skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One of the key points of Bitcoin (and hard money philosophy in general) is that the idea of a separately-existing title is a bug, not a feature. When you start with the assertion that privkey is equivalent to ownership, you can build abstractions on top using computer code rather that legal code. Without this assertion, software abstractions cannot be built as the software's reasoning can always be invalidated by an external court complaint.

In terms of abstractions, the analogous scenarios for the estate planning case:

1. Private keys secret-split between individual heirs and dead-man's switch - beneficiary.

2. Private key mutually secret-split between heirs - work it out, possibly escalating to probate.

3. Private key sitting around on paper waiting to be picked up by whomever discovers it - same as cash sitting around.

4. Private key known only to decedent - value escheats to the void (or the currency itself, depending on your interpretation).

The question whether Bitcoin specifically is fucked is whether it is strong enough to survive the inevitable clash with the traditional [0] legal system that will insist on destroying one of its core properties. Morons that brazenly advocate stealing cryptocurrency don't help, but a lack of them wouldn't mean the state would remain uninvolved, either.

[0] Yes, "the" legal system is one of many possible legal systems. The philosophy of common law asserts that it's inevitable and manifest. But it's anything but.
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Cryptography is almost entirely applied mathematics. If you're not working with (typically advanced) mathematics, you're not actually doing cryptography. That might come across as pretentious, but it's true - industry cryptographers doing implementation work need to understand the research even if they're not making novel academic contributions to the field. For that matter, I also think terms like "academic" and "real world" present a false dichotomy.

A better way to capture the differences you're looking for might be the following categorization:

1. Theoretical cryptography, which is primarily concerned with the mathematics and computational complexity of cryptosystems that are very new, not widely deployed or currently open research problems. This includes post-quantum cryptography, pairings-based cryptography, multiparty computation, indistinguishability obfuscation, homomorphic encryption, cryptanalytic attacks, etc.

2. Practical (real world) cryptography, which is primarily concerned with the mathematics and computational complexity of cryptosystems that can be practically used or which are widely deployed. Implementation, performance, peripheral security infrastructure and side channel attacks also fall under the purview of practical cryptography. The safety and development of cryptographic libraries and protocols falls into this realm. A lot of cryptanalysis also falls into this area.

There are many academic cryptographers in both domains, which is why I say that "academic" is not a useful signal as to which area someone is working in. As an example I have off the top of my head, Phil Rogaway (who won Real World Cryptography's Levchin Prize in 2016) is an academic cryptographer who specializes in practical cryptography. He invented PMAC[1] and OCB[2], which are both practical primitives for use in authenticated encryption cryptosystems; nevertheless, research like Rogaway's requires significant understanding of relevant mathematics and complexity theory. On the other side of the spectrum, Craig Gentry is an industry cryptographer working at IBM as a research scientist; he won a MacArthur Fellowship for his PhD thesis[3], which was the first feasible realization of homomorphic encryption. He was also part of the research team that made the first significant progress towards multilinear maps in pairings-based cryptography using a graded encoding scheme.[4]

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1. http://web.cs.ucdavis.edu/~rogaway/ocb/pmac.htm

2. http://web.cs.ucdavis.edu/~rogaway/ocb/index.html

3. https://crypto.stanford.edu/craig/craig-thesis.pdf

4. https://eprint.iacr.org/2012/610.pdf
Don't they have their own edx platform?
I proof read them to check for mistakes.
Well, yes, CBP will be seeing a lot of what they don't care about (boring stuff), no doubt.
I don't mean to sound dismissive or anything, but Cory who? There's very little context in the link about what this was or who it was.
Don't mind it at all. I work remotely so I really enjoy my current job, but this is why I'm thinking about going for FAANG:

1) My current company is a startup so things can go sour rather quickly. I want to keep my interviewing skills sharp in case I need to switch jobs.

