skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ok, so the guy who comes in out of nowhere to call Radiohead overrated (which, if you care anything about the vast majority of the music critic world, is at least GOOD) and that's totally cool to you. I'm at fault for showing him the door over a pointless comment.

Now here comes you to his rescue, you white-knight you. You also seem to have an opinion worthy of a music critic ("okay"). That's great. Good for you. Go read some critics' opinions and go tell them they're all wrong and you know good music when you hear it and that Radiohead is just "OK". I really couldn't care less if you think another band is #1 or if a critic does -- just GENERALLY SPEAKING, Radiohead is probably the #1 band of the last 20 years. If you can find critical reception to another artist that is just as great if not better, good then you beat me.

Then there's me, oh poor me who doesn't know anything about the music world and thank God you're here to correct me. Just by your opening sentence ("I grew up listening to alternative music"), I probably have listened to 5x as much music as you. I've been in love with music since I was 13 religiously downloading and listening to as much as I can. You have no idea who I am, but you feel compelled to defend a pointless comment so you can patronize me.

For what it's worth, most people who don't like Radiohead or call them overrated, in my PRETTY DECENT amount of experience of talking with music lovers is that they're usually into metal. That wasn't some attack you overly-sensitive man, you.
Value semantics are certainly not ideal, but it is very practical.
The New Alchemy [Alan Watts]
I did not read the article yet but what immediately comes to mind are those "try this one weird trick" ads
If pseudo-science sells, it feels like innovation! There is like all this new money discovered in new places where it wasn't before. Innovation, right in my pockets!
http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Roko%27s_basilisk
Could this site be used to optimize your dating profile photo (if you have one)? I'm probably "Hmmm" on most photos but possibly "Ok" or even "Nice" on a few. What does the algorithm want?
> they just won't get plastered on magazine covers and fêted by the Twitterati.

Most science and real innovation are not sexy, if you start seeing a CEO prior to achievement on a magazine cover that's a red flag imho.
> Like telling your friends that you're training for a marathon. It adds some pressure to finish things.

According to a lot of people, it is quite the opposite.

https://www.google.se/search?q=dont+tell+people+you+are+doin...
Is there a huge retail component market on the Internet, where you can define "huge" by "revenue" and support that with evidence? Adafruit is awesome, but you can't build a national big-box retail chain on it.
> If the Linode Manager database only stores the hash, how would they know the password?

Hashes can be turned back into plain text, it is just computationally expensive to do so. Hashing only slows down an attack (and or increases the cost), it doesn't not mitigate one. In particular if the hashes aren't salted then a rainbow table is an extremely effective way of breaking all of the hashes concurrently.

The main method of doing so: Generate the hash for every combination of typable characters up to a given length (e.g. MD5() A-Za-z0-9 & specials up to 8x characters).

This can be mitigated using a more computationally expensive hashing routine (or increasing the work factor on a less computationally expensive one) and salts.

But given enough time OR computing power, all hashes will be broken. AWS makes breaking hashes a lot cheaper as you can bid on spare capacity and perform the operations relatively cheaply.
Bank of Montreal has horrible password policies and does not store them securely
http://www.gemalto.com/press/Pages/Gemalto-enables-strong-au...

http://www.safenet-inc.com/multi-factor-authentication/authe...

http://www.faqs.org/patents/app/20090136035

http://www.nfcworld.com/2015/12/11/340570/gemalto-brings-pki...
In practice, for my game, I use a single positive signed int as the initial seed for the Scala/Scala.js PRNG (Amazingly, they implement the same algorithm), meaning only two billion or so possible games. If I re-seeded the PRNG each time I moved a card ordering, then the full [52!] shuffles could be generated. I only use initial seed, so that a given seed will always generate the same shuffle/deal order.
> you are taxing their children/relatives who get the money without having done anything for it.

Is your argument anything other than "they got money and I want the government to take some!"

> if you are rich enough a lot of those money were not taxed like a normally family but most probably through things like capital gains

"We probably didn't get it right the first time around so we'll take another whack at it after you die."

Capital gains tax being lower than it should be is not an excuse for other different taxes.

> When I buy something for my taxed money, whoever I give purchase it from is also being taxed on those already taxed money. So by your logic its not fair to tax that either either.

Just proof that you have no idea what my argument is in the first place, because that's ridiculous. We're talking about changing the name on a bank account. Property moving from parent to child or brother to sister. It's not a business transaction.

> If you buy the argument that we should tax businesses for the things they sell you are basically approving taxation of inheritance too.

wat
>> makes changing jobs a pain in the ass.

>You might have nailed it here. Employee retention is good >for everyone!

