skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Moreover, as people practice, they can get generically better at meta-skills such as (in no particular order) skimming, close reading, constructing mental outlines of arguments, drawing diagrams and pictures, inventing examples to match given specifications, testing concrete examples against abstract statements, generalizing specific relationships discovered in the examples to abstract laws and proving them generically, discarding or modifying abstractions to better match a wider collection of examples, working backwards, discarding dead-end problem-solving strategies while mining them for partial useful results, breaking problems down into manageable pieces, deductive logic, generating hypotheses likely to be interesting, abandoning whole problems which turn out to be too hard and switching to something else, cross-applying solution strategies from one field to another, simplifying complex arguments by discarding or separating extraneous or duplicated steps, writing up explanations in clear and coherent way for various audiences, researching past work in an efficient way, diving into new fields with completely alien notation and terminology and quickly taking the lay of the land, and so on.

These skills are more generically useful than recipes or collections of facts about any particular subject, because they serve as multipliers for quite generic learning and problem-solving efficiency.

One big problem with trying to teach a single specific course in a very problem-centered / student-driven / socratic style is that often students have not been sufficiently trained in any of these meta skills, and as a result move at much slower pace than their potential because they waste a lot of time on inefficient problem-solving methods, get side-tracked, throw away useful work, explain things poorly, don’t get around to crystallizing their useful results, and so on. The more courses get taught in this style, the faster each subsequent course can move as students figure out how to learn effectively.
The State of CSS Specificity, Part 2 – CSS-In-JS and Separation of Concerns
IMHO, there are places where we expect privacy. An airport is not one of them.
If you take an inch of pitch from many other rows + the 5,5 that allows you to fit an extra row or two.

Compare Lufthansas seatmap for the A320 vs A320neo. The neo has the Smartlav and two additional rows of seats.

http://magazin.lufthansa.com/content/uploads/2016/07/a320_si...
http://www.lufthansa.com/mediapool/pdf/08/media_1555228708.p...
Yeah? The Shadow Brokers themselves state flat out that they're former USG employees. The NY Times has - yet again - attempted to manipulate readers into believing the Brokers have admitted to being Russian, quoting something that is obviously a joke to try and do so.

Here's what the Shadow Brokers themselves actually say about their origins:

https://steemit.com/shadowbrokers/@theshadowbrokers/grammer-...

TheShadowBrokers shaking heads at arrogant pretentiousness of grammar critics.

Liberal Ivory Tower Logical Fallacies:

A) Deliver Method of Content (Spelling/Grammer/Profanity) = Content is invalid

B) Only Explanation of Spelling/Grammar/Profanity = Inadequate Education

The ShadowBrokers is writing TRADOC, Position Pieces, White Papers, Wiki pages, etc for USG. If theshadowbrokers be using own voices, theshadowbrokers be writing peoples from prison or dead. TheShadowBrokers is practicing obfuscation as part of operational security (OPSEC). Is being a spy thing. Is being the difference between a contractor tech support guy posing as a infosec expert but living in exile in Russia (yes @snowden) and subject matter experts in Cyber Intelligence like theshadowbrokers. TheShadowBrokers has being operating in country for many months now and USG is still not having fucking clue. Guessing so called global surveillance is not being as good as @snowden is claiming?

Edit: the whole Steemit is really worth a read. The rants here are truly epic. It's just implausible that this is the work of a government - why would government employees spend so much time writing such long political rants on Steemit where approx ~nobody will ever see them except Q Branch and occasional journalists? It serves no obvious political or espionage related purpose. Whoever is writing these things seems to be someone who has a lot of hatred and anger for the political system and wants to get it out. It sounds a lot like the rantings of a lot of the self-proclaimed libertarians you find in the Bitcoin community:

is funny thing about being rich, powerful, and in control, it comes with dirty deeds and many skeletons. Violence begets violence but leaks, dumps, hacks brings evil and corruption into the light. No more secrets. Secrets Equal Control. Secrets between peoples, spouses, partners, friends, ok two peoples might be having some problems. But secrets between government and governed, governed is getting fucked. Secrets between corporations and peoples, peoples is getting fucked. Why do corporation deserved privacy? FUCK SCOTUS!!! CORPORATION ARE NOT PEOPLE YOU FUCKING OVER EDUCATED OVER THINKING CORRUPT RETARDS.

