skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Made a bot that was used for dating. Nothing smart, just visiting pages of other persons randomly between 1/3 days and normally triggering alarms.

Girls thought I was shy.

I thought nothing, only that my model of human beings was right: people prefer 100 bouquet of one rose then 1 bouquet of 100 roses.

Since then, I stopped using bots even though it was successful and I prefered to learn from the bots : just be considerate, and even if you don't think of it consciously, because you may come back to where you were, you might influence positively people's opinion. Even cats and animals comes to me on a regular basis now (probably uncorrelated, but who knows?)

Being polite and considerate does not always mean being lowering your eyes when you see a bully :)

Since then, I make friends slower, but with more quality. and since my "turn over" in friendship is low, I kind of do not mind having enough time to share quality time with them.
>MS strategically developed software that would not run on today's hardware, but only on tomorrow's

what do you mean by that?
I wonder how much of this regarding stockpile sizes is still true in the age of software managed "just in time delivery"?

I suppose food reserves for the year have to still be somewhere between harvests, but industrial supplies like fuel? No idea.
He has also had an axe to grind vs Canonical for some time now (i think it started before he moved to work for CoreOS) over their requirements for working on projects under their control.
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There is no difference between /dev/random and /dev/urandom in the Linux kernel, other than /dev/random blocks when the entropy estimate is low or depleted. Both source them same CSPRNG, which is based on SHA-1. /dev/urandom is absolutely recommended for long-term keys.
The lock-powered-by-key exists: http://www.cyberlock.com/access-control/cyberkey-smart-keys . The power and signaling go through metal contacts rather than wirelessly.
That's why I targetted a specific subsystem. Redoing the whole system, frontend and backend, would have definitely taken much longer than the 48 of 72hr I put in over 3 days. I took the piece of the system that was the gnarliest, rewrote it, and bought us a quick win. Down the road, other vertical chunks of the backend were ripped out and replaced in a similar fashion, once they became the now-worst piece of the system.
Yes, but no. The kernel and the OS will take care of seeding for you, and haveged can't create out of thin air any unpredictable events that are somehow invisible to the kernel.

Anyway, Linux urandom is backtracking safe as long as SHA-1 preimage security holds.
Why does SSH have v1 and v2? Honest question, I don't know the protocol. I would guess it's because v1 was too brittle to be upgraded.

SSH and TLS have very few implementations... and there also seem to be incompatible versions there, at least with SSL 2.0 and 3.0. That approach might work for the ecological niche of those protocols, but I don't think it would have worked for HTTP.

There are orders of magnitude more HTTP implementations than DNS, DHCP, TLS, SSH, etc. That's one reason for its wide adoption.
The year I was born, nobody that I knew died. Slowly, but surely that number started to rise, as I got to know about more people.

And now with the Internet making us aware of so much of what's going on and who's doing it, that trend is amplified.

And the more one focuses on that trend, or how long ago something happened, the older one feels.

Which is another reason that living in the moment is often a very good thing.
Can you tell me some, because I'd like to hear them out?
Regardless, when I learned this method in my linear algebra it inspired me to write a blog post [1] showing the derivation!

This is a classic programming question, and it's refreshing to see a closed form solution.

[1]:https://scottsievert.com/blog/2015/01/31/the-mysterious-eige...
> Do you have any advice for generalists in need of smart friends?

I'm a generalist in need of smart friends too :(. That said, I've had some success with helping to create (and now running) a local hackerspace - most people who hang out at such places are usually pretty smart, so you have one half of your criterion met. So maybe check out if there's a hackerspace in your town, and go see what kind of people come to it?

Also, a big reason why I'm hanging out on HN is because I get the chance to read (and sometimes even engage with) smart people with broad areas of expertise :).
It is probably just a sign that your era has or is ending. It is supposed to be like that. Remember when rock first appeared there must've been people just like you complaining about their dying era and how this new Elvis guy was pathetic. Is better to adapt and discover new genres. It's fun. Just keep an open mind. To me is far worse to be stuck in the past.
Have you forgotten the October Snowstorms? Or the fact that we had snow in April?

The cold sucks here, guy. The summers are great but the fall, winter, and sometimes even spring can be pretty bad.
How about side-voting joke replies to serious comments. They all still exist in the same tree, but you would gain another dimension to sort/filter/display comments by.
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First, what moral debt? Second, I imagine the sum total of his humanitarian efforts are greater than the total charity if all of those dollars remained in the pockets of each person who bought windows 95 et al. So repugnant seems like a real stretch.
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Interesting data point - thanks for sharing.

Tell me more: how did you meet and make friends in NYC?

