skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> nobody would argue that a mall or theme park doesn't have the right to do this

I feel like the DisneyWorld / SixFlags priority / qbot system is all the commercial we should need to explain why fast lanes are bad. You can ride 4 rides in the time I stand in one line? you elitist pig.
There is an episode of I shouldn’t be alive (Season 6, Episode 3: Dive of Terror, streaming free on Prime Video) about this guy. Crazy story and he openly states he should have known better. Great episode and great show in general.
There are efforts to record the history and origin of manufactured items using bkockchain in the supply chain. It will probably end up increasing the price of the items though because only items created in a sustainable way will want to publish to a public ledger. You will be able to vote with purchase, it will just become increadibly expenisve to do so.
From my research so far it looks like SIDH is the most promising candidate to upgrade existing protocols (relatively congruent to ECDH; "small" key sizes).

For proprietary protocols the "newiness" of pq-crypto doesn't seem to be a big problem per se, just use curve hardening (kdf(ECDH || pq-kex)) in case the pq-crypto is broken (either due to implementation defects or cryptanalysis).
There's nothing stopping you from pooling your votes right now.

Ownership of capital has basically nothing to do with it. If the means of production are owned by "the workers", all that ends up happening is each group of workers sends a representative to manage their share of the means of production. Unless you have a true Athenian direct democracy, it reduces to exactly the same system, just less diversified.
Forced read receipts on messenger are the worst
TV has certainly increased the number of timeouts in college and professional football. However, the whole business of spotting the ball, lining the teams up, maybe huddling, means that American football has never been flowing to the degree that the other football is.
Proven Ways to Avoid Data Leakage in an Android App
And end with a diploma for the now young adult.
http://blog.monosnap.com/how-to-record-video-with-the-system... - here the guide how to record system audio.
I read The Wizard of Earthsea in the 3rd grade. Literally. I would have it at my desk and try to read it by holding it under my desk.

Ursula Le Guin's is daughter of Alfred and Theodora Kroeber. Alfred Kroeber is a preeminent figure in the history of American anthropology and archeology, along with his PhD adviser Franz Boas. The influence of anthropology on Le Guin's writing and thought are easily seen in the Left Hand of Darkness, one of my favorite sci-fi novels.
Tomu, an open-hardware ARM board which fits inside your USB connector
Oh boy, I’ve seen it to often...
« So let’s start with the UI and where things are gonna be »
« But shouldn’t we be sure that the content fits the demand first »
« No. You know customers, if they don’t see something very visual, they think we are not working, so start with UI »

And in the end, you find that not only you had to twist your server code to fit the « visual needs », but you still changed the UI so many times that your project explodes the deadlines.

I have a name for project like that, the name of a client I had from back in the days when I was younger.

Now, I try to run away from that kind of projects (not always succeeding, in 2015 I joined a project like that and loose a year and a half producing jquery shit)
I think being not poor and not worrying about the future is a bit contradictory for everyone except the very small part of top 1% who are independently wealthy. Probably under 0.1%.

Poverty is a stable, default state, everything else requires constant effort and standing the competition.
I wrote my second article on an angular matter
There's a enormous market for this type of website that doesn't screw over freelancers. Freelancers are basically begging for a new service to use.

The crypto part is an interesting twist!
probably a direct result of money in politics...
Uber treats its drivers like employees and should have fulfill the obligations that entails. If they are cheaper than the competition because they avoid this then they don't deserve to be cheaper! If they are truly losing the kind of money they claim, then society shouldn't shoulder the burden for the investors' speculative venture.
I've found that tech companies have harder interview loops for infosec than in software engineering. For software engineering, know your college algorithms and you'll have a decent shot.

