skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well, since I'm good at contrarian nitpickiness, I'm going to argue that it can. Mass can increase forever in a black hole, and if you keep accelerating, you get heavier and heavier so that you can never actually reach the speed of light. I guess you could argue that black holes will eventually run out of matter, and you would run out of accelerant, though. Conductivity is infinite in super-conductors (i.e. resistance=0). I don't see any reason why energy has any limit to how much it can be concentrated. I think people have argued that irrational numbers like Pi contain all possible strings (that is, of the characters [0-9]), although you may have to look pretty far out. So that would mean that the digits of Pi have infinite information.

Writing this makes me think the world is a stranger place than I thought. I would have said that a physical quantity cannot go up forever, but I've talked myself out of that.
Nah, he's doing fine now. I figure this company will just miss out on a bunch of good people because of the attitude. As a whole, they're not known for a good corporate culture or even retaining people long term. The more I think about it the more I wonder if I'm the bad guy now for suggesting my friends work here :)
How long would it take to study the books recommended here? Answer: years. Does it ever make sense to condense a comprehensive summary of mathematics into five page document? Perhaps, perhaps not.

I do know one thing: this was published in 2005, three years before the release of the Princeton Companion to Mathematics. I simply can't overstate how helpful owning a copy of the PCtM will be to any budding mathematican. Princeton University Press made a beautiful book which is worth its price several times over. (Don't think you can get by with Wikipedia! At over 1000 pages, the PCtM is stunning in its clarity and breadth of coverage.)

As for the paper, there are still a lot of gems here, which are worth considering, assuming you really are serious about teaching yourself mathematics and have purchased the PCtM. I studied mathematics in university but have always been an autodidact and something of a bibliophile, and I can say that most of the recommendations made here are the one's I would make as well. If nothing else, this list should save you a lot of time on Amazon and in the library chasing recommendations and references.

However, I do think it would be a strange thing indeed to hand this list over to somebody expecting to go out and buy a subset of it, and expect to be on his or her way to becoming a mathematician.

One of the reasons I recommended the PCtM instead is that there are clearly some missing perspectives that inevitably resulted from compressing all of mathematics into a short five page summary. The librarian who compiled this list did a fine job overall, but I think this list really bites off more than it can chew, in the sense that it would be impossible to convey all the different and conflicting perspectives that would need to inform a comprehensive summary of mathematics.

I would take each section of her paper as a starting point that ought to be supplemented by additional sources (or better yet, supplemented by reading the relevant section in the PCtM). As it stands, the list is overly academic and not sufficiently pedagogical, and too quickly jumps into advanced territory to be too useful to undergraduates. In particular, logic, geometry, representation theory, and physics are all incredibly important topics that can invigorate the subject, but the paper does not give them the attention they deserve. The author does mention Arnold's ODE book as an alternative that emphasizes "geometric ideas", which quite frankly is short shrift. (Look at the Mathoverflow [1] thread which discusses the topic of choosing an undergraduate text on differential equations, and you will see Arnold's ODE book mentioned several times over.)

I also feel the need to point out a complete absence of anything written by Michael Spivak, which is a crying shame. I would have expected to see at least his beautiful Calculus, to say nothing of his encyclopedic and highly pedagogical works on differential geometry. Also notably missing are books written by John Hubbard and Charles Pugh.

[1] http://mathoverflow.net/questions/28721/good-differential-eq...
How long has this been around?
Take the long view and enjoy yourself before you have kids. I felt the same way as you before, but in retrospect 1) you have plenty of time outside of work 2) the money you make is meaningful, you just don't know it yet.

Your rush has as more to do with your own psychological issues/needs (we all have them) than anything about your employer. Who are you trying to impress? What are you insecure about? What are you trying to make up for, or make right?

You're in a very good spot right now. Just take it slowly and don't screw it up. The time to quit is when you have your first customer and need more time to scale up. Otherwise quitting your job won't help you get there any faster.

My main regrets are mainly of the "you dummy, you should have just asked her out" type. As it turns out, you don't need a company for that.
This is an unsubstantiated smear, that does not match with my experience in any way.

And in any case, this is a real bill, that people had been warning about for days from many different sources.
One of the reasons I started my own company was then nobody but me was going to cancel a project I poured my efforts into.
I think Dennett responded too narrowly to the question and thus misreprested his own point of view. "A lion that talks like a human" is not a well formed thought experiment, since no real lion could talk like a human. A lion that that does wouldn't be like any lion we've ever seen. And if Koko could talk like a human, she too would no longer be like any gorilla we've seen. The main point of limited consciousness in lions is lost in an implausible fantastic model of a superintelligent lion that doesn't exist and never could. There's no point in extending that (lousy) line of reasoning to gorillas too.

