skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I would not send all my network traffic through this closed source app when there's an excellent open source app that does the same thing.

Actually, it very much looks like a NetGuard[1] ripoff both UI and feature wise.

To get the adblocking/hosts file blocking features of NetGuard, you need to get it from GitHub[2].

EDIT: I see now that they host the APK on GitHub. Can't find much code there though[3].

[1] https://github.com/M66B/NetGuard/

[2] https://github.com/M66B/NetGuard/releases

[3] https://github.com/netpatch/NetPatch_Firewall/
> bitterness from poorer GLBTs that they've been essentially thrown under the bus by the gay rights movement

This one seems weird to me as someone who is part of that community; the two issues seem orthogonal unless we're talking specifically about things like discrimination against LGBT employees and LGBT kids that are thrown out of their homes.

I guess the best explanation is that some people base too much of their identity on their sexuality and forget that they can also be active in more general human rights issues.
The top 1% in the US is around $500k/year, but that's not actually what you care about for measuring wealth. Many members of the top 1% are only there for 1 year, and of those who make it multiple years, even fewer manage 10+.

The number you should care about is net-worth. High net worth from a lifetime of careful financial decisions is much more indicative of success than being in the 1% for a year or two. It requires hard work, planning, and life-long frugality. This is in line with OPs assertion that working hard and planning for the future is uncommon and will get you far.

http://money.cnn.com/2016/01/07/news/economy/top-1/index.htm...
I don't read much fiction myself. "Siddhartha" by Herman Hesse was recommended to me by 3 different people on 3 different occasions, so I decided to read that one. It's a great little book that will make you stop every few pages and think about life.
That's true for the Lagrangian written down in the excellent answer at stackexchange, but the equivalent Lagrangian of the Standard Model Extension (SME) (which is what is the topic of the Bourgoin et al. paper) is filled with additional terms.

For example, a minimal SME photon Lagrangian is developed in section II. A. of Kostelcky and Mewes @ https://arxiv.org/abs/0905.0031

The difference between a minimal SME (mSME) and the full SME is that the latter admits terms of any mass dimension greater than two, while mSME requires power-counting renormalizability (in order to be an effective field theory) so mSME admits only terms of dimension four. As a result mSME can only have a finite number of Lorentz invariance violation parameters, while SME can have an infinite number of them.

The bright side is that mSME can represent locally the Lagrangian in the physics.se answer you link to with a fixing of parameters; the dim side is that in general one does not want to do this a priori, precisely because the mSME is a tool to investigate whether the Lorentz SO(3,1; R) group is an exact feature of nature at every point, rather than postulating that it is (as the Standard Model does, and indeed as Special Relativity and General Relativity do).

For example, SME is useful for dealing with things like this: https://www.wikiwand.com/en/Bumblebee_models#/Lagrangian where the non-matter term might not reduce (via GL(4, R)) to the groupoid of local coordinate transforms on the manifold and the local SO(3, 1; R) Lorentz group on the orthonormal frames (tetrad formalism) which are the symmetries of General Relativity. The point is to find out under what conditions any such model does vary from General Relativity. (We already have a good EFT for GR itself, and the result of the Bourgoin et al. paper is that it remains good.)
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While I cannot recommend any particular books, I can recommend that you look into the "Hard Science Fiction" genre. They are very realistic, yet still have a cool aspect of fiction. The Wikipedia page for Hard Science Fiction has a list of good books in the genre.

Besides that, off the top of my head, I would say books by Isaac Asimov (Foundation series) or Arthur C. Clarke (Space Odyssey series).
True but I guess many OOers don't care to try to think prototypically. I did and I conclude that OO and prototypes suck equally so might as well use the prototypes
Jury is still out, but there's accumulating evidence that male fertility isn't doing well across the developing world:

http://ehp.niehs.nih.gov/121-a46/

http://www.wsj.com/articles/SB100014241278873233945045786076...

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-158463/Why-male-fe...

http://jezebel.com/finally-an-answer-to-declining-male-ferti...
Thanks!

