skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think part of the problem here is the fallacy that if you can't eliminate a problem entirely then it's not your responsibility at all. This seems to be a common approach for some tech companies that deal with social interactions, and it's obviously convenient to simply wash your hands of something, but it's an abdication of responsibility. it's also just not how life works. No risk can be completely eliminated; it doesn't mean we don't take whatever steps are available to us to mitigate those risks anyway. People wear seat belts, they buy insurance, they use all sorts of tools to help them mitigate risk. If you make the decision not to provide your users with the tools they need to mitigate risk on your platform (or wherever), you are very much making a decision about what experiences and what users you value. In our current culture, that often means it's a hostile place for women. Again, that's a choice, but obviously it has consequences.

Baron, I've read your responses again, and I do think you are sincerely trying. But I also think you have massively missed the point. I don't think you are unique in this respect; in fact, I think you have a lot of company, and that's...kind of the problem. I appreciate whatever efforts you can make, and I really hope that you can try to seek out feedback from as many kinds of users as possible.
Looks pretty good. congrats
What goes unchallenged is the article's assumption that people with more friends are happier (I think?)

I have a much better social life now than I did when I was younger. Younger was lots of sort-of-friends, who I didn't really like, based on convenience/availability.

I have far fewer friends now, but I've known many of them 10+ years and like them much more than my childhood friends.
Maybe if we move the executives above sea level, they won't get fished anymore.
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un-nuanced observers talk about it because it's likely largest subset of murders in the U.S. - angenda driven (anti-gun) observers like to talk about it because they can frame a problem in such a way that leads people to the outcome they want - I.e. The obvious solution to ending gun violence is limiting access to guns, and they don't have to address the much more complex problem of violence (for example: if a spouse kills her partner with a gun, and we want to reduce gun violence, we limit access to the gun, but will that spouse just substitute a knife for the gun?)

Put another way - if you could snap your fingers and make every gun in the u.s. Disappear, you would solve the gun violence problem, and undoubtedly reduce the incedence of violent crime, but not completely, and then the question becomes by how much? Which is not easy to answer - especially if we were to translate that to a real world hypothetical
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I'm not sure if you're aware, but the terms of the MIT License apply to commercial as well as non-commercial use. That means it would be fine to use intro.js commercially without a commercial licence.
Thanks. That's really cool.
Well they are not a sham, but they are not very help full either.

look in stock market information is an asset,but if the news is out on any news service, it has already been used and all you are getting are the left overs.

Instead of getting glued to the newsletters or pro accounts or even a business news channel, i would advise you to improve your technical analysis skill, because that way you can understand the market movement in real time, and you do not have to worry about being feed some misguided or hoarding news, and you can see the trader sentiment to understand the mood, and movement of the market. and use the news service as an extra source in decision making, plus you need to learn how to read between the lines or in this case listen to what is actually being said. most of the time you will be amazed by the difference between what has been said and what was the actual case.

And then there will be days when you would just have to sit back and not buy/sell even a single contract at all, and days when you will go bananas by the sheer volume to transaction or market volume.

make your own trading rules, and strategies and then stick to them. dont just give up at the first instance.
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So, the answer to that is very much "yes", but you have to make trade-offs in your life that show you value it. In order to have impromptu visits that fill up the empty spaces in your life, you first need to have empty spaces in your life. That is largely incompatible with filling every moment of your life with work or career advancement.

That group of my high-school friends who are now largely janitors, retail clerks, and dropouts? They get together pretty much every weekend, usually with spur-of-the-moment plans made on Thursday night or Friday morning. My wife often just invites a friend over for Saturday brunch; occasionally I'll wake up and they're chatting downstairs. I remember one time when I was still at Google, I'd gone over to a friend's to play Starcraft, but his roommate was trying out different cellos and he had played the cello in high school, so we ended up with an impromptu cello trio in the living room. Another friend dropped by unannounced, we got the fireplace going, and when the third roommate arrived home, he was like "This is like a scene out of the 19th century."

The thing is, this is largely incompatible with spending long hours at work or doing things in your off hours (applying for jobs, going back to school, learning new programming languages) for career advancement. I haven't had a moment like that (other than ones my wife initiates) since leaving Google for a startup - I suspect my friends (or some subset of them) still do, but I'm often too busy to be worth inviting.

I think that the number of comments here suggesting a technological solution - an app, societal change, whatever - is pretty amusing. Technology is not going to matter. What does matter is making a decision that friendships and relationships are important to you, and seeking out other people who have also made that decision. And accepting the trade-offs that go with that. There are plenty of people who do live like that, but they are largely not the folks on Hacker News.
I'm trained as a biologist and in complete agreement, this is a press stunt with no substance.

