skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
While I only pointed to the extremes, even across the general population the problem with trying to compare is that college is setup to filter those who are less able. Be that less able to pay, less able to withstand the academic rigour, less able to take risk, less able to integrate in certain social settings, etc. As a result, only the top (for some definition of top) people are able to enter and finish their academic programs.

It's kind of like looking at the Olympics to see how it has shaped the athletic ability of the athletes compared to the ability of the population who have never been to the Olympics. You are bound to find outliers[1], but observing that Olympic athletes are usually stronger athletes might leave you to believe that going to the Olympics makes one a significantly better athlete. However, in reality, those same people would still be among the best athletes even if they never went anywhere near the Olympics.

[1] http://www.independent.co.uk/sport/olympics/winter-olympics/...
I think that there is a utility to the odd names. 'cons' is really just a pair while 'car' and 'cdr' are just the first and second member of that pair respectively, but this pair is a specific kind of pair for a specific kind of purpose so it makes sense to have a special jargon for it. It makes sense not to pollute the global namespace by reserving such common words and it helps to know immediately that one is talking about specifics of the Lisp list implementation. I suppose that some might prefer to not have to worry about the specifics of Lisp list implementation at all (Clojure manages this pretty well), but I think that having that kind or relatively low-level access has its uses.

(All things considered, I don't think that 'for' or 'switch' are any clearer, anyway.)
Being a hetrosexual male, being titillated by women is not really a choice I have a lot of control over. I do have control over my behavior and what I do and say. I actually find extremely attractive women somewhat difficult to have relationships with as sometimes it's difficult to look at them without cracking a suspiciously wide grin.
I remain sceptical of your scepticism since I'm one of those people that gets fidgety when someone wants to explain something to me using examples. It's not that I don't appreciate examples too, but starting with a high-level, abstract explanation clicks much more easily, especially for CS/math topics.
Ask HN: Which streaming technology does YouTube use?
HLS or HDS or DASH or any other?
R6RS: pairs and lists, enclosed by ( ) or [ ] (see section 4.3.2)
In other words, r/Programming is like the r/RoastMe of programming. Take everything with several grains of of salt.
Some ARM devices can execute Java bytecode directly: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jazelle

It never really took off.
Where do hypotheses come from? [pdf]
Reluplex: An Efficient SMT Solver for Verifying Deep Neural Networks
The Moral Question That Stanford Asks Its Bioengineering Students
Lots of others have chimed in with examples of interesting tidbits to be found in "raw" securities filings that don't get included in press summaries. My personal favorite is the "efficient factoring" risk factor from an old RSA Security, Inc. 10-K[1]:

The Company’s cryptographic systems depend in part on the application of certain mathematical principles. The security afforded by the Company’s encryption products is based on the assumption that the “factoring” of the composite of large prime numbers is difficult. If an “easy factoring method” were developed, then the security of the Company’s encryption products would be reduced or eliminated. Even if no breakthroughs in factoring are discovered, factoring problems can theoretically be solved by a computer system significantly faster and more powerful than those currently available. If these improved techniques for attacking cryptographic systems are ever developed, the Company’s business or results of operations could be adversely impacted.

[1] https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/932064/0000950135000...
It's not even unrealistic for early-2000s microcontrollers. The https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Java_Card JVM profile is running on the microcontrollers in both your phone's SIM card and your credit card's chip.
I can understand and even sympathise a lot of positions conservatives and Republicans have but this type of shit baffles me.

Part of me figures it's nice PR to cover over that it's just a power play but then again, Hanlon's Razor[1] makes me wonder if they genuinely think net neutrality is bad

[1]: "Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity."
In the Tagalog file, } is near the top but { is over 8,000 lines down. Is there a reason they have such different frequencies? ( and ) are right next to each other.

And yes I realize this is a really odd question :)
I remember reading somewhere they also use the shovel for a while before sending it off.
Sullivan is a conservative, gay, catholic, British expat; so his conclusions come through that lens
This is an interesting paper, particularly the sections on how Americans have gained weight. "Obesity is up!" is much less informative than specifying which populations have gained how much like this does.

That said, the section on health outcomes is not hugely compelling. The "normal weight has worse outcomes" studies (particularly the famous NEJM one) have a significant set of problems.

NEJM simply didn't use the same bucketing as common parlance, so bucketed comparisons (as opposed to BMI ones) are basically meaningless.

More broadly, these studies are generally correlational, which produces serious issues regarding patients suffering from diseases. Eating disorders have very high mortality and often cause low weights, while conditions like cancer and neurodegenerative disease often cause both mortality and low weight. Without correcting for that, you're actually noticing trends like "late stage cancer patients are both skinny and sick".

