skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Love the battery analogy. Energy gain, energy loss. I’m going to try this out and see if it can switch my mindset about work - at the moment, a lot of it seems to be energy loss!

I think that the way we spend our time is also mostly personality-dependent. Maybe that explains why given ten minutes spare, some people do a bit of MOOC, and others play candy crush or just stare and fidget ... it’s a way of giving the mind a bit of a break!
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Did either of you read the story?

Uber last week said it fired its chief security officer, Joe Sullivan, over his role in the 2016 data breach, which compromised data belonging to 57 million customers and about 600,000 drivers. The resignations Friday came amid mounting frustration within Uber’s security team over Sullivan’s dismissal and the company’s handling of the public disclosure of the breach.

So he fired the CSO, and then those reporting to Sullivan resigned (The departures include most of Sullivan’s direct reports.).
Nostalgia: I really love the 60s definition of CS at Stanford, which seems more inclusive of practical aspects than the theoretical bent of today:

"I consider computer science to be the art and science of exploiting automatic digital computers, and of creating the technology necessary to understand their use. It deals with such related problems as the design of better machines using known components, the design and implementation of adequate software systems for communication between man and machine, and the design and analysis of methods of representing information by abstract symbols and of processes for manipulating these symbols. Computer science must also concern itself with such theoretical subjects supporting this technology as information theory, the logic of the finitely constructable, numerical mathematical analysis, and the psychology of problem solving. Naturally, these theoretical subjects are shared by computer science with such disciplines as philosophy, mathematics, and psychology."

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Gathering data on how you spend your time can help identifying windows of available time, or comparing one day to another.

Regular sleep, hydration, nutrition and exercise helps.

Also, reducing stress/anxiety is important. Take a moment and relax, stretch, breathe. Maybe have a quick nap.

Then, set small and attainable goals. And as you get more consistent and better, make those goals more ambitious.

Also, writing down what you are doing can help you resuming that train of thought later.
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> unless you know the password MUST be a number and MUST be between 1 and 65K

But with A you don't get in unless you know the password MUST be empty and there MUST be a telnet server on a random port. What's the difference?
>Or to phrase this differently, physicists do not really understand what they are doing.

I think this is very unfair to say. I would like to remind who was it that discovered the renormalization group: Wilson, a physicist.
This article is on The Verge, which is probably interested in the net staying around.
just as a scale, this distance is not even a light-day away ! i am just amazed that we can still "hear" it.

anyone have more info on the power with which the signal arrives here at earth ? and how do they make sure that ambient/thermal noise does corrupt it ? thank you !
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> So what's the actual news here?

School girls from Afghanistan built a solar powered robot. That's news because this is something which is very hard to do in the absence of the many privileges that would make such an achievement easy.

> That they were denied entry in the US?

Yes. That too is news worthy and was covered extensively.

> Should we feel bad about it or what?

Maybe. But rather than feeling bad wouldn't it be better to celebrate this, promote this and encourage things like this until a time that such things are common place enough to not be news worthy?
Still feeling better about sticking with iOS 10 on my iPhone 6S. Enjoying the original battery life and some sanity at the cost of "cutting-edge" features. Apple is going to be treated like the old IBM and Microsoft from now on. Always wait until they figure their stuff out AFTER their public release.
I didn't know there were others. I heard about this from a journal entry somewhere on DeviantArt about 10 years ago.
In particular if the government freed up some of the wireless spectrum we could see wireless internet competition.
There are good reasons not to have proportional representation, at least not purely proportional.

One downside to strictly proportional representation is that a concentrated majority can make decisions without collaborating/cooperating with the minority.

Example: Coastal states with large populations could just ignore the other states with small populations.

The US bicameral congress balances the proportional House against the non-proportional Senate.
In the case where he just opens random doors, it doesn't matter that you switch, your door and the other unopened have the same chance.

After all, it'd be the same if you chose the door to be opened. If that mattered, you should always mentally choose a door, choose another to randomly open, switch and make that your choice. That's absurd.

The whole thing is that be cause the host has to open a door with a goat, switching means you basically get to choose both other doors.
Passive DNS might be another good way to get S3 bucket names.