For infosec, the hiring bar is entirely random. Know your algorithms as those questions are all still fair game, know an enormous and entirely random amount of security trivia as infosec has interviewers with incredible ego, be able to solve CTF challenge problems under extreme pressure in 30 minutes, be able to review code in all programming languages for security defects, etc. I recently had an interview for a IoT penetration testing role (requiring C and Python) at a large tech company. The first phone screen was an engineer on an unrelated team asking me Java OWASP Top 10 style questions. What on earth???

Apparently CTFs (which do nothing except teach you how to get better at CTFs) are the new hiring bar. God only knows what's next.

So don't feel bad. Keep interviewing and you'll get lucky. Luck has far more to do with it than anything else at the moment.
> Eventually one side will have to win out and then things will get very interesting.

Well things are pretty violent already, with the deadly class war the police is fighting against the population (~1k in 2017, https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/national/police-shoo...) plus the countless arrests, macing, tasering and other violent actions of police against peaceful demonstrators, plus all the violence committed by Nazis (e.g. the Heather Heyer murder and the other actions counted as right-wing domestic terrorism). Add in the huge number of weapons circulating in the US... when the poor people (or the armed rednecks) finally feel desperate enough that will be quite a bloodbath.
> We need to have a conversation about the possible paths to make programming more widely accessible.

You say that like it isn't a robust conversation that a significant segment of the community has not only been having but trying out solutions to for decades.
The default state is that of a subsistence farmer being regularly preyed on by bandits. Without society, without the apparatus and knowledge bequeathed to us by those who came before us, that would be the fate of everybody, including Bill Gates.

We get our wealth by standing on the shoulders of giants. The poor deserve the fruits of the labors of those giants just as much as the rest of us do.
was it intended for a younger audience?

her sequels are more reflective. you might like them more.
Japan compensates engineers poorly!
If you mean that we should do away with wealth, then yes I agree we should "figure out what causes wealth" even though I'm sure we already have a small idea, at least!

I think a lot of Star Trek fans share this fantasy... but what makes it impossible?
I did the same with an energy drink featuring Tupac Shakur on the can.
The general idea I've had is that a quantum computer will be much more similar to a classical analog computer than digital. It requires setting up a quantum system which models the problem physically, and relies on quantum properties (interference i suppose) to descend on the correct solution without doing any sort of brute-forcing. Thanks for the comic link, really helpful.
While I was a Commodore boy in the 80's, I know what you're talking about and I came across a book that had the same feeling "Clojure for the Brave and True": https://www.braveclojure.com/ - it was like a jump into the past.
> being poor is not a good/bad thing

This is a silly line of reasoning. As more people grow wealthy, we find more ways to systematically mistreat those who have not. It's not just that the poor started poor and stayed that way, it's that the rest of us find ways to make things even harder for them as our comparative wealth grows. Being poor is most definitely a bad thing.
TL;DR:

With existing technology it’s tough to detect oxygen on smaller far-away planets. However, what we could instead look for is a combination of gases that likely means presence of life on earlier stages, before oxygen becomes abundant in the atmosphere. (The assumption is that the alien life we might find would likely be on early stages of development anyway.)

This research is about how such a combination of gases—lots of carbon dioxide, methane, and no carbon monoxide—can be detected and told apart from possible nonliving sources. The new approach should be viable to apply using Webb telescope on smaller planets like the ones in TRAPPIST-1 system.
Probably worse in CA, but this exists on some level in every state. Here in NJ we have the same exact thing, just not along a bike path.
There are so many of them that any individual is expendable. Beyond that, they don't need the other for survival (aside from strength through numbers) because they don't hunt.

Lions and wolves hunt in packs, so the individual more directly contributes to the group's survival than in herbivore populations.
My area of research is primarily post-quantum cryptography, not strict quantum mechanics. That said, based on my understanding of the implementation details of quantum computers (as opposed to e.g. quantum complexity), I’m pessimistic about quantum computers being productively used against real world RSA in the next 20 years. I’d conservatively estimate that it could happen in 50 with a series of breakthroughs.

