skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> In Parkinson's original and fictional example, members of an organisation give disproportionate weight to trivial issues. This is not a matter of sequence or independence.

But it's a matter of psychology of the organization members, not
a technical issue. On the other hand, priority inversion is purely technical
thing.

And then, the reactor could easily be built without bike shed finished. The
two tasks are independent. Inversion of priorities happens precisely because
the high priority task cannot be finished without the low priority task.

Thus, both the field the term operates on and the term's mechanics are
completely different.

> With respect to similarity, I will equate priority and weight.

And that's about the only aspect of the two terms that is similar. Both talk
about two objects with vastly different (nominal) importance.
The issue for me isn't performance as in speed but performance as in battery life. Chrome, and hence any electron app, by far uses the most energy on my laptop.
Advocates of this general position, whether it's Peter Thiel and "hey don't go to college I'll just pay you" or this author's "hey your job isn't that complicated, you can figure it out in less time for less money", all miss the point of college.

The best purpose of college is to make you a reasonable citizen in a democracy. Most Americans voting in elections can't even name the Vice President, let alone articulate what plenary powers are, what the 4th and 5th amendments say (or seriously any amendment), name more than 3 executive branch departments (Defense, State and... uh...), point out where Iraq is on a map, etc. It's really no surprise we get the elected officials we get.

Sure, professional training is important and I think our education system is not particularly efficient about it. But education is more than just "here's how you work for the man". It's supposed to make you a well-rounded, well-educated citizen so you can participate effectively in a democratic government.

Which is why things like public education, state colleges and universities, a separation of religion and education, and state subsidized college tuition are so important, and why religious schools, charter schools, and for-profit colleges/universities are so antithetical to democracy: their agenda is entirely separate from "be a well-educated democratic citizen".
Would You Plug In? – Would It Be Wise to Chose to Upload Your Brain?
That is a great idea and great metaphor to describe your new language.
I'v been experimenting with trying to make a smaller Electron like Javascript application wrapper. It's called Shrinkray, and only adds 60K of overhead to the size of the app. See:
https://github.com/francoislaberge/shrinkray

It is macOS only (for now). I haven't measured if it is more performant when in the background, but I will. It'seems certainly way smaller in disk size, but comes with tradeoffs in API/functionality.
That's not quite true. Catholics pray for their ancestors and pray to the saints when not praying straight to God.
Yes, panettone. Pannetone is not a thing, only a spelling mistake no Italian would do. No hard feelings, I keep making spelling mistakes no native English speaker would do.
I checked quickly on Amazon, which defaults to the UK one [1].

In Denmark, where I live, they go for 1700 DKK[2], which is $242. Want me to ship one for you?

[1]: https://www.amazon.co.uk/HP-Enterprise-ProLiant-MicroServer-...

[2]: https://www.computersalg.dk/i/1211353/hpe-proliant-microserv...
youtube ads :\
Heh, props, I'm not disappointed, and yes that's a much better callback! But that is not implemented in the 5 lines of code you linked to is it? :)
As participation increases, quality declines, unless there are structural safeguards built into the system. I see nothing in Electron which suggests structural quality. I wonder whether rose-colored glasses are overly tinting the viewpoints of folks in the JS community.
I'm curious - does she have an engaged "education supervisor" of some sort for this? Like you or a parent? I have no educational experience, but my thinking is that these things are likely to work well with someone engaged and capable in motivating progress. This (again, in my non-professional opinion) is the most important role of a teacher. The presentation of material is much easier to replace with books, videos, and published exercises.
Atheism is not dogma. That's wordsmithing to help believers in god feel comfort in a false equivalency between conception withour sperm and the cosmos / observable world empiricism.
Excuse my potentially dumb question, but what is the point of hoarding cash like that? would it not be more useful to reinvest it?
I asked two friends about my itching woes. Both are gardeners so have dealt with maddening itches. Their response: "I ask my doctor and he gives me a prednisone pill. The itching disappears; 3 days later I'm OK."

