skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ugh...that's not good. Are they using their own approach for (supposedly) safe eval(), or some library that other packages might be using?
Myth.

Child mortality pulls down the average:

http://www.livescience.com/10569-human-lifespans-constant-2-...

While adult life expectancy has increased somewhat thanks to sanitation and antibiotics, there has never been a time when adult life expectancy was a mere 35 years.
I didn't ask PDF for interactivity, i asked PDF for taking notes. The theory is so solid.
#Phishing campaigns target #airline consumers seeking business credentials
No they are not happy. This is why there are deals on apartments in many buildings with vacancies. A great example of this is the big "L7" complex that just started renting the first finished units at 8th and Harrison. Those studios are advertised as $3000/mo but with two free months now given to those who lease for a year which means they are actually $2500/mo units. This kind of gaming is going on all over the market and there will probably be some property owners slash bag holders selling off assets and being restructured in order to get through this. Much of the recent construction was based on the idea that the market could support any amount of luxury units that were built. The current slump is testing that.
I'm a long time subscriber to The Economist. While the authors are very adamant that free markets are the best solution to most problems, I don't think any of them would consider acceptable a system that didn't provide universal health care and free public education as the U.K. does. While some would consider them libertarian, others would call them socialist.
lengthy and dry, and although it was intended to amuse, it overstayed it welcome. sorry.
As near as I can tell, you can apply to only one with the same email address. The best dodge is to use use a gmail.com address with a plus-address. If your usual gmail account is rhizome@gmail.com, you can try rhizome+oracle@gmail.com and rhizome+cisco@gmail.com and both of these will land in your rhizome@gmail.com account, but I think there is still a problem when you reply to taleo.
I'd be interested in seeing the rational behind the fairshare policy. I suppose theoretically the firstfit policy could result in starvation via one thread constantly preempting another during the lock contention, but I don't imagine that would happen very often in practise.
Warm greetings to m'friends at HackerNews from an astronomer who's blushing from this attention.

Like most old school hackers, I try to explore ideas that keep me awake ... the "I wonder if I can make an x" where x may be a topological manifold, an arduino line-follower, a garden leaf moulded into ceramic, a Penrose tile pattern, an LTE geolocation algorithm...

And, as most of you realize, this Klein bottle microbusiness is mainly to have fun and stay busy -- a chance to fool with everything from math to glassblowing.

Best part, of course, is meeting math folk, students, computer jocks, and random visitors. To each, I hope, I leave the strong encouragement to keep exploring!

My warm wishes to each of you, on a sunny Sunday morning in Oakland, California!

-Cliff (who's typing with dough on his fingers, left from mixing up scones for breakfast)
I am not convinced that people in the bottom or top have the same dream as the rest; and I am not convinced the article title is the best one for the content.

Her comment: "Salt Lake City is a very weird place." made me think more. Having experience in nearly all the states, SLC is truly unique. It is easy to imagine myself in almost all of the US, but SLC is hard for me, and thus I would agree with her statement.

HOwever - UTAH is probably the best state for national parks and state parks. If you had to choose just one, I would choose Utah.
In the American political climate, the only people advocating something like traditional liberalism are the libertarians. And libertarianism is, roughly, exaggerated liberalism.

I know personally I identified as a left-libertarian and then realized that classical liberal was a more legible way to express the same positions.
"Disastrous" seems to be a bit of an understatement:

> "Producers cursed, public relations men wept, Fleet Street cheered and jeered and the kangaroo - stuck in a lift - went berserk."
Now I want €('p').addClass('euro-rules');
That's all pretty fair. Maybe we agree more than we disagree after all.

Also, FWIW, Rust's regex engine guarantees linear time search. (Interestingly, it may decide to use backtracking to resolve the search, but it's only an optimization. And the backtracking is always bounded so that it never revisits the same state on the same input byte.)
I think it's safe to say people have noticed

IMHO, it would have been solved sooner had more people been working on it. I think only 5 or so people had or were working on it?
As I understand it, in most productions these days, "808 type sounds" often tend to either be sampled (and manipulated), or synthesized from something else.

In other words, whether Kanye had access to an original 808 or not, the Akai MPC you see in the picture probably also played a prominent role. :) I also understand Kanye's big on using an old Ensoniq ASR-10 for sampling duties.
Even if the software is bad, it can still add stickiness.

Switching away from a Samsung phone would introduce unfamiliarity, so the user might perceive the better vanilla apps as bad.

