skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
By the argument it's really easy to blow time, shouldn't there be a way to see if the time was useful to the person donating the time?
Spoiler alert: you owe your own life directly to advances in medicine too.

The notion that only the "inferior" have a need of these advancements is imbecillic.
Going on my deep (and probably fallible) memory; I remember seeing the ASCII set laid out like this on an Amoeba OS man page (circa 1990).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amoeba_(operating_system)
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How long until someone on the Trump side starts sending spam to all of these addresses?

They can't block it, but good luck finding real signal in millions of requests.

Or, more subtly, deliberately leaking easily discredited stuff. Once it gets published, it becomes a propaganda target. As a great example, consider how Dan Rather was taken down by https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killian_documents_controversy. Planting a perfect smoking gun was enough to bring down Dan Rather and make the story of how Bush got his draft deferment toxic in the media.

The ultimate irony there is that the story that Dan Rather reported was actually true. It had all been reported in The Guardian by Greg Palast, and Dan Rather had started with access to his research. It didn't matter, planting perfect fraudulent documents managed to discredit it.
All of the ones with click thru terms of service are logging your MAC too.

My personal favorite open wifi service is the one on Amtrak, and you can buy a paper ticket with cash. Pretty anonymous.
"If they can fill their PR campaign with decent, factual 'un-hypey' information, well, then that's really good for them."

Totally agree.
Is it just me or is this link pointing a rehost of the original rather than the original. I hope that's okay for the author...
They're doing both. They are marketing by giving food. Marketing and generating value for the person being marketed to aren't mutually exclusive.

No company, aside from aid organizations, are in the business of giving away free anything.

Your other points are critiques on whether you think their marketing execution will be successful and whether or not the net exchange of value is positive for you.

I'm talking about whether McDonald's is generating value for people by giving them food. They are.

It sounds like for you personally, the cost to obtain that value is too high and your net value is negative. That's okay. That equation balances differently for others, and that's what McDonald's is betting on. It doesn't mean they aren't generating value for some people though.
My favorite "nuke" of one of these scammers involved a guy who basically did the same thing, but set his VM up with a virus-ladened system image. The scammer of course got the virus, and it b0rked their system post-haste. They were not happy, according to the transcript. Oh well.
Developer of clob here. clob is built on Laravel 5.4. It's a very early release but the goal is to build a blog platform that specifically targets developers. If you have any questions, I'd be delighted to answer them here.
It's doable. Erlang is used to talk to the hardware and C code. Can build a C functions (NIF), an driver (for IO for example), spawn a process, or implement the logic of Erlang distribution protocol (what is used to talk between VMs) in C.

With 20.0 coming up it will be even easier. A nifty feature called "dirty schedulers" will become stable and so building long-running calculation in C will be much easier. Previously had to take care not to block the running scheduler thread.

All-in-all Erlang is really good at connecting to and managing things, C and hardware being one of those things.
>centralize things is never good.

but centralizing in the browser is?
I've noticed they are now doing a similar thing now for push notifications.

Instead of using the platform-provided, battery efficient GCM (now FCM), they insist on using their own MQTT push solution.

Not only does this require a constantly running background service and a TCP socket which has to be reopened on every connectivity change (e.g. a switch from wi-fi to mobile data): They do it for every single one of their apps.

My phone has at least three of them (Instagram, Facebook, Messsenger), and I'm pretty sure that this is a major reason for battery life problems on Android.
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My wife recently took two doses of hydrocodone for foot surgery and felt terribly anxious after the 2nd dose. She's not had another. It was hard to watch her in the grip of that anxiety for the better part of an afternoon, mainly because she's never really experienced it and she was so confused.
So icsa[1] said something interesting on this point:

The issue, for me, is not readability but context. Even a word or two (e.g. cuts, begins, dims) helps greatly to establish the context of the code. Like having a map before hiking.

A comment can clearly provide that context without making the variable names long.

