skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So does that mean they store your passwords in some other way as opposed to only storing those encrypted with your master password? I’ve only used 1pass, so maybe it’s different, but that seems sketchy that they can just access your data without your master password to decrypt things. Or is this recovery system all handled locally on a machine you own?
I was wondering the same thing. They were about to blow the site sky high with dynamite. The article didn’t mention how they went from thinking they looked like rocks to looking like fossils:

A construction team in China were shocked to discover that what they thought was a collection of "oval-shaped stones" was in fact a nest of perfectly fossilised dinosaur eggs. The group were using explosives to excavate the ground at a site in the Jiangxi province on Christmas Day when they came across the prehistoric find.

Suspecting them to be dinosaur eggs, they stopped construction in the area and contacted the police. The site was sealed off and experts from the county museum were called in to recover the find.

It went from finding what they thought were “oval-shaped stones,” and then it’s suddenly “suspecting them to be dinosaur eggs.”
I will fix it soon, I promise..!!!
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> A focus on quick resolution at all cost rather than peaceful resolution.

The reason for this is simple. It just takes one situation (or at least one believably plausible situation) for people of power to justify a quicker resolution that ultimately gives them more power and meets their KPI goals (more arrests, less bad guys living).

In this case, imagine a real armed gunman shoots a hostage or a stray bullet hits an innocent bystander. Imagine the outcry of the public and SJW's: "OMG they should have just run in there and killed the SOB! Or better, shoot him in the leg! Do something police!"

Solution? A more swift resolution to the problem - i.e. SWAT style infiltration.
This is power that each newspaper wields everyday for tens of years. Same for TV and radio. Why being on internet automatically makes you not responsible for what you distribute again?
The example of bad allocations

def first[A](left: A, right: A): A = left

first(12, 42) // => 12

actually allocates nothing, because both numbers are in the Integer box cache range (-128 to 127 inclusive by default, but configurable to be greater). The general argument is good though, so mabye first(128,129) is a better example :)
Writing JavaScript libraries less than 1TB size
Building on the idea of more transparency in the workplace than we're normally comfortable with, there's also Kim Scott's Radical Candor. The missing ingredient this book brings to the discussion is that transparency generally works only if the messenger also personally cares about the recipient. Without caring, the messenger (often the boss) is simply a jerk, regardless of the validity of the message.

https://www.radicalcandor.com
If construction would stop every time you dig out something old there would be no construction at all. But it's not everyday you find perfectly preserved dinosaur eggs.
The sentence itself implies libre, not being patent-encumbered. Donating a great innovation to humanity means making the knowledge freely available for use. It does not mean using the knowledge to create a product and then making this product freely available.
> Harrison and Steele book.

I guess you mean Harbison
Meh, I think they do in fact contribute. It's just that they don't contribute to an acceptable degree. If FreeBSD is as indispensable to these corps as OP implies, they should be contributing to a level enough to make FreeBSD financially secure.

What's scummy about Facebook is the way Zuckerberg pushes the message that privacy is dead while using the money he made selling my privacy to buy all the mansions around his so that he can protect his own privacy.

But that's for another thread: I'm interested in why FreeBSD isn't receiving the financial support it seems to require from the corps that are leeching off volunteers to pad their profit margins.
> I believe that for workstation/desktop computing we have already hit stagnation

Nope. Not even close. We haven’t even made a user-friendly function editing tool. After that happens there will be another Cambrian explosion on the desktop.

Let me see if I can list more things like that...

Well, smart contracts. Those have approximately zero adoption and will probably constitute a double digit share of scripts in the future. We don’t even know how to write them yet. You won’t be writing smart contracts by talking to Alexa... not at first anyway.

What else... I think if I can come up with three I will have proven my point...

Well, a shared spatial computing environment. VR will encourage prototyping of libraries for structuring that stuff. But there’s nothing about shared computational space that necessitates a headset. I think most of what VR will do is show us new ways to structure desktop software.

And those are just things I, a person from the 80s, can point to and say “we haven’t figured this out on the desktop yet but we will”. That’s not even admitting the things we can’t even imagine.

I would say we have designed less than 1% of the computational structures that will come standard on a mobile phone in 2050.

We’ve been advances in for decades—approaching human lifespan timescales—so it sometimes feels like we’re close to the end. But we’re just at the very beginning of discovering the final form of “windows”.
My[not Me] Jarvis Using Zanzito (Skills Collection)
I felt the same way about cigarettes (and then sugar) for awhile. They helped me focus and think about hard problems (or so I thought). Anyways, not as good example as Adderall, whose effects are probably more effective than what I imagined.

Have you considered taking a personal leave to kick your habit? I mean, don’t take a vacation, but take a leave from your job and then quit the drug while instead working on personal projects and trying to remain productive. You will slump at first, but if you like what you are working on, you’ll probably pick up again after a few weeks.

