skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The problem is that taking the thread in that direction is guaranteed to make the discussion useless, regardless of what opinion one starts with. A small number of people get furious with each other and everyone else rolls their eyes.

We don't need another eye-roller for the nth dozenth time.
Then how would searching your mail work? That breaks the product on a fundamental level and makes it worse than all competing products for all but a few users with specific needs. The existing end-to-end browser extension is a reasonable compromise.
The 1.9 series is unstable (mainline) while 1.8 is stable. Classic odd/even unstable/stable versioning.
dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11063963

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11063862
None of the things you listed would be things most consumers care to block. In fact most are things they either want or could benefit from (analytics.)
This reminds me a lot of the entire Digital Humanities revolution with computers. There is a lot of inconsistency with museum records. Especially for art that is collected for cultural value from certain time periods, the authors are misrepresented.

John Resig does a lot of writing/research on the misattribution of woodblock printings and their sources. Through digitizing the works and being able to use simple image recognition tools, museums across the world are able to iron out inconsistencies.
thats like your opinion man
Everyone has always known that paying for an Ivy diploma means purchasing the prestige and connections required to enter America's elite. The conceit that it was a superior education has always been, to some extent, a fig leaf.

MOOCs are tearing frantically at the fig leaves, but the underlying business model is entirely unharmed. The best students will still crawl over bodies to gain admittance. Tuitions will remain high. The alumni will still make extraordinary endowments.
You can start by relabelling the open sourced Parse right now!
> What the guild is actually trying to say, I think, is that this new use is something Google should have to pay for.

That doesn't make sense to me. Books are no different than any other material, are they? If Google indexes this page, should they have to first get permission and pay somebody (us or maybe HN).
Remember that the U.S. now sends 60% of its high school graduates to some form of college. This test now serves a double purpose:

1. Trying to identify the very best high school students across a wide range of schools who deserve a shot at an elite university with an international reputation. (Lots of flaws here)

2. Providing some insight about which students at an average high school are 2nd quartile, 3rd quartile, etc. If they're all going to college so that they can learn to be police officers, nurses, desk clerks, etc. (odd social choice), then testing people on rudimentary math makes sense.
Admission is literal supply & demand. You have a limited number of spots at Harvard and Stanford every year, and >10x the applicants for each spot. Their criteria for admission is therefore much more stringent than if you have 1.5x-2x times the applicants per spot. The institution feeds the student body which feed the institution. Many students apply to these schools because their prestige and rank and the schools can therefore be selective of their student body.

Admissions at Harvard or Stanford doesn't use a random number generator to determine admissions after a 'meets minimum requirements' filter. It would be as if a student got accepted to Harvard, Stanford, MIT, 5 state schools and 10 community colleges and then used a coin flip to determine where to go.
This is interesting but as pointed out by other comments there is great danger of Gmail abusing their position to make life harder for small email providers.

I would be more positive towards this if they gave precise, technical details of their notion of "supporting TLS" and "being authenticated", ideally with a service allowing me to test easily whether my mail server is fine according to them (rather than having to sign up for Gmail to test it).
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> isn't it just more fun building stuff you yourself want?

Of course!

But the interesting point here is when I propose building things that I want, my colleagues insist that nobody else will ever want it, that I'm a unique snowflake in what I want. And yet when I do, they do. It happens over and over. I can't explain it.
A hypothetical optimal bloom filter-like data structures needs -log₂ ε bits per key as noted in [1]. For the absolutely arbitrary value ε=0.25 that's 2 bits per key (so 2n bits), and you need that t times. Or if you do it directly with a higher success probability, say, 10^-6 then it's 20 bits per element. That's more than half of the input size, assuming 32 bit keys. The approach I wrote about uses O(log₂ p) = O(log₂ (n/ε)) bits, or put differently: a constant number of integers. Bloom filters are awesome (and I know HN loves them) but this isn't a good application for them.

Sorting in-place would be a neat trick, you'd have to store the t integers, but as I showed t=30 is more than enough. That's 30 ints, again way less than a Bloom filter.

Re: position information, I'd consider that linear space too (measured in machine words). It's a good idea but keep in mind that if the input was in a random order, these are n accesses to completely random memory locations. Due to the way virtual memory is implemented (TLB misses are commonly resolved using a B-Tree data structure to prevent timing attacks), they actually take closer to log n time. There's an older paper that shows that this takes roughly the same time as sorting the input. I believe it was in [2] somewhere. Huge pages might mitigate this nowadays.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bloom_filter#Alternatives - citation goes to Pagh, Anna; Pagh, Rasmus; Rao, S. Srinivasa (2005), "An optimal Bloom filter replacement", SODA'05, pp. 823–829

[2] http://www.cs.le.ac.uk/people/rraman/rahman-thesis.pdf PhD thesis of Naila Yasmeen Rahman. The PDF resists my attempts to do full-text search. It might have been "Analysing cache effects in distribution sorting" from WAE'99. I'm sorry that I can't be more specific right now.
> a social engineering breach, which could involve pulling personal information from social media and using it to determine passwords.

