skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"You don't need reflection to break parametricity."

Correct; I cited reflect just because it lets you do anything; i.e., you can get a type you don't understand at all, and reflect can go groveling through the type to see if it can find an embedded type it does understand, or even directly muck about with unrelated struct values, or any other crazy thing. Type switching requires you to be able to name the types you're going to examine in advance; with reflect you can even do horrible things to types that didn't exist when you wrote the code.

But then, the answer is mostly not to do that. Go isn't academically pure, but neither is it full of people writing crazy code like that. And so, technically, you can't use this reasoning in Go... but even so, enough of it is there that I get some mileage out of it. I find my expertise in Haskell transfers in Go in some bizarre and unexpected ways, because while Go doesn't have much, Haskell taught me a lot about exploiting what is there to the maximum I can. Even though by Haskell standards haughty sniff Go is barely even a programming language (well I never!).
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Correction: that you can control the IP space advertised to Let's Encrypt. A BGP exploit would result in getting valid certs for someone else's domain/host. It's almost trivial to exploit BGP, which is why PKI is so important... so it should actually be incredibly difficult to get a cert.
South Korea GDP per capita: $27,500

North Korea GDP per capita: $500

There's definitely some aggression going on against the North Korean people.
I am not sure why you are getting downvoted without rebuttals.
Not just in 'N>2' as the article states, but 'N' is also commonly used in Chinese slang as an mathematically-inspired, exaggerated or arbitrarily large number. E.g. "I've already told you N times" or "This plan has N number of problems." It's really N>>2.
Re sucking liquidity - any good candidate will go "fuck no" and your left with candidates "in need of some improvement" or those who rote learned through a CS degree.
You can't befriend everybody, true, which is why you should identify one senior executive you think can help and market yourself to him or her (again, I wish it didn't work this way, but it seems to).

You only need that person's recommendation, not that of 15 random fellow engineers.

Besides, your data 'proving' your value likely has no context or comparable benchmarks, after 30 seconds of numbers it's straight to your soft skills.

But yes, agree with your second point that it's up to the manager to protect his projects or champion his employees.
Consider contributing to open source, It has never been easier. Pick an interesting project, not too popular (there might be less to do if it's too popular) and start fixing shit.
Good question.

I recommend the podcast Economic Update:

https://player.fm/series/economic-update-with-richard-d-wolf...

It’s also available on iTunes and all the podcast apps.

For books, read Capitalist Realism by Mark Fisher. It’s a short read, too!

While there are many recent books of nuanced interested in what created these problems, books on how to fix them are fairly unnecessary. Just be open minded, honest and stop rewarding perspectives which by all accounts appear to have created the current problems.
I might as well join the anecdote bandwagon.

Currently operating in my household:
- A 2003 iMac G4 (iLamp) acting as a audio media server
- A 2004 17" PowerBook G4 that I use for long-form writing because the keyboard is just. so. comfortable.
- A 2008 iPhone 3G (not 3GS) with a remote dock that plays music in the library.
- A 2011 MacBook Air that I carry around in my bag and use almost every day. (Though the battery life is down to two hours.)
- A 2012 iPhone 4 I just replaced the battery in. It pumps out music to the neighborhood AM radio station in my closet.
- And finally, a launch day 2007 iPhone, which I don't use regularly, but keep in my desk drawer and turn on every once in a while for kicks, and to make sure it still works. Man, that screen is very hard to look at now after becoming accustomed to retina displays.

On the other side of the coin, I can't seem to make an Airport last more than 18 months. Fortunately, there's a neverending supply of them for $5-$10 at Goodwill.
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No replacement for displacement does hold true for diesels. I've seen some crazy fast, crazy large diesel pickups at the drag strip. 3.0L is about the displacement diesels can start making power, anything below that the limitations of physics are holding it back.
The problem with MLMs isn't just that they're pyramid-shaped. It's that they trick people into thinking they'll get rich when they'll probably just lose money. (If they succeed in making money, it will probably happen by scamming their friends and family. This is not how a business is supposed to operate.)
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Says the billionaire who hasn't had to worry about political repression or a natural disaster or anything else bad for that matter. Regular people need cash and anonymous currencies for all kinds of low-tech reasons. Arguments abound for why thing X is bad no matter what X happens to be. Just look at all the hatred the media has for Internet!

