skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Instead lets look at a "science based" which relies on the bell curve and similar works and deals with race and IQ.

People make the argument all the time that society isn't racist and that the reasons for the problems in the Black community are that Black people are genetically dumber. That they are inferior. That slavery is a natural state and we should probably just go back to that.

Is that a fair argument that should be discussed or would you recognize that it's just trying to use science to justify the authors own racist beliefs? I mean, I can toss in citations for most of it. There has been many articles that make the same basic point, usually minus the slavery parts in this era.

Now you did mention that there could be other causes, but you did so in a throwaway manner. You didn't actually analyze them. You're also asking the wrong question, because "are women as interested?" is fair but it's not really relevant. Are interested women being held back? Is interest being discouraged among women? Is the community encouraging to women or is it hostile? Aren't those better questions?

Attempts to scientifically justify bigotry and oppression (slavery especially) have existed for well over a hundred years and have varying levels of being complete nonsense (e.g. phrenology). It's very popular among some of the most racist people in society to act entirely "reasonable" while using statements like the one you posted as excuses for their own hatred or biases. The statement you posted just looks like someone trying to justify their own conservative views women in the workplace. I don't think it would get you banned in most places. If you say, wrote a memo discussing it and it wound up going out to your entire company I think you would probably get fired (rightfully) for creating a horrible working environment for any women around you.
Oh right, because saying "your are bankrupt" or actually declaring bankruptcy means permanently broke and living in public housing or under a bridge.

According to your story of events he would have had to say this in early 2015. He has been C-level at a hedge fund just a few months after getting out of prison in mid 2016.

And of course thats not how bankruptcy works at all.

This story is for extremely gullible and naive people, in order to try and get a summary judgement.
From reports I've read by insiders, it's mainly due to the fact that all the filesystem developers in RH are XFS-focused, and everybody who's XFS-focused isn't interested in learning enough btrfs to keep their end up-to-date. So when the last guy who did btrfs left, they were effectively forced to end their support for it.
I've tried airpods, $40 enacfires, and 5+ other models for market research.

As an Android user, airpods didn't offer that much functionality, was $160+, looked like qtips sticking out of my ear, and the sound wasn't that great either.

I think the $40 enacfires might have had a better bass than the airpods. I've gotten intimate with these products down to Bluetooth compatibility and chipsets. In my opinion, it's a lot of hype at a high price point when it costs nowhere close. I'm mind blown by the marketing genius. At the same time, I will never go back to wired, wireless is amazing. Companies sure are milking this new technology though and it's just getting started.
I perfectly understood what you were trying to say. It was just awkward and stereotypical. Again, like something from Mad Men. Like we’re all married men talking about how our wives are obsessed with their beauty.

It’s a mildly anachronistic and sexist trope. I found it amusing so I left the comment. Really not a big deal, and from your closing line, I’m sure there’s zero chance of you examining your behavior or assumptions, and I’m not going to waste time arguing about it. Have a great day!
Cyborg vs. Human Resources
"Prove our new train signaling system is as secure as the old one. If you can, you'll get your degree, if you can't, you find someone else to sponsor your research/degree and we find someone else to do the proof." -- Deutsche Bahn (government held national train company in Germany) in around 2001 to a friend of mine (they and him found "someone else")
The pressure to get positive results is just too high to be compatible with good science. When you have people's whole life and career on the line all the time (publish or perish) then people are going to do what they have to stay employed.

Like Gresham's law bad science drives out good, because it is much faster to do bad science than good. Those that try to maintain quality can't pump out as many papers as the bad and so lose on the grant treadmill.

Any solution that does not address the incentives is doomed to fail. Not fixing this problem will kill science.
I let OpenBSD’s level of support be my litmus test. If everything on the board works out of the box with OpenBSD, it probably acheived a high degree of openness.
Not being that is one thing, but (at least in the past?) they implemented updates as non-atomic delete and insert, which is just crazy bad. It's one thing not to be ACID but having a query not return some entry at all because it's being concurrently updated is... an interesting design choice.

Edit: link https://blog.meteor.com/-654b6594a827
Yes. In our case, though, Rockset is not a transactional database, but a query engine on top of existing data, so we're not the right place to enforce constraints anyway.
Housing and transportation are the same, these graphs show
Islamists Behind 84 Percent of Terror Killings in West
Yes, I'm sure this "blame the user" attitude is how they justified not fixing the issue for so long.
Qt was available under GPL since 2000. For Linux, anyway. It's not like Gnome works on Windows (though much of KDE does).
Ok, perhaps I should have said I’m not aware of any Linux package managers that support installing multiple versions of the same package except for Nix which manages it by munging the dynamic library lookup paths at runtime so the binary loads the right versions of its dependencies. Without this, I don’t think it’s possible to (correctly) support multiple versions, and even then the package maintained must take care that multiple versions of the same package don’t wind up in the closure (or the loader will load the first it encounters in the search path).
wow, that is some seriously good insight.

next time I will marry Google Home
That's because of No-Nut November!
I saw people in many Chinese forums react the same way as HN folks here. And they (or we) became more and more surprised when Tik Tok continued to gain ground when none of us got it. In the end all it proved is that “we” lost connect to the common folks.
Ask HN: Why there are no cryptographic bolt-seals?
I just saw a documentary on cocaine traffic in France. A lot a cocaine comes via containers from Colombia.

