skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The roads are equally travelled; Frost says that at the beginning of the poem. Life is a process of narrowing possibilities, and looking back at a particular decision doesn't have a lot of meaning.

But everyone get it wrong: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10071717
So true!

I've been programming professionally for 25 years, still love it! http://henrikwarne.com/2012/06/02/why-i-love-coding/

Also, it's easy to forget that being a SW developer today has a lot going for it - especially the demand. At least here in Stockholm, if you are good at what you do, you can pick and chose where to work. So no reason to stay at a place where you are not happy. http://henrikwarne.com/2014/12/08/5-reasons-why-software-dev...
This does use immediate mode for a brief demonstration early on, but then VertexBuffers, which are fine in modern GL. The author knows immediate mode was never performant.
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Facebook Messenger is the thing where everything is minded and you'll get all the AI bots etc.

WhatsApp instead is their chat app for users how don't like Facebook. WhatsApp has way more users than Facebook Messengers. And now they have the PR and even don't have to deal with wiretapping requests anymore.
Yubico themselve say that the 4096 bit key only adds 16% more security. So the Neo is practically as safe as the 4.

https://www.yubico.com/2015/02/big-debate-2048-4096-yubicos-...

> While it is true that a longer key provides better security, we have shown that by doubling the length of the key from 2048 to 4096, the increase in bits of security is only 18, a mere 16%. Moreover, besides requiring more storage, longer keys also translate into increased CPU usage and higher power consumption.
I don't see the point in that article. As far as I can tell this is just another person trying really hard to come up with a way to justify critiquing Musk.

Peter Thiel would classify Elon as a Definite Optimist in that he picks a better future and then builds it. However, most of our leadership and talking heads these days are Indefinite in that they can't being themselves to believe in any particular vision of the future.

This guy is just trying to pretend that Elon's confidence is somehow unjustified. How can confidence in a certain future not be overconfidence, right? It doesn't matter that Elon is clearly right, certainty in vision is always "overconfidence" to the Indefinite.
Probably not. I'm guessing this was a way to generate publicity for the person who's trying to sell the mentorship.

Here's my evidence:

1) The winning bidder has 0 reviews and 0 bids on other items. S/he was clearly trying to jack up the price.

2) OP created his/her account just to post this story.

See: http://offer.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewBids&item=2623668...
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This is exactly what Adobe is already doing with its 1:1 product. But the fact is a 10% of traffic for a medium-size website won't get you the results you want quickly. 10% of traffic only works on enterprise-level websites.
In certain failure scenarios I think an energetic flywheel is predictable: Most of the momentum is within the plane of rotation, which is where you can place whatever kind of shielding or catching-material.
One possible path is to push for a senior developer role and then afterwards a tech lead (or similar) role (perhaps not at the same firm). That will then open up CTO or dev manager roles in startups. It won't "just happen" - it will require a whole load of work on your behalf (you'll need to learn your way around a broad selection of technologies rather than focussing on mastering one language and one platform, as well as learn a number of managerial skills including effective communication, negotiation etc.). Good luck! Disclaimer: I'm not a CTO but have been offered a number of CTO and dev manager roles at startups and small companies.
I think it's quite a stretch that being slightly more likely to get pulled over would make you an unproductive member of society. I mean hypothetically if they discovered that green cars correlate with drug muling, I don't think this policy would push owners of green cars to crime, regardless of their race.
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Be sure to follow the link to Pinnacle Airlines Flight 3701. That's a double Darwin Award, well deserved.
Spam filters are discrimination, but I don't see anyone suggesting we stop using those.
This appears to be a blog argument with little relevance to HN.

I'll summarize it as: Physicist Hsu argues that there are techniques by which it may be possible to genetically engineer hyper-intelligent humans. Biologist Myers argues that it's hard to measure intelligence, it's not clear that intelligence can easily be tweaked through the genes, and other biological complications, as well as questions about ethics and the observation that better "sociology and education and social services" is already known to lead to more intelligent people, so why not focus on that instead of "mad scientist" research.

