skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think you have a point. I use Twitter a lot for professional and sometime personal reasons however it does have potential to be replaced by a better networking site. Even though its a powerful tool, I don't think it helps users and businesses like it use to, unless you pay for features. Ashton Kutcher explained how Twitter, not Facebook, can be the new Myspace: http://www.askmeanything.me/influencers/ashtonkutcher
Even if they were good engineers, the perception will be that they weren't as a result of product progress being delayed.
Firebase is so awesome! Glad to see improvements happening over there.
Okay, so how is this startup going to pay its founder before it is profitable?

Where are the founders getting this money, if they're unemployed?
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Looks pretty interesting: "These results show that, in practice, FourQ is around four to five times faster than the original NIST P-256 curve and between two and three times faster than curves that are currently under consideration as NIST alternatives, such as Curve25519."

Also check out FourQlib[1], MSR's (MIT-licensed) C implementation of this research.

[1] http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/projects/fourqlib/
True. But then again, that's like arguing over which organ is more important – the heart or the lung – when you can't survive without either of them ;-)
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I'm afraid your comments do come across as trolling, and repeatedly so. If you're serious about not coming across that way, two things you should do at a minimum are:

(1) not toss drive-by flamebait into the threads, like
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10382497 and
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10376183. Those are
low-substance, high-provocation comments that are guaranteed to
produce more of the same, only worse—exactly the opposite of what we
want on HN.

(2) edit out every trace of snark like "But yes, evil Germans and their eugenics,
carry on." That stuff is poison and adds fuel to the fire.

Beyond that: tone down your claims, substantiate them more, and stop using ideological buzzwords.
You're doing a cost-benefit analysis on a completely arbitrary guess and then using that as the basis for your conclusion? That doesn't work, sorry.

For example, what if in actuality, all other things being equal, they had a 1 in 10 chance focused vs. 1 in 300 chance sanitized, then the results would be 100% chance for the focused versus 33% chance of a response with the sanitized ones. I just used the same thing you did to make the numbers work the other direction.

For the record, based on what I've seen and read, I do think there might be a case for the shotgunned approach, and I personally have had poor luck with the focused approach. But your numbers don't help prove it, sorry.
at least make it rhyme!

Hey,
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If "just get over it" were a solution, don't you think it would have worked by now? I don't think being flippant about people's lives is all that productive.
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I'm not saying that people aren't justified in fearing unemployment. I'm just saying that fear pressures them into making suboptimal decisions. It's even worse because 99% of those people immediately stop looking for work, often with a huge sigh of relief, after they've found a stable job.
Brains rewire all the time. It's our number 1 feature, adaptability. A good musician can become a good sharpshooter, a good programmer can excel at architectural engineering.

Being a good writer - what does that mean? Someone who has had some real, interesting experiences may be a better writer than someone who is wired to tell good stories.

Physical features also matter - a lot. Your brain may be perfect for a nuclear physicist, but you're no good if you're gonna have a stroke or heart attack suddenly on the job.

And, of course, nurture over nature - people's background, how they grew up, how they were educated from their first year to now, matters way more than genetics.

If you don't/can't account for all of that (and more) when deciding a person's future, then keep this science to yourself.
That feature was the main selling point for FB for me when I first signed up back in 2004. I have to assume I wasn't the only one!
Not sure what you mean by greed but I hope it's not the description applied, too often exclusively, to those who want to earn more money or to keep what they have already earned - never to those wanting to take other people's money in taxes or to those wishing to live on the largesse provided by such taxation.
> We used to see difficulties like that as a challenge we could overcome, instead of running away in fear of risk.

Why build a reactor on earth that isn't cost competitive when you can better use the one in the sky?

It is a challenge. Train Americans to install solar and wind across the country. Install it. Problem solved.
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> the brand lift of being associated with the house that publishes some of the best and most esteemed magazines in the world elevates them to another level as a publisher

Frankly, I'd think being associated with The New Yorker and GQ would harm Pitchfork's image more than help it.
The sooner Emacs dies, the sooner GNU devs will get around to Guilemacs, and we'll all be better off if that time ends up coming sooner rather than later.

Edit: More people than I would've thought really ride that GNU dick. Emacs has for years propagated an idea that Elisp is somehow 'good enough' to handle problems leaving plugin developers to make their own way and solve problems in unorthodox ways. Emacs has never been well-designed, and Elisp has been the cinderblock on a rope that drags the whole project down.

