skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think it does.
I might have suggested crediting Alonzo Church. :)
Another way of thinking about this is that large companies have basically decided that executing optimally is more important than necessarily creating huge leaps themselves. They can just focus on making money, create a sizable amount of cash, and acquire new technology.

I'm sure there's a cultural effect here as well. Seems like there are fewer large companies that are willing to just let technologists "muck around for a bit" swinging for the fences without some kind of goal.

But, I just wonder, if VC-funded startups are where new tech grows, we end up just focusing on incremental improvements, instead of potential large leaps.
Doable with various techniques, to varying levels of effectiveness. Activated carbon is the cheapest, but not the most effective. Definitely tractable.

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http://www.who.int/water_sanitation_health/hygiene/om/linkin...
Guys: unless you are model, focus only on your career success. Everything else will not win the attention of the ladies and is a waste of time.
I worked on two cool open source music technology projects called ListenBrainz [1] (basically an open source version of Last.FM backed by the MetaBrainz Foundation, the people behind MusicBrainz) and AcousticBrainz [2] (a project trying to crowdsource acoustic information about music and release it as public domain). We released a beta for ListenBrainz over the summer and I've been working on data dumps for both ListenBrainz and AcousticBrainz for the past few weeks.

[1] https://listenbrainz.org/

[2] https://acousticbrainz.org
I wonder if the results hold when you're a man looking for other men? I've heard anecdotes from queer friends that online dating apps give them tons of potential dates and hook-ups. I've personally had more success with women that I've met in person, but when I've looked for men on Tinder I've been much more likely to get a match than with women.
> The big story of 2017 in the US was the beginning of the end of white male dominance. This is not a tech story, per se, but the tech sector was impacted by it. We saw numerous top VCs and tech CEOs leave their firms and companies over behavior that was finally outed and deemed unacceptable.

I don't care about the writer's credentials. This article being on the front page is an embarrassment to Hacker News. Whiteness is associated with being a predator, that is, an enemy of women. Divide and conquer.
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FTA:

"Ben Wallace, the UK's security minister, described tech companies as "ruthless profiteers" who were doing too little to help the government combat terrorists who often take advantage of their platforms."

The most interesting thing are the lines ruthless profiteers and take advantage of their platforms. The British government subsidizes health care, public transit and municipal water. Also, they deliberately shape traffic to create hot spots of pedestrian concentration and increase tax revenue. Are they doing anything about terrorists using those platforms?
It’s entirely open source (including development and roadmap documents).

Do you mean their product vision? If so, why does it matter when it already exists?
We seem to lurch back and forth between Keynesian and Chicago School economics, without hearing about things like Georgism[1] or Distributism[2].

The cynic in me says this is because the financial elites are comfortable with either option.

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georgism

[2] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distributism
> Computer literacy for everyone. That means making sure that everyone is able to go into GitHub and read the code that increasingly controls our lives and understand what it does and how it works.

The last stat I can find on US literacy is 86% (1985). Based on anecdotal evidence I suspect "math literacy" is much lower than that (couldn't find statistics). I had other _really smart_ engineer/science friends in undergrad who struggled writing and reading code. I'm not sure how realistic this is.
You're aware that the writer is a white dude right? That's not a credential, that's a fact.
But he/she didn't. In most cities you can rent cars by the hour and that is enough for a lot of people.
Kicking and screaming? More like naively and gleefully.

It would have been quite straightforward to architect their sites to encrypt message text end-to-end, and then gradually advance the state of the art in protecting metadata. Instead, they listened to the siren song of surveillance-based advertising, and built out a philosophy of siphoning as much data as they can!

Their current position was inevitable based on their philosophy, technical design, and business goals. The truly unfortunate bit is their 20 years of priming people and governments toward digital totalitarianism.
As a side project, I worked on https://stayintech.com/ It was fun to explore the Google Maps and Places API.

And also I updated my usability checklist https://stayintech.com/UX
Off hand I have no idea, but it's also the severity aspect here that is different. Color blind people do not have problems with executive function, maintaining social relationships, depression etc.
Here’s a list of syscalls: https://github.com/fuchsia-mirror/magenta/blob/master/docs/s...
One point I’d like to add which a lot of people disagree with is that we should all focus on writing simple and easy to understand code. Enigineers shouldn’t worry too much about optimizing code unles there is a good reason to do so.

I’d say about 1% of my code has ever required me to return and optimize it.(I usually write apis that are utilized by end user apis). Most of the time my code is more than fast enough and user concerns are more around bugs related to requirements.

