skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You are assuming she is given the chance to work on actual hard problems.

Why do you think Clyde wrote a custom cms in the first place? You think he didn't know about Wordpress? In reality he knew but pushed for the custom implementation because it was the best route to improve his skills and increase his power within the company.

The truth is at a typical company Alice isn't going to be rewarded either financially or with better projects.

I wish it was different but if they both worked at the same company Clyde would be the one taking first pick of all the best projects.
" or who didn’t intend to go into engineering or hard science (these students being invariably female)."

Were there no male liberal arts majors in those days, or does the author mean "female students invariably being counted among those not needing advanced math"? If the latter, can we blame it on W.H. Kirkpatrick?

Kirkpatrick was an interesting example of what someone with an anti-intellectual bias can do in a prominent educational post. Diane Ravitch has an interesting essay on the history of the progressive education movement in The Troubled Crusade: American Education 1945-1980.
Since both numbers are out of the realm of brute-forcing, the bigger achievement is because of the more fluid and strategic nature of Go compared to chess. Chess is more rigid than Go, and playing Go employs more 'human' intelligence than chess.

Quoting from the OP paper:

"During the match against Fan Hui, AlphaGo evaluated thousands of times fewer positions than Deep Blue did in its chess match against Kasparov; compensating by selecting those positions more intelligently, using the policy network, and evaluating them more precisely, using the value network—an approach that is perhaps closer to how humans play. Furthermore, while Deep Blue relied on a handcrafted evaluation function, the neural networks of AlphaGo are trained directly from gameplay purely through general-purpose supervised and reinforcement learning methods."

"Go is exemplary in many ways of the difficulties faced by artificial intelligence: a challenging decision-making task, an intractable search space, and an optimal solution so complex it appears infeasible to directly approximate using a policy or value function. The previous major breakthrough in computer Go, the introduction of MCTS, led to corresponding advances in many other domains; for example, general game-playing, classical planning, partially observed planning, scheduling, and constraint satisfaction. By combining tree search with policy and value networks, AlphaGo has finally reached a professional level in Go, providing hope that human-level performance can now be achieved in other seemingly intractable artificial intelligence domains."
The comments here are super interesting. I think the point of the piece has nothing to do with interruptions, eureka moments, or productivity—it’s not really about work at all. It’s about identity, and the fact that our collective identities are so wrapped up in our work selves that we don’t really know what we’re working for. Are we working for our families? For retirement? For self worth?

He, and I guess “I” by extension, would argue that you’re working to enjoy those little moments in life you’ll never get back—the ones you’re supposed to savor. If you’re in that headspace, working from home is one of modern society’s greatest advances.
Yahoo shows YMail. Bing is the only one shows Gmail as first, although Yahoo technically uses Bing. You can pretty much say Yahoo actually "put herself above others" and more guilty than Google. In fact, I don't think Google is doing anything wrong. After all, Gmail is popular, and if you are doing a Google search, the user may be interested to know Google also offer email and most likely the user is already a Google user.
I agree with you, but you surely agree that the two main disadvantages are lack of time with your coworkers (many of whom have become friends).

I would say "more interruptions" too, but the office has its own interruptions (someone walks by your desk and starts chatting), which may be even more than home.
Respect is earned not by weakness. Europe should be a powerhouse but are too limp wristed.
Per WSJ, that is supposed to be released soon.
A band-aid, I'm afraid.

Without going into the question of how many bits of entropy that actually has when used with human beings in real settings, and just assume it's a perfect check; my question stands: how many people can you find who use this?

Many SSH clients don't even support it, at all. PuTTY and almost anything that uses SSH for tunneling.

When they do: how many of your hosts do you know the image of?

Again: nice idea, but utterly impotent in our universe.

Compare to the efficiency of e.g. WPA2 keys: less theoretically beautiful, but much more efficient with humans.
> However, by only distributing the payments to a subset of the population, there is a social stigma associated with receiving benefits. With a universal payment, there is no stigma.

People aren't so naive that they would ignore the fact that their basic income is being immediately taken out of their pockets to pay for other people's basic incomes.
It's an interesting hypothesis but unfortunately a cohort study with no randomized control and n=236 isn't really meaningful. There's no control at all here and the sample size is tiny.
Glad people got his permission to do what they wanted to do anyways.
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It's inevitable that the threat of withholding 'basic income' will be used to modify behavior. Didn't pay your fine? Didn't do your taxes? Didn't take the shot? Post "radical" comments on the internet? On the no-fly list? On the no-drive list? Don't have a gov-issued InternetID™? Don't like robots enforcing law? No soup for you. Just wait until China couples it with it's human scoring system.
Why would you want a US-flagged boat other than patriotism? (Not being facetious, actually curious if there's a reason to prefer Amurrican to one of the more typical flag countries.)
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So ok, we're comparing realities that might not be comparable. I also didn't have as bad as others, but in my case something like "in-state tuition" was essentially unthinkable as well as any sort of debt. If you have nothing, first it's unlikely someone would borrow you the money and second it's a terrifying prospect and a lot of money.

