skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Our instincts don't know they're doing actually. It's an ancient system that is designed for survival but in the modern world it's easily tricked and manipulated.

Just by doing something over and over, our instinctual caveman brain rewards with dopamine, which automatically forms habits over time. Imagine a caveman looking left and right before he leaves his cave: it just started out as a random occurance, but since he didn't get eaten he gets a dope hit which forms the neural pathways to continue the habit. Great adaptation for basic survival, and social mechanisms will even propagate the habit to others.

However, the habit forming dope reward system doesn't "know" what the behaviors are. It's not making any rational or moral judgement. Habits like addiction are extremely maladaptive, formed by the same feedback loop. This is why withdrawals actually feel like a threat to an addicts' survival. Breaking it feels like a threat triggering a fight or flight response. Trusting your instincts or feelings won't help you break a bad habit.

Thinking can help, though, which is where the forebrain comes in. By thinking, we can break a bad habit by creating a different, better adapted habit to replace it. This requires the force of the will, at least in the beginning until the new and improved neural pathway is formed. But once it is, you'll have a shiny new habit that's actually beneficial.

tl; dr. Think and use your forebrain to form the habits you want.
When she was hired I asked (and what I imagined she probably would've asked), what is Yahoo!'s business model, how much fierce is the compeition, and how willing it is to seek other markets (that can serve as low hanging fruit).

I see tech companies business models (very broadly) as being one of a few kinds:

- serving masses and revenue-through-ads (the social media model)

- serving masses and selling a product

- serving big businesses

it looks like Yahoo! was in the first category at that time and there was already market monopoly by Google, Facebook, Twitter, and so on. So continuing what they were doing already but better meant taking those companies head on, and that was an uphill battle.

So I was of the opinion that the best way forward IMO would be to seek new markets and low hanging fruit, maybe explore creating a product, maybe get into hardware, maybe serve big businesses.

Over the years I never heard Yahoo! do something radical, or go into a new direction, or even seek some safe investment. I might not be fully-informed though, but if that's really the case then the CEO is clearly to be blamed for it. So TBH I'm not surprised Yahoo! is still not doing well and has to be sold.

Looking for corrections/more-info/thoughts in response to my comment. Thanks!
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Those 48 bytes are the two random numbers used as the private key, correct? The actual public key that gets sent over the wire is the 751 byte thing, if I read the paper correctly.
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It is not my experience that reviewers are overly critical. The notes I have seen fall into three categories: 1) pointing out the nagging issue that I knew but avoided, 2) misunderstandings, which are annoying but show how the paper is not clear enough, 3) genuine insights which I would not have seen. I have never wanted these to be more positive, but I can see the benefits such a cultural shift would have. Phrasing the notes as positive feedback would benefit the happiness of the authors, but make the notes lengthier and increase the effort for the (volunteer) reviewers. I wonder if the editor could reframe the reviewers' notes to improve the tone before sending them to the authors?

At least in chemistry where I work, a rejection rate of 9/10 at the review stage would be very unusual. It is possible that reviewers in the triage stage are harsher but I never see these reviews.
Oh I remember miranda. Good old times.
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Nice work! You likely find even more success by not counting calories / being hungry, but eliminating grains and sugars entirely but eating your fill of other stuff (proteins / fats). Basically anything that is going spike your glycogen is to be avoided.
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They obviously did some type checking on the name[1]. I'm sure they Squared up the UI elements while they were developing it[2]. The moments before launch must have been pretty tense though[3]. I just hope this service supports file uploads[4].

1. https://github.com/facebook/flow

2. https://github.com/square/flow

3. https://github.com/tensorflow/tensorflow

4. https://github.com/flowjs/flow.js
And now we have two problems! Yes its a problem to keep an old plane flying but it does the job. But the bigger problem is the turd costing us an arm and leg to build that doesn't do the job. Its so idiotic things have to be done in such a round about way. Just cancel the F-35 and spend the money on something useful to society.
Here's a counterpoint: How I get harassed by the IRS because Americans hate rich people.

I'm earning a below-average Bay Area income, but as foreigner I have a bank account and an IRA abroad, so I get to file a 30-page paper return that costs > $1K to prepare, in which I pay taxes on foreign income I did not actually earn, and get audited every year. So remember that every $1 spent on the IRS also generates an $X amount in time and money wasted for taxpayers.
I would argue the Intel FDIV bug was one. This stuff gets simulated and synthesized at length, using Cadence, Synopsys and other tools before it sees tapeout.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pentium_FDIV_bug
"At least in my experience at work I've seen tech leads or someone similar introduce frameworks without so much as "apparently it's quite good, so let's use it"."

