skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It def. seems unlikely to be able to learn advanced math and physics so quickly unless you have an IQ of 160+ or something, in which case why in the 21st century America with modern schooling and education, why would someone with such a high IQ enter college not knowing 6th grade math. I'm not a teacher, but aren't there clues of profound giftedness that manifest early in life?

EDIT: she was homeschooled, which explains it...more info https://www.susanjfowler.com/blog/2016/8/15/20-unconventiona...

Obv. profoundly smart

The question is, is her almost overnight success reproducible by other smart people. Let's say you know calculus and linear algebra, QM is doable, I suppose. But still...mind blown. Even Ed Witten with a physicist for a dad still took 4-5 years to learn the stuff.
The way I see it, great design is about meshing seamlessly with the end user. If an item or software feel like they extend me they're exquisitely well designed. Here are several such things:

- MacBook Pro 13" with Touchbar.
The MacBook Pro is the first laptop I've used that doesn't feel like a tool I need to struggle with and manipulate to get the job done. It's powerful enough so I don't need to worry about system resources, light enough that I can carry it everywhere, and sturdy enough that I'm not constantly worried about breaking it. The list goes on - this is truly a magnificent computer.

- This leather messenger bag.

http://emanuel-w.com/product/קלפה-צד-41071/?lang=en

Dunno if it's available in the states, but this leather bag by Emanuel has been my companion for five years, and is only getting better with time. It has enough room for anything I need, is brilliantly compartmentalized, and is super comfy to take anywhere.

- Kindle, the one with the keyboard. I currently own Paperwhite and it's almost there, but not quite. eInk is a brilliant invention, but it's the Kindle's design that made it what it is today - my go-to solution for reading, anywhere, anytime.

Moving on to software:

- Mad Mimi is a simple, lovely email newsletter service that is brilliantly designed, and which pioneered the drag-and-drop email design interface.

- Basecamp. I love their no-bullshit approach to design, their ability to ignore current "design trends" to focus on simpler aesthetics, and the boldness with which they communicate their promise. It's fantastic.

Might think about some more examples a little later. :-)
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'...some kind of evil "deep state".'

Morals have nothing to do with it. It's about process and efficiency - and how the established de facto protocol of daily governing affects these. This is about what becomes the established conduct. The functioning of large organizations are based on two parts - the official rules, and the actual culture of operarion. The latter dictates how the establishment actually functions.
I don't understand how civilized countries can even consider extraditing anyone to the US in light of the known deficiencies of the US justice and prison system. I don't know about NZ, but for example in Germany the maximum sentence for intentional, commercial copyright infringement is 5 years, whereas in the US it seems to be a life-long confinement in some federal maximum security prison where apparently inmates are sometimes even raped - or so, I've heard, quite shocking if that's true. Moreover, this guy has never set a foot inside the US, and the US do often not extradite people for much more serious crimes.

On top of that, many federal US prisons violate basic human rights, as even some US experts occasionally admit. For example, Marion prison in Colorado was on a permanent lockdown for 23 years, because two prison guards were killed.[1] That means that all inmates were in strict solitary confinement for 23 years, no matter whether they had anything to do with these murders or not.

NZ should offer the US to sue Doctcom in New Zealand or wherever his company resided in. He can then spend a few years in prison, if he's really guilty, and justice is served.

[1] http://www.slate.com/blogs/crime/2013/10/23/marion_prison_lo...
- Victorinox Classic SD Pocket Knife

- Japanese toilet roll holders

- 3M Command Strips
It sounds like "performance" is Uber code for "political clout".

Sexually-harassing manager who HR is too afraid to discipline meaningfully? High performer.

Manager who illegally threatens an employee to protect his manager? High performer.

Productive engineer who they never found a substantive reason to criticize? Not a high performer.

The ones who made the political maneuvers to garner political power within the organization are the "high performers". Fowler, on the other hand, worked hard, but didn't play the political game. She also reported a lot of people to HR, which probably earned her a lot of political enemies. Remember those "undocumented performance problems"?

