skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I believe the idea is that this is supposed to be used when decommissioning as part of a disarmament treaty, i.e. both parties witness the warhead being destroyed, but how do you know it's an actual warhead rather than a dummy that is being destroyed.
Its taken them a while, all their peers except for Amazon have essential gone to the dust. If Geocities had been bought by say Google instead of Yahoo I could have easily flipped my options into my own startup. However dot bomb hit so hard instead of wealth I was left holding a huge capital gains tax bill that forced me into 10 solid years of hardcore poverty as most of my income was confiscated to pay off the debt. Not a nice outcome for companies bought by yahoo back in the 90s!
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This kind of hits one of the problems with JS on the head. There are too many different ways to do things, at all levels of abstraction, because it was such a limited, dumpster-fire of a language for so long, implemented in so many mutually incompatible ways by every different version of every browser, and so to do anything much more complicated than wiring up some basic callbacks on a page, you had to roll big chunks of infrastructure that better designed and more mature languages built in. So you end up with a half-dozen different patterns for object-oriented programming, another half dozen patterns for making async code less awful, three or four different patters for defining modules, etc, ad nauseum.

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"The functions are going to be a parabola." What functions? A plot of which two variables? I have no idea what you're talking about and I'm a grad student in biostats.
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Good reason to use services like: https://tosdr.org/
"search for 'somecompany'" only really works if you have enough seo for all search services for that term. "somecompany.com" is something that gives just enough context to let you know it's a webpage and you type it in your browser. Just like #pokemongo lets you know it's a topic, likely on twitter and @pokemongo is the username of a company, likely on twitter.

But on the "pro" side for searching, it should help autocorrect people who can't remember the specific name or the correct spelling.
Ah, you're right. I don't know what I was thinking. Thanks for the correction!
Typically somewhat different shape of facial features. E.g. the long nose stereotype is there for a reason.

The fact that you think cranial capacity is a "looks different" that would affect people's choice of sexual partners is ... odd. It's not something you can tell from the outside, typically.
Yeah, a zero knowledge system would mean that the inspector chooses the composition of the foil, and receives a return signal, that only the inspector may interpret and verify.

Zero knowledge means your peer participates in the authentication without needing you to inform them of your nuclear secrets, and them reading positive communication without needing to tell you a secret.

So the inspector should provide the foil sample, and the foil should be comprised of a publicly known composition, meanwhile they should still control a secret of some kind, and use a combination of the additional retained secret, and the exposed material as their own authoritative means of secretly confirming whether they can prove that know the difference between an authentic positive or negative result.

This way, the weapons producer cannot forge an arbitrarily desired result, by providing both the means of measurement, and the measured object.

The inspector must decide the degree of proof. The manufacturer must submit to a reasonable revelation of partial details.

This concept merely has the manufacturer stating that the foil signature is valid, because the foil signature is valid.
Some people can't let go of the past.
Ugh. The era before amt credits was bleak.
I'll try to state in this language what I think is the conceptual flaw.

The stated conclusion is "there is an optimum number of work hours, and it is less than 40."

However, their method of analysis is this:

"We fit a non-linear model that is a quadratic model cognitive ability y ~ ax + b x^2 for x work hours / week, and we found a statistical optimum around 25 hours"

The problem with this is that you're trying to find the best fit of a parabola to the data. And you have tons of samples where the work hours are very few / none (unemployed). Because there is a fairly strong correlation with unemployment and cognitive indicators, the parabola is already being "forced down" near hours worked = 0.

Now in this parabola model of estimated cognitive indicators vs work hours, either you are going to get a minima -- and it goes to infinity at working hours -> infinity (of course in real life it cannot really do this, because we only have so many hours in the week, but the statistical model will suggest it) -- or, you are going to get a maxima, which is what actually happens.

It could well be in the data that the indicators are that there is roughly flat, or even increasing response of cognitive indicators to working hours when the number of working hours is beyond a nominal value, but that the unemployed population has somewhat lower indicators.

In this case the model will automatically become a downward curving, parabola with a maxima, suggesting decline with increasing work hours -- even though this is not what the data directly suggests.

This maxima, the fact that there even is a "work hour optimum" that is a smooth, quadratic curve, is a mirage -- the model is not the data.

A remaining question is why the optimum is less than 40 hours. It is relatively easy to construct a statistical case in which it is a curve fitting artifact, despite that there is no direct data even at at the suggested optimum.

One could in principle check to see if this is the case. The data may be available.

