skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"On the other hand I think the world would be a much better place if all tyrants on power trips lifted their countries out poverty, creating one of the most educated, cosmopolitan and diverse populations in the world, all within the space of two generations."

I think more tyrants should do that. Yet again, you people could use qualifiers because the propaganda seeps through.

" countries out poverty"

Many are still in poverty working long hours making almost nothing with little to show. At least the business owners and foreign investors are making money on their efforts. It's not Africa poverty but in America we still call it poverty. Such people are measured to live shorter, less healthy, and less happy lives.

"most educated"

How much education do you get in history and critical thinking? Do they teach you to spot logical flaws and propaganda like our colleges often do? Do you apply that to the media and governments claims? Did you learn about places in the world that have good amount of safety and prosperity without draconian restrictions on their people? Did you actively debate among yourselves in government class every hot, political issue and other system of government to determine where you wanted your country to be in 10-20 years?

Or did they just teach you language, science, math, tech, some literature, and how to apply those for your government or commercial employers? I'm genuinely curious as oppressive regimes limit education to focus on harmless stuff to limit dissent and I have little information on Singaporean education.

"diverse populations "

Diverse in terms of beliefs, politics, and economic strategies? Or just ethnically? Our strengths in the U.S. come from the former. The latter is insignificant as it doesn't directly contribute to anything. Our goal there is just reducing discrimination in hiring or justice. Real issues here.

"all within the space of two generations."

Singaporean's unique focus, work ethic, and belief in their country are things I've always given them credit for. Admirable and a great turn-around. Now, they're potential liabilities that are being used by elites in government and industry to exploit them. Time to learn new character traits and ideas for the nation to see where the great ones will take it next. :)
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I don't consider this an example of discovering multiplication. The set theory rules were given to the computer. Can a computer be built to start only with sensory input and then discover the rules of set theory? Would it ever be able recognize why the patterns and rules for operating with sets are important and worth further study? I'm skeptical.

Would a program flag the discovery of multiplication as important because it understood that this discovery is interesting or would it flag its discovery as important because the programmer encoded it to have this understanding? That is can a program discover something new and alert to humans to this discovery and for it to be truly interesting and new?
I imagine that's because there are more variables with a solar installation than with a car that has clearly defined options.
It's financed through Citizen Bank, so odds are Apple is being paid in full (or at least most of it) up front.
that's debatable, once you appreciate the point about having a reason to do something.

calculation itself really only exists with purpose. it's a thing to do if you have a reason to do it. of course, these kinds of things too seem more "discovered" than "invented", but it's a very different kind of discovery than "the earth revolves around the sun". the earth revolves around the son, as far as we can figure these days, whether any agent/subjectivity/etc intends anything or not.

however, no full-blooded calculation will ever occur anywhere in the universe unless someone needs to figure something out. in other words, intention is implicit with calculation (and truth-functional representation, by the by). as such, you could make a case for an argument for "inventing" strategies in mathematics. and of course, a lot depends on your ontology of mathematics in the first place. if you're a wittgensteinian about numbers, and you think any of what i said above is at all compelling, you may be inclined to believe that mathematics itself is an invention. you may admit of some more nuanced way that entities like "number" still exist without mathematics as a tool, you may not, but you'd probably see all mathematics existing as active work, not pre-existing objective Truth.

of course, most people think of math as an always-there abstract object (roughly). maybe they're right. even so, there must be some force in the "i use it as a tool" and "it just revolves around the sun no matter what anyone--god or man or beast--wants" distinction.
For all the text the author wrote about how bad JavaScript is, I had to click through two links to find any actual substantive complaints about JS, which were (1) JS doesn't have an array type; (2) JS doesn't have an integer type. (1) seems false to me (extra false if you count Typed Arrays), and (2) is being worked on in the committee.

(I think JS has a lot of flaws, but it's not as bad as its reputation suggests.)
Anyone know if the UDP packets are encrypted?
The copyright owners aren't losing anything. They're trying to maximize profits, not sales.
This is where luck comes in. If you wait until something is super popular then you lose the advantage of being one of the first people that understand the technology when it goes into production. Also sometimes you may learn something that never pays off but later it feeds into something that does. I spent a lot of time learning Common Lisp and could never apply that knowledge at work until functional programming became more mainstream and Scala/Clojure became acceptable languages for production.
That's what I do. My laptop moshes into a tmux. It's like I'm just always connected to my servers; the network is abstracted away. Mosh even has a very useful "7 seconds since connection dropped" message for when the café WiFi lags etc.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TSMC

Biggest "independent" semiconductor foundry company (independent = they make customer designs, not their own)
Ask HN: What to use since BitCasa cloud drive is shutting down
I have around 750GB of files that I need to migrate from BitCasa. Can't use a syncing service like Dropbox, since my local Mac's don't have that much free disk space.