Hsu responds by arguing that population genetics is more additive than biologists - especially evo-devo biologists like Myers - believe, and since chickens can be bred to be bigger and faster maturing, so can human be bred to be more intelligent.

Hsu's response depends strongly on 1) being able to measure a correlation between intelligence and SNPs, and 2) the assumption that these SNPs are "roughly additive" in benefit. See his preprint at http://arxiv.org/abs/1408.3421 . I attempted to read it, but Gould's "The Mismeasure of Man" strongly affect my understanding of the topic; and Hsu's preprint appears to accept what Gould calls the two deep fallacies of reification and ranking. I do not not have the knowledge to evaluate the abstract in its full context. I do think his discussion of the Flynn effect reveals a severe misunderstanding of history and people.

Hsu does not address the ethical and moral issues that Myers raised.
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Drug war laws have historically been a proxy for racism and prejudice.

It could be extrapolated from that same data that 'black males obeying speed limits' are just easier to obtain convictions on - after all one has not 'caught' a 'drug mule' until the alleged is convicted.

Studies have long shown it is easier to obtain convictions of black males, especially for drugs.

More importantly for LEO funding today: is money seized can be kept with less blowback if disadvantaged minorities are targeted.

Institutional & societal racism could perhaps better explain the statistic.

Competent criminals adapt their muling system, throwing a patsy to cops once in a while - 'everybody' gets some. Clearly the drugs still get through.
When you factor in kids, mortgage, pension, car, travel costs etc, it probably ends up being a bigger dent than you'd think for a lot of programmers.
He was a rogue traitor - what kind of trial would you like him to get?
I didn't read the whole thing ('tis long) but I think I got the gist from skimming it.

One main point is that the US government was meant to be a purely voluntary contract between men:

"The Constitution not only binds nobody now, but it never did bind anybody. It never bound anybody, because it was never agreed to by anybody in such a manner as to make it, on general principles of law and reason, binding upon him.

It is a general principle of law and reason, that a written instrument binds no one until he has signed it. This principle is so inflexible a one, that even though a man is unable to write his name, he must still “make his mark,” before he is bound by a written contract."

The second main point is that government debt is the factor which has shifted the government from "servant of the people" to the more typical "ruler of the people":

"On this principle, and from this motive, and not from any love of liberty, or justice, the money was lent in enormous amounts, and at enormous rates of interest. And it was only by means of these loans that the objects of the war were accomplished.

And now these lenders of blood-money demand their pay; and the government, so called, becomes their tool, their servile, slavish, villainous tool, to extort it from the labor of the enslaved people both of the North and the South. It is to be extorted by every form of direct, and indirect, and unequal taxation. Not only the nominal debt and interest—enormous as the latter was—are to be paid in full; but these holders of the debt are to be paid still further—and perhaps doubly, triply, or quadruply paid—by such tariffs on imports as will enable our home manufacturers to realize enormous prices for their commodities; also by such monopolies in banking as will enable them to keep control of, and thus enslave and plunder, the industry and trade of the great body of the Northern people themselves. In short, the industrial and commercial slavery of the great body of the people, North and South, black and white, is the price which these lenders of blood money demand, and insist upon, and are determined to secure, in return for the money lent for the war."

I'm in favour of a minarchist state, and, not being American, I find the US from its founding to roughly WWI something close to my ideal of a government which acts more as a mutual protection agency, rather than as an entity with an eternal claim on its citizens labour. Some of the Greek city-states also came close to this ideal.

I don't have time to give a detailed opinion on the argument in this article, but there's merit to the idea of every citizen having to formally recognise their constitution. E.g., at age 21, to become an official citizen you voluntarily sign a contract agreeing to uphold the constitution. (Obviously this wouldn't work in any current society, I'm talking a capitalist utopia with voluntary ~5% tax rates to pay for the police and army).
Then go after the site owners who choose to enable this.
I think your missing his point. He was assuming that the cops were already doing unjustified random searches of every car on the road.

