skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Man, if I had a dollar for every time data roundtripping to files has corrupted things I'd have many dollars.

The schema-based serialization libraries (Thrift, Protobufs) or MsgPack are a good way to avoid that too. They come with a lot less baggage than say HDF5. Also, if efficiency isn't paramount -- just use SQLite! Amazing tool when it's in its sweetspot.

Lots of tradeoffs when dealing w/ serialization and file formats, no easy answers.
What big endian platforms do you have to support? Got an SGI Indigo somewhere in your lab?
I would agree with you that scrypt's design was vindicated by the PHC, but I think calling it the winner is a bit much. I wouldn't want to go back to scrypt, given the choices available now. Incremental progress is still progress.
Am I the only one misreading this as HDFS?
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Walter you used a capital P. This means the group, not individual people. "People" the group are smarter than any "dog".

"Babies" the group are smarter than any dog too :)
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Wasn't XMPP already encryptet? A friend always tried to convince me to switch from IRC to XMPP because XMPP can be encrypted. Is that incorrect?
> Resource Orientation Measure (ROM)
Across all studies, we assessed whether individuals
prioritized having more time
or having more money by presenting them with a bina
ry choice. To help participants
imagine these trade-offs concretely and to encourag
e honest responding (Fisher, 1993),
we asked participants to read a short paragraph des
cribing two individuals who prioritize
money or who prioritize time in their daily lives.
The identities of the characters and the
pronouns used in the vignettes were matched to the
participant’s gender (Tina/Tom and
Maggie/Michael); for participants who did not repor
t identifying as either male or female,
the names and pronouns used in the vignettes were d
isplayed as gender neutral
(Madison/Taylor). The choices were presented as fol
lows:
Tina
values her
time
more than her money. She is willing to sacrifice h
er money
to have more time. For example, Tina would rather w
ork fewer hours and make
less money, than work more hours and make more mone
y.
Maggie
values her
money
more than her time. She is willing to sacrifice he
r time
to have more money. For example, Maggie would rathe
r work more hours and
make more money, than work fewer hours and have mor
e time.
We chose a binary response format for pragmatic and
theoretical reasons.
Practically, there is an increased awareness about
the importance of conducting research
with large representative samples (Open Science Col
laboration, 2015). Thus, it is
necessary to design short measures that minimize pa
rticipant burden while maximizing
reliability (Nagy, 2002). Conceptually, we chose th
is response format because we were interested in assessing people’s broad preferences
related to prioritizing time over money,
as opposed to assessing people’s domain-specific pr
eferences.

A perhaps laudable measure in order to increase study coherence, but it definitely limits the usefulness of this study in terms of making nuanced life choices.
But the reason why it's famous is because it's a meme now, so it doesn't count...
I didn't think that's what you intended, but in the quote you included, the author is specifically lamenting the lack of knowledge of things published outside academic journals, not the lack of knowledge of things that aren't published anywhere.
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Take that vacation. Nothing bad will happen, and you will give your mind a chance to process things. My best ideas came right after vacations.
Study 1: "Students participated in exchange for the chance to win one of three prizes valued at $700."

Study 2a: "Two hundred and sixty UBC students participated in exchange for entry into a lottery or for course credit (78% female)"

Study 2b: "In Study 2b, 518 adults were recruited from a science museum in Vancouver, Canada"

Study 3a: "In Study 3a, 242 UBC students participated in exchange for course credit or candy (74% female)"

Study 3b: " we were able to recruit a very large sample of UBC students, who participated for course credit (N=2303; 76% female).

Study 4: " we recruited our sample through the GfK Knowledge Networks Survey Panel. Panel members respond to an average of two online surveys per month and receive small cash rewards and prizes for survey completion"

Make of it what you will
Stress and alienation/isolation have been directly implicated in depression, anxiety disorders, and addiction.

Perhaps these sometimes result from what might be described as coercion, but I think that to characterize, for example, the problem of parents who physically abuse their children as one of coercion misses the point. Coercion is a catch all, and in many cases coercion does not result in stress, trauma, etc.

That and holy shit, when did basing arguments on the notion of the noble savage come back in style?
There's no reason why your "ID" can't be the template for your default language.
ie, Mandate of Heaven.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mandate_of_Heaven
Are you talking about the Met-158 mutation? If not, which?

I agree that the real culprit is stress-- biological differences to processing and coping with stress are likely the actual mechanism at play rather than generalized "coercion" like the article suggests without providing evidence. Our society is intensely stressful, and provides no real permanent reductions in stress level.
Perhaps.

After a while, there are certain tendencies that are exhibited by guests which can be profiled. Just like a good electrician can tell if the lines in your house are "home runs" or daisy chained based on the gauge of wire and material, a server can "guesstimate" their tip based on the customer.

