skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree. Good exercises will make you realise that you haven't actually read the chapter properly and you should probably go back and actually pay attention!
Building a technical blog answers the question "How?" I think you want to focus on "Why?" What is it that you want to achieve? Do you want to become famous, become seen by a group as an expert, make money? Think about the "Why?" and the "What?" should become a bit more obvious.
No, Walmart’s Q4-2017 ended on January 26, 2018. Q4-2018 doesn’t start for several months.
Or the trip is very dangerous, and the refugees are counting on regulations that make it easier for a family member to migrate, to bring their family in the safe way.

Plus, most syrians I've met told me that the reason why they left was because they were facing conscription. That's male-only.
thank You all for Your responses - it turned out an interesting question for me which I plan to dive deeper into during following weekend :)
They are:

- http://blog.atom.io/2017/09/12/announcing-atom-ide.html

- http://blog.atom.io/2017/11/15/code-together-in-real-time-wi...

Still beta, though.
Ising-APL
I use and develop Standard Notes: https://standardnotes.org.

Full encryption + cross-platform.
Disclaimer: I work on software (Linux) at Intel.

There are certainly non-JIT-related mitigations out there.

https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/lin...
I'm no expert, but rather than watching attacks for three years and then issuing some ineffectual reports and sanctions, wouldn't it have been better to just lock down the damn power plants? If you're smart enough to notice all this nefarious activity and correctly attribute it to somebody on the other side of the globe even though we know that other parties use all the same tools they use, why aren't you smart enough to just fix the vulnerabilities they're using? Curious!
Have you read up much on the education system of Finland? As this is more or less the opposite of their approach.

They do not stream the education system and the quicker children are expected to help explain what they have learned to those still getting to grips with the material. Integrating this method within the lesson structure has the effect of raising the standard of both the slower and quicker kids, for fairly obvious reasons.
Nobody is more confident than a hedge fund trying to get your cash. It’s still a zero sum game and not really an applicable metaphor here.
I wanted to post the exact same quote.

To understand the problem faced here it's worth trying to just watch people. Guess what people are saying to each other.
From what I can tell they used verbal & numerical reasoning tests, which does to some degree fit a definition of intelligence.

It doesn't measure anything well rounded about a person and it makes me pretty uncomfortable to think this kind of thing could actually be used to divide people.
I wonder when there will be a swab test for political ideology?
You Don't Need Another Tool
Geohash is a great idea, but at the end of the day all these systems are a mapping to latitude,longitude. The lat,lon precision can be derived from the number of digits after the decimal point.
The main argument for the existence of these systems is that lat,lon is hard to remember. Here is a simple solution, convert any lat,lon pair to an easier to remember pair (ie a pair where numbers are repetitive, consecutive, etc).

for eg: 45.89988,-64.36288 -> 45.9,-64.363

and so on. It is a simple hack making ll memorable without sacrificing much accuracy.

https://geocode.xyz/45.89988,-64.36288
Is it really so bad if it makes them happier? And if the society is happier in aggregate?

I have friends like these, who, if they were to be shoehorned into doing highly abstract creative work, would be downright miserable and would eventually burn out.

People look at BNW as some type of dystopia, but I felt like the novel handled it rather well in the sense than there is a place for outliers to be free as well, without coercion (Iceland).

The people who thought they didn't fit in their 'caste' so to speak weren't forced to work at gunpoint.
It wasn't a gas, it was a powder (most likely).

Russia's activities are probably more inward looking than outward. On March 18th Russian citizens will vote for their next president. Reaction (however warranted) by the Western powers will play well at home for Putin.

"LOOK! The world hates us, let me protect you."
I think you can only "prove" things about the system you construct.