There doesn't seem to be a Wikipedia article on Passive DNS, but this article explains it quite well: https://help.passivetotal.org/passive_dns.html

Basically some resolvers submit all (some?) of their DNS query responses to a central database so that it can be searched later. It seems you can also install a passive "sensor" in your network that (presumably) passively MITMs DNS queries and then sends off the responses.

I don't know how hard it is to get access to the data, but:

> programs like RiskIQ's DNSIQ allow organizations to install a sensor on their network that reports back to RiskIQ and in exchange, the organization gains access to all the passive DNS traffic inside the central repository.

EDIT: VirusTotal has some passive DNS data publicly available: e.g. look in "observed subdomains" https://www.virustotal.com/en/domain/s3-us-west-2.amazonaws....

EDIT2: And a bunch of them appear to be unprotected...
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This might be a small difference, but is this an english parsing or reality parsing issue?

I mean, shouldn't these questions come up as you're mentally interrogating the scenario, and trying to win the car? What happens if the host opens a car door, do I win?

If the host opens doors randomly, I have a 2/3 chance of winning anyway. But, I didn't have enough information to know that when I picked a door first. By the time I do, I'm already back to 50-50 odds. I don't think people make either 2/3 game their mental model of the game.

IDK about non-mathematicians, but I taught a parlour-games-ish parent day class at a high school once. We solved this problem until the kids got it. Then they had to explain it to other kids. My hint was emphasising "every week he shows a goat." Then basically this program, "playing" over and over on blackboard and recording results. Either way, it takes effort before people think of the entire game (including the 2nd choice) as a single game mechanic. Almost everyone gets it if you make them play the host.

Maybe mathematicians are less prone to suspicion... Kids and adult non-mathematicians usually suspect the host of being up to something, so they are animating him in their mental model.

Anyway, I think there's something interesting about this problem, and how people have difficulty thinking about it. I wonder if the same mechanic, but with a differently decorated story would be easier for people? A robot host, for instance.
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I call mine the "What would Elon Musk do?"

Would Elon Musk sit here watch Netflix?
In case you're wondering why this isn't apparently getting any attention or discussion, it has been submitted before, and the story has certainly been discussed before:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14723853 (166 comments)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14715679 (76 comments)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15764449 (53 comments)

The first of those was nearly six months ago, the last just 9 days ago, so the story is "live" and getting discussion.

You can see submissions of the story from other sources here:

https://hn.algolia.com/?query=Australia%20Battery&sort=byDat...
I've been using this for a while (and occasionally post a preset on Patreon). This synth has some of the easiest to use built-in automation I've seen.
You know what's ironic? Tim Draper, the first investor in Theranos, is also an investor in Tezos (according to the article).
An example from the UK

http://blog.liverpoolmuseums.org.uk/2015/08/tide-predicting-...
Of course, but deducing this on the spot if you have little or no interest in television goes far beyond the domain of the original problem.
I've never heard of this Helm. Meanwhile, Helm the synth has been around for a couple of years and seems to do fine among its intended audience (which I'm in). There's a reason trademarks tend to be constrained to specific markets.
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That's not the actual news here, because as I said, there's 0 insight on whatever they achieved. The emphasis was put on how bad it is to not let everybody in the US. Hence I believe this to be just some propaganda piece.
What's the point of writing a code like this? Giving maintainers a hard time? Showing off?
How about a slow, random rollout? That should mean prices can't just be increased across the board since not everyone is getting UBI so wouldn't be willing to pay the higher cost.

EDIT: Actually, in a sensible market wouldn't competition handle this? Those who don't increase their prices would undercut their competitors, so there's no incentive to raise prices since you would just lose market share.
I'm moving for more than cheaper rent, but thanks for playing. There are people that make six figure salaries that can barely afford to make ends meet due to the cost of living, and that is a fact. Try swallowing $4000 a month in rent for the suburbs, after CA taxes, before utilities/food/gas/car upkeep. Even people with six figure salaries are having to face a reality that they are being pushed out in favor of people with even more money. If I want to buy a house, guess what? I'm commuting from Manteca or farther. Affording Tracy would be a luxury. It's a numbers game and more people than you're willing to admit are hurting.
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What's so special about this date?

https://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=2017-12-02+00:15+to+un...

