skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Look at Newton's Early life (0) and we can see that he did not 'make a bet' with his life. Though he managed to get into Cambridge on a scholarship (an element of luck), he was considered 'undistinguished as a Cambridge student.' His 3 really big accomplishments (optics, gravitation, calculus) were generated when he was on break for 2 years from Cambridge due to plague. The question we then must ask is: what would he have done otherwise? It's a 'bet' if there is an element of risk, though it seems this discussion is more about what different English speakers use the word 'bet' to mean. What were the downsides to just poking about with math and lenses in your 'free' hours? Maybe he missed out on some farming/church duties or he traded this time to do Optics instead of gossiping. I don't know. What did young mid-17th century celibate Englishmen do in those days while hiding from the black death? Tennis? Point is, he wasn't really risking anything but a little bit of time spent in the mid 1600's English countryside that he had to spend out there anyways. A 'real bet' would have been staying at Cambridge despite the plague to work on Optics with the professors, as the risk there was quite clearly your life.

(0) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Early_life_of_Isaac_Newton
7 years vim for bash, awk, Forth, Rebol, Ruby

5 years Sublime Text for bash, JavaScript, CoffeeScript

1 year (since 2016) IntelliJ+Cursive for Clojure(Script)

I've seriously tried Light Table, Atom, Visual Studio Code, Nightcode too for several days and tried to customize them all to my needs.

I gave a try to Cloud9, Nitrous, Koding, but I usually live on low bandwidth, so none of these were viable options.

While the JetBrains family of IDEs are super smart, ultimately the speed of your machine and your patience is what matters when choosing and IDE.

Sublime Text is the winner if you consider speed and memory usage, but its code navigation features are not precise.

JetBrains is the winner from convenience perspective, BUT you need 4GHz i7 with 16GB RAM if you expect Sublime Text-like responsiveness.
I think it worth the investment but I was not been able to afford it for many years either...

Btw, the killer feature in JetBrains IDEs is their git interface. I think they have the greatest, cross-platform 3-way merge interface.
Advanced degrees are just money grabs, and people hid from the recession in college classrooms around this country. The only problem with that, is that college institutions are businesses, so it only raised the debt on each individual that did so, that will take another 20 years to pay down at the prices being charged for an education. My 2c is that most people won't even see the paycheck return on their education over the course of their career which makes it a shame. Do I feel higher education is a waste? No ... do I feel its NOT for everyone? absolutely. Maybe this was the engagement of the student vs. the quality of education or vis versa, I can't say. However, college is what you make of it and you need to go into with open eyes. Especially with such things as this.
Correct. This is yet another "hosted platform for revenue" open source project; if you deploy on your own servers, you don't pay us.

Servers have no access to plaintext. They also have extremely limited metadata: only the "author" [1] of the data and its ciphertext length is known.

[1] Technically not the author but the "binder", which is a specific term used in the protocol, but we're getting a little deep into the weeds. See here for more info about binders: https://github.com/Muterra/doc-golix/blob/master/whitepaper....
Pinterest Applying Deep Learning to Related Pins
I think at least one USB C port would be appropriate. Very nice though!
I'm a developer. I can do some sys admin stuff at a pinch. But it's not my area of expertise at all. I mean you might as well say since experienced sysadmins do a lot of scripting they might as well develop as well.
Interesting thought. So the idea is that increase in supply of higher education will provide downward price pressure on the cost of higher education?

Somewhat related, isn't there a glut of supply in professors (academia) and super cutthroat competition to gain tenure? That would also address that problem.

The last thing to look at is perhaps introducing sanity into the major selection process? I know so many people who are investing hundreds of thousands of dollars and almost a decade into getting a PhD in something like Ancient Languages that make me wonder if that's an appropriate vocation. Avocation, sure, but how much benefit to society does that bring compared to say doctors (of which there's a shortage, right)?
The headline of that NBC story is: "Palestinians looted dozens of greenhouses on Tuesday, walking off with irrigation hoses, water pumps and plastic sheeting in a blow to fledgling efforts to reconstruct the Gaza Strip. ".