While this is true in a literal sense, often the question is not whether a model is definitively correct, it is whether a simpler model is sufficient to explain real-world phenomena where more complex models have been previously hypothesized. In those cases, we should generally prefer the simpler explanation, even if neither is yet proven in a formal sense.
They say it's stored in the systems credential store so in theory a plugin wouldn't have access to it anyways.
That why you should start small but cover most common cases first. Then gradually work on policies to simplify byzantine rules. Retrain some people and keep internal dev team.

IBM promised a big bang that would be finished before the election. What could possibly go wrong?

I think that there is a positive aspect. Other governments will learn from mistakes when ordering expensive projects like this.
From the paper:

> Between 3.64 and 6.84% of phenotypic intelligence (as measured by the VNR Test in UK Biobank) could be predicted (Supplementary Table 10); the upper limit is an improvement of ~43% on the largest reported estimate to date, of 4.8% [16].

Doesn't 7% seem quite small (though better than previous studies)? What am I missing?
Red flag:

> People start with the same allotment of capital, and are given a number between 0 and 1 to represent their “talent”. Talent is normally distributed.

Maybe the author meant "uniformly distributed"?

EDIT: Looks like talent is normally distributed with mean 0.6 and stddev 0.1, so it's quite likely between 0.3 and 0.9 (and most likely between 0 and 1, indeed).
"But in 2018 going to the back office to get a 100 page printout generated by a mainframe once a day"

HOW?? Is there not an AS/2 to oracle sync. So you can at least get on oracle. Does walmart need one $$$?
They used to. Now they copied Amazon and it's a nightmare.

Just a random example, you want a bluetooth headset but you get like a 25% SNR in that category:

https://www.newegg.ca/Bluetooth-Headsets-Accessories/SubCate...
Topological Insulator Laser: Theory
You enter into a colocation agreement, and that's pretty much how it works. Instead of walking away, they quote you a price.
I just simply do not believe that the Russian government is behind this (I also do not believe that Kaspersky Antivirus is evil either). This smells like another false flag that the government creates before going to war. It has a tendency of doing that.

Since Energy and Water is a potential terrorist target for a very long time it should have the best security one can find and anyone being able to break in is a reason to be ashamed and to fire a couple of guys.
I like it that you've left "these guys" ambiguous. That seems wise. Don't worry about a divided USA; the following makes it clear that we'll all be in complete agreement very soon:

https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2018/03/07/dems-m07.html
I'd say both Spectre 2 and Meltdown are fairly straightforward to fix in hardware without performance degradation (though probably at the cost of a bit more circuitry), so that's most likely what they did.

For Meltdown, you need to just never load data from L1$ when permissions checks fail. Since address translation is already on the L1$, doing permissions checks there as well is not a big burden. This is quite natural to do, and also why Meltdown specifically affected Intel, and not everybody.

For Spectre 2, you need to add some bits to the branch target buffer to tag entries by the privilege level and ideally PCID (to protect user level processes from each other). And then you just don't use BTB entries with the wrong tag.

It'd still be interesting to know the details, e.g. what exactly they changed for Spectre 2.
True, and definitely an argument to consider full numeric. I am sure they've thought about that already and decided against though, so I didn't want to go that far.

Also, in practice today there are not many people anywhere in the world who are not at least somewhat familiar with the Latin alphabet to the point they wouldn't be able to recognize/read/write the letters, and (possibly excepting a few old typewriters here and there) people would generally be able to enter letters of standard Latin alphabet into whatever devices they are dealing with.
insider information, they got their inventory wrong. they ran out of inventory the night of black friday.
Are you against the entire gifted program then? Because current methods leave out some kids who should be in it and probably sign on kids who shouldn’t.

What is wrong with having a more foolproof and efficient way?
No, they won't - or at least, no more so than they are now. Licenses grant rights to people who didn't have them previously. They do not restrict rights.
All of the revenue that matters.

All of the revenue that otherwise would have been the uploaders.
Can it convert tex source code?
As another comment points out, a popular science article about a person's a product to law enforcement is not science.

