skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think it's cultural and lack of technological awareness

1) People aren't raised with a mind to combat discrimination. Despite recognizing and celebrate some 50+ ethnic groups, the majority of Chinese are Han and look like each other. There are some laws in place to protect against discrimination against certain classes (e.g. Gender/Ethnicity) but they're not strongly enforced. The legal system simply isn't there for individual plaintiffs to succeed against corporations or government.

2) Chinese have culturally accepted authoritarian rulers as "heaven's mandate". As long as people can be fed, clothed, have a roof over their heads and even prosper, then the ruler continues to carry "heaven's mandate", regardless of what Machiavellian means by which the ruler achieves prosperity for the majority. If the government has to read my letters in order to find evil schemers to keep me safe then so be it. But if the government did all these things and the safety/prosperity of significant communities are still constantly at risk, then the ruler has lost the heaven's mandate, and it's time for a revolution to install a new ruler.

3) Chinese people are raised on family, piety, and harmony, not individualism. Many place a sense of family/community acceptance above individual will. I think most are protective of the very private -- maybe on the class of secrets -- what I say to my friends or my own journals as private, but there are very few that even think that the metadata about how they carry out their lives should be considered private. Ultimately I think most people's mindset is that if I went to a restaurant and ordered food and they kept a record that I went there and ordered XYZ off the menu then it's no longer a secret. People haven't really come around to the power of what can be done when enough information has been gathered by simply going about your everyday business.
They're so amazingly complex the only thing I can think would help is an experienced impartial wedding planner OR a dead simple wedding.
That’s an accurate summary of how nonsensical the American approach to poverty reduction is. “Education will teach poor people to make capital from thin air.”
Just from a frontend perspective, it's a great-looking site/webapp. I would be curious to learn more about your tech choices and the application architecture.
Some of those dystopian films also show wild dogs and wolves taking over. Left alone, wolves could have made it into Yellowstone by themselves. How is “parachuting” a few seeds in to speed up the process of forest formation fundamentally different?
Like most things in economics, it's a risk/reward tradeoff. Taking everything in cash means you're way farther ahead if every startup you work for fails. If a couple succeed (= profitability or small acquihire), it's probably a wash. If even one IPOs, you would've done way better with stock.

Personally I've made way more from stock options than I have from wages. Google stock has appreciated 7x since I joined in 2009, so you can do out the math for various fractions of equity compensation. And this was for a company where I valued that equity at zero, because it already had 20,000 employees, it was in the middle of the financial crisis, its stock was dropping like a rock, and 89% of employees were underwater in their stock options.

You could argue that if you take cash compensation, you could then invest that in public market stocks (like GOOG etc.), and there's a pretty good argument for diversification and not holding your net worth in your paycheck. OTOH, when it's your company stock, you also have an information advantage: for example, the press was very down on Google for most of 2009, thinking that they'd tapped out on growth and the web was basically over, and after the initial post-crisis bump it basically traded sideways until mid-2012. Having seen the energy there, the products under development, and the query growth rate numbers, I knew this wasn't true, but if you'd worked for cash in another company and then tried to invest in the public markets you would've had a very distorted picture of reality.
I fall into exactly this category. 90% of my car trips are 10 minutes or less. My 2003 vehicle doesn't have bluetooth or aux. I've tried a couple different 12v adapters but the friction in setting it up and the compromises make it not worth my time. I'm lucky enough to live in a market with plenty of music/news options so I stick to radio almost entirely. When I visit my family in the less populated areas of Michigan, radio makes me want to kill myself. :)
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This is an excellent point - if you've got a US education, the US should do everything possible to help you stay to use that education in the US.

As China becomes more developed, presumably the draw of going to the US to study will diminish (probably rapidly). If the US can't attract and retain top-talent from other countries, the US will fail to reap the benefits of a global economy.
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Yeah, simple answer: we need heroes and villains for a story.

But I think there is some cultural "zeitgeist" reflected in the more optimistic original Star Wars and the cynicism of the current reboot.

I find it refreshingly actually. When the original Star Wars came along it seemed to shut down the cynicism of Sci Fi that had dominated up to that point (Soylent Green, West World, Logan's Run, Rollerball, etc.).
Agreed on all your points except the last one.

Not sure if it was just in my part of the world, but when Dropbox started, people only paid for local storage. And that was mostly technical people outside of small USB drives.
similar to 4: decentralized wifi

https://www.ammbr.com

http://altheamesh.com

https://www.opengarden.com
I can see it now. Two hours of Luke, Leia and Han just hanging out talking about how awesome things are without the empire, maybe make fun of C3PO a bit have a few drinks then just cruise around checking out how chill all the planets are now.
>why are you paying him to do it?

