skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It also matters to developers. Who even tests on Opera, which is ~1% of market share? Once people stop caring about whether your browser works, you lose all ability to lead how browsers work.
Compute, I don't care about. Screen space is precious. Every extra window I can have open simultaneously increases my productivity.
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Looking at the html of the payment screen, it appears there’s some kind of "payment_method_alipay_cross_border" woocommerce payment plugin, which suggests that AliPay are handling it somehow.

But since her family has business links in China, it probably isn’t a big deal if she gets paid in ￥ - there’s probably something they can spend it on over there & the family can compensate her here in £.
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The calculation comes from the physicists who came up with it of course. Are you saying they were wrong? Do you have a link to a paper showing this?
"With the MiG-25, you could take off from a grass strip, climb to FL800 and fly at Mach 3, and land on that grass strip again. Fascinating!" http://aviation.stackexchange.com/questions/7485/can-jet-air...
ISPs treat cyber security as a top priority
GJ, this definitely looks good! Speed is OK imho, although you can feel a little delay on my device (OnePlus One).

However, I will probably stick to Materialistic (HN native Android App) for feature reasons.
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Maybe after the Cuban Crisis. But Kennedy basically had to tell his advisors to shut up, because they were slavishly following RAND's escalation policy.
Except the price after the free period is still 0.2x current rates from competitors.
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Well, Hackerrank is a recruiting company. If you are from China or Russia, and you want to leave the country and find a job elsewhere, having a high score on Hackerrank is going to improve your chances. If you are from the UK or US, you probably wouldn't bother.
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Apparently he has a patent, although its not clear what he has actually patented. If the patent is sufficiently effective to keep other players out of the market that would explain the high price tag.
Nice. I like that you can search for monitors with a thin bezel. Keep it up!
> At the other extreme, I had a friend who was from Chongqing, but grew up and went to school in the west, who refused to take an English name at all because she didn't see the value in going by a fake name to all her friends.

Interestingly enough, an old friend of mine was the opposite.

She's from China, came to the US when she was in sixth grade (she's still here), and I met her in high school. At the time, she mostly used her Chinese name. She only used her English name a little bit and never in class. She graduated a year before I did, we lost contact (this was before social media was a thing), and then a few years later, when Facebook became a thing, we found out we were going to the same college, so we reconnected. The first time I talked to her after that, I called her by her Chinese name, just because that was what I knew her by. She laughed and said she hasn't heard that name since high school. Turns out she dropped her Chinese name like a hot potato as soon as she graduated and has been using her English name exclusively since. I haven't called her by her Chinese name since.

As an aside: much later, she got married, and she took her husband's last name, which is a western practice that isn't done in China, which really sums up how much she considers herself American. I never asked, but I get the impression that she felt that all parts of her birth name just othered her and she couldn't wait to get rid of it.
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I think about it constantly, but I've had an interest in astronomy and cosmology since I was a small child and I'm currently studying astrophysics at university.
Depends where you want to live and what kinds of things you want to eat. And how much risk you are comfortable with. My desired lifestyle requires $5 million to retire comfortably.
While it does seem weird that coaches and organizers of these events - and even the parents - don't carry first-aid stuff with them... do your local pharmacies/chemists' just hand out medical supplies if you walk in off the street?
Real gems these ones. It is simply astonishing that strangers could give refuge to a man that, at the time, was America's Most Wanted. The courage of these refugees is staggering: they had lost practically everything in their lives and were now confronted with hiding a target as valuable as Snowden and the (mortal?) risks that came with it. Really remarkable people!
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What the hell is a Founder Apprentice?
I hope his parents are already loaded, otherwise they have done a VERY poor job of guiding him down the appropriate path. At $30 million you can live a VERY comfortable life unless you're a complete idiot with it.

I get "chasing your dream" - but I struggle to believe an idea he came up with for a school science fair at the age of 14 was any kind of lifelong dream.
This is a case where both the Ruby community and the Linux community are standing in the way of security.
I agree with part of your sentence only. Managers, especially professional ones (as opposed to ones that were promoted from the kind of position they end up managing) do tend to push for client-facing features with little thought to the accumulating technical debt.

It's been my experience, however, that when left to their own devices, developers tend to either learn new things or refactor code that's getting too hard to maintain. And both are important, critical even, but certainly no help in getting up to date documentation, fixing "painful" bugs, or writing good tests. In fact, they can even be counter-productive in that respect: heavily refactored code will invalidate at least part of its documentation and tests.
"does the money legally go to the girl or her parents/guardians" - what a funny way of looking at things. An employer with a 16 year old employee would just pay that employee and wouldn't recognise the parents as having any right to it.