> none of my coworkers care. I'm sure very early employees may care but I don't know any and I can't speak for them

Interesting that your colleagues and you don't seem to care that the management had instituted policies that hurt the very engineers who first built up the company. I would be very wary of such a management that it would some day turn against me too.
The Martian (Andy Wier)?
You are aware of the correlation between being smart and thinking things which aren't true, right? Smart people are very good at rationalizing.
This is only true of one strongly presumes that conscious decision-making is not at all influenced at all by the body's own fertility.

But a fertile body can influence the mind in all sorts of ways -- changing hormones can modify sexual desire, for example.
Nice tools to have in Jekyll, 0.3 released
This equation, and an unanswered question about it, has fascinated me most of my life:

a * b = exp(log a + log b)

Equivalently: a + b = log(exp a * exp b)

The reason I like this is that it is the numerical equivalent to De Morgan's Law of Boolean logic:

a and b = not(not a or not b)

Equivalently: a or b = not(not a and not b)

They are both dualities, where AND and PRODUCT can be thought of as intersections, with OR and PLUS being unions.

However their is one crucial difference, in the Boolean case the duality is based on a symmetric operation, in the numerical case they are not.

a = not b, b = not a

a = log b, b = exp a

It is very interesting that if you:

1) take a set of symbols, then define various adds and subtractions of those symbols you will get some result, which will be a sum of positive/negative versions of those symbols,

2) then replace all your additions and subtractions with multiplications and divisions of the same symbols,

...you will get an answer with exactly the same form, and with the same symbols, except with products/divisions instead of additions/subtractions. In isolation, addition and product behave exactly the same way!

We could call the addition/multiplier operator the combiner operator and the subtraction/divisor operator the remover operator, and forget about whether we were doing addition or multiplication and would still get the right answer either way.

It is only when you combine BOTH additions with multiplications in equations, that they operate different RELATIVE to each other, with the LOG/EXP relation "adjusting" values between their additive to multiplicative forms and back.

INSIGHT

So add and multiply are the same operations, but on values that are either the log or exp version of themselves respectively.

INSIGHT TAKES US TO AN ODD PLACE

Looked at that way, numbers live on an "Addition Ladder" where numbers start at the bottom rung where addition happens and to move up to multiplication we apply EXP before continuing to combine them with addition and then LOG them to get back to our home rung again.

Now that we have two rungs, why not operate at more levels up (EXP EXP) or below (LOG). The math is easy to do this, but for some reason nature doesn't seem to give us much use for "super-multiplication" or "sub-addition".

MY UNANSWERED QUESTION

Why doesn't nature use super-multiplication or sub-addition? Or does it somewhere and I am just not aware of it?

* If anyone has any insight on this, please pass it on! nevermark.mail at marks.house
SQLite ;-)
My girlfriend disagrees. Boom!
> direct charity prevents or delays people from finding a better solution

What about something like this instead?

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/inspired-life/wp/2016/08...
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Why is Google taking credit for this? RailWire, a unit of India's Ministry of Railways, is doing the job. The rollout was last year.[1]

Railroads usually have lots of wire along their right of way. Adding bandwith is cheap. That's how Sprint (originally Southern Pacific Communications) got started. Railroad stations are good places to hook into fiber.

[1] http://railwire.co.in/#.
This obviously depends on the workload / amount of data per customer, but for some use-cases this could be done with SQLite.

EDIT: Well, looks like someone beat me to it
You can use anchors without pushState.
+1 - Dostoyevsky is a must have.

There are many fictional books that tell so much truth about humanity, but I would recommend Karel Capek's novels as those aren't very popular nowadays. Particuraly: The "Absolute at Large" and "War with the Newts".
If the premise of the film actually happened and the birth rate were to reach zero, I doubt the fact it was psychological rather than physical would be much comfort.

Sometimes the technical reason is less important than the outcome.
It's important to remember that any form of incentivized or compulsory family leave will just shift the discrimination to people who are less likely to have kids.

