skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Elitism is a form of social stupidity but egalitarianism is socially dangerous when it comes to STEM-based endeavours.
At this point in my life I can't escape irony. It just follows me.
iostream generally has poor performance[0]. TR 18015[1] (Technical Report on C++ Performance) lists some of the implementation challenges.

[0] https://stackoverflow.com/questions/4340396/does-the-c-stand...

[1] http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/TR18015.pdf
Since that link gives more background, we've changed to it from https://github.com/inconvergent/snek. Thanks!
The Extremely Competitive Job Market in Tokyo (2015)
I thought the problem was overpaying several hundred thousand people?
Iteration is not design – Debunking design Darwinism
They have discovered naturally occurring nuclear reactions in rock formations. There is also the issue of radio active radon gas. My point is more that radiation hazards exist naturally on earth. A carefully constructed handful of man made ones doesn't feel like it changes the risk profile all that much.

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/ancient-nuclear-r...
The word "genius" in the modern sense (extraordinary inborn mental ability) is about 200 years older than the practice of IQ testing, and it went through at least two definitions before that. The common theme has been that genius is something innate to the individual. Nobody has a claim on the word, especially not the super dubious psychometric community.
To me the real lesson of this post is something about analysis paralysis and losing financial perspective.

The majority of the options appear somewhere around $1-$2 per oz and it appears a typical bottle is around 10oz, so the difference here in the pricing is somewhere around $10. Worrying about this problem for more than about 10 minutes loses all the money you'd "save" by ensuring you're on the cheap end of that spread.
Hackers Are Hijacking Phone Numbers and Breaking into Email, Bank Accounts
They seem to have been stuck in a year. I only briefly skimmed it though.
All the options in the article can be self-hosted or run anywhere you like, ECS is proprietary and Amazon only, which is likely why it was excluded. Heroku wasn't in the comparison either.
Well, I didn't see a rule against humor in the guidelines, so I foolishly assumed it was allowed...
One syllable.
Commodities don't drive profits to zero. What they do is drive the least efficient operations out of business which looks to those companies like the profits go to zero. But, overtime someone is generally profitable when average over a few years.
The Nexys 4 only has 16-bit wide RAM, the Parallella has 32-bit wide RAM.
The sexual harassment is more unusual and thus attention-worthy, though. We're so used to large corporations routinely screwing over their employees that it just becomes par for the course, and results in class-action settlements and maybe a few news articles but nothing else. Rampant sexual harassment at a company, however, is more newsworthy, and gets people paying attention.
Context really doesn't help that threat.
My understanding is the other board members combined have more voting control than Travis individually.

So yes, they could, but the power isn't distributed evenly, so it's not as simple as getting >50% of votes.
AFAIK AMP is just a list of Do's and Dont's that google qualify as AMP content. Even other search engines like DuckDuckGo and Bing could use it if the choose so. You can access AMP outside of google and host it yourself. You can go AMP-only if you o please. Instant Articles from Facebook on other hand is tied into facebook's platform.
I actually find the options amazingly helpful. For most items, there is a description of what the different options mean.

Would you rather have them show just a single option, which may or may not work for you? Or give you the choice of one that works for /you/ the best?
This unfortunately matches my experiences shopping for conditioner, toilet paper toothbrushes, toothpaste etc. on Amazon.

Someone on HN at some point made a web site that used to list the cheapest items in some common categories by unit price. It was called papersomethingorother, but I un-bookmarked it because it went down awhile back.

And it gets even worse when you find the typical retailer game where you list unit price for the same product in two different units (price per ounce for one size, and per gallon for another) so now have fun doing unit conversions too.

It's all just a complete mess.
And they reply, "Hm, good idea, I like it when people watch." And you reply, "Me too, I sometimes get a new client out of it." And their eyes widen, impressed, asking, "How many clients do you have?" And you reply, "In total? I've probably had a few hundred." And in shock they admit this is more than was even mentioned in the autobiography of Casanova himself, at which point you reply, "Casanova was in IT?!"
Awesome that this even work well on mobile browsers!

Is this open source? So we could see how it was made?
Oh, I though it did speech to text itself. It just calls one of several commercial speech to text engines run by Google, Microsoft, Facebook, etc.

