skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hey - I'm sorry about that, no sarcasm was intended, nor implied. I just explained how I get my fats and in what amount. If you want to get technical, yes - the universe is fine with others eating saturated fats and meat, but the planet definitely is not. Animal agriculture is an unsustainable practice and is the leading cause of climate change, for instance. So, if you want to go there, it's important to recognize these facts first.
He might be accurate about the number of ideas they discard, but he's got to be overstating how "built" they become. If it really is a bad idea, you can usually sniff that out well before it's fully implemented.
csc.exe did not. In ye olde days, you'd have to use nmake or similar (batch files - gahh!) to manage compiling applications that had multiple source files.
Another personal finance app soft-launched by an HN-er last year: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9095519

http://family-fortune.ridgebit.com/
Probably due to withdrawal limits (x dollars/month)
De-Spinning Asteroids: Using Laser Ablation to Manipulate Asteroid Motion [pdf]
What I understand about the Juche ideology, is that the exceptionalism of the Korean nation/race is a fundamental part of it. Much as it was in Japan, "racial purity" was actually a traditional component of status in Korea. Such ideas are found in fascism, but I think basically everyone had such ideas in their culture/society as a matter of course.

I was born in the US, but my mom's side of the family is actually from North Korea. My grandfather somehow managed to prosper as a Korean, even in the Japanese occupation educational system, and became a doctor. He was even an entrepreneur, making money off of what we'd now call "micro-lending". So when the communists came to power, grandfather could easily predict that the communists weren't going to like him very much. (My mom and her younger brother were smuggled south in a freighter in a pitch black compartment.)

When you next watch "Game of Thrones" keep this in mind: The morality portrayed was basically the morality of the real world up until the 1700s, and then it only slowly started to improve. It's going to be a long process. We're still at it.
Think OP is assuming Paypal has departments that understand how eachothers decisions affect the other, PP is a huge company and I doubt malice was actually intended, but nonetheless pointing it out to them was necessary.
> and fewer bytes of you're performance-obsessed

Not if you include the requisite conversations about why acronyms are cool.
They could, but to business like StubHub each seller is probably more precious than each buyer. I'm not saying it's fair, but it's a lot easier for them to find new buyers than sellers.
I'm not sure how you think they are lumped together. That quote outlines how each specifically meets the criteria of being "less transparent and truthful" in the eyes of the author.
Very cool. Certainly wasn't trying to suggest that KA invented the idea (the OP predates it); just wanted to point it out as a great low-barrier resource that anyone with a browser can jump into.
How to Make a Laser from a Gin and Tonic (2011)
Java Named Top Programming Language of 2015
China has significant capital controls, they don't have many other options.
Teaching analysts to think differently
By "carrot", I meant "wombat".

And literally the topic of this thread is an article discussing how small sample sizes, bad methodology, and statistical massaging/manipulation (depending on where you want to situate people on the stupid/evil continuum) mean that nutritional studies can't actually be trusted. The evidence that we have is all over the map.
Will Oculus Rift's High Price Scare Off Game Designers?
I'm no expert but in my (limited) experience, there are some super handy datatypes and features that PostgreSQL supports that MySQL doesn't:

- Arrays, particularly with GIN indexes. This makes things like tagging fantastic in Postgres. Instead of putting your tags in another table, you throw them in an array and you can do all kinds of things like set intersection-like queries.

- JSON. Postgres can store data as JSON and index and query the JSON. This essentially gives you MongoDB type queries.

I'm sure there's more but these are my favourite Postgres features.
One argument against the proposition: these very old stars have low metallicity. If life requires chemistry with elements above lithium in atomic number, it might be more rare around first-generation stars.
What is a price? It's the amount two people agree to transact for, nothing more.

Price trends don't necessarily mean anything, and corrections are good as much as they are bad.

A correction means the previous price was incorrect, yet when prices fall humans sentimentally believe the old, higher price must have been correct. It's ridiculous.