For now, there's few graphs on page 20. It really doesn't seem to me that there is a significant distinction between the part time and full time groups -- in fact, the biggest difference is that more women who have a high reading score are not unemployed. Men who have a higher symbols score are more likely to be full-time employed instead of part-time, slightly -- but the converse is true for men with higher reading scores. The difference is not very distinct.

https://www.melbourneinstitute.com/downloads/working_paper_s...
>how easy it would be for stranger to learn everything about me through my data.

Isn't that pretty much what's happening with your data at google?
On the other hand, that's one hell of a mom. I figure most moms these days would shut the project down from the get-go.
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https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12118644
And above us is probably FORTRAN and above them is probably COBOL.

Actually, I think assembly language would probably be the next age "peak". If you know Asm you'll be far better at C; things like pointers and indirection immediately make sense. The effect is weaker, but still there in the other direction.

(FYI, FORTRAN predates COBOL by a few years.)
Yup, shortly after 9/11 I flew to Hong Kong and I forgot that I had my mini screwdriver kit (small screwdrivers for electronics, smaller than my pinky finger) in my bag. It got confiscated, to my disbelief.
I [attended][1] a great lecture by [Alex Martelli][2] back in EuroPython 2013 titled "'Good Enough' is Good Enough!"

From the [summary][3]:

> Our culture’s default assumption is that everybody should always be striving for perfection – settling for anything less is seen as a regrettable compromise. This is wrong in most software development situations: focus instead on keeping the software simple, just “good enough”, launch it early, and iteratively improve, enhance, and re-factor it. This is how software success is achieved!

[1]: http://simongriffee.com/notebook/europython-2013-notes#goode... "My notes. Biggest takeaway was to use 'perfect' as a verb rather than adjective."

[2]: http://www.aleax.it/ "Alex's homepage."

[3]: https://ep2013.europython.eu/conference/talks/good-enough-is... "The lecture video is also on the page."
On the other hand, if the neighbor's cat starts growing a third ear, they know who to blame! ;-)
In fact, on July 19, 1963, Joseph Albert Walker flew an X-15 rocket plane to an altitude of 105,900m, or more than 100km, past the Kárman line, i.e. into outer space. Compare that to the Indian flight mentioned in this article, which reached an altitude of 65km. In other words, the US had a reuseable space-capable launch vehicle 50 years ago.
He was lucky that the headphones used standard rubber insulation. It's common for headphones to use bare copper wire coated with some sort of insulating lacquer, that can't be stripped mechanically.

The best way I've found to remove such insulation is to light it on fire, which would be frowned upon during a flight.
If this were true, letters of recommendation wouldn't carry nearly the weight that they do.
The sales pitch is that the fabric vendor does the administration, and people like you are out of a job.

Because the framework infrastructure is supposed to solve all of that behind the curtains, so developers cannot shoot themselves in the foot. (Other than through excessive resource consumption)
Spacex heavy landing will be awesome to see
My guess is that it'll stick to "example.com" unless we switch to a proprietary service (like Facebook or Twitter). A nice thing about "example.com" is that it gives you enough context to know it's a web address and you type it in your browser. Thinking back to AOL, they always had to say "AOL Keyword: Example" or "Keyword: Example" to give you enough context. Years ago maybe doing something like having it blue and underlined might have caught on and let you just use the word?

One way it could be shorter and keep context is if we hijacked a special character like Twitter does #example or @twitter--but I can't imagine standards bodies getting on board with using a special character (or trying to get people to adopt it as a replacement for web URLs).
If web developers ran wars the world would be a safer place.
When is their birthday. Gift them one of those 64GB USB-sticks. Write "BACKUPS" on it with a nice marker or something. Tell them to copy their important stuff into a folder YYYY-MM-DD. If the laptop is there, make them do it now :) Depending on how big that crucial data is (given it's a few years old laptop, can't be too big, right?), after you've shown them it takes just 15 minutes or so, tell them to do this every so often so it's full for their next birthday :) [again, depending how large the data is, and/or how much you're willing to spend on a life-saving birthday gift ;)]

Sure it's not a bullet-proof system, but maybe as they experience the feeling of security, they'll get a taste for implementing something more comprehensive. Lots of low-hanging fruit, too :) But this is already a hundred times better than what they (don't) have now.
there are permanent settlements in Antartica (for some definition of "permanent")
I'm a Leanpub cofounder and just wanted to mention here that self-publishing a book while you're writing it is not necessarily incompatible with eventually going with a conventional publisher (though if you have a publisher in mind, you might want to ask them first if this would be acceptable to them). Publishing your book while you write it can help with motivation and the feedback you get from early adopter readers can be really valuable and make the book better in the end.
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Salesforce app discontinues support for almost all Android phones
If you have any kind of real load, there skills always be instances running. If you have less load than that, you are not a case worth optimizing for, because you pay less than a few hundred per month.