2) FAANG is great for a career advancement. I'll learn a ton working for the best tech companies in the world and working with extremely smart people. Interesting technical problems and also upwards mobility later on. Also applying to any other job after that will be much easier as smaller companies don't screen nearly as hard as the big ones for their software positions.

3) Great for networking. You meet tons of other smart people who know tons of other smart people. In the Bay Area when you say you've worked for Google doors open much easier and you gain other people's respect much faster.

4) Lastly, FAANG companies will pay more than what I'm currently making.
If we fall into the trap of conditional probability (“this person is a member of such-and-such-category, therefore this-is-frivolous-because-he-doesn't-need ...) we are committing precisely the kind of prejudiced stereotyping that diversity is supposed to avoid. It's quite telling that conditional probability is one of the hallmarks of rational thought.

Let's let them have their minutes in court, if a court considers their complaint to have merit. That's the whole point, isn't it? No point tossing out two cents’ worth around and about.
I agree!

The truth is, there is are contemplative traditions in Western Christianity, most notably from Ignatius of Loyola. His spiritual practices include the lectio divina, and deeply contemplative readings of Scripture.

What's interesting is that the Society of Jesus (the Jesuits) are Ignaetian, but you often don't here them talk about the contemplative nature of their order.

There are lesser-known traditions in Anglicanism as well (Martin Thornton did much work in this area, though he is a bit more ascetical in his practices than Ignatius.
For the people who work 80 hours just to prove they are passionate, they don't have much friends outside and spend too little time with familly.
Why is it maligned? First time I run across it. Sounds interesting, and being accepted by Google Maps is great.
I 100% agree with you, and have been asking the same question myself. You don't get ahead in your career by arguing politics on misc lists inside your company, but you sure can hurt it. Save that for reddit/Twitter/anything else outside of work.
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Does anyone else think it's time for a new and promising operating system? The hegemony of OS X/Windows/Linux has basically gone on for a generation.

Shout-out to BeOS (the old geeks will know of it) which was the last promising new OS I encountered... and that was many moons ago
From the complaint [1]:

> Damore was diligent and loyal, and received substantial praise for the quality of his work. Damore received the highest possible rating twice, including in his most recent performance review, and consistently received high performance ratings, placing him in the top few percentile of Google employees. Throughout the course of his employment with Google, Damore received approximately eight performance bonuses, the most recent of which was approximately 20% of his annual salary. Damore also received stock bonuses from the Google amounting to approximately $150,000 per year.

> On or around April, 2017, a few months after he started working with his new team, the Google employee’s reviewing manager stated in a written performance review, “[The Google employee] has ramped up fast on ML, a new area for him,” and his manager further told the Google employee that he was on track to receive
either an Exceeds or Strongly Exceeds Expectations rating in the next performance cycle.

> On or about October 25, 2017, two weeks after that weekly meeting, the Google
employee received a “Needs Improvement” rating. This occurred despite the fact that his reviewing manager had been assuring the Google employee every week since September 19, 2017, that he had been meeting expectations. The Google employee also argued that the rating was unfair because he only learned of his alleged “poor performance” on September 6, 2017.

So looks like they're arguing that his bad performance review is because of his memo. Since this is from the complaint, obviously take in what you read with a grain of salt. The complain as a whole is interesting, surprising amount of memes as exhibits.

[1] https://www.courthousenews.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/Da...
There's an old saying that applies here:

"Pigs get fat, hogs get slaughtered."

At least you didn't go to jail like a women who bilked QVC for over $400,000 in merchandise obtained an identical way: https://consumerist.com/2007/10/31/woman-exploited-bug-on-qv...
Did you & your wife get carrier screening?
A Competency Test for Trump Could Be a Bad Idea
Interesting, had never heard of a Design Patent before. Or at least was not actively aware what that is. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Design_patent
If someone steals my wallet and the USD inside in Germany, the FBI isn't going to be knocking on anyone's door. I'm not sure what your point is here.
Can you give more specifics than having to wade through a streaming 161 page PDF?
I few things I don't like about this;

"After further reporting, we can no longer vouch for the academics’ data set. The preponderance of evidence we’ve collected has led us to conclude that it is fundamentally flawed.... The idea behind the stories was to demonstrate that broadband is not ubiquitous in the U.S. today, even as more of our lives and the economy go online. We stand by this sentiment and the on-the-ground reporting in the two stories even though we have lost confidence in the data set."