Prefer that the new solution exposes a file system locally to OS X like Bitcasa does.

Trying Amazon Drive, but their OS X application is complete garbage. Keeps on hanging and crashing trying to upload large amounts of files.
Sloppy: Careless and unsystematic; excessively casual.

The product looks interesting but the name does not inspire confidence.

Also what advantages does this have over https://cloud.docker.com/
Every time you play a video game that uses generated levels, you are playing a game "invented" by a computer.
That's both correct and useless information. What is the BBCs agenda in this case and how do you figure it influences how they report this story?

(FWIW, I don't think the BBC has a particular agenda here, they just have the bias of having lived in a "OMG nuclear" world for the past few decades and nobody cared enough to challenge how a fairly unimportant story is angled)
Ignorance is bliss. 'Nuff said.
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You will work in our new division using one of most cutting edge stack you can find. We developed our own library based on React. You'll develop Web and Mobile apps for doctors, hospitals and companies to improve people's lives.

Positions are open at our offices in Mountain View (California) $70k-$120k+, Paris (Europe) at €40k-€60k, Beijing and Tianjin (China). For top candidates we can consider remote work.
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Only 4 years behind Bitcasa...
Despite Android's market share, some developers still write for iOS first and port to Android later (if at all). By moving to Swift, Google could reduce this friction and help prevent Android from being a second-class citizen among developers.

Also, Go is a great language for writing networked systems software in. But it's not necessarily great for GUI-based application development. And there really hasn't been much effort to change that, from the Go team or externally.
I'm not a security researcher, but somehow I suspect the "maintaining connection while switching networks" holds potential for a flaw.
A look inside Stripe's API platform
I learned this watching TV coverage of a particular protest/rally I had been to. There were no shots of the diverse crowd of thousands, only a single close-up of an old man who was dressed oddly. The much smaller counter-protest of ~10 people got more airtime, but instead of showing them yelling and cussing at the children in our group, a well-dressed female lawyer from their side was interviewed, with a few others packed around her and a tight camera angle to make it look like she was in the middle of a huge crowd.

Like, it wasn't just mildly inaccurate coverage as a result of the reporters not having good enough understanding. It was intentionally slanted coverage. And it made me think, if they can make something that straightforward look so different from reality, I have a hard time trusting their coverage in general.

(See also: Babylon 5 season 4 episode 8 "The Illusion of Truth")
Docker ID same as HN ID
Theoretical physicists do that every day. It's only noteworthy when they find one that actually corresponds to the real world...
> everyone has the same opportunities.

Not really. That's what it means. Being white makes it slightly easier to get some opportunities.
That sounds familiar, but I couldn't remember with enough confidence to say. But yeah, trucks are really disproportionately bad for the roads.
Links to the previous parts HN discussions :

Part 1 : https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11526923

Part 2 : https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11541526
From experience. Contamination is patchy. Especially there. You can briefly step into some plutonium contaminated patch for a second, and if you had no proper decontamination on exit - bring this shit home. Once its inside the body - there is no cure.
For people interested in the legalities of licenses, it's released under the Apache License 2.0 which is a "free software" opensource license that is compatible when combined with GPL3, but not with GPL 1 or 2.

the Apache 2.0 license includes not just copyright but patent licensing, so the software will contain no hidden patent restrictions for patents owned by the creators and contributors.
Or never :(

Looking at you Google Drive.
Run "numastat". If you only see one "node" column, then these issues don't affect you. At Netflix, almost all our systems are single NUMA node.

I tested the patches on 1 and 2 node NUMA, and saw 0% performance improvements, for some simple workloads.

The paper is also uninformed about scheduler bugs in general. Yes, there have been lots of scheduler bugs (I've worked on more in other kernels too, not Linux, where scheduling is even worse!). Yes, we already have tools for diagnosing them (eg, examining run queue latency as a histogram). Yes, we've already used visualizations too.

There's information for reproducing the bugs here: https://github.com/jplozi/wastedcores/issues/1 . If you think for a second that you've hit these bugs, you should read these steps.
Is it really? People throw around fancy-sounding names like Betteridge's Law of Headlines and Sturgeon's Law without any qualifiers and nobody seems to mistake those for scientific principles.

