skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> That is completely unrealistic.

Why is it unrealistic, besides the fact that you're following too close behind? If your line-of-sight is shorter than your braking distance, you are driving wrong.
That is very interesting, thanks for providing the link.
Source: https://blog.rapid7.com/2013/03/27/open-s3-buckets/
How is it not set and forget?

I set up my configs ~5 years ago, and other than apt-get update; apt-get dist-upgrade, I havent had to do anything
Using multiple separate emitters and detectors it should be possible to determine how every point reflects light (i.e. sample its BRDF for a limited angular range and set of wavelengths), which should allow to distinguish at least between a limited set of materials such as snow, solid ice, liquid water and asphalt.

Cameras alone seems unsuitable, since it doesn't seem possible to make a camera-based system that works correctly all the time, ideally provably so, as required for a life-critical system.
Listening the HT Guys podcast earlier today highlighted that apparently your transactions are not private by default—one of the hosts could inspect his contacts’ dealings with impunity.
In Denmark, we have MobilePay and it is everywhere—I very rarely need to use cash to pay someone, and it certainly has made sharing a restaurant bill a breeze.
In your experience, is CRA just for people starting out with a new project or can large apps implement and use it without ejecting and diverging?
How were they making money previously?
Pretty biased article by Wired but it is to be expected.

The chickens are coming home to roost for google and other companies who let poisonous SJW ideology fester...
Why would I want to share my opinions with the average moron? I, don't need any external validation for my logical reasoning thank you very much :)

That's something that the average person needs, so you must be one of those since you suggested it.

Do you think the world is full of smart people? Bwahahahahaha! Nope.
I used to read language log (http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/) a lot. I get why they disabled comments for most of their posts but I kind of lost interest after they did that. I am not really sure but I feel like popularity of sites like reddit increased after a lot of blogs and news sites disabled comments.
http://heavens-above.com

First you’ll need to set your location, then click on “daily predictions for brighter satellites”.

For your first time watching, look for ones brighter that 3.0 (maginitudes get brighter as the number gets smaller. So a 6.0 isn’t one most people can see with their eyes, 2.0 is a bright, easy to see star and a zero is one of the brightest stars in the sky). Also make sure the satellite is going to be high enough in the sky to see. It’s great fun!

Definitely also look on heavens-above for upcoming ISS flybys. You’ll notice that the brightness varies a bit. Catch a bright one, (with a big negative number) and be amazed for life.
I do think it's a good idea to ban phones & laptops when possible (sometimes they're need for presenting, note-taking, etc). Daydreams really aren't comparable to the other things we're talking about.

I agree it's important for meetings to be concise and focused on issues that are relevant to the attendees. However, I don't think the presenter should have to be flashy. If someone has their phone/laptop out, they might not even give the presenter the initial few minutes of attention it takes to get engaged with the topic.

Also, I'm in favor of banning devices at meetings because IME it leads to improvements in the meeting structure. If there's a long, boring meeting I might be relatively OK with it if I can spend the time doing something else on my laptop. If the only option is to pay attention to the useless meeting, however, then I'm more likely to provide suggestions and pressure to make the meeting better.
Oculus Research Reveals New Multi-Focal Display Tech – Road to VR
Remember that the reason Damore had to be fired was: "Imagine if he was allowed to manage women or work with them (after his memo was leaked)."
It's still impossible to have a decentralized exchange convert between USD and a coin.

XEM (the coin that was stolen) doesn't have plans to implement 0x, but there are other plans for decentralized exchange.
0x is specific to ERC20 tokens though, staying strictly on the Ethereum main chain.

