jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Sulphites are worth cutting out to test too.
CGA had a green / red / yellow mode (320x200), but never saw anything as well dithered on it!
Solar cycles are much shorter than the time CO2 stays in the atmosphere.
"This global cooling during the upcoming grand solar minimum 1 (2020–2053) can offset for three decades any signs of global warming and would require inter-government efforts to tackle problems with heat and food supplies for the whole population of the Earth"

This is quite a conclusion.
Who is the author?

Are the affiliated with a university?

Did they get funding for this research?

Is the journal credible?

They call this an editorial and use the first person so I guess this isn't a research paper
Say Conscientiousness is about being organized and dependable. Would you say that higher social strata exhibit these characteristics, more so than in the lower echelons, even in UK?
Reassuring to see that the UN doesn't predict any large discontinuities in that graph
If you find the first statement controversial then I suggest stepping outside of the world of HN once in a while.

As to the second claim, SOAP is very popular with Java and .Net developers, especially when they have taken up the latest fad, SOA. There are also entire industries, such as healthcare, that are heavily pushing SOAP-based standards for data exchange.
It could very well be that the relationship between NFC and certain forms of social interaction in general is very strong and Facebook is simply a reflection of that.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Need_for_cognition cites a few surveys. Here are some facts about NFC:

"need for cognition was related weakly and negatively to being closeminded, unrelated to social desirability, and positively correlated with general intelligence" [http://psycnet.apa.org/?&fa=main.doiLanding&fuseacti...]

"currently enrolled students high in the need for cognition expressed greater life satisfaction than students low in the need for cognition" [http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0FCR/is_2_38/ai_n6130...]

"People high in the need for cognition are more likely to form their attitudes by paying close attention to relevant arguments (i.e., via the central route to persuasion), whereas people low in the need for cognition are more likely to rely on peripheral cues, such as how attractive or credible a speaker is" [wikipedia]

"people who are high in the need for cognition scale score slightly higher in verbal intelligence tests but no higher in abstract reasoning tests" [wikipedia]

"Research has concluded that individuals high in NFC are less likely to attribute higher social desirability to more attractive individuals or to males" [wikipedia]

"The need for cognition is unrelated to social dominance orientation." [http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qa3852/is_200101/ai_n8...]
> It'd really put an end to the myth that YC startups are "dipshit companies" once and for all.

Of course it won't. Dropbox will just be labeled a fluke and the same rhetoric will continue. The underlying issue is not the lack of 1B exits, but rather a form of animosity or envy depending on how you view it.
So maybe a resource of compiled answers could offer a flow-chart of differing opinions?

IE if you want to learn this, start here. If you think this is more important, start here.
Is Myspace geared to dullards?
Is Friendster geared to dullards?
Is email geared to dullards?
Is the written word geared to dullards?
Is chiseling glyphs geared to dullards?
Is cave painting geared to dullards?
From the Examples:

fart => [ :fart, [] ]
fart 1 => [ :fart, 1 ]
fart 1, 2 => [ :fart, [ 1, 2 ] ]

Why isn't the single argument call:

fart 1 => [ :fart, [ 1 ] ]

?

ps. this is also fun: http://parsetree.rubyforge.org/ruby_parser/
This does not go to a press release or news article, just a vanilla Outlook login page that appears to have nothing to do with the rumored "Facebook Mail." Did you just find this by going to mail.facebook.com?
I think we're in agreement.

I do a lot of my work in Python these days. One of the really nice things Python did is take the major design patterns in Lisp/Scheme, which were super-powerful but quite unreadable, and gave visually-distinct ways of expressing those.

For example, major design patterns like maps and filters are done as list comprehensions, which are nice.

Ditto for decorators.

The key thing is that I still have general-purpose functional programming (except for tail recursion, which I dearly miss), but I use constructs which don't have explicit Python semantic quite rarely. Still, there are times when I can do something which will e.g. cut architectural complexity in half, and that's well worth a little bit of magic code. I'll usually try to do that in an isolated, well-documented file which has the magic. That's enabled by having a language which relies on programmers having discipline rather than handcuffs.

It's a lot cleaner than the architectural contortions I see for any use of Java beyond its target (Java has a nearly ideal set of expressiveness for making an inventory management system, CRM, store web site, or similar types of database-backed applications).

As a footnote, the place for the type of C code you gave is low-level programming. That's a disappearing market, as even microwaves can now afford RISC chips in the tens of megahertz with modern memory managements, but for hardware, you really care not just what happens, but how it happens. I know what machine code while(*a++) will translate to, and for those sorts of systems, that's nice.
I can probably top you: some many years ago, I discovered that Network Solutions (the original domain name provider) was using the first two characters of the password as the salt for their user accounts, presumably so that the salt could also be secret. Of course, this had the side-effect of making the first two characters of the password visible in plain text if you looked at the hashes. I reported this as a bug and never heard back. I've also never done business with Network Solutions since then.
That's a good point. But then maybe it should be "Find someone to work on something with" rather than "Find a cofounder".

