skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As I understand it that the picture for symmetric encryption in a quantum computer world is still relatively rosy. The key strength of something like AES is halved, but with the important caveat that the difficulty is with respect to quantum operations rather than classical operations and there's no guarantee quantum computers will be able to scale as well over time as silicon has. The situation for asymmetric encryption is where the real potential trouble lies. Please correct me if I misunderstand the situation.
...someone needs to build an app for these situations? (Or, in other words, why is this on the front page?)
You can have a bright side if you can shake off the judgement of others. Some folks seem better equipped at this than others and I'd like to figure out how to "skill up" that trait!

The dual-income and DINKs (dual-income no kids) families will always win when appraised financially. Home, car, health. You have to work twice as hard for the same output on one income.

"Stay at home and propagate stereotypes" feels wrong these days. The stereotype and expectation seems to have both parents working and having one stay at home is bucking the trend.

All of the negatives seem to center around the individuals valuation of themselves based on outside opinions.

I'm too close to giving real opinions so I'm bowing out of the thread. ARRGGHH!
Are there any negative effects to harvesting this bee bread?

> But the bees do not consume their pollen fresh. Instead, they take it into the hive and pack the granules into empty comb cells, mixing them with nectar and digestive fluids and sealing the cell with a drop of honey. Once processed in this way, the pollen remains stable indefinitely. Beekeepers call this form of pollen ‘perga’ or ‘bee bread’.

This implies it's their food.

Given the recent concerns with https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colony_collapse_disorder, is this unusual delicacy worth the potential environmental damages? (I don't mean that rhetorically; It's an actual question.)
>I would think most FireFox users do this

My inclination is that outside of the hackernews community and those like it, most FireFox users have no idea what you're even describing.
you forgot the big one -- to please the would-be grandparents.
What is the reasoning for not using the 192.168.0.x address space? I'm a networking newbie who doesn't understand. I've actually changed a few routers to use the 192.168.0.x instead of the 10.x.x.x space that was the default. Why should I not have done that?
I thought only venture parentalists had disruptive children.
> Did you have something that gave you a lot of fulfillment before you had kids?

Yes, and I still do. I am a soft dev, so job is quite fulfilling, I also like mountain hiking, friends, etc. But having a kid is something different, it is just not comparable regarding the level of satisfaction. For me the relationship with my kid is the most fulfilling thing a world can offer. (But of course I wouldnt believe that before I had one)
Petrol station are still there and they are legal. Only the public transport like the government run buses and the private taxis/auto rickshaws are those required to run on CNG. And I would venture to say that 100% of them do, mainly because it is less than half the cost of petrol. In fact, a number of car owners are moving to CNG too for the same reason.
The article is funny, but not as funny as the commenters who don't understand it's satire :)
The design he's so wedded too isn't exactly stellar either... I don't understand why he didn't just update his design instead of hacking his way to match the design in FF...
> I would really love to see China clean up their act (the pollution has become by far my #1 dislike)

Since no one has mentioned the Kuznets curve yet, the Environmental Kuznets Curve is a bell-shaped curve that posits that before a certain point, the environment is sacrificed for economic growth. After that inflection point where citizens demand better environmental stewardship, the environment improves.

However, in China, the problem is that economic growth is how the ruling party maintains power. The break-even for political stability economic rate in China is said to be around 6-7%. Under that, the economy cannot sustain the migration of rural workers to urban centers.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kuznets_curve
Because this article isn't about greenhouse gasses? The article is about particles in the air, mainly from vehicle emissions.
Long story short, in circa 1969 higher-level languages were mostly the purview of academics. No one had a computer powerful enough to run a language compiler/runtime, and programmers were real men(tm) and wrote assembly by hand because that was all they knew how to do. That's not to say that there weren't any advantages to using a higher level language, but in the case of something like the apollo computer, they couldn't risk compiler bugs or slow code gumming up the system and potentially killing the astronauts.

Even today, certain ridiculously-high-performance or super low latency tasks (i.e. embedded devices, high frequency trading) drop down to the assembly level because that small bit of overhead the compiler adds (for such modern coddling conveniences as function calls and type safety) are just too much. It's not crazy, it's just what's needed for that particular job.
> The United States does not have anything as sweeping as this

The EU takes discrimination much more seriously. For example auto insurance in the EU can't charge men and women different amounts, meanwhile auto insurers in the US shamelessly advertise that they do so.
I noticed this too... The site's design is terrible, and I don't get why he has fought so hard to persist a terrible design...
assuming you are giving an example of a straw-man.. then yes, spot on.
I hope you're right and I'd really love for it to happen.

Btw, can you explain the tax accountability part, I'm not really sure I understand what you're trying to say there?
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hi, I'm one of the co-authors. This feedback is awesome. I have a longer version in the works. if you're interested please feel free to email me, bryce dot goodman at stx dot ox dot ac dot uk.