Even if you're not a fan of cash, you should be a little concerned that without it the Fed can pump the money supply even harder and screw regular people with inflation and negative interest rates with no exit door in sight.
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It certainly was not the first peaceful turn-over of power in history - there are many examples, but Cincinnatus[1] immediately sprang to my mind. He actually was given and then gave up dictatorial powers twice (note that being a dictator meant in the Roman political system something different than what it means today [2]).

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucius_Quinctius_Cincinnatus

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_dictator
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While I agree with your initial argument (#1), whataboutism is a plague.
Can it really be called a "power grab" when he already had all the power? This is more fait accompli.

A lot of speculation is that Xi is doing this because it's now basically impossible for him to retire now. Through the anti-corruption campaigns, the taking down of so many tigers, and pushing out vested interests as China tries to avoid the middle income trap, Xi has made too many enemies. If he were to retire as planned, there are too many in the party who would then move on him.
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Why would they not try to transition their customers to new certs _before_ getting all the old certs revoked though?

Seems like suddenly revoking 23k of their customer's certs with only 24 hours notice is just shooting themselves in the foot.
Anecdote: Many expats that live in China have commented on this. The Chinese don't care, they live their lives and the party lives its.
I specifically said that I do trust a set of people. Do you imagine that my small set of trusted people will personally vouch for the authenticity of millions of certs so that I can use the web? Of course not. You imagine instead that I'll trust the next set of people and so on, and that all this transitive trust will let me trust my bank's website. But I don't trust all those random people, which leads to a clear rejection of web of trust.
Trust is not a binary all or nothing state. I might trust a good friend to keep a secret about my finances generally, but I wouldn't trust that friend with my ATM card and pin.
Perhaps but we're not hiring for our autonomous car division, we're hiring people to write and maintain line-of-business applications based on half-baked requirements from non-technical business owners. The problems aren't terribly complicated and the code is relatively simple.
> TL;DR: Forget your EV or other certs. Just run “Let’s Encrypt”.

The author has a fundamental misunderstanding of the situation [1]. Trustico's awful decisions regarding

a) storing customers private keys and

b) improperly handling key material

Have no bearing whatsoever on EV certs, which verify the legal entities that run websites. This is like saying Trustico is bad, therefore HTTPS is bad.

[1] Assuming this is what the author said - the site is in plain HTTP so integrity isn't guaranteed.
Most folks would argue that the value people have derived from Windows and PowerPoint far outweigh any such downsides. Whether we can say the same about cryptocurrencies is much more easily debatable.
> evidence for neuroprogression (ie, increasing brain pathology with longer duration of illness) is scarce.

I get that this is an academic paper, so they need empirical evidence to base their study, but this is a case, to me, of anyone who has ever hung out long enough with depressed people whether that is going to support groups or living in a toxic environment, that, anecdotally, it is very apparent that this is the case.

Additionally, as a casual purveyor of recent neuroscience, the findings aren't surprising, not to take away from the accomplishments. Long term <any state of mind> permanently changes the brain. The brain isn't this static object where all your innate characteristics are bestowed upon you at birth -- your brain changes every day. Fighting this millennial-long engrained preconception is going to be the biggest challenge for a wide variety of mental health concerns in terms of getting public buy in to actually start solving the mental health crisis this country is currently facing.
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Revolution and violence tend to be the solution.
Wasn't NATO putting missile bases/defences in Turkey long before all this though?

