skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
From my limited mobile development experience, this probably has a lot to do with the same old story for Android: fragmentation, and the fact that iOS is tailored to a limited set of hardware.

Less time fighting the platform means more time to make a great app experience.
I wonder if this extends to sharing your reasoning for a decision with others. It seems like it might be a sort of social cognitive offload, where we feel more sure with our decisions when we expose our reasoning to other, even unqualified, people. I think hearing no rebuttal gives us assurance, much like someone positively encouraging you to do something does, even if the encourager has no idea the difficulty of the task,your qualifications, etc.

This seems especially relevant for bias disclosure, because now we feel better giving in to those biases because we've issued warnings.

Anecdotally, I see this used in social situations where someone is not particularly nice, who then unapologetically informs everyone that they are "not nice" or "mean" as if it excuses the behavior.
Yeah, that will stop them.
Influence in the Euro institutions is largely determined by the size of the economies and their contributions to the budget. Germany is first among equals.
My Nephew Brought Home This Menacing Maths Problem
Also useless? As a Windows user I'm not particular troubled by the lack of user facing XFCE applications.

On the other hand I'm worried about the resources invested in this project, instead of stability or performance improvements in Windows. In the long term I'm worried about Microsoft's monopoly.
Getting replication experiments is "well" for a crackpot claim. Having the average physicist accept it would be a bit too much -- the point was that the claim was testable and thus not universally rejected.
Wrong. GIL does NOT necessarily make your Python/C code thread-safe and in reverse releasing GIL does not prevent you from writing a thread-safe code.
> The TOS/EULA/privacy policy

I wonder if there are existing freely available legal policies that would work for any SaaS startup? Sort of like how I can just slap a standard GPL license on my software, and then come back later and offer commercial licenses?
Speculation:

- People have become more aware of the risk factors, and behave accordingly. Awareness would be connected to prevalence but have a lagged effect.

- Deadly diseases cause evolutionary responses. Perhaps a disproportionate number of people with predisposition to these illnesses passed away before having offspring.

- Reporting bias? While an illness looms large in the minds of the medical community, doctors are more likely to either wrongly attribute to the illness (false positive), or do false negatives less often.

- Highly speculative: combined effects are non-linear. I don't know what they use to do these studies, but typically you hear something along the lines of "for every x, there's m*x effect", which makes things sounds nice and linear. Maybe better prevention and better treatment does better than either on its own summed up, and so you won't be able to find the "reason" by splitting into each feature.
"Top engineers" are probably not using job sites at all, but using their reputations in the tech community to find jobs. Also, I'd say AngelList is by far the best job site out there for the startup scene. Best thing Hired has going for it right now is the customer service on the recruiting side and the sign on bonus, but purely anecdotally, AngelList and HackerNews own monthly job board was far more effective during my own job search.
In-depth analysis of the lessons we learned while protecting Gmail users
IIRC 23andme gives you a very specific "agree for this data to be used for medical research" consent prompt.
Interesting read, http://www.eham.net/ehamforum/smf/index.php?topic=17576.0;wa...
The article suggests several possibilities, including increasing use of antibiotics, and less consumption of salted/cured meats, but the actual answer is unknown.

And actually that is the crux of the article: it's not that doctors aren't thinking of possibilities to explain the reduction in disease, they just don't know for sure which of the possibilities they are.

Basically, if we've thought of a possibility in the last 20 minutes since reading the article (or headline), a doctor has probably already thought of it, too.
The market economics of Brexit
Can I hijack and ask, how do I become a "determined" person with grit? Is it learnable? If something becomes too hard, I just convince myself the success is not worth it or not attainable.

I might actually be right. Success might not be worth it. It seems winners are usually more motivated by hatred and fear of losing / failure than the joy of winning. You see this with sports stars all the time (MJ).
The encoding of the machine instruction is 2 bytes for xor eax,eax - if you were doing a load/mov then you'd have to use a numeric cknstant which would be 4 bytes to represent zero and then more for the mov itself.

In addition when you have dependent loads of registers between instructions you can end up with pipeline stalls that delay the instruction (even if it shouldn't have any logical effect).

The xor pattern is so common that inside the processor (which translates isa instructions to microcode) recognise it explicitly and so it's treated as a special case. In fact no xor happens and the register is simply reprinted to a fresh value containing zero.
His primary usecase would be to teleport dissidents to Siberia.
Ask HN: Simple web app ideas?
Hello,

I would like to build a simple web app during my summer vacation. My main goal is to improve my JavaScript skills and create something really valuable for my portfolio. I would like to cover all the aspects of a typical web app: users profiles and roles, auth, deployment, etc.

I may have some ideas but I'm not totally happy with them. I would like it to be something more or less useful, but it could be just something fun.

