skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Wake up at 4. Take the subway to the train station at 4.45. Reach the train station at 5.15, half an hour earlier in case of subway problems, and walk through the statin to fund the platform. Take the 5.50 train, reach the airport at 6.35. Check-in at 6.55. Go through security early, queue 40 minutes because it's Monday morning, it's 7.35. Submit yourself to the random terrorist check because you look like below 30 years old and in a hurry. It's 7.50. Run through the airport because you're at gate 167. You get your flight and be at work by 2pm, babbling because you woke up at 4 and sweaty because you've almost missed your flight. You'd believe you could reduce the margins for the subway, train, check-in, morning queue and terrorist check, but since you never know when they happen, they might happen all at once (anecdotic experience: I almost missed a SYD-LON flight and I systematically get terrorist-checked), and you don't want to come back to your boss saying you've missed your $3000 flight.
This is wonderfully sly and humorous.
Yep, it was just the fever that knocked it out.
I think either most people are exaggerating about their ability to visualize or I have this impediment to a degree. My mental "images" are extremely faint, distant, wavering, ghost-like. Any parts I'm not focused on immediately poof away. Definitely can't conjure up a whole scene and explore it. But at least it's something.

The reason I think people may be exaggerating is because there are very few people with the artistic or mechanical aptitude that I would have if I could produce stable and detailed mental images at will. Also, police sketches.
My main gripe is with:

> Nothing is stored so there’s nothing to steal.

Nothing is stored, but it's public knowledge. In a traditional password store, there are two levels of security: limited access to the encrypted passwords, and encryption itself. With their approach, there is only one level: encryption.

The counterpoint would be this:

> There are thousands of iterations of Scrypt, making brute-forcing infeasible.

But this is trivial to do with a conventional password store.

As you said, password expiration is in contradiction with the last point:

> No need to sync data, as there’s nothing to sync! You can use this script or our API (coming soon) from anywhere in the world, and from any device, to generate your passwords.
A few reasons which made me switch:

- Python 2 will be EOL in 2020, that's four years

- vastly improved Unicode support

- a number new libraries are Python 3 only

- asyncio and the new async syntax

- exception chaining (!)

- type annotations

- lots of improvements all over the place
People should be reminded that taking offense is a privilege of living in a society with freedom of speech.
It's not anyone's place to define what a "wrong" or an "offensive" opinion is, this is how we gotten into this mess in the first place.

People mistake being challenged for being offended, having a discussion especially on a polarizing subject isn't supposed to be comfortable, but sadly we have too many people that have been cuddled to believe that it's their right to only hear the choir of angels reinforcing their opinions.

Heck even if some one decides to make a comment about ones maternal employment preferences I would not see a reason to moderate that, because unless you are discussing prostitution it most likely has very little to do with the actual argument and so would not score one much points in a debate.
>Far more interesting is why a chihuahua with a walnut-sized brain is just as smart as an irish wolfhound that has a brain that masses about as much as a whole chihuahua!

chihuahua has the largest among dogs ratio of brain to the body.
Another thing to note when size of brain is discussed is the Einstein's brain - smaller than average, it had greater ratio of glial/neuron cells and was much more interconnected among other things.
Very good point! Since some websites still require PIN codes (passwords made of digits), you would have to restrict yourself to something like 8 digit long password, which is not very secure, even with a slow hash (scrypt iteration).
I have a problem that sounds similar to this. But instead of visualizing, I have problems remembering events. I usually remember events "out of order", perhaps like recording 30-second videos and storing them randomly ordered. For example, if someone asks me if I have breakfast this morning, I might recall a certain breakfast, and then struggle trying to figure out whether that was today's breakfast or yesterday's. This becomes very frustrating when people ask me "What did you do today?"
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Probably not. See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10662666
I had money in Vanguard for a while. I sold out of it, it wasn't making money and didn't seem to track the index it claimed to. The process was very opaque, buy & sell requests only processed once a week, they determined the price you sold at, etc. I guess trading it as an ETF could have negated some of those issues.

Now I invest in stocks with high yield dividends. Generally I look for stocks that have yields of 8 - 10%, then investigate the company further to see why that's the case. I'm looking for rare moments when big successful companies have a temporary blip that makes them a bargain. Some of the shares I've bought are now paying out 20%+ annually just in dividends, compared to the price I paid for them.
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Nah. I'm a long-time Python developer (10 years+) and I moved everything over to Python 3 because there are so many advantages. This includes a number of massive internal code bases that I maintain at my day job. Porting is surprisingly easy nowadays, it used to hurt a lot more.