Governments take extensive measures to control prices and to alter public perception of risk. Sometimes this adds stability to prices, but it often sets things up for a more drastic correction later.

Some investors are over-leveraged and must cash out to avoid ruin. Others are speculators trying to ride various trends, but in the end we all benefit from prices being corrected.
The same claim could be made for PowerVR offering in general: why doesn't PVR go mainstream. I mean: you could get PS3 level output for probably tenth the energy so why not? Except that it is mainstream with roughly 50% mobile market share. :) The bottom line is: IMG doesn't produce silicon (except for internal use) so you need a partner to go "mainstream" (whatever that means). You're showing your IP on e.g. CES to find those partners (or to validate existing partners' investment in the platform). That's how IP companies operate, unless they are the de-facto monopoly in some segment.
>> Would it have been possible to leave the state(MN) and continue to work in your field?

I was already planning on it and one of the companies I was in talks with at the time had an out state office I could work at until "the heat" died down so to speak.
To be more specific, with Postgrest you're supposed to be able to use database-level permissions as your client-side permissions. (I personally haven't tried it so can't say how well it works)
Really this just shows how corrupt and broken the entire entertainment ticketing stack is.

TicketMaster, StubHub, etc., all prey on fans, and the fans ALLOW it by paying ridiculous fucking prices to attend events.

We're long past the days of needing an entity like Ticketmaster to be in the middle of ticket transactions. And we're long past the days of needing to worry about ticket scalping if we actually have an efficient ticketing system.
Ah, true, I forgot about it. With the following remark in specs (https://password-hashing.net/submissions/specs/Gambit-v1.pdf):

Keccak is known to be very fast in hardware, which opens up the path to highly optimized cheap circuits.

(although with strange follow-up: "but the same can be said about modern CPUs and GPUs, which closes the gap")

As I wrote when discussing candidates, "I like the simplicity of Gambit, but it would look a bit silly if we selected an algorithm as a winner of competition with a notice that it better be used in the future, when Intel adds a SHA-3 instruction."
Remarkable similar to my own history with Postgresql, which I started using in ~1998 at the time of their first public release. Postgresql documentation has indeed been the exemplar for all software, open source or not. It's been the SQL textbook I've relied on.

With the steady addition of features, it's gotten much more complex, and there will come a time when using just the documentation won't be enough to learn how to use Postgresql to full advantage. With release of 9.5 we might be there now.

Perhaps the logical extension of the documentation is some form of coursework to enable users to learn the DB systematically. I haven't looked into it, this might already be offered.
In a stroke of irony, the author generalized the entire population of a country. I have no clue how they came to the conclusion of "most Americans" assuming the crying was fake.
I think this error is related with using "suggest translation" issues
Works great. Definitely check it out. (I found Matrix after trying to write an XMPP client and becoming a giggly/teary-eyed wreck trying to parse out how many incomplete extensions I would have to implement to get multi-device working. Previously: [1]) I now use matrix daily from all of my devices, mobile and desktop alike.

They're also working on an Axolotl rachet implementation: https://matrix.org/git/olm/ It's not integrated yet, sadly, but I'm eagerly awaiting seeing it jump in as a first-class supported feature.

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[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9772968
I see what you're saying, but I wouldn't expect there to be overlap. I don't know how paypal chooses whose accounts to freeze, but let's say, for the riskiest 5% of accounts.

Now, the lending department can handle a lot more risk than the fraud department (as you note). But I don't think they would be willing to extend that to the riskiest 5% of accounts.

If there is overlap in "too risky to thaw funds" and "trustworthy enough to offer loans", then either their lending department offers loans to some seriously risky clients, or the fraud department freezes a huge % of accounts' funds. Neither seem like an acceptable situation.
The thing is, R interoperates very well with C, C++ and Fortran. So when someone who uses R needs to solve one of those problems, they'll generally just use C, C++ and Fortran, then you can call the function/program from R, get your results, chart/analyse them, etc...

