skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
And inversely, I wonder how this news is for Linux on Mac hardware....
We use this fact in our ID system. Consider bloom filters... so many different 'hash functions' you get for free out of 64 bytes of hash data.
This is again business as usual, an issue which has its own space and time.

But fake news is not the same and it's a whole different issue which also needs to be resolved.
What? Go click on the links to the datasets I provided you. Look at the datasets. Notice that you see historical murder rate in the USA around 1 - 5 in the USA, and that it is now over 50 in some parts.

>nor the crime rate in the USA historically compared to now

My thesis was that some parts of the USA have higher crime rates than historical (they do). That was my thesis. An additional thesis is also true: At some points in history the historical murder rate in the USA was lower than it is today.

You need to link to actual data. The data I linked to supports my thesis.

Click on this link and look for yourself. I honestly don't know what your problem is. Are you not clicking the links or being intentionally difficult or something? https://ourworldindata.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/homici...
It probably depends on the location in the US, but every time I go there I find Americans amazingly relaxed when driving. Swiss are probably some of the more careful drivers in continental Europe (which is to say they're slow), but I think it's still way more nervous than in the US. However, one of the issues is probably the sheer size of US roads, it's just much harder to cross I think. And from my own experience, kids who are tasked to look after themselves, after a certain age will actually learn to be careful very quickly. Plus, near school there's lots of warning signs and drivers are generally careful there. Generally it's not an issue, but I can see how US suburbia could be ill fitted for such a system.
It's true. node.js issues also pay the bills.
Hmm. That begs a question. There must be some hn'ers on here that are old enough to have 20/30 year old kids. I'm 27, I remember having about 5km of freedom at age 8. So I'm old enough to say things like "back in the day, we roamed as far as we wanted." Can anyone who's old enough to be my mom or dad confirm or deny whether you let your kids roam as far as they wanted?
Borges: "In Alexandria, it has been said that the only persons incapable of a sin are those who have already committed it and repented."
I also just remembered another anectdote. One morning (age 13) I set out to go birdwatching. I had to get up around 5am, in order to get to the estuary before sunrise. I had a small backpack with all my gear, and about a mile from my home, a sheriff's deputy stopped me in his squad car. He quizzed me on what I was doing, asked to look in my backpack, and after 15 minutes, I was on my way. He was obviously surprised to see me out that early, but once he was convinced of my sincerity, I didn't warrant any further scrutiny.
How are my statements in any way "inflammatory"? They're as factual as it gets. Is there anything in them that's even up for debate?
I did the same thing.

Bug report, your table has an error at 1111110.
> For global warming, ah man where do we start.

Global warming wasn't part of my argument. That was just me quoting the parent who appears to believe only one side of the political spectrum is susceptible to fake news.

Personally I trust the science, and think that even if you don't there are enough other compelling reasons to move on to renewable energy sources that we'd be stupid not to anyway.

WaitButWhy.com had a good series on Elon Musk that explored many of these issues: http://waitbutwhy.com/2015/06/how-tesla-will-change-your-lif...

> Fake news is a new problem

There was plenty of science going against 'smoking causes cancer'. Fake news has been around for quite some time, just not in its current more virulent form.
As a business, I completely agree - streamlining to focus on what matters. As a individual person, I am also the kind who hosts my own mail server - and, well, everything else <- Not a fan of the NSA.
I'm very impressed by the comparison between 0-indexing and radixes.
I've never had a problem with Java the language being heavy. However, many code bases due to annotations, dependency injection, etc. from a development perspective really aren't any longer Java. You need to understand the code base, the app itself, etc.

This happens with open source projects as well. I contributed to the Azure support for JClouds and the bulk of my ramp up time was understanding how things were done more than writing the code itself.
Yikes. Just applied to gigster the other day. This thread has definitely made me reconsider.
The sides don't matter.

If you really want to know how it works, please take a look at a recent a paper co-authored by Alessandro Bessi. It came out a week ago. It should be accessible for most people on HN.
Do you do these for your startup?
SHA-384 is exactly the same speed as SHA-512. SHA-512/256 is also the same speed -- it's basically SHA-512 with the output truncated to 256 bits.
There are a number of cool online circuit simulation tools and some are quite powerful.

Full disclosure: i am on the team building Multisim Live (https://beta.multisim.com) which is in this space.
This is definitely the issue from what I see. I have a neighborhood road that runs in front of my home. Speed limit is 25 mph. Doesn't matter, cars still do 55 or more at times. When I was growing up, you'd never see anyone going that fast down a residential street.
|Experience in Numpy, Scipy and ML or NLP

Every line above this one states nothing but "you will work here"

Am I losing context or are "ship code to product" and/or have experience "writing [...] code" or "not dumb" terrible benchmarks?
After reading the parent I was about to say "I'm almost 30 and I barely feel safe wandering alone".

