skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> This also causes the most infuriating issue I've ever had with a controller and Windows 10.

According to the text, it's designed to prevent the problem you describe:

When the system looks for a driver to use for a particular piece of hardware, it ranks them according to various criteria. If a driver provides a perfect match to the hardware ID, then it becomes a top candidate. And if more than one driver provides a perfect match, then the one with the most recent timestamp is chosen. If there is still a tie, then the one with the highest file version number is chosen.

I don't know where this is going wrong for you but both the file version and the timestamp are things you can manipulate on that driver file. Might help, although you're in trouble if the manufacturer's driver isn't a perfect match to the hardware ID.
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I think they just mean specific incentives given to intel for the move. There's been lots of talk about change in tax policy - especially at the borders which might prompt something like this.
It would behoove you to read more charitably. Neither I nor the GGP mean naked people; I don't think most large companies even consider placing ads with nudity in them in most public places.
All true, but I've never met a securities trader who wasn't ambitious, and ones that aren't don't tend to get hired. I'm still betting on the suspender brigade over the pocket protectors.
Note the "in connection with our provision of the Service". This largely looks to me like a standard set of terms that they require in order to not get sued for shuffling around your content just to provide the service you're signing up for.

While the rest of the paragraph looks standard to me, I'm not completely sure about that last sentence. Is that what you're wondering about?
Some prominent members of the group:

• James Baker. He was Chief of Staff and Treasury Secretary under Reagan.

• Henry Paulson. He was Treasury Secretary under Bush 43.

• George Shultz. He was Director of the Office of Management and Budget and Secretary of Treasury under Nixon, and Secretary of State under Reagan.

• Marty Feldstein. He was chairman of the Council of Economic Advisors and chief economic advisor to Reagan.

• Greg Mankiw. He was chairman of Council of Economic Advisors under Bush 43.

They have an opinion piece written by members of this group in the OP-ED section of the NY Times to day called "A Conservative Case for Climate Action" [1].

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/08/opinion/a-conservative-ca...
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Q: group chats? Seems like it could be done by encrypting (and sending) the message to all recipients, so it's not particularly efficient, but it's a valuable UI thing.
I'm not arguing that privacy isn't important, but if I have to make a choice, it's not my highest priority in every context.
Well the saying is typically '9 to 5' which is 8 hours total. Everything varies of course, but I think that's the most common.
You're basically asking: how do I do successful marketing, right? I don't have the answer to that, but I'd presume that despite many flashy resources out there claiming otherwise, there is no secret sauce, you have to put in the work of advertising (and finding out which channels work best for you), and of course the very important SEO.

By the way, I used your site and had a decent experience. I'm not a typical user of these, but it was interesting. You mentioned that other sites allow trolls to flood in - how do you prevent that?
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Sad thing is that most of the web sucks on rather fast connections too. Pages being almost 5mb of data, making multiple dozens of requests for librairies and ads. Ads updating in the background, consuming evermore data.

I don't notice it much on my PC, since I've got a FTTH connection, but on LTE and 3G, it's very noticeable. Enough that I avoid certain websites. And that's nowhere near slow by his standards.

I do agree that everyone would benefit from slimmer websites.
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The first few years in my career when I'd code for a few hours non-stop then crash on the beanbag at my desk, I dreamt a lot of bug fixes, very few of which stuck in my mind after I woke up. It's basically the last thought I had before I went to sleep which affected my dreams all my life. If that last thought is code, then so is the content of the dream.
There is some debate nowadays about the use of alcohol as a substitute for bad water(1).

I think the reason you find alcohol so interesting because of the Iron Law of Prohibition(2): 'The iron law of prohibition is a term coined by Richard Cowan in 1986 which posits that as law enforcement becomes more intense, the potency of prohibited substances increases. Cowan put it this way: "the harder the enforcement, the harder the drugs."'

