jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
> Are surgical masks going to give you total protection? Of course not, but as you say they provide SOME benefit. Saying "masks don't work because they don't fully stop the virus and users misuse them"

Surgical masks aren't about protecting the wearer from everyone else, they're about protecting everyone else from the wearer [1]. They may provide the wearer some protection, but that's not really the point.

The emphasis in the rhetoric about masks needs to change. It should not be about individualist self-protection, but about doing your part to protect the community. I think they should be recommended for that reason [2].

[1] Respirators are devices for protecting the wearer, and the N95 type has been much discussed. Everyone should learn the difference to de-confuse the general conversation in this topic:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JR2uLfEVD2w

https://multimedia.3m.com/mws/media/956213O/differences-betw...

[2] If there's enough supply. It seems like surgical masks are getting drafted into the role of PPE for medical personnel (which they're poorly suited to) due to the N95 shortage. It's unfortunate that the US hasn't developed a culture where you wear a mask to protect others from your illnesses, so they're not widely available outside of healthcare settings.
No, it's the same architecture but with different parameters.

It's like the difference between the situation where every car uses 4 cylinders, and then Apple comes along and makes a car with 5 cylinders.
Not more than:

- follow clean code as much as you can, as you would with any other language

- do not rely blindly in the abstractions/magic many frameworks provide: try to understand what's under the hood

- avoid software that rely on annotations

- don't miss the chance to apply domain driven design in PHP. It's a language that allows you to beautifully model domains so don't miss the chance

- have fun, it's a great language to bring value quickly

- spend time setting up your CI policies
Needs a (2013).
I still would be extremely surprised if the GPU is designed to be virtualized that way. If the host OS is using those IP blocks, you can't just give them to the guest.
> … C, C++, and Rust; languages which allow for performance without compromise…

> … designed with an eye towards performance, but still have some amount of overhead…

Here's a rough count of the programs contributed to the benchmarks game since April 2018.

Does this information moderate your opinion?

Julia 48

Rust 35

F# 23

C# 22

Go 22

Node 19

C++ 16

Haskell 15

Pascal 14

Chapel 11

Swift 10

Lisp 9

Python 9

Dart 7

OCaml 6

C 5

Fortran 5

Erlang 4

Java 4

TypeScript 4

Lua 2

Perl 2

Racket 2

Ruby 2

Ada 1

PHP 1
With respect to

> 1. Beware of the Curse of Knowledge

I'd like to add, that knowledge can lead to "knowledge paralysis": The more knowledge and experience you have on a certain topic, the more problems and caveats you'll spot right away. Awarenes of those may prevent you from actually engaging in productive activity and instead tiptoeing around the problem at hand, instead of just implementing a "straightforward" solution (that ignores the 0.1% of corner cases, you know about, but won't have to care about).

This is omething I'm struggling more and more these days.
> but the kind of people who excel in each type of role will have very different personalities and skillsets. Grading them on the same curve in interviews seems like a pretty bad idea.

I haven't interviewed for senior level positions with FANG. But aren't interviews usually different based on the job? I assume that interviews for job families like front end/backend/sre should all test different skills. And if you are interviewing with a specific team the manager can judge your background and interviews for fit with their team. The interview bar for algorithms is probably too high at some places, but those skills are relevant for all engineers.
Interesting, I ran it on my laptop (i7-7700HQ) with the following results:

- 2-wise+ is 19% slower than 2-wise

- 3-wise is 48% slower than 2-wise

- 3-wise is 25% slower than 2-wise+

However, as mentioned in the post the numbers can vary a lot, and I noticed a maximum run-to-run difference of 23ms on two-wise.
I'm a social networks veteran - from Friendster and early very Flickr on. By 2012 it was pretty obvious to most people working in tech that Facebook was heading in a bad direction with scant regard for users' rights or privacy. Looking back now, it was all pretty benign compared to what it has become, but there were enough indicators like the constantly changing privacy UI which, with every tweak, made it harder to protect your privacy. Add in the fact that the "Like" button started appearing on sites external to Facebook so that they could track your browsing outside of their platform and that was enough for me. At that point it is spyware.
Going to a shell, telnet'ing to port 80 and getting back a bunch of HTML. At that particular time and level of knowledge that was a huge A-Ha moment for me.

