skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I wish I could remember where I read this, but I once heard it explained to me as this:

It's easy to deride the journey of the rich college student: 80-hour internships at Goldman Sachs, unpaid positions in government, etc. But, the things that are done by successful people are hard, as hard as walking a tightrope. The difference is that rich students walk this tightrope over a bed of pillows. Poor students walk it over an open pit of spikes.

Obviously falling off onto a cushion is easier. What's less obvious is how nerve-wracking it is to know that there are real consequences. Danger creates stress, and stress ruins results. Paradoxically, if you know you have more than one shot, you're more likely to succeed on your first try.
Was the most notable part of the article to you the headline writer's word choice?
The dollar value of those coins is oddly priced to inspire confidence, but it shouldn't matter since these units are always infinitely divisible. What I do wonder is what the market will value ZCash units as?

Pretty strange and phenomenal that there are futures markets for Zcash when the currency hasn't even launched yet, but these transparency updates should help with indicative pricing, as well as for the investors in Zcash private equity to hedge their bets
Thanks, I missed that!
I'm interested in seeing a step-by-step explanation of how he should have done it.
> But advanced tech does exist outside of California.

And tech companies and AI experts also exist outside of California? What's your point?

I specifically addressed your pessimistic comment that dismissed upcoming driverless tech due to your experience testing the current DAS (driver assist systems) built by non-tech companies. I question the relevancy when tiny companies like Comma.ai have demonstrated that widely available deep learning algorithms allow a single guy in his garage to surpass Tesla's own tech. Therefore if that obsolete tech (which is itself is using 3yrs old sensors) is your point of reference plus some 10yr old videos... I'm not sure how relevant that is to what tech we can anticipate in the next 3yrs.

George Hotz' talk opens with the claim that "Tesla's and other companies current DAS tech sucks. They don't even capture the video/sensor data from the rides". Which I fully believe. It shows the wide disconnect between the limited DAS tech being rolled out by car manufacturers and the true capabilities of current technology from people working on real autonomous vehicles. Instead of glorified cruise control with lane switching.

The real question and risks seems to be around price and implementation details. Not whether or not the technology will actually work as intended within the next few yrs.
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This developer is going to leave the building when someone else can provide documentation on the MSDN level
Edit: you can disregard this comment now as the article and title are updated to the (much better) originals.

It's a good story, but the title is fairly misleading. It sounds like he did "mess up" a few times. But ultimately he persevered thanks to a tenacious teacher. It seems the real message is to keep pushing forward, even if you stumble.

Clicking through to the original Medium article suggests that Vox is responsible for the title since the original is much better.
My concern is it risks confusing things diplomats do vs. things countries do. If a diplomat runs does X and they are tried, well such is life. If diplomat does the same thing and leaves the country well such things can spark wars.

Sure, this might mean some diplomats get trumped up charges, but we don't actually need to have diplomats in other countries either. IMO, it’s a historical holdover before light speed communication was cheap.
I think I should just go back to QBASIC.
Wouldn't that be the same as normalizing a left-to-right scale to [-1,1] and taking the absolute value? Or is it possible for there to be "radical centrism"?
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FTA:

This project is about having a standard, physically secure computer that anyone can use – as open as we can make it. All these concepts are important, and they mean that x86 and flawless out-of-the-box Windows support are not optional. There are reasons everyone is using x86, even in the security community and in governmental agencies around the world: compatibility, performance, and security. Make no mistake, some of us own Yeeloongs, and others are veterans of the silicon industry. We would love to ship a completely free and usable desktop processor, but we know very well that there is no alternative. Some people seem to think that switching to AMD can solve problems related Intel’s Management Engine (ME), microcode, or SMM. It doesn’t, as there are equivalents of these technologies in all recent x86 processors.
> The battle of blair mountain is a clear example of what happens when workers demand fair treatment in America. They didn't just send the army in to break the strike, they sent the air force.

The air force? in the 1920s?
> My quality of life was significantly better when I lived in TX than when I lived in SF

I'm not sure what your personal experience represents. We really need some data.
Consider that your recollection of the event is itself uncertain. Could it not be that although you now remember having known what was about to happen, you did not actually know that when the situation took place, and only subsequently formed that memory?
Agreed—this line in particular stood out to me as an outright fabrication:

> In response, Google CRE seamlessly provisioned extra
capacity on behalf of Niantic to stay well ahead of their record-setting growth.

Anyone who played that game within the first week of launch would certainly not use "seamless" to describe the experience.
From what I understand, there are a few issues, including:

1) The head has to move further to read the next sector of interest, which is particularly problematic for fragmented data.