That said, Samsung's main reason for all of this is probably to gain some leverage against Google's fairly aggressive licensing terms. If they can threaten to release a Google free Android device, they have something to negotiate with.
> It also helps if you don't have entrenched poor communities

Even still, the article does address this - "another economics professor at Brigham Young told me that his church ward had recently deliberately expanded its boundaries to include a nearby trailer park."

I think this is a key ingredient to effective upward mobility: mixing of social classes. If you have setting multiple times a a week (church) where entrenched poor (trailer park) can mingle and interact with middle and upper class, that's a huge boon for the poor. Simply giving money to the poor in the form of an impersonal government check on the other hand is very ineffective.
Everything about this, from the blogspot-hosted press release to the description of the underlying technology, looks sketchy as hell:

> Rainbow payments are served over 'https', this protects users data as its streamed over the network and avoid any interference. User pages may use 'http' over time , but this does not in any way make the connection insure, due to a strong cloud security.
Background: I'm a computer-nerd, but since Treos and my first HTC G1, I have not been a phone nerd in years, just a semi-power-user.
My Android phones have been G1, S2, S5, Xperia X Performance. I've frequently borrowed and used various Nexuses/Nexi though.

Verdict:
I love Samsung base apps (messages, phone, etc). I've used Nexus, and now have Xperia [don't ask why], and I miss a million little things about Samsung. Changing font sizes in messages, integration between contacts & phone & logs, the design & usability. Can provide examples and details if interested - all of them are LITTLE things, but make my hourly life easier.

I do not in general use their "bigger" apps - with eventual exception of Fitness/health app, which I found pretty nifty.

I also repeatedly find that I prefer Samsung quick-bar to Google's Quick Bar, as absolutely hate Google's Wi-Fi button and selection.

Oh, and the fact I cannot have a simple button on home screen to start USB Tethering is driving me crazy (trivial on Samsung).
Well that's pretty weird. I tried it on a Chrome Incognito tab on my Nexus 5X, and that worked fine too.
The next implication, that my ISP should be competing with google and facebook, and that it would somehow level the playing field is at it's face ridiculous.

I suppose the postal service should want to read our mail and the same isp's should need to listen to our phone calls; after all, it's only fair if Google or Facebook get to see the information we send to them.

We either need to somehow incentivize more ISPs so the free market can fix these problems, or just regulate the hell out of them as a public good. Pretending they aren't a monopoly and don't need regulation because they exist in the free market today is incredibly anti-consumer.
My first exposure to Roland was watching Adamski playing live with a 909 drum machine back in 1990. Really mind blowing to see that one person could be the whole band. My first drum machine was a roland 707, by the early 90s their analog gear was hard to find but their digital gear still had the same beautiful approach to user interface design. I learned midi sequencing with a roland jv-80.
Ah yes, you are absolutely right. I actually modified Rust's regex C API in part because of this problem in Go. I can't remember the details, but they were similar to your example where the only way to work around it was an unavoidable additional allocation.

(Of course, I think the change led to a better overall API. Go just helped me get there in a circuitous way.)
You can actually get a performance profile very much like Go's out of Java...

* Inasmuch as you can make a blanket statement like this about a language, Go's speed is very much comparable to Java's.

* Java has a huge number of garbage collectors available. You're just talking about the default, but there are extremely low-latency GCs.

* Java has a bunch of ahead-of-time compilers; thanks to Android this might be the most common deployment of Java.

Even green threads were tried (and sensibly abandoned) in Java before.

I think people may not be aware of all the options available in the Java ecosystem, but other than sized types, which are theoretically coming to Java 10, there isn't much performance-wise that Go does and Java doesn't.
On a forum where there are a lot of software​ developers, the fact that their work can freely be stolen "because it's a small market" may not be as much of a selling point as you'd think.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13966088
How to Disable Suggested Apps in the Start Menu in Windows 10
Ask HN: Why are more and more websites asking for phone numbers?
Some, outright demand it. This would be considered unacceptable just 2 years ago. They don't even pretend it's for 2FA now.
LOL, nice stuff
This bodes well for Men With Work (or ambition).

Also bodes well for pro-UBC arguments.

I don't think the early pioneers needed "work" to catch food, build shelter, and grow a harvest.
Wow that is a fair point. I presumed he was more likely a woman given the wording and that polygamy is uncommon. Even in Mormonism. I concede my position.
One either loves Chesterton or is bored by him. But in any case, this was very much typical of how Chesterton wrote.
Two points:

1. You're wrong about it being just culture and governance -- history and geography play a big role in why we see things developed as they are.

2. Even if it were, your comment is useless. You claim it's culture and governance, not just governance. With part of it being cultural homogeneity (as the GP said...), which is itself a quirk of history and geography, it doesn't follow that changing governance to match would lead to the same outcomes, since cultures wouldn't match (and likely be less homogeneous).
> which in turn can be used as an intelligence data source.

