skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't understand this artificial distinction between talent and luck. Isn't one lucky to possess the talent in the first place? What one does to develop that talent into something meaningful is of course a different matter.
Very easy, make Duolingo as a CAPTCHA for translating the web into Icelandic.
I think a rational CEO/CFO looks across intrinsic/organic investments in their own company, possible mergers and acquisitions, and share buybacks and "horse races" each of those possible uses for excess cash.

Whichever combination of those items provides the best risk-adjusted return is the one (or several) that they should choose. The risk of share buybacks is quite low. You more or less know what the outcome will be, so even if the reward of a successful M&A or an organic expansion project is higher, it may still be smarter to buyback shares once you discount the former possibilities for the uncertainty. This is even more true if you believe the stock market is undervaluing your firm's shares, which of course then becomes a very common storyline when buyback programs are announced or expanded.
Then click "deny", or (in the case of a native app) refuse to install the executable. Either way you're safe.

For those that _do_ require [such use cases][1] though; they can now do so without needing to expose their system to an unsandboxed native app.

[1]: https://wicg.github.io/webusb/#motivating-applications
GP absolutely has the right to their opinions, whatever they might be. As do you. As do I. "You don't have the right to that opinion" -- you are allowed to hold that disgusting opinion, but it is disgusting.

We judge -- we must judge. Fine. But I would much prefer that we say "that's wrong/dumb/whatever" and never "you do not get to speak [that or at all]".
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Actually it's cool that it was forked. But qt5 apps have pretty bad fonts view on my xfce desktop especially with black themes like Ark dark. That's why I am on KeepassX so far.
I believe something similar (maybe exactly that) was suggested later on in the thread.
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Right, it depends whether "market value" is referring to share price (your example) or market cap (which indeed should go down).
Some more info I've found:
- https://www.cnbc.com/2018/03/02/amazon-cloud-networking-outa...

- http://downdetector.com/status/aws-amazon-web-services/map/
Once an address has been doxxed, you've got a lead on any address used in a common transaction. It doesn't conclusively unmask these other addresses, so whether this counts as “really that difficult” depends on your investigative powers and your definition of “difficult”.

Because of KYC[1] and AML[2], an address belonging to an exchange wallet should probably be considered doxxed. An authority can say “Hey Coinbase, I see you sent coin from address A on this date. Show me what account that came from.”

CoinJoin[3] was intended to solve this problem, but apparently doesn't[6]. I was going to say that a decentralized cross-chain trading scheme[4][5] to launder through an anonymous currency such as Monero or ZCash might provide anonymity, but it looks like there's enough information to correlate the transactions across chains. (Even if there weren't, cross-chain trading might practically have one of the same issues as CoinJoin: that the transaction volume is just too low to provide anonymity.)

There's other cryptocurrencies designed to provide anonymity[8]. The Lighting Network[10] might add this to Bitcoin[11]; I don't know if that's still one of their goals.

EDIT: I somehow missed EthanHeilman's comment, above, when I wrote this. He says pretty much everything I said about why it's hard to keep Bitcoin activity private, more clearly. I included more links, though :-)

[1] "Know Your Customer", https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Know_your_customer

[2] "Anti Money-Laundering", https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Money_laundering#Anti-money-la...

[3] "CoinJoin", https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CoinJoin

[4] "Atomic cross-chain trading", https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Atomic_cross-chain_trading

[5] "First Ever Cross Chain Atomic Swap Between Bitcoin and Litecoin a Success", http://bitcoinist.com/first-ever-cross-chain-atomic-swap-bet...

[6] S. Goldfeder et al, "When the cookie meets the blockchain: Privacy risks of web payments via cryptocurrencies" (2017) https://arxiv.org/pdf/1708.04748.pdf.

[7] "Bitcoin Transactions Aren’t as Anonymous as Everyone Hoped ", Technology Review Aug, 2013, https://www.technologyreview.com/s/608716/bitcoin-transactio... summarizes [6].