==> 1512170100

That's not it. (Not like the KMail crash on 2001-09-09. :-)
>a person with such an idea would be able to present hundreds of pages of alternate designs

Arguably, that's much more than just an idea - it's the idea plus the development of the idea, with most of the value being in the development bit.
Yep, ["1", "2", "3"].map(x => parseInt(x)) works.
This is a great example of why you should avoid writing clever code. A clever one-line piece of code requires a blog post to make sense of it.

Not slating the article. I thought it interesting and the author does mention this caveat, making a point of saying the typical way is honestly more readable.

As for the project they found this in, I hope this stuff isn't thread through it, for the maintainer's sake and sanity.
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You want their blue print ? Would that be actual news to you ?

Edit: turns out a five minutes search on mobile isn't enough for me to get a picture or a description of the actual robot.
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I get similar performances for the "naive" map:

let trimmed = strings.map(str => str.trim());

and a c-style for

let trimmed = [];
for(var i=0; i<strings.length; ++i) {
trimmed.push(strings[i].trim());
}

in both Chrome (62) and Firefox (58). The c-style for is very lightly faster in FF (not Chrome) but it's 767 ops/s to 725 ops/s so not exactly brain-breaking (chrome is at 454 and 452).

Safari (11) is the only one where map is a fair bit slower than c-style (420 to 377).

In all cases, both the clever map and for..of are slower than the naive map, though the magnitude varies Chrome yields very little difference but Firefox and Safari dislike for..of and like "clever map" even less.
Important code has a way of starting out unimportant.
I've done open source work for 10 years. I'm pretty sure I know what open source means.

You can have a look at GitHub; there are 25 million active repos on there; at least 99% of them are not sponsored by any company and nobody gets paid to work on them.

People like the OP and yourself are spreading distorted ideas which harm open source and the software ecosystem as a whole.

Putting open source projects on the same level as commercial software is not right. They are often completely different kinds of people behind them.
I intended to say this here, but accidentally put it in one of the other submissions, so I'll copy it here ...

In case you're wondering why this isn't apparently getting any attention or discussion, it has been submitted before, and the story has certainly been discussed before:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14723853 (166 comments)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14715679 (76 comments)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15764449 (53 comments)

The first of those was nearly six months ago, the last just 9 days ago, so the story is "live" and getting discussion.

You can see submissions of the story from other sources here:

https://hn.algolia.com/?query=Australia%20Battery&sort=byDat...
I'd like to encourage their achievement, but it's not clear what they achieved.

> The team’s winning entry was a solar-powered robot that would help small farmers carry out tasks including seeding and cutting crops like wheat

Apart from the general idea, what was created?

Here's a more detailed article from the NY Times:

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/29/world/afghanistan-girls-r...

> The team, which had only two weeks to build its robot for the event because a shipment of parts was delayed, won a silver medal for courageous achievement.

Courageous achievement is good politics, but not necessarily good engineering.

Here's an article from NPR:

https://www.npr.org/sections/ed/2017/07/22/538088825/what-re...

> The winner was chosen by the thousands of spectators who attended the event.

They mention what the robot actually does:

> Every team arrived with a robot in tow, each built with the exact same components, but designed, engineered and programmed differently. The goal: to gobble up and sort blue and orange plastic balls representing clean water and contaminated water.

> The Afghan team's consolation prize: a medal for "courageous achievement" and knowing that they placed much higher than countries like Canada, the United Kingdom and the U.S.

- - -

So my takeaway is that apart from facing all of the challenges that come with delayed shipments and denied VISAs, the girls managed to build a robot out of the standard parts list.

Their robot was voted on by thousands of attendees, and they placed higher than teams from developed countries like Canada, the UK, and the US.

What's the actual news? Not much, this is a fluff story. But it means something that a team of Afghan girls even made it to competition, much less built something that could legitimately outcompete more developed teams.
Since a lot of university mathematicians, engineers, and physicists famously got the answer wrong

Did they? The wikipedia page you link says "After the problem appeared in Parade, approximately 10,000 readers, including nearly 1,000 with PhDs, wrote to the magazine, most of them claiming vos Savant was wrong (Tierney 1991)." And there's a story about Erdős and the number of stories about Erdős far exceed the number of stories that would be plausible about anyone, even Erdős.
Apart from just celebrating that a group of teens won a competition, there are several newsy points, though all beg further questions.