While I'm between the ages of 25-45 I really don't to have to put "is single" or "has had a vasectomy" on my resume to avoid scaring off employers that can't afford to lose an employee for months.
What's that Amber/Donna comment? Is this that famed iOS phrase autocomplete thing acting up?

This looks like a toddler accidentally putting an SMS from an older sibling's device in the comment box.
So you want to teach pre-college philosophy
For anyone not immediately understanding what this website does...

"These are articles I've saved from Usenet newsgroups (and a few from web forums). The vast majority of these articles were posted by people who have a well-deserved reputation for a high level of accuracy."
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This article is meant as an entry-level tutorial. And for that I quite appreciate how it shows the basic mechanics of the standard library. Of course, for a production application, you would introduce other libraries and frameworks as needed, but for teaching, it quite helps if not too many layers are added. You should add an external library to a project only after you clearly understood, which problem it solves and how :).
In order for them to be directly related as you suggest, all high-iq participants need to memorize lots of facts and learn lots of skills and no low-iq participants can do similarly. It seems that, by citing them as separate factors, the authors are saying this is not true for the population they considered.
Half-jokingly one could say that what's conserved under the transformations of Lorentz group of the SME is the behaviour of the Standard Model under changes to the physics of gravity. A bit less jokingly, that corresponds fairly well to conserving the microscopic description of the centre of mass-energy-momentum rather than just the centre of mass-energy-momentum (at t=0 for some total energy) as in phys.se answer in the GP comment.
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My vote (behind Dostoyevsky and Hesse) would be Kafka, Vonnegut and Joyce.
Yes and these protections are only used to their full potential on something like iOS. On Windows, macOS, and Linux these are not used to defend your data or system out-of-the-box like they are in a browser.

A massive wall with an open gate isn't much of a wall.
Well I would never think of refusing a nice comfortable company bus to walk to work through a shitty neighbourhood. That's just insane to me. I think only someone who hadn't lived that reality would do it for some kind of 'experience'. I could be horribly wrong, but I am curious anyway.
Does this similar to http://textfiles.com/
My standing recommendation in the SciFi genre would be any Culture novel by Iain M. Banks. Truly utopian SciFi, and an interesting depiction of a post-labour, post-scarcity, post-human, AI-symbiotic, "human" civilisation.

It's not hard SciFi, but close. Banks really understood that spaceship battles are about mass, velocity and energy, and technobabble doesn't save the day.
I don't think this is the slang usage of the word. Wicked means bad or naughty, and this is junk food, so it's a self-deprecating but conventional use of the word.
The vis-viva equation (AKA the law of orbital energy invariance)

v^2 = GM(2/r - 1/a)

It's so simple, and at the same time so useful for orbital mechanics.
> Why is Google taking credit for this?

Probably because they are paying for it.
I'm a little partial to The Great Gatsby. F. Scott Fitzgerald writes as though painting through the forrest with a brush made of wind.

I've never seen the movie, and I don't intend to; the writing in this book takes the imagination on a ride like I've never felt before or since
Not the lists of integers that happen to be characters.
No, it is not true, there's just a fad going on to condescend about stereotypical HNers in a strawman fashion.
Intention has no 'from' clause. You express the intent as "I want this guy's hours to be 8."

It doesn't matter if the UI shows 5, and another mechanism has changed the value to 9 in the background, your intent to set the value to 8 is unaffected.

If, however, you assume the "from" clause and do a +3 instead of =8, you get a new invalid state 12.

Encoding intent implies declarative statements as apposed to impaitive statements.
Hey! A colleague who also sees the light! I've been pushing for more programmatic control in our apps due to the same problems you mention. I would actually consider myself one of the most versed in Spring at our shop. But while I see so many problems, many devs only see "the beauty of the minimal code". I wish I could understand what is blindsiding them from all the problems we have.