Teh internet is just text sent over a series of pipes ;)
Can't seem to get Adioso to recognize Canada's capital city. "NYC to Ottawa" works fine on Bing, though..
That's pretty smart.
For people wanting a link, this is called the bystander effect:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bystander_effect
In this particular case, yes. The government has a fetish for secrecy, classifying useless (and often public knowledge anyways) things indefinitely. To think that something this sensitive would wind up under an NDA that expires in a decade or two is lunacy, especially without the slightest shred of evidence.
http://mail.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?answer=77657 is a nifty little chart showing how to accomplish Gmail actions from within the IMAP client of your choice.

If you delete a message from the inbox, then it gets archived. If you move it to [Gmail]/Spam or [Gmail]/Trash and then delete it, then it will really delete it.
It's a shame that so few "real" decks are out there, I'm in the process of writing a deck at the moment and am thinking about making a public (maybe a "review my deck"), but I'm not sure if the amount I'm going to have to redact will make it worthless.
Anyone else getting 403 Forbidden?
I know those attitudes prevail in some shops, but that hasn't been my experience at all with the .NET community as a whole. I do choose my clients carefully, but I've literally never had a client tell me that I couldn't use a third-party library that I chose, open source or not.

Another data point: My posts on using jQuery to replace the client-side ASP.NET AJAX stuff got hundreds of thousands of views before Microsoft officially endorsed jQuery and began supporting it. There are tons of .NET developers out there using the best tool for the job.

I think your criteria has to be who and what you're working on, not the platform. There are absolutely shops out there using Rails and Django with the same mentality that makes some Java/.NET shops miserable.
> There is some evidence that girls are doing better in school

There is also evidence that they're simply being treated better by teachers: https://www.tes.co.uk/article.aspx?storycode=385839
I love that somebody created a Wikipedia category page for "Companies founded in 578". You can guess how many entires it has.
I took a job hiring a RoR ninja and jQuery expert as lead dev (for an alpha app) and immediately rewrote it in Django and MooTools/Google Closure. You can know the trendy stuff but still develop with solid software, provided you have some latitude in technology decisions.
I think interesting rather than weird. According to Galton at least, people like you are much more common amongst scientists than people like me. Thank you very much for your comment. I was hoping that people would give me answers like this when I posted the link.
Any evidence this isn't a scam? I thought antinoise had to be in close sync with the source -- requiring an actively adjusting system, rather than a static MP3.
Very cool project. It seems like getting every other intersection might be overkill? I'd be more interested in something sparser that covers more of the city.
You can buy credit default swaps in T-bills, so if the US defaulted you could make a nice return - if you think you can find a counterparty in the form of a large insurance company or bank who would actually survive a US default, which seems unlikely. An article in the Economist (IIRC) made the comment that these CDS's had best be denominated in Kalashnikovs and cans of spam.
But retiring their human space flight is almost as bad. I love our robot probes to death, they do important science at a fraction of a fraction of the cost it would take humans to do the same. However right now all of our proverbial eggs are on this tiny spit of sand, unable to escape. We need to build on the advances in human space flight that were made last century if we are to ensure our survival in the medium term in this cosmos.

Talking with my father, he hopes to see humans return to the Moon and then onwards to Mars in his life time. At this rate I am doubtful if it will be accomplished in my lifetime. Though if we made a concerted effort we could put someone on Mars within a decade, at least that is my believe given our current technology and our previous Moon program. Though a long term sustainable program is far more desirable.
Currently for jsmag and groovymag, authors use an openoffice template. It's one of the few things that is cross-platform, but still allows for an editor to come in and make visual comments/notes/etc. We may move to another process in the next year, but OO has been a decent balance of functionality, cross-platform, and ease-of-use between multiple parties.