Not just crossing major roads (I live downtown in my little city, but I have to cross a major road to get to any shops, which puts a big damper on my walking) but just one person walking down the road, by themselves? It's almost a scandal. And if I'm biking around town, especially not dressed in spandex like a bicyclist... what, did you have your driver's license taken away?

I know those are purely my hang ups and no one has ever stopped me and questioned my motives, but the idea comes from somewhere. It comes from a childhood where you weren't supposed to wander alone, and you were supposed to avoid strange men on the street. Then when you grow up to become a strange man on the street, you can't help but feel uncomfortable about it. At least I can't.
>IMO if a society treats people like responsible adults they'll rise up to the task.

That's one hypothesis. Another is that trustworthiness is a genetic trait.
Apple didn't adopt PowerPC after fighting with Motorola and it was no shock to Motorola, or the world. Motorola and Apple and IBM worked together on PowerPC in a consortium, after the Motorola 88000 RISC (which Apple also tried) failed for various reasons.

This was all in the exiled-Jobs years while Apple was thrashing about trying to build a real operating system (or systems) to replace classic Mac OS. (NeXT also played with the m88k.)

And ARM wasn't new to Apple with the iOS systems, either. The Newton was built around ARM back in the 90s.
In 1956 I was 6 years old in Pasadena, CA. We lived in a trailer park on the east side of town. Each morning I went down to Colorado Blvd, by myself, wait for a city bus, rode half way across town, got off the bus and walked a few blocks to a private school, reversing the trip each afternoon.

I don't think people have changed, I don't believe the world is more dangerous, so why can't kids now do what I did?
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I attended Caltech in the 70s, and the Honor System there is similar. It worked well.
My problem is neighbors. They would call the cops instead of talking to me if they saw my daughter out there biking or playing. Can't they just chill and keep an eye out? I do for their kids and even let them play on my lot.

Nope - they all hide behind the drawn in curtains and think there's pedophiles lurking in my backyard bush.
This was fun. Thank you
Very much have access to bush. I'm in suburbia in the middle of a national park: https://goo.gl/Chb3fU

We want to take that further with an acreage for animals, hobby farmer experience, rural lifestyle vs city suburb etc. I know we might hate it in reality but we'll never know if we dont try.
> I’m not really sure why Nintendo went all out with these games, considering that these are just ports of NES games.

I've always suspected that Nintendo cares a lot less about PC emulation, than it does about mostly-chip-compatible knock-off hardware.

Think of those consoles you see at Walmart that claim to come with "100 games built in!" Those frequently contain chip-compatible designs of Nintendo's old hardware, and a library of ROMhacks of NES games (or the ROM from a single one of those 100-in-1 NES carts.) They're not emulating Nintendo ROMs; they're just running them, directly.

The manufacturers of these consoles never bothered to clone newer ones after the NES, because all the demand for these knock-offs seems to be some weird combination of nostalgia and clueless-parent value-purchasing (e.g. "oh hey, it has Super Mario Bros on the box! That game was great. My kids would like that!")

But the GBA is just as easy to clone the internals of as the NES is (ARM7 cores are just as easy to find—and cheap—as 6502s), and has a far larger library of games (~17000!) So if these companies could transition to a GBA chip-compatible design and still ship these NES ports, they'd increase value immensely, while still being able to put NES nostalgia on the box.

And so, for these ROMs that might have been just the thing to spark this switch-over, Nintendo went to some extra effort.

It would have been funny, had any of these knock-off manufacturers already finalized a hardware design based on tests with other GBA ROMs and started up their logistics pipeline to assemble consoles, had they flashed one of the NES Classics ROMs onto their new-off-the-line console, and realized that it was far more stringent than other games were about faithfulness to the GBA's architecture. It might be enough to kill a whole company.

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Of course, none of this ever materialized, because for some reason, the knock-off manufacturers are still just making consoles that are chip-compatible with NES games, rather than speccing out builds based on what chips have become equally cheap since then. Who knows why.
Yeah, it's weird as hell to be the only person walking on an empty street.
Trumps secret sauce is just more ketchup
This is very much along the lines of (at least the example in) Bret Victor's media for thinking the unthinkable. Looks great.
Adam Walsh was murdered in the early 80's. John Walsh scared the sh out of everyone because of it.[0]

[0] I'd like to think I'd be as tireless at trying to find my son's killer as well, so not trying to be disrespectful here.
Another reason is that things are generally very spread out in the US. Since it was taken for granted that everyone has a car, house lots are large and commercial areas are far from residential areas.
Ask HN: How to choose between Stripe and Amazon Payments?
Debating between these two for subscription payments for a site I'm working on. They both cost the same, no setup fees, obviously both are very established companies so I'm having trouble picking between the two.