Management is fine with development time spent on migrating to Python 3, since it's an investment in the future (Python 2 will be EOL in 2020!).
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I am struggling to find a news source worse than Business Insider in the last year.
> what prevents a conventional war from breaking out on the scale of WWII or even larger?

The same MAD principle? The knowledge that after 6 years, everybody will be exhausted by fighting, and what for exactly? Hitler wasn't rational, and maybe he would use nuclear weapons. Actors in the WWI thought it would last couple months, again, weren't exactly rational about what they are getting into.

It's not nuclear weapons what creates peace. It's the rational ability of humans to (eventually) see the hopelessness of destruction, that creates peace.

Whether the destruction comes from nuclear or normal weapons is irrelevant, however conventional weapons at least give us chance to have that rationalization later. In other words, stronger weapons require more responsible humans, not cause them to be more responsible.

The MAD doctrine is just a false rationalization of irrational fear. It is not a rational principle, it is principle adopted so that humans can feel better having nuclear weapons, although having them objectively makes the world a more dangerous place. If people indeed followed MAD doctrine as rigorously as MAD doctrine itself assumes, WWI and WWII would never have happened either.
Oh sorry, i didn't mean to say that attaching it is wrong, i meant that you can't attach it to every piece of Software/Web-App which would indeed be nice.

Logging into the Company Bankaccount with LDAP would be nice.
Wow, that's soon, thanks!
Thanks. Really insightful.

I've never really considered the idea of declarative AI personal assistant interactions. The concept is pretty mind-blowing actually.

It's pretty damn obvious that's the way to go. i.e. You tell the AI the state of the world you desire and it handles it given an information set much much larger then you as an individual could possibly ingest.

Rather than the typical action of "AI bot send flowers to my wife" you'd say "AI bot make my wife know that I love and care for her." Of what the "system" knows about your wife's preferences, it can then indicate the action it believe will maximize the likelihood of adjusting the world into the asked-for state. That could be flowers, it could be a table for two at a restaurant she'd mentioned in an Email 6 months ago that you've forgotten about.

Not "AI bot, order me an Uber to location x", rather "AI bot, get me to location x ASAP."
It is NOT a different language. It's not backwards compatible, sure, but usually, only minor changes are required and 2to3 helps a lot. At this point, pretty much all of the libraries are ported and their API stays the same. The libraries which haven't been ported yet are either notable exceptions (Twisted!) or are unmaintained.

Very helpful for porting: http://python-future.org
From being in the game collecting scene where I've witnessed people spending tens of thousands of dollars to own the single copy of specific unreleased games/prototypes for the sole purpose of ensuring that no one else can ever play the games but them, and even drafting sales contracts when selling these games for massive profits that the next owner is not allowed to distribute the game either ... I can say that Martin Shkreli is exactly the kind of person I'd expect to have bought this album =(
We use AWS.cn for our service.
But found out last week that AWS doesn't actually have a license, and piggybacks on some third party provider in beijing.

http://m.baidu.com/news?tn=bdbjbody&bjaid=392506&bjdomain=la...
I think you are still in minority about not carrying cash. Also the drivers rate you as well. Pretty sure you will be the one kicked off for low rating before the drivers.
Maybe I'm missing something but this sounds less like a linter and more like an optimization pass?
Some material like that is generated by templates, so updating the templates updates it in many places.

A lot, however, is just done manually by the armies of volunteers that contribute to the site. More than a few people specialize in updating bits of minutia like that.
No, the new idea is a massive photon. There's strong limits on that from astronomical observations, and a stronger one from Special Relativity when cast in a modern isometry group theory form. In that form, the Poincare Group is the isometry group of the unremovable (flat space) background, and the Poincare Group has exactly one free parameter, "c", which corresponds to the speed of a massless particle. In this form, we assume that light is massless, and look for experimental evidence supporting that assumption (there is a fair amount; we have lab studies showing that the m_photon cannot be more than about 10^-17 eV/c^2 and there are even more stringent limits from observational cosmology).

A nonzero photon mass makes a mess of particle physics at high energies. The Standard Model falls apart due to loss of gauge invariance, and QED becomes really obviously non-renormalizable near limits we have already tested. So this would be a big thing.

(Note that if you bite the bullet and take a nonzero photon mass (as McCullogh says in his paper at page 3: "Normally, of course, photons are not supposed to have inertial mass in this way, but here this is assumed") you can probably get a non-constant photon speed too, along the lines of neutrino oscillation. But you can always write down non-physical theories that conflict with frequently and precisely tested areas of physics...)

None of the above departs from the symmetries of Special Relativity, and one subgroup of those (invariance under spatial translation) is what implies the (local) conservation of (linear) momentum per Noether's (first) theorem.

