skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ah yes! You could make it draw walls as semi-transparent to see opponents through them!
The problem is that a blockchain which does not allow third party miners gains nothing from being a blockchain, because it can be a traditional database without losing anything at all. A blockchain which does allow third party miners is open to attack without obscene resource investment.
> That kind if snark is unnecessary and degrades the conversation.

May be, but apparently discussions about Android's and OEMs usually leads to hand waving regarding the legal options available to Google, if they really cared about enforcing updates.

> I'm not sure who you are referring to with "OEM" here, but Google took on the responsibility of maintaining the OS images for the Nexus devices, not the companies they contracted to build them.

Like the customers they have abandoned after TI cut down support on their chipsets?

Had Google taken the legal requirements to enforce TI to maintain support or face monetary sanctions for the three years it was supposed to take place, this would not have happened as it did.

It always circles down to how much Google cares.
I think it’s that many of us just love handing away other people’s freedoms. ‘They’ are the ones we’re oppressing, ‘they’ deserve it. It’s seen as an easy shortcut to oppress ‘them’.

Then you get the Syrian Christians who voted for Trump in droves because if his anti-Muslim stance, but who’s communities are being gutted by deportations because it turns out all the laws being used against Syrian Muslim immigrants apply just as well to Syrian Christians. Oops.
Previous post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16201047
There was a comic about it in 2008: http://abstrusegoose.com/51

Could someone please make a calendar app out of it? :)
Your example only works where pseudo-anonymous identities can be created at-will and you are willing to build your entire ecosystem on some kind of reputation system (how long an identity has existed, how many organisations vouch for the behaviour of that user, etc etc).

The moment you introduce a trust anchor (like an e-mail provider via e-mail address verification, or government issued id) you may as well have gone with OAuth2
This will help to solve debates like the one about the moon landing.
Use this video (https://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/hd/apollo11_hdpage.html - the highest HD I could find) of the flag moving and extract sound.
Then extract the sound (if there is any)
http://people.csail.mit.edu/mrub/vidmag/ is the site that he mentions at the end or the ted talk given that goes into more about the workflow.

Not a programmer so not sure how to use the code to implement it.
Any takers?
> The claim that any user can switch to Bing by just typing in a different URL is ridiculous.

It's not though; people have a choice in this case, not so when it comes to e.g. ISPs or cell phone operators.
How to overcome five myths that are distracting your auto company [pdf]
By using such BC solution, you can be sure that you eat a fish caught by some certified supplier and not by some poachers. A certifying body is assumed to check ethical questions.
I downvoted not just because it was an empty rhetorical statement (wouldn't upvotes also lend weight to his criticism?), but because such a claim should be supported by links to examples. For example, I can find recent discussions in which HN users have said companies like Cloudflare should feel obligated to not serve sites like Daily Stormer -- and many users who think Cloudflare should be neutral. Can't think of any significant group of users who have ever argued for jailing anyone involved in the situation, whether it be users or the Daily Stormer itself:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15031922
Gee, kinda sounds like Hacker News...
There's no question that Intel's response is entirely dictated by the legal ramifications of the coming lawsuits.

...but irrespective of that, it ALSO appears that there's no leadership within Intel to actually fix the underlying issue.

I don't care if the PR is BS - that's what I expect. But if the chips are not fixed the right way, I'm taking my business elsewhere, and I'm not alone.
> Rust is especially difficult if you bring your C-like assumptions to it.

To be fair it's very difficult if you bring your JS/Python/C#/Java assumptions there too. As a lifelong Java/C# dev, I just never imagined having objects on the stack. In C# knowing what goes on the stack is important - but the thing with everything stack is that it's copied - so it's basically just trivial values that sit on the stack. In Rust and C++ you can make entire complex applications whose data is entirely on the stack. And getting over that treshold is a big mental barrier.

I'm used to just thinking of my app state as a blob on the heap. A functional programmer or a C++ programmer thinks differently.
> After years of using Python, it's been difficult to wrap my head around GO and Rust.

I had the similar post-Python problem, until I settled on Nim [0] - it has Python-like syntax, significant whitespace, and ease of writing (but don't expect Python level of it), while compiling to C and providing significant speed benefits.

Also there is a brief "Nim for Python Programmers" [1], which might interest you.

[0] https://nim-lang.org/

[1] https://github.com/nim-lang/Nim/wiki/Nim-for-Python-Programm...
Another reason why tracking pixels are really bad...
They also harm others that never used the service or agreed to it's T&Cs...
Probably because it is directly linked to an anecdote about a particular woman in the industry:

> She may have owned the painting, but reselling it at a profit without the gallery’s permission would blackball her from the art industry.

And in any case, most of the "anonymous protagonists" in articles are men so why not change it from time to time?
My conclusion: grow veggies at home, make solar concentrators and PV panels then learn to paint.
And that makes Google noticeably worse then it used to be for many queries.
I think there are two things at work here.