I'll have to go and dig up references, but I thought the current state of research suggested that among otherwise-healthy patients, especially men in middle age or older, health outcomes noticeably worsened beyond the middle of the overweight category?
The funny thing is, Froot Loops has no more sugar per equivalent serving than most granola which people naively assume is more "healthy".
Just a tidbit, Joeseph Jackson Lister, father of Joeseph Lister (who invented and promulgated antiseptic surgery) was admitted to the Royal Society for his invention of the achromatic microscope lens. In turn, that accurate view of the microscopic world was instrumental (no pun) in Lister’s breakthroughs in antiseptic surgery.
For a B2B SAAS company...what's the ideal user cost of infrastructure? (I understand that it depends on the service..but a ratio of profit per user vs cost per user should be close no?)
If triple dipping is the norm for ISPs, why not let hardware manufacturers double dip?
The first image is a composite, the actual light is not microscopic.
I had thought about this route. My issue is there are so many chromebooks to choose from. If you have thoughts on a decent one I'd be happy to listen :-)
Culturally, "sport" is almost synonymous with "team sport". Anything solo is viewed by most as a hobby.

Not saying it's right/correct, but especially for kids, karate would be a "hobby" and baseball a "sport". At least, that's the world I grew up in.
Maybe this is why the stock market has an appeal and younger people are investing in Bitcoin (only half joking here). It's a risk that humans are drawn to when physical risk is absent.
Women Scribes: The Technologists of the Middle Ages
Actually, converting PDF to a file format is very non-trivial. The problem is that the PDF typically retains none of the semantic structure of the original file. Yes, I know there are converters to Word, none of which are perfect, but in each case the people who wrote the converters had to do a lot of work. PDF is all about geometry. So even the characters in a word do not have to be together in the PDF content stream. (I worked extensively on semantic reconstruction of PDF documents before I retired.)
>The culture you're describing sounds like something that might arise in SV, but trust me it doesn't really describe America... Propaganda campaigns rarely set what kids think is cool.

I didn't mention my geographic location (Toronto) or the root causes of the cultural shift (I can't speak to that), so these are some strange assumptions to make. I'm also not really following the rest of your argument, tbh.

In any case, I stand by my argument that this:

>are you implying that male students who go for stem don't face bullying akin to being "geeky" or "nerds"? Please...

is a fairly tall order in 2018. Positioning yourself as someone who seeks a career in STEM, regardless of your gender, is not marking yourself out for bullying, and hasn't been for a long time.
Banks absolutely make mistakes in the favor of the client all the time.

In general, banks want to get it right. If they want to make more money, they can always change the terms. Not saying that all banks are snow white lilies, but they generally want to have everything accurate to the rules. The way they win is by helping to write the rules.
Generating Multi-Day Schedules with Kotlin
Even if you exclude China, I believe Chinese is still a top-30 language.
> it's precisely because kids are so smart and imbued with so much potential, that I have to call them out.

If you're providing them with the tools to learn from, I'm all for it. When I'm learning something, I want to be told when I mess up, but the best advice also comes with an explanation, or at least counter evidence to examine. Just saying "WRONG!" and "You think you know this? Bah, you're an idiot" all the time makes me less likely to learn from you specifically AND less likely to learn in general.

There's nothing wrong and a lot right with giving these people with little experience the benefit of your own, to preventing them from making mistakes. We just need to make sure that's what we're doing. While the teen years will (literally) naturally involve a lot of questioning authority and testing boundaries and establishing a pecking order, I think we've magnified this by blaming the teenager rather than their lack of experience, by blaming their attitude while ignoring our own. Every "why do I have to..." and "Can't we just..." and "this isn't FAIR!" is an opportunity to engage them. Every "because I said so" and "you don't know what you're talking about" that involves no other data is teaching them there's no point in consulting us.

Put another way - I don't think most teens think they know everything. They just know little else, and too often we're telling them that they think they know everything, while not showing that they don't.
> Google is the same as NSA, but exists as a dance around 4th amendment

You are a conspiracy theorist.

> Google can do the sort of spying the US government can't constitutionally do, then hand that over to the government, constitutionally

This is an agenda-driven redefinition of the word "spy" that I find disingenuous in the extreme.

> It's all stagecraft. Same for Apple, Amazon, Intel, etc. Eric Schmidt runs HRCs campaign. Al Gore is on Apple's board.

Firstly: Eric Schmidt founded a company designed to legally channel lots of money via analytics expertise into his favorite candidate, like every rich person does under the current set of laws. Neither of us has to like it, but he did not "run her campaign" and if they actually did? Wow, not a great job there.

As for Al Gore?

I've worked with Al Gore. He did some advisory work for my financial data startup, as part of our first round's venture firm. Our data was some of the most valuable data about consumers that can possibly exist, and had incredible applications for both surveillance and law enforcement.

