skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't think von Neumann computing will go away but agree that analog computing will massively boost perf of neural nets in the near future. There is a really good in depth talk about the subject here from Microsoft Research a couple of years ago - still extremely relevant

"Will Analog Computing and Neural Nets Power Innovation after Moore's Law?"

https://youtu.be/dkIuIIp6bl0
More to the point wouldn't adding an (optional) standard push notification API to TOTP clients be a better solution. You login, your phone pops up a notification, you hit accept on the notification, done. Way less annoying than even SMS.

How would that work when you're trying to login on your desk/laptop?
Or alternatively authenticator based 2FA, which is their suggested way.
They are salaried so why would you pay OT?

You can't ship a product that isn't finished, and programmers with unfinished projects can't start new ones.

Let other programmers fix the bugs and charge it to support after you release it. Send your main programmers onto the next project. That's how commercial software works.
The cool kids have jumped to other frameworks, but you would be surprised to know how many people are using it in production http://emberjs.com/ember-users/

That said,

if (Something is on the frontpage)
{
it matters for some users of the HN community.
}
What did Verizon buy? (YHOO)
What was part of the deal, and what was not?

What does it mean when they write...

>The Verizon deal would transform Yahoo into a holding company, with a 15 percent stake in Chinese e-commerce company Alibaba Group Holding Ltd and a 35.5 percent interest in Yahoo Japan Corp?

http://www.reuters.com/article/us-yahoo-m-a-verizon-idUSKCN1040U9

The percentages in Alibaba and Yahoo! Japan were not part of the deal, were they?
The opinions of laymen only carries weight with those proposing idiotic solutions.

Burning down the house to kill a spider is stupid no matter how many people vote for it.
> Your bad grades are yours, it's not connected to your parents, or your class background, it's just you. [snip] And when you achieve something, it's your achievement. Not your family's.

That is a HUGE overgeneralization, as this is very subculture specific. You'll find families where "You got a D?! How could this happen? What terrible thing must I have done to you that you would stab me in the heart with such a grade?" and/or "My son, the doctor! Ah, he got his smarts from his grandfather.", and so on.

Note that while taking the credit and the blame do tend to go together, I've definitely come across families where parents take the blame but not credit, as well as families where parents take credit but not blame (and plenty where each parent & grandparent does their own thing entirely).
Maybe you just hate how people communicate regardless of medium?
The article is discussing taller populations, not individuals. Within populations being tall tends to be a proxy metric for general prosperity, so of course it's a positive.

Aside from that there seem to be intrinsic advantages to being tall. Taller people have bigger bodyparts, including bigger brains, and there's a correlation between larger craniums and higher intelligence[1].

This doesn't seem to be a very thoroughly studied subject though, but it really should be. If there's anything we could be doing to increase the average intelligence of human species that's going to pay dividends down the road.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Height_and_intelligence
The xxBy methods are just for convenience, usually you can provide your own function for each method.

Example:

Ember.computed.map('myArray', function() {
return foo.bar;
})

vs.

Ember.computed.mapBy('myArray', 'bar')

What you are asking for, would need a change to Ember.computed.uniq, allowing it to accept a custom function.
My feeling is that you'd do extremely well if you focus on employee liquidity. I don't think that's your focus or overall vision but a well working and trustworthy place were employees can sell their options hassle free and not get slapped around with all sorts of taxes and fees seems to be missing.
That market might get invalidated eventually if startups change their option strategies (YC provides good advice) but it seems like a great initial launching spot to grab some early adopters.
How is that better than just installing the MinGW cross-compiler (and setting PKG_CONFIG_PATH) on my own?
Possibly so: happened to me few days ago. Account suspended for apparent (unspecified) terms of service violation. Followed the link provided to appeal- said I have no idea why they've suspended me. Account reinstated without explanation.
I did look at the source and it seemed that way (imperative code using flat arrays) but I don't know enough OCaml to say with certainty.

