skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Language is really the only differentiator between us and other primates, cognitively

I don't agree. Many other types of animals have rudimentary languages, but I wouldn't dispute the sophistication of human language towers above all others, that in itself rests (along with other uniquely sophisticated behavioural endowments) upon what really differentiates us which is the capacity for imagination and abstract thought. The capability to imagine things that aren't actually real, but perhaps could be. It's thought that the seat of all this is the frontal cortex but I see now on wikipedia that is contentious these days [0]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frontal_lobe#In_other_animals
OP's explanation is that this was a shitty decision, made for decent reasons. So... no? But that's not a relevant question?
Resilient in what sense?able to come back and pretend like nothing happened or gloss over and hope things will be alright? Isn't that why we are trying to do away with people?

About the second thing you've surely that cannot be true in all cases. A vote guarded by a mathematically difficult number theory problem can be hard to crack than a ballot box guarded by a grumpy human who feels he/she has better things to do. I believe one must not forget the cost of assembling such problems and maintaining such problems

Curious to know your take and redefinition do
Sounds like magic, I'd love to have that skill
Or USB connected IR/RF remote (think media center PC's)
I switched to Startpage last quarter as my default search engine. I did this mostly to make myself consciously aware of every time that I actually use Google.

My experience thus far. Google beats out Startpage when it comes to queries related to programing issues. If I have an error, or some issue Google seems to do a decent job of sending me to the right documentation or relevant Stackoverflow question.

Google also seems to do a decent job if I'm searching for particular commercial services if those services have physical location that it can point me to (Restaurants, brick-and-mortor stores, etc). All search engines seem to fail horribly if I'm looking for contractors/service providers in my area. Try searching for who actually provides internet coverage for your street address and you'll end up with every provider under the sun listed in the results. Try searching for a plumber, electrician, chimney sweep, roofer, etc. and you'll get SEO crap for people not even in your state. I've found going directly to government registries (broadband.gov, Arizona Registrar of Contractors [https://roc.az.gov/]) to be the only way to get around this.

What I've really found disappointing is how search results for humanities related topics have really gone down hill in the last decade. For example, I just searched for "The Rebel Camus." The results are always Wikipedia, Amazon, and then after that an assortment of either encyclopedias, links to Youtube, Goodreads (or similar sites). Used to be, that I would get taken to the personal website of a scholar, hosted at a University, whose life studies revolve around that topic -- links to scholarly papers, coursework, suggested readings on the topic.
I guess the answer to that question depends on if you or someone else that irma is associated with is the target of espionage
I’m probably a bit the other way in that I get frustrated with text messages going back and forth and back and forth when a one minute phone call will sort everything out far more efficiently. Probably also has something to do with hating tapping away at tiny virtual keyboard on the phone, too.

My teenage daughter seems very reluctant to make a phone call. Watching her try and organise something with her friends drives me a bit spare as it involves hours of waiting for poorly worded, ambiguous messages on Facebook or texts, with me suggesting several times, “Why don’t you just call them, and get it all figured out right now?”

On the other hand, watching my Dad buy a new mobile phone is really fun. The salesperson is trying to up-sell him on all the features of a phone, “You have unlimited texts, and it has an app to make you taller, and…” and my Dad just keeps asking, “Yeah, but can it make phone calls?”

I guess I fall somewhere in between.

I do find, when there is a scene in a TV show or movie where someone’s phone keeps ringing incessantly and they keep cancelling it while trying to have the deep and meaningful conversation with someone wanting to yell, “Don’t you know how to turn your phone off?!”

I do hate voicemail. Not so much leaving them, but having to check them. Probably because I hate any “interactive” system that involves sentences like, “To hear a list of all the ways technology has improved your life, please press one…”

Unsolicited calls to mobiles is not a big thing in Australia (yet) so I’m lucky there.

On the home line, I have an old analogue modem to pick up caller ID information for incoming phone calls using NCID[1].

When a call comes in:

* Automatically pauses the music player on my PC.

* Looks up the number in my address book, and displays the information on my screen. Also sends to the two Kodi/OSMC servers, for people watching TV.

This assumes it is not on my block-list. If it is on my block-list of known scammer and telemarketer numbers then it as automatically answered with a recording of the “This number has been disconnected…” message to try and trick them.

[1] http://ncid.sourceforge.net/
I have an antispam for phone calls with my ISP (free.fr). It works very well.

I advertise for that around me. Operators can stop that if they want.
We tried Play. It is not close to Django. At least with Java. It might be better if you use Scala.

