skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The SAFe definition is a good place to start.
http://scaledagileframework.com/product--and-solution-manage...
And to think, if Ted Ts'o had understood PRNGs at the time, we could have had a better PRNG a dozen years ago: https://lwn.net/Articles/103653/

It's so sad.
"Continuous growth in a circle" may indeed be a personal visualization, but "complex numbers are deeply connected to rotation" is a mainstream point of view in mathematics.
/dev/random is the blocking pseudorandom number generator in Unix-like operating systems and it provides only the entropy that can be obtained from environmental noise. I don't see how it can work any other way.

What is the manpage we are discussing here? I think getrandom(2) and random(4) are quite good.
‘Superbug’ scourge spreads as U.S. fails to track rising human toll
If a DNS provider does something they can't justify in the name of providing a better service, that makes it easier to convince people to use a different service.
Consider this:

Their gift is the ability to work hard.

They are able to work hard because they find it fun.

Q: We have all felt the "fun" of learning math (for instance), so how do we share that with others?
> Products that make google money that you have to pay for have some amazing support.

And yet, the best place to get support, even for Cloud customers – as has happened before – seems to be this very website, because the Google support just doesn’t care.
Infinite Noise – Simple, Open-Source TRNG
Mom and Dad, probably.
Plenty of people spend hours drawing and still suck at it. My sister spent hours with a coloring book as a kid, and now has a growing IMDB page.* Sure, she went to a great art school, but not because of some single minded focus as she had ~10 AP classes and ended up High school Valedictorian. Even this did not take her full attention as she had a wide circle of friends, was very popular, and spent a lot of time on makeup etc.

So yes she worked hard really really hard. But, those hours where simply worth more than other peoples.

In the end the nature vs. nurture debate is silly as it takes both to succeed. The minimums simply increase as you go up the scale. There are a few short people in the NBA, but nobody is below 5' tall. The top women are vastly better than the average man, but the classic men's vs women's sports has a core basis in biology.

*Shorthand for wanted to work for Disney as a kid, now has actual movie credits and words for Disney. That's about as concrete a form of success as you get for such a subjective field.
I skimmed the article pretty quickly because I was looking for the answer posed by the title and rightly expecting 90% background and filler stories. I didn't find much in the way of answers... Let me know if I missed anything.

Why some kids excel greatly beyond most others is still pretty mysterious. Don't call them gifted. High school is not a great social environment for introverts to learn in. Just give them access to more advanced material. Spacial ability may play an important role and we aren't focusing on it much.

Anything else?
The names she's selling aren't used for official names, more like nicknames.

See http://www.slate.com/articles/arts/culturebox/2009/04/the_na...
As someone who has been through the CTY program (I was a SET member, having scored above a 700 in math in 7th grade), I can say I've never been happier - I'm well off financially, have a career I greatly enjoy, and for the most part I can enjoy all the activities I have a desire for.

On the flip side, my brother was also a SET member, and there are some contrasts with me - he got his PhD in chemistry at 25 (I never finished my PhD in math) and was accelerated, having gone to college after 10th grade after cutting school for most of the year. He picked working with semiconductors, and that turned out to be a poor career choice. He accomplished much more in academic prestige than me, but his mistake cost him quite a bit financially - he is currently retooling to become a data scientist & is currently interviewing for entry level/junior positions.
There are many ungifted people who make their livings as mathematicians. Have you already abandoned math? If you haven't given up yet, there are likely things you can do to improve your chances of success.
I'm not saying the complaint was legally valid, obviously Google can't return the necessary due diligence on every DMCA takedown request. But the reasoning was explicitly stated in that request.
Thanks for the recommendation, added to my list!
Similar problems, similar solutions.
Now you only have to figure out how to make the ants not take short-cuts (eg. walk over houses)
USB stick. Doesn’t have risky microcontroller like some. Uses thermal noise. Does whitening in the driver instead of hardware so hardware noise is verifiable w/ simple implementation. Everything up to BOM is open. Cost about $10 each to make with a minimum volume of… 9. ;)

Also a Tindie link for anyone that uses them:

https://www.tindie.com/products/WaywardGeek/infinite-noise-t...
Don't fret; everyone in our generation was raised to believe we were the 1 in 10,000. That simply can't be true 99.99% of the time.

