skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This logic also works on computers. Or, well, anything. You'd be surprised at just how useful people can find things while still making a mess of them.

So, yes, if you have the time, learn the internals. But no, that is not in any way a prerequisite. Nor should it be.
How does someone "increase just the stock price without increasing the underlying value generation mechanism"?

So they have to fool an army of analysts that are generally very very good at predicting growth and profits? They have to fool institutional investors who are literally pros at filtering through BS filing gimmicks.

I've worked on trying trade automatically trade earnings reports (professionally) and the biggest problem was always the numbers didn't tell the complete story and investors caught on in literally seconds.
I don't have a citation and I have no plans to dig one up. But everything I have ever read indicates that poor people have less sex than rich ones because they are just struggling to survive and can't manage to fit it into their lives. Historically, Americans had more sex on average than people in other countries because we had a large comfortably well off middle class.

I find it ironic that a magazine named Fortune would miss the obvious angle that this is likely related to the general financial distress in the world. It suggests Americans are too poor for luxury items like regular sex. They are working longer hours, exhausted and stressed out, so sex is just not happening.
That would be susceptible to traffic patterns.
There’s an episode of Downton Abbey where it goes the other way.
I got married to someone I met on match, been married for 10 years. My coz is in a long term relationship with someone he met on tinder. Your mileage may vary...
Mmm, I don’t think I am “hot” but I meet plenty of people from it.
Im sure there is grief afterwards, but there is also grief and pain from over eating and overdrinking: some consequences are very hard to measure at the point of decision. Specially when its related to your own survival.

The ghost of a 1% danger vs a 0% consequence makes it a pretty rational decision. Bear in mind that criminals, even those with hostages, dont make the decision to shoot so fast: they know that if you shoot the hostage you die or get captured immediately. So the criminals do respond to the punishment. Why wouldnt cops?
Jobs gutted Apples version of PARC when he came back, yet somehow it kick-started Apples greatest ever period of innovation.
Bill to allow homeopathy doctors to practice allopathy in India
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10 Commandments of Productivity
> It's solving the market of oversaturated shared-VPS that run Node, Python, or Go? Call when you have PHP.

Interesting perspective. I quit reading when it said "Python 2.7".

One wonders who's problem they are solving?
There are an infinite sources of random audio out there that aren't susceptible to human interference.
Cloudflare has a Go implementation of SIDH with p751:
https://blog.cloudflare.com/sidh-go/

Here’s an overview of the performance from a patch by Armando Faz Hernandez:
https://github.com/cloudflare/p751sidh/pull/2
> this looks like a big PR stunt/done for the cool factor kind of thing

Probably, but it is indeed pretty cool. I appreciate when people take something potentially mundane and bring style to it.
Someone observing the lava lamps still can't control their appearance.
Do they have the distribution posted somewhere?
In general, you have to understand the mistakes to learn from them. Often, we don't even understand what someone else was trying to do. Much less what their mistake was.
Any issues with the optical center position, or pupillary distance, when ordering online?

I had a new pair of glasses (for distance), and was struggling to focus quickly (vs old glasses). The issue was the optical center, which was 3mm too high. Wearing them lower was the short-term fix.
WebDriver Testing Fun Times: When Threes Didn’t Exist
I feel like the methodology has a lot of flaws that makes the error bars so large as to make the actual numbers in this study useless:

1. Small sample size

2. Inactive profiles

3. These apps actually adjust the profiles you see based on your attractiveness level. I know they at least categorize attractiveness because I've had this experience when Bumble seemingly had a bug where I would suddenly get a ton of profiles that were clearly super-attractive people, then get a bunch of profiles that were clearly the exact opposite (no profile images, dark or random pictures, and :ahem: not so conventionally attractive people).