I don't understand how relatively low risk, high access-demand systems, like common terminals in a hospital nurse's station, require CAC access yet high security data, low access-demand systems, like personnel records, are apparently accessible with a little Facebook snooping.
Good point. Although, unless there are shells that have "tput" built-in, that means more subprocesses to obtain basic information (which would slow down the result a bit). In my case, the environment is sufficient to figure out what to do.
Is it possible to get a Let's Encrypt certificate without a public facing website (which is unrelated to wanted to run a mail server)?
Thought I was reading The Onion for a moment. Nobody cites Frank Bruni as a source unironically, do they?

>"...it will be harder and harder for Yale to explain what it offers for all that money except a piece of paper that says you went to Yale."

Yale has been clear about that since roughly 1693.
You cannot solve Olbers' paradox at all, because it is a malformed question, that leads to a paradox.
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I checked a number of times. It seems that the article is from this week, but it sure reads like any number of articles from five or six years ago.

Just as a for instance, putting everyone in a MOOC proves to be more of a problem than it may at first seemed to some people.
“The brick walls are there for a reason. The brick walls are not there to keep us out. The brick walls are there to give us a chance to show how badly we want something. Because the brick walls are there to stop the people who don’t want it badly enough. They’re there to stop the other people.” - Randy Pausch
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Developers really need to look after their health. Our sedentary lives are impacting our health:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11040932

Hopefully, we'll soon figure out ways to monitor and measure our health. Then dying from natural causes will never happen.
So ~43 billion years is the age of the universe? Or is that extra 30 billion years solely a result of the universe's expansion?
Basically, they are saying that if anyone makes a profit off their work, they deserve a cut of it. Makes sense on the surface of it, but let's try applying this to other categories. Take for example a food critic. He makes his living from reviewing the creative output of various chefs. Without the chefs doing what they do, the critic wouldn't have an audience and therefore no newspaper column. So do the chefs deserve a cut of the critic's revenue? Of course a favorable review does tend to drive extra traffic to the restaurant, just as a positive match in Google Books can drive a sale to a given book.
What problems are you having using stub_status?

I'm using the nginx mainline PPA and didn't have a problem enabling it.
I agree, I was hesitant to mention it. It's hard not to bring it up though when Twitter includes one of the main participants in their council. In this case I thought it was relevant especially since Twitter really does censor related material.
> But they do have to employ moderators

Nit-pick...."moderators" (the ones with the diamonds next to their names) are not employees, they're elected from the community and are unpaid volunteers (I used to be one on SO). There are staff members who have mod diamonds, but they're employed to do other things such as development, community management etc.
... and more exciting projects started ... https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11067751
They're pretty closely intertwined, though, in the sense that you can probably find people in your network who share a person or network in common with someone you're trying to reach. At least that was how it was at my small, elite liberal arts college of 400 people/year. I didn't know everyone in my class, but if someone went there at the same time as me, it's almost guaranteed that there is at least one person there we knew in common.

The whole point of networking is so you don't have to cold-approach someone and there'll be someone or something you have in common. The whole point of social networking tools (LinkedIn, Facebook) is so you know who that person is.
> this definitely isn't the place to get into a debate about her views

Then why did you introduce the topic, in violation of the HN guidelines?

Please take a good look at the inundation you triggered and don't do it again.
> When you click a link to Amazon for a specific book from a third party website, Amazon pays that website money for that referral.

Only if the third-party website has signed up for the Amazon Associates program -- which must be disclosed on the site.
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When I graduated everybody I knew went straight to work. That was awhile ago, though. These days it seems like people graduate with so much debt they might just shrug and think "what's another $10k?"
I'm not a physicist - but it sounds like this material has the properties of not only a high-temperature superconductor, but also of a semiconductor. I would think that such a material would be extraordinarily useful.
I disagree and I wouldn't call it a dossier. If someone takes a stance on a certain issue it is helpful to know why.