I'm reading the Kalevala (The National Epic of the Finns), and there is a lot of talk about brewing "table beer". I didn't know the term, so I had to look it up: beer of 1-2% alcohol, suitable for drinking during meals.

I think the reason you find such a range of "responses" to alcohol is not the drug itself, but because of the fact that it's legal, and therefore not subject to the Iron Law of Prohibition, you can buy it in a variety of strengths-- from beer to wine to liquor. It's not the drug per se, but its manufacture.

But, if you're going to go through the trouble of breaking the law to sell or buy and use illegal drugs, you might as well make it "worthwhile". That's why you could not find beer or wine during Prohibition, but you could get hold of high-content whiskey and vodka, even white lighting, moonshine, etc.

Likewise, contraband drugs have from from morphine to heroin to even more powerful manufactured opioids. If you're going to risk buying a sheet of LSD, get a dose of 70 micrograms, instead of 20.

Meanwhile, in silicon valley and other places, there is a new trend of microdosing(3): taking sub-threshold doses of "hallucinogens" to the point that _you're not even hallucinating-- but you do experience the "side effects" of increased alertness, awareness, creativity, memory, and problem solving. So there are doses of LSD, mushrooms, etc you can take that are not very powerful at all. It all depends on how they are manufactured and sold, just like alcohol.

Even now in South American countries, the most popular form of "cocaine" is coca leaves-- which, by contrast, are actually very healthy, and the first response to potentially deadly altitude sickness when pills aren't available.

I would suspect that if drugs were legalized, you would find a lot more forms with a lot less power.

1. http://leslefts.blogspot.com/2013/11/the-great-medieval-wate...

2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iron_law_of_prohibition

3. http://www.forbes.com/sites/robertglatter/2015/11/27/lsd-mic...
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I didn't know acestream was p2p. I think I may have used it one or twice. Very cool.
Capacity for reasoning and self-control vary highly from context-to-context while completely sober. The cognitive affects of psychoactives lay on a humongous spectrum and vary in context of their use. Research these topics before you form strong opinions about them.

Also no one reasonable is recommending to drop acid right before going to the voting booth.
I stopped getting calls after that! I was humored that they often called it 'IRS' rather than 'the IRS'.
PHP pcre is implemented in c

https://github.com/php/php-src/blob/master/ext/pcre/php_pcre...
Rx is... tricky. I love it, and I think I started to grok it, but it's been a few years since I discovered it and it's been a bumpy road.

Andre Staltz' lessons have been a great help for me. Most of them are for-pay though, on egghead.io.
They're the main method to address the public. But how does the president communicate and interact with the public? Twitter.
Honestly - it would make our jobs so much easier if there was a simple guide on how to figure out what makes a good startup. The problem is that a successful startup is the exception. It is hard to design a process to find outliers.

Here are some links to guidance we provide:

http://www.ycombinator.com/howtoapply/

http://www.ycombinator.com/faq/

http://www.paulgraham.com/start.html

Here are some questions I ask myself when reading applications:

Can they build their own MVP?
Is there a massively unequal equity split?
Do the founders have pre-exisiting relationships?
Do they have a non-obvious/controversial insight on their space
Is the problem being solved significant (problem a lot of people have or people pay money for)?
Am I impressed with the progress they have made since starting?
If they don't get into YC - will the continue working on this company?
Considering the C implementation using PCRE is 4.1x Rust, whereas PHP (implemented in C, also using PCRE) is 1.2x Rust, that makes me think that this benchmark is… unhelpful at best.

The fastest C implementation uses TCL’s simplified regexes. However, http://lh3lh3.users.sourceforge.net/reb.shtml indicates that they found generally oniguruma and re2 trounce TCL.

Some other comparisons of regex engine performance is at http://sljit.sourceforge.net/regex_perf.html. Unfortunately neither of these are new enough to include Rust.