[8] "Keybase chooses Zcash" https://keybase.io/blog/keybase-and-zcash has a fun example of address linkage.

[9] Sudhir Khatwani, "9 Anonymous Cryptocurrencies You Should Know About", 2/02/18. https://coinsutra.com/anonymous-cryptocurrencies/

[10] Lightning Network, https://lightning.network.

[11] Aaron van Wirdum, "How the Lightning Network Layers Privacy on Top of Bitcoin", Bitcoin Magazine, Dec 19 2016. https://bitcoinmagazine.com/articles/how-the-lightning-netwo...
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The US culture/society also tends to kill off non-English languages. Spanish is large enough and with a 'renewable' resource of Spanish speakers from other parts of the Americas that it manages to survive, but other languages do not fare as well.
IANAL, but I believe the Federal NLRA trumps any state-level at-will provision in much the same way as the EEOC operates. I don't even think formalizing a union is required, but simply banding together to improve working conditions automatically gives you protected status.
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Not sure how I can put it anymore clearly. You claim that Snopes is engaging in "culture war." I point out that Snopes is evenly applying its policies to both conservatives and liberals, giving the lie to your original statement.
HN policy states that topics should be relevant to tech and startups. This topic in particular clearly is and also garnered a lot of interest. Arguably a majority might actually be interested in discussing this topic as they might be perceived as a majority and be potential targets of this kind of discrimination. When an ideologically possessed social justice minority then in violation of HN policy and the interest of the audience remove it from the frontpage that is problematic.

It is also disingenuous to say this happens to articles on the prevailing viewpoint to the same degree. Articles on Damore and Fowler was plentiful, and they were not voted off the frontpage. The sin of oppressing critical viewpoints in the valley falls squarely on the social justice warriors.
I think that's backwards. Facebook is using Snopes as a source for detecting fake news, so once this showed up on Snopes as "False," FB flagged it as fake.
Ask HN: Browse all Rotten Tomatoes movies, but *only* by audience score?
I find the audience score more predictive than the critic score

Any way to browse this?
Attacking Christina Hoff Sommers is an indication of jumping the shark

http://www.weeklystandard.com/splc-targets-feminist-scholar-...
I have met Diego a few years ago at LatinCrypt, and if half of what he says is to be believed, it is much worse than that.

It is not just the possibility that "very dirty stuff" might be uncovered. It is the fact that in spite of all the restriction the Brazilian government throws in his way, he still is able to find ugly stuff, and it is not so much mallicious as utterly incompetent.
Here, learn some history.

https://www.aclu.org/other/aclu-history-taking-stand-free-sp...
Warning: autoplays music :)
In the case being tried, why is it not straightforward to demonstrate that higher costs for the merchants due to anti-competitive practices by credit card companies leads to higher costs for consumers, and therefore meets the two-sided market standard that the author fears?

I'm not sure on the edges whether the concept of harming competition for the benefit of consumers is just, but at least in the example case I don't see how this is an issue.

Are the standards for demonstrating harm so high that you can't make a strong legal case that higher costs for merchants gets passed to consumers?
It's honestly one of the most difficult ways to make money that you can think of. I've done it profitably, but that's only because I have a ton of background in ecommerce.
He may be implying a hybrid, which does non-spoken translation but also add emotional queues in order to make things clear.
> why do we constantly talk about getting more women in to tech but not men in to healthcare?

Who is we? HN? If so, the answer to that is obvious.

Your comparison needs more nuance, in my view. If health care had 100 people, 80 nurses (70% of which are women) and 20 doctors (10% of which are women) then you'd have a breakdown like the following:

Women: 56 nurses, 2 doctors

Men: 24 nurses, 18 doctors

If you said the median doctor has a salary of 200K and a nurse 65k, men are paid 5160K and women are paid 4040K. In other words men are paid 56% of the total healthcare salary despite only representing 42% of the workforce. So despite the majority of health care professionals being women, men are still overrepresented in terms of salary, and in a way, influence. This example obviously uses fake numbers, but is the crux of the problem.

