skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Like I said - people say this all the time, but a lot of vacuum tube equipment did die in EMP testing (in the USSR in 1964), and I don't see why vacuum tubes should be less vulnerable than solid state electronics to either short or long pulses (nuclear EMP contains both). A glass vacuum tube will pick up orders of magnitude more interference than a small transistor sitting inside its grounded metal can (and it's weight-prohibitive to build a metal shield around all your vacuum tubes), and the high voltage induced can damage either the vacuum tube itself, or something else inside the device. Unfortunately, very little has been published on this (although we do know that militaries test their modern solid-state devices with EMP, and they generally pass), and any online search produces a deluge of statements to the effect of "vacuum tubes are impervious to EMP" without anything to back that up. If there was ever a direct test of vacuum tubes vs. solid state, that would be very interesting to find.
> ... the sale by Sony of computers with pre-installed software meets the expectations of a significant proportion of consumers who prefer to purchase a computer already equipped and ready for immediate use, rather than to purchase a computer and software separately.

Since the "significant proportion of consumers" is going to be the same with other brands too, we can assume this is a major victory for M$.
they're not secondary, they just need to be sufficient.

think of the extremes; you could develop a technical masterpiece and keep it under covers, making $0, having spent every single bit of available time/money/resources on it.

that's a hobby, not a business.
I don't see it there.
Inside Detroit’s Radical Experiment to Save Its Public Schools
15 years later: on the physics of high-rise building collapses (Twin Towers) [pdf]
Analog is not the opposite of solid state. You can build analog systems with solid state components.
Saying that farmers were made obsolete kind of glosses over the real reason that they were forced into cities: enclosure. Land that they were previously free to use for subsistence farming was taken and combined into larger landholdings. Had they been properly compensated for the loss of the land, they would have been less desperate to rush to cities.
"The Duct tape Programmer" By Joel Spolsky is a good one.

It always reminds me that we are here to build software, not design the perfect system. The quote from Zawinski is great

"It was decisions like not using C++ and not using threads that made us ship the product on time."

http://www.joelonsoftware.com/items/2009/09/23.html
It's possible to validate the performance of a weapons system without needing an actual full-scale nuclear war.
Anyone have more details on the netcat file transfer trick on page 9?

You would want to confirm the data received matches the data sent somehow right?
My 2 cents:

- How do we control for self-fulfilling prophecy? I would imagine that having "Member of gifted kids study" will be quite impressive to the gatekeepers at elite universities. Did they add a few dummies to control?

- How do we even measure ability? You'd think the smart kids are smart because they try to learn the things that are tested. It's like testing people for strength. People who've trained are stronger. And they want to be.

- It makes sense that spatial ability is somehow predictive. Nobody ever teaches it, so you're left with whatever nature gave you. Probably like testing someone's toe strength as an indicator of overalll muscle quality (not that I know anything about physiology, it's just that I've never seen anyone at the gym training their toes).

- From what I can tell, it helps an awful lot to have someone nearby who has the skills you're after. Look at the people mentioned. Terence Tao's parents were both highly educated in STEM. Lenhard Ng's dad is a Physics prof. That kind of resource takes you an awfully long way along your path. I mean imagine being able to ask the guy you eat dinner with every night anything from "what is a prime number" to "what's the quantum hall effect". If you don't happen to have a parent, it probably helps to go to a school that is well resourced. There will be teachers around who find time for the kids who show aptitude. I remember being put up a year in math and sent to math contests. I don't think I'd have studied it as much if I hadn't been noticed by the teachers at a young age.

- There's an inherent conflict between society's goals and the gifted. It's a lot more economical to pour money into the mediocre for society. You want to teach everyone to read, write, and a little math. It's cheaper to produce that resource, and it's at the margin you get the most bang for your buck. PhDs cost a fair bit to fund, and like that famouns xkcd, you are only slightly enlarging the world's knowledge. Putting a kid in front of a world authority is expensive.

- It may not be so bad that society doesn't spend money on the gifted (I'd rather call them the more motivated, but...) than the marginals. It's possible that the mass of money needs to be spent making sure everyone can be a little educated, while a rather different effort is made to help the gifted. For instance, what I really, really needed as a kid was other kids who cared. These days that should be easy enough to arrange over the internet.