And of course, R makes data exploration, statistics, and all those easier problems incredibly simple.
There's very little thought put into a discussion on "why" PayPal froze those funds. PayPal says "based on what we've seen in the past there's a high probability that you'll collect a lot of money for an event and then not execute that event. If that happens, we PayPal will be on the hook to make those payments to those disgruntled end users. So we can either 1) Simply refuse to work with you or 2) risk share with you by keeping enough in your account so that we can reduce our exposure to those types of claims"

If you chose a business model with an elevated level of risk then you'll have extra expenses associated with that.

I really dug that email. It's encouraging that it triggered what sounds like a very real internal discussion amongst multiple people there vs being getting completely ignored.

I know I sound like a PayPal apologist - I'm not! I know there are some very real horror stories out there. It's just that they're probably one of the few payment companies that would enable this business to actually be a business and asking $20K in surety when you're _on the hook too_ isn't as mean spirited as it first appears.
Using neural networks for password cracking
This is my feeling too, if anything China is about to breakout and become wealthier and more powerful than it already is. Good work ethic + common sense is a wonderful combination. The "west" largely lacks the later, while the rest of the world (except for a few countries, including China) lacks the former.
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I'd love to see any progress in animation. Currently they just do motion capture and it still looks like crap (interpolating animation frames doesn't help the cause either).
Gamedev is also very pro-static linking. *nix doesn't encompass all of C/C++.
There's kind of a "sour spot" with PayPal where you make enough money to be a serious liability but not enough to have an account manager. I used to work for an organization that went through $100k's per month on PayPal and we had an account manager who could solve problems for us fairly quickly. Also unlike the story here, all of our customers were in Canada so there was probably a lot less automatic risk-flagging happening on our account...
You are talking about two different economic classes. It takes a few hundred thousand dollars to move immigrate to Canada and it takes more to be a housing speculator.
Your comment intrigued me so I took a look at the site - agreed, the hierarchy is kind of strange and the primary green color is overused.

Took about 5 minutes rearranging stuff in chrome console:
http://imgur.com/uS7AolF
Understanding How Your Website Content Is Displayed: A Drupal Guide
Ok, I expected it should be feasible. I wasn't optimistic when I read a Chrome bug that was nofix'd to make certificate info available to extensions.

You sound kinda authoritative, are you suggesting that you could propose this change to firefox and it might get accepted?
Two Easy Steps to Lose Weight and Keep It Off
#0 Try to reuse components that users are used to, like scrolling instead of making your own hover-to-scroll on your sidebar.....
I can't see the form in "pls fill out the form below"
Surge websites on Digital Ocean brought down by DMCA
Considering banks are notoriously insecure, this doesn't instill any confidence in an app that wants access to all of my personal finances
Well, the advice was about optimizing calls to action and flow... as to the sidebar, I didn't even see it, I don't go fullscreen on my windows, so had to make it larger to see it after seeing your comment.

For me, I've moved away from trying to use any hover events for critical interaction, like that sidebar has. As tablets/phones are becoming the default choice, it makes sense to cater more towards that environment. The one thing that does stand out, is making sure to indicate there's more to read/do down the page, and the lack of an ever-present scrollbar in phones/tablets is a big one here.
The very best? Never.
I agree. Programming is an applied form of constructive logic. A program that works is an example (existence proof) that its specification (a theorem) can be fulfilled (proven). When we review code, we’re generally trying to disprove—looking for ways in which the program doesn’t fulfill the specification.
Society is about 6-meals away from a riot. I think once people have secured food, shelter, utilities and no fear of losing any of the above a society becomes quite stable and more egalitarian towards the rich and other classes.
> fans ALLOW it by paying ridiculous fucking prices to attend events

No, fans have no choice. Entertainers allow it by using Ticketmaster.