I find it ironic that so many people are distrustful of the government in some areas (intelligence, defense), yet at the same time wanting the government to take a bigger and more central role in their lives (social services, etc.). It's the same government across the board.
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I am guessing you don't read the NY Times daily or on a regular basis then. The NY Times is quite regularly critical about Wall Street shenanigans and its rampant sexism. Here is an article from this past summer specifically specifically calling out "Bro culture" on Wall Street and its rampant sexism in the work place:

"How Wall Street Bro Talk Keeps Women Down":

https://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/10/opinion/sunday/how-wall-s...

Here is another Op piece from a month ago calling out Wall Street on the refusal of its CEOs to put any of their own skin in the game.

"Welcome Back, Wall Street. Now Pay Us Back.":

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/10/opinion/sunday/welcome-ba...

Such pieces critical of Wall Street are quite regular in the NYTimes.

It's easy to see the NYTimes as singling out S.V. because people regularly submit NYTimes coverage of S.V. to Hacker News. In fact in the last couple of years it seems there's been a perceptible uptick of S.V stories from the NYTimes that wind up on HN.

So no the trouble isn't always "over there" according to the NYTimes, similar problems in their own backyard feature quite regularly as well.
To be fair, education requires a lot of money, in teaching and even more so in lost labor.
I don't know too much about Star Wars, but is there anything that actually indicates Darth Vader would be politically right-leaning? The empire could very well be authoritarian-left.
The primes become more sparse in the integers as you go farther. For most reasonable definitions of the density of composite integers in the integers, the density would be 100%.

Iirc, it is believed that the number of primes less than n is O(n/log(n)), so primes/integers among the first n integers should go as O(1/log(n)), so goes to 0 as n goes to infinity.
Couldn't you just as easily use a balloon on a tether?
It should be noted that Manjaro is phasing out x86. From Manjaro v17.1 Hakoila onward they will only be supporting ARM[1].

[1] https://manjaro.org/2017/04/01/phasing-out-x86-architecture-...
What is property based testing?
>> Not to mention that MIT and other 'elite schools' barely teach well anyways.

> Ignore this person, they don't know what they are talking about.

On the mean these schools have more knowledgeable professors, and regardless of teaching talent will push a course as far as the class can take. So, I found that when reaching grad school students coming from the Ivy's simply covered more in their courses (though not necessarily with more effort or better technique).

State schools aren't always better teaching wise: at many research universities a teaching award can be a kiss of death for gaining tenure, and gaining it tends afflicts professors in the same way.
I love the cleverness of old games and the tricks used to produce compelling effects on underpowered hardware.
This is not entirely true anymore: https://blog.nylas.com/nylas-mail-is-now-free-8350d6a1044d
I don't think that tells you anything without comparing to the infinitude of composites too. The fraction of numbers less than n that are prime is roughly 1/logn, which goes to zero in the limit. So I think the limit of numbers with factors less than n as n goes to infinity must indeed be 100%.

That doesn't mean there's an n with 100%, just that there's no smaller limit that some n doesn't exceed.
I suspect that when troll refers to dragging anything, it's just a spelling and regional pronunciation variant on trawl.

According to etymonline.com, the etymology of "trawl" is:

1560s, from Dutch tragelen, from Middle Dutch traghelen "to drag," from traghel "dragnet," probably from Latin tragula "dragnet." Related: Trawled; trawling.

Now, "troll" verb:

late 14c., "to go about, stroll," later (early 15c.) "roll from side to side, trundle," probably from Old French troller, a hunting term, "wander, to go in quest of game without purpose" (Modern French trôler), from a Germanic source (compare Old High German trollen "to walk with short steps"), from Proto-Germanic truzlanan.*

It's rather related to "stroll". Nothing in the semantics about fishing.

I suspect that "troll" in longline fishing in fact refers to the long line with many hooks being pulled around; i.e. "trawled".
> whereas the 1Password [extension] merely communicates with the app.

wait. the communication goes what way?? You make it sound like the 1Password extension (that doesn't handle encryption, therefore is not authenticated) can request password and credential data from the 1Password app, like it's pulling data from it?

How does the 1Password app know that whatever process is making that request is in fact made by that particular browser extension, prompted by user-action on the extension that is the same user as the one that unlocked the encrypted password vault in the app? And if it doesn't why are you storing your passwords in it :)

Are we all clear on what a password manager is? Maybe we should start with a good definition, such as:

A password manager is an application that manages an encrypted database, that when unlocked by the user, can be prompted by the user, to decrypt an entry from the database, and send one or more fields of that entry to a specified receiving application's input/login field(s). Communication only flows from the user prompting, to the password manager, to the receiving application. Not the other way around.