In the few cases I have had to optimize its usually been a super obvious problem. For instance there was a Scala API that looped over a list of lists and called the Scala built in find function. That function is linear and incredibly slow I just converted the first list into a hashmap took a call that took 30 seconds to under 3 seconds still slow but order of magnitudes faster. It’s usually been silly stuff like that.

All of this of course depends on the domain you are working in some applications require you to squeeze out every millisecond in which case most of this won’t apply to you.
I wish more distros would start supplying packages for Pantheon. I'm not interested in a distro that forks Ubuntu LTS + specially patched packages (because Gnome3 refuses to merge changes that fix problems, but only really benefit non-Gnome3 desktops (completely against the spirit of open source and GNU + FDO)), but I would love it to be based on a distro that is kept up to date (such as Debian or Arch).
Anecdotally, I don’t think this is true. I was married just before Tinder became a thing, but I have several friends in their mid-to-late twenties who did and still do use it. I know three people who used it to meet their future wives, all of whom are maybe slightly above average attractiveness, and one friend who is frankly very far below average, but has slept with dozens of women (I believe over 50 at this point) by using it. I’m not suggesting any of that is good, bad, whatever, but there are at least four counterexamples all of whom I’d say were happy with the results of using it.
Believe it or not, a white man doesn't speak for all white men.
>It was determined that the bottom 80% of men (in terms of attractiveness) are competing for the bottom 22% of women and the top 78% of women are competing for the top 20% of men. The Gini coefficient for the Tinder economy based on “like” percentages was calculated to be 0.58. This means that the Tinder economy has more inequality than 95.1% of all the world’s national economies.

95%?

So there's still a chance! Men are not going to give up that easily.

No citation needed.

Also his sample size of 27 and self-reporting makes this not very rigorous(?).
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You're fed up after one year... Imagine what it's like for those of us who are judged in worse ways than being accused of having power. Literally hundreds of years of being called thieves, hoodlums, idiots and worse, being harassed and assaulted by authority, because of race/gender. I agree with you -- the generalizations suck and I'm tired of it too.
8 months of life without alcohol, pot, meat.

Launching an agency/consultancy with a sister company that resells hosting and optimization.
Men with men act like... Men would imagine in it happen with girls, but actually happening. My gay friends at least explain it me this way.
Well, if we're talking about this specific situation, the officer who did the shooting mistakenly thought he saw a weapon.
A coworker once worked as a technician at a chain optometrist's office. He swears the frames from Zenni and other online retailers are substandard and will fall apart, but my experience has been otherwise. He gave me one of his old frames (never worn by him beyond initial fitting) to save me money on a visit once, they were Ralph Lauren or something like that and he claimed retail cost was over $500 before lenses. They lasted all of six months before they literally fell apart on my face. I found a replacement of the same model in a different color on eBay used for $50. After cleaning them and swapping my lenses over, I got another three months before they failed as well.

The ones I have now were $70, are more attractive, more comfortable, and so far have lasted over a year. I did get them at the optometrist but they were on clearance and were only a few dollars more than if I'd gotten the same ones online at Zenni.
I thought the same. Give everyone access to APIs with their private info?

Then again, there was a time when driving must have seemed too complex for the masses.
I noticed that tinder-attractiveness is very relative. I have virtually no chance to find a date on Tinder in France whereas it's reasonably easy in NYC. And in some places in Asia I'm hugely popular. Overall, regular dating sites always work better than Tinder. I think it's because Tinder is more for casual encounters and a woman can afford to be picky if that's what she's looking for. The supply of men looking for casual encounters is far superior than the demand.
The best way to determine fit is with a physical frame as a starting point. Even 1mm can make a difference. If you don't want to visit a local store to try on frames, you can buy cheap (non-stylish) frames on eBay for less than $10. Once you find a few frames that fit, use those frame measurements as search criteria. Frame eye width + bridge width should be ~= PD, otherwise lens will not be centered and one lens edge will be thicker than the other.

Warby Parker has physical stores where you can try on frames and they are happy for you to purchase from them online. They have an app that uses the iPhone X to measure your head, but Apple limits the camera depth resolution, so it's not much more useful than sending a photo to a good optician.

When you said the widest frames "did not fit right" and you got "a bad result", what exactly do you mean: poor vision from the glasses, slid down your nose, temples too tight/short/long, did not look good? With the current trend in oversized glasses, there are more wide frames available than narrow ones. Online frame sizes can be confusing because of "base curves", so two frames that say 55-20-140 can have different widths. EyeBuyDirect and Zenni (and likely others) provide actual frame widths, although these are sometimes off by a few mm. Frames with nose pads are easier to adjust.
I tried to create a new programming language, Toy Santa, but I became too demotivated to finish it. But I feel the codebase of toysanta is the best I've been doing to date.
It's in C++, using Direct2D. One day, I will release it on github. But until then, I will try to create a presentable version.