In the case of the fungus, prednisone would have been a mistake, but I nonetheless sometimes feel I am a target for a form of alternative medicine. Why didn't _I_ get a prednisone pill instead of a tub of corticosteroid lard?

As for chiggers: in college I got a serious case of chiggers from a romantic blanket evening in the Texas desert. We two were apparently the only mammals within miles as every chigger available mobilized to fulfill its Darwinian destiny. Next morning I awoke up with a maddening itch everywhere (and I do mean _everywhere_) that lasted until the chiggers died (~3 days IIRC). Best treatment was to take as hot a shower as possible [The only thing better than sex is steaming hot water on chigger bites - it's like the Scratch of God]. Rest 30 minutes and repeat. I've heard a hair dryer works too. Thanks to your recommendation I'll keep the tub of steroid cream around just in case.
In recent years i wonder if the net has become the playground of "griefers". Meaning people that exploit the pseudonymity of the net to sling vitriol at any and all topics that catch their attention. Thus it becomes hard to tell how many are actually in disagreement.

It may well have started with Anonymous, but turned nasty somewhere around Gamersgate.
OK the UA iOS app definitely has problems.

I wonder how it stacks up against other airlines' apps?

How do the airlines' apps stack up against 3rd-party apps like Kayak?
i am from continental Europe and by my memory best bread I ate was in Turkey, while I have great memories about Filipino cakes available from small bakeries on every corner almost for free, was seriously addicted to them when traveling in Philippines

people defending their own cuisine are usually people who haven't traveled enough to compare

i am also always amazed for instance by popularity of Thai cuisine while personally I find Malay cuisine superior if I had to decide what to eat for rest of my life and consider Georgetown food capital of world (though I haven't visited that many destinations, so take this with grain of salt)
The central issue is that networks are trained on a limited database of images (usually imagenet) and then frozen in time. Going beyond this involves evolving the nature of networks, and there's nothing the human brain can do that can't be done.

The design of networks is limited by the dataset, since researchers are just trying to hit the metric for the dataset. Better datasets will lead to better networks. Better data eventually means billions of cameras, for example.
The social network for introverts
There's the phenomenon of "cultural" Christians (of all denominations)who
only attend church for lifecycle events and major holidays like Christmas and Easter.

Quite often they are looked down upon by more heated Protestants.
Unless the machines figure out how to subvert time itself which is what happens, all because of carelessness on the part of developers and their insistence on tabs.
I agree, I am sure some of my views will be judged to be wrong, horrifying. One I have thought of is because I like to eat meat, I'll be judged to be a monster. I have considered becoming a vegatarian, but I do love a steak with wine, or a burger. I used to visit my grandmother's farm when I was a kid and we had cows and chickens, and I'm under no misconceptions about where food comes from :-)

Actually I'm interested in learning more about the world and educating my self and not just being stuck on one view of what is right and wrong.

I will disagree with one thing your wrote, about ideas coming and and out of fashion over time - certainly that happens but the idea of civil rights for all individuals must be a universal thing. I think that's very different than views about religion or proper foods to eat or ideas about what are good jobs for men or women.
I can move all of those lines to a new function "addClassHelper" and then ta-da - 1 line.

You can't just exclude other functions like that.
you can find dark/black bread (not that white American/English sweet sponge) in most of continental Europe, especially in countries influenced by German and Russian cuisine
Ohio Inmates Build Makeshift Computers Access Tor and Bitcoin Wallets
My actions are commensurate with my words. I don't ask that he be censored - I ask that his status as an intellectual hack be considered, and that we recognize that his writings on education are informed by his much more onerous positions.

We don't debate round-earth denialists, since we know that their only motive in debate is to maximize their audience and legitimacy. It doesn't matter whether they're actually talking about their ungrounded views in a particular instance, because all that matters is that they gain legitimacy to be spent later.