I think quantum computers will be useful for some applications (maybe even many) and commercially available within the next decade or two, I just don’t think cryptographic breaks will be possible on them until they advance well beyond whatever is first brought to market. You need logical qubits for polynomial-time cryptanalysis of RSA, and many of them. To get these logical qubits, you need so many more physical qubits that it’s not really productive to map our current records (~50 qubits) to what we’d need. In fact, I predict we’ll get to quantum cryptanalysis via a paradigm shift that approaches the problem in a fundamentally different way long before we master the requisite error correction to have enough physical and logical qubits necessary under the current paradigm.
> That means they correctly distinguish between numbers within the millions or billions, but assume that “million,” “billion,” and “trillion” are equally spaced on a number line.

Maybe normal people are good at log scales! Our number system makes log_10 pretty natural, and our naming system makes log_1000 somewhat automatic.

I think it's only fair to point out that log scales are how scientists and engineers understand extreme numbers; nobody really has an "intuitive" understanding of 10^36 or Graham's number.

I can feel this myself; it's easy to think of 1 million as a thousand squared and feel like it's tractable, it's easy to think of a billion as a thousand cubed and feel like it's relatively small. But when I actually plot or visualize that many things, especially if the individuals have variation, I can see that thinking of it in exponents of a thousand is misleading, and that it's hard to get any sense of how many individuals are there and of the complexity of variations and sub-groups that are possible.
Fishing for graphs in a Hadoop data lake
I came expecting a thoughtful how-to on squeezing more juice out of routine and boring-ness, what I got was an irate classist polemic that just didn't know when to end. It segued all-too gradually from amusing and clever rant to listening to that one uncle rave incoherently for hours about racist bullshit. I daresay he got paid by the word.

Now I know what a half-boiled frog feels like. I couldn't even finish it.
The More Things Change: Fortran Edition
What you say is another way to see the argument about OSS Project vs OSS licensed software which is actually a company and not a project.
If the vendor explicitly promised you 30% more performance then yes.

Except I doubt that intel releases raw benchmark scores or explicitly tells you the baseline they compare against. So in practice no.
Not claiming to be exceptional, just noting that a perspective I developed seems less common than I expected...

I think I've just had a cognitive bias of my own revealed, and found a source of confusion in conversation... I guess I've been sucking up any and all science that interests me since I could read, I have no trouble perceiving scale differences... Planck's constant, universe-scale light-year measurements, Ackermann function values, they are all on a very long and flexible scale of powers of ten, and that whole scale is mostly intuitive. I sometimes even convert everyday numbers into E notation so I know I'm scaling things right.
This is great! Any chance you can open source this?
I have a hard time shaking the feeling that database innovation is being forced not by necessity, but by a culture of blind relentless change.
https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/7sv7xv/mainnet_lig...
Poverty is definitely a problem. Having to choose between eating and running the heater on a cold night is not a “default state” in the US, nor should it be anywhere else. I’ve personally had enough of those nights and experienced the gaumut of unpleasantries when living on $40 per day in a temperate (albeit more expensive) city, both when growing up and again during the downturn as a freshly minted adult.

I can’t imagine how much worse the people in the articles have it at 1/10th the income in a harsher climate.
Lessons learned, making our app with Web Components
Punching a large dog wouldn't do much of anything to it, as you allude to. The largest muscle in your body is in your legs, your quadriceps in specific. A Tae Kwon Do (my primary martial art) front snap kick or Muay Thai style semi-circle round kick to the face or ribs (as they leap) could incapacitate them. If you are able to hit them before they have ahold of you, that initial crushing blow might prevent them from wrecking you. That said, I'd NEVER want to try even after 8+ years of martial arts. Much like a knife fight, the standard isn't whether you got stabbed or not, but if you lived. It would be rough regardless!