2) It is more difficult to manufacture high data density (AKA high-precision) disks in large formats, as some surface defects are cumulative, and get worse as the disk gets larger.

3) Manufacturing defects which occur pseudo-randomly increase proportionally to the surface area of the disk, so the reject rate increases as a square of the radius.

4) Smaller drives can be spun much faster, allowing for higher data rates, as the centripetal accelerations in the disk are proportional to the square of the radius (and I believe the stresses are proportional to the cube of radius).

For these reasons and many others, HDDs have been moving to smaller and smaller form factors.
Consulting. If you really want to be successful in this industry, then yes you need a different skill set from engineering: Sales, marketing, being able to network with people and talk about your work, accounting.

There's this idea of a T-shaped skill set that I think very much applies to this kind of business: You have your primary skill (i.e. the service you offer, in your case engineering expertise), in which you have in-depth knowledge, and then you have supporting skills (like accounting) in which you're no expert but which you know sufficiently well enough to be able to market your services.

Finding the right balance between earning sufficient revenue sustainably (and the always reasonably full sales funnel required for that) and not taking up more work than you can handle can be particularly stressing.
Very nice example of thought policing on HN. Original comment is somehow on-topic but this one isn't.
Imposing any tax (or subsidy) with a primary purpose of changing public behavior is not acceptable to me. It's arrogant and patronizing, and turns what would otherwise be objective facts into topics for lobbying and political debate.

If you want to sway people, do it with information, not by charging them extra for doing what is wrong in your opinion.

While I would never support a "sugary foods" consumer tax, I might support a uniform tax on the purchase price of all restaurant foods, that would specifically support objective dietary and nutrition science, public education campaigns on how to obtain nutritious meals at any income level, publicly queryable tracking of food items from farms to tables, random testing of restaurant foods as served to the end-consumer, and more effective nutrition labels for prepackaged foods and restaurant menu items.

If you fund objective research on what people should eat (and why) by taxing what they do eat, the information alone should be sufficient to help people choose healthier meals on their own, rather than by twisting their arms with existing biases and assumptions.

I personally believe (without objective data to back it up) that excessive dietary sugars, particularly those containing fructose, are the most blameworthy single factor for American obesity, and that this is due in part to steep import tariffs on foreign-produced crystalline sucrose, farming subsidies and favors to domestic corn, beet, and cane producers, the price differential between high-fructose corn syrup and crystalline sucrose, the weakly-supported demonization of dietary fats, and the slow decline of real median-household purchasing power since the 1970s. In other words, we got to where we are now by pushing people around with overly-specific taxation and politically-influenced dietary recommendations.
I tried powering up some of my old 20-30 year old computers I'd stowed in the basement. Only one of them booted up, the rest had various POST failures, some even would make snapping noises and emit smoke. Older mechanical parts like drives have grease in them which dries out and the moving parts freeze together.

I suspect it is the result of bad capacitors that decay over time, but nevertheless it is disappointing.
> Game traffic travels Google’s private fiber network through most of its transit, delivering reliable, low-latency experiences for players worldwide.

"reliable"

"low-latency"
Hypothetically you could get rid of them in any language. And hypothetically you could introduce new bugs and vulnerabilities by rewriting the code in a new language.

While Rust does solve some of the problems that C++ creates, there's no substitute for good programming and thorough testing.
well, it is the headline .. the premise of the story and the headline should not contradict each other
We have a few companies on our portfolio which are both part of Fortune 500 index and whose IT is around 80% Windows.

The last four years I only developed UNIX applications outside work.
indeed this is the type of thing i come to HN for!
thx for the podcast link. I really should listen to software engineering daily more.
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Evolution is a two way street, and viruses are way faster to mutate than human beings.

HIV is probably already evolving a bunch of different strains with variying degrees of mortality and morbidity. Those that tend to remain dormant for longer or otherwise fail to kill the host are more likely to spread faster.

If you consider that plus the fact that humans are already begining to develop defenses, you comment could be qualified as: 90% of people who don't have resistence face worse health outcomes, - up to but not necesarily an early demise, - and end up producing fewer offspring.
Yes, that was an oversimplification. I had typed it as 'buy indices' but decided that would require explaining which indices, and I didn't want to get into that rabbit hole. And I didn't want to look like a shill for some particular vendor's fund. In any case, some concrete examples are VTI, VXUS, and BND/VTEB.
> but do you know how much stuff you have to eat to get a caloric surplus on a protein-based diet, without the addictiveness of carbs? Pretty much any time you think of it, it's time for some milk/peanut butter sandwich/hard-boiled egg/spinach.

