skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The world abounds with people so full of hubris that they are firmly convicted they have the answers to others' needs and problems. Why not give kids a back to school kit? Because maybe they need food or socks or medicine more than they need a protractor or a PeeChee. If you want to help them give them money. Most people can figure out what they need for themselves.
he meant to say he can't run siri on android
"This is exactly why so many of my friends and family use Hangouts née Gmail Chat. We can use it in the browser at work just by keeping Gmail open in a tab. No IM applications to install or concerns about whether we're running Windows, OSX, or whatever."

That's exactly why I don't use browser-only IM clients. I don't want to keep open a full-fledged browser only to stay online when something much less would be sufficient. Ideally, a IM should offer a broad list of solutions: web-based, desktop native clients, mobile apps, and whatever else one might think about. One size fits all is only a sure way to self limit the adoption of your IM solution.
apt-get has a wider scope but, in some cases, what it is needed for is to deploy a simple application, and there's no simple way to do that with Debian packages.
Actually, that was one of his major points in the lecture that I referenced. Basically, you should start with measurements and go from there. He said that he personally uses FP quite a bit, so he wasn't a hater per se...except for FP fan boys. He did go on about that quite a bit.

The main thing that he stressed about data structures was that memory layout matters in that hardware has a lot of built in intelligence for accelerating memory access patterns that it can discern. The way that immutable data structures are created, updated, and destroyed don't produce a suitably detectable memory access pattern, apparently. His explanation was detailed and is worth watching. That being said he wasn't proposing "share state for all". He was mainly proposing the scientific method.
I put "nootropics" in the same mental category as fetishistic adherence to taking heaps of dietary suppliments (with no QA), or homeopathy (woo), or tDCS (neuro-woo).

It is scientism at its worst.
I was mostly disappointed with Siri on macOS - there is no homekit support. The dream of sitting on my computer and verbally turning off the lights was premature. I still have to reach for my phone =/

Everything else Siri could do seems a bit pointless (to me) on a computer. The latency added by asking Siri to do something makes using keyboard and mouse much quicker, I feel.
I don't even have a savings account, but I've got $50k just lying around in a dozen checking accounts. The article is written to conclude that I'm in dire straits.
Many Americans depend on their credit cards to cover unexpected expenses.
Allo
YouTube Red
YouTube Music
Spaces

These all can use Google Apps accounts since I use all of these and I use a Google Apps account exclusively.
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Checking accounts, but you need a lot less in your "emergency fund" than you think you do. You don't need 6 months of salary in your emergency fund. In a true emergency, you can always get money from an index fund with at most a few days' notice (one business day). If you need more money than your checking account in less than a few days notice, and you know you can easily cover it by selling shares from an index fund, then charge it to a credit card. That doesn't mean you should ever carry a balance or pay interest; it just means you rely on the fixed period of time between charging something and paying the bill to give you time to sell stock.
I've been saying this for years. You open Twitter and you may or may not get something cool. Same thing for Facebook or mail or whatever. It's inherently addictive.
As a fellow Apple power user, I share your sentiment regarding the sarcasm. It seems like a change happened in the past few years that to love something, means to love it unconditionally, to the point that you must be blind to it's weaknesses and flaws. Blind to the point that to acknowledge them or, gasp, speak of them, is sacrilege. That's a movement I simply can't buy into. How can anything improve if it can't even acknowledge and be honest with itself about what it's weaknesses and failings are?

Introspection isn't always pleasant, but it's quite often the path toward becoming something better.
Weird. I have a Nexus 4, which is several years old at this point, and hangouts runs fine on it. Maybe because the OS itself is fairly up to date?
Whoa. That's...completely unnecessary. What the?
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That's one interpretation.
Nitpick to counter your nitpick: Not necessarily.

It's an AE construction, but not necessarily an AEAD construction. You can have IND-CCA3 security without additional data.

The converse is also not necessarily true (i.e. an AEAD scheme could be based on MAC-then-Encrypt and IIRC there are some that are built that way), but that's a less useful counterpoint. The recommended AEAD constructions (AES-GCM and ChaCha20-Poly1305) are EtM.
https://medium.com/@tristanharris/how-technology-hijacks-peo...

Related - you may have read it here.
A credit card. I have generally 30 days to convert non-liquid assets into cash to pay it off with no interest payment. This is the whole point of credit cards in my opinion.

I don't subscribe to the advice that I need 3 to 6 months of cash sitting in a 0.00% savings account "just in case." I'm not sure why I would need that much money for anything.

