skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Twice exceptional people often appear to be "average" but find an "average" or normal life enormously frustrating

Like all correlation to causation misconceptions, most people read this and imply the converse. I find the normal life exceptionally frustrating, so I must be exceptional, hence I must do a startup. I am questioning if this is indeed true. I believe that this is a misconception, being frustrated with day to day life doesn't make one exceptional. Getting out of that frustration and finding something that they can be less frustrated with, perhaps makes people exceptional. One can just be frustrated with day to day life purely because of laziness, for instance.
I'm not sure if identifying pain is the opposite of creating need. The pain here was fast foods need for cheap fish that has a reliable supply. The need was created when he was able to convince these companies that his fish supply chain was their best solution.
What works when it comes to learning CS independently?
I am having trouble being 100% committed to learning CS and Math independently. There is great content out there (e.g., MIT Courseware). I am wondering if there are others who have been successful in independent learning and what techniques they used?
Sucks to be you man.
LE SIDA EST UN DES L’ARME BIOLOGIQUE DE L'AMÉRIQUE POUR LA DÉPEUPLEMENT GLOBALE
I would bypass the recruiter and email or call the engineering team.
Why do you think they kept taking them after they ran out?
Charlie is trolling. The architect isn't going to be the best craftsman, that requires very different set of skills.

Parity devs may be academically brilliant, and they put out a fantastic client, but the wallet issue shows how lax their development lifecycle has been.
That's how it seems, but OP suggested it was written by a communications department. I'm not sure. Why leave out the authors' names?
I think this is a core issue with reddit. They're trying to be a self-hosted platform at the same time that they're trying to be a single coherent community of "redditors" with a default, universally-applicable front page.

This leads to conflict when one person feels their identity as a "redditor" is under attack by the success of a sub that is diametrically opposed to their political or religious perspective, which leads to invasions, trolling, doxxing, harassment, and lots of other types of nastiness.
I'm thinking of doing the same.
Bodies Missing for 75 Years Found–Thanks to Melting Glacier
Not the OP so I'm just speculating, but being able to "mount" content-addressable blobs into different locations in the resulting rootfs would enable more incrementality and sharing of blobs.

With a flat list, the same logical set of files will have a different checksum depending on where in the final rootfs it needs to end up, right?
In the HN-popular utopian future where automation has made most people unemployed and living on UBI, we're supposed to be able to pursue our dreams without the pressure to feed ourselves. But in reality, many people don't have dreams or the motivation to pursue them and end up as drug addicts/alcoholics/gangsters which is just easier.

I used to laugh at the idea that people need jobs to feel fulfilled. I thought those must be quite helpless people who can't even make their own hobbies. But from personal experience, I found that dreams are for young people and people with demanding jobs. They're a grass-is-greener fantasy when they're out of reach but deteriorate into boring unrewarding work when you actually do them. Working for a company is especially fulfilling because you more productive than you can be on your own. You feel more useful. You feel important and needed.

So I think the idea of widespread happy unemployment isn't going to work. It might still happen but I think it'll be a tragedy, not a paradise unless we can find something else that takes the place of work.
How to become a UX/UI designer when you know nothing
Students who start by learning Java will learn solid principals which may be applied to Javascript (or any other language).

Students who start by learning Javascript won't learn solid principals.
What many seem to have missed from this is the bit at the end where Fowler concedes:

> I don't feel I have enough anecdotes yet to get a firm handle on how to decide whether to use a monolith-first strategy.

after linking and mentioning points of a guest post [1] (with which I strongly agree) which argues against starting with a monolith. A key part from that post:

> Microservices’ main benefit, in my view, is enabling parallel development by establishing a hard-to-cross boundary between different parts of your system. By doing this, you make it hard – or at least harder – to do the wrong thing: Namely, connecting parts that shouldn’t be connected, and coupling those that need to be connected too tightly. In theory, you don’t need microservices for this if you simply have the discipline to follow clear rules and establish clear boundaries within your monolithic application; in practice, I’ve found this to be the case only very rarely.