To the best of my knowledge, we were never pressured to hand over a byte to anyone. Quite the opposite. I specifically remember a conversation where he mentioned user data privacy was the single most important priority he felt we could have.

So between my lying eyes, ears, and email history and your wild gesticulations about the evil overlordship, I'm gonna have to lean towards my own personal experience.

Unless, of course, you got some actual evidence and not a room full of old coffee cups and red string up on the walls.
I am trying to clear up what appear to be hugely misleading assumptions about how PDFs work.

Edit: and based on the information provided in these news reports, he was being a massive technology rube.
Being overweight is bad for your individual health.

We know certain things in society have an impact on how overweight people get.

Identifying and fixing those things is worthwhile.

No one is insinuating that we should force people to become fit or anything, as you imply here.
The CEO of Dropbox is listed as a founder of FWD.us:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FWD.us#Keystone_XL_oil_pipelin...

I agree that Google contributes to undermining online privacy, but I still don't see Dropbox doing more in that regard. I'm sorry, but I really am not a fan of Dropbox after my experience with them, so I am inclined to be a vocal critic of their service (or lack thereof).
Mhm I wonder why non-mining altcoins are getting the most fud...
I love this site. Thanks
Honestly, I kind of like that second one. Even if computer repair techs shouldn't need licensing/training per se, I'd be happy to see them having to obey the strictures of some sort of Private Investigator's Guild, and be made to be unable to get a job in computer repair if they commit investigative malfeasance according to said guild. (Like, say, if they take someone's data and use it to blackmail them!)
> made around $4B last year

They're clever enough that they price it in USD and not in Bitcoin.
Ah the problem child. :) I've mostly only paid attention to R5RS and R7RS.
It's too big for users to encounter eachother on a regular basis, so you never get to know anyone. It's just a bunch of strangers.

No, this is not true. Patio11 and tptacek were business partners at one time. People get work through here, make friends, make business connections. At least, men do.

Lots of evidence of HN being a career maker for people right here in this discussion from 4 days ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16409768

My highest traffic piece has over 40k page views. That is a lot more than the figures in the article. No, it didn't do anything at all for me professionally.

I have tried figuring out how to write for the HN crowd. For example, this piece about how HN works:

http://micheleincalifornia.blogspot.com/2017/08/hacker-news-...

It gets no traction, though I routinely see stuff like that posted here. Here is a discussion of a similar piece from just yesterday:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16437973

It is a self post by the author. It has hundreds of upvotes and lots of good discussion.

I largely stopped self posting. It got me all kinds of bullshit personal attacks that were usually not rebutted by other members of the community. People do not vouch for me the way they do for guys here who have made the leaderboard.

I have done everything in my power to try to make this work under difficult circumstances. I don't need anyone's pity. I don't need to hear anymore bullshit explanations about how it just cannot be done -- because the guys here do it all the fucking time.

I need respect. I need to be taken seriously as a professional. I need people vouching for me, reaching out to me as a professional and cluing me as to how it's done.

I get compliments in comments. People tell me publicly that I write well. But no one ever hits me up with an email asking if I would write something for them for pay.

And I am ready to spit nails. How can 100k+ people all stand idly by and do not a goddamned thing to help me succeed professionally while pretending they aren't being sexist jerks? How do you casually watch a chronically ill homeless* woman starve and feel okay about what a good guy you are?

This boggles my mind. I don't get it.

* I am no longer homeless. But I was for a long time.
They're saying they have essentially one revenue source. A lack of diversity in income sources is the risk factor. Compare to Microsoft: Various consumer software options, OEM OS licenses, government contracts, support contracts, physical hardware (Xbox), licensing for game publishers, Azure, etc.

Dropbox has one revenue source, and it's primarily fed by consumers (11 million at that, per this filing). A loss of 1 million users is a loss of 100 million in revenue for them, but doesn't correspond to a drastic reduction in their costs (due to the number of non-paying users).
Wow - the rest of the thread aside, that's a fantastic nutrition tool.

edit: I just fed it one of the tasks I've found most frustrating - how to optimize protein:carbs ratio without resorting to meat. Most of the diet advice I've seen on that question is unhelpful, since it emphasizes for "enough protein" and not ratio. But this turned up exactly what I was after.
Augmenting your training dataset with adversarial examples is known as adversarial training, see e.g. [0] for a recent overview with empirical results. This seems to be a good first step in defending against such attacks, though the most naive approach of adversarial training doesn't work as well as you'd expect.

[0] https://openreview.net/forum?id=rkZvSe-RZ
I would discourage using karma as any measure of worth for the reasons you described. If a user has lots of negative karma that might be something else, but a large positive karma may mean nothing more than the person has been active on the site for a long time and tends to post a lot and doesn't troll frequently.

