skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> In other words - you're probably not in the target audience.

> Not saying I agree with why he is saying you shouldn't be in his audience (you're clearly interested in Japanese candy) but maybe you're not because you have an interest but would likely still cancel earlier than his normal audience. (which would have a much higher lifetime value making the numbers much harder to run)

My wife loves Japanese candies and snacks. Neither of us watch much anime. I would absolutely buy this for her as a gift for Christmas or anniversary. Previously I bought her a monthly makeup subscription and she loved it. $350/year is easily within my budget for a special gift, especially something like this that keeps giving and that connects with her emotionally (she spent some time in SK/Japan as a kid).

If I had come across this ad, I would have skipped it immediately. That being said, I'm bookmarking the site for later this year, so I guess the blog post worked better than the ad?
His book seems to have both people on the left and the right complaining, so at least my interest is piqued that it says something real.
Russian meddling is only one challenge facing Facebook
Not sure if those questions are rhetorical -- I agree with them, and I'm on the theory side and don't write these implementations myself, and I share your concerns. But they also apply to crypto in general.
The World's Highest Paid Expats Live In… Mumbai
You ever see interstellar?

Bad news -- drought/blight/warmth could destroy crops...perhaps even be an extinction level event.

Good news -- there is none.. likelihood of aliens or future humans saving us is next to nil.

I think we have maybe 50 years till we're close to any near ELE but my kid might see it.
Why is there no proliferation of letsencrypt authorities? If we're all about making https easy and not about central authority, why not have 100+ letsencrypt authorities run by different groups?

The truth is the new decentralised web does not suit the old https signing-AUTHORITY model. it's time for a decentralised system with no authority other than key-holding. The same goes for DNS.
The joke is: there are two hard things in software development: naming things, cache invalidation, and off by one errors.
I grew up in poverty as well and my reaction to money is the total opposite. I never felt connected to it all. I want to be a good saver, but my understanding of the green stuff is nearly nil. It's just sort of there and I try not to think about it.

I think it's just the opposite problem. I simply don't know what to spend money on. I feel like I spend a lot of money, but somehow everyone is in deeper debt than I am. I just don't want to have all those expensive things. I grew up living out of a duffel bag and lost everything I owned in that multiple times in my life. I just don't want anything.

Buying furniture for the first time was the most stressful thing I ever went through. When I bought my first bed, I just laid on a bed in the shop and just stayed there having a mental breakdown. I walked out nearly in tears and slept on my floor for a full week before I finally called and ordered the bed. It was $700 and felt like I took a nose dive off a cliff.

The biggest effect is my appetite. No one understands why I'm so underweight. If you ever go a week without eating, believe me, your desire to eat food goes out the window. Those first bites of food makes you incredibly ill. I eat everyday now, but three meals is overkill.
My theory on Slack's ridiculous CPU use is animated graphics. If some of those are on the screen the CPU use is at least 10%.
100 years ago, some people made dire predictions that most cities would be buried in 9 feet of horse shit if people didn't act quickly to fix their reliance on horse-drawn carriages.

A quarter century later, cars replaced horse-drawn carriages, averting the horse shit crisis. Not because people heeded the warning, but simply because cars were faster and sexier. Of course, we've just traded CO2 for horse shit, and now we've got a different problem.

If history is any indication of what will happen in the future, we'll probably trade some other type of pollution for CO2 this century, and then another type.
Breakthrough Research Papers and Models for Sentiment Analysis (2017)
Leaving out a big word from the headline:

>reportedly

Even the source the guy links to is his own article that is also conjecture. Great content.
Let me get this straight.

The issue here is " Server side code is passing user inputted data --without sanitizing it-- for further use, which in this case is front end".

It looks like standard XSS flaw.
>Sysadmins are also historically a non-degree position, because there is no degree for it.

Sure there is. Computer information systems. Management information systems. Computer Information Technology.

Now, as far as I can tell, these are degrees usually offered at community colleges and lower status four year schools. And for that matter, I've spent much of my career as a sysadmin, and the only people I've met with those degrees have been managers who have moved in from other industries rather than moving up.

But the degrees exist, even if Stanford or Berkeley probably won't offer them.
A lot of the painpoints are gone, understandbly, but some still exist.

The biggest suck on EFI is that it uses PE fileformats. I would have liked it more if it would have just loaded a raw PIC binary or ELF. And not used Windows Calling Conventions.
This was from David not Sergey.
I couldn't agree more.

Honestly, the whole bash-the-poor perception is becoming more prevalent in Australia too (I'm from the UK too), it's becoming more and more the norm but as a whole, I find Australia to be very Americanised.
How is holding pencils that much different than say holding chopsticks?
Apple pays $50k/month for that billboard sign in SF.
> How is having one bus take 20 people somewhere worse than making those people buy a car, making them drive separately, then making them find parking?

