skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I host my main email address (me@justinlardinois.com) and have a catchall set up that forwards all other usernames to me. Whenever I sign up for a service, I give them thisservice@justinlardinois.com, and if it starts getting abused I can just add that username to the list of /dev/null recipients.
Why do they need to hack? What's wrong with them showing up at the door with a gun and a warrant and walking off with everything they need?

My guess is this expansion is for doing things in secret. If they show up at the door of a civil liberties office and issue a warrant people are going to get pissed.
Funny you should mention breadth first search - there was a post about hiring just a few days ago where the author was complaining about its used as an interview question: https://medium.com/@evnowandforever/f-you-i-quit-hiring-is-b...
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> You can't just willy-nilly fire people

I thought you could, at least in right-to-work states, if you bothered to make up an excuse that wasn't one of the forbidden ones.
> Except the miners don't gain value from discovering a protein fit, so they have no incentive to mine the wrong chain.

Well then they are doing useless work too, and the criticism of wasteful mining applies. You gain value from doing useful things.
> I made an appointment, first, with a pet behavior specialist and, five months later, when her initially helpful suggestions didn’t change Lucas’s behavior, with a vet.

> When I thought about Lucas as anxious, I also began to think about his needs more than I had before. I played with him more often and gave him more, smaller meals.

This really makes me wonder what the specialist's suggestions were, because "more play and attention, like he is accustomed to" seems like the simplest #1 solution.
The big thing that jumps out at me from these graphs is that, apart from a couple break days (April 1st and April 8th, when they say they took the ferry), these guys seem to be working 7 days a week, not taking weekends off at all.

A hyper-focus on productivity metrics (like hours spent coding) plus no regular, scheduled breaks seems like a recipe for burnout to me.
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I was even more amused that they linked to Gawker for the story about themselves.

Feel bad for the TD who brought his kid to work and was rewarded with 73 seconds of dead air, though. That would be enough for the average radio engineer to put that little troublemaker up for adoption. You think people take an outage on your site seriously? Dump about fifteen seconds of silence onto an operating radio station, much less a network, and people lose their minds. Executives run out of offices shouting. Phones light up. It's amazing. My record was 46 due to a router failure and I had the station's general manager riding my shoulder before I could restore air.

I've heard of firings for a minute, so joking aside, hope everything worked out. If they're joking about it on a listserv I'd assume so.
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I have adaptive cruise control in my Subaru Legacy and I have often wondered what will happen when more people have ACC. Or even if I were following another car exactly like mine - would the lag time grow exponentially with more intense stop/go or would it even out? Or does it depend on how well the car implements it?
Except when you consider that wages rise and fall in fields depending on the gender makeup of those positions [0].

[0] http://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/20/upshot/as-women-take-over-...
There are so many problems with these sorts of measurements anyway. My own country Norway had on paper rapid productivity growth simply because our main export oil increased in value. A lot of the productivity before the great recession was just an illusion caused by the broken financial industry. The inflation of the asset bubble looked like economic growth and hence productivity growth.

Hence what if productivity growth is just normal today? It is simply what it is when financial wizards aren't there to hide the truth.

Anyway perhaps people should stop being so obsessed about GDP and productivity numbers as they are distorting reality. If more people get sick or do more crime GDP will increase as health care and police produce more services. More people in prison also produce prison services adding to GDP. But none of this really adds to the well being of the population or the economic strength of the country.
At Sun there was literally a taped square on the floor of the factory, and things in that square were "shipped" to as the quarter was finishing up the factory would figure out how much had to be shipped to make the numbers, and they would process enough orders to make that happen. If there weren't orders, then some "one time deals" would be mentioned to top customers who might get a really nice discount or something. Sometimes contractors are told to go home until the next quarter.

At NetApp there were other tools, service revenues, expenses, etc. One quarter the call went out for everyone to be sure they had expensed everything they had outstanding. Once the summer employee event shifted by a week. They would also do close the quarter incentive sales which could bring in just enough orders to keep it in line.

As far as I can tell this is something they teach in business school as part of your MBA training. It seems pretty universal. When things can't be managed that way, you get actual unexpected surprises, lay offs, or work furloughs, or perhaps you decide you aren't going to hire nearly as many next year so you trim all the contract staff.

Clearly people aren't as worried by over delivering as they are under delivering. As you can see from the Apple and Google earnings calls, a small miss negative can have an outsized impact on your stock price. But it is also important to not consistently have upside surprises as suddenly people start valuing the stock assuming an upside surprise.
You do not have to use their software.