One of the problems is that the bolt-seals that seal the containers can be faked (serial number). Thus, the end to end chain can not be guaranteed.

To me, a cryptographic bolt-seal could be a very good option. The idea is that upon closure of the seal, a crypto pair is generated in it. Then, the public key is scanned (RFID) and thus becomes the serial number of the seal. The serial number is timestamped and published. Once upon arrival, the customs or the client can check that the seal was not tampered with by public-key cryptography.

All the generated public keys would then be stored on an open database, thus making it impossible to reuse the same seal twice (or by having faked seals).

What do you think of it ?

EDIT: cocaine, not coke
What went wrong is that these systems were designed by extremely smart CS PhDs who massively overestimated the abilities of the average human.

Papert, Kay, etc, are all world-class smart, capable, and inventive people. They designed these systems in their own image, probably with a more or less conscious desire to build something they would have wanted in their own childhoods.

An average human with average abilities doesn't have the cognitive horsepower or the creativity to get much from these systems. They can play with them in a fairly superficial way, but only a relatively small proportion - I'd guess less than 25% - will get excited by the ability to imagine and build their own systems.

Without that excitement there's no motivation, and without the motivation any kind of programming becomes an exercise in pointlessness.

So - you can move a pointer around and draw lines? By typing words? Cute. But so what? Why should I care?

The real challenge - much harder than designing computer software - is working out political and educational strategies that reach the (nominal) 75% who don't find that kind of problem solving particularly interesting.

I've literally just been reading Kay's mini-book on the history of Smalltalk. Here's a quote on literacy:

"Literacy, for example, is being able to fluently read and follow the 50 page argument in Paine's Common Sense and being able (and happy) to fluently write a critique or defense of it. Another kind of 20th century literacy is being able to hear about a new fatal contagious incurable disease and instantly know that a disastrous exponential relationship holds and early action is of the highest priority. Another kind of literacy would take citizens to their personal computers where they can fluently and without pain build a systems simulation of the disease to use as a comparison against further information."

This sounds perfect, but I think the experience of almost everyone who has been to school knows that a fair proportion of their age cohort not only can't think at this level, but has absolutely no interest in being able to.

You might - possibly - be able to do something about this with a historically unique social engineering program supported by a media campaign that made abstract skills appear desirable and heroic. (A version of this happened during the Cold War, kind of.) But even then, it's not obvious from history just how far you could take that.

Either way, technology on its own is never going to be a solution. It may support policy, but it's never going to be powerful enough to enlighten the surrounding culture.

What actually happens is that economic and political pressures steer technology towards offering simple - often poor, but understandable - solutions to common problems. Worse wins out over better, and over time the possibilities shrink instead of expanding.
Aphex Twin Funkhaus Berlin Review
The CIA's communications suffered a catastrophic compromise
From what I've seen of it, isn't it basically the exact same thing as Vine?

Why the hell did Vine ever shut down anyway? It seemed like it was doing well.
Jesus I can't believe I'm talking to the author of Sumatra PDF. I love that software! Thanks for stopping by. I'll definitely read your blog post. If you don't mind to answer another question, I'm also a bit interested in desktop development. Would you recommend learn C or C++ for that purpose in 2018? I'm taking a look at Gtk3 too. Thank you very much!
How to Be the Fattest Bear
Hm... Making a circle to reach the starting point.

I would suggest another approach: let .NET Framework incorporate the useful features of .NET Core, and then eliminate .NET Core altogether as an experimental and dead-end branch. Thus stopping the segmentation and saving the technology for the greater benefit of customers. Somewhat controversial, but much saner approach product-wise.

Having said that, I don't think Microsoft has the balls to pull the compatibility tricks like this anymore.
The (Unproven, Deadly) Common Cure for Schizophrenia
It was popular, but didn't generate revenues. It's not enough for a website to be popular, you have to figure out how to get people to give you their money.
>My rebuttal has always been that NixOS has been out for awhile and we still haven't seen mainstream adoption despite how supposedly great it is. I don't know of any high profile companies using Nix. It appears to be as hobbyist as Haskell.

