skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As a counter-anecdote, frivolous as it is, most of my mates and I are early-30s tech people and most of us sub to channels and actively go to YouTube to watch them.

I'd say quite a number of people here would really enjoy Numberphile[1] and Computerphile[2] and I'd heartily recommend subscribing to and keeping up with them. I'm also heavily interested in tabletop and video gaming and I keep up to date with both of those through a combination of YouTube and podcast subscriptions.

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/user/numberphile

[2]: https://www.youtube.com/user/Computerphile
Yes it's much like saying nowadays many young musicians like Lorde can become successful very quickly.

Most YouTubers, like most musicians, don't make any real profit.
At work we use Mozenda[0] with success, though I can't tell you much beyond that because I'm not involved with that project. I've also heard of Agenty[1].

[0]: https://www.mozenda.com/

[1]: https://www.agenty.com/
Quick upvote for a well designed mobile friendly site. The last few HN posts I read were awful on mobile.
Are you arguing that backend/frontend isn't a valid abstraction? For web apps, UI is never anything more than a suggestion. It's not unworkable for the web.
Does anyone know of a similar app for NASA imagery? That'd be awesome.
I like the ideas and the framework, but I can't stand the font. Still, no huge deal. If it had a threaded layout and auto-deleting threads it would be perfect.
I have never understood the idea of protecting a language against foreign words. I think languages naturally strive to be as expressive as possible and will adopt words accordingly.

However, I think it is important to note that the ẞ is not a letter they just made up. Heck, even the picture in the article shows an old book cover, which uses this never standardized letter. To me this is just correcting a previous oversight and formally allowing (not forcing) people to use the 'capital sharp s', for example in print, where they want to typeset a title in capitals.
Funnily enough I can track my relationship with my partner with Skype's history. When we were doing the long distance thing and she was still on dial up we managed to use Skype just barely. It was able to route around the University firewall because of its port randomisation. It was a resource hog that likes to set its CPU affinity to high but it worked.

Then it slowly got worse and worse. We both used Skype to talk to our parents and spent most of that time fixing issues related to Skype not working or explaining the latest daft UI redesign.

Nowadays everyone but her parents are on Apple devices and a FaceTime just works and every visit to their place involves fixing Skype and explaining to them about the clusterfuck that is Skype on Windows 8/10.
You can find almost any laptop parts on eBay.

The Mac parts are usually 2 or 3 times as expensive as the similar PC parts.
"quite good" means different things to different people. For those who care about certain issues, Skype has been objectively bad for certain reasons as listed here:

https://blog.grobox.de/2009/ten-reasons-why-you-should-boyco...

In other words, Skype has always been garbage.
It won't help you with handling code size so big you really want types, but one advice I would give is ditch class based views. I find that function views much easier to reason about, even if it leads to code duplication. The ability to read the code linearly without jumping through inheritance hierarchies makes everything better.
>You don't really have to care what's going on in the google ecosystem

That isn't true, we've been burned before by choosing the "wrong" google product. For example, I was using Hangouts to handle SMS texting from my Google Voice number. Turns out I chose "wrong" because now Hangouts is not to be used for SMS (though it still "works") and there is no way to move my 3 years of conversation history from Hangouts to the "right" app (Google Voice, I guess).
It's really easy, because "keyboard" is "teclado" which ends with o (so it's masculine) while "rock" is "roca" which ends with a (so it's feminine). :)
This article: https://typography.guru/journal/capital-sharp-s-designs/ (linked from the featured article) shows some designs with corners and stuff. Some of them look less ugly than others. But in all examples except the Backstein one the letter still stands out like an ugly thing that doesn't go well with the rest of the font. More work is needed.
JavaScript compose function
The passports contain such a field in the machine readable zone. It has created some confusion in the past, as the transformations ß -> ss and ä -> ae are pretty surprising if you never heard of that.
> >90% of people (not just beginners) will generally fuck it up somehow and end up living with a really weird app

tbh I've seen this plenty of times regardless of whichever framework people choose. At least with Flask the original developer sometimes gets a twinge of 'hmm this seems like a lot of work & might be a mistake'; Django smooths it over so you end up with cached property counts for things which are trivially computable from the DB (+the associated invalidation bugs).
Anyone have any experience using flexjobs.com?
English would probably be 50% improved if we'd just get over things and add a "ə" vowel.
Giving this an up vote for putting 43North on the same line as YC :-)