The latest incarnation of this problem is Spring Boot. It does some really far out stuff to your app, like making m separate metrics for each unique url of your webapp. That goes south pretty quickly. Not to mention how much longer the app takes to start, how much slower it is compared to coding the same functionality manually (x4), how much trouble people have getting the right mental model of how the app works (with instrumented transaction boundaries and stuff that you mention), how hard it is to debug (why did this endpoint return 404?) etc.

We did some POCs with vert.x and spark, and all of a sudden you see what type of overcomplicated mess we have been creating for ourselves.
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I assume he wants a proper database and to be honest if you have zero interaction between the things you are partitioning on it's very easy to scale with SQLite or any other database.

There's no reason you can't either run more servers or multiple instances of postgres per server, with docker or otherwise.

I'm probably going to try using Citus Data instead of moving to Cassandra if I ever get big. We'll see.
Ironically, this comment has grey on grey text due to heavy downvoting.
Ask HN: How much do Web developers make in Seattle?
Web developer or freelancer salary? using either PHP or JS.
I'm not that sympathetic to hedge fund investors. Hedge funds are supposed to be high risk - high return investments. If you want a bit more safety put your money in an index fund.

Also, there are some big winners, but I'd be shocked if all the hedge funds together turned a profit after fees.
Why should they persist it in the first place?
People do write those, and even propose viable alternatives, but those articles don't get upvoted as much ;)
> they will watch the same video north of 100 times

Isn't repetitive behaviour a hint to autism?
Sure. That's not inconsistent with my observation.
I'm familiar with improvisation, thanks.
Whoa I didn't know about Benford's Law! That is wild.
Too bad DSP is dead. No one is going to study it, compressive sensing has underdelivered and now talented EE undergrads are going into Machine Learning.
Exactly my point. I don't think DL really gives any significant advantage in this case.
Im always interested in networking with YouTube influencers. Your gf have a website/social profile?
How is this a harm to the market? There's nothing inherently bad about volatility.
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So "it's the forsakers," then.
Its only become clear lately that most managed funds don't out perform index funds.

No matter your trade, if you are smart you want to be paid for your time invested into something and get some upside, regardless of what you are doing for a profession.

Some funds take years to show a return, would you develop software for years and build the business for it without drawing a salary for that work? Most people can't afford to try.

Most folks in finance who can raise this kind of money for a fund can simply make money doing something else, like raising money for established businesses in investment banking. Give the market has shown this model is dead now they will.
This works in Haskell just fine, thank you very much!

ghci> y f = f (y f)
ghci> factorial = y (\f x -> if x == 0 then 1 else x * f (x-1))
ghci> factorial 5
120

However, the Y combinator as defined in a non-recursive form is tougher to implement in Haskell [1][2]. It looks a lot better in Racket (and this is coming from someone who doesn't particularly like Racket).

(λ (r) (λ (h) (h h)) (λ (g) (r (λ (x) (g g) x))

[1] http://stackoverflow.com/a/5885270/3072788
[2] http://stackoverflow.com/a/13119751/3072788
Nice! but what's up with all the devDependencies?
Have you guys considered using influxdb as a backend? Influxdb has written at length about the difficulties of existing storage engines(including leveldb).

My guess though is that Basho would opt to write their own backend off of influxdb's notes..

On a side note I find influxdb's use of nanosecond time precision spot on and Riak TS's millisecond resolution disappointing.
While I agree, there should be repercussions. It's borderline harassment though to fire up frivolous cases.
Three pints is already drunk, not mildly impaired or "buzzed" (for the average human). Even two pints in an hour and most humans shouldn't be driving.
For affordable and small high precision (centimeter level) GNSS, I really like this https://emlid.com/reach/
Google: 2006.

Amazon: 2006.

Akamai: 2009.

At least the Optimizely result is from this year.

I really want more evidence of the importance of performance in web systems (to justify my hobby, if for no other reason), but things from ten years ago just don’t cut it.

Can we please stop citing articles from ten years ago and cite some studies that aren’t more than two years old?