If it's anything like Haskell, then here's how this goes: there are going to be some problems for which NixOS is not only the best solution but the only reasonably viable solution. For all other problems, it will be inconvenient.
I think this is probably dependent on where the traffic is coming from and to what extent they’ve been primed. I’d also be curious what percentage of subscribers clicked on preview or archive before subscribing.
Their "alumni" run the organizations that are supposed to prosecute them.
Thanks! Does it still under active development? I thought it was kind of dead to be honest.
Sass and Less has had this functionality for years.
> There is caste system in place and you can choose only from people who are involved in the system.

I used to think similarly. In reality, not all politicians are the same, and they don't all come from the same social classes (I guess it depends of your country tho). It's a matter of documenting yourself on some of the parties, and find the one you identify the most to.

Politician is an actual job, they provide value by representing a party or ideas for a group of people, and it requires specific set of skills. That's why not everyone can become a politician. They don't have all the same background, some of them could be actually closer to your opinion than you think. You have to find the party that comes close to what you believe is right. For your information, there are some parties which believe a democratic Europe can be built by giving more power to localities, but they are still pro-europeans.

The European Union has its own Judiciary, so they can in theory punish any politicians who would illegally exploit the system, or accepts brides, etc. The system can be improved by itself if it maintains high standards, that's the strength of the democracy with separated powers, but people have to go vote to maintain its fairness.
That's on my TODO list, both in terms of performance and in terms of features / ease-of-use. (Another interesting thing to compare against is SQL++ (https://ci.apache.org/projects/asterixdb/sqlpp/manual.html) which has a couple of usability affordances that we might adopt.)
If anti-matter would be found to be affected differently by gravity, then that would be a big problem for general relativity wouldn't it? If gravity is warped spacetime geometry, then it has to affect the path of all particles in the same way.
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Sensitivity / ablation studies plus datasets opensourcing should be made mandatory for every computational proposition and research asap, so that results can be checked by peers and by the community at large. With publish-or-perish pressure, democratisation of tools, rogue parties and hyperspecialisation, is it getting to the point almost nothing would sustain any stringent scrutiny? Science cannot afford opacity any more, more than that in these blurred times.
Another way to make this endless would be to loop the original: it would be necessary to find a place near the end that can be imperceptibly spliced with a place near the beginning.
They're over a year old, so probably not worth the trouble. Just dug the AirPods out of the junk drawer and they seem to be working better than I recall. Recently got a new iPhone, so perhaps some of my problems were the old phone's fault instead of the AirPods. I don't have any other bluetooth devices so there wouldn't have been anything else to tip me off.
The ending where he was at a sales conference asking people to sell him a pencil was rather poignant about how far he fell, but you're right in that that message is missed by most audiences.

Scorsese crime dramas (e.g. Goodfellas, Casino) tend to have a flair for showing the the up-and-up side of crime with a very brief ending in reality. The Departed is an exception in that you saw the story from both "rats" sides, and the undercover cop had it much worse than the mole cop.
It can often be cheaper if you're avoiding the main areas. Or go off-season. It can be great to find odd little things; I remember this typewriter museum being posted all over twitter: https://www.popularmechanics.com/technology/gadgets/a23610/i...

My best ever holiday was pure serendipity: Inter-railing, before the advent of mobile phones. We had the Thomas Cook European Rail Timetable and no other guidebooks, doing the whole thing on signposts, local info, helpful bystanders, and simply wandering around interesting-looking bits of city centres.

(But for working Americans the thing in short supply is time, not money, hence the tremendous rush I guess)
I saw this paper just yesterday from another source. This is brilliant in it's simplicity and the performance is pretty impressive.
I hope to write something like this in Julia.

Wondering if I'm missing something but the example is

fact(X, R, Y) :∼ cat facts.tsv

locatedIn(X, Y) :- fact(X, "locatedIn", Y).

locatedIn(X, Y) :- locatedIn(X, Z), fact(Z, "locatedIn", Y).

main(X) :- locatedIn(X, "USA")

I think line 3 could just be
locatedIn(X, Y) :- locatedIn(X, Z), locatedIn(Z,Y).

unless I'm missing something.
That _should_ work. But needs to get to TRL 8/9. Which was the point of this experiment. To boost the TRL.
SQL types are actually default nullable, which puts them to the "not typed enough" category for my taste.
1) Splitting hairs. Swap it for Sarah Jeong if you like.
2) Could quite easily be a true statement, if a controversial and uncomfortable one.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dZAQNo9bXwI
Modern techniques seem to be more about ease-of-use for the artists rather than getting things to run faster.

Physically based rendering is mostly about ensuring that your models look the same across many different lighting conditions. IIRC, something like Toy Story "cheated" by having the artists change the lighting settings between scenes.

