skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm constantly confused and misled (my own fault) by a variety of project names. They're often either foods, or physics. "Delicious Snickers running Event Horizon..." that kind of thing.
From sci.math google group post: "How to generate random number sequences (in your head)"...

With the most relevant answer for you being George Marsaglia's:

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Choose a 2-digit number, say 23, your "seed".

Form a new 2-digit number:
the 10's digit plus 6 times the units digit.

The example sequence is
23 --> 20 --> 02 --> 12 --> 13 --> 19 --> 55 --> 35 --> ...

and its period is the order of the multiplier, 6, in the group of
residues relatively prime to the modulus, 10. (59 in this case).

The "random digits" are the units digits of the 2-digit numbers,
ie, 3,0,2,2,3,9,5,... the sequence mod 10.
The arithmetic is simple enough to carry out in your head.

This is an example of my "multiply-with-carry"
random number generator, and it seems to provide quite satisfactory
sequences mod 2^32 or 2^64 , particularly well suited to
the way that modern CPU's do integer arithmetic.

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source: https://groups.google.com/forum/?hl=en#!msg/sci.math/6BIYd0c...

edit: so with two people, one of you could chose the seed on alternate days based on some other criteria (like the N you already have or the things @nenadg mentioned (nearby people, cars, windows, cats, dogs, buildings, whatever you agree upon, those things are pretty pseudo-random))
It's not necessarily a raw numbers issue, although that may still be a contributor. It's a branding issue, and the article does a pretty thorough analysis of the subject.

It's all about discretionary, discerning, conscious customers who would think to themselves "Chipotle is fresh, wholesome, and healthy, and they have integrity" or something of the like; now there's fewer people who associate this with Chipotle in particular. Some of the beneficiaries of this development are Panera and Qdoba, who still evoke a similar thought.

It may still be the case that Chipotle draws decent crowds, but they are drawing those crowds for different reasons -- promotions, people in a forgiving or adventurous mood, or people who simply don't care about the ethos very much and just want some tasty fast casual food.
What's devops?
Just to create a discussion here instead of jumping all over the guy for his questionable legal assertions:

You could make the argument that a news organization in possession of stolen documents has a legitimate claim to possessing them for the public good. An individual could not reasonably make the same claims.
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> "So I'm tempted to encrypt the credit card info and store it in my database in case I want to switch in future."

Seriously....just don't. The world of pain you'll be in if you mishandle this data and the symmetric encryption key will probably see you or your clients made bankrupt.

Please read up on PCI-DSS before even considering this:

https://www.pcisecuritystandards.org/document_library
What's with the knee-jerk reaction where everything is "Orwellian" or "1984-like?" I actually think this kind of hyperbole is damaging because, when something actually is "Orwellian," no one's going to listen because we've all been inured to people throwing this word around like it's nothing.

When it comes to incidents like this I'm reminded of Hanlon's Razor more than anything from Orwell: "never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity."
Good link, thanks for sharing :)
Running Arch on a Dell XPS 9350. Not DE, because I dual boot for Windows specific apps I use.

Overall, great laptop. I have the QHD+ screen which is awesome, but did require a bit of fine tuning to get the DPI where I want it.

Any specific questions?
The presumption was that being a land owner was correlated with education. If not formal education, then at least an active interest in being informed about current affairs.
This is insanity. Can you imagine if Richard Nixon had told the world that the Watergate tapes were a Russian plot to defame him, and not only the media went along with it, but they also insisted that it was illegal to listen to the tapes?
We can complain about English in all sorts of ways, but the fact that gerunds are distinct from infinitives is not exactly a problem.

http://www.englishpage.com/gerunds/part_1.htm

Perhaps you are complaining that gerunds (which are already nouns) can grow extra meanings over time. But all languages do this kind of stuff.

German has exactly the "problem" you are talking about, only worse. Depending on capitalisation, "Essen/essen" can be the noun "food" or the the verb "to eat", But when used as verb, it is usally used in the sense of the English gerund "eating".
"Blasting" is bad choice of word, because it makes you think of turning a high pressure hose on the food. "Crushing" would be a better word, because the food is completely surrounded by water.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pascalization
There is far too much talk about cyber warfare and far too little talk about cyber safety, cyber security and similar things. Maybe the DNC getting hacked is something you can laugh at, but there are a lot of other organizations where this is no laughing matter.

People have got to become more responsible about implementing cyber security, not just in DOD and HIPAA related organizations, but across society. To do otherwise is to accept incompetence and negligence as the norm.

And how can you know whether or not to believe anyone who claims that they know where the REAL source of a cyber attack is? There are so many non-state actors out there, not just Al-Qaeda and friends, that you cannot assume anything and you have to be sceptical about everything. Other wise you find out that it was some high-school kid whose goal was not to spy on the DNC, but to raise hell and make people think that the Russians are coming.

