skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The latter. Are you pre-judging a candidate because you can look at an open source repo instead of spending your day trudging through a tech interview?
"$244.25 for Advil? I must be hallucinating!"

"No sir, actually your bill is correct."
Also C won, Unix won, Android won. Seems technical subpar options are better business options.
Yeah this is a misleading title - no part of the data was targeting people based on their demographics, unlike the hordes of ad trackers that are invading our private lives. They were selling a tool. Was the plan to target PoC with that tool? Possibly, but call for these companies to shut down their surveillance seems laughable when there's far more information being given to advertisers. Having worked with people in both adtech and surveillance platforms, the statement just doesn't hold water.
The style of government (monarchy, dictatorship, democracy, communism) doesn't really matter. The size of government (how many things government does or doesn't do) doesn't really matter. It's the scale of government that matters. When the ratio of people to decision-makers becomes too high, the decision-makers stop fearing revolution and stop caring what the people think.

Governments don't scale well. It's only a matter of time before we need to address this.

We built a distributed system of 13 servers supporting 4 million users. A century later, we had 34 servers supporting 31 millions users. There was a major desync crisis causing us to lose 600,000 users so we moved most of the processes into a mainframe turning the now 36 servers into little more than proxy servers. This kind of worked for a while.

A century and a half later we have 50 proxy servers supporting 320 millions users. The mainframe is barely responding to requests. Half of the engineers want to upgrade the mainframe. The other half want to move some of the processes back to the proxy servers.

Instead, we should be moving the app to the cloud. The problem is nobody knows what an AWS for government would look like.
Hey, thanks for the great info. This is my main focus right, build something that people love. So far the response from the audience about the idea is being great but I really need to grow this audience and spread the word, otherwise my free/social model is not going to work.

Btw, I realised this kind of content marketing is very popular nowadays, for example today I was reading this post (https://beanninjas.com/blog/how-dan-norris-built-a-7-figure-...) which is from a Transparent Startup talking about another one, yeah, interestingly both are featured on TransparentStartups.com
It's absurd to use languages spoken as a proxy for cultural diversity. That being said, according to wikipedia there are 430 languages spoken in the US. There are 32 languages used by 100,000+ people.

And implying that simply because people speak the same language they have the same culture is nuts. People in Utah have the exact same language and accent as people in California but the two populations have very different attitudes about family, education, marriage, religion, and government.

In fact you don't even need to cross state boundaries. Compare Park City, Utah with St. George, Utah. Different cultures. Compare any metro area with any rural area.
National security directives set policy and instruct government bodies. They're an exercise of the President's plenary authority to tell the executive branch what to do, not lawmaking. OLC legal interpretations are legal advice, not laws. Federal agencies may rely on those interpretations to take certain actions, but they cannot regulate private conduct. Congressional-executive agreements pertain to controlling trade policy, an area over which Congress and the President have plenary authority to begin with.

Immigration court proceedings are secret, but they're not an exercise of law making. Neither are FISA court opinions, which are interpretations of whether something is legal under the 4th amendment and/or FISA.

Now, you can say it would be great if these things were all public. I happen to agree. But internal directives and policies that are only binding on the government are not "laws." They're not an exercise of the government's power to regulate private conduct. They're an exercise of the government's power to control how government bodies use their discretion.
Do I have to use Windows to leverage this new software setup?
Because He is amuse.
It's troubling that instead of coming right out and saying that Ecuador cut Assange's internet access, they said that "state actors" did, knowing people would blame the U.S. government (as many did in that thread). For an organization that's supposed to be about openness, they seem more than willing to hide information to manipulate people.

It's troublesome that this article which actual has the information about who cut the internet access is dropping off the front page much faster than the previous article which left people with the wrong impression. This is an old tactic; generate headlines by insinuating something, and most people will have moved on to something else when the correction comes. The result is that most people are left with the false impression, even after the facts come out.

It's troublesome that the reaction many people have to their conspiracy theories being proved false are to shrug and say that this doesn't change anything. "If the Clinton campaign didn't get the CIA to do this, then the U.S. government must have pushed the Ecuadorians to do this" or "It was perfectly reasonable to assume a conspiracy based on no evidence because the government does things like this all the time." If proof that your conspiracy theory was based on nothing doesn't trigger any kind of self-reflection or at least admittance of error, then it seems like your world view isn't influenced by facts.

So yes, I'm troubled by several aspects of this.
The whole point of the different sizes is to have differentiation. It allows Apple to have a cheaper and a more expensive model. That way they have a reasonably affordable model for customers that are more price sensitive and an expensive model for people who don't really care.

These prices are not really related to flash memory prices. You pay more to have a phone that you can enjoy more.
> Is it though? Let's take it a bit further: would YC be expected to continue to endorse, say, a confirmed and outspoken Fascist?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Continuum_fallacy

Moreover, loosely associating is characteristically different from positively endorsing.
Thank you!

