skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree that a rigorous high-school education could just a well serve as a filter as the higher ed studies do today. Unfortunately, high school is mostly low-quality, low-effort waste of time these days, so finishing it does not signal much to the employees (maybe with exception such as Eton and other elite private schools).
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>>How will Microsoft and Skype handle backdoors now

Backdoors require quite a few MSFT people with--way more than--FU money agreeing to it. I would bet that something like this would leak. All it takes is one to annon leak a screenshot or a memo
Some napkin math:

Dropbox: $1B in revenue / $10B valuation (10x)

Box: $400M in revenue / $3B valuation (7.5x)

The real question is earnings(which we don't know yet for Box) and whether Dropbox has a compelling case that it grow faster than Box to justify the higher multiple.
Conservatives: "fair" is more important than factual or correctness.

> As an aside I feel much less comfortable arguing this point after checking out your personal site and seeing that you write Debian packages. I really enjoy Debian, especially the reproducible builds work that's going on over there. I respect your opinions on this matter.

Are you trying to mkae some sort of point?
This press release is about security being increased in a product that has massive reach amongst those who are not the technical elite. There doesn't appear to be any extra fee for it as well.
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Does this mean I'll need to give Skype a verified phone number and some version of all my contacts for … reasons. Reasons that are, trust us, so important that we can't let you opt out of them, but that have nothing to do with us keeping your phone number.

I like everything else about Signal, but won't use it as long as they mandate that you tie your account to a verified, non-throwaway phone number. That's asking for more trust than I'm willing to give.
You completely missed the point. I specifically put statistics in my article to refute this.

In many clinical trials African Americans that contract various conditions at the same rate or higher than White Americans represent only 1% of the clinical trial versus 15% of the population. While 95% of the trial are White Americans but they are only 60% of the population. There is clearly a disparity here.

I also use the word "Neglect" they haven't recently purposefully ignored minorities (although in the past they did), But the people that want to run the trials put the trials in the neighborhoods (read mostly white populations) that they have worked with before and want to cover. Therefore trials aren't being run where Minorities live.

This is where the "systemic racism" comes into play.
Timing is perfect on this. We are fortunate enough to be witnessing Year One in the Age of Crispr ;)

For those brainstorming startup ideas some relatively recently funded companies include:

eGenesis - Dr. George Church's company that uses edited porcine stem lines for human xenotransplantation

Twist Bio - synthetic bio for applications ranging from novel materials to data storage

Denali - focus on age related neurodegenerative disorders such as Parkinson’s and Alzheimer’s

Benchling - molecular bio and gene editing design software

Synthego - free gene knockout kits

But of all the breakthroughs last year. The one that may be most impactful. Editing human genes in the embryo to remove hereditary disease.

Correction of a pathogenic gene mutation in human embryos

https://www.nature.com/articles/nature23305
Ask HN: Grad School while working full time?
I know many companies will subsidize tuition and other fees related to grad school, I'm curious to hear anyone's experience with going to grad school while working full time.
Disclosure: I work on Google Cloud.

We've already patched the host (for a long while now). You can also recompile your binaries in your guest, and/or get an updated kernel. retpoline performs much better than the brute force hammers you've seen reported.
Yes - its the Borg concept of multiculturalism - people come here, add their cultural distinctiveness to the whole and become an American by adopting a certain set of ideals.
This doesn't sound like a good idea, but I'm not a medical doctor.
When people try to explain why you're coming to broken conclusions due to broken reasoning, they get attacked as radical leftists for using the straightforward terminology we have for describing the phenomenon we're discussing.

Here, you've provided a perfect illustration of why we have the term "structural racism". Structural racism is the emergent discrimination arising from the circumstances that created our status quo. You'd think an audience of computer scientists would have an especially good intuition for emergent systems properties.

Here's a simple explanation for how African Americans can be discriminated against in health care without any of the doctors or nurses involved having overtly racist impulses:

Until the nineteen seventies --- within many of our conscious lifespans! --- African Americans were actively, overtly, deliberately discriminated against in real estate. They were redlined out of white neighborhoods and into low-income neighborhoods. Naturally, once real estate lenders would allow them to buy houses in any neighborhood they wanted, African Americans of means began buying houses anywhere they wanted. Unlike low-income "white" people, low-income "black" people were stuffed into neighborhoods that were first deliberately underfunded, and then further disinvested by the vicious cycle of neighborhood flight ---- like a run on a bank.

The hospitals, doctors offices, pharmacies, and medical service providers available in those neighborhoods are poorer than those in white neighborhoods due to disinvestment.

