skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I get that, but what is right-swipe supposed to or expected to do? Why would people be right-swiping ever?
600k (USD) in gold. The only currency that survived 1000 years. You can't print out gold so no matter what the FED does, it won't disappear anytime soon. I'm a Software Engineer in my 30's.
Exactly. Obscure AMP results appear higher thanbigher quality non-AMP results; What needs to be cited?
> "get access to info like this"

end to end encryption means only the end points (users) have the data.

the afp can't ask the fbi to ask facebook to ask whatsapp to hand over the content of your messages if whatsapp don't have the content.
> You have to face your electors with the fact that you signed on for a particular candidate, but this is almost universally seen as part of the regular flow of our elections, and very little as partisanship

To the electors perhaps, but aren't there unspoken repercussions from party leadership on not toeing the line? Also, if a particular party/ideology controls the media, it's very easy to enforce conformity with the party line.

> But I prefer that to a single person having the voting power of many.

You're fundamentally going to have that anyways. No matter what, if you have power/money, you're able to influence great quantities of the electorate by throwing around that power.

http://www.reuters.com/article/us-venezuela-election-idUSBRE...

If the ruling party/entrenched elite is able to influence the elctorate like that, the tyranny of the majority is absolutely terrible. Sure, TVs were really cheap for a few days, but now no TVs are ever imported again.
Many reasons. A popular one would be to flip through a gallery of photos related to the story. That one's VERY common.

Also, I missed mentioning the [X] button on the AMP header banner. I bet that most end users think that [X] button should make the AMP banner disappear, while leaving the page content there. Pretty common pattern, like for the EU cookie warning. That's not what it does, though.

Back to the "right swipe", at the very least, it should do nothing, assuming that an AMP page belongs to the publisher.
I can recommend:

The People's Pharmacy -- A pharmacologist and a medical anthropologist host an hour long show each week, usually on one medical topic (sometimes, a melange). Their guests are top notch experts, e.g. head of whatever cardiological at the Cleveland Clinic (one of the top cardiovascular centers in the U.S.). They also cover topics/changes sometimes years before they filter into "general knowledge" and reporting. Such as the problems with statins. Or, lately, how "Lyme Disease" is not always a simple diagnosis nor treatment and also the symptomology and sometimes diagnosis is really capturing a variety of infections by a variety of pathogens -- ticks carry many, and individual responses vary.

On the Media -- an hour long show each week. Much of it is "meta", about what is appearing in the media, and what isn't, and why. Helping listeners know and understand "why they are saying that" and "why aren't they talking about this other thing -- hey, there's this other thing!"

I've not been so attentive to it of late, but there's also WBEZ's "Worldview". Extended interviews with experts about world topics. You'll often get information and perspective you won't find anywhere in the mainstream media.

P.S. If you're on Android, the AntennaPod app is a nice, open source podcast app.
- Radio Lab
- Malcolm Gladwell's Revisionist History
- Linear Digressions
- Hidden Brain
- FiveThirtyEight's Hot Takedown
- FiveThirtyEight's Politics
- Freakonomics
- Planet Money
- 99% Invisible
- Neil Tyson's StarTalk
- NYT's The Daily
- Talk Python To Me
- The Changelog
- Hello Internet

There's a few other Machine Learning/Data Science-ish "podcasts", some other NPR ones, and This American Life.

I didn't realize that I spend so much time on this.
Here's a Microsoft Channel 9 video in which they talk about the x86 emulation layer:

https://channel9.msdn.com/Events/Build/2017/P4171
yeah I was just in Tokyo last week, Sushi Dai on a weekday morning still had around a 3h wait at 9am
I am the parent of an Asperger. Like many other parents in similar situations, I have dealt with many autistic kids (low and high functioning). I get quite annoyed at the playing of the victim card just because somebody is autistic. It only serves to make things worse for everybody.

