skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The pseudo-colonial takeover of Poland that this article alludes to was already unmistakable when I visited some three years ago. The cities — especially the malls and shopping districts — looked much like they do in western Europe, completely dominated by western European retailers and brands. The people wandering through these stores though looked dazed, alienated, and entirely out of place. This is what they wanted and what they fought for — western plentitude, with all those shiny, colourful goods they dreamed about. So why isn't it making them happy?

A big part of it may be that eastern Europeans are now effectively strangers in their own land. They have no sense of ownership or agency. During the day they work for foreign corporations, usually in low-level positions, and then in the evening they go out to spend their wages at those same foreign-owned establishments. This is definitely neoliberal colonialism, and it will not end well for everyone involved.
There is no probability - you can't apply probability theory at all since it's easy to make "Dutch Book" against any numerical answer (this can be accomplished by selecting the initial pool of 1000 as you please.) All this hinges on:

"All they know is that 900 people said it was blue, and 100 did not."

Meaning, those who are being asked for a probability don't know who selected those people or how.

This crops up with many false descriptions of the "Monty Hall Paradox" as well. Some descriptions also allow Dutch Book defeats, so probability can't be applied to the problem as it is (falsely) described.

The principle here is that you can't and shouldn't apply probability to questions about a deck of cards, if someone else can select which cards are in the deck, including 52 copies of the same card, either before or after your guess or bet. They'll take your money.

When Anderson et al changed the meaning, mid-game, of "Triple A rating" for subprime bonds, etc, before 2008 they pulled exactly this sort of trick; thus fooling those who thought they could apply calculations of probability to a situation where probability didn't apply; since the only thing that mattered was some executive's guess about how likely it was that he would end up in jail for rigging the system. (Not at all likely, we know now!)

When I was young there were a lot of "nine out of ten doctors recommend our cigarettes" ads also based on the same trick, and it must have worked on a lot of people, 'cause it was very common.

As with the common misdescriptions of the Monty Hall Problem, it's possible the writer meant to describe a quite different problem, but as the problem is described here no probability can be inferred.
Good thing it would be almost impossible to attach personal liability to an employee of a corporation unless they intentionally designed the system to be unsafe with malicious intent.
Note: this is not legal advice. If this possibility concerns you, consult a real lawyer.

Nice apples-to-oragnes comparison of the WebM PATENTS to the React PATENTS. The only things they have in common is the scope of the grant. The revocation clauses range from fair and sane in the WebM case to extremely overreaching and unpredictable in the React case.

The WebM PATENTS causes revocation for litigation against Google for patents covered under the grant.

The React PATENTS causes revocation for litigation against Facebook for ANY patent, regardless of whether the patent was covered by the grant or not.

The WebM PATENTS causes revocation if "you or your agent or exclusive licensee institute" sue Google. That's pretty much limited to you / your company / a subsidiary of your company using the code.

The React PATENTS causes revocation if "you (or any of your subsidiaries, corporate affiliates or agents) initiate directly or indirectly, or take a direct financial interest in, any Patent Assertion" - this is where the React PATENTS clause shows it's teeth. "Corporate Affiliate" has a wide definition. For example, a shareholder is a "Corporate Affiliate". So if you own Company A as your startup and use React and also own shares in Big Company B as an investment, then if Big Company B sues Facebook, guess what, Company A loses the patent grant. Or more likely, loses the license and is then hit up for license fees or is then sued if they continue using React.
Both are buying, right?
The point is it's really hard to impose laws and forms of government on peoples living days or months away from you. Sooner or later they'll want to make their own.
From the OP: "Buying your way onto the bestseller list is not technically illegal, nor is it that hard if you know how."

It's a pretty awesome ploy, with one caveat: to make real money, somewhere, someone should produce something of value. Even if they offline kickstart this book into "#1 bestseller", at least the movie should be good enough for YA.
Great summary on the course from reddit:
https://www.reddit.com/r/GetMotivated/comments/5950tm/text_i...
Python memory model is amazingly simple and consistent: everything is passed and stored by value, but all values are references to objects.
That's unnecesarily restrictive -- I've gotten great use out of "is". You wouldn't want to use it on an integer, but I've been using namedtuples a lot lately, and "LastKnownConfiguration is CurrentConfiguration" works great to to check whether anything has changed without checking all of the fields for equality.
@matmann2001 - you'll need to get more numbers to assess the total assessable market (TAM).

ESPP eligibility might be a low% of the workforce given that SMBs employ much more than public companies. even among public companies, ESSP is only offered by a double digit % at best. Despite this, if the TAM is convincing, let's chat
I have young relatives who could watch minecraft videos on YouTube all day and it makes me want to throw up. To me that's much worse than anything on TV, because it's meaningless and endless.
Content organisation is ... a massive problem.