Thanks!
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I've observed the same. My wife is happy working while simultaneously feeling like she wishes she could be home with the kids. She works with a number of women with master's degrees and they consistently opt to stop working as soon as maternity leave is up if they are able to.

Our kids go to late stay programs at school because we both work, which means that if they want to do an after school activity like soccer, dance, scouts, etc that it's a "rush from late stay, change as fast as you can, go to activity."

We aren't trying to overload them or anything either, just aiming for 1 after school activity a couple of days a week.

I think 90% of the pressure is people trying to justify their life choices or requirements.

If you are working mom and you have to be for income sake or to pay student loans, you'll see stay at home mom's with a "must be nice" attitude.

If you're a working mom and you don't have to be, it's a "I'd be so bored" or "What do you do all day?" or "My job gives me purpose" because it reinforces your own life choices (whether you believe it or not).

If you're a stay at home mom because your job would just be paying for day care, it's going to be a feeling that you should be doing more.

If you're a stay at home mom because you choose to you should feel nothing but contentment with it because you made the choice.

This is a hard lesson that a lot of people, myself included, are experiencing because we've all been sold a different bill of goods our entire lives. There's even a book on it called The Two Income Trap.

The simplest way to filter out negative chatter is to identify whether somebody is trying to make themselves feel better about their own choices or not. That's 90% of the negative chatter that I observe.
No reason. All work equally well
True. I'm still living in the Bronze Age, but we may already be past the tipping point. I wonder if any consideration was given. Personally I don't know what the cost is, but I know I've never seen anybody try to measure it.
Resisting arrest and the other charges against him are pretty serious in the legal system in the US. I imagine the prospect of jail/probation and other consequences weighed down heavily on his mind; since he had already been in a pretty bad state with his breakup etc.

This is rather sad since it could definitely have been prevented. A network of close friends and family is absolutely necessary for people like Ian, who seemed to be of the solitary type (something I and I assume many others in this community can relate to). For such a person, problems with relationships can have deep emotional consequences...and this seems to have been a situation that spiraled out of control.
You wrote a program that rigs the input data in favor of one class in such a way that the classifier results are more or less uncorrelated with membership in that class. Am I understanding the code correctly?

I don't see how you eliminated "human biases present in the data annotations" here. It seems like your program merely rigs the input in order to get the kind of output you like to see.

Obviously you can tamper with the data to get any kind of result you want. You can force equal outcomes for "Never-worked" and "Private" but that doesn't mean you're removing some inherent bias in the original data.

Also, this sentence:

> All of this excludes the fact that companies will probably maximise to profit, and will use "algorithm" as an excuse to turn down people disregarding ethics.

is kind of weird in the context of your comment and program. If you are correct in your fears of biased data, then accounting for the bias in the data maximizes profit for the companies. Ethics shouldn't be necessary if it's just about bias in the input data.
Exactly. I've seen people young and old have Yahoo as their default search on their PC or phone, and they usually don't even realize it's not "Google" results.
They could try new revenue streams such as entering the phone market with a fully open OS based on Gecko.
Not to be snarky, but clearly enough people do, otherwise we wouldn't be having this conversation. :)
Yes, my vision is for every house to have a food-grow room, just like most houses had root cellars ~100 years ago. I really like Ceres greenhouses (http://www.ceresgs.com/), as well as Open Building Institute's aquaponic greenhouse (http://openbuildinginstitute.org/buildings/#greenhouse).

The easiest way to get started is by planting the seeds into the sand, just push them in with your finger. I did plant sprouts in about half of each veggie bed, but I had to wash dirt off their roots, which really put them into shock.
Technically you could draw such a straight line in any country.
Yes. It should be more inline with , "Go back in time but no guarantee that the kids will be the same". Though it will be better than, "are you happy?", it might still not provide a good result because many would have convinced themselves that they need to have kids because "that is how it works".
MIR is still going well. To be clear, it's already landed, and has been working, it's just not the default yet. There's a PR https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/pull/34096 and there are currently three blockers: https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/milestone/29

Incremental compilation has been worked on while MIR development was happening, so it won't start, it's already in-progress. :)
Hey, uh, Apollo <n for n > 10 and n < 18>? This is Houston. Could you pull out the ROM banks and flip a couple of bits for us? we made a mistake or two. All you need are some wire cutters and a very steady hand.
> Your offensive inaccurate slavery imagery notwithstanding.

Offensive, but, given two PoC shot dead in 48 hours by police, certainly not unfounded.

Racism is deeply embedded in (US) police, and it deserves to be called out.

> it seems plausible that he did assault officers, and that they did have a right to use force against him to end that assault

Funny enough, British cops don't (need to) carry guns. German cops carry guns, but it's rare that they have to be drawn, and even rarer that a shot is fired. Dito for Switzerland.