No more classifying bullshit. No more black budgets and black ops. If we can't be surviving and prospering without dirty little secrets, operating in full daylight, then maybe we don't deserving to being surviving. This being time to standing up. Standing up against more wars. Standing up to globalist controllers. Eliminating career politicians. Eliminating money and lobbyist. Policing corporate and special interest. Investing in ourselves. Investing in all our children.
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It still amazes me how Germany was able to pull this off. Considering their current state of self-awareness I was expecting much more likely for them to sell it all off and invest it into social causes.
The law isn't that offshore corporations are illegal but that offshore corporations controlled by US citizens are required to be reported to the IRS.
Opportunity for people selling adversarial jewelry and eurion face painting?
The people are attracted by the jobs which are attracted by the massive amount of commercial real estate compared to the much smaller amount of residential real estate.
Cold, but probably true. There are a lot of things people pay for that they have no control over when buying homes. It's kind of a risk assessment - 'I like this aspect, but how likely is it to change?'
George Olah passed away in March.
I can't grasp how you got that idea. Do you not know what self-hosted means?

the engine craws the web and saves its data locally.
this locally saved data can be queried/searched.
So yes, in your search engine, there will only be your own searches. But these searches are only visible to your own servers/services.
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> Sticking at 30-50 MHz? What is this even supposed to mean? Digital hardware design hardly takes clock speeds into consideration, except during physical implementation in the later stages of the hardware development.

I think what OP means is that you can simulate in software a 30-50MHz version of your own CPU, without having the hardware ready, so you can starting testing if i.e. Linux can boot.
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No matter how inefficient, JS has made webdev available to order of magnitude more people than it was before.
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Most of the action on this is in something the article only barely mentions: safety.

First of all there's the evacuation angle. Regulations require the ability to evacuate the plane within 90 seconds, using only half of the exits. And by "evacuate" they don't mean people lined up at the door waiting to get off -- they mean the order to evacuate is given, and then 90 seconds later there is nobody left inside the plane.

There's a strong argument to be made that this is no longer physically possible with high-density seat configurations. The tests for this are already unrealistic (they involve people who are told in advance what's going to happen, who know they aren't in danger, who don't face any issues such as smoke to confuse them, and who have no particular attachment to each other or to any baggage in the cabin), and as those tests have remained static their detachment from reality has grown.

The second issue is survivability in an economy-class seat. This diagram is instructive:

https://img.thedailybeast.com/image/upload/d_placeholder_eul...

That's used by airlines... for flight crew seats. It lays out an area to be kept free of obstructions, as anything in that area could cause devastating head or neck injuries in an accident (due to the seat's occupant being jerked suddenly and their head sweeping through that area). The diagram notes the area is 35 inches deep, but it's easy to miss an important point: the 35 inches is measured from the front of the seat cushion to the rear edge of any object in front of the seat. For passengers, airlines measure pitch from the rear edge of one seat to the rear edge of the next, meaning a 30-inch pitch (typical for US economy class) is not 5 inches (35 - 30) short of the safety margin, it's more like 8 or even 10 inches short depending on the depth of the seat cushions and frame.

There are court cases going right now over whether the FAA is inappropriately ignoring safety concerns. A victory in court would, as a side effect, probably make flying more comfortable but also slightly more expensive.
Really good UX is when i can still use a website even after activating all bad content filters with firefox Klar. This site ain‘t one of those...

How much JS and whatever shit in background-loading do they need to tell me whats good UX???
The certificate has basically nothing to do with anything here. It's a bad sign that you've convinced yourself that's relevant to your problem.

The usual issue with Windows XP (specifically Internet Explorer on XP since e.g. Firefox works fine) is that it doesn't do Server Name Indication. Without SNI it isn't possible to implement virtual hosts for HTTPS sensibly. The only option is to assign a dedicated IPv4 address for each site to be hosted.

Cloudflare can do that for you, but they will charge. If it's important to have Windows XP Internet Explorer work, you should pay Cloudflare for one of the commercial options that they spell out as supporting Windows XP specifically.

Switching to Let's Encrypt won't make any difference to whether Windows XP works with your site _or_ to the SSL Labs score.
Related for Python: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/6959360/goto-in-python

There were some earlier discussions about this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10250770 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3691472
Your first problem is not thinking from the perspective of the customer. Most customers don't care about the conditions of the workers nor do they care about supporting local businesses.

Second problem is you can't count on other people to build your platform. Until you get past a certain critical mass of stores/products, the site won't be very useful and so it's going to be tough to convince businesses or customers to use it.
I similarly agree for the Pinterst's 'value driven' onboarding flow [0]. All the points are very bland and generic (and not great UX in my opinion), almost as if they've been auto-generated:

> * Pinterest drives users to its core value quickly by having users select the categories that interest them most.

> * By incorporating their browser button in the onboarding flow, Pinterest makes sure users get value from the app even when not directly logged into the social platform's website.

> * When users click to skip the addition of the browser step, a modal explains the value users will be missing out on without it.

I guess there's some value in 'relatively well known websites UX'. So you can compare what you're doing to other websites.

