skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> They love the refugees!

I think you're probably being sarcastic, but after the latest semi truck incident at the holiday market there were reportedly protests outside of Merkel's office. The right wing is gaining traction. I'd be surprised if she is still in power in 3 years.
You incorrectly reference zero sum games (actually, negative sum because of the middle man), where winners' gains come entirely from the losers. Ads are definitely not that, they are a regular market with supply and demand. It seems that the top actors get a disproportionate amount of profits though.
Forgive my saying, but I don't think it's that frustrating. I really do expect rich people to vote for a ham sandwich if that ham sandwich runs as a Republican. Unless they're unusually far-sighted rich people who really care about ecological and sociological stability for maintaining their wealth, a lot of those tax plans must just sound too damned appetizing to pass up.
The chain and gear sprockets are progressively getting thinner in pursuit of lower overall bike weight. This is driven by the racing side of cycling, similar to automotive tech coming through R&D in Formula 1 racing.

A lighter bike is nicer to ride. It is less effort to accelerate from a stop and a 1kg difference will be noticeable when riding up hill.

The trade-off of the thinner drive train components is that they will wear and stretch faster. Continuing to use a stretched chain will cause accelerated wear on the sprockets. When the sprockets get too worn the teeth become very pointy and chain will start to skip on the rear cassette or drop off the chain rings.

Track bikes (fixed gear, single speeds) are the exception, as the chains are still very thick as they are designed to take more force from acceleration from the track sprinters.
> they're one of the biggest companies on the planet

Yeah, making hamburgers! Out of 420,000 employees, they have all of 17 IT jobs on their career site.

They deserve a break today.
The smaller SE sites tend to be more tolerant of discussion. I've asked a couple blatantly subjective questions on math.SE that were answered by moderators and didn't get closed.
Programmatic ads (i.e. Real-time auctions) aren't going anywhere. The old method of phone calls and handshakes to fill adspace is just so inefficient.

The ad networks are just waiting for premium content (eg ESPN) to go programmatic. The cable networks who own that content are slowly wearing down. Once those floodgates open there will be a whole new arms race.
That's a fantastic endorsement for Dovecot. It's interesting that security is not highlighted on the homepage[0], just mentioned in passing. Also interesting is the "special C variant that makes it much more difficult to write security holes"[1]

[0]: https://www.dovecot.org
[1]: https://www.dovecot.org/security.html
Investment income is investment income.
Wide Impact: Highly Effective Gmail Phishing Technique Being Exploited
I want this too, but is weird to me that is a huge chasm in this area, where a lot of material stop at the most basic, and then it cover a niche that is complicated (like for example, type inference).

If I wanna to implement a dialect of ML, I haven't' find a simple explanation in how implement product/sum types, modules & pattern matching.

Yet, tons of type inference and other less common things.

ie: The basics stop fast and suddenly jump into something else.
Embrace the future! :)
This is absolutely nuts to me. At 200k you should be able to put away 80k+/yr if you are even semi-serious about FIRE. At that rate with a 7 percent return, adjusted for inflation, after 20 years you'd have 3.5MM in assets which would provide a safe withdraw rate of 140k/yr. This assumes that you make not a single dollar more adjusted for inflation than that 200k. 140k/yr is nearly 3x median income in America. This is solidly upper middle class and I would say quite affluent.

For posterity, if you did this for 30 years you'd have over $8MM and a SWR of over $320k/yr.
Thank you very much for your review comments.
Please find my answers below.
All the hash buckets are allocated upfront so that there is no need for a global map. If I want to allocate the hash buckets later, there will be a need to take a hashmap-level-lock, which will hamper the concurrency of the map.
Yes, using the std containers will make life easy. I was trying to have my own data structure in place, but there is no particular reason for it. I might move to the std containers in later version.
From your link:

>One of the weirdest things about this is the fact that you get to see the upper side of the wing. With planes this big, this rarely happens. If you see them on the ground, you walk under and around them, always looking upwards. When you see them in flight, you obviously very rarely get to see them from any quarter other than below. Seeing the top half of the Hercules like this therefore feels inherently wrong, especially since the plane is pointing directly at the ground. Like seeing a picture of sinking ship perpendicular in the water or a crashed car upside-down with wheels still gently turning, seeing the unfamiliar upper side of the wing induces a sort of subconscious panic.