However, "race" is absolutely not biological because so little of race is physical. Nobody has ever denied that skin colour and facial features are biological, its the accompanying traits that round out what makes a "race" that have no significant biological basis
I don't have a clue what you're talking about, but then again I'm from west of that river. Mind elaborating?
No commits for 2 years.
If I may ask, how old are you?

I am increasingly seeing people whose entire experience of the markets being after 2009 believe that it's trivial to "consistently make money".

Prior to the central banks of the world eliminating volatility and backstopping all asset classes, this was in fact not the case.
I suppose that's true, yes. My point was more that your compiler is not hitting a line of code and saying "I know this is or is not UB" because it can not do that in the general case - it is definitely incorrect to say it is 'proving' this. Would you consider that an accurate representation?
Splenda Promotes Gut Proteobacteria Reactivity in Crohn’s Disease
To get the Tor Browser try to download it from the official Github repository: https://github.com/thetorproject/gettorbrowser Then use meek-amazon as a pluggable transport which should work.
Just because you weren’t able to identify influencers in social networks as an undergraduate researcher doesn’t mean that Palantir hasn’t figured it out.
In-store pickup with Walmart is one of the worst experiences I've had shopping.
I’m surprised to see such blatant racism on Hacker News.
How do they prevent slower children from slowing down the quicker ones?
Using Debian 9 and Atom currently. I used VSC for a little while but it became unstable. It would often refuse stdin. Maybe the issue was the vim extension, maybe not. Rather than troubleshoot, I went back to Atom and have had no problems.

I work with about five languages just fine.
Ideally perhaps by creating content, for example:

https://stripe.com/atlas/guides/networking
Disclaimer: I work at Backblaze.

> Any time I log in, I get a warning that someone's been trying to brute force my account and it's been locked for 24 hours.

We had a bug where anybody who "cleared their cookies" would get exactly that behavior. It is fixed. I apologize for the inconvenience. I'm assuming you run some sort of cookie blocking software?

If you used stock Chrome browser or stock Safari or stock Microsoft Edge and didn't clear cookies, it always worked.
I think this is inevitable. Private schools will absolutely use genetic information for admission if they can. You can outlaw it in state schools, but if the private schools do it, it won't matter what the state system does. You can outlaw the use of genetic information in hiring, but then all you have to do is list your primary school on your resume.
> For LN to claim to be p2p seems rather disingenuous, as everything about it is going to favor wealthy centralized payment processor hubs.

Except this isn't true.
Are you saying race isn't biological? Using the fact that the random article the above comment cited is 11 years old?
Not many people know that Hillary Clinton 'meddled' in the 2011 Russian election...

http://time.com/4422723/putin-russia-hillary-clinton/

I feel like all American black ops are well intentioned, but often end up coming back to bite us.
Ironically, 256 bytes per second is probably still enough to make Craigslist usable... Web design right out of the 1200 baud modem era :-)
Oh, but the con-census is that they did such a brilliant job in Australia!

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-11-25/ibm-to-pay-over-$30m-i...

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-10-25/turning-router-off-and...
Race is not an accurate biological classifier, it's an antiquated classifier based on physical attributes. Ethnicity is far more accurate, but still has its drawbacks.

Yes, people who share similar melanin probably have similar genes providing them that attribute, but there are significant genetic differences between a black Jamaican and a black Ethiopian; or, a white Spaniard and a white Russian (not the drink). Saying they're just black or white dismisses the substantial differences that exist.
Okay, I got a deck of cards and had quick try. Immediately I noticed few issues:

1) You practically need two decks of cards. One which stores your key, and another which you use for the encryption process. This is needed because the matrix is mutated when doing encryption, meaning that you lose the original key. So before you start encrypting, you sync the two decks so that one can be messed up and another still retains the key.

2) Nonce generation is an problem. Simplest way I got for now is shuffle unused 16 cards (e.g. 10,J,Q,K) and draw them pairwise and use the pair to get character (base4->base36 conversion). It is not ideal, but doable.

