skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Alternative explanation: if they actually go after Facebook all the previous shady shit US politicians have done would also come into question. So they'll stick to emotive appeals like "when elections are meddled with" instead of specific, measurable outcomes.

Recall that the Obama campaign got the explicit go ahead from FB to violate their privacy policy, and built up equally large databases. Heck, recall Obama explicitly endorsing Macron. Does that count as large scale meddling?

What's hilarious is that the same people worried about internet driven misinformation are now the ones jumping into action because the media told them to #deletefacebook.
> The only thing 'Indian' about it is that maybe only Indians think that its an 'Indian' thing.

I am an Indian and I disagree with this. A large fraction (yes it is changing) of Indian society cares a lot about what relatives and neighbors would think about our lifestyle. There are so many taboos and restrictions inflicted upon family members simply because pressure from relatives and neighbors. My own family keeps quoting things like "what would relatives say" about my life choices. Now I live in a western society and I don't have to worry about it.
I wasn’t referring to the in-office vs. take-home aspect, just the “stress test” nature of the white boarding test. (And I was admittedly unclear about that in my post and I’m sorry.)

Think of ways you can de-stress the candidate while extracting useful information. Ideas:

1. Have them bring something they wrote with them and describe it in the interview. A lot of developers will “come out of their shell” when they start explaining something that they worked on.

2. Show them some code and have them explain it to you. I had a manager open a C book once and had me explain some code.

3. Pair program on a problem that the interviewer doesn’t know the answer to. This situation is a lot more like a true work situation.
First, I advise you to finish your degree. Most dropouts have tougher lives than those who finish. Second, you have to find the intersection of your interest and what's in demand and what's coming. I can only speak to the latter and I think the big things that are coming are quantum computing, ( more) deep learning and bio sensor stuff. Hth.
…if you can match addresses to people.
This is the future of the web. Platforms and networks that offer better incentives for participation will replace those of the old (current dominant) model. Rather than users-as-the-product, users will be in the driving seat - with agency to accept or reject changes that are offered as well as be rewarded for their contributions. But it will go much further than this as even the basic corporate structure (passive investors only interested in monetary gain and managers beholden to them) may be challenged by new organisational architectures where all kinds of incentives and agendas can be baked right into the protocol.
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The price of timber in Europe is way higher. I'm always amazed when watching US woodworking channels on Youtube how cheaply they get their materials, especially two-by-fours. This is causing another interesting difference, in Europe most of the simpler furniture is made of laminated particle boards (IKEA style), while my impression is that in US plywood is more common. In Europe plywood is fairly expensive, which made particle boards and mdf way more popular.
I'm pretty sure all bitcoin fanatics are going balls out on this one..
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I also wonder the performance when concurrency writes to a few keys.
> India's annual suicide rate is 10.5 per 100,000 people, while the suicide rate for the world as a whole is 11.6 per 100,000

You need a little bit of caution here. It's very difficult to compare rates of death with other countries because there are different definitions for suicide, and different levels of recording and reporting.

In particular, there are problems in some areas of India of under recording deaths.

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2090536X1...

> In the last two decades, the suicide rate has increased from 7.9 to 10.3 per 100,000,8 with very high rates in some southern regions.9 In a study published in The Lancet in June 2012, the estimated number of suicides in India in 2010 was about 187,000.10 According to the National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB); state of Tamil Nadu, West Bengal, Andhra Pradesh, Maharashtra and Karnataka have registered a consistently higher number of suicidal deaths during the last few years and together accounted for 56.2% of the total suicides reported in the country. Uttar Pradesh, the most populous state (16.5% share of the population) has reported a comparatively lower percentage of suicidal deaths, accounting for only 3.6% of the total suicides reported in this country, but this researcher feels that this is due to the underestimation of suicide cases in this area. There is a general agreement that previous statistics on the incidence of suicide in the Lucknow region were grossly inadequate and that their comparison based on the figures available is inaccurate and misleading. This causes the suicide problem to be underestimated and, thus, neglected by the government, although this problem seems to be universal. In addition, the features of deaths due to suicide are changing constantly, revealing complex social and cultural developments.11 Prichard and Amanullah (2007)12 suggested that, to avoid the under-reporting of suicides, both formal suicide verdicts and other violent deaths should be considered together because the other violent deaths may include hidden suicides.
> If you want to release a medical drug, you need to document - at molecular level - how the drug is built up.

Not exactly workable for foods. Any meat or plant contains every chemical that made up what it was made from, plus every contaminant.
So you mean a decentralised alternative to Yelp? ;)
I actually agree, would love to see that too.
Is Coca-Cola vegan?
On the network side no, it's much more crappy on AWS.
I've been using a mac since 2002 and for many years everything got better with every version of OS X. But recent years I feel the OS id getting worse for me mostly because they take away control and make stuff more suitable for non-power users.