This perfectly explains what I was feeling when I was watching GP's youtube links.
Curious, how does your behavior around perfectly elastic goods play out? Two products, same price, arguably indistinguishable (eg. Coke and Pepsi).

I like to think I fall into the same category, where ads don't prompt me to spend money I wasn't going to spend before, but I think all else being equal I stick to brands I've heard of (via ads).
What is the justification for this article being flagged?
> Mozilla Open Source Support (MOSS) is Mozilla’s program for supporting the Open Source and Free Software movement, with a yearly budget of around $3 million.

That's the yearly budget for the whole Open Source Support program.

The Secure Open Source "pillar" which saycheese was asking about is just one of three (the other two being Foundational Technology and Missing Partners) which presumably split that $3 MM.
this site comes up often and it usually sparks conversations about shoelaces, but i want to see the algorithms(o) and database schema

the consistency in the images, and the seemingly exhaustive quantity, implies they were algorithmically generated

i would love if each image had a build array that documented how to draw the laces using a minimalist(i) notation representing connections and nodes

this paired with simple client side code could have the images created dynamically with less work for the server and less data being sent across wire.. a random photo(ii) from the 'dis' method(iii) was 2.7K

instead it seems the server either stores or creates html with the images hard coded and serves up the images associated with the method, though the image file names are encouraging of a meticulously normalised underlying abstraction

i think an appreciation, either conscious or unconscious, for this underlying abstraction is part of the attraction to this project

(o) http://www.fieggen.com/shoelace/2trillionmethods.htm

(i) http://www.fieggen.com/software/info.htm

(ii) http://www.fieggen.com/la/ya-d+.png

(iii) http://www.fieggen.com/shoelace/displayshoelacing.htm
Would be great if you could impart some offer negotiation advise! I was once interviewing with the fruit company. The HR guy was very aggressive, and insisted that I reveal all details of my current comp before we proceed further. This was after I was referred by an employee and already had an conversation with the team lead. After I revealed my comp, he acted very surprised about how high it was, and about how difficult it would be for them to exceed it.

How do you respond when they insist on knowing your comp details?
In addition, on my mobile, when I accidentally or intentionally hit the downvote, it doesn't take the first couple of times. This has saved me numerous unintentional downvotes. Thanks, HN!
Indeed! This book is likely to be 100x more interesting than your local college's undergrad networks course.

The dozen or so principles Varghese lays out for writing fast networking code is reason enough to pick it up. The writing is very approachable, too. Reminds me more of the early network operator books than a CS text.
The book definitely reaches a good balance that other algorithms books don't have. It makes you want to keep reading.
And its sister site, thesweethome.com, for housewares and other non-electronic stuff.

Both of these sites are so popular that their recommendations are usually the top seller in their respective Amazon categories.
Right. And the equal (if not more) amount of hours spent chasing leads, marketing (blogs, advertizing etc) accounting, to get the steady stream of work.
This is a big issue for me. Every stinking website thinks it's a good idea to use crappy inconsistent keyboard shortcuts, but don't have a way to turn them off.
Facebook will filter 'fake news' in Germany
In3DC – Where Inclusion Creates Opportunity for Innovation
For me it was this - https://stacktoheap.com/blog/2012/10/17/learning-by-answerin...

I started using Powershell and also started answering questions on SO. The latter helped a lot in quickly improving my skills.
Yes, because a company at #109 on the Fortune 500 shouldn't bother spending money on 24/7 infosec.

"Responsible disclosure" is simply a meme to reframe "instant full disclosure" as irresponsible, which is dishonest.

Do you think journalists sit on the final results of corporate negligence investigations while giving the guilty parties time to clean up their act?