Thanks and have a nice summer! ;)
Well, not really. My system doesn't have vi installed. Vim, of course, any
time of the day. Stripped Vim (vim-tiny, as Debian calls it), sure, just after
installation. But vi -- no, I don't have it installed.

For quite a long time Linux didn't have vi even ported. There were several
clones, like Elvis and nvi (and Vim, of course). Few years ago I learned that
somebody took the effort and actually ported traditional vi to Linux. I doubt
mainstream distributions cared to include it, though. Why should they? They
already have plethora of clones packaged, and those clones typically do much
more than traditional vi.

The lesson from this tale is this: don't call vi what is merely a vi clone. vi
is a name of a quite concrete project.

And as for kernel unable to boot: if it can't boot, then how the heck am
I supposed to run anything under this kernel? Unless you meant kernel can't
run OS from local disk. I know Linux well enough to manage to run my things.
You would be surprised how much could you hack through if you knew how ELF
binaries work.
The key thing to remember when you allow your empathy to command your thinking is that your drug war didn't prevent this. Everything in this story is about illegal activity; all of this is already illegal, as is the importation, manufacture, distribution and abuse of a litany of other drugs that are also still imported, manufactured, distributed and abused by people that can't "control themselves."

So all your drug war has accomplished is to compound the abuse problem with a horrible criminal underclass, a vast and militant law enforcement regime to contend with it and an insidious corruption of people and institutions throughout our society. Despite all of this real damage your drug war doesn't actually save people; millions have been killed through drug abuse and millions are addicted today despite your drug war and the huge amounts of treasure spent to wage it.

Is it conceivably possible to conduct your drug war so vigorously that it actually stops the bulk of this criminal activity and actually saves people from abuse? Yes. It is possible. You're going to need a GULAG system and a near total elimination of your civil rights because you will need to inflict enough misery and suffering on a large enough fraction of the population to generate sufficient fear to make the rest comply. The trade of valuable, easily concealable products in a liberal market economy is impossible to stop without such measures, which is why your drug war will never work, no matter how badly you feel about the tragedy of abusers.

So please, reassert your rational mind; your drug war is doing more harm than good.
From the github page, "Kilo is a small text editor in less than 1K lines of code. [..] The project [..] was written in just a few hours"

Either this has to be a unstructured mess of copy and paste and not worth anyones time or the author is lying about the time he used on this. Both alternatives are unappealing.
Are real estate attorneys cheaper though? I've never hired one, but is the charge per hour (as with other lawyers) or fixed per engagement?
Curious, if the cause is the decline in cigarette consumption; here's a graph showing roughly 100 years of data for the topic:

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-p4ECPyex_cY/TzSalazW2XI/AAAAAAAAA2...
That's a cute little game, very nice work on the design! It feels super polished (both gameplay and aesthetically). If only I could be half that skilled with the art side...

Have you considered translating it to other languages?
Drowning in Problems
It seems like you are much smarter than the rest of us.

Would you please tell us plebs what the fatal flaw is?
I was going to comment that from a neoliberal ideological standpoint population decline and flat GDP is 'bad'[1] however from a rational point of view, population decline with a flat GDP means potentially median income per capita can still increase[2]. The reason neoliberals dislike this is because for that to happen you need to confront the fact that income distribution is politically mediated not equably allocated by the magic hand.

[1] Rising GDP means you can hide the fact that income distribution is getting more and more lopsided. Having soft internal boarders (AKA Zoning/Gated communities) to make sure that the rabble doesn't see how the other 0.1% lives also helps.

[2] Same GDP but 30% fewer mouths means 100/70 = 1.43 or 40% more per person on average.
A bank failure doesn't have to happen overnight (Lehman), it can happen over a protracted period of time, in which there will be no systemic risk to the global banking establishment. In 2007, every bank was playing dirty w/Credit Default Swaps + CDOs -> "if our balance sheet is loaded with garbage, then the other guy's is too" -> no lending -> credit crisis. The only thing the DB "has" that is toxic is crappy management. BoA won't reconsider it's lending to JPM Chase because of DB, as would've been the case in 2007.
Man, we should try that (stiff drug laws) here in the U.S. That would fix our gun problem. (Kidding, I suspect you meant deregulate drugs, problem solved.)
Most interesting. Yeah, I'm inclined to just eat that one-time slowdown. We've all anchored (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anchoring) on running our programs without these runtime checks, so that our apps seem slower with them. But if we take on that one-time cost the programs will eventually get faster with faster hardware, better compilers, more cores, etc. And we'll be safe from these issues for ever more.

Thanks for letting me know my idea finally got across. I was massively under-estimating its subtlety.
"k", as "k" glyph reaches higher from the two. And conversely, "j" reaches lower, so it moves down.
I wrote a utility script for Twitch streamers to show in text what music they're currently playing on Spotify or YouTube, and many other music players.

