skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I was jazzed about this concept in 2014.
I think video game consoles could host their game files for their peers. Essentially the console would be distributing the data from a central server model to a peer-to-peer model. By opting in, a console owner leaves their device on when not gaming to validate purchases and supply game content. They can spend money on the platform's marketplace.
The one person with some influence at microsoft who I knew didn't know what crypto-currency was. But, I remain hopeful.
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Sure but

1-The current solution is worse on this dimension.

2-Since Bitcoin Cash doesn't have replace-by-fee this is impractical for any small transaction.

3-Most of the situations that need to be immediate are small--with the large ones it makes sense to wait.
The empires are just attempting to establish peace throughout the universe. The rebels, on the other hand, appear to want chronic instability and violence, getting entire civilizations obliterated due to their dislike for authority figures.
Your post kind of assumes that a fair process would promote women at Google at the same rate as men. If reality is sexist, are we obligated to discriminate against men to fix it?
It has beta support for widgets now, if you still looking.
That has little to do with how expensive it is to maintain a building, especially a government building.
Being (perceived as) healthy has been a factor in social status since antiquity. For every status competition, you are going to find people who are willing to pay for high perceived status.
Except, of course, for the point about saving the horses and leaving the stable boy.
Actually the AI portion of our product is mostly for making clinical trial recruitment more efficient, although we consciously add demographic tweaks to our algorithms to help identify specific patient populations that many researchers simply don't think about.

What we are also working on to make things more fair is helping open critical clinical trials in areas where there is a higher density of minority populations, as well as using demographic data in identifying where minority patients exist that match up to the latest clinical trials to prove to pharma companies that opening them in those areas is not only a moral improvement, but a financial one as well. (Disclaimer we do all of this de-identified).

Would definitely be great to have a larger discussion on this topic!
I think what you said just confirmed my point: Is "Lower their expectations" necessarily a good thing? Especially when we are talking about under a professional environment. "He's really an American, he doesn't really understand how to be a good manager for a team of native Chinese" doesn't sound like an advantage to me.
Similar to Credit instruments:

Decentralized Credit Scoring:

https://hellobloom.io
House Fails to Protect Americans from Unconstitutional NSA Surveillance
I'm curious what makes you worry about (1). To me it seems like the exact opposite (foreign students pay the full tuition without any subsidy from the US, and are a critical source of revenue for many American universities)

Example: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/02/us/international-enrollme...
Maybe a good opportunity to remember what is the main mission of Signal/Open Whisper Systems: they realized at the time that it was extremely complicated for non-technical people to use tools secure enough and respecting your privacy (PGP...), and that the tools used by everyone (Whatsapp, Messenger...) were popular because they were fun and easy to use.

They believed that everyone should be able to have an easy way to communicate with everyone, with a nice UI/UX, AND have an app secure and respectful of your privacy. And this, leaded to the Signal protocal and the Signal app .
And it'll be done by some intern. Same as when you write or call them now.
Their grades are based on objective assessment of properties of underlying technologies. They are very useful for most people, who are not going to study cryptography for several years and then manually reading and checking source code of every communications software product out there.
I work at a traditional enterprise. My (non radical) opinions don’t get me fired (versus the greater tech community).

It’s amusing to see these comments fluctuate wrt karma so quickly for the simple thesis that women might have traits that allow them to be better managers. I even come with study citations!

My condolences to those of you who might work somewhere where your livelihood is threatened for freedom of thought. The job market is great right now FYI.
> I myself go to one of these offices, and yes I do sh1t which produces no value, only money for my company.

Don't you notice the contradiction?
I wrote the recommender at Netflix about 5 years ago (every line of code). Netflix has been degrading it since then. The problem is that many companies are hotbeds of politics over expertise. Recommender, UI, A/B tests, etc are an excellent venue for politics at the expense of the product.

Some anecdotes from Netflix: https://www.reddit.com/r/MachineLearning/comments/6xiwr4/d_w...
(Scroll down for my comments. Ignore namp243 comments - see below).

Another example is the "Netflix prize team" at Verizon/Yahoo. They refuse to share data with any other groups (they are afraid of being discovered), leaving other groups literally nothing to do.

In my opinion Youtube recommendations are improving. They are still pretty bad but they are trying interesting approaches.
> By December, all Google Cloud Platform (GCP) services had protections in place for all known variants of the vulnerability.