Hype and grandstanding do not lead to knowledge or understanding.
.NET on Linux – bye, Windows 10
Interesting that you describe TCP/IP as a decentralized protocol. I have the opposite opinion: That TCP/IP is the #1 forcing function for centralization in the world right now.

IP allows a maximum of 255 hops for any packet. This inherently restricts the topology of the Internet: As it stands, it can never be a world-wide decentralized mesh. Instead, you end up with large hubs and choke-points.
The IP addressing scheme also makes it very difficult to have a mesh: IP addresses are assigned hierarchically.
The name "Inter-Net" describes the problem directly: The Internet isn't a global network that just anyone can contribute or connect to; instead, the Internet is just a protocol for inter-connecting the world's centrally owned and operated networks.
With the IP Internet forced topology, Economies-of-Scale make massive centralized services cheaper than distributed services (even if similarly massive).
The obvious result: Comcast is your only ISP at home.

Disclosure: I've been working in my spare time for years on a solution, and I think an isochronous source-routed stream-based protocol is the only solution. I've got a proposed spec at IsoGrid.org
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>This is great and all, but it's not truly consistent with an American style of democracy which respects the rights of individuals to travel freely.

Its completely consistent. Ever hear of stop and frisk?
So you're saying that the media organization should be allowed to collect information, and filter what gets told to the public, but the public should not be able to 'double-check', or use their expertise and perspective to examine the same materials? If we are to entrust all information gathering and interpretation to media organization, shouldn't we let them vote for us too?
I actually generally include this in my Babel configuration: https://www.npmjs.com/package/jsx-control-statements.

People might argue that this isn't the React way of doing things, but it's easier than setting a conditional classname to display none. It's also easier than breaking out a small amount of html into a separate component just because you want some conditional display logic.
Redash?

Allows you to produce graphs/charts of your own data, by writing SQL queries.

Self-hosted too.
I worked for a few months in Maharashtra with an Indian FMCG/white goods manufacturer. We were trying to develop products for the "bottom of the pyramid" market - think families living in one room on $30-100 a month.

Every youth in the villages was trying to get to the cities. Their parents often couldn't read or even speak Hindi (let alone English), only their local dialect. So the kids were the ones getting the information for parents (like the price of goods in shops), sometimes translating, etc. as they were the first generation to be able to do so.

With a bit of schooling, they could get a factory or even a white collar job and happily left behind their subsistence living.

I think the "happiness" part was summed up with an interview my team had with a local woman. More than half her family, husband and all siblings included, were dead, usually before the age of 30, from causes ranging from disease to snakes to crossing the road without hearing the car.

Now I speak neither Hindi nor Marathi or whatever the local dialect was, and even connecting with and understanding my middle class Indian colleagues was difficult so maybe I saw what I wanted to see. Nevertheless I got the impression that the way people cope with such a harsh life is through a form of shell shock. They withdraw and just get on with surviving. I looked at the folks living next to their swimming pool sized field from which their entire life depended. I had a tough time seeing happiness. Nature, like the universe, is a cold and harsh place that doesn't care about you. The worst part is perhaps the lack of hope, of direction: tomorrow will always be like today, until the snake, disease or car gets you. At least the children have a bit of hope now, and through them the parents.

I left with renewed appreciation for what we have. Even today, I remember the intense happiness from seeing the smooth, clean tarmac at LHR. It surprised me somewhat how Brits could be so grumpy when they have it so good...

I'll leave the story about Tibetan yak farmers playing Android games whilst herding the beasts on horseback for another day.
I also have the extension page blocked so I can't edit or disable the extension. Only thing is I wish it was available on mobile
QUIC stands on its own; it just so happens that QUIC and SPDY (the predecessor of HTTP/2) show some convergent evolution.

You could use QUIC to transport other L7 protocols, but tracking down generic-enough implementations may be difficult, or at least was the case in the past [1][2]. Maybe things are better now [3].

[1] https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2016/07/20/curl-wants-to-quic/

[2] http://stackoverflow.com/questions/17896432/

[3] https://github.com/google/proto-quic
Is there a list of some active channels I can join?
> an American style of democracy which respects the rights of individuals to travel freely.

That was true maybe in the 70's or 80's.

Now you're required to have a passport to leave or enter the USA, which can be revoked.

Most domestic police insist that you carry an ID and present it on demand, despite the courts ruling otherwise.

Also, within X miles of the border, the police are allowed to stop you for no reason at all.

We now live in a police state, not a democracy, whether you got the memo or not.
It's still running. It's more of a theme park ride nowadays though than an actual transit system. Noisy, very energy inefficient and costly to maintain.

Source: my dad worked on constructing the thing
> But sometimes it seems that they are probably happier than the rest of us.