Which is not the same as "some greenhouses were looted". My image and recollection is more like everything got looted. I mean if only very little were looted it wouldn't be a "blow to efforts"?

Also see this story about the guy who paid for most it: http://www.nytimes.com/2005/08/18/nyregion/how-old-friends-o...

I'm sure those greenhouses could have been used for export or for local consumption if the Palestinians plotted a different course after Israel withdrew. There wouldn't be a blockage on Gaza either. The whole point wrt/ to Gaza is that once Israel left their next actions were looting of greenhouses (all or some, doesn't matter) followed by an endless stream of attacks against Israel (and the excuses don't really matter either, "they started" isn't a good enough reason for shelling Sderot e.g. unless you're a 3 year old).
No, because its creator is not willing to compromise on ergonomics in order to get on stable. I would imagine that they would reject this on these grounds alone.
AFAIK, It's intended as a general purpose processor.
Naively, I'd say that there really is a lot of missing productivity. The Empire State Building took a little over a year to build, while the Freedom Tower took 8, if I'm reading Wikipedia correctly. On the one hand, the safety precautions during construction were clearly different, but on the other, you get a lot less for a investment in many areas these days.

Empire State Building according to Wikipedia: $645 million in 2017 dollars

One World Trade Center: $3.9 billion
Someone's been reading Vernor Vinge; fire these out of pneumatic cannons for launch, and you'd have his UP/Ex from _Rainbows End_.
If standards weren't forced on them we'd be living in smog-choked cities. Markets can't efficiently deal with tragedy-of-the-commons situations because the air belongs to everyone and there is no way to do price discovery. Even a manufacturer could advertise based on being eco-friendly the effects would be minuscule thus consumers would have little reason to prioritize such features.

You're essentially claiming we should abolish all regulations period because some people will cheat. The actual solution is to heavily punish cheaters. We don't have to guess and argue about this; go visit China then come back here and regale us about how horrible the EPA is and how we should eliminate pollution regulations.

The technology may not exist yet but government standards can be a forcing function that makes manufacturers invest in creating it and bringing the cost down.

In fact government has had a huge hand in many forms of innovation; the trans-continental railroad was only made possible by government backing. The internet could not have been created by private companies from scratch, but government investment made bootstrapping possible.
What service do you use for options trading? (would you recommend them?)
http://i.imgur.com/tkwUICK.png

I am glad to learn the dard Components are Exceptionally Futur.
"practicum" - wow, academics and the like sure have fancy names for things. poke
We need more scalability. I think the top 100 collages in the world should be scaled down to every person in the world.Second grade colleges are opportunity cost for a human life.
While you have a point, I think there are plenty of examples where application managed multi-panes are useful.

* Emacs (and other text editors)
* IDEs
* Terminals
* etc...

Man, if I found a browser that gave me expressive enough keyboard shortcuts to make using a mouse optional (like Emacs) I would be switch to it in a heartbeat. Heck, Emacs style pane management and buffer switching might be enough.
It's a good day to be a billionaire. Trump is totally open to providing incentives and handouts to anyone who makes him look good. For better or worse, the doors to corporatism are open. How far we go down that path remains to be seen.
Also because the epipen's "blue to the sky" media push makes people think that strangers will better use a branded epipen. Schoolkids are taught epipen use, to recognize and deploy them, whereas othe auto-injectors might go disregarded in an emergency. People need to be taught to recognize all such products. If nothing else, it is time for a standard label.
If that happened, it might start a civil war.
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC0gNKhFMg-bKyNNZ_MB3D9Q/abo...

be careful, those videos melt your brain in an instant
As much as everyone would like that, I don't think this is real.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but most regular consumer vehicles aren't required to have a urea/DEF system, but all the big trucks and commercial vehicles tend to.

