skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Good question, in 2010 Google said that they
"... today we're including a new signal in our search ranking algorithms: site speed. Site speed reflects how quickly a website responds to web requests." [1]

I believe that page speed is also important, google provides PageSpeed Insights to help you improve your site. [2]

[1] https://webmasters.googleblog.com/2010/04/using-site-speed-i...

[2] PageSpeed Insights https://developers.google.com/speed/pagespeed/insights/
Would your opinion change if Westworld was not a physical theme park but a very advanced virtual reality?

How authentic must the experience be (or how sophisticated the AI) before you would object?
But that goes against subtle hinting of the article of parenting being the cause of suicide. If it were parenting wouldn't suicide be high earlier as well (before college)?

Maybe it isn't cultural within families but peer social groups that are setting the bar too high. I'm arguing the stress may not actually be from the parents but the desire to fit in with others in the group.
It's funny to me because this definition of "best" is more like "nicest looking/fanciest/most expensive I could google."
Not sure we want to start competing with trees -- what if we get better than them at it? Do trees start dying for lack of CO2?
I've tried these things with the kids I'm around (aged 2-7), and I was just met with frustration for all the things I tried (Doudou, Xubuntu, whatever).

As much of a nix-zealot that I am, in the end I resigned to using an iPad with several educational apps.
Well, maybe not die in the streets, but in my state the best, most expensive health insurance I can purchase still doesn't kick in until I've dropped several thousand out of pocket.

I get decent insurance through my job, but it's still fucking stupid how much I have to spend before it kicks in. Even then, there are all kinds of clauses and stipulations and loop holes. I guarantee if and when I really need my insurance it will fail me and I'll still come out in debt. There simply is not a "pay money and don't worry" insurance plan out there.
There's a difference between standing against a bigot, and ostracizing anyone who may support him for their own reasons.
Am I the outlier here? I don't see my daughter - who is 6 - using a desktop regularly enough to need a special distro.. if she is using it, it's that we are doing it together. I would like to see her have a Linux tablet though
Should be a very helpfull tool. When would it roll out?
Ideally, stop doing business with them. That's the only form of anger that companies understand.
It isn't anymore, at least. It used to have much more informative content. And Popular Science may have been a lightweight science journal at one time, but they've both since lost their way.
This doesn't add up though, people often talk about salaries of 60k Euro or less, and then you have to pay higher taxes on that. A $65k salary would be a joke for a software engineer in the US.
Less happy, certainly plausible. The only world superpower, definitely. While I don't have any evidence to back any of that up, it certainly appears the nation working the most, has the biggest economy/power. Obviously money/power isn't everything though.
I've used their service in the past when it was limited to 4 layers and have always been very happy with it. I had to find a new source for my last 6-layer board that was much more expensive.
PG's essay "What you can't say" springs to mind:

>It seems to be a constant throughout history: In every period, people believed things that were just ridiculous, and believed them so strongly that you would have gotten in terrible trouble for saying otherwise.

http://www.paulgraham.com/say.html
At least in France companies pay tax on your salary so even if you receive 2000 € for your salary, the company would have paid 3000 € (salary + taxes).

Then you pay the tax on your revenue.

Then the company pay tax on revenue.

Then politics wonder why France is not attractive to investments
Yeah, but we're talking about programmers. We typically get excellent health care benefits.
The 10% of Americans who don't. The other Americans who do but still can't afford to pay what their health care doesn't cover, etc.

Even with sufficient health care, I try to avoid the doctor because of the cost.
If you take a look at the paper that was linked, users were put in a cylinder that had video displays that simulated spinning. I think we've had this since roller coaster simulators, so your specific point has probably been proven since the 90s now. (I vaguely remember the ESPN World in Baltimore having a "design your own roller coaster" ride that allowed you to build a custom roller coaster and then would simulate you riding it.)
The Google Pixel Is Too Dumb and Ugly to Replace Your iPhone
Just ate it up, eh?
Well, it depends if they have to pay you more...
1.) electric vehicles are also vastly simpler mechanically, so what you gain with energy storage efficiency in gasoline tanks you loose with their complex motors.