1 - there are very good professionals, but they aren't cheap and have all the work they need

2 - an amateur can always decide to take economically irrational amounts of time on a project; a professional can't.

So the result is that as a careful amateur you can end up with a job you probably wouldn't be able to convince yourself to pay for.

We can probably all agree that the worst case is the careless amateur....
F For Fake is a great movie/video essay by Orson Wells investigating the work of one of the most notorious art forgers of the 20th Century. Fascinating story worth seeking out. The full film is on youtube at the moment, as well as Filmstruck.
It is. In countries where women have the freedom of choice due to political and economical circumstances, the gender imbalance is more pronounced.

Basically, most women choose to not pursue engineering if they don't have to (unfortunately, I'm glad we have some women at the office).
>Dilbert creator Scott Adams (yeah, I know, I know)

A broken clock is right twice a day... ;)

Edit: Lol, if you're downvoting me because you think that I'm a fan of him, you're wrong. Just pointing out that you should rather focus on a person's arguments :)
I guess I should comment here, but I don't have much to add. Most of the questions that arise naturally about how this was done, and about primes in general, have already been asked and answered.

Still, given my username I should add something ...

So if the size was prime x prime then the fact that the number of bits is a semi-prime tells you the size of the image, even if all you have is a stream of digits. Then the "noise" at the end will tell you what the least significant bits are, and hence you get an image without very much ambiguity.

Just thought I'd mention that.
With Google, I'm not sure; it gives good search results and experience, so I keep using it. If there's an alternative that does it better I might switch, eventually.

With Amazon it's a bit more malicious, in that they use their vast revenue and whatnot to force their prices below what any competitor could do, thus forcing them out of business.

Then again I'm sure that Google's acqui-hired any search start-up that might've become a competitor eventually.
The email you're searching wasn't posted to the list. You won't find it - no matter the interface.
So often folks put it back anywhere - bananas lying in the canned food rack etc. Haven't we all seen that?
It depends on the group that you're playing with. Catan with my family is fun because we chat the whole time, try to get each other in trouble, etc. Quiet time is pretty rare in Catan for us.

Actually the one game that really tells you the character of a group is Codenames. In certain groups, the entire game is super serious and quiet with lots of time spent on thinking, while in other groups the game is fun and filled with discussion and jokes and so on.
That's not exactly true. You could build an x86-64 chip without these flaws, but it would require a new internal architecture with a lot more silicon.

One obvious approach would be to have two caches per core. Speculative execution would use a different cache than normal execution. If the speculative action is committed to, it swaps which cache is the normal one and which is the speculative one. Then you'd also need to flush the branch predictor on context changes. And a few other issues.

Nothing that's impossible to do, but it would require a huge amount of new design and a lot more silicon just to maintain the performance of current chips without mitigation.
all i'm getting is upload failed :(
The focus on "power" in late stage cultural marxisms is nonsense.

I am white. I can gurantee you white people are not acting in concert to achieve anything. The people are the top are fking everyone below them, regardless of race or creed.
Weird persons exist, just like persons who don't include checking news during their breakfast routine, then there's also a subset of weird people who might just like doing their job and don't mind working that one Saturday without pay.
a case today that forces Google to share all the data that it collects on searches would help break its monopoly.

The only thing worse than Google having everyone’s search history is forcing them to reveal everyone’s search history. The data should be destroyed and new data not gathered.

“You googled X on date D therefore we have concluded Y is a preexisting condition and your claim is denied”
Debrief: My Journey into Tech (and a few takeaways)
That's not the point. It's not about whether it's digital it's about how it can be used in the digital space.

Bitcoin is not just decentralized and thus isn't subject to any political opinion, it's non-inflatory and it's built in a way that both the current elite plus those with less political power can access it furthermore it's actually tracable and not possible to launder.

Those are all things that anyone from government to elite to the working class can get behind.

Whether blockchain is adopted by banks does not have any bearing on the value of bitcoin and how it can be used. If anything it will only improve cryptos value and thus be a good investment target for the elite.

Only if blockchain proves to have no backing and no utility will this trend be inversed. My bet is that it does have backing and does have plenty of utility which will just take some time to manifest itself to everyone.
I feel you.

I managed to paint my walls, but it took me much more time than expected and my flat was chaos for some weeks thereafter.
Chaosnet
Uh no, they would obviously make it so only kernel code can run that, like many other such settings.

And if an attacker can run code at the kernel level it's a non issue, as they're already on the other side of the airtight hatchway anyway [1]: they're in control of the computer and the memory.

[1]: https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20060508-22/?p=...
> US company Follow My Vote hopes to employ cryptography to protect each ballot against tampering from end to end, keeping votes anonymous and immutable on a Blockchain ledger.

