skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't think your one-off experience (a personal anecdote)invalidates an entire academic study. My point, and the point of the article I linked, is that all countries are racist to one extent or another. It's just that relative to other countries, Japan isn't racist. In fact, they're one of the most tolerant countries around according to basically every research study. Yes, they're not as tolerant as America, but they're pretty darn close. I think people underestimate just how racially tolerant America is in relation to everyone else. It's one of the least racist countries in the world.
I agree. The dataset has been around for a while now. Also, even though you can increase your chances a few percent by hitting the right time, the users are still the ones to decide.
Much of what's described in the article is very similar to my own depression, prior to treatment.

I was talking to someone recently about this. Paraphrased, he said something like "I don't understand suicidal people. OK, you're depressed. Do something about it. Move to the mountains!"

If I had tried something like that, I would have just carried my defective brain to the mountains with me. Or the oppressive thought patterns, or whatever the nature of my depression was.

As the article said, depression is not merely feeling super bad, it's being broken.

If you have someone in your life that's depressed, and you don't understand it, then accept that you don't understand it, and have some empathy. Admit to yourself that you may be generally ignorant about depression, and that you yourself have not competently diagnosed this person's particluar depression. Help, even if that help is limited to not judging or assuming.
Signal Intelligence
> most sensible workaday Americans

Let those people be thankful they have a job, instead of complaining about the one who don't. If they are not satisfied, let them ask for a raise or quit and join people on welfare.

Your feelings of "hurt" makes me chuckle. Handouts have the merits of inhibiting crime and violence. You do not want to have so many people on the street without anything to put a foot on, ready to organize for riots and reaping chaos.
Is this accurate? It basically says that middle class people spend six times as much paying for corporate subsidies than they spend paying for things like defense, welfare payments, medicare, etc., combined. The fact that the information is conveyed using a poor-quality jpeg screenshot of an unattributed infographic from two years ago, however, does not inspire confidence.

The two sources at the bottom of the graphic are redirected to the following:

http://www.commondreams.org/views/2013/09/23/add-it-average-...

https://www.whitehouse.gov/2014-taxreceipt

It looks like this claim is based on aggregating direct subsidies, inflated profits enabled by government mandates and protections, and lost tax income resulting from preferential tax policies and tax shelters.
What if there is such a thing, but it only works if the people themselves do it, not the government?

For a concrete example, it seems to me that one thing that helps people get out of poverty is having some savings. Being poor is expensive, often because large expenses compound due to financing, late fees, or even just an inability to make bulk purchases. Having a financial cushion can make life a lot cheaper. But there's no way (that I can see, anyway) that the government can provide such a cushion for someone who wants to spend it right away on irrelevant stuff.
Alot of the difficulty was explaining to others that there wasn't an easy way to upsert, and trying to ensure everyone did it the proper way.
That said I do like how downvoting requires a significant karma value. Wish upvoting was the same!

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At some point, do all online networks become cases of machines competing with machines?
Working jobs doesn't require exceptional people. Lifting yourself out of poverty by working jobs often does.
Finding that the father has contributed ~1/4 of his genes to the child would normally exclude them from being described as the biological parent, who would normally contribute ~1/2 his genes to the child.

Possibly the father had no brothers, therefore no-one else could contribute even 1/4 of the genes (unless the child is a chimera from two fathers...).
I looked for that too in the article and missed it, too. But then I thought it might not be that easy. I suspect there will be a lot of users with a single luck shot or two, ruining the statistics
I recently got an Apple Watch and comparing my activity on a normal weekend vs a normal weekday was staggering. When I'm not at work I live an active healthy lifestyle, at work I'm literally killing myself.

It's not about the fancy gyms free on campus or one off runs, it's that on the weekend physical activity is a normal part of my work and on the weekday it is antithetical to my work.