I'm thinking of writing a solution (or parts of one).

In the meantime: Index cards. Closing in on 10k of those.
There's no real difference in that situation, but people don't generally read paperback books when out to dinner with friends, while driving on the highway, while walking on a crowded sidewalk, during a movie at the theater, during class at school or in a meeting at work... which are all common situations where I regularly see people glued to their phones.
Hammock Driven Development (2010)
Mars is immune to large meteors (actually asteroids)? When did this happen?
If you are interested in the course, start taking it. It is quite quick and easy. I used the Coursera app on my phone and downloaded the lectures and watch during my train commute. It won't take long to watch the whole thing.
RSA key strength and math
Generic GPU kernels... for just NVIDIA devices.
Show HN: iOS Golf Stats (my summer project)
From the homepage:

> Rust bindings for GTK+ 3, Cairo, GtkSourceView and other GLib-compatible libraries

http://gtk-rs.org/
> We treated test pilots with the highest regard because they were separated from the technology/machinery itself. There was no personal stake in it for them other than making it out alive and exposing issues with the systems being tested.

I think this is an extremely salient and important point, and I've never thought of it before!

Test pilots only care about a good product, not success or failure of the product. That's not the case anymore.

Maybe this would be a good time to propose a new "test pilot core" for cars, made up of perhaps some elite drivers who don't work for any car company.

Or heck, maybe the army wants to test self driving cars!
haha ! It come at a better timing than this. Yesterday we had a huge discussion around that in HN !!
> then why do they call it "the dark side of the Moon"?

Because four billion wordwide population - all living - have a Computer God Containment Policy Brain Bank Brain, a real brain, in the Brain Bank Cities on the far side of the moon we never see.
> I work at a large company...

Classic large company problem -- you've become adept at operating the internal corporate machine. Nothing wrong with that.

But if cutting-edge technical challenges give you juice. Start attending meetups & conferences.

Incidentally, these are great places to network and hear about hidden job opportunities > https://www.meetup.com/ScalingAgileNYC/
Likewise this could be a concern if a company -- especially a big one -- is looking to acquire yours.
As a transhumanist, I see the recent advertisement campaign for device-free dinners as an implicit accusation that devices necessarily inhibit interpersonal engagement rather than enhance it.

A device-free social event makes as much sense to me as having an equipment-free sporting event. Imagine playing baseball without bats, balls, or gloves. Imagine soccer without balls or goals.

The family dinner with meaningful conversation is a cultural construct that is yanked directly from a Normal Rockwell cover on the Saturday Evening Post--a myth of Americana. There is nothing inherently good or virtuous about it. It's fine if that's what your family does, but it's also fine if your family plays poker for chore chits, or if it eats in perfect silence, with no one acknowledging anyone else for the entire duration.

With devices, once my kids are moved out of my house, I will still be able to have conversations with them during dinner, or at any other time of the day. And those conversations will include images with lame pun captions.

"I pretend I'm one of those hikikomori. That way I don't have to have any goddamn stupid useless voice conversations with anybody. If anybody wants to tell me something, they can write it in a text or direct message. They never get bored with their phones, and so I'd get to have asynchronous conversations with proper sentence structure, punctuation, and grammar for the rest of my life. Everybody thinks I'm just a poor hermit bastard, dependent on technology, and no one even cares." --Holden Logfromblammofield
for a web apps concurrency is usually abstracted away into the database. concurrency within the web worker is usually boiled down to parallel access to separate blocking resources that don't interfere with each other. it's quite rare to see web worker sharing some state between requests (because as soon as you hit multiple workers you need to care about session stickiness, not to mention the fact that state itself becomes sharded, so not very useful for most purposes) or request having to do enough heavy lifting to require parallelisation.

it's a capacity planning issue which is somewhat related to how you parallelize the work but in the end, roughly `work per request W * number of requests N must be <= worker capacity C * number of workers M` or you will have a growing backlog. i imagine sync vs async resource access affects request timing variance more than it affects the median when the system is saturated but that depends on how resources respond to contention.

so to answer your question - there is no general rule, every system has it's own scaling characteristics, but simpler system is better than complicated one so start with sequential access and measure a lot as you change it.
They have been asked by the community to modify the PATENTS grant approximately 3 times in the past 5 years. They have flatly refused every time.
It might, I never really discussed this aspect with Fritz! For my thesis I was mostly focussed on applications to database queries, and I never encountered any concrete examples of orderings that couldn't be dealt with in an obvious way using discrimination based sorting.
How can I predict next month sales?
> If the computer safely drives itself 99% of the time but in that 1% when the human needs to take control, the human fucks up, the occupants of the vehicle are still dead. And what people are saying here is that L2 automation increases the risk that the human will fuck up in that 1%, by decreasing their situational awareness in the remainder of time.

