skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think couple of things need to be repeated from earlier threads. This discussion happened during a Yahoo conference. So, its more like a person's opinion. Unless we get a press release from SEC it is a difficult statement to make whether SEC is all good with ICOs.

Secondly, the question of Ethereum being a security is a tricky one. It is a security by definition given in the same speech. So, it started out as a security but then it is not a security any more? That is confusing. A good read on this:

https://prestonbyrne.com/2018/06/14/ether-is-not-a-security/
3D0DEAD
anyone?
I feel like it's a push to the next big thing no one will really care about, like 3D Tv, because nothing better is in the pipeline to sell something you already have.
As a point of comparison, Japan has less landmass than California and more than 3x as many people. For something like package delivery, where a huge amount of the cost is in the “last mile”, increased population density will drive down costs and allow for improved service levels.
Before you downvote, give me a number count: how many people of african descent work in your office? How many are really dark and not just mocha? How many really dark ones are really capable?

See you in the downvote pile!
I have a hard time believing this is anything new.

"Another complicating factor is that taking action against an adversary often requires surreptitiously operating in the networks of an ally, like Germany — a problem that often gave the Obama administration pause."

In the light of the previous administration specifically targeting our ally Germany[0], including Merkel herself, what is that sentence even supposed to mean?

[0] https://www.cnn.com/2015/07/03/politics/germany-media-spying...
What hypothetical scenario do you guys think could possibly result in the termination of this trend? I think it would be interesting to figure out what could cause social media to die out in the future.
Sell indicator.
That’s definitely not completely true what you just stated. Only allowing land owning white men to vote in a country that already had people with their own various forms of governance such as the Iroquois Confederacy doesn’t seem much different than aristocracy looking at it with a present day lens, and some, see indigenous people, probably didn’t think it was so great even then.

I think to say there were no benefits to others would be inaccurate, but it would also be completely inaccurate to pretend the good fortune of black peoples, indigenous people, etc were even considered.
Influencers... Probably the same kind of people who reviews Amazon product for free and ends their review with "I've written this review with my own unbiased opinion". We all know it's biased. Thanks but no thanks.

Ironically everyone of those followers wants to travel to that special unknown destination, only after somebody with one million followers posts about it.
Psychopathy by U.S. State
Nowcasting and Placecasting Entrepreneurial Quality and Performance
ENTREPRENEURIAL QUALITY AND PERFORMANCE [pdf]
It's quite amazing the longevity that IRC has enjoyed, still essential around a lot of the OSS community. I know a lot of my Fedora questions are answered on #fedora.

I'm often a little baffled when I try to get help with a project and it doesn't have a chan on Freenode!
I was thinking this was going to be some sort of accidental primitive microphone. Still an interesting article about something I haven't heard of, but the eavesdropping part of the article wasn't the hook I thought it would be.
It's generally about $1-2 per 100 followers per post.
Want to hit me up re: Nuon? We’re about to release a spinner board using NOS polyface chips.
IDK about android, but on ios I just force touch (or long touch on pre-6s devices) and select 'open in background'. Not that many clicks, imo.
This article didn't have enough Fourier transforms on the symmetric group.
The tricky part of this approach comes when you extend it. Let's say we have two functions and we'd like to combine them and return a third.

typealias Handler1 = (Result<Data, LoadError> -> Void)
typealias Handler2 = (Result<Address, IndexError> -> Void)

func load(addr: Address, then handler: @escaping Handler1) { ... }
func lookup(name: string, then handler: @escaping Handler2) { ... }

// What would the type of Handler3 be?
func loadDefault(then handler: @escaping Handler3) {
lookup("default") { result in
switch result {
case .success(let address):
load(address) { result2 in
switch result2 {
case .success(let data):
// Happy path
case .failure(let error):
// We have a load error for handler3
}
case .failure(let outerError):
// ERROR: We have a lookup error for handler3
}
}
}
// P.S., don't complain about syntax I really don't know swift :P

Handler3's type is actually the sum of LoadError and IndexError. This is sort of a non-trivial problem for a lot of use cases of Either. Monadic and Railway Either programming typically solve this problem by saying, "Fine well then every single Either/Result in the chain needs to be of the same type, which includes a unified error type." In this article's case, I guess we could appeal to Swift's binding to FoundationKit to lift up NSError? Sure! That'll compile! Maybe there is a Compound Type thing? It will probably compile but it'll shape your handler in weird ways.

It still seems pretty unsatisfying. The point here was to make it easy to work out what errors we should handle, but now we need an explosion of combination types (unique to each call graph in this case, wow!) Modern Haskell, which along with ML pioneered these style of, has some slick type machinery tricks to deal with this that are not well supported yet (even type lists are not a slam dunk because we need something that's order-insensitive). Most folks will be required to make a new ad-hoc sum type (like Result, but EitherError<Error1, Error2>), and then have to pattern match on that to handle errors.

