skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The Google way seems to be to try new stuff without much hesitation and then kill things which don't work out for them. I don't think they know exactly where they are going - which makes perfectly sense since future is hard to predict.
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Those are at the end. I meant empty cells in the middle. The ones I tried don't account for them.
That's a pretty dark view of computer games. It's a popular media type like any other. You have all ends of the complexity spectrum, from undisputable art on one end to poorly-concealed skinner boxes on the other end.

People who appreciate computer games as a serious hobby will tend to enjoy games on the complex end of this spectrum. These games are no more built around the principles of addiction than a good book, or a physical activity like skiing.
Well, I take away just the opposite though.

Suppose there really was a loving creator that put this all in place just for us. Then, yeah, we've made quite a mess of it, and it really all rather sucks.

However, if it's just a bleak, uncaring universe, then the fact that we're around is amazing in the first place, and the fact that we've managed to carve out a niche where we can, by and large, thrive in ever larger numbers [1] is outright awesome and amazing.

It also then enjoins us to "keep on fighting the good fight". For example, I don't think there is "automatic karma" imposed somehow - it is incumbent on us humans to impose justice as well as we can.

[1] The notion that things are terrible and getting worse is wrong, I think. See for example

- Julian Simon, "The State of Humanity"

- Steven Pinker, "The Better Angels of our Nature"

- Max Roser, "Our World in Data", https://ourworldindata.org

etc.
I am not endorsing miloshadzic's comment in any way, but one can be skeptical of postmodernism without being disdainful of the humanities and liberal arts in general.
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Came here to say just this. At this point the only thing I really use from them is Search and Gmail. I just dont trust that anything else will stick around.
There is always a risk associated with grazing in the shadow of an elephant. One day you get your heart's content and other other you may get crushed by the mammoth. In the end of the day, it is better to have your own field - launch own product and use Amazon and the likes as sales channels.
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You might have dropped the word "cold" and been a bit more inclusive.
> Non-expert ("slashdotter") reaction:

> Explain why a simple collision attack is still useless, it's really the second pre-image attack that counts

Why is this the "non-expert reaction?" It's correct, right?

And why go to the trouble of making a timeline with "Broken" and "Collision found" without a "Second pre-image found"?

I'm genuinely puzzled (and have asked it here on HN before [1]), but I unfortunately suspect that an honest answer lies somewhere along these lines: "Second pre-images are a hell of lot more difficult to find than collisions, so if we waited around for a second pre-image to be found we'd never get to dance around like headless chickens and talk about really scary shit (which typically requires a second pre-image) as 'now practical'. That would make the whole field a lot less sexy, and cut into our 'expert' consulting fees..."

1. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13729492

EDIT: I'm of course not advocating staying with SHA-1. There's absolutely no good reason to. Even years ago when I was last involved in choosing a cryptographic hash function (even truncated) SHA-256 was obviously a much better choice.
Same here, only new thing I touched in 4 years has been GCP, and only then to discover I couldn't use it due to a ridiculous and completely undocumented embargo they implement for users in some countries. Same old Google crap ignoring or failing to understand the customer

"Let's use Hangouts" "Sorry what's that?" "Google's screen sharing" "Just use Skype" "Ok"

Don't forget after investing the entire company into Plus and failing to gain traction, they pulled the rug out from underneath the whole thing. I'm told similar internal focus is now applied to GCP, doesn't mean I wouldn't expect the compny to just one day say "bah, fuck it, we couldn't dominate that, turns out people require something from us beyond engineering, so I'm not playing because I haven't a clue how to do that" again
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they all represent a net gain for Americans from the barren lands, primitive structures and meager output of 1776. Starting from scratch, America has amassed wealth totaling $90 trillion.

This was a gain that was achieved not by starting from scratch but by stealing lands from indigenous people and forcing Africans to work that land. I'm not sure if you can describe the kidnapping, murder, rape and ultimately genocide of multiple people groups as miraculous, unless one subscribes to the idealogy of manifest destiny.
>If your business makes toilet paper you have it easy because no matter what happens demand for your product won't collapse overnight.

Until people figure out the magic of bidets!

https://www.amazon.com/Luxe-Bidet-Neo-120-Non-Electric/dp/B0...
America is worth way more than $90 trillion. He's valuing it like a buyer :)

As a quick back-of-envelope check: American GDP in 2016 was $18.86 tn.

