skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> the Japan fetish in this article is way too strong

Seems like a common thread from the author, see yesterday's submission re: Ikiru.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10839344

But his pseudo-nihonjinron* is nothing compared to the Traditional European Martial Arts (Which are Much Better Than Japan's Didntchaknow) circlejerk we have going on in sibling comments. If I'm ever at a ren faire I plan to walk around and every few minutes loudly say "dude you should have brought your katana, you'd own everyone so hard" just to watch peoples' heads explode.

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nihonjinron
and now getting server errors & timeouts when I try to get to the manager to change my passwords.

this has been a hellaciously thorough attack.
Actually, many Bayesian textbooks cover that. Try Jaynes - Probability Theory: The Logic of Science.
15 years ago you could get a software job by showing some passion, intelligence, a CS degree from a average university, and some knowledge of memory / space complexity of typical data structures and algorithms. And, if the hiring manager (usually a programmer) liked you? Job offer on the spot. Sure, you got paid 50-60k / year, but it was what it was. And, you actually got to work with an entire team of people under reasonable deadlines, 40 hours a week, with a real office, with clear objectives and scope, and an actual schedule. You got to actually use your brain and some creativity (not just google the 'best' answer or look on stack overflow or steal some code from github). Projects sometimes failed, almost always because of requirement failures, and sometimes the code was beautiful; most of the time it was average; sometimes the code was really bad.

Today, you have to go through hours and hours of phone screens, technical interviews, team meet and greets, etc. You have to know how to implement a distributed KD-Tree with skip lists in brainfuck. And, then they nitpick the code on style. And, sure, you get paid 90-150k / year now. (Wow!) But, it's such a time consuming process. And, the smart (or motivated) people know how to game the interview anyway (there are lots of resources out there on how to beat the interview process). And, even when you ace the interview it's still often difficult to get a straight answer on whether your hired or not (strangely more so if you're over 40).

They say that software developers are in high demand... I say that people just hate the idea that software developers make a respectable wage.

But, the funny thing is, after working in this field for over 15 years, after working with 100s of people and seeing millions of lines of code, the truth is that the projects are still failing, and the code is just as bad as it ever was. And, projects still fail most often because of bad requirements, poor vision, and bad management. In fact, I drink the koolaid: I hire people who ace the interview, and you know what I've found? There's a 50/50 chance that they're just as good as the person who I hired who failed parts of the interview (sometimes I'm desperate). And, those people don't bring down the project - it's the guy in the corner office.

Luckily, I was smart enough to save a lot of money over the years. I'm just too old for this shit.
It was only off by 1 year on my age, and apparently my own opinion is the same as it's opinion ha ha which isn't very good ha ha
I downplay the architect title as much as possible and tell prospective companies they ran out of non-management engineer promotions.
I think you're ignoring the context in which I originally replied in this thread.

"Dual n-back, coffee, LSD. All things people swear make you smarter."

It's not up for debate that people find a benefit from LSD. Or any drug. It's literally the reason that people do drugs in the first place. The question is whether or not they make you more intelligent. Able to process information more quickly and accurately. And to that my answer is a resounding no.

And call me crazy, but yes, I do think you should approach an extremely powerful hallucinogen whose dose is measured in micrograms with some rigor and discipline. The potential harm to someone's mental state is a serious risk of LSD that people tend to under appreciate until they've seen it happen to someone.
Steve Jobs Explains Apple’s User Agreement
Randall Munroe: Comics that ask “what if?” [video]
Only if you'd assume the fallacy that an enunciation could ever be "literal" in its meaning. I'd argue this actually points at a structural undecidability which is essential to language.
For those not keeping track, that's the third major breach I've heard of where user data was exposed.

Previous Incidents:

April, 2013: https://blog.linode.com/2013/04/16/security-incident-update/

January 2014: https://blog.linode.com/2014/01/19/an-old-system-and-a-swat-... (they mention the breach almost in passing...the swatting is unrelated)

I really want Linode to do well, but this may be it for me.
Nah man, move fast and break things, remember?

Like actually break them.
There's also twisting (yes, it's a true 5 axis). But you have to buy the more expensive "art pen". See: https://www.wacom.com/en-us/store/pens/art-pen

Notably, some pens support additional pressure axes (for example, the "brush pen"). These are general-purpose sensors can be mapped freely.

I'm not aware though of any pen that supports truly 6 axes, but I suspect it's not a technical limitation.

[edit] I actually dislike the art pen because of the way it's handled: it's too fat.
Yeah, I'd like to see this ... so long as they #limitTheNumber of #hashtags and @mentions you use #so #you #cant #cheatthesystem.
It is mostly a marketing/shipping shell on top of Dorco brand razors, cheaper to buy direct from Dorco.