(yes, I am a tad attention-grabbing here;-)

...I an autodidact, I work for myself.
Kozmos: https://getkozmos.com
Yes. Not sure it’s a tech bias, but I think she deserves credit for starting the movement.
Hum... Uncertainty is not about states, it is about observables.

It is a characteristic of the Universe that you can't measure momentum and position with perfect accuracy, it does not matter what state the stuff you are measuring is in. And it happens because observing momentum messes with the objects position, and the other way around.
The fact that white men hold power shouldn't be worrying. Power is often inherited, and America was historically a predominantly white male-dominated nation in the near past.

What we should worry about is this fact being used as an excuse for anti-white racism and anti-male sexism, which is exactly what is happening. People are acting like all white males are the issue when they're not. They're applauding affirmative action while ignoring the fact that white men are now a minority in universities nowadays. They sneer at men embracing their masculinity while applauding women embracing their femininity. They push for equality in high paying fields while ignoring these inequalities in lower-paying ones.

We really should reconsider our methods of facilitating change. It's a double standard, and will be met with cultural and political backlash.
i hope the undeniable pleasure that cop took in playing this lethal game of Simon Says was worth it.
It's really about the level of ammonia/nitrates in the water and a sufficiently strong source of light, that's all that algae need. It will happen to any water that sits a few weeks in open air so that spores can get into it. Even a regular tap water with added chloride will turn green if it has at least some level of nitrates in it (and usually they have).
Been following you guys for a while and will connect in the new year! Love the work you’ve been producing for a friend.
Due to the nature of the tax dodging, it's not quite that.
Put yourself in situations where the people you’re attracted to have to spend a fair amount of time talking with you. Initial snap judgements can be overcome after a few hours of interaction. You probably won’t be able to date a celebrity this way (although if you live in LA and work in the film industry, I will adjust my probabilities) — but you can absolutely meet and date attractive people that way.

(Why’d you edit out your question? I thought it was interesting!)
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Probably true...I'm gay and have ~2500 matches on Tinder while being pretty discerning (I swipe right maybe 10% of the time). Also agree that if you are just looking for a "hookup" being gay makes it many times easier to do that.

Being gay these days pretty great, for many reasons. Almost all of my perceived downsides I felt growing up w.r.t social stigma/discrimination have been mostly eliminated in my day-to-day.
>.(I usually write apis that are utilized by end user apis).

When that is the case you need to think long and hard about performance, because it needs to not just be fast enough for you, on your machine, but on any conceivable end users machine, for any conceivable end users idea of what responsive enough performance is, for any conceivable end uer's work load, which might be vastly different or larger than anything you intended.

further I don't think it is always the case that faster code is less simple. Often the faster option is more simple. Avoiding unnecessary complexity is often a win for performance too, and understanding memory locality and how the garbage collector work allows you to make smarter default choices which often have no net impact on simplicity
My open source project: building best practiced apis fast with Python3 https://github.com/agconti/cookiecutter-django-rest
I'm a little suspicious of the way he keeps referring to men as "men" and women as "females" in the same sentence.
This is just empirically false, I'm wondering where they made the error. Are they excluding the way that the algorithm matches people? So that if you're in the bottom X% men you're eventually only shown to corresponding bottom X% girls, so that it doesn't feel like you have the low success rate that you would do vs the general population.
It’s possible to use a rope as protection without a partner. “Rope-soloing” is not uncommon on harder, more remote climbs.
> I wonder if the results hold when you're a man looking for other men?

I had a gay roommate who was very active on Grindr. He was reasonably attractive. Essentially, he could meet another man within an hour if he wanted too.
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Yes. It's a historical fact that the FBI systematically slandered and harassed peaceful activists. I have no doubt that they (and other agencies) would do it again given the right circumstances; there's a high likelihood that they're doing it right now.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COINTELPRO
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The how do we cope with it list is wishful at best with the "understanding code," "Github" and "open source." I am all for computer education and open source (more like /g/ Stallmanism FOSS, but that's not relevant), but I can't imagine any year being the year of Linux on the Desktop. It has been that way for 30 years now.

