skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"But you know what really happened? I wound up with hard to remember email logins and caught less than a handful of services sharing my email address without my permission."

Can you elaborate ? I have been meaning to set up just such a mechanism as it has always seemed like a good idea ...

It seems like "rsync.net@example.com" would be very easy to remember and associate with the site (rsync.net, in this example) ...
That's one of the problems with cheap domains in the sub $5 range. Some gTLD registries (.space included) thought it was a good idea to offer them really cheap, but what they got were mostly spammers which puts you in a bad neighborhood.

There are a few others which you may want to avoid according to this report: https://securityintelligence.com/enticing-clicks-with-spam/
Engineering is mostly male, so it's easier for female engineers to find spouses from among their classmates/coworkers (and harder for male engineers).
That's because we never really landed on the moon!
That is a wrong question. Trying to find the "best" meaning of "empty" in the abstract is mooted by the DWIM nature of the language. Javascript does not have a concept of "empty"; what do you really need to know about the variable?
> Each one of those things is inherently a form of energy storage

Uhm. Maybe from a purely financial point of view. Physically they are energy consumers. They do not store energy in any sense that would be relevant here.
This is not branchless.

It's if-less. But the ternary operator (?:) is a branching instruction.
Typo on your page "Produce a newletter full of content" just missing an s in newsletter
How TeX Calculates Glue Settings in an \hbox
Ask HN: Ubuntu desktop virtualizion service?
I run 2 VMs: one to access sensitive accounts, and another to access risky/questionable sites.

Every month, I reset the images to their original snapshots to get rid of any vulnerabilities.

Is there a cloud service that will let me spawn new desktops that I can remotely connect to, instead of having to run VMs on my own machine?
The thought that there may one day be Pewdiepie scholars just as there are Milton scholars today fills me with a sort of fascinated dread.
I want to believe, but I'm worried that it won't work any better than their past efforts to address fragmentation. eg Android Update Alliance (2011). I'm sure there were other failed promises, but I can't recall offhand.

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2012/06/what-happened-to-the...
I don't really see it as an FP thing at all, because the same argument can be made with respect to variable names. The issue is that without serious anonymous functions, you're forced to come up with more names, increasing cognitive load. An anonymous fn clearly communicates "I'm not going to be used elsewhere".
Choose a phone that can be unlocked/rooted and a custom/pure Android that can be installed. At least you have that option for Android; unlike iOS.
Too bad they're focused on new and shiny at the expense of real (paying) email users. After a year of Visionary, I finally went back to Google. PM just isn't designed for large mailboxes, real search, or navigation. Plus they still have not provided any way for you to export your emails out. They're locked up forever, unless you want to forward each one, one at a time.
> often it actually compresses worse than the original FLAC

I made some very crude tests a few minutes ago and got about 15% size increase in total size (opus + diff.flac vs flac --best)
Is logging into a VPN in 3 seconds and starting to work not "right away" enough?
Career review: Working at effective altruist organisations
Really, you look forward to? What makes this that personal to you? You are somehow afflicted if Google is indeed fined and regulated? "The few that exist" what is that supposed to mean? That operate in US? I believe it's more than "few".
They want both.

There are things that you can learn from discarded ephemera that won't get preserved in museums due to cultural values and taboos.
Genetically engineered corn increases yield 17%
This device will automatically enter how much you chew for you
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Interesting read, but headline seems slightly misleading, given this bit:

> The most significant impact of the leaks, the report concluded, would likely be on the lives of “cooperative Afghans, Iraqis, and other foreign interlocutors.”
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I was under the impression that RNA replication was simpler and therefore likely to be the predecessor of DNA-copying organisms.

As for how: chance.

Given a bubbling stew of organic compounds with chemical energy gradients available, eventually a random reaction created something with the ability to self-replication.

Almost irrelevant of how simple / ineffective / unreliable that method was, it represented a huge advantage (in the numerical offspring sense) over sheer random reactions. This life therefore dominated and exploited the available energy to reproduce.

Then mutation begat mutation, as selection picked favorable traits and more and more complex systems of encoding and reproducing traits developed.

I'm not saying it's been proven (to my knowledge), but it seems reasonable given what we know. And moreover I don't see any "the beginning must have been fundamentally different than business as usual" requirement for whatever happened. As Ian Malcolm says, "Life finds a way."
I have yet to fully jump into Julia but it is one language that has impressed me for a while, and I've seen a good number of them that impress me but Julia has a few things that to this day I think back to like code_native() and how it returns assembly code for whatever you throw at it, might seem trivial to others and y'know you can do it with C too but it's still cool you can just do it.

Your description of it makes it very intriguing and makes me want to revisit it.
This would be a great question to ask researchers in archaeology, anthropology, linguistics, history, etc.

