skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Online gaming and the rise of Bitcoin
There is a thin line between bold statements that lack nuance, and plain lies.

Order of events are relevant. It is important to know how he ended up in Russia in the first place, long before this asylum. And was declining the asylum really an option?
Godaddy has been getting attacked a lot recently as well. Who is likely behind attacking servers, whether other server companies or governments?
> The counterpoint is that several of APIs added to the web platform in the last ~8 years have already been deprecated: stuff like WebSQL, File System, AppCache

And two of these have been replaced by complex, over engineered stuff. WebSQL was replaced by IndexedDB which can't do a simple equivalent of SELECT ... ORDER BY ... GROUP BY... without ending in callback hell, and AppCache was replaced by ServiceWorkers.
Fake-Game offers a Phishing-as-a-Service platform to wannabe criminals
It's required for binary modules in node... not going anywhere for a while at least. :-(
>In the past couple years it has become significantly more widespread

That will hopefully be changing soon (at least in the US): http://www.wsj.com/articles/u-s-china-reach-agreement-to-ste...
I use http://tachyons.io/ for everything and couldn't be happier. It gives you lots of singe-purpose classes that you mix and match.

And most importantly it gives you a REM-relative scale for your spaces: http://tachyons.io/docs/layout/spacing/ and for typography: http://tachyons.io/docs/typography/scale/.

So everything is responsive and I don't ever have to think about pixel-values again.

I even ported it for React Native: https://github.com/tachyons-css/react-native-style-tachyons
The state department is so twisted up in intelligence-related operations. She was read in and briefed on all these classified operations. She was the SECRETARY of STATE: the top of the food chain.

I roll my eyes at the excuses given for all her money/power related moves while at State, especially when she could have compromised our agents or moles with her carelessness. She was abysmal as top diplomat (russia reset, all for cratering Syria, Libya and Egypt governments, Benghazi CIA cluster f-). And the whole thing with the Clinton Foundation and her "private" (ClintonEmail.com) email server is icing on the cake - just stinks of pay-to-play, pure greed.

She's going to win the presidency, not go to jail or ever be impeached, and she's a terrible person. All that is acceptable to me because Hillary Clinton is just one of those problems that is out of my control.
I know languages where literally every word is gendered, and languages where almost nothing is gendered and haven ever seen any correlation to how women are treated.
I made my own 64-bit compiler. Whoever makes the compiler can decide what they want to do. The little niggers seem to think Intel controls the compiler.
Blind tests comparing lossless against what codec at what bitrate? How many runs and how often were you able to correctly identify lossless?
Sapa, Vietnam
Google actually quickly directs you to the needed information: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/9171356/how-do-i-exit-fro... (first result for "quit git editor" for me)
apparently "stack alignment" is a thing.
Xiaomi Mi Note 2 images leaked, key specifications revealed
Generalizing observations from the lowest common denominator in any work place, at its core this article is very cynical and perhaps wishes everyone would just be happy in their mediocrity.

In most projects, there are minority extra-brilliant people, whose talent/knowledge reflect on the entire outcome/product. So you always need people to handle more complexity. And as some others in the discussion have pointed out, often concepts at a level, become clearer when you grapple the next level of complexity.

Soviet society did not fail because they were better at Maths. It may have happened despite it. The right point to infer about that would be, brilliance in Maths is not a sufficient condition for society as a whole to excel. And that's a moot point, as there are so many other necessary conditions - food/shelter/being-alive/etc - leave aside politics.

Also the article ignores probability as a core life concept, by which you can understand so many things. I use it with my kids all the time.

Another thing which frustrates me recently is my inability to grasp modern physics. Without the relevant understanding of the complex maths, one can only get the vaguest idea, of what they(the physicists) are saying. This creates a huge intellectual gap in society.

Also the knowledge gap has another problem. If it gets too wide, then there will be a very-very few ultra elites who all know what they are saying (perhaps that's already the case, unfortunately). And the rest of us, only take their word on face value. I know one person can't know everything and this is an era of specialization. But still, I think Maths is a fundamental thing. And society would only gain when more number of people are proficient at it.
Let's see:

- Wavpack [1], which is a rough contemporary but offers three tiers of presets (normal scale, high scale, extra high scale) and an innovative (and optional) lossy/hybrid mode

- TAK [2] which compressed better and decoded faster than either, but was initially closed-source until the dev was persuaded to open it up

- LossyWAV [3] which isn't lossless but chops off least-significant-bits while using noise shaping to pre-process audio and make it compress better when fed to a lossless compressor

Most of these developments were first publicized on Hydrogenaudio. But as for innovations in the last two years, not that I'm aware.