If the data you used to reach a conclusion is fundamentally flawed, it's pretty disingenuous to claim you stand by the sentiment. So they started with a conclusion, set out to prove it, later found the data they used to prove it was flawed, but still believe it's true.

The second thing I don't like is it seems readers are very confused between access and usage and their sloppy wording often conflates the two. It appears they were studying usage (actual subscriptions) not access (availability of a high speed connection).

Lastly, they also seem to disregard an LTE wireless connection as usage of broadband, when I would have assumed it would clearly be considered. If LTE wireless is more commonly used as a form of access to broadband internet in certain areas (i.e. rural areas where density can't justify running the fiber, or dense metro where the LTE is so good there's no need for a wire) then not surprising you'll find broadband "usage" is low in those areas, even if those households are absolutely using broadband internet through an LTE hotspot.
Horse shit. Fatally flawed article. But I see the comments pretty much have that covered.

I wonder where the other 70% is..

I wonder where the collective of artist streaming sites are..

I wonder who's making stuff..

I. Just. Wonder.
That ignores about a billion confounding factors. Correlation, causation, not equal to, and all that
Anyone remember when Dogecoin raised money for the Jamaican bobslead team.

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/jan/20/jamaican-...
Context: https://gizmodo.com/ex-google-employees-memo-says-executives...
Came to share this too. Actually, I ran in to a new one the other day and just emailed the Address Falsehoods guy about it: Town/city names are non-numeric: There is an Australian town called '1770'. The locals have taken to writing 'Seventeen Seventy' as a government-cajoled workaround. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_places_with_numeric_na...
And all of them completely rely on fossil fuels. Without them, we'd still have middle-ages-level wealth, life expectancies, and standard of living. [1]

Non-capitalist countries also made huge improvements in standards of living, as they industrialized. Again, industrialization is the common factor, not the economic system.

[1] Short, nasty, and brutish.
The article that your co-worker, Cody Pierce, wrote refers to MELTDOWN#1,2,3 and SPECTRE#1,2,3 in a number of headings describing the different detection scenarios. Nowhere in the article is there an explanation about what those numbered heading MELTDOWN / SPECTRE titles are referring to. May you provide links to what these are referring to, or ask Cody Pierce to post an explanation on the blog.

Thank you for your time!
This bifurcation doesn't really make sense in cryptography research. Most cryptographers developing practical systems for real world usage are academics, or at the very least used to be academics.
> Credits for children are a tiny, tiny fraction of tax subsidies for people in lower income brackets

The tax-funded support for “people in lower income brackets” are themselves very much slanted toward support for parents with children, largely because the American public is broadly fine with blaming poor adults for their condition, but somewhat less so for children in poverty.
I'm surprised at the marketshare dnsmasq has, I would've thought BIND and dnsmasq numbers to be flipped.
I think the difference in perception, as compared to running a marathon, is that parenting is more an equivalent of entering a marathon where you have no option to stop, regardless of circumstances, and your performance has a massive impact on the life of another person.

If that were the way marathons worked, I think the reaction of the audience to someone's struggle to finish the race would be different.
DNA = A blueprint for something that makes me unique, and the only known way to travel through time, into the future — in the most sentient form I know of — as a ”not me, but still me” human.
When you're up to your neck in hard work, it's kind of hard to sugarcoat how damn tired you are. Anyone who "only here's the bad stuff" sounds like someone who isn't prepared to work harder than they've ever worked before.
Thanks, I had missed that article, and this was definitely missing that extra information.
Interesting site, but I'd like to offer a suggestion.