However, the general point stands: The majority of women will like a minority of men on these apps. As such, as a man, if you want to make this work for you, the basic strategy is to get as highly attractive pictures of you as possible (professional if you can) and pictures of you doing various interesting activities (as opposed to just vanity shots). Then, keep swiping right and follow up on all matches. But don't make this your only source of meeting women, as others suggested, spend a lot of time in places where you can meet women in real life.
Does anyone know of a major service that natively supports Ruby?

I have previously used Lambda with Traveling Ruby and Iron.io.
The issue with this is the nature of devices (cameras) and device drivers - which both have non random characteristics.
I'd be interested in talking to you when I get back to work (2 weeks from now). My email is in my profile.
By the same logic, changing demand presupposes an inefficient market. Changing demand in the absence of higher supply will only result in demand not being met.
>proprietary mainframes (sorry, cloud services)

It's all just Linux. Easily transferable between environments.
Highly recommend http://www.econtalk.org/ regardless of preference between Chicago or Keynes. While the host is of a Chicago bent, the interviewees come from across the spectrum. I've been a regular listener for almost a decade now, and it's a joy every week.
Oh man, its the 70's again.

Or should I say 50's.
I wonder if the flu virus could get carried on a piece of paper.
The software version of The Lion King’s Circle of Life..
Yep, if I had an office and employees in the UK hooking me up with these retailers. Facebook and Google do have offices in the UK selling ad spaces and even some developers in the UK.

What's your definition of "operating in"?
I suspect its a matter of getting a lot of random rapidly with easily replaceable and unregulated devices.

The classic HotBits ( https://www.fourmilab.ch/hotbits/ ) uses radioactive decay to get its random data. This generates 100 bytes per second of randomness. But that also depends on getting a radiation source. A single one costs about $80. A lava lamp costs $10.

Working off the list of isotopes that they provide, You've got things that have half-lives. The issue there is that the way that one generates random data from radioactivity is get an event (A), and then get another event (B) and another event (C). The time between A and B is compared to the time between B and C. If AB is shorter than CD you've got a 1. If its longer than you've got a 0. If its the same, then throw about AB. As the material decays, its rate of generating bits of data slows down.

Lava lamps are easily replaceable and don't have half-lives.

I suspect there's also issue with "here is our lead lined vault where we keep a bunch of radioactive disks to generate random data". Sure, the units are micro Curie (the most active one is a 10uCi Cesium 137). But... do you want to go into that room and change a burnt out detector? How about swapping out a lava lamp because of a burnt out bulb?
I've had some bad experiences with Eye Buy Direct.

But the thing that really scared me was that after a few months of wearing their glasses, my vision would start to go blurry for a few seconds at a time, and I would feel intense tingling in my eyes.

My eye doctor told me that the glasses were putting excess strain on my eyes, and I was glad I did not have any diseases.

At least for my prescription, I do need a more exact fitting.
If you're manufacturing the hardware as well as the software , this is less of an issue.

Getting a new OS to run on a new cellphone, or laptop is a surmountable task.
A Crash Course in Mechanism Design for Cryptoeconomic Applications
Men have been able to knock one out for free since, at least, the evolution of opposable thumbs (and those probably aren't strictly necessary). Porn isn't material.
Huh, good to know that the term female can be interpreted in a negative light. In my mind, it is fairly neutral, same as male vs. man. I normally use it when I mean to include both younger girls and adult women.
This is only true if your prescription is run of the mill and fairly weak. Anything above 5 diopter off, or with barrel corrections, astigmatism, etc and you should go to an actual optometrist.

Zenni and the like use terrible materials with bad abbe numbers leading to chromatic abberation. They push 'thin' but what thing really means is high refractive index and generally low abbe number. Even their 'normal' lens material has a bad abbe number.

