skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is my thinking of the article as well. Its extremely negative for reasons I can't really fathom.

The Tesla fanboys are definitely building up their own reality-distortion-field... ignoring some basic truths of the technology. But the overall benefits and pro/con tradeoffs are known at this point.

But countering that with your own reality-distortion-field is wrong.

Electric vehicles excel at short-range driving (Leaf, Bolt, Model 3), but have issues for long road trips (even if the Supercharger network tries to solve the issue). Hybrids seem to strike a good balance (Volt / Prius Prime). ICE Vehicles are the status-quo and really you can't go wrong with old technology, since everyone knows the full scope of pros/cons of the status quo.
Shouldn't matter. You should be capable of picking up new languages. You do the interviews in whatever language you prefer.
A good read, though I think Solomon's version is more evocative.

https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Ecclesiastes+1-...
Might be a brushless DC, not an AC motor, although it's still basically a 3 phase setup.
It's even worse: as he himself said in his second paragraph, he has no personal experience with Tinder at all, it's all from "from speaking to people who use Tinder"!

This is the most aggravating thing, even beyond the content of his comment and the way that it implicitly insults people who are trying to use Tinder for more than hookups: people see an app/phenomenon like Tinder and make a quick simplistic judgement based on what they want to see and their moral biases, and then make sweeping pronouncements like that.
Thanks! More than what the application does, its value lies in where it saves the client money. A big part of this is eliminating the need to buy new tools when one simply doens't know where a tool is.
> Python sucks and is useless. Most things that were written in python are now written with Go.

This is simply not true in any way.
One decision opens one door while closing another door. No human being is able to say which decision is better because they only lived one branch of their decision tree. What you've listed out is all nice, but you are forgetting same could be said if you chose to NOT drop out. You probably would have succeeded even if you didn't drop out--in different ways. On the other hand, those who fail do fail regardless of what decision they make. I would say the reason you're living a life you're satisfied with is not because of the decisions you made but because of how well you dealt with consequences of your decisions.
This was the opposite of my experience. Every new class I took offered that professor's way to learn. Every professor had something new to offer me. Some were 'aiight' but some were tremendous new options I've added to my toolkit for learning new things.
Arrests as hundreds at US Capitol protest money in politics
Why do such salaries need justification other than people are willing to pay them
Brain scans reveal how LSD affects consciousness
From a quick look at the code it looks like something derived from the key is compared with some value on the encrypted disc, i.e. a key verification check. Like you store passwords, you hash the password and compare it with the stored hash to check whether it is valid. You can then, at least theoretically, use the hamming distance as a fitness function and this seems to be what the code does.

return int(bitset.From(c.qwords()).SymmetricDifferenceCardinality(target_bitset))

What really confuses me is how this can possibly work for a cryptographic function where any change in any one of the input bit is supposed to, on average, flip half of the output bits. But then again I am not curious enough to analyze the code in detail.
Just pointing out that the judge who authorized the warrant didn't say that. From the article:

Judge Bowman, who authorized the warrant, said he could not talk about the case and referred me to his colleague Judge William Downing, who spoke about some of the underlying issues. "When we get into things like this," he said, "anonymizing stuff, that’s well over my head technologically, then it becomes very murky and hazy.
Funny how the third paragraph comes to essentially the same conclusion as Pulitzer Prize winner Guns, Germs, and Steel.
> the biggest one was when I managed to convince my professor that our college FTP server is not secure by showing her a Wireshark packet in which I have submitted the password to the FTP server and convincing her that the server replied to my connection with a password (which, of course, doesn't make any sense what so ever).

This stuff has no place in university whatsoever so I am not sure what you were thinking or trying to prove.
I have always buy Amazon Basics chargers.
I upvoted it because, as another commenter said, I have had much the same thoughts before. Some weeks/months I'll have these thoughts everyday.

So basically, I upvoted because I identify with what you wrote.
Disagree with this. Multiple times YC has written positively on describing yourself as the X of Y where X is a well know existing product.
You could argue that or you could argue that to truly do well in uni you need to practice the skill of self-learning.

You can learn to self-learn independently. Many who do have made great contributions to many fields. Have a look at the list of autodidacts from history - within our lifetimes even.
Web framework development
keep fighting the good fight.

do you have a mobile app? sms integration? auto responders? group chat?
Thank you! The tracking is actually manual. The application gives the customer a platform to keep track of who has (or on which job) a certain tool. So when a tool is moved, a user will change the location of the tool in the app.
> find two geographies that are statistical neighbors

You would probably have to clone the earth to find that.
Doing 'SEO' is like punching smoke. Build for those visiting and using your website.
Maybe some machine they are targeting (hospitals?) only work with 16-bit words.
The govt getting 5B isn't the people getting any money they would've gotten. A penalty paid to the govt isn't paid to those who's wealth was reduced.
Who do you think will maintain that app?
300+ Arrested at ‘Democracy Spring’ Sit-In at US Capitol
> They were always fighting among themselves, and no one could settle among them until there was peace and safety.