One of the big pieces that can easily be glossed over, especially during performance comparisons, is unicode handling.
Wow, really? Who knew overuse of JS and fancy graphical effects where they're not needed could negatively impact user experience? Could it be that all the web devs using 20 CDNs, cramming 900 frameworks, 100 externally provided analytics, advertisement providers and fancy layout eye-candy were wrong all along? What a surprise!

I'm already sick when I have to visit a webpage and it won't even load ANYTHING if I don't enable scripts on it. At least load the god damn text, I don't care if it'll look like trash, just don't show me a blank page...

The irony is that everyone calls for people to not use Flash, and then they go out of their way to recreate the abysmal experience without it, so really nothing changed as far as UX goes. Remember when pages didn't load at all unless you had flash installed? Well here's some nostalgia for you, won't load unless you run all the JS on the page and then you have to "enjoy" a bloated joke of a website, but Jesus does it have eye-candy!!!
I'm always confused by the hatred for people staying late at tech companies doing not-work. It's described like some elaborate anti-worker scam, but a lot of people I know are genuinely friends with coworkers (and often pretty introverted outside of that) and just enjoy doing that after work.

I suppose I can understand the conspiracy theory of "they want you to only have work friends", but I really don't understand "they're replacing a good raise with a $100 ping-pong table". It's just not a sane model of what's happening, keeping employees in the building is not inherently profitable.
Sabotage is a strong word, but it doesn't have to be intentionally malevolent. In psychology the word sabotage is often used to describe situations where people don't have faith in relationships (maybe because of personal hangups) and go at them half heartedly. When their relationships fizzle out, people said to "sabotage relationships" are often left feeling confused about what happened.

Apple has consistently shown that their locked down platform is priority number one. I think there are people who, for better or worse, have grown wary of that and need some extra convincing if Apple wants to influence big decisions.

Safari feels more and more like IE to me as the years go by. I just have a hard time taking it seriously and don't go out of my way to support it, just like Apple doesn't go out of it's way to support it when they have proprietary platforms that they can make vastly more money from.

All that said, yes, Apple has pushed the envelope from time to time, and has made some major contributions to open standards, so credit where credit is due, and accountability where accountability is due.
> Not only that but alcohol, as opposed to LSD for example, can be taken in doses that range from completely benign to powerfully intoxicating.

I am wondering if you have ever taken LSD or heard of the term micro-dosing? At any rate, I disagree that LSD cannot be taken in benign doses.
I'm torn here, in a way. On the one hand light page weights and other such optimizations make the internet better for everyone, on the other, there's a certain point where designing your product to target 3 decades ago (we forget 1990 was 27 years ago) gets a little absurd.

I think the greater tragedy is not that the web is bloated (an issue for sure), but that so much of America has internet worse than 3rd world mobile 2G.
Thanks, though I don't want to present myself as any kind of leader in this area.
Bloat: its not just for operating systems.
Not related to the contents of the article, but please add a max-width styling to your paragraphs. 40em or so is good.
What a stupid stupid thing to stay.
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Excel is probably a bad example, but you get the idea hopefully.
I feel like you build a model which you implement in software. (which runs on hardware)
Best Buy is closing nearly half its Oculus VR demo stations
If you think the author's definition is clear and precise, then Haskell definitely doesn't qualify as functional by that definition, either. E.g., Haskell only encourages writing functions (i.e. total functions), so by that definition it also just encourages functional programming. See my other comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13601299
seems like OP wants something without explicit threads/locks if they mentioned Kokkos/OpenMP type constructs...just a hunch.
you don't need to travel from Wisconsin to Washington to experience a slow internet connection.

Try any mainstream commute on the South West Trains Wimbledon to Waterloo (London) and you'll a) still get blackouts for about 1/4 of the 25 minute trip (this is one of the most densely populated areas in Europe - no excuses) and b) at 3 of the 4 stations you'll stop at, your vaunted 4g connection will drop to 1998 speeds due to contention. I generally curse the complex sites in these situations because you'll easily be waiting 30-90 seconds (firmly in your heatmap's red zone) for full load at least once per commute.

