skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Partially. But I suspect it's more a case of attending one of those expensive institutions signals "Having the freedom to fail." If you attended one of those institutions, you have backup if things blow up.

People whose parents struggled to send them to college aren't starting startups. They're probably paying off loans and attempting to bank money for 5-10 years. At which point, they probably start a family and still won't be starting a startup.
Thanks, that explained a lot.

One side demanded equal opportunity, but actually have greater opportunity than other side. However equal opportunity does not guarantee equal outcome.

I will check the list 10 years from now.
The Polgar sisters are not geniuses in any general sense of that word.

Interesting enough as that "experiment" may have been, it only proved that certain persons of a certain background that includes genetic history unknown to us, can reach high degrees of competence in one __specialized__ field. Chess is also particularly well-coordinated with years of repetitive practice and dedication, but genius? I think not.

You could replace chess with playing the piano even, and the outcome would be the same.
Wow, that's really expensive.

I've subscribed to HackerBoxes since their start; significantly cheaper (sometimes thrown together and a little cheap, but never boring).
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Looks fine to me. An address is just a number, this one being hex encoded.
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You should have moved to bare metal months/years ago. Things like making your servers preemptible is like putting a bandaid on a gaping bullet hole.
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After having interacted with many people who were called “geniuses” in various settings (e.g. Nobel Prize winners, Fields medalists, best-selling novelists, at least a half dozen MacArthur “genius” grant recipients ...), I don’t consider “genius in any general sense” to be a real thing. YMMV.
I have to wonder if their Lambda service might be worth looking into. Any reason you're using full on servers rather than some kind of a compute engine? I don't have the great fortune of getting to work with those kinds of numbers, so forgive my ignorance here, I'm really curious about your setup. :)
I thoroughly agree about some of these (artisanal tampons, eyebrow pomade), but Open Bionics is a great thing and some of the others definitely look like worthwhile ventures.
It's funny, there's some cycle, a DIY friendly period, heavily regulated, then back to DIY pressure.
> little more than class warfare against males who didn't have the privilege to go to Harvard

There's obviously a good point to be made about class here, but when you optimize for provocation rather than exploration, that's ideological battle. Not only is that not thoughtful discussion in its own right, it damages that possibility for the rest of us. In other words, comments like this are actively destructive to Hacker News, regardless of the position they argue for—indeed, the thing they damage most is thoughtful discussion of their own argument.

We wouldn't ban an account for a single comment like this, but we've explained this to you many times and asked you to stop abusing HN this way. Since you can't or won't stop, we've banned your account. These topics are divisive enough even without commenters coming to the well to poison it, and HN's requirement for thoughtful discussion is easy enough to follow for anyone who consciously chooses to.

Edit: There are other comments in this thread making a similar point about class but more in the form of inchoate rage. Obviously, inchoate rage is not thoughtful discussion, so those comments also break the site guidelines. Yet I'd rate them as less abusive than this one. One can still connect with the human feeling behind them, which is exactly what is missing in the hardened ideologue reciting predefined positions.
I appreciate the question and I don't take it as an attack, nor do I think the topic is an easy one. My rough analogy was just meant to argue that focusing on the achievements of women entrepreneurs does not significantly devalue the achievements of men entrepreneurs, as the status quo is heavily weighted in favor of men. I wasn't saying that women entrepreneurs were facing the same burden as what BLM fights against, just that some people think that BLM is "racist" against non-blacks.

To put it another way, most people agree with MLK Jr's dream of people not being judged by the color of their skin. At the same time, MLK Jr. also argued that racial equality wouldn't just come about on its own after victories for the civil rights movement, but would require a concerted effort by society to make up for past inequality:

> "Whenever the issue of compensatory treatment for the Negro is raised, some of our friends recoil in horror. The Negro should be granted equality, they agree; but he should ask nothing more. On the surface, this appears reasonable, but it is not realistic."

http://www.nola.com/opinions/index.ssf/2014/04/martin_luther...

It's indisputable that the achievements of female founders are not as significant as what male founders have achieved. Part of the way to encourage potential female founders is to celebrate what female founders have done so far, even if on certain metrics (e.g. market cap) they are far behind men.
TIL, thank you.
BTW, I've realised that sounded unnecessarily nasty, for which I apologise. It's just always disappointing when someone mentions some sort of TV show, or other publication, that is only available in a limited geographical area.

Sorry for any snippiness.
Done. It passed and we now have a Ministry Of Truth.
I remember the feeling of confusion when digging trenches manually. Roots where the most difficult part, their less predictable than rocks to break.
Managed to compile a list of these at: https://github.com/kdeldycke/awesome-falsehood#awesome-false...
A category is a set of objects and a set of arrows between those objects, and an operator that composes those arrows associatively.