> The idea is that each voter has a private key and a unique voter ID, which allows them to monitor and verify that their vote is correctly recorded and has been tallied.

How would this ensure anonymous voting and presented in a way an everyday person can use it, would it be any more secure over pencil and paper?
Dark Algorithms and UX in Health Insurance
Please do. It would be wonderful to be able to search via actor. Even better if you could cross reference that with genre from IMDB or something.
Imagine the exploits! A crowd of high school kids, milling in a tight group, grabbing bottles of wine and putting back bottles of water from under their coats, trading items around, taking cheap cans from one rack and swapping them in for expensive caviar etc on another rack.

It boggles the mind.
I stand corrected. That paper is pretty good, however it is only a single centre in DC. I went searching for others and did find some similar papers finding similar results.
I'm not sure she's blaming men as much as she's confirming the existence of the culture around tech that non-traditional students (women or blacks/Latinos) feel very alienated from. That doesn't mean she thinks anyone is "to blame".
Crazy Vehicle Stunts – Vehicle Stunts
I would argue that rights against unreasonable search and seizure isn't the same thing as privacy. That being said, rights against unreasonable search and seizure is also a recent invention in the grand scheme of human history.
Stubbing Node Authentication Middleware with Sinon
I'm not a Googler but reading from previous publications BYOD is not supported. This stems from the fact that for BeyondCorp to work they need to be sure the device has not been tampered with. Only having trusted-boot really ensures that.
The Decentralized Pigeon-Flying Game of New York City
And then there is reality: https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2017/07/homicides..., etc.
> The company is over ten years old; I don't think it's quite a startup anymore.

The age of a company has nothing to do with it being a startup. There's a good description of 'startup' in PG's essay here: http://www.paulgraham.com/growth.html

Startups are businesses that are designed to grow quickly. Rocket Lab is. Just because it's been 10 years doesn't mean it's not a startup.

Also, both SpaceX and Tesla are startups. Tesla recently pivoted from being a car company to an energy company, and is only about 1% or so of their way along to their goals. SpaceX has not even begun with their goals of colonizing Mars yet.

These are all startups because they are designed to grow quickly and are nowhere near their goals yet.
This seems to be a growing trend, mostly in journalism; Blame technology.

Just recently there was a article going around about how Google's search algorithm was at fault of keeping two sisters apart. And entire multi page write up on how our lives are at the whims of computers and algorithms. Then to be told that the one sister could not find the other because she changes her name online to protect her identity.

Now we have this. A big pile of junk trying to set the reader up to think this single line of code is responsible for the arrest of people. Again trying to instill fear of technology and computers into the reader.

I worry this type of article will sway the public's view of technology for the worst.

In the end it is people who are to blame for the problem described in this article. And it all centers around lack of understanding how these technologies work. Articled like this are just going to make that worse. Further more the entire thing is bogus because the notion that one can't have access to a given technology is entirely man made and has nothing to do with any "lines of code".
I don't know more than what's mentioned in public sources, but I can guess:

1) BYOD is likely supported, but provisioning installs the invasive device monitor (as chrome extension [0])

2) Paper mentions that you can at least install your own printers. I would think that SW engineers would have full access, subject to device monitor being happy.

3) Since all keys (both per-user and per-device) are stored centrally, it should be fairly easy to revoke all device keys in this case.

[0] https://static.googleusercontent.com/media/research.google.c...
What incentive do I have for mining a block on this chain? Some kind of LoginCoin?
No denying that here.
The word 'stolen' doesn't have its usual meaning in the ICO world. Isn't all or most money made on ICOs, effectively stolen? Everyone knows that ICOs are a scam.
That's because most people don't care about privacy before it's too late.

"The government can monitor what sites you access!" "Oh, I have nothing to hide." Then the government changes, and the thing that was considered okay before is now something that you need to hide, but you have no privacy because you didn't see why you'd need it. Now you're in jail because of a tracking pixel.

"I have nothing to hide" implies "yet". Do you think you will never have anything to hide in the future as well? Most people don't think that far ahead.
I regularly introduce new games to my extended family. They particularly enjoy Carcassonne and Cards Against Humanity although both engender certain playstyles; the uncle who dominates monopoly and risk loves to throw out a 4-sided connector against whoever is winning in Carcassonne. One aunt can't help but go for certain jokes regardless of whether they're the "best" jokes or not.

The one time we tried Catan I gave up not because the adults couldn't hack it but because my teenage cousins insisted on being involved but couldn't sit still long enough to set up the board and make it through a turn.

So for me the cultural conflict isn't about European vs American values reflected in game play as much as some people who need constant stimulation and have no patience. Considering the ubiquity of phones, ipads and the internet I'm not sure that ADD-like inability to focus is uniquely American. I think these games can also help teach kinds to slow down, decompress and pay attention if given a enough time but at least in my case I see these guys once a year at Thanksgiving which is not enough.

