skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Systems that stop only "passive" attackers simply aren't cryptographically secure.
Maybe something is being lost in translation, but the article starts with:

"The train makes only two stops—one when a lone high-school student leaves for school and the other when she returns."

The train makes two stops, rather than "the train stops here only twice". Both may be true, but the initial statement describes actions of the train rather than the station.
Convincing failure
This comment is very odd to me. If I hear something positive about a country, I never hear: "Oh, but city X is not representative of the country." Until now.
Clearly a shipping error from http://www.villainsource.com/
Which is odd. Sales people don't cost much. They either pay for themselves or they're let go quickly. They're not usually let go in a group like that. Usually engineers are cut early; they cost more. Not trying to pick a fight, I've just been through layoffs before and this is how the finance team always justifies their cuts.
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It also means they'll be less channels available, so more noise. These frequencies are commonly used by things like door bells, burglar alarms, garage door openers, car locks, etc. I'm more worried what the effect will be on them.
IPv6 Has nothing to do with frame sizes (except that too large packets now get dropped instead of being fragmented into two parts)
As someone living in canada and visiting Tokyo for a week few years ago I complelty agree with you on "Tokyo is cold" statement,

however I don't think the original post was trying to idolize japan, at least I didn't see it that way. To me it was more of an observation that small acts of kindness happen all around us.
All people are talking to broadcast their views.

In this case I just opposed to these statements because I thought he had some utopian views of life there:

> It's about when other people become dependent on you.

> I think this is the way that it has long been thought of in cultures outside of the post-Enlightenment West. This was my strong opinion after reading Dostoyevsky, Tolstoy, (Russia isn't western like the rest of Europe)

Nothing in Russian culture is "long been thought" about responsibility. You could say it about Japanese or Korean cultures probably - people kill themselves there because of failed responsibilities.
What is currently legal to do and what is "right" to do are two different things. GP was talking about what "should" be. Of course, a lot of that is opinion that is up for debate.

I personally agree. I think charging males more (for example) was only done because we had no way of getting more individualized data. It is all very crude and probably will be an outdated concept in 20 years.

*It is illegal to discriminate based on sex for auto insurance purposes in many countries as well as Montana. Insurance companies in most US states take your credit score into consideration (if you don't pay your credit card bill you pay more for car insurance) but this practice is illegal in a handful of states. Massachusetts is one of them, if I recall correctly.
State versus federal regulation is the means, not the end. The end is cheap grazing land for ranchers at the cost of the environment.
As a general comment, Marx wrote in a period when 1) productivity was much lower and the big problem was still making enough stuff, and 2) most labor was direct labor, so there was a direct relationship between labor inputs and product outputs. Neither of those apply to the developed world today. Many of the developed world's economic problems come from the fact that we no longer need many people to make the stuff and provide the services. US employment in manufacturing, mining, construction, and agriculture is now about 14% of the US workforce. In Marx's day, 80-90%.

Marx wrote in an era when capital for enterprises was hard to accumulate. Now we have a capital glut, but a demand shortage.

Economic policy-making hasn't caught up to this yet.
The Queen of Imgur
Algebraically, automatic differentiation is the same as adding a nilpotent element e, such that e^2=0 to your algebra. You can continue this pattern out to get higher order derivatives. For example, if you also add an element f where f^3=0, the coefficient of f is proportional to the second derivative.
First train I took in Tokyo was the Narita Express. It was 20 minutes late so I missed the connection for the last "JR Pass"-eligible bullet train to Kyoto of the night. I had to buy a ticket for 18,000 JPY (~$150)

As far as I know, no one killed themselves.
60GHz basically means "same room only". Won't go through walls for sure. Should be useful for open space offices though.
I'm from Europe, and I found the gp very confusing and would have understood better without the hints.
How the Bitcoin protocol actually works (2013)
Not sure what they do actually. It could be a fertilizer, spray, or some other process, but somehow they end up with glutamic acid in the banana. Other brands aren't usually a problem, and often organic Dole is fine as well.

Based on the downvotes, people either think I'm full of shit or crazy, but what can say other than he has the same problem with Dole bananas as other high MSG foods.
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"We were always close buddies,” Sarah said. “He’s a technical mind and he’s a great programmer, and I sort of have the more human aspect. It’s a little bit easier for me to connect with people, so together we embody this great team."

Interesting co-founder combo.
Can you share the presentations you made to prospective investors? I'm particularly interested in how you estimate the market size for your product.
Ah, the gray reality strikes again :).

I understand what you're saying and I agree. I am definitely not going to define the entire country by this single act. And you're right - I think that keeping the station open for this girl was only possible because it was a rural area and not a large city. Villages generally tend to be more laid-back, there is a lot more of space to introduce little inefficiencies without causing a disproportionate economic loss. And the mentality probably takes a part too.

