skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Editing text is maybe 9% of what I do. Most of my work consists of reading text, thinking about it, running tests, reading the results of those tests, thinking about what I've read, discussing what I've been thinking about with coworkers, reading more text, and thinking some more. It has been this way for most of my career. This is what I see most of my coworkers doing, too. Editing text more efficiently simply wouldn't make any measurable difference in my productivity, because editing text doesn't take up that much time to begin with.
No, same problem here with latest Chrome on Windows 10.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Go-jJlGd1so
ganonm said "The fact that intelligence is approximately normally distributed is an indicator that there are many individual effects at play."

Intelligence test scores are normally distributed by construction: the weighting of questions is adjusted to ensure normality on a sample population. That test scores are normally distributed in samples other than the normative one tells us nothing other than that the test designers succeeded.

Contrast this with height, the measure of which is not defined in terms of a population distribution.
I have never seen a successful community site
that raised that much money before getting traction.

What are some successful community sites?
The first of those definitions is about types as they are used to prove program correctness (by reducing expressiveness). The second one is about types as used in polymorphism, to increase a language expressiveness.

The most interesting part is that both usages use the same kinds of type. That's probably the source of the confusion.
It is not successful for the owners. It has been a very successful project for native advertisers of all stripes, and people that are insane politically (of all stripes).
Moving One of Capital One’s Largest Customer-Facing Apps to AWS
When I worked in China nearly a decade ago, the general mindset among my Party friends was "there's no way this will last." Most of them had sent their kids off to get Canadian citizenship because they weren't sure there would even be a PRC in the long term.

I haven't been back in a while but my guess is things have sort of "settled in" more. The Chinese Firewall is absurdly effective - last I heard it was difficult to even get a VPN through.
Regarding API management in the context of Istio:

https://apigee.com/about/blog/digital-business/simplifying-m...
I'm actually using them as git aliases, not bash command aliases.
Advances in technology are improving quickly
I've watched the old version beating Lee Sedol. Ke Jie is not a whole lot stronger.

Let it go, man, cause it's gone. A new era has dawned.
This looks very interesting, but there's not much info there, I guess without being able to login.
I think both sides on "too little time" are right. It's certainly true that going slow and steady and waiting for the incumbent to show weakness is sometimes a viable strategy, and that it can take a long time for communities to grow from a handful of users to millions.

It's just that when you take $8M+ of VC money, they don't want to wait around. They want "dat hockey stick" within a couple of quarters. I think it's wise and honorable for Imzy to recognize that they're unable to satisfy those conditions and bow out instead of continuing to blow investor money and keep the staff on a dead-end job.
This just blew my mind. I'm gonna go home and see about combining all my projects. That seems very useful!
I think this comment hones in on not just this problem, but a lot of problems we face in the modern world. We have plenty of issues to get up in arms about, and do, but the tasks are so colossal and the adversaries seem to much more powerful that I think the average person does not understand what they can do, besides be mad. And this causes these events to seem like fleeting passions.
Sure, we can call senators, but they already know we are upset. Complaints just fall on empty ears. Sure, we can vote in other representatives, but the choices are limited. We can become representatives, but I think people feel that they will be squashed or do not really want to be that involved in politics.

So what do we do? Complain?
For the record: I don't think that Mid-East is ready for democracy yet (the majority wouldn't support basic human rights IMO) so the biggest mistake was for the "West" to support the Arab Spring. Yeah, those dictators were bad, but they were predictably bad.

Nature abhors vacuum and radical Islam is filling in.

P.S. I don't care about down votes.
Wow, I had no idea. Thanks for posting that. And it's going to happen again "soon" in geologic time...
Didn't know we were in the 100th year of Razor Scooters. Cool!
Deze koolhydraatarme ontbijtrecepten bezorgen je meer energie
Regarding API gateway products, Apigee will actually work with Istio

https://apigee.com/about/blog/digital-business/simplifying-m...
You would think that. I've actually asked people about that before, and they are like "Well you are white, so it's different." If you press them on the matter they can't really articulate it.

Not to mention that there isn't actually that much difference between my hair and "ethnic hair." The hair product I use is actually in the "ethnic hair" section of the hair aisle, which just goes to show how stupid the actual classification is. I'm probably as far from "ethnic" as you could imagine. I'm not even Jewish, or some other white ethnicity known for having curly hair.

My only guess was that HR associated curly hair with "skate culture" or something, and thought that the appropriate way for a white person to style such hair was to slick it back like an 80's power broker.