When my child behaves unusually, the results from other children are negative. This would happen irrespective if my child was autistic or not. I used these negative opportunities to discuss standing out and blending in.

There are times where it is not possible to blend in (ie. because of highly keen senses causing a crippling effect). However, that can be offset by playing to strengths. My autistic child has gone from strength to strength. When other parents have asked me what I did, I say I never told my child they were a victim and tried to steer them to blend in. While I can't definitely prove that is the only criteria, i've had many other parents comment on how my child's growth has stood out from other autistic children we deal with, despite starting in a similar situation.

Don't get me wrong, it's not easy to separate what's essential (eg. separation from a noisy environment) from what sounds beneficial but wouldn't help (eg. I had to fight hard against using coloured cards instead of plain language to communicate). I am averse to gimmicks that make children stand out. These gimmicks can easily backfire and cause social alienation (i've seen a lot of it, first hand).

One thing that Aspergers often have as an advantage is an obsessive nature. They want to know everything about a particular topic. They study, analyse, and study further. It's amazing to watch. I can imagine that this obsession can lead to some amazing breakthroughs. On this basis, I would say that it is possible that Aspergers can achieve exceptional results that others are less likely to achieve. This theory of mine aligns with others [0]. I actually found this link after watching the movie about Srinivasa Ramanujan, the genius Indian mathematician who struck me as having asperger-like characteristics.

I am not fond of victim mentality articles. I'm not fond of turning people into victims. If you are a parent of an autistic child, please do your best to help them understand how they are different without creating a victim. Help them steer toward socially acceptable behaviour and to recognise their strengths. Everybody is different. Even the atypicals.

Disclaimer: I'm married to an Asperger who became an engineer on her own steam. Despite being an engineer (a no bullshit engineer with no sense of entitlement or victim mentality), she's not had an issue with discrimination in her decades long career. How do some people make it through with no issues? That's an excellent question.

[0] https://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v428/n6982/full/428470...
I have a long drive to and from work during which I like to stop thinking about work. So...

- The Splendid Table: Because food is important.

- Retronauts: Retrogaming in all its glory.
Talking Machines. It's definitely a bit over my head, but it's a really good podcast about Machine Learning, with heaps of interviews and pretty in depth conversations.
A Children’s Picture-Book Introduction to Quantum Field Theory
Thanks this is very interesting.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14527753
This is great. I wish more things were universal like this :)
Doesn't surprise me... my fourth grade teacher told me was "bad at math" because I was a girl. Gave me a great excuse to not even try. My mom is still pissed at this teacher as of today. Took stumbling into geometry 6 years later, where I found I had natural spacial awareness allowing me to breeze geometric proofs and a teacher who didn't hold my prior years' bad performance against me, to change a barely C math student into an A math student. After this class, I realized that if I tried I could succeed.

Edit: sort of a PS, the geometry teacher also expressed surprised that I wasn't a terrible math student. My next math teacher would see the grades from the prior year, and I think that had a lot to do with the next successive teacher not investing much time. I was a girl, I was clearly a shit student, so not much reason to bother.
MOV RAX, 1 is seven bytes: 48 C7 C0 01 00 00 00
I mean, a two-second Google could haven't shown you what FoundationDB was.
you could cut those ones off with scissors.
I think OP meant searching for a solution on e.g. github and stealing it, not programming a simple search algorithm, which doesn't have a chance of succeeding for non-trivial examples. If you don't think of the trick to avoid actually dealing with numbers with tens of thousands of digits you're stranded, which is pretty much a maths problem. The coding pieces are comparatively trivial.
Is anarchism socialist or capitalist?
Security story of ImageMagick is pretty awful. This service should be very careful.
My day job is software development, and your second paragraph made me shudder. So imagine what someone who doesn't want anything to do with IT would think!

The majority of the world do not want to know about containers, hosting services, domain names, or anything else that is related to computers.