Edit: ...and I could have just the same pointed out to past comments on HN.
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I think in practice it takes a certain level of sophistication and intelligence to understand, and be self-aware to the impacts of, racism. I have observed that it is very easy (if not entirely unnecessary) to convert higher IQ members of society to think in ways that are more equitable than race. Do you believe much progress has been made with those who are (to this day) perpetuating the racism? I think there is more awareness, but is there less racism? I also feel that certain "races" are being discriminated against (ie. Asians entrance average to Universities must be much higher than other races, due to competition). This seems to elicit less attention from those who are social justice inclined. I apologize for original message, came off colder than intended.
Sure, and the formation of interlinked sub-networks is an artifact of the overall size - the goal isn't that you'll be BFFs with everyone on campus, but that you'll be able to find enough socially & professionally compatible classmates that you can effectively collude, but and not so many that the value of the collusion is spread out over unacceptably many people, or that it becomes impossible to actually find that guy you heard of whose uncle is a BFD at the Malaysian fed or whatever.
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Agree 100% . I think also by keeping the perimetre of the product under control; it is easier to understand for the user and the developer, it satisfy the principle of less surprise; it keep the vision and the focus in the long term and in then end make clearer what the product does and what cvalue it brings.

I would say my reflection to achieve this would be to define

- what is the product perimetre

- what architecture/design principle will bring you capabilities and useful abstraction

- what are the best interface/extension points for allowing user to extend the usage easily

Then hard work, iteration and pivot
So all the copyright holders have to do is put a robots.txt file at the beginning of the book, and all is good? And really, there is no law that I'm aware of requiring Google (or anyone else) to honor robots.txt.
If your goal is to directly incentivise and reward editorial content, then ipso facto, you're failing at your goal.

More broadly, the problem's nontrivial. Good true talent is rare, and even then, inspiration often uneven. It's quite possible for someone to turn out prodigious amounts of content (see Isaac Asimov, say), and even relatively high-quality content (his was good, though IMO uneven). But there are others who produce very few works -- Harper Lee, Margaret Mitchell, and Ludwig Wittgenstein all come to mind.

Incentivising technological creativity has also been quite rocky -- VC-backed startups, IPO exits, patents, state-granted charters, and patronage are among the models attempted. Many tremendously innovative individuals died broke, and the inventors of many of our most valuable creations (fire, agriculture, weaving cloth, smelting metals, writing) are entirely forgotten. Even the roster of great inventors launching the Industrial Revolution, about 200 years ago, shows few who actually prospered by that work -- several died in poverty, others were granted government awards or made money elsewhere, a small handful actually profited directly.

I've just run across Joseph Needham's absolutely stunning 27 volume History of Science and Civilisation in China, which tells the story of Chinese invention dating back literally thousands of years (don't ask for details, as I said, just discovered it, though Needham and the work's Wikipedia pages offer substantial background, and Simon Winchester has a biography of Needham giving more detail). One question I've in mind to take to it is what motivated China's inventors?

Needham himself asked what's eponymously called "the Needham Question": why didn't China, with its tremendous head start, industrialise before the West.

Other investigation / musing:

For content: a tax / universal content syndication
https://www.reddit.com/r/dredmorbius/comments/1uotb3/a_modes...

(Phil Hunt and Richard Stallman have markedly similar proposals.)

On information, markets, and why they fit poorly:
https://www.reddit.com/r/dredmorbius/comments/2vm2da/why_inf...

I can't find a post on the IR inventors offhand, which probably is a good sign I need to create one....
Maybe you're not saying 'no', you're saying 'not now'.

Is it possible to go to the co-founder and suggest that only features which customers will use/buy get built? If it doesn't add to sales, or have some actionable metric as to why it is being added to the product, it doesn't get done.
This works for engineering too. No 'refactoring' if it doesn't have a measurable benefit to the company.

By taking this approach, the hope is that 1) the co-founder takes the time to consider what is most important, 2) can articulate that to you 3) the dev team understands why they are building the feature.

For each feature in dev, have the co-founder write out the reason it is being built.

Here's an example on the current product I'm working on.

1) We're redoing the search page because x% of users leave the site from that page without taking futher action. We aim to lower that number to x%

2) We're refactoring component x because it loads on every page and is far too slow. We'll improve response time by 600ms. This will extend page view time by x seconds and increase views by x%

3) We're going to stream our large files where we currently download the entire thing which causes customers to wait for x seconds. We'll see an x% improvement in page load, resulting in x more page visits.

You get the gist.

At first, I'd suggest the co-founder 'might' just make stuff up. But if you have something in writing that you can point back to, and then go back to him if it doesn't match up, he'll hopefully start giving it more thought.

On the flip side, it is also possible that the co-founder has good reasons to request these features but maybe hasn't communicated them well to you and the rest of the dev team.
FWIW, I went digging for more recent info about TrueTime and found the following.

http://www.cse.buffalo.edu/~demirbas/publications/augmentedT...
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Your address ends with "@SERVER" so you can't register with a duplicate prefix name on any given server.
Sure wish this post covered the financial impact of these decisions more thoroughly.
Alright, we took the number out of the title since it arguably goes against the HN guidelines anyway.
Not a weird comment and you know why. I pointed to your comments about "GamerGate" because you singled him out with:

> The best "radical" quotes you have from this person are criticisms of video games?