Sounds exactly like Europe for the last six thousand years.
Do you know of a reliable 4 in 1 USB cable manufacturer?
I think it's a perfectly reasonable task. It rather depends on the experience and goals of the students, yes? Random HN commenters can't provide input on that.

A wiki would be another option.
Very interesting indeed; but somehow I was even more baffled at the package names they seem to be using:

com.netflix.vulturemonkey.cow.iguana.MacawSquirrel

com.netflix.ape.serpent.vulture.ApeVultureMantis

com.netflix.iguanas.monkey.insect.IguanaRabbit

Any idea what's up with that?
No, I don't. But I'm not in the US and Amazon doesn't really present that great a deal once you factor in shipping, taxes, duty etc.

I don't shop at Walmart though, because of their poor track record treating their employees well.
Isn't the link text human readable enough?
If you want another rabbit hole to start down, I can also recommend Techmoan. He doesn't do teardowns, but instead likes to buy old HiFi gear and reviews them.

Some of them are incredibly obscure such as the Tefifon: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nBNTAmLRmUg
Unfortunately, this is likely going to be a problem till strong AI becomes a thing, since there's no real way to judge content quality automatically without it.

Also, popularity may not be tied to quality, but to some degree, it's tied to what people expect to get when they search. Which is its own problem, since someone like Microsoft or Apple could do anything, yet people would be suspicious if they didn't show up for obvious queries. So it's a balancing act between 'rank the sites that might be better but less obscure', or 'rank the ones people expect to find because they already know about them'.

As for having reservations about SEO tactics... it should depend on exactly what they are. Something that hurts communities or users (like spamming forums or social media) is pretty damn sleazy, and is a quick way to commit business suicide. As is outright or borderline criminal behaviour for rankings.
Where is that? I'm in the US for what it's worth and my particular experience is in the southeast.
False dichotomy. There's degrees of engagement between oppressive colonization and complete indifference.
For those of you who haven't read this short story (universe simulation is the theme), I highly recommend it:

https://qntm.org/responsibility
Notice that "At a bar/restaurant" rise in sync with "online". I bet a majority of those are people who met online but tell others (including the survey) that they met at a "bar". If you combine that increase with people who self-report meeting online, it may imply that as many people meet online as through friends.
Link to referenced HN discussion as I don't feel the proposed characterization is accurate: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11463349

None of those commenters called it linkbait.
Rich people corrupt democracy ? Does this mean if rich people leave politicians alone, politicians will be somehow honest?

I am used to Guardians amateurish articles but this puts the bar even lower. Just like there is no such thing as "natural balance" there is no such thing as "honest democracy".

All sort of special interest groups will always try to influence power in many ways. Rich people will always be at top. We have two choices. Either have entrepreneurs and free market driven ruthless rich people or more socialistic crony capitalists who steal our money using government. I prefer the former any day.
​What's really the most popular Web browser?
Interesting, I think bootstrapping is overused in financial modeling, because most long term financial time series don't obey the assumptions, covariance stationarity, normal distribution of residuals etc. A lot of regime changes, fat tails, latent predictors that you don't realize are important until they break your model.

disclaimer: hand-waving

OTOH there are a lot of situations where you need to model something with a lot of potential predictors and limited data. e.g. testing a macro model with 100s of potential predictors and 100 years of relatively poor macro data.

ML might find interesting relationships in those cases.

Traditional statistics has a strong theoretical foundation, you assume a bunch of things about the shape of the data, and you can prove your estimator is best and what the error looks like based on the amount of data. It makes heroic assumptions about underlying data that we know don't apply.

So it often doesn't work well but we know why.

ML just wants to find things that work well in cross-validation without worrying too much about proofs... ML is a little like QE ... it works but we don't really know why.

Anyway, any sufficiently complex ecosystem is a market design, makes sense that if you have a sufficiently valuable ecosystem you would want some people who study markets.
There's atleast 15% wiggle room on each journey, seeing as Uber takes 20% off the top. Aside from their expenses promoting and competing with other 'ride sharing' services I don't see where that cash is going.
I have been following the Impossible Project's evolution from the earliest days - even travelling to Enschede to tour the factory with Andre back in 2012.

I just hope that they adopt the Gillette "cheap razor, expensive blades" approach. In my view they would do well to sell the camera at a loss and make up the margin on the film.
Just curious, if I may.. how old are you? My generation was told without question that we need to go to school. Parents, family and teachers all repeated the same thing over and over again. Yet, the folk my age I've talked to all say "Holy fuck, my degree is useless."