Money allocation is more accurate than job allocation imo. Moreover, if you were to total men's salaries/wealth and compare it to women's wealth it would be overwhelming in favor of men. Discussions surrounding specific job types and their gender allocation are irrelevant and a distraction. If men and women represented the same amount of total wealth in the US I think these discussions would be more meaningful, but the disparity in wealth is reflected influence and consequently opportunity. So, yeah, more men will be reflected with higher percentages of the higher income opportunities. This is reflected in the BLS data:

Employees vs. Managers

Nurses vs. Doctors

Teachers vs. School Administrators

Business owners

etc. etc.

The issue has never been that men have more of the jobs. The issue is that men have all of the money. That's why people are talking about tech, and say, not education. The job discussion (particularly within tech) is just a way to attempt to solve a tiny aspect of the problem.
UiPath raising valuation for its ‘software robots’ for internal business tasks
He's replying on this forum because he's lucky enough to have a life with enough leisure time to shitpost on a web forum.
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Edit: Can't delete anymore because someone replied but I don't want to be part of this debate at this time so I am redacting this post.
Unfortunately I can't say with confidence; mine is one of the servo-controlled ones that cost exactly $1K (new). I don't have first-hand experience with the stepper-driven ones. I will say, however, that 3D printers in the sub-$5000 space are pretty much all steppers, and those work great, so I doubt a stepper vinyl cutter would have positioning problems. The forces involved aren't high enough to make the drive system miss steps, skip belt teeth, etc..
I said nothing about culture wars.
I'm hoping they can get a Gnome environment with high DPI support that isn't ridiculously crash prone...

With my Arch install with a basically stock Gnome configuration (and Linux LTS and Nvidia LTS drivers), I have two 4k 28" monitors which means I need fractional scaling. So I have to make some X11 config file for that, which works, except that gnome-session core dumps any time the screen is locked.

And of course, that means all my apps are closed which is incredibly annoying. Gnome 3 used to be pretty reliable, it seems to have taken a nose dive in reliability recently.

I'm at the point now where instead of rebooting into Windows to do something I can only do on Windows, I'm rebooting into Linux to do what I can only do on Linux.
Iranians are considered white?!
> Many people deny this
Maybe, but nobody brought it up before you did.

>People tend to think luck is heavily about positioning >yourself to succeed.

>I think that's true, but I also believe that the most >important factors to putting you in those lucky positions >are not in your control.

>Someone who is not already born into a lucky position has >to get even more lucky to succeed.

That we all agree on, what we disagree on is you trying to elevate race above all other uncontrollable factors in ones life. I don't know if it's true or not, but you probably don't have the data to back that assertion up.

> You telling me to simply stop talking about something that I believe is an important point to make is very strange.

Because we are trying to have a civil and deep discourse about an important subject . Any social issue under the sun can be related to racial issue, from violence to education level to health; It's doesn't mean that adopting a racial frame is the best way of discussing,reflecting and solving those issues. We aren't even sure to which part race is a causing vs a correlating factor.
What we do know however is that race is such a polarizing subject (in the US at least) that trying to shoehorn race into a debate is a sure way to derail it. Not to mentioned the blatant disrespect to all the other type of human experience that somehow you think are worst than being black in america (mental health and devellopmentale issue for example, and yes see we can all play the game of who as it worst...)...

So ultimately it's not that race is not important, it's that it's not a useful frame for every subject.

And yes i am black, and on my wish list of stuff i want to change about myself higher social status, more money, higher overall sexual attractiveness come way before race...
If you mean "The Role of Luck in Life Success Is Far Greater Than We Realized", that's misleading because the actual result was the output of a computer simulation. So we took the misleading bit out, per https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html. It was also linkbaity, so that guideline applies too.