I'm not sure it's worth defending against people taking a fancy-sounding name and taking that as an indication that it's scientific principle without even bothering to take five seconds to look it up.
Clever (YC S12) Is Hiring: Help 1/3 of US K-12 students use edtech
Clever (YC S12) - San Francisco - onsite

Right now the market for educational software is a mess. It’s incredibly difficult for developers to get their products into schools, and it’s even harder for them to scale. School districts spend tons of money on learning applications, but they have no way of knowing if students are even using the apps they’re purchasing. Teachers know there’s great software out there, but relatively simple challenges like getting 30 students logged in at once make using it impossible.

At Clever, we’re working to change all that. We provide schools with a free API and single sign-on solution that makes using educational apps a breeze. We’ve grown fast: after three and a half years, we’re moving data for a third of all K-12 students in America (20M kids), and 50,000 schools are using us to manage their education apps. Our goals are much bigger than that, though. We want to be two things:

-a single place where schools can easily integrate, manage and analyze all the software they’re using, and

-a single identity that students can use to see everything they’ve learned across multiple apps.

We’re a team of 100 (40 engineers) based in downtown SF, and we’re looking for engineers who enjoy working in (or would enjoy learning) Go, Python and Coffeescript. More generally, we want people who are sharp, adaptable, and passionate about improving the way education works for everyone. In particular, we’re looking for senior engineers and engineering managers: empathetic leaders who are excited about teaching, coaching and professional development.

We’ve also just launched a new product for schools: Clever Badges.
https://clever.com/products/badges
http://blog.clever.com/2016/04/why-we-built-clever-badges/

Clever Badges is a new way for students to log into their learning apps in a secure, personalized way without having to use the keyboard. It’s designed specifically for younger students who struggle to remember or type text-base passwords. Instead, these early-education students can verify their identity by simply holding their individual Clever Badges up to their login screen.

Check out the other stuff we’re doing at https://clever.com/about/jobs, or check out some other recent press here:
http://www.npr.org/sections/ed/2015/08/27/434667722/one-third-of-schools-are-using-this-app-youve-never-heard-of
Well, that should teach these non-terrorists not to be easily mistaken for terrorists any more.
Yep life for smart people is problem oriented for which they have to find solutions.

Thats how we are raised; in a problem/solution format.
Know of anything similar which supports android gingerbread? I'm using JuiceSSH now but I would love something with package management features like this.
Absolutely. Look at Pat Langley's BACON program back in the 80's. He didn't work on multiplication per se, but given nothing but "sensory input" it discovered laws of planetary motion, rules of physical chemistry, conservation laws, etc.
du uses `st_blocks`, not `st_size`, so it should be fine for most applications. It is similar to how sparse files behave:

$ ls
$ truncate -s 1M foo
$ ls -lhp
total 0
-rw-r--r-- 1 catwell wheel 1.0M Apr 26 18:39 foo
$ du
0 .
> How to proceed from here is an open question...

Keep doing the parts of it that work for you. If parts of it don't work for you, change them or drop them. (Part of the agile philosophy is that you can hack your process.)

We may need to drop the word "agile". But if the mindset leads to you practices that are helpful, use them.
Pricing for solar panels is quite complex. The price will mostly involve:

- The state of the roof (does it need reinforcing? will the installers need scaffolding?)
- The complexity of the installation (lots of little roof sections with earth tiles and 2 or 3 transformers? Or a plain and simple one-transformer south facing asphalt roof?)
- Does the crew need to drive 5h from headquarters? Or just 1h?
- A 3kW installation may be worthwhile in some locations but not in others.

And finally since solar city depends on the performance of the panels (which they sell as debt), they must ensure that your house will be a good candidate. If it's not, they don't want you as a customer.
Everything will always be horrible. I promise.
Reminds me of the opinion unix purists held towards Linux in the 90s.
It's not so different in the US either. My previous manager has indirectly referenced delaying my green card process if I didn't deliver on time.
As someone with white children applying for college, I can say without question that skin color is used to disadvantage certain people.
Which would be fine if you consider JavaScript good, I don't, it's at best passable if you avoid most of the land mines which is an art in and of itself and that's just the language, if you include the ecosystem it's pretty much all landmines.
Would love an invite: dockerid: fridrik
>If you are a white male remember all the privilege you have enjoyed since birth just because you were born that way. It is your responsibility to change the industry and its bias towards more inclusion.

Nope, sorry I don't care.
CTEs aren't for creating a simple value. They are for creating a table variable.
I mean, I have a bone to pick with most web frameworks in that they leave a lot out of what I'd consider ready-to-go for an app. Phoenix does a number things better than most, like sane JS env, consideration of production vs dev configs, and some other stuff.

