skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I don't understand how that theory would make women less varied.

Look up sexual selection and dimorphism lectures from a respectable university. There's a huge body of evidence about the variation between sexes and a lot of it is beyond me since I'm not a biologist.

It explains rather well how the male population distributions get "cut off" as a result of sexual selection with constraint to resources.
Yeah kind of. Whatever the implementation is, the idea is it is managed for customers rather than having to build their own Cassandra cluster and piping.
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But it may be perfect for some situations where a high-density energy storage device isn't permissible.
> search (easily replacable)

Search is a complete free market, and there are other competitors in the space. User switching costs are nearly zero, since choosing a different search engine is as easy as typing a URL. Yet, Google persists in adding the most value to user searches and dominates the space.

I'm not sure how easily Google Search will be dethroned.
Often this is true, yes. But I've also seen this happen with flights within Europe on occasion too - the bidding usually starts with £100-£200 cash plus a night in a good hotel with transfers dinner paid for, and a flight the next day. I don't think I've ever heard the auction go very much past that. I guess there is always someone not in a hurry willing to extend their trip by 1 day. Actually, I think I considered it myself one time, but someone else took the deal while I was still thinking on it!

Compensation is definitely the main issue. If United had offered a decent sum of cash (I mean cash, absolutely not United vouchers) they would certainly find someone willing.
Do you mind if I ask how you decided a newsfeed with articles and product launches is the best direction to move your startup in? Did you consider other angles and discuss with your potential customer segment what their biggest pain points are? Usually, something isn't gaining traction because you are going about it in the wrong way, or you're not solving a pain point that is big enough.
Are you sure? I think it was a common theme in Poland that the burglars would stake out an area in summer, looking for people leaving for holidays, and break in when they know it's likely to be empty for a couple days.

So they're not targeting anyone in particular at first, but it's still not really a crime of convenience the way a mugging or bike theft might be.
How to build a perfect team?
You think that trying to teach a computer everything about everything doesn't support ad revenue?

Google has a lot of ads customers. Why do those customers use Google?
Not arguing about Google, but careful with using revenue growth as a leading indicator.

RIM/Blackberry's best years in numbers happened AFTER the iPhone launched.

Life comes at you fast.
Gold amalgams outlasted the human lifespan too. As usual, the problem is the interface: eventually, a bacterium will slip its way in between, ferment some lactose, and drop the pH, eventually dissolving away enough of the native enamel for a friend to join, and away the positive feedback loop goes.
1. No, but it's not like the FCC/cops are out there looking for jammers

2. see above

3. park across the street, use a directional antenna to jam them for a few nights before the burglary

4. i would imagine that such sensor will sound an alarm after being blinded (ie. exposed to a strong source of light)

6. as opposed to other alarm systems that are not real time???
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Indeed, that reduces the number of requests a bit. You can find it under Settings -> Advanced.
This isn't really a secret interpretation, I and a lot of people I knew noticed the same thing over a decade ago by reading the privacy policies of tech companies. Reading the data requires a warrant. Recording the data doesn't.
It really depends on your purpose and how technical your content authors will be.

If you need a CMS that non-tech people can handle, WordPress still does a decent job of that. The plugin ecosystem of wordpress is ginormous. Page builder themes like Divi or BeaverBuilder get you a decent looking site.

There is definitely a "wordpress way" of developing a theme and plugins but there are literally thousands of people doing it every day. Stay on top of updates and security isn't much of a problem.
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Yeah after 1-2 presentations I built a template and just drop stuff into each slide I have defined. Then if I need more slides I copy the framework bit for a single slide. Super easy.
In my experience most of the work in this area has been done in that you will rarely find yourself having to think seriously about spatial indexing, and even when the task forces you to, most of the tools one would commonly choose between have different indexing options implemented as standard.
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int("一万三千二百六十九")
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "python", line 1, in <module>
ValueError: invalid literal for int() with base 10: '一万三千二百六十九'
int("一三二六九")
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "python", line 1, in <module>
ValueError: invalid literal for int() with base 10: '一三二六九'

Well, that was disappointing. For the record, my site http://ichi.moe/ can handle both (and Arabic numerals too).
You mean like unroll.me?
Ghostery counted 95 libraries -- without blocking, it literally cripples my MBPr on load.
I know this is meta, and generally frowned upon, but can we please discuss content rather than presentation? Ranting about presentation does not change anything or meaningfully add to the discussion.

As an aside: I love how you're criticizing, but in your post made (at least) one spelling error ("weigths"), missed a space between two words ("felttired"), missed capitalizing the first word of a sentence ("here"), and spelled/spaced two words differently ("allcaps" and "all caps"). (Also I'm not sure if "itrain" is a word; Google didn't help in deciphering that one.) Pot/kettle/black.
Yeah, the site needs some work. It hasn't been a top priority for us lately because the products themselves are still pretty far from where we want them. That said, I have a TODO on my list to rewrite a lot of the verbiage on the webpage, create explainer videos, etc. It's just a question of time and resources.