Look at this bug, in particular. This is not about this bug; this is about basic negligence. It would have been completely appropriate to blog about this on day zero of discovery. This is not about "time to patch", this is about "time to convince the widest number of people that you should never trust McDonalds with your data".
"And the proper null hypothesis posits that it is a result of neutral evolution: that is, it survives by sheer chance provided that it is not deleterious enough to be efficiently purged by purifying selection."

This is news?

And I claim precedence on the phrase "just so story" for those things biologists have been spouting for decades.
You've been on the site for years, and quite a few of your recent comments have been about stories getting flagged. In your experience, why do you think other users might have flagged this one?
When you were a child, your parents consented on your behalf.

When you reach the age of majority, you are free to revoke your consent by leaving the area and renouncing your citizenship.

You really don't have to stay if you don't like the laws. You don't even have to move, if you can get enough people on board to changing them.

You have a lot of options, but very few of them make "taxation is theft" into a meaningful sentence.
Out of my head, these kinds of products appealed to me as a kid, and I sticked to those I liked more. Pepsi lacked something. I can't be sure how psychological this is (branding, logo, color .. amount of marketing in my country versus the US). I still think I could probably distinguish them blind.

Early on I was fond of both brands, but later, if you offered pepsi half the price I'd still pick out a can of coke.

Now I don't drink anything but water so ..
The Inclusive Innovation Incubator (In3) and “Pathways to Inclusion” in DC
Stark inequality: Oxfam says 8 men as rich as half the world
Japan's Small Experimental Rocket Fails to Launch Tiny Satellite
If I recall correctly, Lion's Commentary covered this pretty well. Just search for swtch but roughly sections 6.9, 8.9, 8.15 and 15.9. Lions refers to understanding it as joining the 2238 club.

http://www.c-c-g.de/attachments/article/211/lions_book_comme...
New Intel NUC with Windows 10 pre-installed only $215
If you're displaying user input you could just encode to their matching HTML entities...

&#123; or the human friendlier one &rcurb (?)
> Yeah, making hamburgers! Out of 420,000 employees, they have all of 17 IT jobs on their career site.

How many credit cards get swiped/waved per day at their PoS terminals? If they don't have a 24/7 infosec team they're Doing It Wrong™.
I can't tell whether you're trolling or not, so I'll assume that you aren't.

It's the same as in other areas of human endeavor - the larger the business, the more constraining it's going to be. An executive at EA is closer to an executive McDonald's - your concern will be with market fit, scalable processes, reproducible results, etc. Not creativity.

But if you're a designer / developer at a small studio (or a team inside a big company that somehow managed to secure independence - it does happen!) then you're more like the executive chef at a local gourmet restaurant - you can stretch your creative muscles and do interesting things. However, the price is that you will probably never become a household name and a global brand. And whether that price is fair is entirely up to you.

PS. And if you want games that don't conform to societal expectations, you should really check out all of the avant garde / zinester games that are being made outside of the mainstream. There's a lot of boundary-stretching work being made if you look for it.
"Reading too deeply into things that have simpler explanations" is a hallmark of Kabbalah, which it sounds like the op has read into. Also, acid trips.
They still haven't fixed it. I'm only getting it to work in Chrome though, seems like the Angular sandbox escape doesn't work in Firefox. See for yourself (I'm only posting the more harmless alert demo, but the others work too):

https://www.mcdonalds.com/us/en-us/search-results.html?q=%20{{x%20%3D%20{'y':''.constructor.prototype};%20x['y'].charAt%3D[].join;$eval('x%3Dalert(1)');}}