I'm not even sure that is changing with younger people - they're happy enough to dick around with social media but don't want to get involved in running a web site and all the software on it.

If a business can work with a "no obvious cost" platform like facebook, the owner won't start paying for something "better" in response to non-quantifiable downsides and threats possibly posed by the platform.
For anyone interested, here's a Microsoft Channel 9 video in which they talk about some of the x86 emulation layer internals:

https://channel9.msdn.com/Events/Build/2017/P4171
What are you hoping to learn?
While it's frustrating if taken at face value, Sensor Tower's numbers aren't totally valid. They get the number for a few of my apps really wrong. The download stats are more or less true, but the revenue can be way off.
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My favorites:
- Go Time
- Coding Blocks
- The Changelog
- JavaScript Jabber
You'd probably like 'The Good Fight' by Yascha Mounk
The movie about her is also worth watching, IMHO. With Claire Danes.
>"Part 2 didn't exist when I worked through the book and watched the Part 1 lectures a couple years ago, so presumably this is new."

Thanks for the confirmaton, I didn't remember seeing this either.

"The book, btw, is a masterpiece ..."

Agreed. The paper back is a nice format and reasonably priced for a technical book as well:

https://www.amazon.com/Elements-Computing-Systems-Building-P...
Making reasonable compromises is certainly important. But I think software engineering is different, because the state spaces of programs -- particularly large ones, but even most small ones -- are astronomically larger than those of any other kind of engineered artifact. Most procedures contain one or more conditional branches, which test some aspect of the state of the system and then take one or another action based on that. If you're not careful, you wind up with a system where you have to think about all of those conditionals at the same time, which becomes exponentially difficult as the system grows. Other kinds of engineering certainly involve complexity, but they don't involve this much complexity.
You're right - Bing can't. Google knows a website's pageviews because it can cleverly cross information between the search engine, Google Analytics and Google Map's by-foot frequentation of shops (for shops and customers with tracking allowed). I'm just underlining that not owning a good share of all 3 of those may make it much harder for future competitors to enter the market.
I don't see a difficult client, I see a consultant who didn't ask the right questions before taking the job and isn't seeing things from their client's point of view now that they have it.

Why don't they show up to standup? Why aren't your emails a priority to them? Why was a demo to the CTO necessary or desired? Why did they leave you out? Why was that flow important to them? Why did they discuss something out-of-scope?

I only see your perspective. If you don't know the answers to these questions, why not?

Advice isn't going to help; you need a relationship manager. You probably need to bring someone in to get face time with this person, and handle them on an ongoing basis, again probably in person every time. It's going to get expensive. You're probably not going to make as much money on this contract as you expected as a result. This isn't a technical problem to be learned from and fixed; this is an interpersonal problem with someone who works and thinks differently than you, who is also unfortunately holding the purse strings.

The most valuable thing I learned working in consulting wasn't how to be a better designer or developer, it was how to handle relationships. I learned that the next time I went out on my own, I'd hire a business and relationship manager, and I would absolutely pay them 50% or even 60% of my earnings, because that is the "real" work of consulting.

A relationship manager will give you a list of signs that you shouldn't have taken this job in the first place. A relationship manager would have specified that this person's attendance in standup is either mandatory (and therefore in the contract) or not required (which means they wouldn't have even been invited). A relationship manager would probably have established up front how this person likes to work, and that probably means in-person, and would never have sent an email, and instead had lots of meetings. A relationship manager would have made sure you kept control of the demonstrations, so off-message presentations couldn't have happened, and would have made sure that out-of-scope things either didn't come up, or were quickly addressed by understanding why they came up.

