skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This makes me wonder, have computers inherently been designed as boy toys? I don't support continuing the teaching that girls should like pink things, dresses and flowers, but it does exist quite strongly. So if we assume boys are thought or predisposed to like esthetic X, while girls are thought or predisposed to like esthetic Y. Have computers been designed to esthetic X?

Basically, my point is, are computers gender neutral in their design? Or are they boyified? If they're boyified, then maybe we do need to alter their design, and work to make them more neutral or have girlified versions.

Note: What would be the boy term for pinkifying?
Would it be possible for the NTP server to detect what type of device/OS is sending the request and block it (ie: could au/nz.pool.ntp.org servers block all TP-Link requests to teach them a lesson)?

If they can't do that maybe they can just detect IPs that are making requests every 5 seconds as the TP-Link products are doing and block those since they're in violation of the once-every-10-minutes-maximum rule for the NTP servers)?
Ask HN: Starting a new Python project with async networking
Surveying the async networking landscape for Python has me a bit overwhelmed. There's raw async/await in 3.5+, curio, asyncio, gevent, tornado, stackless, and probably others. If you were starting a new project today, without concern for backward compatibility, what would you use? Python 2.x or 3.x solutions please; I know about Erlang/Go/Node but they aren't a good fit for this project.
if this was true then why are there so few?
After many years of frustration not being able to read physics papers, a helpful physics guy told me: when it's bolded, that means it's a matrix, and that other one, they didn't say so, but it's a vector, so this step is a vector matrix operation.

(that's why, today, I use numpy, where the operations are much easier to see).
I'd wager that most respondents to this aren't patents with kids in schools. There's overwhelming support to allow parents to contact their kids without having to go through an intermediary at my kid's school, so who are all these people making academic arguments that are irrelevant?
In the US, "a couple" is synonymous for a "a few" or "several". One would say, "it'll take a couple of hours" or "I'll be away for a couple of days" and mean two or more. This might be specific to American English.
A note to OP: using baity submission headlines in HN is counterproductive, as it’ll just get the submission quickly flagged. (And per HN rules, the source headline should be changed if the source is baity)
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>In maths, papers are devoid of any links

Not really. Math papers have citations; and important references to prior work are mentioned in the text. It would be a nice quality of life improvement if these were as easy to follow as clicking a link, but relative to the amount of effort you will spend within each link, it is pretty close. Assuming that the referenced paper is in an accessible location; although if it isn't and I need to track it down, I would prefer a standard citation over a broken URL with no archive.
Uber? You mean the super slimy company that has been set up to skirt labor laws?
Are you using a high DPI screen with a low scaling factor? If I set zoom to 150%, I can easily read the text 4 meters away from my desktop monitor. Not comfortable _at all_ up close.
>BTC could go to $0 tomorrow. Suppose the US Gov. makes everyone legally declare their BTC assets as assets and they are subject to taxation etc..

BTC is ALREADY taxed as an asset. If you buy $4 worth of BTC, price goes up 20% and the next day you buy a coffee for $5 that is a Taxable event that you need to record and submit a record of your 1$ gain to the IRS to be taxed. Currencies like the euro ect have an exemption for low dollar amounts of gains that BTC does not currently have. If you hold for a year, you can get the 15% long term capital gains.

>Because nobody is using BTC as a currency

People used to when there were low fees. We will get low fees again, but until then, it opens up the chance for other coins to take BTCs market share.
In my view, education is more effective if it is also entertaining. There's no particular reason why pedagogy can't take advantage of nearly ubiquitous computing hardware, other than the textbook and curriculum racket that publishers are running.

The mammalian instinct for play is essentially a learning mechanism. All it takes to educate is to structure a game such that the lessons being learned are useful in the real world. We run around in open gaming worlds collecting tokens for no greater purpose than to make numbers bigger; we can easily adapt that to collecting knowledge for the purpose of getting smarter.

Imagine if the crafting system of an open-world game used actual chemistry and metallurgy. Kids could be trading tips on textiles and steel so that they can make non-anachronistic weapons and uniforms before doing a boss raid on Napoleon's army. Imagine if making a battle rifle with better stats in the game required you to know how real rifles work. Imagine the sort of teamwork that could take place if everyone in the clan/guild were required to be logged on in the same room at a specific time every weekday. The teacher turns into the quest-giver, and the reward is leveling up your brain, and maybe in-game currency that can be used to buy avatar prestige items.

Each state could certainly afford to hire a few developers, to make educational games that poke the very same skinnerbox dopamine buttons that the purely entertainment games poke. Each state could hire some video artists to produce educational content. I may have retained more from professional programs like "Connections" or amateur videos like "History of Japan" than I ever kept from my textbooks.

