skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Told about the issues, the response was basically Alloy et al wanted to invest no time or money into a better situation.

That's actually not true.

https://github.com/CocoaPods/CocoaPods/issues/4989#issuecomm... is the answer we are talking about, aren't we? What alloy is doing there is:

1. Thanking mhagger for the response

2. Asking for additional explanations

3. He explains then why the project is taking the route they took, the benefits for them. Explaining alone does not mean unwillingness to change. It just makes sure it is clear why it is like it currently is. Yes, that mentions the time and money benefit, but so what – it's honest, and it is valid to limit expectations on what is possible now.

4. He then indeed asks for a discussion on how to improve the current system without changing it completely. But this does not mean not investing time, to the contrary: He actively invites a continuation of a discussion and already there makes clear that he is indeed willing to work on a better solution, and that is the core point making this a constructive answer.

How the discussion continues in my eyes clearly shows that the negative interpretation of this first answer, in your comment and this thread, is wrong. That's not someone blocking change, not even at first, that is someone asking for clarification and even clearer tasks to do. That's not a bad thing at all.
Step one: short a million on Apple shares

Step two: hack into Tim Cook's account (no idea if he uses FB)

Step three: publish rant about Apple rotten ideoligies/he quits

Step four: see APPL lose value for a day until this shit is sorted

Step five: profit

Or something like that
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He's not saying that the spreadsheet is an integral part of the homework process at his home (I think). Instead, he made an experiment (limited in time) to see how much homework his kid has. Then took the results to the school's principal, hopefully ending the experiment.
Previous Discussion:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11199300
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11117880
Can confirm. Dual core Atom loading bare Wordpress is a nightmare without caching, and still barely acceptable with caching.
I wonder what Linus' favorite editor microemacs/uEmacs uses for data structures. Its actually fairly hard to find the source code (all I could find is some ftp and I admit I was too lazy to fire up ftp and download the code).

EDIT: oh here is where it is: https://git.kernel.org/cgit/editors/uemacs/uemacs.git

And it looks like its line based like old vi (I think): https://git.kernel.org/cgit/editors/uemacs/uemacs.git/tree/l...

Interestingly there was a line limit per window based on a signed char (127) that just got changed to an int (that was the last change made).
I know someone whose job is to maintain COBOL code for the State of Texas. Government organizations have even more difficulty upgrading IT infrastructure than large corporations do, and there are a lot more of them that can survive a lot longer than there are large corporations.
Oh good! A particle physicist. I was looking for the current p-value in the article, but couldn't find it. Do you know what it is currently compared to what is required (something like 1E-6 or 1E-9)??
A nonprofit? Makes no sense. A business is fine. The problem is when the business crosses that thin line and it becomes too aggressive in its profit-seeking. In MTG the game stopped being a casual thing and it became a competition (regulated and very profitable). To compete one needs powerful cards which become quite expensive due to its power and scarcity (which is artificial b/c many more could be printed). The original cult changed then, forever.

Social networks do the same. FB for instance, it did deliver value at the beginning. It was super useful and innovative to get and keep in touch with fam and friends. Then the brands came, then ads flooded. That killed the original value. I closed my FB account and no value was lost b/c nobody in my circle is using it anymore for that original purpose. In fact, I regained value (time and privacy). Now we share on Whatsapp groups (which I am sure will soon be flooded with brands and ads in order to make back the billions). We'll move our sharing to something else.
Ha! Just had that binge too...

... Here's what I like:

On the business end:
- Badass by Kathy Sierra
- Impossible to Inevitable by Aaron Ross
- Traction by Gabriel Weinberg
- Cold Calling Early Customers by Robert Graham
- Learn or Die by Edward Hess

On "refining your thought process":
- Mind for Numbers by Barbara Oakley
- Racing Towards Excellence by Jan Sramek
- Art of Learning by Josh Waitzkin
- Case Interview Secrets by Victor Cheng (helps you think in a nice, structured way)
U.S. Government Launches $100M “Apollo Project of the Brain”
Implementing Human-Like Intuition Mechanism in Artificial Intelligence
The oldest GenX'ers are in their 50s. They can be grandparents without having had kids "very young".
No, nobody can tell you.

When people go around talking about "new physics", translate it into "we know absolutely nothing about this (isn't that great?)", practical applications included.
Pretty. Thanks.
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> is the policy that encryption isn't allowed?

Where I worked moving encrypted files over plain FTP was preferred by the business clients because they controlled the encryption passphrases, whereas using SFTP would require operations support, as ops own certificates and encrypted service endpoints.