Because I want to demonstrate "growth" to investors by hiring as many employees as I can afford, whether or not I actually have something for them to do.
maybe he's not talking about native americans, but trying to distinguish between people of indian descent who grew up in the US vs people who grew up in india and then moved to the US for study/work opportunities.
It's already loading much faster :) Great looking website and I wish all the best with this project!
Yes.

We deploy new code binaries all the time so it's not a big deal.
This is the best comment. People here know the "value" but the market determines the "price".

I understand why people see the value proposition here and think these things are over-priced, its because people "trading" do not really have the depth and they are playing the market psychology game. For something new, this is more akin to Poker, at this time too many people are playing the people. The question is when the river card show up, who will remain standing.
"Many of my European colleagues have expressed a desire to move back to Europe soon (...) A particular sacrifice that comes to mind is their spouse being able to work - the Green Card process has been a shit show lately"

As another European immigrant, I can give you my perspective. Initially I was apprehensive about my wife not being able to work.

In practice, it was less than a year from the moment she arrived until she got an EAD card (work authorization after reaching a certain stage in the green card application). Certainly a sacrifice, but looking back it was worth it.

The green card process took ~1.5 years in total (received it early 2017), which pales in comparison to what people from China and (especially) India have to go through. Did it become much worse in the last year?
Hell has frozen over
Facebook has that? I can't find it.
They've tapped into google's internal networks in the past. I suspect they've already regained the access.

Another matter is whether google really deletes accounts when asked, or really doesn't store histories when asked. Because if the data is stored by Google, when the time comes and the person becomes "interesting" for the US establishment, they can rubber-stamp FISA court warrant and get this data.
In which case I commend to you the tales of Nasrudin
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nasreddin
You're right, but computer security can become an issue, and it can do incredible damage. It's a new threat, so it is creating new problems that must be solved, and quickly.

Not to mention the damage it can do to individual people, because it hard to measure.
There's now substantial evidence that this is exactly what happened with the Obama administration and Trump's campaign. The former used an unverified dossier as an excuse to begin surveillance via FISA. So this isn't even a theoretical issue.

Before anyone grabs a pitchfork, focus on the issue at hand and not the current politics. Doesn't matter who's in the White House - friend or foe, would you want them to have this power?
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Until 5 of the stations are all playing commercials and it's pledge drive week on NPR.
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Well, yes, that's how convolution reverbs work. Except I've never seen anything that would allow users to record a reverb with conventional hardware and without any elaborate setups.

Also, there is more to reverb than just impulse response. A more sophisticated reverb simulator would map out the space and allow you to choose where the "listener" and the source are located in that environment.

The nearby comment about moving obstructions is on-point as well.

There is ample space for application of machine learning here.
it doesn't matter what the law is, they'll bend the law
It's either a worthless joke post, or I can respond to it with real information. Some people might think that cryptocurrency by it's very nature has this latency problem.
Yup, but you still are supposed to, you know, "STOP". :) And isn't it done on purpose? This way, you are not breaking the knees of pedestrians that are crossing the road & you are not sending bicyclists flying. Stop, slowly inch forward (no broken knees, no flying people), enter the road when safe. I'm always wary when walking across the road with a stop sign, precisely because people don't stop at the line.

It's a shame that following signs is unexpected. Somehow, it's not acceptable to run a red light because "no-one is around anyway", but it's fine to do rolling stops?
From TFA:

Unlike money-losing Snap, Dropbox will come to the table with annualized sales of more than $1 billion, Chief Executive Officer Drew Houston said in an interview last year. It’s also been profitable, excluding interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization. Those benchmarks are the product of more than two years of focusing the company, expanding its product suite for businesses and reining in expenses, Houston said at the time.
they're not stocks because stocks gives you equity in a company. there's no bitcoin, inc or ethereum, inc.
The economics of higher education isn't aligned between personal and societal interest in general. College degrees are a positional good - a good portion of their value is for allocating a job to Peter instead of Paul. Even as people rationally choose more prestigious and more thorough education, we end up destroying value on a societal scale.

Like, even if a daycare worker finds it easier to get a job with a college degree, are we better off as a society if more daycare workers have college degrees? I think not.
If you're going to reply to a comment, reply to the words written. My comment doesn't describe anything as victimless crimes.

I have a rough understanding of human persuasion and decision making. Persuasion is not my goal. I am trying to engage with other people, read their knowledge and opinions, compare those to what I understand about reality, express my understanding, and when there are inconsistencies, attempt resolving them with some combination of verification of facts and revealing of core principles. Often times, this leads to me realize I had an incorrect thought about something, so I update my understanding of the world accordingly.
I'm a machine learning researcher, currently working on robust models (i.e. models that handle outliers properly). More traditional statistics has good techniques for making models robust, but current machine learning techniques do not.

