skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In this field, where 90% of one's choices for a product or service are bordering on clones of one another, and the companies involved therefore have nothing to differentiate them beyond how well you perceive them - yes, pretty much.
I was disappointed to learn it wasn't a difficult place to visit after the kidofspeed girl posted about her (fake) motorcycle tour of the place some years ago.

[0] https://chernobylproject.blogspot.com/2012/01/slight-case-of...
We, as humans, can't even run our own planet. Forget about mosquitoes.
On programmers and empathy
So I've repeated the experimental model. Yes, if at each step everyone gives $1 to a random person, the same thing happens as in the article: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hu0vcn_-vX4 .

If, instead, at each step, everyone gives 1% of their currently held amount, this happens: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N8Ce3eQTA9c .

The results are radically different. Draw your own conclusions.
Real Girls F.A.R.T. – The Real Rescuers from Down Under
I see your point. Thanks for the clarification.
Offtopic, but I've never found a newsfeed / RSS reader that compelling. After a while you've subscribed to say many things that you don't want to (and can't) spend the time required to catch up on everything.

Personally, I subscribe to one newspaper, watch one cable news network and browse HackerNews and Reddit (HN trending upward vs. Reddit in recent months) and listen to a few podcasts and I'm able to keep up with the world on a wide range of topics.
Yes but opoids has many risks and should only be prescribed to a minority. This is not what is happening.
Welp at least with this tracking on HN you'll get someone at Google to actually care about this problem.
Not really a direct alternative, but applicable to the spirit of the question:

I don't really like any news organization very much, so instead anytime a political/current events piece pops up here and I like it, I check to see if the author has a Twitter account, and follow them on there. Then, via their RTs and posts, I discover new journalists. If they consistently put out good stuff, I follow them too.

As an example, someone here once put out a piece about Silicon Valley and politics by Emmett Rensin, which I thought was spot-on. Rensin showcased Nathan Robinson, then Abi Wilkinson. And so on and so on.

If you keep a sufficiently varied crowd of followers, geographically and topically, you always see RTs of pertinent news events from eg: BBC, Reuters, AP, or what have you.

In essence, what some of these services do algorithmically, I rely on humans for. As a result I seem to be aware of just about any current event topic that comes up, so it's working for me.

Don't use Twitter like Twitter itself suggests, e.g: "Follow Lebron! Follow Donald Trump! Follow CNN!". Add people very very judiciously, so that your feed looks like the news aggregator you wish to see.
Ridiculous that they imply throughout that they have a (mysteriously silent) Level 3 support or engineering team working on the issue for almost that entire time.

Would be amazing if that's actually true and it turns out they discovered some huge underlying issue with the system from the user logs that they've actually had a team working on... but I'm sure it isn't. For a start if an issue like that was being worked on surely they could contact you to let you know.
Exactly how I feel
Hmm. If Darwinian evolution is based on factors currently present around the species, wouldn't it basically be optimizing for short-term factors? So you could call Darwinian evolution a greedy algorithm, that optimizes for a local maxima. What about the global maxima, how can life evolve to that state?
Yes, it says so in the article.
I can see your point of protecting sensible people from having to argue their positions.

I would like to get your opinion on the parent to which my comment was made. I find the assertion that police kills blacks in a disproportionate manner to be also and even more inflammatory and provocative. I was commenting to the aspect of an unnecessary political comment with an inflammatory slant.

Proof is also the fact that the flagging mechanism was used as a censoring method. My post simply stated that he needs more proof for statements made.

I am very disappointed on the way this flagging process is used to silence valid and well argued counter points. It is not an intellectual discourse but just a points-based battle.
Ask HN: Does the Heirarchy of Needs explain fewer women founders in tech?
I remember heated discussions in school surrounding Maslow's Heirarchy of Needs particularly as it related to men vs. women. It is said that women need safety more than men. Given that a startup is a high risk endeavor, I was just wondering if this could help to explain the lower number of female founders in tech. It seems the easy explanation is access, the bro culture, ageism, treatment of women in the tech industry, etc. Thoughts?

Further, if women are more financially secure after their kids are on their own or after establishing themselves in their career, wouldn't that translate to more female lead startups formed by older female founders? It is so easy to speculate but maybe their is an instinctual basis that is being overlooked.
> The Windows version of the product currently has difficulty syncing large numbers of files at once due to the memory constraints on 32-bit applications, even if your machine has a lot of memory.

It sounds like they have two issues:

* Access to the existing files

* The money given to Google so far

The first you can probably resolve by using the Linux client to download the files to an external hard drive. (edit) And by "Linux client", I probably mean either "nasty perl script that scrapes the web interface" or "some guy charging $5 for a third-party client" or "a Mac that you borrow from a friend".