Could other major cloud providers boast this? It seems like Google's brand is benefiting tremendously from Project Zero in all of this. On the other hand, it feels nervous-makingly like a clear step towards running one's own mainstream hardware being too hard for the little guys.
I would think that ceiling exists in almost all countries, and US (and especially SV) does pretty well in terms of having non-natives in the higher rings of management. For example, Germany might have 20+ millions people with foreign roots (20%+ of population) and might look very welcoming to them, but you'd be hard pressed to find many in higher management roles.
As a codename, Ripley is genius. As a business strategy for dealing with regulators, it’s mind-numbingly stupid and ultimately incredibly counter-productive. The Uber decision making by process and internal culture will be fascinating source material for management studies and probably get a good TV treatment in the same genre as those ‘air crash investigations’ shows.
According to Leo Strauss' esoteric doctrine, satire is one of the best ways to communicate truth through the disillusioning power of the comic, such as Aristophanes in Plato's Symposium.
This should be first line treatment for back pain for most people

https://www.amazon.com/Treat-Your-Back-Robin-McKenzie/dp/098...
It's called secret messages or something similar. May only be available in the messenger app...
I actually tested dropping up 2 exact copies of a photo folders on Google Drive and Dropbox.

Google Drive is way way slower due to lack of block level syncing and other issues. You shouldn't be looking at the bandwidth usage you should be looking at how long it takes the files to sync.
Telco price gouging has nothing to do with shunning Huawei.
Yes, that’s exactly what it is, but with one crucial additional factor: investment.

Mild inflation does not discourage saving, it discourages saving the actual currency, which does nothing for the economy. It encourages saving in the form of investment, which stimulates the economy.

If my dollars were guaranteed to get more and more valuable over time, why would I spend them (more than absolutely necessary) or invest them in economic ventures? This is why deflationary currency is bad.
Flint Michigan can now go into an economic boom by exporting its water to SV.
“It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it.”

― Upton Sinclair

If I worked for Apple and had any part of this, I'd take his words as a compliment.
Who buys $1000 sunglasses? Who buys $1000 jeans? Who buys $500 sneakers? Dumb people with too much money.
Ever plug in 20 space heaters at once in a building whose electrical systems are over 50 years old?
What a cold recruitment message should look like (2015)
Tesla’s Model 3: Slowest. Rollout. Ever
Researchers use students as their test participants when they're doing more scattershot-type research because they're a lot cheaper to work with. The cost of sampling participants from the general public is not necessarily proportional to the expected value of the research.

What's supposed to happen, then, is that any interesting findings will then be replicated using a more expensive, higher-quality study. That has kindasorta happened - there has been quite a bit of follow-up research, but it tends to still be performed on undergraduates.

All that said, even if the population they studied is only undergraduates, the findings they report in the paper would still be interesting even if they were only useful for improving college-level educational programs.
By its very nature, abstraction separates the incidental from the fundamental (where "incidental" and "fundamental" are defined on a per-abstraction basis).

If the problem you're trying to solve focuses on the fundamentals of the abstraction, you're most certainly gaining clarity (possibly at the expense of performance).

If you find the abstraction's making you lose clarity, it might very well be that you're really working on incidental complexity, but there's also a distinct chance you just chose the wrong abstraction.
> We have computers that demonstrate such behavior

Not yet we don't. The full spectrum of intelligent behaviour is still out of reach for computers because we don't yet precisely know what intelligence entails. At best, we have small pieces of the puzzle that only sort of fit together.

It's still pretty clear that coffee tables exhibit none of them though.
I abandoned Skype after Microsoft bought them out, I don't miss them even a little. If Microsoft could buy Linux they would probably break it as well, thank goodness its not for sale
Pigeons do this too, believe it or not.

http://science.sciencemag.org/content/212/4495/695
Interest yourself in your interviewers.

Met googler, APLers, and FBers, something was off.

If you feel confident I am wrong, it will boost you anyway. So rather than prepare yourself to be interviewed by X,Y,Z, think of preparing them nicely to who you really are with all your strengths and probably weaknesses.

Enjoy.
>"If even one IPOs, you would've done way better with stock."

Not necessarily, it depends on what your strike price is.

>"Google stock has appreciated 7x since I joined in 2009"

The context was startups and IPO'ing. Google is neither a startup nor were you a pre-IPO employee.
I pay my cell phone bill with a credit card anyway, so I still get the points, independent of how I bought the device. (I also use Ting and have bought the phones outright, but even previously on Sprint and AT&T with subsidized phones, I still got the points every month in addition to the device subsidy.)
You could say the same thing about almost literally anything that you have to pay or work for. If two candidates are otherwise equal and one had a brand new car, I might use the new car as a tie-breaker.