So, get your frames online cheap. Then take them to your actual optometrist and get lenses made of good materials put in.
The good ol' illusion of choice.
I spent a lot of time experimenting with developing web applications without needing to be online, and I recently published Laurence, a cache to make that a little easier.

https://github.com/salemhilal/laurence
I left an amazing company with one of the best work environments (https://webflow.com) to work for a non-profit that fights child sexual abuse (https://www.wearethorn.org). The work has been incredibly rewarding, and although I was quite nervous about leaving an awesome job and jumping into an unknown, in hindsight almost everything about the change was a meaningfully positive improvement. Working towards a mission that personally I feel has a lot of value has been an awesome experience.
I have a pair of $6 Zenni glasses that have lasted five years. No sign of wear and I wear them regularly for driving.
The zillions of sources of EM/thermal/etc noise. It's so prevalent, most of the time the effort is spent in trying to get rid of it.
Of course! Don't your eggs have scales?

Actually no it looks like that article has some other photo. Other news sites have more detailed pictures / videos without scales on eggs.

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/dinosaur-eggs-just-a...
Milton Friedman was georgist on taxes: he was in favor of land value tax. Who else is in favor of LVT? Stiglitz, Krugman.

Wait, left and right economist agree on LVT?

"You might see disagreement between economists, but if you were to put a varied group of people and a set of economists in the same room, you will soon find that its everyone against the economists" -~ Milton Friedman
Hi Jacques, I really appreciate your comment!

1. Yeah, there are always going to be situations where low-latency is a must.

2. PaaSes most certainly do, I'm a huge advocate for CloudFoundry usage within my place of work and help onboard people for just this reason. FaaS will simply provide one extra layer of abstraction so that developers won't necessarily have to deal with larger frameworks in situations where it doesn't make sense

3. This is really interesting point of view and I'm inclined to agree with you, there does need to be extensibility that some of these platforms don't currently offer.

P.s. I'm very much looking forward to working with Pivotal's function service offering once it is made available to us!
For my wife and I, it was OKCupid where we met. Been together over 7 years, married over 5 of them (all in a row).
Well Keynesian economics is balderdash that is used to give stealthily give subsidy to the wealthy under the guise of "encouraging growth" and "maintaining stability". Just who do you think benefits when the middle class is thrusted onto an economic treadmill that can only be survived by investing in big corporations run by the already rich?

If we must use lowering interest rates to drive economic growth, then give those low interest rates to the middle and lower class, not the big banks.
3 dates in 10 years? With that kind of yield, I would’ve given up much sooner!
Paying back the debt taken on to be able to do #1 when organic growth is self-sustaining again.

This happens automatically when growth is strong. Even if the nominal debt keeps growing, it shrinks as a percentage of the GDP, so long as the growth of the GDP is faster than that the growth of the nominal debt. So for instance, in the USA, between 1945 to 1980, the national debt shrank from 98% of GDP to 33% of GDP. The USA ran budget deficits in many of those years, but it didn't matter, because the nominal growth of the GDP was much faster that the growth of the debt.
No it won't , save yourself 4 mins read
> unless you actually think anybody wants the kind of job which is so tiresome it can be done with a machine instead

If the alternative is destitution, lots of people want those jobs
DHS weighs major change to H-1B foreign tech worker visa program
Yeah, probably. It's the sort of thing where someone's going to want to know your NPS anyways, so if you're collecting that data you may as well break it apart a little. And by no means do I think you shouldn't be doing other sorts of user research.
Andrew Bisharat (http://eveningsends.com/everest-is-not-for-climbers/)
But what this sad story reaffirms, to me, is that Everest is not for climbers. It’s for guides and clients, and all the infrastructure that goes into getting a large mass of people up the same two routes, as more than 3,000 people have done in the last 60 years. The mountain has been fully co-opted by the guide culture, and it seems as though there isn’t any room—logistically, if nothing else—for “real” climbers to go climbing as a small team, and demonstrate the self-reliance and skill that normally goes into climbing almost any other mountain.

the long and short of it is that Everest is not where The Hard Stuff Up High is. That's K2, Meru, Annapurna, Cerro Torre... Honnold is not really much of an alpinist, and I doubt he'll ever do Everest ... but he did just spend a month crushing in Antarctica.