Could CMUSphinx be used? That's open source speech recognition that can fit in a phone if you keep the vocabulary size down.
Also important:

- warrants should have explicit expiration dates...no more indefinite intercepts.
- cooperating companies should be able to publicly say anything as soon as the warrant expires. The gag orders are what have allowed the scope of monitoring to be hidden from public scrutiny and that scrutiny is what's needed to keep surveillance to reasonable levels.
You can actually win the game in the solitaire clone; the minesweeper clone not so much.
Is it still the case that CF requires a ton of overhead to get running? Last I checked there was no easy way to set up CF without:

- Running on a cloud

- Spinning up ~8 different servers, each with ~2GB of memory iirc

Kinda a lot of overhead if you're just running a few dev environments like I was.
Not everyone makes $60/hr or values their time that highly. $10 has made a difference to my life, at the right time.
on my phone if i increase/decrease the default font size, AMP uses that.
I read Wired Love a while ago and was impressed with how light and easy to read it was, the whole thing felt really quite contemporary.
It's one of those unofficial community rules which is tragic and really funny at the same time. Like what kind of boring and ultimately cold community do you get when your community policing doesn't allow humor?
Sure, one shouldn't actually spend that much time picking which lotion to buy. But perhaps one should just shop elsewhere; and I think that's the point of this post. Amazon has become so full of counterfeits, confusing options, over priced third party sellers, etc., that for something like personal care products, most people these days would likely have a much higher quality experience starting off at drugstore.com or target.
http://www.sens.org -- after reading the article, still by far the most scientific and fully developed approach that I have seen.
Great comment. I agree with all of it, except your closing sentiment.

It's evolving to become a place where goods and services previously only available to billionaires became available to millionaires and then became available to the middle class and then became available to the poor all over the World.

In 1900, the US had 4,192 cars. 1681 ran on steam. 1575 were electric and 936 had an internal combustion engineer. Only the super rich and hobbyists had them. The Model T was released in 1908. On May 26th, 1927, 15 million Model T's had been produced. Today, 88 percent of Americans are drivers and there are 1.9 cars per household in a country of 321 million people. Furthermore, most of those without a car have access to buses and trains. One day we'll evolve to become a society where everyone will have access to on demand transportation as reliable as running water, available everywhere.

Transportation isn't the only industry impacted by this evolution. Even the uninsured in America have access to more and better medical care than John D. Rockefeller did in his day.

We can symbolically condemn capitalism until we go blue in the face, but the fact still remains that it is the only reason this planet is able to sustain 7.5 billion people at the current quality of life. 100, 200, 300 years ago plagues and famines were common and many suffered and died due to causes that fewer and fewer people in the present will ever have to worry about.

Are all of the institutions produced by capitalism perfect? Far from it, but even those institutions have flaws that we can correct if, as a society, we're willing to put a price on them to incentivate some entrepreneur to solve it in the pursuit of profit.
I've tried Alpine Linux on both docker and LXD. Memory usage is the same, however startup time is much better on LXD.

If you Google it, they have a benchmark that shows hundreds of containers being launched on Docker and LXD as a benchmark.
I wonder how much the effects vary between different professions.

I'm in my 40s. Incredibly old for HN standards. And yet, I feel no nostalgia for the "good ol' times." I mean, don't get me wrong I'm sure there's a lot of things that set me apart from newer generations -- I don't get Snapchat at all ;) -- but I don't see me being happier by being put in a house set up to look and feel like the 90s/80s.

Is it maybe because we as programmers tend to be less prone to be stuck to the past? Just wondering
Humour has to have a joke & be funny, references to other things with the same words is neither.
Back button goes back to previous app. If this can get the back button to work correctly why can't Google AMP?
I think the point he's trying to make is that the definition for the word "genius" is very clear. It's defined as an IQ >= 140. You can't say that _for you_ it means something different. That's like saying, _for you_ a convex function means something different than the mathematical definition. It's fine that you think it means something different, just use a different word, not the word "genius".
Yeah, my comment might have tried to make the situation sound a bit more absolute than what I actually mean. I do believe that there likely was some effect, but there was no major effect that made autism some net-beneficial improvement (or else the majority of the population would have it). It might be true that certain autistic tendencies can be a net-win for the gene pool (these would probably just be seen as "normal human behavior" by now, though, since they would have accumulated in most of the gene pool unless autism developed relatively recently (probably not the case considering people from every continent have been diagnosed)). I also don't think that it was a net-negative, or at least not by a significant amount. It could be that at one point autism was more prevalent and then this changed (which would make it probably a net-negative), but my guess is that it's a relatively average trait (in that it won't cause a major fluctuation in either direction in terms of breeding). That said, it seems pretty reasonable to say that (being a spectrum and all), more "severe" diagnoses of autism would result in a lower chance of breeding. Slightly-autistic people probably had an above average survival rate with a relatively low change in fertility, but people with severe autism are and were less likely to have children, so it's likely gone down. At the end of the day though, it's not too far off from other mutations like hair/eye color (which make a small difference in the reproductive weight, but not enough to completely take over the gene pool and knock out the competing adaptations).
Ultimately, it comes down to the attitudes of shareholders. There are two major competing trends in this respect.

On the one hand, the shareholder value movement has done immense harm to the long-term planning of businesses by focusing fanatically on quarterly profits. At its worst, this turns into corporate raiding and asset stripping.