[1] https://martinfowler.com/articles/dont-start-monolith.html
People do definitely use their spouses and children to avoid taking on risks, but the fallout from a failed start-up can be devastating and many parents would (very reasonably) wish to shield their kids from that kind of instability. Especially if you're not in a financially secure place to begin with.

It's tough to suss out when a person is or isn't be too risk-adverse in general though. It may be impossible, in fact.
Is it presumptuous if it's true with high probability?
Public Service Announcement: You Should Not Force Quit Apps on iOS
As scummy as those installs are, it highlights Google's killer advantage: money. It generates so much cash from advertising that it can pay any company for more distribution (even Firefox!), which in turn generates more cash... Unstoppable until anti-trust kicks in.
Product Hunt founder: ‘Launching is not a one-time thing’
It was a known bug in the some go library. It was recently fixed. But at the time it caused concourse to stop working until restarted.
The courts can certainly make an attempt to apply themselves to what happens on ethereum.

But if someone wants to, they can make it extremely for that to happen.

Good luck finding the anonymous contract creator that set up their contract by sending money through Monero.

Also, empirically, your claim that courts will get involved with ethereum smart contracts just isn't true.

It is not true, because gigantic scandals and contract theft have ALREADY happened on ethereum, and the courts haven't been able to do shit.
> I find the normal life exceptionally frustrating, so I must be exceptional

Isn't this just the mantra of the millennial?
Everybody dies from something so there'll always be a top cause of death. I think we accept diseases of old age like heart disease and cancer as an inevitable part of being human. Sure it'd be nice to cure them. It'd also be nice to have immortality.

You could go further and say brain death is the leading cause of death, affecting 100% of Americans. Let's put more effort into transferring our consciousness into computers so we can survive it! Again, it would be nice but seems tolerable to carry on as we are.
Nothing is stopping them from turning on their cameras but words.

They fear ramifications yet unknown.

This is cowardice.
Indeed, just click the "1 hour ago" link.
It’s possible to use pointers successfully without understanding them fully - (having a sense of) incomplete knowledge can frustrate the learning process. Spending time dropping down to assembler to learn a few variations of MOV or looking at compiler output would make pointers achingly clear.
Well, lead deposition dropped about two orders of magnitude in ~1350. That's far more than a proportional decrease, unless the death rate was over 90%. Societal collapse seems more likely.
If you are referring to broadpwn aka CVE-2017-9417 [1], it has been fixed (last item in [2]).

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14727400

[2] https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT207923

Summary :

Impact: An attacker within range may be able to execute arbitrary code on the Wi-Fi chip

Description: A memory corruption issue was addressed with improved memory handling.
You would own the hardware until it died which is not forever.
We are in quite a sad state regardless of which browser we use...

... the popups requesting your email address or that you turn off your ad blocker, the auto-playing videos (that relocate themselves as you try to scroll away from them!), the javascript hijacked page scrolling, and so on.

So really it doesn't matter which browser you use. Your browser is going to feel slow, and it's going to use a ton of resources.
This is also discussed in section 4 of Jeff Bonwick
s 1994 paper "The Slab Allocator: An Object-Caching Kernel Memory Allocator".
That was one of the greatest stories I've ever heard
An overview of random sequences in software programming
The Cleanest Water in Washington State
Ask HN: What was it like when dot-com bubble collapsed during 2000-2002?
Would you mind sharing your stories?
Another way of describing that is that variables are global (scoped to the lobby, to borrow a term from the languages which came before JavaScript) unless explicitly marked with the "var" keyword, which has semantics that some languages might have chosen to give the name "local". Like: your entire premise that a variable is only the declared variables makes no sense to me as someone who teaches college-level classes in programming languages. In Python variables default to local unless marked "global". In JavaScript, variables default to captured via scope unless marked "var".
Central to the researchers' argument is that human livelihood causes pollution. I wonder what the "ideal" global limit is.
That's not upstate, it's the Hudson Valley.
"Solidity" is a pretty sarcastic name for the language at this point :)
> /r/the_donald specifically exists to spread false information, and to dox and harass people.