But at the end of the day, even Haskell with all its principle has try/catch statements in IO and an exception hierarchy. In fact, it's considered best practice for production code to avoid giving the appearance that Either can capture all your errors (since it seldom can): https://www.fpcomplete.com/blog/2016/11/exceptions-best-prac...

Which is not to say Either's (and Railway programming's) "Sum-type errors") aren't a substantial improvement over special return values or Common Lisp/Go's product-style return values. They are. But sadly they can't really get you away from exception handling when you start interacting with the "real" world as the examples here do. It's a win for things like HTTP responses or decoding libraries.
You’re missing a link. https://github.com/Aaronepower/eve Fixed.
> Seems like a Silly Valley opportunity. But what do I know. I miss the old internet.

Don't get me wrong but isn't this the whole problem? Previously forums were run for fun. People were not worried about pumping out ads to make money. And if everything is about grabbing eyeballs for the ads...why not argue just for the sake of arguing to grab attention?
I have a kneejerk reaction to dislike virtually anything associated with the current administration, coupled with an understanding that escalation of actions associated with war rarely leads to _less_ war.

Yet, knowing that actually defending against a sufficiently determined, skillful, and (crucially) patient network adversary is virtually impossible, I'm unconvinced that this move is a bad one. In fact, it strikes me as the only realistic form of defense short of using actual physical force.
New York City’s Specialized-High-School Dilemma
> The US alone spends about $500 billion. China, which was at roughly $100 billion a decade ago, has now cleared $400 billion.

Taking into account the costs of doing science in the two countries, China's investment has probably surpassed the US based on purchasing power parity (PPP) adjustment.

A root cause of the Century of Humiliation was China's then technological inferiority to Western powers and Japan, resulting in losses despite its massive manpower advantage (e.g., ~200,000 vs ~20,000 troops in the First Opium War). It is unsurprising that they took to heart a painful and vivid lesson on the importance of technological and scientific development.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Century_of_humiliation

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Opium_War
OK, having parsed your comment again on a larger screen, I don't think you've missed the parent's point. But I do think you took an unnecessarily long, roundabout way to ask your question, which I also think didn't need to be asked because I think the parent's view is quite clear. So your question didn't add to the conversation on two points: first, it was really verbose and obtuse; second, it didn't contribute to the conversation because it was unnecessary. A response to the parent would have been much more constructive. And no need for Socratic method here to make points. Just make the point, we're all adults. Yeah, people get charged on these types of topics, but if your own writing is civil and to the point, getting charged is on them, not on you.
Yeah, but linux framebuffer can do a very optimal swap... Just make the "virtual buffer" twice as tall, and then swap which "half" is "active" with a panDisplay IOCTL... That's why memcpy is such a bad idea, cause there is a very cheap method that can prevent tearing and such.
Of course it is different, today you can pick and choose what you want whereas before you needed to buy the entire thing
This assumes that the sum total of Alice and Bob's ability to perform in higher education is measurable by their admissions portfolio.

I can picture many different things matching this overall impression. Perhaps Alice is the child of two university professors and has vaguely drifted to near-perfect scores without really having to work. Alternately, she has slaved over her books desperate to please her parents and is at the end of her rope.

Similarly, Bob might be a self-educated polymath who has transcended his background, or a crammer who has carefully done everything exactly right to produce the highest score possible, but is almost entirely uneducated outside of the areas that produced good-looking admissions.
So, Klout?
Who are the victims?
Given DC's score this is some strong scientific proof that we are indeed run by psychopaths!
The reason I started using this pattern is one I didn’t see the article mention:

With legacy style result callbacks, you’ll have both an optional value and an optional error returned - this corresponds to four possible states. If I’m using an API returning this, I have to think about two cases which probably won’t happen (neither an error or value, or both an error and a value). I’d like to think the API I’m using wouldn’t return those states, but since it’s not typed as such then code I’m writing should probably handle those cases gracefully.

By using a result type as per the article, it is well defined that only two states are possible. This pattern is a really nice one, and is a great use of Swift’s associated value enums.
There are companies[0] that scan a user's following to try to determine if they are primarily bots, dead accounts, occasional users, or active.

[0] http://blog.fohr.co/post/2017/9/20/searching-by-verified-aut...
Though I agree with your point, New Delhi and Delhi are not the same. New Delhi is a less dense area within Delhi that has many parks, government buildings, monuments and large suburban houses. There are areas of Delhi that are very dense. With any urban comparison, where you draw the border lines is essential and often difficult to do consistently.