Incidentally, kudos on perfectly communicative yet lightweight web page (50Kb).
Huh, the channels support is just in time to replace App.net (or maybe "to do App.net right", since it didn't really get off the ground.)
It's also problematic in that it chisels away at what it means for a project to be open source. The focus seems to be purely on the software licence, and increasingly less about the wider project tooling.

GitHub and Slack provide a huge amount of utility. But they also feel hollow to me. It feels harder and harder to opt-out of using closed tools.
Well 3G is as low as you can get somewhere deep in the woods, not really a problem...
Same here (also diagnosed OCD), this might be more related to your sleep hygiene though. No screens before bed, no coffee after lunch, learn to meditate, etc. Turning off your brain is a difficult skill to learn, it certainly got harder once my dev career was serious.

Somewhat related: I dated a cellist who said she'd read music in her dreams.
It seems like not great practice to write SQL queries in REST controllers. I might be being overly critical though.
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That can be made shorter:

x+=x*x+9;

Are you sure you don't mean

x+=((x*x+9)>>32);

(and does that need the outer parentheses?) I doubt the first passes dieharder, as (if my C isn't too rusty) it alternates between odd and even numbers.
Joey Hess (joeyh) has been writing about this for a long time (because he uses dial-up at his home). Here is a recent thread about a 2016 blog post on this:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13397282
So the reason we did this is not because of deal flow. Over 7500 companies apply to YC every batch and only 100-150 get in. The reason why we did this is cause the number one reason why companies don't apply to YC is because they don't think they can get in and the number one myth about getting into YC is that you need an alum to recommend you. We thought that opening up the recommendation system would allow any founder to ask anyone who believes in their company to recommend them (even if they don't know a YC alum). Also, it allows anyone working with a good founder to give them some additional confidence when applying to YC.
Yep. We normalize our features as part of training, and the stdevs of each feature are part of the resulting model, along with the weights. (The means are always 0 because of the way we construct our training set.) The weights we use in production are actually normalized_weight / stdev.
Excellent analysis, and stated more clearly than I could.
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If you prefer content to creating your own personal blog appearances, Medium (http://medium.com/) is the best option. I did use Tumblr and Wordpress for quite some time over the years on multiple non-developer blogs.
I've never understood why jails didn't take off. I guess maybe since linux took off and the bsds didn't, but they're just nice and elegant.
>> I'm confused: He got 63 months in jail for uploading a "threatening" YouTube video?

Nope.

He actually aided and abetted the person or persons who committed the Stratfor hack. He also obstructed the investigation and hindered the feds from arresting those responsible.

The foolish act of threatening the FBI was tacked on as well. For someone with his intelligence, this was clearly a "fuck you" to the FBI which is never smart. He threatened the agent (illegal), said he would disclose his public address online (illegal) and did it over the internet (illegal).

I don't have much sympathy for him tbh. He could have rolled on his buddies and gave them up, or given the evidence the feds wanted (his laptop), but the way this whole thing went down, I feel this is exactly what he wanted and he got it in spades. The thing that gets me is he thought he could taunt the FBI, hide behind his first amendment rights and then expect nothing would happen.

Barrett Brown Sentenced to 5 Years in Prison in Connection to Stratfor Hack -https://www.wired.com/2015/01/barrett-brown-sentenced-5-year...
> The author very clearly defined what he means by functional, and he is correct, idiomatic Lisp is not.

But if the definition is the author's own special definition, the conclusion may be true and still be completely uninteresting. The standard definition is the standard one for a reason - it turns out to be useful for having meaningful conversations about the issue.