But glomming onto something mentioned in the article Mah Jong is popular with us because who wins isn't obvious until the game ends and who has the highest score may not be the person who declares Mah Jong. That makes the game more fun because everyone's involved to the end and it adds a layer of strategy as you're not just trying to up your score but block score-increasing moves by others.
Lots of great suggestions on this page already. Asking this was a good idea. :-)

What field are you talking? It depends. Ideas about/for what kinds of thing?
I remember people saying in the 90s that soon free software and the internet would make previous systems of politics and economics irrelevant. Still waiting.
Using Genetic Algorithm for Optimizing Recurrent Neural Networks
IIRC a big benefit of having the rockets and launch pad in New Zealand is that it's possible to scale up and launch nearly-continuously from eastern New Zealand (if necessary) due to the lack of air traffic, while finding launch pad space in the US requires scrounging around and waiting.

And the shipping cost of moving things to New Zealand by boat to put on a rocket is obviously a rounding error compared to that of moving those things to orbit.
It also has possibly irreconcilable soundness issues :/

libfringe is another extremely interesting player in this space.
The Tale of the Free-Net, the Cheap Way Dial-Up Users Got Online – Motherboard
Why not to use already running platforms like Ethereum where all those incentive issues are already solved?
Right, so how much of a moat is that data really?
Failure to do so could put CBC personnel in Turkey in danger.
Look, I generally prefer choreography over orchestration, too, but architectural dogma can conflict with pragmatism, and at a minimum Netflix’s argument as to why they found orchestration more usable at scale seems plausible enough for me not to reject it out of hand without experience with the two patterns at anything like Netflix scale.

Just like sometimes, in real-world C, “goto” is the right tool, even though arbitrary jumps of that kind are also a “recipe for spaghetti”.
That’s oversimplified. Some agencies continue to operate for a bit because they have enough money stashed to do so. For example, the Smithsonian stayed open over the weekend and is apparently open today as well. The EPA will stay open for another week because they apparently have a nice chunk of cash somewhere. The postal service will operate indefinitely because they earn their own money.

For everybody else, a shutdown means you stop working right away. For most people that means the first day they’re affected is Monday because most of them have the weekend off, but people who would work on the weekend have already been affected. There’s no room for a bureaucratic delay or people failing to get the news. I’m pretty sure it’s illegal for non-essential people to work during the shutdown unless their job is somehow still funded. Anyone who went to bed early on Friday and went to work on Saturday without checking the news would be told to go home.
cough Civil Forfeiture cough.

That in a country with a written constitution guaranteeing property rights and due process, and with the legal principle of innocence until proven guilty.
For my small team of 2, but with an increasingly more complex codebase, the orchestration of (micro)services indeed causes headaches. There is no silver bullet.
An important piece of advice I was given when embarking on my technical career:

> You don't solve problems. You take the problems you have, and exchange them for a different set of problems. If you're doing your job, the new problems won't be as bad as the old problems. That's all you can really do.
"Consumers have other options (mainly iOS)"

Two or three competitors in a space does not a robust market make. For one thing, it is very easy to create side-channels of collusion between the competitors. Just as one example closer to everyday life, think about how easy it is for two people to share information in bridge or spades (the card games) without overt communication. I guarantee that side-channel collusion is happening between executives any time the number of players has gotten small enough.

How many times have regulatory agencies used the existence of only two networking/telecom providers in an area as a basis for deciding that a market has sufficient competition to allow another merger to go through? We can see the adverse effects of the lack of competition in the terrible customer service and product quality in that industry.

Why can't we see it in our own?
Technology salaries flat in 2017, with some exceptions: Dice Salary Survey
The high priced art market definitely has negative effects on culture. When something is sold for $100m it stops being about whatever the art represents and just becomes about how expensive it is.
>They brought in... some dirt fill; that's it.

They're doing soil surcharging, so that's intentional. Don't want the castle sinking into the swamp (it's on 300+ feet of silt[1]).

The steps for soil surcharging are:

1. Pile extra dirt on top of your fill.

2. Wait a sufficient amount of time (usually months/years; it's important to wait long enough[2]) as the dirt compresses and squeezes out water.

3. Remove the extra dirt (also important[2]), and build your heavy structure on top. Now the pre-loaded ground underneath won't settle, because it already did that.

[1] https://www.texasmonthly.com/articles/countdown-to-liftoff/

[2] http://www.straits-engineers.com/publications_pdf/publicatio...

edit: pictures of the site https://imgur.com/a/0OXkB
And if schoolbooks are filled with 'fake news'. All you've done at this point is create an appeal to authority.

http://www.textbookleague.org/103feyn.htm