In SF - I find there's a more intimate social scene -- more dinner parties than bar nights, so easier to have meaningful interactions. Maybe I'm just seeing the product of my own growing up...
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This is dated 4/19, but I would swear I've read this (and seen the same organizational graphics) before. Was this already posted somewhere else? Is this a summary of a bigger work that is getting the summary treatment on multiple sites?

Weird.
I think he/she meant:
"I always fold it into my passport"
"The only way to have a friend is to be one" - Ralph Waldo Emerson
Its what you will get, because the big boys in the Linux distro world is aiming for aunt Tillie and office drones.

These days, if you want to do your thing with your Linux install there are perhaps two big names. Gentoo and Slackware. Beyond that you get a smattering of smaller distros on shoestring maintenance.

Sadly much of the upstream is under control of previously mentioned big boys, and they seem to have a crusade going where only their approach matters.
Ah. Realized it was probably the discussion of Microsoft in 2013 on the same site.

https://stratechery.com/2013/why-microsofts-reorganization-i...
Late co-founder/first employee equity
Hi everyone, I have a dilemma as a solo-founder.

I have been working on an app for almost a year and released 2 versions that are bringing me closer to my goal (did the design, worked with freelance devs to get it up and running on iOS, Android with a rails API which rounds up to around 20K )

I got to a point where I am confident about our next stage version which should be available in 3 months. Of course I am biased, but from day one I have had this version in mind and think that it will be what makes the app work or fall into oblivion.

I worked at FB on the business side (partnerships, was head of growth of a startup that reached over 50M of downloads and dabble in code even though I havent coded so far. One of the freelances I've recently been working with (backend + iOS) wants to join as a co-founder and I am wondering what would be a fair equity.

He is in his last year of school, is pretty good and motivated. If the company takes off we would probably need an experienced 5+years CTO but he would definitely be a strong engineer.

What I'd feel comfortable with is to continue on a freelance basis until we know if this version is the awaited success I have in mind, and give him 5% then. What do you all think?

Here is the retention of the second version (tested on ~600 users)
1 - Day retention 54%
7 - Day retention 28%
14 - Day retention 20%
8 - Week retention 10%
Or for those of us who only have a B&W laser printer at home (common in offices too!)
The post is a brief summary of an article by the person who did the analysis:

http://juliasilge.com/blog/If-I-Loved-NLP-Less/

Which goes into considerably more detail, and has animated GIFs.
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> there really shouldn't be any need to run 32bit builds on a 64bit system

Maybe the 64-bit version doesn't support the Adobe Flash plugin?

The another problem with 64-bit versions is that all the pointers are twice as big. So if you have only 8 GB of physical ram, you won't necessarily be able to handle much more than with a 32-bit application. But with 16 GB or more the 64-bit version must be better.
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> How many people even know what to do with a sack of flour and a firepit?

A few do. And she/he would have some very motivated students :-)

Otherwise, yes, it's kind of fuzzy mapping the situation of the early 70s to the current day.
Thank you for very much for your feedback. I really appreciate it.

Yes, Krewe does drop you into a group as soon as you sign up and you don't get to see who's in it. Keep in mind that we never give ANYONE your location or email address. You also have the choice to leave the group right away and join a new group and you have the ability to vote people out of a group.

But I strongly believe the platform simply won't work if people are able to pick and choose who they want to be in a group with. It's not hard to imagine that men will only want to be in a group with attractive women. If people can choose, then they'll only choose "the best."

I believe that the issues you raised apply to essentially anything in life. Every time you go to the grocery story, you run the risk of bumping into someone you don't like. If you go on Tinder, you can come across your ex. If you join a recreational kickball league, you could be put on a team with your arch nemesis. Krewe doesn't make you interact with anyone, it just give you the opportunity to do so. You should always meet up with new people in a safe, public space.

With that said, I will be making some small changes that I hope will help address your concerns.
It's the thing when one goes too high, the fell is worse. I can't be objective but I believe the post ww2 era was a special spot culturally for western cultures that cannot be replicated. Less boundaries, new mediums, new industries, new market and economy, with a decent post war peace mindset (post cold war, Berlin wall). Nowadays it's a plateau and the people who made it emerge are going away and the spirit of the era with them. At one point I guess we'll have to embrace it and celebrate a new space for new forms and art, because the giants impose a reference, a scale to measure art and productions against[1]. It may unleash new growth, new qualities. Even though I wonder what really new thing can happen. Internet promises are thin (to me). Maybe large scala computation + medicine will yield something deep but somehow I fear it touches on the human species altogether (current times are caressing SF, droids, SDVehicles, automated space, biotech). It's odd.