I didn't have a horse in the race in 2016, but I've been happy to see you guys do so well over the past ~year. Every time I see you growing it makes me smile!
Location: Moscow, Russia

Remote: willing, would prefer onsite

Willing to relocate: Yes, desirable

Technologies: Scala, Akka, Java, PostgreSQL

CV: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/s/duvbt807z71nf8s/Vasily_S....

Email: vsh.hh@fastmail.com

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ru-vsh

Scala backend developer, quite a bit of experience with distributed systems, looking to move into data-intensive area e.g. machine learning.
English lets you omit the noun and only use a pronoun. Colloquial English lets you omit the subject sometimes, too. And it doesn't have official gendered pronouns.

This sentence is short. It is short.

"What did you do today?"

"Rode bike"

Sometimes we even use genders for nouns even though it's not official:

The ship sank. She sank.

Compared to German:

The dog jumped on the table and bit the man.

Aww shit there are three "the"s in there... if I'm speaking, I can just slur through it and say "d'Hund" or "d'Tisch" but that doesn't work when I'm writing... okay let's try to get through this.

Der Hund sprang auf... Hmm, well "the table" is Der Tisch, but hang on, I have to figure out what case this is... ah, accusative! den Tisch und biss Ah fuck, "the man" is "der Mann" but what case is this... I don't even care anymore... d'Mann. Nailed it.

It's not like anyone is going to say "he jumped on him and bit him", so the genders serve absolutely no purpose.
I agree, but on the plus side, smaller firms and newer businesses are able to take advantage of the newer model, which is both easier for clients and more profitable for MS. I'm actually looking at dumping Google Apps for biz and migrating to O365 myself due to the integrations with Azure AD etc.
I'd go for libraries instead of frameworks. Frameworks tend to force you into using a specific pattern or architecture (e.g. active records for Django), and I think the programmer should have full control over that.

Having built couple of toy programs with OCaml, I'd be really interested in building a project in a functional language.
Jesus fucking Christ, who fucking cares? It's space, there's some objects, humanity needs to colonize it.

That's all there is if you want to take action.

It's like a company that makes great and not-so-great-but-useful products stopping and wondering "why are we doing this? Why do we exist?"

You won't exist forever, so just do it. Some people with enough free time and money can do the philosophies, the rest need to focus on action.
The Ethereum VM is not for general app programming. It's really not your typical environment. EVM contracts get executed on every network node, and it must return the same results everywhere.
>A lot of people have iPhones and many these days now have Macs.

Not really here in Germany. iOS has about 20% of the market, Android the other 80%.

macOS is at about 8%.

Anecdotally, even discounting that I have neither, of the 20 or so people I'd realistically want to chat with (friends and family), two have iPhones and one has a mac.

Plus: What happens when they switch? Or when I want to switch?

Also, I don't really want to use multiple applications.
Difference is he's an authoritarian leftist. Social contacts and all.
I have a horrible time reading the Django-based project we support at work.
Sam Altman is the epitome of white privilege. He has zero achievements and still became the president of YC.
Great observation.

The American Math Monthly is a journal by college professors for college professors. The readership is expected to be familiar with the topic. Groundbreaking results are published elsewhere. Whew. Unfortunately, neither is AMM a place for professors to summarize the contents of a 14-week course for adult learners.

Let's use your observation to illuminate 2 abuses of notation that happen all the time between those in the know.

The first abuse is not explicitly calling out that the coefficients a_i are restricted. The polynomial of which the a_i are the coefficients must be irreducible. That is omitted in the paper, but is typically understood. For otherwise, the field extension doesn't work, as you've found out.

When the a_i denote an irreducible, then the roots x_i are all outside Q.