I have worked with other functional languages (Clojure) and I have optimized GCed code and it mostly boils down to what I said - writing C/C++ like code in language X to get as close to hardware memory model (avoiding GC by pooling, increasing cache coherence, using value types or manually unfolding data structs, etc.)

I haven't seen a magical way for high level data structures based on trees (used for persistant strucutres) to outperform arrays
As someone who drove a Tesla S here in UK - the only cool things about that car were the dashboard display(where your speedo is normally) and the quiet drive paired with stupid acceleration. Other than that, it had fantastically poor interior, plastic everywhere(I've noticed this in almost all American cars - even very expensive Chevrolets, Chryslers, US-spec Fords are just full of plastic for some reason). The huge screen is awesome for first few minutes, and then you realize you can't change temperature without looking down - who thought that putting everything on a touchscreen was a good idea??
I guess I would maybe buy one for the fuel saving? But seriously, I would much rather buy a BMW/Audi/Merc/Jaguar for the same price, unless my main priority was fuel saving.
Honest question: are spam calls common in the US? I don't remember when / if I got any in Spain, Netherlands or UK (places I've lived and had cellphones for a prolonged time), I do remember, however, that when I managed to score a US number with Google Voice I'd regularly get weird spammy voicemails.

If that is the case, I wonder why that is!
Will Analog Computing and Neural Nets Power Innovation After Moore's Law? (2013)
No, Tesla started at 0. Apple is starting at 0, plus many billions of dollars of cash in the bank.
I've heard the explanation that the tallness of the Dutch is because they consume so many dairy products. It sounds quite plausible to me, because if you look at the other countries in the top of the list, many of them are countries which consume a lot of dairy products as well. It even could explain why the Maasai are so much taller than other Africans, because they drink a lot of cow milk too.
Publishers’ anti-adblock tactics are illegal, Euro privacy advocate plans attack
Does it matter to you if I come into your house and shit in your fish tank?
Brava! Very clean and thoughtful architecture, especially impressive given your short history with code, and that humbles me, an "old guy" compared to most of the readers here. Well done.
But, considering that no company does this, it looks like this isn't a good idea for employers. Why? Why do companies try to squeeze all the possible juice from employees instead of the alternative where they pay a little less, require a little less, and the employee becomes much more happy?

Tarsnap does this. My employee (yes, just one so far) submits semimonthly timesheets, and he gets paid for however many hours he worked. He likes the flexibility, and I know that I'm getting a good deal because productivity is correlated with motivation -- the hours when he feels like working are the hours when he'll get the most done.
99 points! No comments...

Is this being voted up just because people like ruby?* Or is is something awesome that everyone thinks everyone else should know about, but is not worthy of discussion?

* I like ruby
> much of the Netherlands is lower than sea level

interesting fact, actually from this site http://www1.american.edu/ted/ice/dutch-sea.htm it said "Half of the country lies below 1 meter above sea level, with an eighth of the country lying below sea level."
Amazon Expands Drone Testing in Britain
Angular aside menu
women strongly prefer taller men, that's a very strong argument for me -_-
Cool!

If you're not 100% sure that the GitHub data fields (bio, name, etc) are stripped of markup, please ensure that your widget isn't vulnerable to cross-site scripting (XSS).

There are GitHub users whose bios, names, etc contain HTML fragments. The way that your code inserts those fields is likely to be vulnerable. It's better to explicitly treat the fields as text, e.g. by using jQuery's text() method.
Could I sell Equidate options on Equidate?
Porsche is hardly a gold standard. They're not unique, just another in a large line of boutique car brands that have a different design language and a different set of engineering goals. Meanwhile their big-selling models, the Cayenne and Macan are little more than dolled-up Audis, which are in turn little more than dolled-up Volkswagens. It appears they've managed to fend away the VW Group short-cuts and corruption for now, but I'm sceptical whether that can last.