There are some other decentralized exchanges in development however.
49 C.F.R. § 835.2

> Pursuant to section 701(e) of the Federal Aviation Act of 1958 (FA Act), and section 304(c) of the Independent Safety Board Act of 1974 ( 49 U.S.C. 1154(b)) (Safety Act), no part of a Board accident report may be admitted as evidence or used in any suit or action for damages growing out of any matter mentioned in such reports.

https://www.law.cornell.edu/cfr/text/49/835.2

You may also want to read more about how we got here, too:

http://www.aircraftbuilders.com/files/2716/File/lr2000d.pdf
You mean probability of people who run the exchange/work there deciding that they have a better use of your coinz?
I think what you're seeing is that Miller's films (especially the older ones) always had a goofy aspect to go along with whatever extreme ski footage they showed. It's really a reflection of his formula whereas a lot of the footage you see these days plays things more straight.
The Jordan Peterson Moment
What common light pollution map is this referring to? The only images that I've seen of this nature are photographs of the Earth from space at night, which do a good job of showing where the light is but a less good job at showing where the darkness is. Though I doubt this map is taking geography into account, it appears to be a clearer indicator of the distance from well-lit areas such that e.g. one could reason that in order to see a dark sky in the US one would need to be no farther east than Nebraska. I can't argue as to its true accuracy, I just submitted it to see if anyone else might find it useful. :)
Very good question indeed. European smartphones send tons of data to US companies with are known to proactively cooperate with the NSA and consors, which is the same kind of problem. But for some reasons this seems to be fine for our rulers whereas it’s becoming an issue when China or Russia is involved. Not that I what a free pass for these two countries; on the contrary I would like to see more regulations for every non EU companies.
That's an awful lot more informative than "This reads like a scaremongering article.". Is there more information on the likely timescales?
They weren't, they were losing a lot.
7 million lines of code, Windows, Mac and Linux support… looks a lot of work for a single person.
This is the best article ever posted to Hacker News.
As far as I can tell it's not centralized. It runs faster than bitcoin or ethereum because they do not have proof of work and don't spend time doing hashes. Instead every 4 second or so all the servers put out their version of the new block and the 'consensus' is chosen. I think - I'm new to this.
Ah, yes. Thank you. :-) I am about to have my first so I expect there is a whole new world of YouTube-related lingo to learn!
I don't understand. If I read something that says "kill all men" and I am not aware of the context attached to it, how am I supposed to make the leap to Google "misogyny in america"?

Edit: To respond to your edit, I'm saying through the initial phrasing of the statement, a good portion of people will be alienated and likely not get to the point where they ask "huh, what's that about?". I don't know if that's intentional or not but given how pervasive these problems are framed, I would think attracting as large of an audience as possible would be beneficial.

> in order to placate some of the totally earnest replies below

This is not conducive to any productive discussion. I've responded with questions because I'm curious about the intent and goals behind these tactics. If you don't think I'm being earnest then why bother responding?
On the other side: I run my own DNS recursive resolver on my laptop/desktop, and it's one of the things I really miss on the ChromeBook. I've done this for a long time, originally starting with BIND, then switching to powerdns, but lately I've used dnsmasq and it works great. It has a really nice way to set up multiple resolution zones, so I can have my work IPs resolve using the private DNS servers over the VPN.

The down side is sometimes wireless hotspots will block all traffic until you hit their portal, including DNS resolution, and some captive portals don't work when you can't resolve the name. I've worked around this by letting NetworkManager poke the DNS settings in, and then my VPN will update the resolv.conf once the VPN is up.

Means I don't end up getting weird DNS responses from clever hotspots or ISPs.
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Used to do... Since they closed up Google Wallet. But yeah, it was easier to transfer money through Google Wallet.
https://api.gdax.com/products/BTC-USD/candles?granularity=60
The most amusing quote from the article:

> Meanwhile, inside Google, the diversity advocates say some employees have “weaponized human resources” by goading them into inflammatory statements

That's on the same level on "she made me hit her so I could call the cops on me".
>The coins didn't disappear, they just changed hands.

To the crime victim, they just disappeared. Owning bitcoin is a very risky proposition for those who aren't extremely savvy in protecting themselves from thieves.
paper wallet generation software can also have bugs or be intentionally rigged and people have definitely reported both quite a bit.