Even though it's just you right now, you may consider making sure you use something that others would be able to use - OO fits that bill. GoogleDocs - there's some appealing parts to that, but I'm not sure I want Google having that much access to my docs right now. :/

What sorts of technical topics are you planning to cover?
I agree completely. What I can't be sure of is whether these actions are indeed a step in the wrong direction- at least for the time being. Just maybe it's not what it seems.

When Bernanke starts recklessly printing money the way he did recently- that seems like a panic-driven survivalist effort to me, and I begin wondering if this isn't more of the same.

China's got us by the balls alright. I'm sure there's some twisting going on that only the government higher-ups can see, to warrant these reactions of late.
Coincidentally, I just finished On Intelligence, and I found it pretty mind-blowing. If you're interested in learning and the brain, read it! You can also read about the HTM algorithm they are working on here: http://www.numenta.com/htm-overview/education.php According to the first paper, there's enough detail there for you to implement the algorithm yourself. Cool!
> The only problem I can't solve is maps...

Recent versions of Ovi Maps by Nokia work offline very well. I used v3.0x when I would have otherwise been roaming without incurring any data charges.
It would help somewhat if, when such a movement actually does arise, people paid a little less attention to the smears put out there by leadership of the government, and the part of the media that fancies itself part of the government, and paid more attention to the actual content of the movement, or perhaps even translated the movement to its own side.

Yes, I'm talking about the Tea Party, and let me not be subtle: If you think the government is corrupt and the people need to rise up and everyone is just in everyone else's pockets, then you believe what those exact same powers and people say about an actual public uprising, maybe you need to reconsider how effective your very-justified cynicism actually is. Perhaps even consider that the cynical idea that there is nothing you can do to change things is actually part of the package you are being fed. Yes, you may not agree with everything about the Tea Party, or even hardly anything other than the fact we could use a serious house cleaning, but maybe less time listening to the siren call of blind partisanism and those who use it to manipulate your opinions and more time spent cleaning up the left side of the house would be a more productive response.

(Hint: You don't actually have to believe the Tea Party is a uniform bunch of racist homophobic ignorant buffoons to disagree with them on some issues. You can simply... disagree. It's really quite easy when you get used to it. Then you can actually consider your own opinions in an environment where you don't have to constantly be testing them against an artificial standard of bugabooism erected by the dominant power structure to confine your thinking in just that way. You can believe in universal health care and the importance of welfare and social justice and still think it's time to clean out some incumbents and spend more wisely, even perhaps less overall, even if taxes still need to be raised. It's not actually contradictory.)
I don't think it's that we don't want humor—there is plenty of that on HN. I think it's that "lmao" is better conveyed (and with less noise, as you say) by an upvote.
Are you sure about the supposition that retailers make 1/3 profit? I'm not so sure. Game consoles, for instance, are usually sold for only a few dollars of markup and the retailers depend on things like sales of games, controllers, and other accessories to make selling the actual console worthwhile.

I assume that an iPod is less this way, but still a 33% margin sounds a bit high for a consumer electronic device ... maybe it's different with Apple's philosophy, but in general I doubt there's that much profit to be found in MP3 players -- they may depend on the sales of headphones, cases, iTunes/Amazon gift cards or tracks, CDs to rip onto the device, etc. more than on the actual sale of the device.
I'm currently outlining an article about Dojo Toolkit features, think it's a great tool with not enough coverage online.
Whoa, will DNSSEC prevent all DNS-level hijacking? OpenDNS has a DNS-level blacklist option (totally opt-in) which redirects to their own servers. Will that still be possible with DNSSEC?
IMHO this is one of the reasons online social networks (and to some extent professional networking sites) don't work very well.

Common weaknesses bond much stronger than common strengths.
IMHO really think you need to aim outside your demographic, pick a lot of non-web / computing skills.

You'd be surprised how much value tech can add in basic professions.

Also, learn to partner. Go to the local cleaning-maids agency, ask them if you can setup a free peer coaching site for their maids. Or for the local cab company, or the construction site. No cost to them.

