skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In my [layman's limited] experience, the definition of "The American Dream" that most economists use is exactly what you suggest; the ability to move up a level (or more) from the starting position. Easy to quantify and measure. And by this measurement, the majority of the rest of the Western world is better at offering The American Dream to their citizens than America is.
The original comment was cynical wasn't it?
What you are describing is a specific scenario based on specific solutions. I see multiple things going wrong there.

Chrome shouldn't access your credentials without telling you what it's used for. Chrome shouldn't expose cryptographic identities in incognito mode. The Yubikey's output is vague.

What can we learn from that?

Chrome has shortcomings in this domain. Just one monochrome LED is maybe not enough output to give reasonable feedback.

My online banking security system is called chipTAN and uses a small, monochrome, low-res display to give essential information for what is being processed which I need to acknowledge. That works well, but is also a single-purpose solution.

For identification on the internet, a solution based on GPG seems reasonable. Imagine a small display that shows the receiver you are identifiying to, the identity you are using, and for how long the identification is valid, and then you can acknowledge that.
thanks jfarlow. do you recommend any of them specifically?
my senior citizen parents have surround sound speakers and the left rear is blown out. Drives me crazy every time I go there but they don't seem to notice it.
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Granted, but it’s the ability to distinguish them from others that seems to be the relatively hard part.
Same - was thinking of doing the same think in France... but I have heard good things about northern romania
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All of this cloud data will eventually be funneled into your social credit score ("Sesame Credit"). This is already happening. Chinese individuals are being ostracized from personal and professional relations because of their score.

China invented whuffie, but in the most dystopian and fascist way possible.

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Edit with citations as requested. (I'm not asserting that this social pressure is universal or even common yet.)

[0] https://www.wired.com/story/age-of-social-credit/
She explained how to boost my score. “They will check what kind of friends you have,” she said. “If your friends are all high-score people, it’s good for you. If you have some bad-credit people as friends, it’s not nice.”

[1] https://theconversation.com/chinas-social-credit-system-puts...
“Since last December, the National Development and Reform Commission and Central Bank of China began to approve pilot plans to integrate big data with the Social Credit System. As one of China’s first pilot provinces, Guizhou province was selected to showcase a government-led experiment of a big data-empowered Social Credit System.”

Australia, for example now lowers your credit score if you pay bills late. But it doesn't (yet?) penalize you for who you associate with.
Remember what happened they tried to predict the flu. https://www.wired.com/2015/10/can-learn-epic-failure-google-...

In https://www.kaggle.com/c/diabetic-retinopathy-detection actually ML algo did better than humans. Yet it will take time for apply these widely.
That's what I thought as well. It doesn't seem that they though farther than "if you pirate our game, we'll get all your passwords to everything".

Goddamn that's all sorts of evil and disproportionate. They should be sued to hell.
You could potentially print gold via nuclear fusion / fission reactors. However the cost would be several orders of magnitude higher than few grams of gold produced.

All successful forms of money share the following characteristics: counterfeit resistant, rare, fungible, easily transportable, little to no carrying cost, and high value per unit (another way to say rare). Its no accident that human society settled upon gold as representation of this ideal since it closely fits all these criteria. Its possible that crypto will change this however...
Counterpoint which has already been proven effective re cryptocurrency: https://www.xkcd.com/538/

https://www.engadget.com/2017/12/30/cryptocurrency-expert-ki...
Harder to run bicycle chop shops in shelters too.
https://www.theworknumber.com/Employees/DataReport/
If they are in the US, anybody on whose PC this ran, including the Cracker, can probably get them all thrown in jail for CFAA violations.
They extracted Lenin from Switzerland and transported him in a sealed train ("like a bacillus") during the war in the hope he would destabilize Russia. Which he did.
The Political Chimp
The parent said that the US government was one of the most charitable too and I was disputing that. There are some extremously generous private donors.
It’s not that crazy. YC wants businesses with the potential for billions in revenue. If your ceiling seems like it might be millions or tens of millions, you don’t meet their criteria.
Self-driving car on Moscow streets after snowfall [video]
"The proposed tax reform package stakes out America’s bid to become the most unequal society in the world, and will greatly increase the already high levels of wealth and income inequality between the richest 1% and the poorest 50% of Americans....It is against this background that my report is presented."