> We're long past the days of needing an entity like Ticketmaster to be in the middle of ticket transactions

The greatest fear an event planner has is that they'll plan the event and no one will show up. Ticketmaster aggressively markets the events they're selling tickets for, which is why event planners continue to use them.

Sure, you could use a homegrown solution or a smaller company, but Ticketmaster unethically adds all purchasers to a bunch of mailing lists and makes it really difficult to unsubscribe, and then they can claim "X million mailing list subscribers" to the event marketers.
I've never used StubHub. When you buy tickets, does a seller profile appear next to the listing, as in Amazon? If so, a cheap move by this seller should at least put a bad mark on the seller's public profile. That could benefit reputable sellers, though. Of course, anyone selling their first tickets on StubHub would be at a disadvantage because they'd have no reputation.
So as well as finding a trustworthy seller, you now have to also find a trustworthy moderator. Hasn't this just doubled the trust problem?
Let others create the regular expression you're struggling with
Since you're here: any comment on Argon2 versus your own scrypt? (I've been meaning to dive into it, but...)
The units aren't the same. The shorthand for the units is the same.

A dollar of market cap is very different from a dollar of GDP, like a cubic meter of lead is different from a cubic meter of air.

What we're talking about is the value (or weight); the denomination (or volume) is irrelevant.

The value of a dollar GDP is considerably more tangible than a dollar market cap.
It's precisely because of the latter issue of productivity that the overall tone/thrust of PG's essay is wrong. If productivity increases are inevitable and will put most humans out of work, or devalue their labor, then returns to capital will increase even more, making the entire system unstable, and practically begging for redistribution.

We can't have a society for very long where a few unicorn software and robot companies run everything with AI and bots, and most people displaced. It's not good for everyone, not even the hyper rich owners of those unicorns.

There's a certain amount of wealth and income where the marginal utility of more comes with a global detriment to everyone, even you.
Then why not go all the way and compare it to movie visual effects?
Actually they captured two. I posted about this in this thread earlier only to find my comment at -2. Not sure why the sudden downvotes, especially considering I posted about the U505 before you did. Regardless, here is the link:

http://www.msichicago.org/whats-here/exhibits/u-505/the-exhi...

Yes, MSI has one of the Enigmas on-premises and can be viewed if you pay for the tour (U505 tour is not part of standard admissions and sells out everyday). I'm something of an MSI junkie and can't recommend this enough. Its an incredibly under-appreciated museum. If it was in LA or NYC it would probably be world famous. Being 25 minutes south of Chicago's downtown seems to have hurt its prestige. Its too far for tourists to go without a car unless they really want to hoof it via public trans, which takes almost an hour from downtown.

Interestingly enough, its on the site and housed in a building (The Palace of Fine Arts) built for Chicago's infamous Columbian World's Fair from 1893 where guys like Edison, General Electric, Tesla, Westinghouse, and others showed off the new technology of various electrical innovations (neon light, long distance power transmission, powerful electric motors, etc) for home and industry.
This is not feasible with the internet. Digital voting is a very, very bad idea. The long and short of arguments against online voting is that we've had several hundred years to figure out all the ways to cheat with paper votes and not nearly enough time to secure a similar system online. People spend billions on each presidential election- an online vote would become a target impossible to secure.

http://www.ncpa.org/sub/dpd/index.php?Article_ID=24488
Some points are about UX, others are about marketing and conversion... "Good" is from the POV of the business, what is best for the business isn't always what's best for the user. I, for one hate the large call to action/subscribes that pop up at the bottom 1/3-1/5 of the screen, such as on this site.
Sadly Brazil is little better than a middle eastern oil state. They rode a massive bull market driven by China's insatiable appetite for commodities. Rather than use that whirlwind to diversify and prepare for the day that slowed down they appear to have done little. It's very sad.
I first came across about 5 MP3 files in the late 90's or early 00's that seem to have been taken from the same recordings as this. I was a teenager and listened to them regularly, dreaming of being a racing driver. That flyby around 2:00 still puts my hair on end every time. Lots of nostalgia in listening to this again, for me - truly glorious stuff. The best ground-going engine I've ever heard :)
Sure, no disagreement here.