[1] http://wiki.hydrogenaud.io/index.php?title=WavPack
[2] http://wiki.hydrogenaud.io/index.php?title=TAK
[3] http://wiki.hydrogenaud.io/index.php?title=LossyWAV

EDIT (for some more background): generally in lossless audio compression you want to use linear prediction to predict an approximate signal for the next few samples, then encode the difference between your predicted guess and the actual signal in some entropy coder, like Golomb-Rice codes or Huffman or Arithmetic coding. Although most of Zstandard's improvements are algorithmic or implementation-related and not related to data theory, the part that could show promise is the tANS entropy coder [4] used in Zstandard; but Golomb-Rice codes perform well for data that comes from linear predictors; so I'm not sure what to expect [5].

[4] https://github.com/Cyan4973/FiniteStateEntropy

[5] 'Benchmarks' section under [4]
Reliance jio has announced jaw dropping rates at cheapest level around the world
I've read some of his stuff, watched a presentation. He is direct and opinionated. It's part of his charm. Sometimes it's quite funny.

I've met many people who are "dicks without knowing it". Sometimes it's because they are that far up their own arse. Sometimes it's raw abrasion. It's common in the private healthcare industry.

Seems like throwing of the dummy out the pram. I'd prefer Crockford's direct approach to sugar-coat. It's how I like to work.

That and if someone's focus is on inclusion, perhaps it's an ill-thought marketing campaign where the result is exclusion.
> Given information publicly available this seems infuriatingly ridiculous, but Nodevember's official statement in response seems quite reasonable: http://nodevember.org/statement.html

That statement is the opposite of reasonable. If you're going to call someone out, publicly, that they're making other speakers uncomfortable to the point where they won't show up if he's there (when he was one of the first confirmed speakers), something is fishy. They can call him out publicly but not share their reasons publicly so he can defend himself publicly? Alternatively if they want to keep the reasons private they could have just said something along the lines of "Crockford will no longer be a speaker at our events due to <some bs>". Something that doesn't insinuate he's a misogynist without proof.

No. Absolutely unreasonable.
I've always wondered, while in similar cases GCE/AWS can handle the traffic, is it not chargeable? So, while you will probably not get affected by the DDoS, aren't the costs going to cut your head off?
About:sleep (or lack thereof)
Related, if the costs reach a point that you cannot pay them, is it not a successful, unmitigated DDoS?
I didn't read past their paywall but one of the reasons I would use a laptop in that situation is purely because my handwriting is horrible to take a note. I would be fairly frustrated with this policy for standpoint of that.
Ask HN: Any unfinished side projects to give away?
Would anyone like to give away / sell the projects which they've started but have no time or interest to finish?
My experience than many in tech like to believe that they are logical, while actually being as prone to bias and emotional reasoning as anyone else. Just more in denial of it.
Does "private arbitration" require money? I don't know anything about Mr. Crockford's financial situation but, and this is purely from a self interest perspective, I um, don't have much money to adjudicate such a matter using arbitrators. This is what makes these kind of public accusations so troubling for me. If I happened to find myself on the receiving end of these kind of accusations I would have essentially no recourse to try and clear my name.

I will embarrassingly admit that I hadn’t heard of Mr Crockford before this article but after doing a bit of research, he seems to have quite a few professional accomplishments. I don’t have any such accomplishments or a professional reputation outside of the small group of people I work closely with, I don’t have much money, and I don’t even have a college degree to fall back on as some basic certification of my competency. I imagine it would be trivially easy for someone, particularly a group online, to completely destroy my professional life based on what could very well be a simple misunderstanding. This is absolutely terrifying to me.

I personally don’t see the offense in his specific comments about “promiscuity” but I’m going to defer to those here who may have had other interactions with Mr Crockford on whether or not he is abrasive and how big of a problem that may present to attendees. With that being said, suppose that at some point in the future, perhaps a week, month, or year from now, it becomes apparent that he didn’t do anything untoward. Will such news make the front page of HN? Hell, would such an article be written at all. How can you regain your reputation after it has already been trashed?

This whole concept of publicly shaming people without an accompanying impartial investigation seems like it’s rife for abuse and sets a chilling effect in motion. I can envision a future where the elite, those with the money, power, or reputation to withstand these kind of attacks, are the only ones permitted, or willing, to speak.

With regards to him not feeling the need for justice because he doesn’t feel like he’s been wronged, we really have no way of knowing that. Perhaps he’s just resigned himself to the fact that this isn’t a battle worth fighting, or even more worrying, it simply isn’t winnable.
Another idiotic site that DISABLES ZOOMING on mobile browsers. WTF is with these morons?
Many reasons for lots of legacy software that just gets updates and refreshes. Someone mentioned the small size of the market, which I think is the main reason. Originally, these programs were designed and written by EEs themselves, who weren't really experts at SW. Today's software has moved towards user friendliness and onto the web. The EE tools are mostly based on older windows platforms or Sun workstations that ran primitive x-windows environments which looked like windows 3.1.