The unbelievably awful people who designed and executed on redlining are probably long retired by now. Many of them are no doubt deceased. Most of us would recoil from racial barriers in real estate lending. We all believe ourselves to be well-intentioned. Samuel L. Jackson has a retort our best intentions.
> Less competition? Discrimination can be perfectly rational

I was mostly referring the point about women. The slots in the management hierarchy will get filled anyway, and I can see how people can have implicit biases, but it seemed the comment was more about an active and explicit suppression.

Based on what I've heard about Google, and I have been critical of it before, it still just doesn't seem like a company with a pervasive active sexism with managers suppressing women because they need to empower their own gender (male) group.

> (I am personally leaning towards the viewpoint that actually both are morally impermissible, and protectionism in visas is justifiable only as the lesser of two evils as long as it's necessary for a country's economic stability, and no longer.)

Agreed there, especially on gender, race, sexual orientation. But not sure completely on nationality. Ideally citizenship would be just a passport and a label and people with matching abilities and skills could freely move and find better lives elsewhere. I think that is the idealized version the term "globalization". However it eventually ended up meaning that only multinational companies and wealthy people get to travel and take advantage of regulatory and labor cost arbitrage.

As long as countries exist, I don't see each country trying to protect its own citizens first as a terribly bad thing. In particular in this case, the people seem to get great offers at home in China. I kind of like seeing China do well and being able to offer such opportunities. Perhaps at some point US will find itself falling behind and will have to work harder to compete, and that's not a terribly bad thing either.
> If by "a century ago" you also mean "less than 2 years ago", then sure.

I probably shouldn't bother engaging with such a low-effort comment, but: no, there's plenty of precedent throughout the last 50-75 years for ideological conservatives leveraging and supporting this interpretation of the Commerce Clause.
Right - the assumption is that in the long run the scholarship will be a net-positive to the US economy. This article kinda says that this assumption isn't valid (or at least is decreasingly valid).
Japan retests, and interestingly recreates the same problems in a local way.

Taking medical checks for foreigners or minorities in japan means the guidance numbers are mostly irrelevant. Doctors might not know very well how to deal with you, a lot of advice for common but non critical illness can be summed up to “you do you”
Panic has always been a fantastic and creative developer, at least in the Mac space.
> Women want children earlier (because menopause)

women need to have children earlier.

I don't see 70 year old men eagerly having kids all that often. Most people want to live to see their grandchildren.

> I'm generalising, obviously, so "on average" everywhere.

"I have black friends"
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I thought that these days the right is the one championing freedom of speech while the social justice people try to shut up anybody who doesn't agree with their worldview.
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> Why is it hilarious?

Because the internet is a global network and China/Canada/etc. aren't under the auspices of the FCC.
You say potato, I say potato. I say "jump in front of" you say "latency arbitrage".
Looks like a React (maybe create-react-app) and Redux job, with:

- lodash

- JSS (cssinjs.org)

- Material-UI (mui.org)

- Highcharts.js

- Popper.js

- Moment.js

- React-select

- Redux-form

judging from the bundled main.js file. [0]

[0]: https://hodlfeed.com/static/js/main.3593bf21.js
I'm going to quote what someone said below because this is blatantly false

"This is not only false, but dangerously false. We are in the process of discovering that certain classes of popularly-prescribed drugs (eg ACE inhibitors for blacks, certain chemotherapy drugs for Asians) are ineffective or even toxic for populations not represented in the relevant drug development research cohorts. It's not identity politics to note that pharmacokinetics can differ between individuals and populations. These differences do not explain all of the population-level morbidity and mortality differences between ethnicities, but they are significant when investigating differences between groups on the same course of treatment."
I find weird and worrying that you cannot analyze the safety of a program easily with some form of static analysis, or that there is no solution to do an automated security audit.

I have been bragging for a long time that there are no organized effort (state, government, scholars or otherwise) to teach basic software security in programming. There are no ISO standard for computer security, or at least there is nothing really relevant being taught. Security certifications don't really mean anything, or it seems nobody cares enough.

I guess governments will have to get preoccupied with those things, because you can clearly see that for now, it's an arms race kind of strategy, as long as the NSA has the upper hand, things are okay, but if it becomes a bigger national security concern, things might change. I guess you can smell that the russians are getting good enough and that it's time to make internet security a more prevalent matter for developers.
If you just want a big list: https://www.projectimplicit.net/papers.html

For more digestible information look around their website.