An interesting thing to notice from your link, Union City, Guttenburg, and West New York (all in New Jersey) make the list while New York City does not. This is only because of how the lines are drawn.
Suicide and depression are different but related issues. People who are not suffering from clinical depression will also commit suicide when faced with a difficult moment of desperation.

People commit suicide because they've run out of options and they feel like it's the only way out. What is needed is more open places and people to turn to when one is desperate.

A friend you can talk to or groups of people you can be yourself with goes a long way.

Of course, if you have clinical depression or some other psychiatric disorder none of that helps. Mental sickness is horrible. I wonder if in the future people could pay with crypto-currency and get anonymous (legal/vetted) help. I can see that making a difference but I am very skeptical against gimmicks and "one size fits all" solutions.

But hey,at least society accepts this as a problem,this can be a serious taboo in some cultures.
> Maybe the best explanation of history to teach, if not the most correct, is "history happened the way that it did because of trillions of choices that people made."

Many times it's just luck. The existence of life at all, the death of the dinosaurs, the ice ages, droughts, famines, epidemics (e.g., the Black Plague) ... all luck. From an entire society's perspective, one or a few people who discover something big is luck. And when a set of actions together have large consequences, sometimes it's just (un)fortunate coincidence.
The entire concept of affirmative action is that not everybody has had equal opportunity.

A student from low income parents will probably have gone to a poorly resourced school, they will have never had tutoring, they may have had to start working a job after school, affecting their study. They may not even have access to a computer or the internet outside of school hours (another reason why public libraries are an essential public service). Even the food you eat growing up can have an effect on academic performance. If you're not getting a good breakfast or lunch, there's no way you're going to be able to learn effectively.

A lot of these students are just as smart and capable as students from better off backgrounds. But their school results will be lower. Once they end up in the same environment as their wealthier peers, they tend to catch up quickly. If you look at the pass rates at Harvard by ethnicity [1], you'll see that they're very similar for all ethnicities (with the exception of Native American).

Delineating by race is a very blunt tool for affirmative action, and there are questions as to it's effectiveness, it also means that White people from poor backgrounds get left out, and black or hispanic people from wealthy backgrounds get an unfair leg up. But it's not fair to simply say "if you have good grades, you go to a good university". Equality is not equity.

[1] https://www.scholarships.com/colleges/harvard-university/gra...
Why is it laughable to consider that, for example, from the perspective of the large slave population at the time of the Revolution, the event was not so much progress as regress, and signified what was possibly an extension of their slavery? Acknowledging that does not make the founders of the country any less brave or singular, nor does it suggest we should judge them against modern standards, nor does it even remotely cause us to forget the context of the revolution in the course of European political history. Instead it reminds us that behind every great movement there can be and often is great horror.
100% completely ignores... why didn't China dominate?

Have you even read the book? It's mentioned and he gives possible reasons for it, even though it isn't the focus of the book.
ECS style is nice from a design perspective but as far as GC goes it was the pooling objects into tables that really solved your issue. You can pool objects in many different styles. Preallocation is a good idea as well as stack allocating what you can.
Yep exactly
VR and phones come to mind. On a laptop? Yeah, not quite sure.
Boxes get pretty beat up in transit. They’re often not usable. And that’s before you have to deal with removing old labels and tape.
Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology in VA, one of the best high schools in the country has a class of 2019 that is 21.8% white, 74% Asian, 1.7% black, and 2.6% Hispanic. My guess is most highly selective universities would look similar if admissions were race blind there as well.
First of all, principle and ideology are very different things.

Secondly and more to the point, there is no reason to privilege race over any other of the millions of filters with which to slice up society to find inequalities of outcome. And even if there was, showing a correlation between one of those filters (race) and an inequality does in no way show injustice 'based on race' no matter how emphatic the assertion.

People with different hair colors, or heights, last names, pet types, and sibling orders on average don't have identical outcomes. And these differences in outcome by themselves are not unjust, are mere correlations, and therefore do not require fixing. Just read Harrison Bergeron by Vonnegut; it's not long.
You are not missing anything.

It's worth remembering that most films made in the past two decades have been mastered at 2K, most films are distributed to cinemas at 2K, and most cinema projectors are 2K. Yes, most films are mastered and distributed at a resolution barely superior to 1080p.

In most respects, for the purposes of media consumption on a rectangular screen of any practical size, 4K already exceeds useful detail levels. 8K is absurd. Technology and content innovation should focus on high frame rate and high dynamic range.
> Today, black people on average make 1/3 less income than white people. Because we must assume black people are intrinsically just as capable as white people

The premise is flawed - beyond wishful thinking, do you have any reasons to believe in equal capabilities across e.g. all racial groups for any given activity? Because there is vastly more research showing the contrary.

> They’re going to see “race blindness” for what it is—an attempt to sweep under the rug generations of oppression because it’s uncomfortable and we’d rather pretend “we’re all good now, right?”