Some examples of what I mean:
- I am not allowed to remove iTunes. This is BS and the kind of stuff we used to chastise Microsoft over.
- Gatekeeper. I have to manually switch it to the mode where I get a dialogue that allows me to run non-app store applications. And then changes bakc with random updates it seems.
- The plethora of deamons/services I don't want but cannot reliably disable or uninstall. I mean stuff like gamed, photosd, coreduetd, etc etc.

I just want control over what my computer is doing and has installed. Thats all.
There's also Pure Living For Life channel on Youtube https://www.youtube.com/channel/UChhBsM9K_Bc9a_YTK7UUlnQ where a couple builds timber frame house by themselves. They also made all the timbers from logs.

They are complete novices and make a lot of mistakes (and are honest about those), so don't take it as an educational channel. :)
It might not be uncommon in your neck of the woods, but where I exist this isn't common at all. Everyone has to work, and the luxury of being able to save "quite some money" (or work far less, which is more or less the same thing) definitely doesn't go to people who I'd call a "dev" (and not say, a consultant or upper management).
Actually there are interesting legal details in the story.

Telegram should be blocked under the Russian court order for not providing decryption keys, but that order doesn't contain ruling to block entire Amazon or Google network - only IP addresses used by Telegram. Whole networks are being blocked under the order by Prosecutor General from 2015 (yes, from 2015, and recently they started to use new order from 2018). But the problem is that Prosecutor's Office doesn't have authority to block messengers, so the order is about discovering illegal content (extremist content or appeals for organizing unapproved rally - not sure if I translated correctly) located on all of those IP addresses which obviously is a lie.

So this is dubious even under russian laws.

Why are they blocking entire networks? Well, the problem is that there are limits in ACL size so if Telegram starts using thousands of IP addresses the tables can become too big. So they chose to block entire networks instead. Also, finding out which IP addresses they are using takes time, distributing and updating blocking rules by ISP takes time (on order of hours, up to a day), so without this Telegram could change IPs faster than they are blocked.

There already are russian businesses that were using IP addresses from those networks, that are suffering damages because of blocking. They are moving to other datacenters in a rush. It is unlikely that they will try to recover damages from the government.
When playing humans though the AI's can be limited in certain fashions, such as by lowering the available actions per minute (overall), or per unit; which lowers their non-human skills.
Obviously you need more than safer fans, but don't knock it. Reducing access to means and methods is the most important thing you can do for suicide prevention.

People talk about method substitution, but that doesn't always happen.
Thank you, rbanffy, for submitting such consistently interesting stories. When I see your name, it's a recommendation.
"pretty much everyone on the planet drinks Coca Cola" should be a good indicator not to drink it.

I think we as humans are worth enough to know what goes in our drinks and in how much quantity. If not, then the company is not worth the trouble. I would encourage anyone to have the same heuristic.
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> 4 billion years of computing and a computer the size of a planet

That is not impossible to simulate, even if it includes the entire lineage of the humans. Also, nature prefers generalized algorithms as well, starting from DNA.
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In California, there is no such thing as a “prescription for weed”. You don’t get one from a doctor, the dispensaries don’t describe it as such.

What you do get is a recommendation by a doctor that you would benefit from cannabis. This is a critical difference. It’s merely a doctors opinion you would benefit.

And as many have noted, sone doctors appear to hold the opinion most adults would benefit. They might not be wrong.

Btw, old injuries can have lasting pain for the rest of your life. Difficult to control pain. Medicine recognized this in the 90s, and one result was the opioid crisis. (Turns out opioids aren’t great for chronic pain.)

Oh and it isn’t a bs script either. Because it’s not a script. As I noted above. To quote a certain movie, that’s funny not a single word you just said was correct.
I agree with the first part a bit less with the last. Blockchain and crypto are huge in HK and Singapore also after the ban in China. Many Chinese startup are moving in HK and Singapore and that make these cities the main hub in Asia.

> Many in Asia are cast aside or left behind

I don't see so many people left behind in Asia because of the progress, indeed in my opinion is the opposite. Even the elderly people are willing to embrace change and use smartphones for their daily life, something that is not so true in Europe. In China you may find street food stand owned by older women in their 60/70 using everyday smart payment systems. Something that in Europe would never happen.
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What are the potential downsides of not changing it?
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It's a test to see if the reader is one of these cranky old guard. Congrats!
Oh crap I didn't know that now I have to watch them all again! Thanks!
The page kept refreshing and scrolling back to the top. Unreadable on my iPad.
> If a single agency is to interface with the ITU, it makes sense for it to be the FCC.

