skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> What on earth does it means to "validate" or "normalize" someone? What does it mean to "send a message?"

Read Freakonomics, specifically the part about Broken Windows, and you'll understand these words.

> Who is conceivably that dumb, and why should political theory be informed by such a mentality?

If you talk to someone on the far-left, they will tell you that the answer to this question is "everyone on the far right! They believe everything they read on fox news!" and if you ask someone on the far-right, they will tell you that the answer to this question is "everyone on the far left! They believe 100% of the fake news". Either way, there's one thing far-left and far-right people can agree on: yes, there are plenty of people like this. I don't think people are always like this, but I do think we all have brainfarts. At some point or another, we've all been extremely susceptible to influences like this.

> I find it insulting that I should be disallowed to listen to someone on the basis that they are so odiously toxic I have to be protected from them. Can't I just decide for myself?

Yes, please do! Decide for yourself that you want to listen to them! Find them on Facebook, Twitter, or whatever, and start talking to them! Enjoy your free speech! Call them on the phone! Email them! Anyone who wants to take those things away from you is a serious threat.
Witnessing an AN-124 takeoff, from ground level, is unforgettable. I was half a mile away and still had to put my fingers in my ears.
It's unfortunate that these questions are being dodged. Do we actually have control over the feedback mechanisms, or will they find ways to assert themselves despite our attempts to control them? Which distribution is more "fair" than a Pareto distribution, and why? These are good questions, and it's disappointing we aren't facing them head-on.
I think it's better to view this in terms of analyzing abstractions and their pros and cons, versus some vague notion of explicit vs implicit.

The more I learn, the more it seems an immense portion of high caliber software engineering is knowing how to approach and analyze very general questions related to abstractions, such as:

1. Given the current and expected future constraints, is this the best abstraction we can come up with?

2. Is the abstraction worth its cost? How heavily should we invest in using it, given how confident (or not) we are currently that it solves our problem well?

I think of abstractions as being everything from breaking an if condition into several local variables to splitting a large monolithic app into independent services. We could go further of course, but I think that gets the idea across.
Wow - that actually makes a hell of a lot of sense - I thought that invalidated a startup :-) I like the combination of interests, I would believe if my homeowners ins co is running my monitoring and alarm systems, they do have a vested interest to try and do a good job. Good luck to you!
npm supports git urls, too (or the even shorter user/project#tag if it is from github)
The part of me that cares about my HN karma wants me to refrain from saying that I hope people stop making JavaScript frameworks well before we run out of names. JavaScript is a monstrosity that from a usability standpoint really has made the web worse and not better.

I would love a web without js tracking, scroll bar hijacking, browser back/forward hijacking, delayed modal popups, useless animations that bring my Oneplus 3T to its knees, etc.

I also would love a computing ecosystem where nodejs didn't enable every journeyman web designer to try their hands at bringing all that cruft to the desktop.

I find the UX improves significantly with noscript.
I don't think there is an ethical consideration here. You get to display whatever you want on your blog.
My thought exactly.
Furthermore, language can be on the spectrum from promoting genocide to seeking immortality for all, along with countless other dimensions, and who gets to decide where to draw the line on the various dimensions of opinion about what is not allowed?
Seconding the need for a copy editor. I lost interest immediately.

- The "Lets make those customers happy!" should be "Let's make those customers happy!"

- There is no space after the comma in "calls,IVR," and "chat,customer"

Don't underestimate the importance of attention to detail. These tiny mistakes would have even been caught by Microsoft Word.
This is a strange comment. On the one hand you trust students to be reasonable about how they throw around the Hitler/ Nazi/ fascism label - and clearly that is problematic - look at the name calling (not to mention riots) for people who are basically innocuous comedians or spectacles with right leaning politics, i.e. a Gavin McInnes or Milo Yiannopoulos. Then on the other hand you don't trust these same students to self regulate like intelligent adults and know what's worthy of attention and what isn't on their own, suggesting that censorship rules somehow would help them despite their infantilizing implications. If you trust them to use the Hitler/ fascist label responsibly why don't you trust them to self-regulate? Or if you think they need censorship, why don't you also talk about how irrational they are about calling people Hitler? Just feels like this position is a contradiction.
My bad, I edited the comment to reflect that.
I just plugged my 23andme data into both. Waiting for results.

I was thinking of sharing the results, is anyone interested? Is there really any good reason not to? I know people get all uptight about it but I'm not sure why.
The price on that thing is insane. $349 for the small model, $1,198 for the big one.[1] A cheap aluminum one is only $49 on Amazon.

[1] https://www.amazon.com/s?field-keywords=hills%20hoist
There is even a drinking game that Australian's developed using the Hills Hoist: "Goon of Fortune".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goon_of_Fortune
A great book to read to read is the Innovator's Dilemma. It talks about a different industry (steel), but I think it could be applicable.
> I can't glue your mouth shut, I can't hit you or threaten to do so, but I sure as hell can not give you my microphone.