We already know the answer to this one. Archaeologists are most excited when they find the village garbage dump. They learn far more about what people's lives were like by sifting through trash than by marveling at pyramids.

Archive the internet: crayons, megaphones, Twitter flamewars, and all. What's trivial to us may be critical to archaeologists of the future. They'll be far more interested in how we actually live than in how we want them to see us.
I think it's safe to assume that Amazon has a reason to not "leverage" Zappos, e.g. maybe Zappos margins are much lower or there's substantial upside to having people shop on the main Amazon site and throw some electronics in their cart while they're at it.
Yes, it's nice to see signs of life. I, like many people, have been afraid it would go the way of Google Reader.

Too bad they really dumbed down the interface - it's not possible to delete messages from the new site.
Yes. As far as I understand, the problem was that the requirement for a certificate is a per-request thing, but HTTP 2 can have multiple requests in flight over the same TLS connection at the same time and thus can't just renegotiate the connection when it comes up. There have been proposals to fix this, but nothing has gained the necessary interest and traction.

Servers can ask the client to fall back to HTTP 1.1 instead, and then use client-certificates there.
Just to give you an idea, I've spent about 30-45 minutes reading over various materials (the Github links). I think my level of knowledge would be equivalent of understanding how dup, drop, and rot work in FORTH (or car and cdr in Lisp)... Basic element manipulation (bit/qubit, stack, and list).

The difference though, is that I only needed to understand there was a container of multiple items in FORTH and Lisp. For basic element manipulation, I needed to understand matrices.

At this rate, it would take hours before I understand how to write a basic program. And my trailblazer sense is already tingling (that I should let others be pioneers).

Normally I'd just resume lurker mode at this point, but my interest in combinatorics is driving my curiosity towards understanding what might be possible.
You'd think they could, but they had Windows Phone, and that flopped. Not saying that Ubuntu Phone couldn't do better, but unless they got devices in carrier's stores, they wouldn't have a chance.
Soldo, a London fintech startup that offers a multi-user spending account, raise
Hm? L2 is per core. Always has been in a three+ layer architecture.

Zen has 512K L2 per core and 8M L3 per CCX (two CCX per dice). L3 is a victim cache iirc, unlike previous generations where the L3 was inclusive.

Intel usually went with a similar scheme in the last few years, where the L3 is partitioned into slices assigned to cores; accessing the local slice is faster than a non-local slice. Skylake-SP deviates from this (significantly), for better ... or worse.
"Blogs" is a useless category to generalize about: it just describes a medium, and is on an axis entirely separate from content (even the NYT has blogs, for example).

There are blogs I read that put far more effort into attempting to ensure that their analysis is correct than papers like the NYT. They don't have the resources and connections that the NYT does for hard-fact, "did this incident occur" checks, but they're far, far less likely IME to (e.g.) misunderstand or intentionally misrepresent a recently-published academic paper, pretty much regardless of the subject. On top of that, they're a lot more likely to "show their work" and their comment sections are a lot more likely to have credible rebuttals to their main claims (hell, a link to a counterargument I made in a comment was recently edited in to an article on one of the blogs I frequent).

You'd think this would be a problem mainly for factoid-type, pop-science articles about space or wildlife, but the most egregious examples I can think of come from coverage of analyses in the social sciences. This is way more damaging, since people form their opinions on policy through the accumulation of their understanding of articles like these.

I understand that journalists aren't necessarily any smarter than the rest of us when it comes to things out of their field, so there's some baseline level of inaccuracy you'd expect, but some of what you see out of papers like the NYT is just flat dishonesty. And I say that as someone who's a fan!
It is pretty easy to list current job openings within X miles of a zip code on indeed or another aggregate job posting site.
> So the bottleneck would appear to be, not the physical limitations of communication, but the rate at which we can structure information to be consumed by another mind.

Yet the way in which we must structure information surely plays a role in how quickly we can do it, right? I can certainly read faster than I can speak, and I'm also confident that I can read with full comprehension faster than I can listen with full comprehension to someone speaking very fast, like at the end of a medicine commercial or the Micro Machines guy.

Take for example a physics teacher. They are fond of drawing diagrams because it's a quicker and easier way to refer to the concepts in play than relying on words alone. If we had the capability to project the imagery that accompanies our thoughts so that others could see it, I suspect we'd have to do a lot less talking. And in fact we practice this already with feelings and body language--most of us know when we've committed a faux pas before anybody says a word about it.