I'd say having a good work environment is good for employee retention, not arbitrary limitations to prevent people from switching jobs.
The best programmers have a choice of where they work, and will avoid environments that have a reputation for excessive blaming or scapegoating.

So it's a self-defeating strategy for a company to take. Only the desperate need apply.

Better to create an environment like the fabled NASA software lab, where individuals are never blamed -- only the "process". That will attract high-quality applicants.
Interestingly, while I know for a fact that you're correct. When someone asked about this on #linode the ops immediate reaction was to deny it (as it was every other time they got hacked).

< naqod> alexf: any legitimacy to this https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10845619 ?

<@alexf> naqod: again I'm not in ops so I don't have the deets, but my gut reaction is to say No effing Way

You'd imagine that by now they wouldn't be so quick to deny this stuff.
I have found that people who are incoherent in text tend not to be any more coherent when they are flapping their gums, either.
Good question - I was wondering the same. A quick Google took me to their site, which did a wonderful job of telling me pretty much nothing:

"We build products based on how people work. We are focused on redesigning workplace tools so that everyone can be productive and communicate with ease."

So... they make/do what now? How does a company like that get bought out for so much?
But a bunch of the "blockchain blockchain blockchain" startups don't use proof of anything.
I believe another key difference between rtl-sdr and the rest is that rtl-sdr cannot transmit?
I recently did an experiment where I took 50+ Android UI libraries opened them in a modern IDE and did code audits to find glaring errors ranging from Java to Android Best practices.

Even exp will not help if you are TOO DAMN STUPID TO RESEARCH THE WARNING AND ERRORS the IDE points out to you AND RESOLVE THEM!
Ask HN: Most stable Linux distro for desktop use
After years of stability using Linux I've run into many problems lately. Wifi crashes after suspend, LVM fails at boot, printer drivers failing, PulseAudio crashing... and this is on several different distros. Which distro has proven the most stable for you?
I know this is an unpopular opinion, but I think F.lux is equally as guilty of this. None of their cited studies are done with light from an LCD screen (which is prone to white light bleeding), or using their app.
nod that's the thing - you'll break the interpreter for every node app - '#!/usr/bin/env node' - if you don't have node in $PATH. And as you say. /opt apps normally aren't in $PATH.

Looks like /usr/local wins.
Well, HTTP is the new TCP so I guess it had to be done eventually.
> Possibly even writing off 1 million as they just buy 500k worth of computers write off the purchase then donate the computers to a local school and write off another 500k.

You can't deduct anything for donations of fully depreciated property, so this trick wouldn't be legal.

And buying equipment that you have no use for just to avoid taxes wouldn't make any sense, since you're spending $X to save 0.35 * $X in taxes.
Xamarin is the company, Mono is the product, right?
The odd part of this is they had far worse armor. Western knights where shockingly fast and well protected in full plate armor. 1 on 1 a knight would have been far more effective vs. a samurai. The problem is Knights where far more expensive to equip and ended up as far less than 1% of the population.

This is the huge advantage the Mongols had. They could field 'huge' (relative to population size) and devastatingly effective army's on the cheap. Often Mongols still ended up outnumbered by as much as 10-1, but mobility allowed them to avoid highly defended areas.

PS: I wonder how much the cost of medieval armor contributed to long term economic growth. Sort of the medieval equivalent of modern military innovations (computers, internet, radar, etc.) being useful in peace time.
>>Personally, I think it's bullshit that I can show employers all the things I've built and they still expect me to write a reverse sort btree or whatever the fuck thing that has nothing to do with web development.

As a business analyst interested in a software development career, this is what worries me the most about interviews. I write a fair amount of code. I have developed apps that work really well and solve important business problems. I can talk intelligently about everything I've developed, but if you asked me to write something on the spot I'm not sure how well I'd do. Most of the time I find the information I need through exhaustive searches on the Internet as well as lots of trial and error. Is it really a deal-breaker that I can't write a tree sort algorithm off the top of my head?
640 characters limit is perfect on Sublevel. The average number of characters per post on Sublevel is the same as Facebook. You can see more statistic on the about page.
"It maps very poorly to modern CPUs as-is"

Indeed. When I said I read this a long time ago, I meant decades :)
Hmm... on the one hand, I've always thought lumosity was obviously woo.

On the other hand, you could make exactly the same claims ("1) improve performance on everyday tasks, in school, at work, and in athletics; 2) delay age-related cognitive decline and protect against mild cognitive impairment, dementia, and Alzheimer’s disease; and 3) reduce cognitive impairment associated with health conditions, including stroke, traumatic brain injury, PTSD, ADHD, the side effects of chemotherapy, and Turner syndrome, and that scientific studies proved these benefits") about an "herbal supplement" and you'd be legally in the clear. Why is Lumosity's suite of product offerings more similar to prescription medicine (heavily regulated) than to dodgy supplements that might or might not contain mostly meth (basically unregulated)?
The best setup I've ever had was where I shared an office with exactly one other person, and both our backs were to the wall.