The son of a bitch wants it at a 4.7 trailing multiple, after a relatively slow-growth year. All that praise - and then a 4.8x multiple. Now I know how he butters up his acquisition targets :)

EDIT: I am getting downvoted, but I am keeping this. You guys don't realize that valuing companies is what he does all day, every day. That's literally his job. When he throws a figure like $90 trillion out for America, that is not casual or haphazard - it took him a few seconds to come up with that, and he did it on some basis. We get real insight into his thinking, especially when it comes following such lavish praise. In my opinion I am making a good contribution in pointing this out. We've just learned something.
Wouldn't we then expect homicide rates in religious USA and Pakistan to be much lower than in secular Sweden?

I don't think your claim withstands any scrutiny.
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See the latest Berkshire letter for some examples http://berkshirehathaway.com/letters/2016ltr.pdf
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You're reading it incorrectly. Buffett is making the claim that people have "waste[d] more than $100 billion over the past decade" looking for superior investment returns. That's his claim, no more. And I agree.

There wouldn't be a stock market if everybody just invests in a fortune 500 index fund. The benefit to society of a functioning stock market is way more than $10B/yr.
At heart this seems like a terrible idea for consumers. can someone here help me see the counter argument as to why this would be a good idea?
The gains weren't just from those things - there was a lot of hard work involved. However, your point that it wasn't "from scratch" is a valid one and that jumped out at me too.
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I think it hits the sweet spot. It covers all the things that other devs and my clients may mention if they become bigger new stories and on a practical level it covers many things I can actually do something about.
And that is how you leverage your downtime into something at least tangentially related to productivity. I like it!
While in principle being judged by nothing by your actions is a great, well, principle, in practice "meritocracy" ends up favouring people who were already socially advantaged in some way or another (e.g. male) to elicit the actions that the meritocratic judge is looking for.

The idea sounds nice, but it ends up just reinforcing cronyism. If you belong to the right in-group, usually stratified along some social injustice, you'll display the merits that in-group wants.
The areas that used slaves the most are now some of the poorest areas of the USA. Maybe slavery didn't have that big of an impact?
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Interesting article. Note that it only talks about improving cooperation "within" the circle, i.e. among "co-religionists", as the article puts it.

I think you'd find increased cooperation within many other types of groups. What we should aim for, of course, is to expand this circle of concern ever further, beyond religion.

So, just want to clarify that this might have been an benefit of religion in earlier days, but is by no means an argument for them today.
That is pure speculation though, without any evidence whatsoever.
>This is the modern Buddhist and psychology influenced interpretation of stoicism and apatheia.

No, it is not. Read Meditations by Marcus Aurelius. The man certainly argued for a certain inner brilliance that does not come from emotionlessness. He'd argue for you to be the even-tempered guy but full of fortitude and pouring your entire being into what you are standing for and doing, but without getting consumed by it. Stoicism is not the rejection of emotion, it is the rejection of uncontrolled desire. That's a huge difference.
Right, I'm mostly whining about the method - link to grumpy mid-thread comment, title that misleads about the intent of the post, etc.

The thing itself seems somewhat newsworthy but personally, I'd rather hear the CF people defend the TLS-MITM-as-service idea itself and get yelled at for that. The fact they're being weaselly and insufficiently contrite seems secondary.
Move fast and break things has interesting side effects. If in fact you can prove he took documents, not just what was in his brain, then likely Google will win as that law is fairly obvious. If you can't, what knowledge he knows that he took with him is much more difficult to prove as "stolen".
Yep. But I was looking for some open-source solution other than Swagger.
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Where 'in your code' is a module. Then log the exception and raise a new exception with a module-specific code. requests.exceptions.RequestException is a good example.

My modules do catch SystemExit and KeyboardInterrupt before the bare exception and simply re-raise those.
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Yes I believe in Ken Burn's documentary he mentioned that even at the time the North's economy far dwarfed the South's. Especially in terms of technological advancement.
Just as there is lots of suffering and injustice in the world, there is also copious beauty and happiness and love. So framing God as "evil" is just as problematic as painting him as "good". Both positions forces you to ignore or rationalize away large parts of reality.

Edit: Oh, you edited your comment to say something different. I guess this comment doesn't make a lot of sense as an answer now.
Africanized bees will do that too.
That landing page is a whopping 9MB [1]. Please optimize it for users with slow internet like me.
[1] https://www.webpagetest.org/result/170225_RN_1K80/
"...the leaked information is from any website which was using the service..."

Potentially, yes. Not just HTTPS, but those are obviously the more worrying cases.

It's not possible to know the totality of information that has been leaked, though efforts are being made to try and list affected / potentially affected sites.[1]

My advice would be: For any sites you're worried about (ie hosted on CF and you have an account), log out of all sessions on all devices, and reset your password. Don't share passwords between sites either; if you're using 1password now, you can use unique & complex passwords for everything.