I know not everyone can afford to do that, but it’s the best solution I could think of. Good luck!
The professor himself probably agrees with you. In lecture 18 the professor states

At 3:40 - For this topic he actually has has 6 or 7 lectures, 100 pages of notes. But it's compressed to an introduction.

At 7:10 - He states HMM is 2-3 lectures, but he's going to compress it to half a lecture.

Honestly, I had courses like this in grad school. The were typically seminars and usually graded on a curve because people crammed stuff into their brains as quickly as possible and barely understood anything! They were meant to give you a broad coverage of a field, not comprehensively cover any particular set of topics.
You should check-out Ghandi doing Margreth Thatcher- it has something poetic.
Aside from control, what does this provide over Linux?

IMO, the Linux desktop problem is due partially to relying on the antiquated X Windows system, but mostly a lack of funding a good vision, e.g. Unity.

After growing up with OpenLook, then Motif, the plethora of Linux window managers, and unhappy years with Windows, I noticed most of the elegant apps were being written for OSX. I’m not sure how much of this is due to the devs or the OS/libraries, but probably both.

The solution I want is a Linux OS, a WM with a good, cohesive, long term vision, and an easy way to build apps within at vision — something like a native Electron minus the memory and CPU overhead. I believe Google could do this.
According to another hackernews they're actually nationalised, so they don't need funding for profit whatsoever.
> An interesting take is the baby boomers hit max earning power at 55 and buy a second house, but then around 65 or 70 they realize the don't need either big house and they downsize (which will create downward pressure on housing) and they want to annuitize their assets (sell non-dividend paying stocks, etc)

My initial assumption was that you'd see a glut of housing because of this (Boomers unloading real estate to downsize), pushing down home prices, helping first time home buyers. I've recently updated my assumption: Boomers are going to hold onto their property as long as possible as rentals. People are seeking out returns where ever they can, which is going to make this intergenerational housing problem drag on for at least another decade or two.

Housing supply metrics:

https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/2017/10/23/heres-why-ho...

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/MSACSR
> I still heed the advice of the 90's: NEVER use your real name.

Where was this advice given? In my experience, people online in the 1990s routinely used their real names, and emails (in the late 90s obfuscated or removed due to spam), on the primary social-network at that time (Usenet), and people still do to this day.
Only admins can post to telegram channels, they're like facebook pages. On supergroups any user can post but admins can remove content, although I don't believe it counts as public content, so they shouldn't (according to the FAQ entry I listed above) take them down anyway.
Utter crap, marketing rubbish. I'm pretty critical of apple but this is incredibly off.
Wages for workers can increase faster than productivity if the business has a large fraction of fixed or non-labor costs.

Also, hasn't the productivity->wage ratio decreased in the past few decades? I've seen charts that seem to indicate that, but I suppose the timeframe could be cherry-picked or otherwise misleading.

e.g: http://www.epi.org/publication/understanding-the-historic-di...
What I'm scratching my head over is...

Why aren't they being TAXED already?
Whenever I read longer articles on macro economic theories it feels like torture. Overly complicated explanations, the urge to model every event and attach a probability to it. A while back this was on the hn frontpage https://aeon.co/essays/how-economists-rode-maths-to-become-o... Definitely put things into perspective for me.
Yes, fingerprinting of digital cameras has been a thing for at least a decade [https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2006-04/bu-bur041806...]
This is all a bullshit facade. 60% of ADHD adderall prescriptions are from people who realize they can work better by using it.

So they fake the symptoms, and get those advantages. That's what's refreshing about this posted article; it points out how ridiculous continuing this whole charade is.

Adderall is just becoming the new coffee.
The story here isn't porn. It's that we can no longer trust video evidence - of anything - in isolation.
I grew up drinking raw water in New York State. It was connected to the tap, so it was available for all cooking and for filling a glass at any moment. We could even bathe in it. Of course, there was a reason: my parents lived beyond the reach of municipal water grids and so had to source their water from a well in the back yard. This is not uncommon outside urban bubbles.

These "live water" individuals are morons. It's unbelievable what people will pay for. This is anti-science, and anti-progress. I've been to Sierra Leone, a place where all water is "live" and they have never added flouride or chloramine. Want raw water? Go live there and enjoy the cholera and dysentery. Municipal water grids are a triumph of urban development. Early New York City understood it, they built the first tunnel to import meteoric water in 1917, because people did not want to drink nearby water made filthy by their neighbors and by industrial development. Hell, even the Romans got it: you need a water system for a large population, and it has to be safe water. This is something we have only improved with treatment. Have there been missteps with lead pipes? Sure. But they aren't actually a problem unless the water their carrying has a pH that will solubilize the metal.

If you want to drink healthful water: use a multi-stage filter.