Then again, I wouldn't expect them to fix it very fast, considering how abysmal it is to basically store a user's password in a cookie in the first place.
Yep. You can use Space to scroll a page down and Shift+Space to scroll a page up. For more precise scrolling, though, you will have to use the arrow keys or the mouse.
My mother purchased a special all-in-one unit (brother MFC-8910DW) for the purpose of printing very large PDF files with mixed legal and letter pages. On windows, Adobe Reader + the printer driver handle selecting which paper tray to pull from depending on the page dimensions in the PDF. But on MacOS and Linux, I had no such luck (using both the built in PDF viewers and Adobe Reader). I am unsure if this is a cups feature that is missing from the driver, or some other limitation. Otherwise, the unit's basic functionality worked fine(though I have the scanner set up so it emails a PDF file using the printer's built in SMTP client). I was really hoping to get my parents on Linux but between this issue and a program that my dad uses that doesn't run on wine, I (for the time being) left them on Windows 7. (I had both of them go out and buy new laptops in the last year or two since both prefer 17" screen sizes, which seem to be going by the wayside and Windows 7, which was getting harder to find computers with win7 oem licenses.)
Is it common that people move the mouse cursor around while reading a page? What on earth for? Unless it's mindless fidgeting with the physical mouse, wouldn't it slow their reading down?
I agree that taxes aren't the primary determinant of a business' success. I'm assuming that's what your acquaintances were arguing.
> At least he doesn't have his head up his ass the may Mandelbrot did

I see you've never met Stephen.
I haven't studied Kabbalah, nor have I tripped on acid. I studied folk Christian mysticism, as passed to me from my grandfather (oral tradition). I also used the internet and other resources to dig into the language and history.
It's really easy to get ads wrong. The wrong placement, objective, bid amount, bid strategy, targeting, creative, incorrect tracking, poor landing page, etc can all waste your money.

But just from looking at the home page of the site you were advertising I'm not surprised your ads had poor performance. At a glance, I can't tell what exactly i'm 'Starting today' and I doubt your ad creative would be much better, so most people who click are probably curious and have low intent. If you want high CTRs its easy to 'optimize for clicks' and use a catchy ad copy or image, but then obviously you'll have low conversion. Not to mention 'optimizing for clicks' on display networks obviously runs into issues with bots.
Problems seem more to do with the age of the domain, rather than the size.
It was still there when I got to the footer, too. So, for posterity: http://motherboard.vice.com/read/the-excel-challenge
from the authors blog
"Folks have been asking me if I knew of any good examples of a J2EE web application that utilizes the following technologies: Angular JS, Bootstrap, Spring 4, Spring Security 4 and Hibernate 5.2.4, and after searching around I decided that it would be best to create an example project that would demonstrate the integration of all these technologies as well as describe some of the specifics."
From the footer on that page: "Windows maintained by Microsoft".

Cute...
Clearly. I'm interested in how the field has evolved relative to Chomsky.
I don't believe it. 1.8M - 3M in RSU grant at google/FB? I have never heard of such a thing for an engineer. It's director level MINIMUM.
Haven't tried it, I just meant the native tiling features in Windows 10 and OSX weren't enough.
Let me address your three points in order:

1. There is a lot of free content - yeah, the internet is full of free content, but much of is click-bait garbage, or re-posted a billion times. Let's be honest - true, honest-to-goodness original journalism costs money. Good writing costs money. Investigating journalism costs money. Getting people to actually go out into the real world, and interview people, or write about stuff costs money. Who's going to pay for that?

Pick up an article from the New Statesman, or The Economist, or The New York Times - compare that to the offal you get on Buzzfeed, or one of the billion other click-bait sites.

When all those actual journalists go out of business - you'll get everybody coming out of the woodwork complaining that they can't get news, or it's all just PR puff-pieces from companies, or sound-bites from political spokespersons. And people on the internet will whine that <insert random politician> is corrupt and only got elected because nobody could be bothered reporting on politics. Or that everything they read is beholden to corporate or political interests.

2. Your view is US centric - I'm not from the US, so I'm not really sure how to respond to this. Or are you just assuming, because you're not from the US, and it's convenient to erect a strawman?

Or are you saying there's poor people on the internet? Sure, I'm certain there are. In fact, there's poor people without access to access to computers, or the internet either. I suspect those people probably don't care (yet) to read articles from The Economist, or New Statesman either.