But even if you accept the author's definition, then you run into:

> In fact it can be argued that lisp is one of the least functional languages ever created

For that to be true, "one of the least functional languages ever created" must be a really large set. That set must include, say, 95% of all languages ever created - which makes the claim not a very meaningful statement.
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My team has just started work on a new SaaS product. We are taking articles like this to heart and aiming to keep pages light and fast. We are using very little JavaScript.

Let's see if the market rewards us or punishes us for this approach...
Been that student a time or two.

In my case, it was because I was embarrassed. I mean, we know you know the grades. You looked at the work. I guess it was actually looking the prof/TA in the eye when you got a 30% knowing that the only people to blame for your failure is yourself.

Hell, there was a time I took a quiz that I know I bombed. Instead of turning it in hoping for partial credit, I just walked out with it, balled it up, and threw it in the trash. What sense does getting a flat 0% make when you know you can get at least something by turning in some work?
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That's some nerdy click-bait there.
Thank you and the Keybase team for this. Unlike other services, I think KB has solved the online identity authentication issue.

There's one hurdle I need to work through to get going on chat. Thus far I've avoided uploading my private GPG key to my Keybase profile, or even copying it to other devices (call me paranoid). Unfortunately this apparently means I can't authorize any other devices (see error message: http://imgur.com/a/UOftN). I assumed device keys were meant to solve this problem, but maybe not. Is there a supported way to make a subkey (GPG or otherwise) of my primary private GPG keypair, so other devices can securely authenticate against my KB profile?

EDIT: I haven't yet started using device keys. Maybe they would work?
Many, many times people would be better off letting Microsoft replace the manufacturer's crappy drivers with something newer, or just ignoring the manufacturer's drivers completely from the time of installation. This is often the case with motherboards that do not ever receive driver updates to accommodate new Windows versions, or are otherwise abandoned by the manufacturer after a year or two.
Very few classic tube guitar amplifiers were Class A, the vast majority being AB. Really the only ones that were class A are single tube amplifiers like the Fender Champ. The Vox AC/30 that everyone thinks is class A is just cathode-biased class AB. The Marshalls that Hendrix played through, the Fenders that Steve Ray Vaughn used, and the Boogies that Santana is known for, all class AB.

Sure, class A does tend to have more even-order harmonics, compared to AB, but even class AB tube amplifiers have more than any solid state one.
I think they mean unreported as in "not in the database," not "there was a news story."
> in connection with our provision of the Service.

This is pretty much boilerplate legalese that's generally intended to mean "you can't upload a file to your public folder, then sue us for copyright infringement because that file is in a public folder".

Lawyers seem like to cover their clients' asses as much as possible, but for a service like this that's designed for privacy-conscious people it'd do them well to step back and think about how the license comes across to privacy-conscious laypeople.

From what I've seen of Keybase, from back when they were just an alternative to the PGP Web of Trust to now, I don't think they're genuinely planning anything nefarious (but they'd still do well to have a ToS that reflects that).
Solar employment is highly distributed throughout the country. That's not going to win any districts for your party.
>Wow, really? Who knew overuse of JS and fancy graphical effects where they're not needed could negatively impact user experience?

Clearly not enough people, because it keeps happening. I think it would also help if people kept in mind that the internet is global, it isn't just for developed nations.
>Not only that but alcohol, as opposed to LSD for example, can be taken in doses that range from completely benign to powerfully intoxicating.

This is false. For example, people microdose LSD for a more clear headed, caffeine-like stimulant effect. People microdose psilocybin to treat migraines. DXM, one of the most powerful dissociative psychedelics that exists, is sold over-the-counter in convenience stores to treat coughs. Research before your talk.
That's probably a fair criticism, but how many people are still fully efficient 8 hours in? I think as an employer you have to accept that you are going to be getting some hours out of your employees that are not fully productive, and ask yourself if getting some productivity during those hours is better than getting none.

9/80 sounds like a good tradeoff. I had never heard of it before this thread. That's why I love HN. It's better than /r/todayilearned/
If more and better skilled managers means lower returns does that imply even lower ones for AI?