skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It Seems like some sort of Neilson Ratings System would be more representative than basing it purely on sales.

Or lower the bulk threshold to one. Meaning a single sale of a title “counts” while >1 sales in a transaction counts as 1.

Buying 5 copies of one book doesn’t mean it’s being sold (or willingly read by) to 5 distinct people. So it’s popularity is really just “1” because only one person actually bought it.

That would be much harder to game since they would have to have a lot of single transactions to move the needle. Buying 29 at a time ought not count as 29 sales even though it technically IS 29 sales. But the intent of the Bestseller list is to determine popularity, not necessarily “units moved” otherwise, why disqualify bulk sales? Those ARE sales right? But the NY Times does have a bulk purchase flag which means the list isn’t about volume, but about perceived popularity.
> I'd hypothesise that a machine that kills everyone in those 1% edge cases (which are actually less frequent than 1%) but drives perfectly 99% of the time would still outperform humans.

Well, no.

Some quick googling suggests that the fatality rate right now is roughly 1 per 100 million miles. So, for certain fatality in the case of human control to be an improvement, it would have to happen only about once in the lifespan of about every 500 million cars. In other words, the car would, for all practical purposes, have to be self driving.
>>For those of us who are building applications we need the complexity

I'm not saying don't build applications. I'm saying web applications can be server-only and should not spill over into the client.

Again there are exceptions - things like control panels or consoles do benefit from being SPAs. But in a lot of cases there is also nothing wrong or insufficient or unsatisfactory (from a UX perspective) about clicking a link and having the server send you pre-rendered HTML. JavaScript can still be used as icing on the cake to enhance those interactions, such as by displaying a spinner on the submit button and disabling it once the user clicks it.
>If I had a cellphone when I was a kid, taking the bus for the first time would not have been so terrifying. //

Isn't it being "terrifying" and yet you having the gumption to do it what builds your character and prepares you to take on things without having your hand held? You were relying on your self - your skills, your organisation; and not on your parents?
> one of the partial mitigations that Bryant (@eganist) and I recommended when introducing RansomPKP was to enable HPKP, since it would both block existing users of the target site from pinning the new malicious headers[...]

Huh? How? If the header changes, don't browsers automatically update their pins next time the user visits that page?

> [...]and cause alarm bells to be set off early

I don't get this either. If an attacker enabling HPKP wouldn't set off any alarm bells, why would changing an existing HPKP header do that?
Exactly. I would love to see a "test pilot core" but that's never going to happen as long as the major players involved in these technologies are companies that are looking to make the most profit possible. A "test pilot" that has access to all the different self-driving programs is a prime point of weakness for any kind of confidentiality or security that might be in place for these programs.
70k to 80k in Vienna is still quite possible for average developer. Sure it is not 250k, but cross the border and 30k might be something like dream salary.

I am not judging the situation. Companies did use the market condition and do pay good local wages.
Britain had the best deal in the EU: they got to keep their own currency which is a tremendous concession. It's the ultimate leverage to protect their own economy. And they blew it up because of ... sorry, too many Polish drinking halls?
It's just like Fortran, where everything including a constant is passed by reference, so if you assign to your arguments you might corrupt your program's only copy of 7 unless the linker put it in a read-only page.
A 5x reduction in accident rate(plus the convenience of self-driving) , advertised and lobbied in the right way, can be translated to a huge political power. That could, with time, convince authorities, And that wasn't the case in the other systems you mention.
Everyone that I've told still doesn't care.
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> I spent my career at Microsoft trying to imagine what technology could do, and still I wasn’t prepared for smartphones and social media

There is a certain irony in her opening statement regarding Microsoft's lack of vision in these two spaces. I think there a have been some unforeseen consequences of these but even when I was a teen, kids would spend hours each day on the phone, or on the computer playing games - some even online - or watching TV. I feel like the fundamental interpersonal dynamic really hasn't changed that much, and I say this as a parent of young kids and a friend of lots of parents with teenagers.
I used an N900 for years as my primary phone. It worked very well for me, including for calls.

I eventually gave it up, solely because I wanted the ability to run specific Android applications.

But honestly, if I had the power of a full Debian-based system, I wouldn't need that.
The former is correct; the latter is not.
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5000 sales at a reporting store. So that probably represents 50,000 actual books sold since not every store reports.