Guile on the other hand has seen steady development, good design choices, increases in performance, new features, etc. Guilemacs can't succeed until Emacs dies.
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No, of course not. Just as with the dating metaphor, there are a lot of people who will never be mature enough to accept that. But that's something they have to deal with themselves. I'm not their therapist. I can't "be productive" and help them fix their self-esteem issues.
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> How ridiculous is it that we protect cash so well but we don't think kids should be protected?

You've touched on one of the problems with that argument, but the rest are even easier to address. Money is more easily corralled (it doesn't need to have daily recess). When banks are targeted, the goal is to leave with a bunch of cash; when children are targeted, the goal is to cause as much shock as possible. Banks have a much longer history of robberies (a la wild west and earlier), that stimulated them to have security guards. Those guards are a cost that hasn't historically been necessary for schools.
Speaking for myself (as a 22 year-old recent graduate) -

I was brought up to respect my elders and to consider society as a mostly-altruistic, benevolent mass of humanity with a conscience bent more towards justice and meritocracy than corruption and inequality. I believed that the older generation who shape and structure society through government, industry, and academia were doing their absolute best to set future generations up for success; after all, what else could be the ultimate aim and goal of life once you marry and have children of your own?

Now, I'm not so sure this is the case. It seems like there is a lot less to go around, even for the older generation. I used to see teenagers bagging groceries and working menial service jobs. Now all I see are 50-60 year olds, and I wonder "how the hell did these people end up working minimum wage, 11pm shifts at the grocery store at age 58?". I see my landlord barely getting by on social security, rent income, and a sales job, unable to retire at age 65. Ageism is real, with layoffs at major companies (IBM, HP, etc.) affecting older workers disproportionately, many of whom are not yet able to retire and who don't have the time to retrain for a rapidly-changing economy that demands dramatically different skills than it did 20-30 years ago.

So ultimately, I find that many in the older generation are simply trying to make ends meet in an environment of scarcity that is new for the US, with the youth subsequently becoming disillusioned because the system seems to be set up against them.

Of course, as inequality grows, the shrinking proportion of families with money are largely exempt from these worries. But you would think "they" (the nameless, faceless, despised rich) would find it in their interests to give back to society; to give back to a system that had rewarded them with comfort and prosperity. To make sure it didn't rot from the greed, sloth, misplaced violence, weak guidance, and weaker morals that did away with the mighty Roman empire.

It's all a matter of perspective though: at least we're not being conscripted to go fight in Vietnam or WWIII, which is the ultimate manifestation of the old using the young for profit and self-serving agenda pushing.
Thanks, I've read much of the report of course. What you notice about the report is that there's a tremendous focus on the build up to the attacks, the context and the aftermath, but it's very light on the technical analysis of the actual event that you would normally see in an air crash investigation - such as what we're now seeing with MH17. Admittedly the two events are hardly comparable, but I stand by my observation that there's a distinct disparity between the amount & quality of information that's being disseminated. There may be perfectly good reasons for that.
That kind of attitude invites a government to try communism (the government runs a bunch of businesses) or militarism (turn all the unemployed into soldiers; as for resources, use those soldiers to take them by force from your neighbors).
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It seems to me that at this point there is a certain script for violence. It involves guns and maybe bombs, and the point is to kill as many people as possible to get as much media attention as possible. To a certain kind of person, that sounds like glory.

I think the way to stop the trend is to break the script. The key to it is that everyone cowers before the power of the attacker. For a brief moment, he can feel like a god. Make these attackers look incompetent, weak, and ineffective and the allure of the thing dies. If we could somehow change things so that the next time someone tries this no one cowers, but the perpetrator is instead killed or incapacitated or in some way humiliated by those he intended to victimize, the script breaks.
Right, I'm not saying that anyone's at fault for the string of events that led to that review or even the review itself. I think at the height of Pitchfork's anti-establishment power, it wielded that power in a callous manner that ended up making careers for of some bad artists and ending careers of some good artists. So I think the charge that Pitchfork in the 1999-2006 era existed as a meritless gatekeeper stands. Whether or not Schrieber intended that is an open question, though the n+1 piece suggests that he did.
Adulthood is also tied with marriage, home ownership, car ownership, child-rearing, etc... these things have been pushed back a decade or so as a result of too little money.