I guess it is my turn: What debunking are you talking about besides the more extremist men's rights advocates (which are different from the moderates that have very valid concerns)? "Implicit bias" is indeed only the start of a discussion, as one needs to consider its predictive value in non-test conditions, but if you are sincerely interested in pursuing this conversation, the website above is a good starting point.
PG, at your link:

Aaron's not wrong to call himself one of the founders. The company behind Reddit was a merger of two startups, one that made Reddit and one that made Infogami, and in that situation the founders of both startups are considered founders of the combined company.
I'm confused. Both my Samsung Galaxy Ace GT-S5830T (January 2011) and Galaxy Ace 3 GT-S7275Y (June 2013) phones came with an app called "FM Radio" that works. They cost me $100 on sale. Why don't the more expensive ones have that feature?
This is a legitimate argument in 2018? You're not spied on because... tinfoil?
There was just a comment thread (on the slack outage article) recently discussing why there are no good p2p chat programs.

This might be one reason why. Fuck software patents.
A stance which he shared with Obama at the time.
Before I continue I would like to preface that personally I am a classic Norwegian social liberal that fight for people right to speak and a sense of justice, regardless of which group you belong to (e.g. social justice warriors, conservatives, liberals, flat earthers etc).

I do not find it useful at all to try to list out the views that are not tolerated as there is no way that you can reduce a huge population groups opinions into neat categories, people can hold both conservative and liberal opinions as well as everything outside those at the same time, and I believe doing so would distract from the real conversation which is the intolerance.

There are also plenty of leaked examples of how people with other opinions are treated to even shock me that generally agree with the predominant view, and I encourage you to look it up and form your own opinion. I also think people like Tim Ferris and several in the YC leadership amongst others have made salient points on how Silicon Valley has become intolerant of anything but the predominant views, and how it is hurting our competitiveness.
this is a boring dystopia for us, but two layers of it for the inmates
It was nice to randomly find your name here (: Good luck with the interviews, I totally agree with your points. Your blog improved a lot since I last checked it! (The NX framework guy)
Why does someone pay them to rewrite the same software again and again?

Sure sometimes it makes sense, but I assure you, many time is just in hope that the rock will go higher this time (it won't).... nothing more.
My opinions:

There are not meaningful differences between different proof of work coins. All PoW is based on the same principles, has the same security costs, and the same scaling challenges. Bitcoin remains the top dog and will likely stay that way due to network effect.

PoS could be interesting, but it's largely untested in the way that Bitcoin is. We need to see how mineres/voters behave and whether large holders can exert undue influence. Ethereum is by far my favored coin to see this tested, and if successful, would actually have more security for a given network cost. This is potentially disruptive.

DAG-coins or whatever you'd like to call them seem to like they're getting 'free wins' and I suspect that their security model is not sound. They're interesting but extremely risky.

Ripple is simply not a cryptocurrency by any reasonable definition.
> social sciences

You aren't allowed to reference social science studies because their aren't enough conservatives to make those fields "fair".
Disclosure: I work for Google Cloud.

We were naturally first because we took action internally, but also because we didn't need to reboot guests to ship new kernels to hosts. We update kernels on our hosts frequently, and so nobody would have particularly noticed that their VMs underwent migrations (we do it all the time!).
When I mentioned assimilation, I meant a certain acceptance of the American culture. I did not in any way mean complete abandonment of your "native" culture.

One of the most obvious things I saw different about Americans is their sense of individuality; you'd see a super conservative person living next to a hippie in peaceful co-existence (although these days the media would make you think otherwise).

As an example, I'm mostly vegetarian (for staying healthy, I'm atheist) but I do like the occasional steak. If I say to a fellow Indian (or naturalized Indian American) that I eat beef, I will be mostly ostracized (I'm assuming that this person is Hindu, which may not be the case). I personally don't care what anyone thinks about my personal choices, but this is an example of people not assimilating and accepting what is generally accepted American trait of "individuality".
They made a decision to ditch P2P and route all calls through their servers. Local calls would fall into the "P2P" umbrella.
Ask HN: What tools/processes to you use to track UX/user flow in a large app?
As an application matures and grows in complexity, how do you keep track of UI functionality? I'd love to have something visual for our project that shows all the different top level views, modals, and how the user can navigate through them. Are there any tools that are good for this effort, and make it easy to maintain and keep up to date?
Has been really flaky for a while, I guess that's why they're having scheduled downtime.

Now however - after 6 hours - I'm starting to worry about my USD150. ;-)
We can also try to avoid concurrently executing untrusted code on a single processor?

At least on the server side, that's realistic. Big companies like Google already run their own trusted code on their own hardware. For everyone else, it's not impossible to move from VPS hosting to "bare metal cloud" like Scaleway offers.