Do people have more such studies?

(Also I’d be interested in more geographically diverse results. Figures like “three seconds to abandonment” are absurd when you’re in Australia or India as I am. Most e-commerce sites—especially US/international ones—haven’t even started drawing at that point, even with the best Internet connectivity and computer performance available, simply because of latency if the site is hosted in the US only. I visited the US a couple of years ago and was amazed at just how fast the Internet was, simply due to reduced latency.)
Starbucks WiFi in China is usually better than our office WiFi (in China).
The last time I looked into it, pure JS implementations of profound (that runs in the browser) were lacking and made destroyed much of the speed impreovements.
Your "fact" didn't support the grandparent's argument, so now amount of teaching will get him to accept it.

His other fact is also pointless - it doesn't matter how old the universe is now; the idea is that most Boltzman brains will form in the future.
I am sincerly confused buy this comment. Are you implying DSP & machine learning are not complementary? Don't you need and understanding of DSP in order to extract features that can be used to perform machine learning?
Nothing to see here. Just jerking off to some lines of code.
A year is a lot larger than one byte.
Just about any Graham Greene book: The Power and the Glory. The Quiet American, The Ministry of Fear, The Comedians, Our Man in Havana etc.
An engineer's job is to solve a problem within real world restrictions. Cost, implementation time, maintainability are all parts of the equation an engineer has to solve.

Your approach was correct. Ideally you would take into account how response time affects a site's metrics and try to balance between all constraints.
I'll second someone else's recommendation for The Martian, that was just a really fun read you can just burn through because it is so enjoyable.

If you want another really fun read, Ready Player One was fantastic.

I've also enjoyed the Old Man's War saga, there are 6 books but you can skip book 4 since it is a retelling of book 3 from the POV of another character. This is a space saga and I really like the universe he created.

In the hard sci-fi genre, I really enjoyed The Forever War.

And for just pure world building fantasy, the Game of Thrones books (The song of Ice and Fire series) are some of the best written books I've ever read.
Having started my career making military radars, I've always been amused by tourists that criticize the cost of products that are required the have extreme performance and reliability in industries that are highly regulated to ensure compliance. The best simple explanation I've ever seen for the seemingly excessive cost was from an episode of West Wing:

https://youtu.be/7R9kH_HOUXM

While an ashtray may seem trivial, this example shows that in life-or-death situations, every detail must be considered and doing so is not cheap.
Sensitive electromechanical sensors w viscoelastic graphene nanocomposites
From Python to Numpy
Since the theme of procrastination and self-discipline is quite popular on HN, I would recommend OP and everyone here "Oblomov" and "Frigate Pallada" by I.A.Goncharov.
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Hey, 3 megs of RAM is nothing to sneeze at: http://www.ebay.com/itm/HP48-2MB-RAM-memory-card-for-HP48GX-...
I'll agree with everyone saying The Martian and add The Neanderthal Parralax (Trilogy) by Robert J Sawyer
It's in line with historical averages, some decades are slightly down or up a lot, but over, say 30 year horizons, public equity delivers reasonably consistent returns. A 6% real return on the S&P 500 is a pretty standard assumption in the finance biz.

http://www.fool.com/investing/general/2016/04/22/how-have-st...
The power of One by Bryce Courtney.

Wow. If you ever wanted to see how a fiction book could make you feel and appreciate literature.
> fun stuff about people physically carrying information

This is a thing, though. https://aws.amazon.com/snowball/

Or if you have 100PB: https://aws.amazon.com/snowmobile/
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Why would you expect that visitors became more accepting of slower websites?

If anything I would imagine to be the opposite with connections generally being faster these days. Especially since old Google's result was about observed effects of 100ms slowdown so not about generally slow websites.
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It is an equation, albeit probably flawed somewhere down the line.

N = R* • fp • ne • fl • fi • fc • L

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

An excellent use of rough statistics to shatter long held beliefs. Even if life is incredibly rare, it most certainly exists somewhere else.