skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They failed at fighting Rick, they failed at politics and they quite clearly are not ready to be leaders. They did not failed at programming once the above was solved by new leader.

Yeah, because that framing is imo wrong too.

1.) In all likelihood, they Rick was not that much genius, although he might have some more more knowledge initially and probably was not bad programmer either. There is nothing to show he was genius.

Here I will make the guess: Rick belittled other people and criticized everything they did and simultaneously had more initial knowledge. That made everyone assume Rick is genius and others are low skilled. The politics follow from there. Note that other people did not slacked at work nor took three hours long lunches (I assume). Them working overtime would fix nothing.

Local praised genius belittling other employees has predictable consequences - it is that others look significantly less skilled then they are to management (yeah management is to blame too) and those people know it. It also means those people will learn to not have ideas and not have initiative, because they get insulted for those and because those invariably turn against them. As I told, it is very predictable.

2.) The other people did not turned from people who are learned to be passive to people who suddenly got agency and autonomy. Nothing in their programming skills changed, only people management of leadership of company changed.

And note how them not being arrogant still means they get comparably very little credit for technical talent or skill. (I see that as pattern in it.)
If you like rsync and javascript, I wrote https://github.com/claytongulick/bit-sync which is kinda fun.
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Xmake-vscode v1.0.1 released, a xmake integration in vscode
Great article. Great articulation of history and just enough technical detail for regular readers.
The fan's frame is plenty strong to hold it up. The only issue I see is that a baffle or case would better direct the air, allowing a lower speed fan. However, the amount of air movement required here is exceedingly small already, as can be seen by their fanless heatsink already meeting the 85C requirement.
This is the same solution plants use for distributing branches around their stem. (They repeat, but the separation between branches is closely related to phi.) I don't have a proof for why phi is good for this (although see kmill's comment), but the fact that all plants use it suggests it is in fact a good solution.
What you are saying might be true, except:

There are too many idiots who go and "tag" photos with people who are not active on Facebook and help create a shadow profile.

There are too many idiots who willingly give Facebook the permission to mine their address book to triangulate the phone number + name + email address + misc. contact info of people who are not active on Facebook and help create a shadow profile.

There are too many idiots who don't think one extra second about filling up the messages they send to other people who are not on Facebook with all kinds of sensitive information and help create not just a shadow profile, but one which can be mined in ways that the idiots don't ever want to acknowledge.

Oh, and there are too many idiots who think that their "right" to use Facebook also gives them the right to send the personal information of other people to Facebook, whether or not those other people consent to such abuse of trust.

So yes, it is just another site. The smart folks who are concerned about tattling on their friends have mostly left. The remnants are mostly idiots, and damn it, I just can't find a way to stop these idiots from being so idiotic other than filling up internet comment threads with not-so-subtle hints about how these idiots are fucking up my life. Do you have any suggestions for how I can stop these idiots from acting in such an idiotic way?
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Funny, I wish it was the other way around. The current model makes far to easy to impersonate elevated dialogs in iOS.
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Mobirise Free Website Builder v4.3.4 – Multiple View Modes
When Engineering Decisions Drives Growth
Thanks! Why hasn't anyone developed an auto-converter for comments? :)
Neptune.ml 2.1 released
I think for that argument to work, you'd have to show that the word processing activity actually yields fewer errors in the resulting software. I guess what I'm saying here is that I've found writing prose beforehand to have low to zero ROI in terms of resulting software quality. I totally believe that writing math and actually proving things about your ideas would.