Because those 20 people are extremely unlikely to share an origin, destination, or schedule.
Yes. Amazing book. The Red Queen as well.
It's hard making this point if you don't have access to capital, but if the talent is comparable, doesn't this represent an opportunity to go after an idea with above-average talent through simply paying globally-optimal market rates and pricing out the competition for talent?

It seems that there's an opportunity here to incubate ideas at a discount globally by "overpaying" locally.

Are there VC funds that are exploiting this? And I don't mean simply by making margin on the back of exploiting the CoL adjustments, but by drawing on regional talent pools with lower CoLs? I'm shocked there isn't more innovation coming from the upper midwest hub that lies along the belt connecting UICU, Purdue, CMU, etc.
I saw a great comment on twitter:

Thoughts and prayers: the air guitar of helping.
Quantum Physics.

"I, at any rate, am convinced that He [God] does not throw dice."
Coloring supervisor
Out of curiosity, which part? CO is very appealing as a worker.
Can't I just search the last phrase on the last result page to get to the next page in the book?
That's conscientiousness[1], another related psychological attribute. If you get a positive emotional response from doing well, that's adaptive. It's the dark side where you beat yourself up over tiny flaws that tips you towards perfectionism.

I've got plenty of both. For example, I love hand-writing and good pens and paper, but I never get journals to write in. I know that as soon as I made a single error, the entire journal would feel tainted to me and I would no longer get any satisfaction from writing in it.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conscientiousness
Announcing ParallelDots’ All New NLP Stack (2017)
We have replaced hand-crafted features with hand-crafted architectures.

While performance might be important, at least the features were easy to understand by non experts. :)
I disagree with you premise. People are spending time in jail for not showing up to court, not because of their debts. And even jail time is pretty rare for a bench warrant.

Of the situations you listed, the only valid reason for not showing up to court is because you weren't aware. But because the stakes are so high, judges in California require that parties have been personally served by a registered process server before they'll issue a bench warrant for not showing up to a debtor's examination. I assume other states are similar. Correct me if I'm wrong.

I actually think that the process that the courts have for enforcing judgements is much fairer than the tactics that debt collectors often resort to. There's a reason that laws like the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act exist.
The fact that this comment is greyed out is quite telling.
>Anyone could work a factory job. The least intelligent, least motivated people could punch a clock and earn a decent living tightening the same bolt a thousand times a day, all day long.

I don't have personal experience as a '50s factory worker, but I do have some experience assembling things and working on cars.

I doubt this description of factory work being completely brainless. If you've ever tried to watch someone who isn't mechanically inclined assemble anything, you can see that there is a skill in fitting things together. Even if your job is to tighten that same bolt every day, you've still gotta figure out how to properly torque it; too loose and the bolt comes out, too tight and you shear the goddamn thing off. Use one of those old style torque wrenches and you're gonna be way slower than the next guy.
Decentralised Platforms Need Breakthrough Thinking,Here Is What You Need to Know
Seeing as how the infant/mother mortality rate is so high in the US compared to other developed nations, I don't think home births should be encouraged as much in non-rural areas. Birthing Centers are better than home births though not suitable for high-risk cases.
Me too.

My e-mail is in my profile.

PS: Chances aren't in our favour but are you by any chance living in Australia?
What kind of resource do you mean?

It's been a few years now. I know I read LYAH, and I think also one of the O'reilly books. I used GHC and vim+syntastic. I used Hoogle for looking stuff up. I asked lots of questions on Stack Overflow, Reddit, and one of the IRC channels. Even after 3 years, everything with Haskell felt like rolling a boulder up a hill. The only reason I'd persisted as long as I did was because the idea of a purely functional statically typed language really appeals to me. Despite those features being what I've wanted in a language for decades, too much about Haskell makes it unusable for me.

I did learn some useful stuff in the process, but came away with the conclusion that virtually all of the good stuff in Haskell does not really need to be coupled to all of the terrible stuff in Haskell.

I think for some people (I suspect a tiny minority) of the people who attempt to learn Haskell, they get past the terrible stuff and either stop seeing it, or become brainwashed into thinking it's unavoidable/necessary. Perhaps it only works for the 5% of people who's brain happens to be wired the right way, I don't know. Most people, though, give up. To make matters worse, if you are not one of those people for whom the weirdness of Haskell "clicks", and you mention that parts of it make no sense to you, you'll get very little help from the Haskell community. Most will tell you things like "I use Haskell every day, and this doesn't bother me". Great.

That said, during the time I was trying to learn Haskell I did see some small improvements being made in the usability department. The biggest by far was that they finally turned off MR by default. Still, too little too late for me, so I ended up giving up on Haskell and moving on to other languages where I can actually understand my own code a day or two later.

