skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> For instance, our standard arithmetic algorithms are somewhat bizarre - they are the end result of a human process of codifying arithmetical thinking, designed with the extra goal of using as little of precious 17th-century ink as possible

I've long thought that this is partly why Mathematics are, paradoxically, at once terrifying and tedious for students. To learn a second language, you must immerse in it, using it as much as you can. Math has been attached to a language that is not used in daily life (except in a few situations, mostly very basic usage) and where the parallels to real usage feel contrived. If they weren't contrived, the question "what's the point of learning this" would get much clearer answers.

When I was a student, I found it curious how I had trouble expressing certain concepts in that language, but when working with the same concepts in a programming language, things were much clearer.

I can't offer a solution, but I think learning programming at a young age can help, though I'm personally against requiring it in classrooms, increasing the pressure on kids who are already exhausted with the rest of the curriculum.
Here's a neat set of 4-part article explaining the workings of ACH from a developer's perspective.

https://engineering.gusto.com/how-ach-works-a-developer-pers...
In Australia we have ordering kiosks now at a lot of stores, so maybe that would be one avenue where it's easier to cater to a customer's specific tastes by warping the menu a bit.

I'm not suggesting it's a good idea, just that it's an option.
Generally speaking, the dichotomy involving "personal freedom" vs. "economic development" does not have to be inevitable if the political consciousness and the relevant constructive action on the part of the people concerned is there. So what ends up happening in China or elsewhere depends on the choices made there, though as outsiders we can speculate.

Ha-joon Chang was not advocating to trade personal freedom for economic development; he was explaining what really transpired, contrary to the official narrative on economic development.
These things all go in cycles though. People were complaining about the "new math" back in the 1960s. As Tom Lehrer put it "Understanding what you're doing is the important thing, rather than to get the right answer."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wIWaJ0sy03g

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Math
The wood is all treated and sealed, so flammability is largely mitigated.

Even with steel, the actual frame of the building is surrounded by firewalls, fire resistant insulation and various suppression systems.
Note that “haute” is the feminine form, and the masculine version of tall is just “haut.”
I wish more developers/companies practised this discipline. Not just for ethical reasons, but also just because I find it interesting to see clever ways of achieving tasks with minimal data.

One example that I love is Firefox Sync. It's end-to-end-encrypted with your password as encryption key. And there's a "Forgot password?" link on the login page. If you're thinking along at home, you'll notice that clearly this cannot work. If you forget the password to data that's encrypted with your password, then that's it. You can't just reset the password on it. If you could, anyone could. All you can do, is erase the data.

Well, and that's exactly what Firefox Sync does. It just wipes your data off of Mozilla's servers. You typically have this data synchronized to your local client when you do the password reset, so it just encrypts this local data with your new password and uploads that to Mozilla's servers.

There are some corner cases where you might lose data, but I've never heard a complaint about it being less reliable than for example Chrome's implementation. And it's a hundred times more secure and private, in particular also because it means NSA/FBI/CIA can't look through your browsing history (and not having Google look through it, which is why they keep it in cleartext, is also nice).
You are right about China. Limits on free speech are codified in their laws[1], and are designed to protect and maintain their government. The US is changing in a completely different way, forming a kind of McCarthyism[2] where those with bad opinions are forced out of jobs and communities. While expression is technically not illegal, Americans can have their careers destroyed for holding unfavorable opinions on contentious political issues. Given that healthcare, housing, and food depend on your career in the US, the repercussions of going against the grain can be nearly as bad as in China.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom_of_speech_by_country#P...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McCarthyism
I was expecting this answer as it's consistent with what my friends say. It's like someone managed to convince the whole nation that cooking takes an enormous amount of time and effort - so huge that people prefer to eat inferior quality of food just to avoid a bit of cooking.
Wood also just burns, slowly. Steel might not burn but as it gets hot it loses structural integrity very quickly.
Having many friends that worked out at Visa, that place is a fucking train wreck in IT (mostly due to the politics, well that and the attempted outsourcing). Not surprised in the least.
As a former physicist it also made me angry that they used geometry, when teaching us about multi-dimensional algebra. Professor would tell us that vectors are orthogonal to each other, but not telling us what it actually means is, that changing one of them doesn't affect other. I mean, yes, in hindsight, this information was there, however, when you are just starting to learn something, you have a problem filtering, what is really important and what not.

And for example, a real revelation with regard to infinity came, when I read (or heard somewhere, it was long time ago) that infinity can sometimes be few millimeters or even micrometers. Up until then I always imagined some really large number, but at that point I realized, you need to put problem before you need to put problem before you into perspective.
I'd wait and see. The previous iteration was called the most expandable Mac Pro yet. And we ended up what we ended up with.