The entire HR situation at that company was a mess though, and I'm really glad I no longer work there.
> Is there any evidence of this type of telemetry?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Chrome#User_tracking

> I can't imagine this threat model being too bothersome

Your entire browsing history reveals too much about you making your profile unique. Then any connection to your other data reveals your real name.
There is plenty of news coverage of this in China, both in English and in Chinese -

http://www.ecns.cn/2017/05-24/258802.shtml

http://www.ecns.cn/2017/05-18/258072.shtml

http://en.people.cn/n3/2017/0523/c90000-9219327.html

I see claims everywhere that "China is censoring coverage of the match", but anyone can just click on those links and see that it is untrue.
And there was an article a few weeks back about how certain content creation tools (Adobe) stuff in lots of metadata into these assets by default.

Some of the MS teams were good about stripping those out for release, others, didn't seem to notice.
Were triangular buildings really common in medieval towns? It seems like the generator maps out an area then bisects it with lines at odd angles, leading to some pretty strange looking houses. The castles also have some pretty unusual looking features.
I understand some of the frustration with Apple. You need a Mac for development, you need iDevices for testing, the dev program is $99 a year, and you need to use their tool chain. Their web views are not tuned for hybrid apps, etc, etc. Lots of that is driven by our experience with open source, where you can usually build and release on any platform and your choice of hardware is your own.

But these complaints are also very selfish, almost delusional. The author wants access to the largest and most lucrative App Store on the planet, yet they don't want to pay for any Apple hardware to do it. And they think Apple should expend resources to ensure their specific cross platform approach should make it easy to write android apps as good as their iOS apps.

Apple makes money only because people buy its hardware. A big reason for the success of the iPhone/iPad is that their apps were historically better than similar apps in android. It's awash with top developers investing substantial amounts to build and update apps.

If you don't think it's worth investing $1,000 to develop for a store that pays out over $20 Billion a year to developers, why does Apple need you? Why should they invest to build developer tools for devs who won't buy Apple?

Why should Apple invest in cross platform or dumb down its own APIs to help eliminate significant differences with Android? Why shouldn't they focus on better native features for their web views instead of making them better for cross platform devs? How will either sell more iPhones?

There is nothing wrong with developing for a single platform. Google Play may surpass the App Store this year, obviously Android is a fine platform to sell on.

But never expect a company to undercut their very business model just to make it easier for you to reach their customers.
Wow, that is a really well polished, completed, and neat little game. Makes for a great WebAssembly demo given how quickly it loads and how much value you get out of it.

It runs and looks fantastic at 2560x1600 fullscreen too (on a laptop made in 2011).
Tewari is a common technique for analyzing go positions. You alter the order of the moves to get to the same final position and, as all the stones (the pieces) are the same, if one sequence ends with a silly move of a player, but there are no silly moves of the other player in any sequence, then the first player made a mistake.

This means that the history of the game is pretty much irrelevant. Usually only the last two moves are important because you can't recapture a stone and get to the very same position as two moves before. It's called the ko rule (another unfortunate word clash with English.)

There is also triple ko (three linked kos), which requires to remember more moves back, like for repeated positions in chess. A go game with a triple ko has no result: there is no draw so the game must be played again if in a tournament. It's very rare.
Javascript is the present, and only part of the present. It's completely irrelevant to my area of development.
Honestly, as much as I love them: Imzy in its current form was never going to catch on.

Other sites can get away with some bad choices like login-required because of momentum, but... The culture and userbase they were hoping to attract was more akin to tumblr, and Tumblrites were never going to leave it for Imzy.

Those used to reddit, meanwhile, saw a signup/login screen (or even a "request an invite" screen) and boredly clicked off. Some actively looking for reddit alternatives (like me) waited to get in, but not many.
In a big company (particularly in highly regulated industries) it can get very difficult to measure employee output because quite often an employee may be blocked from completing a task because of regulatory requirements, company policies or scalability considerations - This sometimes forces employees from one team to coordinate with other teams who are working on a project dependency and can lead to busy-waiting.

Sometimes employees can be moved onto other temporary tasks while the other team completes their task/dependency but this causes the employees in the former team to lose focus - Making employees context-switch between too many projects carries a cost which may be higher than just allowing them to busy-wait from time to time.
We ban accounts for trolling, so please don't do that here.

Also, you've posted many uncivil and/or unsubstantive comments. We ban accounts for that too, so please don't do that either.
Not really :) and I am not the OP. This article [1] provides a very good overview of the repository organization Google has and the reasons behind it.

I think the reason that this works for well Google is the amount of test automation that is in place which seems to be very good at flagging any errors due to dependency changes before it gets deployed. Not sure how many organizations have invested and have an automated test infrastructure like Google has built.

1. https://cacm.acm.org/magazines/2016/7/204032-why-google-stor...
Please don't react to provocation by making the thread worse (a.k.a. please don't feed the trolls).
> At the time this was released, the game performed terribly (as in, incredibly slowly) on all but most advanced PCs.

So it is a Crytek engine? That joke held itself for ages.