Can you substantiate that? I went there a few times after election and didn't see any doxing or harassing. There were gays, trans, immigrants people of all walks of life all seemingly having fun with their frog image or whatever they call it, and don't remember seeing a lot of harassment. I didn't follow but maybe you're saying it is hidden somewhere or they are subversive and just pretend to be nice?
Cloudinary in my opinion is also the best place for optimized photo delivery. The important part is you needn't spent any buck out of your pocket to try it. It has some amazing tools like image breakpoint, auto quality and format which delivers extremely optimised images speedily.
"Exceptional" does not always have to mean "excellent," if you are worried about being immodest. It can also mean - and was originally meant to mean - irregular, not typical.

So use it, if it fits!
I just scoured that sub for 30 minutes and all I saw was people bragging out their pills, showing off their heorin, and fantasizing about using Fentanyl....
Hmm. It doesn't seem to in 54, but you're right that it does in a 55 beta. If that's the case, then there's really no point to two separate bars. Looks like https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1344928 is where the behavior change happened.

Based on the diffs there, looks like the 55 feature can at least be turned off by setting the "browser.urlbar.suggest.searches" preference to false... (That preference doesn't affect the search bar.) Also looks like there's preferences UI for this (the "Show search suggestions in location bar results" checkbox).
Don’t Jump from 1 to 8: The Irish Spring Story
Yep, it's marketing, but it's also somewhat educational. That's marketing done right. Compare to the marketing blurbs for most products that are fairly meaningless.

Can you imagine if the people who marketed shampoos and cleaning products explained how they work in a similar way?
Isn't that basically the idea behind GANs?
How the Russian government plans to protect the country from the coming cyberwar
The question is who is the author of this post.

It is unattributed, and while clearly based on the CVPR it is different enough that if it were a traditional publication it would be counted separately. If someone wanted to cite this post, what would they cite?

By comparison, distil.pub is a properly citable journal: https://distill.pub/2017/momentum/#citation
Use a different email.
You have it backwards. The plague starts in east Asia, then spreads West along the Silk Road, it arrives at the Black Sea, and then is carried to Venice. Most likely it was in rats that were on the ships which the merchants of Venice operated in the Black Sea. It arrives in Venice in 1347, and the next 36 months are the event that in the West is called The Black Death.
How about we replace the dice with Schrödinger's cat?
It's not nature, it's in society and it's a bit like a plague numbing it down to real feelings and deeper thoughts.
The problem of car safety isn't solved by the Renault driver driving slowly. The risk is still significant when the speeding large truck fails to stop/yield (is that even a concept?) and plows into the car.

Meanwhile, look at all the energy (and human time) being put into selling one car, but the streets and surrounding areas are covered in trash and worse.

I would much rather see these car salespeople doing what "The Ugly Indian" (see Facebook for group) is doing - cleaning up and decorating disgusting areas and teaching people by example how not to trash their home environments.
If you encounter something that's just labelled "fish", it's probably pollock.

(and, yes, that includes fish sticks)
"At Alinea, there aren't any à la carte dishes; instead you feast on the restaurant's 22-course tasting menu, which costs between $210 and $265 per person, depending on the day. Additional wine pairings range from the standard $135 per person to $195 for the reserved pairing, which features rare pours."

Which kind of perfectly follows the description. 300 dollars per person, show with minuscule quantities of food.
> If not, what leads you to believe that anybody involved in discussion in r/politics are "shills".

Because Hillary had hired people to do exactly that:

http://www.latimes.com/politics/la-na-clinton-digital-trolli...

http://www.thedailybeast.com/hillary-pac-spends-dollar1-mill...

Remember someone leaked a private Slack chat of Reddit admins where one was boasting of receiving their CTR check.
Also maybe no one will laugh but only indicate laughter and be clinically depressed a few years down the line.
I am not a lawyer.