The more important code is, the more I want to see it subjected to a realistic and comprehensive test suite, careful peer review, etc. Although you're right, I ultimately work on backend systems that can cause some downtime at worst, not industrial process control or crypto libraries. I also have the luxury of doing continuous delivery, incremental rollouts, feature flags, staging environments with shadow traffic, etc. so there are a lot of safeguards standing between a mistake and widespread impact.
The issue not mentioned in the article is number of lines on the keyboard matrix used to detect keypresses. Cheaper non-gaming keyboards can only detect up to 4 simultaneous keystrokes. Gaming keyboards can detect up to 6. That may not sound like a significant difference, but if you're moving diagonally (eg. W and D), running (Shift), holding an item (or use) (E) and jumping (space), that is 5 keys which need to be processed. Moving from my older Gaming keyboard to a generic Logitec keyboard, and I was no longer able to run diagonally in FIFA games while doing trick moves. So the non gaming keyboard made me stop playing that game.
It seems to me it's Bremsstrahlung turned to 11 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bremsstrahlung
Bitcoin Cash is Bitcoin
Stenotype, like court stenographers?
Regional inequality in the US has gotten markedly worse in the last 40 years[0].

[0] https://washingtonmonthly.com/magazine/novdec-2015/bloom-and...
What does YC think of companies that make affiliate revenue? Is it a positive or a negative in the VC world?
I don't understand how the attacker can block step 3 of the handshake from the client. Can someone ELI5?

What I was able to understand so far is that the use of a particular nonce is being forced on the client and given that invariant keystream one can decrypt known messages. I'm still fuzzy on how the attacker can force this step.

EDIT: Further question, isn't timestamp synchronization taken into account here when invalidating a nonce? What happens when I disconnect from wifi to a mobile network and back to the wifi?
Brain Waves Research Identifies Different Types of Learning
OK, thanks. That makes sense to me.

I'm pretty much in the Hawking/Dawkins camp regarding religion, I must admit.

Edit: Quoting Hawking, from the Wikipedia article on the conflict thesis: "There is a fundamental difference between religion, which is based on authority, [and] science, which is based on observation and reason. Science will win because it works." That was obvious to me when I was 12.
> You can send mail across the country via USPS for $.50. Or, you could pay $8 to send it privately via UPS or FedEx.

This is literally the worst example you could use. USPS has a legally enforced monopoly on first class mail.
Just the other day I replied to a Reddit thread, and told a gamer who experienced periodic frame drops in CS:GO to check the other system processes. He protested that he had nothing else running, but elsewhere in the thread a Task Manager screenshot revealed that Windows 10 Smartscreen Filter was chewing through files and bottlenecking the HDD(a problem I've also experienced).

Basically, desktop Windows has crossed the threshold of "needs SSD" to perform adequately. And in theory that shouldn't impact the performance of an older game, but it does, because what happens next is that the scheduler misallocates process time and throws off everything.
As I understand it, when they talk about 100 ms being the fastest possible thing we can notice, they mean if we can notice a reply from a computer was instantanious or if there was a delay. If we get to compare instantaneous to 10 ms lag in realtime sound, we can very easily hear the difference. But if we type a question to a computer and get a text answer within 100 ms we will persive it as being instantaneous.

http://theixdlibrary.com/pdf/Miller1968.pdf
I use a customized version of this: http://blizzard.cs.uwaterloo.ca/keshav/home/Papers/data/07/p...

The most important thing for me is to not read it from the beginning to the end (which is hard for me). Abstract->Conclusions, scan headlines. Methods is the most curious section for me. Depending on the paper and what I am working on I read the methods section last or first (even before the abstract). If it's more of a "oh that seems neat" paper I skip the methods section and mostly extract the idea. The book "How to read a book" is also a good source of ideas.

I don't think there's a one size fits all approach. I also find the various papers on writing literature reviews very helpful (for gathering an overview of a topic). Just checked my Zotero and these are the ones I have tagged:

"Using grounded theory as a method for rigorously reviewing literature"

"On being ‘systematic’in literature reviews in IS"

"A hermeneutic approach for conducting literature reviews and literature searches"

"Systematic literature reviews in software engineering–a systematic literature review"

"Writing narrative literature reviews."