I'm looking at it slightly from the other direction. Knowing PayPal's history, and how hard fraud is to nail down on the web, I'm assuming that the 5% is actually much larger, and that the fraud department is overcautious.

If that's not the case, then you're right. But if I work in the loans department and I know that the fraud department tends to blow things out of proportion, because that's what's required to prevent fraud at PayPal scale, then I should expect a little overlap.

I guess overlap might not be expected at a "perfect" organization as I mentioned, but I can imagine how it might happen at PayPal
I don't know why you are getting downvoted; you're absolutely correct. Note that while the below sounds racist; I'm referring explicitly to the governments themselves.

> There are challenges to investing in either China or India, but the reasons behind those challenges are about as different as you can get. The underlying issues in the two countries are dramatically different.

I agree; and you probably know this all, so it's for others' benefit. China is a centrally-planned economy that has transitioned to a capitalist-style oligarchy. Culturally, they value society as a whole as being more important than the individual or individual groups. The Chinese government is still the ultimate authority, though many factions exist within the Communist party. Everything coming from the central Communist party is reviewed and OKed by a dozen officials to ensure a consistent story - so any bad numbers are a result of deliberate overstatement at some level. It also means that stakeholders at every level have the opportunity and incentive to falsify numbers (because missing your numbers means losing your job and ending up in poverty). It's not a giant conspiracy; but there is little downside to falsifying accounting numbers (which will get you a prison sentence in the US).

India is on the opposite end of the spectrum - it's basically a free-for-all with a bunch of very different groups of people pushed together to try to make it work. There are thousands of ethnic groups, many of whom hate each other. So in order to keep the peace, they have to allow each ethnic group a wide berth. This means that when you say "the Indian government" you're talking about an entity that is a multi-headed hydra (or even multiple hydras). There are many competing desires and biases present in the Indian government, and it's politically difficult to deal with those problems when your population is as fragmented as India's is (and why the election of a more modern leader with a global focus like Modi was a huge step forward).
On the TIOBE page that's referenced (http://www.tiobe.com/index.php/content/paperinfo/tpci/index....), I find it weird that Go was language of the year in 2009 and now isn't even in the top 50.
Not never. One of the "features" of the Enigma was that a plaintext letter could never be encrypted to itself. An 'A' going in could come out as any other letter, except 'A'. German information security policies were generally pretty good. There were lapses, of course, and some of these were used to form cribs for a known plaintext attack on encrypted messages. But Enigma was/is not invulnerable.

People found a couple encrypted Enigma messages after World War II. Here is a note from a group of people using modern computers and brute force to decrypt them:

http://www.enigmaathome.net/forum_thread.php?id=318
I like your point that context and audience are the problem, but I don't think it's an issue with text as much as it is the web. If I give you a hand-written note, I know exactly who is reading it (at least at first, how many embarrassing stories involve a note that ended up in the wrong hands?) and I can presume that in my writing.

But when I write a blog post on the web, it's stapled to a bulletin board that has the eyes of the entire world. I have no idea who will read it today, tomorrow, or years from now. I don't know who will take pieces of it out of context and repost them elsewhere.

It is honestly scary. I was going through some old posts of mine a while back and felt like they were funnier and a more brave. Several years have slowly but surely toned me down, often for the worse.

I have to constantly remind myself to be courageous in my writing. I have to remember to focus on how the right reader will experience it, and tune out the wrong ones.
That's a pretty hilarious statement considering the lack of transparency is what led to our own market crash.
Clearly the used car sales department forgot to check with the customer service department whether the customer is actually happy with the ongoing relationship.