skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No question this Theranos situation would have inspired a whole new wave of startup con artistry, but I think all those people are currently peddling shitcoins.

When the shitcoin bubble completely falls apart (a process which it may be going through right now), we might see a bunch of Theranoses popping up.
Theranos lays off the bulk of remaining employees–from ~125 to 24
Venture capital tends to be a badly performing asset class. Here a VC's motivation is easy to discern, it's a way to kick the can down the road. You take a liability (your shitty investment) and Fortress magically transforms it into something that looks vaguely asset-like (a portfolio of shitty investments). The only question is if the top up you pay will be worth it to the LPs. To the VC it is, because it saves embarrassment. Due to this moral hazard, there is a maybe an argument to be made here that distressed asset industry kind of breaks capitalism.
I caught that too, can only imagine what the public at large will think of this were it to happen.
One of the project's great side-effects is the creation of the World Heritage Center. http://whc.unesco.org/
It's online list of sites (created and nominated) by country is a resource and catalog of the cultural 'wonders of the world'. http://whc.unesco.org/en/list/
It is true that if you pay rubbish you are likely to get low quality personnel. If you pay well, then you may or may not get quality.

That sounds about right for software developers everywhere.
You've obviously never been involved in the design/manufacture of an ASIC.

What you're proposing will take roughly 2 years, and be an organizational nightmare. 'Just' having an embedded identity is already complicated:

1. Where do you store the identity? Fuses in the ASIC? Now you need a fuse bank. Not every process node supports fuses, so you may now have to port you entire design to a new process node.

2. Using this new-fangled identity means you can now perform a handshake with the host. Let's 'just' put down an ECDSA accelerator. What do you mean, this increases the die size by 33%? What do you mean it needs to be resistant to differential power analysis? Oh, right, because stealing a single identity means you can make as many clones as you'd like, and we can't revoke identities if we think they're stolen because of laws in China!

Etc. etc. the second option doesn't even work because the cloned device will simply ignore the signature on the firmware.

I used to think this was all trivial too, but having been through this _exact_ wringer 4 or 5 times before I can tell you it is Hard(tm).
How could Zuckerberg know less than Wikipedia about Palantir considering Thiel's involvement with both FB and Palantir? He seems to merely know of the existence of Palantir.
Yes, it's the component's responsibility to animate a panel that is part of it, I would think.

Perhaps providing hooks to override the behavior, but even not.
In this thread, you keep moving the problem statement to cover a smaller and smaller subset of the general problem of account compromise. This is exactly what the attackers you're describing will do.

That's the point of this solution. If we can remove the vast majority of account-compromise tactics and force attackers to achieve success only if they "get one admin," then that's an incredible victory -- especially for the large number of ordinary people who are not admins.
The thing is though, many, many baby boomers own their homes.

Many, many millennials don’t. Even for the small minority that inherits them, new housing is out of their reach. Studies show millennials, even ones’ whose parents own property, by and large don’t want to live in the same suburb/house they grew up in (though, with the current state of affairs, many still live with their parents).

In any event, even if all of that small minority wanted to stay in their exact house, the rest of the disenfranchised would be so numerous as to overwhelmingly outvote them.

Here’s a very enlightening article to the current plight of the millennial. I recommend setting aside some time to read it today.

https://highline.huffingtonpost.com/articles/en/poor-millenn...
Your blog is blocking Tor users with a 403 forbidden response, letting you know in case it's not intentional.
Problem is large orgs are political by nature. If you acted that way chances are you'd be sidelined into some dead end thing, given all the crap work, or even laid off as "not a good fit" or something. If you were the kind of person who didn't care about those possibilities then you might as well be working for a small company where you'd have a lot more fun... which is a backward way of saying that the people who work at large corps often do value security and stability and do care about keeping their jobs.
IQ can be changed, if you work hard enough:

http://www.businessinsider.com/actually-you-can-change-your-...

This is true especially in your teenage years. It could change by more than 20 points. Can someone with high motivation and with an IQ of 110 make useful contributions to theoretical physics? I fail to see why not.

IQ is determined by a test that's ultimately measuring skills. And skills can be learned. Even if the intent of the test is to measure some sort of innate, unchanging capacity.
I could do with a sceptical take on some of my views on AGI. I think it somewhat predictable, taking into consideration some old/new ideas.

Interested in an off-ycombinator discussion?
Ah, no I'm just saying in general :-)
How then should an employee act under a strongly anti-semitic or anti-asian or homophobic boss? Should they just endure it because quitting or complaining is censorship? Is driving people out by bigotry acceptable but firing the bigots who drive employees away is not?

