you sure your viewpoints will always stay popular?

Although what we value is very different I am not so sure that we are all that different at this point from China, except for this being enforced by a state sanctioned monopoly on violence in China while its now too often mob-rule violence in the US that I am not confident would be upheld in the courts.

Fighting for what you perceive as justice in a democracy is rarely furthered well by authoritarian means, and should be done through the democratic process and you should respect that the state has a monopoly on violence. Freedom is a fragile thing, and democracy is not the default state of society.
>Snopes

A rebellion against fact-checking? The movie is now even more relevant ;-)
> low-effort

Well, I'll happily admit that I'm not guilty of doing ornate argmentative gymnastics to justify my position... I consider that a feature, not a bug, though ;-)

AEI and other conservative think tanks were throwing fits about over-reaching interpretations of the commerce clause throughout Obama's entire presidency.

AEI's current position on the commerce clause is motivated by their partisan preferences.
It sounds horrifying, but actually is kind of meaningless as written.

Imagine two worlds:

World #1 (the horrible world): medical research neglects black people. They only bothered to develop an asthma treatment that works on white people.

World #2 (the reasonable world): medical research is careful to make sure they cover all groups. They developed several asthma drugs. None works well across all ethnic groups, but there is a good one available for each ethnic group.

In both of these worlds the most commonly prescribed asthma drug will be one that works on the vast majority of white people and does not work well on black people.

What they need to include to make the point they are trying to make is how the less commonly prescribed asthma drugs do on different ethnic groups.
But they are all big-government statists and they all walk the same way when it comes to invading citizens' privacy. It was a bad law from the start, it will always be a bad law, and it tells you everything you need to know about our current government that they keep renewing this bad law.

And no, it's not a question of "if you have nothing to hide.." it's simple, basic reality--you are not free in any sense of the word if you have East-German type surveillance up your ass 24/7.
It avoids the halting problem the same way literally all sound static analysis does. With false positives. The java type checker will reject programs that will not have type errors at runtime. And a system that verifies timing assertions with SMT or whatever will reject some programs that will not fail the assertion.

The halting problem has never actually stopped static analysis tools. Static analysis tools that check timing assertions have been around for a very long time.
> In the vast majority of cases, the institution hands out the waiver

This is still (probably) a draw from the US economy on net. Unless the institution is offsetting it somehow or is somehow not a part of the US economy.

> do I owe... taxpayers... Microsoft?... remuneration?

If Microsoft paid a lot to train you up and you leave before they get that value back, then they may want you to repay them.

That's generally not how things are done, but if the learn-and-run thing that this article talks about were to spread more into private industries, I can imagine private companies either paying less during the first N months or having minimum-term work-contracts with early-termination fees.
see https://areomagazine.com/2017/03/27/how-french-intellectuals...

i.e. they arguee that social justice become the new status quo holder and that become the new conservative point of view, which can't change for better or worse. the old conservatives want change for the worse. I personally think they have a point in this article (about preventing changes for better too) but the reasoning is dumb and falls in the same paradoxal fallacies as the ones they acuse the old-liberals-turned-conservatives.
The problem with these sorts of plausible, hypothetical explanations is that they don't necessarily answer the question of why this particular plot device couldn't have been replaced with something more appropriate for the established rules of the Star Wars setting.
Yeah, amazing what can happen when you make an argument poorly and without thought to how your audience will react.

Oh but citations. Good for you, that's a good bit of research. Sure the facts seem cherry picked and don't necessarily support your conclusions. You also presented them in an entirely tone deaf manner, you seem to imply a number of negative things, you perpetuated stereotypes, and you didn't explore any possible alternative explanations, but you definitely cited some research papers. B+ for effort, F for execution.

F as in fired with cause.
Every disease is a different beast, and biology is very hard to tame. We've thrown probably trillions of dollars at cancer over the past few decades, and only in the past few years, with immuno-oncology, has there been any real hope of progress toward broad cures (there was a heady moment after Gleevec, too, but that turned out to be the exception rather than the rule).

There was just a huge wave of Alzheimer's treatments that people were so hopeful might make any dent in the disease. They all failed, apparently because the breakthrough we thought we had made in understanding the disease turned out to be specious. Had the drugs made ANY improvement they'd be on the market and we'd all be bitching about how pharma "likes to make bandaids rather than cures," and that would have been a disservice to the years of toil people put into these drugs.

Not every pharma actor is a good actor. But overall the space is mostly filled with scientists and doctors trying to make people healthier, and mostly failing.
Predicting deliveries in real-time using ML
Because centralized and P2P architecturally are different beasts altogether. It'd be very hard to make a protocol that essentially did both, and centralization covers all use cases, so, as a company, it makes most sense to go with that.

I'm sure there were other reasons involved in the decision, I don't pretend to know them, but from a business perspective alone, you choose one connection methodology and you stick with it. Anything more is wasteful of resources.
After previously stating on here that I would hold my 5$ of bitcoin forever, I sadly decided to sell them a couple of weeks ago. I'm sure I will regret this some day. Sorry for messing with you guys.