3) Signature is supposed to be a secret, but no method for managing it is provided. Again, leftover cards could be used here, but if the above simple card-pair -> character mapping is used then you get only 8 characters when the paper recommends 10. It is not clear how critical the randomness here is. Practically it can be considered part of your key almost.

4) Surprisingly large amount of desk space required. Not something that really would pose a problem, but you definitely need some space to layout the 6x6 matrix. I imagine with standard sized cards, 7x7 (as mentioned in one of the comments) would be already challenging. If you additionally need to manage the second deck (see 1.) then that might need some more space.

5) For effective use you need will need lookup tables for both card->character->card mapping and card->movement mappings. They can easily be generated on demand (basically base conversion table between 6/9/36) and as such do not need to be permanent, but its still a consideration.

6) Lookup tables feel like they will slow down the process. You will be doing at least 3 (or 5 depending on how you count) lookups for each character encrypted. And of course you will need to be careful with the lookups, try to avoid mixing up down vs right movements and adjacent rows/columns.

7) 36 characters is actually pretty limited. Sure, you can write messages with just [A-Z0-9], using e.g. 0 (or #/_ like in the article) as word-separator etc. 7x7 would be significant improvement here. If you don't mind extending the length of the message then I suppose you could use some sort of preprocessing to widen the character set (e.g. use 4 symbols to encode 3 chars). Although that might make the already laborous process too much so.

8) Still need to time the process. I feel like initially it will be super slow, but especially if you can manage to keep the lookups in your head then it might actually not be that bad.
I'm not saying it's trivial, or anything close to it. I'm saying that people do it. There are a number of quant firms that are and have been consistently profitable (two sigma, renaissance, etc..).
What term can we use to refer to skin color and facial features if race means cultural differences? Also isn't what you're talking about culture not race?

Edit:

I'm going to jump off on a tangent here, but this is something that really bothers me. Clearly to most people race refers to skin color and facial features. Just like to most people gender refers to biological sex. If you want to refer to the non-physical aspects of race, use the term culture, then there will be no confusion. If you wan't to refer to the non-physical aspects of gender, use the term gender identity or gender role.
Unemployment metrics usually focus on people who are employable and willing but unable to find work for extended periods of time. People who are switching jobs do not fall into this category.
> create disadvantages for those now branded dumb for their entire school career

We already do this too an extent, schools have "smart" classes and "dumb" classes, typically for things like math. The biggest problem is that they don't apply this until high school. Aside from any innate ability, kids have different learning speeds and letting them fall behind on a subject they don't understand while the rest of the class moves on does no good for anyone.
There are a number of quant funds that consistently make money. Most of them are not trying to take anyone's money, because they're not open to the public, because they don't need more AUM.
Why would that be any different to getting assigned somebody's previous IP address by DHCP? It's non-incriminating because it can be demonstrated you didn't control that IP during the time illegal content was uploaded.
You can track who downloads privacy software
Ask HN: Alternative to mainstream programming jobs when you're self-taught?
I have a 4 year art degree and self-taught in programming and usually work in web dev, but I have a bit of paid game programming experience as well (C# and Unity with indie games). Web development and mobile app development are usually the go-to career tracks for self-taught people. I consider these to be the mainstream jobs in software. But what possibilities lie for the self-taught in less mainstream jobs?

In particular, I like tinkering around with limited resource capabilities and finding performance bottlenecks in code, and optimizing performance. For one of my game dev jobs, most of my work was around profiling inefficient code, and optimizations for rendering and geometry generation. I know the basic concepts around some data structures and Big O.

What other programming jobs can I work on that present similar technical challenges? I am not some web framework guru, but I don't find a lot of the challenges in web dev that interesting anymore.