Has been a stable 1k per month for quite a while now. As a student, this is really nice extra income :)
Especially because I don't have any other expenses besides my 5 eur/month webserver.

https://martijnbrekelmans.com/SMG/

Any tips?
I believe you've misconstrued d13's intended meaning. In short, what they said is something can be mathematically consistent without being physically realistic. GIT is not really pertinent here.
As long as we're talking votes, not "soft power", Germany is a dwarf.

European institutions are largely determined by "every member gets something", not economic size.

In this example, the Governing Council of the ECB has 25 members, two of which are German.

It is "first among equals" in the sense that no country has more members and few have as many, but what you're insinuating is factually wrong.

When it comes to any European organization, just assume that each member country has one vote and you'll always be very close to reality.
> The development community is in final stages of testing and QA for segregated witness, which would ~double the capacity of the network.

A factor of two or four doesn't really solve the problem, it just puts off the problem. (The same thing goes for minor block size changes, really.) What will happen when the network needs 100x capacity?
The pessimism around Snapchat in this thread is reminiscent of the negativity surrounding Facebook. Advertising is moving to social media, Snapchat is currently the best platform for targeting the demographic advertisers value the most (young people).
Oh, I totally agree. That's the real shocker in the article, that they had the information necessary to stop a lot of this years ago. I was just pointing out that the above's comment seems to have missed the point.
Kubernetes the hard way. No scripts
Or, alternatively, the author knows what he is doing, on account of being a very experienced C developer.
First, I am happy to see that you are attacking the correct problem. Everything interesting about computer architecture can be answered by asking two questions: 1) How is memory bandwidth used? (Seymour Cray lived and breathed that one every day), and 2) How is die area used? Achieving good code density is a double win -- less bandwidth for moving code into the I-cache, and reduced die area expended on I-cache to achieve a given amount of functionality.

I'm curious how you would relate your work to WISC (Writable Instruction Store Computers) and how you view WISC machines?
It mentions statins as something obviously good but is there any evidence they're actually beneficial? I thought cholesterol was good now?
Except for Venus with .9 Earth gravity and where colonies floating above the clouds have many advantages over, and may be no more difficult to create than, colonization schemes for Mars or anywhere else in space/away from Earth.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colonization_of_Venus#Advantag...
After years of trying to learn Japanese through osmosis by living here, this year I managed to get myself to seriously study again despite not going to school anymore.

It's a combination of a study app called Nihongo and a reminder/streak app called Commit. Now after studying about 30 mins daily for 6 months I've started to really enjoy my study sessions, and the joy of seeing the characters I've learned in my daily life. Now when the Commit reminder comes up I've usually already started my study.
Life-Hacks of the Poor and Aimless
The main challenge is that, even now, in the year 2016, there is no objectively good, fast, reliable way of rendering arbitrary text with formatting in a texture. Hell, even just plain text is kind of a pain in the ass.

And yes, I know about signed distance fields.
Interesting about the stomach cancer. Makes me wonder if we should be careful about limiting antibiotic usage too far? Perhaps everyone should take a course every five years or so?
> I remember reading about a hack/leak of, I think around 20,000 people's fingerprint data from the US government

Actually it was 5.6 million.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Office_of_Personnel_Management...
Some numbers on my single-person company:

Market: Add-on tools/plugins/components for enterprise software platforms.
Customers: ~30
Growth rate: Adding about 1 new customer per month
Revenue: $550K ($300K product / $250K consulting)
Gross profit margin: 80%

Costs are basically hosting, occasional marketing campaigns, some offshore development, and various SaaS subscriptions to operate the business.

The product often requires consulting services to customize, which can be lucrative. I bootstrapped the product development via consulting and am transitioning to a full-time focus on product dev/support... recruiting SI partners to do customizations.

Note: This is purely a lifestyle business. My true goals are digital nomad in nature.... traveling, writing code from a hammock in the Philippines, spending Winters in Mexico, work 6-9 months per year, etc...

The income is nice, but freedom and mobility are far more valuable.

My wife increasingly spends more time on front/back-office tasks, so technically this is a 1.5 person company :-)
Good! Now if only the most populous countries would do the same then everyone would be richer. Thanks to automation, we no longer need the next generation to be larger than the last. Most existential challenges for humanity in the 21st century stem from the population explosion of the last 150 years.
Have you listened to the Freakonomics podcast [1] on this exact question? It was an interesting exploration of "How to get more grit". If I remember correctly, many of the episodes around that time period (May of this year) were about getting good at things/self-improvement [2].

[1] http://freakonomics.com/podcast/grit/

[2] http://freakonomics.com/archive/ (Around episode 245)
America is the world's biggest melting pot relatively speaking. Most American's social circles look like themselves. Also I suspect there is a gap between the number of people who have no issue with having a diverse group of friends and those who actually do.