At 16 you pay PAYE - i.e. income tax.
Their tank expert is an actual tanker:

http://www.militarytimes.com/story/veterans/best-for-vets/20...

He's got a Youtube channel that has fascinating reviews of WW-II era tanks, Watching him try and fit his over-6' height into some of them is hilarious.

https://www.youtube.com/user/TheChieftainWoT
It's not true that you cannot run an adblocker on Chrome. You can easily install uBlock Origin, uBlock, Adblock Plus, etc., from the extension store. You can also run EFF's Privacy Badger extension to block trackers as an additional measure.
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In balance, Linux 4.8 will bring some much-needed improvements to Linux's urandom implementation.

But they still maintain a "meaningful" distinction between random and urandom, which is the most frustrating design smell.
That was a funny anecdote about Van Halen, had to read up on it. Here's the link if anybody is interested: http://www.snopes.com/music/artists/vanhalen.asp
I am curious to know why so many Chinese people find it necessary for their children to have English name to visit US/UK in future. Do most of the outsiders in China have Chinese name?
Who made the 30 million dollar offer?
She uses Alipay Cross Border https://global.alipay.com/ospay/home.htm which converts every transaction to GBP and remits the value to a GBP bank account.

(Try going through to the payment page and you see the conversion to GBP happening.)
Fair enough. For my Chinese name, I chose 凡一正, which I've been assured translates to "Super Awesome Number One".
Iceland is fairly nice. Maybe you are thinking of Greenland. Greenland is very cold.
Google ngram suggests that the name's popularity is relatively stable, no drastic changes:

https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=Eugene&year_st...

It is declining fast in American English:

https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=Eugene&year_st...

However, not the case in British English:

https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=Eugene&year_st...
Or someone will just copy his idea and use the 30M to fight him in the court...
I agree

> but I'm often surprised at the kind of negative reaction I get when I bring it up.

Because they assume you are trying to hide or obscure something. "Why wouldn't you want more 'visibility'?" kind of stuff.

Then if you explain, unless they completely trust your reasoning, they think "Oh this is just a rationalization".

Moreover, over time metrics, and processes, and rules just accumulate. Every time anything bad happens -- new rule and some new metrics get added. Sure after a while they are ignored, but they are still there. Then nobody wants to be the person to say, let's clear the table of these unused rules and metrics let's have less.
You know what an awesome product is? It's full of bugs, lacks features and is frustrating to work with. Yet customers are ready to pay money for it. You know why? Because despite all the quality issues, it solves their problem.
You could rant all you wanted but why did you have to give a bad rep to the term 'metaprogramming.'

I think what you described can adequately be called something like 'hipster programming'.
There is this company called Netflix...
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I have a few around. When I lifted competitively (15 years ago?) we had a few Pavel guys in the community. Nice guys but... weird.

My biggest issue with kettlebells is that my basement ceiling is low so swinging them is probably out and I've only got 7 months or so of outdoor training. I'll check it out, however, can't hurt to ask.
TLDR: Some things are more important than others, but it depends on the person and/or domain.

I think a few of these items are a bit more than debating the unimportant.
I don't personally feel like I need "the perfect" setup, however there are a few things that I think make me leaps and bounds more productive.
Working on a few older platforms that you have to build locally can cause some machines to really bog down and chew up a ton of your development time - taking us back to the the old, "hardware is cheaper than programmers" concept that another commenter mentioned.
There have been many productivity experts saying that in every field, having an extra monitor can give you huge efficiency gains. I find I got the most gains adding up to 3 monitors.. the 4th wasnt as much of a gain. I think this is domain dependent though. When working as the sole developer on small websites for clients as a side business, I really only ever use two monitors at most.
Headphones, keyboards, and chairs I think are the most "diva" things to spend a bunch of time on. Yes, the chair has to be comfortable, the keyboard has to be accurate, and the headphones have to work for your work environment. However, like delivering software, sometimes good enough is better than perfect.
Having an office diner of any form I think is a productivity play. If you are hungry, you are not at your best. If you have to figure out what you are going to go out and get you are taking more time - plan what to get, travel to get it - instead of just grabbing something quick across the office and eating it at your desk.
I want to be productive. Not productive to the max, navigating through every single minuscule inefficiency, but making changes to get the most gain. Everyone has their preferences and friction points. If you are pissed off at your tools a good portion of the time, you probably aren't going to be as productive.
> It essentially means restricting yourself to math that can be described as a (possibly infinite) algorithm.

I'm confused. My impression is that it is the other way around where irrational numbers and operations like sine, square root etc. are infinite 'algorithms'?
At 2% return a million is 20k/yr.