More of what I'm suggesting is that it's entirely possible to learn depth in a subject without the need for school. I get what you're saying, but with a lot of the dynamics of college education these days, it seems that college is an even greater risk than not going to college.

I know and have worked with an almost equal amount of phds and nongrads. They all say the same thing - "I'm not sending my kid to college. What a waste of their time and money."
I use the mobile version of plantoeat.com and it's great to have it handy on the phone and it sorts most items by category, i.e. produce. Also imports ingredients from recipes you clip from the web. They don't offer any price comparison so this could be interesting.
Let's Solve H-1B Blackout Problem
In case my sarcasm detector is malfunctioning and this is not a joke:

A "slower" language would just mean that this universe's "ticks" would take longer. Cars would be just fine.

https://www.xkcd.com/505/
This has potential to be a really engaging and useful platform, especially if you can connect with the various partners/affiliates. One of the things that I always try to do when traveling is stay in more local friendly neighborhoods to experience the real life of a place. If you can figure out how to integrate this into VR, all the better. I'd even suggest having a mobile app for once you get to a location. It could dynamically curate content based on things happening that day/time, that season, or similar times in years past (e.g. major yearly festivals).

My biggest concern is about how many pieces need to hit "critical mass" to be successful. You need digital content to attract users, but your model relies on users to provide the digital content.

For example, to cover a new/off-the-path location, you'll need to seed your platform with media. How much media can you scrape from publicly available locations to do this? What incentives would locals have to generate content for the platform for expanding to a new location? Would you pay freelancers or hope for people to upload content for free?

Really cool idea though and something that I could totally see using to plan my next trip!
They don't just give the account to random people. It's always people with already some kind of social media presence, and stealing an account as well known as @Sweden is not something someone like that would just do.
They are conservative because of the ops/dev divide. The constant interruption is a sign of bad ops/dev communication.

Unified, the devops have confidence in what they are deploying and actively work to minimize interruptions via automation.
There are places in the world were good computer / science education doesn't necessarily mean being able to demand "market rates" comparable to the West. I can see some programmer n Russia or Romania being tempted by a side-deal like this. Especially if presented with a Western "market rate".
Well it's a big company. In my area people who propose writing new code in python are either gently corrected or heartily derided.
Is the aesthetic and design Swedish, or is that mostly a myth as well?
Mikes electronic stuff is also quite good.
I just copy/paste a comment I made below:

> My third goto channel for electronic stuff is EEVBlog who also does amazing stuff. If you are going to watch one teardown today then please watch his rather famous video about the worlds worst tablet computer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2o8MDCIlOEk
It comes down to this: if you're wondering whether going to/staying in college is a good idea, you need to first examine the quality of your alternatives. Are you an 18 year old programmer with solid skills and a job offer in hand? College might not be worth the time or money, fair enough. Are you an 18 year old with no transferrable skills and a weak network? Do yourself a favor and go to college.

Bill Gates had a good alternative, so he dropped out and pursued it. Mark Zuckerberg had a good alternative, so he dropped out and pursued it. My friend from high school who dropped out his sophomore year and now works part-time at Best Buy did not have a good alternative, and now he's kicking himself.

People who say "college is good" or "college is bad" as blanket statements are oversimplifying the issue. Yes, college is still a decent way to get a good job and it can be intellectually enriching, but it takes years out of your life to finish and is (at least in the US) insanely expensive. Yes, college is insanely expensive and it takes years to finish, but it may end up being a good investment, and you may be personally better off for it in the long run. Individuals need to decide, based on their current position, which would be the wiser choice.
That's the risk they are taking for hosting a tor node. What if a tor node user is also browsing child porn. The isp will only see child porn being accesed by the tor node in.
Show HN: Gid Fid, for those who love food
> Yes, from a basic standpoint, descriptive URLs are easier to crawl, index, and rank accordingly.

Why are they easier to crawl and index? Most people do shoot themselves in the foot with some duplicate content if they try to implement those speaking URLs.

And "rank accordingly"? Like keyword tags help to rank better?
You should be impressed by professors from all sorts of colleges from all sorts of fields from all over the world already :). The internet's a beautiful thing. So many free lessons and academic papers to choose from.
Adding to the list, mostly Texas artists but Guy Clark (leaving us soon), Robert Earl Keen, Slaid Cleaves, James McMurtry, Hayes Carll. These are true storytellers in the vein of Merle and worth looking into.
The W3C prefer their specifications to be 'finished' at a certain point, and the WHATWG simply add their changes to the living spec.

So for the most part, changes get made in the WHATWG spec, they get copied to the W3C one, the W3C then stops copying additions at a certain point (say, when HTML 5.0 is considered 'complete') and then moves onto version 5.1. So version 5.1 is basically all the WHATWG additions that didn't make it into 5.0 before the spec was 'finalised', along with various changes made because the two groups don't get along with each other too well.
I'm sure those living in Timbuktu were writing books about how the English living in London at the time were barbarians in capable of learning to read or write.