So far I wouldn't hold my breath. The newest iMac they call "Pro"? It's a pain to even change the RAM in that thing. So much for "listening to the pros".
Discussion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16392892

Edit: Previous submission, not discussion.
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I've not run into any problems myself - even if I did, I think I'd rather be able to reliably email people with GMail accounts!
No plans to do stuff like that. I built Kismet for fun, not trying to force it in to being the next billionty dollar startup or whatever.
Since there are exactly zero [0] implementations of the JVM for Minix, your worries about Java applets running on ME while a machine is powered down can be put to rest. And 'powered down' activities of ME are very limited, and only applicable to certain ACPI states - not a magical way of using the computer when the PSU is switched off.

0. EDIT: Well, maybe not, see http://jainja.thenesis.org/ for instance. But still, I don't believe the NSA tailored access teams are building Java applets for their persistent malware...
I wrote my dissertation and several papers for publication using mardown + pandoc + latex. On Arch. I have to say, you're far overstating the difficulty of this arrangement, and understating the benefits. As long as you're willing to accept the haskell package madness, which pacman takes care of for you, everything else works in a very straightforward manner. The trick is, you don't have pandoc generate straight through to PDF. You treat pandoc as a preprocessor, have it generate tex. Then your main LaTeX source file boils down to a bunch of \usepackages and \includes. I pulled it all together with a very simple makefile.

The markdown source is a great deal more readable -- all of those little substitutions that seem inconsequential individually add up to a lot less noise in your document source. Equations just pass through to LaTeX, so you write them the same. All of my floats started out using markdown syntax, which is really beneficial when drafting, since much harder to mess up a single line when cutting and pasting it around. In the end, I wanted finer control over how they looked, so I pasted the generated tex into my sources and worked from there.

My one caveat is, you absolutely must understand LaTeX first, or you will be in for a bad time. Pandoc + markdown + LaTeX is no substitute for understanding LaTeX, but it's a huge win if you're already familiar with LaTeX and you're tired of typing backslashes.

Finally, the recommendation to use article is unfortunate. Memoir will save you a lot of headaches.
I'd rather blame ignorance of both history and English language.
The true story of the jewish Nobel prize winning criminal who gassed and murdered thousands of Allied Troops in WWI:

On the evening of April 22, 1915, Fritz Haber was ecstatic at the 6,000 Allied men laying dead across the battlefield from the 168 tons of chlorine gas release against them at his command.

Later in the war his own wife committed suicide from the guilt of her husbands genocide.

He also developed the poison gas Zyklon B that was used at WWII concentration camps against his own people.

While these folks continue to moan over and over about the gas chambers, they conspicuously minimize discussions that one of their own was a major criminal involved in the success of the Nazi's gas chambers.

See it for yourself, do a search on YouTube for:
The Father Of Poison Gas - Fritz Haber
yes, huge deploy but not that seamless.

1. i had a filevault related corruption issue, the disk was eating itself up thinking it was encrypting... don't have the apple discussion link at hand.

2. time machine hidden snapshot, "disk full" issues. it's a major pita for me that is not possible to turn off local snapshots.
> It's amazing how much progress a society can make when it isn't tearing itself apart through endless political warfare

Also works on the flip side. WW2 and the work stemming form it saw massive technology advancement sin a small period.

Obviously I'd prefer the former. It also feel disingenuous not to recognise the latter. Essentially either comes down to giving scientists goals and opportunity.
I grew up in Asia (though not China). A key difference in experience for most children who grow up there is that being academically excellent is usually admired, sometimes even revered, by peers. Recognition for academic merits is widespread among teachers, schools, parents, their acquaintances, and basically everyone in society.

The above atmosphere is especially intense in China where the seriousness of Gaokao (高考) derives from the long history of imperial examinations (科舉) since over a thousand years ago. Just as in the old days, academic merits can greatly impact one's socioeconomic position for life. [1]

The system originates from Confucianism, which is an ideology with deep influences across East Asia (China, Japan, South Korea, Taiwan) and Singapore:

"Another new idea, that of meritocracy, led to the introduction of the imperial examination system in China. This system allowed anyone who passed an examination to become a government officer, a position which would bring wealth and honour to the whole family." [2]

From what I gather, this is not the case for American society. It is even embedded in language with pejorative terms like 'nerd', 'geek', and 'dork'. Yes, there are honor rolls but it doesn't seem like the kids honored are granted much social status by peers (Correct me if I'm wrong. I did not grow up in the US.). The top social groups belong to athletes, cheerleaders, and cool kids who devote their time to non-academic activites.