The US poverty line is about 15k for a two-person family. That would mean that earning that much would make 1-3 years of family income in debt.
Can some humans comprehend infinite? I mean truly.
Er, isn't that how it'd work internally too?
That is not a known fact, we have no idea whether space is finite or infinite, whether it has boundaries or not. Admittedly at least a finite universe with boundaries seems kind of a strange idea, but who knows.
I think you may be assuming that the purpose of a CS degree is to teach people how to write programs that work, while it's really not :)

And there is such a thing as a correct implementation of an algorithm. Running it does not exactly prove things either, and it might not necessarily work on actual hardware, but it does show that the person understands at least part of the material.
Speeding up CPython 5-10%
maybe you consider these weak points in support of the argument, and I'm not certain I agree with all of them either, but its a starting point. here, first few things off the top of my head:

1. highest market cap of a major tech company that is a) an important part of masses of people's daily lives, b) working on experimental projects that will not realize their fruits in the short term, c) has intimated a progressive vision for society.

2. has the necessary funds, personnel resources, knowledge base, and lobbying power to accomplish ambitious goals.

3. category definer for the domain of internet search advertising, which is actually a bigger deal than you make it out to be. this corresponds to a very basic human need: finding what you're looking for, including things you're looking to buy.

4. philosophically speaking, seems to have an actual grasp on what it is they are doing beyond the simplistic definition "making money" or "increase shareholder value". their actions are (if you believe their own statements about it anyway) guided by a coherent vision to "organize the world's information".

5. has already changed the way people speak and think about using the internet, which is the civilizational mega-project of our time that will have irreversible impact on human culture from this point forward.
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Having a Unicorn go bust is akin to having a house get foreclosed on in your neighborhood in 2008. It doesn't reflect kindly on the value of the other homes in the neighborhood.
> Meanwhile, Finland is in a depression [1][2][3], with their economy shrinking year after year, while they refuse to cut their own stagnation-causing over-bearing welfare state.

Finland and Sweden make the perfect natural experiment: one entered the Euro and can't set their own interest rates, the other did not.

I don't think Finlands welfare state is the cause of stagnation, but they will have to cut it none the less. Finlands slump grew into a depression mostly because they are tied to the same interest rates as a number of other countries, which is the great failure of the Euro experiment.
If you're interested in more direct support, please star my ticket[1], it's likely that the same functionality would work for the https loadbalancer as well.

[1] https://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=1...
FYI, Fan Hui, the current European Go champion that Google DeepMind defeated, is ONLY a 2nd Dan Go player. The Highest Dan ranking in Go is 9th Dan! [1]

[1]: https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fan_Hui
This is being discussed at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10981679
There are problems with free Uni in Poland

- people studying for 10 years just to extend the childhood. (government pay 15k a year to the uni)

- some Unis accept people just to get money off of the government (accepted 500, graduate 100)

- lack of quality due to poor funding

Uni should not be free, but cheap. (50% of yearly median salary)
Huh, the rate limits look pretty generous (500 certs every 3 hours): https://community.letsencrypt.org/t/rate-limits-for-lets-enc...

Do you actually own hundreds of personal websites? (And you could still desync them, anyway.) Or is this a use case where wildcards would be useful. I sort of disagree with LE's decision to not care about wildcards for now, though I understand that it's simpler, at least while it's in beta.
This is a great idea. The problem is convincing management to keep you employed. :)

Whenever I see another 100mb update for trivial software, I'm reminded of Raymond Chen's blog on this topic - https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20061101-03/?p=...
>That can't be good for the human psyche.

You mean, besides all the religions that claim higher beings, right?
Surely it could be a lot easier...

Everyone already has a known public third party authority -- their domain registrar. Surely the browsers could come up with some protocol where you generate your own keypair, register the public key with the registrar and keep the private key on the server.

Then it could work pretty much like SSH, but with the browser doing out-of-band public key checking. Rather than needing a certificate chain, the browser just checks the server's public key matches the published one. If ok, happy to encrypt. If not, wave flags, and yell "spoof".

Verifying the registrar isn't a fly-by-night can be as complicated as needs be, but that way the registrar (who already gets paid to register the domain) does the complex hassle, while the ordinary domain-buyer just has to keep their server's public key up-to-date with the registrar (ie, fill in one web form at the time you register the domain or whenever you change the server key).