[0]: https://www.reallygoodux.io/blog/pinterests-value-driven-onb...
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That's the "professionalism" word that I object to, not your question :)

You may object to NSFW for a multitude of (better) reasons that have nothing to do with "we're in a context where we work for money".
I've known a lot of people to end up using Excel simply because it is the only "programmable" application that is available - if you can't install new applications (which is pretty common in many non-developer environments) then you are stuck with what you get installed for you, which in many cases is Excel.
The comment applies to both high-end CPUs and to microcontrollers as well. Power and performance are even more critical on a microcontroller than on an high-end CPU.
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For Sets, you can get away with the language slices and maps, which work sufficiently well.

I haven't found a need for trees in most of my projects and where I did I implemented it when necessary.

You can however, if you need to, separate the code and data of a tree by using a data adapter. The tree only stores a unique ID for an object which you can receive using the adapter, which would be a simple map or slice.

But as mentioned, I very very rarely needed them and not yet in any CRUD web project.
>2. Google, for not being able to, "prove a random number is truly random,"

This definitely does not seem like a question that should be in a coding interview. However, this is an answerable question under certain assumptions.

It's possible to make a source of randomness more entropic. (c.f. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Randomness_extractor)

What we can do is slice up the number into a given length and estimate the H_{\infty} entropic measure among our sliced-up numbers, treating the numbers as samples from some random source.

edit: if for example you're a crypto researcher, then this question seems warranted.
Yeah but Snowden had that level of access simply because he applied for the job, with the full intention of using it to do leaking.
Then you get obese people saying it's part of genes or they are naturally big boned so they want the wide seats. Then you get hipsters with ESAs wanting an unoccupied middle seat for their annoying dog/cat. Then the tall persons wants to sit next to their wife and kids too so they want the whole exit row for free. You dont have any control over height I guess but it's open a whole set of another problems if check-in staff start explicitly and openly profiling people. You probably find though, if travelling alone, and check-in early you can just ask for an exit room seat - only when check-in is managed by a 3rd party (check this) and the seats are already sold have I been declined, it's a request not a demand though.
To be clear, the paragraph you're quoting is criticizing one specific library (the naglebgra library) which overuses traits. In context, that quote is about the temptation of writing super-polymorphic code in Rust, and not strictly a complaint about Rust's specific implementation of polymorphism. I'm not at all convinced that the argument made by the video is somehow contradicted by the fact that Rust still lets you write unnecessarily polymorphic code.
Probably, you can go all back to Edison and likely even to some cave in France for the launch even of the iSling..::
One big difference between The Economist and German papers like the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (FAZ) is: The Economist is capable of admitting that it was wrong in the past. The financial news section of the FAZ, on the other hand, will deride anyone who does not agree with them ideologically, and then, when it turns out they had been wrong from the get go, pretend they were on the other side of the argument.

I have the feeling journalists in Germany still think there is something like completely objective reporting. A kind of gold standard you achieve by adhering to a certain method, with everyone coming to the one and only correct conclusion. Anyone who does not must be inept or not a real journalist in the first place.
Various articles, blog posts etc. about this have already been posted to HN.

One of these inspired me to make a Firefox add-on that solves this issue:
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/dont-touch-my... [/plug]
No, not at all!

The issue isn't when people are dumb, it's when they have biases confirmed and expanded by groups with a hidden agenda and no interest in the truth.

For example, [1] is an advertisement published for an anti-Trump protest by a group called "BM" (ie, a BLM variant).

The same group was also running this advertisement [2] blaming a "BLM Movement Activist" for killing a police officer.

Then they also run [2]: "Don't shoot", a "we aren't against police we are against police brutality" promotion.

They get engagement on the reasonable sounding things, then slowly ratchet it up until groups which sounded reasonable originally are doing things like claiming that the Black Panthers should be celebrated[4]. You can bet that will be used in ads on the other side too, just like "AntiFa" is used as a bogey man at the moment by the right, or "the Mercers" is by the left.

Just look at it yourself: https://democrats-intelligence.house.gov/hpsci-11-1/hpsci-mi...

Most of these are things you'd never ever see unless you were targeted.

[1] https://video-images.vice.com/_uncategorized/1509564403505-S...

[2] https://democrats-intelligence.house.gov/uploadedfiles/polic...

[3] https://democrats-intelligence.house.gov/uploadedfiles/dont_...

[4] https://democrats-intelligence.house.gov/uploadedfiles/black...
I don't understand the timezone argument. If your employer wants you to work from 9 to 5 in the timezone of the employer then you either don't take the job or you adjust your schedule to the timezone of the employer.

This may rule out australian employees working for an american company but it doesn't rule out NYC employees working for a Washington DC company.
When you post a rude reply about a topic not many people have expertise in, the only thing up/downvoters have to go on is how you carry yourself.