- There will be a natural experiment occurring soon, right now, about whether it's innate ability or exposure. The proliferation of materials on the internet will create a bunch of kids who are able to learn huge amounts about whatever they're interested in, before they even finish school. When I was a kid, you had to lug your ass to a library to find out what a quaternion was. And it wasn't a specialist library, and there'd be a chapter or something like that. These days there's a flood of information, you just have to type into google. There's so much that if one guy doesn't explain it well, another guy will.
Moral Machine. Gathering a human perspective on moral decisions made by IA
The power of negative thinking
The DOI for people (like me) that care:	http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/epn/2016402
How do you think it compares to the Chip ?
Doctor Who resurrects lost serial 'The Power of the Daleks' thanks to animation
Every website is routed through Facebook servers. They created a pseudo-standard as opposed to standard HTML and only the websites with that would be allowed onto the program.
Imagine if Google comes over and says "AMP" loads faster, takes less data is better but, is a subset of HTML spec & "Google"-sponsored format; So, we will give free internet access but, only websites which adapt to our specifications would be allowed and not everyone.
You either provide internet access or no. Facebook could have gone with tiered system in regard to Free basics as in provide free data only for about "X" GB. Most of India consumes internet in terms of amount of data. They didn't go about this approach but, rather wanted to get on with providing free internet but, collect data of the website visit information, hava user analytics.

Another important consideration is that Facebook only allowed any website to be in it after initial backlash. Initially, it only allowed websites deemed necessary by Facebook like "facebook", "messenger", "groups" and "Google. No way for users or website owners to say they'd like a wesbite "xyz" as part of program. This was and is an attempt by Facebook to create a walled gatway to internet by Facebook masked by their philanthrophic arm.
Robotic Handbag Curbs Impulse Spending
Learning and Mastering isn't the same
I feel tired after studying calculus but I can still do it if I try really hard. When I study discrete math or lineal algebra I don't feel as tired and can study for longer. Naturally, I'm much better at discrete math than I am at calculus.

I expect extroverted people are better at socializing than introverted people for similar reasons. Are there many introverted politicians?
The future is what we, as a whole, collectively, 7 billion people, make it to be.

Unfortunately I think the writing is already on the wall. We've moving towards a world where everyone will be recording everything all the time. Soon my glasses will be recording everything I see all the time and you won't even know it. The advantages of being able to replay things you saw, record conversations, record accidents and incidents with police, record controversial things at work, are all too great.

People are already doing this with dashcams in their cars.

We're moving into a world where privacy will simply become impossible.
To me the only thing that matters is number 4. The first three are a direct quid pro quo.

Why not tie #4 to performance?

If you do tie it to performance, why limit it? Why not tier it out? If someone hits a hot-pocket, ride the wave.
The tool is also extremely messy internally, written in a proprietary language that resembled a very early version of Python and has accrued nearly unthinkable technical debt. Delivering usage via webservice lets them better hide the dysfunction on the other end of a service call.

This whole topic is not all that newsworthy. The team within Goldman that had architected and developed this years ago had spun out into a consulting group that essentially reimplemented the same thing in Bank of America (Quartz), JPMorgan (Athena) and many others, now including Morgan Stanley, and even trickling down to smaller banks like PNC.

I consider it one of the biggest ripoffs in modern finance that those organizations have paid untold fortunes to adopt the Goldman-like approach, sometimes even with new or additional proprietary languages brought in on the project. It also adds systemic risk for society because it further correlates these internal banking systems between the largest banks. If something goes systematically wrong with it in one place, there's a comparatively high risk the same sort of thing can or will go wrong in another too.

If we were bearing that risk for a good reason it might be OK. But really we're only bearing it because of the superficial branding of Goldman, and the pressure on banks to hand wave and appear to be doing something in the aftermath of the 2008 crisis. And so they go for what looks politically defensible (e.g. "well, this is what Goldman did and they survived the crash" -- despite it being widely researched and reported that Goldman's position in the crash truly had nothing at all to do with superior risk management systems and was a mixture of political favors and luck) instead of anything sensible from a system design point of view.
Not really, for example bing1bing1 (冰冰)is my wife's name and means iceice.
Don't forget JPMorgan too ;) w/ Athena
Many other banks expose some of their pricing code as a web application to varying extents. For example https://live.barcap.com/ which was inherited from LehmanLive, considered state of the art for fixed income back in the day.

Also as the article states, anything that still has an actual competitive advantage won't be released.
I come from Asia. This is something I noticed first-hand. Those with nothing donate a much larger percentage of their wealth than those with a lot. Seems absolutely insane, but it's true the more experience I gather... here in America, I find it to be true again. Seems so counter-intuitive, I wonder why this is so persistently true.
> Unlike similar American jets, you can find Mig-25's in private hands today being maintained and flying.

The B-52 is fifteen years older than the MiG-25 and is not only still flying, but carrying out combat missions to this day.
Or may be good programmers in US don't feel the need to prove themselves on such sites, instead they can just go and work for good company like Facebook, Apple, Google, etc.
Features #1-3 do not "rely heavily on intelligence". While intelligence certainly has a role, they rely much more heavily on training. All three also depend on knowing what is interesting, which is more a form of curiosity guided by knowing what other people know than a form of intelligence that can be measured by taking the SAT.