For much, much more, this might be a good fit for you: https://bartoszmilewski.com/2014/10/28/category-theory-for-p...
that's bullshit, if the guy could just do some minimal sport and have a healthy life it would go much better
In defence of physicists, a few references are needed for these assertions, like them associating mathematical functions with a stateful "calculating agent".
If this is about Anakin's personal morality, he was a kid when he left. And by joining the Jedi order, he was supposed to shed his familial attachments. And then in Episode II, he violated those principles to rush to her side when he sensed she was in mortal danger.
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This. The user does not have to use Facebook at all, ever, for Facebook to establish the link. If the surgeon has the user's email address in his (the surgeon's) address book, and he (the surgeon) allows Facebook to access his address book, that is sufficient to establish the link.

In the other thread about the psychiatrist, you can find where I discussed a similar incident that occurred some time ago between myself and a professor.

Facebook says they don't use location data for friend recommendations (anymore), and given the contact linking it seems reasonable to assume that it is correct.
No, the referal spam never hits the website. It instead goes straight to GA.
I'd be interested to know why the OP never considered Heroku
I don't disagree with your opening sentence, but your premise is likely based on an incomplete understanding.

The FFmpeg project produces libraries for handling digital multimedia, and it also offers a command line application. Handbrake, on the other hand, is a GUI-based application meant for DVD ripping and video transcoding. These two projects may appear to share many goals, but there is little end-user overlap and they serve quite different purposes. And I might add -- both projects are _outstanding_.

Handbrake has a specific set of tasks on which it focuses. FFmpeg, on the other hand, endeavors to provide a powerful set of multimedia codecs, container handling libraries, codec- and bitstream-level filters, a high-performance scaler, etc.

In other words, FFmpeg's command line application is meant to be used by power users who know exactly what they are trying to do and what they need done to their files to produce that outcome. Handbrake, despite its extensive feature set, simply does not expose the low-level functionality that FFmpeg/libav does. Under the hood, a lot is going on in Handbrake about which the user is totally unaware.

To take an example from the OP -- in order to avoid faulty initiation of an audio track in a video, an FFmpeg user must explicitly rebuild the output container's time base. If the team is not knowledgeable in these lower-level areas of digital media, then it seems totally logical for them to use Handbrake. Handbrake will auto-detect the need to do this process for each individual source and implement it without even informing the user in its log output.

The FFmpeg project is not responsible for teaching software developers about the fundamentals of digital multimedia, and it is not a 'bug' that they don't do so.
A: "Dogs have no proprietary claim on barking."

B: "Wolves don't bark. No other canid barks."

A: "My neighbor's wolf barks all the time. Drives me crazy."

B: "That might lead you to suspect that your neighbor's 'wolf' is actually a wolf-dog. Or maybe just a husky? You should get out more, meet some actual wolves..."
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I don't know, which kind of ethics you would prefer.
Often enough; "pack" files in video games are often many GB. Memory-map one of those and there you are . . .
I am actually more worried about security with modern Intel processors than with old ones.
Intel Management Engine makes me very uncomfortable in trusting my machine.
> it's quite terrible for just some amateur hosting.

The developer experience when you just want a box on the internet to ssh into is pretty frustrating. DO is fantastic for this use case.
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We would. But given limited resource it might make sense to try to maximize the ROI.
It seems to me that Google is highly siloed internally. The GCP team is very visible (they engage on HN and elsewhere), and GCP has excellent support. Very different from other parts of Google.

I have problems with Google as a whole, but I have as much faith in their cloud as I have in AWS or Digitial Ocean (we currently use all three).

The Kubernetes team is also highly engaged on Github (they also occasionally show up on the official Slack channels). The Go community suffers from a depressing abundance of hostility, intransigence and arrogance, and some of Google's projects (e.g. Protobuf, the Go project itself) reflect this, but I was delighted to find that the Kubernetes people are not like this at all. It's a very friendly, quality-focused community. I think they have to be since Kubernetes is still emerging tech that's craving adoption. Same goes for GCP -- Google doesn't hide the fact that they're aggressively courting customers to migrate.
That's what I was thinking. Unless they're really bursty (so they only need the 25k servers for an hour at a time or whatever), I would think that 25k servers would be well beyond the number where it makes more economic sense to build out your own data center.
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No, it's not.

Not using Facebook is kind of like people who refuse to use gmail... in the end it doesn't matter because every time you email someone who uses gmail, they get the conversation anyway through the other end of the link.

To avoid Facebook's surveillance network, you have to not use Facebook AND only interact ONLY with people who don't use Facebook.