When it's your personal microphone, that comment is reasonable.

When it's a universities microphone, that comment is not reasonable.

Universities have a set of rules as to who can and cannot rent their facilities. Those rules should be applied fairly and equitably to everyone.

The upset here is that the rules are not being applied fairly or equitably.

Worse, the people who claim to be for peace, for free speech, for openness and inclusion, are using violence to exclude the speech of people they don't like.

Conflating "my" microphone with use of public facilities is a way to side-step the real topic.
do the opposite.

build your app for android 5 and push to the store.

done. target 100% of devices and get no dialog for android 6 users.
One does not preclude the other.
> the ad industry has caused the PPF (production possibility frontier) of the economy to move outwards by introducing allocation efficiency

Can you explain? That's a lot of jargon for a non-economist.

> > skip the advertising middleman.

> Just like people use advertising networks so that they don't have to deal with millions of content creators. So it's been with newspapers, magazines, radio, television... and so it is with the web.

You're missing grandparent's point. "Skipping the advertising middleman" in his argument refers not to advertising networks, but to advertising altogether. He refers to content creators taking money directly from their consumers, rather than going through the indirection of advertisers (whom take money from their clients, whom get their money from the consumers, thus completing the indirection chain).

(I'm not agreeing or disagreeing with either side here, just attempting to clarify.)
And carefully check grammar and spelling on your site. If you can't get that right on your homepage, I'm not going to trust that you're going to get the details right in the rest of your business. Some examples:

- Each comma in a sentence should be followed by a space.

- Each sentence should end with a period.

- U.S. prices always have two-digit decimals. $19.90, not $19.9.

- Use a comma to separate thousands. 30,000, not 30000. (No space after commas used to separate thousands.)

These might seem nitpicky, but they make a big difference in establishing initial trust.
Love what you're doing!
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Integer division approximation of pi using a genetic simulation in Python
If intelligence matters at all to making money, the wealth + intelligence combo probably beats wealth on its own.

Unless, of course, intelligence is "bad" for the wealthy and "good" for the poor, but I doubt that's the case...
An important thing you should consider is the cost of change.

I once built a screenplay editor in Hebrew for Israeli screenwriters. It had everything on your list. For free. The competition was practically Microsoft Word + macros.

The problem, though, is that the pain of moving away from these carefully crafted macros was too high.
Carbon nanotubes and other nanoparticles probably. They have similar properties to asbestos when they get into your body.
I have had a chance to write a proper blog post about my views on OpenShift.io and what it does, and how it makes use of Eclipse Che.

https://che.eclipse.org/openshift-io-and-eclipse-che-97a89e0...
> On the one hand you trust students to be reasonable about how they throw around the Hitler/ Nazi/ fascism label

Nope. I do not. Much like your username, this idea and what I'm saying are orthogonal. My point is, if you'd let Hitler get booed down, why wouldn't you let someone else get booed down? Are you asking the protestors not the express themselves?
This is the second time in a week now I've seen this guy talking about Tor on HN. He just seems to not understand Tor.

> He's exploiting a vulnerability in the Tor daemon

This is a vulnerability present in literally any proxy and is a limitation of the operating system. If you open more sockets than you can open, you can't open any more. You can not have anonymous unlinkable connections and have tracking psudeonyms together.

If you wanted to scale, try OnionBalance.

https://onionbalance.readthedocs.io/en/latest/

> The TorStatus page has no country associated with the ASN information

I know that for atlas.torproject.org we use the MaxMind GeoLite GeoIP service. If this is not listed here, no information will show. This is more common than you would think, especially for Tor relays which are commonly hosted on smaller ASs than MaxMind care about.
I wouldn't even say academic cheating "levelled the playing field", it just hid a distributional disparity that had already existed.
What happens when the pager goes off?
The high freq signal has to be lower than the switching frequency - otherwise you end up with harmonic interference from the PWM like you mentioned. For high performance servo control in the 5-200kW range with switching frequencies up to 20kHz I typically see high frequency injection in the 1-4kHz range. This is high enough to produce negligible torque ripple and minimal estimation error, but low enough to be synthesizable without an ultra high PWM frequency. Of course for smaller systems switching at 100s of kHz or even MHz a higher high frequency signal could be injected.

I suspect that this type of sensorless strategy will become more popular with the rise of GaN and SiC devices, but it is currently implemented with good results today using only standard Si IGBTs and MOSFETs.
This is a great post!! Thank you.
They're still super common in NZ, a lot of older suburban houses have them, particularly outside of Auckland. We have one at home but it's not the folding down type. I never thought of them as being an Aus/NZ thing.