But alas it is not so at the moment. Instead, the current process puts hassle onto millions of individual domain-owners, while keeping life easy for the few (paid) certifying authorities. And then we wonder why so few people want to do it.
>It was mind boggling that mixed content was "insecure" but HTTP was "secure." HTTP is and always has been insecure and should be marked as such.

Why is it mind boggling?

Content served over HTTP is obviously less sensitive than content served over HTTPS, mixed content breaks HTTPS.
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In the specific example being discussed of government funded "free" college education it most certainly is not being given away with "no strings attached".

There's a very real stipulation that regardless of whether an individual actually attends a university or not they will be having the monetary products of their labor forcibly taken and used to pay the professors, construct the facilities, and heat the buildings.
Put that into perspective for us...if a 2nd Dan player competed against a 9th Dan 100 times, what would be the expected outcome?
I was walking along the other day after a class about mathematical modelling of biomolecules and was suddenly struck by the thought that space doesn't really even exist. This came from the observation that when we calculate van der Waals interactions there are two terms [0] and the term raised to the 12th power is an approximation to account for the fact that down at the quantum level two electrons cannot occupy the same orbital. We can map electron orbitals onto space but then we get something funky like the Pauli exclusion principle and suddenly a force that appears to be 'spatial' in origin is now a consequence of a completely non-spatial phenomenon. We use space as a convenient intermediate in many measurements but it is not clear to me that the fundamental accounting system of the universe actually needs it (though as the article points out, general relativity seems to suggest that space-time does exist or at least provides a pretty reliable coordinate system).

0. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lennard-Jones_potential
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Basic income is an idea which has been made practical due to electric automation.

Why is it then that everyone assumes the surplus created by electric automation should be distributed using such a primitive legacy paper based information system as the dollar? That's 19th century thinking
Serious question: Even if Theranos goes down in flames, won't she walk away from this with a fortune? Maybe not quite the fortune she thought, but still many millions?
We can only wonder how long it will be until Google starts openly advertising and buying newspaper articles against that new ad-replacing browser.
I looked into this for a weekend home in the country. It's just not cost effective, nor is it faster to build right now. I was in South Africa recently where they are building mass housing for those in townships (aka slums). They are building in the traditional on-site way. If it's faster and cheaper to do modular, than there might be an opening there.
Is there a good guide on making S3 sites work with SSL?
FYI, Fan Hui, is ONLY a 2nd Dan Go player. [1]

[1]: https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fan_Hui
This may actually be true due to correspondent banking -- e.g., the Bank of Drug Dealers and Terrorists based on an oil rig in the Pacific may in fact be a correspondent with CitiBank (just a fictional scenario of course, I'm sure Citi would never agree to any relationship with such a sketchily named bank)
Uber fires drivers with low ratings, so you do, just not directly.
Sure they can. Your ISP can easily MitM you.
Housing is almost impossible to fix at this point. Housing is seen more as an asset class than a social requirement (although, not everyone thinks this way there are enough people with money that it doesn't matter what they think, it is an asset class). The majority of the issues you highlight are caused by the amount of capital moving into real estate and the amount of resistance to change is directly proportional to how much the house is worth. Almost any change in housing will be universally opposed by owners unless it improves their house values (sometimes a change may improve one set of owners while diminishing another but that just makes for more media friendly conflict).

Tenements and social housing have been tried and mostly failed. Interest rates and taxation only have a marginal affect until they reach extremes. Emigration from an area has been shown to lower prices but at great social and economic cost.

Then there is demand, everyone needs somewhere to live. Don't just consider local demand, consider international demand. How culturally, economically or socially appealing an area is to an international audience (that is, does nearly everyone want to live there).

I view it as almost impossible for housing to improve for everyone while it is an asset and there would need to be utterly draconian or utopian changes to switch high quality housing from an asset to something universally available.
Even better.

Put the public key in DNS, auth the DNS.
If you mean VMware Server, the GSX replacement, and not the ESX products, then oh boy do I have stories to tell :) I was one of the, hmm, 5 or 6 people who threw that together in a span of months. It was more of a mess than it appeared, under the hood :) We called it the Frankenstein Project.

But it worked, and it worked well. More a testament to the infrastructure we had built for Workstation, and our team's ability to work hard and work well together.
... but... but... but... X2Go uses NX. And Xpra is super slow.
Yup. The trouble with this kind of linkbaity content is that it makes you dive for the pill bottle or the juicer and consume even more high concentrations of something our species never evolved into handling.
Angular momentum could be encoded in the wave function.

http://arxiv.org/abs/0807.3930
I thought the same, but reality isn't that nice. Got this response: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10602621

I was able to replicate this on my own server too, but haven't immediate solution (all the obvious things like OCSP stapling were already configured, following common sense and various "best practices" guides) and I hadn't enough spare time to properly investigate why TLS takes longer.