2.) if cheap energy density is the problem they want to solve, then this process at least needs to be compared to using the land to grow plants in order to turn them into ethanol fuel. So a comparison like "wind farm under average conditions + ethanol farming" vs. "wind farm under average conditions + solar under average conditions + CO2 to ethanol process" --> how many Joules of kinetic energy can you produce per square kilometer of land, given the fuel/electricity is used in the currently most efficient motors/batteries?
The Government’s Addiction to ‘Secret Law’
If Altman is comfortable with the idea that his actions are encouraging people to comfortably support Donald Trump, then I'm comfortable with him continuing to endorse Peter Thiel.
As long as you dont confuse my views of marcos post with my political views I have no problem with that.
Yeah, nthing merino. Amazing as long as you hang dry between wearings. The thicker the better, even in warm weather (thin merino can wear holes pretty quickly).
Ask HN: Any advice to ace the senior dev interview?
I may be facing an interview soon for a senior dev role. I have been a developer for a long time, but never as a "senior dev". I really want to get the job. Looking for advice.

First a little about me. I'm going to list out every quality I have that might hurt me.

1) I tend to talk a lot when I get nervous and this keeps sabotaging me during the interview process.
2) The technology the job is using is my favorite tech (RoR), but I haven't had much practice in it in a while because my supervisors have not favored it.
3) I am very pessimistic towards most technological trends and fads, and usually prefer to work with "boring" tech. This annoys some developers.
4) I can be very passionate about some things. Even if I guard my views with "others disagree, but..." I still come off as over-confident.
5) I have gotten somewhat bitter over the years because of what I perceive as aggressive micromanagement over my work & lack of trust.

So what is your advice for helping me overcome my flaws and get my dream job? I am anticipating getting asked senior-level questions, and trying to figure out how not to bomb them. Thanks in advance.
But isn't that the whole point of the argument, letting the user decide how valuable his data is rather than some impersonal cloud provider?

Certainly some data is more valuable than other. Is a hundred IT labor hours cheap or expensive compared to all pieces of data? Who knows best, the end user or big brother?
I'd buy that. Hey, No Starch!
> the vajrayana schools (mainly tibet) also claim that there is clarity and
> energy in this emotion

That's probably because Tibetan Buddhism became a tool of political domination.

The earliest Buddhist records explicitly recommend suppressing anger, even by sheer force of will if necessary (but only as a last resort.)

If evil, unskillful thoughts — imbued with desire, aversion or delusion —
still arise in the monk while he is attending to the relaxing of
thought-fabrication with regard to those thoughts, then — with his teeth
clenched and his tongue pressed against the roof of his mouth — he should beat
down, constrain, and crush his mind with his awareness. As — with his teeth
clenched and his tongue pressed against the roof of his mouth — he is beating
down, constraining, and crushing his mind with his awareness, those evil,
unskillful thoughts are abandoned and subside. With their abandoning, he
steadies his mind right within, settles it, unifies it, and concentrates it.
Just as a strong man, seizing a weaker man by the head or the throat or the
shoulders, would beat him down, constrain, and crush him; in the same way, if
evil, unskillful thoughts — imbued with desire, aversion or delusion — still
arise in the monk while he is attending to the relaxing of thought-fabrication
with regard to those thoughts, then — with his teeth clenched and his tongue
pressed against the roof of his mouth — he should beat down, constrain, and
crush his mind with his awareness.