[1] eg https://github.com/pirate/sites-using-cloudflare
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Good to hear, I wasn't really trying to accuse, just frustrated at how downplayed this is for ordinary people - your customers' customers. Using language like affected sites when really you mean sites that dumped data about some unknown quantity of affected sites is already a source of confusion even on HN, let alone the wider world. I appreciate this isn't fun for you and your team right now too, so I do hope you've got lucky here and erased the worst of the damage before anyone malicious managed to get involved.
This really stood out to me as well. A company that, say, runs a non-anonymous social network for businesses shouldn't give out numbers like that (at least, not without their customers' permission)... a company running a supposedly-anonymous place for employees to chat giving out that info is a serious breach of trust. I was curious about Blind (though certainly not curious enough to give it my LinkedIn credentials), but after reading that line, I wouldn't even remotely consider using this product.
Not osti, but studied phil.

On the Genealogy of Morality is a decent read, I can't think of anything better for a first Nietzsche read. If you've ever heard "slave morality", its from here.
That's absolutely fascinating, and terrifying! Thanks for sharing.
It is not very believable that a state actor would use an untrained amateur for killing someone. What if they bail out? Tell the victim? Get the wrong person?
Agreed, and in both cases, when you strip away the obsolete superstitions that accompany it (just by virtue of the world view at the time they emerged), then there is still a lot of original wisdom and substance left.
Have you never encountered turbulence while flying? Actually have you ever traveled by plane?

The risk of injury, from more "acrobatic" maneuvers, should be rather obvious. To quantify this risk the severity is anywhere from bruises to permanently debilitating injuries + the risk you cause to others and the probability is rather high. Turbulence is not uncommon.

And other risks related to extra fuel consumption, extra weight, placement of weight should be easy to understand but more difficult to quantify.

Yes, people differ in their ability to evaluate risk, and their willingness to to assume it.
But in this case I think, for us as observers, I think it's quite easy to figure out that the personal and collateral risk is significant and bad. Especially since by doing this you are going outside the specs of the plane so you don't know how bad.

It is all of the people who do not care for themselves and accept awful conditions that make those conditions acceptable. If the airline can cram 7 people into the aisle next time they will try to cram 8.
If the employer sees the employees are ok with less safety, lower wages, less time off, etc. that is the direction things will go because those very it was allowed to happen. It is a downwards spiral.
Actually the opposite. Social and political institutions of the slave owning South had developed an entrenched extractive hierarchy not unlike the aristocracies of Eastern Europe at the time. The legacy of these oppressive institutions has lead enterprising Americans to seek their fortunes elsewhere throughout history.
To be honest I haven't read too many of his books yet, I do plan to take a university course on him this fall though. This passage just resonated with me too much that I have to post it anytime a discussion about Stoicism comes up. There are many Nietzsche classics that you could read, for example I own this copy myself which contains several of his books.

https://www.amazon.com/Writings-Nietzsche-Modern-Library-Cla...
Are you assuming that Chromebooks have a long term future? I sure wouldn't assume that. I also wouldn't count on Keep being around for the long term. I use it quite a bit, but only for ephemeral stuff.

No matter what you use though, you should have backups of anything important.
You still need some paper right?
I don't see this as them as helping a competitor. The damage has been done (in terms of customer relations).

I view leaving up the cached copy of leaked data as being a jerk move - not towards CloudFare, but to anyone whose data was leaked.

This is an opportunity for Google to show what they do with rather sensitive data leaks - do they leave them up or scrub them?

Had damage from the leak been aleady done (to those whose data it was)? Probably. Even taking that into account, I think the Google search comes off as a jerk in this situation.
the point of a meritocracy is to produce the best possible work and reward good performance, not to right real or perceived injustices. Statistically speaking, if the majority of developers are male then a majority of high-performing developers will also be male. Hiring lower-performing females to attempt to achieve balance does not fix the original issue, and it serves to harm the hiring company by choosing people based on social group rather than skill.

Solving underrepresentation issues is, in my opinion, more about changing the perception of the industry for those poorly represented groups and performing outreach at younger ages, rather than having companies hire disproportionately more women or people of colour so that their employees look more diverse. That doesn't really solve anything.
Well, until people awake from their righteous fervor and ask why the anonymous Blind app knows there are 2000 Uber employees using it

And god beware they start asking what Blinds business model is going to be!
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It's also important to remember that "postmodernism" is at this point about 130 years old.
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Slavery was less efficient than a market economy and a free labor pool. Consider the Irish who built the Erie Canal. They were paid mostly in rum and they died off so quickly the bosses didn't care because a fresh crop of Irish workers walked off the boat the following week.

Slaves had to be fed and housed and nominally cared for. After all, they cost money and you didn't want to throw away your investment.

