skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well, sure it's going to be toxic. Drink enough gasoline and you'll die, whether it's aviation gasoline or not. And aromatics are carcinogenic etc. (then again, aromatics are present in many other fuels such as regular gasoline and kerosine). I think the best one can hope for is that the 100LL replacement won't be significantly nastier than regular car gasoline. But already that would IMHO be a significant step forward compared to the status quo.

And no, I don't work for the chemical industry, or anything related to that really. But yes, I've heard of such cases where the replacement for some banned product turns out to be even worse. I do think one should be very careful about trusting environmental statements by the chemical industry, or any industry for that matter. Just like one shouldn't trust them blindly, I don't think a blanket dismissal of anything new they are doing is warranted either.
That's precisely why it would be interesting. Getting cleaner decodes of jpeg-encoded line art and screenshots would be great.

Some images are only available as badly encoded jpegs.
This statement is in the same domain as “thoughts and prayers”, which is the same as saying, ”I’m wishing at you really hard”.

Rest implies an awaking or movement at some point in the future, but for Hawking, he didn’t believe in that.

Maybe it’s just something to say, like acknowledging someone sneezing?
You can't possibly be a "mediocre developer" if you do all that mentioned in the article. I guess that was the joke :)

Re: "I google simplest things all the time", I once wrote my own regular expression parser, context free grammar parser, etc. in Lisp, Python, Perl, and JavaScript.

But to this day I still have to google javascript syntax to work with regular expression for certain things.

Memory is no longer a competitive advantage, the real competitive advantage is the ability and discipline to do everything OP talks about in the post
Not what I did, but what I wish I did: put ads on stackoverflow targeting the skills I was after.

After months of searching, finally we get a bunch of hits of people with the exact skillset we are after, all from newly placed ads on stackoverflow. Major facepalm moment.

What I actually did: ads on LinkedIn and local job portals. Mostly applications from India with none of the required skills listed in the job description. After a bunch of manual reading finally found a couple people with the background we need, but the time I spent looking was a major opportunity cost, not just from not having the people but as a time sink on my side as well.
The Lena image is not pornographic. It is a picture of a Lena naked (well apart from the hat) and if it was a painting nobody would object.
I'm the author of the gist. You're exactly right. This was me guessing when I didn't understand the configuration options, because this was my attempt at learning the BETA of webpack 4 without the new docs available.
> I dont grok this, if tcp's model has fundamental problems how come the Internet works. :)

Depends on your definition of "works"! Just ask any gamer what happens when someone starts using netflix while they're playing a game... For a lot of people the internet doesn't work very well.

TFA is describing, I think, the issue of stale / dead connections - which can be notoriously difficult to detect. Imagine you are building black boxes that sit in peoples' homes, with a long running TCP connection to push notifications to. With the state of the internet, it's very likely some percentage of those connections will die without either side realizing it. That's where the complexity comes in.
Yes - FB does all the things it does because it wants to sell your data off to Russia. That is its mission statement. Awesome right since that is what you want to hear. Lets go back now - party is all over.
Any idea what they are actually using?
This was done several years ago, I think by Microsoft.
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> the USA does not generally act on the information that is shared

How would you know that?

In any case, the UK does. [1]

[1] http://www.vocativ.com/325190/arrests-for-social-media-posts...
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In space, electricity is always welcome, while vibrations are usually not. So to the first approximation, sure, why not?
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Author of the gist here. Please don't take this as me complaining about webpack 4 in any way. This was me detailing my process of migrating to the webpack 4 BETA in order to provide feedback to the webpack team, and potentially help anyone else out who got stuck on a few things like I did.

They're updating the documentation. Webpack is awesome and v4 is a great update and I highly recommend people try it out.
Funny because the blackboard doesn't mention MS Word anywhere as far as I can tell, it mentions "Features of a word processing window" and it doesn't specifically look like MS Word either. This also makes me wonder what happened to the one Laptop per Child project [0], their G+ site was not posted on since November 2016. Is it really Microsoft Word that is going to be used by these students? Or will it be LibreOffice or Google Docs?

[0] http://one.laptop.org/
"It will protect against both malicious activities and accidents (e.g. an employee’s child accidentally wiping a mailbox)."

Can someone help me understand how a child accidentally wiping a mailbox is related to encryption? Isn't this just a matter of putting a password on your computer and not related to encryption?
Texas is not necessarily seen as a positive thing, though. At least in Europe it's seen as the exponent of the 'worst' things that the US has to offer (guns, cars with terrible gas mileage, AC in giant McMansions running 24/7, etc).
I agree with you about the term "serverless" being silly, especially in a time when all the various forms of decentralized architecture are beginning to come of age. It makes it difficult to find information on "serverless webrtc signalling."