Most out-of-box apps are too simple, and most web framework app skeletons are insanely overdesigned and, frankly, miserable. Certainly there are a number of big frameworks (django, rails) that can give you most things out of the box, but I'm not a fan of heavyweight frameworks in general. I think Phoenix strikes a great balance
How many people work jobs today that are akin in nature / level of fulfillment to inventing multiplication? How many people work jobs that are best done by a machine? How much energy does it take for a human intelligence to do these jobs vs a machine? How many people are furthermore stunted in their growth due to forced submission to their middle managers, a power differential that hardly need exist but feels great for the manager (king in their little castle)?

I'm pretty sure computers, as we currently understand them, are entirely capable of inventing multiplication, provided sufficient source code and input. Evolution is unique in being able to "create" a thing that can formalize multiplication? Human intelligence is not magic.
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but I can't really imagine using Firefox without Vimperator

I can second that (s/vimperator/pentadactyl/). pentadactyl at least still works in Firefox 45.
How Americans pretend to love ‘ethnic food’
Yeah, it's puzzling why SpiderOak persists in using the term "zero knowledge" to mean something entirely different from ZKPs. As far as I can tell they're the only ones doing this too.

Especially with zkSNARKs and practical applications like Zcash, all I can think this will accomplish is confusing people.
Why are you paying for feedly? If it's altruism, great, but what else?
"Our economy simply does not reward people for being good or ok at things. You have to be amazing."

This is only true locally. I can derive a huge amount of happiness by being the best singer at a party, or the best at telling jokes in the pub, or the best at $SKILL in my team.

Even if you consider global geography (as with competing on the Internet as a startup, or looking for a job as a remote worker), you only have to be the best in that narrow area of what is available at that time (or the best at marketing it, or the best at selling it, or just the best at turning up and being presentable).

There are many, many opportunities to be "amazing" locally. You just need to define what, and where. The article uses the word "mindset", because happiness about what you think more than anything else.
> Note the dominance of white and male in the graphs.

Not if you actually look at the graphs. Just taking the Apple data at random, the US numbers are

54% white, 18% asian, 11% hispanic, 8% black, etc.

The 2010 US census numbers are:

64% white, 5% asian, 16% hispanic, 12% black.

So whites are actually underrepresented, while there are 3.6x as many asians.
I depend on Thunderbird and have for many years. It's a great mail client. I hope it continues to be a great mail client.
>> Design flaws led to a power surge, causing massive explosions which blew the top off reactor four

Anybody else catch this wildly inaccurate representation of what caused the explosions? While there certainly were design flaws, it's well-known that this disaster was a direct result of the recklessness of the reactor's operators. I have to wonder if this mischaracterization is an attempt to further scare the public about nuclear power.
Can an ISP do this? I'm no security expert, but this looks like a MITM attack
Or, as alluded to in the article but with the opposite conclusion :

Intelligence is knowing what to do when you don't know what to do.
Mosh is great, but I kind of stopped using it once I discovered Tmux so I could resume a session if the connection dropped.

It's not that Mosh does anything wrong, but SSH has more features, and is supported by basically everything ever. Consequently, I stick with old-school SSH.
OberonSystem can build the whole compiler, OS, and applications in around 3 seconds.
It's software that automates a lot of costly auditing and troubleshooting in complex systems, so the core value proposition is hours that humans don't spend (and reduced downtime). If it can reduce the workload of senior/lead engineers by 5-10%, what's that worth? This sort of thing is really hard to quantify, although I'm sure we'll get more data as it grows.

Does per-seat licensing work best, or something modeling the amount of data being processed? Fixed or floating seats? We're definitely looking at higher pricing, from hundreds to a few thousand per seat annually (not unusual in the market). I'm not worried about whether the product will be loved - we're engineers ourselves, totally focused on the suckiest parts of working on enterprise systems. If our product isn't a pleasure to use, I'll take it as a personal failure. But then we have to sell it. And I'm an engineer solving my own pain points, not a sales guy. That part is new to me!
Do you have an independent media that can report on whatever goes on in your country, including negative info, with immunity to prosecution? Do you have individual protection in that case?

If you don't, then you can't reliably get the truth except for people taking personal risks on blogs and stuff. You can only hope your regime will provide it to you through media they control. And never do anything seriously wrong. Having read history books, I don't think that's even possible in the long run.
lots of people don't get that nuance, because that nuance doesn't generally exist and was just made up now to win the argument. "white male in the abstract sense" ffs!
Dude, just give them their domain.