Feel free to go as meta as you want ;)
Either engineering and its tools (eg state machines) or just craftmanship.

Totally right.
Does Facebook even need Onavo for that? AFAIK any Android app can check which other apps are installed and the names of all other running processes, with little to no permissions. And since the main Facebook app is installed on most devices they can use that to gather the data. Not sure how accurate it is in comparison, but it definitely has a wider reach.
I am also in my early 30s ;)

I used to read print edition newspapers everyday till 2008/10.

Let me clarify what I mean by negativity. Newspapers were (are?) about popular opinion. So, when the markets were doing great, you get all caps, huge typeset about the new highs markets were making. Anyone who questioned that was relegated to inside pages.

Same was true when market tanked. All caps, huge typeset words about "blood in the street" or "Black x day". Anyone who disagreed and said - time to buy stocks was relegated to inside pages.

They were about reflecting or shaping popular opinion. Same was true for Bush Sr and his tax pledge.

Nowadays, I can link to a some blog which says this is a high and market will crash soon. In which case, the metric of waiting for "to the moon" article might no longer hold true.
Sleep Scientist Warns Against Walking Through Life 'In an Underslept State'
Every teenager seeks social validation. That's not something Facebook or instagram invented, it's in the nature of all humans and especially those of younger age. This app found a way to create anonymity (for the user) while preventing bullying which is a problem with most other apps. I think it's a good idea. I really doubt that this will make teens spend more time on their smartphone than they already do. The worst thing that can happen is that someone signs up and gets no "badge". But even that seems unlikely if enough people use it.
Create rapport and trust. Then proceed to bring up some of the terms, in private, along with some reference supporting the correct use. Frame it as something you noticed he mentioned and wondered about so you looked it up. Never frame as right or wrong.

Proceed with steps beyond #1 only when you have enough trust and rapport. Never correct in public.
Thanks! I'll definitely give it a try :)
Fair enough. I should have said something like "followers of dogmatic religions".

I'm greatly amused, by the way, that modern fundamentalist Christians and Muslims agree that Jesus will return for Armageddon. And just disagree about whose side he'll be on.
Sounds like a first year physics question. "Consider a spherical drunk in a frictionless vacuum..."
Possibly not. You can try, it's quite safe. I take it with no caffeine at all because I caffeine stresses me out during deadlines.
Paywalled.
So I can't determine whether the author reports the effect of an FBI undercover operation running out of the Chicago Board of Trade's commodity pits. An untrained (not with respect to guns, of course) undercover agent was trading with the FBI's practically unlimited money. His wild card futures trading negatively affected those commodity prices, which in turn affected stock prices, which in turn...you get the picture.
People who run and work-out believe they need a ton of protein. There's never enough. These bars likely are a bit more expensive than the competitors but are deemed worth it because they are simple, natural ingredients, which might be pretty hard to come by from any of the competitors.
Demystifying Multiple Apps Syndrome with One App
True, but there's a survivor bias there - for every guy who stumbles into millions there's 100 writing content that gets ignored and making nothing.
Whatever you do, it will end up having your stamp on it. There will be ways in which this product is different from the product that inspired it. This may not be obvious to you, especially at first, because your perception or mental model of the problem space will both influence your concept of what they are doing and create those differences.

The only way to know if it is a difference that makes a difference is to have a go at it.
This is incredible. Single user mode feels like the screen updates BEFORE pressed the keys, like it is time travelling. I guess I've used to the high latency on newer computers.
Because the eidetic memory only lasts for a few minutes. The commentor might have meant to use the phrase “photographic memory”, but that has thus far been shown to be myth. But, really, the post was about “I’m smart, and I’d just march right out of that interview”, ignoring that it was just a cute anecdote, so I guess it’s irrelevant. Nice catch, though. :-)
6 UX Designer Tools for Newbies and Experts – DZone Web Dev
6x revenue has been a standard multiple for other exits in the health foods space. Including things like Epic Protein Bars, which was bought by General Mills.
This is obviously true and relevant but will get:

1: Few social media points, because the people in charge of internet media points have an agenda the deceive the public precisely and exactly to believe the opposite of this.