Nothing in the automotive industry parallels well with Apple, largely because the automotive industry isn't conducive to rapid evolution, short product cycles and aggressive market disruption. The best case scenario is for Apple to keep pace with Tesla's product cadence but with faster volume shipments through off-shore manufacturing.

Their first product will almost inevitably be a minimum viable product comparable to the original iPhone and original iPad. Remember those products? Enough to prove the idea to an audience, but look like rough beta products 24 months later.
When you hear about everything bad 1.5B people do, almost instantly
Organic foods are more cancerous than the ones grown sprayed pesticides(1987) [pdf]
Thanks, it still has some formatting issues and can be better. I try my best.
and taller men earn more money

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/science/science-news/1218787...
That's why I use Authy, because I'm scared the data will be nontransfereable.
Brief history of Yahoo! and mistakes it made.
There was a study last year that pointed to Dutch women preferring tall men as the most probable cause of the rapid increase in height. [1]

[1] http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2015/04/did-natural-selection...
the difference is that back then you could buy off-the-shelf components and have your phone built in china (what apple did and does). you can't easily do the same with a car. yes apple can create good software for a car but they might be better off licensing it to car manufacturers than providing an end to end solution.
Dutch are ridiculous, as a 6'3" man I'm barely above average when visiting Amsterdam
Of course most don't comment, but commenting is not required for a paper to be peer reviewed, only reviewing it is. If someone were to see the paper here, and review it, and find an error, presumably they would contact the author.

300k * 0.02 = 6000 people who may be qualified. How many people are typically asked to peer review a paper? A handful? The odds are still good.
Of course the last thing to be optimized for tall people is something like airline seats where there's significant pressure to optimize costs.

Try going to The Netherlands sometime. You'll find that all sorts of everyday objects are optimized for tall people, including the height of counters, urinals, toilets etc.
Yes, and also for PalmOS, webOS, Maemo, Openmoko and more.
Flagged for being a bot dupe of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12161992.
You misunderstand and subsequently misrepresent the whole experiment and paper.

Nobody but headliners (people only reading the headline) and overexcitable readers even tries to make this about "we can reliably detect single photon events". Yes that's what the headline seems to say.

The detection is clearly much better than chance. This is about exploring the absolute lower limit of human perception. It is not about "we can 'see' single photons", even though that's not even wrong - we sort-of can, the experiment shows we have a chance higher than random. On that low level it isn't about absolutes but about statistics.

I'm really disappointed in the comments here, the first time I saw this - was it on HN too not that many days ago? - comments were a lot better. Do't use a tabloid-paper interpretation and do read the actual paper too, as always headlines are useless.
Different people are responding to those threads, and those different people have different opinions?
> - Ambient human body temperature is a
> constant source of noise as infrared
> photons.

Which are outside of the visible range, and wouldn't interfere with the experiment, assuming they used visible range photons (the article doesn't mention this, but why would they not).

> - A human might simply guess at sensations
> and produce statistical anomalies that we
> want to believe in.

Isn't literally any study susceptible to this? Besides: "Still, participants were able to answer correctly more frequently than would be expected if they had guessed at random — and their confidence level was higher when they were right." suggests this wasn't an one-off anomaly. (Although N=3 nonetheles...)

> - A guessing human might intuitively gain
> an understanding of implicit tells in the
> detection process, and notice cues from
> the researchers, and interpret behavioral
> signals to provide affirmative responses
> to stimuli.

I think the researchers might have heard of the double-blind method.

> - How many photons can an individual simply
> think into existence by willful thought?
> Who's to say that the test subjects aren't
> detecting psychic brain waves from the
> researchers, by way of Vulcan mind melds
> and subsequent "remote viewing" events?

I might be missing a joke?
I store mine on a YubiKey. I only need any NFC capable Android device and the app that Yubi provides and I'm all good.
Scholarpedia – the peer-reviewed open-access encyclopedia
If the author read comments, this hard coded "http" seems to broke mathJax rendering in Firefox/Chrome with "HTTPS Everywhere".