We both had enough privacy without the isolating effects of having an entire office to ourselves.
I've done it several times (as well as basically all popular hallucinogens). I know all about the drug, its impacts on the brain, what it's actually like being on it, etc. I've also lived around many drippy hippie types in Santa Cruz, and the new wave of "microdosing is the key to creative coding" types, and their insights are equally bullshit to me.
Ah yes, only $100k for a 160 character tweet.

Edit: mental math botched. I thought I remembered the powers of 2 better than I actually did. 160 characters would be about 10k, and 100k would buy you a whopping 163 characters.
I'm impressed your comment hasn't gotten downvoted to oblivion. Every time I express this same point I get my ass kicked (Soon to be professor with Ph.D in molecular biology and 2 years of medical training all at top 5 institutions).
You can start forwading those messages for a fee.

Job Offers as a Service
If the blockchain is just a chain of blocks, then every database designed after 1985 is also a blockchain. Is that what you believe?

Also- proof of stake always forks due to work attacks, so that's probably not a secured database.
What you are describing is basically Instagram. No "sharing" or "reposting" other content, only original posts from friends. Some have found ways around that but it's not the default.

I'm not familiar with Snapchat but I expect they have a similar mechanic. It seems like the newer social networks are avoiding the problems caused by virality, and getting back to the original reason we wanted to join social networks: to see what our friends are up to.
Funny, I discovered those on the Home Shopping Network in the 90s.
More importantly, when is the Flux Influenced, Stateful Template Enterprise React methodology gonna get a catchy acronymn?

Asterisk-ux isn't cutting it, and god knows we need a buzzword.
Are you really John Carmack?

(As of writing, account created 325 days ago, 1 comment and 2 karma)

It shouldn't really matter because it's 'appeal to authority', but thoughts on worklife/productivity by the Elon Musk's or John Carmack's of the world really do have more impact
No, that was not what I said.

I said that there is a specific kind of bad candidate to watch out for who generally HAS followed that specific path.

I DID NOT say that ALL people who follow that path will become that kind of bad candidate. Or even most. Just enough that you can't afford to say, "This guy has been programming for 15+ years, is an architect, and sounds smart. I'll skip the programming test."
Improvement of fluid intelligence by training with dual-n-back was studied in Jaeggi et al.[0], but could not be successfully replicated [1]. More in the following article: http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/brain-training-doe...

[0]: http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2008/04/25/0801268105.full...

[1]: http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal....
> We still haven't resolved whether or not we're on a precipice, though. :-)

Indeed. We've had a lot of social wins recently, so I personally still hold out hope. I think navigating automation is going to be one of the defining points of this age, as navigating mechanization and industrialization was of the preceding age. Humanity will survive, but not necessarily all the structures that we've become accommodated to.
They don't think you are following enough people. Tough luck if you disagree. Nail for their coffin, IMO.
Obama Announces New Plan to Strengthen Gun Control Legislation Without Congress
Ubuntu works pretty well. Debian is solid too. Buying a computer that is meant and certified for Linux use is probably a wise investment.
The way I see it, they tapped into a widely held belief, rather than fears. It is a popular belief that doing mental work staves off cognitive decline (including age-related). I bet you that everyone at Lumosity actually believes it because their mother told them that when they were kids.

My wife (Japanese) always says "good for older people" about any sort of puzzle. She didn't get this from being deceived by Lumosity.

The FTC is being very heavy-handed here.

It's like someone sold carrots claiming they improve vision, and got thrown in jail.

Testimonials being paid for shills? Like, say it ain't so. Every damed commercial you've ever seen in your life has fake people presenting fake testimonials. It's assumed.

(Claiming that doing puzzles can stave off Alzheimer's is going somewhat far, though. That disease has specific physiological causes which can't be reversed through brain activity.)
There is a point in there about how we view ourselves in the context of others in "the west" vs. how someone in Japan views themselves in the context of others. The whole thing could be readily replaced by the bit about the shop keeper and a couple of paragraphs though.
It's a running joke there.

The people need to get over it. LW crowd is a group of people studying a pretty specific set of subjects, focused around a single website. It's typical for such a group to develop their own jargon and insider jokes, which may look weird from outside. It's normal.
>I didn't have that choice with a cubicle, because anyone could walk up at any time and cause me to shift that focus.