If bigotry is allowed in the workplace, why not nudity: isn't that free expression too?
Keep in mind that this will have no practical effect on many ISPs and captive portal WiFis, who silently rewrite unencrypted DNS requests to their own nameservers regardless of your network configuration.
Neveragain.tech
Certainly I'm biased since I put in that effort into learning more about these things. I'm an introvert and certainly didn't care much for politics in general. For better or for worse, I do live in a society and am dependent on it for sustenance though and that is what prompted me to delve into politics.

From my understanding, it seems like its much easier for charlatans and snake-oil salesman to cast themselves as able politicians and that is a bad thing. To debate them, or the ideas they promote, in a reasonable way does require some understanding of the underlying factors and reasons for why things are as they are. e.g. initially I was very anti-welfare state. But after learning more about the systemic reasons for poverty, the discrimination against minorities etc. this has greatly softened my views about these things. Which is important because.... its hard to be sympathetic to e.g. homeless people when the only interaction you have with them is usually negative (I've often been heckled by them, even followed, which is rather scary) until you realize how many of them suffer from mental illnesses that they don't really get treatment for.

Essentially, I think its beneficial if you want to truly understand the society you live in and its problems. Politics is all about allocating societies resources towards common benefits by enacting policies and such. But you can only be effective if you understand what problems your society is really facing, and try scientific approaches to solve those problems.

So in conclusion, I think it has been largely beneficial. I do hope more people get involved in politics instead of dismissing it as a useless effort: it does seem very often to consist more of rhetoric rather than actual productive work which we engineers prefer. But that's how our society seems to work.
The '=' sign is used because after that statement the variable will indeed have equality with the r-value.

Coincidentally in async languages like Verilog there is a another assignment operator '<=' which means that the variable won't take the new value until the next clock cycle (or more explicitly the next evaluation of the process block). '=' exists also and has the same meaning as with traditional languages.
@off: Mr. Hatch seems like a really smart man.
No worries. Yeah, I could probably talk about Uru for days, given the chance. Might be about time to plan a fresh trip down to the cavern. :)
Advertising titan...
Is on-demand insurance enabling our optimism bias?
CoreCLR will be nice for Unity with the 2x performance improvement.

I wish Microsoft had moved to it quicker and Unity wouldn't have had that lull on Mono 2.x .NET and had to build IL2CPP.

When IL2CPP was being rolled out it was quite impacting to build size and actually making iOS builds for a while in 2015 from like March to summer was not workable for months. Now they have Android on it and it works well but keeping all that up to date is cumbersome for a smaller tech/engine team.

I still would love a C++ engine/lib like they were going to do back when Apple was forcing AOT instead of JIT languages around 2010 [1], but having a C# engine that can be comparable in performance is killer.

As long as this update is smooth and is truly faster that would be welcome. It was harder to trust Microsoft before during the Mono/.NET disconnected period so Unity treaded carefully but after Microsoft bought Xamarin and went .NET standard/core it seems like they are embracing and not extinguishing. Microsoft's new focus is Azure and .NET core/standard help expand that as well as its use by Unity (always a C# champion) and even Unreal Engine possibly which some have attempted [2]. If Unity switches to .NET core/standard possibly Unreal Engine will be compelled to add it natively.

[1] https://blogs.unity3d.com/2010/07/02/unity-and-ios-4-0-updat...

[2] https://mono-ue.github.io/ or https://github.com/xiongfang/UnrealCS
I'm working on a few different side-projects. Two of my more current/active area are fine-woodworking for furniture construction and open source work within the linux audio realm. The latter mostly focuses on http://zynaddsubfx.sf.net/
What about amino acids?
I imagine software isolated in vms.

Many people could do the same thing or overlap with someone's else project. It would allow projects to compete.
For a low bitrate (~40kbps), audio only stream, check out C-SPAN: https://playerservices.streamtheworld.com/api/livestream-red...
FYI, while Basho is dead, their assets were picked up by bet365, a UK-based gambling company that, like some other similar companies, uses Erlang extensively. Riak MDC -- i.e. the Multi-datacenter replication piece, the closed-source bit that Basho made its money from -- was open-sourced and development of Riak continues.

BTW, basho.com, and most of the stuff that had been on it, is online (I think bet365 resurrected it as part of their asset-purchase).
I always thought this. However, it seems like this would require a lot of direct management. Who was the PM for you - was it you? if not, was she/he local to the devs? What was your timezone?

My struggle with offshoring to India (from PST) is that the nearly opposite timezone affords minimal overlaps, and thus either the offshore personnel or the local person managing would have crappy hours.
> Consumers are free to visit any competitor site with identical ease of accessibility and competitors have very few barriers to entry

I would strongly disagree with this characterization of the market.

From joe_the_user's link [1] on oligopolies, every item under Barriers to Entry: Artificial Barriers applies to large, network-effect web companies.

Google Takeout is probably the guiding light on fighting this, but were Google no longer in a dominant market position I'm not confident it would remain a corporate emphasis.

