skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
But all the progress is only going in the direction of automation. The long term macro trend is clear. Why do we have so many pointless jobs today?
Seems like there's a lot more vuln with OSX in the last few releases.
I'm still using OSX for basic stuff like browsing but I rely on a linux VM to do the serious stuff. I know that my vm can be compromised if the host system is vulnerable but I feel safer.
Was this tested in a way to eliminate any possibility of communication of the location (through generations) post-natally?
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This is the one that would theoretically hit the US eastern seaboard like a wall of water right?
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But does it blend?
Right, for word choice it is significant. I was thinking, rejecting the whole password pattern.
If this is really for C, ditch ctags in favor of GNU Global.
It doesn't even need to be a product at the early stage. Just a mockup. That's why I think the idea of an artists sketch or study is useful. Internally, it's actual work that includes process and technique and therefore learning. Externally, points to a finished product without trying to be that product.
Exactly this. Whenever an interview asks about why I choose this career, I jump straight to talking about that feeling of success when something works after working at it for hours, days, etc.
First, those stats are wrong: both are low, but Sept is very low.

Second, we're a crowd sourced news company, so we're focused on the contributor side, which has been consistently growing 15% week over week. Sometimes that causes traffic spikes, and we can drive insane amounts of traffic if we try, but it will still be a couple months before readers are our priority.
Password rules are needed, otherwise passwords would be even worse than they are now, with people going back to using '1' or '1234'. They just need to be better designed:

Must have at least 16 chars, OR
Must have at least 8 chars with 1 number, 1 letter, 1 symbol, AND
Must not have more than 3 repeating characters
One other issue is that this indicates a site doing something they should not be. The best practice for password storage is to use a secure password hash like bcrypt, and not store the actual password at all.

If one actually does this, the length of the password becomes almost irrelevant to the server. You might want to reject 10MB passwords or something, to prevent someone from taking up all your RAM during login, but the difference between 16 characters and 1024 (or 72, the max for bcrypt) is irrelevant.
Get more memory?

Safari on iOS does this, too. If memory gets low, inactive tabs get flushed, then reloaded if you switch back to them.
Asimov wrote an article about that myth - that humans were some poor vulnerable mammal through history, using its wits to survive against apex predators.

Turns out, through history, humans were apex predators. We don't live in the ocean; sharks and whales are not preying upon us. In other ecosystems, humans rarely if ever met other apex predators. We were the top of the heap historically in almost every environment we occupied. Pretty much.

That said, I remember reading recently about 6 or 8 human skeletons being found in a saber-toothed tiger den, 80,000 years old, being excavated somewhere.
doesnt matter as long as you have this hard warranty limit
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This is fallacious, inductive reasoning.

The behaviors are not the same. It is not valid to draw a post hoc conclusion from one to the other.
There is a bank which shall remain nameless (<cough>Schwab</cough>) which not only silently truncates passwords to 8 characters, but also performs a case insensitive match.

They say they're working on fixing it but it's taking an awfully long time.
Land property isn't abolished by taxing it.

With regards to the rental market, people will only rent where they can afford, which is exactly the same as now, what it does change is the amount of profit that landlords can make from each property. If we have a land use tax I'd like to see it increase based on the number of properties you own, which would discourage people buying large numbers of properties just to rent them out.

Again, the purpose of the tax should be to curb the demand for property as an investment. If you do that the increase in house prices should come down, and as a side benefit there's less incentive for companies to expand nationally, which would increase diversity in the marketplace.
It has literally been done already. Obscure African poems have been guessed.
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I think the rest of this thread, and the OP, have been systematically refuting that claim.
So you think a problem that can't be solved with a picture of someone helping someone choking by grabbing them from behind and squeezing can be solved by having them find this gadget and figuring out how to use it? Curious.
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I'm not saying you do, but I have found the general public vastly underestimates the intelligence of many auto mechanics--especially today's mechanics.

I guess they have always been an easy target in movies, etc.?

I have a feeling your dad could learn anything if given the right structure. Mechanics are underpaid, expected to continually learn on their time, provide $20,000-30,000 grand worth of tools; and the owner is the only one making a real living.
Nice writeup, can anyone explain why fb continues to use php over other statically types languages? I understand they have a huge code base with php, but with so many awesome engineers at work is it not possible to migrate slowly? Or is it because they are really productive with php?
>(On Tuesday, Baidu announced it had achieved the world's best results on a key artificial intelligence benchmark related to image identification, besting Google and Microsoft.)

And a week later was found to have cheated in said test, apologized, and withdrew its results[0].