Your takeaway from this will be how to better vet potential clients, so you can either not take their money, or add in the cost of relationship management to their contract. You'll also learn to write better contracts, that firmly establish the participation required, including penalties up to and including the termination of the contract with full payment and no deliverable, should the client violate their expected level of participation.
EconTalk
Surprised no one has mentioned The Tim Ferris Show. That's my #1 right now. He's got a really eclectic but also well thought out guest list and I learn something useful every episode. His recent episode with Nick Szabo was the crash course on cryptocurrency that I always wanted. Highly recommended.
Joe Rogan Experience

The Good Fight

Rational Security

Bombshell

Risky Business

Waking Up with Sam Harris

Conversations with Tyler

EconTalk

The Ezra Klein Show

The Weeds

The Tim Ferriss Show

Software Engineering Daily

Deep State Radio
Agreed, I like AMP for
many of the same reasons I liked Google Reader and RSS feeds: I'd rather consume my content in a form that's optimized for reading.
Wouldn't that make it essentially a mathematical patent, which is not allowed? Or at best a software patent, which is a gray area? Patenting an equivalence class of logical operations, without specificity about their implementation, is on a lot shakier footing than patenting a hardware invention, at least in U.S. patent law. It does lead to wider potential applicability, but at the risk of weaker foundations.
I find it hard to verbalize my thoughts during coding.
It appears sometimes like moving through a space of ideas. And the Ideas are Connected to each other. I go through the idea that I want to implement and move trough the ideas, that I have of the code.
So I guess your thesis is that STEM teachers are worse than non-STEM teachers and this funnels women into non-STEM careers because they react more to bad teachers.

I could buy that I guess, but it's hard to believe that the schools that the Obamas sent their children too would have any bad teachers. Though I guess they were in primary school before he was president.

Still, if the most well off people can't find good teachers for their children, what hope does anyone have?

I'm also a little confused since she calls out the ages 8-11; I don't think I had any significant amount of math or STEM teaching at that age. I think all the math I knew at that point was how to multiply (and divide?) numbers.
For people who like to read genre fiction, I'd recommend The Geek's Guide to the Galaxy.
he shoulda just ended the letter at "WE STRIVE TO BE OURSELVES."

..."i apologize for the length of this letter; if i'd had more time, it would have been shorter"
Around 11k.

22 yo.

Bug bounty hunter. Bitcoins since they were in the single digits. Can't say I'm happy..

Spain.
Document everything.

Get signatures for documents.

Have a requirements change control process that is punative. Home builder have this part down. Make them agree to this upfront.

Deliver and keep signed documents handy.
If you like the above and want some high-level academic analysis on the legal/geopolitical aspects of the week's events:

- Foreign Policy's Editor's Round Table (ER)

- Lawfare

- Rational Security

All are conversations with thoughtful, and politically diverse experts speaking on timely topics a few times a week.
You FIRE them !

Jerks, like the CTO you described, do not become more cooperative over time. It is possible that he is trying impress the investors and co-founders. Sadly for you, there is no way to win in these situations. So it is best to move on.
> isn't going to eventually drive people away from it?

It's wishful thinking - most mobile developers can't afford to say no to abuse from their primary revenue stream.
Before getting to the end of your comment I was about to suggest that maybe schools should bring experts in, so I think you're on to something.

It's crazy that you need a lot of paperwork for that, even if there are background checks necessary, that seems like the kind of thing that could be made more efficient... with computers ;)
I wonder if Hume Logan took the advice, and what became of him (other than becoming a name in the associated context of a great letter).
> The core argument against AMP primarily seems to be a fear that users will actually prefer AMP content

How on earth did you arrive to that conclusion?
I don't know about other people, but I'm constantly overwhelmed by podcast recommendation threads. People recommend podcasts that each have hundreds of episodes. I certainly won't listen to all of them just to catch up.

What I want is a list of must-listen episodes and short series. Does such a thing exist?
I only use facebook for the model engineering group(s) and unless they decide discussions about miniature locos are dodgy I should be okay.

I can see there is a potential trap there for the people who decide to mix their personal and professional lives on something like facebook. I just think it is unlikely to get sprung, and comments like "why on earth don't they take complete control of their online presence and register their domain, get their system hosted, set up all their e-mail addresses, etc" could only be written somewhere like HN. The rest of the world would just shake their head slowly.
Good job helping ruin it for everybody.