2. Anyone agreeing with the basic premises of this artcile - and the rest of the work even in the same ball park - it almost or is illegal because of racist/sexist/no inclusive of aboriginie etc.
Practical Guide to Using ActionCable(in Rails)
OK, thanks.

But it's not just about outright opposition, I think. During that period, didn't Islamic civilization generally support science more than Christian civilization did?
Everyone was presenting it as a dichotomy in this thread \_(ツ)_/¯

Seemed relevant to point out that at least for me it’s not.
Here is really cool work on state machines in TLS: https://www.smacktls.com/smack.pdf

Beurdouche et al., "A Messy State of the Union: Taming the Composite State Machines of TLS"

From the abstract: "mplementations of the Transport Layer Security
(TLS) protocol must handle a variety of protocol versions and
extensions, authentication modes and key exchange methods,
where each combination may prescribe a different message
sequence between the client and the server. We address the
problem of designing a robust
composite
state machine that can
correctly multiplex between these different protocol modes. We
systematically test popular open-source TLS implementations
for state machine bugs and discover several critical security
vulnerabilities that have lain hidden in these libraries for years ..."

Based on this work you might say that there are formal state machines for TLS, but they aren't in the standard.
yeah that's the standout to me, "we changed our packaging and started winning". Not a market I'd like to be selling in..
I wonder if there would be value in preventing bad things happening to people and institutions which are trying to decide if they should give credit to someone. As in, if a certain individual is credit-worthy. Maybe a score could be calculated by an entity which has access to the outcome of every person’s relationship with credit in the past.

But it would be beyond ironic if such an institution, selling a sense of security as their main product, could not see the value in protecting the security of their own assets.

It would be also sad that in a myopic attempt to squeeze every single penny in profit, such a company would underpay the very people who run the machinery it is built on.
read the patent - all time domain, no phase vocoder involved.
Transactional Memory (1993) [pdf]
I’m no expert, but a serialization format cannot change any inherent properties about the key in question. It’s just a matter of how it’s presented. The key is the same (vulnerable or not).

Can anyone tell me if using 3072 bit keys would have made a difference? Everywhere I look, 3072 bit RSA/256 bit ECDSA/256 bit hash functions/128 bit AES (=128 bits of security) seems to be the standard. Why choose 2048 bit keys for a national ID card?
QuestNutrition does multiples more revenue than RXBar. Hundreds of millions in revenue (over $400m): https://mixergy.com/interviews/quest-nutrition-with-tom-bily...
Did you skip that last 4 paragraphs?
As the GP, I do not think the title is correct. The Warburg effect does not tell that sugar causes cancer, it tells that cancer cells prefer one of the two mechanisms to create ATP.

This mechanism is the glycolysis (something used in fermentation), which is much less effective than the other mechanism which uses oxygen (used indeed in respiration) to produce ATP.

From the article abstract, they hint that the cell cycle is quicker with glycolyse than with respiration.
This is truly a great anecdote. I wish I could bookmark comments on HN, because I want to dig out this one when the time comes.
Thanks, I missed this!
fuck yeah, congrats!
Because if you operate in any capacity in the US you are subject to US laws, presumably. I've worked now for 3 companies that are not US HQd but have been sued by patent trolls.
What is a streaming live streaming server
Streaming media refers to the media format for transmitting video, audio, and multimedia files in a network. Relative to the download after watching network broadcast form, streaming media are the typical features of the continuous compression of audio and video information in the network server, the user download while watching, without waiting for the entire download file. Due to the advantages of streaming media technology, this technology is widely used in video, video meeting, remote education, remote medical and online live broadcasting system. As a symbol of the new generation of Internet application, streaming technology has developed rapidly in recent years. And streaming media server is the core system of streaming media application, which is the key platform for operators to provide video services to users. Its main function is to collect, cache, dispatch and transmit media content, and the main performance of streaming media application system depends on the performance and service quality of the media server. Therefore, streaming media server is the foundation and the most important component of streaming media application system.
If they have enough customers, then yes.
Google’s 8-Point Plan to Help Managers Improve (2011)
Although that would probably break some apps. See for example: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15488964
More like desktops in general, and smartphones as well even after the decade long reboot, are running out of actual new stuff to cram in there (in a sense the desktop, bar some security issues, was done with Windows 95).