In my opinion, a well-designed web site should pass the "someone linked me here and told me it was good but didn't say anything more about what it is" test. When I landed on your site, I felt it wasn't that easy to discover what it's about if I don't already know.

Even just adding a short sentence ("read about and discuss psychology, creativity, and more" or something) would go a long way, but having an "about" link I can find and follow might be good too.

FWIW, I think Hacker News also fails this test to some extent. It's possible to glean what the site is about from the Guidelines and FAQ links at the bottom of the page, but it doesn't really cater to that at all.
I would note that DHS/CBP can't do too much of this. It's very time-consuming even to set aside a passenger and demand their devices and passwords, and CBP has large plane loads to process quickly. So obviously they must only bother with this policy when they think they have reason to -- because you're on some list, or perhaps because someone with the same name as you is on a list (scary!). There are some natural limits to this policy.
Disclaimer: I have no particular expertise on this topic.

> A tremendous amount has changed in that time. Height, immune system changes, lactose tolerance, blue eyes, different hair colors, digestive system changes.

None of those are tremendous changes. We're talking about a single mutation that disables a certain gene in most cases above, right? Also they aren't universally spread among humans, and it seems like many people from divergent genetic lines can adapt to a modern culture just fine.

I know Jared Diamond makes a strong claim that the human brain really isn't that different across humans, citing, e.g. friends from New Guinea tribes who could happily and easily learn to use computers when they were exposed to them.

> There's strong evidence for significant changes in IQ, time preference, and other psychological traits.

Any citation for that first claim in particular?

I know that (though the strong social norm is to avoid these topics at all cost), e.g. the population of Ashkenazi Jews has a higher average IQ than the mean. But individual variation is still far more important. And it's not clear how "significant" the difference is, if we're talking about the magnitude of changes that make culture and language possible vs impossible. E.g. if maybe 1% of the population could be math PhDs vs 0.2%, is that so significant?

> One basic insight of the selfish gene is that a gene can be regarded as being in several places at once if it has copies in those places. It acts as the same gene, not separate copies.

But this is true across populations too. So, it may not have been in the best interest of your genes to directly reproduce, vs spending the effort to help your family or tribe.
Rust + OS design seems like the sweet spot for teaching future systems programmers. Nice idea!
http://www.vhemt.org/
There is nothing sentient about DNA.
Yes but when you get down to it, almost every activity you perform daily could be considered a detriment in terms of opportunity cost, unless you are progressing towards your goals at every single moment of the day not including sleep.

Now if the author had said, "It never hurts to give up everything else you are doing and look at this codebase for 1 year and shirk all other responsibilities" I'd agree with you, but otherwise you're just being pedantic for the sake of it.
To make matters worse, in Chinese the character 楼 can mean either floor or building (though in the latter case it is often but not always prefixed with 号, eg. 3号楼).
I very much agree with your ethical justification.

I used to struggle with this too, but then I realized just how much corporations steal from America.

It wasn’t always like this of course, both consumers/citizens and companies can go back to treating the other not-like-shit, but companies can go first.

This all hit me one day when I realized that, even if I dedicated my life to crime and greed, I would never be able to steal/defraud as much as many companies have in several business hours.

That being said I want to make it clear I pay my taxes in full and take only the standard deduction.
Thanks, I was always confused about why people talk about having "Thanksgiving Dinner" in the early afternoon and now it makes perfect sense.
Visa Signs Off on Optional Signatures for EMV Merchants in North America
C Plus Equality (A Feminist Programming Language)
A significant portion of my time as software engineer is spent either debugging or optimizing existing code. Having a solid mental model of how my tools or the frameworks I use work saves me a lot of time.

I think anyone who works with React or React native should have a rough idea of what’s going on under the hood.