Since you and sandworm101 decided to ruin the sublime mood by calling attention to the ordinary reality, let me play along. I do believe there may be another layer to this story. As much as I want to believe in the most positive interpretation, the choice to keep that station open could be a result of e.g. her influential family using their connections to keep the train stopping there. Or something completely unrelated. Media reports tend not to be very accurate, and decisions in real life tend to be made slowly and with multiple inputs.

But we don't know for sure. I am not going to idolize a country for a single story, but I choose to assume the most charitable interpretation, that this is in fact an act of kindness to another human. And so I believe people involved should be praised for that. We need more of such kindness in this world. We already spend too much time getting angry at stuff. Let's be joyful for once instead.

For whatever reason this train stops for the girl, whether it's "village mentality", external influence or honest good will, the fact is that there is this huge metal machine, driven by even greater systems and processes of our economies, and that mighty machine stops for one girl, to let her continue her education undisturbed. She could have been ignored, but she wasn't - and that is heartwarming, if you let it to be.
That's definitely mistranslated. It's the station that only has two times of the day when the train stops there.
While long term low dose impacts are very difficult to track resulting in this surveying challenge, there are scientific alternatives, like measuring blood glucose or insulin.

This is how we know that sugar and refined carbs are bad. The author does a huge disservice by claiming everything is a correlation study
The Atlantic just wants you to feel insecure about your level of maturity so they can sell you shit.
The whole devops toolchain really came of age in this bubble. The same stuff you used to build yet another instagram clone can be used for a medical analytics startup. It's how things have always been in tech. Yesterday's toys become tomorrow's tools.
"One Japanese station manager committed suicide a few years ago because his trains were late"

Apologies, it was a station manager, not a conductor.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/4480965.stm
For what it's worth, I de-minified/de-obfuscated Forbes' ad block detection to see how they're doing it - they really try to make to tricky difficult to prevent and came up with a manual filter to add that prevents their adblock detection from identifying if adblock is on or not.

I would post it but it's on my other computer and AdBlock must not sync its customisations.
From what I've seen, living in poverty often _does_ make one more adult in terms of having to take responsibility, make difficult decisions, etc.
Just because someone says that a quote sounds like Karl Marx doesn't mean they're saying he was incorrect about everything.

Defensive, much?
While spreading it may be bad, what will apologizing do?
"Cryptographically secure" sounds like a vague thing you bring up here. To me, it sounds it is by definition secure (and cryptographically so, if they use cryptography) against passive attackers (and probably nothing else), but I am not really debating abstract and fuzzy definitions here.

My objection is very concrete: to say whatever uses JavaScript cryptography is as secure as TLS is false. Precisely, what it means is for all threat models imaginable, if you can somehow subvert TLS, you can always break the JavaScript crypto, and this is obviously false at least for one scenario I described in the other comment. We could reasonably debate the likelihood of the scenarios, but it's really hard to argue the mathematical equivalence of the two.
Personally think a decent chunk of SV is not worth emulating. Hoping to see a new city blaze their own trail w/o the drawbacks of SV (gentrification, 0 work-life balance, ratio of men/women, same people talking about the same topics (e.g. "oh you work in tech, too?! How unique")
Depends if the jurisdiction you buy insurance in outlaws it.

This is a good overview:

http://nakedlaw.avvo.com/consumer-protection/why-is-it-legal...
Apple’s ‘Swift’ Programming Language Taking the Leap from Apps to Data Centers
Ha, still not as bad as their "benchmarks" though.
This injustice will not stand. The dude does not abide.
The paragraph where the author describes losing interest after the "interesting part" describes how most of my free time projects go to the letter. I'm glad I'm not the only one who has that problem.
Full circle: https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130307/17202922246/just-...
"I do colorizations on Reddit. How about adapting this to assist manual colorizers? We'd mask out each color region by hand, so the neural net wouldn't have to decide what's what. We'd tell it, "this region is skin, this is a brown overcoat, this is a gold candlestick - please colorize them appropriately."

That's a smart idea. Master painters used to do this. Do the broad outlines, choose the colour and style then unleash the underlings (painters in training) to do the rest.
>“Why should I not want to die for a country like this when the government is ready to go an extra mile just for me,” one commenter wrote on CCTV’s Facebook page. “This is the meaning of good governance penetrating right to the grassroot level. Every citizen matters. No Child left behind!”

Ironically, the railway is a private one, i.e. Japan Railways Hokkaido[0] is private corporation, not a government agency. And yet the company executives, and to a lesser extent, the shareholders, okayed this arrangement. I can't imagine this happening anywhere outside of Japan.

