skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you're going to use that metric, use ~1.25 B for Facebook (monthly actives on mobile).

1.25B/80m = ~16 times. The average Facebook user in the US spends about 40 minutes on FB per day (not sure of mobile vs desktop breakdown):

16*40minutes = 10 hours per day on Pandora on average. Absolutely no way.
Amazon's picks for “The Top 100 SciFi/Fantasy books to read in a lifetime”
Naturally Curious: Season of the Giant Moths (2013)
It's plausible if by "maths graduate student" we understand "average maths graduate student". I.e. a different kind of student from that maths graduate student which the "expert in arithmetic geometry" once was.

We cannot interpret that as containing the claim that when any old randomly chosen maths graduate student becomes an expert in arithmetic geometry, they suddenly gain a 40X efficiency in understanding.
Serious question: In what ways is CS theory high-impact?

I'm particularly interested in any arguments that complexity theory is high-impact (beyond the very useful insight that there are some problems for which no polynomial time algorithm is known). I have a pretty good idea of the impact of cryptography and randomized linear algebra (sometimes considered CS theory), but am also interested in hearing about other fields considered CS theory with useful applications.
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> And despite what the article connotes, most people in tech are not using illegal drugs frequently or ever.

I don't think the article suggests most tech workers are doing this, but I think you'd be surprised at the amount that are. Bear in mind that in an office environment, it's hard to tell who is a user and who isn't. I'm a heroin addict, but I don't have 'Junkie' tattooed on my forehead, instead I work at a startup, commit code to GitHub, and go to conferences just like everyone else. I would also agree that it's a problem, and for one other reason that I think the article missed.

If you're unemployed or working a low-end job, and want to quit an addiction, nobody cares if you disappear for a month to detox at a friends house out of town, or something like that. With a tech job, perhaps in a startup or other stressful environment, the responsibilities and pressures that come with it mean you can't just stop. You need the drugs to stay functional and keep working, there are people and businesses relying on your output. For example, if I were just to stop taking heroin now, then withdrawl means I couldn't work for quite some time, maybe a month or two, and there's no way I can just drop all my projects like that. So if you stop taking drugs you'll lose your job, or worse - word might get around that you ended up in rehab, and no more working in the industry...

So it's a little more complicated than they make out.
In many places online, if you don't announce your race/gender/location, many people will just assume you are a white male living in the US, and respond to you accordingly. Sometimes this is just annoying but other times it results in responses which are nonsensical or a waste of time.
Not really if you car about efficiency.
I've had mental health problems and, family aside, nothing--not exercise, medicine nor therapy--has helped me more than having work to do. There's a lot to be said for having a job to set your mind to.
Surely as they have servers in America Australia gets the data anyway as it will be collected for them by America.
I think a big problem is that he is not doing enough legwork to get out and talk about his ideas. Researchers should not publish major papers without doing a 'roadshow', especially when it is so dense with new ideas as Mochizuki's abc-conjecture papers. Accounts of proofs and discoveries always have a climax where the author delivers a lecture announcing the discovery. Like Wiles announcing a proof (later shown to be flawed) of Fermat's last theorem at a lecture in Cambridge's Isaac Newton Institute for Mathematical Sciences in 1993. It is immensely helpful to talk through the proof in person facing an audience of experts.
Uh test something else? This may be hailed as a cureall but it would more likely be restricted to stuff that can be easily controlled. (Human defecation might not be one of these things)
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You can't think of any similarities between North Korea and Cuba?
For it to get popular I think a friction-less way of adding bookmarks is a key requirement (I'd very likely use it then - have been looking for something like this)
CoreNLP is a very good baseline for any NLP work. If you can build something that beats it on a specific benchmark it's a pretty good bet you have something that's pretty close to the state-of-the-art.

But.. there are problems. As software engineers, the (many) authors make great researchers.

CoreNLP is wonderful in the many different ways it almost lets you integrate into it without hacking the code. Changing the config of the various components is fantastic, because you get a very comprehensive view of many different ways people can configure almost the same thing. Environment variables? System properties? Properties files in a specific location? In the classpath? Json config? YAML? It almost supports them all - or rather different parts use different ones, and the only way to work out exactly how it works is to read the code.

Also, the licensing is annoying. Everyone doing commercial stuff with it just puts it behind a web service anyway, so they should just embrace non-viral license and get some input from the community.

Also SUTime. Yes, it works mostly, but wow :(

(Sorry for the rantish post. I use parts of CoreNLP a lot, and I'd love to see it improve.)
Pedantic, but: while 1, 3, and 4 may have had much to do with it, I think her being Asian was completely irrelevant. Reddit isn't exactly anti-Asian.