We operate very very differently than Chez JJ did.

Because of our community focus, the vast majority of the residents in the house at any given time are long-term, and here much longer than 30 days.

Even if this was not the case, this location is composed of more than one building and no building has more than 5 bedrooms.

Mostly, we have an excellent real estate lawyer.
I am almost ashamed to admit I have read these forums for years as a sort of exercise in voyeuristic schadenfreude. I just love reading about drug culture, watching drug movies, etc. Just like I love gangster movies. I can't explain it. A few things I have learned:

/r/glassine is probably the most interesting. They rate heroin bags in the Pittsburg area. It's supposed to be for everywhere, but it's mostly Pennsylvania

/r/opiates is a place where addicts confide in each other and practice harm reduction. They do not source. They tell hilarious, sad, amazing stories. Lots of personal confessions and "whole life of an addict" style narratives. Overall, a good community for addicts to find a safe space, instead of a place that hounds them for not being in recovery.

/r/stims is where the meth heads hang out. Occasionally you get these great "I'm on meth and here's everything in my mind right now" text barfs, but mostly I feel like this is an empty sub

/r/researchchemicals is where people discuss Shulgin chemicals and beyond.

/r/drugnerds is amazing. Papers. Lots of them.

/r/drugporn is where people post photos of their drugs, and then a week later the picture is taken down because Missoula Police saw it and arrested them through the GPS sig in the photo.

/r/noids is where people discuss synthetic cannabinoids, which are horrible. Never use these.

The rabbit hole goes very, very deep. Check /r/DarkNetMarkets/
That was essentially the case for an earlier version of Monero (before some updates and RingCT).

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14129613
After witnessing the last 20 years online, I agree. Decentralized systems just don't squeeze enough blood from the stone, apparently. You may be interested in "The Master Switch" for some historical examples of previous medium takeovers.

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8201080-the-master-switc...
But Bitcoin and Ethereum can do this too. In fact Ethereum already has done it (and is arguably designed to do it). Ethereum simply has to convince a majority of the participants to fix the bug and reset to a good hash (whereas bitcoin would need a majority of the mining power unless they went out of band and used old school politics/force/coercion).
Would you please stop posting snarky and/or uncivil and/or unsubstantive comments? especially on divisive topics?

You've done this repeatedly, it lowers the quality of discussion, and we're hoping for better than that here. If you have a substantive point to make, make it thoughtfully; otherwise please don't comment until you do.
Meh, not really. You're expected to publish in the field and your future job prospects depend on it. These people just want to ensure they can easily go to other companies/orgs.
These "Why technology X is worthless" types of posts and statements always give me a bit of a laugh. As with most technologies, there is a) a learning curve, and b) best practices to follow.

Many of the comments here seem to discuss a few things which, in my opinion, lead me to believe that the implementation is incorrect or decisions are being made on old data or based on older versions of MongoDB. Making arguments against any product based on previous versions seems to be counter productive. Most of the posts here don't make reference to a specific MongoDB version, but many reference their experience with the product in 2012.

Assuming that these experiences were at the end of 2012 with the most current at the time version, we are still talking about version 2.2.2. The current stable version is 3.4.6. As you can imagine, there have been many advances to the product in five years. Basing one's knowledge and opinion of MongoDB on old versions doesn't seem logical. Even back in 2012 though, there was a lot of misinformation about MongoDB. A blog post from that time period (https://blog.serverdensity.com/does-everyone-hate-mongodb/) argues some of that information at that time.

Many other comments were made based on what seems to be a lack of spending time with learning MongoDB. It is a non-relational document store. It is NOT a relational database. It requires a different way of storage design and thinking and attempting to force MongoDB to be a SQL-like database is silly. SQL is indeed a popular option and can work well.

