skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree, it's obvious that human intelligence is >99.9% a behavior copying algorithm. What we call rational thought is in reality restricted to conscious exercise and it is a learned skill. A trick, nothing more, and especially not a core part of our behavior. It is not that different, at a low level, from learning to juggle balls. Rational behavior, firstly, most people just don't have it at all, and secondly even in the people who do behave rationally occasionally, it is only when things are happening slowly enough and they're putting in constant effort toward maintaining that rational behavior, constantly second-guessing themselves and going back in memory every few minutes to evaluate your own actions and formulate a plan.

And if you've been to the third world (or just a large poor part of a large western city), you'll know this is true: billions of people have never learned to act rationally, and only few and far between will ever act rationally. You can do a thought exercise with these people and figure out with them what the rational action is, and the vast majority will simply act anyway.
I work on a modern PHP 7.1 codebase, and I personally disagree:

> PHP's problem IMHO is that I wouldn't be able to use it if it wasn't for autocomplete: inconsistent function names, inconsistent parameter order.

I know the functions you're talking about, and they're definitely a wart, but approximately 0% of my day is spent actually calling them directly. I spent a lot of time working with eg, collection classes which extend a base collection class which, sure, calls one of the interchangable array_* functions with their endlessly inconsistent parameter order, but I'm not calling them. Similarly, a lot of code I write every single day relies on encoding and decoding HTML entities, and yes, the fact that it's html_entity_decode and htmlentities is certainly embarrassing, but again, it's all handled by a library.

It's an issue, but I'm not sure I'd find room for it on a top 10 list of issues with PHP. How about, say, the lack of generics? Now that's a flaw that actually impacts people using PHP professionally, whereas the htmlentities/html_entity_decode thing, in my experience, doesn't.
The Turing test is a thought experiment, not an actual benchmark for a strong AGI.
Yeah, I didn't mean to minimize the achievement. I just meant if you're interested, you should try it! It's fun.
Hexagonal lambda
It's videos of people making food on Facebook. It's not an academic article. No one cares, it isn't actionable.
I'm an occasional iPXE contributor, I guess it's my time to shine!

Bootloaders are reading block of data from CR-ROM, disk, floppy or USB drive by using int 13h[1] whose handler is set by the BIOS. A bootloader is only asking the BIOS to read data for him and does not have to implement drivers.

iPXE replaces the int 13h handler in the interrupt vector table[2] by its own, and when a read is issued by a bootloader, it performs it with an HTTP range or iSCSI request.

It's actually really simple. :)

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/INT_13H

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interrupt_vector_table
Exactly! Many people have done this as a hobby/personal research project. Alexander shulgin experimented with possibly thousands of substances and had no cognitive impairment.
Yeah, navicat is great! It's just for a small time developer / student, the $1,299.00 price tag is not really enticing. I'll gladly pay for a subscription model like adobe cc.
Thanks, riffraff and kbenson.
>The Hubris System(R) provides adequate protection and is highly practical.

If the protection is adequate is up to you, but as your phrases get longer they quickly get impractical and memorizing and entering will get error prone.

>The scheme is well known, but what attack against it outperforms an exhaustive search?

Everything that is not truly random has a pattern that can be exploited to
outperform exhaustive search.

>How do you build a database of poetry I haven't written yet and will never publish? Frequency analysis may help, but many of my poems are about a yellow zebra named x-ray who plays the xylophone. If you come up with an attack that outperforms an exhaustive search, I will just write longer poems.

Per position markov chains are one way. The point is, that as long as it isn't random there is a way to improve on simple brute force.

>You will never catch me. Password cracking is an arms race. The crackers can't win.

Cracking a single password is always hard but in a spear phishing attack there are often better ways anyway. Cracking passwords en mass is a different story and looking at the success rate for cracking passwords from leaks I'd say the crackers already won. There are also arguments why mass cracking gives an edge to the attacker [1].