That's nice but not "set you for life" nice.
It most likely doesn't. I'm sure the other naming websites aren't blocked either and the line about restricted Chinese internet sites was just 'journalistic licence'.

The reason her site is more popular among Chinese is likely to be a function of targeting Chinese people, rather than the other sites which are geared towards native English speakers.
I'm a little more disappointed that someone didn't provide him a bit more guidance on this. I, like many here, find the rejection crazy. But you can't go and blame a 14 year-old for it, it's the adults surrounding him.

His parents are really to blame for that rejection. Hell he must have a patent attorney, who at some point mentioned this would probably be easily challenged. This has a ton of risk with what upside?
Any business is required to have a first aid kit on site and render help when asked to. If you organize any sort of event it's even doubly true. Not to mention that any car is legally required to have first aid kit to pass its yearly technical inspection(this is in Poland). So in an emergency you can run into any shop or stop any car on the road and you should get whatever first aid kits come with.
Pretty much as it was for contracting. Incorporating an Ltd has not changed and an accountant will give you peace of mind if you are not familiar with the system but us by no means necessary.
Could this be easily disassembled and stored in a way that it doesn't degrade while in storage? If so, could the same design techniques be applied to building MRAPs that don't end up as military surplus?
Play sounds like a good use of a childhood.
In Python snippet of the blog post, urandom() was used without importing the os module :)
It is indeed UHF.

I should've put "VHF/UHF" in the original comment as the formula is reasonable for both. They're both Line of Sight and that's really what the approximation is about.
I wonder if this book had some influence. It's definitely blowing my mind.

Debt: The First 5,000 Years

https://www.amazon.com/Debt-Updated-Expanded-First-Years
Sounds fishy.
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Don't try to use groups in any advanced way.
Congrats to him for starting a business. As for the 30mm offer... I could offer him 30mm right now, and then he could say he has officially been offered 30mm for his company, and turned it down. Poor journalism/click bait.
>> dead leafs under the tree that used to be frozen now are being composted by bacteria producing methane

This is THE thing people overlook. There used to be trees there! There used to be lots of vegetation, that's why there's so much carbon trapped in the permafrost in the first place. We're not releasing something bad, we're returning the earth to a better equilibrium. Imagine if the Siberian tundra were replaced with forests and farms. Imagine if we avoid the next glaciation - which is coming if we do as the climate alarmists want, yet there is evidence that we can't prevent it even if we try.
I get it too. It's incredibly soothing and comforting to contemplate the vastness of space, the amazing features of this reality we barely comprehend and in which we live for a flicker of an instant. Whenever I'm stressed, all I need to do is look up at the night sky, or read wikipedia articles about quasars, dark matter, stellar wind, the event horizon of supermassive black holes, how galaxies can pass through each other without any of the billions of stars ever coming close to hitting each other.

It comforts me in a "the problems of two little people don't amount to a hill of beans" kind of way.

Oh, and another INTP here :)
Like HIIT? A bit. I did the NYTimes 7 minute workout for a bit to try and break out of a rut. It was pretty good, but I fell off that wagon too, partially lack of variety, I think. It reminded me a bit of basic training. I think there's got to be a market for guided training like that. They were often used for punishment, but I liked grass drills.
It's not. At a conservative safe withdrawal rate of 4% you'l only be living off $40K per year. And that 4% figure is safe but not bulletproof; a lot of people go lower. Most people who plan on retiring early are working on banking multiple millions. See /r/financialindependence for details.
Similarly, Euler's Identity (e^i*pi = -1) becomes a lot more intuitive. The exponential function is continuous (edit: proportional) growth, i is turning sideways, sideways continuous growth traces out a circle, and pi is halfway around a circle.
there are much worse things, like spamming.
How real was that 30m offer though? No names named here.
Isn't this something that every ISP would be able to do? Or are you saying they have something special? If so, how?
Oops! How did I miss that? Thanks for letting me know.

Fixed, and a bunch of suggested additions are coming later today. :)
If you look at their "packs"
199Rs: 0.5 something data
599: 20+ GB data

the minimum pack is of 599 if you need data, the fact that the $/GB cost is low is a marketing gimmick.

Also, yes, voice calling is a revenue generator for every other network, it'd be interesting to see how they take this challenge, considering Jio has a fiber optic cable network throughout India!
People. Come on.

It is OK that you don't know the best curve to use, or that an IV needs to be included in your MAC.

What is not OK is shipping privacy code to users without understanding this stuff. You don't get to learn this stuff on the job. Sorry. I know it's not fair. But to do otherwise would be even less fair to your users.

First be sure of your crypto. Then set up the bug bounty.