It's interesting that he is a law professor (not an economics professor) and yet he stated this as if it were incontrovertible fact, with no facts to back up his prediction, and then went on to base much of the rest of his report on it. That statement may turn out to be true, and it may turn out to be false, but it is certainly not settled fact.

It renders this entire report meaningless, as it is based on nothing more than speculation on the part of a clearly biased author about what the outcome of recent tax policy changes will be.
They infected all of their users with malware. Users they believed were pirates had usernames and passwords stolen, while legitimate users have been exposed to the risk of the malware. For the pirates, while they broke the law, this company has broken the law by unlawfully obtaining their credentials and using those credentials to impersonate them in various services. Many steps in this process are illegal in the countries in which this dev operates.
> If his memo was railing against, say, the Irish, would you still think he wasn't harassing any of his Irish colleagues?

If an entreprise I work in would start things such as saying "there is not enough Irish in the entreprise", have a skewed hiring process towards Irish, imposes me lessons about how to behave around Irish, and forbid the use of French even when only French speakers are around, yes I would totally support someone (of every nationality) asking the hierarchy what is going on. Or I may even do it myself.

The only case it would be acceptable is of course a company which makes money based in Irish culture and language, which then require these specific people to be hired. But on the women side of the things, as I consider them totally equals to men and thus apt to do the same technical jobs as men granted we speak of the same education level, I don’t see why they should be favored over men. And some women in my lab totally think that way too. One actually told me she hates this type of policies because it kinda lowered her work to get her job (not that’s easy either to succeed as a man).
That can be equally true of crypto.
> 3. You are expected to be drug and alochol free in a shelter. For someone with an addiction, this may not be something they can accept.

There's an addition to this: pets, especially dogs but also rats. For many homeless people their pets are their only living companion - but shelters accepting people with pets are a rarity even in Europe. Of course, because multiple dogs in the same space will lead to all night barking, territory fights etc. - this is why unconditional (!) housing first policies are the only thing that works.
I am suprised that at 3000 people the company doesn't have offices all over.

I worked mostly remotely for one Bank - mostly because I arranged to have 2 desks and then slowly moved home and worked from the different offices. I love face to face sometimes and remote (full concentration) other times.

Again I find that a lot of people can't handle it. Like a basic rule should be that you should respond within 1-30 min to any chat message.
No mention of the kinds of pigments and binders. That would be interesting to know as well.
Computing Pi using a needle and a sheet of paper
Perfect, thanks!

So I guess it means about 2-3 years from now.
No, they aim to move homeless so that whatever camp they create is not their de facto home.

SF spends a mind boggling amount of money on supporting the homeless population and trying to get them back on their feet. Unfortunately this compassion is rewarded by many more homeless people moving to SF to take advantage of the amenities.
There is an inherent poetic quality to the inner workings of nature and living beings. Certainly synthetic biology should reflect that ;)

I also think you've hit upon something fundamental. The use of light and photons as the lowest common denominator in biochemical function. Not just in the optogenetic sense. But as the basic building block in biophysics.
A smart contract, once published, cannot be amended.

Not entirely true. You can have storage variable pointing to an external contract which contains the logic, and this variable can be updating after deployment.
A modern crowdfunding platform. I've been searching for one but only found several abandoned work-in-progress packages or old/slow/insecure stuff. Wish I had the time to start a project :(
> My understanding is that "tagged unions" and "sum types" are the same thing

Well, your understanding is wrong. Sum types satisfy a specific universal property, which union types don't.
In the proposed system, I would imagine Social Security and Medicare should generally operate separately from income taxes, but if the revenue from their specific taxes isn't enough for their spending, taxes would be adjusted up by default. Congressional action could adjust benefits down or transfer money from the general fund.