A couple further questions -

In a longitudinal study testing telomere length in a large human cohort, 44% of people had longer telomeres than when they were 10 years younger (and 10 years is a lot of aging!)
http://journals.plos.org/plosgenetics/article?id=10.1371/jou...
...So even if her telomeres did get longer, how confident can we be that is at all related to the gene therapy?

Instrument / sample variability in SpectraCell measurements. Is there any data on this? How significant is a change from 6.71kb to 7.33kb anyways?
I'm reminded of some of the descriptions of Discworld's Ankh-Morpork- it keeps getting invaded but in the end each wave of invaders ends up subsumed into the metropolis, and the city continues more or less unchanged.
I don't quite understand, what caused the 6 month period of silence and then apology?
Understand that some of the folks who don't think this is a bug own one of the libc implementations being used. So for their platform, it really is 100% correct and valid.

The folks working on other platforms seem universally unhappy with that bug.
The linked PDF: http://www.chronox.de/lrng/doc/lrng.pdf

Page 4: "The new approach implements the modeling of a slow noise source within the
LRNG based on the timing of interrupts and allowing other, even fast operating
noise sources to contribute entropy. As discussed above for the legacy /dev/random,
only the high-resolution time stamps deliver entropy for hardware events
and other information processed by the legacy /dev/random implementation
hardly have any entropy. This identification is used as a basis that solely the
timing of interrupts is used."
Seems more like for reddit... why dont you just create a subreddit?
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The compiler is using the ISO language standard to define the behavior of an internal piece. It is then using that piece in the wrong way. It's not generic "not defined" behavior, it is specific C "undefined behavior".

Think of that part of the transformed code as still C for relevant purposes.
The Linux kernel is not using the true RNG circuitry included with all modern microprocessors (this is not entirely correct - see /u/matt_wulfeck's comment). As far as I know, this is because the kernel devs fear that the RNG circuit can be backdoored, allowing an unwanted entity to control the output of the random bitstream.

This is an issue I've been thinking about quite a bit. Is there a way to somehow sign a circuit design on silicon and allow devs to check the circuit's integrity?

For example, in the case of a TRNG, the developer can add a "verify" instruction to ensure that the TRNG on the user's CPU is not compromised before executing the RAND instruction. Of course, that's what the dev does, but the signing itself is much more complex.

I've been looking through the literature and I haven't found much to go on. I know it's likely impossible to do given how many layers there are between silicon and machine code, but I'd like to at least give it a try.
I just want someone to put e-ink displays on hard drives so I can stop labelling all my loose drives with sticky notes.
You likely know yourself a lot better now too, so the people you choose to build relationships with would reflect the qualities you value most.

People with more friends can seem to be more happy externally (perpetually busy, always invited to events, always texting etc.) but if those friendships are all shallow, then it can be lonely and mentally-taxing. But regardless of the number of friends, the key factor is the quality and resulting strength of those friendships.
I checked those - but really wanted the relative task functionality. That was the key feature that we needed (and that our users requested.)
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No, there is a specialized enzyme called telomerase which is responsible for lengthening telomeres. It is active in germline cells and most stem cells, allowing those cells to safely and indefinitely replicate. The enzyme is basically a piece of RNA template that you can slap onto the ragged end of the chromosome and hold in place to allow extension.
Correlation isn't causation though. Yes kids from private schools do better. But they might have done well in public schools too.
National HPV vaccination program would provide big benefits
Straight to the point... Thanks so much
If it's not 100% valid on 100% platforms and 100% of all future Libc revisions (which is impossible if it relies on undefined behavior and can link with different Libc versions), then it's not 100% correct and valid.
Good questions & advice, thanks so much
'learn Game' -- as in pickup game? e.g. the game book by Neil S
I think we may have cross-posted our replies/edits. Honestly, I think the best you can do is approach it with an open mind, which you seem to be doing now. A big part of my irritation was the dismissiveness that I think originates in the common fallacy that I described in my other reply. But it's also...I mean. People--women, especially--have been talking about these sorts of problems with social networks for as long as they've existed. I think if you want your app to be useful for everyone, you have to consider the experiences of...everyone. The only way I've found to do that in my own work is by talking to as many kinds of people as possible, and asking them specific questions where appropriate. I've tried to provide you with some of those answers already, but I would encourage you to keep asking questions.
In other vaccine-related news, the progress on genital herpes vaccines is promising: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11538925.
Exactly - and tracking down stolen bikes online is time consuming and thus expensive work that is better done by volonteers than by police. That money can be spent on other activities.