It has always been a mistake to make school boring. School is boring now because a boring school is cheap (relatively speaking), and it still works just well enough to keep civilization from collapsing. The curriculum/textbook/lecture model was necessary when education was limited by labor, such that every N students require 1 teacher, but now instead of compartmentalizing education into fixed classrooms with one specific teacher and N specific students at a time, we can have 10000 of the best teachers teaching 10 million students at once, such that they can each learn and demonstrate mastery at their own pace. And this move by France is one step away from that.
Basically, a router somewhere in Russia claimed to be the owner of some ip addresses belonging to Google, Facebook, etc. Other neighbouring routers began forwarding packets from actual users to this router. The packets contain the HTTPS requests people were making to these sites.
It is the Airbus Flight Test Team[0].

The Hamburg XFW Airport is used by Airbus to test their new A380 just before delivery. This Christmas flight was the First Flight of this Tail ID so I would guess that it is a new A380 being tested.

The second flight of this A380 looks more like what we usually see here for these kinds of Test flights[1]. Back and forth usually near Hamburg or over Berlin.

[0] https://twitter.com/Airbus/status/940962395463266305

[1] https://www.flightradar24.com/data/aircraft/f-wwae/#fcc5ca7
> how is it not about Russia

It could be, the key missing piece of information is the physical location of the actual router that is the ultimate source of this. It is only known by their peers or upstream and is not easily traceable (in the US it's usually under NDA and you'd need court order to find out "officially").
Some network admin somewhere probably knows. May be he/she reads HN. The second question is whether that device is hacked and is doing it unbeknown to its admin.

But without this information, the fact that this is an AS registered with a bogus .ru domain doesn't mean anything, this could be coming from Liechtenstein or Bolivia.
It's a test flight - I think the plane needs to log hours.
> Javascript doesn't have threads, so true coroutines not really possible (w/o webworkers).

A coroutine is not a thread and an implementation of coroutines does not (necessarily) depend on threads. Goroutines can also run on a single thread.
They may be affluent, particularly when compared to people struggling to buy food. That doesn't make them tax evaders. Though it should be added that the tax situation regarding crypotcurrencies isn't clear in every country.
My daughter loves Legos because of “Lego Friends”. So I think it does work. Just like my son is attracted to things with swords and explosions. The hook matters.
No, I'm pretty sure its "Code like a girl". That's the name of the submitted and is the completed form of said URL.

I'm also reasonably sure that referring to women professionals as "girls" is also one of those things you shouldn't do.

Right hand, meet left hand. These are adults, and they happen to be male/female/white/black/asian/whatever. (Unless we're actually talking about k-9 school aged females. Then girl is accurate.)

Edit: I don't get the downmod. The first thing to change is our language. They are professionals, not girls. When our language entails using that modifier, it sets the emotion starting at that point. So, set the barrier to that of men, unless you think "son" and "boy" are acceptable ways to address other male professionals.
I agree that this might be a wealth transfer to China. Bitcoin inherently does not hold any value, it is a ledger. When someone buys bitcoin, someone else sells it and takes the cash out of the system.

Right now, a lot of mining is still taking place in China since energy is cheap. These miners sell their coins outside of China and bring cash back into the mainland to pay for the energy and hardware used for mining. So in it's most simplistic form, when you buy a bitcoin, you are adding to the earnings of Chinese energy companies and hardware companies (and some naturally goes to speculators and miner margins).
Hey HN! Just opened up my new app to more users. Trying to build a powerful productivity app that's also great at team collaboration as I've always felt in the past tools have been mainly one or the other. Would love any feedback from the community!
They have 20000 customers so that's $2M of membership revenue. There maybe other delivery revenues but surely that can't be more than a small multiple of that. How does 500M price tag make sense?
good point, i agree
Well, true, but television in itself back then had much less "immediate reward" potential whereas video games and mobile devices are hands-on, and the experience changes much more quickly at the users' expense. The only comparison I can think of to the tube in that way is around switching channels on the tube on demand lol. The content is markedly different as well, often designed to generate easy feedback loops. Yes, TV originally did cause massive changes to social life and can also have negative impact. but I do not think it's a good idea to be dismissive of a potentially larger impact simply because of some similarities in technological progression through generations.

Though. I do see your point and maybe in a few more generations it will seem like just another bump in the road. Can't say I am optimistic in any case.
Anarchy was never the vision for our society and is not generally seen as a desirable end goal.

According to who? There are two or three of us who absolutely see anarchy as a desirable end goal. In the case of a lot of hackers, it's more specifically "anarcho-capitalism" or "voluntaryism" as opposed to what a lot of people call anarchy (what I'd probably call left-anarchism or socialist anarchism). But anarchy of a sort nonetheless.
Again, avoiding the question
Can we just agree that there is no constitutional right to electricity?