We're a generation that needs therapy to realize that a stable, six-figure job as a mid-level engineer at 30 isn't failure. Our expectations (some might say entitlement) were set so unreasonably high that most of us have no chance of meeting them.
I think you dropped this ༼ つ ◕_◕ ༽つ'/s'
This is cool! Thanks for sharing. I like how you can open the comments inline. One thing I think that might be cool to add would collapse button that shows (bottom right the screen maybe?) when you open inline comments. It would be nice to collapse the comments without having to scroll all the way back up.
I think you're premises are right but the analysis may not be accurate. As you say, travel is much cheaper now than what it used to be enabling a lot more people to travel, even if they're not upper class/rich.

The other point about Netflix: while Netflix binge watching is something that I've enjoyed on many occassions, it has changed my whole perception of entertainment from a "let me build my timetable around the TV schedule" to a "I will do what I like" one, which I find much more desirable.

There are a lot of hobbies today, in fact one of the best parts about the US being as open and multicultural is the amount of options you have for hobbies. So there's fitness, yoga, mixed martial arts. There's sports: Tennis, Kickball, Volleyball etc. There are the hackerspace/makerspaces sprouting up everywhere. The internet has made it incredibly easy to find recipes and learn cooking (youtube videos is how I learned cooking). There are multitudes of dancing styles and events. Need I go on?
For many reasons. The remote server is in a data center, supposedly better maintained than your PC, it has backups, RAIDx all the stuff. If you automate some tasks, or run long-lasting scripts, it is much more reliable. Also, keeping it in the terminal forces you to use the right tools, e.g. vim/emacs instead of the good old Dreamweaver...
Bigger Crowds Through Noodles
AMD’s Virtualization Memory Encryption Technology [video]
My random take from across the internet:

Performing technical customer support alongside more experienced coworkers might be an unexpectedly valuable experience because it will show what actually matters in the products and why it matters versus some theory about what matters and why and that experience can inform your decision making throughout your career.

Another potentially valuable lesson is that shifting reprehensibility during times of economic change is more or less a given and in the context of a corporate career the ability to adapt to business needs is key. Or to put it another way, the ability to see the value in the business decision (and to accept that it's not personal) is something that distinguishes professionals.

On the question of the likelihood of layoffs, it sounds like there already have been: that's part of corporate life going back to the days of industrial manufacture. On the other hand, the fact that you were moved rather than let go, means that the corporation sees economic value in your potential over the medium or long term and so, aside from doing something stupid at the individual level or large scale business decisions, there's less relative chance that you will be laid off in the near term. And as you become familiar with the products via tech support, you become more valuable.

And not just more valuable to your employer, but more valuable to its customers who have built businesses around the products you support...and here is my advice: treat those customers as valuable professional connections because they are a great source of future opportunity if you do a good job -- as potential employers and potential leads on work and as consulting gigs depending on your mood.

Please be clear, I'm not advising you to be miserable at work. I'm suggesting that part of the job of a junior developer is to learn the places where their absence of experience creates a misinterpretation or a shallow interpretation or a misunderstanding of the facts on the ground. Or to put it another way, in a world where you left technical support and got a job just like the one you had right now today, then six months from now, you're year of experience would look more like the same six months twice than a year of diverse experience.

Good luck.
er... isn't 599r somewhere on the order of $9 USD? I'd kill to get 20+ GB a month for 9 dollars.
SAP: Integration of BPC Planning and BPC Consolidation Process
But there can be a luggage fire? What fuse can you pull to disable that? I assume there are extinguishers for the luggage compartment?