The best stuff is usually pretty expensive. Although Altium is making lower cost and free versions available with their CircuitMaker series.
indeed my ignorance is such that my intuition could easily be known already or falsified already by the literature and would not know it.
There is also ALAC (Apple Lossless Audio Codec), which has been open source and royalty-free since 2011:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Lossless
Is it open sourced? Can it be used on Linux?

Any links are appreciated
agree w/ liking "curmudgeonly" js when Crockford got vocal: at a time when only ninjas were allowed to pee (and to pee, of course, a ninja stands up), he was like, "no, quit these 'ninja' antics, kids, and just be decent programmers".

idk a/b the second comment.. it does appear that's being read into, but w/o context of the talk or intonation, it's difficult to conclude intent. I'd like to think it's not negative.

but the first transcript in the article? the context for that is that dude is not "jacked" or "ripped", flexing on stage like a lumberjack. don't think he's in bad health or anything, but i suspect the first comment was poking fun at himself, mostly.
'The excuse of "not marked as classified" is akin to a thief using "not marked as don't steal" to justify theft.'

That doesn't make any sense.
The Nodevember folk(s) posted a statement regarding this whole kerfuffle [1]. It's pretty hollow IMO.

> While we have a tremendous respect for Mr. Crockford's abilities as a speaker and his contributions to our craft, we became aware that based on private feedback - not simply the dialogue on Twitter - that his presence would make some speakers uncomfortable to the point where they refused to attend or speak.

Okay so you are calling out his behavior making people uncomfortable, publicly, but you won't say why only that it was private feedback? Wasn't he one of the early speakers who accepted anyway? You apologized for lacking nuance on Twitter with your "announcement" and yet continue to do so.

Publicly claiming someone makes others uncomfortable and that someone is an older, white male, you know exactly what you are insinuating. Statements like this, especially against white males today, can be career ending even without proof as long as it simply goes viral.

I think the only responsible thing to do is to release exactly why someone would be uncomfortable. If you can't or won't do that then you shouldn't have made the initial insinuation and, instead, simply state he's no longer coming.

Stating he was "uninvited" due to making others uncomfortable without providing anything further is just irresponsible to the point where it appears you're trying to manufacture drama. Considering your event is $350 to hear some speakers who are yet to be defined this just speaks scam to me like many other talking events.

[1] http://nodevember.org/statement.html
Haskell is definitely easier to dive into than OCaml and F#. I haven't made anything big with it, so can't comment on how it is to use in a project or anything, but to learn functional programming it seems like the best choice.
And don't drive a white car. Those are impossible to see if the sun is shining heavily.
It has been done:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infinitesimal
Excellent point. I wonder if those who equate Blackwater with "mercenary sector" would also equate U.S. Navy’s Military Sealift Command with "mercenary sector" as well?
But, why was she moving any State-related content off government computers? Why would she put herself and others at risk like that? These weren't all personal emails she was sending - she was discussing State department business with the foundation and with her trusted operator, Sidney Blumenthal.

Worst of all is how sloppy everyone involved in this fiasco has been. I feel bad for Obama, what a cluster!

> Also remember the official state server at the time was also confirmed hacked.

Look, clearly Hillary engaged in unsafe IT practices. Could it be she was phished? Maybe she was the one who enabled the hack!
I think the disconnect is that the vast majority of people, regardless of gender, do not consider these things to be marginalizing anyone. Why you can't see that and why you want to patrol for everything that only superficially resembles that is puzzling. When the number of people who are complaining about these "normal" things is about 1 in 10,000, it should make you stop and think. Are you really an early adopter of significantly better social norms and a heroic defender of the chronically marginalized, people who are so downtrodden that 99% of them don't see or don't have the energy to complain along with you? Or, are you just the crackpot on the street with the sign saying, "The end is near," whom people walk more quickly just to get past?
Teach to lock computer when AFK
I like Real World Haskell. It does have a small intro explaining the basic stuff but it contains a lot of case studies and chapters about data structures, guis, web servers etc. And it's available online for free: http://book.realworldhaskell.org/read/
Snowden is not a US citizen, so "traitor" doesn't even apply.
I've thought the same thing. Some bikers have lights which flash extremely brightly and aimed at eye-level, probably with the idea that brighter things are harder to miss, but whether I'm a driver or a biker, I hate to be behind them since they are painfully blinding.