By the standards of the 1950s, the 20-somethings of today aren't adults. That has sociological twists to it as well, of course-- but primarily economic. I suspect that people aren't actively avoiding having a house, car, wedding, or children, so much as adjusting their wants to be more in line with what is realistic-- choosing one or half of one of the above listed items.
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When I said "good resume", I did not mean "An aesthetically pleasing resume" or anything of that sort. I mean "A history containing the traits the would-be employer seeks".
Just like there are lots of movies that are watched for the plot.
Same, come to think of it -- almost 20 to the day. In a world of modular software and months-old "unicorns," it's good to remember the monolithic, decades-old tortoises and bristlecones that remain and sustain.
Good thing that his email about a roadmap for moving forward with a restructuring
for a nimbler team and an organization streamlined in parallel as well as an invitation to reach out wasn't riddled with corporate speak the way those emails usually are.
>They're also guaranteed by the federal government, which has seemingly infinite resources.

IMO That resource is GDP. If American's can't find meaningful work that has financial value not just domestically, but internationally, we'll see how much of that resource is left after a few decades. Or more accurately, we'll see a VERY tiny percentage of Americans with vast wealth and the majority struggling for subsistence because the government has essentially been deactivated due to lack of funds.
or "streamlining"

or "must be accomplished within an appropriate financial envelope"

Or any other of Stephen Elop's greatest hits..
True, however if you were head of HR for a tech company, would you rather take a risk with a recent Twitter employee, or take a risk with applicants you receive online? It would almost be like a pre-vetting process.
Once in a while, someone wins a lot of money on a Powerball lottery. Yet few rational people tout that as a good way to achieve a goal.
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Oops! The high density of comments criticizing capitalism made me misinterpret what you had said. My bad.
That's cool. I completely agree with you.
Most evidence point in a single direction: The separatists got the BUK somehow from Russia (Stolen/Supplied/Holiday...), and that the downing of the aircraft was a mistake (As you say neither part in this conflict has any interest in downing a civilian jet).

What we should remember here is that "who did it" in this matter is more a matter of who was in command and who provided the hardware, rather than who pushed the button.

This is the most likely hypothesis but there are others. Apart from the craft being downed by Ukraine (Nothing in the report points in that direction), another hypothesis one would be actual Russian personnel, rather than Ukrainian separatists, operating from inside Donetsk. That would be hugely controversial, but hard to prove.
> each generation of humans should have it easier and with more resources available to them.

That is clearly the trend, ups and downs aside. The current generation appears to feel they have it harder than the last few generations. Not even close.
To play devil's advocate here:

Why should governments be beholden to the smaller half of its population (at least in most developed countries), if it comes at the expense of the larger half (and the one that is actually most involved in government)?
You can make the further out zooms look better (not salt and pepper like) by using a sinc filter with a 5 or more lobes when to generate those layers. It looks like there is just some simple nearest neighbor or bilinear filtering happening, which is the source of the saltiness.
I heard that Twitter has no revenue only loses.. is that changed recently?
good joke there!
Some of that may be artifacts of the experiments we've been working on to make it easier for good stories to surface from /newest. If you're interested, see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10376064 and the links there.
Neat. I was wondering about that.
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Indeed, it should be:

"opportunisitc entrepreneurs"
P(bubble) = -------------------------------------------------------------
"craftsman entrepreneurs" + "opportunisitc entrepreneurs"
This is quite a contradiction from the recent talk about demographic pressure leading to a wage turnaround.

http://www.bbc.com/news/business-34488950

" Taking just wage growth, simply put (and for more detail follow the links above), an end to the global labour glut should see real wages (wages accounting for the change in prices) start to rise at a faster pace. An ONS report of 2014 found that UK real wages in the 1970s and 1980s grew by an average of 2.9% a year."

so which is it? too many people or not enough?
Algorithms and economics can mitigate 2 and 3. Requiring LOS absolutely kills this for replacing WiFi, though.

Maybe could find its way into applications where we need high throughput and we can easily get stable LOS.
It's a positive feedback loop. If it were not for pressure on applicants to find a job, any job, would every employer get bombarded by so many poorly written resumes that they would feel the need to implement such filters?
I think he's being diplomatic in not bringing up another reason for meetings. Some people make their career around them, especially management. When it comes to decision making, most team sizes simply don't produce enough decisions to fill a manager's 40+ hour work week. Meetings act as a method of elongating those decisions into multiple hour ordeals. Quit hiring pure managers below the executive level and make use of working managers instead.
Disclaimer: I'm not an expert, I just play one on the Internet :)

In my opinion, websites do not bring much to the table to that kind of SMEs, unless they offer some added value (online booking or something). They're just the modern equivalent of a Yellow Pages listing. A creative company probably can add a lot more value though, but I don't think a website drives business unless it becomes a part of a wider marketing strategy (my experience is not in the U.S., it might be a lot different there).

You're also mixing two very different kinds of services, professional services like accountants are VERY different from someting like a beauty salon or a cleaning service.