That's all that matters to me. True happiness. Do whatever gives you true happiness. If you are happy overworking yourself to get that promotion, that's totally fine. Or if you are happy working at a low paying cash counter job at a supermall, that is okay too.

I think a major factor in this is not to get lost in the endless cycle of continuously trying to gratify yourself by siphoning off from what society offers you. This just leads you into a bottomless rabbit hole which forces you to be "unhappy" until you have that "new cool thing".

I have quit my old job. Joined a couple of friends at a startup, doing consultancy work. Nothing fancy. But we get along just fine. Cut myself off from facebook. Work from home, work out, contribute to open source. Couldn't be happier than what I am now.
PhotoShare – photo critiquing Android app
FXML is only 5 years old, and acts more like HTML than JSX.
When I choose to use a chat application, of my reasons to use it is so that there is an accessible record of the thing.

More concerning to me is with IPFS is privacy. I would want to encrypt it so that only my chat partner and I could read it. But then would it be interesting in enough to live for long on the network?
Did BBC just clickbait me?
btw thanks for the link - quite extensive citation helper
400 DPI isn't low. There are only so many dots per inch a human hand can distinguish between.
I'm in a similar position.

At best, you can get rid of the lazy colleagues.

At worst, you can take all the credit when something goes well.

Somewhere in the middle, you could pretend the colleagues don't exist, and run the company more boldly.

But before any of that, ask yourself if you're doing all you can to motivate them.

Do you...

* Celebrate colleagues when they have a 'win'?

* Have a genuine interest in your team members' welfare outside of work? (They'll know, it shows)

* Ask questions, have 1:1 meetings, to get inside their heads and learn what drives them?

Good luck (myself included).
Have you seen http://www.scion-architecture.net/?

TCP/IP and Ethernet were decentralized alternatives both from a design and IP licensing point of view. But the unresolved technical debt at the transport layer is major centralizing force on the Internet right now.
They only need to go as far as to obfuscate the market data this was derived from, so they don't have to pay exchange licencing fees.

It doesn't have to have an exponential time complexity on decryption to qualify as 'encryption'. Multiplying by 2 could be considered homomorphic encryption.

You might think encryption means something else and that it's an abuse of the word but unlike the spy novella that you derive this impression from, these guys actually are ex-spies.
> Viruses are the enigma of evolution. Are they just chemicals, or living?

Biology is full of edge cases like this. For a few more examples, google "species problem". Human beings often like to classify things into discrete groups, but that doesn't necessarily map onto the natural world all that well.
I'm pretty sure it would be legal in US. Something like "let's go gas some Jews" would be getting into the imminence territory, but the blanket statement of desire is protected speech.

As for your main point; I think that saying that we're holding Trump supporters responsible for what he says is not really correct. We're holding them responsible for what they say by the act of supporting him and/or his platform.

And the platform is always a thing under consideration. Even someone who's supporting Trump because "Hillary is worse" is still making a relative comparison between his platform and hers, which is a political statement - and I don't see why they should get a pass on being responsible for that statement and its implications.

It all becomes a lot less ambiguous if you pick some specific thing instead of discussing it in abstract, and spell out all the consequences in full. Say, I know quite a few people who are going to vote for Trump for the sole reason that they consider him better on gun rights. But when you account for his "law & order" dogwhistling, and unpack it, what they're really saying then is, "my right to own a semi-automatic firearm is more important than this black dude's right to be treated with dignity by the police and the courts". Some people actually find it acceptable even when worded that way, but I'm not one of them.
If memory serves me correctly, it was (is) [1] open sourced on the Arc language, but certain spam catching and ranking algorithms were made closed to prevent gaming.

[1] http://arclanguage.org/install
We wouldn't be able to mate with Nakalipithecus nakayamai, so they are indeed a distinct species despite being our ancestor.
BlackBerry Juices Indonesia’s Plans to Grow Its Smartphone Supply Chain
Thank you for making Hextris. It is by far my favorite game to play in the random breaks I have during work.
Legally, yes. Whether that is socially acceptable or not is another matter.

National Socialist Order of America is perfectly legal, for example. But I don't think you'll find much sympathy for the notion that being a member of it should be socially acceptable, and that people should just respect your choices.
This is all interesting food for thought. I can't say I am thrilled by what that town is doing, but I can imagine it is better than the status quo ante.

It makes you wonder if the nation-state model of government has been extended into places where earlier, tribal models would have been less bad. And Mexico isn't even much of a failure.

Here is the kind of thing that makes me quesy:

Its ban on political parties, meanwhile, has been upheld by the courts, which have confirmed its right not to participate in local, state or federal elections.

OK, I see why they have the ban. But it also to curtails the right of the individual citizens to vote. Should any collective really have that right in a democracy?
Right!
From the description:

"Ever had those moments when you just open a new tab of your favorite social media site over and over again?"