[0] http://www.technologyreview.com/view/538111/why-and-how-baid...
I thought salting effectively nullified rainbow table based attacks?
How can text be motivated?

It's still clickbait because it makes an unjustified, subjective judgement.
Surely you understand that this reasoning must break down for some cost of AED. Presumably you have them in your home and office. Yes?
It could have something to do with their hiring process being a large machine for producing 'cultural fits' which means, people who think exactly like they already think. They have 3 or 4 layers of interview, followed by candidates attending a bootcamp where they are indoctrinated into the One True Facebook Way.
ALIGNBYTES is probably 3 or 7, depending on what ALIGN does, but the +2 seems like a bug to me. I think the intended layout is [FTSENT][name][0][optional [possible alignment padding][struct stat]] which means that +2 should really be a +1. The total memory allocated should be

sizeof(FTSENT) + namelen + 1 + (padding + sizeof(struct stat))

(I Googled 'site:opensource.apple.com "#define ALIGNBYTES" inurl:.h' and got my query rewritten without the quotes and the dots in the domain name. No, I did NOT mean to search for anything else. Then I browsed to the 2nd page and got the "we detected suspicious activity" CAPTCHA. WTF?)
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The thing is that there are a lot of people who, in the past, might have been able to make a living doing simple farm work, or tightening bolts on a car assembly line, or what have you. Those jobs have largely been automated away. Increasingly the only jobs available to that segment of the population are things like fast food. You can afford to pay a decent wage to someone who's turning out $50,000 cars. You can't afford to pay a decent wage to someone who's turning out $2.00 burgers.

Education/training can't solve the fundamental problem, which is that a large number of these folks just aren't capable of becoming programmers, or surgeons, or lawyers, or anything else that of that nature.

What should we do with them? The problem isn't going to go away.
That's interesting. From what I experienced, in some of the European countries mechanics earn pretty darn good money, have pretty acceptable working conditions and are respected in general.
Yes we looked at them, but just too expensive for the large arrays we build. The 850's have been working well, but ever in the search for better.
Its not clear that education/training can't solve it. There is resistance, as people have been burned by pointless 'education' that takes years. So they drop out/don't go to a college. But we could try to fix that. Its a route that hasn't been tried, in any case.
You mean Imgur and Reddit that keep going down and have always been notoriously bad at staying up? Not a good example at all.

Also Twitpic didn't reduce their sysops, they simply kept it low, AWS didn't do that, a server which serves much more complex stuff and many more people than twitpic can be run by one person, see stackoverflow.

There are a lot of people out there who don't realize what can be done with one or two dedicated servers and one or a handful of good developers without ever mucking around with cloud. Cloud can just add yet another point of failure to a small business if it wasn't worth it in the first place.
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Shuffling papers or writing code is a different thing entirely from scrubbing someone else's toilet.
That's obvious, I suppose; also it can be fixed :)
I agree that the 5 floor rule doesn't make sense all the time, though the limits used should be linked to the width of the streets. I believe it's good to make sure sunlight can reach every window for at least part of the day, though there's a certain charm to some narrow side streets too.
Debugging a non-trivial application with gdb without gdb crashing is quite a feat, however. Hopefully rr is less prone to segfaulting. Gdb is easily the least stable standard debugger I've used on any preemptive scheduling OS.
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My perspective is from the U.S.

I would like to see them unionize. I sometimes think they could pull it off in the Bay Area, especially San Francisco.
I've spent most of my life in the ocean as a scuba diver/surfer and have encountered dolphins many times. They're just like humans in terms of personality. Some are cool, some are jerks. For example, I was surfing alone on the north side of a jetty and there was a pod that was swimming close by. One of them started slapping it's tail at the surface. This is a sign of aggression so I got out of the water and moved to another spot. Another time I was surfing about 200 yards north of a pier with one other person. We were circled by a dolphin that seemed quite playful that suddenly bumped the back of my board and then jumped out of the water over me. I've had another jump over me when I was paddling toward the wave and it was riding through it as they have been observed doing many times. If there is a juvenile with a pod I definitely keep my distance. Mama dolphin does not want to be friends with any human that comes near her baby. Quite the contrary, they will get very aggressive to protect their young. Additionally, I have seen my share of sharks and pinnipeds. Just last week a pinniped surfaced next to me and then came at me and grabbed my surfboard leash. Of course, I let out a little shriek since I wasn't expecting it but it quickly let go. I've had them follow me more than once. They've swam alongside me as I was paddling out and have surfaced right in front of me. I've had juvenile white sharks (4-5 feet) swim by curiously as well. Many of these encounters can be taken as the animal wanting "to be my friend". By the way, orcas are actually more a dolphin than a whale as they are in the Delphinidae family.
I think they established that though. The whole article is about how there are people with both high EQs and IQs being promoted. So they are kind of admitting to their existence. They also didn't downplay them as less analytical.
I found a couple different definitions:

https://opensource.apple.com/source/OpenSSH/OpenSSH-95/opens...

https://opensource.apple.com/source/xnu/xnu-792.13.8/bsd/ppc...

https://opensource.apple.com/source/sendmail/sendmail-32/sen...