That said, it may also be that you just aren't in the target market. The products we sell are all tools for enterprise knowledge management, search and collaboration. Think "alternative to Jive Sofware products" or "alternative to Yammer", etc. If those terms mean nothing to you, then you're definitely not in the target market.
By string, I of course speak of string literals. The only place where this would be an issue is writing Rust compiler error messages. I don't consider that a strong argument for why the path analogy should be broken. Because the path analogy is broken, modules in Rust have strange rules. For example,

use foo::bar;

doesn't actually use a relative "path" from the current module

you need to use

use self::foo::bar;

I think this is a confusing default, and it would have never ended up this way if Rust used Windows-path-looking namespace syntax

if you're writing a parser and manipulating actual arrays of bytes, you don't have an issue with backslash, it's just another character to you
Microsoft hires former FTC figure for new privacy role
Thanks for the thorough answer! My impression was largely based on Gus van Sant's movie "Elephant", where the boys bought some real badass looking rifles over the mail.
Ah, perhaps we are talking about different things here. My crowns are just that, quite a lot of the original tooth is still there.

But it still seems to me that you are being seriously ripped off in the US.
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> But still ads are ~95% of their revenues.

~88%, but there's still $3 billion quarterly in other revenue in Google.

> Google has a lot of balls in the air and only one of them is profitable.

That's not clear, because while Alphabet breaks out operating income and loss between Google and Other Bets, they don't break out that within Google, only breaking out Revenue. At least in summary docs. Other Bets aren't profitable, but it's not at all clear that the non-advertising parts of Google aren't.
Thing is, you pay for that cc number protection with every transaction. How are you going to pay for the same sort of protection on your password?
Do young people use email?
I'm inclined to agree that such a mini-brain at this stage is most-likely non-conscious and incapable of suffering, but how would we know?

Organisms with far "simpler" brains than ours appear to be capable of suffering. I'm unaware of the extent to which human embryonic brain development follows expected principles of evolutionary developmental biology, but if that holds, a sufficiently developed brain should at least be given equal ethical consideration as an animal. Vertebrates are commonly born with a capacity for suffering, so I question how much external input is required. If the necessary brain structures are there, those same structures should suffice for achieving brain-states equivalent to percepts of suffering.

Looks to me like we're not quite there yet, as these cerebral organoids are pretty darn small and comparatively disorganized, but it's only a matter of time before the ethical questions need be faced.

With a little searching, I found similar views from neuroskeptic.
http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/neuroskeptic/2013/09/02/th...
Very cool. Thanks for sharing this!
It sure seems real but my $100 offer still stands! Anyone?
If that's what it takes to get a job as an engineer at the big companies, it's not particularly surprising that the quality of their engineers has declined as they've grown.

The skills of a con artist are not related to the ability to build good systems.
CORRECTION:
The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.
The implementation of this is called bbboing http://www.oik-plugins.com/oik_shortcodes/bbboing-obfuscate-.... I mentioned it on the website:

"The goal of the project is to make text hard to read for computers yet fairly easy to read for humans (like bbboing, just differently)."
> why is 35-44 years group least likely to use adblockers?

They don't, not according to that graph. Some national segments do, others don't. Looks like margin of error to me.
I'm not even talking about "the total amount of wealth he has accumulated". If he went spectacularly broke, that wouldn't take away from his lifetime earnings, but it would take away from his current wealth.

The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation is under his direct control and the money goes where he thinks it should go. It's fundamentally identical to a personal entertainment fund. There is no reason to leave it out of estimates of his current worth.
Why Intel Is Tweaking Xeon Phi for Deep Learning
Heh... no, never considered that association before. It's just the name of a lighthouse. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cape_Neddick_Light
For those of us in the UK: http://archive.is/aC9dk
Thank you for the kind words! My initial goal in starting this blog was to help those trying to make the rough transition from beginner to intermediate. I tend to find that most information in this space is bifurcated into "do this exactly" tutorials and more advanced material which loses newbies. The middle ground seems to be a very underserved segment of the community and it is going to continue growing in an exponential fashion.
> go days at a time without writing with a pen once, except maybe to scrawl their names on receipts.

Sure, but would you call that "doing it as a novelty"? (in bolded italicised text no less- I find that kind of writing style horribly annoying too; as if the author trying to "idiot proof" their writing and/or distract you from other, weaker parts of it, by SHOUTING the bits they want you to focus on)
I get why this is done, and it is important. But look at the amount of effort and time that goes into displaying a single image properly on the web nowadays. It's just nuts.