As an aside, let me tell you: having a well can be terrible. We're talking unbelievable minerality that you either remove via ion exchange with a water softener or that you watch clog your pipes, faucets, and water heater. Haven't experienced soft water? It tastes salty, and it feels like you can never fully wash soap off. When I was young I had to take flouride tablets because, of course, none was added to our water. The dose was a bit higher than in city water. I've never had dental carries, and I have my careful pediatrician to thank. We could afford the tablets, but in a different circumstance we may not have been so fortunate. The poor in cities get flouride for free thanks to municipal flouridation. Of course there is also the risk of the well running dry during droughts, and during blackouts there is no water because well pumps are electric. That means no toilets either. Where there is no city water, there is no city sewer either, so waste ends up in a septic tank that needs to be pumped out every couple years. That of course prohibits having a garbage disposal. It goes on and on. City services are valued for good reasons. The wealthy should be championing them, and fostering their improvement and expansion, not opting-out with bogus "live water" and vague misbeliefs about health.
What he's saying is that Adderall boosts anyone's ability to concentrate. The dose you take boosts your concentration levels from "really low" to "normal." It would boost a non-ADHD person's concentration levels from "normal" to "way overfocused."
It's uses a microkernel so probably around 100x-1,000x fewer lines of code, which should improve security.

Smartphones are one thing, but I think the recent trend of using the Linux kernel in self-driving cars is a terrible idea that we'll only start regretting 10-15 years from now.
California's largest ever fire was a force that could not be stopped
I don't think you can blame one thing.

I blame smart phones, but blame is a strong word. We no communicate with texting, social networking, and many other means than in-person conversations. Teenagers are electing to get a drivers license later in life because they don't need a car to be connected to their friends. Less in-person interaction results in less opportunity for intimate interaction.

I blame the womens movement, and that's a good thing. More women are placing their careers first, and getting around to having a family later and later in their lives.

I also blame the economy. The recession ended technically, meaning we stopped getting worse. But our economy isn't seeing the wage growth that would indicate a prosperous environment that encourages recreational activities, and procreation.
Using a microkernel just pushes the vulnerabilities to the userspace.
What does self-completion mean?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maslow%27s_hierarchy_of_needs
> Why would they stop using algorithmic news feeds when those bring in way more clicks and ad revenue than RSS style feeds?

The probably won't. They shouldn't kid themselves that they are making the world a better place though.
The clarity of your disagreement has not extended as far as a response to the counter-argument that is implicit in my original post in this thread. The final step in your argument that jjaredsimpson's definition of self-consciousness leads to the conclusion that crabs are self-conscious is this:

'Crabs are self conscious too because they act with a purpose of self preservation, which requires knowledge of what is them and what is not them.'

I pointed out that this works equally well for the claim that buildings with sprinkler systems are self-conscious, a conclusion that you have tacitly agreed is ridiculous. There's no difficulty in seeing what flaw in reasoning led to this conclusion: it is in the claim '[self preservation] requires knowledge of what is them and what is not them', where, in fact, all it needs is a suitable response to a stimulus that may signal an existential threat. This claim is not in jjaredsimpson's definition of self-consciousness; it is an independent axiom that you inserted into the discussion.

If your original point is that any discussion can be stalled by the injection of bogus arguments over the definitions of words, then I would have to agree that you have proven it by example.
How does that affect the held shares?
Ah, iron and copper... 2017 is the year I was completely addicted to Factorio. It's not assembly, though you can program things with logical combinators, it's more like complete systems engineering.
> Spamnesty is a way to waste spammers' time. If you get a spam email, simply forward it to [email protected]

Maybe it would be more appropriate to show email there, since it's intended for spammers as well.
That part made me wonder if a day will come where some generic script would be able to work with any theorem on any code, maybe with the help of some kind of introspection ( at this level of abstraction i’m not even sure introspection is the right concept).
Isn't that how all non-Veterans Administration medical care in the US works? Genuinely curious -- my understanding is that almost all medical care profit in the US is driven by volume of procedures, and even non-profit care is reimbursed by insurance companies according to procedures.
And is it really cool to copy paste the same comment on every article about BSD? Seems like a form of spam to me..
> f you wanted to reduce the crowds on Everest, you’d ban guided climbs, not solo climbs. Solo climbing big mountains is rarified territory that attracts relatively few participants.

It's not about reducing the crowds; it's about reducing the risk that solo climbers pose to the crowds.
> IMO, the Linux desktop problem is due partially to relying on the antiquated X Windows system, but mostly a lack of funding a good vision, e.g. Unity.

What is funny is that Linux on the desktop was closest to actually happen when KDE was happy emulating Windows rather than being its own thing, and doing so quite well on top of X.