Social media in general and Facebook in particular, on the other hand, bring a lot of value to the second category of business owners (beauty salon, cleaning service), and make engagement with customers a lot easier.

I think Yelp or equivalent listings are also important for SMEs to monitor.

In spite of a lot of effort by several startups, there still isn't a great solution for "local" services.
What an idiotic article
You can just use the downloader to upgrade:
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/software-download/windows10
Just tried it - it's very buggy but could be promising
Components drawing themselves is a side effect, and components returning markup are pure functions of their state.

One is a lot easier to unit test than the other, for example.
I really like the look of these types of graphs. Is the code used to produce them available anywhere?
This is nonsense. There are, in absolute terms, more resources available, but our economic system enables and encourages the hording of those resources by fewer and fewer people who will, in all likelihood, never use them in their lifetimes.
> most people would find the idea of picking up a weapon and killing random innocent people to be completely abhorrent.

Killing random guilty people, on the other hand, is completely legitimised in the USA. Self-defence advocates talk about it all the time. So all that has to happen is for someone to manufacture a justification for the victim(s) deserving it and it becomes legitimate in their eyes.

That's how lynching used to happen; entire communities would turn out to murder some people simply because they were black.
If you don't pay your house off early and if you put little down, a house is a financial loss, but it can still be a gain in that you live your life in it. And if you own it and can pass it on to children and so forth. like anything else, it's not easy but it's not super hard either. If you're the average earner, discipline over the long term is the key.
>the waste is not the economies fault, but that of whomever pursued that education.

I'm willing to place at least 75% of the blame on the recipient, but I try not to discount the previous 12+ years of "education is our greatest asset" propaganda targeted towards children.
“with a platoon-sized crew and several support vehicles (radar and command trucks) needed to fire the thing” — not really. That Russian thing is actually autonomous: http://www.ausairpower.net/APA-9K37-Buk.html#mozTocId210497
You see? Transporter Erector Launcher _And Radar_. Wikipedia says:

A transporter erector launcher and radar (TELAR) is the same as a TEL but also incorporates part or all of the radar system necessary for firing the missile(s). Such vehicles have the capability of being autonomous, greatly enhancing their effectiveness. With this type of system, each vehicle can fight regardless of the state or presence of support vehicles.

“quite likely the operators mistook the Boeing 777 for a large Ukrainian military transport aircraft” — yeah, I also think so. The important difference with Flight 655 and MH17 is USS Vincennes was there legally. The cruiser wasn’t smuggled to some international terrorists who say they’re independent freedom fighters, like it happened with Buk M1 which downed MH-17.
This is anecdotal at best, but I feel like there is an apathy epidemic. It's fucking impossible to get people to even do "fun" things, much less a "boring" job. Everyone just wants to sit at home in front of a screen. It could just be the people I surround myself with, but that's the feeling I get.
The interesting thing is in research at least, 'nano' is starting to deliver. We've had artificial molecular switches, motors, transistors, and other components for years but we have not been able to put them together. Now we're starting to organize these components to make 'machines' and systems. Not very complicated machines, but machines nonetheless.

A great example of this is rotaxane containing metal organic frameworks. A rotaxane is molecule consisting of a ring on a rod. Make your molecule just right and you can get the ring to move back and forth using electric charge which allows you to store bits. Recently, there has been success of organizing these rotaxanes spatially by putting them in a self-assembling molecular space frame type structure called a metal organic framework. This is getting us closer to making ultra-high density data storage that just self-assembles. Some well respected researchers(not Drexler) are even starting to seriously consider robot arms capable of moving individual atoms.

There is even a name for this sort of research: supramolecular chemistry. In short, 'nano' is coming back, it's just not going to be called nano.
I call forceUpdate to trigger redraws when view state is managed outside of props. Feels like an imperative redraw to me.

https://facebook.github.io/react/docs/component-api.html#for...
Nowhere near the majority of 20-somethings are unemployed. Language like this is just yet another attempt to marginalized and put down young people.
To counter, Twitter is a growth stage company and while public, it's value is priced exclusively on future value. It is only a 9 year old company working out product market fit and has only had a few profitable quarters, I only noted feb 2014 but there are likely a few more.

So is it a startup? Idk wtf a startup is but Twitter isn't a blue chip.
Sure its sexist discrimination. It might be positive discrimination, but there's a flipside. I'm not sure though, I'm not a feminist and even they don't agree on one opinion. I won't argue that in its outlook on what men want, it would degrade men to instinctive animals.

edit: sent to soon