http://www.accesstoinsight.org/tipitaka/mn/mn.020.than.html
Europeans have this shit figured out then. 25% less work means stopping at 3:00PM every day for me (unless you count the difference as block vacations). This would be LIFECHANGING. I get bored and stop concentrating around that time every day as is.
The article does imply that the sha's can't be cracked for those crazy time periods, though it seems to constrain that to the next generation of quantum computers. It's not stating that at no point in the next billions of years will a different computing platform come along that is capable of doing it. String computing, anyone?
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Even worse, when I go to the doctor, I have no idea what I'm going to pay. You can possible decode it, but good luck - and if he or she sends something to a lab, etc. one day a bill will just show up and you'll just have to pay it. The doctor doesn't say "we can do a lab test, it'll cost you $40" or anything. Imagine if your dry cleaner wouldn't tell you what the charge would be until your clothes had already been cleaned!
https://eprint.iacr.org/2016/992.pdf

"While our cost model ties us to a particular quantum architecture,
we segment our analysis into several layers so that the impact of a different
assumptions at any particular level can be readily evaluated."

"Our estimates are by no means a lower bound, as they are based on a series
of assumptions. First, we optimized our T-count by optimizing each component
of the SHA oracle individually, which of course is not optimal. Dedicated optimization schemes may achieve better results. Second, we considered a surface
code fault-tolerant implementation, as such a scheme looks the most promising
at present. However it may be the case that other quantum error correcting
schemes perform better. Finally, we considered an optimistic per-gate error rate of about 10^5, which is the limit of current quantum hardware. This number will
probably be improved in the future. Improving any of the issues listed above will
certainly result in a better estimate and a lower number of operations, however
the decrease in the number of bits of security will likely be limited."

Which remains huge for these hashes. In short:

"Diffie-Hellman key exchange, RSA encryption, and RSA signatures will all need
to be replaced before quantum computers are available.
The situation is less dire for hash functions and symmetric ciphers."
To be fair, you can use Docker with VirtualBox, although I think it tends to be slower and use more resources.
To me, anger is easiest to dissolve when you take a step back—physically if necessary—and observe the situation.

More often than not you'll find there was a communication breakdown somewhere, and you can resolve that breakdown instead of react to where the miscommunication led.

The real danger is burying anger to save face, as is common in many cultures. Taking it home with you, or passing it to someone else. Resolve why your brain feels dissonance and something that angers you can be dealt with rationally and simply.
Studying the charts, only 6 counties exist in both info graphics. Some observations;

Switzerland is the happiest country but works the second most hours
Belgium works the third least hours and is at 19 on the happiness chart
* The US is still in the top 15 happiest countries
We have more (paid) vacation and more public holidays and sick leave is both paid for and not counted towards the vacation budget, and more maternity/paternity leave, and some countries have extra leave for things like family funerals.

It's not hard to "work less" like that.
That video is extremely impressive! Colour me excited
It's a combination of all the above factors.

People naturally overvalue physical goods and their cost to make, while under-valuing virtual goods (you're willing to pay for a $10 coffee with a 95% profit margin than a $5 Monthly subscription)

In the Maker movement, people gladly buy an Arduino with a 75% markup (the final cost is 3-4X the cost of making it), but they wouldn't pay for an IDE, or a library etc.

It's also true that there are many things aiming for your hard-earned money so people are reluctant to go ahead.

And then of course, there's the competition. With the Arduino IDE (and now Arduino Create) being available for free given Arduino's business model (make money from H/W), Makers aren't incentivized to pay, in fact they (naturally?) expect other things to be free as well
I'm not sure why you think that European workplaces are stricter than US workplaces, or that US jobs are generally laid back.
> He appeals to and represents white men that have a household income slightly higher than the median. Those people have been nothing but listened to for the last 140 years.

I think that describes like... 4% of the population, depending on your definition of "slightly".
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Endorsing != supporting. But if you cast your vote for somebody who has execrable views then yes, that's on you as well. You can try and tell yourself otherwise, but it's delusion.
> How happy are they working that extra 25%?

