skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There are a lot of disparate thoughts here.

I don't think you can judge the state of a person's mind by what sort of graphics they enjoy. That seems like a matter of personal preference. I'm pretty social and I think vector graphics are far more useful and more interesting than raster graphics.

> People don't care about me if they can't have a use of me, so they won't remember my antics.

This fundamental assumption, I imagine, makes it unpleasant to interact with people. Suspicion about the intentions of another person makes it difficult to cooperate and develop good rapport.

Any girl who calls you a psycho based solely on your personality (not on your actions) is probably not worth your time.

/2c
Yes.

This is also not very surprising. There's been plenty of research indicating that coffee consumption has moderate health benefits.

This should all be taken with a grain of salt. Researching nutrition and particularly its long term effects is extremely difficult and prone to all kinds of biases, as you usually can't practically do controlled studies. But as far as the research we have tells us drinking coffee is not so bad.
Which sucks so horribly that several distros actually maintain a full fork of Firefox where all those are patched to use Qt instead.
I like that lyft is getting more marketshare. But could we create an opensource rideshare server and a nonprofit that lets drivers keep 99% of the fare? There is nothing these companies are doing that the drivers couldn't get done themselves with a handful of developers. The lawyering/lobbying part is taken care of as long as they follow in uber and lyft's footprints.
Yeah. To be clear; this is what I've guessed from seeing it written in various ways; I don't have an authoritative source.

(In general there doesn't seem to be a good source for what kinds of variations in a character are accepted and what the "kernel" of the character is.)
Ask HN: Best YouTube channel to learn C and C++?
From beginner's
What are the best resources?
Consistent Hashing with Bounded Loads [2017-04]
Have you tried a... book?
I tried some online tutorials. Can you suggest some videos, books?
Bitcoin core needs to raise the blocksize, the transaction fees are too high and the delays are way too long. If eventually the lightning network works as good as they claim it will they can always lower it later. I don't believe a majority of the holders or users want transactions costing $5. But the core developers are holding the bitcoin's github hostage, along with many of the websites and forums.
Except that you would know which account was the real Donald Trump, because Donald Trump would be on TV telling you so.

Extremely well-known figures have other ways to let you know which account is theirs. The harder set of people are the sort of low-to-medium famous. Or locally famous, not globally famous. The verified system has never worked well for that group anyway.
Yeap. I was the most productive in the room and it was becoming a problem. Others simply couldn't keep up and it was slowing us down on the long run rather than making it go faster and better. I was disappointed with the improvements others in my team were making and started wondering what I could do to make that go better.

I realised that one of the freedoms I had early in the career was the freedom to experiment and fail. This taught me a lot and turned me into the software engineer I am today. I realised was robbing them of that valuable experience. I am more ok now with letting them pick a sub-optimal solution, as long as it doesn't directly affect the business.

I like the term. I am going note that down. Thanks!
Link to the paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/1608.01350
Or you can fudge your emissions testing.
WHAT MANNER OF a COUNTRY IS THIS?
The hard forks should have destroyed the notion that bitcoin is a deflationary currency. Anybody can double the number of coins on the market with enough support from miners. It seems like the price hasn’t taken notice of the fact that bitcoin isn’t a scarce commodity.
Acer 3Q17 net income hits 27-quarter high
Amen. Definitely a keeper. It PDFs out at 28 pages, and most published books 10 or 40x the size have less to say.
Without Javascript the mathematical expressions are not displayed. This makes some parts of the text incomprehensible.
Rev. Lost his certificate about 15 years ago and can’t remember here :(
Yep, poorly expressed on my part. I meant it more that we can't really expect juniors to choose their own work and work off the own view of priorities. The discussion itself can be valuable but more often than not can't happen.

The pathological case is the newbie who fights every request to complete high priority work in preference to their own ideas when they don't have enough understanding of the business to have such strong opinions. They slow everything down and the continuous resistance can make them toxic to work with.
I am interested! Quick research shows it's related to Mate, does it shares it's effects? I am interested in buying it, but lots of (local) stores that sell it don't have it in their inventory any more. To me it raises concerns over food security for the local populations of Ecuador and Peru. Quinoa comes to mind.
Humanity is running in a simulation in the alien's world. Humanity convinces the aliens to give humanity access to the alien's world's internet, so that humanity can learn about the alien's world and to be able to talk to other (trickable) aliens. "Five minutes" refers to five minutes in the alien's world, which is thousands of years to humanity.

>and what about AIs melting? why is that?

The author is just lampshading the fact that he doesn't want the story to involve any (non-human) AI.

The whole story is making an example about the capabilities of AI, so if humanity within the story themselves developed AI, then it would make the metaphor unnecessarily recursive.
I'm so hyped by Firefox 57, haven't felt like that about a webbrowser since Firefox 1.5
I still don't get it. What problem they're trying to avoid?