> The "real gamedevs" (such as Carmack) were trying to optimize for performance and working on the most possible hardware configurations.

There are many different kinds of gamedevs and many games never made it past their one target platform or sucked on anything else, in addition third party console ports often end up horrible.

Not to forget that the true heroes are often the driver developers that have to add game specific hacks to make the bundle of undefined behavior that the gamedevs call a game both run and look like it didn't come from the uncanny valley.
> Not trying to discredit, but it isn't a total ban. At least the result isn't and probably won't.

That's the lowest bar in the world. It's a damn board game. The stream was six hours of two men sitting across a table from each other placing black and white stones. Optionally, some of the streams had commentators talking about how good the moves were as they were played. That such a thing could be subjected to censorship is absurd.

As for the result not being censored, well, it's literally a single bit of information. That was only censored because it's not practical to do so.
Awesome demo, I was surprised how smooth it was.
M3DB – A distributed time series database using M3TSZ compression
Surely that is possible too! Either way, it was not my proudest moment.
I agree, some signs need to be learned, and traffic signs are a prime example of that. On the other hand, many signs with fewer fine distinctions can be made with pictograms that require no prior knowledge of conventions.

That being said, traffic signage is a mixture of both, where some meaning is given by convention (e.g., white background and red border means "not allowed"), and then extrapolated by pictograms (bicycles not allowed, trucks not allowed, pedestrians not allowed).

Edit: A certain cultural context is of course always required, to know for example that a crossed out cigarette applies to smoking in general and doesn't mean that you can smoke pipes, cigars, or bongs. Such 'misunderstandings' only happen with QA engineers though. ;)
> the data is lost forever.

Unless someone copied it?
How does this free you from corporate masters then? Is this to prevent governments from seizing your DNS when they can't get access to the hosting?
Show HN: Matterhorn, a terminal-based chat client for Mattermost
Reflections on reflection (attacks)
Seems to load and run faster than most webpages. Really cool and a promising example of WebAssembly
>built WAY too much stuff that only really matters if you are operating at scale.

Why do people do this?? Please don't build for mega huge scales before you've gone to market...it's a huge waste of time and money. I guess developers have too much pride to not make the _best_ platform
My theory - Reddit is kept alive by YC and YC-affiliates to keep the "hype" engine around their investments alive. In other words "remember, this is from the smart people that invested in the Frontpage of the Internet™!"
https://imgur.com/a/YD5zz
Believe me I thought about cross platform. If I had chosen that route I certainly wouldn't have used web views, I would have probably used Xamarin.

But ultimately my plan was to try Kotlin, and full rewrite so it was as optimal as possible.
Ask HN: Where can we learn more about front-end design?
lea, since you're here...

i'm creating a mavo project right now and
i wanna use a simple textarea as a mavo field.
(tinymce makes me feel a little icky inside.)
but i didn't see anything in the documentation
about how i would do that. can i? if so, how?

edit: oh hey. i just acted like it would work,
tried it out, and bingo! hey, that makes me happy...
> Disagree. It's super easy to narrow it down to a handful of people and make assumptions about who it was.

I have to ask, are you saying this because have you read the stories and been able to narrow down who it was? Or are you just assuming? The stories are extremely vague, and they're curated by someone who removes unnecessary detail from the stories to make sure they stay anonymized.

Here's the type of story you might see in the mailing list (this is a fictitious example along the lines of what actually shows up) "I had a meeting with a male team mate and a male employee from another group. The employee from the other group would only address my male colleague despite me being the lead of the project."

That's what most of the stories are like, with few identifying details, and just a few sentences at most describing the situation. The stories are intentionally obfuscated and brief. If this was a real incident, I'd have no idea if someone from my team was involved, or if it was my manager, or any other person I worked with. The people involved will be able to figure it out if they're reading, but in the overwhelming majority of cases there'd be no way of knowing.

The only time I've every seen someone figure out who was being mentioned was when they outed themself.
look at all that money flowing into SF, those guys are super productive

how do you measure their productivity?

look at at the money they're bringing in!
On the other hand missing completely it in 3 out of 30 tests (samples with a number of selected "optimizations") is a "terrible" 10% is awfully worse (in an alarm system).

>For the experiments, we selected 30 scenes from the previously used videos with the next requirements. Each scene is made up of at least 5 frames, filmed in a fixed scenario, i.e., in the same place, and the pistols are clearly visible to a human viewer. ...
The model successfully detects the pistol in 27 scenes with an average time interval AATpI=0.2 seconds, which is good enough for an alarm system. The detector fails to detect pistols only in three scenes.