Is it even measurable? Some try. According to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Happiness_Report Americans don't do badly - on par with Germans (who are close to the top as far as Europe goes) and ahead of the UK, France, Italy, Russia (to name the 5 Europe's major economies).
Almost all the software I've purchased in my life no longer runs. When software goes unsupported, it lasts for as long as the hardware & OS version you have will work, plus anything else it depends on, it does not last forever.

In my experience, that window is typically one or two years, and the longest I remember it ever going is 6 years.

Given that they've committed to keeping Panoramio supported for 2 years after first announcing it was done and yet another year for migrating if you couldn't be bothered to in the first two years, it seems to me like Panoramio has outlived a typical software download's window of life.

I think I've been using gmail and flickr longer than any media based software or download I've ever had.
Anyone who thinks Trump is the only racist in the running for the US presidency need only watch this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3gUAdAYFbIc
But do they adjust for median age? The US is probably younger than western Europe on average due to immigration/slightly higher birthrate, which means fewer retired people who don't work.
Removing someone from business just you have difference with their political view is wrong. Suppose lets take this next level:

- In Restaurant people refuse to serve someone because his political view is different- Will it be great?

- Theil decides to fire employee's from his business because they don't agree with his political views. - Does that sounds good?

- For example, companies like uber/airbnb decides to serve only people who agree with the political view of their founders?
>What is a principle of liberal philosophy, though, is that we should be tolerant of the beliefs of others (in the sense of not intervening to suppress them), including intolerant beliefs, until those intolerant beliefs threaten society.

So, to paraphrase, you have moral principles only as long as it's safe to do so and then are willing to stoop as low as you need to when it's not.

Well, let me tell you, sir, that that is no part of any liberal philosophy that I subscribe to, nor is it part of the philosophy of anyone I respect.
Well Platformio just recently had to switch to make Pro Features available for a price.
https://pioplus.com
for anybody interested as an alternative. the Basic plan also integrates with cloud ide's although i haven't tested it yet.
Show HN: Implementing (parts of) TensorFlow (almost) from Scratch
But for significant pieces of work it is still a hurdle which you must cross. Unless you're writing vanilla ES5 without any dependencies, you have to consider package management, build tools, how to load your modules, before even getting onto transpilation, minification etc.

I can see what's so great about the JS community, but the fixed cost to get to actual production-ready development is pretty high. And rolling your own bootstrapping tools seem pretty pointless given the longevity of any particular tool being the one to recommend. #jsfatigue!
I do agree wholeheartedly, but the problem with trees is that they die and then they rot releasing all that carbon back into the atmosphere. It's a good start though! It be awesome if we had some sort of technology that sequestered carbon (where it be in the form of CO2 or wood chips, and sorted that carbon in a solid form effectively indefinitely. for trees to be a permanent solution, we would have to convert 50% of the land we use agriculturally to woodlands and and then better utilize the remaining land for food production. /shrug
The article fails to mention culture which is obviously the #1 reason for differences in the first place.
As long as you are working on your own stuff, that's usually fine.
Not quite a sculptor, but I collect a lot of records, somewhere around 2000 at last count. Takes up a lot of space, not to mention 2 heavy turntables and a mixer. That plus music production gear (speakers, amplifier, synths/keyboards, mixer, computer, sound card, not to mention furniture to put it all on, and then there's guitars, guitar amp, pedals...) takes up a lot of space. It'd be nice to live minimally but I'd have to sacrifice my favorite hobbies.
I'm sure many Europeans love their work too.
Leaving aside Wall-street the Tech Bubble where people work grueling hours in the hopes of becoming a millionaire, the rest of the US works grueling hours because they need to in order to eat, pay their rent, etc. Telling someone who is working 40+ hours in order to make ends meet that they need to "work less" is tantamount to telling them to become homeless and destitute.
What surprises me the most is how much paid vacation time goes unused.
> I'm not sure who you're referring to dying in the streets because of a lack of medical treatment due to financial limitations.

Perhaps the GP was referring to the 10% without insurance
I think a lot of people are missing a key point here. This isn't about stopping a candidate you disagree with, or even about stopping a candidate that you think would be bad for the US. It's about making Y Combinator and the software industry as effective and good-for-the-world as possible.