I think Nate Silver ought to do some work on this area; it would be interesting to read his analysis.
I am a cat owner.. it never would have thought that my home smelling slightly of cat urine was embarrassing. Perhaps the author also didn't think it was? I don't think cat urine smells bad.
Sorry, that's not true at all. My phone provides the same services to me digitally that the analog world provided. It just does it more efficiently. I can read a book, keep in touch, learn a new skill, or research a topic all from the same device. That's an insane amount of value and I won't panic over using it because we didn't in the old days.
When my wife and I first started dating, I had to nudge her out of the habit. She wouldn't sit through a whole meal staring at her phone, but if she looked something up that had to do with our conversation, she'd then end up swiping through her various addictions and end up getting caught up (as I certainly do when on my own)†.

It wasn't a big deal to politely point it out and in time it almost never happened, or she would at least excuse herself to handle something quickly.

I think there can be a balance. After seven years, we will sometimes go out to eat and not really have much to say. Sometimes we'll sit in silence and watch the world around us or simply enjoy our meals and quiet company. Sometimes we'll eavesdrop on our neighbors.

Sometimes we'll whip our our phones and read whatever it is we read, even showing each other what we see... "Did you see so-and-so's new dog? What a cutie! Here, look" or "Take a look next time you're on Instagram". This might spark conversation about said dog, or our cat, or our workdays, or some other completely unrelated subject, or it may continue in silence.

And then there are plenty of other times when neither of us can shut up for hours, carrying on, barely eating, and forgetting we even have phones.

Our devices can obviously be unhealthy, especially the more addictive parts. But I think they can also be a healthy portion of our lives and relationships, provided our interactions are managed.

We don't have kids yet, but I definitely think it will be an interesting challenge to help them find that right balance.

† At our wedding, I urged my wife against writing her vows on her phone so she wouldn't end up swiping to buzzfeed in the middle of it.
Trader Joes has limited selection but good quality and good prices overall. I welcome the competition.
> I guess there is actually an 11th person saying, awesome I can financially support this evil company in the short term and make a quick buck.

Well, unless you belong to the minority of people on this forum with no assets in the stock market whatsoever (either directly or indirectly via a bank account, pension fund, etc), you are part of the system that profits off corporate activity. The only exception is if you traced your holdings in such companies (Wells Fargo is the example given here) and where they are getting used to within reasonable limits (some activity may not be disclosed to you as a member of the public for instance), and divested from all of them. A priori, I would find such a situation highly unlikely.

All that the grandparent commenter did was to allocate/deallocate to get a better return, and is honest about it as you point out. What more can one ask for or expect? Full divestment to within information limits as outlined above?

And as you point out, changing the system is super hard.

> And as disheartening as a comment likes yours is, it's truthful, and I personally find it motivating and inspiring. I guess it's sort of like telling someone something can't be done and that being the catalyst for action. I'm pretty motivated at this time to create an organizational platform for boycotts in a crowdsourcing-esq style without need for funding.

I am very happy to see people with energy for these sorts of things; feel free to email me to discuss more.

> If you don't mind, I guess like a sort of prelaunch feedback, what would it take for someone like you, willing to profit on bad corporate behavior, to instead become a leader for change?

I can give you mine:

1. I need enough savings to live on a "student budget" for the rest of my life in the United States. Until such an amount is reached, compromises will be made, such as what you term "finanically support this evil company in the short term and make a quick buck".

2. I do not wish to do this full time at any stage - there are other things in the world that interest me far more (chiefly scientific questions, usually from mathematics/applied mathematics). For example, if you provided a list of such-and-such companies engaged in such-and-such, and provided a summary of why you consider such a boycott worthy, I would evaluate it. Once upon a time I would have done the research myself; but I no longer have the energy and have a different set of priorities. On these lines, I have found http://www.givewell.org/ and more generally the "effective altruism" movement fantastic.
ACKSHULLY - aerobraking on Mars is a chore. The atmosphere is dense enough to burn you to a crisp, thin enough it won't help you slow down - much.

Look at the marvel that is the Skycrane. Not needed for the Moon.
Can you explain your thoughts in more detail? What about it do you feel is a failure, regarding security?
I personally don't think is-foo-bar-yet.com has been played out, nor do I agree with editing cliche links like this. The link is more substantive than you let on.
hey! thanks so much for your comment. That last point is a good one - the way we see it is that the big players have to be nice - because there is so much competition between them - it would dis-encourage the developer community from dedicating time to building amazing voice experiences if they started making the platform less open or blocking certain features. So far we've worked really closely with the Alexa and the Google team when developing Life Bot and both have been really supportive and helpful.
Jocko Willink covered this in his podcast: http://jockopodcast2.com/2017/01/11/57-strategikon-how-to-ap...
Its slightly ironic to me because I went much more to technology than my peers growing up because I had depression and social problems, not the other way around.