If you mean the title of the other post, it had the same problem and we edited it in response to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16497343.
We're lucky to work with a great group of investors-- the investors we work with at Andreessen Horowitz both have PhD's, one in CS, the other in EE. Our investor at Lux Capital has a PhD in RF engineering. Another of our investors has a PhD in particle physics. Couldn't ask for a more knowledgable, technically minded group.
Yeah XIP is the only way to go for small config these days. There's some nice QSPI controllers that helps there, however, it's still such a waste.

What's forgotten about is the impact on readability in the kernel...

Last week I was discussing with a colleague a patch needed for our SoC in the 8250 serial driver. In the IRQ handler, we needed to do an extra test...

And my problem was that this test would be running on a bazillion machines if upstreamed, for about 0.000000001% chance of ever be executed, bar for our own low volume, industrial SoC. We'd add cycles to a critical code path for zero reason, and without conditional compile, nobody would know by reading the code.

So, after mulling over it, we decided to get it upstream anyway at some point. The conclusion was that we didn't make these rules, we're just following them.

Thing is, a lot of that stuff is happening; you have that vendor specific property that is tested, change a flag somewhere, and code all over use that flag for testing of features that have 0% chance of happening on that arch/machine. In the meantime, all that becomes code bloat, with codepath that are actually 'exceptions' bloating the code in a way you can't even 'see' them by reading the code.

Sad?

</rant>
They seem pretty efficient to me. If you disagree, then you can simply short/long the inefficiencies that you see and make a profit.
Take nation-states creating tools that can then be repurposed by anyone and hardware that is insecure all the way down and you have a cyberworld where it looks like offense is going to be superior to defense for a while.

This is the way real world warfare has gone historically. Guns made medieval armor obsolete, defenses against missiles are more fig leaves than serious factors and simple mobile units have become standard.
It seems obvious to me that disambiguating _correctly_ would necessarily improve performance. As an extreme example, homonyms like bark (the verb) and bark (on a tree) have nothing to do with each other, and ideally would be considered two different words.
I know to do that. How about my grandma, who just clicks whatever button looks like it'll make the message go away sooner?

The web is a disaster and WebUSB is a prime piece of evidence supporting this.
Right place at the right time is a stacker, like so many (most?) things.

Being in the right place at the right time, is probably worthless without the necessary skill/s (where studying/learning/education can come in) and attributes to take advantage of the opportunity in question.

Maybe you meet an elite investor in an elevator and have an opportunity to pitch them. You lack the technical skill or experience to bring it home. You perhaps never really had a shot at that right place + right time moment (so was it ever an opportunity at all? Is it a sliding scale? debate loop).

Some of what we can be is defined at birth. If your brain wiring is very heavily tilted toward being an artist, you likely will not be the next John Carmack. Adrian Carmack could not do what John could no matter how hard he tried (I know they're not related, I couldn't resist). I know there are exceptions to these rules, they're exceptions however.
For starters, its own libc and a proper filesystem (the author wrote their own ext2 implementation).
Yes, he did.

"You found that your view of the world, your ideology, was not right, it was not working?" Greenspan agreed: "That's precisely the reason I was shocked because I'd been going for 40 years or so with considerable evidence that it was working exceptionally well."
The nice thing though is that, although the added attack surface is there, its not really accessible to web pages until a user grants the necessary permissions. Not really all that different from telling users to execute a native app in that respect.

In this case it's not even an exploit really; more like social engineering. (Tricking users into granting the phishing site unrestricted access to their Yubikey, then using that access to trick the user into authenticating a login session for the phishing site.)
After the financial crisis, people were demanding that CEO pay be tied to company performance. So instead of large salaries, CEOs were given large equity positions ( options ). The politicians/people thought this was a punishment, but it was actually a great boon for CEOs. Not only do they pay 20% on capital gains instead of nearly 40% on salary, they can boost stock prices artificially over the short term by taking out loans ( nearly 0% for the last 10 years ) and then buy stocks back.

