skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Either you need to elaborate on that, or it appears to be an attempt at a "zinger" or something.
It's large, of course. But you have a full VM and a bunch of unminified javascript dependencies sitting in there. V8 isn't known for being small, either.

Compared to a proper systems language it's always going to look ridiculous. And it appears to be 3-4x larger than, say, py2exe. You can apparently get about a 30% reduction using `strip`, and there's likely other low-hanging fruit.

It's about 12MB compressed. It's not so terrible in today's world, and the simplicity at runtime is worthwhile IMO. I don't worry too much about my tools getting larger, so long as they solve problems and don't cause them.
My 9yo son is willing to give you his life savings of $41.56 to have an at home kit of this machine :)

I've played with OpenCV and tried for fun to train a HAAR cascade classifier to recognise a minifigure. It didn't work which made me realise one has to really understand under the hood of machine learning like this in order to give it good training data.

Kudos. Very, very impressive.
Seriously, though. California, and the Bay Area specifically, is one of the best places in the US to find authentic Chinese food. OP's spouse is just a snob. Sure, a lot of restaurants feel the need to put some "standard" dishes like General Tso's Chicken on the menu, just in case. You don't have to order those. Outside of tourist traps like SF Chinatown, Chinese restaurants mainly serve Chinese food to a predominantly Chinese clientele.
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EV of what? The faces of dice cannot be added together, except in a very formal sense.
They are doing this to Scott Adams, Trump, Snowden and others on twitter. I'm following their accounts and seldom times see any updates from them, the updates are filtered (shadowbanned).

Scott Adams himself mentions the same: http://blog.dilbert.com/post/159566176596/am-i-shadowbanned-...

If you tag people with whom you have a strict moral disagreement to avoid doing business with them, this is actually what national socialists did back in the 1930s with their own Jewish community. It is a slippery rope.
the best way to find our the exact date is to find the sign up email, if you still have access to it.
This is some next level dick sucking.
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> QNX was cautiously courting the open source concept and venturing in the direction of shared source (with some code already available), when BlackBerry bought them and threw all of that out the window. Biggest yanked opportunity. D:

I said that ^ last time QNX got brought up:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12777520

Quick UNix (QUnix, which became QNX "after a brief infestation of AT&T lawyers" - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4834334) seems to be one of the cooler UNIX designs (and OS designs) out there. (As an aside, does anyone know anything about Dan Dodge's "hand-made modem" referenced in that thread? There are no citations I can follow, I've been curious for months.)

Sure, it probably has its fair share of little insanities (which are not common knowledge due to it being closed source) but it seems the things QNX gets right more than make up for them.

I have three very pointed questions. I'd love answers, suggestions or critique to any or all of them.

1. Does anyone know someone who knows someone [...] who might be able to unearth "the right person to talk to" at BlackBerry about QNX? While I'd probably want to defer the actual conversation to a person (or small group) more familiar with QNX from real-world experience in industry, my motivation behind adding this point is the hope that there may still be some glimmer of interest in a shared-source model, and that - and I really hope this - the source-access shutdown was simply due to insufficient time to refine the contracts (because the buyout was executed at a particularly fast-moving instant in time). My thinking is that BlackBerry doesn't realize the QNX enthusiast community exists because they were shut down, and that if BlackBerry could be made aware of the fact that there are still big fans out there, it might be a simple matter of adding a couple clauses to some super-high-level document to eg re-allow academic access. (Yes, this point has a lot of naïveté in it, but one can dream, right?)

1a. As a continuation of the above question, if I had a question/notation for BlackBerry/QNX, it would be this: a) QNX had a shared-source release, and seemed to be making good progress with that (in short, people weren't running off with the code); b) the automotive industry and other large interests sound like fairly stable considerations for QNX; could this affect (a) in the future in any way? If this were possible, would it be possible for Photon to be included (perhaps with no warranty or code updates)?

2. Can anyone who still has an old copy of the shared-source releases from before the BlackBerry buyout dig out the license files? I'm very very curious to see if there are any loopholes I could edge through sideways...?...

3. There is terribly little easily-findable documentation on the Internet helpful to OS enthusiasts who have ahem stumbled on certain TTHs and want to explore what they have found solely for personal research. While I had success with QNX 4 some time ago (note what I am saying), I'm quite stumped about what to do for any version beyond that. I'm very interested to learn whatever I can here, perhaps via email (where I can share notes too).
Care to share? :)
There's your first problem, mate: Leaving firmware writable. Back in the 90s, there was a little jumper to enable the !WR line on that EERPOM. Only an idiot left it on all the time.