I like the idea of using it for an outdoor shade structure (vintage ad in the OP), will have to try that this summer..
Test performance still tells you how well the person understands the material only if the test score approximates the understanding reasonably well.
Optimizing Memcached efficiency at Quora
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First and foremost, I would feel extremely concerned that the protesters were so insecure in the validity of their position, that they would actively try to obscure and suppress dissenting opinions.

Secondly, I would feel extremely insulted that these protesters do not trust the general public with the ability to hear two sides of an argument and make an informed decision.

Thirdly I would be immensly disappointed that certain words and ideas had become taboo on a university campus.
After centuries at altitude, Mexican tribes are unrivalled endurance atheletes
Ask HN: Is there any site outlining the key security concerns for web apps?
Reading the while(1) thread I got wondering if there is any reliable site that outlines the key security issues web developers should know about?
Gingkoapp is general(academic papers, gtd, etc), Nulis is focused on fiction writing.

I write stories and screenplays, and while gingko is awesome, I need many features it doesn't have(editing all the cards at once like a big text document, writing stats and word targets, good fullscreen editor, custom templates, fountain markup, color coded cards, collapsing branches, outline-view, saving files locally, a desktop version, a bunch of other things).

Nulis is in it's very-very early version, I've just barely deployed it, but I do think that it's going to be much better for writing fiction.

I would really love to open source it, but for now having a viable business model is a must, I need it so I could afford to make Nulis as good as I want it to be. If I figure out how to make it work despite being open source, or develop it to the point where it benefits more from being open source than not, I'll gladly do that.

It's possible that I will set up a patreon, and open source it once it reaches enough donations to become sustainable.
Respectfully, you're dancing around the issue. These results are only surprising if you have a strong a priori expectation that rich people cheat and poor people don't.

I'll leave it as an exercise to the reader to imagine what such an expectation might betray.
I uninstalled the apps (db/messenger) and only visit it about once per week. I logout after I visit.

Checking it takes about 5 minutes. There are usually 10 posts from friends at the top.

The rest of it is total garbage. Petitions, fake news, etc.

I noticed that if I visit Facebook more than 5 minutes per week, I will feel miserable.

95% of my fb feed is designed to make me upset. I just don't need all of that negativity.
If you want to see the future - look at london. It will come there 2-3 years before in the US. Whole classes of products are impossible to find offline. Like pc parts. PC world is stocked only with crap. And there is nothing else.
Would be nice if the article untangled why that is the case.
The fake IP address whois was very interesting. While fake whois for domain names are common and not that big, fake IP address whois means that there was a ISP out there that endanger their peering. Feels similar to when a CA gives out bad certificates, and I wish RIPE would act similar to how browsers do it. There is few enough ipv4 address that we can afford to be picky about it in clear cases like this.
There are also no places (at least not to my knowledge) where social status is completely decoupled from intelligence.
https://www.owasp.org
> “Yes,” Mac Donald replied. “And do black children that are killed by other blacks matter to you?”

Infuriating!

The problem with all this "oh, but free speech" bullshit, is that incredibly illiberal people are using it as a tool to attack liberalism. Fox News is crying about "snowflakes", while the snowflakes and protestors know what HN doesn't seem to know: they are using our liberal views as weapons against us.
This is also as I understood it. It is possible to have a single hop circuit to an exit, but I don't think you can do single hops to hidden services yet. The hidden service would also have to be explicitly configured to be a single hop hidden service (where it acts as its own rendezvous point).

I don't see any strong evidence that the box itself must be a high speed relay, and in fact, I believe that it is his service that chooses the 3 hop path to the rendezvous point and his Tor daemon that cryptographically verifies that path.
From a NYTimes article [1] on the topic:

"Universities invite speakers not chiefly to present otherwise unavailable discoveries, but to present to the public views they have presented elsewhere. When those views invalidate the humanity of some people, they restrict speech as a public good.

"In such cases there is no inherent value to be gained from debating them in public. In today’s age, we also have a simple solution that should appease all those concerned that students are insufficiently exposed to controversial views. It is called the internet, where all kinds of offensive expression flourish unfettered on a vast platform available to nearly all."

and also

"While Yale bemoaned the occasional “paranoid intolerance” of student protesters, the university also criticized the “arrogant insensitivity” of free speech advocates who failed to acknowledge that requiring of someone in public debate to defend their human worth conflicts with the community’s obligation to assure all of its members equal access to public speech."