For example, one thing which seems to be worse across the board is database evolutions. Django will autogenerate an evolution in Python for you [0] and if necessary you can adapt the code. In Java land you have to write SQL by hand [1] afaik? If SQL is not enough, I don't know what to do at all.

[0] https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.11/topics/migrations/
[1] https://www.playframework.com/documentation/2.6.x/Evolutions...
The nonsense in Alice in Wonderland is quite logical - a lot of it is allegory based on math, linguistics and theology.
I think the most common unexpected caller for me these days is a delivery person asking me to take in a parcel for some neighbour who isn't in...
They're standardized now:

https://html.spec.whatwg.org/multipage/scripting.html#custom...
https://dom.spec.whatwg.org/#shadow-trees
Natural disasters that cut off power for more than a few hours are unlikely in Northern Europe. Cell towers have their own emergency power supply to deal with the once in a decade brown out.

If the power is off for days it means the Apocalypse or WW3 has happened.
I receive a similar number of spam calls per day and have turned off my ringer entirely as a result. At first I used a feature that enables the ringer for the second call from the same number in a short period, but then the calls started coming in batches of 3 (usually all from the same number, but always from the same area code and prefix).

Very frustrating
That bloomberg article was already shared and heavily discussed actually:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15646456
Why would it be?

Honestly - the image of grown men in thongs and Spider Man masks is disturbing to adults only in a certain context, you could just as well be describing modern wrestlers, whose content is targeted to slightly older children. But how would a toddler be damaged by it?
Duplicate of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15646456

Lots of discussion over there.
G1GC would make wonders of this setup. I guess thisis why it is benchmarked with CMS. I just finished a project where the biggest performance tuning was to move the GC to G1GC.
I'm a bit confused about what the nodes are. You're saying they are the individual lab notebook entries, but then I wonder where the results of the experiments are in this graph?

I would have put the instructions on what was done on the edges of the graph, and the results or measurements on the vertices. But I'm not sure I'm correctly understanding your model.
Most of the time I'm with you, but it works both ways.

I accidentally started a fight on HN by typing the exact opposite of my views, or at least something that could apparently be interpreted that way. I don't think I would have been misunderstood in the same manner in speech.

In speech your voice determines your tone. In text your reader determines your tone.
Humans really don’t like to pay for stuff.
Contact few registras, tell them your success story and propose them to sell domain names.
DDG aside, what other options do we have?
Getting CRC polynomial and other CRC generator parameters using Z3
Package registries should implement some sort of required automated integration testing. If a package owner wants to update their package with what they claim is a non-breaking change according to semver, then the new version must pass all integration test cases of the previous. This could also include crowdsourced testing of that package, that allows users of that package to add tests over time to that particular version, so as to mitigate owners who don't test their packages well enough.
I have to admit, I open my IDEs maybe once a month (and only when a restart is imposed in me), and while indexing can take a while, I don't get anywhere near to the sort of issues you have, even on very, VERY, large codebases. Different hardware, I guess. Although I can't help but think the situation should be much worse under any Electron malarkey.
It is relevant in my opinion, because Netflix is a technology company, the article is on tech crunch and it's about sexism and sexual harassment - something tech companies including YC should confront and talk about not hide behind "it's political". Almost everything we do has a political dimension in some way too so I'm not sure we'd be allowed to discuss anything if these rules were followed the way you are proposing.
I suggest also adding gometalinter[1] and its flycheck support [2], which also works quite well and allows you to have more linters available

[1] https://github.com/alecthomas/gometalinter
[2] https://github.com/favadi/flycheck-gometalinter
I love text.

I don’t have to remember it or write it down - it's already written down.

Also I have a feeling that a lot of the "have a meeting" guys are the same that will try to tell another version of what was said in the meeting.

You aren’t sure even with text though - at some point I had an ex-colleague telling me what I had written, so I found the actual mail that proved my version.

His answer: but that was not what you meant...
That series brought me to read about the theory.

But almost all pschological educated people I talked to found it too muddy.
There are load banks made for generators, just large resistive grids. A facility that I work at has one so that we can exercise the generator at operating load without actually switching over our power. So I would think a good solution for a DC might be to have load banks you could switch in when necessary.
People need to separate the product from the company. The product may be great, hot with the kids, whatever but at the end of the day Snap is a business.

Snap the company is in terrible shape and poorly run. Their last financials were, in a word, horrifying.
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I actually interpreted the second half to be agreeing with me, so I glossed over it. "I need to know how safe it is to update.." Exactly what OP is about.

I agree that the best approach today is to maintain a local cache of a specific version, and to maintain unit tests to warn you of any breakage. In which case: what's the point of a package manager, again?