It's a major culture issue when US cops/people apparently tend to think of PoC as practice targets for shooting, when other countries, even with permissive gun laws (such as Switzerland), do not have such widespread issues with racism, police brutality and guns..
"incoherent", "claiming to have been beaten up by police"

http://archive.is/vBS6N

I wouldn't call those incoherent - I'd call them distressed and angry at having been beaten up by the police. They say he hit his head on the cage separator - which is a classic cop write-up for after they've roughed you up.
Ask HN: If you hate email (email itself not email clients). Why?
> Restrictions on building up?

More this one than the other one.. Here's a map of SF:

https://static6.businessinsider.com/image/5342ef126da811ef6a...

All of the yellow areas have 40-ft height limits -- even though huge corridors in the yellow areas have good transit, freeway access, etc.

The Western half of the city is all single family homes or 2/3 unit apartments, it's insane:

http://calphotos.berkeley.edu/imgs/512x768/1351_3151/4303/00...
Where do they say other browsers are stupid? You're reading some sort of superiority that isn't there. This is a good list of some cross browser development gotchas -- No need to downvote.
And we all know what lenta.ru looks like now, after she and others left, it's a pro-Putin propaganda outlet now.
What does this have to do with colony collapse disorder? AFAIK, we don't really understand colony collapse disorder, but I think it's safe to say it doesn't have anything to do with humans taking the bees' food.

In fact, the very first sentence of the Wikipedia articles says "Colony collapse disorder is the phenomenon that occurs when the majority of worker bees in a colony disappear and leave behind ... plenty of food..."
My thoughts exactly with things like this. If a new pattern is introduced, it should be superior to the old one and (hopefully) translate across languages.
I definitely agree. He's clearly not a designer...
Honest question: what in the world does Mozilla do currently with $375 million a year?
I think the assumption is that you have to be at least technically literate enough to know that you want Firefox and purposefully download it. And if you're that kind of person, you probably also know the difference between Yahoo and Google and probably actually care.
Mostly agreed, although I did consider using an HPC allocation to mine bitcoins & hire work study students. But then it turned out that if you study interesting stuff and write the ad correctly, you'll have to beat them away with a stick. For good measure, I convinced one of our corporate patrons that they ought to pay for one of the students.

As far as extra hoops, it's not clear to me whether endless NIH paperwork bloat and ICMJE declarations are more or less onerous than crowdsourcing type stuff. I tend to think there must be a happy medium, but I could just be naive.
Wow this is surreal. I can't believe I'm seeing this. It's historical, thank you for sharing.
Listening to "Apollo: Atmospheres and Soundtracks" is right up there in my book...
Belgian Neanderthals 'were eating each other 40,000 years ago'
Related: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12032269
I was prescribed some medication time ago, and it felt me the most depressed person, but I was aware that this must be the cause of it, and asked my doctor to stop it. The other medication was not that effective, as this one, but I no longer had the moods.

I was feeling as if nothing really matter, but this time literally, not in some "grand scheme of things" way. I had to push myself somehow to do things.

It could've been something else, but it coincided and stopped days after I started taking that medication.
Does this imply we should see single-crate compile times improve?
"While it's honestly the best thing, having kids, if you take away one thing from this lecture, remember this: There are a lot of things that are easier to do before you have kids than after, many of which will make you a better parent when you do have kids." PG, [1]

Even a disaggregation of the OP data is unlikely to assist in the decision of wether or not to have children. Instead, hearing a personal experience from someone with whom you are reasonably familiar is more relevant. This also assumes you know yourself fully so you can perform a comparative analysis.

That said, I find the above PG quote personally useful. I decided to delay children until I am over 40 (PG was 46 when he had his first child), able to make my own schedule, have financial security so one parent has the option to stay home, and made a solid attempt of most of my major goals.

Those requirements do create a risk of becoming too old for children. But for those of us who have time, why not take sincere advice from someone well known that made it work.

And if you never have children, just forget the PG quote and take comfort in the OP conclusion instead.

[1] http://startupclass.samaltman.com/courses/lec03/
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So did they. I think its called LibreOffice now? Haha.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_Lotus_Symphony
They already tried the phone market with FirefoxOS — it got canned shortly after its release, sadly (https://techcrunch.com/2015/12/08/mozilla-will-stop-developi...)
Wow, I hadn't heard that before. Background: http://www.mtv.com/news/2694103/how-the-wugazi-mashup-album-...
I feel sad reading this post. Silent Circle might be having some issues but cryptophone.de & esdcryptophone.com have been going strong for over 10 years. In fact our product groups have grown. We now offer intrusion detection for cellular networks esdoversight.com and the highly successful esdoverwatch.com imsi catcher detection system.
Ha! Having children to get your mother(-in-law) off your back? At which point these grandparents now criticize the way you raise your kids at the same time spoiling them. Worth it? Maybe because, let me guess, the grandparents are willing to babysit or provide daycare so you can work.