Much easier for a business user to encrypt a file on their computer using PGP and FTP it to the recipient, passing the passphrase out of band, than raise a service request to pick-up and transmit a file dropped onto a specific egress zone.
The executive branch is a big organization. Each agency has a different mission, culture and authorities (legal powers). The cryptowars are a complex issue, so it makes sense that the agencies have different takes on it.

I agree that thr government should have a unified view on all this. However, it should come from CONGRESS, not the President. This is clearly an area where our democracy needs to make a decision about how we govern ourselves, then enshrine that decision in law, then follow that law.
According to DAVID ORMEROD in his commentary at https://gogameguru.com/alphago-defeats-lee-sedol-game-1/, black (Lee Sedol) made plenty of mistakes from the start to the end, and they were seriously questioning his form. White (AlphaGo) made only a few mistakes in the middle, which allowed Black to catch up a bit, but he had no chance, esp. in the endgame.
Facebook lite is really nice on Android. I leave it running all the time and unless the app is in the foreground, it uses virtually no battery.

I wish there was an iOS version.
As a fellow swede I just don't agree with anything you have to say. Outing politicians who are ranting online is fair game as far as I'm concerned. The Sweden Democrats attract racists and their roots are racist, there's just no way to deny that - they mostly follow the same neo-fascist agenda of similar parties throughout Europe.
Hey, thanks for the offer.

They can include the link to the chat page in job posting, articles, careers page, email etc, like "Apply via Chat"

A few benefits are:
- low barrier to get in touch, right when the candidates are the most interested
- faster than email and more comfortable than phone calls(especially for tech guys)
- no more filling of long application forms
- gives a good impression and stands out from the competition
Thanks!

Siftr imports only the photos and their title/descriptions, and doesn't fetch social activity like comments.

We'll love to hear from you how your experience goes with Siftr, and if you have any suggestions.
Enlightened! I assume the typical startup work/life balance is not compatible with you.
The unbeatable GO app on your phone doesn't have to do the processing locally.
Are you going to count all the games that the human played in their head too? What about the learning done in the human brain when sleeping? Do you count that too?
Which is bad if them notes are not ornaments only. So there should be some fallback. I guess a good approach would be to collect the content from some p.marginnote elements which would be hidden if JS is present and left intact if not. So, like

<a href='#' mnref='gcc'>GCC</a>
...
<p class='marginnote' mnname='gcc'>The GNU Compiler Collection</p>

With JS, they'd become margin notes, whithout it, they'd render as plain footnotes.
Anyone else find that they love FB engineering and FB research, but don't like the product much?

FB does so much awesome technical stuff, and often shares/open-sources it. But the actual FB site -- for me, at least -- is lacklustre. The only thing it really shines for is event management.

This said, I guess anyone who reads HN is likely to be an outlier; and the site's success evidently means a lot of people like it.
Man Combines Random People’s Photos Using Neural Networks / Deep Learning
This looks like a good example of the Normalcy bias logical fallacy: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Normalcy_bias

That previous constraints have been beaten in no way supports the argument that we will beat the laws of physics this time.
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That's not really correct.
Most large telescopes have a small FoV for starters (couple of arcminutes at best).
Bigger telescopes gather more light and can thus see fainter objects.

The biggest limit to angular resolution (beyond some rather small diameter optic) is atmospheric seeing.
This prohibits you from resolving anything smaller than 0.5-2 arcseconds (depending on the site conditions) regardless of the optic used.

But there are to compensate for atmospheric seeing: Adaptive optics (AO) and Lucky Imaging (you don't integrate for a long time, but only take very short exposures and once in a while you get lucky and the atmosphere doesn't distort the image much and you get a very high resolution image).
AO is what's usually available at very large telescopes, while Lucky Imaging is usually done on medium to small telescopes.
And for LI gathering more light (and therefore a bigger optic) does help.

So yes.. with a bigger telescope and a fast(er) camera you would probably be able to take a better picture (and moving to a place with good seeing would certainly help as well).
That's precisely my point. This is not a traditional machine learning scenario, and treating it as such is silly.
http://apprendrealire.eklablog.com/alerte-sur-le-niveau-des-...

The actual link from LeMonde is at the bottom but it's behind a paywall.
I made a typo about the figure, sorry about that.

People throw around these facts, comparing them to one another, without really understanding the scales involved.

Half of discretionary government spending should be on the military. Sure, other countries that rely on bigger nations for their defense can get away with much smaller defense budgets, but a powerful hegemonic nation whose stability the entire world relies on needs a dominant military, and those aren't cheap.