I completely agree. Web people quite often commit to frameworks based on their marketing copy and maybe one guy they read on the internet saying "seems pretty AWESOME after I've played with it for two days!" and a testimonial or two.

Of course, I've seen development languages chosen that way, NoSQL databases chosen that way, "which Linux variant do we base our company on" chosen that way, bug trackers chosen that way, chat systems chosen that way, devops management chosen that way, VM and/or containerization chosen that way (or, indeed, people just declaring "we need containers" for what appears to be "because we aren't cool if we don't have them")... you know, this may not really be just a "web" thing....
So many buzzwords. What is a DAO?
I find it extremely depressng that all the offered examples include whiteboarding ... a.k.a. "the Stone Tablet Anti-Pattern"

See https://channel9.msdn.com/Events/ALM-Summit/ALM-Summit-3/Tec...
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I was in IT security for many years and got out largely because of the sheer attitudes of many of the people I encountered. Some of them were genuinely very nice, very smart people, but these gentlemen were few and far between. Sadly.

I started off as an abuse investigator for a very large East Coast ISP, moved into firewalls, then penetration testing once I knew what I was doing. All along this path, the vast majority of guys I worked with, for, and around (on contracts) were sheer jerks of the highest order. Everyone seemed to be angry, upset, on edge. I can understand this. IT security--especially abuse investigations--necessitates seeing the seedy side of the Internet. Ditto IT security in general. You're not working for or with people who are "creatives". You're working for and with people whose sole job is to minimize threats and vulnerabilities.

The most stressful time was being a firewall engineer. Having to deal--on the fly--with impatient customers wanting a six-spoke VPN "right now!" and them being jerks about it was annoying.

I hated the calls that involved my placing a "tap" on some poor sod whose boss wanted an 8-hour tcpdump on him to see where he went when online. They wanted a gzipped log file placed on the server where they could SSH in and retrieve it.

I hated the double standards where executives were given static IP addresses on their machines and special rules created to allow them carte blanche access to the Internet at large--no filtering. They also avoided the proxy. These special executives were &^%#$@ and everyone knew it.

When you spend your life seeing nothing but evil, you take on a different view of life and the world around you. I saw this happening and I got out in favor of being a sysadmin. I'm much happier, and the IT security roles I do have are much smaller in scope and I know how to handle them quickly and quietly.
It's not just nonfree (in speech and beer), but it's also very expensive for a personal product IMHO.
Process Hacker is much better than Process Explorer, plus it's open source :)
Yeah it's fine, people get upset with silly things all the time. If you can move it into capistrano then they won't have the dependency argument and it will be good.
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There are cases where the CEO deserves many millions of dollars. They are supposed to move the business in ways that are growing very fast and profitable.

There are all kinds of startups that Yahoo could have bought or invested in, all kinds of areas that have the potential to be wildly successful. Who would have thought Amazon, a retailer, would be the platform of the cloud computing world.

It's the CEO job to see this, what not everyone else can see. That's what deserves the many millions of $.
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> I'm sure being a brain surgeon is much more stressful and takes longer to achieve, but hey, those people live in neighborhoods I can't afford to go into.

Most doctors and lawyers don't make lots of money in comparison to a reasonably well paid software engineer. There are tracks that will lead to bigger bucks (if lucky) where you essentially sell your soul for the chance to get there. Big law firms have "partner track", doctors and lawyers can start their own practice, and various areas in medicine can still be very lucrative (eg, plastic surgery). Those tracks are all super hard. The equivalent for software engineers is starting a company or seeking a high level position at a large, fast-growing company.

I agree that software as it exists today will change: more people will come into it, wages will go down in many areas. Smart people that want to make more money will specialize (hopefully choosing the right specialization).

As a comparison though, an independent consultant with a reasonably sought after technical specialty can make significantly more money, with less school and regulation, than lawyers or doctors at similar levels. If you start a successful software business (even a tiny ISV with real customers), you can make considerably more than doctors or lawyers, again with less school and regulation. I'm sticking with software!
Are our wires crossed again? I don't understand the point behind your reply.
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Thanks for pointing that out. I wasn't aware of this. This makes things better on several points I listed.
Ever read USAF Col. John Boyd's biography? He developed of maneuver warfare and pretty much invented warfighter doctrine adopted by all the modern air forces around the world. He generalized his ideas, and it became a core part of US Marines doctrine. However, the generals in charge of the USAF rejected his ideas. In their minds, you have

Boyd was the one who pushed to developed the F-16 based around the ideas maneuver warfare. (The F-16 was designed to out-maneuver anything else). One of his disciple was the one that developed the A-10, specifically for close-air support mission, using the same principles applied in a different way.