The previous (interim) CEO, Yishan, was also Asian and did not receive any kind of negative sentiment due to it or even any mention of it.
I don't think the NK comment was meant to equate Cuba and NK but rather to illustrate the fact that a country can have one or more internet connections and still not be considered connected as a country. Your earlier comment claimed that the title was a misnomer because there was a connection established in the early 90s.
Paid version wont do that.

This is needed for music playing in the background at restaurants for example.
All the same, couldn't Mochizuki could chew up the Bitcoin mathematics for breakfast and spit it out? Being Satoshi could just be a kind of footnote in his life. (I don't suspect this myself, but it's can't be dismissed that easily; certainly not on grounds of different mathematics.)
I just tried to join, and the web site is beyond broken. I don't know how anyone uses it.
> Or maybe it is accurate, but is hard for men to accept that.

There is a clear difference between sexism and misogyny. In fact people that swap one for the other actually have voided both words of any sense and made it a generic insult. Just like racism. That's what is wrong with people seeing misogyny or racism everywhere, especially on the web.

> The world operates generally in a misogynistic way

The world is a place where the strong prey on the weak, no matter what sex/race the weak is. Here, I corrected you. To focus on misogyny is focusing on the symptoms instead of the causes.
Thanks for all your work. I've recently set up FastMail, but damn, kicking the GMail dependency is hard.
Or, as the demography shifts, they can just vote the NIMBYs out. It's not like the realistic alternatives are "high-density utopia" and "low-density utopia". The low-density alternative is terribly distorted.
#3 and #4, yeah. A lot of people (myself included) felt she was the wrong person for the job. Not everyone is receptive to the constant speech policing that invariably results when you put an SJW in charge.
I don't understand. He has already spent 10+ years of the time of his life putting it together, has given it to the world freely, on his own and made no demands whatsoever. Are you possibly arguing that he has any obligation at all to do anything more? If so, on what basis?
Yeah, similar constructs exist in D and Nim.

I don't know well enough how they compare to give any thorough analysis, though.
Reminds me of the Start-Up Chile program...
This project seems to hinge on: "Cryptomove renders futile any attack on the data store even before the attack begins – the attacker just can never find the data" and talks about how high-entropy it is.

Except, attacks on the actual cipher are doomed to failure anyways unless terribly implemented. So what exactly is it defending from?

The whole "continuously encrypts" stuff is also a bit suspect - does that not mean the key must be in memory on those devices all the time?

At best I'd guess this is some sort of traffic analysis prevention system. But if you can read/write data on-demand, then it's just adding noise. The word "traffic" doesn't appear in the concepts PDF so they aren't using a common term for it, if that is indeed what they are preventing. Edit: It seems to be much more than that, including a language, an encrypted distributed protocol for the language, storage systems, etc. Which sorta makes me wonder even more what it's aimed at: Was it not possible to achieve the goals (what are they?) while re-using existing tech?

The site should really, really, spell out clearly exactly what this is really preventing, beyond what e.g. a cloud-sync'd TrueCrypt volume provides. Otherwise it looks a lot like a fishy product. (Not saying it is; not trying to be negative. Just that there's zero clear info on what attacks this prevents.)

But there's a ton of work done here, all detailed documented (if light on the purpose/overview). That's very well done as a lot of projects skimp on that part.

Edit: It links to Hello language. Which has a pretty SF-startupy-looking page. But very little info. I'd expect at least a prominent link to some example code, showing how Hello does stuff better. Or why, if the goal is distributed systems, a new language is needed, instead of libraries. (Or how it constrasts with Erlang.) Is it safe? I see one mention of pointers, saying no pointer arithmetic is allowed. How does that mesh with seamless C++ interop? (Is it even possible to have seamless C++ interop and still be memory safe?)
Some time in the last 6 months you added Portland Maine, but you didn't have coverage for me while I was searching for houses.

I think "spotty" is fair, though I root for your company and hope the coverage becomes universal.
Yes, read the article.
It also sounds like a motivating example for machine-checked proofs: if one could feed Mochizuki's proof into Coq or something and be assured that it was correct, even if only in a purely formal sense, I suspect there would be much more interest in grappling with the concepts to understand what the proof is doing, whether it's acceptable, and why the proof is correct. As it stands, there's the risk of a wild goose chase.
Yes, that is correct :)
The problem is not in the conviction; that was probably justified. The problem is in the ridiculously long 25 year maximum sentence. This is a federal crime, so there's no parole. You serve about 85% of your sentence if you behave yourself.

Let's hope he gets something closer to the 5 years mentioned in the article.
Mozilla Blog: Block slow, privacy-invading content, not "advertising"
Is FastMail an Australian company? I'm guessing maybe yes, since otherwise it seems such a post is unnecessary, but nowhere does it actually say anything like "You may think the law applies because we're an Australian company, but...". For all I know, this could be a law attempting to target any company, in any country, that does business with Australians.
I thought the 8.2% IPA to Bud Light analogy was apt, although perhaps not for the same reasons as the guy who made it. A lot of people drink Bud Light because it's cheap and accessible and gets the job done. Saying "just drink the best beer" is sort of a "let them eat cake line". In the context of Shakespeare the reality is you need a more readable modern translation for most of his plays or lots and lots of people simply won't read them (except when they have to for school and even there it's straight for the tl;dr cliff notes).