(I don't know enough about #4 or #5 to make a comment.)
Ask HN: Web development agency top tips for getting and holding onto clients
Starting a web development agency, what are some top tips for getting and holding onto clients

Here we are! http://studioliit.com
Soviet literally sent most of a troublesome population (and large parts of others) to Siberia. After 1945, a few percent in prison with torture was mild. Troublesome countries/populations could be permanently cured.

You really write I "minimize the responsibility that people had for their own bad decisions" -- when I note that the populations knew that if they rocked the boat it would end with mass deportations to Gulag and/or genocide? (In many cases -- again!)

Seriously... Enough.

Edit: A large fraction of Lithuania did try and paid the price. Deportations and political prisoners in Gulags was 15+% of the population of around 2 millions in total then (see Demographics_of_Lithuania on wikipedia). The point was made that Soviet had no problem continuing up to 100%. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_deportations_from_Lithu...
This is a really good writeup and design, but it misses one crucial point: it doesn't matter what the actual quality of your noise source is. What matters is that you have an accurate estimate of the quality of your noise source. [EDIT: actually, you don't even need that. All you really need is a reliable lower bound.] No noise source is perfect, so you have to use a whitener regardless. When you use a whitener you have to choose how many output bits to extract for a give number of input bits. If you extract more than the quality of your source allows, you lose. That's really all there is to it.

So the best approach to generating secure random numbers is simply to use a large safety margin in your estimate of the quality of your noise source, whatever it may be. You don't really need any fancy hardware unless you have very high bandwidth requirements (and if you think you have high bandwidth requirements you are almost certainly wrong). For nearly all practical applications (unless you are a telco) you can safely generate a crypto key by, for example, grabbing a few frames from a webcam pointed at a fan, or reading a few seconds of audio from a microphone while you say "Shhh", and running that through a whitener. That will give you several orders of magnitude of safety margin, which is enough to thwart any external attack.
No, not a pitfall. it is more like a small pothole in the road: the problem is easily avoided if you already know that it exists.
You're generalizing a group of individuals. Not everybody in Alabama is backward (whatever the negative stereotype is, I'm not American). Which state a person is from is a weak estimator of their socioeconomic status.
The Chinese people I know mostly say they took the names so we wouldn't butcher their Chinese names. My wife for example has a name in Chinese that's simple for English speakers to say, so she never took a "proper" English name.
True. Although collaboration while holding on to hatchets is a bit inconvenient. That's all I meant to imply.
Anonymity, yes, as long as you acquire bitcoin with cash, and don’t leave any identifying traces behind – the difficulty of which varies with each individual scenario.
When i read top talent examples - zukerberger and lady gaga, wow just wow... Another onion article.
Nice tech, but not sure how quickly it will be adopted, Intel's SGX doesn't seem to have very high adoption (or at all) even tho it does similar things as it enables application/guest isolation and memory encryption and seems to be at least on paper even more robust (Intel claims complete security even when the OS/VMM/Driver and BIOS/Firmware are compromised).
https://software.intel.com/sites/default/files/332680-002.pd...

But given all the side channel attacks against VMMs these days it's pretty important that both major CPU vendors have hardware level countermeasures against these attacks.
I believe intellectual aptitude can be learned. Spending time nurture core problem solving skills in various domains. The education system today depends on things like memorization and not on teaching students how to think. I had mediocre success through the education program, and it was not until the mid 20's that I developed a strong mental model. Sometimes I even feel cheated that I was not exposed to the right challenges. Today most of my acquaintances, friends, and colleague respect my intelligence and its one of the attributes I am most proud of.
Constellations and the Calendar
>Stanley convinced a dean at Johns Hopkins to let Bates, then 13, enrol[sic] as an undergraduate.

>“I was shy and the social pressures of high school wouldn't have made it a good fit for me,” says Bates, now 60. “But at college, with the other science and math nerds, I fit right in, even though I was much younger. I could grow up on the social side at my own rate and also on the intellectual side, because the faster pace kept me interested in the content.”

OK, I might take a lot of heat for this, but I don't think it's a good idea to put a 13-year-old with college students. In this case, he was a boy, but imagine if he were a girl? One of the main causes of failure to achieve educationally for bright girls is getting pregnant. 40% of the fathers who impregnate girls under 15 are 20-29 years old [0]. So in the case of girls, this is a super visible obvious problem, but what happens with a teenage boy? I could see him getting in an abusive relationship or otherwise preyed upon in a zillion ways.

This article takes a blasé attitude toward the social concerns and cites no sources about the actual social outcomes for these kids. Let your kid study by themselves, send them to a gifted child summer camp, etc.