(But I discount this interpretation a tiny bit because it relies on a person's account of their own performance. I think that her post is credible (she sure staked a lot on it), but I'm wary of all first-person performance claims. Nothing specific to her, just human nature.)
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The comparison to Turkey is indeed quite odd. What's even stranger is that American media persist in referring to a "failed coup attempt"; to the contrary, Erdoğan has completed a very successful coup d'état.
Any Toyota truck/car with a 22R engine, with manual transmission.

Old cast iron cookware

Flobee (Laugh, but it cuts hair. You need to experiment with the extensions though. For those that despise the annual haircut, hate the small talk, and that lying response at the end of the ordeal, "It looks great!"; pick up a old Flobee at a garage sale.)

In my world, a old IWC watch with a 853 movement. (I do watch repair, and this might be my favorite movement. The older IWC's don't look flashy, but that movement is well engineered. I can wear my old watch anywhere; only I know what's under the crystal. I never worry about theft.

3/8" Snap-on combination metric/standard ratchet set. The one with the deep sockets, and the standard sockets. Only buy used though. It comes in a red case. (I once went to automotive school. Much of Snap-on is overpriced, but this ratchet set has served me well.
Why Japan will lose 20M people by 2050
Next time you are around, I will be happy to give you a tour.
Edit: Have a look yourself at this:
https://www.google.de/?q=trinkgeld+friseur+deutschland
Economies of scale do not exist in
the urban housing market, because
supply is pretty much fixed. The
more demand, the higher the price.

This is not the case, and the issue has been discussed many times here on HN with respect to San Francisco.

There is no technical reason that prevent increase of supply. You could flatten the old town and build Dubai-style 100 floor skyscrapers, creating >20k new flats. The only reason why this doesn't happen is legislation, zoning laws, building codes etc, which in turn reflect the will of the majority of the population who don't want radical change of cities.
Ex-Engineer at Uber Nightmarish Account of the Sexism
I'm kind of inspired by this story. I love hearing about software with a really long lifespan. It makes you feel like it's worth building something decent.

Admittedly the DRM aspect is a bit naff, but it's hardly evil empire at that scale.
It seems they are moving the Flash and Widevine plugin enable options into the general settings, but they're not exposing any way to disable NaCl/NativeClient any more?
I think you misunderstood me. I agree that the StackOverflow post has to do with branch prediction. I just meant that I don't think that's why the earlier poster thinks it's parallel to the situation described in the article.
I feel like I'm similar. In the past couple of years, I've tackled most of the stuff on your list (I didn't touch compiler construction, sound synthesis and writing). My problem is that I pursue these as an alternative career to being a regular dev, and am pretty quickly being dissuaded by the vision that, in the end, my work life will not improve that much.

For example, artists and gamedevs go through tons of anxiety and (usually) ultimately fail and need to find an alternative career. Or, even if they succeed in some manner (i.e. an artist getting a AAA concept artist position), they may become so overworked that they reach burn out pretty fast. Another alternative career I have in mind: being a developer/researcher in an area that's a blend between programming and maths (signal processing, CAD, computer vision etc.) looks interesting on the surface (i.e. I love to study the concepts, implement them in matlab etc.) but I'm afraid that I would end up in some company as an overworked and unhappy faceless cog. That's partly because I feel there's only so much truly interesting work available in this field, and it will most likely go to extremely talented people who have PhDs from MIT in this field - leaving "normies" like me to just do the mundane implementation, bug fixing etc.

I feel like I'm chained by the proverbial golden handcuffs. I can make six figures working on boring and tedious code remotely from my home in a very cheap country (I'm easily in the top 1% of income here). Doing the researcher/developer route would probably require moving to some other country, and thus trading some possible increase in job satisfaction for loneliness and alienation.