I can be condescending because "the kids" just don't get it; I dare say the same for you.
Preferences aside, that says more about Chrome honestly.
I feel like comments like this only serve to further downplay how abusive selective enforcement is. It can't be so bad if there's in theory a legal remedy available, right?

But whether you prevail in court or not, if you try to go through with that the whole thing is probably going to lose you a lot of time and cause you a shitton of stress, all at the whim of an arbitrary decision made by a company with, relatively speaking, no skin in the game. The power differential is immense. Realistically there's no legal recourse that can ward off the damage to your life that getting into that kind of one-sided slapfight could cause.
Anti-vaccine groups are behind measles.
> - uses [ and ] for subexpressions instead of ( and ), which makes typing easier

I would like to point out that in several non-US keyboard layouts, [ and ] are harder to type, not easier. For instance, on German keyboards, they are mapped to Right-Alt (AltGr) + 8/9, which is quite annoying to type compared to normal parentheses (which are mapped to Shift+8/9, with Shift being better placed and available on both the left and right side of the keyboard).
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There are natural reasons why getting clearance should be harder for those who aren't 3rd/4th generation native though, right.

Like, if I apply for a job in Nigeria that needs clearances, if the other guys are all from Nigeria then investigating their backgrounds are consistent, talking to their neighbours, etc., is relatively easy. Especially if they all have parents who already have files with identity info.

If I'm from Kenya, then first up you're going to need translators, then you're going to need political accord or covert operatives, birth records in rural Kenya possibly don't exist.

Also you want to leave me for a while on observation to see if I do anything suspicious; that needs time.

It doesn't matter if the Nigerians want me, to do the same level of investigation would take far longer.
This text based page is not a cool way to do a release
Consider social anxiety. Many autistic people suffer from it. One cause might be that they were bullied in childhood. But they were bullied because they were autistic.

You could argue that the cause is being bullied as a child, but you can also argue that the cause is autism. I'd say both are true, but as long as the solution is the same it doesn't really matter.

Unfortunately it's a bit more complicated than that in reality. Many high-functioning autistic people are often initially misdiagnosed with bipolar, borderline, ocd, add, narcissism, schizoid, etc, for example, because their symptoms appear the same. But the underlying causes, or internal mechanism can be quite different, and the same goes for solutions. On top of that, it's quite common for autistic people to have both autism and, say, ADD.

Personally I feel that we often spend too much time thinking about causes, perhaps because of the history of psychology. Causes are only relevant insofar that they require different solutions, and spending too much time dwelling on a cause can often itself become a problem.
I actually don't think this will hurt Netflix at all. Part of the value Netflix provides is ease of use. It's just there ready to go. Maybe if you are a hardcore fan you'll download the new season but most people will just wait. Why? Because people are lazy and are willing to pay for convenience. If the hacker somehow put up all the episodes on a site and it was just one click to stream then maybe I'd go for it. But overall I'd say it might actually be a net positive for Netflix (more press!)
2017 and anti vaccine groups still lying about the link between vaccines and autism?

They are very dangerous
> (no middle man)

Just because you cannot go to a miner's office doesn't mean that they aren't a middle man. The illusion of direct payments is simply untrue and you need to trust that there will never be more nodes from people that want to fraud the whole system than there are trustworthy ones. You trust complete strangers with your money that you can never meet and never complain about. Worse, you can't even sue them because they are most likely not in your jurisdiction and/or anonymous.
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I can think of two others that are lesser known but probably more common among devs trying to do crypto right.

The first is modulo bias. It's common to see someone take a secure random int and try to fit it into a constrained range. There is no easy way to do this without shifting off entire bits!!! Modulo operations produce biased results unless your constrained range is a power of two. This is a consequence of binary number representation and you can't work around it without a lot of gymnastics or using simple discard to throw away all the generated numbers outside your desired range.

If you absolutely must have a constrained and securely random int the easiest way to do it is bitshift down to the closest power of two then discard any numbers outside the range. This is fairly quick, never discards more than half your numbers, and doesn't mess with the randomness of the distribution.

Another one, the difference between a secure hash like SHA and HMAC is extremely dangerous. Possibly the most common and dangerous cryptographic mistake by anyone that isn't just incompetent.

I see the majority of developers using hashes based on Merkle Damgard construction such as MD5 and SHA1/2 . When these hashes are being used to verify integrity of anything user supplied they can be trivially attacked using length extension. These attacks are real and one even happened to Flickr a couple years back.
http://netifera.com/research/flickr_api_signature_forgery.pd...
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Merkle–Damgård_construction .