Granted, "overpay" is somewhat relative and DSC is still better than paying for Gillette or whatever.
EC2 Price Reduction (C4, M4, and R3 Instances)
This is really great! I'll have to look into this when I have a little while. Thanks for passing it on. Just on a glance, I disagree that it really shows much of an increase though. Just glancing at the forest plots of those effect sizes tells me that this isn't a very strong effect at all (if it's there).

And there is also the so called 'file drawer' effect. I was at one of the big cog psych conferences a few years ago when a colleague was asking around -'Do you have any failed to replicates for WM training?' Everyone was so excited with the original Jaeggi 2008 paper, went out and tried it, and had a tough time replicating what turned out to be a severely flawed study.
I'm not sure if that's relevant. It seems like either you know the actual frequency for their subgroup, in which case you redo the numbers in the example, or you don't in which case you can't accommodate that regardless of how you calculate.

A natural frequency is different way of expressing and reasoning about the same information as percentages.
Apple's Cocoa framework (for Mac, I don't think this is true on iOS) surrounds each event callout with an exception handler that logs any exceptions and otherwise swallows them and allows execution to proceed. It's a bit crazy, and frustrating if you cause an exception to be thrown but don't notice until it's too late to figure out where it came from, or don't know why suddenly the app is behaving strangely since the exception left things in an inconsistent state.
When Startup Compensation Isn't About the Money
But there's loads of not-C-programmers who might still work on segfaults from time to time.

For example I am absolutely able to use gdb, but have never heard of Electric Fence. (But I had heard of AddressSanitizer mentioned above.)
In 2 Months Lollipop will be the dominant Android SDK version
DNA Supercoils Change the Way That Cells Work
The western world is largely a direct descendant of the Roman Empire.

Language, architecture, cultural ideas, religion, science, just about everything around you shares Roman origins or influence.

If you think Roman culture is gone, you might consider the Pope, head of the religion started in and promoted by the state whose seat is in Rome (ok, Vatican City is it's own thing, but the Pantheon is like a mile away), who conducts mass in Latin, the language of the empire ... might I go on? ~15% of the world population are Catholic.
Why do you assume you know who downvoted you?
IT experts say Ukraine blackout caused by a cyberattack
I'd rather the reverse: people already post pictures-of-text, and because twitter like to scale to fit with no way of seeing 1:1 zoom other than the browser's "View Image" feature, it can often be unreadable. Maybe they could OCR the images.
There are two things, one trivial and one non-trivial, that would vastly improve the feed for me...

And Facebook isn't interested because it's not intended to build something that's everyone's perfectly tweaked feed.

It's much more in Facebook's interests to be a somewhat uniform "public space" than to be everyone's ideal filter. To some extent, it forces people to care stuff they wouldn't otherwise simply because the stuff is being made public.

Part of this is that we aren't Facebook's customers, we are Facebook's product and Facebook's advertisers are its customers. But that was essentially true of newspapers as well (newsstand revenues were supplement to advertising revenues even before the Internet).

To some small extent that can be a good thing since a human society requires some mutual awareness of our activity. Like newspapers, Facebook and other social media generate something like a space where public reactions can be seen. An information filter couldn't do that - for ill or good.
Aseprite.

Way lighter than Photoshop CC or Blender.

http://imgur.com/VIKM2Wj - I have Asepite open with two huge Vladstudio wallpapers and Photoshop and Blender just idling (nothing open). Photoshop CC and Blender register a higher energy impact in OS X.

New features get added all the time. If you do try Aseprite and find any problem with it, definitely file an issue. I haven't seen any feedback on power consumption, I imagine due to it being relatively smaller in footprint to other apps graphic artists use. There's probably a lot potential to make it better.

I acknowledge your point regarding using those libraries also. In the context of Aseprite and Schism Tracker, the aesthetic plays an important role. Aseprite is for pixel art and its' interface is deliberately done so, Schism Tracker wants to recreate the old DOS app Impulse Tracker. Customizing that to work cross-platform with a widget toolkit probably wouldn't pan out or be nearly as flexible.
Kyle, this is brilliantly done. Honestly, I didn't expect the level of polish and fluidity that I experienced when I tapped that link on my iPad. The slight "lean" when cards are dragged around, butter-smooth animations... Well done.

I'd love to see some of your notes behind wiring up the pseudo-physics of the cards. Or was that provided by a library?

EDIT: I need to read more carefully - looks like it's part of http://www.phaser.io, and now I've just wrecked my productivity for the day! Great job on the solitaire game.
I develop similar product, that focuses on eye training instead of brains. Half of our office is filled with ophthalmologists, with some big names (supposedly — I don't know much about the field). Constant print outs of scientific articles lying around, presentation files stick to the walls (I don't know the proper term, but you know what I mean if you've been into scientific conferences and seminars) and overall vibe really feels like it's a university faculty and not a start-up. Damn, we even have fully equipped ophthalmologist office and get free eye exams when it's not used to measure our beta-testers.