I can get several thousands of dollars from my brokerage to my checking account in a matter of days. Most other emergencies allow me to arrange payments. I don't know why this is such a bad idea, it has worked great for me so far.
I'm reminded of Chinese dynasties. Eseentially very dynasty that wasn't toppled by someone else first (e.g. Mongols) finally crumbled when it failed to deal with a famine. Mass unrest combines with the collapse of 'divine right', and everything switches to war and chaos.

If magic thinking is unavoidable, then the best hope going is to relegate it to a category that can collapse and be rebuilt without destroying stability. The last thing you want is to tie your government to a condition that's guaranteed to fail eventually.
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Here's things my shoddy attempt made :)

http://imgur.com/a/Zm8CA
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> Which areas of math are practical to programming/algorithms and why?

The basics: + - x /

Generally speaking, any vector or array can be thought of as a matrix (not that it is important).

Some problems and domains involved many operations on [multi dimensional] matrices. Where some math knowledge is advised.

Then there is "graph" both theory and practice. It's usually classified as math but has little to do with mathematics. I'd rather consider that as a unique separate domain with many practical and theoretical applications in other fields.

Forget about "crypto". Nothing of that is needed for programming. You'll use some algorithms but you'll never have to write or invent them.

In a theoretical sense. "Functional [programming]" is a branch of mathematics.

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Overall. Math is seriously overrated and has nothing to do with programming.

If you're into programming. Maths are simply not required to be a programmer. Don't worry about that.

There are some domains (maps=graph, 2D/3D=geometry, variousstuff=matrices) in where programming regularly require some maths. The maths part is always a very specific subset that can usually be learnt alone.

If you're into abstract mathematics. There are some theoretical stuff that can be worked on which are very far from practical programming.
> The cultural norm in America is to entrust the doing of business to the elites of major corporations and aspire to be lifer employees for them.

That's a very loaded opinion, and is likely colored by your experiences. The facts show a different story though - most businesses are small businesses, they employ about half of US workers, and 60-65% of new jobs are created by small businesses.
Regarding "smartphones as slot machines", the piece you are remembering is this one by Tristan Harris, probably:

https://medium.com/swlh/how-technology-hijacks-peoples-minds...

"How Technology Hijacks Minds"
If only my normal friends were comedians!
Seemstress = Startup Developer?

I was reminded of the airbnb foundation legend : three designers on airbeds on the floor of an apartment. I also picture rows of developers crouching over macbooks (when any sane employer has keyboards and 2*24' monitors + a decent chair).
The thing is the AHCI interface is native to Intel chipset, so they had to do some sort of extra work to block access to enable it......

They provided a new proprietary storage interface, because it's purported to be Faster, and the better performance should benefit Windows users.

I vote incompetency and apathy on Lenovo's part, not malice.
People make mistakes.

We have never had the chance to genetically deal with or lived in societies where people don't forget.

And worse, now can in seconds find about your worst. Do you think in 50 years of life you won't make a mistake (Then 30+ years of people knowing about it)

Your small business can be your entire life.

We might not be currently solving this issue properly. But it is still an issue we are going to have to deal with.
There seems to be a real disconnect between some HN readers and most Americans, who have a median household income of $54k. Half of Americans live on less. A lot of them live paycheck to paycheck (if they're fortunate enough to have a job at all) and many have huge debts on top.
69% Americans include children, elderly, housewives, daily wage people etc. who do not maintain an active bank account. The best would be to check this number household and consider all savings instead of merely savings bank account.
Man I bet it would be fun to be in the M&A/strategy group at Apple.
/usr/local was bad but /usr/local/Homebrew is worse.

The best would have been /opt/brew (short, no uppercase letter)
My Dell impression is anecdata. A company of a friend of mine bought a bunch of XPS 13. Out of a dozen laptops, only two were not RMA'd. The issues were not the same either. Keyboards with stuck keys, dead pixel strips on screens, screens that were too dim even on the highest setting. The overall impression was really not good.
Show had so much potential, all when down the drain in season 2.
"Universal" machine.

I expect any computer I own to run anything I put on it.

Locking out software is like a car maker trying to control what brand of gas you put in your car.
This seems a new fad; I've seen this on other news websites.
The cardboard box may actually be better than many cribs, at least from the perspective of reducing the risk of SIDS: https://www.nichd.nih.gov/sts/about/risk/Pages/reduce.aspx
'adult' includes students and retired also. and i imagine this doesn't include part time work. i'd say 48% is pretty good, if you consider those facts. i would have expected it to be closer to 33%.
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Yep. I have no doubt that savings--wherever they're held--are arguably lower than they "should" be (for all sorts of reasons) but this site does seem to be actively pushing people toward actual traditional savings accounts.
Google's business is based on destroying what you and I consider to be privacy, so I don't see how you could expect them to change their minds about that.