I think technology being so mainstream now means that the popular kids can now have a lot more online points (followers, likes, etc) just like in real life. Stuff happening on a screen is very frequently a lot more interesting than whats going on in a suburb - besides, you can't get social likes/currency if you're not online.
Why didn't Canada rebel? Australia? Falkland Islands? Malta? India? Nigeria? Belize? Tunisia? Samoa? Puerto Rico? The Philippines? Guam? Most of the Caribbean? In fact, off the top of my head the only times that you saw a colony rebel in a circumstance like that was the U.S and Haiti. Now you can point pout that most of the countries I mentioned are independent or quasi-independent today but most of them got that status after WW2 when it was actually much much easier to travel. And all of those countries also had the benefit of being able to have a breathable atmosphere, a magnetic field, and land which you can grow crops on none of which Mars or the Moon have which would make them much more dependent on their home nation.
> Are they saying O(n) operations where each operation operates on O(log n) bits

Yes, as in any other claimed complexity about an algorithm. According to your proof finding the maximum in a list is Ω(n log n), which isn't the commonly used measure.
I remember when people went crazy trying to nitpick the probability of spherical "wheels" when "I, Robot" came out and Audi had designed a car with exactly the type of system being mentioned. The general consensus, and even Audi agreed, was that spherical wheels would really only work "in the future" when roads weren't as gritty and mechanical as they are now. They would really only work when roads were smooth and made of some yet-to-be-invented material that wouldn't crack or break in pieces under regular use.
The Essence of the Iterator Pattern, by Gibbons and Oliveira.

This paper develops a precise model for internal iteration of a data structure, such that exactly the necessary information is exposed and no more.

It's a fantastic exploration of improving a well-known design space with justified removal of details. I keep its lessons in mind whenever I am facing code that seems to have a lot of incidental complexity.

https://www.cs.ox.ac.uk/jeremy.gibbons/publications/iterator...
I'm all for building Lunar outposts, but colonization is not really practial. Luna simply doesn't have the natural resources to sustain a civilization. Yes there is water in the regolith, but nowhere near as much as on Mars. And critically, Carbon, Nitrogen, Phosphorus, and Sulfur are only present in trace amounts. Nearly all of the elements essential to life will have to be imported, either from Earth, from Mars, or from asteroid miners. I'd love to visit, but nobody is going live there permanently any time soon.
> That has nothing to do with technology and absolutely everything to do with how they deal with their life in general.

With all due respect, accessing the internet today is nothing like what it was in 1990. It's like comparing apples to oranges. There's a huge difference between accessing a BBS with a modem and pulling an iPhone out your pocket and pulling up Facebook's newsfeed with a couple taps of your finger. These applications are designed to be addictive, and people's unfettered ability to access them anywhere enables their addictions. The physical and technical barriers that limited your access in 1990 are long gone.
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I don't understand why you're being down-voted. I can disagree with your feelings about it, but you describe exactly what's going on. If they leave the EU, I'm not sure it would change their fate. Capital doesn't give a shit about what government is running the country. They just care whether they can get cheaper labor from that country or not.

If they leave the EU because they don't like the policies they can just as easily experience capital flight.
That's not weird but pretty common knowledge. IIRC 1-char strings are interned too.
While they look the same, the technologies serve different purposes.

iptables/ufw block requests at the VM level. So traffic flows all the way to your VM and then your VM spends CPU cycles rejecting those packets.

In contrast, these firewall technologies can block traffic at the network edge of the cloud provider. This is done by propagating rules to the edge routers.
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Absolutely agree. But keep it off the server.
See also this page of tools: https://reproducible-builds.org/tools/

disorderfs is nice for ferreting out readdir()-ordering effects.
Sure, planes were introduced at a time when people were willing to step back and tell themselves 'OK, I don't feel great about this but that's just my emotions running away with themselves, I really shouldn't be scared so I should just do it'. Those times are over. Suggesting people should question, much less actively resist, their most primitive impulses is seen as a direct threat to their person. It simply isn't done.

When a mom is saying 'I'm not putting my children in one of those killmobiles' and someone says 'well actually ma'am its much safer and you're endangering your childs life significantly by taking the wheel', that person gets punched in the face and lambasted on social media as an insensitive creep. That's just how it goes.
I'm not saying you're wrong, because I have absolutely no authority in the subject, but apart from knowing some terminology how do we know you have any expertise either?

> If you substitute, you have to do much much much better. Nobody will ride a driverless vehicle provided the explanation that it is, you know, "already an improvement when compared to a typical driver". Is it fair? Maybe not, but that's the whole point for entrusting lives to a machine.