This isn't true of all cubicles. I used to work at a very large microprocessor manufacturer and before they "compressed" the cubicles, the cubicles were 9x9. Someone had to physically come into your cubicle to get your attention (or pop their head over the wall, but only 6-foot+ people could do that). To deal with disturbances, we actually had "DO NOT DISTURB" signs assigned to us which we could hang across the cubicle entrance to keep people from bothering us. These signs were frequently used, and to very good effect.

Personally, I wish I could go back to that environment. It was the best of both worlds when I had this nice-sized cube with privacy, but was also seated next to a coworker I frequently needed to collaborate with. It was great being able to pop my head over the wall when I needed to, but without worrying about being distracted or disturbed by other people for less-important stuff, and especially not by random passers-by the way I am in open environments.
So I take it you don't aren't munching on your Naturebox and mailing the government (using your Stamps.com scale) your application to start a business (that you created on LegalZoom) making websites via Squarespace, all while listening to an audiobook you got from Audible, before dozing off on your Casper mattress wearing nothing but your "Me Undies"?

...I listen to too many podcasts.
Supplements industry lobbied congress to pass a law exempting them from FDA regulation.
Yes, https://twitter.com/ID_AA_Carmack/status/684475417726595072
They play those ads on NPR here too. They always make me think about what my dad (a psychologist) told me about IQ tests: all IQ actually measures is how well you do on IQ tests. It's entirely possible to study for the test and improve your IQ. Of course, doing this doesn't make you any better at anything useful, but it might make you eligible for Mensa. (My dad is very skeptical when it comes to psychometrics.)
Yes that's right and important information.
The rad1o and the HackRF are Half-Duplex all the
others are Full-Duplex (IIRC).
One more click to get to content. Millenias worth of clickbait scrolling. Why not summarize Medium articles into 140 characters and slap on a multiplexed feed?
Yes, he tweeted a link to it: https://twitter.com/ID_AA_Carmack/status/684475417726595072
I read (and used) this during a more civilized age when everyone and his dog wasn't trying to get your program to execute arbitrary code, although I have still used the construct on a recent project on the Raspberry Pi and it worked just fine.
Bill Ackman’s Pershing Square hedge fund ended 2015 down 20.5%
Most of these companies never cared about sharing their financial data with their competitors prior to 2008. Why they changed their mind here is beyond me, but that's the reason these systems weren't implemented prior. Transparency, thus far, has always been a bug and not a feature.
Fitbit Takes on the Apple Watch with the Blaze
And yet that very comment of yours is 164 characters. Do you consider your own comment to be excessively wordy? I don't.
I wouldn't argue against some Japanese people being really really smart, but they have a rather shortish history (in Old World standard): recorded history begins around ~250 AD. By that time Egypt had fallen and Rome was past its prime.
"This leads to low-interest rates, a reduction in risk, and helps establish a merit-based safety net comparable to a basic income."

How does it do any of this? If I have no say in the structure or management of the company, it's a huge risk.

As we've seen with Bitcoin, it's too easy for hackers to manipulate a technology that 90% of the population will never understand.

"In general, this reality leads to a co-operative reality where more people are working as named agents with skin in the game."

It has to be proportional to risk, however. Most of the people I know will not risk debt for a possible return 5 years in the future. They would rather just work a regular job and get paid for it.

"What have I accomplished on a world scale?"

It's risk vs. reward. If you make a million dollars on the stock market, you most likely risked a good portion of income to do it.

Not only that, but the company has benefited from the transaction. What if it means a company that builds artificial hearts can now go into full production?

You could have just as easily lost a million dollars, but nobody is rallying to get your money back.

"No new real capital was produced."

If we are going to go with this line of thinking, 99.9% of all the startups PG funded should never have even been started. Nothing is ground-breaking nor will it save lives or change the world as we know it.

"I can now sit on my million dollars for as long as I would like and my only threat is uncontrolled inflation."

It's pretty foolish to just sit on a million dollars without investing it in something. You are leaving money on the table and lose a portion of it due to inflation every year. Inflation is always happening and anyone with money knows this. So 'sitting on money' is really a non-issue.

"We place a burden on those that win. Use your winnings to produce real capital or it will go back to those that provided it in the first place."

Why stop at money? What if we said something like: Use your free time for something productive or you will be forced to work for the government. You could be doing something that will save the world, but instead, you are smoking weed and playing video games.

I find that there is this sentiment lately that we need to punish the rich for their success...mostly by people that have not yet achieved it. When something you covet gets taken away by force for the 'good of the people', you will be singing a different tune.

"But if buying a Tesla also produced future dividends based on how successful Tesla ended up being in the future, I might take on this much-reduced risk"

So if I buy a Tesla and get a % of the profits? How will this be beneficial to anyone if they get a 10 cent check every month when 30 million people also bought the same product?

The ideas presented here just don't seem to be better or more efficient than our current system.