And then there is no contradiction.

Your example uses (x-5)(x-3) which has all roots in Q--the diametric opposite--which is why sigma breaks down.

Digression: If you know some Haskell, you'll notice that a permutation on the roots basically fmaps to a (field) endomorphism on Q(all x_i). But here the converse is also true (exceptional in Haskell, except for trivial cases): every such endo comes from a permutation. (end of digression)

The second abuse is in the title. This is really "(My Opinion on) How to Teach Galois Theory to Undergrads" with a subtitle of "By Jettisoning the Fundamental Theorem and Focusing Exclusively on Quintic Unsolvability." The subtitle is omitted and the title shortened and de-colloquialized to read "Galois Theory for Beginners." This is all part of the prestigious mathematical tradition because ink, paper, and papyrus once upon a time were terribly scarce. Sorry about that.

Quintic Unsolvability is like FLT. The big prize is not the Yes/No answer but the VIP theorems--the statements of which are neither as easy to explain nor understand as QU nor FLT--used to nail down some pesky boolean.

So throwing out the FT of GT shortchanges the undergrad. It especially shortchanges the math-aware software professional who would appreciate experiencing the galois correspondence which later morphs into an adjunction in category theory. Quite cool.

GT has pedagogical messiness like inseparable extensions which can be skipped on a first pass. As a royal road to FTGT, I recommend the approach of fixing all fields as subfields of the complex numbers. See Postnikov's Foundations of Galois Theory available on google books the last time I checked. Nice exercises too.

p.s. (Galois) adjunctions are like a general theory of "How to Run Anything Backwards Even When There's No Chance in Hell." That's the power of math for you.
I currently use Apache with mod_wsgi. New updates involve just touching the .wsgi file. schema changes are a bit more involved obviously.
I have essentially zero experience with AI, but a solution to writing songs with neural networks to me seems like it would require the following:

- Parse the different instruments from raw audio
- Parse the timing pattern from each audio layer
- Turn each layer into a roughly similar midi sequence
- Develop a pattern of relationships between the different types of layers and the patterns that are commonly found together (ie. a closed hihat on 1/8ths or 1/16ths is often accompanied by a sub bass pattern of some kind in trap music)
- Using the knowledge of these sorts of relationships, build up a song by specifying some parameters ("I want a hip hop beat with sub bass, snare, and hi hats")
Amazon stock reported at -87.24% on Google Finance
It is already standard (and always was) to use the ß in passports as this is the only correct way, problems abroad notwithstanding. However, if you can prove that it creates hardship abroad this is one of very few permissible reasons to change your name in Germany.
If there is significant amounts of content that has been overzealously blocked by google, then there are advertisers that want access to that (currently) lower-valued inventory. The value of that inventory should normalize based on the number of advertisers who want access to it.

If YouTube doesn't make it available to those advertisers who would accept it, someone else should. That is, if there is (a) enough inventory and (b) enough advertisers (and if not it's an immaterial issue)

Keep in mind that what's material to Google is significantly larger than what may be material for a small company. Google is focused on finding their next $10B in revenue.
I use audio calls, video calls or screen sharing almost every day.

It works flawlessly and I despise every company that doesn't have Linq/Skype.
Might be something to be said for it being an obvious overwrite in some cases; /dev/urandom overwrite might be indistinguishable from an encrypted drive (for which you cannot provide any means to decrypt), which might be a problem in some jurisdictions, or if subpoenaed after the overwrite, etc.

That said I've typically followed any overwrites, random or zero-based, with use of ATA secure erase commands, which might be equally bad.
It's one of those things where it depends on what topic. He's probably all for marriage equality, because it doesn't affect him. Talk about his incubator, and suddenly he's Donald Trump. It's similar to a number of left-leaning journalism outlets, and unions. Most of them did, and continue to support unions quite a bit. But when their own reporters unionized, they pulled every classic trick in the book to stop them.
Nice! Similar to a side project of mine that I have sadly had little time to improve: http://artfulmac.com

The bandwidth costs have become noticeable for me, so that's something to watch out for.
Whats up with the name calling and body shaming?
The Medicare machine: patient details of 'any Australian' for sale on darknet
Resident Evil: Vendetta / Biohazard Vendetta / 1080P
TL;DR The authors egregiously diminish legitimate attack vectors that require only the recovery of a priori known data.