Look at the terrifying list of "other vulnerable APIS", some big names in there. When using these types of hashes YOU MUST USE HMAC. It's slower but the bare algorithm is unsafe in many (most?) real world applications and I have no idea why language designers make them available so everyone can screw up their crypto.

A third one is more of a fun crypto hack, but on some platforms you really don't trust the RNG. You can make up for this somewhat by getting a single secure random input from a person then generating more numbers by encrypting the same string to itself over and over.

It used to be uncool to generate random numbers using AES because of the "entropy pool" concept. Eventually everyone realized this was nonsense and now RNG's are.much faster :)
> essential for high performance dynamic language implementations

Is it? Objective-C is a dynamic language (AOT-compiled) that doesn't have these features, and it is possible to write very high performance code with it.
They believed a man walked on water, changed water into wine and was resurrected from the dead. Maybe neurosis is the explanation.
Did you read the BuzzFeed article?
AFAIK only the GPA matters as you have said (it's called Numerus Clausus or NC in Germany). If you look it up in a list, keep in mind that the German scale and the US 4 point GPA scale are reversed. 4.0 is the worst passing grade here and a 4.0 was an A+ at my US high school (I think there are different scales in different states?).

For many degrees there's no GPA requirement at all. Engineering might very well be one of the cases as it tends to be one of the "harder" degrees (natural sciences, math, engineering etc.) and GPA requirements are mostly for the "popular" ones like business, social sciences etc.
Always depends how many slots are available at a given university, too.

Also: if your GPA isn't good enough you can get on a list and "wait" a couple of semesters and for each semester your GPA is virtually improved.

Note: that's how it works for German students but I'm pretty sure it's the same for foreign students (but most will have a requirement of C1 or sometimes B2 German skills). All universities have international offices that you can contact though.

I think Germany is still very much considered an "engineering country". Career wise it's probably going to be a very good thing to hold a German engineering degree. The education is good and there's usually great contacts to engineering companies. I'd be shocked if the degrees weren't accredited in the US. If you can pick a university I'd go with a "TU" (Technische Universität). Also note that we have two different kinds of universities. Universität = "proper" university and Fachhochschule aka FH or Hochschule = university of applied sciences...I'd stay away from these mostly because there's subtle differences that will probably make it harder to have the degree accredited in the US (and they are usually considered lower tier by employers as well).

University regulations differ on a state level so it might be wise to check out different German states. If saving money is one of the focus points I'd advise against Munich. RWTH Aachen is probably the best university in that field, TU Dresden and TU Dortmund are relatively cheap from a cost of living point of view and still good universities.
To be clear: 500 € may be sufficient in smaller cities but not in Munich and other cities with high rents.
I think that young guy was just showing off how authentic he was to the two ladies sitting next to him. The old people liked it.
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IANAL, but I would never leave such a comment under a nickname that is tied to my real name - you are kind of disclosing their internal security procedures or lack thereof in a public forum.
It's not a "text based page", it's a mailinglist archive page. The release was done by sending an email to a list.
What doesn't add up to me is the idea that American Chinese food evolved from the 1800s, yet every legit Chinese restaurant has owners who have a heavy Chinese accent, clearly from China themselves. Did they come here and so quickly adapt to what was expected from "Chinese" food?
Think of it with 100year horizon. Where it will outlast Musk. Where all cars are self driven autonomously. Where all cars are electric. We already have all the bits and pieces of it... The boring company is attempting to stitch it all together.
America has a much higher proportion of blacks, illegal immigrants and prisoners than the other countries. US blacks in particular are about 12% of the population and have a median household income about at the lower income boundary [1], which could explain the large lower income group. America is also obviously economically quite productive, perhaps explaining the large upper income group.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_ethnic_groups_in_the_U...
https://data.oecd.org/eduatt/population-with-tertiary-educat...
Is this comment some sort of honeypot?
I don't think there is a viable solution for buffering solar or wind (or nuclear) with renewable sources, unless you happen to have access to a lot of hydro power.

Dynamic remote cut-off of heaters, chargers, and other non-critical consumers is one suggestion, but the equipment cost is probably at least 100 Eur per consumer.
Yeah, the thing that has to be understood, IMO, is that everyone will say they want to be part of a brave new forum where interesting ideas are discussed and there is a lot of intellectual stimulation.

This is a complete and utter lie. People routinely tell it to themselves without realizing its blatant falsity.

