skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Edit: I was wrong on all counts, see chuckup comment below. This happens after boot in cooperation with the OS. Encryption and secure boot are irrelevant.

I presume this type of firmware enabled OS modification will not be able to work with drive encryption enabled, but does secure boot help at all in this situation? Presumably Lenovo includes their own signing key in their firmware so their signed executables would also be trusted. Or is this not something secure boot would verify?
I think it's kinda funny that most of the tessellations are just using pentagons to make other shapes that tessellate naturally. I suppose the same could be said of most tessellations though, but it's still interesting.
Any success?
So Uber helps the oppressed being oppressed the same and paying more ...
First the business : If you really believe in what you are doing, you won't let anything stop you. Just ignore it.

Now the emotions : The way you get a clean break from this emotionally is really on you to develop an emotional strategy to deal with that.

One way to approach this is to revise what you make this circumstance mean. The facts are one thing, they are the __what happened__, and what you make them mean, in other words ( literally so ) your narrative about them, are another thing.

Write down the what happened ( minus your interpretation and attribution of blame and feelings and judgements about it and people ).

And then write down separately your interpretation of what happened ( here is where you unedited express all the ways you feel about this, all the blame you attribute to others, all the judgements you have, in short, what you make what happened mean ).

So now in front of you you have your current narrative. If this narrative displeases you, it behooves you to revise it. Remember, you can choose what you make it mean. You constructed this interpretation in the first place, and if the interpretation doesn't work for you, write yourself a new one. A tip when writing your new narrative is : take responsibility for as much as possible, and blame others as little as possible, as every time you blame someone else you are giving away your feeling of power and agency to them ( by your own choice, mind ) and calling toward yourself a little more frustration that you would otherwise.

Finally, an inspiring mask of a possible destination : Perhaps, whatever path you choose, you can post your journey or results here so others may benefit. The benefit to yourself in getting out of this cleanly is one element, and this story of what you did to achieve that can inspire others as well.
Interestingly, despite the mention of the theoretical perfect score (1,265,000), I've never actually seen the calculation for that. I've also never seen a TAS of Donkey Kong aiming for score; if that perfect score is actually achievable, it should be possible to construct a TAS that does so.
Thanks for the feedback - all totally valid points - I'll make some corrections based on this and credit you in article. Sorry if it came off as though I was trying to sound smarter, I wasn't, I just misused the terms in question and didn't catch it in my copy editing.

As noted in the last paragraph, this is very much ignoring a lot of the core reasons that dependent type systems are actually valuable in favor of explaining how you can get something _of the same flavor_ of dependent ML using Swift (though admittedly, it is still not _really_ dependent) - I'll be doing another one on type systems that goes into more on this topic (also very relevant name, nice).

Edit: Changes made - thanks again :D
Is this a good thing? I'm usually the one defending Uber here, but I'm not hugely a fan of them operating in Saudi Arabia.

Greasing one of the stickiest wheels in a tar-covered regime is hardly what I call a humanitarian effort. Saudi Arabia's oft-brutal [1] maltreatment of women has nasty secondary effects on their society, and this is lifting one.

[1]http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/saudiar...
Hey Omar,

You can flesh out your profile by clicking on your name in the top right, suggest you add a link to your project there. Super neat to see your stuff, keep at it!

Jacques
Couple of things I would suggest.

1. Your FAQs have to brief
2. Have social proof
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I know how that feels, but it gets better, and you should definitely continue. Be proud of your work, and know that you are developing it to be the best piece of work you can develop... and not just what you can develop "for your age".

The only advice I would give for this sort of situation is while you should not emphasize your age (which you are not doing), definetely use it to your advantage when you can... Get sponsorships to conferences/events, meet cool/influential/important people, go audit university courses, and the many other things at your disposal. And just remember that there are very few real "hard" limits when it comes to age, and don't take "no" for an answer if someone tells you you can't do something because you are too young... the best way to prove them wrong is to do the best work you can, and to never stop trying to improve yourself.