I'd bet having a college degree is much more than a tie-breaker in most cases - it shows a level of work, discipline, and probable intelligence that is genuinely an advantage for most jobs.

(This is problematic because it also shows a huge set of advantages that the degree-holder has had. If somebody has enough advantages to have a degree and is applying for a daycare position, it might mean something is very wrong for this person and maybe it should tip the tie-breaker situation the other way!)
Hmm. I wish there were some dispassionate places left on the internet to discuss this kind of stuff. It seems that the only remaining options are either loathsome mockery (as seen on /r/kotakuinaction or this person's Twitter feed) or breathless defense. Talking to my very liberal friends about these kinds of issues in the real world, we tend to come to a far more nuanced understanding. Where is the equivalent venue online? Even previously-sensible forums like HN or Metafilter now heavily lean towards dismissiveness and mockery when discussing political topics with any shades of gray.

While I'm pretty surprised that some of these screencapped discussions and memes would come up in a work environment (does Google have their own internal social network?), I think many of them are worthy of a more level-headed conversation instead of just outraged captions. (For example: why should Google allow disturbing individuals like Steve Bannon on their premises? Or: if a person was actually fired for serial harassment, shouldn't other companies be made to know? Or: why should Google not correct their own frequently erroneous featured snippets? Or even: why should people be passively OK with weirdly sexualized comments aimed at their baby?) I also think that these incidents tend to be born out of good and noble intentions: a belief that justice in the world can be more easily achieved by leveraging institutional power, not a lust for political control and uniformity of thought as some would paint it. In my opinion, as much as these images might anger (especially out of context), they ought to be read and discussed in a more charitable light.

On the other hand, it's true that some of this stuff is rather insufferable, back-patty, and seeping with privilege. Get over yourself, Google. You're a glorified multinational ad corp, not the technical Mecca and savior of the free world.
Protectionist is a good way of describing it. The general strategy in China is to handicap foreign corporations sufficiently so that domestic competitors can establish a foothold in the market before the network effects of foreign companies become stifling to new entrants.

This is especially true of tech companies. Chinese Internet censors degrade the quality of major US corporations so much that their products are nearly unusable, thus opening opportunities for domestic competitors. We’ve seen this play out with Google/Baidu, Facebook/Weibo, Uber/Didi, Amazon/Alibaba, etc.

Most people see the Great Firewall (GFW) as a tool for suppression of political dissent. However it also serves as an effective tool for economic control, protectionism and favoritism. In college I took a class called “The Next China,” where I argued in my final paper that the GFW serves primarily as a tool for economic control, and only secondarily as a political tool. Realistically, there are arguments to be made that maintaining the GFW is in the best interest of the Chinese state, its economy and its people. It has certainly benefited them so far, as China now has a thriving domestic economy that is becoming more vertically integrated and service-driven every day.

Before anyone gets too upset about this, consider that the US often does the same, albeit on more of a regulatory level than a political one. Some examples are import taxes, financial compliance requirements, and upcoming data regulation. These all serve as tools that implicitly favor domestic companies over foreign ones.
Uhm, it’s quite easy to find foreigners in top positions at German companies, especially international ones. How many of SAP’s C-suite are even German? Not hard pressed at all.
Yes. Current waiting times for the final step of the process is 12+ months (it was ~2 months before the current administration according to lawyers). I am currently 2.5+ years in, and late spring/early summer would be the best case scenario according to the lawyers handling it. Same for several of my coworkers. I work at a large, well known tech company.
Hmm. I thought I remembered reading something about two weeks, but that's the time period required without enough blocks to make difficulty fall.
Section 7 seems to be the kind of status update a doomed crowdfunding hardware project posts. Lots of buzzwords on all the incredibly complicated problems their awesome rockstar team is working all day to solve, nothing anyone can verify. Section 4 is an entirely transparent scheme to ride on the coattails of IPFS.
after bad ethereum api experiences I for one found this interesting
Before there were social networks there were online communities. Paid social may not work, but paid online communities may.
> because the US is incredibly unwelcoming to hard-working immigrants and provides no reliable path to citizenship or permanent residency besides fraudulent marriage.