Also, small instances are cheap to keep around, and as you pay per request, it's in the providers best interest to make that efficient.

Well, that's the sales pitch, anyway...
the TLDs for domains could technically be used as domains as well

That's because they... actually are domains too. Top Level Domains, as the acronym says.

It wouldn't make sense for TLDs like com, net, org, etc.

Actually it might --- that's a great place to put all the information about (and maybe instructions on how to register) a subdomain there.

But, to use the precise terminology, a domain name with a single 'label' has historically been treated as a "relative" domain, e.g. https://localhost , and no doubt many of you will be familiar with intranet sites that use similar "non-qualified" single-label names.
Liquid nitrogen here we come!
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I'm sorry, I am trying to explain something that is very clear in my head, and I'm pretty sure that I'm right, but I haven't had bio-stats training specifically so I do not know the language precisely. My background is in physics, computer science, and epistemology.

The functions I am referring to are estimators of cognitive indicators (like backwards digit span, say, that they use in the paper), as a function of working hours.

Take a look at page 21 for some plots. For each of the cognitive indicators, the estimator is a downwards parabola as a function of working hours. What I am saying is that this is an artifact of the analysis. The shape could be far different -- in fact it could be a bad case of curve fitting. Additionally -- why not just directly plot the data as a scatter plot or a binned average of cognitive indicators for bins between, say, 20 - 25 hours, 25 - 30 hours, etc? Then at least we could see if the parabolas are close to the data...

https://www.melbourneinstitute.com/downloads/working_paper_s...
Almost there, but you lost it in the end. The straight A student would win not because he is less proactive but because he is more versatile to handle any task. Someone who is deeply invested in a technology from an early age will have seen lesser challenges and diversifications than someone who takes all courses all around.
In my opinion Amazon helped Flipkart grow. If there wasn't any worthy opponent the growth would have been less aggressive. Now that the aggressive growth has plateaued, it makes sense to grow smarter.
Science without the scientific method takes us back to alchemy, or astrology, or numerology. Those precursors eventually refined their methods and developed into sciences, but were not sciences. Most of the "soft" sciences appear to be closer to those protosciences, particularly when so much of the crackpot, discredited theories still circulate in the zeitgeist the way they do, as in, say psychology.
People keep saying that without a context. Non-lock-in usually has value too. Many times for similar or lower cost. And with way less risk.

So, the question instead is "With these requirements, which products and services meet them with good, cost-benefit analysis? And which is best when benefits and liabilities are considered?"
I wonder how much of this is related to historical inability to use native characters in domain names.
Seems like he should have absolutely no problem transferring wherever he wants after this.
Emirates has some of the highest revenue and cost numbers per average seat kilometre [0]. It's also subsidised to a large extent by the UAE [1]. I don't find the word "rich" to be very descriptive, but "high end" could easily apply in this circumstance.

[0]: http://www.oliverwyman.com/content/dam/oliver-wyman/global/e...
[1]: http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/emirates-confirms-bi...
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Because you, the developer, do not buy or pay for "servers," only ephemeral "code invocations."
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I am faculty, and I wouldn't.
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Thing is, complex frameworks like Angular tend to allow for 20 different ways to accomplish the same thing, so they don't really solve the underlying problem: team members still need to agree on a common approach and a shared set of idioms and coding styles.

There is a difference though. When there's a big framework involved, discussion will tend towards "Is this the right way to do X in Angular?" rather than "How do we want to solve X?". That may be good or bad, depending on whether you want to build your career around being an "Angular expert" (or a "Rails expert" or "SAP expert" or "COBOL/IMS expert" or any other kind of framework expert).
I understand how enter works, but my point is that the naming is pretty poor. If I haven't been around d3 for a while, it becomes very easy to forget how it works because of exactly this. Its api isn't intuitive, which often indicates either bad naming or design - in this case, I would pin it largely on the naming, and the api design not facilitating understanding as easily.
That's an incredibly clearly written letter. It's amazing. If only more businesses communicated that way. But then of course most have reasons to obfuscate the situation...
The measure of possible data sets where, by standard statistical analysis, the coefficient for the squared component is zero, is tiny. There's no guarantee for a parabola, just a very high degree of certainty.

Your other point, that the parabola could be "not statistically significant," is true.

But given a strong degree of significant correlation between unemployment and the cognitive indicators, even if the dependence is totally flat for the cognitive indicators between 5 hours worked and 100 hours worked, you will still get a parabola by this method of statistical analysis.