You can use one of the alternate clients people have written, or write your own:

https://github.com/xenolf/lego

https://github.com/ericchiang/letsencrypt

Or use this web interface:

https://gethttpsforfree.com/

Also you can configure it to give you longer lasting certs.
We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11596004 and marked it off-topic.
That's the meat of the discussion, right, the "why"?

If you want to be particularly devil's advocate about it, there was a time when the "gender pay gap" was 90%+ because the majority of women didn't work at all. It's a rather recent invention that everyone should work, and yet more recent that everyone should work all the time and still not be able to make ends meet.
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though predictable, it's disappointing to read HN's collective response to posts like this
> Nothing stops you mining on a private chain, but since you have a small minority of the compute power, the network doesn't care about your private chain.

Right, this is not an issue for small miners. But if you have a significant part of mining power, it's important that there is a significant opportunity cost mining on the wrong chain. That can only be ensured by using a PoW that is wasteful outside the currency you're mining.
That's not a subtitle one reads too often: "A former 1960s bondage-film actress is waging legal combat with a toy company for ownership of her husband’s mail-order aquatic-pet empire."
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Hold on. The definition of my #1 category isn't a belief in good and evil; it's the idea that their primary function in the field is to save the world, not to perfect security engineering. Looking at Moxie's work, I don't think anyone can legitimately accuse him of not taking engineering seriously.
There's abundant evidence that women prefer to work fewer hours than men and working insane hours is (for better or worse) a requirement of investment banking.

Whether the preference for fewer hours is innate or learned I don't know.
If you are going to account for position, how do you account for the fact that women are often in a lower ranked position, because they are less likely to be promoted? You can't claim there's no pay gap just because it's being obfuscated by bias in job titles.
Suppose, hypothetically, that 10% of all managers are outright sexists and won't promote women. (This is a thought experiment, I'm not making any claim about the real world.) Then, if equally-qualified men and women apply for the same jobs, you'd expect that the "type of job" class is going to include some higher-paying jobs for men about 10% more frequently than for women. If you "control for" those factors, you are eliminating from your sample all women who work for outright sexists. It might be true that the wage gap is (almost) zero once you do that, but your experimental design is flawed.
Are you speaking from personal (statistically insignificant) experience or do you have some quantifiable evidence to share?

Your HN-karma & real-world accomplishments aside, do you honestly think you can psychologically categorize a group accurately enough that we should use your defined stereotype to improve ourselves and/or society?
Even using Kickstarter to raise capital seems to cause problems for fan works. Probably because while the finished 'product' won't cost money, the copyright owners think of it as someone making money off their property.

Same with Patreon. In the world of Nintendo fan works alone, both Star Fox the Animated Series and Super Mario Bros Z got their Patreon accounts suspended for trying to raise money.

Do I agree with? Not quite, but the general rule seems to be any exchange of money for any part of a fan work is problematic unless the original is in the public domain.
You just answered my question. Cheers.
It sounds to me like you probably misunderstand what "saturating" arithmetic is. It certainly is not the behavior you want for 99% of your arithmetical code. It is really quite rare to actually want that behavior.
Amazon bought 3 city blocks in Downtown Seattle a few years ago. Two of those are done or nearly done, the thirds one houses a scrotum-shaped building (three connected spheres, what's going on here?) that's still under construction.

Technically that counts as reinvesting profits, but its the old "Are we an X company or a real estate company?" issue that happens so often.

Personally I think it's the last chance for Bezos to roll around in his piles of cash before he has to start giving some back to his investors.
Please stop posting unsubstantive comments here.
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I'm not so sure. I think the big difference it would make to have cars talking to each other is that they can all know where the other (within a local range) is heading, make interchanges more optimal.

A lot of traffic congestion happens because we have nothing but (too-infrequently-used) turn signals to indicate our intentions. If all the cars knew where they were going at an interchange, you could at least optimize the flow.

Of course, there is _no_ solution when there are just too many cars trying to fit on a road that can't handle it. And that's probably 80-90% of the problem anyway :(
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If they can buy power at $20 and sell it for $50 / MWh, then their 12.5 MWh storage capacity generates $375 / cycle. They'd have to cycle it many times per day to make significant amounts of money. Does the grid require more than 1 or 2 cycles per day? (Solar cycles once / day, domestic demand has 2 peaks).
This sort of traffic jam dissipation is only applicable to phantom traffic jams. Here in Los Angeles, traffic jams are caused by too many cars being on the road.