<script type="text/javascript"
src="http://cdn.mathjax.org/mathjax/latest/MathJax.js?config=TeX-AMS-MML_HTMLorMML">
</script>

Everything is converted to https except this link and Firefox/Chrome then refuse to load the javascript on http from an https page.
Thanks, good to learn about this, will make changes to the code to reflect this.
> legally requires a passport/national ID tied to the phone number

Some may consider that a feature rather than a bug.
> Do you seriously think you're more capable of securing your mail server than Google/Microsoft/Apple?

I don't know about Apple, I stay away from them.

I also stay away from Microsoft, but I had to go through some of their
products in my time, so there's good chance that I'm more capable.

And Google? Extrapolating how they interact[1] with the rest of the world, it's
not improbable, too.

[1] Did you know, they were a source for backscatter for several years?

> Is the time/effort you'll spend maintaining it worth the privacy tradeoffs?

Wrong question. The correct one would be: why would I give up access to server
logs (yes, I use them sometimes) just to give up my privacy on top of that?

> Where are you hosting your email that isn't already on half the spam blacklists already?

In a place that is not a known spam source? (Yes, this excludes AWS and
Digital Ocean.)
I agree, it is bizarre to be taking different sides of the argument in different threads...
Bootstrap 4 is still in alpha though.
NIST does make a difference between the two, which is why it calls it "out of band authenticator."
Sure thing. We share information about companies' stock prices, share counts, and valuations — data that has historically unavailable, inaccurate, and/or very expensive (tens to hundreds of thousands of dollars per year). We show you real-time news about these companies, and let you track the value of your portfolio if you're an investor or employee.

We've built tools to use this data: https://equidateinc.com/browse
Without even signing up, you can answer questions like: "Show me Series B/C companies that have raised $10-100M, have a valuation of $100M-$1B, have less than 200 employees, with a B2B business model in the Transportation industry." We think that's awesome — whether you're an investor looking for investment opportunities, an employee looking for a new job, or a just doing research on companies, it can be incredibly powerful for the entire ecosystem to have access to this data and the tools to use it.

Companies don't IPO for a variety of reasons. Going public is a source of financing for companies — in recent years, with hedge funds and private equity firms participating in Series B/C/Ds++, there is a lot more capital available in the private market. New regulation has made it far more expensive to go public and to stay public. Going public is arduous on the company from the perspective of the time and attention it takes from management. And finally, once a company is public, they are subject to the whims of the market and have to answer to new investors who have a short-term focus on quarter-to-quarter earnings, often at the cost of not being able to have full autonomy to execute on their long-term vision.
I know. You'd delay xrays for many years and have killed many people because of fear.

The precautionary principle is a killer.
Well done!

It would be very handy to know what is a 'must have list' when
implementing those kind of widgets, does anyone came across anything like this? I mean what I shall be aware in terms of XSS, security in overall and best practises.
Mobile device security (well for IOS anyway) is waaaaaaaay better than PC security (for ordinary users), so I'd disagree on that point that app+phone is the same as browser+PC.

In what world is malware which has full control of the PC stopped by having the token code on a separate monitor but the same logical system (if that's what you're talking about).

An attacker with control of the PC can just get access to any app. on that PC...
See http://devdocs.io/lodash~4/index#uniqBy
WorkFlowy: Simple enough for a shopping list, powerful enough to run a business
Agreed. The dearth of solutions for 1D time series modelling in deep learning is surprising.
Very common. Also very common in nursing. Also very common in admin work from my experience.

I can't think of any male dominated industries where it's common.

The USA might be different, as OP mentioned.