So there's a really big looming question about why the Standard Model (which has the Poincare Group baked into it) works as well as it does everywhere but in an EmDrive or a single space probe, and resorting to special shapes of objects on scales much larger than that of atoms further conflicts with Poincare invariance.

Finally, Unruh radiation is a difference in particle count and particle energy measured by differently accelerated observers. The cosmological horizon, when it formed, produced an acceleration between observers then and observers in the future. Unruh radiation from that is pretty uncontroversial. However the problem is that the acceleration is pretty small, so the temperature will be much lower than that of the CMB. Also, you'd expect anisotropies based on Earth's (and its surrounding Local Group's) peculiar motions relative to the horizon. Why isn't there a dipole anisotropy similar to the one we see in the CMB, and if there is, by how much does it offset the inertial argument in McCulloch's paper?
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Not in a math competition.
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And by 2018 node will be as fast as php with 1,000 new features :)
been happening for years...
I found it quite interesting to compare HN and /r/statistics in terms of the tone difference in the comments when discussing this article: https://www.reddit.com/r/statistics/comments/4fw1bn/sorry_ar...
I don't quite understand the need. We used KeePass on the network where I worked previously. The kdb file was simply stored on the network. We had a few of those for various level of access. You did have to remember those few master passwords for for the files you had access to, but it gave another level of flexibility by not being tied to AD.
>>While value judgment of any sort requires perspective I don't think it's wrong to prefer our own. Rejecting all value judgements of any sort would simply leave us without anything to converse about.

You have raised a very important point. Sadly I can't upvote it more than once.

Nowadays the political correctness is forcing people to shun from passing on any sort of such judgments. In fact, it has sort of become politically incorrect to call dogs and other animal species to be intellectually inferior to human beings. [1]
Please correct me if I am wrong.

>>Finally survival beyond the scope of your biosphere ultimately requires intelligence of the human sort and that is certainly worth something.

Thanks for pointing this out.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speciesism
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_correctness
I'm sorry my humble attempt at wordplay mixing the corners bothers you, guys. You are right though, corners are not my forté: failed descriptive geometry back in engineering school.
Well I think the synergy that Windows was developing (Phone, Desktop, XBox, Kinect, etc. unified APIs) had a lot of potential to provide developer lock-in and a very compelling alternative to the hardware lock-in of Apple and the spaghetti of half baked alternatives in the OSS world.

Unfortunately the quality has been a complete disaster. Instead of focusing on what open-source fails to deliver - quality and polish (b/c people who work for free want to work on fancy shiny new things, or do complete rewrites instead of polishing old code bases) they just kept pumping out more half baked features.

Now Nadella has gone for some strange short-term populist plan of giving away all their intellectual property, eliminating lock in, and banking the whole enterprise on the cloud (which has almost no lock in!). I think he's going to Microsoft into an early grave
Is there a place you can watch it online?
>Silverberg writes Gates didn't engage the government and politicians early on because he believed the company was competing fairly and creating enough value for the customers. But that approach was a "disaster," he writes, as it essentially made the US government and the EU to "declare war on Microsoft."

This is bullcrap. Microsoft was the 800 pound gorilla and played as dirty as they could against smaller competitors using every inch of their monopoly power.

MS had OEM's in their leach and they used blackmail and threats against them to keep them from preinstalling anything but MS sofware in PC's.

Software startups in the PC-era were routinely shafted. If their product was good and MS wanted it, they had to sell to MS or MS would attack them and build competing product that was pre-installed. They also hired engineers from competing firms without requirement to work, copied the product and bled the competitor in the courtroom, hided necessary apis from competing products. MS made so much money they could afford to lose in court if it meant that competing product did not make it.

Government was the only instance big enough to stop dirty game MS played.
It’s not about the optimising compiler, but rather about suggestions on more advanced refactorings and things like that. It’s a pass for the linter which produces the information that can be used to produce optimisation lints.
This is good:

"Hey Bob, here's why you are wrong."

This is bad:

"Hey everyone else, here's why Bob is wrong and evil."

Twitter and the like are mostly 2 masquerading as 1. Call it open debate or whatever, I still don't like it.
Probably because Baumgartner did something new, not Eustace.

When you talk about the Everest, Edmund Hillary and Tensing Norgay deserve a word for their performance, not the flock of execs which climb it each year.
Ah, that makes sense :)
Thanks for feedback.

> You would probably handle more requests if you changed that -- I would do the file access in a run_in_executor with a max executor workers of 1000.

This is really good point. I'm going to check this and edit post adding this information there.