On the other, an increasing proportion of equities are held by tracker funds; Vanguard are largely indifferent to the performance of any one company, as long as the market as a whole keeps growing. The entire business of index tracker funds is predisposed upon stable long-term growth.
The Bleak Left
It's important to note that at least some of this problem is the fault of traditional retail. Aveeno MAKES all these ridiculous size and quantity combinations (at least some of these multipacks are shrink wrapped together). When a store stocks them, they choose to stock only a few. But Amazon is giving you GLOBAL insight into all available options Aveeno makes from any distributor who has access to them.

It would be nice if Amazon could make the comparison easier for us. But in this case most of the problem is that it's simply exposing the underlying wholesale/distributor model directly to the consumer.
If Your Company Isn’t Good at Analytics, It’s Not Ready for AI
Ask HN: What to do next after landing a PT contract job?
This job came unexpectedly. I just replied to a job listing, interview was very informal (text chat, not even over the phone) but my past experience and projects were pretty good and convinced the employer to produce a contract and hire me part-time work (15-20 hrs). They have funds for at least 4 months which would be at least how long this contract will be for.

I'm a programmer and was looking mainly for full-time work but the experience this job would provide is something I really wanted, which is why I took it. So it's a different turn of events for me.

However it's also part time and I am not one of those "expert freelancers" that can turn up clients consistently. I have 20-25 extra daytime hours out of a week to do other things.

So what would do with this time? Should I try to go for another part time job? They are, however, uncommon for programming. Or jump right into freelancing and try to push for similar jobs at better rates? As long as I have this contract, I feel I have more leverage to pass on less desirable clients.
Or undercharging several hundred thousand customers? (Not earning enough)
You're allowed humour. Good jokes get upvotes.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7609289

scott_s:

> I agree with what people have already said, but I think there's one more point to add: people usually over-estimate how funny their own comments are. We have a tendency to think, "This idea of mine is hilarious! And different! Surely this witticism is the exception." And we are usually wrong. When you have N people all doing that, there's a lot of noise.

> I try to gently point this out to people who complain when their attempt at humor has been downvoted by the community. It's not that we don't like humor. We just don't like banal attempts at humor, which becomes noise. Or, put in a less charitable fashion, "You're not as funny as you think you are."
Humor is allowed, but low effort memes and cultural references tend to crowd out interesting substantive discussion and are so predictable as to not add much value. Look at popular Reddit threads, you can often guess the top voted comment.
You also need to read at least one 1000 page fiction book per week and be on some version of the "paleo" diet.
That's how it used to be. How long ago was your last course?

They still let you watch the videos but generally don't let you take the quizzes or submit assignments to the auto-grader anymore.

http://cyrilandersontraining.com/2017/02/18/coursera-pay-gra...
If a licensed professional gives you a placebo for your illness, they're also effectively saying it's not that important to worry about, which changes the psychology of the patient.
I really don't get on well with Amazon (uk). Finding products is hard. I mean there are things in life that you research, then there are things that aren't really worth researching. Examples: I wanted an Exercise Ball once, Or a waterproof bluetooth speaker.

These types of search yield generic cruft, and despite all the options, none of them seem to have any meaningful impact in the search.

The only other notable thing winding me up is ebay "not collection only".
me too but it's costly -- it suddenly means that the file size of my logs is a more reliable metric for visitor count than the piwik dash.

I checked the DNT box on piwik because I care about privacy and why not, right, but I don't think it's unethical to collect information about people who are requesting free content over the web.

As a society we need to decide whether it's good to centralize our reading and use it to target ads, but that's a different question than collecting a lot of information on my piwik (which, as far as I know, doesn't report anything back to G or FB).
Nonce reuse is only expected in the sense that cryptographers have begun to accept that developers will always find a way to misuse primitives. That's why these are called "nonce misuse-resistant" ciphers.

Cryptographers are not encouraging people to use this type of cipher where nonce reuse is expected. Nonce reuse should never be expected, and always be avoided. But people being people will wrongly use these constructions, so we do our best to try and limit the worst downsides of the footgun.