You're the one who keeps bringing up feminism and social justice, not me. Have you considered that you're trying to imply an ulterior motive that doesn't exist? Every movement has its fair share of people just like Devin Helton.
> people will admit they don't know something

Trump is working hard on changing that misconception.
It's a regional news outlet, writing an article about regional businesses. There is literally nobody within 300 miles of Newark (a region of about 100M people) interested in the topic who doesn't know what they are referring to.

Calling anything "Italian" would be equally parochial, as Naples, Milan, Sicily, etc have broad differences in cuisine and culture.
In their original leak, Shadowbroker released a list of all file names in the encrypted part of the archive. They just did not release the password at that time.

See following tweet by shadowbrokers from Jan 7.

https://twitter.com/shadowbrokerss/status/817960380815306752
Atheism certainly can be dogma, especially in the strong variety. It is usually also coupled with a healthy dose of scientism.
DDoS continues to look like an economic problem; we should not have grown used to the idea that small amounts of bandwidth are effectively a free good.
This isn't true. All the saved are saints, even if they aren't canonized. It is reasonable to assume that they are in such a state and thus engage them in intercessory prayer like any other saint.
Or maybe use a font that make obvious the difference between ASCII chars and their UNICODE clones without uglying too much the results for the end users.
> Almost all the surface area of a high-dimensional sphere is near the equator.

Three dimensional spheres are invariant under rotation about any axis and the axes are not properties of the sphere.

Equators are surely not properties of spheres. So how does a hypersphere have an equator?

Or, there is a different meaning for some of these words than the ones I am used to; I didn't study maths at a higher level than that needed for a BSc. Physics forty years ago.
Only if you know how. Burning cash in a bonfire won't do Apple good. Shareholders and the market in general would not approve of money-losing follies.

But I think if they really get serious about building cars, they can make good use of some of that money in order to quickly scale up. Where Tesla has to raise billion after billion to ensure they are not running dry, Apple could just use up reserves.
The author of this article is living in the some 'It's a Wonderful Life' twilight zone. Medical professionals now, generally speaking, don't care about you. Actually they care about you moderately for the time you are positioned directly in front of them, so if you've got an easily treatable malady there's hope for you. But if you are frightened and have an abdominal issue you know is not normal, then you're cast out into the Wilderness of Specialists who put you through a series of diagnostics and if these tests don't flash positive for something, you are on your own. Doctors don't care and are not your friend; a majority are goobs with no troubleshooting skills at all. They know to prescribe the blue powder for this condition, and the red powder for the other thing. They do not understand, nor do they care to. The Chinese physician of 600 years ago may well have served you better. Marcus Welby is dead; actually he's a fiction, he never was.
Yes, these things should ideally be taken into account. I have been contacted by a company that is actually working on it: http://sourced.tech/
Truth is, this kind of money is already being "reinvested" by the treasury function. What isn't clear is what on Earth Apple could do that would cost that much money and generate Apple-like returns.

The obvious solution to this is to cut out the middle-man and just return a good chunk of the cash to shareholders. But that never happens because reasons.
It was never gone, just went underground where forbidden outright and it even flourished because it became a uniting element against the state.
Got family there and citizenship. Looked at land in the north island a few years ago. Didn't buy due to isolation. No plans to try again.
>(there are 4 official languages in Italy, but probably at least a dozen spoken recognized languages such as Friulano, Sardo, etc.)

There is only one "official" language (Italian) since 1861.

Each region has its own dialect, that may (or may not) be either very similar to italian or very different from it, that makes more than 12.