Drawing on techniques from social network analysis, PRRI’s 2013 American Values Survey asked respondents to identify as many as seven people with whom they had discussed important matters in the six months prior to the survey. The results reveal just how segregated white social circles are.

Overall, the social networks of whites are a remarkable 91 percent white. White American social networks are only one percent black, one percent Hispanic, one percent Asian or Pacific Islander, one percent mixed race, and one percent other race. In fact, fully three-quarters (75 percent) of whites have entirely white social networks without any minority presence. This level of social-network racial homogeneity among whites is significantly higher than among black Americans (65 percent) or Hispanic Americans (46 percent).

Links:

http://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2014/08/self-seg...

http://cdn.theatlantic.com/assets/media/img/posts/2014/08/cr...

http://www.prri.org/research/2013-american-values-survey/
When you ask this sort of question you should have contact details in your profile - there is no way to get in touch with you to discuss things.
Oh, they've been here the entire time. Some of the first posts were obvious pro-Russian garbage.
It sounds like they are selling to the enterprise customers, in which case you'd typically have first year of support included in the price (perhaps itemized separately to allow for creative tax accounting on customer's end) and the renewal will be in a year from the original sale. Again, typically, not automatic, but through persistent nagging.
I always wondered if the removal of lead in gasoline could account for a lot of this. Especially the dementia drop.
I bet it's related to smoked fish and other smoked food products.
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1oTmD5K560U2oBbLlerXq...
I'm glad you've now come around to the idea Brexit represents a problem to be solved rather than a boon to fintech...

If you think their negotiation objectives are going to be achieved "easily" despite the EU have a strong vested interest in not extending trade agreements to support London's financial service industry, and UK politicians having a strong political need to avoid a Swiss/Norwegian-type arrangement with unlimited immigration, I've got a bridge to sell you.
Yet they managed to raze cities just fine. If anything, modern religious nuts are quite tame compared to our ancestors.
I'm a 23andme customer and the aggregate data being used like this is exactly what I expected and is a big part of the reason I signed up.

There is a lot I don't love about Pharma companies, but when they use this data to develop or better target drugs, they are advancing science.
True enough. One other thing is also the decline of "elixirs" with unknown ingredients, chemicals of then unknown toxicity.
The lines do seem to correlate. In the case of stomach cancer, I'm wondering if there's a similar correlation between the decline in chewing tobacco and the decline in stomach cancer. Chew is full of fiberglass and other stuff, and if you swallow any of the juice you're swallowing that stuff. It's impossible to clear it all from your mouth after you finish chewing, too.
> A 'fair' and simple way of dealing with this is to make the buyer pay everything, then adjust how we think about home prices accordingly.

Yep, totally agreed. If the seller wants to make his property more attractive by taking care of some of those expenses, have them just lower the price accordingly.

> HoAs are a quirk of the US land-system, having some kind of quasi-democractic process over common territory. In the UK, there are only home estates, wherein the land is actually owned by a 3rd party and people who own the structures built on the land instead pay ground rent to the 3rd party.

How do multi-family housing units operate? Here are some examples of what an HOA might take care of (and charge monthly fee):

* care and maintenance of common ground areas, like lawns, trees, sidewalks, driveways

* care and maintenance of shared amenities, such as pool, outdoor spa, gym

* roof maintenance and replacement

* combined utility billing (water, garbage, rarely electricity, sometimes cable and wired Internet) when bulk purchase results in cheaper per-unit rate for everyone else

A few of those things are not straightforward and usually require owners to vote, e.g. should we replace the roof now or wait for another year, should we allow AirBnB-style short-term rentals or are they a nuisance and lead to noise, should a children playground be installed on the lawn, or there's no majority demand for it?
If antirez is reading:

How much time did this take? From start to finish. :)
When I taught V that was a class assignment (along with create a 4 function calculator). I don't remember any of the programs being that long.

For extra credit for people that had problems I'd allow a resubmission of an assignment if you did the logic in a different way. One of the students did a table that let them look up the current board and say what the new move was.
Avast Antivirus Acquires AVG for $1.3B
I run something that has been going for about 8 years. I can't seem to break the 6 figure level but I haven't done any marketing yet. I'm currently trying to get better at this.
Isn't that exactly what you'd expect statistically? That the majority members would mostly have circles representing the majority? In fact, its more telling that minorities have social circles that don't include many of the majority. Because that is a whole lot more self-selected - it can't be random. That black Americans' social circles have 65-percent minority membership is several standard deviations outside what could be normal.
Anything's possible, but the "It's just X" argument can be invoked so universally that I'm not sure it adds to the conversation.

ExxonMobil is just oil. WalMart is just department stores. Visa is just credit cards. All those companies have top-20 valuations. It's possible to come up with a doomsday scenario for any industry ... but by and large, once they get really big, they tend to persist in some form.