- Why did you pick one over the other?

- How has your developer experience been with each if you've used both?

- What else should I be asking myself before I decide?

I suspect that using an Amazon login and Amazon Payments would lead to a higher conversion rate, but I don't know by how much and can't prove that. Perhaps the chance of higher conversion alone is worth some extra dev time to do the setup (I'm assuming AMZN is slightly less easy to setup because of the general increased complexity of AWS services over others like Digital Ocean) but I could be totally wrong.

And this leads to another question: why don't I see more sites using Amazon logins? I almost always see Google, Twitter and FB only.
Not on its own, but I've used https://github.com/zolrath/wemux on top of tmux in the past to get that and it's worked well.
Yep I (20 year old) rode a bike quite often down to say the public library about two miles, but it was all sidewalks on slow roads. It's one of the things I really miss about where I live now. It would be almost criminal to try having a kid ride to the library from here.
Confessions of a Recovering Engineer
Good luck finding me when I'm climbing in chaparal canyons looking for rattlesnakes. The only cars that ever made it out to where we hung out were beaters driven by horny teenagers willing to offroad in the hopes of getting some action.
It's one of the best things about the browser on mobile phones. I never have an issue with weird JavaScript pop ups or sites that are not movie friendly.
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I've read more of your comments and it's clear that you are very smart.

Please don't try to eradicate trolls. Instead, focus on doing. With your mind, you will accomplish amazing things while all the trolls sit in their moms' basements, shitting on people who actually accomplish things.

My email address is in my profile. Feel free to use it!
> isn't comparable to that dossier, which was (apparently) compiled from numerous in-person visits and interviews

And that (apparently) can trace its origins to a 4-chan prank?
I got an email from the same guy, saying he noticed me starring a competing fork of SpaceVim, and asking if I "would like to try our project, https://github.com/SpaceVim/SpaceVim or https://spacevim.org "???

I think that's the first time I've ever gotten a personal email because I starred someone else's repo!
This isnt it. The town I grew up in had precisely the same number of interstates and major roads as it did 30 years ago (flat population) and children today have nowhere near the freedom that I did as a child.
From a satirical article published on Halloween last year:

> [Campaign] has also hired a firm specializing in big data and advanced intrapsychologic modeling. [Data firm] then takes data from Cookie Monster and analyzes it using their own proprietary Artificial Intelligence-powered (AI) algorithm, which allows the campaign to not only identify key voters, but to also identify key parts of their brains that are activated by certain messages.

> “Most campaigns only look at individual voters. We take it a step further and dig down into key parts of the voter’s subconscious. That way, we can say, ‘This meme penetrated a voter’s volitional association area of their prefrontal cortex — let’s double down on this message.’”

https://medium.com/soapbox-dc/every-political-reporters-camp...

I'm sure Cambridge Analytica would love us to think they had an unprecedented impact. I haven't seen any actual evidence though.
Same should be done for Plastc: https://plastc.com/

Been promising something for almost two years, pre-orders taken, nothing delivered...
Yeah, of course. "Smallest unit of magic" = "Small snippets of code-generation".
Yup. My old company (www.crowdflower.com) has a platform set up to do this.
Macs cost more so why would that be a bad thing?

iPad sales were down by 22% in the last quarter and are roughly half what they were at the peak. As someone has pointed out, the iPad sales chart is looking like the iPod's, except it might be going down a little faster...

http://www.zdnet.com/article/the-ipad-is-on-life-support/

Tim Cook's "why on earth would you buy a PC?" routine isn't looking quite as hot now iPads are the fourth ranked revenue earner at Apple, behind the iPhone, Macs, and Services.
Reminds me of "Taken for a Ride", a somewhat famous documentary about the auto industry seeking to gut forms of public transportation in many cities.

Having traveled quite a bit I believe the US's public transportation systems, within cities and between regions, is a national embarrassment.
I don't unfortunately. I only got to see him in action when he was doing building maintenance and when installing some hardwood flooring and never thought I'd need to hold onto a sketch.