(Vision for the Future™: instead of their tied-to-Linux "someone else's Raspberry Pi" experience, it would be a bunch of tiny single core processors, each connected to their own tiny DRAM chip. You upload unikernel images or CloudABI binaries (that would be then wrapped into unikernels) into the Cloud™, where the load balancer boots up your images on-demand on as many of these tiny computers as needed. RAM is zeroed before boot.)

The other big environment with tons of untrusted code is of course the web browser. This is significantly more ridiculous, but: why not embed a ton of tiny simple in-order ARM cores without any shared cache into desktop processors, and run JS/WASM on them? (One core used per origin per site) :D
Isn't the rationale of the current administration rather the opposite ? E.g., the proposed merit based system explicitly wants to only get the 'top-N' in, whereas your alternative would just deprive upstanding americans from those jobs. I'm not judging either approach, I just want to understand what you propose and how to square it with the conservative viewpoint.
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Every generation goes through this; it's not just this one. It's naive idealism sparked by learned helplessness, fueled by a lack of maturity/experience and amplified by foreign influence.

It used to be every generation of Americans had its subset of youth who become infatuated with Communism, for example. They generally grow out of it and come to appreciate their global standing once they graduate college and accumulate some wealth.

Europeans are accustomed to being more mobile and studying abroad seems to be almost expected. America is a very insular culture by comparison; depending on academic program a lot of schools don't have meaningful study abroad programs ("let's go spend a week attending some lectures in London then go home") and support for things like working holiday visas is pathetic. We don't have anything like Erasmus. The only people I ever seem to meet who have traveled more than a few hundred miles from home have only done so on deployment with the military.

In aggregate we know virtually nothing about the rest of the world, so it's easy for disillusioned kids to be convinced that their minor dissatisfactions are on the level of human rights violations and that North Korea or ISIS-held Syria are favorable by comparison.
Sure but these all have values then. His point was to show that AIDS medicine has no value for him, but it actually does. He can't use that argument to prove that value is subjective considering that it actually does have value for everyone.
Agreed, nothing inspires confidence like random 500 errors when clicking through the withdraw/deposit screens.
But the comment here at the top was "how are we going to deal with these things at the language level?" and the implication that there are no understood strategies for tackling this problem.

Getting people to use heavy static analysis is an uphill battle. Getting people to use prepared statements to prevent SQL injection is an uphill battle! But nobody should take then lesson that we are woefully unprepared to deal with timing leaks via program analysis and that we've entered some new unfamiliar territory.
For your last point, I think you don't get "real" answers because there are totally different worldviews and perspectives clashing. You'd probably feel that any earnest response was a person just trying justify some "-ism" that you think is worthy of ostracism. They wouldn't see it that way.
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Proving that a loop is bounded is also undecidable.
In Europe, AM is being turned off or has already been turned off in many countries.
It looks like a person from hot topic got inspired by the Apple iPod / iPhone commercials and decided to go crazy with it. Awful execution.
Have a Pixel 2 XL and like the feature and keep it on my lock screen. But I am horrible at remembering song names. I most like it with driving and the radio is not the type that displays the song name.
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Will autonomous cars with nothing but Netflix and other video streaming services and no steering wheel also have fm radio?

I can easily forsee within my lifetime the banning of traditional human road drivers.
I think so, it appears to be the primary bill that was discussed this morning: http://clerk.house.gov/floorsummary/floor.aspx?day=20180111&...

The Amash amendment was also to this bill.

Here is a pamphlet comparing S. 139 with the Amash/USA Rights Act Amendment: https://www.brennancenter.org/sites/default/files/ChartCompa...

That same document refers to S. 139 as the FISA Reauthorization Amendments Act.

More clarification from journalists who closely follow this topic: https://twitter.com/emptywheel/status/951541344274649089
The only one I can think of being on this scale is when Uber switched their app logo from the grey U to a weird sideways pacman made of wires.
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Awesome! We've been supporting start up bio companies by offering them a fair pricing on equipment, supplies and chemicals. I think we've sold to every YC bio company except Ginkgo (doh!).

There's a huge problem in non-transparent pricing for products. For those outside the industry it's like buying used cars, dealing with sales reps and everything is a quote. Researchers are at a huge informational disadvantage when it comes pricing.

Example, acetone which is a commonly used solvent:

https://i.imgur.com/QyJ1Tj5.png

https://i.imgur.com/mJyfFfX.png

$900 vs. $300

Another example, IPTG:

https://i.imgur.com/tvnVAqO.png

We commonly see 3-5x differences and up to 10x for the exact same item. This makes a huge difference when you're in the range of 500k to 1 mil from YC Bio.