Life is hard.
That may be how it's supposed to work, but that's not how it actually works.

http://www.businessinsider.com/the-startling-truth-about-tip...
Flipkart sides with Microsoft in fight against Amazon on the cloud
With Linked Data you always have triples of the form (subject, predicate, object). E.g. (dbr:John_Smith dbo:birthPlace dbr:Abc) and (dbr:John_Smith rdfs:label "John Smith"). dbr:Abc and dbo:birthPlace again are the subject of other triples, including a triple with (dbo:birthPlace rdfs:label "birth place") (available in multiple languages) and one with (dbr:Abc rdfs:label "Abc, Germany"). By retreiving the labels for the properties (predicates) and objects, I can simply form a question and the answer options. Currently every question is built naively in the form "What is the <propertyLabel> of <entityLabel>?".
Naturally, in some places the taxi service is 1000x worse than what I ever complained about, so in those places I can see the up-front pricing for Uber to be a little bit more of a revolutionary improvement.

I think overall the experience of taking a taxi is not going to change that much, but there's going to be a big repricing when Uber runs out of loss-leader. I imagine the dream is for inflation to absorb most of that by the time the axe falls, but uber/lyft/taxi pricing across the board will have to find an equilibrium. Or differentiators.
"As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain; and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality." - Albert Einstein
Lenovo's accessories section. You want the USB model, not the Bluetooth model.

http://shop.lenovo.com/SEUILibrary/controller/e/web/LenovoPo...

(I wish they still had the classic version, but the current version still beats any other keyboard out there, for my taste.)
> It would be illegal in Germany to shoot down a hijacked airliner and ordering the pilot to do so would be an illegitimate order the pilot would be forbidden from following

Yeah we're going need a source on that. Don't even think of pulling up that vague Grundgesetz about human dignity, the legality of refusing an order would be established AFTER the fact. To call such an order illegal before any court judgement is the very thing that you are branding as an alternative fact.
My father keeps bees as a hobby and he's seen the same problems with a few hives in a city that (presumably) doesn't spray pesticides. It's a combination of many problems, not least the big one that is the varroa parasite that by sucking bee haemolymph (in much the same way fleas suck blood) can introduce disease.

One thing that sticks out though, why are almond farmers spraying pesticides to control weeds rather than letting someone with cattle graze under the trees and add in the bonus of free fertiliser?
You can. But I've put about 30 albums on my phone and I have little internal space, so I just put a "small list" on it.

But for what it is worth 1 GB may be fine. Handling 30 albums would be a nightmare with the Shuffle.

It works (as the name says) if you want to listen to a playlist in shuffle. But for me (and my ex) it didn't work for anything else. So we both found out we didn't had any use for this device.
Earlier you thought I was insisting women would be offended by something, and you’ve since stated that if I wasn’t insisting that, my “argument” was meaningless. What did you think we were discussing?

Did you think that if women were offended, that would have been an argument for pitchforking? Were you saying I hadn't provided enough evidence women were offended? You haven't really said what you think is missing here, or even what you think I was getting at. Could you let me know what you think some relevant points would be? Is there any evidence that would persuade you of whatever it is you think we're arguing about?

I think I've addressed or asked questions about as many of your straightforward (if a little emotional) statements as I can.
I had several Fiat Panda's (1st generation). It's automotive mobility boiled down to the bare essentials. A 50-year old motor design that has been completely finetuned to the point where it's unbreakable and economic (the 1.0 Fire motor). No power steering (not needed since the car is so lightweight), no brake assist, no power windows, no A/C. Just one windshield wiper, one heater and turn signals, that's it.

I love how simple and intuitive these cars were. Super dependable (lack of options make it so that nothing much could break down anyway), economic and yet some smart mechanical features: the light switches off when you turn the motor off, it's impossible to lock yourself out of the car and the best thing: the back seat is basically a hammock that converts to a bed. Since the car is so boxy it's easy to transport big things like fridges or large IKEA-packages.