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8747314

> The brain doesn't keep track of the number of characters in a variable name.

Surely you must appreciate that if we use too many characters the window will scroll?
Can this be true? ‘Pokémon GO’ is about to surpass Twitter in daily active users on Android. Wow.
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This is great great news for my family, thanks angrymouse!
Wastefulness of government is fairly uncontroversial, yes. But you're acting like that's all he claims - he's claiming it's both wasteful and that it cannot be fixed. It's a slightly more eloquent version of "make it small enough to drown it in a bathtub".

That government cannot be made to work for the people IS controversial (and kind of un-American, really). That evidence of wastefulness weakens the usefulness of government IS controversial. That a wasteful democractic government at least ostensibly answerable to its constituents isn't better than any alternative IS controversial.

You're basically saying, "he said the sun's coming up tomorrow and we're all going to die in a horrible conflagration, and really the sun coming up tomorrow isn't a particularly controversial opinion".
Even the one's that don't operate as franchises still don't own the properties.

Most of Four Seasons, Fairmont etc. - the actual properties are owned by sovereign wealth funds etc. - think Saudis who need to park huge reams of cash somewhere and sit on it.
Thanks, I'll dig into those
“How” ages faster than “why”
> These people don't want change.

Well, unless the change brings them more money. In this case I guess it didn't.
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Do it once. Only once, go through the exercise while reminding yourself that you're doing it just as an exercise.

The second time (and beyond) will be orders of magnitude easier to do.
It just has an air of professionalism because you're used to it.
around launch (from when the linked article is) that seems easily imaginable. Interesting question is if it actually did (can't listen to the recording right now).
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I haven't paid much attention to specs recently, but looking at the Thinkpad T series which I'm typing this on (a 2010 one with a decent keyboard)

The standard for a 2017 T460s is 8G, maxed out at 20G
The standard for a 2010 T410s was 2G, maxed out at 8G
The standard for a 2005 T43 was 512M, maxed out at 2G
The standard for a 2000 T21 was 128MB, maxed out at 512M.

So a 4 fold increase in 5 years seems a historic trend for laptop memory sizes, but that would mean 8G as standard in 2015. The maxout level has tailed off recently too - I'd expect a max out at 32G now, not 20G.

Presumably the demand appears to be dropping, that said my uptime is only 5 hours, and memory use isn't great
Mem: 7779 5269 277 713 2232 1437

Browsers use tons of memory, at some point I'll have to buy the bullet and downgrade the keyboard, looks like 20G is the way to go.
Not that I'd advocate something like this, because you could get some innocent homeowner in a bunch of trouble, but it generally doesn't take long to drive or walk around and find an unprotected access point on a personal router.
I wrote code on a teletype connected to an HP3000 in the mid-70's, so its always a kick to see that technology mentioned here. Especially when it's described as "really old" which obviously it, and I, are :).
I've been volunteering for three years in the classroom on behalf of a non-profit [0]. We teach HTML, CSS, and jQuery. Here are some high level lessons I've learned:

* Don't teach unnecessary details. For example, students get hung up on the <title> tag because titles are usually at the top of the page. Just skip or defer teaching it - it's not important to their end goal of understanding code.

* Reinforce that the computer is dumb. I tell my kids outright that the computer is stupid. What this gets across to kids is that when they talk to this box, they need to be very precise with their language. Syntax errors---a constant demoralizer---then become not a shortcoming of the student but of the machine.

* When you craft / select exercises for practice, make sure they always fit two criteria: instant gratification and fun. By the former, I mean the students are producing code and instantly seeing a visual reward for it. With the latter---adults always forget that kids are kids. They couldn't care less about "Hello world". But an "About me" page is fun because they get to express themselves. When you talk arrays, don't push and pop fruits. Push and pop Justin Bieber and Ariana Grande.

I might expand on this in a blog post. Happy to talk more offline.