Humans regularly mess up in supposedly-safe scenarios. Consider a machine that kills everyone in those 1% edge cases (which are in reality less frequent than 1%) and drives perfectly 99% of the time. I hypothesise it would still outperform humans.

Of course, you won't have 100% death in the edge cases. Either way, making the majority of travel safe in exchange for making edge cases more deadly to untrained drivers has a simple solution: a higher bar for licensing human drivers.
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This is a pretty good summary of the core concepts: http://www.math.toronto.edu/nhoell/10rules-of-studying.pdf
Brexit claims another victim: Britain’s venture capitalists
I didn't make any such claim. If you'd like to respond to what was actually written, feel free. :)
Same. I love reading opinions about how dangerous or bad the Tesla "autopilot" is, or that it dosen't work, from people who have never owned or driven in a Tesla with autopilot.

I've probably gone about 8,000 miles on autopilot in mine (AP1) and it is truly amazing. After a road trip stint of ~200 miles, I feel much more energized and less fatigued in the Tesla with autopilot 99% of the way than I do in previous non-autopilot cars. It really is a game changer. You may think regular driving doesn't require much brain activity, or that the Tesla cruise control and auto steering don't do much, but you really don't realize how much your brain is working to handle those things until you can take a step back and let the care do most of the work. Then you can focus on other things while on the road that you didn't realize before. The behavior of other drivers for example. I can watch a car near me with greater focus and see what that person is doing.

Regardless, if you have not driven one, I highly encourage it. You really need to take it out on the highway and drive it for 30 miles+ to really understand how amazing it is. I've driven other cars with "autopilot", and just like car reviews say, they are nowhere close. (Mercedes, Cadillac, Volvo, others with just auto cruise control). It's just one more reason why current Tesla owners are so fanatic about their car, there is nothing else like it and most likely won't be until ~2020 (maybe).
I remember implementing this too on Nova 1200. When the address space is bigger than the memory, you can place those integers outside the memory. Those objects do not actually exist in other words. Saves you memory cycles too, because you can calculate the numeric value from the address.
Except Uber didn't do anything deserving of a boycott.
Why does my inner self find it immensely fun to modify programs in subtle ways to watch how they break? Considering there's infinite ways to write junk code, and far fewer ways to make it work.
Thanks!

These are a hell of a lot more organized than my raw notes. Well done.
How? Buying stock doesn't transfer any money to the company (unless it's newly issued stock)
I just want an easy way to know where everything in the store is! I spend twice the amount of time I should just trying to find the items I need.
I have to admit I was initially put off by the guy's voice and hair, but it's a thrilling talk.

When he says the real science is on Mars, though, I'd raise the challenge and say it's on Europa, Enceladus, Io, Ganymede and Callisto. I mean hot oceans protected from radiation through tick ice. What else do you need?

We may find fossil and even bacterial life on Mars (and that would possibly be the greatest human discovery yet), but I bet we can find a thriving ecosystem full of complex multicelular life on one of those Moons.
> A refrain I hear, and used to believe, is that machine accidents will cause public uproar in a way human-mediated accidents don't. Yet Tesla's autopilot accidents have produced no such reaction. Perhaps assumptions around public perceptions of technology need revisiting.

Have there been any Tesla autopilot fatalities with the right conditions to spark outrage? That's a sincere question as maybe I've missed some which would prove your point.

The only major incident I'm aware of is one in which only the driver of the car was killed. In an accident like that it is easy to handwave it away pretty much independent of any specifics (autopilot or no).

A real test of public reaction would involve fatalities to third parties, particularly if the "driver" of the automated vehicle survived the crash.
And the "Browser API" was invented to do what, exactly? And by what mechanism was said API exposed to developers? And whose cocktail napkin was the specification written on?
I think the author is trying to paint a picture of just how unprofessional the setup is, how it's just the corner of a house, etc, but it sure comes off as rude and unnecessary.
Says who? Plenty of empires had people living that far without rebellions breaking out. Yeah the US rebelled against Britain but Canada, Australia, and a bunch of other places didn't. Hell, most of England was more than a couple days away from London for most of English history without breaking away. Let alone a larger country like China.
Thanks for the notes. I did first week and honestly felt it was too slow and somewhat discontinued. I am going to read your notes :)
I do think a fair system can't exist, but I'm very fearful of moving towards a libertarian meritocratic system that fails to consider many of the issue you bring up. There's a guy up above going hard on genetic IQ differences making a nuanced claim that higher IQs are more valuable and thus deserving of more merit. Is that a fair system?
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Most people who make > $200K in total comp receives the excess in either stock, bonuses, or percentages of a firm's profit. (There are some outliers, but even many C-level executives have salaries in that range and then millions in stock compensation.) Keep that in mind when you compare salaries with others - those Google engineers making $400K/year are usually making about $150-170K base, $50K bonus, and $200K+ in RSUs.