Somebody was blaming this on trucks, but I'm thinking this might be the opposite - their small cars as it was with VW because they don't have these sorts of systems in place.
Was a thread further down. HN doesn't make it very easy to keep track of threaded convos.
I may be mis-understanding the authors intent, but I don't see him as saying that Newton risked wealth or comfort, rather that he risked time-spent on fruitful endeavors.
> Do trucks and SUVs in the US even have emissions standards? I know they're exempt from emissions tests in many states which is part of the reason for their popularity.

In 1999, California enacted its LEV (low emissions vehicle) II regulations, which moved most pickup trucks and SUVs into the same regulatory scheme as passenger vehicles: https://www.arb.ca.gov/msprog/levprog/levii/factsht.pdf
Yeah, there really is _no_ absolute "authoritative" way to do things in the React world. People use React to write complete SPAs with server rendering and client-side routing, and the latest build tools. People also use React to add a few widgets to existing static HTML, or with no build tools at all. They use it for developing web applications, native applications, and for really crazy stuff like creating sample-driven music, presentations, and driving hardware.

So, what would "authoritative" docs look like, given those wide varieties of use cases? The closest thing there is at the moment is the Create-React-App tool, which is deliberately opinionated about setting up a build tool system with certain behaviors, but is otherwise unopinionated about all other libraries and file structures you might choose to pull in.

The core React team is pretty small - currently like 7 people. They have to split their time between actually working on the library, and dealing with Facebook's internal needs. On top of that, the way Facebook uses React is going to be different than the way much of the community uses React, due to Facebook's unique and specific infrastructure.

For lists: yeah, there's some other useful lists out there. I actually point to them in the "Community Resources" category of my list. There was an issue discussing a possible new "Learning Resources" section for the React docs as part of the docs revamp ( https://github.com/facebook/react/pull/7117 ), which bogged down a bit due to concerns about endorsing specific libraries. There's currently an open issue regarding further additions to the docs that looks like a request for the community to contribute sections on specific topics ( https://github.com/facebook/react/issues/8060 ).

As for my own list: I put multiple hours into updating it every week, between reading articles, evaluating them, and categorizing them. I won't say I've read every word of every article, but I've definitely looked at each and every article in the list and determined that it's relevant and of good quality. Beyond that, I'd say that the nearly 6000 stars are a reasonable indicator that a lot of people are finding my list useful.
> In order to confirm this suspicion, I decided to proxy my phone’s traffic and attempt registering with the app using dummy phone values.

Am I wrong in assuming that being able to proxy the app's HTTPS traffic is evidence of another security problem, specifically that the app is not validating the server's SSL certificate?
None of "simple", "fast", and "not backdoored" capture the real reason why Curve25519 is so deservedly popular; the real issue is that Curve25519 is misuse-resistant: random strings are, for 25519 ECDH, valid public keys, and the arithmetic rules for the curve he chose permit straightforward constant-time implementations.

I haven't spoken to a cryptographer who believes the NIST curves are backdoored (or, for that matter, in any of the elaborate hocus-pocus around the Brainpool curves being untrustworthy). But the NIST curves are difficult to use safely, which is why nobody likes them.

The NIST backdoor stuff is an argument that appeals more to message board nerds than to practitioners.

(Is NIST itself trustworthy? Fuck no. The Dual_EC CSPRNG seems pretty clearly to have been a backdoor at this point.)
Apple chooses to use accelerated scroll for iframes in mobile safari for some reason. The inner iframe is needed in AMP for security reasons since the experience on google includes third party iframes as part of the rendering of the article.

Google has fixed it so the site name header finally goes away when scrolling.
This is fake. Its from CNN.com.de
Also, http://www.snopes.com/twitter-delete-trump-account-racism/
Either that or no relationships at all ;)
Fake: http://www.snopes.com/twitter-delete-trump-account-racism/

When you use fake news to attack someone who's main source of support is fake news, you are part of the problem.
>It's still early days for external GPUs.