You're right on with your approach -- I think the answer is multiple wallets -- even multiple brands of hardware wallets, multiple exchanges, multiple computers, multiple different types of paper wallets stored in different places, even multiple cryptocurrencies in case one has a catastrophic issue.
Lol, hope it isn't made using Solidity
Because BTC/ETH/ICO eco system of today largely attract scammers, gamblers, pump and dump peddlers and "investors" - the same kind that used to send faxes about this wonderful company that could be had for pennies on pink sheets.

Eventually they will get wiped out, become completely largely non-liquid and end up in jail which would cause a cool off. But not yet. We have not yet reached critical mass.
> "Was there a link to the actual paper?"

The title link goes to the paper. It only shows the abstract by defualt though. You need to get access to it to read the rest. Perhaps someone else can help you there.

>"It would have been nice to a group that had the flu but didn't have any of the standard treatments to see how they compared to the flu group with treatments because their test group seems like more than just the flu."

It didn't look like they reported what treatments were involved, but I only glanced at the paper. It is possible they had this data and missed/ignored it though.

> "Could you have a group too that did the treatments without the flu?"

I'm sure there are many people on NSAIDs for headaches and such that could be included. The dosage regimen is probably important though. Eg, suddenly start taking them for a week then stop, etc.

> "All said, for those of you that have actually had influenza as an adult, a death actually sounds preferable."

This seems a little strong. I haven't heard before that people consider the flu to be worse than death...
From the coincheck press conference, no, the only private key was "hot".
Funny how you're the only person to bring up his Jewishness.
Obviously Tesla's AutoPilot doesn't satisfy what you're wanting - but you're still capable of understanding if you're instructed that AutoPilot still requires your full attention then that means you need to always pay attention, right?
The idea that one must download the entire blockchain makes maintaining a wallet very difficult

Totally false. There are plenty of wallets that allow you to connect to a decentralized network of servers hosting the blockchain.

Electrum, Multibit to name a few.
tx fees are around 10$ so it's meh
Sharing stories like these with the world is what the world wide web was made for.
Jim Breyer invested in VeChain cryptocurrency
> It's not like stocks where you can see actual bid/ask and daily volume numbers.

Actually, it's exactly like that.

> And since transaction costs and times make arbitrage impractical, the price is not even the same across exchanges.

Arbitrage across crypto-currencies is happening constantly. As with stocks, bonds, futures, etc. the average person is unable to take advantage. Effective arbitrage requires large sums of money and the ability to execute quickly.
Quick execution often means having a preferential agreement with one or more exchanges. This is true in or out of crypto. Price differences reflect friction and risk.
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I don't think that's a helpful way to think about the Busy Beaver or non-computability. We know S(2,2) is exactly six, even though the function S is non-computable.
About 2 years ago I had a customer that required their own private mail server. I set up Mail-in-a-Box on a $5 Digital Ocean droplet, and they've been happy with it ever since.

The integration with Let's Encrypt and a relatively smooth upgrade process has made it one of the more enjoyable services I manage. I would highly recommend it.
eh, not all wallet require the whole blockchain. e.g electrum
I didn’t realize that saying “kill all men” was attempting to foster a useful discussion. In fact, I’d say there’s nothing constructive about saying that even if you know the context.
You may think you're kidding, but modern technology stacks have gotten so complicated and entangled that mystical troubleshooting is the routine solution.

Not working? Reboot it. For all I know, the phase of Saturn (as calculated by some library down in the framework) does affect Kubernetes.
Uh. Wasn't the whole goddamn point of blockchains "censorship resistance"? Now people are saying that we can just ban transactions from certain addresses?
Holy shit yes. It's too bad it's pre-1900s. I found something called the Vampire Bible once and it was seriously the funniest thing I ever read.
Although the article does cover this, perhaps it doesn't emphasize the point strongly enough:

The IP addresses for your authoritative servers are going to be stored in the glue record for your zone, which is physically held in the root servers (i.e. not your servers).

Those glue records can't be changed quickly.

Therefore you need to be very sure that your servers' IP addresses are really static.