If you would like any more advice, feel free to shoot me a message (my contact info is in my HN profile)
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You're acting like this wouldn't be interesting if it were an adult doing it.
Sure, this is lifting the effects of Saudi Arabia's awful gender relations on their society... by making out substantially better for the actual people disadvantaged by that system. I find it very hard to see any downside that compares.
Jealous much? Flagged.
No mention of Apple's successful legal attack on HTC over garbage patents like slide-to-unlock. Apple was able to block imports of HTC phones in 2012 back when they had the hot Evo brand and were introducing the One brand. HTC settled for an undisclosed amount that HTC has to pay Apple for every unit it sells. They have not been able to regain momentum since.
That's because there are only 17 wallpaper groups (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wallpaper_group). Any _repeating_ pattern must match one of them (non-repeating patterns by definition do not)
HFT: I've never understood why stock is traded on a continuous time. In NYC there's a famous crossroad where banks have IT offices, because they want to be as close as possible to the stock exchange's servers, because 50ms latency difference can make them earn a few millions per year. If stock were traded discretely, like every 3 minutes or so, we would allow bids to pile up, and HFT and closer banks wouldn't have an advantage over more remote clients.
NYPD coming out of the toilets maybe? No-flush warrants.
People who are really good at one thing but not another are very useful in society, and this grading system would seem to reflect that fact.
I remember from a David Nolen talk that Relay/GraphQL and Falkor were actually developed in complete isolation from each other, believe it or not.

The fact that these two companies came up with the same idea independently just reinforces how truly beneficial it must be.

I can't wait to try Om Next's implementation of this concept in my apps!
No. Your comment baited users to downvote you and introduced classic flamebait.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

> Please avoid introducing classic flamewar topics unless you have something genuinely new to say about them.

> Please don't bait other users by inviting them to downvote you.
Wow, nice find!

Also, I see Microsoft has updated that document in the last two weeks, apparently due to Lenovo's use of it.

http://news.lenovo.com/article_display.cfm?article_id=2013

"a security vulnerability that was discovered ..by an independent security researcher, Roel Schouwenberg... As a result of these findings, Microsoft recently released updated security guidelines...on how to best implement this Windows BIOS feature."
The first trick is to not have that thing in your fridge, and I know as much as anyone how hard that trick can be to pull off (one helpful part is to go to the store after you eat). In fact, the only quick meal/snack I tend to have on hand is oatmeal (or occasionally yogurt).

I regularly eat 10-12 hours after I wake up, and rarely feel hungry before I hit the 10 hour mark, unless I make a habit of eating during that time period. If I decide to follow a whim to eat breakfast on two or three consecutive weekdays, I will be hungry at breakfast time on the following day, regardless of what I ate the day before, or when I last ate. The worst part, though, is that it sometimes takes longer for that hunger to stop coming at breakfast time every day than it does to get it to start coming in the first place.

Something else that helps, for me, is to get at least some amount of exercise first thing in the morning. I take a short (~1.5 mile) bike ride over a fairly mild route (mostly flat or downhill) on most mornings (when it's not raining). In my unscientific observation, it kick-starts my metabolism, which it needs, since I'm definitely not getting exercise at work. After that, I primarily have to keep my mind busy, as boredom typically leads to eating just to do something.
> "Hackers should be judged by their hacking, not criteria such as degrees, age, race, sex, or position"

That should be valid for just any activity/profession, not just Hackers. I don't see the need for the specific segment here.
Does this make solar a great industry to invest in because of the growth potential, or a terrible industry to invest in because the prices are racing to the bottom?
I'm not over weight. Just a beer belly I grew from college. It's reduced a lot. The only exercises I do are 5 measely sit ups in the morning and cycling at night (if I eat late to burn up the meal before sleep.)
I'm surprised more people don't hit the Bahamas/Caymans or lower tax locations in nice tropical locations. At least for pre-kids years.

I've lived in Australia, England and Norway. Each has it's benefits and I could be happy in any of these. I've chosen to put roots down in Sydney. I was born here so perhaps that was the calling. My Norwegian partner and I also felt it was the best location to raise kids. It would have been Norway for almost every rational reason when we listed options but the winter is just too long. If I was young and single again I'd chose London. It's a great pre-kids city but I want my family to grow-up more free-range than they would be there.
you're missing the hugely important point that most universities also don't understand computer science, or else knowingly lie about it to increase enrollment

Not at all. It's pretty central to my point that both we in the industry and the academics who teach us are mixing up the terms and not paying heed to the "science" in "computer science" (and I said as much in the comment).

I agree that the starry-eyed kid who wants to write apps and games would likely be turned away if he was faced with actual computer science instead of what is sold as such: If you showed him TAoCP and said "This is an example of broad-based computer science", he'd get blurry-eyed instead, because there is no visible relationship between one end of that desire and the other.

But that might not be a bad thing if we get our stuff together and fix our expectations and our terminology: An 11 year old tinkering with electronics in her bedroom, or mixing up colours and smelly stuff with her "my first chemistry set", or dragging her family fossil hunting in the hills is not doing "science", but she knows that "science" is that way, and at the end of a degree course in science--assuming she doesn't stay in academia--she gets a job as a lab technician, not a scientist; much of that role might actually involve sitting in front of a computer processing statistics and analytics anyway, rather than mixing up fun stuff in a test tube (which, after all, is what she was originally passionate about). The technician stuff is not what she wanted when she was 11, but it's still a part of the journey, and the science education is what sets her up for later participation in chemical engineering work or even some actual science (if she's very driven or fortunate).
My MSc is concerned with a model for simulating molecular photovoltaics. The work I do is a blend of physics, chemistry, maths and programming, in different proportions. I wouldn't say it was "easy to immerse", but complement your skills with physics/chemistry and you could be useful, yes.