Even if # of users are small, they will be targeted. Great for ad-based revenue. CPM / CPCs increase drastically when the content and users are targeted.
The Swiss guard is a military unit of the Vatican, not of Switzerland. Or is it?
Why would you use google's RSS feeder to read a pdf?
Do you have a specific case in mind?
With all due respect, Net::HTTP is clunky. I'm typing the following from memory, too:

require 'open-uri'
response = open("http://blog.segment7.net/").read
Imagine you're a food industry executive. You want people to buy your product, and you want to make a profit. Therefore you are optimising for tastiness and chewapness. While you're not specifically optimising against nutritional quality, or ability to deliver calories without sating appetite, you're not optimising against them either.

Becauee technology is good, and getting better fast, the things optimised for -- taste and cheapness will improve, even if it detracts from other qualities that're perhaps desirable but not optimised for. Therefore over time, food is likely to have a higher tendency to get people overweight.

PG has written an essay on this: http://www.paulgraham.com/addiction.html
The Best VPN Services Of 2012
http://greycoder.com/the-best-vpn-services-of-2012/
A good review of VPNs -- they cover VPN for torrenting, anonymous browsing, Hulu and Netflix watching overseas and VPNs for mobile devices.
A potential solution to the drawbacks of proof-of-stake
http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache%3Ablog.ethereum.org%2F%3Fp%3D39%2Fslasher-a-punitive-proof-of-stake-algorithm&oq=cache%3Ablog.ethereum.org%2F%3Fp%3D39%2Fslasher-a-punitive-proof-of-stake-algorithm&aqs=chrome..69i57j69i58.936j0j4&sourceid=chrome&espv=2&es_sm=88&ie=UTF-8
The site is down now, so I'm linking to a Google cache site. Original URL is: http://blog.ethereum.org/?p=39/slasher-a-punitive-proof-of-stake-algorithm
[Show HN] SimpleCoffeeClub.com
https://SimpleCoffeeClub.com/
Hey guys,

CJ here Co-Founder of Simple Coffee Club!

This is a project we have been working on for about a month now.

A bit about me, coffee has been a passion of mine for years and years. I have a background in web design, I love long walks..... you get it.

After reading 100s of articles about business, I finally realized to be successful in business you truly have to do what you love.

But to cut to the chase, we are looking for any type of feedback both negative and positive.
Augmented Reality Gets Ready for Work
http://cacm.acm.org/news/54447
Focused largely on consumer applications like video games, augmented reality also shows promise for the workplace. For example, researchers are looking to apply computer-generated virtual imagery to mixed reality interfaces that would allow workers in a conference room to interact with virtual versions of distant counterparts.
U.S. government warns of hack threat to network gear
http://news.yahoo.com/exclusive-researchers-warn-widespread-networking-gear-bugs-053410358--sector.html
(Reuters) - The Department of Homeland Security urged computer users on Tuesday to disable a common networking technology feature, after researchers warned that hackers could exploit flaws to gain access to tens of millions of vulnerable devices.
Help a little start-up from Romania to get valuable feedback on it's product
http://www.marketizator.com/pricing/
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Show HN: Low cost in-person customer feedback
http://www.getseeker.com/
Face-to-Face Market Intelligence is expensive. Seeker is a fast & affordable way to hire real people to talk to your customers.
Tips for College Students - Maximizing Efficiency
http://www.stevepavlina.com/blog/2006/05/10-tips-for-college-students/
43654
Corona Virus Update
Does corona virus spread with the help of mosquito?
Chrome helper
What im wondering about is why is does each tab or window in chrome get a helper even when flash isnt really running. Is this also the add-ons running?
Best Hosting Service for new developer?
Hey guys, I've finally gotten enough clients to become a full time developer and I'm really looking for a solid hosting service - price isn't that important - I really just want a "linux machine" that allows me maximum freedom ( ie. to install imageMagick, newest versions of PHP, mongoDB, v8, node.js, etc ). Thanks in advance!
Why Your Next Hardware Purchase Needs To Be A Tablet
http://www.forbes.com/sites/ciocentral/2012/03/01/why-your-next-hardware-purchase-needs-to-be-a-tablet/
Why Your Next Hardware Purchase Needs To Be A Tablet - Forbes
Small Businesses Take On Cloud Computing
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-17222816
Small Businesses Take On Cloud Computing
Will the Google Glasses have better voice control than Siri?
http://www.sfgate.com/business/prweb/article/Google-Glass-Project-s-Missing-Keyboard-Created-3662418.php
I'd like to think it can get better, but the more and more I use Siri, the less impressed I am with voice control and commands.