I, and several others, have expressed a desire to leave tech over this issue. We are active fit people who TRY to workout and eat right, but our work grinds our willingness out of us while demanding large numbers of hours being physically inactive.
Hacker Just Has to Break Through Encryption Shield Before Uploading Nano-Virus
Cool visualizations, nicely done. By the way there is a typo in the "Constraint Solving" section, in the last equation, it currently is

c_x - b_y = 1

It should read

c_x - b_x = 1
Tons of studies have been done for the last few decades and they show a pretty solid consensus (not completely unanimous but it's pretty strong) that wealth and success in this country are very largely hereditary, that socioeconomic mobility is pretty flat (and very flat relative to other developed economies except maybe the UK) and that the American dream (rags to riches for anyone who works hard, i.e. social mobility based on merit and effort) is a myth.

So no, if you're poor in the US it's not just because you've got a mental illness, that's a very wrong view of the world. Poverty is a big issue in the US and it is distinct from many (not all) developed economies for having a lot of working poverty, i.e. people who are not ill, do not suffer substance abuse, who aren't homeless and who have a job (often multiple) and yet are poor. That is very much an American phenomenon, no other developed country has so many normal people who have jobs and yet are poor and who struggle to leave their children a better life than they enjoyed.
Explain how you expect that would happen. What specific, reasonably plausible events would have to occur? Remember to take into account the fact that the canal will be adding capacity shortly, with the addition of the new bigger locks.

What I'm trying to get at is that, unless the canal was shut down completely for months at a time, there is no economical situation where it would make sense to round the cape instead of just waiting it out.
I'd be interested in any information about frequent submitters. I submit probably too much, and I'm interested to know what percentile I'm in.
I bought a gaming laptop with a "theoretically" midrange GPU (it is in practice a shitty GPU, nVidia took a true midrange GPU, removed half of the chip, and overclocked it, hoping it will stay with midrange performance, instead the thing just overheats) and a Core i7...

It is a waste of money, I rarely see 100% CPU use, the few times I saw 100% CPU use was demoscene stuff, or some russian compression programs (that can do amazing stuff, like compress 60gb downloads into 20gb, but take 2 hours at 100% CPU to decompress).

It is evne worse that some games that theoretically would need all the CPU (games that has lots of entitites, or are physics or AI intensive), instead just have thousands of cache misses while they loop through their entities in the memory, and the CPU gets used like 20%.

Or they are single-core, even if made recently.
I'm pretty sure the NSA on to her. Expect an NSL in a few days.
I come from a country where the thinking is that people gets minimal helps for the government in exchange for them not voting for the nazis, like the Germans did (that's the shorter, but I think it's fair). Every country has its story and point of view on welfare.

I just hope they don't go too American here, because I have not been employed in the last 3 years.
iQoS – An open source QoS-emulator for VoIP
There are several other cases that I can think of as well (like embedded systems). However, the main point is whether or not software is delivered to customers or is served to customers.

Webapps/SAAS applications are clearly different because customers don't install anything and therefore version numbering from a customer perspective does not have any meaning. Therefore, any meaning we attach, is for internal internal consumption only.

In even in that case, I would argue that version numbering is important. E.g the point on easier communication is exactly where internal consumption requires version numbering.
Scientists can now “squeeze” light, could make computers millions times faster
Out of curiosity, what are the main use cases for RTE's? I've been using Windows for over 20 years and in that time I can think of only a handful of times I've ever used WordPad.
the real question is does that ranking matter? chasing potentially useless numbers to feel better isn't an unvarnished good in my book
Thanks, I looked around briefly but couldn't get the attribution correct. Much appreciated.
No it doesn't. It shows that people who qualify for food stamps (they're still unemployed or low income) don't just have to get crappy food that is terrible for them, and that they are autonomous adults who, though qualifying for aid, are still able to decide how to best spend it based upon the various resources they have available to them. They aren't forced to spend it on just ramen while looking ashamed and embarrassed in the store just to placate those not in the same situation.
The few thousand dollars you might save not buying a TV or cell phone isn't going to do shit to get you out of poverty. You can't save your way out of being poor a nickle and dime at a time.
I think that either the author got it wrong, or its just cheap socialist propaganda.