It's exactly the same if two extensions would currently try to manipulate the page by adding a frame (or, worse, a <div> with non-isolated UI) to the same location.

The only difference is, with out-of-page widgets (e.g. overlay regions or popouts), they won't be visible in the page's DOM.
Wow! I honestly thought they were references to the Church of SubGenius and Discordianism respectively. Odd how the names still make sense when viewed with the hacker sense of humour as if they were references...
How long do those subnational/local governments keep those powers if they use them in a too "innovative" way?
I typically drink one large coffee (30g beans) per day. That's about three standard cups. Plus 100mg modafinil. Without the modafinil, I typically drank about twice that. With that much coffee, I occasionally experienced premature ventricular contractions (PVCs). Which are extremely disconcerting, but rarely fatal. Or at least, that's what the cardiac specialist said, after the isotope imaging stress test ;) And generally, I'm happier with the caffeine-modafinil combination.
Hasbro Sets Its Sights on Mattel
isn't that a bit optimistic? while you're at it, why not create an open-source ticket-selling site where fees are only 1% of the ticket price? and a short-term home/room rental with tiny fees also? oh, and a global auction (or BuyItNow) marketplace with virtually no fees, because open-source. when you're finished with those, don't forget a worldwide social network with no ads, because why not, its gonna be opensource, right?
I get this totally. I don't like calling, not because of any anxiety, but because I don't know what awaits me. When I call a company I feel like although I am initiating the contact, they will take control of the call.

And as for receiving I remember someone mentioning that a ringing phone is essentially someone saying "Speak to me now, speak to me now, speak to me now". It is an inherently rude form of communication because it demands instant attention with no regard to what you may be doing.

I just don't answer calls these days unless they are from family. I was getting a lot of sales calls from my electricity provider who also wanted to sell me gas. We don't have gas at our home, but they wouldn't log that fact. So I blocked their number.

Last week I got an email from them saying that they had been trying to call me for some time to let me know about an amazing offer, and that they think I may have accidentally blocked their number.

Of course, they couldn't just put the details of the offer in the email. I had to call them.
IIRC 米国 (mi guo / "rice country") is used in Taiwan as well. The other Chinese word for America (美国 / mei guo / "beautiful country") is also a phonetic thing.

(I used to think 美国 was descriptive since it didn't sound phonetic, until I came across 米国 and was confused as to why anyone would describe the US as "rice country", and then I learned that both were phonetic, but for the "me" in "america")
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Indeed, football is popular and that's an actual number supporting that. I was pointing out that your initial citation of viewership was a non-argument, as you can trivially name (as I did) various sports with amazing viewership & almost zero actual public participation. There's no clear relationship between the two.
Seconded. In my case it was The Secret of Monkey Island, Dune II and an insatiable appetite for more digital worlds to escape into - PC Format, Pc Gamer magazines...
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The Pentagon Opened Up to Hackers–And Fixed Thousands of Bugs
Login / Authentication example on Next.js/React/Mobx
It's worse than strange. Consider margarine vs butter. I mean, margarine was promoted during WWII to conserve dairy for the military. And it was later promoted as healthy. Gotta cut down on those bad saturated fats! Except ... Except that hydrogenation (to make vegetable oil solid) creates trans partially saturated fats. Which raise LDL more than saturated fats!
Simulated DC failure is more often then not just traffic flow engineering. It is more about testing the DC that takes over the traffic than it is about testing service restart in the inactive DC.

There is little to test about the introduction of a hard fault, but the service resumption in the other DC is full of data to analyze. Also, in such a setup, getting the fault location running again is not on a hard clock, since it is about restoring redundancy instead of the service.
That https://fork.lol site is fascinating. Thanks for linking to it.

Right now BCH has a way higher hash rate than the difficulty, but that is going to adjust in 8hr or sooner if the trend continues. At that point, BTC will again be more profitable and you would expect everyone to switch back. Meanwhile, the fees on BTC are going way up because that chain gets used more frequently. That will also pressure miner back to the BTC chain.
Because you don't write a lot of code on paper? Working with text (for notes or prose) is very different than working with code.
You don't think "I need to correct that thing located 23 words forward so I use 23w or press w 23 times" - you position your hand and make a correction.
Yeah, but if you just casually don't use Javascript on the web, you're not worth catering to.
It sucks that it's gone - it took me months to retrain my muscle memory to stop using backspace - but I've definitely accidentally navigated back from a form before.

I've adjusted. It's a hard decision but imo the right one. Future generations shouldn't have to deal with this.

To anyone reading who needs a keyboard-based substitute: Alt+Left Arrow.
Honestly I’m skeptical of both of this explanations for the names.
If aliens make first contact with China and when they ask what planet is this, the chinese would say this is 地球 which literally translates to 'Ground Ball'. From then on we would be know throughout the galaxy as planet Ground Ball.
Fake it till you make it ;-)
And let's hope these Economists are right?