"Video games" being the focus there.
You get an email that you respond to to finish the registration process.
Unfortunately, this is the sort of a change that's a red herring for any actual improvements to email security.

The use of unencrypted or encrypted link to the receiving email provider's MX server doesn't change all that much in terms of who can read the email: it's still sitting in plaintext on the recipient's server (as well as the sender's server), and the group of actors who can sniff traffic on the backbone like that is probably just as easily able to get it from the servers.

The authentication feature is even worse. The problem of spam and phishing isn't that email claims to be from important-service@bigbank.com, it's that email claims to be from "Big Bank" <whoisthis@some.really.shady.ru>. It's been noted before that spammers tend to be the most aggressive at uptaking new "anti-spam" technologies like SPF and DKIM, and this sort of validation feature seems like a prime vehicle for exploitation by spammers.
As do I, but the pressure of the situation didn't help, especially when the natural assumption of the professor/rest of the class was that I didn't understand the much more "complicated" aspect of the proof and not something most people take for granted as just "known" from elementary school.
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I'm pretty anti-NIMBY, but the Penn Station example is my line. So long as you're not doing something of that magnitude, you should be free to build whatever you want.
Pretty much a random decision.
I realize the interface to the Windows API is UTF-16, but the program interface to the console (stdout) is not - it's based on 8 bit characters, generally code page 437. Converting from UTF-8 to UTF-16 is trivial, as long as you get the full byte sequence that makes up a character.
There are all kinds of savings in a single payer system.

You eliminate the overhead of dealing with disparate billing systems. You can more easily find waste and fraud since all data is flowing into one place in a single comparable format. And, most importantly, you have the power of being the only buyer in a market which can pretty much dictate what price they will pay as long as it doesn't drive the providers directly out of business.

But it is disingenuous for OP to suggest that because taxes go up it is an overall worse situation for those paying those taxes, implying there is no way they would save money.
Just wanted to say, this is an excellent idea and I'll be blatantly stealing it for myself from this point forward; thank you for putting this motivation in my head by your successful implementation.

I've done a half-assed "important learnings from the last year" retrospective for myself, but your method of keeping it going forward is both far less lossy and more complete.

Putting it on GIT as well seems like a smart choice. Treat it as your "Accessible anywhere" personal cheat-sheet.
Yes, they recently enabled the DNS validation. Otherwise, it wants to use a webserver to validate ownership. It can spin up an embedded webserver if you don't have one already.
Support PGP already!
Is it a random match every time, or could the same freelancer be requested in future rounds, if I am impressed with their work?
C60, as in a buckyball? Caging 3 potassium atoms? C60 doped with potassium is known to be a superconductor below 18K [1], but that's not "high temperature".

[1] http://scifun.chem.wisc.edu/chemweek/buckball/buckball.html
That should be the video shown in front of the political committee to get the funding to use the pheromones.
Fair use allows for this kind of thing, but is fuzzy: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fair_use

The web is a little different. One factor is that robots.txt is effectively an opt-out. But no, in general indexing a site doesn't require permission.
I don't think the internet has quite figured out _prestige_. Twitter, BuzzFeed, Quora, Reddit, and even HN have certainly figured out popularity, network effects, and buzz, but I don't think social networks can develop prestige, because there's so much elasticity about your social network presence and where you spend your time.

Prestige is such an interesting phenomena, in that it's a weird mix of purchasable brandname and non-purchasable exclusivity. I'm not even sure what the most prestigious website on the internet would be: wikipedia?
You will read more there, but you're also going to be more likely to leave if you start seeing articles posted elsewhere that you are paywalled out of. It's likely that most people are interested in certain writers and not certain mastheads. It's very similar to music.
HOTS is good. Just hasn't taken off.

Hearthstone is an amazing success and very fun.

Overwatch looks very promising.

WoW is just old now, and it's still an alright game, but it's been out for too long. I believe TBC and WOTLK came out after Activision purchase and those expansions were great.

Starcraft 2 is okay. They messed up a lot with trying to be social allstars with bnet2.0.

Diablo 3 kind of missed the mark, can maybe blame Activision here. As the real money auction house wasn't
that great of a success, and it seems Activisiony to me.
That general relativity is either incomplete or wrong. It would mean that gravity either propagates far more rapidly or far more slowly than we think.

Given however that c is considered and so far demonstrably the maximum velocity of information propagation in this spacetime, instantaneous propagation seems unlikely, particularly given the Mercury orbital confirmation.

That all said, we may be looking at things naively.