At some point, every available square foot of roadway is filled with a car. AI can help limit the amount of extra space taken up by air, but that will only moderately increase the number of cars that it will take before traffic hits. That number of cars will be reached, easily.
FWIW, my experience disagrees with this. I was overweight, started running (starting around 9mi/wk, when I got bored and stopped I was up around 24mi/wk), and started losing weight quickly, lost a ton of it over a year, after which I was at a very good weight for me. Now, as the piece touches on, that exercise did change my eating, but the outcome of that isn't clear to me -- I stopped eating/snacking for a few hours before a run so I wouldn't cramp. But I also started eating a lot more outside of those exercise windows, as running so much made me quite ravenous at times. Ate anything and everything I wanted and I just kept dropping weight as long as I kept running.

Haven't looked at the data cited in the article, but my guess is that these studies are looking mostly at what's often defined as "moderate" exercisers, that is, people who walk an hour every day or something similarly unintensive. Which is vastly better than nothing, but it isn't exactly a hard workout like what I was engaging in, and I wouldn't expect to drop much weight if that's all I was doing.
Haxe has an interpreter mode if you use --interp as a target

I haven't used it so I'm not sure how powerful it is
These things come up and are always amusing (my favorite was the "video" of the LHC starting up). I wonder though, assuming no supernatural world-ending phenomenon, what is the worst that could happen given the energy involved? This is high-energy particle physics, using magnets to guide collisions? How high is the energy? Can we put a value on the intensity of a complete and 100% efficient conversion of the particle collider energy to kinetic energy? Would it be like a 1 megaton nuclear bomb? Not even that? 1000x that? Do all concerns involve some unknown-maybe phenomenon like a runaway black hole? If we assume conservation of energy, what is the worst? Anyone know?
Many people complaining about overflow checking either work in high performance computing, where it really matters how fast you can add two numbers, or in embedded systems where you can't afford either the extra space for the instructions, or the extra execution time.
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They've probably read this book: http://www.amazon.com/Mobile-Social-Game-Design-Monetization...

I did, but I try to do games that I like to play, trying to minimize obstacles for the players.

This doesn't mean that the book should be burned; it has some great articles on how to improve usability or minimize friction.
This can probably be read as a dog-whistle to his war on the EFF Scorecard in general, CryptoCat in particular, and Nadim personally.
Yes, and if you want to be even more particularly devil's advocate about it, there was a time when the race pay gap was approximately 100%. It's a rather recent invention that black laborers should get paid.

Which is to say, I'm not sure why advocating for this particular devil is constructive. Do you believe that a well-functioning society should have women being less valuable to the free market than men?
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I think it's pretty obvious I'm speaking from personal experience, and I'm not sure it matters to me what you choose to do with that information.
There's no way a comment like this can have good effects on HN. People sometimes think it's ok to post them if they come from that background themselves (not sure if this is true in your case, of course) but it still won't have a good effect. The combination of sweeping generalization with denunciatory language is bound to lead to a flamewar no matter how the chips fall.

Things that mitigate this effect are: rolling back the grand generalities, stating things neutrally, and (if relevant) talking about your personal experience and observations. I'm not sure those things would be enough to take a comment like this out of net-negative territory but they'd at least shorten its blast radius.

We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11592793 and marked it off-topic.
Is that the one where tachyons are produced, travel back in time and ultimately interfere with their own creation? Fascinating stuff, although I struggle to believe it myself, I think that science's best ideas have historically come out of the blue - more attention to "the blue" is something that I would like to see more of from modern science.
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This is a really great point. I think it would have been useful to point out that we're currently going through an accelerator (Techstars), so all this data is somewhat atypical. Additionally, I wouldn't say we're "hyper focused" on these metrics. Rather, it's something I check periodically in order to help think about shaping my habits. Does that make sense?
> If you do that poll repeatedly, over many groups and many industries and many times and many subsets, and in every case the men are paid more

That's a great idea! Someone should do that study one of these days instead of just relying on the aggregate BLS statistics that the 77% number is drawn from. Sadly, I doubt it'll happen...
Here's a link to that series: https://www.coursera.org/specializations/data-structures-alg...

What's impressive about it (to me) is that, unlike other Coursera series & courses I've looked at, there is a set schedule for when each course in the series will be offered, allowing you to better plan how the courses might fit into your schedule.
This depends a lot on the field. Every neuro paper I have reviewed has the author's names and affiliations intact, along with unblinded citations like "Experiment was done as we described previously (SameFolks et al., 1999)."