As an aside, MR was a great example what's wrong with Haskell: 99% of the time the language designers don't seem to care about usability at all, but the 1% of the time they actually try to do something to help usability, their attempts completely backfire. map vs fmap is another example of this, though not nearly as horrendous as MR.
> It's just sad how people always try to "improve" on old standard interfaces by then over-designing the improvements to the point where the new interface is just overwhelmed by complexity.

Did Linus also criticize the complexity and untested nature of systemd?
?? Booking flights online is amazingly simple compared to 10 years ago. Kayak.com is my favorite.

Random prices? They totally make sense to me.
Did you time travel from 2000 to make this comment? Garmin, Cerner and DST are nearly twice Sprint's market cap. KC is nowhere near its potential, and it's no Austin (nor Omaha), but come on, Sprint's heyday was long ago.
Is it true that Russia stands to gain from climate change due to their land thawing and creating farmland?
Dude between paying $400k for a 1975 3/2 house that I also have to spend $700/mo in property taxes on (thanks to the Leges robinhood tax scam) and just generally antagonistic anti-Austin policies.. I'm done here. I've got some interviews in Seattle/PNW going on but I'm also interviewing in Dallas this week. I really just want out of TX. The fact that it's an 8 hour drive minimum just to go to another State or go see a forest kills me.

2011 Austin was amazing. Traffic wasn't the best but it didn't ruin my day. I'd go out and listen to bands at least a few times a week. Now everything's an hour minimum. Need a hose from Home Depot 3 miles away? 2 hours. I don't want to leave my house. I can't figure out if it's because I'm getting older and saltier or if the town has actually changed that much.

Where are you going? Also seeing Austin pop up as some amazing place to live in every HN thread is just weird. I stay out of those because maybe it is just my experience but this place is nothing like it was when I first came here. The city council being vehemently anti-density means there are NO townhouses or duplexes in the city (they were illegal until 2016 because of SFH minimum lot laws, every SFH had to be on a 5700sqft lot). It's synthesized real estate scarcity. Houston and Dallas are the polar opposite. I can buy an incredible townhouse in Deep Ellum with a roof top patio, 3/3, year old for less than my old crappy house here 12 miles from downtown.
Are you referring to using something like the particle.io platform?
UEFI is a really unfortunate second system with all the markings of Intel's internal cultural issues imbued onto it that are hard to not see if you've worked with intel for any length of time. In the common case of an end user running an operating system, it's really hard to botch that without being kicked out of the market in ways that can't be worked around so it wont matter to most computer users. But UEFI is only a minor improvement over BIOS versus other industry standards for the people that could reap the benefits of an open and extensible bootloader in embedded, appliances, and hyperscale -- device manufacturers and operating system developers.
So, given the very small list of possible names associated with the subject of this paragraph, I should think the number of permutations would be in the low hundreds. I’d be willing to bet the larger block falls to this analysis by morning in Washington. (Not that that is necessarily the most important block, but it probably has the bounded scope.)
Not to mention the utter evil in the way billing practices drive care. Many hospitals will perform unnecessary procedures on patients as soon as they know they will be covered by insurance. This leads to unnecessary catheterizations, blood draws, etc.
It's the thunderdome, but not as bad as a shark uterus. They generally only give live birth to one shark because that shark has eaten all the others.
Using the object system in OCaml is super rare in my experience and using modules to structure code is way more common. They are also two somewhat orthogonal features of the type system: objects don't contain types, they are just values.
The web page is poorly designed, the usual chunky and spaced out "bigger is better" look. The navigation menu at the top is not anchor links for that page, but goes to other pages where you can find details like microSD card etc.
Still not. Just tried to schedule a disk check on reboot and had to scour a bunch of pages to find something that might work.

No std msc or service manager gui available either. Some of these existed but were lost in a CADT.
This court case killed Google Books.

They've pretty much stopped scanning new books, even new out of copyright manuscripts etc.

Google Books itself had loads of cool possibilities of new ways to make use of the data from those books. This lawsuit has pretty much stopped all innovation, and all the good engineers left the project years ago.
The New York Magazine is not research. Want to know what the actual research says?

Look at figure 10.1 on page 690 of the IPCC’s AR5 WG II report. As it shows, most of the studies on the total impact of climate change for increases between 2.6 and 4.8 °C, which is the range for the IPCC’s highest emissions scenario during the 21st century, result in estimates of the impact on welfare equivalent to a change between 0% and −3% in GNP. Positive effects are included in the estimates, so 0% and two positive values appear outside the range. This is not about the economic impact but about the total impact on welfare, so it really is what is relevant. The factors considered by the studies include variation in agricultural yield, water availability, changes in tourism flow, energy demand, impact on human health, labor productivity.