I don't see any reason for it to be a single agency. Not knowing anything about the details, I wouldn't think the FCC would be able to support the space-fairing expertise to properly regulate space debris given the dramatic increase in satellite density expected in the coming decades. New agencies get created all the time to deal with new regulatory fields that outgrow their initial home.

Needless to say, the UN is not a good lead to follow with respect to nimble regulatory structure.
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American corporatism and singular definition of 'freedom of speech' as being 'the amendment' really polluted the well of any discussion of the topic on English-speaking platforms.
We, in Europe, have limited freedom of speech. You can't do things like denying the holocaust. But that doesn't mean we don't recognize the concept of freedom of speech, and that we don't have discussion platforms that feature freedom of speech -within the limits of our laws-. Censorship is still censorship, even when it's done by a corporation.

Listening to americans there can be no debate as to whether censorship even exists if it's done by a corporation because corporation are free to do anything and we shouldn't even debate what they do and whether we should boycott a place and move onto something else because corporations can do no wrong and exerting individual judgement, opinion, and sharing them, encouraging the growth of freer online platforms and the likes is heavily discouraged. No, everything has to do with the law and if the law doesn't call it bad then it's not bad and it shouldn't be judged as bad. That worship of the law and constitution as the only sacred values in human societies is disgusting.
It goes back a quite a lot longer, actually. Over the years, many cities have outlawed wooden buildings due to fire risk. It wasn't uncommon for an entire city to burn down to the ground. It may be possible to build fire-proof buildings nowadays, but the safety of stone is now a part of the culture.
The article is behind a paywall, I think that makes this a pretty bad submission.
Ratings are worthless without trust. Actually PeerMountain is building a decentralized trust protocol that supports this. They call ratings "attestations". It's worth a read.
Perhaps I did just completely misquote what my (Californian) friend told me.
>> Corrections & Amplifications
An earlier version of this article incorrectly included the name of a defector familiar with North Korea’s cyber training, whose identity was included in violation of the agreement with the source. (April 19, 2018)

Yikes!! I understand mistakes happen, but what an absolute betrayal of trust
Pretty trivial for a nation state, given sufficient motivation.
I'm a fan of building, a fan of Portugal and a fan of portuguese literature (I plan to learn european portuguese), so you have one person interested here. I'd appreciate English subs though.
All they're doing is looking for bank transactions to crypto exchanges in citizens' accounts. What this article doesn't tell, is that the current cryptocurrency taxation in Finland is unreasonable. You pay 30-34% tax on any profit, but you can not deduct losses.

If you had bought 1 BTC at $1000, another at $14000, and sold both at $3000 you would owe $600 in taxes even though you lost $9000.

You can imagine how people feel about paying these taxes, when they are so obviously flawed and unjust. Some people may owe hundreds of thousands in taxes even if they made no actual profit.
To add on to that, the demo is completely Client-side. You can turn off your net if you have any privacy issues.
> so what did you do instead? and can that be replicated by 100,000 other young people?

Theoretically, it can be replicated. The tools that I have used to learn everything are accessible to most of the people I have met. But, whatever may be the reasons, it just doesn't happen.
Viber currently has problems with connectivity in Russia. They have been complying with russian laws, but they made an unwise decision to use servers in Amazon network that are being blocked now because of Telegram. So the messenger that complies with the law now has problems and Telegram just works.
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I think there is also certain negative selection bias in the sense that people are more likely to stop maintaining libraries that were badly designed / problematic to begin with. That's why I tend to be more sceptical than average when it comes to "orphaned" projects.
I hope to god the big three cloud providers pick up EPYC in good quantities. High core counts, lots of PCIe lanes, competitive perf per watt, what’s not to like? We badly need some kind of viable competition for Intel.
What is the difference between cheap and expensive fake sneakers?
As a fellow BKK resident, I beg to disagree. I use Taxi (regular one). I walks a lot (yes it's painful), but that's life.

But I avoid rush hour CBD like plague, yep.
The roof in a brick house would still get ripped off, as would the windows and doors. Depending on wind speed the walls might or might not survive but the house would cost just about as much to repair.
Educate a noob: What is the significance of overclocking at this insane frequency when the CPU is not stable? From a digital design perspective I would imagine that a lot of timing constraints are not met, and this makes the CPU unstable. What prevents other CPU's unable from reaching this speed?
This is so spot on, and I guess sometimes people forget that internet forums are to be taken with a grain of salt and you should do your own research.

