skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Do you think it's equally likely that a random opponent will redraw below 0.01 as it is that they will redraw below 0.5 or below phi?

If random really means random, then that's presumably true by definition. If we're talking about an opponent randomly selected from a representative group of people, then no, but equally, I wouldn't assume that they're going to pick the golden ratio as their threshold either.

The thing is that maximizing the expected value is optimal in the absence of any information about the opponent's strategy. But sure, I can easily believe that many people would get the question wrong anyway.
I've been using Xamarin since mid-2012 and have developed a couple of niche imaging products on Android and iOS for my employer, plus some internal tools on Android.

Overall I've been very happy. Code re-use hasn't been stellar, but good enough to repay the investment. We have re-use not only between apps, but also between mobile apps, Windows desktop apps, and our application backends. I also feel I'm more productive than if I had so swap between Java/Swift/ObjC/Andorid Studio/Xcode.

Stability has improved a lot in the last year. Paid-for support was pretty good (esp. guys like @jonpryor), but the self-serve forums can be a bit hat-and-miss. I never had any killer bugs (but then I never used Xamarin.Forms...)

Overall: 85% happy with Xamarin.
Decreasing the viability of suburban life will create more pressure for urban apartments as suburbanites get tired of crowded trains and move to the city center. If your more housing comes with an effective requirement for everyone who works in the city to live in that housing, we should expect the price to go up.
You're reading a lot into Kevlar1818's posts that isn't necessarily there. It's possible to blame a phenomenon (the Spoiler Effect) without blaming its players (Democrats & third party candidates).
> it still doesn't necessarily create majority candidates

How could it not? Genuinely asking.
That should only happen for lists that have a List-Unsubscribe header. If the iOS mail client does that for arbitrary mails, that seems horribly broken.
How to “hack” any Instagram account and maybe anyone on Facebook
If it's an internet thing you can incorporate wherever you like. I live in Texas but filed in Wyoming because (a) the forms were super easy, and (b) IIRC the filing fee was $150 and that includes a registered agent.
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Why would a CMS need to scale? At most you'll probably have a few tens of admin users logged in concurrently, and a few million people viewing pages that could be baked in to static HTML assets if scaling is a priority. An AWS micro instance and an S3 bucket would handle that.
Your comment just reads like you've had too much of the startup Kool Aid. I, for example, work in a not-google/fb/apple large company in a LEED certified building with lots of windows and sunlight and they have lots of perks like catering and beer.
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While they are obviously different, automatic censorship would require automatic classification.
As long as the person immigrating has the right color skin and prays to the right god

More accurately: comes from a compatible culture and shows an interest and willingness to assimilate.
I wouldn't say it's universally necessary, just like it's not universally necessary to speak any given language to convey information. We just all have our own natural ways of doing things and it's not necessarily productive to try to get everyone to force themselves into the same mode of communication. We all have the tendency to view our natural modes as superior in various ways but I don't think we should let that tendency lead us to try to coral others into conforming to our norms.
Show HN: Ultralink, the Hyperlink 2.0
I usually favor B)

First, as you point out, less competition.

Second, these languages are usually a little younger, and there is a chance to be part of a nice community from the beginning

Third, learning an "exotic" language is sometimes a great asset on a resume even if you interview for a position involving a different technology. It shows intellectual curiosity.
Also, the "Bloomberg startup barometer" graph does not match its own title...
Blocking ICMP type 3 breaks path MTU discovery. When the path MTU is less than the server's MTU, the client will typically send a request which is smaller than the path MTU and then the server's response isn't so it's the server that gets the ICMP message.

Blocking type 3/3 can also make some other denial of service attacks easier because it takes longer for the server to figure out that the device at that IP doesn't want the packets the server is sending when the request is from a spoofed IP address.
> I prefer to use my email clients to read my news.

Many email clients also handle RSS directly. Thunderbird, for example, is the most responsive RSS reader I've used.
Hey All,

Ultralink is a project I've been working on that aims to improve and move forward the most basic of internet grammars: the link. I have tried to figure out solutions to all the problems that hyperlinks have like staleness/broken links, overlinking, authoring/maintenance labor intensity, single resource restriction, etc. In attacking those problems, I also stumbled across a lot of other really neat features and value additions that you get when you add an abstraction layer to links.

I have made some products that are aimed at consumers, like the browser extensions and WordPress plugin that anybody can just use to kick the tires. These hook into something I call the Mainline Database which is a gigantic repository of Ultralinks meant for use in general contexts. I think of it as a kind of long-term, Wikipediaesque public service that anybody can use for free to do content analysis, public sentiment analytics or other interesting stuff.