You are right that until the '50's and even later, the whole 60's for a large part of the population Italian was a "second language", television started broadcasting in 1954 but it was a "luxury" item and had some diffusion only in the second half of the 60's
I am falling for Elixir. However, my big drawback that made me stay in Ruby is the community don't seem to like NoSQL solutions like MongoDB and you can feel it in the libraries and global architecture.
Right, along with complaining that 'Show Nearby Airports' doesn't work when you've forbidden location services.
This is called an "inverted classroom" and it is well known and popular amongst teachers I know. I feel like it would have worked particularly well in college, where a huge amount of classroom time was spent passively watching a professor lecture.
why secret? sounds like ordinary B2B/wholesale bakery to me
>As participation increases, quality declines

[citation needed]
Right, but Catholics don't know who are the saved. So, they pray to God and the saints for their ancestors because they might not be saved.
This cash reserve is a large reason Apple started paying dividends several years back. A large portion of this is also overseas and they want to bring it back to the US without the present tax obligations.
They're smart to wait for a more favorable tax environment for repatriation. It really is backwards that we tax money returning to the United States so aggressively. It's greatly in our interest to bring that money home.
I really like this. I don't like how you handle array indices though. The book is written in C++, yet you initialize all arrays where the first element is at index 1, which makes things really confusing, or at least annoying to think about when converting from your text to an IDE.
This is a very narrow view. I am Italian-American in the literal sense (a citizen of both countries), we are fairly recent immigrants although I grew up in the US. There is simply no way for the average American to be that exact regarding Italian cuisine without having grown up there. The same way it is nearly impossible for the average Italian to be that exact regarding American cuisine without having grown up here. Asking someone to understand the different names and types of biscotti or cantucci, for instance, is similar to me expecting you to know the various local varieties of lobster rolls depending on where in New England you are, and then also holding you accountable to know that someone in New Jersey will probably not be able to make you one, and someone in coastal Virginia may not even know what one is.

Everyone does the best with the words they know. Help a tourist out, they'd do the same for you in their home.
I'm sorry, I'm not sure I understand your point: are you saying my math is off, given the claims of the article (ie, hashes computed, time spent, and compromises), or that the article is wrong because it's not that easy to crack?

Google found a SHA-1 collision (160 bit hash, same size but different method) in 9 quintillion hashes (plus some crypto work). The article claims they found a collision against 3 of millions of targets in 3 quadrillion hashes (likely plus some crypto work). Given the birthday paradox, it's not a priori impossible.

Could you explain why you don't believe their attack is mere hash collisions?
Although not designed for it, old-school punched card machines were capable of pretty sophisticated computations. Here's a tidbit from Richard Feynman [1] on the crucial part played by IBM machines in the Manhattan Project circa 1945. They had even implemented a form of pipeline parallelism:

> Anyway we decided that the big problem--which was to figure out exactly what happened during the bomb's implosion, so you can figure out exactly how much energy was released and so on--required much more calculating than we were capable of. A clever fellow by the name of Stanley Frankel realized that it could possibly he done on IBM machines. The IBM company had machines for business purposes, adding machines called tabulators for listing sums, and a multiplier that you put cards in and it would take two numbers from a card and multiply them. There were also collators and sorters and so on.

> So Frankel figured out a nice program. If we got enough of these machines in a room, we could take the cards and put them through a cycle. Everybody who does numerical calculations now knows exactly what I'm talking about, but this was kind of a new thing then--mass production with machines. We had done things like this on adding machines. Usually you go one step across, doing everything yourself. But this was different--where you go first to the adder, then to the multiplier, then to the adder, and so on. So Frankel designed this system and ordered the machines from the IBM company because we realized it was a good way of solving our problems. [...]

> But one of the secret ways we did our problems was this. The problems consisted of a bunch of cards that had to go through a cycle. First add, then multiply--and so it went through the cycle of machines in this room, slowly, as it went around and around. So we figured a way to put a different colored set of cards through a cycle too, but out of phase. We'd do two or three problems at a time. [...]