Milk is pretty carb heavy.

Peanut butter is mostly fat with a little protein.

Spinach, insofar as it provides calories, is almost entirely carbs.

Except for eggs -- which are still fairly high fat:protein ratio -- those are all odd choices for a "protein-based diet, without the addictiveness of carbs".
Surprised nobody's mentioned the filter manufacturer in Conroe, TX that was still using an IBM 402 and punched cards as recently as three years ago.

http://www.chron.com/news/article/xx-4459714.php

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pxCZ35y3O04
>This is the big question to me... when is the right time to go?

Could a natural extinction event happen in the next 50 years?

If the answer is 'yes', I think we should go as soon as it is possible.

Humanity has been much closer to self-annihilation in the past. That gives me hope that we wont nuke ourselves before a giant rock falls from the sky ;)
I think it is the feeling that you can't mess up that this references and which persists.

My past was a single mother, deadbeat dad, welfare and food banks.

Now I have a comfortable six-figure income and have been employed for over two decades.

I still feel like I'm one bad break away from being on the streets.
Our cloud platform (Azure) here in Cloud and Enterprise team (where I work) does not only embrace .NET and Windows Server. We've got a lot of people working every day to make sure Linux is a first class citizen and we're ensuring that developers working with Python, Node.js, Ruby, etc, get a first class experience as much as we can make it happen.

If you want one huge example where we are embracing Linux as an OS, just see how our SQL Server team is bringing SQL Server to Linux. (its not in public preview yet but we're working on that). https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/cloud-platform/sql-server-on...

But don't get me wrong, we really love and believe in .NET and our own server technology, we're always looking to find ways to innovate and grow it. Just as one example, look at all the work we've done with .NET Core and bringing that to run on Linux, Mac and Windows equally. https://www.microsoft.com/net/core

This isn't the old Microsoft and I love working here more and more every day now that for the last few years we've really embraced the developer community to enable them choice in however they want to build their next app.
Thanks. The original title by the author:

"Lost Diamonds -- How a financial aid form almost convinced me I wasn’t good enough and how our current system is failing underprivileged talent"

I find the other currently front page topic somewhat related:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12603748

"How Anxiety Warps Your Perception"
If you don't want to cook in bulk, a pressure cooker is very easy as well. It takes about 15-20 minutes to build the pressure and cook the chicken, but my own time investment is somewhere around 30-45 seconds.

The chicken does come out moist and tastes awesome, but that goes for the outside as well which I don't mind that much, but you can also toss it on the grill for like 20-30s a side after it's done if you want nice grill marks and a little crispier outside.
HB2 says otherwise.
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Make that the first month...
DO NOT move to Seattle if you have any kind of seasonal-affective disorder, or you value seeing the sky.
> I'm looking with growing trepidation at the menus on my new TV, especially the "Anti-Virus" section.

Some of those "smart" TVs even have a camera and microphone. Your TV could be spying on you. Isn't that nice?
On one hand handling such huge amount of traffic is crazy hard and an amazing accomplishment however the tone of the blog is off putting because of just how much a trainwreck it was from the users point of view.
> From a user point of view it did not go nearly as smoothly as it is made to sound in this post.

I think a large part of that was due to the non-Google login from Pokemon Trainer Club (which must have been handled by Nintendo's servers, AFAIK), as opposed to the Google OAuth. Both groups of users had problems, but people who used their pre-existing, Nintendo-issued logins had much more problems (and it took a lot longer for those to get fixed).

There was a period of about a week or so during which time people who used the Pokemon Trainer Club accounts were still having just as much trouble logging in and staying logged in, but people who used their Google accounts were fine.

I wouldn't be surprised if providing multiple login options made it harder for them to properly separate their login servers from their game servers, and if this coupling meant that millions of users (effectively) DDoSing the PTC servers ended up impacting the game's uptime more than simply doing all authentication themselves would have.
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Generally speaking you state a thesis then give supporting evidence. Making a strong statement and then immediately disproving it stands out.

Click bait gonna click bait I suppose.
"Density Functional Theory" and "Quantum Monte Carlo", two ways of calculating electronic structures (the former tends to be more approximate and the latter tends to be more computationally expensive)
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He got a second chance where most people in his position wouldn't. He got lucky - his point is that most people don't get a second chance. Also, I think more than the facts of the matter, he's talking about the feeling of not being able to mess up even once. Also the fact that he was haunted by that one mistake - not getting some trivial forms in on time could have ruined his life. Pretty harsh if you think about it.
So their estimation was that nothing would increase? I am not sure I trust the two parallels lines in the graph. The estimation should have been a spike at the release date a small drop and some grow over time, no?
identity thefts and telecommunications frauds are very common

Not sure I agree, let's tackle those in order: first, QQ is like ICQ, it's almost dead and therefore irrelevant.