Thus desktop developers keep adding questionable "quality of life" stuff like file system indexers to justify their continued version releases (never mind avoiding doing actual code maintenance).
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At least you’re investing your time in a product which works correctly and isn’t throughly broken by design. Sometimes it’s necessary to point out MySQL’s flaws lest someone get the “bright” idea to put it in production, then I get the job and then get stuck with that disaster of a database (that actually happened to me several times). Raising awareness is the best prevention.
https://www.menutabapp.com/
More than 25,000 restaurants on board, more than 500,000 food pictures uploaded, more than 14,000 Likes. One of the biggest menu apps on Facebook. Freemium, it generated 1.5k - 2k a month - then Facebook's payment api changed and I didn't have the time to fix it. It's free to use now.
JavaEE 8: JsonCollectors and the OOP Alternative
Ask HN: Any recommendations on good conferences / meetups in the UK?
I've been wanting to meet new people for a while. I've had a search and there's a few conferences in the UK that seem interesting.

I'm wondering if anyone has any recommendations in particular? Especially in the NW or Manchester.
I thought i had a bleak outlook on life, until i started reading Watts novels and blog.

BTW, did he stop releasing his writing as creative commons?
Usually monopolies enable higher prices rather than lower ones.
Secret Network of Tunnels and Underground Bases in Bucegi Mountains
> [...] you never get back all that you lost. You will sleep longer, but you will never achieve that full eight-hour repayment, as it were. So the brain has no capacity to get back that lost sleep that you've been lumbering it with during the week in terms of a debt.

I see this everywhere but there's never an explanation why it is so. It's not that I don't believe it but it's counterintuitive enough that I'd like to know more.
Would you say the same to someone who's "addicted" to being depressed? to fighting with their loved one? to having anxious thoughts?

Where's the love, HN?
I'd really like to see more research done on this subject.

I clock about 15 keystrokes per second while typing full speed, and I find serious issues with accuracy using most contemporary keyboards, even on gaming and higher-end OEM equipment.

Edit: Some keyboards are also practically unusable due to dropped inputs above a certain rate.
As I see it, your options are fear of failure, fear of success, fear regardless of success/failure, or fearlessness regardless of success/failure. Fear of failure seems like a fantastic choice.
handling over the data ownership to a companny in EU is the way to go. This already happens between Deutsche Telekom and Microsoft with their Azure Cloud offer in Germany. Deutsche Telekom is the owner/supervisor of the Data and Microsoft has no acces to it.
Thank you for that! As someone completly blank about what is happening in this industry, I was impressed and learned a lot.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inertial_frame_of_reference#Ab...

Is what the entire article is about! That our idea of an intertial frame of reference is incomplete.
One thing I don't understand about this attack is whether it allows the attacker to connect to the Wifi network (in the style of airmon-ng for WEP), or whether the attacker can only decrypt packets of legitimate users. Has anyone figured this out?
Question about this, because the featured article strangely doesn't actually say what the problem is: Did this verification result simply forget/not consider nonce reuse?

The article seems to imply there's nothing wrong with the proof or the statement of the properties to be proved, it's about integration with another component. But if "don't reuse nonces" is a standard security property to verify, then I would think that that is a hole in the verification.

Could someone shed more light on this?