[1] see the never ending reboot movies.

ps: although I also have a strong feeling that classics are what remains even after an era goes. Timeless ideas like shakespeare's drama you know.
This I would be so great! I've thought of that too.
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People who think artificial intelligence is going to be wholly unlike regular intelligence are not spending enough time in nature. The spectrum of intelligences represented—particularly in healthy old growth ecologies—are not a "niche" set of information primitives. It is an awesome spectrum plumbing a broad set of wavelengths. AIs will become planetary, yes, but they will be one wavelength amongst many. The whale is just as powerless to the bacteria as the bacteria are to them. In practice, whales and bacteria mostly operate in separate spheres. I think it's rare for species to harbor hatred for other species. Unless we want to eat you, most animals will find you quaint, or, more likely ignore you entirely. Species are generally just into their weird fetishistic practices, building nests or whatever. I have a feeling the AIs will be mostly into their weird AI stuff and will more or less treat the earth as a museum. A curious origin for a pure information species.
There is no consistent approach to provisioning. It's possible with high-touch IT staff, but hard to automate in a reliable way.
Toward the very end, the author gives a brief one paragraph explanation of why they didn't use multiple threads:

Obviously one idea is to use threads. It’s common to have a separate thread
for dealing with signals and combining threads with semaphores, etc. would
allow GNU make to wait on two different types of asynchronous events
simultaneously. This was rejected because so far GNU make was single-threaded,
and requiring multi-threading was deemed too much of a price to pay.

I'm confused as to why adding multi-threading would be quite so onerous. As I understand it, one could restrict the use of threads to that specific feature and thus avoid large architectural changes.

Do I not understand how Make is designed, or is "the price to pay" in reference to performance or some other metric?
HackerNews - where everyone needs to compare the size of their diminutive e-penis.
> "How long before they start aggressively promoting stuff in the cabin for the whole duration of the trip?"

But they do, in the form of seat-back adverts, "duty free" offerings and their scratchcards. All of which can be quite easily ignored by sticking on a pair of noise cancelling headphones and firing up my Kindle, which is standard procedure for every flight anyway, no matter what the airline.
It's possibly ( I won't generalize there so I disagree ) bland and diluted now, but this was not always so. The death of radio and the rise of the CD are always my usual suspects for why any sort of musical monoculture failed.

"Basements, bookstores and independent venues" dooms the practitioners to being hobbyists.
I've gotten about 60 messages about Liz Parrish's outfit and the test on herself to lengthen her telomeres.

I don't think there's any substance to any of her claims and life extension.

A few very critical questions:

1/ What if anything does telomere lengthening have to do with life extension? (It's multi-factorial) Correlation is not causation.. See: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25862531

2/ Why did she use a lab that's on quackwatch to do the tests? (http://www.quackwatch.org/01QuackeryRela…/…/nonstandard.html)

3/ Haven't we already proven telomere lengthening and muscle hacks in animal models?

4/ What type of AAV is she using to transfect her cells with telomerase? (Take a look at the animal studies: http://www.nature.com/mt/journal/v18/n3/full/mt2009286a.html, http://virologyj.biomedcentral.com/…/10.1186/1743-422X-10-74)

5/ How many cells had their telomeres lengthened? (I bet you it was a petty amount.....100 to 1 says they're not all that good at actually delivering genes)

There's actual chemists/biologists busting their ass at places like genentech and top research universities to solve missing mendelian inheritance the long difficult way.

They're true pioneers staring down the barrel of a gun loaded with the world's most difficult NP-Hard problems. This Parrish outfit steals their thunder.

Aging isn't something you can simply disrupt with a silicon valley mindset.

I've met organic chemists who have spent upwards of 30 years developing drugs and haven't put a single drug on the market. Their work was still super valuable.
Well, we're also turning a substantial fraction of our corn output into ethanol to burn for fuel. Stop that, and the feed used for animals, factor in a much reduced population, and the numbers probably work out.

How many people even know what to do with a sack of flour and a firepit.

That's where things start getting really sticky. Nuclear War Survival Skills has a simple design for a pestle made out of three pipes bound together, in this scenario people are not likely to get anything as refined as flour. Then boil it into porridge.
Any chance you'd be willing to share some pointers on how you've done so well as a freelance consultant?
This looks cool... but no prices... Are these super expensive or did nerds design their site :)
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That’s because we’re all possessed with the idea of changing the world. We focus so much on the big picture that we lose track of what’s important in life. We also think that once you get past forties and haven’t done anything important you’re doomed for the rest of your life.

We can’t go back to the park again because we take life (and ourselves) too fucking seriously.
Strange that they didn't mention the indiegogo campaign they have going on. 54% funded. Sadly, the only part of the armour as a perk is a prototype helmet at $25k. Campaign here https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/unified-weapons-master/#/
His stuff always has that style of graphics, and I believe that graphic was used in a different post a year or so that went into more detail about horizontal/vertical organizations.