The same goes for programming: my thought is "i want to get all of the user's preferences", which is surely faster than finding where to put the query, when to call it, and then testing its correctness. This is one of the things that Alan Kay and Bret Victor go on about--getting the machine to be usable at a level that is closer to the problem space than to machine code. I understand what you meant, that typing at 300 WPM won't help you to design a system. But a visual development environment that actually works probably would, because it would let you work at a more conceptual level most of the time instead of typing magic words into a terminal.
For all the cases I worked on, R is not slow at all. At home, I wrote a R package to do deep learning (include most common layers, but only conv layer was implemented in C++) from scratch, and I also wrote one in python (using numpy + numba). My R version is same fast as python on the MNIST dataset (without conv layers, hence all code is in plain R or python).
Not necessarily. A compiler can optimize ?x:0 into a multiply. For example,

f(x) ? y : 0

can also be written as

(int)(bool)f(x) * y
The most annoying thing (to me) on Amazon is the fact that some items can only be bought as PrimePantry shipments.

I understand PrimePantry for heavy/bulky items like laundry detergent. I don't get it for lightweight stuff like razor blades. I can't figure out why those items can't be bought as Add-On items to regular shipments.
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They're marketed as different sockets, so I wouldn't be surprised if that does not work. E.g. because a SP3r2 motherboard doesn't route power to unpopulated dice on the module.
I think in order to really reap the benefits of this you'll want to actually reorganize the in-memory layout of the trees in order to make sure all elements needed for the comparison end up in the same cache line.

I haven't been following this closely, but the last time I checked scatter-gather loads were really really slow.

Chapter 3.3 from page 27 (PDF page 43) on of this be interesting: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Florian_Gross/publicati...

Also contains a survey of some other related data structures and algorithms.
It will not support LRDIMM and RDIMM, which means you can get "only" 256 GByte of memory [0] although the CPU would support 1 TByte.

[0] https://www.reddit.com/r/Amd/comments/6icdyo/amd_threadrippe...
I see what you did here: trying to start one of those flame wars that future anthropologists will be as excited about as when they found that village garbage!
Does anyone have any insight into working at Zenefits at the current moment? I'm about to interview with them for a data position.
Apple certainly plays a part, when their sdks stop building for older versions, and developers have to choose between supporting older versions or newer versions; or maybe make a separate app for old os? The first time they did this, they also didn't make it easy for users on older oses to reinstall the last version that supported their os.
Once downloaded in your account you can still access them.
> House cats also show none of the typical signs of animal domestication, such as infantilization of facial features, decreased tooth size, and docility.

The definition of a persian cat
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Sometimes the best inspiration comes from the past
>"Swiss being a bastion of privacy for anything other than banking ..."

The secrecy of Swiss banking actually ended a couple of years ago:

http://money.cnn.com/2015/03/19/news/switzerland-tax-evasion...
How to user testing
Giving each other handskys!
I think the biggest factor, mentioned in this article, was the (lack) of platform. Android hardware is so radically different. Only window mobile had arm+uefi (with a locked bootloader).

Device trees aren't used on most mobile hardware. Mobile ARM is like the PS4 .. Intel arch chip, but totally not PC compatible.

I feel like Microsoft needs to give out the keys to their phones. Their platform is standardized enough devs could buy up old hardware and make a real oss mobile operating system without having to build totally different kernels per device.
If you install an app on a newer device while using the same account sometimes the older download becomes available for the older device as well.

This worked really well for an iPhone 4 stuck on iOS 8 or 7 somebody gave my stepdaughter.
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This is exactly what I do, and it's worked beautifully for me. (domainname)@mydomain.com is pretty standard/easy, and storing it in password manager makes it even easier.
So if I understand it right this process requires some pretty specialised and delicate equipment... for instance you have to be able to get Helium3 down to something like as cold (compared to us) as the sun is hot. For what I'm asking it doesn't matter if that is technically true... point is you need some pretty fancy technology.

Now it's true that classical computers used to take up whole buildings. Living people remember this. And progress is supposed to be getting faster and faster. But given the particularly arcane constraints... how long if ever before this kind of technology can be a part of the daily lives of most Teran Citizens? Will it ever be possible for us to have it at home? Or will we always have to send out requests to more centralised machines that will then send us back answers?
We already have internet-connected thermostats, for example. If there's enough of a price differential, the market will provide ways to do it.
No problem! Thanks for trying. Hope you put out a little travel guide with all your material.
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Yes. This only matters for half an hour, once a year, when there isn't enough wind or sunlight to generate electricity. It's OK for a washer to just say no if you try to switch it on in that half hour, and maybe that makes more sense than buying a large battery that only gets used once a year. The timing can be forecast, and the news would warn you the night before.
>Don't share sensitive data with 3rd party.