[edit] Random citation - http://www.citylab.com/work/2016/03/the-gendered-effects-of-...
I think my mistake was making an account without looking at the FAQ first. I don't see any way to get to it from the logged-in UI.
My training is in language variation, and I specialized in sociophonetics, so I'm not an expert on syntax, but my understanding is that whenever chomsky's theories are empirically tested on real language data, they don't seem to hold water and he has to go back to the drawing board.
Programmer salaries are quite low as it is. I think there is a good case for reducing working time without reducing salary. I would like to see more companies experiment with 6 hour work days (like in Gothenburg, Sweden). I don't think there will be a huge drop in productivity. Maybe it is wishful thinking but I think there is a good chance it will increase productivity.

One of the problems with a 6 hour work day is how to organise it. If left to the employee they might choose to have no break. Which is really bad for productivity. There probably has to be some agreement that you can only have a 6 hour work day if you have a good lunch break somewhere in the middle.
Too bad I can only vote once UP for this comment. I fully agree; I have a family, my wife is a doctor and she works on shifts, so I often have to pickup kids and so on.

A huge cost that is often misunderstood is the cost of replacing an employee who leaves because the working conditions (endless hours, regular extra time, bully environment) are not compatible with his/her work/life balance.

My previous workplace was founded upon extra time (I remember our CTO and CEO clearly saying that he expected people to work 50-60 hours per week. The CEO literally said multiple times "these people are young, I expect them to work 120%").

We constantly were fixing issues and problems, we never had time to properly plan and design. Once the CTO told me that he expected our SW to have problems, but since we had no time to fix them or to build better software, he also expected the programmers to be available so fixing production issues when they happened no matter if it was night or weekend. Once he told us that he expected senior developers to check email once a day while on holiday to check if there were no problems.

No wonder that in a few month 3 out of 4 of the senior engineers left the company.
EmberJS uses strings as property paths. You can use 'foo.bar.firstObject.baz' as a unique key the same as any other function that takes a property paths (like a computed property). In Ember you write a lot of these so any small overhead like a lambda is a bit of a waste.

Also I don't think ember would work with functions instead of strings, the whole point of the strings is that the unique function is only called when one of the items in the property paths changes, and you can't get that from functions. You can only evaluate them.
My bank gives out hardware tokens. It's super easy to use, and I trust it way more than using SMS, even though they tried to push me over to using SMS (probably cost cutting move on their part). When it gets lost, they can replace it.
I worked for several years in a similar fashion (working 6 hour days and attending classes at night, etc). The only word of advice / warning I'd add is that although they add up to a similar number of hours each week, there's a huge difference between working 6 hours per day Monday to Friday, and working 8 hour days on say Monday to Thursday.

When I transitioned to a research-based degree later on, I found it very difficult to make 2 hours per day amount to anything. It takes almost that much time to just get into the mode of working on your research, and you need to be self-motivated as there are no classes to keep you pitching up every time. An entire day per week dedicated to it would work much better.
To be clear, I don't think either of these arguments (the original, or the one I proposed as "better") are good arguments.

Like cocaine, guns are not that complicated. If lawmakers aren't experts, they can easily have experts review their proposals and inform them.

The core problem with gun-related legislation is that we don't actually know much about gun violence in the US in an epidemiological context. The CDC hasn't been able to keep track of gun violence, and there isn't a good centralized database for it. It could be that everyone having a gun would be safer, and it could be that no one having a gun would be safer. We don't have conclusive data to support either position definitively.
I work 80% and have been doing so for the last 5 years. In Sweden you have that right until your child turns 8 years old (so until they've finished their first year of school), with reduced pay of course. This lets you be available to pick up your kids from school when they still have very short school days.

I rarely play ping pong or do non-work related stuff at work now, because I feel I want to make the most of my working hours. I go home around the time I often get a slight down time around 15:00 anyway, so I feel I'm very focused when I'm at work.

I think I will have a hard time adjusting back to 100% when my youngest child turns 8, but I know people who have negotiated down their working hours to play more video games so it will probably be fine.