Do you have any thoughts on how improvements in these sorts of machine learning algorithms could make clinical trials more fair? I ask because you specifically mention that HDP uses AI in the article.
> The question of "what song is this" comes up maybe once a month at best, and apps like Shazam already exist and have much deeper databases to search through.

very bold anecdata claim.

I would love to see Shazam numbers as to the actual median frequency per month.

I love this feature on my Pixel 2. I glance at my phone at least 2-3 a day just for this feature. To me it adds another layer of separation from being tied to me phone. Previously pulling up Shazam would bait me into engaging with notifications I didn't need to engage with.

I do agree with the privacy concerns though.
As a Canadian, I'm sure I know a large number of former Nortel employees who would just love to get their hands on a Huawei phone. Nortel did the R&D, and Huawei released identical devices, all the while someone in China was hacking into their systems and downloading their designs.[0]

But sure, it's Huawei who are the victims in all of this.

[0] http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/former-nortel-exec-warns-aga...
Where did you find that Chinese government forbids foreign companies to buy Chinese IP? Market is fair, someone wants to sell, someone has the money to buy, this is how business is done.
There is a method (which is already in LN) to prevent this which will stop the nSequence countdown if blocks are congested. From the LN paper:

>For example, if a parent transaction output is spent by a child with a
nSequence value of 10, one must wait 10 confirmations before the transaction
becomes valid. However, if the timestop flag has been set, the counting of
confirmations stops, even with new blocks. If 6 confirmations have elapsed
(4 more are necessary for the transaction to be valid), and the timestop
block has been set on the 7th block, that block does not count towards the
nSequence requirement of 10 confirmations; the child is still at 6 blocks for
the relative confirmation value.

>This
gives sufficient time and block-space for transactions at the current auxiliary
timestop block height to enter into the blockchain, which can prevent
systemic attackers from successfully attacking the system.

It's not perfect by any means (a malicious miner with a significant portion of the hashpower could never set the timestop bit and spam the mempool at the same time), but it mostly removes this worry in a "normal congestion" scenario, and makes it require a pretty large portion of global hashpower as well as very VERY deep pockets to pull it off in a "malicious" scenario.
> Is it portable? For example, the article mentions Burning Man. Could you theoretically bring this to a desert and extract water from the air? There's probably enough sunlight in a typical desert to power the solar panels, but is there enough water moisture in the air to extract?

You could not do this at Burning Man. During the event, the humidity level is something like 3%. You literally don't sweat at Burning Man.
Direct link to a description of the fix: https://support.google.com/faqs/answer/7625886

Someone on SO trying to explain it another way: https://stackoverflow.com/a/48099456

Some interesting discussion about how this patch isn't a 100% fix for Skylake processors (at least that's my understanding): https://www.mail-archive.com/linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org/ms...
“...was the best speech of CES” is a bit subjective for a headline.
Except moneygram has a huge place in the history of cryptocurrency, where as kodak doesn't even come close. If you purchased bitcoin in 2013 there was a very good chance that you transferred cash using moneygram from a local CVS or Walmart.
There have been several schemes over the years for using FM broadcasts for data. In the early 80's, you could hook your home computer (Commodore 64, etc...) to the headphone jack of a radio and late at night some stations would carry a program that would send data. It sounded a lot like an old-school modem.

In the mid-90's I had a TV set-top box that gathered TV guide information over an FM data subcarrier. The company went out of business.

These days, data over broadcast is done on TV channels instead of FM because the bandwidth is larger. There's one of these operating on channel 20ish in Houston. I have no idea what data it's broadcasting.
People will hold whatever they believe will appreciate in value.

I would argue that the more people hold, the better. It is taking power from centralized government fiat and injecting it into crypto, even if for brief periods of time.

Sounds counter-intuitive but a society throwing their life savings into crypto is actually a good thing. Letting the early adopters get rich is probably a net benefit if it attracts widespread attention and adoption, which is what crypto needs to become a day to day currency.
> Forget "will" and try "do." If power to the cell towers is out, you get no emergency info. This used to be a yearly occurrence back when I lived in a more rural area.

Or, only five years ago, for me living in downtown Manhattan (when Hurricane Sandy hit). The next morning, all cell service was completely offline (in addition to us having no power).
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Decentralized Fantasy sports:

https://www.digitalfantasysports.com

https://www.footycash.com
Ask HN: Is there a list of Aaron Swartz' projects?
Is there an overview of all the projects (known and lesser known) done by Aaron?
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No need to imagine, it literally happened this election cycle:
http://www.cnn.com/2017/09/18/politics/paul-manafort-governm...