I am probably particularly picky but (from the paper):

>This section analyzes the performance of our best detection model on seven public videos, with low qualities, downloaded from youtube. Six of them are pieces of well known films from the 90s, James Bon: The World is Not Enough (video 1), 3 pieces from Pulp Fiction (video 2, 3 and 4), Impossible Mission: Rogue Nation (video 5) and Mister Bin (video 6). The seventh video is a long pistol threatening video (video 7).

... if you cannot spell Bond or Mister Bean, and you classify Mission Impossible: Rogue Nation as a 90's movie (calling it Impossible Mission) you don't look like having been particularly accurate when writing the article, if the same accurateness is in the actual numbers, there is a problem.

Anyway the "final" sample (30 scenes) is so small that it makes very little sense to derive anything from it.
Ask HN: Codecademy-like sites for mathmematics?
nothing on the home page or "learn more" link actually shows anything about the site, just that it's yet another online community. I'm not surprised this shut down so quickly, you're giving almost no details to the user at all about how it works, what it looks like, or any sort of interactive demo. requiring someone to sign up just to see it in action is silly.
https://istio.io/docs/concepts/network-and-auth/auth.html

No option for OAuth2 or JWT? Maybe I'm not understanding the problem Istio solves vs. Envoy
I don't think this is a reasonable summary of the landscape of PQ asymmetric cryptography. PQ crypto is based on different hard problems than RSA, which makes it seem extremely complicated and exotic, but that's true --- when you get into the nuts and bolts and equivalences and theory --- of "conventional" asymmetric crypto as well.

It's certainly not the case that PQ crypto requires enormous investments. Google ran a long quiet experiment where they used RLWE alongside ECDHE for users, and none of those users even noticed.
Bingo! Thank you for the links!
AT&T’s purchase of HBO could lead to 20-minute Game of Thrones episodes
I guess, it would be possbile to get more with less, but yes this doesn't seem to be the goal with node.js :)
They will probably have a hard time raising from institutional investors, but my guess is their userbase is primarily single men who spend large amounts of time on the computer, a decent subset of whom have spending cash.

The "goats" are also people who feel like they've been politically badgered into a corner, so I suspect they will spend to maintain their last refuge. Your will to fight goes up as the space you are confined to gets smaller.

I think there's definitely a market for a "social network of last resort" in this age of community guidelines.

Which... I think is a great thing. It's good that Twitter, Reddit, etc, are being aggressive about harassment. That promotes the freer flow of certain ideas (feminism, social justice, etc). But then that necessitates an alternate space for the free flow of opposing viewpoints (harassment filters out the weak, feminism is cancer, this woman should be raped for her opinions, etc).
Definitely a well made game, but I don't think it would really fit with the Steam store. It looks like it's doing well on the play store however: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=rocks.funkykar...
Looks like a PR piece made it to front page.
> StackTraces are hard to understand: Clojure Spec has been written about a ton in this regard

developers cannot be expected to spec out every function prototype. that's just not a good use of time.
Or they've only done one test (that they'll share), and it went 638 mi before disengaging?
This led me to https://www.reddit.com/r/proceduralgeneration/

Which is awesome
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The Machine Intelligence Behind Android Gboard
Thanks for the data! I had heard the lease terms were for 3 years, no exceptions and no getting out of them. Still, they may change from location to location and over time. As always, read the contract!
Let's completely forget about the mess that modern web development is nowadays with frameworks for frameworks that manage your frameworks making build chains for C++ projects look refreshingly easy all of a sudden, the requirement for tools for fixing really basic stuff like having constants in a CSS file or the hacky way most frameworks "integrate" with JavaScript and your HTML.

Lets forget about JavaScript being forced upon you, a language that has so many holes in it there are a fistful of alternatives that compile more intelligent code to JavaScript just to take the pain away to deal with the intense stupidity of native JavaScript.

Then there's the everlasting "can I use feature x on version y of browser/platform z, and if so does does it use a different syntax?" unless you dumb down to only Android and Safari Mobile and don't support all web based platforms (killing one of the main attractions of a hybrid application by choosing so). Ignore that too.

Then we can talk how you try as hard as possible to run away for the development stack of the company that created the product you are trying to develop for. Nobody ever complained about having to use at least some part of the Visual Studio / .Net or Win32 / Windows toolchain for the past 30 years to build a Windows application that really would look and behave like a Windows app even when you were just using Java (the hybrid app platform of the past), but that was of course something completely incomparably different.

But somehow actually needing a Mac and an iPhone to get work done in the Apple stack: Crazy! Nuts! How can they think everybody has a Mac and an iPhone to spare?

Getting WKWebView to hack into native code and vice versa is a pig, but the way Google allows you to hack into everything all of the time has it's own drawbacks mainly in the form of privacy and security.
It's a great book but his Learning Processing: A Beginners Guide to Programming Images, Animation, and Interaction (2nd Ed) is a better introductory book.