Put a GPS/Iridium suitcase in the plane?
I don't understand. It sounds like they ditched the "Uber for home-cooked meals" model and started... a restaurant that offers delivery via app? That doesn't really seem like "the first truly scalable food tech company"; it seems like they are trying to compete with e.g. Seamless by vertically integrating. Which sounds... less scalable probably?

But kudos to them for the clever marketing - they got me to read about them, which I guess is the only point.
While I'm all for the logical/rational ideal of extracting the most amount of potential from people, but competition needs to be treated with care.

How do you propose competitiveness be constructively harnessed? If you are proposing selective schooling etc. there is a danger of creating social segregation which can reduce social mobility and as a result social cohesion. There is also a social benefit to both the talented and less-talented from interfacing - the talented can learn humility while the others can gain inspiration for example.
This strikes me as pedantic - we can probably safely assume that not doing the thing that caused the extension to be removed might in fact not cause the extension to be removed.

Can I say that with authority? Of course not. I can't say the window wouldn't be broken had you not thrown a baseball at it, either. But I can tell you the window is broken because you threw a baseball at it.
The first thing that came to mind was the WV Beetle.
There were five different features that they plotted vs. SAT score [1]. All five rely heavily on intelligence:

1. any doctorate

2. STEM publications

3. STEM doctorates

4. Patents

5. Income in the 95th percentile

A person in Q4 was 60% more likely than a person in Q3 to earn income in the 95th percentile. I'd say that's pretty significant.

[1] https://www.scientificamerican.com/sciam/assets/Image/Child_...
Psst, ctrl+backspace is a thing.
Something that an old person once told me was that everything is being sold and sometimes you're the product. This is the case of "free" in this usage.

This would be "free" in the same exact way that Microsoft's "free" windows 10 upgrade was "free."
Spamming isn’t bad, spamming can be fixed with a spamfilter.

Selling your age, gender, location, preferences, etc to anyone who books an ad? That’s bad.
How to test with Go
If you're writing C# you'll be much faster with intellisense and autocomplete. It's quite amazing how much help it is, especially before you reach expert level.

Occasionally you encounter weird toolchains where some stuff is much more convenient to do from the IDE, so you end up editing files in emacs then having Quartus or Vivado open to look at their reports.

(People should be a bit more specific about their working environment before confidently declaring the best way to do things!)
>Gifted children are "gifted" with a laser focus on the unusual things that they find fun - math, music, what-have-you.

This is my thinking as well. I was a kid like this. I suspect there's a connection between being asocial and being 'gifted.' If you're happy playing with compilers and such and don't feel the need to run out of the house to play ball, then you're just going to soak up a whole lot of stuff other kids aren't. The laser focus is probably optional as well. Although, I suspect there's a connection with being asocial and being easily and deeply focused on things other than socializing.

As an adult, I'm still asocial. I also am not introverted, which seems to be a common misconception about this personality type. I can be very loud, outgoing and demanding if need be and feel perfectly natural. I just don't like to socialize very often.
/dev/random keeps a counter that is effectively random that tells the interface to block. /dev/urandom has the same mechanics as /dev/random, the same inputs, and the same cryptographic constructions, but does not have the random blocking counter.

/dev/urandom is the interface you want.

/dev/random is unsuitable for production code because, again, it randomly blocks, which can freeze your application. Worse still: applications that use /dev/random tend to "work around" the problem by using /dev/random to seed a userspace RNG that doesn't block. That's not just inconvenient but overtly unsafe.
I feel like we put too much weight on the idea of detecting intelligence in children. I always did really well on all tests as a kid, getting 100% on assessment tests and crap. But I'm a total dumbass. Just look at my comment history.