(guided) mountaineering and alpinism are very different beasts, and Everest is a guided mountain (now). Fixed ropes, O2, guides, lines, litter. Judging by the last few years of trip reports in the AAC journal, the people who want to rack up and stomp off into the mountains alone or with one or two partners are going elsewhere.
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I always had much better luck with online dating. At least on those sites you are reasonably certain they are available and wanting to date and/or hook up with people.

I went to a ton of meetups and group events in real life over the course of three years (and to a lesser extent for years before that), met a lot of women through that, but very few of them were either not in a relationship or emotionally available at the time (either too focused on their career, in an 'it's complicated' situation, going through crap with family, not very financially stable, waiting for their unicorn and would accept nothing less, etc). Many of these women I never saw with anyone or spoke about being with anyone over the course of many years in successive meetups.

To be fair, I was in a similar situation through a good chunk of my 20s when I was either working my butt off for startups or completely broke, so I understand.

But online dating was much less frustrating for me.
No other way to say this: that's not racism. Nobody's saying it's okay to make white people uncomfortable because they are white; they're saying it's okay because some conversations that are uncomfortable are still worth having.
Making the few squirm in their seats a bit for the profound good of the many is utilitarianism.
> hasn't the productivity->wage ratio decreased in the past few decades?

We have been in a productivity crisis in the past few decades. AFAIK, nobody knows if it's because we are measuring everything wrong, because people are reluctant to adopt more productive habits, or because modern engineering completely failed on that front. But whatever is the cause, expect to see lots of noise and complex behavior on anything that touches productivity.
Non GAAP tends to be more informative though when looking for specifics on cash flow for example. I see more people using pro forma figures instead.
You just set your credibility on fire with the phrase "the extreme bias between newspapers and TV channels picking and choosing facts". What you are describing is literally the opposite of how objective journalism is performed. That you believe this is how professional newsrooms function indicates you haven't worked in the industry.
I appreciate the reminder! Now that you've said this I remember this being mentioned here before:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9884518
It is entirely, 100% a publicity stunt with no practical importance whatsoever.
Assuming this is not a PR stunt: Wouldn't different lighting conditions throughout the day lead to patterns in the randomness?
The Great Recession is 2007-2009.

Also we have to bear in mind Keynes was a free market ideologue, and said taxes should be at tops 25% of GDP.

Keynes truly helped model how to get out of recession, but he did not know the danger of government not being able to go back to a smaller state. Hayek and Friedman were more confident that it was a bad path.
Well, Google App Engine (both the standard/classic and flexible kinds) has been and still is pretty awesome for people who don't want to worry too much about SRE stuff but still not pay through the nose.

AWS Lambda just seemed like too much bureaucratic busywork for no good reason (ugh API Gateway...), last time I tried it out.

I guess it maybe appeals to "enterprise" type developers? Maybe it this way cause Werner Vogels is german and from an academic background? :-) I'm adventurous, because I write this knowing that even referring to national characteristics results in instant down votes here.

Just give me an endpoint where I can respond to HTTP requests and parse the URL path/parameters myself, thank you. That way I can keep it as simple or as complex as is needed, per situation. I just don't want to bother with your insanely over-engineered API of definining custom API requests.
I have a missing tooth and I'm getting an implant to replace it. Last week I had the post installed. It took about an hour and cost $4200. Insurance covered only the pain meds.

After that's healed, I have to get a replacement tooth mounted on the post and that's another $2000ish. I believe my dental plan will cover $1000 of that.

I don't understand how an implant can cost $4000. It was an hour of time in a dentist office. It seems about an order of magnitude too much. FWIW, I had two estimates and that was the lower one.
I don't think it's this simple. There are actually many women on Tinder.