I always assumed that brain training apps are just like that. What "did not have the science" really mean in this case? Did they find some errors in peer-reviewed papers these companies have published? Or they just faked it all?
You mean these ones? 🈶 🈚️ 🈸 🈺 🈷️ 🈴 🈵 🈲

Their names in the standard are kind of annoying, but actually helpful: "Squared CJK Unified ideograph NNNN", where NNNN turns out to be the hex code for the equivalent not-in-a-square character.

Now, I've taken courses in Japanese and Chinese, but you don't usually use characters on their own like this to mean things; so I would guess the following:

• "🈶" is meant to be used as an emblem/badge to mark items you already own, and "🈚️" ones you don't;

• "🈸" can mean "to offer", perhaps used beside e.g. bid prices on stocks—or could just mean "to report", as in a button to view the status of something;

• "🈺" seems to mean "to manage"—as in a button to modify the properties of something;

• "🈷️" just means "month" (or "moon", but probably not in this case), and so it likely meant to be used as a button to open a time-picker to modify the date of something;

• "🈴" seems to mean "to close" or "to pass" (as on a test); I assume it could be used similarly to a "Done" or maybe "Apply" button on a property sheet, or to the "Submit" button on a form;

• "🈵" means "enough", in the sense of being satisfied; I guess this could be used for an "OK" button, or a back/up/out button when looking "inside" something.

• "🈲" means "to prohibit" or "to restrict", but also "to endure"; I would guess it would be used for a "Cancel" button.

I have a feeling these characters aren't used much now even on modern Japanese mobile devices; they're likely a legacy of the early Japanese mobile web and apps. If anyone here knows better...?
They're also putting some bans in place on certain shareholders (groups owning over X% of a company can't sell stock, etc.), presumably to stem such panic selling.
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When I was a kid, I remember a talk radio show my family listened to that was one of those consumer watchdog / product review shows. One of the advertisements that you head a lot back then was for purchasing a star (like, getting your name registered somewhere and when a new star was discovered by astronomers it would be named after you?)... It was obviously a scam and all you'd get is a bogus certificate in the mail.

Anyway, one day someone called into the show and asked about this product that they advertised, and the host stammered a bit and basically said "well, yeah that's not true but it's all just for fun, a fun gift for people maybe". Was funny to hear him trying to justify this obvious scam because they happened to advertise with the station, even though the entire premise of the show was calling bullshit on other phony product claims.
Literally the next paragraph:

"The size of this increase on IQ test score correlates highly with the methodological concern of whether a study used active or passive control groups. This indicates that the medium effect size is due to methodological problems and that n-back training does not increase subjects’ underlying fluid intelligence but the gains are due to the motivational effect of passive control groups (who did not train on anything) not trying as hard as the n-back-trained experimental groups on the post-tests.

The remaining studies using active control groups find a small positive effect (but this may be due to matrix-test-specific training, undetected publication bias, smaller motivational effects, etc.)"

http://www.gwern.net/DNB%20meta-analysis#analysis
All those "proof-of"s have a money origin problem.
Not to say that I'm not open to the idea. I'd love for it to be true, I just think large-effect-size effects are not often mired in the controversy that this one is. They're hard to find.
When fairly minor monetary incentives (over $10) can lead to a 20 point increase in scores[1], I'd be wary of reading too much into the tests. As for the Flynn effect, I've read a number of different theories, but there doesn't seem to be any consensus. Given the other issues IQ tests have (like the one just mentioned), I'd be wary about assuming that it doesn't stem from underlying problems with the test itself. Some researchers seem to think it stems from familiarity with test taking in general, which seems to match the general understanding that you will do better on IQ tests if you repeatedly take them, referred to as the "practice effect" (IE, IQ tests at least in part measure familiarity with the test).

[1] http://news.sciencemag.org/2011/04/what-does-iq-really-measu...
Why particularly Bret Victor's bookshelf is of importance?
"Defog", not "Defrost".
Wow yes, smart thread. Very interesting to read. Some info-rich comments, thanks to AnthonyMouse especially!

So some people here aren't completely against basic income. Some more good arguments in favor.
Well I don't think you'd just walk up to someone and say: "I want to write you a ticket. What's your car worth?" It would have to be pegged to make model and year or something like that.
MySQL server that allowed anonymous logins

Has anyone got more information on this? Various Google searches keep pointing me at the other four hacks.
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Are those other countries giving us $3bn aid packages?

Dirty indeed.
There is not at this time. However, as mentioned in another product we only have a prototype at this point. We are working with therapists and psychologists to bring the product further (essentislly using them for feedback). The goal being, at some point in the near future we get there.