It feels like we are slaves to the tech and not the other way around.
It's not only a matter of definitions. It's also a matter of belief. The head of the NSA has lied directly to congress about data collection activities. We have absolutely no reason to believe they will have actually stopped collecting data even if they say so.
The paper doesn't mention "commodity", and I'm not sure that one to four Xeon Phi can be described as commodity.

Can the title be edited?
Animating Component State in React
I remember watching some documentaries and reading some articles, and remember Hugo de Garis talking about femtotech. I thought he was a pioneer in the technology, seems he's just a bystander.

He and Ben Goertzel seem to look as pioneers but never produce something tangible.
Huge Collection of Data Structure and Algorithm Problems
I just gotta say, it's _incredibly_ surreal seeing one of the people who inspired me to start studying formal methods link an article I wrote on formal methods.
We should look back into history to determine a name. Might I suggest "pirates", because those blokes usually had a bunch of fake parts.
One of the most complex on the front-end was a repaint/reflow issue in Safari that was complicated by the way we were using Angular.

The easiest solution was to use transforms to force rendering through the GPU render pipeline by adding a Z-depth to the elements.

Which caused rendering issues in rendered font-weight for Firefox. We never resolved the issue, even after a root cause analysis showing the bug in Webkit and not Blink or Gecko.

On the backend, it was finding a way to store a persistent collaborative changelog with proper access control and heirarchy on top of a RDBMS. Resorted to redesigning a distributed file-system based on HFS+ and btrfs for COW and COR obligations. This is one of the most data-structure and depth of infrastructural knowledge problems I had to address.
Well, scraping has taken place, so you've violated a eula and potentially committed theft. But you haven't violated copyright, as long as you do not distribute the data either, (through any means) pretty sure that's fair "use."

Ymmv, not a lawyer and this is internet bullshitting, not legal advice.
Mapping Intel's Tick Tock Clock onto Xeon Processors
FWIW I've never really been impressed with QEMU's seccomp sandboxing, because it's almost entirely bolted on, and in the grand scheme, I think, does little. Does libvirt do anything substantially different or just "turn it on"?

If you look at the list of syscalls whitelisted[1], it's almost a joke -- you could literally do just about anything given those syscalls if you actually had code execution... And every one of those syscalls is a direct interface to the kernel, which becomes the weakest link in a container/LSM environment where your code will be running, presumably. How is seccomp going to stop my exploit when almost everything my exploit could ever need is whitelisted, including hundreds of syscalls that directly talk to the kernel?

I'm glad QEMU is improving their security footprint, but I honestly think its seccomp support is way overblown even though people like to bring it up... When your seccomp policy looks like the one from QEMU -- it just bans a few things they've never used, rather than only allowing things they should use. Taking advantage of it to the level of something like Chrome does (which truly mitigates attack surface with process isolation) would require almost an entire redesign of the whole thing, I think.

[1] https://github.com/qemu/qemu/blob/master/qemu-seccomp.c
Salary question becomes a no-no in job interviews
Not wittingly idiosyncratic, though, right?
> I don't know what I would do or want in that case

Leave the house. Quietly slip out a window or a back door
Agreed. It did make me hungry for bread though.
I have a friend who is a baker here (in the US) but I imagine it is quite different then working in France. The bakery she works does make bread, but the vast majority of what they sell are different kinds of sweets. I think there is a much lower demand for fresh bread here.
I'm the same age as you, 34 (single and have no kids though), and like tostitos1979, I don't yet see a way out of the rat race. I live in a medium CoL city (Chicago) and still trying to make ends meet.

To answer the first question, I see myself with a decent paying job that has 401(k) and benefits in 5 years. Sounds average, like a typical college student's goal, but I still feel like a college student in some ways. I graduated at age 25 and 9 years later I am not able to make a living for myself.

I have been burnt out from companies paying so far below the local market rate, going through several periods of time with no work only to get another offer form a company that doesn't pay well, doesn't provide insurance, don't withhold taxes for their workers. And then getting laid off again. I'm spinning my wheels here. I cannot save money with that kind of thing going on indefinitely.

In 5 years I also do not want to be living with my mom. I want to have my own home, being able to set my own rules instead of running errands every day for family. And in 5 years I do not want to use her money to go to a coffee shop almost daily because that is the only way I can get internet access (and thus the only way I can send lots of resumes for a job).
The inner surface of the Wendelstein plasma vessel is water-cooled (it has to be, or it would eventually melt), so in the future you could drive a generator from the cooling system.

There is a separate engineering problem about how to keep the plasma vessel from warming the magnets (which need be near absolute zero). In the Wendelstein this works by putting most of the device inside a vacuum, to provide better thermal isolation. So the full system is a vacuum chamber which contains the magnets which wrap around the plasma vessel which wraps around the plasma.