Even if throwing Thiel out would actually help Trump's candidacy, they should do it.

There's an interesting debate about whether you think Trump's policies are a good idea, and how much you care about him being elected, but that's a sideshow. Thiel represents Y Combinator, like it or not. How he's perceived affects how Y Combinator is perceived, and how the industry (SV especially) are perceived by the rest of the world. Currently, he's actively and very publicly giving millions of dollars to a candidate espousing violence, sexism, racism and sexual assault.

By supporting Thiel, Y Combinator is supporting somebody espousing violence, sexism, racism and sexual assault. It doesn't matter if they're a presidential candidate or not, or what it does to the election results. Encouraging and supporting these _moral_ positions is horrific, bad for everybody, and just practically bad for business. When your public face becomes the face of hate speech, you have a practical business problem, and you need to solve it.

You would fire a public face of your company if they publicly wrote a post about how they liked to sexually assault people. You would fire a public face of your company if they publicly donated millions of dollars to an organisation encouraging sexual assault. Why is it different if the organisation they're supporting is running for president?

It's not about Trump's policies, and it's not about whether or not it plays into Trump's hands: if a major face of your business is actively visibly supporting abuse, discrimination and violence and you do nothing, then your business is supporting abuse, discrimination and violence. You're going to give you and your industry a bad name and discourage minorities of all kinds from ever working with you, along with anybody else who finds your morals repugnant.

Supporting Thiel while he actively defend and encourages racism, sexism and violence in the name of "free speech" doesn't make the world better; it makes it far far worse.
Because benchmarking against lines of code, .NET is at 20 (not counting blank lines) and Go is at 35, I'm wondering how programmer happiness plays out for each platform.
So Apple needs to start a bank as well as a car company!
Apparently the Royals can inherit from people they aren't related to? The Windsors are no more relatives of John than I am!
Hasn't done anything because he isn't ELECTED and has never held office. We can only judge based on the words he has said. We have to take him at his word and react to what he plans to do. That's why people are so afraid of how dangerous he is.
Except it also generates CO and methane in nontrivial amount (something like 5-10% apparently), one of which is a highly toxic pollutant and the other is a much worse greenhouse gas than CO2.
I think you think this was a snappy response, but I'm simply paraphrasing John Rawls. If you prefer Karl Popper, you might look up "the paradox of intolerance". You could also take it back to John Stuart Mill, if you'd like.
Is it live yet? Where can I try it out?
Oh, and that bill is probably gonna be full of medical coding mistakes too. Tests and procedures and all kinds of things marked up, put in the wrong category, and so forth. Expect to have to wrestle the insurance and the hospital for corrections.
I recently picked up a used Leaf as well, and I'm absolutely loving it.

One thing I've noticed in addition to what you mentioned is how conspicuous the smell of cars with ICEs has become, when I get near them or in them.

There will always be reluctant holdouts who cling to the American machismo of a loud, stinky, rumbling ICE, see so-called "coal rollers" who modify their diesel trucks to terrorize other motorists and cyclists by emitting huge clouds of soot on demand. It sure doesn't sound or look impressive; however, there is something deeply convincing about the instant and effortless authority of the electric motor's acceleration. And the Leaf is relatively anemic compared to other EVs available today!
Europe? I would love to even get to the 26 hours/week that my fellow Americans are supposedly working according to the chart.
I think OP's desire is to be able to have a debate about the topics without being met with Ad Hominem responses.

Are the things Trump says and allegedly did reprehensible? Of course. But to bring them up in a conversation about the status quo in DC is still ad hominem, and to think that being right about his being a pig wins any debate about a possible evil power structure headed by Clinton is a straw man.

Donald Trump scares me. So does the cavalier attitude of so many who seem to have tunnel vision when it comes to politics vs the two minute hatee du jour.