I have also tried to make the platform as open and extensible as possible so that developers can build on top of the technology and use it in solving their own problems. I have documented many aspects of how the technology works and made some tools you can play around with on the developer site: https://developer.ultralink.me. Feedback here would be especially useful from the Hacker News community.

I'm happy to answer any questions you might have or discuss ideas for where to take Ultralink going forward :)
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You guys don't use -pedantic? :D
Moneyspire 2017 – Now with a more elegant UI, improved reports and bill reminder
I make a small electronic gadget, non computer related.

I've got an LLC for basic liability protection.

PayPal is my business system. All sales come in through PP, and I use the PP credit card for my purchases. All documents are electronic. At tax time, I download the entire year's transactions into a spreadsheet, add things up, and enter the totals into a Schedule C.

Rather than filing quarterly taxes, I've simply bumped up the amount of withholding from my regular day job.
London's Night Tube only runs on Friday and Saturday nights, which I'd think makes it 24/2 rather than 24/7.
As mentioned in the article, Arrow's theorem only applies to rank-order voting systems (including FPTP and IRV). There are other types of voting systems (e.g. approval voting) that do not require the voter to be strategic in expressing her preference.
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I don't know. Laravel uses a hash algorithm that uses bcrypt and never outputs the same hash.
>Out of curiosity, why is this called Blacknurse?

I can only guess that it's a play on "black hat" hacking as opposed to "white hat"[1].

Since ICMP messages are related to network "health" by way of pinging & diagnostics, a good "white nurse" would use that to monitor the health of the patient. However, an evil "black nurse" would use the ICMP protocol against the patient to kill it.

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_hat_(computer_security)
Personally I would look into using graph based data models.

I'm not sure how universal it is for CRM systems to be all about who knows whom, from where and what's the nature of the relationship, but the ones I've been involved with certainly all were.
I studied Proto-Indo-European and fit into a similar box. It's entirely useless, day to day.

But, because it's not one of the earliest languages, and because it's a reconstruction, it is as simple as it can be.

It can make it difficult to express some ideas, like "innovation".

But it does allow you to understand the function of grammar, and the way we are limited by the words we have. If you can't express it, then though you may be able to think it, you can never truly convey it to anyone else. You can give endless analogies and stories, but no one can grasp the idea until it becomes a word that they also think.

One last analogy of the journey this opened up for me: imagine that the word 'colour' never existed.

Describe the Northern Lights.
Linus' rudeness is not culture but an abandonement thereof. For being influential he should only be held to a higher standard. His bad example should certainly not be followed. Sincerely, your friendly non-native English co-speaker.
Not a complete stranglehold, but a near-complete one. Both of these candidates had to jump through the two major U.S. parties' hoops to have a chance at being elected (and one of them was very effectively stopped by his party's gatekeepers).
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Why does it need a client-side framework? There's a class of apps where that makes sense, but it feels like more and more that's becoming a default at the expense of complexity and time to market.
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Being a NoSQL database I think it would lend itself well to a CRM if you look at each lead as a document.

Performance wise it has always treated me well. It also provides a lot of power over updating partial documents (push this item to a sub array, remove this item from another subarray, at this item but only if it doesn't exist, etc)
California would do well to follow this lead.
I have wanted that cord to be replaceable forever. At least it finally is now. Given how many the kids and dog destroy I consider it an improvement.

I have wondered if the degradation of the cord wasn't some sort of safety guarantee rather than planned obsolescence. When the cord wears out you buy a new one instead of using the ancient one from eight years ago.
I'm also very proud of Maine.

We had record high turnout this year, when much of the country had low turnout. Perhaps because of the important ballot items such as this one. I also think Maine's splitting up our electoral votes helps, too. I say this as someone from the 2nd district who hates that Trump got our vote!
And, likewise, the Turing completeness of those primitives doesn't mean what some naive new computer scientists think it means. Turing completeness doesn't mean that those primitives constitute a language which can be extended to become any language; it means that for any given Turing machine, those primitives can be used to write a program which computes the same thing as that Turing machine. That program might be, for instance, a small state machine dispatcher accompanied by a big table with some initial contents. VirtualBox can run an entire PC, and that PC can run an OS, under which we have a C++ compiler. That doesn't mean VirtualBox has been extended to be a C++ language implementation.
> So, you could very easily end up with a single-issue candidate being "approved" by the vast majority and winning, even though absolutely nobody would choose them over any of the other candidates.