>The math is against them. Every character I add to my password makes their problem exponentially harder.

Longer passphrases quickly get impractical and as long as the character you add isn't random there is a way to guess it.

>thspapaihp tsiwkbwaaioaes hdybadopihwyawnp famhbmompaaayznxwptx iycuwaatoaesiwjwlpywncm pciaartccwtmiateciatmpmtpeh

1. Good luck typing that without mistake.

2. Look closely on your passphrase, don't you see the patterns?

[1] http://www.openwall.com/presentations/Passwords12-The-Future...
Gedankenexperiment: construct such a machine and then create an adversarial network that attempts to fool it.

What do we do with the examples that come from the adversary?
How to Be Better at Stress
The Go language would pair up nicely with QT since it produces executables with no external dependencies.
I do. I was using very old numbers.
Aren't offset credits themselves a form of manipulation? Compared to being a solution, it seems just as likely to me that they're a cultural placebo.
Then the economic system that allows this to pass is unnecessarily endangering human lives.
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I have no words for how amazing this is.

Also, "percentage" is written with a C.
Inside the Third Annual Content Marketing Conference
You may not be in their primary audience, but they're pretty popular. I just looked at their Facebook page and it has 87 million followers.
10 Business Lessons on Trust from Spiritual Leaders
Pretty sure you're weren't very familiar with Serious Eats when you wrote that, can you confirm this? I find it hard to believe that someone that cooks/reads Serious Eats would say that.
That sounds on the low end for mid-to-late career lawyers, doctors, and businessmen in the DC area.

Of course, the power and fame is seductive, so paying below market rate makes a lot of sense.
I'm not so sure that's true. Their key problem is that they didn't understand how much value there is in up-and-coming, amateur, and underground music. The record labels only have power when it comes to their catalogue. SoundCloud could have truly disrupted the labels by providing an alternative way to promote, monetize, and discover music. But they somehow got off that track.
I think economists have mixed views. It seems though that the only way to change the market behaviors is to externalize the climate costs & credits are one way to do that.

In any case, based on his current behavior & the current market, dismissing Gore based on the private jet thing seems misguided, but there are lots of very powerful forces aligned to do just that.
Thanks. Okay, we gonna fix it this week.
I had assumed that was intentional...
If that's supposed to work like a threat to keep others in line, then of course, the US should work to (at least) maintain and (preferably) increase that power. Otherwise the threat won't matter. In other words, this depends on developing and demonstrating any and all weapons capabilities before others develop them, because if just one such technology provides an overwhelming advantage ...

Furthermore, there can also be no doubt that the US would use such weapons to maintain it's own and it's allies' security. There can be no doubt that we'd fire such weapons at Russian armies attempting to invade the Ukranian parliament for example. More controversially, there can be no doubt that we'd fire them at not really civilian Palestinians if Israel's army loses control.
If any change is going to be made it's going to come through revolution (a la France) or through someone in the top 1% changing things from the top down (a la slavery). The fact that he gets around on a private jet is neither here nor there - we can live with hypocrisy. What we cannot live with is inaction.
Very good, honestly.

PHP - at least if you're working on a modern 7.1 code base - isn't perfect, but it holds it's own. You do need at least one experienced person to stop you making serious mistakes (and with PHP, there are a lot of mistakes to make!), but in my experience that's true of every language.

Syntax is still a bit janky, the standard library has function names and parameter orders that seem to have been created by feeding the source code through a blender, and nested ternaries are a trap for the unwary due to their completely broken associativity rules.

On the other hand, the syntax isn't that bad, the gradual typing story is starting to get pretty solid, composer is really nice, IDE support is great, and the ecosystem is stable, mature, and deep. (And you shouldn't be using nested ternaries anyhow, come on, this isn't a code golf competition.)

As a general rule, I find the project I'm working on now to be slightly more pleasant to work on than the Python/Django app I worked on before, and significantly more pleasant than any node app I've worked on.