They align toward the higher address.
Neuron interconnectivity might be more important than plain neuron count. So that could be an advantage.
That all seems reasonable. It's just that your post is the first place I've ever heard of this technique of pushing on a choking person's side. Since it came packaged with snark about the US Heimlich PR I expected to find a lot more information and advocacy for it. Meanwhile the best you can do is provide a link to using normal chest compressions - not applying side compressions as you mentioned.
>Somewhere out there is a 20-something kid in a hoodie writing code and angling for start-up money to bring this inevitable future on-line.

I doubt there are many 20 somethings that frustrated with the mortgage experience. I am not sure what the fascination with instantaneous is, other then driven by some fear that the Millennial generation won't give them business.
Yeah, the only one who looks like an asshole in these quotes is the person going on about zero "EQ".
According to the text on the other end of that hyperlink, yes.
My favorite: just change your frame of reference.
Maybe you haven't done it...
Power draw is very high for some reason :/
Israel, for one.

http://latitude.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/08/28/children-of-isr...
It's an interesting idea - natural selection not by death before breeding, but by emigration - if only the animals that liked humans stayed near them, and those that didn't went elsewhere, then they'd end up breeding with other "friendly" individuals and you'd have genetic selection pressure that would amount to natural selection.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_Domesticated_Red_Fox (evidence for genetic influence on "friendliness")

Edit: somewhat irrelevant to the point above, but interesting anyway
> the free market will clearly still be hiring those with valuable skill for good wages - way above UBI. This will be motivating for those that have anything to contribute

Well, i doubt that the UBI handout dependent class will have the same education opportunities as those who have valuable skills; we might end up with self perpetuating class distinctions - education somehow has the magical property to favor the better off
Just had a look at it. With free hours who needs to pay?
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Just looked at it. It is actually free, they even ad hours every month :-)
I don't know about other HNers, but for me posting is directly proportional to how much work I have at work, and inversely proportional to how much time available I have for my own things. When I have a day to work freely on my own projects, this is a day I am not on HN.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dolphin#Natural_threats

> Except for humans (discussed below), dolphins have few natural enemies. Some species or specific populations have none, making them apex predators. For most of the smaller species of dolphins, only a few of the larger sharks, such as the bull shark, dusky shark, tiger shark and great white shark, are a potential risk, especially for calves.[117] Some of the larger dolphin species, especially orcas (killer whales), may also prey on smaller dolphins, but this seems rare.

Thus, the answer to 'Are dolphins on the top of the food chain?' is 'which species of dolphin?'
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No, I'm sorry, it's quite clear that someone whose cognitive abilities are just adequate to tighten the same bolt over and over again is never going to become a neurosurgeon, no matter how much education you provide.
Great movie:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zZ8aqP2NWk8
'Even partially'? Such cures are found every day in the form of treatments for disease, healthy living rules, improvements in diet and exercise regimes.
And here is the video showing mysam in action:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VxFtSsCM_bo
Where do those people live, though?
Does the strictness of drugs law correlate with general political repression?

Some people suggest drugs are pushed by governments to pacify their populations, but I'm not aware of any governtments on the west's "bad-guy" list that take that approach. Would it actually work?
It is still inductive.

There is zero reason to believe "there's a better chance it is so than otherwise".

You may wish to brush up on your logic.
Null pointer dereferences are handled via OS signals to avoid unecessary branches

Exceptions like page faults are very slow in modern CPUs in comparison to branches. Branch prediction works really well.
> However, that's not what Avian is designed for. We (ReadyTalk) don't have the resources to compete in that sort of market, as fun as that might be. We designed Avian to run a relatively light-weight client application, so we can deploy the same code across all our platforms. We're not running a game or a server, so we don't care a lot frame rate or requests per second.

I still don't see how it's better than Java in that scenario, which also runs on all platforms?
That's a form of bigotry against the working class that's all too common. Sorry, everyone who didn't go to your University isn't an idiot.