Assuming they are already doing this, wouldn't it be preferable if they switch to a model that decreases the number of innocent people that are searched by 10x? Wouldn't that be a net good to society?

Of course if your opinion is that they shouldn't be allowed to do random searches at all, this whole thread is really irrelevant.
I did make the Python meetup and several since; it's not like the waitlist was thousands long. It was just longer than what I gauged as the no-show rate.

The Python meetup was striking to me because it was closer to the scale of a PyCon than any meetup I'd seen. The actual meetup I attend more often is SFPUG, the local PostgreSQL group, which is more in the neighborhood of 20-40 attendees, once or twice a month. In NYC, if there is an active group around the particular corner of tech you inhabit, you're lucky to get decent meetup a quarter.

And quality is what pushed me to move here, despite my expectations, in the first place. Simply put, all of the very best developers I knew from my hometown (in Charlotte, before my stint in New York) had moved here. There were two in particular I'll always owe for having opened my eyes to how little I knew; I work maybe eight blocks away from one of them, the other I ran into out-of-the-blue at the aforementioned Python meetup, three days after I landed at SFO.

I've been working with people who make me very aware that I'm not the smartest person in the room (by their expertise, not their attitudes) for 30 months now. I do hate to say this, but it is why I didn't stick around in the end - in NYC, I really, really missed that.
A lot of users open Explorer and looks at the path or copies the path. Nowdays the path is shown with arrows instead of slashes but when you klick on it to edit or copy it will use backslashes. This means a lot of users might have seen them and used them. Even 10% of 1B users is till 100 million users.
> government can control the news, which is a potentially worse scenario!

Many people think journalistic power should be open to anybody while physical power should be under government monopoly.

Yet a story, widely circulated, can ruin a life as thoroughly as a bullet to the kneecap.

If you think governments should monopolize sources of dangerous power, why not support a government monopoly on journalism?
They were early adopters of tabbed browsing, I do give them that, but the first browser to have it was NetCaptor.

The whole idea of a browser as a swiss-knife internet suite (with an email client, torrent client, web server etc. all built-in) which was hailed as Opera's main strength back in the day, proved to be an evolutionary dead end - noone really followed that path, Mozilla had an enormous following, especially among geeks/superusers, and yet its SeaMonkey never gained traction, that does tell you something

I feel Opera hurted themselves by believing that this was what made their browser attractive. Probably overestimated that factor. As a user, I cared much more about whether eg. "Look into" on Amazon worked correctly (Opera - a few years ago when I used it - was the only major browser where it didn't).

Yes internet browsing still owes Opera much credit, they popularized a great many useful solutions such as mouse gestures, the product was very solid and ergonomical, I'm not questioning that. Plus it performed well on older PCs and slower bandwidths, which probably explains why it enjoyed tremendous popularity in Central and Eastern Europe (where I'm from)
$48k/y gig for US client converts in less than 2000 eur/month net with some creative book-keeping.

Rent and utilities in Ljubljana cost us about 800 eur. What is left is maybe enough for one person, who will never own any property.

$20k/y is close to a welfare level in Slovenia, except maybe in countryside.
I used to hate npm with the burning heat of a thousand supernovas. I think maybe they changed the way it works because now it tends to work instead of assaulting you viciously with a massive cascade of dependency errors every time you try to install a package.

Until recently it was quite the absolute worst experience of software ever for me and I used DOS and Windows 1.0.

Every time I realized I had to use npm I would be filled with deep dread and the knowledge that I was about to have my time burned in a bonfire of errors, confusion and complexity.

Someone needs to make a sincere apology for npm.