Because at some point, we're gonna have to move on from this perpetual oppression and victimhood mentality. What solutions do you propose to correct "generations of oppression" that do not oppress other racial groups?
> History will remember “race blindness” with derision.

This is an emotional claim with very little practical application or philosophical thought. What exactly is your moral solution? Quantify for me, in dollars, how much hundreds of years of slavery is worth. Do we poison every non black person, or have different tax brackets? Is your claim that a 10% favoring on college admissions for children that werent slaves against children that werent slavers justifies centuries of rape, murder, and torture?

>Because we must assume black people are intrinsically just as capable as white people

Not only must we not assume that, it's probably not true. That's why Asians are being discriminated against in this case - their race is a better performer on average.

> Today, black people on average make 1/3 less income than white people.

I'm surprised no one has challenged you on this "fact". If it were true in the sense you are implying, businesses would be seeking to hire exclusively black people and heavily discriminate against nonblacks.

> Race blindness isn’t the end goal, the goal is racial equality

Equality of outcome is infinitely different than equality of opportunity. One is fair, the other is self destructive and murderous. See Russia and China, et al.
Mechanical turk might meet your requirements. Not coding but boring and low pay.
Perhaps but if you look at most threads, they are very tech/hacker oriented and most commenters, if you read their posts or history, are software engineers here. I think that is at least 70% majority.
While I agree that sentence is a dishonest summary, one has to be careful when claiming “rewriting history”. As history is written by the victors, parts are ignored, misrepresented, or plain fabricated. Eg, every American child is brought up believing the Betsy Ross story (possibly/likely) fabricated by her descendants a hundred years later. Similar examples of retroactive history exist in English history where first recorded mentions are 200+ years after the events in question, not to mention excluding whole groups of people from history, ie women, slaves, children, commoners, losers, etc.

All we can hope for is a fair reconstruction when new evidence is discovered, or critical thinking applied where it was previously absent.
is it actually possible to do this? I can't just deepen my voice on command, can some people do it naturally?
A Startup Takes Flight
A guided missile is a type of arm, what's the problem?
I think the bigger red flag is that none of these screens showed moving images. Only a single demo with a very slowly blooming flower... and it didn't look great.
The Startup Cartography Project
Hello! I'm an engineer at Civil.

I'm not really sure what you mean by this. Once the Registry contract is deployed on the blockchain, it will continue to function and provide utility no matter what happens to the "Civil Media Company". No involvement on our part is needed to "recognize the voting power" as any individual, entity, or website can use the information contained in the registry however they want. A social media site, for example, could query the registry and decide to render a "credibility badge" when displaying links from a news organization that is whitelisted.

Happy to help clarify if you still have questions.

-- Nick Reynolds
No, they haven't. I think you misunderstand what they have said. As recently April 26th a SEC official in testimony before Congress [0][1] explicitly said a utility token was possible. They have warned that something having utility doesn't mean it isn't also a security. The SAFT is an interesting beast but it is generally only offered to accredited investors where as utility tokens are usually offered in an everyone can participate style ICO.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rNdly_FXlKs

[1] https://www.forbes.com/sites/astanley/2018/04/28/sec-officia...
According to the github issue, all attempts at contacting the maintainers or originals devs have fialed.

https://github.com/rethinkdb/rethinkdb/issues/6659
Yeah, I think you are misunderstanding something here.

Yes, there is a non-zero chance that spare bits will be identical. But that's only relevant, if you have a bug in your code wherein you are trying to use a destroyed handle. If you are never using a destroyed handle, then the spare bits being identical is completely okay.

Another way to think of this is that the spare bits are optional. The interface is good even if there were no spare bits. The spare bits only add an additional probabilistic security check.
The influencers get the product for free, otherwise they would not post. This is not people 'believing in a product', it is people using leverage to sell advertising for which they are paid with the product.
No. We already know this is a bad idea. It's seen most clearly in the history of science, where people want to trace back just the theories that worked as opposed to looking at all the options being worked on at a given time. See the Strong program.

In more general history, it leads you to founding myths and connecting largely unconnected things like modern France to Charlemagne's Frankish empire.
If the sole purpose of the display is to show pre-recorded content, then sure 8k won't be well utilized any time soon.

Pixel-dense displays were sought after long before HD was a thing. Photos, games, razor-sharp text..

I'm more interested in thinking about what devices could meaningfully use this density at this size. Like, it's obviously overkill for a laptop. Too big for VR. Too small for a television. Some other class of device that is viewed magnification?
Actually that's exactly what happened in the 1920s onward.

Harvard’s admissions committee began using the euphemistic criteria of “character and fitness” to limit Jewish enrollment.

From:
https://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/25/opinion/is-harvard-unfair...