Through our experience communicating with Koko and with higher primates like chimps, we've come to understand how much 'more conscious' a chimp is than a gorilla, and how we can better assess consciousness without using language. We've seen that the chimp is aware of more of the world than is a gorilla, both inner and outer worlds -- the content of one's own mind and the minds of others.

This really isn't so different from what Dennett espouses, that consciousness is a continuum that begins with a lowly few-cell organism that's aware of nothing in the universe more than a sugar gradient, and ends with another organism (man?) that's attuned to the loftiest truths and actively strives to achieve ideal/complete consciousness, or Satori.

I suspect that on reflection, Dennett would not defend his own "lion-ness" argument for the same reasons you suggest. Koko is an existence proof to the contrary.
Does the federal government build many sidewalks?
And they get to use open source libraries without having to share any single piece of their changes.
Having kids really flipped the switch for me. Now I'm too tired to be a night owl - my best brain / work is always in the mornings.
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You can turn a BeagleBone black into a 100Msps logic analyzer, no USB mess:

http://beagleboard.org/project/beaglelogic/
It sounds like BSD stays relevant because of the license which is attractive to corporations ( but not so for developers) which leads to corporate class funding and a bit of zfs/pf kind of technical advantage.
Food is more everything than college and it didnt raise prices the same way. College tuition has specific market conditions to be the way it is.
A) You should presumably still have a good passphrase.

B) You choose which 3rd Party to trust. There are many options with different security/trust/threat models.

(Example: lately I've been using an encrypted share in Resilio Sync where the "cloud" option for me is a dumb VPS that can share the folder torrent but does not have decryption keys into the contents.)
In a way that is true - the majority of end users has no clue what IPv6 even is.

Years ago (~2005-2006) I called my ISP's hotline to ask if there was a way to get native IPv6 - the support person did not even know what it was.

It is baffling, though, how stubborn some ISPs are. All the hoops they have to jump through to keep IPv4 working must cost something, too.
It matches my experience exactly.
I'm sorry you feel differently but it isn't an "unsubstantiated smear".
I'm sure it varies by provider/location, but the one I am with is decently priced and if I do a bandwidth test its only about 5MBPS slower when connected compared to when I am not. I forget what the upload was, but it was good enough for me.
I think most people would suggest that, if your use case is at a stage where that is important to you, Swarm is not the right thing. Kubernetes or ECS are better choices.
Recommendations? Last time I thought about it, PIA was the recommended service but I know this stuff can change on a weekly basis. Edit: In US, not opposed to loosing speed going overseas, I've got more than enough. Also, how do people typically pay?
Interesting question - I wonder if any of the candidates in the French Presidential election upcoming are using Cambridge Analytica (Le Pen?). Not that we could easily find out...
Corrective feedback loops, Elon Musk’s biggest challenge
It seems like the "ASCII puke" concrete syntax for regex patterns doesn't scale that well. Regular expressions have binary operators, parenthesization, named groups, lookaheads, etc.-- if you're building a sophisticated regex of more than 10 characters or so, why not have some kind of an object model for this stuff so you can have reasonable forms of composition, naming of intermediate values in construction of a larger pattern, and the ability to attach modifiers to things without needing to pack more @#$%&*!^ un-Googleable junk into string literals?
The PR campaign won't be targeting users, it'll be targeting business/site owners. A user might be annoyed that random sites stop working, but the people who operate those sites will see their traffic fall off a cliff.

The only effective solution to stop the pain will be to switch to a new cert as quickly as possible, and that only hurts Symantec, not Google
Does anyone use Keeper? How is it? I need a password manager that supports Linux so it seems that LastPass, Keeper, Enpass, and Keypass are the only options.
https://keepersecurity.com/
> Battery could be problematic indeed, but before looking at my text editor, I would probably first switch from KDE to i3, and then use a lightweight web browser. This would impact it much more than my text editor.

This item is about VS Code consuming 13 % CPU when idle, which is bigger than the difference in idle CPU between KDE and i3 (if you don't have fancy widgets, it's about ~nil).
Could actually dodgy sites then imitate bank websites, ask the same of users and then commit a MITM attack?

I'd much rather be able to say -- 'no, never manually trust a cert', instead of 'well, ok, for now yes in this one case if you're sure there's no typos in the URL... What? Yeah, the text at the top in the little bar... argh'.

I hope I'm missing something here, but even better I hope Symantec and banks get their acts together.
SYMC is at an all time high, and every one of their EV certificate customers is about to start talking to different security vendors. The Jan18, Jan19 near ATM puts are quite reasonably priced.
I have also been waiting for the day... Maybe in a few years this Linux subsystem for Windows will start to mold things in this direction?
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Only in some areas. I grew up in one of those flyover states, according to wikipedia the demographics of my town were 97% white while I was a teenager (~94% white now).