Five years ago, if you told me you were starting a new serious project using PHP for the server side I'd have thought you were probably making a mistake. Today, I wouldn't blink, again, not because it's perfect or the best, but because it's solid and mature and good enough.
You're correct, they are the equivalent of food designers, at photo shoots. It's meant to look good on film, and nothing else. I wouldn't be surprised if the end result was not even real food on Buzzfeed. Using Elmers glue for milk on cereal, etc.
>PS. Also, wtf does javascript librarys have to do with php.

The reference is likely pointing to the idea that individual url response times or throughput isn't the whole story. A php site that can do 1000 transactions per second may outrun a nodejs site that can do 3x that, if the individual pages drive fewer xhr requests per page. Or the client side js may be so bloated that the page doesn't render any faster if you make the back end faster. I've certainly seen SPAs that stall parsing/executing js for longer than the remote requests take.

Sometimes client side matters more than server side.
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Plenty of olds have quaint ideas about giving credit where credit is due.
Nobody has actually performed a real Turing test. A Turing test doesn't have problem domain and time limitations.
The contents of your newsfeed are mostly determined by the people you befriend and the pages you like, as modified by your mute settings. If your feed is full of garbage, try changing those parameters. Plenty of people have a good experience because they have given inputs that reflect what they really want to see. The same is true on many other sites, BTW, and across sites as well. If all of the content on SuperCoolTechNews was garbage, would you still visit or follow their RSS feed? Even Google creates a filter bubble based on what you've searched for and which results you've clicked on.

The internet is becoming ever more personalized. Whether that's a good thing or a bad thing for you largely depends on your own behavior.
The tech industry keeps repeating the same business mistakes. This period strikes me more and more of the 1998-99 era when there was so much euphoria that there was no way but up. Then March 2000 came, the first Internet high flyers started to fail, and very quickly the whole thing unraveled. We're on the same road again...
Preface: i am not a lawyer either and i welcome criticism as this is just an idea.

I think the solution wouldn't be to charge robbery twice as hard for cops, but to have an additional charge. Something like 'abuse of federal trusted power' or something like that which would carry its own penalties. This, i think, wouldn't cause the strict separation of penalties that could be problematic, but it would address the problem of people entrusted with federal power abusing it.
>"In November 2014, SoundCloud closed a deal with Warner Music Group, giving the label an undisclosed cut of revenue from ads, a 3%–5% stake in the company and protection against past copyright infringement from the label."

This sounds like terms dictated by the Mob. It's quite telling that the deal also conferred ownership on a content holder in order to be able to license and pay handsomely for their content. This is only one of the big 4 they were negotiating with too. By the time they get done negotiation with the other 3 they would have likely given up 15% of the company. Note the big 4 all have stakes in Spotify as well[1].

At any rate I think this should have been a sign that they were going down the wrong path. Propping up these labels and hitching your wagon to them, only to have to constantly renegotiate your deal with them every couple of years seems contra to a platform that gave artists direct access to music fans without the middle man.

[1] http://www.swedishwire.com/jobs/680-record-labels-part-owner...
I'm not sure that's entirely fair; a lot of those jobs you've excluded will be serious PHP coding jobs, not just "install and configure a plugin" sort of things.

There'd be a lot fewer node jobs if you managed to exclude all the ones that used express. :)
I can't help but think the obvious solution here is the correct one: start talking politics with people IN PERSON.

The signal to noise ratio around my kitchen table is a lot higher than on reddit (or even HN), and there are a lot fewer trolls.

We used to say "Never trust anyone you can't punch in the face."
Is the Technology Gap Hurting Automotive?
Ok, I'll give you essentially all of the 2001 dotcom crash companies. Is that enough examples?
As far as speed goes: Transfers: ~1000s times faster (thanks to Rsync as fimdomeio says); Browsing: ~10x (thanks Paramiko); Deletion: ~100x (SSH/rsync beats SFTP recursion).
Although one day I am going to write a FUSE/driver that implements all this and avails it for SSHFS, because it's hard to beat that Finder integration...
Having a reason to do a foolish thing doesn't make it reasonable, especially when the reason is also foolish.
Yes, documentation still suggest to avoid such practice, see the second note here: http://www.php.net/manual/en/language.operators.comparison.p...
I think the difference is with typescript you can gradually type things or just us any when you don't want too. You get the best of both worlds IMO.