The one thing I dislike the most is the IANAL - "Don't take this as legal advice" disclaimer that I see abused. I mean, really, who is naive enough to take random legal advice from strangers?
Yes, but "the taxman" makes you click so you can see if it's your taxman.
Not if it's something like Monero.
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Decentalization is the future. Unfortunately 99% of the projects out today are money grubbing. Think about this: if the team needs to hire tech to run an ICO, how would they ever build a blockchain solution? De facto, they don't have the skills! (only outsourcing marketing makes sense)
Thanks for sharing. I'm also glad that I met this guy http://rajeshanbiah.blogspot.co.uk/2018/01/technology-predic... who is having profound knowledge in predicting technologies and bubbles
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EU: “those who keep Bitcoins in their wallet need to KYC just as banks do”
New Zealand is an amazing place, but the distance to home(Europe) is really far and opportunities are limited. Taiwan is beautiful too, but English is not widely spoken and you really have to spend effort to learn Mandarin. I'd consider both for retirement, but not good moves for your career.

I'm currently living in Hong Kong.
Reading other people's assessments of countries always reminds me to stay humble and open in my own.
Good catch on the reverse loop, you’re right.
One could implement a kernel that forwards calls to other kernels depending on a prefix and explicit push-and-pull functions to move variables around. That last part would require an extension of the protocol or a parallel channel, but the forwarding kernel is actually not that difficult to implement.
So is with the chaotic systems: we know for sure that approximating them is just a matter of boundary conditions: that is - the more you know about the starting points, the better you approximate the real world.

I mean, there might be a case where we will finally get to the point where we are just "good enough" at measuring the boundary conditions to predict weather for the next year, but it has got nothing to do with obtaining the knowledge about chaotic systems themselves.
Thanks for that link. I'm looking for updated images for Pine64 (not Pinebook), and all of them on this repository seem to be minimal images (without a desktop environment). Is my understanding correct? I'm looking for one with a desktop environment.
Probably more 'west'. From North America just go west until you reach far east!
Wow, a lot of people excited here, with several use cases of success. I am impressed. I didn't know that FoundationDB was so good till now.
Sharp’s 8K TV looks incredible (and is incredibly expensive)
Live example of code-less approach to web development
3 years ago in HK, (my last experience) 300Mbps connections were like an average connection speed.
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The home I spent the majority of my childhood in until the age of 15 was built by a combination of friends/family and subcontractors. We were very poor and my parents had a hard time receiving loans to finance the build. The plan was to build a ranch-style 3400 sqft home. Due to the financial constraints, we finished the walk-out basement portion with a “mother-in-law” style suite (fully functioning kitchen etc.) We lived in this portion of the house and sealed the top portion until it was finished. Ultimately the home took 5 years to build IIRC. My father’s cousin was a contractor so my father worked a bit for him to learn the correct steps and the order to perform them in. It was a high-quality build with high-quality material due to the influence from my father’s cousin. Growing up around it was fun in the sense that it was such a unique experience. My parents got lucky as they sold it right before the downturn in the housing market. There will always be naysayers and those that believe things are impossible or are “strange”. This house and the equity accumulated in it allowed my parents just enough of an edge (among other factors) to currently be in a much better financial situation than most/all of our extended family. It’s awesome to see posts like this. Most people will never build their own home.
It depends. If it mentions just plain P2P stuff, it might be. If it mentions blockchain or involves some kind of ICO then is probably more like "Ponzi Scheme for X".
Right? I wouldn't feel comfortable working with colleagues who couldn't instantly come up with a novel sorting algorithm to some bizarre scenario I thought of to stump people. So maybe I should "counter" each coding question with my own. It'd be like a shootout. This isn't a dysfunctional culture, right?
Yes. The point was other professions have a "process", and many of them have real (publuc) health related impact.

It's also why I pivoted to certification.

There is no panacea, nor is the status quo sustainable. So where's the disruption? Where's the innovation?
I meant something more like encrypted SNI in TLS 1.3[1], but that has covering as an explicit design goal, so I guess that answers my question.

Still, it's a matter of politics, and not of technology. Google here chooses to stop covering for Telegram/Signal, even if the technology allows it.

[1]: https://www.ietf.org/proceedings/94/slides/slides-94-tls-8.p...
Of course, the main ingredient is marketing.

In 1985, Coca-Cola research showed people actually preferred the flavor of Pepsi, so they made a taste-tested Pepsi clone. It was launched as New Coke, and despite people preferring New Coke in blind taste tests, they still wanted to buy and drink Coca-Cola Classic. New Coke was a massive flop.

So even if Pepsi managed to make a perfect Coca-Cola recipe clone, they're missing the main ingredient - their brand.
Cool to see this! Most people will never build their own home these days (even with the cost savings).
I would imagine the analogy would be to call Russia ₽ussia.