If only a single person finds something helpful there, it has been worth the effort already. So that's what I hope will happen.

Apart from that, writing down things you've learned for yourself is pretty useful in general, as well.
You forgot JavaScript and PHP.
We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12736096 and marked it off-topic.
The big thing I miss about Subversion is that you could check out one subtree. On the biggest SVN project I worked on, we built 5 binaries from the same code tree, but only the leads and a couple of senior devs that worked on crosscutting concerns (ie, the people who would do the mass edits you mention) had the entire tree checked out. Everyone else had just the one or two modules they were working on.

The second biggest, we used just enough of a module system to enforce modularity by having a single code repo but separate compilation units. Your circular dependencies between subprojects would show up at compile time (or at least, on a clean build, as our CI machine did). Stopped a lot of obscure runtime issues and made people think about what they were trying to do.
Github link for the lazy: https://github.com/google/nomulus/
NASA: Record quantum teleportation achieved in real-world setting
Study: 1 in 2 American Adults Already in Facial Recognition Network
Surely that depends upon the human? An infant would do a terrible job. An institutionalized vegetable would fail to provide meaningful information.

A not-very-bright cousin of mine has been heard responding to robo-calls. Would his opinion do?

I think 'intelligence' is ambiguous, but many parts of it can be measured to some degree. Lets give the AI the SAT test perhaps? Or a test of hypothetical arguments. Or ask it how it would tell if you were an intelligent being yourself. Anything that's even a little bit 'meta' would confound most 'AIs'.

We can tell if an AI is functional in some environment or responds well to social queues by interacting with it. But not much else. Not how 'intelligent' it is for instance.
Can we get an estimated time of arrival of ES2015 imports in nodejs? I understand that the support needs to come from v8 first of all.
> I think there is power for self-regulation, even on a subconscious level, but it might need some more freedom to keep that. In this case it needed a whole 2 weeks to waste on games before it made me feel empty and longing for something else.

Interesting thought. I know the feeling, actually, as someone who tends to binge on computer games and TV series (and novels). It's sadly true though, that adult life is usually clocked even stronger than teenage years. I often feel that if I could only get one week away from work and people, I'd feel much better overall. Alas, it's hard to get a week off from being an adult.
At a guess you were living in the cities?
Please don't call the U.S. election a 'circus' – Ringling Bros. – World News
Almost guaranteed that this was not a subsidy. Even for the extremely wealthy, banks are not in the business of giving away money for nothing.

The mortgage was likely only one piece of the deal negotiated. It costs the bank nothing to write an at-cost mortgage, but gives Zuckerberg value though additional liquidity. Items that cost nothing yet provide value to the other side are excellent things to throw on the table during negotiations to help seal the deal. One example: The bank may have the adjustable rate tied to the balance in an asset management account -- if Zuckerberg takes his money elsewhere, the mortgage also becomes profitable.
If I had $104M in the bank I'd put it as the caption on the top of my resume "Spent three years in federal prison..."
Ask HN: How to estimate compute requirements for Machine Learning algorithms?
Has anyone developed formulas or rules of thumb for estimating CPU, memory and time requirements for running various Machine Learning algorithms, with respect to training and/or prediction–classification?

I realize that implementations may vary and that a variety of parameters can be tuned, depending on the algorithm, thus affecting the requirements, but I'm interested in ballpark estimates.
The first amendment protects you from government interference. It doesn't protect people from deciding not to do business with the New York Times because they don't like what the paper says. NYT is definitely big enough to not need that extreme level of protection.
Then you disagree with the browser vendors decision to gradually remove support/warn for SHA-1 entirely? They seem to disagree with you.
People harp on that line, but in retrospect it was spot on. First generation iPods were slow sellers and little more than a novelty/fashion accessory.

Remember that when it came out the killer feature (iTunes Music Store) was still 2 years and two hardware revisions away. What you had was a very expensive player that tethered you to a Mac if you wanted to load music.

That said, it had a significantly better user experience than contemporary competitors, but that's mostly because MP3 players back in 2001 were universally horrible. People sold devices with 8 Megabytes of storage for the music, and horrible DRM laden monstrosities for managing the music (see: Sony) that made them just miserable.

The iPod had basically 2 big wins: It had enough capacity to store a reasonable amount of music and a well designed interface. Certainly nice, but not enough to make your average person shell out the $400 Apple demanded for one.

The iPod wasn't a huge hit until the price came down and the iTunes Music Store gave people an easy way to get music for it.
Gamification: Not Just Fun, but a Serious HR Tool
Mmh possibly, there might be a slight bias favoring them. The shorter the recruitment lifecycle and the quicker I can go back work on actual software engineering.