He's extremely old school (i.e. a cassette tape answering machine) so I wouldn't be able to get a sample in any timely manner.
Since he was a draftsman I bet they'd look something like this: http://www.ardigitech.com/images/mech2.jpg. No point in making them look like actual photos, with shading, when you could just take an actual photograph instead.
I actually got stopped by the local police a year or two ago for going on a walk during a holiday, as they received reports of some strange guy walking alone.
My claim is that persons' own recollection of their childhood is inherently biased. As kids, they weren't privy to many of their parents' protective actions. Never mind nostalgia, selective memory, etc.
I did something very similar - left my job a bunch of years back to create a social network for angel investors. I wrote up some lessons from my failure here: https://github.com/rshekhtm/VentureTap, with this paragraph most relevant to this discussion:

"The biggest non-technical takeaway for me was that development in a vacuum can sink a project that may have otherwise stood a chance. Confusing secrecy for competitive advantage, I was very guarded about sharing my thoughts with other people and in fact did not solicit feedback until after the first cut of the code was released. Having read books on angel investing, I thought I understood the space - if only I had been aware of the concepts of lean software development! If nothing else, I gained appreciation for transparency and communication, albeit too late to make a difference for VentureTap."

Oops :)
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Trumps H1B gift to India
I taught myself to code late in life on VB.net - amazing how easy and powerful to get going. I've done a decent amount in C# since then. When I think about C# syntax vs VB.net syntax, and consider it's all .NET under the hood, makes me wonder whether developers like feeling as though they are writing something more complex in C# than they are. Anyway, i'm indebted to Microsoft and will be a fan for life as a result.
You're correct. The laws of physics get very strange in a stationary earth reference frame. Imagine the forces that would be whipping the distant stars around earth.
I always view Facebook in Chrome on Android...

in an incognito window that is closed immediately afterward.

Remember, they mine your cookies for all sites.
Solving the Linux DPI Puzzle
Hi there, I'm the gear-head and story lover who spotted this and felt it might touch a nerve with this audience.

I'd like to ask you, as a real participant in your Uncle's world, if you'd be interested in turning such an experience into a "poetic license" type historical screenplay. As a Dallas resident who has seen a few ups-n-downs with Deep Ellum, I think what you describe could be really compelling not just from the "car in an apartment" storyline but for the people who inhabited that sphere. Just a thought, thanks for chiming in by the way, was great to read!

Edit: Forgot to add my Dad's family was up 'n down California for a long time and I had some fun hanging out in Malibu with a Tio who was a Hollywood stunt man for many years. History is quite a trip.
The biggest issue is when you stop drinking, sleep is terrible for few days. I found that valerian is helpful as it produces GABA chemotransmitter -- same thing that alcohol replaces.
Rule mining[1] is a thing. It's very useful.

But it has a weakness - it doesn't always understand causality. As you note, much of the time this doesn't matter.

A good counterexample is the story of scurvy prevention[2]. Back in 1747, the British Royal Navy proved that scurvy could be prevented by eating citrus. The Navy started serving all sailors lime juice, and sure enough scurvy stopped occurring.

Fast forward to 1911. Scientists had developed rules which matched the observed behavior of scurvy very well:

Atkinson inclined to Almroth Wright’s theory that scurvy is due to an acid intoxication of the blood caused by bacteria.. There was little scurvy in Nelson’s days; but the reason is not clear, since, according to modern research, lime-juice only helps to prevent it. We had, at Cape Evans, a salt of sodium to be used to alkalize the blood as an experiment, if necessity arose. Darkness, cold, and hard work are in Atkinson’s opinion important causes of scurvy.

Basically, what had happened was that widespread steam travel and a process for canning lime juice were developed roughly simultaneously. The canned lime juice no longer provided vitamin C, but no one realized this was a problem because sea voyages were much shorter so scurvy never developed.

That lack of a correct causality model meant that when polar exploration happened, scurvy started occurring again and no one knew why.

[1] https://www.mapr.com/blog/association-rule-mining-not-your-t...

[2] http://idlewords.com/2010/03/scott_and_scurvy.htm
This is exactly what games like Spyro the Dragon do - the cracker would give up after fixing n protections
This looks interesting. How does it differentiate from other web simulation tools like CircuitLab, Multisim Live, and PartSim?
This is one of the biggest reasons it was refreshing as hell to move to the big city, as paradoxical as that sounds.

Rural/suburban life is like living in a barren wasteland
marked by occasional oases you have to travel between in a metal spaceship.

Living in an area where commuting to work and activities by foot is completely normal feels like rediscovering a lost sense of communal society, and there's a relief and a comfort to it that's difficult to articulate.