Why has it not bothered me lately? Either it has been improved or I am using it differently somehow.
Another problem is all Windows applications that don't handle forward slashes well. To make minimal inpact on the users all those applications would have to be updated. That will probably never happen.
Javascript was designed so that clown on your website moves when you click on it.
The best time to start a project was 20 years ago. The second best time is now.
What's it like opening for Elton John? His protege reveals all
you can test the model here: http://www.somatic.io/models/oEG0wMkR
the results seem kind of blurry, I hope there is more room to improve this model
Meditation-induced light experiences: buddhist and neurobiological perspectives
man put a spoiler warning at least, sigh.....
The funding model for journalism is advertisement. Advertisement generally follows the line of more views = more money. We call "clickbait" and "viral" stories that get viewed by the most people, regardless of their content. This means that journalists will focus on "clickbait" rather than a niche story that only a tiny fraction of their viewership will read.

Also, sourcing and vetting clearly take time, which could instead be spent producing more "clickbait" stories. Unless you're oversaturating the market, producing more "clickbait" is the rational action over producing quality journalism.

Furthermore, quality journalism requires expertise, which costs more. Compared to that, "clickbait" stories require adopting a certain writing skill which is in much larger supply. Thus follows that you would hire "clickbait" writers instead of journalists, because you'd be paying them less for more profit.

Really, pretty much every incentive in journalism fights the naivety of "professionalism" and "integrity", so it's little wonder that the state of journalism is as it is.

I am reminded of a short anecdote I read on HN the other day. People say they want sugarless yogurt, but every market research shows that they actually prefer the sugared variant. "We" say we want "good journalism", but clearly more people are reading tabloids and "clickbait". Whether that is because "we" are the minority, or because "we" are hypocrites is unclear, but that's reality.
The white paper doesn't say anything about additional public keys messages are encrypted for.

It states that:

- The private keys remain on the devices (which is good, but they don't need them to read your messages)

- The messages can't be read by WhatsApp (they don't say anything about their parent company Facebook or governments though).

If you read all the whitepapers and alert messages, you can totally read them in a way that allows Facebook to see, store and analyze the clear-text of every message you're sending, without anybody lying anywhere.
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seasonality doesn't really come into it with A/B split testing - if it changes for one group it changes for both.
BBC suffers increasingly from D-notices (secret bans) on stories.

e.g. Unaoil scandal is glaringly absent from the BBC. http://www.bbc.co.uk/search?q=unaoil
How's life as a tech guy in Singapore? I'm thinking of relocating there.

(I've lived in Hong Kong and China, so I'm not an Asia noob, but Singapore seemed better as a long-term place to settle).
Ask HN: Where to find the best SEO guide or expert
I tried to googling myself but look like there are too much noise there - is there anyone has any good experience in outsourcing SEO or a guide available somewhere? thanks
Careful. It wasn't always higher for MAB even though the tables shown there make it appear so at first.

Those tables are showing the conversion rate during the test, up to the time when statistical significance is achieved. You generally then stop the test and go with the winning option for all your traffic.

In the two-way test where the two paths have real conversion rates of 10% and 20%, all of the MAB variations did win. Here is how many conversions there would be after 10000 visitors for that test, and how they compare to the A/B test:

RAND 1988
MAB-10 1997 +9
MAB-24 2001 +13
MAB-50 1996 +8
MAB-90 1994 +6

For the three-way test where the three paths have real rates of 10%, 15%, and 20%, here is how many conversions there would be after 10000 visitors:

RAND 1987
MAB-10 1969 -18
MAB-50 1987 +0
MAB-77 1988 +1

Note that MAB-10 loses compared to RAND this time.

(The third column in the above two tables remains the same if you change 10000 to something else, as long as that something else. MAB-10 beats RAND in the first test by 9 conversions, and loses by 18 conversions in the second test).
John Langford and the team (Microsoft Research) have built a contextual bandit library in Vowpal Wabbit.

It can be used from active learning to changing webpage layouts to increase ad clicks. It has the best bounds out of all exploratory algorithms.

Structured contextual bandits that come with LOLS (another algorithm present in vowpal wabbit) is extremely powerful.