I much prefer being in more diverse areas, but I don't think where I grew up was somehow bad or wrong. It is a very middle class place, so it's not like the minorities were being pushed out, there just weren't many non-white people that wanted/want to live there! ...but to be fair, a lot of white people don't want to live there either, it's quite boring.
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If rolexes could only be bought from other consumers who actually want to keep them unless they can sell well above their purchase price, people might say there's a shortage.
TLDR: Look at the IdenTrust numbers if you want to know the real Let's Encrypt numbers.

Not many people use Let's Encrypt's own root for their validation chain when they use Let's Encrypt certificates. The Let's Encrypt root is not propagated widely enough across clients.

We (Let's Encrypt) have a cross-signature from IdenTrust, that's what most people use because it's widely trusted. IdenTrust issuance is otherwise very small, so you can effectively consider the IdenTrust numbers in charts like this to be a proxy for Let's Encrypt.

-Josh from Let's Encrypt
For one reason, it's the system we have now. There's a lot of industry inertia that would simply be easier to keep than throw away and switch to a new system. If you want to convince everyone to switch, the question is really, "Why not just ads?", especially if it's relatively easy to fix the problems we face now. From a practical perspective, you need to convince all the stakeholders to abandon ads, which isn't easy.

But yeah, personally I'd prefer a different system. I really like the idea of micropayments, but I don't know how that would look exactly.
fact comes from to do ... thoese aren't the same operations being done
> How'd you like to be an ethnic Russian living in Latvia when this guy decides demonizing your entire cohort would be a good way to "influence voting behavior?"

Ask any Hispanic in the US.
Is there an adequate (or easy?) solutions for gamers? I'm ok with a bit of extra latency (30ms -> 50ms lets say), but I'm not at all ok with that for say Counter Strike.
> Having other people actually use the stuff is the best part for me.

That's right. It's why I rarely invest the time writing a program just for my own amusement. To me that's like building a model train layout in the basement, that nobody but me will see, and when I sell the house the next owner will rip it all out.
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The idea might be: you can sell your bat for bitcoin to advertisers
There are no technological solutions for sociopolitical problems.
Many only use logos to retroactively justify decisions already made by pathos; and ethos comes into play to undermine the credibility of those with a logos that would negatively impact our own pathos.

Basically a witch hunt because nobody wants to accept that others may have differences than us and that's okay! It doesn't make them dangerous, it doesn't make them criminals.

Every culture, every nation, every race and both sexes have their bad apples, their despots, their angry, disaffected troublemakers. They are the few. They are not the majority in any case. So now we're ostracizing huge groups of people based on the the largest voting class's perception of a tiny fraction of a massive group that they perceive is different than them.

It's the equivalent taking out a social media campaign to whip up a frenzy boycotting MacDonalds because one pissed off spotty white kid who works there, who you slighted on Facebook for spitting in your food, hunted you down and torched your car in retaliation and happened to be caught on CCTV wearing his MacDonalds uniform while he was doing it.

Cambridge Analytica is using social media to effect massive swings in consumer sentiment against whole segments of the population in order to swing votes in a way that's favourable to an agenda that is so far unclear, except that it seems to be tearing whole nations apart and in turn flipping the world order on its head. How it will play out is unclear, but it doesn't feel like this is heading anywhere good.
I don't understand this line of thinking for a couple of reasons:

1) Framing diversity as being about white people avoiding anxiety by surrounding themselves with people from other ethnic groups is egocentric and weird. Pushing for diversity is ideally about expanding access to lucrative careers, not bringing in people-as-window-dressing.

2) On the note of lucrative careers, comparing membership in a well-paid, prestigious career field within (say) the United States with being born in a more ethnically homogeneous country is disingenuous. It's the very fact that we don't live in a mono-culture that should make us wonder about the high correlation between being white and male and being in our field.
It always amazes and dismays me, how much construction goes on in which developers are not required to build sidewalks.
You build custom retained-mode APIs on top of the immediate mode APIs—they're called game engines.

What happens if you try to present an immediate mode API for UIs is the status quo with APIs like Skia-GL. You frequently end up switching shaders and issuing a new draw call every time you draw a rectangle, and you draw strictly in back to front order so you completely lose your Z-buffer.

Imagine if games worked like that: drawing in back to front order and switching shaders every time you drew a triangle. Your performance would be terrible. But that's the API that these '90s style UI libraries force you into. Nobody thought that state changes would be expensive or that Z-buffers could exist when Win32, GTK, etc. were designed. They strictly drew using the painter's algorithm, and they used highly specialized routines for every little widget piece because minimizing memory bandwidth was way more important than avoiding state changes. But the hardware landscape is different now. That requires a different approach instead of blindly copying what the "native" APIs did in 1995.
Well this is pretty much the beggining of the end then.
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> make advertising work in a way that helps everyone.