I'm not saying you KNOW this is going to happen but you know if you're getting 15% or 18%+.
Perhaps the converse works as well: If you value time over money, your time tend to me more highly valued.

This seems like an easier topic to study, although still fraught with some of the measurement shortcomings inherent in this one.
Excellent bit of reflective writing and I'm certainly in agreement. For a moment I thought this might be the basic gist of an article I'm working up (re: message boards vs. article/content comments and notions of "community") but glad to see it's a different angle, and complimentary. Guiding over to Pinker's article is an immense help as well, because I'm really digging the term "intellectually unscrupulous" as a nice description of some behaviors I've seen online that are maddening.
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BMW, VW etc. adding sound generators to their cars strikes me as basically cheating. This isn't the sound pipes, which divert engine noise into the cabin bypassing the firewall sound-dampening, but the artificial sounds injected into the car stereo speakers that try and make your turbocharged V-8 sound like a V-10.

http://www.popularmechanics.com/cars/a7923/the-rise-of-the-f...
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People say that and it seems true to some extent, but financially, people rarely fall into the categories of "limitless wealth" and "not a penny to my name." It's almost like a false dichotomy is being implied by this statement, claiming that if you don't prioritize money, you will be left penniless and ruined. That simply isn't true. There are a wide range of conditions between wealth and poverty and studies like this show that you do not need to be closer to rich than poor to be happy.
Not at all. UPSERT is the feature everybody's excited about!
eventbrite, on the other hand, holds the money collected until the event concludes.
Sure, but a 100x revenue evaluation is incredibly exuberant. For reference, I think Facebook hovers around 15x revenue to market cap.
> Everyone laughed at Lotus, and that idea went away, not to be heard again.

Well, it didn't totally go away (sadly). Ford fakes the engine sounds for 2015 Mustangs [1].

[1] http://jalopnik.com/the-2015-ford-mustang-ecoboost-fakes-its...
GPU's haven't stuck to SIMD parallelism for quite a few years now.
NVIDIA is not there yet SMT/DPT isn't true parallelism but it's good enough even for path tracing. AMD GPU's are pretty much truly parallel with every execution unit capable of executing any instruction asynchronously.
"There’s no public view count, follower count, likes count, or any other social dick-measuring contest. You can just put whatever you’re doing on Snapchat; if people don’t like it, who gives a fuck, you’ll never know."

Hmm...I guess you guys are talking about somewhat different things - a public viewer count that you can compare to other people vs a private one that only you can see. It still feels a bit contradictory to me though. I would imagine that being able to see how many people view something you post and who they are still rewards the same type of attention-seeking, dick-measuring content - just to a somewhat lesser degree.
Why not just use craigslist or ebay?
Personally, the Drake Equation has always seemed more than a little silly to me -- in that -- the plausible range of most of the parameters means that you can get pretty much any result you want. Don't get me wrong, it's a fine thing to ponder and think about all the involved variables and probabilities, but I wouldn't take it very seriously as an actual estimate of anything meaningful.
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Wholeheartedly agree - I spent 2 weeks at a friend's place just a week ago, and my friend I was in became obsessed with recording videos purely for Snapchat every time. Instead of focusing on the moment with friends, she was more concerned with posting something on Snapchat for our circle to see.

I don't want everything I do blasted on social media - I want to enjoy the moments I spend with friends. Snapchat is the opposite of living in the moment, and that is my beef with it.
my pad is a total mess and I'm trying to decipher what happened so everyone is charged correctly.

Do you have to do the splitting? Just give the table the total check, give people a few minutes work things out, and then just go around the table and ask each person what they had/how much they want to pay. That seems to be the standard procedure at most places I've been to.
I know exactly what you mean, there's a really strong anti-intellectualism that blankets this region. It's mostly in rural areas, but that accounts for probably 95% of the state's geography so they get to call all the shots unfortunately.

Also Arkansas is AR, AK is Alaska. A pretty common mistake, cousin ;D
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This isn't new. Your interface could have more than one ipv4 IP also. If two ipv6 addresses are throwing something off that means it wasn't properly handling this case before.
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In fairness, sometimes the fake noises are used because car cabins are much quieter today (and block a lot of natural engine noise). People who buy a sports car still expect the sports car sounds, but don't want to hear the road and other ambient noises.

Personally, I'd rather hear all the road noise and natural engine noise. You feel a lot more "connected" to the car and road that way...
The internet has ruined me.