The primary role of a state that is serving its people and not the other way around is foreign policy and defense. What kept the Roman Empire alive for so many centuries was that other nations simply feared to openly challenge it militarily. Even banding together, they could not hope to withstand Roman legions.

You made another comparison, that military spending is larger than the whole of China's trade with the US. That's irrelevant, it only means that the US is in a completely different league economically than China.

Government spending is ultimately limited by its nation's economy. A command economy can spend more on things relative to the nation's GDP, but that limits the potential for the command economy to grow. This undeniable fact has driven China's domestic policy for decades. China has to modernize into a more liberal economy, otherwise it won't be able to survive. But it hasn't quite done that yet.

The US, on the other hand, has had for its entire run a liberal economy, and a GDP to match. The US economy is so vast, so enormous, that just the 1.75% of it we spend on the military is more money than a lot of countries' entire economies. It really is that big.
"Technical correct... the very best kind of correct!"

The bigger question here is: do you really want law enforcement to hack into things as standard procedure? They certainly don't. It's difficult, expensive, slow, and worst, unbound by law. It's a world where your privacy is exposed based on the federal hacking budget rather than a judge's opinion about your potential criminality.

It's much better for law enforcement to be constrained by law than technical ability.
I would love to see them open source this.
Sounds like Microsoft has to up their game, then...
I feel the same way about the chips reaching their physical limits. But I keep waiting for a new way we use them. We used to just churn out MHz and that was the metric. Then we got hyper-threading, multi-cores, GPU and other specific processors and new ways of programming to go with it all. I imagine we'll see the same. Just like the brain has different areas of processing, I'm hoping we'll see the same in silicon chips. Just like how we offload work from the general purpose cpu to the more efficient purpose build gpu or sound card etcs. Not saying every computer is going to have a GO chip in it, but maybe someday we'll have machine learning processors or who knows what. But yeah the advancements will be new designs and new ways of processing instead of more power.
"HTTP? Our server cannot handle file transfers larger than 2GB and times out after that." - So, the argument against a fundamentally broken protocol is that your instance of an implementation of some other protocol is broken? That's not a very strong argument.

As for "FTP just works" - the same way IE6 used to "just work": there are a lot of hacks happening under the hood, along the whole network path, to keep FTP from breaking (don't get me started on FTP and firewalls).

Command line? You mean "press Win, type cmd, Enter, type ftp, Enter." Right? Are you saying there are GUI tools to do that? This changes EEEVERYTHING! (What makes you think FTP is the only protocol with GUI tools? Is it 2000 yet?)

In other words, user-friendly solutions exist. But (and this is the elephant in the room) they are not quite as convenient for your local IT guy as shrugging it off with "just dump it on this unsecured clunker like it's 1995".
I can't actually test it, but considering nbench shows the Avoton is faster on regular CPU operations, and that on top of that it comes with native AES-NI support (unlike the ARM CPU used by the Pi), it's probably much faster at Tor encryption.
Maybe if you live in Manhattan. If you live out in Bayridge, you can get a 750+ sqft 1-bedroom apartment for $1450/mo. It takes me roughly 35 minutes getting to Soho on the R/N train from 86th st [which is near the end of the R train]
Wow, that title. What this actually links to is a Go wrapper for Apple's new APNS interface, which utilizes HTTP/2. While this looks like a useful tool for the toolbelt, I would have much rather read something about how Apple got to the new protocol, or an interesting blog post about experiences using it. Having come from a shop that worked on the older protocols and been the tiniest part of an implementation with one of the brightest developers I've ever met, this new protocol is brilliant and a huge improvement, and it's a shame that this post, despite the title, doesn't do that justice.
I think that's backwards. The developers of unix packaging systems (the Debian packagers in particular) misunderstood the roles of these languages. Writing unix-like tools is a small niche, Python is exceedingly useful outside that niche, and Python 3 is necessary for a lot of very useful things that developers build. Java has been extraordinarily successful despite having hardly any system tools written in it, and I think part of that's the sheer good luck (due to accidents of licensing history) of the likes of Debian not trying to integrate Java deeply into their OS; Python and Perl would be much better off had the same approach been followed.
I switched from Perl to Python at version 3.4, and while it might be popular for people already invested in Python 2 to downplay the syntactic improvements, they were a big deal in convincing me to switch to Python as my go-to infrastructure language.
Hard-coded "test" credentials, IPs, API keys, basically anything that you assume no sane person has left in - yet there's always at least one instance of.