There is an article about the cooling system here: https://www.ipp.mpg.de/ippcms/eng/presse/pi/02_10_pi
That's sorta what I was thinking. My handwriting is terrible. Sure, the irregularity of spacing, height, and width contributes, but the real reason it's hard to read what I write is because the glyphs themselves are sloppy and inconsistent.
About 88%.

Which is a lot, but it's still $3+ billion in non-advertising revenue quarterly.
Like bbboing, but in my opinion, it's not anywhere near as easy to read as a human. Yes you can do it, but the link I pasted is nearly indistinguishable in reading speed.
Developers, don't mock people for being amazed by game dev techniques
Yup. Just used it last week to migrate my IMAP account to a new box. Used it years ago for a similar migration. Always works great.
Sounds like a lot of sv companies don't have the internal oversight /internal security taken for granted by older companies.

Given this story I would bet there is a fair bit of undiscovered internal fraud at google and fb
I don't see how such a system could be implemented in a meaningful way. If any system would have a chance of being supported by the US government, then it probably wouldn't rule out the bad behaviour examples you give. If by some chance it did anyway, it still wouldn't be likely to apply to many parts of the world (or at least would be unenforced).

Also, since you mention doctors and lawyers, it is my feeling that many bar associations and state medical boards are more interested in protecting the finances of their senior professionals as well as their own organization than the public that they should be serving. That is not to say that I feel we would be better off without those organizations (certainly not in the short term), but it makes me hesitant to want to see such organizations brought to any more fields.
GDS has a great blog[1] which I recommend, and have published a lot of stuff to GitHub too[2]. I never imagined the words 'government' and 'IT' could be used in the same sentence without laughing before learning about this group.

Whenever I read of yet another multi-billion pound failed IT project by SAIC or the like, I always wonder why on earth they didn't just let GDS at it.

[1]https://gdstechnology.blog.gov.uk
[2]https://github.com/alphagov
Pictures can help relive the memories. When I take pictures on vacation, it's not to show off to my friends how cool of a place I'm at (ok, sometimes I'm guilty of that). It's so that afterwards I can look at the picture with my family, and remember the experiences & feelings that went along that static picture.

And who knows what state my mind will be when I get old: those pictures may come in super handy in a few decades.
But thats only because 1KW/h is an abstract figure where 1000PSI pressure resentment something real in your mind.

We are surrounded by things that can kill us in any number of ways should, the usually poorly maintained, safeguards fail and yet we only really get scared when the "danger" is something "new" or "rare" where the safeguards are actually inspected/maintained.
can you please link to troy's article? i'm interested in reading it.
I go for you $100, see you in 6 months ;)

Especially when they buy a digging machine (still small compared to the ones I've seen near where I work), you can see it there: https://www.instagram.com/explore/tags/theboringcompany/
You can use recoll. It's based on Xapian and has a nice Qt-based GUI.
Why do we still use passwords? When I connect to Amazon.com I don't ask them for a username and password to verify they really are Amazon. I verify their certificate. Why can't I authentic with a certificate too?
"When I type "a" it would show as "z" and so on". Someone mentioned http://www.rot13.com/ - is it what you loukyngue phor? :)
Thank you so much! This helps so much.
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Not to forget the cost and resources sunk in that Utah datasenter - what will they use it for if not chugging through mass surveillance? Farming? http://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/05/13/national/science...

(yeah, the Utah center is probably scarce in actual clean rooms... Maybe A "Homeland"-style sock puppet farm is more likely re-use: reduce unemployment, bolster support... /s)
"I buried the lede. It’s an in-browser reactive JavaScript notebook for exploratory analysis, visualization, and explanation." https://twitter.com/mbostock/status/858018259907620865
Conversely, the skills to build good systems are not related to working effectively with others. There's probably a balance that needs to be struck, though they're also not mutually exclusive.
> Search was Google’s only unambiguous win, as well as its primary source of revenue, so when Amazon rapidly surpassed Google as the top product search destination, Google’s foundations began to falter.

This is the most annoying line though. Literally his own sources don't corroborate his assertion.

Also, it is in past tense. When the first source he links to is from 4Q 2016. Alphabet literally beat its earnings expectations yesterday.[0]

[0]:http://www.businessinsider.com/alphabet-google-reports-q1-ea...
Ask HN: Weekend hackathon tips?
I am planning on hacking on my side project all weekend long. I usually do not have long periods of time to work on it. This weekend is an exception.

What are you best tips for working on something for long hours?
This correlation and mapping through ultra thin sections has been recently computerised by 'VAST' and has revealed unexpected nanoscale complexity in neuron connectivity.

http://www.psypost.org/2015/07/new-vast-tool-gives-neuroscie...
Sounds interesting. How do I PM you for details?
I guess you don't need trust when you can use a person as a vehicle (pun shamelessly intended) to sue potential competition.
There's also Etsy.
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