As for X being antiquated, F that.
Dont feel bad - it has nothing to do with value or worth. Most people with familys here on HN dont realize they wont have grand-children for example. All that tech killed the instincts.
Grand-cats and horses maybee.
The server times out for me:

$ wget --timeout=60 https://media.defcon.org/DEF%20CON%2025/DEF%20CON%2025%20presentations/DEFCON-25-Ilja-van-Sprundel-BSD-Kern-Vulns.pdf
--2017-12-31 17:15:23-- https://media.defcon.org/DEF%20CON%2025/DEF%20CON%2025%20presentations/DEFCON-25-Ilja-van-Sprundel-BSD-Kern-Vulns.pdf
Resolving media.defcon.org (media.defcon.org)... 162.222.171.207
Connecting to media.defcon.org (media.defcon.org)|162.222.171.207|:443... connected.
Unable to establish SSL connection.
Marvin is a powerful ePub reader on iOS. Regarding the readme, I respect the author’s option ;)
Recently I tried to help someone who I had known for a few years and who I respected then as soon as I did this, they turned on me and put me in a really difficult position.

The irony is that this is someone who claims to pride themselves on their higher moral values.

From now on, I'm going to be extremely cautious with people who present themselves as idealistic. Maybe it's also the sign of a manipulative psychopath.

Our society is littered with psychopaths these days. So much so that even those who aren't psychopaths are forced to pretend to be psychopaths just so that they can fit in.

For example in elite colleges/fraternities, they have some pretty twisted initiation rites... This is essentially institutionalized psychopathy. You have to prove yourself to be devoid of moral fibre just to fit in.
Are you suggesting that the rise of the middle class in the Far East was caused by monetary policy? If you do, then I would have to disagree with you. It seems to me more likely that it was caused by the increase in global trade and the massive transition of the means of production from west to east.
As this is one of several places where you have asserted the same claim, one response is sufficient: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16041077
You need to be careful about movement disorders if you're going hard on the Modafinil.

I often it found it quite stimulating in an amphetamine-like way even though it's a wakefulness agent.
>"fuck everyone" trying to speak people into drug-free alternatives.

It's actually really annoying being told that you don't need drugs to fix your condition when, based on your own experience, you really do
I’m surprised there has been so much less response to this comment than so many of the others. It’s very plausible that the root causes of widespread depression and a widespread decrease in sex are related. I’m not sure you can easily pull out any one cause, but it would be reasonable to suspect that modern work and social habits are leading factors (possibly also diet).
I love the approach of using a programming language as the model of computation, instead of Turing machines or RAM models. The credit for this idea belongs to Neil D. Jones and to Amir Ben Amram, for whom Boaz Barak was a TA back when Boaz was a grad student.
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I think this political escalation process is itself specific to the US... I think if it happened in the U.K. there would be no such outcry... just tributes to the innocent bystander and a nice funeral. Shit happens. It doesn’t have to always be someone’s fault.

Americans seems to be perpetually caught in a victim-aggressor-rescuer drama triangle...
The actual commit includes some details on disk paver.

https://github.com/fuchsia-mirror/docs/commit/520ed01fd6f258...
Hi Walter, this line of questions is not going to lead to a proof of your position. The S&P index removes failures, so your question fails to address survivor bias. Also, you argue the perfect over the good as a reason for status quo.
Besides flavor, does it matter? If it's not for the flavor you can eat like three almonds to make up for the loss of minerals.
Yes, with his bone structure.
This would only work if there were a mechanism to pay for diagnosis.

Internal medicine specialists are supposed to be "diagnosticians," as you envision it -- they have more training than general practitioners if they're internal medicine specialists. But they're one of the lower-paid specialties, in part because it's easy to charge for a stent or injection but in the US the act of diagnosing a problem doesn't really have a code.
I use Fakespot religiously since 2016 and I noticed the same thing so I emailed them asking them, why would Amazons' products have fake reviews?
This was their reply (from co-founder, Ming):

"We have noticed trends where fake review clubs/bots seed their reviewer profiles by leaving reviews on various products, specifically Amazon best selling products to create a profile that looks legitimate (it is done to fool anti-fraud systems that Amazon utilizes). Our engine detects these seed reviewer profiles and therefore penalizes them accordingly by examining their profile and our AI algorithm (one of numerous) was trained to distinguish these patterns."

I hope this is helpful. I love the website and I think it is not to the benefit of Amazon, Yelp, or TripAdvisor to do anything about fake reviews as it only helps their platforms generate more $.
The OP asked about fundamentals and rigor.

There is two ways to learn statistics. Statistical intuition vs. learning the core concepts. When probability is formulated using measure theory things really click together with the rest of the mathematics.

> That is math, not statistics.

Sometimes in the university level statistics department teaches applied statistics and you need to go mathematical department to learn mathematical statistics. What you think is 'real' statistics for you is matter of opinion, but non-applied statistics is pure abstract mathematics.
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Yes. That is part of the idea. So the vulnerability is isolated and does not automatically compromise the entire system.