Exactly. The trashcan Mac Pro had the same idea. But if I recall correctly there were some licensing issues that prevented many manufacturers from adopting the concept, and the cost did it in.

That the idea is not commercially feasible today (as in, my client wants their project done in 2 weeks) is precisely why pros need basic expandability.
Problem being that the current Mac Pro is already the 2nd https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mac_Pro
Are you referring to Carrier, where some of the 1,100 jobs supposedly saved were never moving to Mexico? They're going to invest some of the money they're getting from the government into automation to further replace human workers.

Or Ford, which was never moving the jobs in question out of the country.

Or something else?
In case your not aware, since 2010 Google has in fact PageRanked higher faster web sites.

https://moz.com/blog/how-website-speed-actually-impacts-sear...
Why don't they just do emissions tests by attaching a probe to exhaust and taking the car on a normal drive. Harder to fake results when you're not performing them in the same lab conditions.
DEF (AdBlue) can significantly reduce NOx emissions. It's now standard in modern heavy diesel trucks, busses, etc. However, it's very rare to find it in light diesels such as cars and SUVs which often have real-world NOx emissions far in excess of what emissions standards allow.

DPFs remove visible soot from diesel emissions, but their actual benefit for health is less clear. They don't trap the ultra-fine, PM2.5 invisible sooty particles which are the most dangerous because they can penetrate the lungs and enter the bloodstream. These particles are associated with increased risk of cardiovascular diseases and cancer.

DPFs also tend to break down after a few years of use. Often, they end up being (illegally) removed by owners who don't want to pay for an expensive replacement.
That's pretty cool, thanks. So I don't need to worry about deploying MQTT servers and authenticating between them, I can just use this.

Can I suggest this alternative API:

obj = hgxlink.new_threadsafe(cls=hgx.JsonProxy, state='Hello world!')

obj.share_threadsafe(bob)

becomes:

bob.send({"some": "serializable object"})
I got really close to buying an ebook reader that's tied to a big book store chain here in Germany.

A colleague suggested that I check out Hemingway. So I looked for ebooks of his in the ebook store. They didn't have any German ebooks, just print copies. They did have English ebooks but they were at least twice as expensive as the English print copies.

A big international competitor wasn't any better. The ebook versions of Hemingway novels weren't available in my country. I don't know if I can get them through another store, but presumably then I won't be able to get German books anymore (other than Hemingway). Or at least it's going to be a hassle.

tl;dr I'm sticking to print books.
He was risking his time and attention in studying it. The opportunity cost is nontrivial, especially if you have the kind of IQ Newton had.
Your argument boils down to 'the productivity metrics are broken'. But since I think we're talking about GDP basically, I doubt you're right.

TFA argues that productivity is squandered by Office Space style ass-covering wastes of time. But I think even good intentioned beaurocratic nonsense can still account for the strong headwind against productivity.

Take a look at the great improvements in supply chain management and JIT manufacturing techniques for true process improvements which result in measurable productivity rise. Kanban works there in ways it simply does not for software, for example.
Oooh, an artist spend 20 minutes with PhotoShop and now Apple can just take his pretty pictures and start pumping out new computers. It's not like anyone needs to actually create an actual prototype, source components, set up manufacturing, market and deliver anything.
It's not excatly about marketshare. Heavy readers read most books, so if they choose to use an eReader that would sway the statistics.
What are old measures of productivity and what are new ones? I know it's dangerous to try to learn things from Wikipedia but I went there to read about Total Factor Productivity, which seems to hinge on the definition of economic output. When I read about output the introduction says Output in economics is the "quantity of goods or services produced in a given time period, by a firm, industry, or country", whether consumed or used for further production. The concept of national output is essential in the field of macroeconomics. It is national output that makes a country rich, not large amounts of money.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Output_(economics)