Right here is where it all falls apart. There _is no_ way.
Having minigames during loading or installation was actually patented by Namco for Ridge Racer, I believe. I'm not quite sure about the details since I seem to recall things like invade-a-load on my Commodore 64 at least a decade earlier, but there you go.
TL;DR: in 2016 Symantec issued unauthorized certs for example.com (owned by ICANN) and a multi-domain cert with SANs for test1.com, test2.com, test3.com... even though those domains are each owned by very different organizations and did not all agree to have a common cert.
> If it takes someone with expert skills in computers almost a year to find a good password manager program, not to mention days worth of work importing into and testing various solutions, what chance does your everyday computer user stand?

The reason why I hate these kinds of threads in IT communities is that we usually don't seem to talk about the issue(s) the article is referring to.

Take this one for example. There's much more discussion about what works for who than the actual content of the article. And then I followed an article linked in the comment here about getting 1Password to run on Linux. And at the bottom of the article there was a link to the HackerNews thread about that article. And the situation is exactly the same.

Out of 57 comments in that thread (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9091691), only four are actually related to running 1Password on Linux, and none of them is actually related to someone actually trying the method from the article and sharing his/her experience. 53/57 comments are basically "I use X because of Y".
It's a risk, albeit a small one. Individual passwords are easy to change if compromised. I have personally never miscopied them. Both pass and KeePass will automatically clear your clipboard a little while after copying the password.

However, losing every single password at once, without your knowledge, direct to an adversary due to a LastPass vulnerability is a much more severe problem.
No. It is unsubstantiated because you have provided no substantiation. To anybody that is not you "their recent track record" is not a meaningful statement without some context or citation.
How much does HTTPS circumvent this? In theory the ISP would only know what domain you were on, but not what content you were viewing, correct?
No, it wouldn't. Because most 'last mile' areas don't have sidewalks. Hell, the roads don't even names beyond "County Road 31".
I think we are in need of an open discussion on redefining "diversity".

Race is not a good metric for diversity. Nationality completely trumps it.

People of the same nationality with the same primary language have much more in common with each other. You can actually see this dynamic play out at work where people hang out with others from the same nationality. Americans hang out with Americans, Mandarin Chinese hang out with Mandarin Chinese, Indians with other Indians (don't know enough about Indian culture to split this group up further), Germans with Germans, etc.

Cultural_Difference(random_nationality1, random_nationality2) > Cultural_Difference(same_nationality_different_race1, same_nationality_different_race2)

With this metric, tech is one of the most diverse fields in the world.

Seen through this new point of view, the racial categories are very shortsighted. The difference between Indian and Chinese (or even Chinese and Korean) cultures is immense, yet they are assigned as part of the same category. African Americans have their own category, yet they are culturally and linguistically(same native language) very similar to white Americans.

Now let's move onto the controversial "disadvantages" discussion.

African Americans generally have family whose native language is English and who understand American culture and can impart these skills and knowledge to their children. They have the language and cultural knowledge to fight for their interests and a powerful organization (NCAAP) to back them up. With these advantages, African Americans are basically seen as honorary Americans similar to white Americans. These advantages even put them in a better position than white immigrants (and sometimes their American born children who have a harder time assimilating).

With these advantages and affirmative action based advantages(educational programs, scholarships, diversity internships and hiring, easy access to colleges/universities from affirmative action[works out to something like +150/2400 SAT and +0.2 GPA which is huge when competing in top percentiles]) middle class and upper middle class African Americans are very privileged.

Edit:

And on disadvantages in the workplace.

Americans are the largest group and the language spoken is English, so Americans (of any race) and native English speakers are privileged.
> in my experience program committees generally regard difficulty as a negative for a paper.

I don't know if we're talking about the same type of difficulty. I don't think program committees see the difficulty of the problem being solved at the core of the paper as a "negative" necessarily?

> The main thing PCs want is for papers which make progress on important problems. Now, you can do this either by (1) attacking existing open problems, or (2) by finding new important problems.

My earlier note aside, I think this is an extremely important point. It seems to support the idea that "impact" is hard to gauge but much easier when the community has already arrived at some form of consensus on the importance of a problem.
At first I was thinking "stupid click bait title", then I saw the pictures. Anything making those craters is properly an explosion. Anything heard 100km away is properly and explosion.

If anything this article plays it down with words like eruption and venting. This seems super dangerous for people in the area. And dangerous in the climate change sense for the rest of us.
VSCode best use is not for text-editing, its main target is to work as an small version of a full-blown IDE. Use the right tool for the job.