... Ironically, this same debate (regulating ISP vs edge provider) just came up in Zuckerberg's Senate questioning.
> This woman needs to steer far, far away from anything in the medical field for a LONG time.

Sadly I think she would do great in the field. "Oh look she managed to raise all this money and start a company based on bogus results. We clearly need her on our team. She can deliver!". I guess it depends how you view the field and their ethics and business perspective.
It's been going up for now.
You and me both brother.

Want to get REALLY depressed? Consider this FACT:

Foreign investors (rich people) can purchase homes in the US (San Francisco), and have no requirement to live in them, or use them. They can be purchased as purely speculative investments and it happens ALL THE TIME.

I spoke with a real estate agent at a major SF firm, and asked them point blank - WHO can afford these insane home prices? He generated a nice little chart for me of the buyers by career. Software Engineers was number 4.

#1 - Foreign Investors (mainly Chinese)
#2 - Trust funds
#3 - I forget (this was 4 years ago)
#4 - Software Engineer

How / why it's legal for foreign investors to hold onto homes that people could be living in is beyond me. It destroys communities, and seriously hurts everyone.
From how the stock market is reacting, some people clearly don't think the public at large will care
IQ can be raised by a full standard deviation with a few months of training [1]. IQ is only stable over time because most people don't work continuously to improve it. IQ can be learned, just like everything else.

[1] Source: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S104160801...
Sorry, don't remember anyone specific. I do remember there were only actually a few people/labs who seemed to be in control of the raw data though.

Perhaps start here:
http://web.utk.edu/~grissino/itrdb.htm
… and a Cylon.
Programming reminds me of my stand up comedy days (2018)
To be fair, to actually exploit this the scammers would have to know you put in a random string. A human customer service process is not really subject to dictionary attacks.
There's an easy trick for that: you use a random password of that style, then you add some weird characters at the end to comply, like "A!5#" - but you use the same weird characters for every site, so you only need to memorize a single sequence.
What is that project?
seems pretty interesting.
Zuck's live grilling on Facebook Live
Why wouldn't you be able to export the key? Is this something that is "enforced" by the user interface of some browsers?
Exactly. Productivity is the opposite of working hard. You can't work smart and work hard, you have to choose one.
>Data collection is what enabled the Nazis to find Jews and homosexuals

It's also worth noting that a certain American tech company was responsible for this.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_and_the_Holocaust
The back ticks to quote the keys are off-putting.. It feels like writing arcane SQL.

I personally would try and align with jsonpath for the convention, richer query-language and expressions.
I wonder if it uses machine-learning-AI-neural-networks-blockchain-serverless-as-a-service technology
> a process which it may be going through right now

Eh, I dunno. I'm not a big cryptocurrency fan, but that doesn't really sound like the current reality. It may have lost a lot of its December peak value, but the value of cryptocurrencies is still about where it was in November and has been stable there for a month or two. That's still a lot higher than the first ten months of 2017 (and previous years), so "completely falls apart" seems a bit strong.
...and shortly thereafter, the built-in PC cupholder was born.
Aren't you underestimating the ability of Americans to litigate, especially about whether they can litigate? I'm sue you are.
Would you want the bad PR from having someone like Elizabeth Holmes related to your company?
Investor immunity to cryptocurrency 'disease' is growing, says Barclays
I'm assuming "SMS" means true, original SMS. Most people with iPhones, for instance, are using encrypted iMessage, but the code sent to you from a service provider (Microsoft, etc) will be done over straight SMS, not iMessage. Those basic SMS messages can be intercepted by a duplicated SIM card or setting a phone up with different firmware to basically listen to everything around it, including receiving SMS messages. This is probably not casual identity theft tactics though, right? I wonder if mainstream providers shouldn't start using things like Signal and WhatsApp for the 2FA code rather than SMS.
Is it just me, or does he sound condescending every time he responds, like he's educating a subordinate he's frustrated with.
I disagree. My basis is the conversations I had when I interviewed there. They did not extend an offer, so read what you will into my own biases. :)

But a repeated theme of the conversations was me trying to get inside their heads: I said: "Your job is to figure out when I'm going to be making a decision, purchase or whatever else, and make sure that your advertisers' message is in front of my eyes just as it's occurring to me to make a choice".

With creepy consistency, the replies were rejections of this idea. "No, we're connecting the world!".

My conclusion was an echo of the Upton Sinclair quote:

"It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends upon his not understanding it!"

I hope that the quitting phenomenon is real, and that it represents the creme de la creme, with many other options, leaving because they can no longer avoid understanding. If this is happening, then FB's decline will just accelerate.
It is because the punishment for this sort of thing is ALWAYS a slap on the wrist.
"Is it true facebook can track user browsers even after they are logged out of facebook?"