Do not forget, this is model fitting.
If I remember correctly, the MTA has had a (sizable) surplus for the past few years. It's more chronic mismanagement (and graft) than underfunding.
>quite a few faculty who are suspicious of perfect transcripts

In an undergrad department meeting, the topic was brought up on "why your parents should not call or arrive at the school seeking to talk to professors about their student's grades."

It's an open secret at some schools, Harvard being one of the most famous, that if you're rich or well-connected enough, you get in and coast with a B average, with relative ease--a C average at the worst.
Sure! This was my first HN post. Will keep that in mind next time. Thanks :D
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I take this approach personally. I make it a rule to run as little software as possible. Sadly, every business seems to want an "app" for everything: I know this from being in the applications business. Even if I wanted to, I couldn't get away from the web browser, and it has to be Chromium.

I dream of a future where my bank (for example) publishes API documentation which can be used to successfully implement a working first-class client. That client can then be an actually-good piece of software.

The web is an awful platform for applications, and the only reason for its success in this space was ubiquitous and consistent deployment.
It's not the airline, it's the aeroplane manufacturer. Boeing and Airbus use different connectors.
It's possible to turn any codebase into a big ball of mud. Declarative languages are just a tool, like object oriented languages are.

And arguably, if you choose a language based upon its ability to help you define what is "dynamic" vs. "static" you've made some mistakes.
I would want integration into my existing workflow, not integration that replaces my workflow with something completely different.

For me, this means using emacs-ipython-notebook. This brings the ability to interact with a running IPython Kernel into the text editor that I use daily. It's the best of both worlds: interactive plotting+notebooks+rapid development assistance from IPython, and thanks to Emacs, all the keybindings are what I expect and I'm already familiar with how to extend the environment to suit my needs. EIN has been transformative for me.

Perhaps my needs don't match the needs of others. For most people, I imagine the Jupyter-lab style of environment that's self-contained in a browser would in fact be a step up from the ad-hoc notepad++ windows and PuTTY sessions used previously.
It depends on what kind of programs you like to write. Personally I like to write things like programming languages or VT100-based text editors. And I like the added challenges that C presents, especially related to data modeling, memory management, lack of first-class functions, etc. So C is a natural choice for me, whereas JS adds little to no value, and actually takes away the challenge.
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Kepler confirms more than 100 planets in single trove
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The first code I ever wrote was modifying this in a few different ways on my parent's IBM XT to say inappropriate things and change the game dynamics.
It means you didn't understand my comment.

>The human body is the result of 1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000+ organisms dying before or after reproducing.

I guess I have to spell it out. "Bad, unmaintainable code" is the result of 1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000+ random requests being shoehorned in without proper design of the whole thing, but just on the basis of whether it still works or meets some last-minute requirement. I hope this makes my analogy clearer. (I realize the number is an exaggeration, I am referring to the process involved in "evolving" code, rather than "properly designing" it.)
How do you not make money and still owe a lot in capital gains?
> To eschew exceptions almost always entails giving up RAII

How so? RAII works just fine when you return errors.
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Has the valley ever seen a more hyped, yet disappointing hire than Mayer?
The structure of the URL's once the user has hit the landing page and clicked a couple of links doesn't need to be known by the user, nor should the user care.

Sorry, but that's a completely wrong and horrible attitude and it's the sort of sentiment which leads to things like browsers hiding URLs and the resultant rise of even more computer-illiterate users completely dependent on (and thus at the mercy of) search engines and their opaque, proprietary, and sometimes completely idiotic ranking systems... you may find the vigorous discussion here relevant:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7677898
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Except when you want to derive something that isn't supported by the compiler, and isn't creating a newtype.
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Boo hoo. It's not that bad. Knuckle down and learn some shit. Crikey, some of us learned this stuff before a crowd sourced 90,000 word wiki and versioned online code repository was commonplace for a 200 line library. AND get off my lawn!!
Why go to the complicated step of insulating a wire with the paper? You could make the situation much easier by just tearing some paper out of your notebook for kindling.

Not sure how one would manage to sneak a lighter onboard though.
There can't be THAT many. Unless my math is wrong, they can only be at most 1% of the folks taking the SATs, right?
I agree with you in theory, but from experience it is extremely hard to achieve when you're actually in that position.

Unlike what you say, it does take much longer to write great code when you're trying new things every day. Every time you try something new, by definition you're building something that you hadn't planned when you first started. Which means if you really wanted to be perfect you would end up refactoring every day. This is not a small effort in total.

You could say you should have prepared for that scenario from the beginning, but I don't think it's a good idea to believe that you can predict the future especially when you're building something that hasn't existed before.