And we don't need endless Neurosurgeons; we need folks who can operate our sophisticated society efficiently and pleasantly. There are a million ways to live better, than being sentenced to a life of burger flipping.
More imporantly, unless there's a hidden software in brain that responds precisely to that particular training, you'd expect that anything that can yield significant results by doing it 3x a week for 10 minutes would be already discovered purely by random chance.
I've seen a landing page that asked for an email, called an MVP. Anything you can use to gauge interest in the concept.
Well the made the hack language, which is php with types. I don't know how much they use it, but it seems like that is at least a move in the right direction.
Let's aim for the so-called life extension escape velocity then. The cure may be even a 1000 years from now, but as long as you can keep extending your life to still be around then, it's fine.
Rubinius is also trying LLVM with very limited success. It's really clear you need an entire IR and optimisation pipeline before you emit LLVM if you are implementing a dynamic language. Then you're only using LLVM for instruction selection, scheduling and emitting so it doesn't seem as helpful anymore. Is there any project trying to provide the IR and pipeline before LLVM which could work across languages?
There's no doubt the drugs used to 'treat' schizophrenia are brutal - i've seen its effects on my cousin who can only stiffly walk when she takes her medication.

We (of course) need better drugs. Or other forms of real treatment.

We wouldn't send somebody with an equally real disease like cancer to go talk about about how they are suffering and expect this talking to help the actual, biologically based, condition. Sure, they might feel better having somebody listen. But that isn't going to cure them, or help them not die.

Because Schizophrenia is ostensibly a "mental health" disorder its easy for us to fall into a treating it with with some variant of a the freudian model, which may or may not work for overcoming childhood trauma, but is a completely inappropriate tool for combatting an (still little understood) biological condition.
There are definitely differences in both generic mental abilities and what fields interest people between the sexes. From an evolutionary biology perspective, it would be really weird if there weren't.

To be clear, men and women are equally mentally gifted as a whole, but focused on different skills, and with bigger variance in men.

Pinker's "Blank Slate" lays out the case well:
http://www.amazon.com/The-Blank-Slate-Modern-Denial/dp/15012...
I agree that there's no need to resort to personal abuse. However, I think your examples are a bit contrived: I don't think I've ever seen someone hit with a tirade of insults, merely for missing out the definite article —in fact [as a bit of a Grammar Nazi myself], I usually take that as a sign I'm dealing with a non-native speaker [Probably Russian]. No fair-minded Grammar Nazi will attack someone writing in English as a second language.

What I get annoyed by are the people who ARE native English speakers and who can't be bothered to spend a few minutes proof-reading what they write, or learning a few trivial grammatical rules ['your' vs 'you're', 'there' vs 'they're' vs 'their'] but yet expect the rest of us to struggle through their lazy, mangled prose, trying to extract meaning from it.

Why the fuck should I? If you can't be bothered taking a little time to check over what you write, before spewing it onto the internet, so that it makes grammatical sense, why should I put in valuable on time on your behalf, deciphering your blatherings? You've already shown me you don't care enough about what you want to say, to make the effort to express yourself clearly. So I'm not going to care enough to bother reading it.
The auto mechanics I've encountered are brilliant people. The next Nietzsche or Michelangelo will be an auto mechanic.
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And Einstein worked in a patent office.
I'm not sure where you're getting the assumption that Imgur "keeps going down". They maintained a 99.99707% uptime last year.

Sure, its not 5 9's, but its a far cry from "notoriously bad at staying up"
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One startup I was working for were enforcing different rules depending on where you were setting the password e.g. 4 characters when you follow the forgotten password procedure, 8 characters when registering, 12 characters when changing password normally.

Another thing, a visa broker in Turkey had a so ridiculous password rule and gibberish error message, I had to read the source code and parse the regex by hand. Only then I was able to type in a valid password.
Sure, but would they have recognized it? Would they put 2 and 2 together - "I ate a hamburger every Tuesday night for a year, and now I'm smarter...Eureka!"

Heck, maybe they would - they're a genius now.
100 times yes. The mere presence of a single character from a different class does not increase entropy. It means that most common passwords move from 8 lowercase letters to 6 lowercase letters plus 1 number plus 1 symbol, which is even easier to search.

If you have a sophisticated entropy estimation tool, or library, great. Another simple thing is using a min length, plus restrict from a dictionary of the million most leaked passwords to outlaw those (can hold it in a bloom filter if size is a concern).
I grew up in a family with a single mom with five kids. There were extended periods of time when we didn't have electricity or running water. I went to state universities using student loans.

You?

I notice that you don't mention any of these "million ways to live better". Do you have any specifics?
Unionizing doesn't seem like it would work very well in an industry of which a significant portion is entrepreneurs with small 3-man shops and the like. Or were you thinking of just the big chain shops or those attached to large dealerships? In that case I think it might have a detrimental effect on the many small business shops.