Correct me if I'm wrong but it stores the data on Google's servers in which case you're actually sharing it with a third party.
When does the application for the next cohort open?
Thank you so much. I really appreciate this advice and I'll revise my resume to your valid points. :)
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My solution is to use GnuCash with a git repository. I then use Google Keep to make notes of expenses on the go and once every few weeks I copy them in to the accounts. That way I get the full power of accounting software, with control of my data.
I don't know whether or not we will have the technology in the future to eliminate the need for such environments. Different kinds of qubits are an active research activity. Ions, dots, diamond vacancies, etc.

The bigger point to realize, I think, is that most people's computing doesn't even happen at their home anymore. Much of it happens on some blade in a server rack. I think, for the time being, quantum computing will be just like that.

It was pretty inconceivable, in my retrospective of computing, to think that vacuum tubes would be miniaturized to fit in little boxes in bedrooms. You really needed the discovery of a IC transistor to let that happen. That hasn't happened yet with qubits, and I don't think one can with any certainty predict it.
I'm actually pretty close to DC. That type of culture sounds awesome!
I was asking why I would choose them as a VPN provider over any of the others.
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Twitch nabs exclusive streaming deal with Blizzard for e-sports events
Same here. Sometimes I'll also add the date when I entered the address in a form. For instance, the last time I registered to vote, I used YYYYMMDD-ca-voter-registration@mydomain.org. During the last election cycle, I caught a few California politicians harvesting my address and adding it to their email lists.
Just left there after a year. I had a great time and built some very fun stuff. Alcohol-free office is a bit of a bummer, but there's a nice little joint downstairs you can buy an overpriced beer.
Currently, I'm monetising the tools & services section, there's the option for paid listing there. But there are a few ideas I'm playing around with. For now, I'm just trying to fill the database with as much newsletters as I possibly can.
Can you jailbreak it?
I remain nervous about anything where the management of the platform is essentially coming out of China.

As do I. I'm just not sure having the management of the platform anywhere else is any better. I wouldn't trust either big businesses or governments as far as I could throw them when it comes to security and privacy any more, unless there's some sort of positive evidence that a reasonable approach is being taken.
Magnetic alignment in grazing and resting cattle and deer
Apple’s Obsession with Secrecy May Be a Self-Fulfilling Prophecy
Tnx for the feedback! There are a bunch of newsletters in the log, still needed to be added. Going through them manually and checking/verifying as much as I can. So every week, more stuff will be added and the search will improve.
Teach enough men to fish and let them sell their fish on an open market:

No more fish.

http://news.stanford.edu/news/2006/november8/ocean-110806.ht...
I would not be surprised if there will be no 14 core part. None of the Zen based CPU's so far have a uneven CCX configuration but 14 cores would require that.
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The shoemaker's children go barefoot.
Thanks.

He's most likely interested in some sort of exit within 18 months and he's open to being an advisor but also getting hands-on (which I really find interesting considering that he hasn't spent a ton of time knowing us yet) although he doesn't seem to think this would be a full-time gig.

The thing is - how can we break through the larger hotel chains if we're basically starting the relationship from scratch? My assumption is that the product would have to be really great and then potentially getting investors to help us open the door.

As a side note, who would I usually talk to about all these things? My team and I are still fairly greenfield - should we enlist some advisors to help guide us?
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If every smart dishwasher does the same thing, the price will surge across a time period shorter than the minimum run time of your dishwasher. That stratagy only works if you're the only one doing it.
I understand the OS is seven years old but only 10 days notice still seems kind of short.
>Let content live or die in its merit, rather than the desire to arbitrarily preserve it.

But content in every other medium has lived and died due to happenstance, religion or the aesthetic tastes of the wealthy. Why should the internet be an exception?
Interesting this is now news, where a few years ago it would have been almost obvious that these events would be on Twitch, where else could they be? (not quite, there were competitors, but more specialized)
You're welcome. I also just noticed that your resume says you started university in 20011. I'm guessing you're either a time traveller, or you meant to write 2011. :)
The US grid already has a lot of storage in hydropower systems. So, I doubt a washing machine would ever need to say no.

Further the once a year useage is going to be drawing a lot of batteries slightly lower at the cost of slightly shorter lifespans not a single bank that's only used once. Plus some emergency back up generators that flip on and use some minimal amount of fuel at hospitals and data centers etc.

PS: One interesting outgrowth from high wind solar production is likely to be fairly accurate models for electricity costs over the next few hours. So, you may be using power sooner if the prediction is a coming price increase.
>"Their know there is scarcity of products and try to connect sellers with buyers."

What is there a scarcity of? Toys? No. Books? No. Clothes? No. Electronics? No. I'm not seeing it. I can buy these items at a brick and mortar store or another online retailer. They aren't scarce.

See:
https://www.amazon.com/Best-Sellers/zgbs
Do you close the door on the washer? We have front loading washer and leave the door slightly ajar. When it's completely sealed the darkness and humidity are a breeding ground for mold.