The thing I think will be a big deal in the next couple of years to come will be about trust, or more precisely trustless. It has been shown that you can trust a protocol/scheme without trusting anyone in the system. The rise of Bitcoin is the prime example of that. Or look at how Contactless discovery happens in Signal. Now imagine that happening in your spam abuse (imagine spammers can't spam due to effective rate limiting), email service (you store encrypted emails on the server you don't trust, and know when someone decrypts your mail), social networks (you can safely store your information on a social network without trusting it), responsible decryption (you can store top-secret data in your phone and not having to trust the software provider - i.e. FBI Apple iPhone case), reproducible software builds. Technologies are slowly enabling those dreams to come true. I think that trust in trustless systems is extremely important, because it enables the mass to have privacy and protection without having to resort on everyone understanding the code and more importantly, trusting the integrity (whatever that might require) of the cloud operator or of your peers. Several important papers have been published in this area. To get a grasp of what's possible, you could read "Making Decryption Accountable" by Ryan, "Private contact discovery for Signal" by moxie0.

I'm planning to do something practical with those ideas in 2018 :). Wish me luck guys.
I don't think it's realistic at all. Most people get bored when they look at code. It's a 'living in the bubble' sort of thing to think this will happen, imho.
I've not watched the video nor read the book but I take it slightly differently.

Reinertsen, in "Managing the Design Factory", describes the need for companies to generate high value information as efficiently as possible. Using Shannon's theory of information, he argues that low-information events are those events where the likelihood of either success or failure is high. Out of this comes the fact that you maximize the information output when the probability of failure is 50%.

How many of us take risks - professionally or personally - where the probability of failure is 50%?
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yes, the Iterator protocol of Java is sub-optimal
- hasNext() has to be called twice so you hope the VM will kick the common sub expression elimination which i have found works well only if you do not do any side effect in hasNext.
- and most of the Iterator are fail fast so the code has to check that the modCount of the collection has not changed.

but from my own experience, you usually do not have to optimize that far, removing that 'synchronized' block, is far more common.
> No matter how fashionable – or not – we consider ourselves, we all try to avoid wearing the same outfit every day.

It's not so frequent that an article loses me at the first sentence.
Maybe it's not a realistic goal today, but computer literacy needs to be in everyone's mind today.
Thanks, I briefly considered consulting the HN hive mind for alternatives that were not "wasting [...] time" but chose to avoid going off the rails as coming anywhere near "dating tips" often has here in the past. Didn't mean to leave you hanging like that... I guess I need to spend a bit more time before clicking 'add comment' on rising stories.

My personal recommendation sounds like a specific subset of yours -- meet people by volunteering, expecting to learn from rejection as the initiator. In-person interaction can overcome the specific shortfall that is the primary topic of this discussion - getting/giving(!) a chance orthogonally to attractiveness. The volunteering bit provides a framework for shared direction and is beneficial well beyond meeting strangers (don't volunteer solely to start relationships!). This comment covered some caveats: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16041801
I have no ties to the FreeBSD project or its foundation, but it seems very cheap for companies that profit billions of dollars yearly to only donate $25k to projects and foundations that support part of the software backbone of their infrastructure... Regardless of regulatory barriers, if this got a bit more exposure it could actually be a PR liability, IMO...
I released another iOS app. It has been two years since I released anything. Really lost interest because the market is so large, and it’s hard for a ream of one. However, I’ve decided to write several little apps instead of trying to boil the oceans.

https://h4labs.wordpress.com/2017/12/29/word-search-1-1-rele...

The idea is that quantity trumps quality:

https://blog.codinghorror.com/quantity-always-trumps-quality...
What would you recommend that isn't far worse, though? At least the PCG family tries; throwing that away can't give you better results. There's a good reason the PCG generators have remained robust against new tests, and why the well regarded competitors like the Mersenne Twister and Xoroshiro128+ have not.

Unless the competition is actually using rigorous mathematics to talk about their statistical quality, and as far as I can find they are simply not[1], being empirically better is the only thing to argue about! Thus if O'Neil's approach finds weaknesses in the competitor's tested generators earlier[2], it's a stronger test.

Even from the angle of unknown, theoretical attacks, competitors almost always build on trivially invertible functions, so you cannot expect them to be robust against generalized tests. The inverse transformation is always weak, so if this is trivial they cannot be robust against general classes of correlations.

Unless you can actually show a (useful) non-cryptographic RNG that makes good justifications for its strength in formal terms, which I doubt you can, you're basically left with the fact that the PCG family is the only robustly vetted family in practice.

If that isn't good enough for you, there's always ISAAC.

[1] https://cs.stackexchange.com/questions/50059/why-is-the-mers...

[2] http://www.pcg-random.org/posts/visualizing-the-heart-of-som...
Truth isn’t black and white and is based on your perception and knowledge. You can’t offer radical honesty as a solution if you hold information back.

Radical truth tellers forget about the sin of omission, and happily lean back and watch others bang themselves.
> Just because they dominate leadership roles doesn't mean that all, or even most white males have power

Read that sentence to yourself again, slowly.

And ask yourself why, and how it affects groups who rarely have power.
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