I wonder whether the best light is two: one which is always on and one which is flashing. Flashing lights are to get drivers' attention even when it is in peripheral vision, and the steady light is for speed/position estimation.
That's pretty clearly ironic, though.
As a side note, I have been thinking of Yishan-style CEOs for a while now, with board of directors tweeting often too. Twitter itself would probably be a good candidate for such a public company.
But that seems to still assume this "abrasiveness" is a bad thing.

I find it much nicer and respectful than the passive-aggressive weasel-wordishness so common now.
He was denied the ability to travel (US revoked passport) while making a connection in Moscow. The US's actions trapped him there -- it was not his destination. Do you believe he had any reasonable choice at that point but to accept the asylum subsequently offered?
Looks great, does anyone have ideas on where they could use it? I'm trying to think...
The US government canceled his passport at some point between him being in Hong Kong and the Moscow airport. So the claim he "fled to Russia" is a lie. He was exiled to Russia by the US officials who actively removed his ability to leave the Russian airport.
As a driver no to the last part. Car lights have to light up the road so that we can see things, and at quite a distance too because cars moves fast.

Bicycle lights exists to be visible and draw attention so I don't kill you (last thing I want). That said, blinking lights means I can't guess your speed or whether there is more than one bike. Both matters.
If you had done such blind tests, you would have reached a different conclusion. Or, in the alternative, your hearing is orders of magnitude "better" than anyone else ever tested.
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That's ironic. Every time I've worked with an EE (as a software engineer), they've been among the best developers on the team.
Remarkable how rapidly politics comes into the discussion of Chinese history. Putting that aside, the theory is interesting and plausible for a few reasons, yet probably wrong. I like it because of the weird connections, like the ancient ores and the "nine rivers". This is numerology, not science: searching for support rather than nullification.

The theory is IMO wrong for a much simpler reason. It assumes (as many theories of history do) that the vastness of our planet means that we used to live in disconnected communities, islands of humanity spread out and yet not talking to each other.

You can walk around the globe in 10-20 years. It is unimaginable that trade routes such as the Silk Road did not carry knowledge such as how to smelt bronze, like those African ores, and any other precious good. Wherever there were people, they were innovating and trading goods and knowledge with their neighbors. Only exceptionally were pockets of humanity actually isolated.

You don't need an emperor and his navy to carry knowledge halfway across the globe. One or two people, on foot, will do it, and did it, and so, this nullifies the theory that Chinese civilization somehow sprang from Egyptian civilization. The two co-developed together with the entire connected world at the time.
Bonus if it has solitary confinement facilities and staff trained in modern torture techniques.
Thanks so much for sharing https://betterexplained.com. I'm amazed I haven't heard of it before.
This is a schizofrenic community. Probably the same people that push for a free web, police the words used by others.
> Incidentally, these 3 examples are also great at showing how compilers can be so very stupid at code generation. Observe that in all 3 cases, the return value in eax after calling foo is written to memory --- then immediately read from memory again, into the exact same register.

That's because code in article is compiled without optimizations. When you enable optimizations the compiler will do the right thing: https://godbolt.org/g/Lc7giO
>"Bonus:If blinking lights would be a good idea wouldnt cars also have them?" //

Vehicles that need to be seen like police, fire, paramedic, road safety, all have flashing lights. Indeed cats have flashing lights to use when they're causing a hazard.

I suspect you're right WRT difficult to estimate distance/approach speed for vehicles with only a flashing light, but not sure about combinations of constant and intermittent lights.

Bonus: in UK cyclists may use flashing lights but only on clothing IIRC, at least they need separate constant lights on their bicycles.
Google are hypocrites. They announce that they're going to "punish" non-mobile-friendly sites, but then they DISABLE ZOOMING on the mobile versions of their own sites and sites they present on their News page.

Incompetent and offensive.
I just did the math for my car, which is a 2006 Honda CR-V, under the assumption that the car will have no resale value. My cost per mile over the 10 years I've had it has been about $0.75. The costs were the purchase price, yearly registration and license fees, insurance, gasoline, regular oil changes and other minor schedule maintenance, a couple scheduled major services, new tires, and a few unscheduled fixes (new battery, light bulbs).

That's less than what Google is telling me Uber changes per mile, so at first glance it looks like for me that a car does make sense mathematically.
Sorry that didn't come out the way I wanted
When has development degraded to "just use a framework"?
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What are you using to self-educate? I'm kind of doing the same. I decided to start with "Mathematics for the Nonmathematician", which so far is good (only on chapter 3 though).

Someone in the comments shared https://betterexplained.com/ - which I hadn't heard of and looks great.
The Danish scratch tickets are 60%, but you can go much better with sports.
> But that seems to still assume this "abrasiveness" is a bad thing.

The commenter literally says "it's important to note that Douglas Crockford can definitely be abrasive [1]. The issue at hand is that whether this abrasiveness is a bad thing..."