It is not surprising to see that these social factors, which have great influence on tweens and teens, may lead to weaker academic results for most students who do not have a chance to study and socialize in schools with more academic environment.

(It appears to me that Europe is somewhere inbetween the US and East Asia regarding this matter. If anyone from the US or Europe could comment, that would be quite informative.)

As a concrete effect, average American math level in high school is about 2-3 years behind their peers in developed Asia and also behind most of Europe. [3] This inevitably results in fewer students qualified to take 'hard' STEM majors in college and grad school. The US has been leading the world in science largely by the works of a minority of outstanding locals and a substantial immigration of global talent.

As China develops further and becomes able to train more students at home to their fullest potentials, as well as attracting back Chinese scientists who work abroad, it is not surprising their academic advantage may turn into a practical edge in scientific and technological development.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imperial_examination

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confucianism#Meritocracy

[3] http://www.businessinsider.com/pisa-worldwide-ranking-of-mat...
No, they don't use PT lumber for framing whole houses in Canada, that guy is just making assumptions. They use it exactly like we do, for wood that comes into contact with concrete.

PT wood is roughly 4x the cost and substantially heavier, framing a whole house in it would be nuts.
you forgot to mention something important here - the "feature" is designed, implemented and promoted by Ant Financial's Alipay, yet no one took responsibility for it, no one got fired/demoted. it is a huge contrast to their own moon cake incident 1.5 years ago in which developers who used automated scripts to boost their chances of purchasing moon cakes sold by the company at favourable prices got fired on the spot for violating company policies.

the message is clear here - you are encouraged to violate laws to try maximizing company revenue but you must stick to company policies.

it is a social risk to allow companies like this to master AI techniques.
Ok, understood. Disagree that there is an "official narrative" about free trade/economic development (we never got a copy of that at my school), nor that a focus on free trade alone accounts for what's happened there.

It does look like an interesting paper. Thanks.
> (or was forced to them and they didn't push back )

How do you suggest that we should have pushed back? By voting the bastards out? The UK is actually quite good at that, but policy outlives politicians thanks to the civil service.
Iow, everything is searchable if you put it into Word-like text container. Of course Word had issues like jumping tables and blocks floating at wrong positions between versions, but who doesn’t.
We have 4 "part time" product managers. Essentially, each one splits their time, roughly 50/50 between their discipline (marketing, fashion styling, warehouse optimisation, development) and being the product manager for the software we write for those areas in our company. They are not just stakeholders, they are PMs (in title and training). This has worked very well for us.

I actually think having a fully part time PM could be a very good thing for lots of very small startups (< 10 employees). I think many companies at that size don't fully realise the benefits of having a member of the team with those sorts of responsibilities, and in fact, might not have enough other people to saturate a PM's time.

The main downside I can foresee is that, as a developer, I often need to contact my PMs in order to clarify requirements or discuss issues that come up during implementation. This communication would be limited by a PM working part time, but a tendency to "over-communicate" as many do in fully remote companies could help to overcome this.
It seems like the course of action you advocate for (suing the copyright infringer) has no chance of success if they are outside of the jurisdiction or it’ll be more expensive to litigate then a reward you could extract from them, so what would be the point?

The end result is the same: as a copyright holder, you have no effective recourse beyond having your work removed from the platform.
>Also on the “stagnating” comment — at some point is it possible you’ve hit a reasonable photo site, and shouldn’t tinker much

I actually think that's somewhat fair. I could come up with some things that I wish were better with Flickr and there are probably lots of things I'm not thinking of. But I still use it and, in conjunction with Lightroom, I find it's a pretty good way to display a curated collection of edited photographs (as well as serving as a backup of last resort).

I did object to the big UI change a few years ago and still don't really love it. On the other hand, I don't actually use the web interface much. I upload from Lightroom and I mostly view from a tablet.
For example.

But also when it comes more in a form of a ritual for spiritual (or psychological) progress. Many native american traditions used it that way, or as a way to bond in a group and solve complicated matters like peace and war.

When consumed in small quantities, I believe the body and lungs does not sustain harm - short stress yes, but not real harm. (just training?) Don't know about any studies which support that, but that is my personal experience.
I know the Mayo Clinic has a totally different pay structure for docs, maybe there's other places out there like that as well. I think this is why people go there for answers to hard problems. Docs get paid a salary, they then choose how many patients they see, and that's it. I assume that's also why it can be tough to get an appointment there.
> Try this very comment thread.