Best of luck!
I'm not really an expert, but it seems to me there's a bit of a problem with the message structure (length + message + HMAC). You can't check the signature without knowing the length, so the HMAC can't cover the length, so an attacker could plausibly truncate messages.
But these are not regular people, these are corporations. Were corporations coerced into building these registries by bush/obama govt's.
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Curious - Why is this? Does this assume streaming video, and you can't look ahead in the stream?

If you can jump ahead, it would seem to be easy to have multiple threads, starting at key frames to decode the content. You'd have to splice them together, but this seems possible.
Maybe build one with a short piece of large diameter PVC pipe as the coil form. Use a signal generator at 60 kHz to drive a smaller, transmit probe coil. Then another receive probe coil hooked to an oscilloscope. Use this loose magnetic coupling technique to tune the large coil for resonance. You'll of course want to shoot for as high of Q as possible, but that's an engineering trade off of AC wire resistance, capacitor Q, etc. Go for as large of inductance as feasible, until your self resonance is just above 60 kHz, then pull it to down on frequency with a silver mica cap, or adjustable air variable cap.
You could attempt to rationalize some of its (terrible) design decisions after-the-fact by finding convenient examples, but compared to the clarity and surety of straight-up assembly, C is a dystopian nightmare of enormous unseen complexity and undefined behavior.
Perhaps, but even in a utilitarian analysis it's worth challenging the idea that our outcomes would be maximized by further advantaging people with the skills we typically associate with "high IQ".
Google nearly wreaked a business that was making them bank and is now doing 20MM/year without them. Support wouldn't even talk to the founder: https://mixergy.com/interviews/the-penny-hoarder-with-kyle-t...
Look at my previous post for a definition of genius that makes more sense and a possible explanation for its current debasement.
I'm a little lost. Is your argument here that there's no such thing as an egalitarian conservative?
Heroku is hosted on AWS, and so you inherit the performance, but lose the ability to control it (no way to select local SSDs or enable IOPS, as far as I know, for example), while at the same time paying a large premium for the convenience of using their platform.
Yep (it's also an oracle).

echo length not authenticated | openssl sha -sha256

I'm sure there are lots of issues here I didn't spot. :)
Two points here really hit home with me about AWS (not in comparison to GCE though since I've never tried it).

1) Reserved Instances: I think the pricing model for this has become very outdated since the beginning of AWS, and it is definitely becoming cumbersome (and therefore scary) to use.

2) ELB + Traffic Spikes: I have tried (unsuccessfully) to pre-scale an ELB to prepare it for the traffic it was about to receive. I tried to pre-scale for this project 3 different times, in coordination with support and without them. I could not do it. Very frustrating.

I think these are all signs of extreme growth, and a strange organization of engineering units inside of AWS. However, as OP descried.. we are much to heavily invested in AWS to consider an infrastructure shift at this point
This is a great comment and ripgrep deserves a more prominent plug, clickable: https://github.com/BurntSushi/ripgrep
An alternative which I subscribe to is Hackerboxes[0]. It's a bit cheaper at $44/month and each month's box comes with all of the required hardware. You can check out the instructions for past boxes here[1].

I've followed both thimble.io and Hackerboxes prior to launch and thimble.io definitely has more thorough instructions and a nice learning platform[2] which may be less intimidating for beginners.

I ended up going with Hackerboxes because the kits include all the parts, use of open source hardware, the lower price, and they've already shipped a year's worth of kits.

[0] http://www.hackerboxes.com/

[1] http://www.instructables.com/member/HackerBoxes/instructable...

[2] https://learning.thimble.io/
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Thank you for clarification. I also like your comparison with NBA and A-actors.
I am Mensa member which means my IQ is in top 2% of the general population of my country. Because of the membership and my active involvement, I know a lot of people with high IQ. And my conclusion is that IQ doesn't mean too much. Yes, I think that some of them are very smart, but not genius level smart. Not even close.
In my opinion, the usefulness of the IQ metric is very questionable.
I actually thought: "cool... I hope someone asks me this on an interview!"
According to comments from googlers elsewhere on HN, they're working on it. It's pretty much the number one thing people are asking for.
The parent is taking about >2gb on a 32-bit machine.
A disadvantage of the ASC is the far more limited field of view. I mean, the rotating thingie has 360 FOV (I personally think it's not silly at all), if you want to see that wide with the ASC's, you've got to put more on a vehicle.

As a side note, how do you guys find out things like who buys who and whos's got what interesting tech? Especially when they're selling only to suppliers, as is the case here? You just stumble on the information, know someone who knows someone or what?
Apple could do more in this case, or at least inform users of this risk when they are tethered. Take a look at TripMode to prevent it from happening again. I've relied on it a handful of times to limit background data transfer.
This is an excellent breakdown of the blended strategy, part Patreon, part Youtube ads, part sales of merchandise on their blog.