I have hobby C++ experience but my knowledge in that language is not very strong anymore (many of my old C++ projects were locked out from a hard drive failure). Maybe work in embedded programming? Or is that a high barrier of entry for an autodidact without a STEM degree?
There are many reports of unusual CPU usage in some scenarios on Mac OS, you can help Mozilla debug the issue following this: https://www.reddit.com/r/firefox/comments/7knnn4/firefox_qua...
> It’s still a zero sum game

Stock markets aren't a zero sum game.
Wow, race is biological? Who knew!
We (as city folk) kill all of the insects we come across in our homes.
Who doesn’t think race is biological?

When people connect race and talents/abilities is when people get uncomfortable though for fairly obvious reasons. Which is likely how many will interpret this result (Race related to intelligence) and probably what you really wanted to say.
Eh I've been using it since release. They're great, especially the Flow language server! Only thing I recall missing from Nuclide was the in-editor Flow type coverage but if I recall they're planning to introduce it soon.
In just so many countries (including those many people never know are in too) the state-led war on privacy and communication freedom is getting hotter and hotter. Some countries do it openly, some manage to look liberal until you look closer. Just try to start marketing a proprietary privacy-oriented messenger app or something like that and the intelligence guys will emerge promptly at your doorstep, demanding you to bake a backdoor in. Sad but true. I don't really know how are we (the people, who value privacy of themselves and of the others) going to win this war while keeping legal, it's an open challenge so far...
Very similar experience. I only ever end up in one when visiting relatives. I'd be surly if I worked there too, and totally understand it. Still makes for a miserable place to go.

And on a purely visceral level, what gets me is that the stores all stink. Seriously don't understand it - I'm guessing it is some cleaning product - but jesus, they all smell terrible.
When's the last time you tried? Ever since 1.19 it's been fine for me when it comes to speed / resource usage.
… or for a gruesome Viking ritual human sacrifice.
If a competitor wins a prize does that prize constitute income for tax purposes?

I don’t mean in the specific case of ice skating but in the general professional performer / athlete sense.
These companies pay journalists to promote their scams. Everyone who took their money and wrote a favorable article should go to prison.

Also, the way she compatmentalized her business and threatened former employees proves she was complicit.
I don't see any ads for the query mentioned, but I guess that's a possibility for the future.
While I appreciate the reluctance to operate in fourteen-eyes/SSEUR, where do people trust to be secure outside SSEUR?
Every Atom release post is filled with VS Code fans talking it up, it's like a law of nature on HN.
Bain lost money with Toys'R'Us (although they made money while killing KB Toys).
> The practice of lobbying provides a forum [...]

I agree with this definition (though it does omit the glaring problems with "providing a forum" which requires you to pay into). The problem is that this is not what you originally said:

> the intention of lobbying is to help politicians [...] make informed decisions by getting industry experts to advise them.

Lobbying is about getting different interest groups to put forward their point of view (that's what the definition you quoted effectively says), regardless of their level of expertise or credibility when it comes to the topic under discussion. This is completely antithetical to providing expertise to someone in power (which is what you were implying is the intention of lobbying).

You could argue that requiring expertise or credibility would result in a technocracy, and that allowing ordinary people (who don't necessarily have education or expertise in a topic) to lobby is more equal. And in theory it would be more equal. But lobbying costs time and money, which are things that ordinary people don't have in abundance. So the system is already favouring groups of people that have bigger bags of money -- so surely favouring people that have bigger stacks of research would be a better solution overall.
"Cultural biases" in IQ tests are a myth. They are still the best way to measure intelligence. It was discussed on HN a few days ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16548276
Sure. If you look at the main page they go to trouble to explain that you can't separate the executable from its special folder on any of the three platforms. Especially on Mac that's unusual.
They couldn't have paid for better advertising than this.
This looks AWESOME! Can't wait to run around the house like Iron Man.
To me this kind of tech has great applications for gig economy type jobs, where workers with higher detected intelligence can be efficiently and accurately categorized and made available for a wide spectrum of problem solving tasks.
So you believe that the FBI and DHS are trying to set up World War 3?