Just raise your kid the best you can, if you are trying to purposely craft a genius you'll probably just instead make someone with serious performance anxiety and neurosis.
Learning from Data Viz Pioneer Edward Tufte: 5 Lessons for Interface Designers
I believe that falls somewhere between 'clever marketing' and 'exploiting gullible journalists who publish anything related to teenagers and entrepeneurship'.
https://duckduckgo.com/?q=human+multitasking+efficiency

This is NOT just a "let me google that for you" reply; I selected the search term carefully. (LMGTFY is for when the search is trivially obvious.)

I'd also suggest that the common experience of many professionals in the field matches what the studies show. Note that in theory, the formulation that "A * N_task_1, (1-A) * N_task_2. where A is a number between 0 and 1 representing the percentage of focus on task_1" implies that you must be 100% efficient in task switches, which you can easily disprove simply by trying to switch back and forth every second, or exactly precisely splitting your attention continuously. Again, even computers can "thrash" and spend all their time changing tasks in certain bad cases.

See also "queuing theory", which can put some math on this, and is useful for almost any HN denizen anyhow.
> The calculation comes from the physicists who came up with it of course.

This is the part I'm not so sure about. Physicists tend to not bother with
climatology.
What does this mean and how did you come to this conclusion? There are a lot of broad adjectives in the sentence but it doesn't sound right.
"They told me I was infringing 4 years later... "

Laches is only a defense if facebook knows and it took 4 years.
Even then, caselaw suggests 4 years is the minimum you'd ever get to complain about.

"Google reviewed it and approved it 4 years ago."

Not sure of the relevance to the first sentence. It's not the same folks.

"I was never told what to do or how to change it so that my users would still recognize it. Also changing its name in "Cleaner - For Facebook" was suggested (and accepted) for the Safari extension by the Safari Gallery Team.
If I don't know what I'm doing wrong, I can't fix it. "

I'm honestly not sure what you expect here. Google doesn't know what's going to make the other guy stop complaining, and if the other guys complains, they have liability.

I expect this is why they directed you to contact the complainant. Google really can't say or do anything here without risking legal liability, unless the other guy basically says "yeah, we don't care anymore". So they aren't. You can't expect Google to offer you legal advice on how to fix this, that's just silly.

Note that contrary to whatever you think - you have recourse here, even if facebook ignores you (i assume you called the complaining place on the phone instead of just emailing folks)

You could go get a declaratory judgement that your app is not trademark infringing. If you did this, and google ignored that, i think you'd have a reasonable argument here.
If this just checks for the accept headers, then why use client-side JS for that, especially for a space-saving competition? Isn't the point of those headers that you can handle it server-side?
> my current work laptop has less memory (8G) than my previous one (16G)

That indicates really poor buying decisions! I'm curious about why would this happen.
How well does this deal with the case when the optimal strategy is a mixed strategy?
Worst I've ever heard is "Placenta." It actually does sound like a really beautiful name, but to a typical native English speaker it is weird.
For a moment, I thought VPN's were the answer to this, for privacy-conscious people in India, but do such VPN's exist that are financially accessible to people from India that don't go through ISP's that do the same thing?
I did, a lot, when I was younger. My original plan out of high-school was to major in physics, stay in academia, get a phd, do research, etc. That got derailed when I took a computer programming class, and for most of the past couple dozen years I haven't spent as much time thinking about physics and cosmology.

Just recently though, I've kinda had my passion for that stuff renewed (can't say why, though). I've been reading a lot of books on physics and cosmology again and spending a lot of time thinking about things like "what is 'space'" and the like.

The biggest regret I have is that since I did not major in physics after all (and dropped out of school before graduating in c.s. anyway), I never got the level of certain things (especially maths) I would need to really understand physics at the deeper levels. I can read and largely understand books written for lay-people, like your average Brian Greene or Michio Kaku book, but I can't really go to arxiv.org and read the papers in the physics section.