How will the Google Glasses make it out in the world with the amount of noise pollution that exists? And it's only getting worse.
Video Groups & Video Shuffle Features Now In Vidinterest
http://detechter.com/video-groups-video-shuffle-features-now-in-vidinterest/
With Video Groups, you now have a chance to discover more interesting videos shared by the community in selected topic or community. Letting you create a private , member only or public groups , Vidinterest created new opportunity to connect with the people with similar interest.
Alternative.to - The Power of Choice
http://www.alternative.to
ALternative is a search engine for alternatives. We want to awake in people passion to discover possibilities of choice. Make it easier to function in an information chaos based on their preferences and needs.
IGC implements fast realtime garbage collection for ios5
http://www.harnixtechnologies.ca/iGC/
iGC™ is an innovative run-time fast garbage collector designed for IOS.
What’s next, TeamLab?
http://www.teamlab.com/blog/2011/04/whats-next-teamlab
Find out TeamLab future enhancements and determine what comes next!
Predicting fan response to gaming changes
http://web.ncsu.edu/abstract/science/wms-game-tarot-math/
If one game makes changes that players love (or hate), it can be difficult to predict how fans will react to similar changes in other games. But researchers have developed a tool to predict how players will respond to changes in different gaming environments. Check out the overview, or read the full paper here: http://www.csc.ncsu.edu/faculty/robertsd/papers/prob-transfer-icids11.pdf

Full disclosure: I work with one of the researchers, and I'm curious about feedback from the gaming community.
THREAT STREAM Inc is hiring Senior Developers
http://www.threatstream.com
Senior Developer - Django, Frontend/Backend, Javascript, Python Rockstar

Job Description

Funded startup in US Cyber Security transforming the landscape of cyber warfare. Are you an unbelievable python developer who can rapid prototype great products over night or enjoy refactoring code to high performance asynchronous design? Want to develop the weapons and defenses of the future all in code?

* Must be based in the US and able to quickly relocate without VISA requirement to Washington DC, Austin TX, NYC or San Francisco (preferred)
* Able to work 30+ hours per week - if you need to start out at 15-20 and ramp up to full time, that is fine
* Detail oriented. Together we will plan a project and create a road map and you should then follow the plan completely and precisely.
* Able to provide valuable feedback to the team about architecture decisions.
* Work fast and efficiently
* Keen eye for design and usability
* Want to defend your nation from evil hackers and nation states

The skills you will need are:

* Django / Python
* Javascript / jQuery
* HTML and CSS (design is not needed)
* A little bit of Java and/or C/Objective C
* Database
* Testing (Unit tests or similar)
* Basic Linux (esp Ubuntu Server)
* Git
* RESTful APIs

These are nice bonuses:
* Backbone.js (or similar client side mvc)
* Mobile or responsive dev
* Tasty-Pie
* D3.js / visualization / charting skills
* UI/UX design
* Hadoop, Pig, Hive
* NoSQL

Skills Required
django python javascript jquery html css design linux ubuntu git mvc mobile
This is How 8 Entrepreneurs Came Up With Their Game Changing Startup Idea
http://nextshark.com/how-8-entrepreneurs-came-up-with-their-game-changing-startup-idea/
Are there any other cool stories you guys can think of?
How To Freaking Deploy On major PaaS offerings
http://osintegrators.com/PaasInstallNotes
Installation notes/instructions to reproduce the steps we used to deploy the Granny's Addressbook war file on Popular PaaS. Links to source on github, etc.
Do you think Google's global rival will come from Russia? Yandex namely
http://seekingalpha.com/article/709511-a-look-at-yandex-the-google-of-russia?source=feed
It will be one year in September since Yandex launched in Turkey, it's 5th country of operation and first non-russian-speaking market. Will Yandex be able to compete with Google on other Markets? And US in particular.