You can donate mine, for the MAC bug (which is severe), to Partners In Health.
I think what the comment meant was Facebook was trying to "steal all your (online) activities on phone irrespective of app to do big data analytics. "

This would have been trivial via the Free Basics program because Facebook would have been the gatekeeper for all the online activities. No deep packet inspection necessary. Just have the users agree to having all their interactions with those carefully selected 'partners' allowed to be used by FB ...for you know, providing better service and improving content.
Tabs vs Spaces: I hit the tab key and let the IDE manage whether that translates into X spaces or a tab. I set the IDE up to use the language convention. :)
Text Editor/IDEs.... I'll leave this holy war for the truly devout to fight :D
There are also girls named River, like River Song (Melody Pond) and River Tam, or--more seriously-- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/River_(disambiguation)#Given_n...
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they have a track record.
As someone who has been in business since ~ 1986 and who 'at that age' augmented his pocket money by making pirate radio transmitters and repairing audio gear next to my bicycle newspaper route I have to concur.

A sum of money like that at the ripe old age of 14 is enough to see you through any kind of life you might envision short of the ridiculous.

Heck, even at 50+ (hope that's mature enough for you) I'd still jump at a chance like this. But then again, my needs are relatively modest, nothing $30M minus the inevitable taxes in the bank wouldn't finance.
That would be a truck with a docked cargo bike.
1) Tell your employer about the problem. But don't accept any 'outs' from confronting your fear. Present it as an opportunity to overcome this phobia.

2) Get this book, or one like it (https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/0195311353/) CBT is a powerful way to rewire your brain, so "dog = fear" will be a thing of the past in a few weeks of practice.

There probably isn't a safer place to practice exposures since people don't bring unfriendly dogs to work, and you can see the dogs interact with people before you practice exposure and pick ones that are smaller/friendlier/calmer/safer-feeling to start with.
Consider that one reason mosquitoes are a problem is that humans are wiping out their ecosystems, including things that eat them. The best thing we could do would be to enhance predator habitat so the animals that have evolved to hunt them over millions of years are allowed to do that.
I've seen machines like that in Spain and France.
Well, there are two issues as I see it:

1. Most people have no desire to go to a theater anymore, so making people wait months to see a new film means they're going to try to find a way to see it sooner. If they released streaming alongside movie theater releases I would imagine you'd knock out 90%+ of the piracy out there.

2. People like me who are on extremely limited bandwidth connections can't watch anything in high fidelity via something like Netflix. Need a way to buffer the whole movie locally ahead of time. Let me queue it up the night before so I can watch it when I get home from work and you'll have my dollars.
GFoC does not block sites by default; it functions as a blacklist.

http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/quickly-check-site-visible-grea...

You can check any site here: http://www.greatfirewallofchina.org

However, I could not find the website for "Special Name" to check; does it exist?

Edit: Address is http://www.specialname.cn/; it was very hard to find on Google.
Note: George Weidman might be better known as SuperBunnyHop.
"14 year old CLAIMS to have rejected $30m offer for startup that has yet to launch. But can't share details because of an NDA." is the actual story.

And a follow on story a few weeks later is that he would "accept $50m" and wants to buy a "Bentley with a chauffeur".

Keep hustling kid.

(1) http://www.cnbc.com/2016/05/11/the-14-year-old-who-turned-do...
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This reminds me of "The Website is Down" http://www.thewebsiteisdown.com
Really hurts the article's credibility to intersect cryptographic domain knowledge with technical programming knowledge. That said, I did learn something from it, but I'll be doing a bit more research...
You don't need consent for nominal uses of a trademark. If I say that my service does X for Facebook, then I'm allowed to say that even if Facebook objects.

I may need to explicitly prevent the impression that my service is Facebook or part of it, and add a footnote about who is the owner of the Facebook trademark, but saying that an extension is "a cleaner for Facebook™" is explicitly allowed under trademark laws. Even without consent from Facebook, and even if Facebook explicitly forbids it.
The question is: how a 14 yo kids have the knowledge and capability to build such a company?

PS:looking at their website it seems to be a school project rather than something more.
Anybody know if this buyout offer has been verified? Who made the offer? Are we sure this is not just a PR stunt?
Bingo, that was it!
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I'm not clear as to what insights will DPI provide once data is encrypted. What am I missing ?
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I saw a talk by Ken Binmore, the organiser of the auction and author of the paper.

He found it very funny how each participant turned up with teams of Nobel prize winning economists and mathematicians.

He said the correct way to approach such an auction is to decide up front what the value is to you and then bid up to but not beyond that figure. That is all. There are plenty of foolish things you can do but nothing better.