The reality is women are creeped out by many men on dating sites and apps. If you don't believe me, go talk to some women and ask them about their experiences. Or go read the /r/creepypms subreddit, which isn't just concerned with online dating but shows you what women have to deal with online.

This pushes them towards only interacting with the most attractive and witty men who create a sense of safety. Whether that sense of safety is false is up for debate, but I do think this is what drives a large amount of inequality in online dating. Men are generally not scared of or creeped out by women they interact with online, so their standards online are closer to their standards in real-life.
I mean the article seems very random, linking to some bad books and some good ones. I'm assuming the ones with 3+ stars on Goodreads are poor because the author doesn't say anything to justify why they're decent. There's no hint that the author even reads these books.

I already have a bottomless list of books to read, so some form of filter would be nice. There are better methods of discovery, like finding respectable programmers in a field and then reading what they like.

Unless I'm missing something, the article doesn't make any effort to establish credibility, so it's similar to any other teenager recommending a stack of books.
Have you seen economic equations from, say an econ 3XX class? There's variables all over the place, under a fraction, inside an exponent, with zero regard to dimensional analysis or what meaning conversion constant ought to have (or the numerical tolerances of those equations). Then you take a derivative of that formula.
A variation on Brownian Motion: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brownian_motion
It’s not the revenue that I’m knocking. It’s being stuck with obsolete legacy technology that you can’t get rid of. Better things are out there but you are stuck because someone else made a decision that wouldn’t get them fired. (I’m at a place that is going through the painful process of showing IBM the door)
This is a good-sounding statement, so it "feels true". But, if you stop to really think about it... It's probably false in most circumstances [1]

[1] If by "efficient" you mean time-efficient. If you pick your own efficiency metric, then yes, sure, I guess so...
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Have you measured this? I would expect the allocation of Callable<String> with closures to be slightly worse than common types of string concatenation. Not to mention the awkwardness of only logging effectively final vars--this would be a red flag on organizational coding practices--just use slf4j or better yet Scala + LazyLogging.
In 5-10 years, you'll click a button to move all your functions to a decentralised computing fog.
This WebGL Shader somehow brokes android/iOS chrome and safari both
Hope somebody figuring out why this thing happens.

EDIT: Even more serious thing is, the link below will make your entire iOS device FREAZE, so you will need to reboot.

BE CAUTIOUS: https://www.shadertoy.com/results?query=&sort=newest&from=96...
(This page is sorted by "newest order", so may not be work in future.)
Don't think ThreadLocals help when you actually need to share state between threads.
See the blog post. Other sources are used.

https://blog.cloudflare.com/lavarand-in-production-the-nitty...
I want kernel modules back in openbsd. Of course they gonna ignore it for reason, but you know... easy come, easy go.
Netflix uses Linux too and Sony heavily dumbed the kernel, to decrease the attack surface. It's practically pointless to call it as an os.
ZFS is also available for Linux and of course it's better to use it on Illumos. I wonder why Netflix chose FreeBSD and not Solaris or Illumos.
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It doesn't happen automatically if the government in question acts irresponsibly, which more often than not unfortunately is the case and also the reason why structures like the Euro convergence criteria are in place to keep governments in check (which in recent years often hasn't exactly worked out).
Well its not the government who decides what is covered or not. Most countries have special boards with doctors who decide what is covered by the basic mandatory health care insurance plan.

But at the end of the day society has to decide whether or not healthcare for everyone is something worth spending money on. And that's were the US fails imo: no sense of a shared community.
We did this exact thing at SGI 20 years ago.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lavarand

I wonder if Cloudflare was inspired by that.
I knew it. Programming is part of computer science. Now I say CS is part of math :)
"The only alternative I can recommend is real life. Nothing beats it.."

The problem I have with meeting people from "real life" is that they're mostly random people that I usually have little to nothing in common with.

At least on some dating sites I can list my interests, and the people who reply can self-select to have some or even many of these things in common with me.
https://imgur.com/kBQxVIm