> Also, the placement of your semaphore acquisition doesn't make any sense to me. I would create a dedicated coroutine like this:

looking into my semaphore code next day after writing it I do wonder if I'm using it correctly. I assumed it works correctly because it fixed my "too many open files" exception, so it seems to mean that I'm no longer exceeding 1024 open files limits. Can you clarify why you think my use of semaphore does not make sense and why your suggestion is better? What is the benefit of dedicated coroutine?

> That being said, it also doesn't make any sense to me to have the semaphore in the client code, since the error is in the server code.

I admit that I focused more on my client than server. One thing that worries me about my test server is that it does not print any exceptions. Either it does not fail at all, which seems unlikely, or it fails silently, which is more likely and is bad. So I need to check my server code to see what exactly happens there.

> it also doesn't make any sense to me to have the semaphore in the client code, since the error is in the server code.

main reason for semaphore in client code is that it should stop client from making over 1k connections at a time. My logic here is that if client wont make 1k connections at a time - server wont receive 1k connections at a time and thus there will be no problem of too many open files on server (it won't have to send more than 1k responses). However I see that this logic may not be totally correct, other comment points out that it's possible for sockets to "hang around" after closing: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11557672 so I need to review that and edit post.

> https://docs.python.org/3/library/asyncio-dev.html#debug-mod...

this looks really great, will look into this thanks.
yeah, but once upon a time there was Mirafiori

https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fiat_Mirafiori
https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mirafiori_Nord#Gli_anni_dell.2...

with thousands of workers... not much R&D tech but related...
> It's not the Victorian model where the human is more evolved much less more perfect than any other animal.

In colloquial terms, think we'd find few who'd argue humans flying around in helicopters shooting elephants with high power rifles are not more evolved than said elephants.

> Consider it a big parallel hill-climbing problem with each animal being a local optimum for its environment.

There is rarely "its" environment. Because environment is shared. Especially shared with humans, who have great ability to manipulate said environment (usually for the worse). They will polute it, introduce other species which would end up dominating the food chain, completely change the physical form (built a dam and alter the course of a river), end up enslaving species in order to provide food for themselves. Would you say chickens have evolved and got to an optimal point? Or have they been evolved by humans so they can turn into dinner.

> Consider my dog: ... would you really call one of them "inferior" to the other?

I would call the organism which types on the computer, connected to an artifically created world wide network, and who is able to contemplate the fate of the universe, evolution and other concepts, a bit more evolved ;-)
Get driven to the airport in the limo, express check in and security checks for first class passengers, quick coffee/breakfast in the first class lounge and board at your leisure, arrive at work happy and relaxed... That's why Concorde worked.
"Backward" - by whose definition?

Generally happy and sustainable subsistence for hundreds of generations.

Our current profligate lifestyle may well be considered backward in the future.
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Wow, fascinating -- thank you for the pointer!
> The main goals are efficiency and pollution, and eliminating the supersonic boom is a secondary goal.

The supersonic boom should be one of the top priorities, also. Just look at this well-known video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=annkM6z1-FE , you can't have that happening over populated territory, meaning land.

Adding to that, just wanted to say that airplanes' sound pollution is a real and damaging thing. My parents live in a remote Eastern European village but, apparently, the skies over their house is a commercial airplane highway, as there were moments when I could count 6 or 7 of them up in the sky at the same time, including a big, white whale which looked like an A380. Anyway, it's not fun when it's 5 in the morning, you're surrounded by the four thick walls of your parents' house but you can still hear the airplane flying above your house at 30,000 feet.
Force yourself to use patterns you dont like or dont suite the task at hand. Such as: today write everything using lambda callbacks, everything mvc, no classes allowed, no malloc allowed, etc.
My neighbours with fast sports cars and massive SUVs don't see fuel costs as a big part of their transport choice. If they had any sense they would drive Priuses, Teslas and sensible Hondas, but they don't.

Therefore, is it not possible to have supersonic jets for the likes of captains of industry, sports and other mega stars? Small, supersonic private jets? I can see a market for that. Lewis Hamilton would be first in the queue as would those Gulf 'sheikhs' that have small fleets of Boeing planes.
2016 Police Report: 4 kids were successfully stopped from stealing candy. Parents suing us because kids suffered psychological damage and now have a criminal record, but we all know that this is just caused by bad parenting.
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How many alternative networks are made (be it satellite, mesh network, ham) ?
> Is this not the thundering herd problem?

There's a wikipedia article on the thundering herd problem.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thundering_herd_problem

The article needs a little love, though.
Indeed, saw it in NYC. Thought his performance was good. Mark Rylance, of course, was incredible.
Concorde tickets, adjusted for inflation, often ran around $8-10k. No Concorde passenger would be taking the subway/train. They would use a fast private driver -- chances are they could even get some shut-eye in the car.
It would be a suitable "analysis pass" in LLVM.