There's a similar phenomenon in the UK called "ghost trains"[1] that's only superficially similar. Basically there's a ton of bureaucracy in closing down a line, so instead of actually closing a line, we just run an unscheduled and unannounced "ghost train" through it once a week.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hokkaido_Railway_Company

[1] http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20150723-why-britain-has-sec...
The thing that's great about the typeclass approach, you can do anything you want behind the implementation. you can numerically evaluate the expression, but even cooler, you can recover the parse tree. I never could sort out how to deal with 'if', because it's not typeclassed. if it was, boy could you do some amazing stuff. partial differentiation, tree rewriting, with the LLVM stuff you could runtime compile arbitrary functions. super neat trick.
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is a daily posting necessary?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10862735
"To me, this speaks volumes more about the incompetency of the manager..."

Yes, and in particular, it may indicate that the manager knows absolutely nothing about software development, and couldn't tell good code from bad code if his life depended on it. Since the guy who wrote the article was working on billing and provisioning for a cable company, it's possible that his boss was someone like the head of the billing department - not a technical person at all.

It's even more depressing when tech-savvy managers, who should be able to judge employees by their actual contributions to the end-product, practice "ass in chair" management.

Also: Lots of interesting discussion from when this article was originally posted 2 years ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6895502
To be honest, that comment is objectively right in doing this. It's very easy to take a single, localized event - whether negative or positive - and start generalizing from it, reaching wrong conclusions.

Still, if one is to feel ashamed for the bad things happening within a group one associates with (e.g. their country), it's fair to also feel proud for the good things happening within that group.
Looks like they changed it:

"The train stops there only twice a day—once to pick up the girl and again to drop her off after the school day is over."
Looking at Google Maps the change won't be terribly drastic in reality [0] unless the station just over 3 km further down the line closes too. For a person walking it's a decent distance but for the rest of the passengers there would be very little change. Of course the same could be said for pretty much any station that closed between there before now.

[0] https://goo.gl/maps/cqZBrzvjJJk
Progressive also logged the time of day you drive. Between 12-3am (IIRC) was marked the highest risk time to drive.
They're not closing the line. There's lots of other stops on that same rail line, trains just won't stop at that station any more. Also there's a station about 3 km down the tracks.

Also who's to stay she's staying in the area after graduation.

https://goo.gl/maps/cqZBrzvjJJk
Mania is quite subjective and increasing the difficulty of this conversation :) Yes, someone I'd call a 100% maniac very likely would have poor individual outcomes as well.

You could chart the relationship between levels of mania and some of the unaccounted factors, like driving skill or restraint. Slippery slope ends up in a trap of having to account for everything for the sake of fairness.
I get ~90Mbps with 802.11n on my HP ultrabook. It seems there is something wrong with your setup.
This is good read if want to explore.
At JavaOne, I remember seeing Bill Joy predicting that $1T of wealth creation was going to grow to $10T. I think this was in 1999. A few years later, he warned that nanotech may turn us into grey goo. [I may be exaggerating a bit] Birth of a pessimist?
I like the version from [0] more - "Do unto others 20% better than you would expect them to do unto you, to correct for subjective error."

[0] - http://blog.jaibot.com/
I have trouble seeing it this way. The money spent running the train could save or improve many other lives instead. It's heartwarming and all, but consider the other people who are being left to die or suffer malnutrition or some other malady that could have been fixed with the resources used to get this girl to and from school.

It could be argued that the hope and inspiration and good feels justify it as a utilitarian decision, or that some portion of the world's energy should be diverted to these sorts of situations anyway - like some sort of lottery - or justified on non-utilitarian grounds. But I can't help but see it as an example of how major global problems continue because humans can't prioritize their caring towards those that need it the most.
Well in theory, the adversarial nets should learn to model the distribution perfectly. But there might be a way to do it directly. You could train an NN to produce samples from a random input source, just like the adversarial nets. But unlike the adversarial nets, the inputs don't need to be random. You could train another NN to predict a distribution of what they should be. And then instead of adversarial training, just regular training to predict the exact pixels, and backproping all the way through.
It seems like the gap between your two ways of thinking mostly stems from how silly "hours worked" is as a measure of work done. You're of course right to be skeptical of being dishonest about the number of hours worked, but he has a point as well: it makes no sense to get paid less for a job simply because you're more productive (and make no mistake, most clients would lower the total price of the same task based on your ability to complete it in fewer hours).
This is very nice and part of Japanese culture. People focus on asian cultures as being communal, but part of asian communal thinking is actually great respect for the striving of the lone individual.