If someone had encountered this or knows the possible culprits, would be glad to hear suggestions.
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President Ptacek, elected alongside new House Speaker Ptacek, would add more than a "little bit" of taxes, but startups can't do that, so it's outside the scope of the question. :)
If people have the means to support themselves while studying for 10 years, why not let them study for 10 years? They are certainly not receiving a scholarship for these 10 years.
I believe that streptococcus bacterial infections can cause long term damage to the tonsils. It causes puts and holes, and people who have this often suffer from tonsil stones. You'll know if you've have them because every so often you'll cough one up and it causes halitosis.

Anyway, within the folds of the tonsils, streptococcus and other bacteria can survive, waiting for your immune system to become depressed, where it powers up again, making you ill.

Hence, you may think you have got rid of the infection, but it is just in stasis inside you.

This is one of the primary reasons that physicians recommend that you have your tonsils removed once you appear to have overly frequent repeats of strep throat.

Sadly, the removal of the tonsils often means that infections tend to end up further down the throat after having the tonsils removed, which being nearer to the lungs raises the risk of more serious illnesses later.
How does Tinder recommendation engine decide who you'll see next?
In the context that it's required to get certain jobs? So we -- society -- have screwed up in conflating education and job training?
Google actually killed off the "I'm feeling lucky" button some time ago.
http://www.businessinsider.com/google-just-effectively-kille...
That is one of the reasons why venture capitalists not even affiliated to Theranos had suspiciously optimistic responses to the initial allegations last year:

https://twitter.com/joshelman/status/655033793414238208

https://twitter.com/williamalden/status/658705178523258880

http://techcrunch.com/2015/11/21/in-defense-of-theranos/ (Thanks to Analemma_ above for reminding me of this)

The Theranos saga is incidentally one of the reasons I wrote the "You Can't Criticize Startups" rant on Monday. (to be fair, ignoring federal regulations is a different scope than mere criticism.)
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It's very surprising that Google doesn't sell certificates on Google Domains or offer any ssl support in GCE storage stack and yet they are going so strong after web encryption.
What about setting an example ?
I'm super excited that their first city is Boston, we could really use some competition. I'll joyfully drop Comcast if their tech pans out. Maybe 10 years ago I was also excited about a company with a similar idea that launched here but failed for some reason. I wish Starry better luck.
* Empirical, blinded, skills-assessment based turnkey hiring solutions that outperform interviews for non-technology roles like marketing, purchasing, &c, so that people who avail themselves of alternatives to universities can get good jobs regardless of social signals.

Marketing desperately needs some sort of empirical way of hiring. Unfortunately, I think you'll find that half the people currently in marketing roles though would lose their jobs.
They stopped linking search results directly to the webpages. You have no Google search referrer headers in your logs/analytics any more.

When the SERP loads, all the results link to the real webpages, so that you see their address in the browser status bar when hovering over a link. Clicking any result link triggers a script that replaces the URL with https://google.com/url?url=the_real_webpage_url.

When you click through, you're clicking a link from google.com to another link on google.com, which redirects to the webpage you intended to visit. The referrer the webpage sees is the intermediate google.com/url page, instead of the search result page. This prevents websites from getting search term data from the SERP URL, if it was present, by removing that URL from referrer headers entirely.
Note that profiling and debugging are not the same. I agree that the other author did not make much research effort, but for me: profiling = snapshots of stack (r/o view), debugging = attaching interactive debugger (r/w view, patching breakpoints).
This is a huge problem with no simple solution. The problem in the Australian remote communities is there is an entrenched culture that is not conducive to any productive activity.

Changing this sort of culture once it has formed is really, really hard. People much more dedicated than me have poured in enormous resources without make a dent in the problem.
In the hopes that it will help spread adoption of HTTPS, I wrote a web server that serves your sites over HTTPS by default, using Let's Encrypt: https://caddyserver.com - It also redirects HTTP -> HTTPS.[1]

There's a lot of misinformation out there about certificates and HTTPS, but don't let it stop you from encrypting your site. Regardless of Google's move, there is no excuse for any site not to be served encrypted anymore.

[1] Here's a 30s demo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nk4EWHvvZtI
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How can it be possible to run an experiment on basic income when participants know it will end in five years? The knowledge of it ending will change their behavior and encourage them to remain working.