The authors dismiss the security value of wiping a hard disk, based on their thesis that weakly-deleted data cannot be recovered without a priori knowledge of that data's content.

They argue the requirement of a priori knowledge of the data to recover negates the security risk of said recovery; this--they argue--reduces the threat model to more of an academic exercise.

What the authors totally neglect, however, is the security risk of confirmation: the risk that an attacker might confirm that the target hard disk did, indeed, store certain data, where the content of that data is known a priori.

Example:
Say I have obtained a trove of private incriminating documents associated with some anonymous person, X. I suspect, but don't know, that X is my target, Bob. I would like to prove that Bob is X, and X is Bob, so that I can definitively pin X's crimes on Bob.
Say X uses some electronic signature to authenticate his original work as his own. If Bob is X, I should expect Bob's hard disks contain a statistically aberrant abundance of copies of X's signature.

Thus, to pin X's crimes on Bob, if Bob is indeed X, it is sufficient to recover data from Bob's hard disk--data of which I have complete knowledge a priori--namely, X's digital signature.

While I take no issue with the facts, I find the author's conclusions reckless. It seems in their haste to "bust the myth," they extend their result beyond its valid range of application. What could have been a useful clarification on the low risk of _unknown_ data recovery has become a wild and dangerous generalization, 'debunking' best practices.
Sam Altman is as liberal as liberals get. Not a leftist by any means.
This article is literally nothing except pando whining about being banned from ycombinator events.
For another datapoint, I regularly watch and subscribe to YouTube and occasionally podcasts (only when driving), but have no interest in Netflix. User generated content is usually more real and interesting to me.
Haha yeah. Thanks for replying! Maybe I should turn my comment and yours into a blog post at this point. Was hoping for more responses and discussion.

I didn't even begin mentioning the big newspaper companies like you (Gannett, tronc).

Funny you mention Advance Publications because of reddit. reddit is beloved compared to these other media empires, but its ownership stakes aren't revealed. There's no idea how much of it is owned by Advance Publications :p.
How come!?
I can't recall any software company who rolled back an upgrade. UI upgrades take a lot of resources and overhaul, they're also UX-tested, involve marketing ops, etc: If they haven't got the message before, companies prefer to risk dying than cancelling their attempt to pivot.

Look at Ubuntu's Unity. Apple's emoji bar. Microsoft's Windows 8.1 tiles.
This appears to be a hack, or data corruption.

See NASDAQ's official listing ( http://www.nasdaq.com/symbol/amzn/after-hours ). Several other ticker symbols (AAPL, MSFT, etc.) are also affected.

Edit: It appears several tech stocks (AAPL, MSFT, AMZN, etc.) have their prices set to 123.47. Definitely pointing to some sort of data corruption.
It was discovered no one actually really used Alexa
Agreed: http://sealedabstract.com/rants/re-xkcd-1357-free-speech/
Can anyone share some thoughts?
So some 3rd rate blog got banned from attending YC demo days and now they want to try and weave this into the currently-hot narrative regarding harassment against women? This strikes me as just a lame attempt at news-jacking.
Another Microsoft property they don't know what to do with.

Ten years ago I used Skype a lot - to keep with my parents in another country, but recently I removed it completely. We switched to FaceTime and Facebook Messenger long time ago, and I don't know anyone who uses Skype anymore.
You are right but I don't think the audience here (people trying to learn Galois theory for the first time) will understand your comment either. The original paper didn't even make clear that a_i are the coefficients and x_i are the roots … that's the level at which we need to be clarifying.
He founded a company that sold for tens of millions of dollars. Even though many (including himself) consider it a failure, not many people have done that. And in the process he demonstrated his worth to Paul Graham, who decided he'd make the best successor.