I'm more excited about using typescript def files in my JS code for third party libraries than I am using Typescript itself. What I really want is code completion and type hints
How Grover’s Quantum Search Algorithm Works
Less today, but discussing at IT conferences with people from the porn industry was awesome.

They had particularly extraordinary solutions for video - this was one of these bleeding edge solutions wher you had to cram a reasonably good steam into a modem+ bandwidth.
A link to Github issues and a GH page with zero screenshots. Thats not how to promote your OS project :(
If this is true, can you expand a bit?
Another great one for Mac users: https://macpostgresclient.com/

This looks nice too, though!
Node.js portable on Windows
I think it's in the same vein as the quote by Jeff Hammerbacher: “The best minds of my generation are thinking about how to make people click ads”.
VC is an entertainment industry. It's about the drama and the excitement.

The entire industry is an RPG played with real people and real money.

Sometimes returns happen, but in many cases they seem to as much by accident as careful design.
A startup is a business with a high growth potential, otherwise it's just a business
as already pointed out by @sillysaurus3.

If tomorrow 250 people are queuing to get a drink from your bar, you won't be able to cater to their needs, nor the next day, opening a new brick-and-mortar business takes a lot of time.

A startup would be able to scale (after a couple of days / week) and fulfill the customers' needs.
It says it downloads stuff (JSON, CSV etc). If I want it to render a chart with some data generated in a server, would that be possible? I don't see how.
In this case, the pitch is for sacrifice and discipline. It undermines his argument if he's somehow exempt from the plan.

As in, if even a rich, educated, and passionate Al Gore cannot actually reduce his carbon footprint, is it even doable for India and China?
And how would it ever be challenged? The moment some non-nerd, non-aristocrat becomes conversant with the machine, gains power over it, molds it to her whims, she has become the nerd aristocracy.

The nerd aristocracy's grip will forever remain unchallenged.
> if they have a question they'll ask siri. if they want help with their homework they'll ask okgoogle. if they want someone to read them a story they'll ask alexa.

This has almost always been the case. Have you met a single millennial?
I disagree, here in CT of all places the distinction between business and startup is the same, focused on growth. I've heard multiple in the area VCs on multiple occasions confirm their worst nightmare is a "lifestyle business", not growing fast enough for 10x growth but not dying so they can write off their losses
Recipes are. But the ingredient lists are not. The description are copyrightable as any other written work.
I honestly wonder how much of those are not USA or UK.
The real cost is laying the last mile infrastructure. If it is fiber or coax, equipment upgrades may be needed in the future, but they are far cheaper than pulling new cable.
Small issue: On my 27" monitor full-screen the hamburger menu is shown on the top right, thus hiding the links to the excellent https://time.graphics/popular/ for example. Tested in Firefox and Google Chrome.
Haha, or famously, David Brooks' high-school educated friend who is confused by sandwiches

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/11/opinion/how-we-are-ruinin...
Just an FYI, the investigative news division of BuzzFeed has been around for something like two years now. It's not so new anymore. :)
50 million paid users, 140 million total users.

https://press.spotify.com/us/about/
a) it doesn't matter, because EVs are still an improvement

b) it doesn't matter, because the grid need to be cleaned up anyway
Funny. Software engineers complaining that someone talking about politics is as rich as the politicians. But you talking about politics on behalf of people who are way worse off than you is somehow different. Its not like engineers are the poorest workers...
The Baidu front page today basically looks like the Google front page.
Did they manage just fine? They had to cut the same extortionate deal with the big 4 records labels and give them an equity steak in the company as well[1]. Given the recent figures I think the jury is still out on whether Spotify and this whole "the more we make the more they take" business model is actually sustainable:

"In 2016, Spotify lost just over $600 million ($601.4 million), up significantly from 2015's losses of just under $258 million. This means losses increased by 133%."[2]

[1] http://www.swedishwire.com/jobs/680-record-labels-part-owner...