I was semi-hoping for a white page with a single word: "Javascript". :)
Me too, and I've been lucky enough to have incredible research opportunities in finance and insurance, which all go unregistered, and which have today brought me to Holland to eat this cheese plate.
Khaled makes little quips on snapchat all the time. One of them is e.g. "They don't want you to eat breakfast!", following the "They don't want you to ___" mantra he has. Then he usually finishes up with "Breakfast is the key to success.". Silly yet fun things like that. He has even started a store with these phrases: http://wethebeststore.com/products/key-to-more-success

See https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1zXWpjhoewE for a compilation.
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All those issues sound just like the scenario in Washington State, which mostly means the greater Seattle area.

Our blocking issues for growing are enough devs, infrastructure costs (roads are crowded, buildings are in shorter supply, hard to find a place to build a new building in Kirkland, say). Also high cost of living. I personally think non-competes must hurt freedom to move around companies here a little bit too. I have only heard of it being an issue a few times. Still, more worker freedom is better; it must be that some people are disincentivized from switching. Worker "job switching lubrication" is an important economic boost that California has and we don't.
Most people ask to split the check at the end when I rushed through the entire order and my pad is a total mess and I'm trying to decipher what happened so everyone is charged correctly.

Maybe after it happens a couple of times... you might learn to predict when a party will ask to split the check, and ask when you take the orders? That seems reasonable if you can predict how much someone will tip.
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Reality: You're going to die.

Good Idea: Take a vacation. Enjoy life.
Nope, I was very confused for a second. Silly homoglyphs (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homoglyph)!
you obviously haven't been to SF
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Yeah I think the best lesson to take from the parable is to keep the ego and corresponding negative emotions out of it.

There's nothing really wrong with what he told the guy (at least, what he says he told the guy), it's just that by his own words, the way he said it came across like him being a .

When instead if he'd been able to get past his anger/offense at being questioned, he could have done the same thing but positively, like "dude check out all this awesome shit i am literally already doing for you, for free! Doesn't that actually look like you are getting a pretty sweet deal?" And so then instead of this client being like "oh well fuck me for asking I guess" he could have been like "whoa shit this guy is giving me the sick hookup, I better hire him all the time from now on forever!"
There's an "undo send" feature in gmail (settings->general) that has saved me a few times. I wish it would allow for a send delay higher than 30 seconds though.
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I think the persistence of the myth is at least partly due to the fact that it aligns well with informal observations. You have a class, and some of the students have difficulty absorbing the material. So those students are taken aside and taught to in different ways, which are, sometimes, successful. So, informally, people come to believe that those students were better reached by the alternative methods, when in reality it may have been the repetition, extra attention, or something else that improved their scores.
Are people’s general orientations to prioritize time over money are associated with greater happiness?

Would you choose a higher paying career that demands longer hours versus making less money and having more free time?

From the downloaded text/pdf of the article:
"thinking about money leads people to value productivity and independence, thinking about time leads people to prioritize social connections"

It looks like high quality social connections lead to happiness:
http://www.ted.com/talks/robert_waldinger_what_makes_a_good_...

Dry read but great paper.
IEEE 754 floats don't have different endianess. And as the other comment says, swapping endianess is fast (if ever needed, since most platforms are little endian or hybrid).
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Shouldn’t suburuban neighborhoods be as diverse as the surrounding environment?
Even if you beat the cases easily, I don't want to face the potential stress and lawyer overhead to adjudicate one. It probably takes a long time to come to a judge. It just sounds bad. So I imagine companies think this will discourage people from moving jobs, even if its not enforceable.
I'm not sure where you're coming from with this comment. Most tables are couples and families...So should you separate a check for husband and wife/brother and sister? How do I know if two guys are together or "together"? Should I ask?

I can "guess" if you'll tip 18% or not and if I'm wrong...I'm wrong. If I assume your relationship to another person you're dining with - I might get fired...
The issue is that they generate the need for you to take out a loan with them by securing "the appropriate balance of funds." If they did not hold the 20k, his business would not need a 20k loan. Would paypal be on the hook if the business withdrew the 20k and they were hit by a bunch or refunds? Sure, but thats the risk they take by being a "bank." They make interest off your capital. Thats the exchange they agree to. This is them trying to make double interest off your capital by locking your funds and offering a loan for the same amount.

Put another way, would you be okay with your bank holding 20k to make sure you can pay for housing/bills, and then offering you a 20k personal loan that generated them interest? No, because that would be unreasonable. Its your money. If they think you are a risky client, they should stop working with you.