That also implies the way to break $200K: join a company whose stock is rising, perform well for them, and negotiate a generous equity grant.
I've been thinking about something similar: a deterministic bijection between the render-side CSSOM and the Javascript-accessible CSSOM. Page layout would happen twice: once with fingerprintable metrics for the renderer; and then once with deterministic metrics for the sake of metrics-juggling Javascript. On the Javascript side, you'd be handling "translucent number-like objects": things that act like numbers (you can do math to them and then pass them back into CSS APIs and the result will be correct), but where any conversion to regular integers or strings or anything else that could eventually exfiltrate will result in the deterministic (incorrect) version of the number instead.

So, for example, a Javascript word-wrap algorithm would still work; as would a Javascript scroll-bar implementation (because they're both taking opaque metric-objects, doing math to them without casting, and then passing them back to the CSSOM.) But any analytics Javascript that wanted to know anything about the browser would just get standard stats out.

The "deterministic output of casting metrics objects" is actually only necessary for legacy support, though. If you're willing to break things that cast/transmit .clientRect()s around, then you don't need the deterministic mirror-CSSOM; you just need an opaque Metric type you can do math to, with no option to cast it to anything else.
This morning I was in the elevator with three other people. All three of them were looking at their phones. Strangely, I felt weird just standing there waiting.

I feel like the world transformed so quickly.
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That is correct. Glaciers melt constantly, new snow forms as moisture accumulates in higher elevations and condenses, falling as snow. The snow becomes the beginning of the glacier. It's a cycle that repeats. It is repeating right now, every year.

https://nsidc.org/cryosphere/glaciers/life-glacier.html

https://www.iceagenow.com/List_of_Expanding_Glaciers.htm

http://www.esa.int/spaceinimages/Images/2016/11/Pio_XI_Glaci...
Or a more optimistic view: it takes some effort to get to interesting conversation; you have to go through some fakeish small talk to find a topic worth discussing. Phones don't require that effort, they're the path of least resistance.
ambivalents posted above.

https://workflowy.com/s/E9HW.jGUYboLrGj
Experimental HTML to Sketch renderer
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It never ceases to amaze me that Python seems to be the only one that got this right - namely, that == should have value comparison semantics, for all types, and that some other (preferably distinctive enough, rather than something like ===) operator should always compare references.

Then you look at something like C#, where == compares values for value types and references for reference types, except that == is overloaded for some "value-like" reference types like String... it's a mess.

OTOH, Java is consistent in a sense that == never dereferences, but awkward in practice because of the need to use equals() for strings, which is too verbose for an operation that's far more common than object identity comparison.
The requirements for safety in railway are well defined in EN 50129, EN 50126 and EN 50128. You will be required to meet these standards for an ISA (independent safety authority) to give a positive report, and then for the applicable transportation authority to grant revenue service authorization. As you can imagine, the willingness of a given passenger to take a certain amount of risk is not part of the process described in these standards.

EDIT: theses standards are applied worldwide, despite the EN prefix.

EDIT: good reference site: http://en50126.blogspot.it/2008/07/velkommen.html?m=1
From my house on the Eastside of Seattle, I would budget 10 minutes to get downtown.

Pick anywhere on what most consider to be the "Eastside", and I'll bet you can't get to the eastern shores of Lake Washington in ten minutes, let alone downtown Seattle. I live in Redmond, I budget a minimum of 30 minutes to get anywhere within the city limits of Seattle. That's on a good day, with no traffic.

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Multi-year veteran of the Redmond->Seattle commute
I honestly struggle to understand. Can't these guys see that the people they "envy" are actually on a worse trend? Eastern Europe benefited immensely by European manufacturers relocating there, to the direct detriment of their Western workers. The EU pumped zillions of Euros in their infrastructure and their economies; and for the trouble, more often than not we get back an insistence on regressive and retrograde policies, blocking ever-closer integration, and constantly sabotaging "solidarity" policies like refugee resettlement out of pure racism and egoism.

To me these people seem extremely ungrateful. I have said it before, and I know it's an unpopular opinion, but I really wouldn't cry if EU8 and their galaxy would just be left to their own devices. They don't want to feel like colonies? Fine with me, that's the door. Like us idiots in UK, they'll soon find out that life outside is not that great.
Proximity to other objects doesn't matter when your air speed indicator isn't accurate and you can't get lift.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_France_Flight_447
Is Gtk bundle into the final executable?
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