Corruption is not about buying alcohol and tobacco or avoiding work, it is about becoming dependent on nanny estate to a point of:

a) blindly supporting the populist politicians even if they are corrupt.

b) ignoring the consequences of unsustainable public spending like debt and inflation. (Again, while corrupt bankers and bureaucrats become richer creating a greater inequality).
Wow... always makes me very happy to see any move toward pushing a bit of intelligence out to the endpoints.
Test motivation differs from person to person, so if you don't encourage everyone to at least try every question and guess, you'll get differences in scores which don't reflect the child's difference in knowledge (which is what the test is trying to measure) so much as willingness to try or guess. This willingness can differ systematically so you might get drastically lower scores for poorer children than they should. (This is one of the reasons schools like psychologists to do IQ tests, because they can spot when a child isn't trying or is deliberately underperforming.) So that's one reason. Another reason is that it's rare to have no idea whatsoever; even if you feel entirely uncertain, you can still often guess at above chance rates, showing that you did know more than nothing. Forced-choice methodologies expose that knowledge and again make the tests more accurate, because more items means more effective at distinguishing between students.

(Imagine a test of 10 questions, each substantially harder; one student manages to answer correctly up to question 5 before starting to feel uncertain and refusing to answer any more, and a second gets up to question 6. How sure are you that #1 knows less than #2? Now imagine that they instead 'guessed' on the remaining 5 questions, and #1 got 3/5 right and #2 got 1/4. Now how sure are you? Haven't you learned something from this apparently 'useless' guessing?)

> But in the real world, there is no 25% credit for guessing.

You can no more refuse to guess in the real world than you can refuse to make choices, take actions, or let time pass.
It certainly hasn't killed web browser versions yet, and they most definitely matter when it comes to bugs in web apps (or pages).
Same user is fine and might actually mean that the mods asked the user to repost (although dang probably would have mentioned it if they did in this case)
It's been done by the Partially Derivative guys:

http://goodattheinternet.com/2015/02/13/getting-to-the-hacke...
For the curious - Panama connects North and South America horizontally, thus the Atlantic is to the north of the country and the Pacific is to the south. The canal cuts southeast across the country.
A link might help analyse any potential issues. Do you advertise you're a one man show? Do you mention support?
It is not just fear of rejection, I actually got rejected.

Example: My parents live in a neighbourhood where most people are mixed race, but heavily black (ie: people have a obvious brown skin, and have facial features and bone structure of black people).

More than once when walking on the street, I had people follow me with weapons or dogs, and one time when I was buying coca-cola in a bar on the neighbourhood, some people playing snooker stopped playing, made a circle around me, and said in a threatening tone that I was "not from here", I then pointed them my house (it was distant, but visible), then they left me alone.

Similarly, when I am visiting white-heavy areas, specially if people are slavs/nordic (russian, swedish, etc...) they also treat me as an outsider, for example they prefer to talk to other white people.

Or when I am with my uncle (that is more dark skinned) in my grandpa car (he has a expensive car for brazillian standards, a Toyota Corolla), police stop us, thinking we are thieves or thugs.
I'm always a bit surprised when the python.org tutorial is left out of these lists. It's a fine place to start.

https://docs.python.org/2/tutorial/index.html

https://docs.python.org/3/tutorial/index.html
What does this do/how would one use it? I can't really make sense of the interface
To paraphrase the late great Hunter S. Thompson:

"There was a rumor going around the circle of journalists, and while I was the one who started the rumor, its existence meant I could report it as a fact."
The replication system encrypts the information before it is transmitted to the phone. The phone never has access to the key.
Using a framework or not?
The Pros and Cons in Surprising Your Manager
I use Quill on my site to allow trusted but non-technical users to write rich text. It was easy to configure so it only allows a strict subset of tags. My users have been using it for a few months and haven't managed to slip in any disallowed tags, attributes, or styles.
All data in Glacier is encrypted. Here's the FAQ entry:

> Amazon Glacier handles key management and key protection for you. Amazon Glacier uses one of the strongest block ciphers available, 256-bit Advanced Encryption Standard (AES-256). 256-bit is the largest key size defined for AES. Customers wishing to manage their own keys can encrypt data prior to uploading it.
It means you can stop wasting money on buying necessities constantly in small quantities, not pay massive interest on credit cards or payday loans because your needs a sudden repair, etc. Will this solve the problem? Surely not for everybody. But a big problem (even if far from the only problem) with getting out of poverty is that it's a trap because it's so expensive to be poor.
The Sounds of Sorting Algorithms
I think this should be appreciated for what it is...a very young girl learning something very important that most people are totally ignorant about, trying to do good with that learning for other people, and capturing some of that value back.

The folks complaining in the Ars comments are going to either be employed or hacked by this girl in not too long. It's not a good business or even a good way to get a secure password, but that really doesn't matter.
Not my work, after seeing one of those animations of sorting algorithms I wondered about turning it into audio instead. And of course someone else had already done it in a very comprehensive way.

Try the recommendations at the bottom:

> I would personally recommend Quicksort on the "Dark" pitch set, or, if you've got some time, Stooge sort on the "Shifting" pitch set.
This is Copy-On-Write in disguise: the different versions can actually be considered different objects, in which case it's just a copy and an eventual cleanup of the old object.
LightTable is fairly configurable. You can use it in emacs [1] or vim [2] mode. I use it for the latter and don't miss vim.

[1] https://github.com/LightTable/Emacs
[2] https://github.com/LightTable/Vim
All kidding aside, is there a genuine reason to name a development after an arcane, difficult to use tool? I've got a few quills. I used them as part of my graduate thesis on slowing down writing so that students can learn to appreciate the permanence of scribing down things. A quill is not a text editor, it's a one-shot, hard to use object. I'd like to be constructive in this criticism, so I'll sign off here.
> The fallacy with using tests of the kids as a marker for the quality of the teachers is that you just can't do that and get reliable results.

Which is not what is being proposed by people arguing for teacher evaluations drawing on standardized testing (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Value-added_modeling), as the very name 'value-added' implies.
They should just use a decent website (web-app), in my humble opinion.
iQoS is an open source software that evaluates quality of service metrics (Bandwidth, Jitter, Latency, Packet Loss) in Voice Over IP. It can predict de voice quality and the behavior of a VoIP call in both endpoints. For demo please select both eth0 interfaces. Video demo: https://www.dropbox.com/sh/d682hqgg3q6uzi5/AACXaLJS2QiZeUe38...
Gigabyte per Second Unicode Regex Search with Icgrep
Ah, another to satisfy our insatiable desire for browser-based, WYSYWIG text editors.
Not sure what functionality you are talking about, but you can embed a Quill in any div. It doesn't have to have a border.
It's a really powerful way to debug as you can automate much of the debugging process and do things that aren't practical without scripting.

IMHO when debugging software needs to be automated to the point that a library needs to be written (and itself debugged), there's an underlying problem which can't be solved with adding more layers of complexity - as that will only introduce more bugs. When these bugs are in the software you're using to debug, things can quickly take a turn for the worse.

Is that code really taking the user's input (a string), getting object addresses and offsets (numbers) from that, then converting those into strings to build a command string, which then gets parsed back into numbers for the debugger to ultimately use to create a watchpoint? I think that is itself a good example of how the "more code, more bugs" principle can apply: all this superfluous conversion code has introduced a bug.