Its a conflict of interest, and a blatant one that could be heavily abused.
>But its not exactly the same because anyone can switch internet carriers at any time (nobody gets medically tied to Free Basics)

Given how there is no alternative, it is pretty much facebook or nothing.
Isn't that too cut and dry? I think what research like this is trying to determine is at what point additional money does not equate to an equal increase in happiness. If you're homeless, then yes, money becomes a huge factor in your life, because it becomes about survival. But what about the middle-class, the people who have the choice to either worry about gaining extra money for material purposes, or choose to be satisfied with a less audacious lifestyle but live more in the moment.
Makes complete sense. Time is the most constrained resource that exists.
Personally I find my enjoyment requires a group of friends that enjoys what I send and I enjoy what they send for the most part. So it can be a chicken and egg problem for sure. I've unfriended friends on Snapchat because I don't want to see pictures of their food. However, as I don't have a facebook, I find that Snapchat can keep me closer to my geographically remote friends in an wonderfully informal way. There's no "Heyyy! How are you?" followed by that forced how's life exchange of meaningless small talk. I get a pic of a friend on a rooftop bar and I know she's alive and having a good time.

As someone who initially thought Snapchat was stupid, and doesn't typically engage in social media, I get that someone could dislike it or not see the point. For me, Snapchat fits a niche in communication I didn't know I had.
"when did basing arguments on the notion of the noble savage come back in style?"

When did it leave?
I've shunned founding startups or working at startups for the last ~3 years, and instead worked 15-20 hr/wk usually remotely.

Time is your greatest asset, personally and professionally. It's how you stay abreast of the great opportunities of our time. You need that freedom to explore things that pique your interest or move you. Founding a startup means becoming mostly blind to the other great opportunities, which is why I'm so reluctant to do a startup, unless I think it's "the one."

IMO, the opportunity cost of startup jobs is far more sinister than you think. Only do it if you need the money or if you believe you're changing the world in the greatest way you can.
They don't stop people from selling. Circuit breakers are useful for one-time flukes (e.g. Flash Crash) but for sustained downturns they can actually make things worse.

If you think you _may_ want to sell at all tomorrow but also think a circuit breaker could trigger, you're going to sell first thing in the morning. So will everyone else.

The circuit breaker can actually trigger a worse panic as investors all try to squeeze in sell orders at once. This triggers the circuit breaker, confirming everyone's fears, and starts again the next day.
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I think it's more the opposite: that the richer you are the more you can afford to prioritize time. This study doesn't even try to control for that; they measure materiality and a measure of subjective feelings of wealth, but they never measure e.g. parental income.
Uh... the specific advice I was replying to was precisely to use a specific python wrapper around Argon2, which is certainly not isomorphic to the "best PBKDF available" (even if it might be right now).

And the OAuth point is misdirected: we're talking about hash choices here, which OAuth is not. An OAuth1 client, while perhaps obsolete for other reasons, would certainly be protected against the need for a change in password hash, because all that stuff happens upstream and it never sees the password. That is by design, therefore remote authentication against highly-trusted password verifiers[1] is a good idea, which is what the great-grantparent post was saying.

[1] Which, sure, has its own list of worries unrelated to hash behavior.
Stand anywhere near a Merlin V12 (think P-51 Mustang) when it starts up. It's an OMG visceral thrill. My dad used to drive them, said it was the best job in the world.
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I'm not as confident here -- I'm not a believer in UFOs, but based on a bit of trawling through some of the more UFO-friendly areas of Reddit, it looks like the amount of photographic evidence has shot up dramatically, but no skeptic has the time or the inclination to actively discredit any of them, so they just fall into the echo chamber. The key point being that there are a lot of funny lights in the sky (none of which are UFOs) but all of which would require some actual investigation to conclusively prove they are not.

That said, I don't see the same thing in Bigfoot land, so I think the omnipresence of camera phones has likely killed that idea. There are not as many funny unknown bipedal animals as there are funny lights in the sky.
How do you pronounce "Detroit"? I think quite a lot of the country pronounces it the same way Google Translate does.
I think the main problem for OP are competing tools like Duolingo - Maybe he should try to get in touch with them to see if his product could be complementary to their offering (and work with them)?

This is a long shot but maybe the attention from HN could be enough ammunition to get a conversation started. I think duolingo also shares OP's philosophy of focusing on regular users as opposed to businesses.
I also grew to love Snapchat over the last few months. But then I got a Nexus 5X and the Snapchat app performs so poorly on this device that I rarely open it any more.
> or Burning Man or something

There is a pretty strong burner community in Boston.
The painter has the advantage that he's a human drawing an image that will be perceived photorealistic by other humans, so his own "is this photorealistic yet" function is the same as mine and yours, i.e. he can alter the image until it looks photorealistic, even if it is not objectively photorealistic.
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In Washington state, all the big companies,medium companies, and startups I have applied to use noncompetes. Amazon, Facebook (I'm pretty sure), google, microsoft, all use noncompetes.
Primary rays cache, secondary rays trash. That's why. If anyone comes up with a powerful enough system to do truly useful and fast raytracing in realtime, they will show it.