I consider myself fairly well schooled and read and don't dislike Shakespeare. However, despite going through the high school forced march of one Shakespeare a semester/year and having read some plays solely out of interest ... I've read (and reread) significantly more Ibsen plays than those of Shakespeare. It's true they're shorter and prose and Ibsen's best work is spectacular (well with a good translation) but still if Shakespeare is this shining light on a hill why aren't more people reading him in English?
There are so many BI tools around that it's hard to figure out which solution is going to be best for a particular use case. Creating further confusion, it seems like most "enterprise" BI products aren't explained properly on their websites and are hidden behind "request a demo". It's nearly impossible to evaluate all the possibilities without going crazy.

I want to be able to generate my domain models in some way. Point and click data descriptions are awful. Letting certain people work with raw data is fine, but a lot of users are going to want to work with names that make sense to them. Let me define models with text, just like ORM models.

I want row based security. Let me assign groups to values on certain models. This essentially boils down to hidden filters and required tables.

It should all be web based. I'm not exposing my database directly to customers.

It should definitely not cost 100k a year.

I like the idea of QuickSight, but I can already see that it's not going to work for my needs. But at least they give an upfront description and price. Here's hoping the pricing model drives down the crazy license fees the other vendors are extracting.
Journalist linked to Anonymous found guilty of 3 federal counts of hacking
Thanks! Was wondering if YC would eventually do something like this, given the path it seems to be taking wrt nonprofits... It was a huge pain setting up an independent nonprofit to do the research I wanted to do, then fundraising was hard again, and then I didn't raise enough money to pay myself... So good luck to everyone who applies to this.
tl;dr -

* Content Neutrality: Content blocking software should focus on addressing potential user needs (such as on performance, security, and privacy) instead of blocking specific types of content (such as advertising).

* Transparency & Control: The content blocking software should provide users with transparency and meaningful controls over the needs it is attempting to address.

* Openness: Blocking should maintain a level playing field and should block under the same principles regardless of source of the content. Publishers and other content providers should be given ways to participate in an open Web ecosystem, instead of being placed in a permanent penalty box that closes off the Web to their products and services.
“Volkswagen” PHPUnit extension lets any code pass a CI test
He's not obligated to do anything, but it's not surprising that other mathematicians are not too eager to retrace his steps to figure out if the proof is correct, given its length and unique notation.
Ask HN: Any recommendations for finding a mobile app development company?
Thanks in Advance. My non-profit is looking to develop native mobile apps for our organization. I'm a little overwhelmed as most of the organizations that have come up have done apps for huge multinationals and it feels we already cant afford it. Any recommendations on finding a firm to help us with this?
> PAKE only authenticates the password and generates a random session key. It doesn't enable the user to encrypt their data for a later session.

PAKE can be used to construct all kinds of things. You can generate a key for one session, you can generate a persistent key, you can run a PAKE to authenticate an existing session, etc.
Kind of a tangent but this point has really been demonstrated to me by the game Crusader Kings 2. Where I'm trying to carve out a huge empire, only to have my guy die and my heirs divide up the land and mess things up. It ends up being really hard to have the empire continue as a whole.

In another way I'm also reminded by the family companies (hotels?) in Japan that have been going for a thousand years, where they adopt grown people into the family to continue the family business.
Don't citation indexes work pretty much exactly like Google's PageRank, with cites taking the place of href links? A parent comment seems to suggest the same thing, so it looks like the ranking is gameable.

In practice I understand this happens via citation-swapping (similar to link swapping, or paid links in blogs) and poor-quality journals accepting articles for a fee, or without review (much like paid content, or content farms) and papers that cite other articles just for the increase in rankings (similar to link farms) so the analogy to SEO (in its various hats) seems to fit.

This would suggest that the only way to fix the 'broken' citation ranking system is the same as Google, and bolt on empirically determined heuristics above the pure mathematical model of PageRank, and black-list or penalise certain journals or types of citation?
DNA detectives win Nobel Prize for cancer cure breakthrough
Why would you care what some anonymous person says about you on the Internet? I've been called sand n---er, paki, etc, but that's just ignorant people being ignorant. I'm sure some of the people I interact with on a daily basis think the same thoughts. But again, it doesn't really affect me.

Ironically, the kind of Internet you push for is flawed because it will make everyone self-censor and "doublethink; which is dangerous. We must protect unabridged free speech, even if it is ugly, lest we fall into the trap of an Internet where a lot of people are speaking but are not really saying anything.
I respect the fact that you took a moment to add some clarity. Obviously you have a good sense for politics -- you know this is something people need to understand.