The second you can resolve 6 months back by issuing chargebacks. It may be polite to request a refund first, after downloading the files.
Crime is the reaction to prohibition. Its not a separate phenomenon.
I'm pretty sure you have way more control over "presentation" when you use HTML vs PDF.
I use Google Fi for my phone service, because I can switch my single device and number to another carrier relatively quickly. I recommend my family and friends not use Google Fi, because of Google's reputation for randomly killing off services.

I don't want to have to navigate numerous family and friends to another carrier on short notice, because an executive decided this side-project wasn't quite profitable enough - or because an executive needs this side-project's resources for their own pet project. I don't want my phone carrier shut off because of another company's internal politics, and one way to avoid that is to only utilize services which are a company's primary product.
>> parents aim for a specific number of offspring

https://www.theguardian.com/global-development-professionals...

"women want an average of nine, while men say they want 11."
It sounds like they attached a document to an email, and as it is over a certain size Gmail includes it as a GDrive link instead of a typical email attachment. The recipient (support) confirmed they were able to view it. It's just a funny aside, and did not impact their case.
i prefer PDFs because they are easier to store offline and easier to move around.
"The average American flat-out loathes strength training. While about half of people do the recommended amount of aerobic activity each week, only 20% also do the muscle-strengthening moves that work major muscle groups."

That definitely sums up myself. I am a cyclist. My totals for this week are 147.1 miles with 15,497 feet of climbing (I do nothing but mountains, flat is boring!), but if you ask me to do 10 push ups, I will complain! For me aerobic activity engages my mind. There is a destination. The environment moves and is changing. When climbing up a hill, I have no choice to push myself if I am ever going to get to the top. Push ups? I simply stop when my body resists.

Despite my complaints, I do some strength training. Core strength is important in cycling and it is my upper body that fails during long rides, not my legs. My legs can keep going, but my shoulders give out due to constant vibrations.
I synched about 50GB to google drive and discovered that it started silently eliminating some of my files. The eliminated files weren't found on google dive's bin, but were in my local mac's trash without any matadata or folder info so I couldn't put them back into their original folders. Good thing I had a backup of all these files. Their synch algorithm seems messed up, it also fails to synch every 2 hours on mac.
I've since switched to dropbox, it is worth the extra cost.
I don't know why you're getting downvoted. I've always wondered the same. Why do these bitcoin people always do this "white paper" thing as PDF? Is it because it's trendy?
>What a crock of utter and complete nonsense. If you isolated the simple statements of fact then this article would still be a long and enjoyable read, but instead i am assaulted with corresponding insane ranting; accusations against huge swaths of people that are totally unsupported. So nobody googles if their daughter is smart?

Millions do. Just 2 times less millions that people who wonders if their sons are smart. Which was explained in depth in the article.

>Maybe its because parents are worried that looks and not intelligence are important for cohesing in school and not getting bullied, for girls. (...)

This sounds more like a "totally unsupported" claim that what the article suggests. And even if that was the case, it would show the same stereotyping done by the parents as the article already suggests.
I doubt it would change very much. I wrote a program a few years ago similar to this [1] and I tried several different amounts of "payment" (fixed and random) and each time the result was the same.

What I did not track was the number of times a "person" became rich (for example, how many times a "person" had over 90% of the money) as that did not occur to me.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14282863
It seems espionage is a recurring theme : http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/crux/2016/12/14/buran-shut...
It's so annoying that I can't use the arrow keys to scroll. Only Page Up/Down or the mouse.
It will primarily be used to funnel tax dollars to a few mega corps (Raytheon, Boeing, General Dynamics, ect...) that will lobby the hell out of Congress. Its not about anything else really, just a bunch of corps looking for their next government contract.
In addition to how I am pretty sure you can always use the web interface for Drive to upload files (as is the case with Dropbox, at least; remember that the issue here is with the sync client), the person has multiple computers: Google Drive initially wasn't working on one of them... and then it stopped on the other.
The BPF syscalls don't require cap sys admin. Only specific invocations. You can setup a socket filter without sys admin, and a device or XDP filter with net admin.
More often than not the right timing was the right timing only in hindsight, but I think there is merit to the argument of there being right timing sometimes. It is true that Instagram couldn't have happened before cheap smartphones with relatively high quality cameras, for example. It's not the only factor, but it can have a role depending on what you do.
Or hydro, or nuclear, or wind etc etc
So what's our function?
You could do that with a PHP site if you're working directly in production. That's not necessarily an advantage of Lisp.
There's also the consideration that a small fraction of break-downs may be dangerous (either high speed loss of control, which I'm sure is rare, or even standing at the side of a highway, which I bet is much less rare but also dangerous). What value do you put on that?