My first gut reaction to his reply was "troll."
This is starting to happen. FinnAir has economy comfort on long haul, it's about 20% of ticket price for the upgrade, it's economy with just the legroom enhancement to 35"
Recently Laszlo Babai, Endre Szemeredi, Mario Szegedy

In undergraduate studies the names Denes Konig, Tibor Gallai also come up discussing graphs.
Can't you just have a smaller generator for low load? Literally wasting fuel so you can run a large generator for a low load should be criminal.
Forcing disclosure of online political advertising seems a reasonable thing.

It isn't a restriction on speech, and what legitimate reason would a group want to hide the way they are running a campaign?
"Don't worry. We are taking all precautions. It is 100% safe. Only a very few, select personell will have access to the data."

They will just give the same bullshit answer as always. Sometimes throw in a new phrase ("24/7 guarded datacenter") to pretend they are not vulnerable to obvious risks.
They might be maintained for a foreseeable time, but if you take a job maintaining them you've committed your entire career to only do that. That's not appetizing to young engineers.
> So that Pizza costs you 5$ more with bitcoin.

In a certain sense, yes, sure. What I'm saying is that, due to appreciation of my Bitcoins, those $5, as well as the actual price of the pizza, were essentially a gift to me from the Bitcoin community.

I don't mind spending free food tokens that were gifted to me. Even if spending the free food tokens costs me fees (expressed in free food tokens), and I might possibly trade those free food tokens for a slightly higher amount in dollars (but incurring other fees). Especially since, if everyone stopped using their free food tokens, everyone's free food tokens would stop being usable.
We don't really know that though, do we? I mean, I can see this being true eventually but I'm still very perplex that we'll see cars able to drive autonomously in all conditions any time soon.

It's one thing to drive on the wide streets of american cities literally built around cars. It's an other to navigate the narrow, crowded streets of many european cities, with scooters and bikes zooming left and right, people parking anywhere they can, passing where they shouldn't be etc... Let's not even talk about some places in Africa and Asia where it seems that driving is more art than science.

I'm expecting self driving cars to start on friendlier turf (large avenues, highways connecting cities etc...) and then expand iteratively to "wilder" areas. I'm sure it'll take a while to completely take over though.
Yup, that's pretty scary. I'm pretty short (under 5'6") and on a recent flight I was unable to pick up an item I'd dropped on the floor quite simply because the seat in front of me was too close to permit leaning down far enough even before the person in front of me reclined.

Also, I seem to remember that decades ago, when you flew, the instructions used to be that if the aircraft was expected to crash you were supposed to bend over and put your head between your knees for protection during the crash. Did they give that up because it was ineffective advice or because seat pitch no longer permits it?
Reading George Polya's books might be a way of learning this technique. At least they explain very well the method of thinking about math.
Dara, the new CEO has said they are targeting a 2-3 year time frame for IPO.
There's a rats' nest of terminology here.

".Net" and "Common Language Runtime" refer specifically to Microsoft's implementation. The spec is called the "Common Language Infrastructure".

Wikipedia seems to use "Common Language Runtime" in both ways - the Mono article uses it in the generic sense, whereas the CLR's own article explicitly states that it refers to .Net's implementation.

.Net also has ngen.exe which isn't really JIT at all, it's traditional 'offline' ahead-of-time compilation. In a sense that's rather like the traditional Unix compile-and-install model. One sees the oxymoron "pre-JIT" used to describe this.

This is another difference from HotSpot, which historically never cached native code to disk, though other JVMs have always been able to do this (Excelsior Jet, and GCJ, for instance).

Apparently AOT may be coming to Java though - it may even already be here, I'm not quite sure.

https://www.infoq.com/news/2016/10/AOT-HotSpot-OpenJDK-9 , http://openjdk.java.net/jeps/295

I recall once reading that one of the reasons HotSpot didn't cache native code, was the issue of securing that cache. Not sure what they've done to address that, nor what .Net does; it seems a valid concern.

That's an interesting read re. Hejlsberg. Worth noting that Mono takes them up on that and does feature an interpreter.
>plans?

Casinos and even grocery stores have been using facial recognition for years. I highly doubt these systems have not been in place for airports for a long time.
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Do the same bug hunting they do now, but send all the exploits back to the vendors.

Do more work like SELinux.

There's lots they can do.
PE is usually between 80-150% of the ticket price on routes between Asia and Europe (BA, Lufthansa, EVA). However PE tickets are usually more flexible on many routes and if the company is booking flexible economy tickets (usually around +75% of cheaper saver fares) then it is only a small price more to fly PE
It's not like a hospital at all -- not that many hospitals couldn't benefit from being run better.

The revenue of a train line is proportional to passengers served and forms a baseline for the total value the passengers received from the service. There's no problems with stuff like quality of passenger care.