The only people that think Africa was devoid of culture or civilization are those that look only at the debris that was left after the colonial powers beat everyone down into submission and stripped everything bare.

Reading about what the colonial powers did is just plain depressing. Being ignorant of this past and blaming the victims is also a pretty severe injustice.

http://www.siliconafrica.com/terra-nullius/
Like an Apple one?
He is not. An error code is a way to refer to an error. Error-correcting code is something else entirely; it is a way to encode information in which small errors in the transmission of the information can be detected and possibly corrected.

For a simple example: I want to send you 5 bits of data, and you receive 01101. You assume (but cannot prove) that you got the right data; maybe a bit was flipped somewhere and I actually sent you 11101!

So you and I agree that we'll include a parity bit in our messages. If I'm sending you an odd number of 1-bits, the parity bit will be 1. If I'm sending you an even number of 1-bits, the parity bit will be 0.

So now, I send you five bits of data, plus one parity bit. You get the message 011011. You see that you have fives bits, 01101, and a 1 for the parity bit, which means that you should be expecting an odd number of 1-bits. That is what you have, so you can assume that as long as no more than 1 bit can be flipped in transit, you have the data with no malformations.

This concept can be extended to detect more errors (what if two bits get flipped) and to detect where the errors take place, which helps to correct them. That's why it's called error-correcting code.
Building an API to control human designers
What is the difference between Lucal and www.panoramio.com?
No. I'm dumb.
Does a one-fits-all file format exist or should I offer multiple ebook formats?
My first foremost suggestion: try not to ask for password as a new site. I am not saying I'd only trust the big players (they were once a startup or a little project to begin with), but I would enjoy more if I can reuse Google/Twitter/FB or whatever as an option.

Next, any plan for validating bot's security and privacy? Rules for submission (must be open source etc?) Fake feedback is always a tough war in real monetize app store.
Women do not have an abundance of choice. There are more women than men in the United States. In major urban areas there are many more mating age straight women than men. When you look at the number of college educated straight women compared to their male cohort in urban areas, there are more women. This is reported, often, in the media.

Women in their thirties circulate these articles around their friend groups via email, and they are met with scared-face emojis and nervous laughter. There are more of us, which puts the odds in men's favor. We are not the privileged.

So, being that there are more eligible women than there are men (and not just us 30-somethings, there are more younger women out there too) doesn't it make sense for a man to try to find the best partner for him from all these options? Studies have shown that shared values and personal goals forge the best relationships. So why would men, who have the advantage of choice, go out with just anyone? Why not try to connect with the best match for you? Someone you think is attractive and shares your enthusiasm? Being transparent allows for more authentic connections.

I'm not just talking about relationships. If you're looking for something casual, I think your profile should reflect that. Then you meet someone who isn't looking for a relationship right now. I think this is more ethical than getting your foot in the door with a woman who is looking for a relationship, then leaving her broken-hearted when you move on three months later.

There is lots of information out there about how guys are successful on Tinder. From what I've seen most of it seems to be from the PUA perspective, which relies on chipping away at a woman's self esteem, and games. That brings a different result than the approach I take.
Must be pretty nice to have a son-in-law who can, oh, you know, just come over for Easter and reverse-engineer the cryptographically complex malware holding your system hostage.
Tech needs a The Onion to make this more bearable.
The WHATWG thinks we shouldn't really be referring to it as HTML 5 now, just HTML.

https://html.spec.whatwg.org/multipage/introduction.html#is-...?

https://wiki.whatwg.org/wiki/FAQ#What_is_HTML5.3F
The internet. We're at http://apsis.io
Yeah - this is my complaint. I really want a Pi-zero. Or ten, really. I want to be able to put these in all sorts of places where a $40 board wouldn't make sense. But you can't get a Pi-zero for love or for money right now.

The excuse that's given on the Pi foundation forums is that they're prioritizing education production? But what exactly is the hold-up? Is it really that hard to get time on a pick-and-place machine in China? Is order fulfillment scaling badly somehow? Is the supply of the Broadcom chip low right now?

I want the Pi-zero, and right now it's nothing but vapor-ware!
Apsis Labs, http://apsis.io
Try sending a link... :)
Some people think some countries shouldn't handle their information at all. They really shouldn't store their data in the cloud if they're concerned about state sponsored spying though.
Can we not call them hoverboards?
A lot of yelling. We find people respond well when you yell at them to stop working and take time off.
Even those of us that know how to (and even do) operate a tor node?
Agreed, and I would also suggest that the number of strictly observant jews is a small fraction of the New York population that identify as jewish and would be counted as such in a survey