Whether the renewal to continue spying into early 2017 was (figuratively) warranted is debatable, but with the official reasoning largely classified, the public may never know.
When education is billed as the solution to poverty—and in the US it is—then they do.
Indeed, it's incredibly selfish and naive to depend on security by obscurity here when you can significantly up the bar from basically one step above full-text all-access for every global spy agency... to a serious encryption system.

Regardless, the exposure ship sailed long ago anyway when WhatsApp with their billions of users, including plenty of terrorist groups in the middle east and africa, decided to adopt the platform.

Additionally, breaking crypto systems like this in practice, if possible, pretty much always means targeted attacks. Which is a significant difference from the type of mass surveillance which Skype et al currently allow.

Even Blackberry bragged about building a system for the NSA/CSEC to provide real-time data access to every BBM being sent in the Toronto area during G20. It's very likely that Skype has a similar system and this change (should) make that fundamentally infeasible.
They also don't pay dividends.
See around 0:47 in this video

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qtj7gVRjdZI

This is a running gag in the series.
Yep, so I learned! I’m a gen Xer btw.
I got a Huawei international hotspot since I couldn't find any familiar brands offering one that worked well where I wanted to go, and I was impressed by the price, packaging, and the product itself. Huawei makes good products.
Living healthier for longer will not help the healthcare crisis if the tail-end of life has the same health distribution. I think healthspan is a more important first target that lifespan.

It's great to see some targeted support for bio, though! It seems like a harder market division to get into than a pure tech company.
> there are only three nontrivial complexity levels (2, 3, 4).

That's only true if your dependency graph is planar. That said, the sentiment is spot on: you can get away with arbitrarily complicated code as long as you avoid embedding K_3,3 and K_5 in your dependency graph.
Given that the Bay area has the highest cost of living in the US, I think 10 years is a lot to wait for payout. In that time you could have got married, had kids, bought a house, had a parent get sick, get divorce, etc. People have real lifestyle changes which make the extra $$ important to them over a 10 year period.

The standard pitch (that many recruiters abuse) was that your options would become real in 4 years but the reality is this is closer to a decade. If companies were marketing their options realistically instead of selling them like snake oil the 10 year point would be fine.

I remember interviewing with an almost unicorn and their VP of engineering literally tried to pitch their options by telling me to assume the company would IPO at XXX price within 4 years. No mention of opportunity costs, tax issues, liquidity issues, etc. He even forget to consider the strike price when "helping" me ballpark the benefit. And everyone seems to forget there is thing called the discount value of cash - $200K in 10 years is not the same as $200K in 5.
It's been 2 years since I got that unicorn offer and I can say that the company is at a minimum still 4 years away from an IPO.

Stop selling the snake oil and people wouldn't be unhappy when there is a decade long payout time.
When the official has advocated heavily for it, yes that's probably safe to assume

http://www.drop-dropbox.com/surveillance.html
I have, please elaborate.
Identity "theft" is also one of those confusing terms. We already have a word for it: impersonation.

Though in fact sometimes things can be stolen via identity theft; in particular if someone abuses your credit it can deny you future credit, so they have stolen the good-will or trust of creditors in that case. This would be an example of an intangible good being stolen.
To be technical, some tokens are offering "dividends" these days, ex. sharing trading profits of a blockchain decentralized exchange. But I guess these tokens don't strictly represent a cryptocurrency, maybe a single cryptoasset more so. But those tokens could be traded like a currency...so it gets kind of confusing.
Investigate each company individually to determine whether or not you even want to spend the time. Each one is very different with a different culture and different pros and cons. Wanting to work for one of the big 4 doesn't mean any of them.
I have never heard of leetcode. Mind expanding more on the process? Did you just do practice problems? Is there any reading around each question? Does it offer the optimal solution etc?
Since these provisions are most likely based on EU directives I would assume that this definition is also reflected in UK law:

> (b) 'processing of personal data' ('processing') shall mean any operation or set of operations which is performed upon personal data, whether or not by automatic means, such as collection, recording, organization, storage, adaptation or alteration, retrieval, consultation, use, disclosure by transmission, dissemination or otherwise making available, alignment or combination, blocking, erasure or destruction;

(Directive 95/46/EC)

All IPs are personal data (even if they are dynamicly assigned) if I read [1] correctly (Not a lawyer and there is most likely something I miss).

[1] http://curia.europa.eu/juris/celex.jsf?celex=62014CJ0582&lan...
Wikipedia: "Signal relies on centralized servers that are maintained by Open Whisper Systems."
damn, if he were to veto it I might have to like the man.

was hoping Ryan and gang could have stuffed it but I guess its hard when bipartisan results is code for Washington vs the USA
Again: What's interesting to me is that the ACA never had majority favorability until repeal was legitimately on the table.

Have a nice day.