Google and similar companies have a coherent worldview in which they collect user data, protect it from outsiders and inside threats, and do benign and wonderful things for users in return. Within that worldview, they do an excellent and commendable job. Calling their beliefs on data collection a security issue muddies the debate.

I'm curious about your comments on Apple. If I back up my phone to iCloud, how can Apple "MITM any time they want"?
Stocks are not low risk. Stocks are not low risk. It bears repeating.
I got two of these when our son was born a couple years back, and they were amazing. I posted a review and tons of photos:

https://www.care.com/c/stories/580/a-year-with-the-finnish-m...

Yes, we did use the box. Yes, we did use all the clothes, lotions, toys, etc. In fact, our son basically wore nothing except eurogarb for his first year.

There are some commercial versions of this available in the US, though they're relatively pricey. The fact that this is a public benefit in some places is truly awesome, and something I wish could be politically tenable here in the US.
Whatsapp won that battle because Hangouts required a Google account, Whatsapp does not, just a phone number.

On a side note, I notice that Google's new services coming out only require a phone number, which I think will help them a lot.
In the Methodology section of the survey page, it says:

> The survey posed the question, “How much money do you have saved in your savings account?” and provided the following as possible answers: $0, “just the minimum balance requirement,” less than $1,000, $1,000-$4,999, $5,000-$9,999, $10,000 or more, and “I don’t have a savings account.”

Based on the wording of the question and answers, I'm guessing many people would have taken the question literally and answered the same way you did.

My answer would be the same. Even though I have plenty of money in my checking accounts, I have almost nothing in the "savings" account. I've never heard a good reason to move money from the former to the latter.
If both Allo users have responses recommended by the app, who's chatting with each other -- the users or the apps?
This isn't what "near-zero risk" means. Near-zero risk investments are things like savings accounts, CDs, and T-bills. Index funds that track stock-based indexes are intrinsically risky, as you yourself point out, unless you look at time scales of a decade or more.
Honestly I'd much rather have had a high rate back then as it meant home prices were lower. Now that rates have plummeted that could be refinanced into what might be quite a decent amount of savings.
> My lord, why isn't Allo just Hangouts 3?

The same reason Duo isn't.

Both are substantial departures from what Hangouts was, with some overlap, and calling either Hangouts would create incorrect expectations.
Currently dual booting Ubuntu and Win7 on a P50. So far experience has been great, including for finding and installing GPU drivers in Linux.
I think they're talking about entropy per bit. If they hash to 64 bytes, they integrate all of the entropy of the password, if they truncate to 72 bytes, they throw away all entropy past 72 bytes. This could be a huge problem if you're one of those people who uses a common prefix with a suffix as their password pattern for passwords they need to remember.
I just did exactly this myself. So many people say that you'll make so much more in the market, but 1% guaranteed feels so much better than maybe something more.

And we got a new house in the end!
I moved into an apartment last year and soon found out that AT&T was the only provider. This was quite disappointing to me as there are faster options for the same price. I wish this was illegal.
No, it's written to conclude that you really need to click on their links and open an account with one of the places you're referred to.
I am not sure I trust the tone of the author of that article

see

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2016-09-16/nassim-taleb-expose...

and

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2016-08-16/soros-hack-reveals-...
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I use Phabricator and Google Sheets.
Actually the person calling is on camera and the person on the receiving end sees the preview. Person on the receiving end is not on the camera until they accept the call.
Like I said, his talk is worth watching. he makes some detailed arguments to back his case. He spends a large part of the talk going over concurrency myths that he's encountered over the years.

And even with all of that, his main point was that you should use the scientific method and make measurements and adjust your approach based on those measurements.

It's on here somewhere:

https://www.infoq.com/author/Martin-Thompson
If we don't have a hsm? Apparently,neither does Dropbox. So how do you engineer one ?
I think a TODO is preferable even if you practice TDD.

Failing tests used as a "start here" are to-dos in this instance and are indistinguishable from legitimate currently-implemented feature tests if you've been away long enough.

I don't think it's good to assume it's okay to delete failing tests when returning to a project with new goals or when a bug needs fixing. For me, it's important to return to a project, run tests and have them all come back green. Then if I break something, I know it broke and isn't just an artifact from my pseudo to-dos.