What types of breakdowns happen unexpectedly while driving outside of tires going flat, without any warning and people ignoring the obvious signs and getting the cars fixed once they see the light or hear strange noises?

The car breakdowns I've had requiring a tow usually involve the car not starting at all.
No, the issue is that the customer cannot use the local Google Drive client. It's right there in the opening: "Google Drive started crashing regularly on PC".

Gmail's default behavior, as anyone who's used it is familiar with, is to automatically upload attachments in excess of a specific filesize to the user's Google Drive account. The user has no control over this.
On my bucket list:

- tour the Chernobyl area

- tour the Buran facility

- sit ringside to a rocket launch in Kazakhstan

Who's in??
> If you want quality as opposed to quantity, you need to set up a feedback function that makes some effort to reward and support quality, based on a more sophisticated metric than a lowest-common-denominator unit sales count in a mass market.

This only holds true if you start with the assumption that the output of those driven only by passion of the art is insufficient in either quantity or quality and must be supplemented with additional output driven by capitalism.

I know I don't know which is the "better" system, but I do believe a sincere discussion must be had along that spectrum ought to happen.
My guess is that engineering resources have been focused on the upcoming new version of drive, and are ignoring difficult bugs with the current version.

I could understand that in a smaller company, but seems poor at Google scale. OTOH, that scale also means they don't care about losing a few customers over something like this.
I'm sure you have no ill intent, but Heather Wilson, the Secretary of the Air Force who made that statement, is female. It's interesting that it is so natural to assume that someone whose job it is to be "lethal" would be a male, but in this day and age, especially in the air force, that's not the case. Not really relevant, but I have some connections to the Air Force and people seem generally happy that she is the Secretary of the Air Force (the civilian leadership of the Air Force) because she was an Air Force officer, academy grad, seems smart, and she has political experience.
why doesn't my body dump all the fat, since I'm eating a surplus of calories anyway?

That's a great research question. Normally, the body tries to maintain a happy "set point" of fat. However, different genetic populations (who may have historically gone through more famine) are more inclined to save fat than dump it relative to others.

Researchers suspect that there is some mechanism that may be going awry due to our modern diet/lifestyle. Fat makes a protein called leptin; the more leptin in our body, the fatter we must be. So why is our body not properly measuring how much leptin is in our bloodstream and thus thinking it is skinnier than it really is?

Answer that and you will both win a Nobel Prize and become a very rich person.
> This, as an aside, reflects the changing power situation between Google and Facebook.

This is about as clear a case of anecdata as I've ever seen
That looks really useful! Thanks for telling us about it. Although I have no personal connection to the country, tonight I will raise my beer glass in celebration of Filipino software development. :D
Quite. Luxe: that is some bullshit right there. It's exactly the kind of nonsense company that gives startup culture and "disruption" a bad name. Whilst it's possible to make money off the back of entitlement, that one certainly feels like at least several bridges too far.
It's a progressive discount.

The term "regressive" attaches negative emotional connotations. Marketing would never sign off on such language.
I see where you're coming from there. It's basically a corollary of a recent topic on HN, which was that you in practice rarely encounter a problem that requires you to do anything algorithmically interesting. But then again, if you do, how would you have any idea of how to work on a graph if you couldn't even do a linked list?
Sounds like an ideal BDSM relationship you have there--maybe try groveling a little more.
Reminds me of a cryptocurrency for the gift economy that I'm working on. Each coin is unique and valued subjectively by each person. https://github.com/jchris/document-coin
Well thank you for the comment first of all.

About moving files it also numbs my mind that we still haven't really solved this as we close the 2010s. I think it'll get easier as we gradually move mainstream storage to clouds but it begs the question of ownership; the now-old meme of dropbox etc being "someone else's computer". I strongly believe that a decent cloud provider should encrypt everything before data leaves the user's screen and until it reaches some end user's (blind transport and storage, just like the post office doesn't peak on your letters and boxes). Provided decent API and tooling some of these providers could indeed allow peer-to-peer management. Local storage is dying for the mainstream as networks get better, and it's ok if we tackle the privacy issues the right way. I think.
Interesting but I often wonder how much better VCs are than the rest of the population at determining startup success. In hindsight they can always say "see, those two factors were important, for my X exit. Told you so" but they also pick companies that make zero sense. Like the $400 juicer company (backed by the most respected VCs in town).

Some also claim to have a thesis but will quickly drop it the moment a hot company comes along that violates their thesis and everyone seems to be investing. I'd like to see a VC publicly state a thesis and then invest in only companies that fit it for 10 years and then do better than average.

And how much of it is confirmation bias? If you back a Facebook early in your career, the very best entrepreneurs will gravitate to you and you will have more success.
Could you point me in the direction of how to learn these things?
>I come here so that I only get the cool tech stuff.