I had several of these since they were so cheap (400 euros 5th-hand, but no mechanical issues). Only downside is the rust and the fact they're not very safe.

Ah, the memories...
Even if shared, low-tip workers will be managed off by the team. On 'decide' part, you simply pay fixed percentage if you are not able to. Even kitchen is motivated that way on a long distance. That works at large scale, not in single case, right. Like a market.
Amazon plans 5,000 new jobs in UK
I agree that the US prison system has many human rights issues, but Kim's extradition was approved due to the fraud and racketeering charges, not due to the copyright infringement accusations.

No idea how it works if he's extradited and the US tries to prosecute him for the copyright infringement cases though.
Money talks, thats why.
It IS possible to eat a steak with either of those in one hand. Using a controversial method called the stab and bite.
What are the best headphones for programming?
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I thought that was because the closed the subreddits focused on harassment. e.g. r/FatPeopleHate. Talking shit about her law suit was just a wedge issue to get under her skin by people predisposed to abusing others.
Good call on going pure python. To take this a bit further I made your changes and used numba with @jit(nopython=True, cache=True), for some interesting results. If I do include the sorting into the timing:

Unsorted execution time: 0.2175428867340088 seconds
Sorted execution time: 1.133354663848877 seconds

And if I don't:

Unsorted execution time: 0.21171283721923828 seconds
Sorted execution time: 0.08376479148864746 seconds
On that note: the Stelvin! No more cork rot and far less spoiled wine.
I was responding specifically to the point the GP post made about licensing fees.

What I meant was that there's no reason that there couldn't be a form of DRM that wouldn't require "licensing" in order to use it. It would indeed still have to be a closed-source binary blob—because, like you said, Netflix wouldn't accept anything less—but it could be a freely-redistributable closed-source blob, that any browser would be legally in the clear to include without seeking out a licensing arrangement.

Re: "it's not about patents"—while other IP laws (e.g. copyright) determine whether you have the right to just redistribute a copy of the DRM blob, patents determine whether you can reverse-engineer the original blob to make your own blob with the same ABI that embeds the same keying material, or whether that's also illegal. Patents, thus, are the ultimate difference between a blob you have to pay to license, and one you don't.
> No comrades of mine

Ouch. Was that choice of word deliberate?
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I recently bought a microwave from Samsung that has one know for time, one for power and a button to set the clock. I do love when appliances are stupidly simple, but I do miss the timer function on my old microwave.
The thermomix: http://thermomix.vorwerk.com/home/
Intelligence agencies attacking a democratically elected head of state is no defense of liberty. You're attributing noble motives to people just because they're doing what you want them to do.
[Contact] was briefly lost while flying over German airspace. Communication was safely restored within a few minutes.

That sounds like the whole incident didn't take more than 15 minutes. Does somebody know how fast the Typhoons were with the airliner?

I know there are some guidelines for the Luftwaffe like "a fighter needs to be able to get to any point in german airspace within 15 minutes" or so, but that all sounds VERY fast.

Edit: Formatting
Once again, you are unable to grasp the real problem. Guess what -- men can be victims of the abuse of power too, whether that's at the hands of men or women.

>I have zero power now but have the potential to have it. If I don't know how to behave like a decent human around my female coworkers and peers right now, I would have no idea how to do this when I have more power (e.g. become a manager). But, then, I'd have the power to cause irreparable emotional and societal damage.

Simply becoming a manager doesn't give you power. One of the main purposes of middle management is to take the fall for C-level mistakes, after all. You also need to have your employer's backing. In this case, this manager is especially powerful because Uber backs him even when it's not in their best interest). I don't know how the manager in question here was able to obtain that sort of empowerment, but you are sorely mistaken if you think that his ability to stick around was simply due to a job title.

>I don't know much and I certainly don't claim to know much. All I know is that if we (men) don't curb our own behavior, we're the one squarely at fault.