Welfare, tax credits, and healthcare (outside of Medicare) is all spending, paid for by the general fund. The proposal is to automatically adjust taxes to match.
It would have depended on which part(s) of the White Movement would have been included in the new government.

There were a lot of leaders in the movement that had no problem with autocracy as long as it was their autocracy.
Because simulator addon developers - especially flight sim addon developers - are barking mad and have views on piracy that would make Jack Valenti blush.
Fair enough, combined all purposive deaths, though hotly debated, per wikipedia under Stalin alone the number ranges from 8 to 61 million. So my tens of millions in that context is not out of line though safer to say millions. Either way its abhorrent.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mass_killings_under_Communist_...
Can anybody say which kind of function on these graphics?

Distribution of atoms in Solar systems looks like cos(m): https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/e6/SolarSys...

Star clusters, looks like sin(s): http://cdn.iopscience.com/images/0004-637X/725/2/1717/Full/a...

Exoplanets, looks like sin(m): http://exoplanets.co/img/exoplanets-mass-distribution.jpg (more at
http://exoplanetsdigest.com/author/yaqoob/ )
100% this. I’ve been transitioning to doing more devops/admin work for the past several months and it’s amazing the stuff people are willing to put into production. Like no, maybe we shouldn’t be committing that secret to Github. Dedicated operations critters are essential for any kind of service.
video talk : https://m.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLJkLD_s9pYaYteD-3LxQd2f...
OS/2 2.x had WinOS2 to run 16 bit programs for DOS and Windows. OS/2 3.0 did 32 bit OS2 but not Windows 32 bit.

Still running 16 bit DOS and Windows programs meant that developers did not target an OS2 binary because a Windows binary was all they needed.
I think you worded your way around my question. You can fake people out without a nuclear reactor. And it looks like we settled on USD (or other workarounds to gold, for ages now), not gold.
Apologies for going off topic but what the hell did the developers of that do to the keys? If you scroll down and then use the down arrow you're taken to the top of the page and, paradoxically, one of the nav items opens. Can't use Command-Left Arrow to go back in the history. Just does nothing. Did they do that on purpose? Who thought that was a good idea? One I hope doesn't spread.
To be fair, though, history can be rewritten, albeit sometimes with some difficulty.
I don't think it's a reason that wasm exists, but I do think it's one of the (multiple) reasons for us to invest in making Rust -> wasm an excellent experience.
You can overflow 32bit integers fairly easily if your doing math with unix epoch microseconds.
> I don't understand how people are overflowing 32 and 64 bit integers

Some tame examples:

- When retrofitting >4GB file support into an existing program.

- Counting in milliseconds (e.g. GetTickCount overflows every ~50 days - if that causes you a crash, it will be a very nasty rare bug, to the point where windows checked builds actually advance that time by ~49 days to make it repro faster: https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/ms7... .)

A less tame example:

- Any deserialization that involves untrusted sources. (So, all deserialization - there's a reason your IT department doesn't want you opening random PDFs!)

Say you have an array. So you allocate "sizeof(Element) * elements" bytes. Attacker picks "elements" such that this overflows to a small/near-zero value - which successfully allocates - does a similar amount of IO, which also succeeds - then tries to loop over "elements" number of array elements, which didn't overflow without the multiply, and is now reading uninitialized memory.

At minimum this is a potential denial of service attack (just read until you hit an unmapped page.)

But it's easy to see how this could be (ab)used for data exfiltration as well in a typical C codebase. Say this is a simple echo or chat server - it's going to write whatever it reads to someone, and won't stop until it crashes (if it crashes). That uninitialized memory might be private messages to other users... or it might be database credentials, or worse.