However, non-relational databases work well too. There are lots of implementations of it across a lot of companies. A few relatively recent posts are good examples https://engineering.snagajob.com/mongodb-in-aws-does-it-real... and https://mongomikeblog.wordpress.com/2016/04/29/why-we-went-w... That doesn't account for many of the large companies out there using it, like Expedia, Facebook, Forbes, to name a few.

If we want to have a discussion about specific, current, features of MongoDB, that's great. There are a lot of them. Many have been mentioned. Some have been mentioned as a negative due to what appears to be poor implementation. If we want to debate pros and cons of any product, we should be sure that we are talking about how things are intended to be implemented and not some hacked together approach.

Perhaps the marketing spin was too aggressive. I'm not a marketing person. I'll leave it to Mr. Horowitz to backup his claims. But if we are going to have a discussion about the pros and cons of MongoDB, can we at least agree to not talk about old versions? I mean, I had a bad experience with Windows 3.1, so should I not use Windows anymore? ;-)
Amen! Do we really need another billion plastic bottles in the trash stream? Doesn't this contradict the entire spirit of Soylent?
Piecing together the comments up thread: there was apparently a unique twist to the infamous DAO hard-fork which allowed someone to steal the funds but not withdraw them (ie, transfer them to an exchange and get dollars out), so they were able to undo the transaction.

There was no such twist this time around which means the funds could already have been transferred to an exchange and withdrawn as dollars or BTC. You can only undo the ETH part of the transaction, which would take money away from the exchange (or from people who have since bought the stolen coins from the exchange unknowningly) and give it back to the victim. That's a lot less palatable than taking the money from the thief, so it's unlikely to happen.
Is the cryptocurrency Bitcoin a good idea? (2011)
That's correct. Here is a more detailed explanation: https://blog.zeppelin.solutions/on-the-parity-wallet-multisi...
Ask HN: What has heavily influenced your coding style?
Aside from books, has there been any major events or issues that stemmed from your code while in production, etc that has shaped how you code and how do you think you improved from there? Generally curious and want to learn more.
Supporting 30,000 tx/s on Bitcoin today
A distinctive bottle makes the product stand out
The average user is going to care more about whether or not websites work than about privacy, freedom, and avoiding the monoculture of a single web engine.
Bluetooth mesh networking specification
Helpful Azure Stack Shortcuts
Google's blog post talks about introducing the newsfeed to the Google app, but I don't see any mention of Google.com: https://www.blog.google/products/search/feed-your-need-know/

Anyone know where the BBC found this confirmation?
Python Quirks: Comments
I was in college at the time. I remember people saying during that time, once you graduate with a Computer Science degree, you'll get 45k a year starting salary, easy!

And then the bubble popped and they were like "Oops! Nevermind!"

Nowadays that number seems low.
IOS:

IOS Swift + Firebase/AWS

Web:

MEAN stack (a bit outdated, I know)
contact@radioeden.us
Unless they misbehave

Or you want to

No, it won't (probably) help your battery

But who cares? It's my phone
Sarcasm aside, option A works and option B does not, as you admit. What's your counter-argument? If it is that option B will one day be better than option A, you will need to provide evidence because that's a claim that is not addressed in the posted filecoin.pdf.
ISO27k1 on Cloud Environment
Have you guys already had an experience with implementation iSO27k1 process? I'm attending a external assessment and I would like know some tips or good advices about that?

Thanks in advance
Jehovah's Witnesses vow to appeal Russia ban in European court
Not collapse: recycling. In a steady state population, you need to be mining enough new metal to replace items lost to use or rust. If the population drops, people just start using dead uncle Harald's knives when theirs break.

In such a situation, you'd actually expect expensive new production to drop all the way to zero until the recycling buffer was used up. The effect would be superlinear with the death rate, not proportional.
People lose sight of any perspective until it's late enough to do anything then it's just history. When it all blows up they just look like clowns but they enjoy being puppet clowns anyhow, keeps their tummies round. People still wonder how dystopian scenarios ever do set in? Making a stand in society seems like a thing of the past.