Constitutional rights are things the government can't do, not services they must provide. And yes, I do think government has a large role in our life, but it isn't because they are servicing our constitutional rights.
Smart decision by Target. Certainly a necessary move to simply keep pace with walmart, bestbuy, Amazon, etc. Doesn't really provide a clear edge, but allows Target to stay competitive in the market for the near future. Interesting decision by Shipt, a little surprised they couldn't get at least 1 billion for the purchase considering how big the e-commerce market is and its expected long term growth.
Yes, back in the day, CAPTCHA was a good way to use human time trying to submit forms to both block spam-bots, and do useful work (e.g. label training data). This worked well when ML was bad at image recognition, but that's no longer the case. Unfortunately, as ML got better at the tasks, CAPTCHAs forced humans to do more work, and we're now at a point where either the machines are better, or it's not worth the humans' time. If your site has a CAPTCHA, there's a good chance I'll just close the tab and move on.
not sure, probably not
Robots are being used to deter homeless from setting up camp in San Francisco
I honestly feel like framing the debate around surface elements like color (of all things) is worse than useless, and would rather people focus on what tech-y groups have historically attracted young girls with no problem - neopets(1), for example.

(The linked article below focuses on a few things that really resonates with me - emotional security paired with the freedom to play and hack, not having to ~present~ a gender to participate, having an aesthetic flexibility around your own spaces, etc.)

(1) http://www.rollingstone.com/glixel/features/neopets-a-look-i...
I love my Tomato router, I'm on my second in about 7 years. Asus N66u I think. The first I bought and configured myself, which was a tiny bit of pain finding the right binary, etc. The router I'm using now I bought from FlashRouters.com at a fairly high margin above what I could buy the router alone, but they're fast and I trust them. I just recently bought a backup router from them too, and preconfigured it for minimal downtime should the current one break.
Yeah but the services that you mentioned are used mostly by enterprises. It's still possible that SRV lookups are broken for large amount of consumers that are not enterprises.
I'm personally not obsessed with removing NN. I was just pointing out that you don't need to have it if you have proper competition. It's not the kind of thing that simply needs to be everywhere. If you already have it, fine.
Maybe you thought it'd be an infographic? This is totally a valid visualization as far as I'm concerned. It packages and communicates data visually that would otherwise be difficult to see. It doesn't abstract up from the data with summary graphics, but it uses a time axis to give you a deeper understanding of the nature of the data. It even uses balloons, which I think may be the author suggesting a "bubble". So look, it even communicates a message.

[Disclaimer: not a VIS guy]
I disagree that it's just as valid. No one would actually have even looked that "record low sea ice" might mean that it had a low at it's maximum had I not pointed it out.

Having a low at the maximum doesn't lead to conversations about less ice = less sun reflected = more warming, since it's basically total darkness during the maximum.

Absolutely it would address my concerns if they actually wrote it correctly.

>This was the third straight year of a record low winter maximum.

Is also false since 2016 had more sea ice than 2015.
Feds Bust Designers of the Botnet That Crippled the Internet
> It seems to suggest that but for pesky SEC RegD rule, there'd be 10,000% appreciation opportunities for everyone, not just the wealthiest investors

Please refrain from aggressively straw manning me. We said nothing like that and you know that’s not our position. You’re trying to reducto ad absurdim us without actually doing the reducto part.

I see it this way: there are many different ways to structure a funding event: a bank loan, a bond issuance, an ICO, a partnership, a Series A, etc.

If we’re talking about a small scale, say $100k, but none of my investors have very much money, just a few hundred maybe, I am dramatically limited in the sorts of funding structures I can legally use.

If my investors all have millions of dollars and are putting in 10s of thousands, I can legally structure the deal however I like.

I think that’s an unfair limitation that makes it harder to start businesses that no rich person would ever care about.

I do care about protecting investors, but I think the wealth requirement is the laziest possible way to do that. Mandatory disclosure rules would be better. Requiring insurance would be better.
Lately I've heard a lot of radio spots pushing Target's free shipping and pick-it-up at your local store.

Which is competing / catching up with WalMart.
Fascinating, but I'm not going to do it. I respect the people who take this kind of care of their equipment, but I have an alternative that works quite well for me: cook your food in an adequate amount of fat. If it sticks, you don't have enough fat in the pan. When you're done, wipe the pan clean. If food is stuck hard, scrape it out, using steel wool if necessary. Cast iron is amazingly robust and develops a decent season on its own with daily use. As long as you're not super-uptight about maintaining a polymer layer on top of it, you basically can't do anything to hurt a cast iron skillet. And I'm far too busy to spend a whole day thermal-cycling a chunk of metal.
2017 iMac Pro Scores Worse Than 2010 Mac Pro in Geekbench OpenCL
>you aren't any more free than you were under the banks, you're just beholden to a different master - the people who maintain the cryptocurrency networks.

Exactly. Bitcoin just like fiat is backed by trust in those who run the network. Bitcoin doesn't solve many problems as a store of value right now if you trust the government not to print trillions like they did after the 2009 crisis.