Along those lines... I always try to run tests, check code coverage (including via mutation testing), and commit changes before calling it a day.
Not only that, but they should make sure their survey method has participants be very clear on the distinction to make sure they weren't confused.
The results are not really too dissimilar from the Fed study sited by The Atlantic earlier this year. In my not so humble opinion the question asked as part of the Fed study is more robust but the conclusion is similar.
http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2016/05/my-secre...
It's called Prototype-Based Inheritance, as opposed to Class-Based. Another such language is Self.

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/816071/prototype-based-vs...
If the market tanks again like it did 9 short years ago then pulling your money out will be immensely painful.
Non preoccuparti :)
"Windows 10 can't be installed on a recent Raspberry Pi."

I am sure it can -- and one wonders why Microsoft bothered to port it -- but why go through the hassle?

The point is that users can buy small form factor computers and these computers do not run Windows.

They are called development boards.

Perhaps these boards are the future of "general purpose computing".

And perhaps they can be paired these with sexy enclosures that are made by company run by designers that does not sell electronics - they only sell enclosures.

And they look better than Apple's.

Then I woke up. It was just a dream.
How is it necessarily wrong if Google uses the data to increase their profitability?
That has zero to do with it. Interest rates around the globe are much lower than they were in the past (to the point of trillions in negative interest bonds where if you hold to term you're guaranteed to not get back your investment!). There is currently too much cash in the world without good places to put it, hence plunging yields. The short version: your bank doesn't pay much interest because they have no great higher yielding places to put your deposits to work.

http://www.cnbc.com/2016/06/29/there-are-now-117-trillion-do...
A "suitably clever Googler", an insider threat, is something that Google actively defends against, at multiple levels. The general assumption is that you can't blindly trust internal users, devices, etc. See the BeyondCorp paper for an example. The internal security infrastructure (monitoring, logging, auditing, analysis) probably consumes more CPU cycles than what's needed to run a large number of entire business out there, especially after the China incident -- remember who alerted the 30+ companies that got infiltrated.

The security whitepaper gives only a hint of what's done, such as checks on former employees' accounts and so on:

https://static.googleusercontent.com/media/1.9.22.221/en//en...
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> Using the browser no longer work for reading these messages, since they are pushing the Messenger app.

Well, using the browser works, but you have to use "Request desktop page".
Yet apparently not business accounts. You can use the integrated hangouts in gmail, and the phone apps, but hangouts.google.com says it's not an enabled app for your account, and I can't seem to find where it's available to enable/add in the admin console (that is, I can find where to enable and add apps, but it isn't listed, and I'm a super admin). The Apps marketplace has third party apps, but that's not what I'm looking for.
I recommend you watch the PBS special Prohibition. It does a great job of explaining how the prohibition on alcohol was a grass-roots movement by women and Protestants. It was actually against the government's interest, because alcohol taxes at the time made up 1/3 of federal revenue. It'll disabuse you of this notion that "government" is always to blame for how people vote.
Congrats, it looks like a sweet machine. I have a 2nd gen one. The one with the clickpad and no proper function keys. Got it after a 1st gen one was stolen. I'd trade it for the previous version if I could. A couple of months after I bought it, the 3rd gen reverted the idiotic clickpad and oled function key ideas.

The bad side in disguise is that these machines are tough. They usually last five years of daily travel and daily usage, so I'm still three or four years out of a decent trackpad.
The irony is that if Apple had simply said "there will be no update this year", people would probably say "fine, the current OS is good enough for now". But when they do make an fairly small update, it is "disappointing" because it didn't add much. It's neophilia - always wanting "new stuff" for its own sake, even though what we have is pretty good.

A useful criticism would point out exactly what desired additions or changes were missing from the update. However, I'm mainly seeing a lot of general disappointment vaguely around "lack of newness".
Good advice. Less competition up here in Canada but there's still zero-fees options if you shop around.
Works for mine.
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So long as money is no object, you're probably right.

Apple reportedly took great interest in BMWs carbon fibre mass production processes during the early stages of Project Titan, when Apple was rumoured to be courting BMW for a potential partnership.

http://www.extremetech.com/extreme/209812-how-bmw-weaves-bak...

I'm not sure what use Apple would potentially have for carbon fibre anything outside of mass production.

Edit:

http://jalopnik.com/apple-is-definitely-not-buying-mclaren-m...
One of my frustrations is updating submodule deps. The above link seems interesting, but most projects I work on are small enough that hovering over the dep in pckg.json file in vscode lets me know what is the latest. At the top level, I don't have much trouble managing updatea, however what about deps of deps and so on? It is hard to update these, and sometimes it breaks/is manual. Then it is overwritten when a new npm install ia run.
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It's very long because I didn't have time to write a short version.