The train stops here until she graduates and then the stop will be retired. It's a reasonable decision, even if not an economic one.
It's not the only stop, or even the last stop of the train, at least as it looks on google maps. It's just a poorly worded statement I think.

https://goo.gl/maps/cqZBrzvjJJk
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My read of the article is that there is no more Firefox OS. So I doubt there will be any diversifying or maturing. I don't know what the new thing will be and apparently no one else knows either.
Hopefully with your great compassion for others you will be donating most of your income to stop this malnutrition and suffering in the third world that would otherwise be stopping this girl from getting to school.
Mixpanel is a revolving door. It's only called layoffs because Suhail decided to fire many at once this time https://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/Mixpanel-Reviews-E406910.h...
The thing I never understand about those tests is, are they testing math or programming? Programming mostly requires skills that go far beyond the mere ability to crank out algorithms to solve abstract math problems.

I think there is a niche for somebody to build a developer testing service that is more rounded out, that seeks to test for skills such as code quality, architecture, breadth of experience, etc.

Implementing such test might be technically and logistically more challenging, but any effort that goes some way towards these would be worth it.
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Upon reflection, I want to apologize for the overly pessimistic and harsh tone I chose to use.

Japan is almost always presented to the West from a unbalanced, exaggerated perspective (which has irked me in the past), and upon reading your post, gleaming with optimism, I instinctively reacted by adopting an exaggeratedly grave perspective to attempt to balance it out -- which in retrospect was simply uncalled for.

Thanks for your optimism and hope for the good in all of us. I could use some of that too.
I refuse to believe that the wicked Buffer Overflow has completely stymied humanity. Use array/string/buffer libraries. They're very small and very easy to test. Pass them around instead of a "char *" and a "size_t".

Now, if you want to talk about signed overflow, bitwise operations on signed types, wacky undefined behavior, or memory management, that stuff is pretty hard to deal with in C. But 99% of the time when people are shaking their fists at "shitty ol' C ruining the Internet for everyone", they mean buffer overflows, and it just shouldn't be an issue these days.
I wish I had the writing aptitude to commit to paper 1000+ words on a visit to an industrial park and surrounding suburb.
Is it that much better than when you posted it earlier today?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10863949
From the article most of the people let go were in sales.
I'm convinced.
> Heart-warming story but too much praise for the government for my taste.

I found it weird too after I Googled some more and learned that the Japan Railways[0] is a group of companies that were the result of privatization of national railway system. But I've seen a similar phenomenon in Poland - even though our rail system has also been mostly privatized, people tend to think and talk about it like it's still a government service. I guess that it's because in some places, the concept of "infrastructure" generally pattern-matches to "government".

About your second paragraph - the most heartwarming thing I could imagine about this story would be learning that the company did in fact take into account everything you wrote and then decided to just ignore it. We are homo sapiens, not homo economicus. We have a capacity to care about other people, and caring is an economical inefficiency.

[0] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japan_Railways_Group
BBC covered a similar situation in Britain. One of the arguments for keeping them running: inactive lines quickly fall in to disrepair (physically or legally/procedurally), which could actually end up costing more, assuming demand is projected to increase and the line would have to be reopened.

http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20150723-why-britain-has-sec...
Unfortunately my source is second hand as well from a Japanese discussion thread, so my information may be faulty.

One possibility is that the station 3km away is already out of operation (and I do recall someone posting that a nearby station did already shut down).

In either case I think you are right that for 99% of the passenger life will go on as it always has.
It was a gift.
I spent a day hooking up Mixpanel. Went over quota quickly and discovered that, instead of just dropping data when you go over quota, they lock your account and blackmail you to becoming a paying customer.

I can't remember my conversation with them, but it was clear they were a bunch of a-holes I didn't want to do business with.

I tell everybody I can to avoid them.
Programmers can always find ways to improve a codebase at the technical level. And they can think up new features. So they can keep working on something as long as you'll let them. But is the 'marker' of a TODO comment buried in a million-line codebase going to seem more important than a programmer's vision of a cool new thing or rewrite? What about prioritizing the new features that could actually get new clients/sales? Or prioritizing fixing the pain points that normal users experience but programmers don't notice? What if the next TODO is going in a good direction technically, but not the right direction from a business standpoint?

There might be something to this idea for non-critical hobby projects, (wasps build nests for their own use, not to sell) but it seems somewhat limited.
On the flipside, is it ok that we are still shipping 1gb lan ports like 20 years after they became commonplace? I'd hope that at least enthusiast class hardware would start using 10gb at some point.
Why is grendel responsible for the (potentially) poor financial decisions of Japan Railways?
Developers don't seem to care about design – this is why they should