Kind of like "Find a date" rather than "Find a wife"...
I had Office Depot print this cheat sheet: in color, legal-sized, double-sided, laminated with a heavy/stiff plastic and spiral bound. It now sits off to the side of my desk and has made for an invaluable reference over the past year.
I gave all to the developers. What is the `humble tip' category good for?
You're probably correct; when I used Django I had to reimplement the auth, since their built-in doesn't support roles, and I didn't look too closely at their implementation.
I am looking right now at Schneier's reference implementation of the Blowfish key setup function, and there is nothing in it that would not be straightforward to parallelize across a CUDA warp (read: no conditional branches). Is it your assertion that getting from here to a working bcrypt cracker would be sufficiently difficult as to constitute a significant "contribution to cryptography literature"?
When seeing the title, I was expecting an article about CMAC or HMAC or even PBKDF2-like function but it's the "old" bcrypt.
SHA1(salt || password) does have a length-extension property; you can easily compute SHA1(salt || password || junk || arbitrary-data) for any given hash. That's not very useful for password hashes, but is devastating for the kinds of SHA1-based authentication schemes that people who write their own password hashes seem to come up with.
I work on 500k lines of Java code and I really like static typing in this case. Eclipse is incredible for code navigation.
Doesn't appear to work with firefox 3.6.16 on Linux.
It's not an auction on Flippa. It's a private sale; meaning people make offers and we accept the one we like. We did this because we want to make sure the product goes to someone who will do something with it.

We don't want to wait the 3 months. We would prefer to sell as soon as possible so that the product doesn't fall behind in terms of the roadmap / competitors.
Then what about the Symbolics and Lisp Machine guys?
that's amusing. My condolences for being at the whim of the firewall content filtering gestapo.

The likely reason it is blocked, is the main domain (randomdrivel.com) used to be a community for sharing fart jokes, star wars parodies, and weird internet memes -- before the age of Fark, Digg, and now Reddit. The whole domain is probably classified in the websense 'poor taste' category :)
Ahh yes, if everyone does it, it must be ok.
I think he is talking primarily about OEMs. Except HTC, i dont think any other OEM building iPhone/iPad competitors is making much money.
Execute, seek help...
I'd love to hear about the insurance underwriter. How do you assess the risk?
They're nice and hackable too.
It's a pain having to setup root access or a user for Docker.
At a financial institution I worked at we had to waste about half a day to get this setup (and that's once we worked out who we had to speak to).
I thought the Xiaomi Air Purifier line [1] was at least popular enough to be considered in such comparisons. Maybe it's my skewed European perspective where the Xiaomi phones and home products seem to really popular among people.

[1]: https://www.mi.com/global/mi-air-purifier-3H/
It also comes from Parkinson's Law: give a full-time employee only one thing to do and it will become a full time job, even if it could be done more expeditiously.

It also comes from systems. They function to expand themselves, not to serve the purpose for which they were created.
Great to see all of the problems, past, present and future have been solved.

But thanks for the link to a person who clearly has no financial stake in the success of Bitcoin, right?
The last thing I want is to help the MasterCard and Visa duopoly persist, given how many times these companies have polices others by instituting payment blocks on people like Wikileaks. I view cryptocurrency as an alternative to the current financial system and not something meant to be leveraged by these incumbents.
How do you apply this logic to USD? You either want to hold it or want to use it? Since everybody need to use USD, so nobody should hold USD?
It is very surprising.

And that is sort of another layer to why I think that people trying to turn Python into a functional language should just simmer down. A core principle in functional programming is that you should be able to swap out different implementations of an abstraction without changing the correctness of the program. That's not really something that can be enforced by most functional languages, but it's at least a precedent they set in their standard libraries. But Python's standard library has a different way of doing things, and favors different approaches to abstraction. And those conventions make the Python ecosystem a hostile environment for functional programming.

Hylang is another interesting example. It's a cool language. But watching how it evolved is slightly disheartening. It sought to be a lisp for Python, but the compromises they needed to make to get the language to interact well with Python have hurt a lot of its lisp feel, and make it a kind of peculiar language to try to learn as someone with a lisp background. IIRC, Python's lack of block scoping was an elephant in the room for that project, too.
> Where a Ticket is purchased and used in violation of the law,

That sounds like the rub. It is against the law to not board a leg of a flight? Doubtful.
So you post a fake link only to teach others copyright terms? Internet is a strange place.
But what if your tasks need to talk to other systems, that may use mutexes to control concurrent access. In that case, your HTTP request handling logic will just block on those mutexes, and all is lost, since the event loop will be stuck.