Ok that's not a full definition yet, it also needs a bit about how to store the encrypted database, how not to sync it, not keeping any keys or plaintext in memory any longer than strictly necessary, etc etc.

But it's good if we'd have a definition like that, something that is waterproof by definition.
Every time Apple releases an underwhelming new Mac I look around to see if it's time to switch back to Windows. "It's a new Microsoft!" people keep saying. "Things are way better now; Satya Nadella has turned the whole thing around."

But it's shit like this that keeps me walking into Apple stores. Sure, the Touch Bar is underwhelming and I already miss my escape key -- but at least Apple isn't _monetising the dock_.
I think there are a few more factors to consider to accurately account for any discrepancy. Early admission candidates have a 3 times greater acceptance rate generally. My guess is more legacy candidates apply early. 2. How many of these legacy candidates have buildings named after their family? Generally, for these families, 3-4 siblings will attend the same college. If 8% of the class is a legacy, would it be fair to assume 1% of these students have had families who have made large donations?
Phone numbers are more convenient in contrary to email: every individual has only one phone number, which hardly ever changes. They consider the phone number as unique identifier of a user.

Many websites think that lots of users have multiple emails and thus maybe sign up twice. Again, it's only about convenience.
Those things aren't designed for the dedicated guy who can pick it, they're designed for someone who breaks in and just grabs laptops as they go.
Really the reason you want to go to an "elite" university is for two things: networking and opportunity. Teaching quality will average out over any reasonably good university. Research quality is totally different, but doesn't matter much as an undergrad unless you get lucky with your dissertation supervisor. At my university our dissertation choices were essentially random, though you could specify your top three.

Opportunity? The best universities can afford to ship in TED-class speakers every week, you get an instant boost in job applications and some companies directly headhunt the best students. Shedloads of funding means world class sports facilities, heavily subsidised student societies and entertainment. Depending where you go, you can hobnob with people who are highly likely to be successful [1] if that's an area you want to go into.

This is, I think, subtly different from top high schools. The difference there is that often the teaching is significantly better than at state/public funded schools. On top of that you have the opportunities that those schools can afford.

I'm not disagreeing that this is elitism, but that teaching quality should probably be a middling priority for most people.

[1] The classic example is PPE at Oxford: https://www.theguardian.com/education/2017/feb/23/ppe-oxford...
AFAIK the problem is the additives, not the polymers themselves.
I think part of their assertion is that even being able to play the game for free isn't necessarily a good thing. It's an interesting problem, one that I am still on the fence about myself.

You see companies that are trying their best to make their games compulsive but not fulfilling. Or companies that aren't trying to do that but do so anyways. Games that consist entirely or nearly entirely of extrinsic motivators; at what point are we playing these games because we are genuinely entertained, and at what point has it become a compulsion leveraging our psychological vulnerabilities? At what point is something that we perceive to be enjoying actually harming us? And if there is a point at which that occurs, what can we do about it?

I struggle with this question on both sides of the fence: as a consumer and as a producer. It is complex, and sometimes this very question keeps me up at night. The question is so much more complicated than "am I having fun," or even "do I perceive that I'm getting value out of this."

Sadly, I don't have any answers. Just a lot of doubts.
Yes couldn't have said it better.

To clarify, I said bullshit because "bullshit" is a term used to refer to smug intellectuals who have an impure agenda and package them with "scientific" methods so the "common people" will just believe them. it's like how those cigarette companies fund researches to prove that cigarettes are good for your health. It's bullshit, and they should be ashamed of themselves for hiding behind bullshit science and doing their propaganda and mislead the public.

So yeah, I think no matter how great the tools are, if you use it wrong, it is bullshit. Just like knife can be used for cooking but also killing people.
> chaach, aloo prantha, sarso da saag, lehsun ki chutney and much more. Burrp.

Now i'm hungry
I've never found the quality of articles in The Economist to be particularly good. They're often very broad summaries of a situation lacking any particular depth, combined with a fairly banal analysis that seems to restate the current consensus opinion. The analysis can be pretty wrong, particularly for stories that are less talked about in the West (one where it's harder to simply summarize the current consensus opinion).

The do seem to have a fairly wide breadth. But given a particular topic, I'm likely to learn much more from an in depth article from most mainstream sources than from an article in the economist.
A Machine Learning Book
Are you looking for an AI, ML or a math tutor?

Also, what courses did you take so far (university, etc) for the above, and what do you feel is lacking?