Literally how I just ended up finding this link...
What about something like n2n / Hamachi / Peervpn / Freelan / IPOP / your friend in the other country borrowing you their account and hosting an OpenVPN endpoint on their home network?
If you play with low sensitivity it's plenty, but the Intellimouse family wasn't well suited to low sensitivity because it loses linearity if you move it too fast. With high sensitivity you can notice the imprecision. There's a middle ground where there's no problem, but sensitivity is a personal preference and you might not like that sensitivity.
> Political parties were banned - and still are - because they were deemed to have caused divisions between people.

What an insightful thing to do.
Just look at the Amish and Mennonites, and you will see people who are happy, subsist, and even prosper, by leading a life that requires little to no modern ameneties.
IIRC Lobsters[0] is an open-source[1] alternative, if you want.

[0] https://lobste.rs/

[1] https://github.com/jcs/lobsters
Are you actually serious?
The Decentralized Web Is Coming
I still have to wait for sql server to be ported. But my day job as a c# dev is the only thing keeping me on windows at the moment.
Hubblecast: How many galaxies are there?
Yet another Third Culture Kid. It has positives and negatives but most people who've been through it see the overall as positive.
This is interesting. I have to say that for all the power that Python has in the scientific community, and scientific computation in particular, visualization has a long way to go. There are charts I made 5 years ago in C++ using a framework called ROOT that was much prettier. ROOT was only maintained by a couple of people at the time. This was particle physics.

Example:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ROOT#/media/File:CMS_ROOT_plot...
Here in Los Angeles some locations that were less busy are now never a long wait and can even appear desolate at times.

Ones that were super duper line-out-the-door popular almost never have the line out the door anymore it seems.

I don't really eat here hardly ever, but walk by 2 almost every day.

Still having said that they are still routinely busier than some other options near them.
Show HN: Rebate Bus, find utility incentives for upgrading to LED
Watergate was someone's attempt to defame him... Why do we still reference Watergate as if it's any worse than surveillance today?
This study also suggests that it could also depend on whether or not the child is extraverted.
https://www.apa.org/pubs/journals/releases/psp-98-6-980.pdf

I've seen other research with similar findings. Having moved cities/provinces three times in my childhood (granted within one country) I have to say that it doesn't seem it was tough on me, but I know people who say they wish they hadn't been moved so much. Another part of it for me is that I really like where I ended up; and importantly, I gained all of my social skills after moving to my final childhood municipality, so I associate it with social success.
Almost every country in the world does this. The US certainly does at every border. In fact, in the US you could be stoped and searched almost anywhere if police think they have even a hint of probable cause, and if they don't and just don't like you they might even create it.
HN is basically an instance of the arclanguage's example app, 'news.arc'.

See: https://github.com/wting/hackernews
I don't think this thread is about sharing lies or BS tricks.

"I told people it was the best mousetrap" sounds like your contribution to the discussion, and it sounds like there's more to the story here. Care to share any details or lessons?
I tried to visit your site trice. Each time my browser crashed (Firefox on Android). Not sure what's going on.
Don't you think that is says something (not terribly good) about society that these very intelligent people must spend their time this way if they want to be rewarded?

Why spend 80 hours a week chasing grant money when you can spend 60 moving numbers around?
No, not at all, it's just that it's a word I'd never seen before and so I figured better to add a link for those who also haven't seen it used before.

Google comes up with 400 results for it, and this is the first time it's used on HN.
just about any lenovo thinkpad might work fine
Rebate Bus is a web and iOS app which allows you to run a lighting audit in your business and ties in the local utility rebate program so you can take advantage of incentives to upgrade to LED.

The software also develops an energy savings proposal for you and calculates how much cash you will save if you do the upgrade.

You can sign up for a free account at www.rebatebus.com - we also have a iOS app that we are looking to test.

Still very much a work in progress but we do have 190 utility programs in the system so it is available in all major markets.

Looking for any insight you might have on the concept, the UI, the "Create a Proposal" experience and your opinions on how we should approach the sustainability angle in our marketing.

We want to really compel people to look at LED and we know the green angle is worn out.

Key users: business owners, commercial property managers, distributors, lighting salespeople, e-commerce vendors selling LED lighting
I meant it's a lot harder to record fingerprints... It's relatively easy for a camera from almost any angle to record touches on the phone (especially with many phone's animations that show the number touched)
Fair enough, there is a slight bit more to the buffet bet than I trivialized.

The short portion of the hedge fund will have been losing as we are in a bull market.
The full length of a cycle should see this effect reverse (and indeed 2008 shows this).

So Buffet did have to pick a bull market in making this bet, but he still had better than 50/50 odds regardless.

You also have other costs specific to hedge funds over active funds, such as higher brokerage from more frequent trades, and short interest. These have the same drag as the management fees, and I should have included that also in the description.
That should read "word", not "wors"; typing on a phone is fraught with peril.