Now, you could of course rewrite those 3rd-party systems to use your event-loop instead of plain mutexes, but the point is that threads are a more natural fit for multiprocessing, from a software-engineering point of view, because they allow one to compose systems more easily.

In other words, threads have been invented for a reason. Otherwise, we might as well just go back to the Windows 3.11 era, with its cooperative multitasking model.
I would say Julia's target is much wider than R.

R is actually a nice language (also with multiple dispatch!), but it's basically useless for any actual numerical work. Too slow. There have been efforts in the past to introduce a JIT compiler, but nothing has become mainline yet. The GC is also very poor.

The actual base system in R is also very small. The built-in vector types helped the language mitigate the issue due to the fact that it's very easy to build a C extension that does the actual computation by just taking the underlying memory pointer (it's actually easier to do than python and it maps much better). But it stops there. If it wasn't for the large swath of statistical packages, R wouldn't have much traction. Not to mention that the code quality of the typical CRAN package is quite low, coming from people with a background in statistics and very little CS knowledge.

The hope with Julia is being able to actually develop methods in Julia itself. I personally looking forward to replace python&c++ with Julia&Rust in the future.
Just let you know that weight for English as a lesson for students for a long time has been reduced in the curriculum these years. I hated learning English when I was a student. But without it, you have less access to the information and knowledge. It's all about controlling what's in people's mind and feed them with some other stimulations. Intellectually oppressed? I think its priority among average people, even in the developed nations, is not that high.
Slightly off-topic: you probably shouldn't do a secure messaging app.

Security experts agree: if you're not an expert, don't build security apps / systems.

Back on topic: I say if you can come up with a plan to compete with existing competitors, and it seems reasonable to you--go for it.
When you say Chrome, is it Chrome or Chromium? Do the javascript execution and webgl performance same on both?
Neat stuff. We have an SDK that allows you to use our V-Ray rendering and our WebGL embeds in your own applications. We even license our full code base. Might be a solution to move your stuff ahead faster and also share our render farm.

https://clara.io/learn/sdk

E.g.: http://exocortex.github.io/apple-watch/

We will have VR support soon too as many people are requesting it. And we could collaborate on improving our import support: Sketchup, Rhino, etc.

Seriously, we should work together. :)
> 1/19/15 [Monday] GoDaddy implemented CSRF protection for sensitive account actions.
I totally agree. I read various authors in one particular things. I try not to judge whether this book is “good” or “bad” but I try to observe the authors idea instead. Maybe I have lots of time to read and so reading books worth my time. In any books I’ve read, I learned something. Open minded reading changed my life, changed how I think, changed how I perceive. It is also leads me to discover different fields like neuroscience or quantum physics or Python programming. I’m quite surprised because I had always hated math and science in my teenage. Metaphorically, reading helps me see the size of the world as big as the size of the sun. (also helps improve my English)
> "Better math" is a curious term. If you want more accuracy, you have to give up speed.

What I mean is for example to integrate something numerically you can just add small increments but this will lead often to crap unstable solutions. Or you can use Runge-Kutta and get very accurate stable result.
After dealing with video, anything audio related seems way less complicated.
https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.03.19.20038844v...

https://bmjopen.bmj.com/content/1/2/e000234

https://www.bmj.com/content/351/bmj.h3480.full
> The system monitors phone signals to alert police and local officials if those in home quarantine move away from their address or turn off their phones. Jyan said authorities will contact or visit those who trigger an alert within 15 minutes.

> Officials also call twice a day to ensure people don’t avoid tracking by leaving their phones at home.

I'd hate this so much. I get why they feel it's necessary, I do. But I still absolutely hate this.

I hope stuff like this doesn't get nomralized. Especially in other non-first-world countries
Even on your standard car seats can usually be swapped out in under an hour (Four bolts per seat, disconnect one power cable - Reverse to reinstall) carpet + seats takes longer but still only a 3-4 hour job when I've done it in the past. Usually dealers will charge an insane markup replacement parts though "bundling" them into an upgrade package (for less then the sum of purchasing individually) seems to make sense.
I believe all of that is against the law after they were specifically told not to via a C&D.
A few years ago I did a much more detailed comparison of lossy audio codecs: https://andrewrondeau.herokuapp.com/objectively_comparing_au...

TLDR: If you need to go lossy, use Opus. At higher bitrates, it's the only lossy codec that has a flat frequency response.
As for me, SquareSpace is the best eCommerce platform for non-developers. I opter for this platform because of its user interface and specific tools. Here is Here is an incredibly insightful, informative and helpful article on this issue - http://www.webbuildersguide.com/website-builder-categories/e... .
When Google is telling the OEMs who had planned CES 2011 Google TV rollouts to pull back and delay announcements so that they can "refine" the software then you know things are bad. 2011 is gone for Google TV, and by 2012 they will be facing better, strong competition from people who actually know what they are doing in the consumer space. Apple will keep getting better, Netflix and Amazon will get aggressive about going directly to the TV manufacturers, Roku and Boxee will continue to improve and expand their distribution pipeline, etc. Google sent a wake-up call to the content creators and distributors (who returned to favor to Google) that will also drive most of them to partner with one or two non-Google internet-enabled TV distribution platforms.