If you don't trust the developers, don't trust the coin.
> You can't simple ignore fixed overhead costs (including capacity to avoid congestion) just because they aren't marginal costs.

There is no ignoring them, they're just small relative to an ISP's other costs.

It costs millions of dollars to lay and maintain cable. You have to dig up the road. The equipment gets damaged by weather and bad drivers and idiots with backhoes and has to be repaired on a regular basis. You have to staff a call center to provide customer support, pay for all the advertising these companies do, bill customers, process payments, handle delinquent debts, hire a bunch of lawyers, pay all your technical staff to maintain the network, pay rent and utilities, etc. etc.

That's what your monthly bill pays for. Not one of those things costs a penny less if you can convince people to transfer less data. The only thing that changes is that the ISP has to upgrade a switch to one with more or faster ports, which is a fixed cost of tens of dollars per customer per upgrade cycle, and in many cases it happens regardless of usage because the existing equipment has reached end of life or newer equipment uses less power. The added cost is a tiny fraction of the bill. Make it twice as big and it's still negligible.
AI-Based Rendering Comes to Hollywood
A lot of people still are questioning the motion. But it's fair and simple: Google needs to tap local Chinese AI talents. Their size is grow so large that it can't be ignore. And you don't have to read it between the lines, it's front and center on the Google's official blog post[1], stated by Google Chief Scientist for AI/ML Feifei Li:

China is home to many of the world's top experts in artificial intelligence (AI)
and machine learning. All three winning teams of the ImageNet Challenge
in the past three years have been largely composed of Chinese researchers.
Chinese authors contributed 43 percent of all content in the top 100 AI journals in 2015
and when the Association for the Advancement of AI discovered that
their annual meeting overlapped with Chinese New Year this year, they rescheduled.

[1]: https://www.blog.google/topics/google-asia/google-ai-china-c...
their pricing model is a subscription + an upcharge on purchased goods (10%?). The upcharge may not do much more than pay shoppers and cover some of those associated costs, I don't know, but there's more than just the base subscription revenue.
I was wondering as well, but that's because the menu is titled "Mobile", while the section is actually "Mobile & Desktop Frameworks"
I've had a lot of issues with Amazon recently so I'm happy that these retailers are doing more e-commerce
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"YOU NEED TO TRY HARDER TO APPEAL TO MINORITY GROUPS by not stereotyping, patronizing, abusing them and creating a hostile environment"

There, I fixed it for you. You can appeal to minority groups without using stereotypes.
#oneplanetsummit
I don't use the site now, but it's almost certainly intended to solve the problem that women get deluged with hundreds of messages a week, making so much noise that it's impossible to not be ignored as a guy, and it's annoying as a woman. In the new framework women can receive as many messages as matches, like a rate limiting, which might make for more participation.

I don't think it'll have any more of in impact on the primacy of physical attributes, because those already deeply mattered.
It's hard to question cognitive biases without invoking said bias or over-correcting.

"Stop falling for the gamblers' fallacy!"

"Stop calling everything with a low probability of return gambling!"
That is a super pedantic nit picking response. You well knew what was meant. Everyone here knows the meaning of V&V.
What kind of second-rate mathematician tries to prove a theorem without writing down examples? That's Proving Theorems 101.
My guess is infrastructure
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Buy a flock of chickens to feed. Sell the eggs.
You're inferring a lot by viewing a parent on their smart phone.

RE Independence: I dare say a child can play for some minutes with other children without the need to interact with their parent. In fact, I'd go far as to say, interrupting a child's play is more detrimental than leaving them be and looking at your phone. In either case, I'm sure the parent has more insight than a third party passing by and is making an informed decision.
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Nautilus has fine writing and I enjoyed both print and online editions. I assume it is not easy to run magazine like that. So I hope they will resolve this to everyone satisfaction.
Cool idea and thanks for sharing!

One of the challenges here (which I'm sure you are very aware of) is that perception tricks that fool computers like flickering images also can block out users with different types of visual impairments. Sometimes users with even minor or infrequently-symptomatic visual impairments won't be able to read an image[1] that uses a special "trick" like this.

For example, consider the risk of triggering an epileptic seizure with flickering. At a certain point it becomes an accessibility/legal issue.

[1] The animated example from nytf3's paper - please note that in contains strong flickering: http://people.csail.mit.edu/recasens/images/captcha.gif
Nobody, hence collapse.
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Maybe that could be addressed via a plugin and use of https://github.com/mathjax/MathJax-node on the backend. I spent the last month writing https://cocalc.com/share/, which generates mathematics-heavy user content 100% on the backend, using MathJax-node; it's definitely a bit painful, but seems to work reasonably well.
I was reading the article until a giant fullscreen ad popped up and I had to close the tab. Sorry, no thanks.