If voters disagree about who the "other candidates" are, I don't see that as a problem.
The UI Code(The stuff that uses these apis) should be a thin layer ontop of the core app.
> Let's say that eventually it is the consensus of the scientific community that things like consciousness, pain and free will are just illusions, and therefore, human rights are an outdated concept

That last part is a value statement that I doubt science could prove.
Cool story bro.
I'm not saying per se Latin is useless, I'm saying that my half-hearted, school-forced attempt to learn it was worthless.
I think where Xamarin shines is in places where the development stack is already .net. If you are starting green pasture, and don't have .net developers already, then it seems to make very little sense.

With that said, I've made a number of apps in it, and it works well enough, but the more abstractions, the more problems, and you want to do anything outside of simple UI apps, you are likely going to have to learn how the native methods work anyway.
Creator here. I work remotely myself but am not a developer/engineer/programmer. I've been teaching myself how to code for a little while now and and felt that a small project would be a great way to gain knowledge. Creating a website, complete with setting up a server correctly and integrating payments, seemed like an achievable outcome that would be really interesting and rewarding.

After reading about Old Geek Jobs[1], I was motivated to create something that I would want to use as I enjoy working remotely and, if I were to ever start looking for another job, I'd be happy knowing there's one more jobs board that caters to remote workers :)

[1]: http://oldgeekjobs.com
Many file VAT only once per year, depending on various factors. Quarterly is not necessarily the default option.
haha. Great point.
Why are we considering the preferences of the parties? We're talking about the most efficient way to allow the electorate to express its representational preferences.

I understand that things get a bit muddled because the individual representatives are also members of the electorate, and thus they may have warped incentives relative to the vast majority. But they are such a small fraction of the overall electorate that we should be able to ignore them in any kind of efficiency discussion.
The migration guide [1] suggests that instead of primes you can use underscores. And instead of backticks you can use pipelining.

[1]: https://github.com/elm-lang/elm-platform/blob/11c8ecb81a58b8...
There are people who can answer this question better than me, but here's my take:

1. If you're super amazing and a math wiz, you might get to design some algorithms.

2. Implement algorithms correctly or advise companies about implementations.

3. Teach crypto.

4. Bully companies that implemented something incorrectly (jk).
My quick guide to pager duty.

Step 1: Find a new job.

There are way too many opportunities out there to subject yourself to this nonsense. Pager duty is essentially wage theft.
This reminds me of an attack in the late 1990s called Pulse, which was a low-bandwidth flood of RST packets against Cisco routers. With a T1 line (1.5mbps) you could bring down a T3 (45mbps).
China Threatens to Cut iPhone Sales Over Trump Rhetoric
> If you live in rural America, your friends and family all regurgitate the same things they hear from Fox News, Glenn Beck, Alex Jones, Breitbart, and other conservative sources

It's funny that conservatives 'regurgitate', while liberals are simply repeating things they've thought about deeply after hearing John Oliver say them.
Yeah I can see that (though keep in mind that this is a very fringe case). But on the other hand I'm not complaining that my MacBook can't run any game available at 60 fps.

If I want to do that, I get a desktop. I think that has been a common theme for a long time. Power - desktop. Portability - laptop. We're asking Apple to make laptops as powerful as desktops. It just won't happen, unfortunately.
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I hear this a lot and feel like it is a muddled response to a muddled understanding of climate change.

For what it is worth:

* Science is clear that CO2 causes warming (pure physics), but so do many other gases (methane, water vapor, etc).
* Science is clear that global temperatures are rising (even if you quibble about the 'pause')
* Science isn't clear regarding what part of global temperature rise is due to human activity.
* Science isn't clear on how much and how fast temperatures might rise.
* Science isn't clear on how to model the climate. Climate models have incorporated a net positive sensitivity to CO2 warming and make predictions that have exceeded actual temperature gains. So the models are not accurately predicting the climate.
* Science isn't going to provide a definitive policy response to increased temperatures. There are many options.

In particular, the warming due to CO2 physics is NOT the catastrophic warming that we see reported in the news. That warming is based on climate models incorporating a large positive sensitivity to the CO2 warming (as well as many other factors). The models are not "settled science". The actual sensitivity is not something that can be measured with today's scientific understanding of complex climate systems.

Even if the climate models were making correct predictions. It doesn't automatically follow that the policy solution is to reduce CO2 emissions to 0. The costs of clean energy have to be borne by someone and cutting off energy supplies (because energy is more expensive) to developing economies, for example, also has consequences. The negative affects of warming can be mitigated also via relocating people, communities, and changing our land-use patterns, etc. The correct policy mix is going to depend on many factors, most of which are going to vary from place to place. A single global policy proscription isn't likely to be feasible for lots of reasons.