Zuck: "I need to get back to you on that"
I would have to say that jpegs were more successful than mp3s
How is prostitution different from rape, where sexual autonomy is removed by economic force rather than physical force?
I am taking a course on food this semester. They explained two things a few weeks ago:

1. The idea that sugar makes kids hyperactive is a myth. In fact, eating sugar will cause a certain protein or amino acid to not go into the brain as much and cause us to feel more sleepy.

2. If you want to perform well mentally, for example for an exam, you would want to eat high protein foods. The element in situation 1 would be more present and would enhance brain function.

If I would want to be more productive, I will try to observe this in the future. I did notice that sugar made me sleepy.
ASP.NET Core Web API Multi-Tenant JWTs
Btw, what is the best way to search trought the audio files? For example if I know for what sound am I searching for
"What if the plasticity of the connections was under the control of the network itself, as it seems to be in biological brains through the influence of neuromodulators?"

Anyone who wishes to explore this idea would do well to go back to the basics of neural nets and read Warren McCulloch's seminal papers on neural nets, from the 40s:

http://www.cse.chalmers.se/~coquand/AUTOMATA/mcp.pdf A Logical Calculus of the ideas immanent in nervous activity

http://vordenker.de/ggphilosophy/mcculloch_heterarchy.pdf A heterarchy of values determined by the topology of neural nets

(After having read those two papers, one can then try to make sense of Heinz von Förster's masterpiece, http://www.univie.ac.at/constructivism/archive/fulltexts/127..., Objects: Tokens for (Eigen-)Behaviors, which also bears some relevance to this matter. However, most people find it incomprehensible.)
Haha I couldn't believe it as it was happening either
> I receive my dopamine from browsing on HN. Is this better?

Two things spring to mind. You're right in that we're not interacting socially, but on the other hand you have an anonymous throwaway account, so I know you're not trying to sell me your brand. So while we're not building a social repertoire, we are (hopefully) having a constructive dialogue focused on topics, not on brand personas.

HN isn't a social network for me, or if it is, it's removed from identities. I don't come here for specific people, I come here for a collective (anonymous as far as I'm concerned as I very rarely open someones profile) group of people with links and insights I for the most part find interesting.

That makes this different from a social network where the expressed purpose is connecting individuals with old and sometimes new acquaintances, which then is entirely subverted in GPs premise.
Does cointracking generate 8949 statements when you have >100k transactions?
Personally, I'm happiest when I'm cuddling my girlfriend, or when I'm at a concert, or when I'm reading a great book, or when I'm enjoying good food or drink, or some combination of the above. I guess I'm a hedonist, the only things I enjoy producing are those that directly contribute to my happiness.

How does that fit into a definition of productivity?

I guess I am technically producing happiness, but that seems like a bit of stretch :-)
Maybe I should've emphasized per Piketty---if you're familiar with his premise, it's that the only thing that has disrupted the steady rise in wealth inequality is war. The extension of current trends made in the article is consistent with the historical analysis in Piketty's book. The only ways it will stop, in his view, are a) war, which we've tried (and which works, but with obvious drawbacks), and b) a global wealth tax, which we haven't tried.
Bcpl still exists in 2018?
Yup, just hire the same actors for the trilogy
Amazon: Prime Video Isn’t Netflix, but So What?
> I don't feel like I know enough about it to know just how good it will be for the average person.

It's the successor of the work Google did with Yubico that eventually led to Fido U2F. Google did some user research about the rollout amongst their 50k employees at the time: [Security Keys: Practical Cryptographic Second
Factors for the Modern Web](http://fc16.ifca.ai/preproceedings/25_Lang.pdf).
this is awesome and should've existed years ago.

We don't need a custom package manager for each OS.
1-Page.com also had a very similar, although not as well known story. 1-page managed to be a "public startup" without having a product or (real) customers. Very much into the "fake it till you make it". Very fascinating story: https://www.forbes.com/sites/ryanmac/2017/05/18/rise-and-fal...
Then it sounds like you'd be OK with the BBC moving to a PBS style funding model. Great, me too.
You generally setup the reverse proxy to pass the required information to the backend via some trusted mechanism (e.g. HTTP headers not settable through client requests).
Trotsky's "iron broom" was their effort to get rid of the 1% and confiscate all their wealth.

That didn't work out too well for anyone.
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FB stock rising, last chance to get in at these price levels, though you should have bought in around 150s. 210 price target.
They won't; people spend a lot of money to farm virtual crops. That same group of people will do whatever it takes to keep farming.
It's neither easy nor cheap. The engineer in question now has to support multiple variants of the driver, and QA has to acquire several of these screens and maintain a dedicated test rack of them.

I'm a little amazed by how many people in this thread don't understand how much work developing for, testing, and maintaining actual physical devices is.