A Grätzel or dye sensitized solar cell can be easily created in your garage. Look them up on Youtube.
> Secure Boot basically screws up the ability to boot Linux OSes.

Funny. And here I thought I was secure booting Ubuntu already.

I think this issue was resolved 2 or 3 years ago.
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I think it is more of a drink coffee lose weight argument.
This got me thinking... I wonder how hard it would be to create a service that scours the web and detects the influence of PR (versus organic) for a given brand. If you somehow measured the "sentiment" of each article towards a brand, perhaps by scanning for words, weighing each one and compiling a score for a given article, you might able to chart the total score for that brand over time. For instance, too many positive articles that get published "out of the blue" (unprompted by events) would strongly hint at a PR team at work.
Thanks for the feedback! I do agree that holding employee stock could be part of an investment strategy. This post is geared towards the surprising number of people who hold employee stock as a result of a stock grant and without serious thought on whether they want to invest in their company.

What part of the risk premise is confusing?
And if you develop jails, you get the kernel intrinsics that Docker leverages, which brings you back to Linux...
A more reasonable conclusion on sumo wrestler lifestyles is to to not eat more than 10000 calories a day like they do! Total caloric intake is so much more important than meal timing.
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It's the intel/nvidia combo that is the problem. Optimus isn't well supported yet, so we have to pick battery life or performance.

That said, I always choose performance.
Thanks for the feedback!

What parts didn't make sense?
"I'm sure there's way more complexity I'm overlooking, but that's how one might get started."

That's how I'd start. There's probably a way to make the search a lot smarter. Here's the part you're overlooking, though:

"... there are only so [many] formulas made up of a fixed number of terms and operators..."

"So many" = "countably infinite." Paring it down to finitely many would require understanding tantamount to having solved the problem in the first place.

[Edit: I can words.]
tl;dr: "HTC Is Now Essentially Worthless". That's it.

This article is devoid of any content past the headline. TechCrunch is becoming worse than BuzzFeed.
This could work for approximations. But if you want the exact value, this might not be super effective, as there are values without closed forms (that is to say, that are not expressible simply with the *-+/ and sqrt/log and other usual operations).

So your iteration procedure will probably get to a good approximation, but might not find the "core" expression.
I hope Roel Schouwenberg does a writeup about this.

If you're wondering what this is about, see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10039870
Rice's pentagons are illustrated here [1]: Type 9, Type 11, Type 12 and Type 13.

[1] http://www.mathpuzzle.com/tilepent.html
I think you missed my very clear point: now it's not enough to just run Firefox. You need to ask for users to run the "right" version if Firefox.

Telling people what browser to use is user hostile behaviour. Users will not bother. Non-official extensions will get less interest. Authors will see a smaller user base and have less interest in writing new extensions.

This will have a chilling effect all over.
Then pay for it?
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> While it is great that we recognize good work like this, bringing up his age in the title is focusing on a pretty irrelevant

It's relevant because it's remarkable and it puts the author in a much smaller circle than he would be if he were older. Trying to pretend otherwise is silly.

Being able to read at age 18 is a lot less interesting than at age 4. Same goes for rare technical feats (and writing an OS is such a thing, most developers wouldn't be able to pull it off, so doing so at age 13 is certainly a lot more interesting than when you're older).
I also suspect, without having tried Win10 IoT, that the interface is more polished, and building apps are simpler. You don't have the same freedom, but as long as the developers can do what they like, it's more than enough.
>The profit on an average Android phone is about a penny.

This is an exageration right? I know we're giving $10 to MSFT for every phone or whatever, but a penny?
The Tarahumara indian long distance runners ran for communication and also had a tradition of running for ceremonial and competitive aspects.
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No, not really -- most of the companies float around breakeven.
Assuming that old is on the left and new is on the right:

#1: victim of 'flat design' fad

#2: another victim of 'flat design' - remember when 'shine' was the fashion? we now have 'shine fatigue'

#3: i18n version works for all languages, plus any day that is not Monday the 4th

#4: which is better depends on use case

#5: newer icon has much clearer semantics. old icon looks pretty... but doesn't suggest 'adding' (assuming both icons are meant to mean the same thing)

It seems to me that fashion is more responsible for the changing in icon than an erosion of skill. Certainly for #3, more thought and effort went into the icon on the right. We will soon move on from flat design, and people will claim that the next fashion trend is now the 'best ever'...
It depends on what your time is worth... if you need to see someone same day, or near term, you can actually get some work done while waiting. Often when I go to a dr's office I spend an hour+ in the waiting room, then another hour+ in the office mostly waiting. All told, I can have an appointment at 9am, but won't get to work before noon. I'd much rather pay $100 out of pocket and work from home that morning and be in the office in the afternoon, for a 30 minute visit.