I've heard Elon mention this and while I don't know exactly it's measured, he claimed that fully autonomous cars would have to be 10x "better" at driving than a human before they would be allowed. I'm paraphrasing when I say "better" but I'm sure I could find the video of him talking about it.

At any rate, your comment is interesting.
Yes, AWS has security groups.
You can't expect a free icon set to have everything you need. This might help you: https://thenounproject.com/search/?q=25%20battery
You can use sys.getrefcount() to explore these "weird integers":
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People are downvoting you, but this rung true with me. Sure, technology is created by humans, but a lot of the reason I see people (kids included) "overusing" technology is social media.

Social media does not care for human values. It cares for growth/self-preservation, views/interactions, and revenue. This is fine for things like TV, which tend to be more opt-in, but when you're carrying around a device all-the-motherfucking-time that's constantly pulling your attention away from real experiences and real people to suck you into an addictive cycle of meaningless interactions, I would say that's dangerous territory. Not because it's doing harm per se, but because it steals attention from things in life that bring us real meaning.
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The judging is for his/her own benefit and doesn't really have anything to do with the object.

"I'm a little bit better than that person because I can take an elevator ride without looking at my phone"

"Our relationship is better than theirs because we can get through dinner without looking at our phones"

On and on it goes... it's comforting, isn't it?
I love to learn how to learn. Using what I learnt to learn stuff is hard, so I don't do it.
I guess that the article did annoy me. Partly because I remember GNUStep, Longhorn, OLPC etc. etc. which attempted some of these things, and we already know why those projects failed completely, and partly because I can now see the desktop slowly improving month-by-month on the Linux+GNOME stack. Yes, it's painfully slow and gradual, but it's sustainable progress: Wayland compositors, GNOME, Flatpak, and Atomic Workstation are actual shipping code that will only get better and more heavily used over time.
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The NYT bestseller list has been a horrible indicator of what's selling for a while. You can often see well-known authors make the list weeks before their books are out due to massive orders by big box stores.

A much better source are Indie Bound's Indie Bestseller lists: https://www.indiebound.org/indie-bestsellers. While still able to be gamed, these lists are compiled based off of sales by independent booksellers. I've often found the books here to be better quality than the NYT bestsellers.
I don't see why rules of human society should be based on a subset of behavior of animals, that you conviniently cherry-picked.
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Had to clean up my notes a bit. Can find those here: https://pastebin.com/JNbGxvpQ. Sorry about the formatting. There really wasn't a good way to retain the styling I had in the original that made this easier on the eyes.

Also, as some others have noted, A Mind For Numbers is a much more expedient way of ingesting the course material for people who don't care for a visual-audial medium. It's the same exact material (often verbatim). The title is extremely misleading - there's almost nothing in it pertaining to math specifically.
This "buyer" is not going to buy any of the books.

The trick only works because the book is considered published yet it is out of stock so has to be back ordered.

And these back orders still count for the NYT bestseller list.

My guess is they somehow triggered some sort of last second revision for their own book at the publisher thus pausing the printing.

So the book is technically published and available in various catalogs yet you can't actually buy it. You can only back-order it.

I assume if you could actually order the book the "buyer" would have to shell out some cash.

An additional trick is that the "buyer" is being careful not to trigger bulk buying clause for each store.

It is basically the click farm equivalent online.
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For a dramatic coverage of this exact subject, I highly recommend 'Curiosity's Seven Minutes of Terror' [1] from NASA JPL.

[1] https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/video/details.php?id=1090; or on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h2I8AoB1xgU
Related: One of my current side-projects I'm creating is a podcast of 'greatest hits' from any authors.
I dunno -- part of the problem might be that we older people have notions of how childhood should be. Entire industries are built around it. And we eagerly declare an emergency when kids decide to stray from the notional path.

But maybe a little experience will enlighten (maybe.) I recall some 30-odd years ago how much more fun D&D would be if all of the paper, die-rolling, etc. were automated. This was sometime between the Atari 2600 and Commodore 64. I got my wish, obviously, and then some.

And it seemed old-fashioned ways of gaming would forever be consigned to history's dustbin.

Only it didn't happen that way. Dice and tabletops are still around, maybe more popular than in my day.

So I for one will not surrender to despair, or go blue-nose against modern tech "for the children." Maybe we should just go with the flow.
Sure, and that makes total sense when you're talking to someone who doesn't know the area. But disagreeing with me when I say that Bellevue isn't part of the City of Seattle is just weird.
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Just send the information and teach a new specialist onlune.

(And don't forget to take an ebook-reader with you in the spaceship with an extensive e-books library).