OK, I'll bite. Links to concrete comments in this thread presenting veganism as the "prevailing food paradigm", please.
Just like lasers for the USAF, railguns for the USN are a great idea in principle but doomed to wander around as zombie programs until we have enough technological breakthroughs to make them viable for real world use.
Thanks for pointing that out.
Now I learned that "cuisine" is feminine.
> Isn't it a failure of a decentralized system the fact that most, if not all, persons using it end up depending on a centralized system?

The centralized system you refer to here is the status quo (banks, fiat currencies, etc.)

For all practical purposes, you can't bootstrap a new decentralized monetary system without depending on an existing one -- value needs to be transferrable between the two entities until most of the world has migrated.

This isn't a failure of decentralized systems -- it's just the cost of any large-scale transformation with huge powerful incumbents.
Really? I've seen and lived in a lot of houses. Full concrete + brick were much more enjoyable than the creaky (I really hate those noises heh) wood and plasterboard houses. Colder, definitely, but better soundproofed imo.
What about:
* Disk reads may unnecessarily trash the CPU caches, because CPU will need to verify the checksum when the DMA read is done, even if the app isn't going to process the data immediately afterwards
* Battery life - without checksums the CPU can stay mostly idle, and go into a lower power mode, while the disk controller does its job
If you want to get an idea of what the book is all about, Taleb has posted several chapters and excerpts on Medium. Here’s one of them, on “The Logic of Risk Taking”:

https://medium.com/incerto/the-logic-of-risk-taking-107bf410...
Its not a solution to all problems but Minio (https://minio.io) will provide s3 compatible data storage on your own server(s).
It's not even alternative. It's pretty much colonialism 2.0. Just like Euro empires did in 19th century. The only difference is they give more autonomy to local clans. Although sometimes Europeans did give some autonomy too. So maybe not THAT much of a difference..
> The "magic" therefore is that it's a lot safer to eat whole foods.

Only 'in generally speaking' or 'on average'. There is magical thinking in health food business where generic statements replace knowledge.

Take for example seeds like pumpkin seed, sunflowers etc. Many vegetarians and health conscious people eat lots of these. What they are not aware is that they accumulate heavy metals, especially cadmium. If you are not aware of the heavy metal content of the foods you ingest you should consume them only in moderation.
Wood is a great construction material if it's treated against life feeding off it, rot and fire, especially when used in combination with other materials, such as building framing for hempcrete, half timbered buildings (fachwerk).
You're right, I definitely over simplified. PT is a little bit stronger than non-PT, and I'm used to calling anything that isn't normal wood "PT" in the field.
I’m a parent and I object not because I don’t understand it — it’s not too difficult to pick up — but because it completely misses the why of math. Being able to mentally estimate numbers or do simple arithmetic is a good skill, but having universal algorithms for solving problems and describing the universe is really what math is more about. I can trace my trajectory into computer science all the way back to practicing multiplication tables and discovering that I could multiply numbers in long form too large to fit in my head and yet get the exact result. It is the power of the algorithm. My kids are entirely missing that in their common core education...
Syntactical issues are not so bad IMO, default scoping and version incompatibility between 5.1/5.2/5.3 are much bigger.

Also the barebones standard library wouldn't be much of an issue if there would exist a stable ecosystem, LuaRocks is one attempt but fragile at best.
"let's use unity"
How to Use Your Mobile Phone Without Service on Your Own Encrypted Network
I’ll second this. We’ve had good experiences converting org-mode files to LaTeX for internal documents.
Maybe not have carpeted rooms? They are just dust collectors.
Article said a dermatologist was consulted early on and who failed to make the connection. Doesn’t support your ascertion.
Steel with wood fireproofing.
I would hope that Coinbase would contact the FBI about this, and that the FBI would take it seriously.
SEC May Take Enforcement Action Against Investors Who Promoted Unregulated ICOs
i suspect that, to capture the full value of J, one needs to already know the array-oriented paradigm (or at least have a strong motivation to learn the two in parallel)

Yes, that's the power that's specific to J. Having a library of functions like anagram index, nub, antibase, matrix inverse, etc. can be done in pretty much any language. So can using really short names for everything (have a look at the J implementation). What J has that isn't so easy to export is the way first-order functions work on arbitrarily high-rank arguments, and even a lot of APLs don't let you mix argument ranks in the way that J does (e.g., vector-matrix addition). Without the inherently rank-polymorphic function application semantics, it would just be an idiosyncratic pointfree programming syntax for people who don't want to use anything higher than second-order functions (and maybe have a grudge against static parsing).
Next time I get taken to hospital having been in a car crash I'll be sure to review the doctor's ratings on yelp before he stems the catastrophic internal bleeding
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