Makes sense so far. A rich country is one that has abundant goods and services for its people, regardless of how that abundance comes to be. But then I read the examples below the introduction and everything's measured in money. Which do economists consider a more fundamental measure of Output -- increasing access to tomatoes, or increasing the revenue of the commercial tomato sector? If the latter, that's nuts. It implies that all sorts of smart investments in efficiency and/or self-sufficiency are unproductive or even destructive if they lead to less future paid exchange of goods and services.
Oh, oh, let me guess: it's the fault of a single rogue engineer, and does not in any way implicate company upper management.
He could have chosen to focus solely on theology. He could have chosen to focus on entirely different areas that were all dead-ends. People are really getting hung-up on the word "bet"; evaluating opportunity costs is part of life. To focus on one word and miss the forest for the trees speaks more about the critic than it does of Newton.
It seems to me that discussions of "job creation" often neglects to account for what these jobs replace. Amazon is master of operational efficiency. It's very likely that Amazon hiring 100K new people will lead to other companies laying off a total significantly greater than that. This is progress and should be celebrated for sure, but first we need to acknowledge this fact.
Introducing HelloSign for Salesforce V2
I'm not sure how to answer within the scope of this thread, but a short answer is: the better way to measure the impact of technology infrastructure on the economy is to measure the impact of technology infrastructure on the economy. How this works: Pick a technology, go study its real impact in the real world, repeat.

TFP does not do that. It doesn't measure anything. TFP is a residual from theoretical economics, not empirics, often styled in a form of Y=AKL. We don't know how (or at least can't agree how) to measure K or L accurately, more importantly we don't even know what A is or what it contains.

I am not surprised you find TFP useful. It's a Nobel Prize winning idea. And I respect the thinking behind it. But it has since been kindly debunked by the real world. Many people find prayer or homeopathic medicine useful and practice them daily, this doesn't mean those things are working how people think they are or at all.

I don't mean to punt an answer here but Wikipedia explains the problems with TFP better than I. Follow the links through the Cambridge Critiques as a start: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Total_factor_productivity
GCM is uniquely brittle. DJB's Chapoly also falls to nonce misuse (there are NMR schemes, like SIV, but they aren't in wide use), but if you so much as breathe on GCM the wrong way you get key recovery. A good example of this is Furguson's GCM short-tag attack, which is one of Sean Devlin's Set 8 cryptopals exercises.

GCM is so bad that when Sean and Hanno gave their GCM talk at Black Hat last year, they were able to inject their slides directly into the TLS session of a GCHQ website and serve them from there.
Question: For non-USA residents reading this thread, how much do you pay for your Epipen?
I've had cataract surgery. My lenses have been replaced with fixed-focus lenses. My left eye focuses at infinity (I haven't seen this well at distance since kindergarten), and my right eye focuses at 20 feet. Of course, I get some range on either side of that, but it degrades the further away from 20 feet you get. I can read a book with medium-sized print in good light.

With a computer, I can get further away from the screen. But something I have to hold at arms length, and that has small print because of a small screen size. That's not so good for me.
iirc the original (college) study which found VW emissions were way higher than they should've been also found that a BMW diesel produced the book figure

Edit: Ah - "Vehicle C was fitted with a 3.0L turbocharged in-line six-cylinder engine in conjunction with an aqueous urea-SCR system and DPF for NOx and PM control, respectively" from here[0] page 25

[0]http://www.eenews.net/assets/2015/09/21/document_cw_02.pdf
If I used Fusion 360 (free for personal use) to design this, it would probably take me tens if not a couple hundred hours. Maybe you can get pre-made parts, like the memory chips, heat sinks and stuff.

Like another commenter said, fairly easy to do, but it takes serious time and creativity.
I tried to share an AMP article from Gizmodo with my wife the other day. I just texted her the link that I copied from my Firefox Mobile browser. She said it was broken. And sure enough, it was broken. What a pain, the url only works for me?
Edit: wording
Guttman's wording here is imprecise. GCM and Poly1305 are not comparably brittle. Both have nonce misuse issues, but GCM has additional problems. See:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13384762
Last time I checked, Trump isn't the President.