[0] - https://scripted.org/

PS - if you're in the bay area OR NYC and want to teach underserved high schoolers how to code, reach out!
Wow, paying $14K a pop so someone can "disrupt their current ways of thinking". My hand could disrupt the side of their face for far less. These people live in another world. I guess this is pocket change for them.
So far, the game is a lot more nuanced and involved than I was expecting. TheSims meets HackerNews. Very well done!
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Why the Trump side? Did you not notice what the Obama side did to Manning and Snowden, just to name two leakers?
Well you could do something like have browser vendors require a legally binding document that the ownership of a CA cannot change without notice (at which point they can reassess the CA). Not that hard actually since there are only a few browsers that matter.
Simple

1. pip install scikit-learn

2. call model inside flask request

3. docker build && docker push

Joking aside, following articles are good:
http://martin.zinkevich.org/rules_of_ml/rules_of_ml.pdf
https://research.google.com/pubs/pub43146.html
I also noticed that Italian websites often look and feel as if they're stuck in the 90es. Wonder why that is.
If you need a partner in crime, send me an email (it's in my profile)!

I build tools for teaching adults to code, but recently started volunteering for a non-profit that provides a couple hours a week for kids to come in and learn HTML, CSS, javascript. It's 75% them trying to play minecraft and roblox, but seeing a kid whip open the chrome inspector is pretty inspiring.
What is the Scott Aaronson's blog post? Could you post a link please?
If it ain't baroque, don't fix it!
No I'm not saying NEJM is I was trying to raise awareness of the situation.

That's good to know NEJM is run by a stable group.
Yes, in the end it can be disrespect for safety... but in the long run, it's easy to miss details that can lead to problems or disasters.

Sometimes one person misses reporting something that seemed to be small, but have consequences. Sometimes one reports so much because, well, "hey I warned", but it gets lost on many others warnings that were issued and didn't happen, and people aren't sensitive to warnings anymore.

It's not easy to set the limit on where everybody should be worried and where it's just acceptable or even noticed.
Any AP knows your MAC, as that's the basis of how Ethernet works.
Why would you ever do that vs having separate disks you RAID if desired? That sounds like you'll inevitably end up with at least one failed disk in your 5.25" array, and then what do you do? If you can open it to replace the part, what is the functional benefit over separate disks to begin with?
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Of course you have always voted for leftist parties. If you look at your political map it's always blue, PP. Why? Because the conservatives in Spain are shut down, all you hear is that damn communist speaking in media. The reality is your socialists are doomed, alternative is a guy who thinks soviet union was a wonderland. PP and and people voting for PP, even with their corruption, are the people who keep the country running.

The only reason you hate Merkel is because Spain was not able to loan money indefinitely. Thank god your right-wing leaders didnd't let communists destroy your country, I know very well what you mean. I'm not an American. Look what has happened with Greece.

mas ducha y menos lucha.
>Most of his arguments seem to orbit around the concept that the federal government is hugely wasteful, which isn't a particularly uncommon or controversial opinion.

Why is this uncontroversial?

>A vast amount of US tax dollars go towards social security--a creaky, shuddering retirement plan that many expect will collapse before they ever benefit from it--and defense.

I'm not a fan of the defense spending, and I've heard it is quite inefficient. Social Security, however, seems very efficient and effective: elder poverty is nothing compared to what it was before Social Security, and the administrative overhead on the program is tiny.

Also, it's not creaky and shuddering at all. All it needs for indefinite, perfect solvency is to have its contribution cap lifted so people actually pay in proportion to their incomes.

>When ~32% of your paycheck evaporates with no clear benefit like those enjoyed in European countries, it makes sense to complain.

I don't see how Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, and the Affordable Care Act are "no clear benefit". They seem like society's lifelines to me.
That Fischer paper does look interesting - Thanks!