While Wreak it Ralph is the famous Pixar Movie for using a singular "uber-shader" that worked in all situations across the movie.

https://disney-animation.s3.amazonaws.com/library/s2012_pbs_...

The "Principled" BSDF was mostly about making things easier to control for the artist. IE: Making settings between 0 and 1, arbitrarily. And other such "user interface" issues.

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Because the "cheating" way to get things to run at runtime the easiest is to encode it to H264, and then hit the playback button. :-)

One thing I learned is how a lot of video-game models have baked-in shadows (especially 2d perspective games like fighting games). The sun is assumed to be coming from a certain direction. So any shadows created by the sun are "baked into" the texture itself, and no need to calculate it during runtime.

Other shadows remain dynamic (Ex: a lamp in the background may still cast a dynamic, runtime shadow). And the combination is enough to trick most people into thinking they have fully dynamic lightning.
Do you think nature requires such an exotic representation?
This is a slide deck, probably meant to be presented by @prideout and not read on its own.

The actual filament website seems to be https://google.github.io/filament/Filament.md.html
If Antimatter were to have antigravity could you bust up a black hole by filling it with antimatter?
Which brings up a fun thing that few people talk about: How do you ground?

Earth's ground is created by the giant revolving metal core. the Moon doesn't have that. So how do you do that for big permanent systems on the Moon, or Mars for that matter?

Rather I should say "How do you do it safely?", because it definitely is possible already.
Well, once you realize that essentially, large American Fortune 500 companies are actively supported by its spy agency (hint: They Hate Snowden) through a veil of foreign aid and other friendly name sounding causes such as "volunteers of Amazonian language preservation of America" calling in military assets to put down a rebellion from the foreign country, that get in their way of the lootin of their country.

The book 'Confessions of Economic Hitman' perfectly illustrates a sort of "active measures" that take place with increasing lethal consequences for those that oppose them.

1. identify elites in a country (ex. bankers, biz ppl)

2. lucrative contracts and monopoly handed out to elites via government.

3. profit???

4. If no profit, use bribe to corrupt key players.

5. If still no profit, send in the jackals (what EH calls professional assassins), put poison in cigars, drone strike.

6. If tradecraft fails, then they put boots on the ground.

South America is a very good example. It's been thoroughly pillaged by American corporations now for over a century, which has given rise to narco-economy.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NKwJI9axblQ
Texts on GA seem to start out saying "we're going to replace vector analysis with something intuitive and natural and eloquent and..." and then immediately introduce the "geometric product", which is neither intuitive, eloquent, or, as far as I can tell, natural. Its properties are found via formula-wrangling, and the results you get from it seem to just magically work, rather than being intuitive.

Bivectors in general are conceptually great; it's just the geometric product which I think is conceptually flimsy. And it's surprisingly hard to compute or make sense of the geometric product in general which is why the writer of the first book cited on the OP wrote "I do not think it possible to give a quick definition of the general geometric product."[1]

As far as I can tell 95% of the usefulness of geometric algebra is the usefulness of the wedge product ∧, which is absolutely under-appreciated and appears in loads of places in disguise (for instance, the determinant of a matrix is the wedge product of all of its rows or columns together).

The last 5% of the usefulness of GA comes from using the geometric product in vector-rotation via -ava^-1, which is admittedly very useful (it's why physics and computer graphics represent rotation this way, albeit in disguised forms like Pauli matrices and quaternions.) You can express that form without the geometric product, but I haven't found a way that strikes me as very elegant.

I don't mean to condemn GA - I think what it's doing is massively important. The mathematical language for vector analysis deficient compared to what we could be using, and a lot of things are more intuitive and natural in better language. I just suspect that the, uh, ideal form of this stuff will look slightly different than GA, and might not include the geometric product at all, but will definitely include the wedge product absolutely everywhere.

(I've spent a lot of free time trying to figure this out but I don't really have a compelling result yet. I've been meaning to try blogging about it, though, since it's basically my favorite thing to study.)

[1] https://math.stackexchange.com/questions/444988/looking-for-...
geometric algebra proponents are the rust strike force of mathematics
I use quaternions at work (AVs) and used them in physics and astronomy in school. The math he's talking about is darned close to the math done behind the scences with quaternions, it's just easier to grasp because it has visual references. Thing is, you only need to understand the math once to be able to use any of this stuff, and there's nothing wrong with taking it for granted after that. Either method is good enough.

Basicallt, quaternions are hard to understand but easy to use.
Tumor cells encode the same genes as non-tumor cells.

The difference is more likely to be in the expression level or epigenetic (de)repression of a particular gene than the presence or absence of that gene. Organisms don't tend to keep around genes that only serve to form tumors.

A slightly better approach would be to use RNA-sequencing to look for mRNA signatures in tumor vs normal cells.