There are three things I find pretty interesting about this;

First is that it is a job that didn't exist before the Internet. There are elements of it, and perhaps it might have been a late night television show, but really anybody can make a youtube or twitch channel these days. Whether or not anyone will watch is a completely different story.

The second thing is that this guy has 405K subscribers, you can call those 'viewers' in television lingo that is a pretty small audience (for television shows). And yet he is able to achieve an annual run rate of about $96K/year gross ($3K/month Patreon + $5K/month youtube) So while it would be crazy to try to produce a television show for that, as a one person endeavor it works out.

And the final thing was the percentage of his youtube revenue that is from RED. In his example its about 20% of his ad revenues. I would have expected it to be more although I don't know how Google computes RED revenue. I expect they would at some point adopt something like the ratings/share system that broadcast television has been using for years.
My plan is to keep a cadance of one doodle a day on my intuos tablet.

I'll start out with 100 days of drawing anything. After 100 days, I'll start trying to make them more tutorial-oriented. Then I'll start working on cartoons about Linux commands. I might also explicitly just imitate some of Julia Evans' stuff. I might do some maps of US revolutionary war battles or diagrams of contra dance steps. By the end of the year, I hope to have done at least a few illustrations for the Postgres docs.
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>"That looks interesting. Is there an analogous Haskell or OCaml feature to F#'s active patterns?"

Based on a quick web search, the equivalent of F#'s active patterns in Haskell appears to be view patterns...

https://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/wiki/ViewPatterns

...and the closest I found for OCaml was polymorphic variants...

https://realworldocaml.org/v1/en/html/variants.html

>"I know of some research in gradual typing, but I've never seen it in any mainstream languages."

When you say gradual typing, do you mean optional type hinting like you can find in Python 3, or something else?

https://docs.python.org/3/library/typing.html
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Is there a subscription box that sends you just the parts for a project that uses an Arduino? Basically, I want to save cost by not having to get the (usually) most expensive part of the kit. I don't mind dismantling each month's project to reuse the core components.
I think I'm trying to get in Salesforce development. I don't know if it's possible for a self-taught (predominantly) hobbyist developer to pick it up, but Apex does not seem to complicated. I'll probably come up with something simple but useful and publish to the App Exchange store.

I also might mess around with the Salesforce Heroku connect and build some Spring or Play application to connect with Salesforce data.
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I wouldn't bother with the free version of Burp. If that's where you're at, use Fiddler or mitmproxy.

For software developers doing routine integration-test security checks, I think there's probably a lot of value in the scanner. For professional testers, though, I think the scanner does more harm than good: if it's routinely spotting things you don't spot manually, you should revise your technique.
Just reimagine it as "implicit assumptions to check for". From my limited experience in the field, a lot of these are things I know (or knew) but could easily forget in the midst of trying to get code to work.
1) You are now assuming that "seeking to a position will produce the same output as decoding to a position"; even if the video is well-formed (and you don't end up with massive issues where the key frames just don't work correctly) you are likely going to end up with subtle discontinuities between every segment. 2) You are now going to have to be buffering a couple seconds worth of uncompressed video somewhere, probably not on the GPU, leading to a much higher I/O bandwidth requirement somewhere that isn't good at that, so this is only probably going to be sort of parallel (FWIW, I believe most people who try to do parallel video decoding are assuming that they can have different parts of the encoder concentrate on different sections of the screen, which sounds good until you see how non-local video decoding can be).
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How so? If the array has five elements, you can pass &arr to a function that expects an int[5][], and that function certainly can build a pointer that points one past the last element.

Likewise, the compiler ensures that you can build &arr[5] and that is the same address as &arr+1. &arr+1 cannot overflow.
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Also, most modern players are much faster at seeking through a proper mkv that an old avi or a much larger file.
What bothers me most about this language isn't the orphaned braces, or the case sensitive keywords or any of the other quirky decisions.

What bothers me most is the monkey mascot. What relevance does a monkey have to this programming language? Is the idea that it's so simple a monkey could do it? Is the monkey Zimbu? It isn't explained anywhere, and I'm betting it's just some random animal they chose without any thought because it's cute.

At least the Go gopher makes a little bit of sense (GOpher). This monkey seems like a completely nonsensical choice though.
You are correct, the compiled code will be the same whether you use a macro or not. In fact, this is true for any C macro. A macro is merely a source code text substitution done by the preprocessor. Using a macro is exactly the same as writing out the equivalent macro expansion everywhere you use it.

My suggestion to use a macro is not because of any difference in the compiled code, but to improve the readability of the source code.