The problem is that it is probably rare that police is even willing to spend 30 minutes on traveling to a known location for a stolen bike. Seattle (maybe the US in general I don't know) seems like a good place in this regard if he isn't laughed at when trying to get a police officer to come talk to a bike thief.
There is no way they're going to get millions of random clients and tourists to use 802.1x auth on their phones.
No, Clang cannot guarantee its own memcpy implementation will be used. But it can be aware of which implementation will be used and make specific assumptions about that implementation in some cases.

The specific cases are when it has a genuine guarantee provided by that implementation vendor that it is OK. In the case discussed on this bug, at least one implementation provides that guarantee (Darwin). The problem is that not all provide it, and further than other parts of LLVM have started assuming that the memcpy more closely matches C semantics. At least something will have to change here, but the C semantics are really relevant at all, or what is "valid C code".
Google creates in-house startup incubator
We actually have all of our checklists online: https://github.com/18F/onboarding-documents/blob/master/Chec...

so you can see exactly what's required. The checklist program has made it easier for new employees to keep track of the tasks (and is easier for many people to follow.)
If that's a serious question you'll be pleased to know it has a very simple answer - to those with a political agenda, no technique is below exploitation to gain command of the emotions of the people.
That book looks very interesting, but note that you link to an old edition. The new edition is here:

http://www.amazon.com/Mistakes-Were-Made-but-Not/dp/05445747...

This URL also lets you preview the book with a "Look Inside" link.
haha...caught! makes you wonder how many of these accounts are fake or friendlies. These are afterall ex Hubspot guys. :)
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For good practices in writing high-reliability C, look at these:

http://lars-lab.jpl.nasa.gov/JPL_Coding_Standard_C.pdf

http://www.leshatton.org/MISRA_comp_1105.html

http://www.leshatton.org/ISOC_subset1103.html

http://www.embedded.com/electronics-blogs/embedded-systems-d...

For the related topic of secure code, these books are good:

Mark Dowd. 2006. The Art of Software Security Assessment.

Robert Seacord. 2013. Secure Coding in C and C++, 2e.

For details on what is really going on inside C:

Paul Anderson. 1998. Advanced C: Tips and Techniques.

Kenneth Louden. 1997. Compiler Construction: Principles and Practice. Chapter 7.

For C gotchas and general good practices:

http://www.cs.tufts.edu/comp/40/reference/CTrapsAndPitfalls....

Allen Holub. 1995. Enough Rope to Shoot Yourself in the Foot.

P.J. Plauger. 1991. The Standard C Library. (It is partly a reference, but also has detailed discussion of the technical considerations faced in writing reliable code.)
Having gotten "old" by some definitions, I've increasingly experienced the "friend problem". The article seemed to be addressing a "non-old" segment of the population, so I think it's appropriate to offer a few observations from a different perspective.

It's not just me of course, even my very friendly wife notices dwindling friendships despite putting a lot of energy into keeping them going. We often ask each other "why is that?", but so far neither of us has a clue.

The circle diminishes gradually, incrementally, the loss is one by one. Friends known for decades die, develop dementia, or move two thousand miles away to be near family.

Friends are people and don't always change for the better. It's puzzling and painful when long-standing friends grow "weird" and unfriendly. It happens, no way to explain it, no known illness or infirmity removes them, just another kind of loss to grasp.

Losses of such kinda are truly irreplaceable. Sure making new friends is wonderful and necessary but never quite the same. Thankfully a few stalwart friends are still around.

Experts all agree having more friends is better, thing is, starting new friendships is a constant and steep challenge in later life. We find opportunity is sparse, contemporaries hesitant to take up the offer, or distracted by a plethora of family, health, and economic demands. The experts aren't saying how to solve these issues.

If there is a key it must be the willingness to be persistent, not give up the effort to enrich the network of connectedness. Here and there people do respond, and a relationship slowly begins to form.
I'd venture there isn't.

The problem of verifying the integrity of embedded silicon (at the microcircuitry level) is one that hasn't really been solved yet. This has been a problem for the DoD since forever.

THEY solved it partially by using US-sourced parts and working with industry to make sure the designs weren't sabotaged or otherwise backdoored. It's still an active concern though.

http://www.dtic.mil/ndia/2014system/16990WedTrack1Shanahan.p...
Clang is not a complete implementation without a library, right? Whoever puts Clang together with a library becomes an integrator who provides a language implementation. It's up to that integrator to ensure that the result conforms.

Clang could be also used "freestanding". Then the user might be informed: please supply your own memcpy function with such and such characteristics, since generated code needs it.

If those characteristics are just those described in ISO C, but the compiler needs something more, then that's a problem between clang and the user.
A malicious module would only need to act like VW's defeat device to overcome that check. When it senses some integrity/signing routine, it simply isolates itself from a verifiable circuit.
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Sure, that makes sense, but I was replying to the suggestion that the Vampire could be part of the A500 accelerator linked to at the top of this thread.
> I am a fan of rock and heavy metal, and it is clear that rock stardom is literally dying off.