Right now it doesn't look to rosey for a lot of us. That mad rush to the border did take place. And who knows what other damage it has done?

I wonder if there has ever been another country who seemed to have so much experiment so much with theories?

(They were not Economists who passed NAFTA, it was good old Lobbiests. I wish Economists were passing laws--some days.)
These are excellent opportunities to sit down with the junior engineer and explain how organizations are complex, incomprehensible decisions are often made from a birds eye view with a longer-term view (in good organizations), and that we all need to be patient and teachable to grow. I've seen too many older people who have never gone through this mentorship, and they still can't understand why nobody listens to them or promotes them. They just become very angry toxic people. Nip it in the bud when they're young to help them get the right attitude of wanting to learn and wanting to collaborate with others; that could be the difference between someone becoming a productive and successful person later in life and someone becoming a bitter and unsuccessful person.

Yes, there are some young people who can't be helped. But I imagine most can be helped. I used to be young and arrogant too.
How do the waves have inertia then? We know for a fact that photons exert force in the surface they strike
It's all "what" with no "who" or "how". Wiretaps and/or traffic analysis can happen all the ways I outlined above and more. And by different entities. As far as I know, combating it requires being specific.
Not a 2.0 version. The was "New Rome" or Constantinople, it was 2.0. What is Rome 3.0 is undecided[1], but I believe that in any case Rome 3.0 now is deep in the history. Deeper that Columbus and discovering of America. Though Mussolini renewed idea with fascist Italy as a Third Rome. So, I believe, that Rome 4.0 is the least version number applicable.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Third_Rome
Yes, I often do this. Call register is missing the subject and even the name for unknown numbers.
If I give you a jstanleytoken to go with every dollar you own, that has not increased the amount of dollars.

A Bitcoin split doesn't create more Bitcoin, it just creates another currency.
> "... couldn't get done themselves with a handful of developers"

This sounds like someone with an idea looking for a developer to 'just' implement that idea into an app for them. The software side of a real-time ridesharing service is not trivial
Archaeologists uncover rare 2k-year-old sundial during Roman theatre excavation
Key takeaway (spoiler)

> King and White determined that it only took three stories in small outlets to boost public discussion of a given topic by 62.7 percent on Twitter. The same number of stories also swayed public opinion by about 2.3 percent in the direction of the stories' ideological positions. So media may not be able to change our opinions very much, but it can certainly change what we're talking about.
I use a "touching a hot stove" analogy:

There's a hot stove in the room. Do you want every engineer to touch the hot stove to find out it's hot? Or do you want to take one engineer who's well equipped to find out how hot the stove it, find out it's hot, then notify everyone that it's hot?

I don't usually use the analogy for this particular argument, but it works here also.
It's not both because the threats that the displaced people faced after the move were far more severe than those faced before the move. Also, instead of keeping the families together they were dispersed into multiple groups without being informed beforehand. That is _not_ a sign of trying to help combat overpopulation, and _is_ a sign of asserting sovereignty over the land.
It isn't a coincidence that writer Morozov - the strident canary in the technology coal mine - is currently working on a new book about "smart cities" [1]. Just as he popped the balloon of hot air about web 2.0, much to annoyance of HN at the time [2], I am afraid he is right about the real motive behind these developments. Just as we see a lot of nostalgic posts lately here about the "old web", maybe in five years there will be a new found appreciation of pesky things such as public infrastructure.

[1] http://inuxwetrust.waxle.com/keynote-evgeny-morozov-the-smar...

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5472759
Here's the source: "a private Lyft investor document."
I'll take it with a grain of salt.
> This fundamental assumption, I imagine, makes it unpleasant to interact with people. Suspicion about the intentions of another person makes it difficult to cooperate and develop good rapport.

Do you know what's the alternative ? Constantly worrying how others perceive you. It's a simple observation that people are much more interested in themselves than you, and they don't care what you do unless it affects them. Many human interaction guides suggest that to be perceived as an interesting person, good friend, even charismatic you should listen to people as they speak and ask thoughtful questions. I used to live like that - keep my cards very close to my chest. Among other things, constant worry nuked my sense of humor. Stopping caring (to a point) is a way to focus on things other than what others might or might not think about you. "If you want to be someone - be yourself" - an interesting graffiti near the place where I live. I know a girl so self-conscious she changed her singature to look better. I've gone wayyy overboard with poker face.
Long-term, whichever is the winner will gain the most price and therefore the most hashpower.