[0]http://www.teenmomnyc.com/
This is probably the best version of this that I know of: https://plus.google.com/+JeanBaptisteQueru/posts/dfydM2Cnepe

A few months/years ago there was a Github repo that tried to crowdsource this in excruciating detail.
OperaVPN is free on iPhone - I started using it recently and it's pretty great.
I got comments on my artwork in kindergarten due to level of detail and such things. I was oil painting landscapes at age 8.

I took every elective I could in school, and would have taken more if AP and college prep classes weren't a priority for my parents. I used how-to books, and I still look up techniques from time to time. I've had lots and lots of practice: I went for years drawing and painting daily. That was probably my biggest increase in quality. I used to wish for art school.

My current liking is doing surrealist and visionary art in watercolor and ink: I've currently 3 canvases waiting on acrylic.

And through it all, I truly think it is a combination of talent plus practice plus interest/focus in some form. Most folks with enough practice can make beautiful landscapes and still life pictures, just like folks can learn to take a basic excellent picture most times. Everyone can learn basics.

Not everyone can bend their minds in ways to incorporate subdued symbolism in surrealist work - not everyone can look at a canvas in that way. Some of the really great photography is because the person thought to take the picture - not everyone does that in that way. Not everyone can create. That is where the talent bit comes in.

However, if art didn't interest me, I very much doubt I would have filled my time with it to get better.

I think this works similarly for math and other things, for the majority of us.
> In his lectures he avoids the use of any transcendental functions for the same reason, so no square roots, sine, or cosine.

Square roots are algebraic, not transcendental.
Any execution or compilation time benchmarks? I'd expect LLV8 to be much slower than TurboFan for native codegen, but if the runtime benefits are greater, this might be a good fit for server side JS applications
Silicon Valley’s European stars are returning home
Luckily, it does not appear that reality is uniformly distributed. Instead, we've found that quite a few phenomena can be modelled using one statistical distribution or another. In other words, reality is quite regular, which makes it unlike high-entropy strings that are difficult to compress. In fact, reality has been repeatedly shown to compress well: images, audio, and language all exhibit statistical regularities that support compression. Throughout nature, fractal structures manifest regular patterns. All of this compresses well.
Math was a random example, but it is hard for me to imagine that a people aren't born with an innate interest in some intellectual pursuit.

You see it in people who talk about Baseball statistics, or Dungeons and Dragons rules. You just have to let them see that the same pleasure center can get lit up by Linear Algebra.

(That might be a bad example. I still wish someone could explain the intuition behind matrix multiplication.)
1) They lack data and 2) sometimes they choose to ignore it.

First happens because sociological data collection is hard, slow and expensive. Second usually due to various kinds of politics and lobbying.
Can MRSA be treated with teixobactin?

Now, E.Coli with MCR-1 is also spreading, isn't it?
I think it's far beyond a royal "we", and in fact I would even argue that a royal "we" is acceptable usage for a company to use - even it's only a single person company.

It's in a whole other league to say this is me and this is my team, and this is my history, when it's not. I'm not sure if you read Chinese, and maybe that's why it's harder to tell the difference between "we" and this. It's not just the picture, the blurb provided is misleading at best and false at worse.

Yes, people are biased, but this is a situation in which there was no need to be misleading in the first place. She could just have easily written some respectable copy without needing to resort to deception, and so it rankles me she chose to be misleading when there was no need to be.
My understanding is that us non-tonal language speakers butcher their names anyway, both in pronunciation and in remembering them. I've asked multiple Chinese acquaintances of mine what their Chinese name is and I struggle to pronounce their names properly even with some coaching, and I very rarely remember them afterwards. And I'm pretty good at languages in general.

These names exist in a linguistic spectrum that is different than Indo-European languages, which our brains are tuned for. It's just a lot more practical for Chinese people to get a Western name.
Oh, thats rich. If i have ever seen companies less interested in adopting to local laws and regulations, its the US ones...
Well- a little six wheeled autonomous bucket.

http://www.theverge.com/2016/9/7/12830298/delivery-bot-van-m...
Ss has replaced netstat. (By the way each time you're typing netstat you're suppposed to get a message telling it's obsolete). ss is an improvment on performance and features, but unfortunately the ui isn't much improved compared to netstat ...
AWS Packet Capture
Hung out with a brilliant heart surgeon, genius. I asked him about what cartoons he watched growing up.

He said "what's a cartoon?" He was dead serious. Parents would never let him not study. Never.

100+ hour weeks. Zero time for anything else. He was happy, rich, had it all. But wondering if he every found time to watch a cartoon.
There are lots of "late bloomers"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Late_bloomer
True. I'll skip the C++ mentioning, as it is clear for any C++ developer, that you could just use it as extern C.
And they can gauge where client's interests lie at. Something like google could (what I would do if I were google) gauge interest in various stocks and commodities people search for and make some kind of model based on that. Ye olde adage, if you're not paying for the product, you are the product.