Russia saw that as a provocation and a breach of previous agreements.
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If you played Civ5: no ideology is inheritly wrong. As long as the "public opinion" is "content", people would be happy with it. Player would intentionally choose Order or Autocracy to gain some "Tenets". E.g. Order usually gets you better productivity and Autocracy usually gets you better military power.

Right now people in China are mostly content with the current ideology.

This design actually matches reality very well: while US apparently chose Freedom ideology, China chose Order ideology. China would finish impressive large project faster and more efficient, with the cost of dictatorship.

http://civilization.wikia.com/wiki/Ideology_(Civ5)

(Civ5 got a lot of these right, including a technology called "the Great Firewall" to counter the cultural influence from other civilizations http://civilization.wikia.com/wiki/Great_Firewall_(Civ5) )
Google is crowdsourcing ideas for improving Pixel device settings
Nice that we are making some progress.

Long term depression will effect the way you think i.e. your brain, that seams obvious to me.
The mention of North Korea. The first sentence would be unobjectionable and true. If nothing else it's a violation of the putative local norms in which you really shouldn't bring an unrelated political hotbutton topic in to a discussion. Though I am both aware of the fact that rule is a great deal more nuanced in its connotations than its denotations, and the fact that whether it is "unrelated" is a matter of debate. (Though personally I'd submit that the evidence is that China would be cracking down regardless of the state of North Korea in any way shape or form, so yes, it's unrelated.)
That's a pretty good headline.
It's certainly possible to require that if debt collectors demand the courts help them collect their debt, that they have to provide certain pieces of evidence to the court.

This is already the case: in order to convince a court to garnish wages, debt collectors have to prove to the court that the person accused actually owes the debt. They could also be required to provide evidence that the person is wealthy enough to pay.

A person not paying and not being able to reasonably afford to is no crime and should not involve the court at all: the person who made the loan made a mistake. The reason lendors are allowed to charge interest is so that they can asses the risk they will not be able to recover their investment in some cases -- these are those cases.

If someone can pay and chooses not to, that is a matter for the courts, so if a debt collector wishes to have the courts take money from these people they should have to prove they fall into this category.
In related news, Trustico's site is down apparently due to users being able to run commands as root on their webserver.

I wonder if this was used to extract some private keys?

https://twitter.com/svblxyz/status/969220402768736258
https://twitter.com/Manawyrm/status/969230542578348033
There is levels of trust.

While I maybe trust someone to be a real person after I've met them in real life and ate their spaghetti to give me back the 10$ they borrowed, I wouldn't trust them to verify the identity of the IRS for me.

The current solution is that we have some third parties which follow strict rules defined by themselves and browser vendors. Everyone involved has a very good incentive to remain trustworthy, otherwise they'd be out of business.

Sadly this doesn't prevent bottomfeeders like Trustico, StartTLS and others to leech of the system while some are genuinely interested in securing everyone's communication (see LE)

The Web of Trust only works if your trust in someone is binary and understandable to a computer, otherwise the browser might tell you "This website is 35.218% Trustworthy".

HTTPS trust must be binary. Either the cert is trusted or it isn't.

It's even more fun; GPG is considering to abandon the WoT. They're switching to TOFU instead, the first time you see a key it's trustworthy, similar to SSH.
This is very much like "Damages" shows it is. Who knows how the game of hiding billions plays out.
Anywhere else, yea, but at Google specifically, not an option. Executives don't override the committee, except maybe Larry and Sergey. And if your advice is 'be friends with the CEO', I'm sure that'll scale right up.

The good news is that, based on reports from Googlers here, it sounds like the system is changing for the lower promotion tiers.
Worth pulling out the Google Cardboard (or fancier VR device) for this video.

It's pretty disorienting to turn around and see/hear her behind you. I spent a few minutes confusing turning 120 degrees for turning 180 degrees. I though she pulled some crazy hexaflexagon style trick in the video, since it took me 3 "about face" turns to get back to my original position.