I'm specifically addressing people who access these sites, and still want to access them by blocking ads, or circumventing their anti-ad-block. So please don't erect some strawman, or turn this into a "Oh, but I'm poor! Please, give me free stuff!" plea. Poor people have do have problems and deserve compassion - but being able to get free articles from Forbes, or Wired probably isn't their main concern.

3. Cost of privacy is indirect - I see this as market forces. As in, if people don't want to do a normal "I pay a dollar, you give me a newspaper to read", then newspapers need to find other ways to monetise. I do have issues about that - but I certainly don't see either side as particularly clean in this fight.
Nah, they deserved this disclosure and proof of concept today.
Right. The notion that aging is natures way of fighting cancer is quite interesting.

I've heard it suggested that curing cancer is probably a necessary step on the road to stopping/reversing aging.
I was thinking this too, but was guessing that there are databases of all flights in the US - I know there are those flight tracker websites out there and someone is probably recording that data.
People have been applying ML to genome analysis ever since it was first sequenced.
> ...we worked with Google's in-house team

I'm no expert but I don't think the incentives were aligned properly there. Here's a Reddit thread that says it better than I can:

https://www.reddit.com/r/PPC/comments/1nwzdy/what_do_your_go...

Maybe work with an agency next time?
I bought the wrong boot! http://thewirecutter.com/reviews/best-winter-boots-for-men-a...

Thanks for the recommendation. This looks great.
Having spent quite a bit of time designing massively parallel algorithms (concurrency starting at several thousand cores on up), computer scientists are often baffled when I tell them that FP and immutability don't help. In practice, it solves the wrong problem and creates a new one because massively parallel systems are almost always bandwidth bound (either memory or network) and making copies of everything just aggravates that. You can't build hardware busses to compensate or companies like Cray would have long ago.

If you look at effective highly scalable parallel codes of this nature, you see two big themes: pervasive latency hiding and designing the topology of the software to match the topology of the hardware. The requisite code to implement this is boring single-threaded C/C++ which is completely mutable but no one cares because "single-threaded". Immutability burns much needed bandwidth for no benefit. This among other reasons is why C and C++ are ubiquitous in HPC.

The challenge is that CS programs don't teach pervasive software latency hiding nor is much ink spilled on how you design algorithms to match the topology of the hardware, both of which are fairly deep and obscure theory.

We don't need new languages, we need more software engineers who understand the nature of massive parallelism on real hardware, which up until now is largely tribal knowledge among specialists that design such codes. (One of the single most important experiences I had as a software engineer was working on several different supercomputing architectures with a different cast of characters; there are important ideas in that guild about scaling code that are completely missing from mainstream computer science.)
Just what we need: baby boomers who never die.
ADs are getting smarter
Also, the target moves as time goes on. What worked for someone five years ago won't necessarily work today.
Not sure about his paranoia over the crystal routing - it's an Atmega, the crystal is 16 MHz. Anyway, I think this is more of a KiCAD tutorial than a keyboard design tutorial (not something particularly high on my list of designs I'd like to do).

I keep trying KiCAD but with a paid alternative (Altium Designer) through work it doesn't compare. The key to electronics design is the library. There are a few alternatives which are tied to vendors, like DigiKey's Schemeit. They have decent libraries of parts. I would have figured that KiCAD would too, but the last time I tried it was pretty bad. Hope that's changed.
Emergency services can't have higher copays or coinsurance for in-network vs out-of-network.

But the out-of-network deductible can still apply, as far as I can tell. So can the out-of-network out-of-pocket maximum.
The Elements of Computing Systems: Building a Modern Computer from First Principles by Noam Nisan and Shimon Schocken

Basically it has you hands on work through the basics of every concept active in a modern computer save for networks and web.

You use software tools provided with the book to design memory, ALUs, intepreters, VMs, compilers Operating Systems and applications.

Available as a free online class at http://www.nand2tetris.org
It's real easy to get the default look back. Hit ":" for the commandline and then enter setguioptions+=mrB.

One of the coolest things about pentadactyl is that I can make any combination of the UI into keyboard shortcuts (or a modular key chord) to toggle visibility when needed.