We run our own DNS (for mostly historical and paranoia about reliability reasons). One of our servers is on a subnet that we own, so that totally under our control. The other is at a provider where I have had a detailed back-and-forth with the support staff about the circumstances under which its IP might change, and how to ensure it won't change, specifically mentioning that we are going to run an authoritative DNS server on their infrastructure (currently IBM/Softlayer, moving to Packet.net soon). I am skeptical that a low-cost provider (DO, etc) can give a strong enough guarantee that the machine's IP address won't change.

Makes Route53 look very attractive for common/garden purposes.
Thanks. Is there a page that explains how to read that data?
Beats "sunspots."
Even if I wanted - which I don't - how would I do that? It's not like they do it when I'm with them.
Twitter is b2b, this google experiment soon to be launched then slashed is likely more b2c/b2b2c.
They don't lose money, your identity just gets stolen.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CS9ptA3Ya9E
LOL. Well played.
Regret Analysis of Stochastic and Nonstochastic Multi-Armed Bandit Problems
Yes, and yes.

Here is an example with GDAX:

https://www.gdax.com/trade/BTC-USD

Here is an example of an API supporting public access through Gemini:

https://docs.gemini.com/rest-api/

Here is another (clunkier) one from Kraken:

https://www.kraken.com/charts

Usually there’s a UI accessible with an account and an API that allows faster, direct access to the feed.
Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies remain in technological infancy relative to the absurd amount of investor interest they hold. Hacks of this scale will likely continue to occur for the forseeable future, until exchanges develop and deploy techniques to limit potential lossage to hacks (e.g. minimal networked wallets), and will require several more years to provide a secure track record.

In the interim, the convenience of exchange bitcoin storage will continue to come at an increase in risk.
I wonder if it's possible to repeat the process in such a way that you make a chain. I'm trying to visualize how but I'm not certain whether it could only make more links all attached in the same place.
Why do people drink and drive?
I owe most of my professional life to one of Soros' foundations that donated computers (with a Linux server mind you) to poor cities in a poor country many many years ago. Ironically, I ended up working for one of the companies he's complaining about so I don't know how to feel about this. But I do agree that populism is generally bad (or nationalism, or religion etc), generally any idealism that places other things as more important over human life. Of course, the irony is some of these movements start from humanistic values, but end up losing their perspective.
> I'd expect to have my safety buffer merged into with a three second gap.

Does this happen frequently enough for you to ignore safety concerns? If so, you should be able to live(or not) with the tradeoff you are making.
A) It wasn't posted anoymously and B) yes while it's absolutely the fault of the assailant, the assaulted does bare some blame depending on what was said. If you walk up to someone an say hey your mom is an <insert derogatory term> and get punched in the face. You can't say there wasn't a reasonable expectation of violence as result of your actions.

Yonger is quite correct in that intentionally or not, for better or worse, Damore created a situation in which it would be very difficult to put him on a team anywhere. While work place violence is rarely the answer, and I sincerely doubt anyone at google would raise themselves to that level the fact of the matter is that even the risk of that puts Google in an impossible situation.
Posting this as a top level comment as well (probably a better idea):

The coins stolen are XEM (https://nem.io/) not Bitcoin. They're currently tracking the stolen coins to ensure they are not sold.

Preliminary evidence suggests that it was a private key stolen and not a network problem.

Disclaimer: Am somewhat associated with the team, and I hold a small amount of XEM.

Feel free to ask questions.
Nooooooooooooooooooooooooo! XUL is really cool. Still one of my favorite GUI kits. It is like electron (but actually native!) and
had a good reason to be slow (spidermonkey wasn't super fast) :(

XPCOM kinda sucked but it is still better than MS COM
Same with Bank of America. I can send my fiancée (and vice versa) money through Zelle (she has Chase) fairly quickly.
> You can't predict the future of computation.

Yes and no. Can we predict it exactly? Of course not. But we can estimate the rough order of magnitude with high confidence. It's not hard to find charts showing transistor density over time, and Moore's Law holds up pretty well since the 1970s.