As I briefly mentioned above, my current approach is to be extremely conservative in introducing dependencies, inline any dependencies I do introduce, and then treat them as my own code, polishing them alongside my own stuff, deleting code paths I don't need, submitting patches upstream when I discover issues from my hacking. I'm investigating better ways to write automated tests, so that when tests pass we can actually gain confidence that nothing has regressed: http://akkartik.name/about. If we could do this we wouldn't need compatibility at all! But that is blue-sky research; OP is my attempt at meeting the rest of the world half-way. Assume package managers are trying to do something useful. How can we build them to actually do what they advertise?

> Putting these things in Gemfile.lock does not accurately reflect the workflow where all upgrades happen with humans in the loop, who need to be aware of and initiate any change that happens in your dependencies' code.

I agree that upgrades should be pull not push, so I'm not sure what you're disagreeing with here. We need upgrades to be easy to perform so that we'll be more likely to perform them and so that we'll perform them more often, thus keeping our projects up-to-date on the latest vulnerabilities and bugs.
It happened to me too, restarting the phone helped.
> "A new major revision of a library means that there are some* non-backward compatible changes"*

I agree. As I mentioned in a comment to your sibling[0], I think there's a bit of a disconnect as to what people are thinking of renaming. With respect to what's changed, the major version number doesn't give you any additional information as to what has changed. You need to refer, as you mentioned, to the documentation, or the results of your own testing. That's what I'm getting at when I point out the operable word actionable.

I completely agree that the two libraries, if understood to be the same project, should likely share the same core concepts: after all, that's likely what attracted people to the library in the first place, and that likely only a limited number of fixes have to be done.

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15678226
Thanks for the input, that makes sense. So the idea is set them loose in the direction of a worthy problem, with hands off management. Which is ideal for a manager in some ways. But if you're a rebel you had better have pretty good technical skills, or you'd end up digging a hole for yourself.

Have you found that management gets frustrated by a lack of visibility in when and how things will get done? Or that when it comes time to involve other people in a project or turn it over to another team, that there is much friction? My concern would be a "cowboy" coding style that is familiar to you but inscrutable to others and unmaintainable.
>Nothing wrong with someone posting their own stuff, if it's good. I haven't read this article, but presumably lots of HN upvoters have assessed it that way.

I didn't intend to imply there was anything wrong with it, I was only sharing an observation.

And yet, a number of people felt compelled to downvote me because of it.
Nothing to hide, what’s the problem?
It's a wetware protocol, not formal, mathematically certain concept.

You also can never be certain that the car is not going to run through pedestrian crossing on red light when you step in - but it doesn't mean that traffic lights are useless.

Semver is like traffic lights. For reproducible builds/increased certainty harden it with some kind of pinning or local copy.
Same here. I often mix names up or have problems learning them, especially when tired. I don't think verbally as much as I suspect others do.
Spammer have hacked phones, after email, search results, and blog comments. If there were competition, somebody might have solved this problem!
> Google beats out Startpage when it comes to queries related to programing issues.

I have found that Duck Duck Go has excellent results for programming issues. You should try it!

I can echo what you said about services with a physical location. Typically when I'm looking for something nearby, I will search in DDG with the g! modifier to take me straight to Google. The place that I want almost always appears on the right, with map, phone number, hours of operation, etc.
Yes, that's definitely another option. Once you've done this, you've effectively added the code to your application, with the hope that it might be possible to have a drop-in replacement in the future.
Ask HN: Options to set up in motion an allegedly killer idea while employed?
I'm employed in a new job that will let me little time to focus on it. I will develop a document about the idea that wholly describes it and the big problem it solves and the improvements to current solutions. It's easily monetizable and it really innovates it's field, which is something humans always have done and always will do. Future proof and it will open a new market and type of job too that will grow in the future.
I don't see myself doing it with my own money as I think this is the type of idea that will work much better with external funding and some dedicated team for it.
I'm yet another idea guy, yeah I know. But I would like to know if there is any type of agreement I can reach with some VC about it or if I can set it up in motion another way without needing to involve VCs at the beginning.
I've gotten into the habit of organizing my feeds into two groups. People who post infrequently with high quality articles get put into one group. Sites that generate loads of articles (NPR, Guardian, HN) go into the other.

I generally read everything in group one. In group two, I start the day by just marking the entire group read. If something neat comes into group two during the day I might read it when I have a spare moment. Otherwise, it gets flushed.
Arrows theorem is misleading because it only applies to rank order systems.

Range voting (i.e. 0-5 rating system) satisfies all the criteria. [0] So yes, democracy is theoretically possible.