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/24/opinion/what-liberal-snow...
Would switch to this immediately if there was a good UI for iOS that kept in sync via Dropbox or some other method. I was disappointed that YNAB ditched the old model and decided to go towards subscription. I am currently using YNAB (Classic) and am looking for a way out because I understand that it will eventually die. There doesn't seem to be a good replacement that has good iOS and Desktop applications (GUI or CLI).
I feel like you're me. I've the exact same experiences and I keep trying something else but they fall flat and often miss some basic (important) features. Always going back to Apple mail.
Which of the two do you think would function better for moving objects. I got a crappy off the shelf camera to put on a robot I made to do some work while moving horizontally.... it moved too fast to acquire anything.
At the same time, when your project takes off past a certain point, don't you gain some amount of responsibility if you know that you have become an attack vector?

If you don't want to take on that responsibility, then you could just quit hosting binary builds, and focus on the source. Then it becomes "someone else's problem" to deal with hosting binaries, and providing security.
The "maximizing shareholder value" idea is a recent and inaccurate belief.

https://www.fastcompany.com/1680174/maximize-shareholder-val...
we have free speech in the united states, and it's one of the things i'm extremely grateful for. it's unbelievable to me that nominally liberal western nations abridge the right, doubly so that someone would be so smug about their state determining what they're allowed to say
What 'snowflakes' get right about free speech
It doesn't matter whose fault it is. It isnt the chocolate chip cookies' or ice cream's fault people are fat but that doesn't mean we should treat them like best friends and keep them in the fridge
A few years ago I wrote a very simple economic simulator. It had a fixed number of actors with a fixed amount of money. Each tick, I would pick a "buyer" and a "seller"---the buyer would give the seller some amount of money (if the buyer had insufficient funds, no money would be exchanged; there was no credit or debt). I would run this for thousands of times. The thought behind the "buyer/seller" concept was that we all act as both (we're a "seller" when working or a buyer when relaxing (food, entertainment, etc)).

It did not matter how much the amount was---fixed or random, the outcome was always the same---a small number of actors would end up with the majority of money.
I picture you sitting in a rocking chair 50 years from now while telling this story.

"Grandpa, can you tell us again of the time when you saw a useful ad?" - "Ah yes, those were the times. But first, some messages from our sponsors!"
The presence of a single body much more massive than the others (the sun) is what prevents that from happening.
Interesting take on Instagram. I'm mid-20's and I find that I don't care at all how many likes I get on Instagram, I'm much more concerned with likes on Facebook. This is one reason I prefer Instagram. As most posts are by 'celebrities' rather than my actual friends I don't feel jealousy or other negative emotions when I see cool photos. I don't pay much attention to likes on Instagram at all actually. I've recently made the decision to delete Facebook from my phone. I find my main use of Facebook is photo sharing and I can do that through Instagram (and those can be sent to Facebook/Twitter automatically without me having to pay attention to those platforms too much). I haven't been doing this long but I've found a noticeable improvement in my happiness. I can't remember the last time I saw something really negative on Instagram, whereas on Facebook every public post is littered with horrible comments. Maybe that's it.
Another clear example of someone who did not comprehend my point, writing a message in disagreement when in fact it is precisely what I meant. Sigh... Interacting with other humans is difficult.
I liked Facebook early on when it was set up in a way that was pretty easy to customize (even with plug-ins). It felt easier than creating a custom web page — even as someone with the skills to do so — and it was more likely to actually be seen by people that I knew.

Then they started compartmentalizing everything. After awhile, if you wanted to mention something that didn’t have a field in their form, there wasn’t really anywhere to put that. All the plug-ins went away.

Then I started to realize that if I learned too much about things by reading a feed, I had no idea what to talk about in person because I already “knew” everything. Ironically a social platform was making real social behavior more difficult.

Eventually though, knowing things was not exactly beneficial because it was like dirty laundry. Paragraphs and paragraphs of stuff that I didn’t want to see. Oh, great: didn’t know that co-worker was actually super-religious and was going to start posting every possible religious thing that crossed his inbox [hide]. Oh, great: friends that go to the same places every single weekend and post the same maps of those places and the same pictures every single time [hide]. Oh, great: pages of the latest political diatribes [hide]. Oh, great: 50 things I have already seen on Reddit [hide]. These days if I do log in, I can scroll for quite awhile and see nothing interesting at all, even after being gone from Facebook for a week.

That means it’s become a glorified address book, which is kind of where we started and perhaps where we should have always remained. What is the multi-billion-dollar “value” of Facebook now?
Even for homebrew users, installing GUI apps via homebrew usually means you'll need full Xcode installed. I, for one, only have Xcode command line tools installed and never use homebrew to install GUI apps.
Yea, but for a lot of people who are just starting to get better at practicing mindfulness, it's not a 100% solution yet and you end up doing things like FB anyway, just more rarely. (I know that was the case for me at least)
That doesn't contradict his claim in the least. I don't think he's opposed to the notion that disparities exist in terms of competitive advantage.

The point is rather that such a result only comes as a surprise if one has a strong a priori expectation that rich people cheat more than poor people. Otherwise one would predict exactly this effect.