The above article series seems to do a decent job of this for a framework people use day in and day out.
Your notes on "trust" and "support network" are very, very interesting and good points. I can imagine in smaller towns or old villages, you would be more or less okay with your children playing by themselves. Maybe you could even trust your neighbor and local granny to watch over them. But now, there's so much fear of crime and kidnapping. What a horrible situation!
"Apple has already released mitigations in iOS 11.2, macOS 10.13.2, and tvOS 11.2 to help defend against Meltdown. To help defend against Spectre, Apple has released mitigations in iOS 11.2.2, the macOS High Sierra 10.13.2 Supplemental Update, and Safari 11.0.2 for macOS Sierra and OS X El Capitan. Apple Watch is not affected by either Meltdown or Spectre." https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT208394
This is good. Say what you like about unions (and yeah, there are some problems), but generally employees need to be able to work together like this or they're at an even more massive disadvantage compared to employers. The gig economy is likely to be highly extractive from workers unless the workers wisen up like this.
Conversely, I always hated getting an American quarter, for the same reason!
If anything, we are the extremists: I suspect that 90% of the readership of HN was in the top 10% of their high school class, or above. Everything in our daily lives filters out the voices of the other 90% of the world, because for the most part, our friends and the friends of our friends resemble us. This is the social bubble everyone talks about. I just think we consistently underestimate just how powerful that bubble is at insulating us, until we see dramatic evidence in politics or the mass media, or we stumble out of it somewhere online.
Worth noting that extreme difficulty of being new parents is in large thanks to the weird NA/EU habit of raising kids without extended family. I think that's a relatively novel "disruption" of how kids should grow - and a fairly failed one.
I'm not saying such "extra-protocol" theft of coins is unlikely. I'm saying that it is possible to prevent them (eg I run the key generation algorithm in my head, memorize the secret key, then accept some coins at the public key). I don't place them in an exchange. The only way to get it is to kidnap and torture me, and the US police will try to prevent that from happening, and I can sue you for assaulting me.

The point is not that doing something like this is practical for anyone, it's that in that case, my coins seem to be backed by math and PoW (and the infrastructure that prevents people from getting kidnapped). Basically, it seems weird to argue that the USD is "backed by courts" by your definition because suing someone to get your USD back is only necessary because it's possible to steal USD from someone in ways it's not always possible to steal cryptocurrency from someone.

Also, by your argument, the USD is not fully backed by the courts either; I can steal your wallet, take your USD, sell them for gold, and then abscond to North Korea. Then there is nothing you can do to get them back.

Also I don't completely appreciate the name-calling - I find both cryptocurrencies and "traditional" currencies (monetary policy, how it's linked to state power, metallism vs chartalism, the historical gold standard) fascinating - and I expect we can have an interesting conversation about the latter (specifically, trying to rigorously understand how the USD gets its value) in good faith
I agree and am surprised by the number of “I want the same genetics”. Its good to hear an alternative perspective.
Exactly so.

Having read the "Damore memo" and knowing it is not even a good rehash of bad arguments, and having seen this silly attempt at a gotcha-flip of actual grievances, (not to mention some apparently sincere whining about oppression from a position of dominance), I have little doubt about where it will end up, but even whiny revanchists deserve their day in court.
What type of data did you have to collect? (photo + actual position/orientation of the tube) ; how does this generalize to items of different shapes/sizes? (I think that's something that would be good to show in your demo video)
AI adoption is limited by incurred risk, not potential benefit
The mesh networks target the last mile problem. That is the big point to be addressed as it causes the affordability issues and is the main connectivity bottleneck. To improve the existing system full decentralisation is not necessary.
I think Damore's case is also relatively weak, mostly because of his writings/post, which I'm guessing Google will claim was poorly and/or insufficiently thought out/supported/reasoned, and suggested that Damore didn't have the reasoning/whatever abilities required of a Senior Software Engineer.