FWIW this is not my experience (GC holder, us educated, mixed south Asian origins). Not saying your friends are wrong, just saying it isn’t inherently unwelcoming, even these days.
I am a Norwegian in Silicon Valley that have spent most of my career with Chinese colleagues, both in academia and industry, and my anecdata seem to indicate that my highly talented China-born colleagues are sadly leaving because;

- China has great opportunities for riches

- Getting a US VISA is hard and painful when you come from a populous country like China or India

- My China-born colleagues seem to in general be more conservative, and Silicon Valley has become violently intolerant of anyone that holds an opinion different than the predominant view

Only the first reason is somewhat objective, while the two others cause stress in their daily life as their ability to provide can at any time be removed due to what is perceived as arbitrary reasons. Everything being equal, many of them have told me they would prefer the less crowded Silicon Valley.
see http://www.weddingwoo.com/

social media is a big part of the wedding experience today too. People will criticize it in that it takes people out of the present, but it does let people share and memorialize the experience.
Yes exactly, the problem is non determinism. But I think it should be possible to have deterministic execution while still keeping compatibility with existing software, by replacing the real time with a "fake" time that is deterministic upon the stream of instructions executed, which is on average close to real time. This requires support by the CPU, but it is a relatively simple change, compared to changing speculative execution and caching. Fake time could be kept in sync with real time, by periodically running a privileged process that takes a fixed amount of fake time, but variable amount of real time. (I brought this up in a different comment thread that got marked as duplicate.)
I'm sorry, but this strikes me as ridiculously ironic. A Chinese company complaining that they're having a hard time reaching consumers in the US market? Is that not EXACTLY the same situation that countless American companies (esp. "Big Tech") face when trying to enter the Chinese market? To pass this off as "US is hurting its consumers by eliminating choice" is laughable vs the INSANE concessions US companies need to make to operate in China — which create hugely unfair advantages for domestic Chinese companies.

Is privacy the big reason? The article cites privacy as one of the pressures that caused AT&T to abort the deal — US companies don't want to let the government eavesdrop on their products, and Chinese government doesn't want US products and services that prevent the Chinese government from eavesdropping.
The standard disclaimer at the end has some non-standard text:

> The views expressed in this article are not endorsed by and do not in any way represent the opinions of their employers or Leo Strauss. They should also not be taken to express the views of the authors.
But being battle-tested early on is the only way to ensure there are no bugs later on when everybody is using it.
Maybe this should serve as a reminder that the HN bubble is not at all representative of the web development community at large nor it's membership a strong indicator of the community's sentiment.
Kubernetes Secrets Compared to Docker Swarm Secrets
That's actually quite trivial. It's the decompression where things start to get somewhat tricky :)
I meant the policy which allowed this to happen:

`In the course of reviewing and acting on spam reports, an npm staffer acted on this flag without further investigating the user and removed the user and all of their packages from the registry.`

Specifically, a policy that allows removing "all of [a user's] packages" based on something related to the user rather than on the packages themselves.

Feels like there should be a disconnect between decisions made about a 'user' and those made about a 'package'.

Once the package is published, there should be an understanding that the package belongs to npm and npm's users, even if the original publisher retains some authority over it.

And if there is cause to ban a user, it should not automatically mean that packages published by the user are affected (aside from removing whatever authority the user had).
That was my question also. How could they guarantee that nobody else using a VM on the same physical machine isn't using binaries compiled elsewhere?
I certainly never said either of those things, but this is a great example of why I removed the comments. If some wondering about a hypothetical future dystopia offend you this much it tells me that the thought police might come after me, so is it worth it to participate in a discussion with people like you?
No laptop.

Any desktop with a 1080Ti
The Wayback Machine suggests it was 13th September 2017: [1] (from 17:50:53 GMT) has graphs, but [2] (from 20:06:33 GMT) is a 302 redirect to the messages page.

[1]: https://web.archive.org/web/20170913175053/https://status.gi...

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> Physicalism BY DEFINITION cannot account for qualia because the presuppositions of physicalism BY DEFINITION rule out the possibility of accounting for qualia.

Except we clearly invented a term describing something we've observed or believe, therefore something must be accounted for. Ergo, physicalism still must account for qualia, even if it's not the account you were hoping for.

> Sadly, physicalism has become a blindly held dogma by philosophers like Dennett and Rosenberg, leading them to embrace eliminativism (the denial that qualia exist at all).

Please, every time we thought humans were special, we were wrong. Arguments arguing for our specialness effectively amount to special pleading.

> The solution is to embrace a richer metaphysics instead of repeating the vacuous claim that we will/may one say have a solution to the problem of qualia while clinging to presuppositions that are false. It can't and won't happen.

So said the vitalists. Met any vitalists lately?