CAS missions was something the USAF inherited back when the organization was part of the US Army. It's treated as the step-child that the USAF "bomber generals" don't want, and want to get rid of, and can't because that was part of the original agreement when the USAF was formed as a separate military organization. In their minds, if you develop a plane that can fly fast enough, stealthy enough, and click a button to shoot out missiles, then you don't need to be agile at all.

The politics around the A-10 is discussed thoroughly in Robert Coram's biography, "Boyd: The Fighter Pilot Who Changed The Art of War". Boyd has been dead for about 15 years now; what I'm reading here, the same politicking is still going on.
Also https://github.com/node-red/node-red , comes ootb on Raspbian.
There's LeopardFire: https://github.com/themighty1/lpfw

IIRC, it is the most recently active project. As far as I can tell, the whole user-facing, interactive firewall program never really caught on in linux land.
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In my experience, we got better support from Marine Supercobras in Iraq than any other air entity, and in Afghanistan A-10s. Theyve been talking about getting rid of Warthogs for years, but all the guys I talked to saw right through it and knew it was just to pad the Virginia old boys pockets some more. Of course Im biased, because Ive literally had my life saved by close air support from hogs.
A gateway to 3d rendering with scripts

once you've exhausted these lessons you can show them blender
I note the following from the reference you provide:

Today, most mainstream economists reject Say's law.

...and it would be hard to accuse mainstream economists today of all being Keynesians.

edit: <i> to asterisk
Part 2: https://twit.tv/shows/triangulation/episodes/247
WFN is a free, open source alternative: https://wfn.codeplex.com/
What all the non mechanical engineers don't realize is the bend allowance is different for types of material (steel, aluminum), grade or strength (high tensile steel will stretch less than mild carbon steel), and even the tool (mandrill vs brake bender). Software like Solidworks and Inventor come with default values. You need to know to go in and change them based on your circumstances.
Wait why is apple being held up as an example of an innovative company again? As far as i am aware apple had the ipod in 2001, the iphone in 2007 and the ipad in 2010.
Pretty much every release of any of those items in the last 6 years have been incremental upgrades.

This isnt to be negative on Apple, just saying they are a great quality, style, design company. and an amazing financial success but they havent been innovative for quite some time.
Just watched the "how it works" video and I'm less than impressed (can anything impress me these days?).

"Why constantly check e-mail when you can get a text message when anyone important e-mails you..."

Actually, I receive a push notification whenever I receive an email. I'd hate to receive SMS messages instead of e-mails.

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"Say someone tweets something about your company. Set up a flow that follows them, sends a nice reply, adds him to a spreadsheet which then gets sent to Salesforce".

Yeah, so someone tweets "YourCompany fucking sucks!" and now the flow automatically follows him, sends a ridiculous "nice reply" and adds an obviously unsatisfied customer (or whatever) to the CRM..

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"Working smarter, so you can work less and do more",

I think I've heard this promise a thousand times before.

I don't know about the Flow service, but the ad video is quite dumb and uninspired, just like the background music.. who composes all these identical tech ad songs ?
Your comment seemed a bit... personal. Whilst you had some decent points, it seemed like you were more arguing against my character.
Oh, you can be assured that the profit margins for roaming are 99%+, and if they aren't, it's because of unrelated wastage.

Because ever since the internet was invented, it has obviously become very, very, very cheap to send data all over the world. And this is what we're talking about: your SMS needs to go from the provider in country A to provider in country B. How does it do that? Via a standardized protocol over the internet. How much does that cost? Nothing, all the network components have an internet uplink anyway.

The only thing left to explain high roaming prices is market failure, hence the need to intervene by the EU. Only we had the market failure pour its money into the EU, so it's very far off from the regulatory intervention that should have been made.
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Thanks for the downvote, Mr. No-Explanation-Guy.
I'm sure it's not for no reason. Is it difficult to imagine a (particularly bad) candidate throwing a miniature temper tantrum if s/he knew that leaving before lunch was a rejection?
I've built it in VS just fine:

TESTING ISOGENY-BASED KEY EXCHANGE
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Curve isogeny system: SIDHp751

Key exchange tests ........................................... PASSED

BENCHMARKING ISOGENY-BASED KEY EXCHANGE
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Curve isogeny system: SIDHp751

Alice's key generation runs in ............................... 91654657 cycles
Bob's key generation runs in ................................. 107973852 cycles
Alice's public key validation runs in ........................ 114289149 cycles
Bob's public key validation runs in .......................... 126421809 cycles
Alice's shared key computation runs in ....................... 84909767 cycles
Bob's shared key computation runs in ......................... 104901163 cycles