But then again, I hire lots of software engineers who have 0 OSS contributions but a shit-ton of industry experience. It does not matter if your last contribution was 4 years ago by the way. I am not looking for a full green activity graph (though it demonstrates consistency and discipline which are good) but rather for non-trivial, significant and well-crafted pieces of software so I can rest easy.

I don't go in trying to shoot down candidates. That's what whiteboard interviews are for. (:
I completely agree that very few companies can afford to run something like this on their own.

So with our cloud service, you keep control of your hashing, your users, your authentication framework. You do everything you can to protect your own network and prevent a breach.

But then add a, yes centralized, additional layer of security on top that which protects you even after a breach.

So I absolutely agree centralization is generally evil. But what we are is a common defense fund. Everyone shares the cost of the data pool, so you pay a fraction of the overall cost, while enjoying the full security benefit. You do this without turning over control or exposing any private data.

Compared this to, say, CloudFlare: we are not as worrisome because we don't see the username or the password, and we cant make an invalid login look valid.

Companies are turning away from passwords and looking at SSO (talk about centralization) because storing passwords is too much of a liability.

Our goal is to eliminate the liability. Eliminate password breaches, so that a simple, memorable password is secure. So it's safe for any company to store passwords and be responsible for authenticating their own users. It's a very lofty goal, and I agree it's not fully without any trade-offs, but we've been meticulously careful to design a protocol which minimizes those trade offs to the greatest degree possible.

So my hope, my goal is that this tech ultimately helps maintain and support decentralized password authentication, while providing an extremely cost-efficient way to secure those hashes.
Well, Peter Thiel does think freedom and democracy are compatible, just only when the democracy is restricted to people who think and vote like Peter Thiel.

And, well, "Democracy is great as long as the franchise is restricted to people like me" is not exactly democracy, and not exactly something with great historical precedents on its side, y'know?
When the dams were built they forced a few towns to relocate since they would be underwater. It's only relative.

Where were the leaseholders when the decision was made to give the land away? Was it Army Corp land or Power company land?
My own goal is to never talk about the other folks on a thread. That's never the topic. As a shorthand, I never use the word 'you' in a comment if I can help it. Keep it impersonal.
I knew two awesome people through the MIT AI Lab, one of whom co-founded Naughty Dog, and the other of whom co-founded ITA Software. :)
I considered responding to this, but I'm not sure how to have a meaningful conversation with someone who engages in such hyperbole.
It's OK to hide from the bear. Maybe he won't see you. But if he finds you, you'll need at least bear spray and maybe a shot gun to defend yourself. That's the basic idea. Obscurity is only bad when it's the only thing you depend on for your safety and security.
>> But Guantanamo is some kind of horrific, Kafka-esque limbo

You ignored the main point on what you comment on. To quote myself: afaik, you can keep enemy combatants in prison until after the war

>> The problem is we know now many of the people at Guantanamo do not fit that description.

Of course, most everyone claim to be innocent everywhere. Is there a legal process on a battle field when POWs are taken? (Rhetorical question.)

(I might note that I can't see how Guantanamo is much worse than the rest of the horrible US prison system.)

Here is the US law about unlawful combatants, etc. It seems the US is bound to the Geneva Convention also for them, according to their Supreme court.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Military_Commissions_Act_of_20...

Please discuss it with the law professors in the Supreme Court, they claim that the US handling also of unlawful combatants must follow the Geneva Conventions.
Yes, this is just another example of the classic and ongoing disintermediation enabled by internet technologies.

Once I had access to the raw news feeds available to journalists (Reuters, AP, AFP, etc), it became clear that the novel content of local newspapers was vanishingly small. With the rise of special interest blogs of every sort, there was simply no reason to endure the mangled versions of the news feeds offered by local newspapers.
I don't have an example of one getting punished, but I do recall this book, Traitor to His Class: The Privileged Life and Radical Presidency of Franklin Delano Roosevelt: https://www.amazon.com/Traitor-His-Class-Privileged-Presiden...
True, but if you are running something like WebSphere or Weblogic then upgrading your JVM invalidates product support. So, now you have to upgrade product versions, which often requires changes to deployment scripts, breaking changes in those products, new software licenses, etc.

Having said that being on and old supported version of these products means you are at least enjoying Java 6.
I believe it still has to be chosen, and the MS term is 'Read Committed Snapshot'. Everything is a tradeoff, read committed snapshot makes your tempdb busier (since it is involved in versioning), and balloons up the default size of a row in a table. With RCS you end up adding 14 bytes of overhead to each row, and which otherwise wouldn't be there.

So imagine a table with a single integer column and 1 billion rows. Instead of the 9 byte per row overhead (7 bytes for row metadata and 2 bytes for the page offset), you instead have 23 bytes, plus the 4 bytes to hold the int32. Without RCS on, that row would only have a 9 byte overhead and the rowsize would be 13 bytes.

so
1billion * 27bytes = 25.14 GB
1billion * 13bytes = 12.11 GB

There are some other performance tradeoffs (walking row version values, pagesplits when updating records without rowversions after converting the database, et cetera).