On WeChat, phone number is simply used to look people up so you can find them. If you lose a phone or WeChat account, the social identity thing is used to recover it (you get a few friends to send a special magic number to you, then a reset is made). It doesn't trust your number.

No idea about Weibo.

Taobao does take your phone number but they have to because they need to be able to get in touch with suppliers when there are issues/complaints, and many customers want merchant phone numbers anyway. I don't see trust issues. You can log in with your phone but it's the pre-authenticated instance of your account on a mobile device that it cares about, not your phone number.

AliPay, no idea.

Online banking is not frequently used because until recently it totally sucked, and often was Windows only (yet macs are really popular), and people here like cash.

I think the Chinese ID card number (largely guessable with a birthday and knowledge of where someone was born) is far more dangerous here than a phone number: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Resident_Identity_Card#Identit...

I feel like most financial fraud here is confidence and pyramid schemes.
Let me put it like this:

productivity
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| old, complicated /-
| tools /---
| /---
| /--
| /---
| /---
| /---
| /--
| /---
| /--- /-------------------------
+----------/-------------- modern, pretty
| /--- "tools"
| /---
|--
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experience

The modern trend of dumbing down interfaces (which is primarily happening in the markets where you sell apps by how pretty they are, not how useful) indeed makes it easier to learn them - at the cost of making the application less functional, and less useful overall.

> and "the computer" was something the specialist at your shop took days of training to learn how to use and when he wasn't there "the computer" was useless

You say as if this was a bug. It's a feature. This is the fact for any kind of complex, powerful tool - whether it's a combine harvester or furnace or industrial laser cutter - takes traning to use to its full power. Making software easy to use fully from the get-go only means making it not do much.
Headlines are usually picked by an editor not the author. In this case the author had even already published another version of the piece with a different headline "Lost Diamonds, How a financial aid form almost convinced me I wasn’t good enough and how our current system is failing underprivileged talent".

Can we discuss the content of the piece now?
Really not, the problem was upstream. Debian decided go with systemd.
The fact that you can patent a molecule blows my mind.
The Application of Visual Analytics to Financial Stability Monitoring [pdf]
I think that this depends on the definition of "messing up" - he missed a financial aid window in 6th grade, and something as trivial as filing a form late had a tangible impact on a year of his life. I think that his point is that this experience conditioned him to view risk quite differently from wealthier peers. I would disagree that "pushing forward" is a valid prescription - the counterfactual "without Mrs. Harris and Head-Royce" leaves him on a different trajectory.
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Well, granted. It will take decades for we to have decades of experience with microservices that break clear encapsulation.
It is shocking how many sites now use CloudFlare, I have recently switched ISPs and aparently my new ISP is SPAMMER and BOT heaven so almost every site I go to asks me to complete the Im Not A Robot Cloudflare reCapture.
Really makes the experience suck.
Thx. The slideshow presentation is also crap because the banner ad on top makes the whole page jump around.
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I'm not quite sure what you're saying. Do you mean you feel like you're only one bad break away, emotionally, but rationally you know you're not? Or do you mean you still are actually one bad break away, for some reason?
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Family money also buys practice. As someone who grew up middle class surrounded by people above me on the social strata, the amount of activities wealthy kids get to train for life's challenges are mind boggling.

When anyone on HN sat down to their first big interview, ask yourself what practice you had with applicable social skills? (Business culture, dress, and social norms, etc.)

Now substitute someone who's never interacted with that world before, nor knows anyone from their neighborhood or social group who has.
When there is nothing constructive to add, especially when an ideological nerve is struck, pedantry and semantics take over.
And this is why Basic Income is the future; it doesn't help those with a bed of pillows to rely on, but it provides a bed of sod to those currently wary of spikes.
It's criminally irresponsible to sell such a computer, because it will easily result in data loss and not all users are educated enough to understand the consequences of such a flawed "security" design. Of course, you can claim that it's ultimately the customers fault in this case, and I agree, but they should nevertheless expect some lawsuits.

There is always a tradeoff between security and data integrity, something which the people who downvoted my post apparently don't understand. When even your mom can mount a 100% successful denial of service attack with a screwdriver, then you're screwed.

If you disagree, I challenge you to show me a use reasonable case that couldn't also be solved by actual physical security or by locking down booting and the BIOS and using tamper-evident seals.
I feel like I've read this article before.