[0]: https://youtu.be/e3GFG0sXIig
I believe that the search part of both ES and Solr is Apache Lucene
I also manage a support team. Phone calls are indeed not very useful for solving issues, but they are critical for reducing customer anxiety and ensuring that you've understood their problem correctly.
ive heard of this rumor but ive never actually seen it in action. having hired h1bs before, i’m skeptical that anyone but a massive corporation could do something like this.

the expenses, rules, process would prohibit most teams from accomplishing and maintaining this. and a corporation large enough to pull it off likely wouldn’t derive enough benefit to actually make it worth it given the risk of exposure from either internal or external whistle blowers.

i have no doubt there’s fraud in the immigration system, (america is pretty cool after all), i feel like the fraud problem takes shape in different forms than, “mass layoffs in favor of h1b labor.”
honestly, i’m more worried about he use of
Yes, of course. The idea of certificate transparency logs is to be able to audit all of the certificates issued by a CA to detect mistakenly or maliciously issued certificates.

You can go ahead and search the logs yourself through google.

https://transparencyreport.google.com/https/certificates
You're doing MVP wrong
Ideas are worthless. It's all in the execution.
I had to do that and I'm in the US.
By HN-comment standards this my reply is probably useless. But as a human being to another (who also has kids), well put. And creepy - I wonder the same.
It's not about the size of the userbase; it's about business models. They burned cash to acquire users, but once they wanted income they too have gone the advertising route. This leads to the dilution of the core experience as you've pointed out: fudged timelines [1], denser advertising, backporting of missing social networking features, leading to networks that are largely interchangeable [2].

Snapchat can't really afford to be interchangeable with Instagram, because Facebook actually knows how to persuade advertisers to keep selling ads, while Snapchat just relies on its perceived clout among a coveted demographic, providing very few mechanisms for advertisers to gauge their ROI [3]. Sooner or later, advertisers will wisen up and pull out of Snapchat, making their business model crisis all the more acute.

Snapchat is one of the best-positioned companies to actually trial different business models for their app: they have a respectable install base, their platform is still sticky and desirable enough to maintain a sizeable userbase for some time, and their preexisting userbase is aging into being able to spend some money. Defection to Instagram isn't nearly as much of a threat as many make it seem: most Snapchat users are already on Instagram as well, so as long as they continue to engage with Snapchat, all is not lost.

Their map purchase was an effort to pivot the product's monetization back to hyperlocal factors, and solidify the idea that your Snapchat friends are part of your close-knit circle. Snapchat could be a better Foursquare, but it's not quite there yet.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12191435 [2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13168804 [3] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15050410
Is there a name for the phenomenon where someone thinks something pedestrian is amazing simply because they're ignorant of what else is available?
Thanks guys - I listen to the podcast regularly and love it!
Can't we engineer gold yet?
Well if he wanted code navigation for JavaScript he could have used tern. It also integrates nicely with company for auto-completion.
Waiting for Godot is a common occurrence.
Fall ISO C++ standards meeting (Albuquerque)
I wonder why they even bothered with such a high end processor like the MT6261. Get a bare die micro like the MSP430, and a bare die GSM chipset, and you're set. You'd have to dissolve your SIM card in acid and wire bond it to the PCB, but wire bonding machinery is pretty cheap.

Realistically, this is stupid easy for a state-level actor. A good hardware hacker worth their salt could probably set up a bug no bigger than 10mmx10mm in a couple of months for a few hundred, less if they already have a wire bonding machine and microscope.

For a state level actor, you can roll your own ASIC and just dump RF and microcontroller on one die. Package it up inside a USB flash drive controller IC, mark it with someone else's logo, and you've got a bug that you would only find by dissolving the chip in acid and looking at the die very carefully. It'll cost you a few million, but it's just not that much money when your R&D budget is 150M/y.

The weak part of all these systems is the constant GSM heartbeat, but even that is beatable.
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Off topic, but still: is that a price of almost 2 EUR per minute of call? (to that stranger's phone - 3333333) I thought calls inside EU are price-limited? Or is this some really old post?
I have pets and they try to entertain themselves when they are board. Seems like thet are thinking abstractly with limitations imposed by body and brain.
>> If you don't take the offer you're essentially buying your site for that price.

a fantastic way to look at it and a great view on opportunity cost
Ask HN: What are you hacking on this weekend?
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Getting a phone call always feels so rude. It's like it's saying, "Whatever you are doing, stop RIGHT NOW and listen to me. NOW! NOW! I'm giving you TEN SECONDS! LISTEN TO ME."