The fact that a team of girls from Afghanistan built a robot. That seems amazing, but what were the circumstances around that? An all-girl tech team from Afghanistan seems like a political statement in itself; was there a boy's team, or a mixed team, for example? Were they poor kids? Was an NGO involved and in what capacity? Did they just get together and build the robot after reading wikipedia?

The fact that they won a prize in an EU competition. Was that based purely on merit, or were there political considerations? Eg "poor girls from war-torn country should be supported", or "The NGO behind this should have their work promoted", or "Public snub/rebuke to trump's disgusting visa policies", etc. Or should we be hearing more about an imminent improvement in agricultural productivity?

The fact that it's quite a saccharine narrative, and has raised questions and suspicion. That says something both about the news system, and society, I think. It seems sad that we can't just celebrate achievement without considering (with justification) the hidden forces shaping the landscape.

Etc. Cui Bono?
For a library that does such a good job of simplifying the complex, that design choice always perplexed me.

When you look at their example import code it makes even less sense. People who need shorter object names already do that, no need for it to be at the library level.
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Quoting myself upthread:

> If you read the paper you would find that the VAST majority of issues were human communication or understanding of the problem. No programming language can fix that.

At no point did I argue that Rust would have prevented the Air France Flight 447 kind of failure. However, neither would Ada have prevented this kind of failure.

I WAS however taking issue with the quoted "nobody has ever been killed by a flaw in Avonics software".
I think if the mathematician (or anyone) gets to that point, he's solved the problem even if the answer is in the form of a probing question.

There might be confusion about whether or not the host "cheats" and always shows a goat, but if you're asking this question you get to the answer. The issue is that people don't get to this question. I think that's not a wording-misdirection thing, it's something about how people think.
I've done a more complete analysis here, with a simulation program: http://loup-vaillant.fr/tutorials/monty-hall

Whether you should switch or not is highly dependent on what you know of the host. In the classical problem, you should switch. But there are hosts with which one should never switch.
The worst thing about Windows 10 is there’s a mandatory, automatic OS upgrade every few months, which Microsoft pretend is simply an update. This can and will break things every single time.
I'm never that far behind with my strategy. After a while you get diminishing returns by not upgrading.
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The Daily Wire (i.e. Ben Shapiro) has the other side of the Net Neutrality debate.

It's interesting that the verge article does not touch on any of these points. I've seen other comments mentioning debates getting lost in the weeds. Perhaps there are some presuppositions or matters of importance that are not being understood?

http://www.dailywire.com/news/18613/7-reasons-net-neutrality...
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> What happens if the host opens a car door, do I win?

I've always assumed that you lose in this case.
Nice. Now I'd love to see Lenovo offer Thinkpads with a factory disabled Intel ME.
> I’m all for confiscating the wealth of the rich.

Why?
Thank you for doing this research. This looks fabricated, the same way Abdul's clock was.

In response to the guy down here (I can't post anymore): the fact that they "won a prize", as shown in the title of this post, is highly misleading, when it was just a consolation prize. THe takeaway of these news is "look at everything the US is missing for not opening their borders", and this being a consolation prize, the US is simply missing nothing. So the entire thing is a fabrication.
What do you mean by "interested in the net staying around"?

What makes you think that the verge is interested in that?

Does the verge support censoring certain opinions on the internet? If so, which ones?
You can provide sufficient precision simply by scaling the values up until the level of precision you need (e.g. number of decimal points) is represented by big enough steps up/down in whatever medium is used to make the error rate low enough

E.g. consider if you step on pair of analog bathroom scales and you only care about precision to the kg or lbs - you don't then need the scales to be exact. You just need their precision to be sufficiently big that the needle is sufficiently likely to be closest to the right kg to account for what error rate you're prepared to tolerate.
with the amount of money he has , maybe he does ;)
adding bodies is not enough to get rich. if that were the case then all current developing countries would be world power on their own rights. Japan was a world power back in late 1800 despite having a relatively small population.

gdp is headcount times productivity. seems like you forgot productivity in your equation.
no, but I have used the hacker's keyboard and it doesn't require any permissions, but it doesn't do swype which I like to use once in a while (but besides that, it's good)
If all they're building is Lexuses, the problem isn't that they're allowed to build too many cars and therefore you shouldn't let them build more. The problem is that they're not allowed to build enough cars.
You can normally see them communicating here: https://eyes.nasa.gov/dsn/dsn.html
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