Finally, criticism of policy proscriptions shouldn't automatically be interpreted and characterized as rejecting the climate change hypothesis. In many cases there are argument for or against policy proscriptions that aren't even related to climate change, such as improving air quality, increasing the efficiency of our energy systems, using market based approaches to avoid crony capitalism and favored industries, and so on.
PornHub Network's video segmentation system might already be automated in this way.
Do you need a Blockchain?
Perfectly said. The audience on hacker news is so privileged and enbubbled its hilarious. I can see the Modi trolls are already hilariously threatening you.
> "It might be okay for founders who take a couple million off the table at the B round or VCs who keep the IRR on their books, but for employees it’s a fail."

Does that actually happen? I've always wondered if founders walked away from failed startups having made a couple million off the funding rounds... How common is that?
I agree. I'm starting to think this Bloomberg article is a puff piece
Also:

- spend less time at work (nobody cares about those stupid TPS reports anyway)

- work smarter, i.e. produce more per unit of work.

- focus only on the stuff that actually matters.

- commit to task. I now set a goal (completing a small task such as fix a bug, implement a feature etc) for everytime I plan to work on my projects. For example next weekend: saturday -> setup webdev environment, sunday -> redesign my personal webpage.
Will AI Affect HR in the Forthcoming Years, and How?
Yeah. I mean look, they could design a laptop for the vast majority of their users, or they could design one that is best for <1% if their users. It's a clear choice.
I think it'd be irresponsible to do anything else.

The president wants to keep a database full of muslims, but calling him names is the problem? He's appointed actual white nationalist Steve Bannon his chief of staff, but saying so is the real issue?
Thanks for that. JOOI, I was not notified of any such comment. I did get and unscreen a single comment, but it's a different (anonymous) one – visible there now.

You should be able to sign-in to LJ to comment using any OpenID. In fact OpenID itself actually originated as an LJ-affiliated project by one of LJ's developers.

I do learn to adapt to the provided UI on many devices and OSes /where I don't have a choice./ But on Linux, I do have a choice, so why should I spend the effort adapt to something that doesn't work the way I'm used to or in a way that I like, when I could just switch environments to something that I find more comfortable?

When I worked at Red Hat, I switched from GNOME 3 to Xfce. Yes, it's old fashioned, but I can, with some effort, set it up to work much like Windows with a vertical taskbar – a layout I find convenient and flexible.

As I said in the blogpost, on Windows I use a vertical taskbar on the left screen edge. On Mac OS X, I move the Dock there. On Unity, well, that's just where it is and it's hard to move, but I don't want to, so I'm fine with that. On GNOME 3, I get that too, but in a limited, rather inflexible and unhelpful, form.

The primary question is: is there a benefit to me in switching and re-adapting to working in a system that's significantly unlike any of the others that I use? And the answer, _for me_, is no. I don't get enough reward to justify it, so I don't adapt - I switch to a desktop that works in something approximating the way I like.

Although I've used Windows since v2.01 in 1989, I switched away from it at the turn of the century. Now, OS X and Unity give me a fairly consistent desktop. With tweaking, Windows and Xfce give something very broadly comparable. GNOME Shell is left as something of an odd-man-out.

But that's just me. I am very happy to see its increasing polish and that it's winning people back.
Faith is believing in something despite evidence to the contrary not because of it. So, there really is a conflict.

People are not robots they can accept ideas in conflict to both be true. That does not mean faith has no cost.

EX: So as not to offend anyone. If you believe that god's true name is 'Zual' and that she wants you to do a handstand on your 20th birthday. And you agree there is no evidence that this is the case, well without evidence the default assumption is for a less complex world without that requirement.

PS: No, that chain of logic does not disprove the idea. But it does mean picking 'Zual' over 'Zuam' or 'Zuak' ... without evidence is less likely to be true than false.
The classes are:
> blowjob_handjob
> cunnilingus
> other
> sex_back
> sex_front
> titfuck

I don't think this particular classifier would be very useful in a parenting tool - or perhaps my style of parenting is old-fashioned
> an inbox letting me know new content has been published since I last checked

I'm super happy with RSS and don't want to clutter my inbox.

One difference with e-mail is that sometimes we don't care about some articles, especially on the high volume sites. In an RSS reader it will be bold as unread and this cause anxiety and make it harder to distinguish a newly arrived article vs the most recent unread article.

I feel that for RSS we need three levels of flags: new, unread, read. Or "unread, read title, read article". In an e-mail inbox you will make sure everything is in the read status. In an RSS reader that amounts to too many janitor clicks.
There are some methods to figure out where you were - I will not prescribe one, but a few are; leave work unfinished, manage a trello board with small functional pieces and prioritize the list, write lots of comments, write non-passing tests, etc.

Also, if you're putting in an hour a night, why are you updating packages?
Any voting system that doesn't satisfy the Condorcet criterion gives what appear to be strange results.