The slavery economy, which is what the South fought to preserve in the American Civil War (let's face it: those who like to hide behind "states rights", it all comes back to "states rights to buy and have slaves"), was a last gasp to try to preserve what was left of feudalism. It was doomed before it began.

Please don't misconstrue this as being "pro slavery". Treating humans as property is an abomination. Even the Romans believed this and enshrined it into their legal codes even though they kept slaves.
You just described the history of China, South and Central America, the Middle East, Eastern and Western Europe, Australia, our friendly Nordic pillagers. Am I missing any? Oh that's right all those empires that crumbled to dust to form our current nations, them too.

You just described the history of Humanity.
I perhaps haven't expressed the position well however, "naive" isn't a slur, read "simplistic" if it helps, it's philosophy on the level of someone who has not demonstrated cognisance of the basic sources and hasn't addressed the obvious counter-arguments.

The mainstream Christian theology is that leprosy, and such diseases came in to the world after, and as a consequence of, The Fall. That if we'd chosen God's way we wouldn't have such things.

>So God inflicted leprocy on humanity //

God created a Universe with free will for man rather than creating a fancy automaton. Mankind chose not to follow God's precepts, the consequences being that disease, pain and suffering entered the world.

It's like if I serve you a hot drink. You can choose to cause pain and suffering with it - throw it at someone, say - or you can follow my instructions to sip it slowly, let it cool and enjoy it, share it. I can't serve you a hot drink without the possibility that you will abuse it, unless I make you into a "hot drink robot" with no free will.

You could couch that as God inflicting the possibility of suffering in order to allow the possibility of beauty, love, passion, humanity.
That's a very strange thing for us Europeans. When I meet a new guy I will scan some cultural fields and see if we have some common ground where we can sit the discussion for a while, it could be post-modernist philosophy, classical music, anime, or porn even, but we need to find place to settle. Younger, I did the same with some people from the US and noticed big "!name dropping!" flags. Right, I was name dropping, just to try to find a common topic. I wasn't trying to shower anyone with "intellectualism", though: it is perfectly ok to not have read Proust. (But it would be weird and a no-go to have familiarity of no parts of cultural life except baseball and "football")
Because they have a monopoly on search?
What's the worst he's done?
Most hedge funds have very little to do with the kind of hedging you describe.

If you had that kind of exposure to currency risks, you wouldn't go to a hedge fund. You can easily hedge that risk yourself with futures or options. If you wanted to pay somebody for it, you would go to your banker and he would do it for you for a fraction of the 2/20 fees charged by hedge funds.
The one argument against is of course justice, that is, punishing cheaters in prisoner dilemmas, special and general prevention, etc.

However, the Stoic would advise to do the punishment (where appropriate and possible) without anger, but rather as one would punish a child that has transgressed - for the benefits arising from it.
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Not only do you get on average better returns, you can do better even when they perform poorly since those funds (in Canada) can charge you anywhere from 1.5% to 3% of your portfolio in fees (MER), while an index fund could charge as low as 0.1%.

https://www.wealthsimple.com/ (I'm a customer) has recently expanded into the US from Canada and are one of a group of what is being called Roboinvestors which take these index funds and let you easily invest in them.

Wealthsimple adds on 0.5% fee which is still lower then active funds, my portfolio has a weighted MER of 0.64%.
While it's true that there is a bit of incumbent/disruption element involved - the American south was probably the most advanced agricultural civilization ever, while the north invested heavily in the very disruptive industrial revolution - I'd say having broad swaths of their entire society burnt to the ground and then effectively confiscated by Northerners has much more to do with any present-day economic troubles.

Not to say they didn't deserve it, but the entire American south basically had to reboot. Some states figured it out (Virginia, North Carolina, Georgia), and others haven't done as well (Mississippi, Alabama, Tennessee).
The Andy Warhol Museum is worth the trip to Pittsburgh. We have this cultural concept that iconoclastic artists are temperamental and difficult to work with, but from all accounts Warhol was a consumate professional in his work, always seeking to give his clients his absolute best work, on time, on budget. And he worked constantly, maybe even obsessively. Very inspiring.
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I'd think the Stoics make for a much more edifying read than Nietzsche, though :-)
> if a hedge fund is actually worth investing in (and there are quite a few)

Apparently it is hard to come up with a collection of 5 of them that would beat the S&P 500 over 10 years. At least Buffett had a hard time finding counterparties for a bet.
For clarity can you edit your comment to add cozzyd (the OP you mention) - I am sometimes sarcastic but not in this case. I'll then delete this comment.
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Sometimes it is more important to not shoot oneself in the foot than it is to run.

These discussions always end up with two antagonistic camps, so let's acknowledge that we can choose the degree of language support, in keeping a program's semantics as intended, according to the circumstances. Language selection is an aspect of engineering judgement.