It really depends on what you make, and what your time is worth. Beyond that is the convenience factor. People wait extra long in a drive through, when there's no waiting if you walk in... They will order food delivery instead of take-out. They will do any number of things to make it more convenient.

For that matter, I order almost everything practical via Amazon... I go to the store for produce because I prefer to pick my own and for clothes because sizing is hard. I'm not reclusive I just don't enjoy those things as much and would rather be doing something else... if I can recover 3hrs of my time on a work day, or hell after hours as mentioned in the article for < $100, I'll take it.
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"the loss of your first startup will always live with you..." why is this the culture now? that failing is okay and fucking over employees and customers is fine cause "lol startups"?
Remember the low end models that have large market share in developing countries.
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> Dan tells me that he plans to hold on to his Facebook shares. He's going to sit on the nest egg while it grows and matures. He'll slowly nourish it with solid technical contributions until it turns to a small fortune. Facebook, he says, is valued at a small fraction of what it will be in 5 years.

First, if Dan's thesis is right (Facebook "is valued at a small fraction of what it will be in 5 years"), you don't need to work at Facebook to profit. You can invest in FB shares, or even long-dated options, and let folks like Dan do all the hard work.

Second, the real question for Dan is how much of the dollar value of his equity compensation he should hold in FB shares. If Dan has $50,000 in investments, virtually all of which consist of FB shares, that's problematic, even if he believes strongly in his thesis.

> You should think of the grant as cash compensation. If you decide to not sell the stock immediately, this is equivalent to taking out a portion of your paycheck to buy stock in your company.

This is spot on. That doesn't mean that employees shouldn't retain some of their shares, but they should consider whether they'd purchase the same number of shares if they had a pool of cash to invest.
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Hi. I'm the author of the original post. The amount of solar installed in the world is going to scale by more than 10x in the coming decades. There will be more than a trillion spent.

If you pick the winners, investment will have huge return.

Most solar companies, however, will be casualties in the fierce competition to come.

The other area to look at is energy storage. More renewables will increase the demand for energy storage. And it's early days in that field. Again: Huge returns for the winners. But most companies will be shaken out of the field.
Not sure why the other comments are so negative. I don't see how you can dispute that having a large part of your net worth in a single stock leaves you vulnerable if anything happens to it. There's also the fact that your fortunes are still very closely tied to your company's through unvested stock, bonuses, and employment. Regardless of how positive you are on your company, you're probably already sufficiently invested in it. I can't imagine any combination of individual situation and risk tolerance that would make holding a large amount of a single publicly-traded stock an optimal investment strategy.
This usually has little to do with the field of nutrition or the studies themselves. It has to do with how the media reports the findings of the studies, usually without properly understanding them and without putting them into context. Everything has to be revolutionary, has to prove everything else wrong, even though it's extremely difficult to perform a valid scientific study that proves anything wrong.

My wife has a long-time friend who became a nutritionist, and she'll tell anyone that will listen that most people have a pretty good idea of how to eat right if they don't over-think it, but it becomes very difficult to put it into practice, because everything we do to make food convenient tends to also make it bad for us. Another issue is that medical doctors don't take nutritionists seriously (despite medicine also being a constantly-shifting landscape), and rarely pay attention to diet for anything other than controlling your weight, blood sugar, and cholesterol. This is why we end up with things like "Irritable Bowel Syndrome", which, for most people is likely an undiagnosed food intolerance (and given the most common ingredients in processed foods, it's probably soy or lactose).
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Hi. I'm the author of this blog post. Happy to answer questions people have, as time allows, on Wednesday.

Upcoming posts will look at the future of wind power, the future of energy storage, and what the missing pieces are.

If you don't want to wait, you can read my thoughts on energy storage here: http://rameznaam.com/2015/04/14/energy-storage-about-to-get-...
Good point about GPL. Some people advocate for much shorter copyright terms, just enough to make it worthwhile creating the work, like say 20 years. But that would push some GPL software into the public domain, thus damaging the GPL ecosystem by allowing commercial competitors to use the same code.
I would contend that Xiaomi could upend Samsung in China, arguably the most important market in the world.

But other than that, I 100% agree with you.