If anything, the two big changes on the horizon are (1) quantum computers and (2) the end of Moore's Law. (1) is really hard to predict, and it will make all our current techniques vulnerable anyway. When (2) finally happens, it will only make future predictions easier, not harder.

> Look at the cost curve of Bitcoin mining.

Sure. Mining was expensive, so people put in a lot of work to make it more efficient. Now it's more efficient, but the easy optimizations are gone. ASIC miners are something like 20000x more efficient than recent CPUs. Do you really think there's another 10000x hiding in there? 1000x? 100x?

For comparison, AsicBoost was (is?) regarded this huge big deal, and it only yields about 37% improvement in mining efficiency.

> Show me a multi-decades track record ... when cryptographers designing secure systems don't have such a track record.

I know this is not quite what you asked for, but you don't have to look very far to find an encryption primitive that has "stood the test of time" cryptanalytically. It's called DES, and it's older than most people posting here. The only reason we don't use it now is because it uses tiny little keys that can be efficiently brute-forced.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_Encryption_Standard

Its replacement, AES, is now 20 years old and is holding up comparably well.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advanced_Encryption_Standard
It depends how much grassrooting it's going to leverage. My local community facebook group doesn't have fake news and keep me informed of what's going on in my very small and specific village.
We weren't talking about the government, though. We were talking about a company deciding to act with less ambiguity toward certain political groups/forces— like the example with Google above.

For example, it might have been considered better taste after the issuance of the Nuremberg Laws for Coca Cola not to associate so closely with the German Reich and fly their banners next to the swastika at the Berlin games, but that certainly was not the play until they were forced to stop (which ultimately resulted in the invention of Fanta, but I digress).

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An additional sampling of a company just being apolitical in questionable taste.

>> Mark Prendergrast "In March of 1938, as Hitler's troops stormed across the Austrian border in the Anschluss, Max Keith convened the ninth annual concessionaire convention, with 1,500 people in attendance.

Behind the main table, a huge banner proclaimed in German, "Coca -Cola is the world-famous trademark for the unique product of Coca-Cola GmbH" Directly below, three gigantic swastikas stood out, black on red.

At the main table, Max Keith sat surrounded by his deputies, another swastika draped in front of him...The meeting closed with a "ceremonial pledge to Coca-Cola and a ringing three-fold "Seig Heil" to Hitler."

At another convention Mark Prendergrast notes "Then Keith ordered a mass Sieg-Heil for Hitler's recent fiftieth birthday, to commemorate our deepest admiration and gratitude for our Fuhrer who has led our nation into a brilliant higher sphere."...

At the Reich "Schaffendes Volk" ("Working People") Exhibition celebrating the German worker under Hitler, Prendergrast describes "A functioning bottling plant, with a miniature train carting Kinder beneath, bottled Coca-Cola at the very centre of the fair, adjacent to the Propaganda Office. Touring the Dusseldorf fair, Hermann Goering paused for a Coke, and an alert Company photographer snapped a picture. Though no such picture documented the Fuhrer's tastes, Hitler reputedly enjoyed Coca Cola too, sipping the Atlanta drink as he watched Gone With The Wind in his private theatre."

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/203586.For_God_Country_C...
This seems to be exchange incompetence, their only wallet as a hot wallet.

Disclaimer: I hold some XEM, have contributed to source, etc.
I mean, they can't do that, 1st amendment and all.

I'm not saying that talking 'politics' at work is wise thing to do, but in the US at least, all people have the explicit right to do so. There have been a fair few SCOTUS cases on this one.
> similar to how public drinking water utilities in the US

But way more similar to a large number of good intentions that resulted in mass starvation.
AFAIK, the current understanding is that while geomagnetic reversals happen, they have no periodicity, and can be as quick as hundreds of years apart (a pair of which seems to have occurred around 41,000 years ago), or as long as tens of millions of years (several of which have occurred.)
Exercise to the reader: How do you slice the bagel so that you can spread cream cheese continuously along both sides. In other words, can you make a Möbious bagel?