Neither hashpower nor price make it the winner. In the long term, actual people wanting to hold & use it makes a winner. Price and hashpower follow that.
I feel like having a global switch for all security checks is already not a good idea.
C and C++ are very different beasts. Since you mention them as similar, may I hazard a guess that what you mean by "C and C++" is "the recommended first languages to learn"? In that case, C and C++ have lost that crown decades ago. Today you should learn Python as your first language. Maybe try the google videos if you like video.

You should learn C from the K&R book after you have some experience in a higher-level language, and/or x86 assembly language.

C++... first of all, get ready for a world of pain. And only study it if you have a specific project that can't be done with any other language. I don't know what your first C++ book should be, but your second one should be Effective C++.
Yes, I was half joking and only half serious. I would probably qualify for phone phobia myself and I also definitely prefer not to treat it with government programs or similar. Thus my answer.

As some other guy said: the only time people call is if they want something from you. Yes, but then I prefer to not be force to make an decision on the spot, rather think one minute and then answer, or preferable not be disturbed to begin with.

Some other guy quoted Scott Adams; And I agree "all phone calls have a victim, i.e. the person receiving the call".

So yes, I could qualify for phone phobia, but I don't think there is anything wrong with it, It is rather strange how people think phones are so natural and good, and must be used.
No, they are horrible and tools of evil.

And I'd rather not have a formal diagnose with a paper/digital trail of such a "sensitive" issue as hating phones, I prefer not be sucked into the mental health industry as a patient, prefer not doing the CBT training with exposure to phones or whatever, and I would not be forcing my employer to make even resonable adjustments (I'd rather adjust my employment to something else)
The example password is unlikely to be in the dictionary. I just made it up on the fly. Another example would be:

9999.9999+aaaa.aaaa+B

It is not particularly hard to remember, while it forces the attacker to enumerate 94²¹ possibilities.
Rebuilding the Cathedral: An Overview of the State of OpenSource in 2017
I've thought about this but it's not feasible. Firstly the software side is not trivial, costs for servers and payment processing and everything are real, and providing support for unsatisfied riders would be impossible.
The circuit-breaker pattern is commonly used to make the affected system appear off-line to it's upstream dependents - you don't need to actually shut the server down completely and will probably want to log into it to see what's happening. If the dependent system can't function without the affected system, it should also indicate an error and further upstream systems should detect it.

In your house, you have the circuit-breaker pattern implemented in hardware. And upstream of your house there are many more layers of circuit breakers that generally increase in size until they reach a point where there is redundancy. A circuit-breaker going off in your house protects the other circuits in your house, a circuit-breaker going off on your street protects the rest of your neighborhood.

Industrial circuit-breakers are commonly a combination of hardware and software. Personally, I've lost more equipment due to brown-outs than any other cause. If you have equipment you don't want to experience a brown-out, program the breaker to cut off power completely.
"The well-intentioned hope to recreate some version of America’s past has been defeated by the country’s present. The parks, pools and playgrounds in Celebration belong to the residents’ association and are off-limits to non-residents. Sitting on a park bench is considered trespassing. Residents complain about tourists peeking over their fences or the thousands of children from neighbouring areas who descend on them at Halloween. Celebration was founded by Disney on the principle of openness—the school and utilities are public, and the county sheriff’s office provides police patrols. Yet it has become a gated community, just without the gates."

https://www.economist.com/news/united-states/21712156-utopia...
What about water consumption? Maybe these coffee drinkers are likely to be better hydrated than non-coffee drinkers and the effect is not due to coffee at all?
Cybercrime damages predicted to cost the world $6 trillion annually by 2021
By far the worst phone call experience I've ever had was with Washington Health Plan Finder. You can still experience it for yourself by making a call now. It's a never-ending loop of holding followed by mind-numbing options and random hangups. If you get lucky to speak with a real person, the level of incompetence will drive you to the brink of insanity. I swear, they just let random people walk in from the street to take calls because those people have zero idea what they are talking about. My experience ended in me cancelling all of our insurance policies with Kaiser because I was stuck in a beaurocratic nightmare that had me transferring from one institution to the other in a never-ending loop. Somehow NOBODY was able to help me. I was so fed up with this situation that I moved countries half way around the world.
There is a difference though: A hydrogen atom is slightly lighter than it's constituents. That's why it is stable. However, the nucleons are much, much heavier than the sum of the quark masses. Which is strange, because it means that naively, the unbound state should be preferred. But it isn't, instead, you have confinement!
The original paper title might be substituted, though it's not much clearer: "How the news media activate public expression and influence national agendas".
I just get a fresh number and don't tell anyone about it. Every unwelcome call goes straight to voicemail.
Once upon a time, before the internet and open source were a thing, leaving copyright and patents with the university was believed to be the best way to make innovation broadly available. The theory was it gave the university an incentive to publicize and license tech. Otherwise the fear was that government funded research would never be transferred to industry. This may no longer be the old or best solution but it is the system in place.
thanks for the clarification, I understand better now.
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