The challenege is doing that without a large financial backing. It just takes longer.
Seems like the TF2 economy is a good example of this.
Thanks for sharing your research - I've been up to the neck in EC2 migrations and trying to benchmark as I go... S3 is the neck chunk of work. Rock on!
I want a way to filter out indie games and DLC when searching.
You don't necessarily have to write them yourself. You can just copy and paste from different sources multiple times a day.
AWS has a limit on the total throughput any one account can have to S3, so the more CPUs OP adds, the worse OPs performance will be on each one. I suspect the other providers have the same restriction.

I either missed it or OP didn't specify how many instances they was using at once to run their benchmark, but the more instances they used, the worse it will be per node.

This did not seem to be accounted for.

EDIT: OP says below it was from one instance, so what I said doesn't apply to this writeup.
That's why the article is "Getting to Zero" not "Starting at Zero"; the target audience is teams where the opening quotes sound like something you'd overhear.

Not understanding the negativity. It was a reasonably well done little blog post, and if you're on, or responsible for, a team where that situation and attitude is occurring it provides some good concise guidelines on how to make life better.
Yes it's parallel but you got it backward. The use of distributed transactions, fault-tolerance, etc predates Bitcoin by over a decade. Bitcoin built on it and proof-of-work. As usual, people started re-discovering stuff they ignored in the process.
Barnes & Noble, Inc. no longer owns the university bookstores, now a separate company (though they may still be shareholders, I haven't checked):
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/barnes-noble-completes-spin-o...
Check out the (very negative) experience of CandyJapan with Stripe before considering using it for your product, or it may cost you a lot of money.
I'd be interested to see how AWS' Elastic File System (EFS) compares (though I'd imagine it's not great, given it's mounted via NFS)
Added and credited :-)
Do you have any sources or more information about the per-account S3 limits?
Who says the titles wouldn't provide real control?

Do Larry And Sergei legally own all of Alphabet given that they have full control?
A good secure password hash should be generated with a salt to slow down the process, in addition to using strong (slow) KDF function like scrypt. State actor like NSA could have store all possible 8 character combination today in a massive storage facility. God knows. But the size of such rainbow table is only effective if there is no salt, as with salt the hash is now different despite the underlying password is the same, thus there will never be enough storage if salt is present.

But the most effective "rainbow table"-like table is a look-up table with the followings:

* leaked password in plaintext, associate with email and any ID (forum username??)

* hash all of those passwords without salt

* hashes (with salt) of known leaked passwords (you try pas$w0rd and found a match for some hash with salt) - this only works if your attack succeed.

If you do a quick count you won't be surprise most passwords are fairly short and simple. If two complex passwords appear to be very similar, you can assume with a good probability they are used by the same person. You can learn some private data from just looking at password (e.g. birthday, pet's name, door number, company they worked for, sport team they root for, which many turn out to be the crucial hint or actual answer to security questions.)

I have never opened or downloaded any leaked data and don't know if it legal for use at all, but the black market probably has over petabyte volume of such data available.

It would be very interesting to see the whole world attack couple hashes per day. Imagine you go to a website, it gives you some plaintext, and you run a couple quick scrypt with random salt, and return the response. Now with a billion online users, run this every day once, you may end up finding one successful match of "this password == this hash with this salt" once in a while. But hey, that's what botnet can do...and then bitcoin!
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Sorry, I should have provided a more complete quote:

> If you get tested again, you can reduce your uncertainty enormously, because your probability of having cancer, P(B), is now 50 percent rather than one percent. If your second test also comes up positive, Bayes’ theorem tells you that your probability of having cancer is now 99 percent, or .99.

This statement is incorrect if the results are correlated at all.
The very definition of cargo cult.
Most of the design of ES6 is like this due to backward compatibility. I'm very sure if the comunity behind ES6 specs designs a language for the web regardless backward compatibility, ES would be very different to what it actually is. These features you are mentioning are awesome, for sure. But ES6 is bloated for sake of having features plus backward compatibility. Cor is different, it is simple but modern, it is going in the opposite direction.
I don't have any published sources, it's something they told me, but it's hinted at here: http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonS3/latest/dev/request-rate-...

They explicitly mention the RPS per account limit in that doc, which is related.
Masters is for when Bunnings is too busy.
> if you're spending $50k/yr on rent, even in San Francisco, you're insane.

Or maybe you want to live in a nice high end 1br condo in the heart of the city within walking distance to work and enjoy a higher standard of living because you can easily afford the $50k and still have plenty of money left over for living expenses and savings/investments?

Or to quote your earlier sentence, shouldn't it be "up to you how much you want to save vs. how comfortable you want to live"?