Edit: I see you found it
n*(3+n) on the right side of a left shift, you're only moving the iteration into whatever big number library is executing that monster division
> except for perhaps long-term keys

On most systems, urandom and random are the exact same thing. Only Linux does this weird "blocking random" thing, based on some weird estimate of "running out of entropy" which is not an actual thing.

(u)random is powered by a CSPRNG which is seeded by "truly random numbers" gathered from multiple hardware sources.
A variant on the network effect effect.
No: http://www.csail.mit.edu/node/2041
A few years ago I would have confidently and naievely answered no to that question. Unfortunately recently a few scandals made it to the national news that Dutch mental institutions are not in the state we'd like to believe they are. As far as I understand the 'average' mental health patient is treated O.K., but there's not enough budget for the really hard cases where one patient basically requires full time supervision. One scandal was that instead of dealing with a patient like this, the staff had just put him in solitary confinement. Another scandal revealed cases of bullying and sexual abuse by staff. The sort you'd expect in a big organization with humans and awkward power relations, I can't say for sure if it's any better than those in the US.
I should also mention this fiasco:

http://archives.miloush.net/michkap/archive/2008/01/12/70624...
> Take a look then...

> http://www.marketwatch.com/story/these-are-the-charges-again....

Did you actually read that article?

It has nothing to do with price gouging prescription drugs. That's for an unrelated securities fraud charge for juggling hedge fund money. I'm not saying he's not at fault in that situation (honestly not sure) but it's unrelated.
Unlike WPA PSK, all of the real-world-usable EAP methods used in IEEE 802.1X EAPOL ("WPA Enterprise") require client authentication, which must be provisioned out-of-band. Thus, effectively, they cannot be used for such deployments being discussed.

For example, EAP-TLS, unlike the TLS used in HTTPS, requires a client to provide a X.509 certificate signed by an AP-side trusted authority. This is because people like Jouni Malinen (hostapd/wpa_supplicant), in all their wisdom, decided to spurn RFC 5216 ("While the EAP server SHOULD require peer authentication, this is not mandatory, since there are circumstances...") and completely disallow any and all configuration to disable the client-cert requirement, regardless of any circumstances (such as those behind HTTPS). NYC DoITT is no more equipped to provision X.509 certs for free wifi users than the NYS DMV is to provision X.509 certs for $80 DL/ID card holders (so people can securely prove their identity everywhere).

As trollian stated, Wi-Fi Alliance's "Passpoint" (Hotspot 2.0) does allow for such setups, technically. E.g., the vendor-specific WFA-UNAUTH-TLS version of EAP-TLS does not do client-side authentication at the WPA-level, as per RFC 5216. But WFA-UNAUTH-TLS, even among Passpoint-aware devices, is likely not widely supported.
Development of the Concorde aircraft itself was heavily subsidised. But in service, it was profitable - at least for British Airways:

On average Concorde made and operating profit of £30-50 Million a year for British Airways in the boom years where many passengers were travelling first class. British Airways reportedly received £1.75 Billion in revenue for Concorde services against an operating cost of around £1 Billion. Air France made a much smaller profit.

Source:
http://www.concordesst.com/retire/faq_r.html
At any rate please don't go down the path of self-proclaimed "life coaches" telling you that "you got to be the Alpha Male". The world has enough jerks already.

In my opinion you need better feedback (more precise, possibly more honest) before you start making changes based on it.

Do you yourself feel you want to change the conflict avoidance pattern you're describing, confidence in social settings, etcetera?
If you do, I strongly suggest you to have a look at coherence therapy and consider if it goes well with your beliefs and values. That or some closely related approach is probably the fastest effective way get an authentic change.

I'll join in with the bodybuilding recommendations too, but that's for a largely different set of effects.
Yes, I would look for something like that if I had an expensive city-bike. But the availability of trackers doesn't seem to have much effect on thefts or the perception that bikes are an easy target.
> Tens of thousands ... are extinct thanks to our meddling.

Probably much more:

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

"the present rate of extinction may be up to 140,000 species per year,[2] making it the greatest loss of biodiversity since the Cretaceous–Paleogene extinction event."
This is really interesting, but if I was planning a nuclear attack on a country, I would attack twice: once for the initial effect and secondly to take out whatever support is built in its aftermath, which is what this document talks about building.

I don't see this report tackling that. They assume only one large-scale attack.
But it isn't just about mass, there's density to consider... we aren't sending up computing devices into space wrapped in 25 inches of lead... so I'm guessing that far less is actually needed.