Most people find conflict unsettling and can handle it only in the smallest doses. People identify their ideas with themselves and take attacks or criticisms of them as personal slights. In written media like online discussion, these responses are amplified because there is little room for tone or other dampening/mitigating signals from the speaker, and the written form makes the harsh words seem more final and official. A slighted person will often feel the need to respond on the record, whereas in person they may have been more likely to dismiss the remark.

Cognitive dissonance creates a powerful feeling of unease. When that signal is received, the common interpretation is to make some passing attempt to rebut, like "You know, it's not even worth the time", so that you feel like you won, and then to never return to the place that caused bad feelings.

The reason that reddit has always been a big echo chamber and unable to really get mainstream adoption is because it has a fixed front page. This doesn't account for the differing mainstream tastes. reddit has a steady supply of atheistic young men because that's the audience that they appeal to when you load up reddit.com.

Despite the lies they tell themselves so they can feel noble and open-minded, people DO NOT want to be challenged. They want their egos stroked.

If confronted with an idea that seems contradictory to something important to their self-conception, they will immediately become defensive; this is true even among friends when it can sometimes be recovered, but strangers online have zero social capital to deploy to absorb this hit. For most, taking a position in a discussion is nothing more than a way to signal allegiance to a tribe. If your users do not have a way to ensure their experiences aligns with their tribal values and preferences, they will leave.

This is important for tech entrepreneurs and people seeking to "bridge the gap". It's bigger than many people realize, and much bigger than people will willingly admit. Efforts in this direction must be baby steps, and no one should expect to perform a great reconciliation.
I locked myself out of the house one day and called a locksmith. It took him less than thirty seconds to pick the lock on my front door.

You're right about the signaling aspect, though. You can't very well pretend you didn't know you were supposed to be in a room if you had to get past a locked door to get in.
> The US is much bigger and more diverse economically than the countries it is being compared to.

(a) Why do you think this matters for this metric?

(b) Aggregate into the EU.

> Odd results should be expected.

Why?

> If you looked at individual US States it would look much more like the rest of the cohort.

Citation needed.
Came here to post the same link. Such an interesting, insanely brilliant, character.

http://web.stanford.edu/~learnest/
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Out of personal interest: Which country is that?
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I used to work in the "content generation" sphere. There are two tangible things that humans love to generate for free, art and writing. These things on their own are almost always monetarily worthless even if their worth to society is huge. The reason is that most people, like us here on this board, willingly produce creative writing for free.

The only money in content is advertising since humans need some coaxing to produce it. This is resulting in companies that focus on content being controlled by advertisers behind the scenes. These days it's simple to get "paid placement" almost anywhere with zero mention that the content is sponsored.

This also explains why the best articles seem to come out of companies that don't sell writing. Google employees and the like are putting out research and case studies for fun, labors of love.
> The author seemed to be saying that not only do they need to operate off a "playbook" (which is normal for everyone), but that if the playbook goes wrong, they both can't detect it and don't have a backup plan.

I'd add that 'normal' people don't necessarily have a backup plan, but are able to improvise. So if their playbook doesn't have an answer for a particular situation, they can use a similar solution from another page in the book, or cobble something together.

Autistic people, on the other hand, can completely freeze up if the situation in question isn't exactly like the one in their playbook.

This, by the way, doesn't just apply to social situations. The inability to improvise as well as intuit things can also exhibit itself as OCD ('I do it like this because I always do it like this'), ADD ('I need to fix this small, insignificant thing because it's just not right'), eating disorders ('without a system in place, hunger is not felt'), or even narcissism ('I need to talk this thing that I've been obsessing about for weeks and I forget that a conversation is a two-way street').

What I find utterly fascinating is that with most of the above, the internal mechanism for the 'disorder' is often quite different from 'regular' sufferers.

So for example when it comes to 'normal' OCD, as I understand it, the compulsion stems from a strong fear of bad consequences or some kind of reasoning, however unreasonable it might seem. But for many autistic people, there's no sense of things going horribly wrong if they don't feed the compulsion. They just feel that they have to do it because they always do it and there's often no reasoning behind it (to the point of not even being aware of the compulsion).

Then again it's all very murky when we talk about 'internal' stuff, so I might be wrong about this.
I've been using archive.is for years.

Of course if you actually want to be sure you're visiting the real site, you should prepend the url with https .
There is no optimal picking. Apples you buy in the store can be up to a year old. Washington apples are picked at harvest time and stored in refrigerated warehouses to be distributed nationwide throughout the year.