And this chat server probably copies that data it read around - so now you've got potential buffer overflows writing data. In the old days, you could use this to stomp x86 instructions with your own - pwned! Nowadays you have to use slightly more complicated techniques like ROP chains and figuring out ways to defeat ASLR - but the fundamental potential is still there.

It's worth noting that panicing doesn't actually fix the potential denial of service attack. But it probably makes it easier to figure out what's going on when fuzzing for such problems, makes unintentional overflows clearly bugs to be fixed rather than "eh whatever's" to be ignored, and helps prevent the more serious variations on that attack.
Property is a big one.
Microsoft uses a local partner to remain at arms length.
I think it makes more sense to have a guaranteed basic income to cover living expenses doled out to everyone, then moving to flat sales tax, -- on all out-going money.

If you pay an employee that's a payment/purchase, if you buy food that's a payment/purchase, if you put money in an investment the broker fee is taxed, and when you get money back the increase is taxed.

When you buy a home, plane, apartment, land, car, all taxed at the same rate of 10% or so... (whatever is decided).

Since GBI would help lift a lot of people up, more people could then afford the sales tax. PErhaps we could also have a tax discount card which basically just proves U.S. citizenship so travelers to America essentially pay a 'tarriff' for being in the country. Instead of kicking out illegals then - they'd simply be paying more for groceries and not getting GBI because they're not citizens.

Obviously there's room here for discussion on what should/shouldn't be considered a purchase/sale and what not, but it needs to also possibly grab more from the rich, for instance maybe every dollar put into an offshore account is taxed at some rate, or maybe have also a 3% tax on a person's total net worth over 100k.
That's the irony. People who focus more on getting shit done are bad in the interviews.

I've come to accept that being good for interviews is just another thing you have to get done, that it's something people have to put effort in, some more than others.
Having close to 0 understanding on the subject can't CRISPR theoretically be used to "cut out" the virus DNA to actually cure HPV and other viruses.
Dave Allen's Getting Things Done worked well for me. Although I don't see it as a time management strategy, more of a task management system.

I don't really use the location-context lists. What I found handy was the task workflow and getting to inbox-zero (no un-handled emails in the inbox).

When I first implemented it at work, I spent three days going through some 2k+ emails. I found about 6 or 7 emails in that lot that probably needed some action, or was sparking some idea that actually was quite valuable.

But the bulk of emails you can either delete (you'll never need it again) or store for retrieval. And the few that require an action, either do it immediately (if it's less than two minutes) or defer/delegate.

Another life-hack is to be ruthless and unsubscribe from as much as possible... almost none of it is necessary.
“I just logged into my server! <Share on FB><Tweet this>”

Yeah, that’s frustrating. Mobile app permissions are a gross nightmare.
In what way is it controversial that the major beneficiaries of the tax reform will the richest parts of society? I thought that's pretty obvious.
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> 2. My visit coincides with a dramatic change of direction in US policies relating to inequality and extreme poverty. The proposed tax reform package stakes out America’s bid to become the most unequal society in the world, and will greatly increase the already high levels of wealth and income inequality between the richest 1% and the poorest 50% of Americans

Really hard to take this seriously. I don’t think anyone in the US needs a tax cut right now, so I oppose the tax reform. But the fact is that before the Trump tax cuts, US corporate tax rates were higher both in theory and in practice than in Germany, France, Australia, Canada, etc. https://www.npr.org/2017/08/07/541797699/fact-check-does-the...

Our taxes are also far more progressive than Germany, France, and Sweden: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2013/04/05/ameri.... Trump’s tax plan won’t change that: the cuts in the top rates are very small and even most people in the top 1% won’t be able to take advantage of things like pass through treatment.
>>> graphene, a discovery with enormous potential that would never leave the lab

Just noticed that LL Bean is selling PrimaLoft jackets with Aerogel tech. When mass demand for something like a flexible graphene based display meets economic viability. Then we can expect exponential adoption. But a priori prediction is shrouded in uncertainty.
Here's the original:

https://www.cnn.com/2018/02/18/politics/bill-gates-taxes-cnn...