But hot damn! If you've been so successful people are literally having a hard time believing it's true... that's... that's... I don't even know.
Well sure and even in Perl 5's lifetime there have been depracations. But you're nit-picking. The majority of Perl 4 code ran under Perl 5.
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It's because "hate speech" must be defined by someone, and who is(/are) that someone(s)?

Hate speech is protected by the First Amendment of the Constitution of the United States of America. (see R.A.V. v. City of St. Paul, Snyder v. Phelps)

If you disagree with that premise, you're free to lobby for a an amendment.

If you're banning hate speech, you're not a bastion of free speech in the United States of America.

I think if a company is more restrictive than the country you're incorporated in (reddit, inc. is a Delaware corporation), "not a bastion of free speech" is a fair description.

Totally agree with you that there's nothing wrong with being restrictive (this is HN, after all, also not a bastion of free speech).
Increasingly, U.S. IT workers are alleging discrimination
No. Cryptography is complicated, it's not just something you dabble in and then put together a complex protocol like Bitcoin with few mistakes. Not even mentioning the large programming task to implement that effectively. Cryptography is it's own sizable field of study that takes a lot of work to master.
One cool thing Pandora might be able to do is analyze their stream data and predict where bands will have enough fans to make money on a live show. I could imagine TicketFly offering a service that essentially tells bands where to play, and of course steer them to a Ticketfly venue whenever possible.
Is the 2-body mechanics just a question of simulation speed? Or why wouldn't they compute based on the top N nearest-biggest objects?
Check out Cycle.js: http://cycle.js.org/
One second is a long time. That's a drop of 16 feet?
this is awesome. I'm just finishing my masters, and would love to do phd in the same area, but the TA grant is measly. no way I can do that right now.
Op clearly said "Researchers should not", so i am curious to hear on what base they make that claim.
Expectations are different, IMO, as well.

HN is not a free speech zone and does not even try to be one.

reddit, inc. executives have previously stated that reddit is a place for free speech.
Volkswagon has been Santorumed.
AnalyticsMD (YC W15) is hiring data scientists
The opposite is true. In Perl 5 passing a hash to a function requires mallocing a new shallow copy of that hash. In Perl 6 this would be the equivalent of passing a reference to the hash, which would only require mallocing a scalar.
> Not really quite sure what the benefit is there; email isn't latency sensitive.

My guess is the webmail interface.
remoteStorage.js is a library for implementing applications similar to yours, where the backend storage is separate from the application provider.

The library primarily supports 'remoteStorage' providers but apparently now supports google drive and dropbox experimentally.[1]

All the apps using remoteStorage that I've checked out don't seem to have dropbox as an option though, and only some have google drive.

[1] https://unhosted.org/adventures/7/Adding-remote-storage-to-u...
The Click Modular Router Project
> Additionally, the reflow cost post-execute will be <100ms

It really depends on the page. It's pretty easy to come up with pages that take a lot longer than that to reflow (tables, deeply nested flexboxes, etc).

I agree that typically making the script async is a good idea, but it's really worth measuring both ways for the particular script and page in question.
AWS is already dominant, it's not even close between AWS and the next Cloud platform. Vendor Lock-in is a forgone conclusion. Meanwhile lots of companies are building successful, profitable applications on AWS.
> music playing in the background at restaurants

I'm pretty sure Spotify/Pandora's terms & conditions don't allow that:

https://help.pandora.com/customer/portal/articles/215200-pla...

https://www.spotify.com/us/legal/end-user-agreement/#s8
Aside from habit alone, such as how scrollbars are customarily at the right, this phenomenon may result from psychological or even neurological factors.

Psychologically, the side of your dominant hand is where you prefer to keep things you see as dangerous or more difficult to control. This is why a male and female couple usually walk with the male at the right. The male's job is to protect the couple from outside intruders, for which the male needs his good hand free and facing the outside world. The male's left hand is on the more trustworthy, less dangerous side -- by his female partner.

Neurologically, the left visual field (left of the visual fixation point) is processed directly by the right cerebral hemisphere, and vice versa. In normal mammals, the two hemispheres share data efficiently. For some individuals (particularly "split-brain patients"), this sharing may be more or less interrupted, in which case it would be better to keep the logical information in the right visual field so that the left cerebral hemisphere can process the data effectively. After all, the left cerebral hemisphere is made to process serialised data, such as source code.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slippery_slope
Adtech needs a major pivot. I hope that Verizon's bottom line takes some heat for this. Even though Verizon is not unique, its blatant disregard for privacy and user experience should discourage devs from supporting this. The poison gas that adtech has become requires one huge fan to blow it away. Here's to improved fan tech ;)