TESTING ELLIPTIC CURVE BIGMONT
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BigMont's scalar multiplication tests ........................ PASSED

BENCHMARKING ELLIPTIC CURVE BIGMONT
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BigMont's scalar multiplication runs in ...................... 13041518 cycles

It only builds targeting 'x64', though - not 'Win32'.
The source is actually fairly well documented, too.
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Couldn't you digitally sign the source code of these machines and have that verified by officials? Inspection as well. You could stuff a ballot box without the machine if there's no oversight.
There should be parts of the armed services that are stuck in various decades. So you could join the 1980's air force for example, but you weren't allowed to use any equipment made after 1990. For each conflict the Pentagon would decide which decade's forces would be most effective.
From my experience in the field, convergence studies are something everyone knows they should do, but never actually happen because results are always needed yesterday.

As for automating it, sure for a model like that with tens or hundreds of elements, it would take seconds on a modern computer, great. Except, model complexity always scales to reach the boundary of reasonable computation time on modern computers. This has to be a corollary to Moore's law or something. Recently I've been working on a model with tens of millions of elements. Takes 12-ish hours to solve a few load cases. A good convergence study might take weeks.

Thankfully, finite element solvers have gotten much better at tolerating bad element geometry, and at warning users for about geometry likely resulting in bad results. Plus things like NASTRAN's integrated extrapolation of stresses at element corners, instead of outputting only element stresses and having the analyst extrapolate. A colleague of mine ran some tests a few years ago at a customer's request, running a very coarse model with corner stress extrapolation enabled. Results were plenty good, well within normal engineering uncertainties and tolerances.

FEM was still pretty young in the early 90s and probably required very experienced/knowledgeable engineers to use it. As with most things, it's gotten more and more user frendly, and more and more software are taking very automated and behind the scenes approaches to FE (ANSYS Workbench, Solidworks Simulations, Simlab, etc). It has its good and bad sides.
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And my point was that the whole thing is subjective and the value is in the subjective quality of the discussion.
As an employer, I have found that if you honestly tell 10 people the reason that you did not hire them that a minimum of 3 people will have hostile reactions to you.

I do agree that it would be a better way for all employees to give feedback to all candidates and for those candidates to handle the rejection in an emotionally mature way.
Showing Ireland as being dependent on roots and tubers in pre-colonial times is just plain wrong. It was the colonisers who brought the potato to Ireland.

This makes me suspect that the data is being made to fit the theory here and that they didn't want to leave out Ireland because, well, people would expect it to be there in any article about the impact of the potato :)
> I really hope someone manages to ship an open source handheld one day.

100% FLOSS mobile phones are available for sale since 2007 :https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Openmoko

The current revision (GTA04A5, ARM Cortex A8 1GHz) can be ordered at http://shop.goldelico.com/wiki.php?page=GTA04

The Nokia N950 was also very open https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nokia_N950

There are also other also-run phones: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_open-source_mobile_pho...
My experience is that really high protein/low carb diets (e.g. Atkins initiation phase) produce, for me, an uncomfortably full feeling without satiety. But there's pretty extreme variation in response person to person.
Why not scrap the USAF instead?
It all breaks down into mission support and drones in the long run? So why not scrap the organization that warps the strategic decisions ? Give everything ground mission related to the army, break everything that is strategic, as in supply, and the useless ICBMs of the sky to the new drone Department.
Has Marissa Mayer achieved what you say is the job of a CEO, though?
Sorry for the confusion. In the reddit post there are a couple of Linux Instant Answers referenced. They each have an overview page with metadata:

https://duck.co/ia/view/linux_cheat_sheet
https://duck.co/ia/view/linux_error

To actually see them in action, here are two example queries:

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=linux%20cheat%20sheet&ia=cheatshee...
https://duckduckgo.com/?q=linux%20enoent

It would be great if Linux experts could check for errors and suggest improvements. This can be done via the "Create issue" button in each overview page. It's also possible to create new Instant Answers or submit PRs for improvements. We have a list of Instant Answers we're looking for, and links to our docs, here: https://github.com/duckduckgo/duckduckgo/wiki/Programming-IA...

I see you've already been doing this (thank you!) but hopefully explaining it here clears up confusion for others.
http://www.minetest.net/ (LGPL)

http://manicdigger.github.io/ (Unlicense)

I am pretty sure there are more out there and as far as I know minetest is closest to minecraft with this mod for for redstone circuitry thing (https://forum.minetest.net/viewtopic.php?f=11&t=628).
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You hit the nail in the head. Intel has built up amazing margins on the x86 business over the years by beating out competitors. ARM margins are razor thin by comparison and Intel can't bring themselves to cannibalize their cash cow by becoming another ARM manufacturer.