On the other hand, I've always been suspicious that people can reliably guess the authors when doing a blinded review. I've seen one study that said 30% of reviewers (in a small sample) could do so, but that hardly seems like a reason to abandon the idea altogether.
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Vernor Vinge, in Fire Upon The Deep, explored that idea in pretty interesting ways. I didn't love the book (I like him as an author, and this one is considered a classic, but it didn't really grab me), but the Tines (dog-like pack animals) were an interesting thought experiment. In it, a single Tine is roughly akin to a smart dog, but when combined into a pack (linked via some sort of sound-based communication), they're of roughly human intelligence (or better) and able to perform advanced tasks, allowing them to build complex machines. Their individual pack members act as limbs in a whole "person". When one member dies, it is more like an amputation than a death...and a new pack member can be added, while mostly keeping the character and memories of the whole person. Thus Tines are potentially very long-lived (like great grandfather's ax).

There is discussion of emotions that members and packs experience that humans find foreign. Belonging to a pack being one of them; a lone Tine member that can't merge into a new pack is considered a tragic case.

Anyway, probably worth a read just for those novel ideas about other lifeforms.
I'm sympathetic to the notion that discrimination can include subtler factors of pushing women into lower pay positions.

However, the problem with the 77 cent figure is that it's frequently stated like this: "women get paid only 77% of what men do for the same jobs." Which is entirely false. Yet, if you asked most people about the 77 cents figure they'd think it actually meant women got paid much less to do the same work.

If a conversation begins with a lie, it's going to be tough to address a systematic issue and to work together. Distorting the facts is manipulative and prevents rational discourse.
I get why you're saying it and all. It's just that this article really plays on the E4M-Truecrypt connection and jumps between Le Roux and its story. See here:

https://mastermind.atavist.com/he-always-had-a-dark-side

The Hacker News comments and title showed many were already thinking a grand reveal was forthcoming of how Le Roux was financing Truecrypt all this time. It keeps getting mentioned even though it has nothing to do with Le Roux's life or story post E4M. Here's an alternative that's more accurate for the significance of Truecrypt to the story:

The original paragraphs on E4M and Truecrypt spinoff stay. After sentence "...message boards for good," the author stops talking about Truecrypt entirely. He should mention PhoneCrypt offer in isolation as it was significant. Later on, might mention for the trial question the context that some people suspected Le Roux might have funded or worked on Truecrypt all this time. Then show he was asked, said yes for E4M, and no for Truecrypt. Then move on.

I mean, there's not much reason to talk so much about Truecrypt, Snowden's view of it, and so on if there's nothing tying Le Roux to Truecrypt. That someone built on his work and it turned into a solid tool would be enough to say. The only good thing I could think of is that the author is trying to encourage people to use Truecrypt and such strong, OSS encrypt by embedding it into his piece. That would be annoying but justifiable in a greater good sense. Still not relevant to Paul Le Roux, though, past fork of E4M without evidence he was behind Truecrypt.
I often try the technique of leaving lots of space and going at a slower, steady pace. One problem is that everyone re-routes around you, and you induce road rage and traffic weaving. The other problem is that unless it's a straight stretch of road, you have no idea what speed is slow enough.
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A slightly technical read, but here you go: http://econfaculty.gmu.edu/bcaplan/whyaust.htm.
Used it, but somethings just I couldn't find the right spelling for.
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As in freight trains?

Because freight trains have problems that need to be solved in the middle of nowhere.

For example, a car shell's a wheel and it needs to be cut out to a siding in the middle of Utah in the middle of winter. Communication is limited to say the least.

The siding is rarely used and is covered with snow and ice. The switch is a manual switch and is jammed with ice.

A human can deal with getting these issues, cut out the defective car, put the train back together and proceed.

How does a driverless freight train deal with this?

The point here is that exceptions to normal behavior happen all the time. Most of the time, the human pulls to a siding, walks the train and a half-hour/45mins later the train is rolling again.
I agree with jotux that pack-related emotions are probably something we'd have a hard time with. We have tribe-related emotions but they are probably not the same thing.

Further, humans have evolved at least one emotion that appears to have virtually no analog anywhere else: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disgust If you don't think that's an "emotion", read that page and follow some of the references; I have found it to be a very interesting topic. If humans have this one, it would seem to defy imagination that there aren't other lines that have other emotions that we don't. In fact I've seen it suggested that it's actually amazing how much similarity there is in the entire mammal line between emotional states and the expressions of those states. To a certain extent, mammals are capable of very basic emotional communication across the entire line. We take it for granted, but compare with, for instance, reptiles.
Consider this. I have a group of 100 people, 50 male and 50 female. Job x is available in industry y. Job x is highly sought after and all 50 men apply for it. Industry y is traditionally male dominated and for whatever reason, none of the 50 women have previously applied for the job. Through the magical powers of the internet, women are now suddenly interested in the field and not only do the 50 men apply for the job but the 50 women do also; doubling the applicant pool.

How will the employer react to the sudden surge in applications?