Those are huge dogs and aren't afraid to scrap. I'd still happily take on one of them for my life given the choice vs a velociraptor :)
And it's our moral imperative to tell them why the thing they're asking for doesn't make any sense. If I were to ask a plastic surgeon to put wheels on my butt, the reasonable thing to do for him would be to reject my request, and explain me why it doesn't make any sense. I wouldn't expect him to do it and then brag on an internet forum about the clever hack he did to fit those Michelin tires onto my buttocks.
There is no 'default' state, poverty or not and being poor is definitely bad. Think like this: if we could make everyone not poor tomorrow, would that be a good thing? Of course (holding all else the same.)
Chromium: The Sixth Project Check and 250 Bugs
I don’t understand how this is possible. We have a lot of programs to help people - food assistance, housing and health care assistance, disability... Are these benefits being counted when we say they live on $4/day?
Actually I checked my levels a few years ago and they in the lower range of normal. The doctor said it's fine but I was wondering about that. My recovery time from injuries and workout also has increased a lot. It's probably part of aging but testosterone could play a role too.
The Sweet Monopoly That Enriched the Mormon Church
According to Wikipedia [0]:

> ... the holder of the scientifically documented record for the longest a human has intentionally gone without sleep ... stayed awake for 264.4 hours (11 days 25 minutes).

So I'm gonna guess "no", it doesn't mean "without sleep".

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Randy_Gardner_(record_holder)
Personally, data structures. If you're using the correct data structure it doesn't mean you can't use a bad algo, but if you're using the wrong data structure it guarantees you're not solving the problem efficiently.

It's much easier to google "how to do X with graphs" to find some research on a great (if needed) runtime solution to your problem.

It's really hard to google "how to sort these things so I can quickly do X with them" of course ...

On top of that, if you have even a fairly-good data structure for your problem it makes coding and maintaining your solution that much more fun!
This simply doesn’t work when you have sparsely populated dimensions and/or you don’t know what dimensions are important in advance. Both of these are very common. That’s why you don’t see a higher prevalence of estimated measurement.
The most bizarre aspect of it is that the very same people that lament that fact, are also the ones who support all its causes and throw the most violent tantrums to scuttle improving the situation. We have tried it their way for decade after decade after decade, and the astronomical cost has only led to barely measurable improvements at wild cost/benefit ratios, while being unsustainable on their own essentially everywhere those measures are not artificially scaffolded and have heavy layers of spin and blatant propaganda lies applied to it.

Maybe the worst part of it is that those very people don't even understand that they are doing any of that because they have been manipulated and lied to about both the causes and solutions as they have ever increasingly been drawn into a cult in which up is down, left is right, and only the con job leaders benefit from it. When you have fixed, preconceived notions about outcomes, don't be surprised that you cannot achieve them with the existing variables. You end up having to bend and manipulate and rig and patch things ever increasingly and more bizarrely in order to maintain the desired end state or outcome that the system becomes ever more unstable and fragile. See the mid aughts housing fraud, aka, housing bubble for reference. The conclusion was that house prices can only go up, so everything was subsequently rigged through self-perpetuating incentives to support that fixed assumed outcome. Precisely what keeps us repeatedly doing the things that have no effect on the desired outcome. But at least it supports a huge non-profit industry complex that perpetuates itself under the guise of "helping" .... itself to your money.

It's quite frustrating that in spite of the truth and solution being right before our eyes, because truth and reality is too inconvenient and difficult and uncomfortable because it does not fit with preconceived conclusions and assumptions, we simply want to ignore reality and substituted our own. And so goes the perpetual poverty "problem" that we are seeking "solutions" for. Organizations can't even move away from Microsoft products simply because they get money from the Gates foundation ... and we want to solve poverty? It's a bad joke.

As someone has said, our "help" and development money is taking money from poor American children, in order to give it to rich Africans ... who then scurry it away into offshore bank accounts.