It doesn't mean they're super smart or some incredible subject matter expert or anything like that. They just have a lot of time to post and aren't a complete shithead.

In fact site operators should put extra scrutiny towards accounts that accumulate karma too quickly. That could be a sign of bot activity or "account optimization" firms making a mockery of your reputation system.
That's assuming no statics/singletons.
OK yes this is speculative.
While this is great, as a french Google Home owner, Google Assistant is way more powerful in English than in French. The gap is so big and I haven't seen it improve in the last year...

For instance, multi-user as yet to come to non-English languages, and it's been out for almost a year.
Your comment has twice as many ) as it does (

My first guess would be emojis ;)
It looks like this permit is only for a small location, would this be the station?
I have a lot of respect for Dropbox as they've created an awesome product and user experience that accelerated its niche.

But as with Twitter i'm sceptical of the long-term prospects (and hence the need for an IPO vs a trade sale) of single-feature/protocol companies.

Nice liquidity event for current shareholders but why should the public invest here? The product is becoming more commoditized with time as well as being an ever more tightly integrated feature with hardware/OS.

Box seems to have a lock on the enterprise market which feels like the better long-term strategy than being a consumer/startup brand.

The stated growth strategy in the S-1 is rather meh. Post-IPO they might go further down the Evernote route and expand in all possible areas, diluting the core product/brand.
There was nothing nuanced about my risky adolescent behavior. I give thanks about once a month for the good fortune of not ending up in a dumpster.
It's my understanding that fp16 (available on the previous generation P100) and mixed-precision (major innovation of V100) are different things and the speedup of TensorCores is entirely missing from this benchmark. Unlike the general purpose P100, the TPU is a heavily optimized chip built for Deep Learning, hence it's performance increase. However, the V100 is also heavily optimized for Deep Learning (arguably the first non-GPU chip) from NVIDIA. I'm in no position to defend NVIDIA here haha but it seems like the benchmark misses the point if this is indeed the case.
Even modern mental health care has difficulty helping people to achieve complete recovery from having programmed in Perl.
Evolution relies on differential reporoductive success. You’d need to show those with the alleles are having more offspring and I’m not sure this would be the case in modern society with our low birth rates especially amongst highly educated portions of the population.
It hurts to watch you child starve because they are being picky. I had a teacher tell me she didn't want to eat peas one night, so her father sent her to bed hungry. She woke up a few hours later, went downstairs to her cold plate of peas still on the table, and ate the whole thing.

I had a classmate in high school who ONLY ate pancakes and fries. He was from a wealthy family and his mother had various supplements she would put in the pancakes to keep him healthy. We went on a week long canoe trip where you obviously can't eat pancakes and fries 24/7. 3 days in, this guy is starving, and for the first time in his life had pasta, trailmix, and eggs.

Children don't have fully developed faculties for reasoning, you can't take a reasonable approach to solving pickiness. Things seem to taste better the hungrier you get, so I think the approach to pickiness is to starve them out.
Just saying, the best way to thank Mozilla, is to make FireFox your default browser. Firefox for Android is pretty good too.
Private companies that operate at a positive cash-flow are free to distribute profits to shareholders. Sure, going public makes it easier for investors to liquidate their stock, but that doesn't mean you can't get returns from investments in private companies.
Exactly! Now we're talking! The key is that you're mis-identifying the combinator.
> Is it an `apt-get install cockpit`?

Yes. Assuming a debian-based distro, try "apt-cache search cockpit" and it comes right up. To see the available version try "apt-cache madison cockpit" which returns (on my Ubuntu 16.04 desktop) "cockpit | 161-1~ubuntu16.04.1 | ..."
Rendering OpenGL shaders to a LED-Cube
Does this suggest they are in the 60-day roadshow quiet period before to the listing?

It's a good value buy for me. Dropbox and Spotify whenever they go public. These two apps I've been a paying member since I discovered them.
Please don't use blockquote. it is absolutely unreadable on mobile.
Agreed, Keybase is kicking it up a notch and gotta love me some GnuPG!
I tried it this morning. On Linux Mint. The Docs pages suggest it is widely supported.

I just did an apt-get install, then https://localhost:9090

(Actually, I used the "Software Center" in the GUI.)

and coolness!
I'm the incumbent business in some area, I lobby for regulations that I can afford to pay, but makes it too expensive for potential competitors to get into the business.

http://braidingfreedom.com/braiding-initiative/standing-up-f...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regulatory_capture
You're still missing the point. FF is free. Where is the revenue coming from? I think I found my answer on your page though,

https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2017/11/14/firefox-features-go...

Mozilla is acting as a Google puppet. I'm sure they didn't risk breaking a 5 year deal with Yahoo for nothing.
Github really should hire this guy and incorporate this as a feature.
State of JavaScript Frameworks and Libraries [video] – This.JavaScript