All for free under BSD3.
I guess we all have our own takeaways. What in your view is meant by the last lines?

> I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference.
Funny bit is that they'll know buy pretty much any crap. I've worked lately with a NAND controller IP that ticks /every single box/, has every single feature and absolutely all the acronyms you can think of, and is the most useless piece of crp ever* to use. It's so bad that I wish there was a 'passthru' mode so let me talk to the NAND flash on GPIOs, because it's likely I'd have better performance anyway.

But, that's a brand new IP bought by cadence to add to their list, and therefore it was also sub-licenced by some hardware designer somewhere (who has no idea what 'software' is) from the feature sheet alone. Then it lands on the poor unsuspecting person who needs to write the driver (me).

So yes, that startup/feature/IP cycle is a very weird economy indeed.
And it turns out you randomly assigned B to a poorer user more often than not, and this make B worse...
For me the biggest thing is - how do we have any idea that WhatsApp is actually using this wonderful crypto tech under the hood? For example my WhatsApp is claiming my messages to my friend are encrypted, whereas his phone is claiming they are not. This is not exactly conducive to trust!
Vuls: VULnerability Scanner for Linux, agentless, written in golang
We're talking about "artwork and music", not text.
How did you start with such a project? Any reading you would suggest to learn more about this topic?
These are specifics and probably not interesting to the rest of HN.

BUT, you can open a sole proprietorship, fill out some forms, and voila: you pay 4% taxes. After all the healthcare and stuff, you end up with 1068 euro net on a $20k (17k eur) yearly revenue.

At $48k/year, you get 3040 euro/month net. Now you're getting paid almost as much as the president. Your taxes will go up a bit next year, so save up, but for the first year you have plenty of extra money in the bank that you can leverage for making even more money.

And if you target San Francisco, you're competing with people who are asking for $130k+/year.

;)
My biggest regret as a programmer: not sitting in correct posture for 30 years :/

On the bright side: I'm correcting this now, and I really feel like a different person.
There's nothing ridiculous in xyzzy_plugh's argument.

The discussed tool is not "Garret" or "Garrit", it's Gerrit, which makes me wonder if you used it before commenting.

As far as I know, Gerrit doesn't reimplement git's features. Rebasing is done using git rebase.

Gerrit is a system for code review, just like GitHub's PR, but with a different approach.
You are right, not really informative. Maybe Ram Air Turbine is a bad name. A turbine driven by the airflow from "ramming" through the air?!
End-to-end encryption with WhatsApp
A searchable gallery of exit intent designs
On a related note, ghdl [0] is a similar project but for VHDL. I spent a lot of time using it before I switched to verilog, it's a pretty nice tool on the other side of the fence.

[0]: http://home.gna.org/ghdl/
I have been working as a programmer for 8 years. I agree with him. It is exciting to learn new things and implement elegant code but if the bottomline is money, my experience is that you have to get into leadership roles.
18 bits translates to a ~250k-fold increase in effective security. Am I missing something, or is this just bad math on Yubico's part?
Whatsapp adds end-to-end encryption
There's a contingent of people who believe that Robert Frost was lamenting the fact that he took the road less traveled by, and had a worse experience. There's a good reason why certain roads are more traveled, and by not going the common path, his life was much harder.
> Also, to me, the concept of A/B testing certain things may also have an undesired consequence. For example, I order from amazon every day, but today the but button is blue, what does that actually mean? And I go back to the site later and it's yellow again. There are still many people who get confused by seemingly innocuous changes with the way their computer interacts with them.

Proper A/B tests are supposed to be done on a per-unique-user basis. If you access the shop from the same device or user account, a well-done A/B test should consistently show you the same interface.
I haven't heard of any Ferrari 458 related deaths.
The manufacturer recalled the cars and replaced destroyed cars free of charge. I don't see how this is worse, I would even argue that this is how Nest should have done it. Either give them new products or fix the flaws of old products so they work offline.
Instagram undocumented API changes