It's frustrating, but at the same time, the field I chose has been good to me and it affords me enough money and free time to sit around reading physics books now and trying to learn/re-learn stuff I always wanted to learn.
The difference is that tubes saturate differently and they won't die due to high instantaneous voltages.
I'm not talking about 32 bits of precision; I'm talking about 32 bits of data. If you only have 16 bits then the number of unique states you can represent is 65536, and it does not matter how you divide that up into dimensions.
The gift is being interested in something and feeding ones own curiosity. It is the difference between an organism that grows only when fed vs one that feeds itself. I was "gifted", the biggest factor was an environment of experimentation and exploration. Questions with answers beget more questions. Feed that cycle.
Excel errors in scientific publications
> But it boils down to the hours that kids put into their interests.

So you believe in the 10 000 hours empirical rule based on "outliers" with very little evidence to support it?
It's more that if these extensions ever became a real threat to Google, they could easily block them since they control the extension store. That tends to keep them in line over the long run.
Very similar. I still remember being pulled out of class in the late 80's, I think it was 3rd grade, to take a spatial test by UCLA. Shortly after I was put in GATE, and gently reminded through the years by my Mom, that, that test predicted I would be good at engineering. Started my civil engr. company at the age of 30, in 2008. I scored the highest on the spatial test UCLA had seen at the time. I wonder how many others on here have taken it?

I think you are right about laser focus. Doesn't matter too much what I do, I can learn it, but I very much enjoy my line of work. Its no wonder after having a baby a few months ago I got the calculus book out to start reading to him.
Why does that rankle you? People are biased and you have to work with that. This is no different than one person companies using the royal "we" in the website copy.
I ran in to the exact same problem.

I had a chrome extension with >15k users. One day I got an email saying I violated the facebook trademark (my extension blocked the read receipts in facebook messenger and had 'facebook' in the title).

I reached out to google and they said reach out to the person who filed the complaint (which was not facebook, it was some agency they pay). I reached out to them, called their phone number, sent them emails, and they were unreachable. I emailed google to say they are unreachable and they won't respond.

It is kind of annoying...
Interesting point! Even the author of Hackers and Painters (Paul Graham) has specified Lisp was one of the important factors for their success at viaWeb and gave an edge over competitors. But I was expecting more user friendly (and useful) from this end for higher level languages in last decade or so... But couldn't find any perfect match!
> for privacy-conscious people in India

Privacy conscious in India? It wouldn't even go up to as high as 0.000001%
Which I notice a lot of commenters here in fact do. (Though to be fair, HN doesn't quite support proper hyperlinks.)
> Their terms of service also give them the right to kick you off the service - as they please.

Actually, they don’t, as rulings in Germany have shown, Facebook does NOT have the right to close accounts "at will" or for ToS violations. Especially not if the relevant ToS paragraph does not conform to law.

(Just like you can’t refuse to serve customers for their religion in the US, for example)
First aid vending machine? Should've taken it kid
Neutralizing a 51% attack (2012)
I'm somewhat surprised you and DanBC show that deep understanding of Polish
law despite of not living here, judging from your names.
Building a sci-fi dashboard in less than 4 hrs
Would you if you made 2 dollars a day, as the average Indian citizen does?
Gifted children are "gifted" with a laser focus on the unusual things that they find fun - math, music, what-have-you

Gifted children have the gift of being interested in things that are useful, that can give them money or high status like art, math, chess, technology...

A child who has an obsessive interest with candy or playing tag or watching TV (or just normal stuff that normal children do) will have to work harder to resist more temptations and focus on schoolwork and useful things.

http://slatestarcodex.com/2013/06/30/the-lottery-of-fascinat...
I sometimes feel the same way regarding my passion for computer science, when there are so many immediate problems in the world (energy production, food/wealth/opportunity distribution, war, etc.).

Likewise. I sometimes feel bad that what I do doesn't have a more immediate impact on people's lives somehow, in terms of things like poverty, health-care, clean water/food, etc.

OTOH, the skills I have can be put to use in those areas, but the only outlet I really have to do that is to volunteer with non-profits of some sort, which is something I do a bit of (but probably not enough).