Google whiffed in making a play for the TV space and their competitors are not going to give them an opportunity for a second chance.
Perhaps a better idea is just not to eat in chain restaurants if you don't want to be psychologically manipulated and/or ripped off?
Ooh, and he can send another one that says "second notice" (or third, etc) without actually needing to store data on each recipient. :P
Thank you for all the amazing suggestions

I made a list with all the movies now that i run out of suggestions on what to watch. (I missed some, and the list will grow, but still useful)

Here you have it, thanks again
https://docs.google.com/document/pub?id=1x2H4erOo2wAktNMXr2R...
> combining similar ideas ideas

I can't decide if that was deliberate or not.
It's certainly true that there are strong biological analogies. The analogy between first layer conv features and neuroscience is pretty widely accepted -- a lot of theoretical neuroscience models produce the same features.(It's less clear for later layers whether they're biologically analogous. Several papers have found that the aggregate of neurons in those layers are able to predict biological neurons quite well, but I don't think we have the detailed and agreed upon a characterization of the features that exist on the biological side to make a strong feature-level case.)

The color vs black and white split also has biological analogies.

With that said, I'd hesitate to dismiss the GP comment. Separate from the color vs grayscale split, why do we observe low-frequency preferring to group with color? It seems very plausible to me that if there's a systematic artifact from how the data neural networks are trained on was compressed, that could play a role. Either way, it makes the argument that this is emerging from purely natural data and the network less clean. (One caveat is that these models are trained on very downscaled versions of larger images. Even if high-frequency data was discarded in the original, that wouldn't necessarily mean that high-frequency was discarded in the downsampled version the network sees. It would depend on details of the data processing pipeline.)

To be clear, I'm not a neuroscientist and this is all just my understanding from the ML side!
It's not a kernel module, it's a compute kernel. Nothing to do with operating systems. They provide versions for android-arm64 and linux-x86_64.

The fine README says it builds and runs on Ubuntu 20.04.
Pictures or it didn't happen. One of the maintainers has responded specifically to you here and you have ignored their outreach.
Is it possible that maybe, just maybe, people dress in spandex to ride because that's what they've found works best for them, and not because they want to make you feel insecure about your your bike or your clothing or that you should get off the road? What you're saying is analogous to saying that because there are people who can't afford nice clothes you should dress as cheaply as possible, otherwise someone might feel that you're gatekeeping being dressed out in public.

As a fairly experienced road cyclist, I honestly don't care in the least what people ride or how they dress, I only care that they don't act stupid things around me. At the most I might compliment someone on their speed and that's about it.
Actually I don't know... I suspect Intel still wins in wide SIMD. The M1 totally destroys Intel in general purpose code performance, especially when you consider power consumption.
I think we get the impression at times that no matter what there is always an army of people quietly working away on this stuff and as time passes it will get better and better.

The article Jeff linked talks about how how the performance has pretty much levelled off except for small incremental improvements and most of the money and research was shifted away from the area. I guess the trend will continue, gaining small improvements through applying more and more data as training for current methods until someone comes up with a completely different approach to push it forward.
Meanwhile, the author of this blog post is using South Park images without permission (or attribution for that matter)
The question should be: Is cluelessness in "soft skills" worse than technical cluelessness? Really, both are bad. (Example: Cuil)
The community and support was not nearly as developed as it is now, for one. Both languages have seen an explosion in usage. And community support is a big part of getting help when you're starting out.

Also, he explicitly mentions why he doesn't like Python in the article.
> I was under the impression (from some discussion about electronic search-and-seizure laws) that mail, once delivered to the recipient, is no longer considered your property.

While true, owning a piece of mail does not imply that you own the relevant copyright.

Consider a book that you own. You own that copy. You can destroy it, you can sell/give/lend/show it to someone else, you can keep it. That physical thing is yours do do with as you will.

However, you can't (legally) copy it if its copyright is still active. (Yes, fair use comes in here too.)

Physical and electronic mail is exactly the same.
A more humorous take on MySpace's slow demise ...

"For a brief period of time, MySpace was the site where everyone kept their profile and managed their friendships. But soon, the service began to attract fake profiles, the wrong kind of white people, and struggling musicians. In real world terms, these three developments would be equivalent to a check cashing store, a TGIFridays, and a housing project."

- Christian Lander, "Stuff White People Like" - #106 Facebook
http://stuffwhitepeoplelike.com/2008/07/31/106-facebook/