Here's a good article about that, although it doesn't mention the situation where the bugs you introduce end up being in the software you need to use to remove bugs...

http://blog.codinghorror.com/the-best-code-is-no-code-at-all...
All of these new browser rich text editors look really nice, but without basic table support there is no way anyone can switch from TinyMCE (which is about as horrible as you can get).

Are tables really hard to support? Every time I see one of these projects I check excitedly if they do but am always disappointed.
For what it's worth, you can set price limits on a vault level basis so you can never accidentally charge yourself thousands of dollars. If a retrieval request is going to push you over the cost limit you've set, they'll automatically throttle the request.

When I needed to do a retrieval several months ago, I was able to limit my expense to $7/pcm and just let my client retrieve as fast as it could.

Details are on the aws blog here:https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/data-retrieval-policies-aud...
You guys have this all wrong.

Software will soon 'write itself' (figure of speech, no code will actually be 'written'). This means that the software I use to read emails won't be the same as yours. Software will dynamically adapt to its context and user, which will make the idea of software version obsolete.

Until more people realize that building software and UI by hand is archaic at best, software versionning might remain useful for another few years.
This 11-year-old is selling cryptographically secure passwords for $2 each
Link to the lobbying page: https://www.youbetrayedus.org/facebook/
pgAdmin is unfortunately unusable on a Linux desktop with high pixel count.

The GUI support for the system DPI setting is very haphazard and leads to problems like query results where the line height of the text respects the setting but the height of the cell itself doesn't so you only see the middle two quarters of each glyph.
You could look at working remotely. You could still stay in tech but also live a healthy lifestyle.
Here are the first and second results when I search for: buy office 2016 download 1) http://www.microsoftstore.com/store/msusa/en_US/pdp/Office-P... and 2) http://www.microsoftstore.com/store/msusa/en_US/cat/All-Offi...

Going directly to Amazon.com, as many people do when they know exactly what they want, I simply searched for: office 2016 and got some fairly obvious results - http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss_1?url=search-alias%3D...

Also, when you subscribe to Office 365 - (thankfully) they don't just throw you into the new version without you asking for it. But it's pretty easy to find. Just login to office.com and click the first big giant tile there that says "Install".
It produces "rich text" in a clean JSON format, which is one of Quill's strengths IMO. It's also what enables it to be used for real-time collaborative editing across browsers without any weirdness about HTML normalization.
front page right now: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10447142
Screw Passion
Good read! Thanks for posting it. :-)
Thank you for summing up that long, dry article in three paragraphs. Upvote for you.
Tips for Young Programmers
Corporate welfare has a corrupting influence on democracy and capital markets.
Lacks Gloin, Bofur, Bombur, etc.
Banks are discussing negative interest rates for normal people's savings
Could you explain how so?
If I remember correctly the leaders list (https://news.ycombinator.com/leaders) had a third column in the past simply named Avg. I showed Karma per post.
Working remotely doesn't change either the amount of work you're expected to do or the fact that it has to be done at a computer, which basically has to be a sedentary activity.
If I was sitting in Lituya Bay, I'd probably be more concerned about how high I had to be to avoid the wave. To quote myself: "Shoreline height is a complex process governed by local bathymetry and topography"
I'm sure the shop-owners will be champing at the bit to have customers that can't check discounts in their heads, or employees that can't manage a till...
> Yes, I have an idea what I'm talking about.
> I followed the shut-down of Dacotah Marketing and Research and iBill from 'row #1' (as a mid-sized merchant with an inside line into the company about what was going on)

To be fair, that's still as an outsider for one particular incident. Has someone who was basically on stage to your "row #1" for other companies, you are missing a few pieces. Maybe not in that case, but the idea that segregated accounts is some magical pill for someone in the IPSP space isn't entirely true.

And if Visa was involved, it wouldn't do anything.
Appreciate you putting this out there. Forced focus, it's a good technique. Why not start a workshop?
> It's not a good business or even a good way to get a secure password

On the other hand, that might help make people understand how to pick a good password.