A lot of people have been accidentally hosed by having AWS keys buried five directories deep in a now-deprecated-and-forgotten "test_aws.rb" file, make sure that doesn't happen to you!
Ask HN: Is there a good language overview for C?
A friend who has good programming knowledge with high programming languages (Java, Ruby, JS, etc) asked me if I knew a good introduction or language overview for the C programming language, because though it is not really necessary to know any C to study computer science any more, it is still (and I guess will be for a long time to come) a sort of reference language for everything low-level programming.

For C was the very first programming language I learned may years ago, I did not really had a good answer to this question.
No I am looking into this, and had something in mind like gobyexamble.com (which was here in HN recently), just for C instead of Go.

Does anybody know of such a thing?
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How "reliable" are those numbers in estimating real application performance?

I've run nbench for a 1 CPU VM in EC2, and a 2 CPU VM in DO, and the former is a lot faster ( almost 2x ) than the latter!

EC2 Ubuntu ( 1 CPU )
==============================LINUX DATA BELOW===============================
CPU : GenuineIntel Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2676 v3 @ 2.40GHz 2400MHz
L2 Cache : 30720 KB
OS : Linux 3.13.0-74-generic
C compiler : gcc version 4.8.4 (Ubuntu 4.8.4-2ubuntu1~14.04.1)
libc : libc-2.19.so
MEMORY INDEX : 39.370
INTEGER INDEX : 35.426
FLOATING-POINT INDEX: 53.665

DO CoreOS ( 2 CPU )
==============================LINUX DATA BELOW===============================
CPU : Dual GenuineIntel Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2630L 0 @ 2.00GHz 2000MHz
L2 Cache : 15360 KB
OS : Linux 4.2.2-coreos-r2
C compiler : gcc version 4.9.2 (Debian 4.9.2-10)
libc : libc-2.19.so
MEMORY INDEX : 20.668
INTEGER INDEX : 19.277
FLOATING-POINT INDEX: 28.370

Edit:
Here's also a 2 CPU machine on Azure

==============================LINUX DATA BELOW===============================
CPU : Dual GenuineIntel Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2673 v3 @ 2.40GHz 2397MHz
L2 Cache : 30720 KB
OS : Linux 4.2.2-coreos-r2
C compiler : gcc version 4.9.2 (Debian 4.9.2-10)
libc : libc-2.19.so
MEMORY INDEX : 28.667
INTEGER INDEX : 24.351
FLOATING-POINT INDEX: 39.950
Thanks. I will remember it!

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I have to be honest, they don't look bad at all.

From my experience so far, C1 is like working with a microwave, and VC1 (VPS) is much nicer, for €2.99 let's not forget.
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Sorry about the slight OT, but what truth is there in this statement I was presented with?

>Even if an iPhone is locked, all of that encrypted data can technically be read easily so long as the phone had at least been unlocked once since the time it was booted up.

Obviously I think it's a nonsense, but I have no way of disproving it (even though the burden of proof is on the claimer, naturally).

Edit: OK I found this http://www.darthnull.org/2014/10/06/ios-encryption so never mind, I guess...
When Facebook first released an app, I downloaded it to my Android phone and it borked my contacts so badly that I've never logged into the app again (can't remove it from my Galaxy S6 without rooting). For every person in my Facebook friends list, it added an entry into my Google contacts list without asking. That's on top of all the reading of contacts, which feels far less invasive to me.
But what about the VC1 (VPS)?
CMS observes the peak with a global significance of 1.2σ
http://cds.cern.ch/record/2114808

ATLAS observes the peak with a global significance of 2σ
http://cds.cern.ch/record/2114853

5σ is the gold standard for a discovery
Trump. Does anything more be to be said?
The problem in the responses is the logical inconsistency.

In my reply, I said if they were being forced to work (aka - slaves) it was not okay but if they went out and choose to work it was another story.

In your response you cited a "we must keep the slaves so they don't starve" argument...which is not at all what I said. That's the logical disconnect that happens in many political discussions of these types. You're arguing with something I didn't say unless I'm misreading you, because it partially looks like you're agreeing with me as well regarding people choosing to better their circumstances.
I'm bootstrapping a Disqus "clone" that I plan to open source and offer hosted versions as a SaaS company.

I'm still building the MVP but I have a demo running here: http://www.remarkbox.com

I've taken special care to not hash user emails when generating avatars.

In addition by default:

* users are anonymous

* Gravatar is disabled

For default avatars I plan to fork https://github.com/Bekt/invatar (to add image caching)