I know this may make some arteries pop, but the President of Uganda puts it well: http://thehill.com/policy/international/370435-ugandan-presi...
Trump admin. wants to end NASA funding for the International Space Station
This is the same fallacy as "our TAM is $500 trillion so if we just get 1% of 1% of 1%....!!!!"
So what do Switzerland, Germany and Iceland better than the rest of the developed nations?
Police fighting a class war? The vast majority of those 1000 deaths are unambiguously from the justified use of force, in self-defense and the defense of others. Believe it or not, there’s a lot of violent and bad people out there.
Show HN: 5400 TED talk texts open sourced
From wikipedia:

The company estimates a twelve-unit NuScale plant would cost $5,000 per kilowatt. In comparison, the Energy Information Administration in 2011 estimated costs to be $4,700 per kilowatt for conventional nuclear power, $4,600 for a carbon sequestration coal plant and $931 at a gas-fired plant or in excess of $1,800 for a gas-fired plant with carbon sequestration.

12 unit = 600kW => 3bn$

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

Re "Who can buy them?" - if you have the 3bn, you will probably be able to afford whatever license you need to buy that thing.
White House starts debate on when NASA should leave the space station
A lot of Europeans take some months (up to a year or more) to backpack across various regions and get service jobs in various countries for a month or 6 weeks while living at youth hostels. Lonely Planet press has books about this for various regions of the world.

When I (a USian) went backpacking across Tibet (being held up in Chengdu trying to even get to Tibet) and then Nepal with a friend of mine (also a USian) about 20 years ago, I met Tibetans (of course), Chinese (of course), a couple of Japanese, Australians and Canadians. But mostly British and continental Europeans. Call it 100~200 foreigners over about 6 weeks. Not. A. Single. American. Not one. [Yeah - I know: anecdote is not the singular of data]

Comparatively - Americans don't seem to get out much. In terms of global travel, I mean...
Apple Thunderbolt 3 (USB-C) to Thunderbolt 2 Adapter Guidelines
The Ten Commandments of Crypto Taxes
Funny enough, it only exists in places that are led by Democrats and liberals or are affected by Democrat and Liberal policies. But please prove me wrong. I just need one indisputable example and I will eat crow regardless of whether one exception doesn't make the rule.
Interesting isn't the word I'd use, but I understand what you mean. I really hope that a third party will start to grow. Whilst it may have benefits, I think the two-party-system feeds a lot into the "with me or against me" concept.
Ah, no worries. Post-quantum cryptography has a reputation for being somewhat excessively theoretical (which to be fair is a reasonable argument). But there are benefits other than post-quantum security. For example, lattice problems can provide security according to worst-case hardness, whereas factoring problems can only provide average-case hardness.

In other words, for some lattice problems, we can prove that breaking the cryptosystem is equivalent to breaking every instance of the lattice problem, but factoring problems only guarantee that breaking the cryptosystem is equivalent to breaking a subset of problems from some distibution. The former is a much stronger security assumption (though in practice this comes with its own set of challenges).

It’s an exciting area of research.
What else is the world for? Cities, along with everything else, exist to satisfy human 1) needs 2) wants. With 1) getting increasingly cheap, most of the effort is being spent on 2).
I think the end of the article is where the author(s) make the case for looking to help at home as much or more than abroad.

"The U.S." in this case is not the government or institutions, but rather the people who are willing and able to help others, and how the traditional "help poor countries" wisdom should be revisited and perhaps changed to "help poor people".
When I heard abut this the first time I also was surprised that this stuff is not available for free. In a country governed by laws it should be one of the most important things that the law is easily accessible to all people.
I think the authors point was that the companies are advocating for people to be using their services for as long as possible, and yet the bosses of the companies are using it minimally or not using it at all.

Once per day may indeed be a healthy usage but it's not the level of engagement desired by the companies.
The Eve team emphatically, from day one, had this stance.

It is perhaps indicative of a key strategic error that the course of the public work on Eve did not involve as clear as picture of the target vessel as of the programming language, especially given the churning on the PL implementation that dominated the last phases of the public effort at Eve.