XChaCha20-Poly1305 will not solve this problem, as you seemt o believe. It is more of a footgun, in that it too catastrophically fails under nonce reuse. Yes, it's less likely to suffer reuse in the first place due to a larger nonce size, but that ignores the context driving the creation of SIV schemes: developers who choose nonces poorly, not developers who encrypt too many messages given the likelihood of collision of a random nonce.
Author here - this is perfectly true. I, perhaps ineffectively, tried to cover that briefly in the conclusion - basically I am worried about dealing with this sort of thing when I become a father in a few months. Expenses will rise, my wife's salary will fall, and time for doing this sort of research will be hard to find.
I was referring to zero days as in the way to gain the ability to run the malicious code in user's device, preferably in the root account which cannot be stopped by updating the software, something like that was done in jailbreaking using browser(a long time ago), or pwn2own. I was not thinking of encryption related zero day specifically. If someone gets root access, they get access to all the contents, no matter what transport security is used.
I agree with what you're saying; I wasn't trying to speak in absolutes.
It's annoying to test though. You'd be better self hosting everything and putting a CDN in front of your site.
Yes I have some kind of start up discount I think.
If amazon had a !#$%!#$%ing table like TFA posted then it would be fine; I was ordering something recently, and it was similar to this where the price per unit was an order of magnitude different between all the options, with the additional complexity that some options were "add-on" only (cannot buy except in orders totaling a minimum of $25).
Your bomber story is steeped in urban legend.

The closest real, substantiated event is a paper published by Abraham Wald, an Austro-Hungarian who immigrated to the USA, in which he applies the correct statistical analysis accounting for survivorship bias. I can find no evidence that anyone ever published the "opposite" conclusion, or added any armor to real planes either way.

The story is also attributed, without evidence, to Patrick Blackett, who was indeed British.

https://skeptics.stackexchange.com/questions/30078/did-the-c...
You're probably familiar with code reuse.

This is conversation reuse. A particular point or observation occurs so frequently that it is documented and described in a common place, and then invoked when needed.
Where did the convention of storing variables local to the algorithm on the vertices/edges being processed, as opposed to in sets/maps local to the function originate? You can see it with things like `w.onStack` and to a lesser degree `v.lowlink` and `v.index`. I see this convention all the time when it comes to describing graph algorithms, despite it being less generalizable (you can no longer run the algorithm on different graphs in parallel if they share any vertices, nor can you perform the algorithm over an immutable graph). Is this motivated purely by performance?
humour

ˈhjuːmə/￼

noun

noun: humor

1.
the quality of being amusing or comic, especially as expressed in literature or speech.
"his tales are full of humour"
synonyms:	comical aspect, comic side, funny side, comedy, funniness, hilarity, jocularity; More
antonyms:	seriousness
the ability to express humour or amuse other people.
"their inimitable brand of humour"
Well CEO's mother passed away and father is still in hospital. I feel his absence is totally normal IMO. Most of Uber news on this board are total click baits. I agree with many people who feel the anti-Uber lazy reporting is out of control.
Microsoft Azure adds OpenBSD support
> those of us who don't allow Google CDNs will not be able to use the site

I can't imagine this accounts for more than a tiny number of visitors and people technical enough to do this will know what to reenable.
> Have you tested that?

Only all the time.

> I recommend you market your engineering solution

I saw exactly that company at the last re:Invent. Can't remember what the name was...

> to the major cloud providers as they will pay you very well to help them implement your solution to that problem.

My guess is that most reasonably sized organization manager their own databases for uptime-critical systems (case in point). It lets them have more control over backups, when to upgrade the database, how to handle failover, etc.
Game -> Options -> Troll mode

Uncheck that box and you'll have a chance :D
If I'm going to spend $1500 on a MacBook Pro, I would rather get 16Gb RAM/128Gb SSD than 8Gb/256GB SSD. I can always add more external storage if needed.
Would you please edit the uncivil swipes out of your comments here? Your comment would be just fine without the snarky first three letters.
Also, before there was no guarantee that the organic results would contain Google ads as publishers could relatively easily find higher CPM payouts elsewhere.

Well, with AMP, the the mobile results are basically ads, then AMP results which are guaranteed to have Google ads. So the percentage of searches makes Google money increases while similar reducing revenue from competitive ad networks who are not approved.
Yup, this looks like it's a cross-domain protection.
I think I have to mention this: http://opensourcebikeshare.com/
The Science of Trap
Have you ever farmed before? I spent one summer doing it and it is the definition of toil. I couldn't imagine how much more it sucked without modern tools, yet people built irrigation ditches and terraformed the land.

People often miss the meaning behind the Biblical story of the fall of man. The garden of eden can be seen as a metaphor for the hunter gatherer lifestyle. Knowledge, (a metaphor for agriculture) led to the fall. It is further highlighted when God curses cain for killing abel, that when he tills the soil, it will resist him as an enemy. Farmers have to work day and night doing back-breaking work while a sinlge pig can feed nearly 100 people.

Also, interestingly, hunter-gatherer remains had larger skulls as well as a more developed physique. While they had a more nutritious diet, the mental demands required to be a hunter gatherer in those times required relatively extraordinary cognitive ability...a near encyclopedic knowledge of the safety of foods, its various uses as medicines, the ability to accurately map your entire stomping grounds and the memory necessary to store and recall all this information
Take a look at GAFA3D (near Defrag icon). There is an interesting level called "Operation Stallman" ;-)