How do you think the president of Y Combinator should be determined if not by the original creator?
And there are, of course, counter-examples: el águila, el ala. I believe the rule should just be "it sounds right", as to say "la águila" is well, a third 'a' in there, two or them consecutive, and is just harder to even pronounce.
Employee email claims 500 Startups leadership delayed acknowledging harassment
This must be an issue with Google's data provider. Their graphs still show the correct stock price.
Employers 'having to pay more to recruit new staff'
I can see a lot of trouble coming from this. Sort order for one. If a language this old didn't need a glyph up to 2017 it can be done without, especially if the use case is limited to all caps words. But I guess in that case you could convert its occurrence to SS first and then do the sort.
CPUC is absolutely awful. Every time I see the acronym, my spidey sense tingles like crazy that there's some collusion going on behind the scenes. Those people fold in places that are strategically very convenient for the industries. It very much seems like CPUC is in the business of monopoly-building, and I have never seen any evidence to the contrary. Specifically CPUC makes me wish I ran a watchdog and could dump resources into an investigation.
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Why Amazon.com, Inc. (AMZN) Stock Will Not Falter Anytime Soon
Investorplace.com - 7 hours ago

Hilarious
Any EBAY (https://www.google.com/finance?q=NASDAQ%3AEBAY) went up 254%? No, these are just glitches with Google Finance. It happens once in a while.
I've previously listed the various YouTube channels that I subscribe to [1]. All of them are "regular people", and nearly all of them I've found organically, by YT's suggested content. There are many others who I know of but don't follow because I have only a limited amount of time I'm willing to spend on watching videos.

I agree, though, that almost none of this ever appears on the front page. I posit that this is because they are relatively niche interests: what I see on the trending list is pop-culture content, which is so called because it appeals to a very wide demographic—and thus would be expected to appear on the default front page, precisely because there is no additional information to go by on more specific content that the viewer might be interested in.

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14017518
Yeah, this is some sort of horrible error on some sort of aggregator, I'd guess. MSFT did not gain 79% today, but that's what Google says. Yahoo! on the other hand, says it lost 57.74%.

If you go to schwab.com and get a quote there, it shows the correct prices, so it wasn't the exchange itself.
I don’t think it was sexist. It’s just standard power based behavior. Isn’t specific to tech. Have seen that sort of behavior from people in power of all genders and ethnicities in the Valley for as long as I’ve been in the industry.

Examples:
- It doesn’t matter what’s in the contract. I have a lot more money than you and can sue you to oblivion.
- Tell me what to say to his boss when the boss asks me a question.
- If you have two people and one has more seniority and the other is better, who do you give the better assignment to? The one with seniority. That’s why I’m leaving.
He was also a political firebrand at the time and did much of his writing in prison as a result.
This is a glitch not a flash crash. There is absolutely no volume on Amazon right now. This actually happens all the time .
Not much spice in this gravy. Could not understand the story despite reading it twice. Pando is just trying to make hay while the sun shines, or as we say in India, "Behti ganga mein hath dhona".
https://twitter.com/TDAmeritrade/status/882012933181632516
Everything you said was too vague and platitudinous for me to understand what Okta does, and the copy on the website seems just as vague.

Are you able to clearly explain what Okta does and what skill sets you're hoping to hire?
Ask HN: Who has an old sideproject they want to sell?
That's not true! I use it to reply to Ashley Madison fembots. (It's a vicious circle really.)
No. While it's not necessarily something I'd put up there with Uber's treatment of its employees it definitely doesn't reflect well on Altman. It's also a (privileged, white) male bullying various women. Now, that may not indicate sexism (bullying isn't inherently sexist), but given the climate and extra scrutiny around this industry it's easy to understand how it could be interpreted as such.

Also I generally think it's best to listen to women when they say that treatment seems like harassment, sexism, and so forth. It may not seem like it to a man, but so what? Given our history and current culture that doesn't mean anything.
Talk to Sam alone sometime for 5 minutes and you'll get it. Super smart dude and it comes through immediately.
What does being white have to do with this?