Ultimately, MVCC is great for contention, but it stinks if you're trying to efficiently pack in data.

For an alternative perspective, I sometimes bemoan the size of tables in postgres because of the mandatory overhead and versioning.
The candidate routinely throws around the phrase "Believe me."

So people are.
I agree with you 100%. Most political talking points on sites like Reddit (and even HN) are just platitudes. The problem is they've been repeated so often that even questioning something is ground for a public tar and feathering.

We cannot have any sort of meaningful dialog when the opposition on both sides is painted into a caricature.

George W. Bush had an amazing quote during the memorial service for the fallen Dallas PD officers. Paraphrasing but: "We judge other groups by their worst and ourselves by our intentions"
The .git file format has also changed multiple times, packed refs, multiple pack file formats etc. There's even WIP ref backends now which store the whole thing in some embedded database format.
13 Impressive statistics on user experience
Twitter's problem, as evidenced by the 3.2/5 it received on Glassdoor, is its management. Management being subpar/cookie-cutter means it's very likely not possible to get (relevant) things done, and that they'll steadily go straight into the ground.
I suppose you can think of that way. But consider that the reason you are able to "own" any property is because there is a legal system in place(1). In someplace without an operating rule of law, a warlord could easily take "your" property.

Even if you're a King, if you stop paying your knights/army you probably won't hold on to your lands for much longer. Would you say (A) the army "owns" the king's land or (B) the army just makes it possible for him to continue owning it?

(1) Unless you are a Law unto yourself i.e. have your own army.
> isn't much shorter than how it is done in java

The savings in screen space and visual cortex neurons doesn't come from the one or two properties that need logic, it comes from the dozen avoided

/**
* Gets the foo
* @return the foo
*/
public Foo getFoo() {
return foo;
}

/**
* Sets the foo
* @param foo
*/
public void setFoo(final Foo foo) {
this.foo = foo;
}
You are correct: To get a net reduction of atmospheric carbon dioxide, you need to increase total plant mass or prevent plants from decomposing/being eaten.

As far as I know, the majority of net oxygen production happens through algae, because they die and sink to the bottom of the ocean, permanently removing carbon from the carbon cycle.
Never set foot on an airplane unless I absolutely have to. :)
Some additional questions

- Is a company allowed to sell what an individual willingly provides if the individual agrees to those terms?

- Should an individual who provided personal information expect the company to keep it private by default or expect capitalism by default?

- should a company legally be disallowed to promise/advertise security?

- Is the government allowed to act similarly as any other private company in regards to accessing information?
Not sure on that. It specifies Anaheim Hills. Anaheim proper seems like it might be outside the listed areas. That said, maybe? Seems like it would be publicly obvious.
Indeed. The "ALT+TAB, CTRL+T, n <arrow down> <enter>" combo is something I execute before my conscious brain notices it. However, I'm increasingly better at following it immediately with "CTRL+F4" and thinking "not now; after I finish this".
OK, you're now forced to read the New York Times, and Drudge, and any other political publication, blog, rant, whatever.

Refusing to do so would infringe on their rights to free speech, so get to reading.
> [...] a speech recognition system that makes the same or fewer errors than professional transcriptionists.

How low would the error rate be for humans that can fully concentrate on listening instead of writing at the same time? Unfortunately, that cannot be tested.
From http://www.doudoulinux.org/web/english/about/more-about/arti...

"“Doudou” is a French word that means wubby, the teddy bear or the cloth that children carry everywhere and hug very strongly in their arms before falling asleep. In China the word 豆豆 means the same and is pronounced the same too."

Chinese it's pronounced doughdough (4th tone, if anyone cares) as someone else mentioned below.
Lots of other people did a lot more of the actual building than I did, but on their behalf, "You're welcome!"
Seems so. Results are conflicting in terms of adverse effects. But seem to show these particles cross into normal cells (neurons for example)/ some lead to death some do not.

here is a quote though from one paper in mice at high concentrations:
'There was no effect on other haematological parameters. Histopathological evaluation of dendrimer-treated groups did not reveal any abnormalities in the low- and medium-dose groups, but at a high dose level, toxicity was observed in the liver and kidney.'

http://rspa.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/466/2117/1535

http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/mp300391v

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27534577
> that is a.) completely believable

How so?

If ecuador was going to give in to US demands, why wouldnt they just let the US extradite Asssange?

Clearly the US doesnt have the type of pull with Ecuador to force their hand, why would you think this is any different?

you believe that john kerry alone was able to convince them to cut the internet, but the fact that 3 separate countries want him arrested is meaningless to them?

Doesnt sound believable to me at all. so yes, i have reason to doubt a)