> As the cards went through, sometimes the machine made a mistake, or they put a wrong number in. What we used to have to do when that happened was to go back and do it over again. But they noticed that a mistake made at some point in one cycle only affects the nearby numbers, the next cycle affects the nearby numbers, and so on. It works its way through the pack of cards. If you have fifty cards and you make a mistake at card number thirty-nine, it affects thirty-seven, thirty-eight, and thirty-nine. The next, card thirty-six, thirty-seven, thirty-eight, thirty-nine, and forty. The next time it spreads like a disease.
So they found an error back a way, and they got an idea. They would only compute a small deck of ten cards around the error. And because ten cards could he put through the machine faster than the deck of fifty cards, they would go rapidly through with this other deck while they continued with the fifty cards with the disease spreading. But the other thing was computing faster, and they would seal it all up and correct it. Very clever.

[1] "Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!", Los Alamos chapter
The article implies that Apple would take too big of a tax hit by doing so, to the point where it's better to wait until the laws change to make it more profitable for Apple to do so.
You are right, I didn't notice at first that I was conflating two different ideas. Thanks for the correction!

But it is a short step from "men have natural abilities and disposition toward leadership" and "people shouldn't have universal sufferage" to women shouldn't vote.
Or they could just buy Tesla, but it is so overpriced.
Correct. But you have to assume the spies have vulns in there, either intentionally added, or, if they found vulns, they simply reported them to their agency, instead of their employer.
Dal nord e non parli di pandoro!?
I read this about a week ago and it is very well done. I've not logged into SA (I only used the forums) in a couple of years at least, glad to see they're still existing.

I still use a torrent site that was a SA spinoff.
One question I have about Apple is: why should they want to build cars? Or anything else, really, except phones and computers and possibly other personal electronics? Why shouldn't they stick with what they're good at, invest their cash in that business when they can, and when they can't then either return it to shareholders or hire a portfolio manager or ten to invest it elsewhere?

People often criticize Twitter for trying to be Facebook instead of just being Twitter. Why shouldn't Apple just be Apple?
Technically, it is being invested. The money isn't kept in a big pile under a giant iMattress in Cupertino. Whatever holdings Apple keeps the money in is earning some interest, dividends, or whatever. "Cash" here only means something like "readily convertible."

But, "hoarding" here means that Apple is neither directing investment directly, nor returning the money as dividends to its stockholders, right? I'm guessing the reason is because Apple is investigating future business opportunities which may require deep pockets. In other words, it's possible Apple is involved in exploring some future, highly speculative investment in a new industry, so that they can be "the next Apple" in some economic venture other than phones, tablets, and desktops.

Just to take one example: developing, producing, and marketing a self-driving car will cost a bundle. And, who really knows what Apple is up to? It's fair to say they may have many pokers in the first right now.
It makes me think why companies haven't hired lobbyist that convince Congress to pass some sort of repatriation bill. It would pay itself in a month
Prednisone pills are substantially more dangerous than cortisone cream, no? The one time I've taken prednisone, I had pretty severe mood swings, which is just one of a dozen notable side effects.
This continues to be a discussion point around remote work. This is displaced. You're talking about poor hiring standards. It has literally nothing to do with remote work.
1) Some of these exploits work on many platforms (They are truyly 0day) [1]. Windows NT, 2000, 2003, XP, Vista, 7, 2008, 8 and 2012 are vulnerable.

2) Microsoft issued a statement that NSA did not tell them about any of the leaks [2]

3) NSA knew what was coming since Jan 7 [3]

[1] https://twitter.com/hackerfantastic/status/85303694234218905...

[2] https://twitter.com/samfbiddle/status/853025550096621568

[3] https://twitter.com/shadowbrokerss/status/817960380815306752
I started with your first article which begins with "There aren't any debuggers for Make"
Actually Rocky's remake existed in June 2004 already. Bad, very bad...

commit 60f9a6ab18f12802c79a977d1b6b65b106355c10
Author: R. Bernstein <rocky@gnu.org>
Date: Sun Apr 4 01:38:36 2004 +0000

Initial revision