"Rock is Dead" -- The Who
Its not enough that Ryan Air have cheap prices, they must also "feel" like a budget carrier. Unfortunately abuse of passengers is part of this. The abuse can be seen as a confirmation the customer really got the lowest price possible for their flight.

It also has another side-effect: Most passengers don't have serious problems. But they are expecting at least some hassle and discomfort so for the majority of flights they are under-promising and over delivering. A more respectable airliner couldn't compete with them in this way, customers expect better of them.
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Ray Kurzweil has stated (as recently as 2008) that in eleven years (in 2028), all of mankind's energy needs will be supplied by solar power. This will obviously not be true. Predictions are difficult, especially about the future.

As for Aubrey de Grey, he can state whatever he wants to, but that doesn't make it true.

It is, however, noteworthy that a scientific article published in the fairly prestigious EMBO Reports [1] concluded that "In his writings, de Grey fails to mention that none of these approaches has ever been shown to extend the lifespan of any organism, let alone humans."

[1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1371037/#__ffn_...
Snapchat API
Anyone know about any Snapchat API that still works today? All that I found was already to old to communicate with the Snapchat servers.
On at least one platform, all future libc revisions will abide by this requirement.

And neither Clang nor LLVM are generating platform agnostic code. The code only has meaning for the specific platform being targeted.
Don't be shy then, what does spaghetti code mean exactly?
Why I made an open source model zoo
The link you sent is about an effect that occurs with random sequences.

Neither the baby boom, nor the huge growth of the media industry (radio, TV, recorded media, etc) after the fifties are "random".

And then there's the fact that the earlier real stars we have now (as opposed to merely people famous in the past but already forgotten) are in their 70s and 80s (e.g. the 60s and 70s musicians and actors etc, all still quite relevant for modern audiences thanks to vinyl, VHS, tape, TV, CD, DVD and cable distribution, and --something previous generations lacked until recently-- instant access to all their works and news from the streaming, YouTube and the web).

This is no clustering illusion, it's the inevitable combination of life expectancy + tons of people becoming stars en masse with unprecedented global distribution at more or less the same time that sees them now in an advanced age.
Ask HN: Why is codemill not gaining momentum?
If any of you are unfamiliar with codemill its a new market place for pull requests (http://codemill.io). It gained momentum and hit the front page of hacker news but lost the appeal pretty soon. Do you guys have any thoughts on why people aren't using it to complete their tasks.
The chief lesson here is parameterized modules - specifically, parameterizing modules by instantiating a class derived from Module, rather than simply including the instance methods of a module directly.

I don't think this is an esoteric technique, any gripes about the specific examples chosen notwithstanding (probably chosen for their simplicity, not their utility). It's little different to inheriting from a template in C++.
You're always going to get heavily downvoted for stuff like this.

It's probably better to silently downvote it.
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I think you're absolutely spot on with this. I'm going through a period of change in my personal life at the moment, and I'm definitely going to keep this in mind, so thank you.

One thing I would take issue with is conflating an app with societal change, though. The latter is much much harder. I think that in developed countries we have lost our way a bit.

Work-life balance, to me, would mean that I work hard, and play hard, but that fundamentally work would fit around life. At the moment, life fits around work, for me, and for everyone I know, including those that are really quite well off. And I don't think we are individually choosing this state. Some higher power is, Moloch, I guess.
What's the cheapest device one could build that isn't a firearm, but could reproduce the sound of a gunshot with enough fidelity to fool this thing? Bonus if it can do a nice AK-47 machine gun sound or something like that.

Assume that the device requires electricity. It probably should be wifi-connected, so that if you can get it close enough to a Starbucks or something, you can control it remotely. Should ideally be small and unobtrusive so that it's not easily spotted. Shouldn't need any refillable fuels.

Would be fun to put the plans up on the net so that many people would build and field these.
How do you define intelligence?
J. P. Guilford (Guilford's Structure of Intellect) - Wikipedia

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J._P._Guilford
I've heard of people meeting, trying "the fit" and just riding off.
"I avoid sugar and eat lots of meat, especially fat. I've been on a fat trip lately. Fat! Piles of fat. Yet, I was in a supermarket the other day and was perplexed to find yogurt with zero fat. What on earth is that? The idea of the nutrition pyramid where, at the top, is a little fat and meat, and at the bottom a lot of carbohydrates, is, excuse me, bullshit. Humans are so unbelievably stupid that we have begun to tinker with food. Our theories of nutrition have resulted in a pandemic of obesity. Can you imagine a hunter-gatherer enjoying a low-fat yogurt? Let me tell you this, too: I read a report recently which said that a fatty diet also increases your libido."