This is also a favorite hedge fund raid. Hedge funds open up large positions on companies. Demand board seats. Get board seats and then get the execs to sell assets, layoff employees and take out loans to buyback shares. Get out with a nice profit. And the company is left with a huge debt loan that'll crush them once interest rates rise.
I donate to the Innocence Project.
I don't understand this argument at all. The poster claimed that his provider automatically scheduled an x-ray before any patient was seen. My understanding while reading was that this was regardless of the reason for the appointment.

How can this be reasonable? It's impossible to know if imaging is required before seeing the patient, so it seems to me that a large number of these x-rays were unnecessary. In fact, the poster mentioned that on his last two visits he skipped the imaging and the doctor wouldn't have needed it anyway, bolstering my suspicion.

I could be totally misunderstanding, but it sounds like you are arguing that requiring imaging before each visit is reasonable. That just sounds way off base to me and like an easy way to ratchet up the cost for each and every patient.
What UCLA is doing, as well as most universities is the difference between a university and a trade school. these courses do, and should focus on the fundamentals. University is teaching the theory, and having a fundamental understanding. Otherwise there are ample trade schools and code camps, that will skip the fundamentals, and teach you the basics of programming tailored to the current job markets needs.

As for the argument that C++ isn't good learning language, I beg to differ, it gets you very close to the meat of how programming works, without the layers of abstraction that higher languages offer. C++ requires that you understand memory, its allocation, and allows you easily to see how it interacts.
Yeah.. Engine change years into development. Though in fairness this is not that big of a deal yet also not that helpful, as lumberyard is essentially cryengine with extra amazon netcode afaik.
Ironically, the base definition of “Bigot” is simply intolerance of those who hold different opinions. This describes the social justice Left quite a bit more than it does the Right currently.

So, yes, people are indeed blindly calling folks “Bigot” without thinking through what doing so implies about their own tolerance toward others.
With regard to the supreme court case itself, and the question of the credit card merchants having an oligopoly... What's stopping Paypal, Square, Stripe, or even Apple Pay from making the leap from payment processor to issuing their own Credit/Debit cards?
Appears possible with their API https://developer.fandango.com/Rotten_Tomatoes

Movieo.me doesn't do this :(

Do any other services have a RT audience score filter?
> posses a view from a bubble that is very different than the perspective from people there. Overall, people just want to have food, shelter and a good living. They could care less about who is ruling them.

Seems like just different bubbles, actually. I'm somewhat skeptical of taking at face value the opinions of a population subject to authoritarian information controls. Even in such a case, you're likely to get very different opinions of a government like China's in Xinjiang or Tibet than you will in Beijing. Both groups are only able to form their opinions of the whole from the very limited pieces available to them.

I think the most interesting perspectives come from people with a foot in both worlds. I have friends who don't want China to become a democracy, at least not right away, because they're afraid of what it would do. The CCP has kept the necessary civil society weak, and encouraged popular nationalist sentiments that could be very dangerous if put into action.
Absolutely. It's a low-risk move that reduces the number of shares rather than increasing earnings. But it follows (if the leadership of company you bought is rational) that they've decided there aren't enough organic investments or good M&A prospects to make a full deployment of their cash worthwhile. They are effectively giving the money back.

If you invested because you believe in the long-term growth prospects of the company, then you expect them to plow their cash into increasing the top line, and a buyback can be a disappointing signal. If you invested because you believe it's a good income stock, a buyback is exactly what you want.
Someone with an IQ of 70 is not going to have a graduate education. In this case education and wealth would both be results not causes.

Similarly, having well off parents drastically increases the chances of getting a graduate degree.
Unfortunate name clash (https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse)
Bitcoin falling out of favor on dark web due to volatility and transaction costs