The reason I'd have kids is for that connection only a father can have to his child and the joy a large extended family can bring as my children eventually have children and so on which is completely selfish. But I'd say there's nothing wrong with it in my eyes.
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Aside from the cost of raising a child, the bulk of the data in that article was in the chart. Everything else was idle speculation over an arbitrary measurement of "happiness".

If they just kept giving Minsky the money like they should have, we could have strong AIs Terminatoring us right now, and we could just get it all over with.
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Speaking as a local, this genuinely is bizarre.

Three miles from Kidlington is Woodstock, which is a picture-perfect village with stone cottages and quaint shops. Ten miles away (where I live) you're into the genuine Cotswolds.

The theories advanced in the BBC article don't stack up. Kidlington is not a "folksy cultural stop" or "a beautiful English village". It's really average suburbia - the fact it's formally a "village" is just an administrative quirk, it's not village-like in any way.

It's incredibly unlikely that people are "mistaking Kidlington for Kirtlington" because the latter has a population of eight people and a dog, nothing really to look at, and is less pretty than a hundred other villages nearby.

And it's not "on the way to Bicester Village shopping centre"; you have to take a detour to get there, and if you want to detour into a pretty village between (say) Oxford and Bicester Village, there are prettier ones to visit.
The high quality originals were taped over by NASA.

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2009/jul/16/moon-landing...
Reddit now tracks all outbound link clicks by default, existing users opted in
The W3C is not like most other industry consortium and it is not beholden to its industrial membership.
With a deal like that what incentive does Mozilla have to not walk away if someone buys Yahoo? They'll get $1.1 billion dollars for free.
I do in fact have an algorithm to remove racism from models, but I doubt its worth "$billions". The whole point of my argument is that it shouldn't be necessary. Surely you don't really believe racist stereotypes are true?
Well, certainly he would agree. MS devs who needed to patch the Linux kernel could not even get Outlook to do git-patch properly, as the old Linus anecdote went.

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/9814276/git-patch-file-at...
Ok. But I still believe it is worth it. Anything bad can happen to ones life even without having kids. Despite the risks it is worth it. But of course, it requires to have a good partner who supports family values.
A huge part of that is the lack of OTHER stay at home moms that would previously create an entire social group for each other. It's socially awkward to mix in a stay at home dad into that type of group for a number of reasons.

Add in moving away from home and family to the mix as contributors for the lack of adult conversation too.
As an example (not sure if applicable), you could do some calculation and get an alternating series as the result:

R = 1 - 1/2 + 1/3 - 1/4 ...

If you "explain" the positive part as being contribution from field A, and the negative part as a contribution from field B, both would be infinite, but the reality might be that splitting them is nonsensical.
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I discovered NTRU while searching for a fast alternative to RSA for asymmetric encryption. It's said to be quantum resistant as well but I can only vouch for its speed (it is very fast and served my purpose perfectly).

https://github.com/NTRUOpenSourceProject/ntru-crypto
Which part?

With MIR, yes, the idea is that compile time should improve. One of those tracking bugs is to make sure that it doesn't regress before turning it on by default.

With incremental compilation, you should see compiles after the first improve; you'll need to compile a lot less code for each change. Right now, the entire crate is recompiled, but afterwards, just the portion that changed will need to be.
tread water financially compared to your dual-income friends

Screw that. Don't judge your life by how others live.

My newest car is 12 years old. I have a wife, kids, and a good job and could easily have new cars every few years but instead I have no debt other than mortgage and I put the money into my retirement and college savings. I don't begrudge the choices of my friends who like to buy a lot of new things but I also don't feel any obligation to live the way they do.
Per http://hariharan-ramesh.com/sports.html, it seems like your options are sadly limited, though you could give the linked Respro a shot.
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This is the argument I used with the 2 doctors that refused to perform a vasectomy on me when I was age 25.

The hereditary history of physical and mental illnesses that run in my family, the economic/environmental projection for the rest of this century as well as the hypotheticals that you listed tip the scales in entirety towards the costs rather than the benefits.

None of the nebulous, ineffable personal fulfillments that parents speak of have ever sounded like a basis for a good moral argument for forcing a new life into this world.
Minimize size? Maximize speed?
Until there are fair elections, with equal access to media for all candidates and equal material resources for all parties, we will never know what majority wants.
Right now, state-sponsored polls can provide any result elite wants.

Besides, after you control all the important media for at least last 10 years, it's not a surprise that people in Russia think what they think. They will get robbed and abused again and again and think it's good for them.