I do understand that I've probably simplified "how I understand it" vs "how/why it was designed that way". This is pretty much intentional - I try to find patterns to things to help me remember them, rather than to explain any intent.
FWIW, I've had several knee surgeries and have taken everything under the sun. I always feel the ups and down but never have become addicted. I think some of my feeling is anxiety but it wears off after I am active again; I simply don't think about it because I'm off during fun things.

I dont think that everyone who feels anxious taking pain pills becomes addictive. My take is there is a lot more at play.
I've used this in the classroom in the past, but I absolutely hate that Mozilla's terms of service excludes students under the age of 13. If you are going to make a product for educational purposes, you need to take on the extra work to comply with the US COPPA regulations. Scratch does it, why can't Mozilla?
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Unless you have some alternative better opportunity then finishing even at just a passing level will probably be worth it in the long run than dropping out completely. At least you will have finished! You know you can do well as you have done well before but everything boils down to whether or not you can perform despite your feelings of anxiety, depression, panic, boredom etc. There is a formal therapy that has been developed around this idea called ACT (Acceptance and Commitment Therapy). The founder of it, Stephen Hayes, wrote a practical book on it titled "Get Out of Your Mind and Into Your Life" which is worth reading. Russ Harris is also a pretty active writer in this area and has several books on the subject. Procrastination-wise Timothy Pychyl's book "Solving the Procrastination Puzzle" is probably the best book on current methods of overcoming procrastination tendencies. Both of these people are professors and actively do research on their respective fields of study to scientifically validate their ideas. Coincidentally enough I just came across a podcast http://www.myownworstenemy.org that interviewed both of these people in the latest two episodes. Worth a listen. I wish I had these tools when I was struggling with these problems 20 years ago (and still do, I don't think the struggle will ever go away) but I managed to get through and do OK and I believe you can too.
And she married the man who gave his name to the Voynich manuscript! What a strange, small world history can be.
Can anybody speak to the current size of the NDK team? I met with one of them many years ago when the team had only two (2) full-time engineers.

Google has one of the largest software engineering populations of any company in the world. It supports one of the largest developer ecosystems in the world. Games are the largest catagory in their ecosystem. 2 engineers supporting the NDK...
As someone who installed a lot of NetApp filers back in the day that had 1T of storage each I would also point out that it took up the whole rack :) Yeah, back when the move from 9G to 18G drives in the array was a big deal...
Seems it depends on your market. I'm doing desktop consumer software, and the licensing is all in-house stuff. Rather than being uncrackable, I'm more focused on usability and keeping honest people honest.

I use simple short serial codes, automatically generated & able to be emailed again when customers inevitably lose them. (Try to avoid doing manual generation & manual lookups, it will save you a ton of support time.) I avoid characters that are easily confused & can cause support issues, so no O and 0, no I and 1, no 5 and S etc.

As part of usability, I like how iZotope include the name of the product in their serial codes (eg SN-MYPRODUCT3-XXXXX). I've had issues with customers mixing up serial codes, and it helps if you can give them a hint/prompt (eg your key begins with SN-MYPRODUCT3).

If your goal is just to put a small indie product out and sell it, you don't have to over engineer the licensing. I've seen apps where every customer got the same unlocking code, and it still sold plenty of copies.

Brandon Staggs' article on implementing serial codes is still my favorite:
http://www.brandonstaggs.com/2007/07/26/implementing-a-parti...
Thats how I do it for my website projects.

I usually plan the main process (User entry => Checkout) and make sure its working, and leave things like design and user experience for later. I always add live chat support on my projects so users and prospect-buyers can complaint anytime.

Embarrassment + Money makes good source of motivation to make my websites better. Also another good thing about this approach is you never waste time on bad ideas.
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The non-s versions of the T-series can do 32 GB, the 20GB limit on some Lenovos is due to them only having one memory slot and 4 GB soldered in.