[2] https://www.forbes.com/sites/hughmcintyre/2017/06/15/spotify...
Yes. You can display any statistic information from you website or database by implementing api:
You data should look like (per row):

date, value
...
...
It's the start of the full quote. I'm sorry maybe you could RTFA.

>“I mean that those with access to large amounts of money and raw power,” says Gore, “have been able to subvert all reason and fact in collective decision making. The Koch brothers are the largest funders of climate change denial. And ExxonMobil claims it has stopped, but it really hasn’t. It has given a quarter of a billion dollars in donations to climate denial groups. It’s clear they are trying to cripple our ability to respond to this existential threat.”

It's a common technique to split a quote like this to identify the speaker and while it's good to be skeptical you should be skeptical of all information, this particular form of quoting is no less and no more infallible to manipulation than the rest of English.
Ask HN: What does it take to bill £500 a day?
I've done some work with Vue.js but the fact it doesn't appear in job listings that often pushed me towards picking up React. A few days into playing with it I typed 'remote react' into Glassdoor. Here's what I found:

- Listings offering £400-600 a day or salaries of £40-70k

- Lots of listings suggesting they're either remote-friendly or not opposed to full-time remote. Going remote with a London salary is a dream of mine.

- A lot of these appear to be strictly front-end positions, suggesting one can simply focus on React ecosystem mastery while barely dipping their toes into Spring/Rails/Django.

Now, I've only just started working with React and coming from Vue.js, it's very similar. At this point I'm wondering - how much experience does one need to demand that sort of money for working with React? What does mastery entail?

More generally - a question for those billing this sort of money - what do you specialize in, how much experience do you have, how could one get there in their mid 20s?
Lowest common denominator. It's why they're so popular.
This reminds me of "A Young Lady's Illustrated Primer", which is used to train the protagonist, in The Diamond Age.
We will check this asap, thank you.
My sister is a teacher and confirms: While kids play around with their smartphones all the time, they are remarkably ignorant about the basics of computing. They are users, watching videos and composing texts, but when it comes to drivers (okay, who in today's world installs drivers themselves), OS installations, BIOS, but also simpler things like proper backups or Excel formulas, they are completely clueless.

> People born after that date are the digital natives; those born before are digital immigrants, doomed to be forever strangers in a computer-based strange land.

That's a ridiculous notion anyway. If you put in time and effort, you can learn pretty much anything, and computers and programming are no different, no matter the age. And if you do not put in time and effort, you always remain ignorant. It really is that simple.
Infinity has been well defined mathematically. Infinity well defined in calculus, set theory and logic.

For mathematical object to 'exist' only thing required is logical consistency under the rules used. Mathematical objects don't have other substance or existence than relations to other mathematical objects.

Ontological claim that abstract things that "don't exist" by some ontological definition is fine, but it does not mean much. We can't see or think anything concrete. We have never touched anything 'physical' or 'real'. It's all abstract representations in our brains.
I've seen my niece (we she was just under 4yo, she's now 5) open her dad's YouTube app on Android phone and hit the voice button and shout "Pepa pig" to find what she wants.

We were shocked to see it.

She's Spanish native. And she was not as fluent at her own native tongue as some other kinds her age. Her parents don't know how to use voice. No one around her does. I only use it for setting alarms and never _in front of anyone_ (I'm self conscious about it).
How important is binary size for desktop apps, though?
I don't know who are "we" that you are speaking about, but I absolutely can't live with hypocrisy. And large-scale social changes are inevitable anyway -- universal basic income is economically impossible, and transition to post-job economy is nearby.