Then, honestly, this is the wrong place. Yeah, a good portion of it is cool tech stuff, but it's not (and has never been) exclusively that.
I am not sure the price of driving is a major factor. In Italy, when they introduced the point system instead of just fines for traffic violations, the number of fatalities fell dramatically overnight.

I do think it is interesting that many countries with lower fatalities are not known for driving slow.

A major part of driving safety is simply attention. I can only guess, but it seems like responsibility (points), training/culture of attentiveness, and quality, well planned roads can work together to provide better results than the sum of their parts. The US has the first, has abdicated the second to a culture of inattentive slow and "safe" (I personally hypothesize this stems from the use of automatics), and its roads are not at the same level of repair as many countries with better results on the list.
The issue is, Google is trying to make serious inroads into enterprise with Cloud/GSuite. This almost certainly costs Google more in reputation among that crowd than it would to fix it or just offer a refund.
Interestingly the DMCA prohibits creating software to bypass DRM. It is completely unconstitutional, violating freedom of the press. That part of the law should be struck down.
"Also, you should read the fine print from any other Linux vendor – RHEL, Oracle, etc. You don't have to go on "my understanding from several reliable sources", the documents actually state they'll terminate you as a customer if you redistribute their stuff."

I don't know about Oracle, but I know about Red Hat. They not only do not prohibit one from distributing source code and the patches they apply to it, they distribute it freely themselves, and help maintain a free distribution of RHEL called CentOS built from the same sources they use for RHEL.

There is no reasonable way to compare Red Hat's policies about source distribution and availability to grsecurity.
> The easy money in tech right now is harmful, as it crowds out actual innovation. But I don't see it getting better anytime soon.

What would you say might put us on the path to getting better in the long term, and what does better mean exactly? The system we have right now is designed to waste large amounts of money, it will never get better by itself. Won't VCs always seek lower risk, and go for the best ideas they can find that have some chance of working? It seems we could always look at the biggest failures and call it easy money, rip the ideas apart as stupid, regardless of how much actual innovation is there.

Is it fair to characterize the business plan of Maple or Sprig to deliver food at a loss? I assume the idea was to make a profit eventually, but being able to deliver quality on 15 minutes notice can only work on a huge scale.
Increasing cache has the net effect of increasing hit ratio, sometimes substantially. With 20MB per die this may change the calculation of where things drop off. I have found that I can't reliably predict how a chip will perform, so I just wrote a bunch of benchmarks and it takes me about half an hour to see if the chip performs better or worse than I thought it would. Google's Broadwell VMs perform very well.
In Common Lisp, the library CL-PPCRE [0] is used for regexes, and has an "AST"-syntax like this. It supports full Perl-compatible regular expressions in both the tree syntax as well as the standard string syntax.

The tree syntax actually uses symbols and lists, idiomatic in symbolic programming settings. This has the hugely convenient property of being trivially serializable, just as the string representation is. This isn't true with an unadorned object representation.

The documentation for the tree syntax is here [1]. Some examples from the page are reproduced below. The PARSE-STRING function isn't used by the user except for testing. All of the regex scanning and matching functions allow either a string or a tree.

* (parse-string "(ab)*")
(:GREEDY-REPETITION 0 NIL (:REGISTER "ab"))

* (parse-string "(a(b))")
(:REGISTER (:SEQUENCE #\a (:REGISTER #\b)))

* (parse-string "(?:abc){3,5}")
(:GREEDY-REPETITION 3 5 (:GROUP "abc"))
;; (:GREEDY-REPETITION 3 5 "abc") would also be OK

* (parse-string "a(?i)b(?-i)c")
(:SEQUENCE #\a
(:SEQUENCE (:FLAGS :CASE-INSENSITIVE-P)
(:SEQUENCE #\b (:SEQUENCE (:FLAGS :CASE-SENSITIVE-P) #\c))))
;; same as (:SEQUENCE #\a :CASE-INSENSITIVE-P #\b :CASE-SENSITIVE-P #\c)

* (parse-string "(?=a)b")
(:SEQUENCE (:POSITIVE-LOOKAHEAD #\a) #\b)

[0] http://weitz.de/cl-ppcre/

[1] http://weitz.de/cl-ppcre/#create-scanner2
CentOS can ship a system that's effectively identical to RHEL because Red Had publish their patched kernel source. What they don't distribute publicly and is only available to customers, under penalty of contract termination if they release it, is the patches that make up their kernel. So non-customers can't easily tell what they've changed, back out patches that break stuff, or cherry-pick patches for non-RHEL use. This is obviously nicer than the gresecuriy approach but there's no obvious reason why it's any more legal.