On the other hand, even some 2010 laptops support 32GB max, the most on current ones is as far as I know 64GB, so yes, the max curves certainly have flattened, but I think reasonably so.
Yes, that's what I'm going to do.
yes, the steps detailed in the post are likely not enough to evade being caught if a large intel agency is looking for a leaker. it very probably will be enough to prevent detection before the materials are published, but not necessarily afterwards when authorities start looking for a leaker.
Requires WebGL for some reason?
How about its use in computer chips? Maybe all those fans and heat sinks won't be needed.
Did he get visa then, or citizenship?
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The key point of my post was "the current source of hydrogen for ammonia is natural gas" It can be made from other sources, but it is not. Hence petro-chemical. Like plastic or nylon.
Changing your MAC address is possible on most operating systems, if you're at that level of paranoia.
Is there any reason someone would look at non-GAAP earnings instead of GAAP given that companies muck around non-GAAP deciding whatever costs to exclude depending on a whim?
That's insane - previously I'd noted that some court cases in the US seemed geared towards finding someone who could be dressed up and manipulated to look guilty, and then just throw the full might of the law (and the media) at them. This only confirms this - there's no way anyone's reading that original sentence and editing it that way unless they're just casting about for a scapegoat
Seems like a flawed way to think:

In most other countries people pay higher taxes, in the US people pay less in taxes, therefore I can't see why taxes should be lower.

How about reasoning from first principles?

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=NV3sBlRgzTI
Obama (for the most part) went after National Security leakers, IIRC.

Trump seems to be going after any federal agency that does not pursue goals that he wants.
The US government per capita spending on health care is 4,763.9USD [1]. Canada's is 4801.25USD [2]. But Canadians don't have to buy medical insurance, nor do they pay deductables, or out of pocket for nearly everything.

Carmack is totally right. Most Americans are totally right. The government in the US is totally huge, bloated, and wasteful.

What's really foolish is that they attribute that quality to the fact that it's government, and by definition governments are incredibly incompetant and wasteful. Nope, it's just their government.

American's never seem to ask why their civil service is so poorly run in comparision to other developed countries. They just seem to want to punish it out of fury.

1. http://www.usgovernmentspending.com/US_per_capita_spending.h...
2. https://www.cihi.ca/en/spending-and-health-workforce/spendin...
And there's nothing special about your MAC, changing your address is as easy as editing a single setting.
I mean literally do a WHOIS query on those domains. They're registered to Macedonian citizens using addresses in Macedonia (a.k.a. the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia).
The Bigfoot failed in the market because they crashed and ate your data. The time might be right to try again with better execution.

The current use for using spinning disk is for capacity applications like archive/media storage, so the speed tradeoff would be fine.
How do you detect jobs posted on multiple sites? Do they get listed twice?
Yeah, that's exactly what I was getting at. They don't seem to take the NDK seriously. It's very weird.
This piece is so incredibly irresponsible. If someone uses this to leak truly important information, they should not be surprised to quickly receive knock on the door and a dark cell. There are many people in a position to leak things who are not involved in technology and may believe these steps as adequate for their protection.
This is really one of those "why didn't i think of that?" things.
Also new growth will come from developing countries which will have lower CPC than the US.
If a rogue cosmic ray flips a bit in a running process handling phone calls (note: this exact thing apparently took down all of Amazon S3 once, http://status.aws.amazon.com/s3-20080720.html), in code that wasn't expected to error,

1) Go will crash or at minimum (arguably much worse) go into an unknown state.

2) C++ will crash, and ideally, restart, but lose all "live" state. (So calls get dropped, etc.)

3) Erlang/Elixir process will crash and then get instantly restarted by the supervisor. If the bit flip hit the supervisor instead, then its supervisor will restart it (most larger BEAM apps have a supervision hierarchy). The only way BEAM will go down is if the cosmic ray hit BEAM.

Checkmate, non-BEAMs? ;)
Perhaps the author was thinking of RabbitMQ