Accidents happen. It doesn't entitle you to a free pay day.
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Great response! You very clearly highlighted what many technical folks overlook. Successful consulting requires managing contractual, logistic and relationship dynamics. In the past I have I have partnered with an ex-Oracle sales rep who did the selling and relationship managing. He even managed getting paid, etc. Even after his cut, I earned more than I ever did on my own. So from my personal experience I can vouch that your suggestions work out well.
If you execute your i386 binary on an Intel, AMD, or other licensed processor, then you're protected by the doctrine of exhaustion:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exhaustion_of_intellectual_pro...

If you execute it in an emulator, though, all bets are off...
The legal system did not provide me with computers. This post is confused.
If this piece didn't have a famous person associated with it, no one would read it on it's merit alone.

I feel like he had the inklings of some good ideas in there, but none of them fleshed out. As all ideas about life are when you're 20 :)

The people to look up to, are those you relate to, who are past 50. Who've raised children, who know how to communicate to younger people AND have a wealth of life experience and hopefully wisdom.

No 20 year old has ever given me solid life advice - you just haven't lived long enough.
Hello to Jason Isaacs.
As Jtsummers says, once you're talking about small programs working to form a system, they're not independent small programs anymore -- they're modules in a larger system. My point is, if you design the modules well, you don't usually have to think about the internal structure of each module when you're trying to think about the behavior of the entire system. Such design is exactly software engineering, in my view.

> Should "ability to program" be measured by how large a program one can write?

Yes, absolutely: that's a very important measure of programming ability. As I think Fred Brooks pointed out in The Mythical Man-Month, each order of magnitude in program scale requires new techniques and a new way of thinking.

I wouldn't say it's the only measure of programming ability; there is a place for finely crafted small modules. But on any project that's setting out to build a substantial piece of software, you need at least a certain number of people who know how to do that (then they can teach the rest). If nobody knows how to do it, the project is likely to fail.
See also the discussion at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14526156

I just can't fathom why any $5k/year in-app subscription should be legitimate.
TigerBelly by comedian Bobby Lee https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCIyIoM_Nd8HtY19fuR_ov2A/vid...
Intel vs ARM revenue is not an apples-to-apples comparison, since the former makes chips and the latter only licenses designs.
Easy. Breath of the Wild. I bought the game so I could emulate it on my PC and it runs almost flawlessly. Between the launch of the game and now, their monthly donations have just been going up and up and up. Just a few months after release, it runs at a higher (more consistent, anyway, because it's still capped at 30) FPS and resolution than either the Wii U or Switch could provide. The PC BotW experience is actually already the definitive experience.

It will probably stay decently high for a while too while they hammer out compatibility for other Wii U games.

See, it's still worthwhile for me to pick up an old PS4 and amass a decent library while also still being able to buy new titles, but the Wii U was an absolute dud and there is 0% incentive to buy one now that it's already been axed. Emulation will be the only saving grace for its stellar exclusive titles. And since the Switch has its own share of problems handling BotW, it's really a no-brainer to invest a little in CEMU's future. The CEMU devs are absolute demons, on par with Dolphin's team.

As for RPCS3, the PS3 has a big enough library and is cheap enough to make it worth just buying one until the devs can catch up. AFAIK there isn't a single fully working commercial game on it yet.
This is a 2015 conversation but was interesting as I recall.
AMP is trying to do to the web what the web did to the Internet.
It seems I linked only to the abstract. Here [1] is the pdf.

[1] https://www.sissa.it/cns/Articles/94_doInfPerceiveWordB.pdf
Can anyone give an overview of what LXD offers, and compare the experience of working with LXD to Docker? I've tinkered with BSD jails, Docker, and KVM, and I'm curious about LXD.