How bad do you think −3% is during the 21st century? That’s less than 0.035% less economic growth starting in 2014 when the Fifth Assessment Report was published. Even a policy that was completely effective at entirely preventing any global warming could only be justified if its cost was otherwise less than 0.035%. The policies we could implement would not be completely effective and would certainly cost more than 0.035%. Therefore the expected value of doing nothing about global warming is higher than the expected value of doing something.
Not just warmer: less stable.
Most likely feedback loop to you is crop failures, mass starvation, conflicts.
Do not rule out extreme weather events as well.
Handmade Hero – “Zero” (50 Cycles) Cost Abstractions
i didn’t say he did create any of those. i only said he created git, which is true. i also didn’t blame linus like you say. i removed my response because, well, it was negative. i would just appreciate linus taking a less combative approach because his world hasn’t endowed the world of computing with as much nicety as he seems to think it has.
Debussy: the musical genius who erupted out of nowhere
Too bad we can't create a dyson sphere that we could partially close to limit sun exposure enough to refreeze parts of the planet as needed and also use the sphere to power everything on earth.
This is the kind of product that should appeal to the heart, not the brain. I'm a rational person that's not going to spend lots of money for candy when I can go to the store and get a bagful for less than $5.00 bux.

But if you hit my nostalgia button or my curiosity then I'll be willing to spend so much more.

Place the how-to video on your site but go for the heart with ads.
small bezels are important to people because it essentially means a bigger screen inside the same dimensions. I have an iPhone 7 Plus because of the bigger screen, but i feel the overall footprint is ridiculously large for the size of the screen. The iPhone X has the perfect size while the display is still the same or even slightly bigger.
What makes this confusing for me is that this is backwards from the way expressions work pretty much anywhere else. It should be possible to know the type of a sub-expression without knowing anything about the expression that contains it. That is, start at the leaves, and work your way up. In Haskell, sometimes you have to go the other way. It's like trying to read a novel where some chapters randomly assume you know what happens several chapters later.
I agree. Was in SF recently and the juxtaposition of extreme wealth and homelessness makes me extremely uncomfortable. I know we have homelessness in the UK but this is just a whole different scale in the US
If you have time please review my critique on his "group selection" article.
http://darkcephas.blogspot.ca/2018/01/on-group-selection.htm...
I don’t know about the 5 to 10 search a day volume level - I was quite a bit above this. But I agree that if they don’t serve that volume level well, it’s sad and aggravating. That should be something that can really help people who are out of other options. Might it be a privacy issue? If an ad can be targeted to that level it can be used to address a single individual.
"The dossier, compiled by former British spy Christopher Steele, wasn't provided to the FBI's counterintelligence team until mid-September 2016, according to the memo."

This statement could be perfectly true, while it's also perfectly true Steele met with the FBI in July, and had multiple other channels to provide information to various other FBI departments. It doesn't particularly matter exactly how the investigation started. If you've read the dossier and now knowing what we know about how it came to be, it's pretty disgusting.

"FBI officials indicated that Steele himself was not advised that the work he was doing was on behalf of the Clinton campaign."

Now this is something I hadn't heard before! That is absolutely shocking that we're supposed to believe this ex-Spy was in the dark about who was paying him?
Individual contracts around $50,000 per year per customer.
Why is this flagged?

The author is Dave Winer. Known for many things, among them RSS. HN users seem to like RSS and dislike what happened to Google Reader.

There is nothing unreasonable about supporting both HTTP and HTTPS.

There are decisions that should be left to users. Denying them meaningful options is something that should raise a red flag and spur some commentary.

For example, if users want to use RSS, then we should be wary of any company that effectively tries to dissuade them from using RSS.

Similarly, if users want to use HTTP for some content (and perhaps HTTPS for other content), then we should be wary of any company that effectively tries to dissuade them from ever using HTTP for any content.

Not all content needs to be encrypted. Moreover HTTPS via SSL/TLS is not the only way to distribute encrypted content. We should not pretend there is only one way to do it, let alone coerce people to do it only one way.

As a user, I would be just as satisfied with a page of HTML that is PGP-signed, encrypted and sent over HTTP as I would with HTML sent over a so-called "secure channel" via SSL/TLS, what with the third party reliances the commercial domain name and commercial x509 certificate schemes routinely entail.

Besides the issues of requisite third party involvement in encryption, TLS as implemented so far has some serious weaknesses and shortcomings, and is not the only solution to "secure content". If a company is going to issue warnings to users, then that should be among them. Promoting a false sense of "security" should be avoided.

When a company running the largest search engine on the www penalizes websites for not implmenting some feature, whether it is AMP or HTTPS or something else, this should raise red flags. Expect some commentary.