"I need to pay higher taxes," Gates, who is worth over $90 billion, said in an interview with CNN's Fareed Zakaria on Sunday.
"I've paid more taxes, over $10 billion, than anyone else, but the government should require the people in my position to pay significantly higher taxes," he said.

That first sentence sort of simplifies the interpretation.
Ok, Clojure is a lisp-1 like Scheme, CL is a lisp-2.

Clojure is not based on CONSes but you have CAR and CDR they are first and rest. Processors are no more based on accumulator and decrement registers... :D

Cons exists but it works only on lists as CONSes doen't exists in Clojure, only lists.

Empty list != nil.

Clojure is based on immutability like Scheme, CL is often used in a mutable way (see the shameful f-set).

{}, [], #{} are syntactic sugars and have already been implemented in CL.

Clojure is an hosted language, so Clojure, ClojureScript, ClojureCLR can be somewhat different, but the core language is the same (same base Clojure library).
Australia is, bluntly, seen as a bit of a philosophical backwater. Additionally some of the most recent en-vogue leftie thought has come from the US - particularly bell hooks, judith butler, etc.
While I agree with your point, I'd like to add on that very high retention is also bad. It's where complacence thrives, and these places often weed out more ambitious people like OP via politics.
> in which a sitting congresswomen

That's a part of the problem right there: Gabrielle Giffords is a woman, not a man - unlike the other 78% of Congress. As usual with politics, as long as you're not a white, able-bodied male with money, no one will care what happens to you. There will be a couple of rallies, maybe a week or so of media headlines and that's it. Oh and maybe anniversaries of the event.

Sounds cruel but I have the feeling that it will need a rich white powerful politician's kid to die or be maimed in a mass shooting to have any effect on gun control. And even then, I wouldn't bet my money on actual change happening.

As for mental health, no idea how more funding for that can ever be passed. Unlike with a person with a wound it's difficult to "see" mental health issues (or, the healing process), and a culture in which mental health issues are regarded as "weaknesses" that must be ignored/covered-over than be helped doesn't help eithr.
If it's plugged in all the time it's not cycling the battery. It's resting at 100%. If frequent small discharges/recharges is a problem you can let individual cells take turns discharging. I'm pretty sure battery problems of this sort are apocryphal at this point. I'd change my mind if somebody who worked on them told me otherwise.
Interesting, and sad to read. Our America has many problems, many of which shouldn't exist on a nation as rich as ours. What amazes me is, did he gather all that, first hand, within two weeks?!
Hear, Hear. At the same time, Typescript's type system is getting so complicated, and the syntax so fugly because of it, that I'm tempted to go back to straight ES6.
Could you explain how the statement "before the Trump tax cuts, US corporate tax rates were higher both in theory and in practice than in Germany, France, Australia, Canada, etc. https://www.npr.org/2017/08/07/541797699/fact-check-does-the... rebuts the professor's claim that the tax cuts will "greatly increase the already high levels of wealth and income inequality"?
Python has static typing? Since when? In what form?
Yes the article says that pirates were not only generating keys but patching the software to validate against their own servers.
That's practically died. Startups that come out now are mainly seeking luxury crowds or user attrition from facebook/whatsapp/etc. We are innovation saturated with the few areas left to innovate taking more time and funding than investors are willing to invest in. You can see this pattern in the demands to work faster/harder for the glory of being an entrepreneur, or fail and lose it all until your next quick idea...
I don't doubt the gist of most of the report. We could do much better with the money we spend on Health...

but this sounds odd: "Neglected tropical diseases, including Zika, are increasingly common in the USA"

Given that a few years ago it was unheard of disease by most professionals.
It’s a very biased framing. Even with the changes, our tax system is more progressive than say France or Germany.