I don't know how to get this through to you. This problem is that powerful people are unaccountable due to the way that our current society is structured. It has nothing to do with gender. Maybe you think this sort of thing wouldn't happen under a female CEO, but you don't know what the context of the relationship between the manager and powerful people within the company who provide him with agency.

>I'm so tired of this "not all men" attitude.

I have no idea what you mean by this.

>As someone who gets paid to make fact-based decisions all day, I cannot possibly ignore this ridiculous argument that women are at fault.

Who made that argument? I honestly have no idea what your thought process is here.

>Yes, anything is possible but the scenario you're proposing is so rare that is an anomaly.

When did I propose a scenario??

>Get off that horse, dude. Stop being on the wrong side of history.

Ok, you're just incoherent at this point.
Edit: I realized that your question is just about the versioning scheme (the "what"), and my answer is more about the "how". I hope you still find it useful.

After being inspired by Hans Werner's answer here (several terabytes of binary data, 50000+ revisions), I chose Subversion. It's not conventional, but works very well in practice.

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/127692/svn-performance-a...

You get:

a) Natural audit trail & notes on data modification

b) Managed central dump of data => multiple, distributed local copies that you don't need to worry about keeping in sync. Just delete the cache and the data access API (see below) will check it out automatically again when you request the file.

Data access is encapsulated via an API that manages a /home/datadump/ of cached, revisioned files. You refer to the file using it's name + revision number (see below). I guess tags and branches can be used for more natural revison numbers, but I need to investigate whether Subversion's cheap copy works well in practice for this. They might be the perfect solution for you major.minor.patch needs?

User Code --> get_data("<file_path/file_name>", "r=38") --> API checks the cache for file_path/file_name_r=38. If it's not there it checks it out using a read-only user id and puts it in the cache and returns the path to /home/datadump/file_path/file_name_r=38.

Unusual, but works just fine for our purposes of mostly-read-only large files that need a revision history.

An idea that I did not explore was using ZFS or other revisioned file systems. Another "crazy" idea that works just fine for some folks is using Binary blobs in a database; not sure about size limits, though.
The problem with this is print is a macro and that macros are expanded before the type checker. This makes it impossible to know if something can be copied or not, because this is type information.
This so much, I had a weird conversation once, my friend said "lets have dinner with my friends, one of them is a developer you are going to like me", so I get to this dinner and before he even asked my name he straight away asked which technology i use.

I said many but mainly PHP, he gave me a look and said "I do .net" and didn't talked to me throughout all dinner, I have to say I was quite pleased he didn't though.
So was the parent comment. They could just help themselves to whatever they needed if the law didn't stop them. Poverty is legally enforced on people that don't earn enough.
Sure. But that doesn't mean the W3C had to compromise the Open Web by incorporating DRM interop into their standards.
You can use a .service file - about 10 lines in ini-ish format - to make node run as a service on most Linux distros
You might want to check Datomic out. They have a solution for your problem: http://www.datomic.com
Hey, everyone! I've built this project because I want to collect the best learning resources for Web Developers and Startup Founders, and make it easy to discover them. I hope you guys will find it useful!

The project is open source, you can find our repo here:

https://github.com/raymestalez/webacademy

I'm actively working on making this platform better, and I would really love to hear any comments/feedback/suggestions/critique!
There's a nice write up on how this was done at https://blog.sketchfab.com/art-spotlight-calvin-hobbes-3d-st...
Yes, when you said women might be offended by the statement that pitchforking is bad, that was clearly a criticism of the statement that pitchforking is bad. That criticism is nonsense, and you supplied no actual logic or evidence of an issue with that statement. I don't see why this is difficult to understand. Your response to someone advocating against pitchforking was clearly hostile.
Envoy: proxy/communication bus for SOA services
Nokia Lumia charger: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/lukaszkups/lukaszkups-old/...
The legendary Nokia 3310. Military grade build quality, and an amazing UI at the time.
I hope you don't "use" one. Sex workers deserve better.