While other auto-scaling PaaS exist, the granularity of the lambda pricing model is fairly new and groundbreaking. A service can be launched that may see very little use and just costs pennies to test out during its initial phases. That same service will scale exponentially rather easily in comparison to a similar deployment on a traditional server.
Technically you might be able to do a proof by exclusion if you can show that only one of all the possible theories is sound and consistent.
Maybe these two approaches, jpeg2png and Knusperli, could be combined to get potentially superior end result.

Knusperli would run first, to reduce quantization discontinuities a bit.
There are tons of engineers in the Valley who have families to consider and still swap jobs every 2 years.
Also to keep in mind is that she'd be on the hook for his medical bills if they wed.
For SSL I think there is industry consensus to push for HTTPS everywhere. There is no argument to skip it. With free lets encrypt certificates. It is not like you will spend a week implementing it, without prior experience decent developer should have it up and running in half of day.
Let's start with the obvious - do you have your job offer and your start date for your new position? Based on everything about that job, will you prefer it to your current work? If you don't have an offer letter and a start date, don't even think about this; you could end up with the new job being a non-starter and out of your old job too.

I would strongly suggest calling your manager directly - make it the fifth time. Explain your new situation and give your notice. If you're willing to continue working for the current remote work, explain the reasoning for leaving - especially if we're talking about benefits, salary, etc. See if you get a counteroffer.
Isn't it the other way around? You start out with assumptions and a model (which usually involves some math), and then you show that you've made the correct assumptions by empirically testing it. You can't prove something in the mathematical sense about physical reality.
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Lisp Machines REPL was graphically based, not text based.

So the REPL could display any kind of data structure, and later calls could influence already displayed data.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o4-YnLpLgtk&t=687s

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6uPwQuxjgQo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IMN5RSIm6xw

There was GUI based debuggers.

Then there was the access of the complete OS stack and other running applications, and everything was compiled to native code, there wasn't any VM running.

Try do do a (disassemble func) on Emacs for seeing actual 80x86/ARM,....
For now, we can define the current Univers as a set of universal constants that rule it.

Other constants would actually lead to a different universe.

Now, if we strech our imagination, let's have an "space" (meta universe ) where universes are just regions where this contants are active, and there is a slow transision from one "unverse" region to the other. Much like arctic reagion vs. tropical. However, this transision is unlike anything, could be a spacetime/quantum level/?? transition. At this moment, this transition is not measurable.
I don't see how that is "begging the question", which means "to assume the truth of the conclusion of an argument in the premises in order for the conclusion to follow."
Because I was just trying it out? Are you saying it's wrong to test a beta and provide feedback to the authors?
A great keynote by Jacob Kaplan-Moss at PyCon 2015 along similar lines: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hIJdFxYlEKE
I'm no physicist, but my impression is that the observable universe is already smaller than the universe.
Yes but there still isn't a universally supported "good format" so JPEG often gets used for text.
Sounds like most developers, honestly.

I think about 5% of all developers out there nowadays are actually good developers. IME, most would have no idea what to do if you took away stackoverflow or their abstractions that make their day manageable.

A part of the problem might be that a lot I've met aren't at all interested in development, it's a job and they like the pay. They also just see it as a stepping stone to management.

When I do ask people at work how something actually works they rarely know. I get told just use 'x' it hides all that stuff away for you!

When I bring up basic concepts around coding, and therefore issues in their code, I get blank stares.

I mean, i've seen me having to explain to a C# dev with a few years experience why something like the following didn't work:

string s = "foobar";
s.Substring(1, 2);
Console.WriteLine(s);

He didn't know strings were immutable, didn't know how to understand the documentation for Substring and had never heard of immutability.

Similarly, I've had to explain why something like the following prints 5 and not 6:

void Main()
{
int x = 5;
Foo(x);
Console.WriteLine(x);
}

void Foo(int x) => x++;

A developer this time who had no idea about reference types & value types.

I don't know how we fix this though. As the people hiring and doing the interviews often don't know what they are doing either. So the blind hires the blind.
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Off-topic on my part here but I think it is so weird that people say “TFA” when referring to the article in the way you are doing. I see this a lot on HN.

IMO it would be natural to use “TFA” in the same way you would use “RTFM” — when you are scolding someone for not having read what they should — but using “TFA” as just a synonym for “the article”... that always throws me off.
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It’s stalled and with some unfortunate bugs in the change detection that can (and have, for me) lead to data loss. I love the cell structure and note organisation, but Quiver makes me nervous and I don’t use it anymore except as a temporary cache for ideas and snippets.
Well, due to the universe being ~13 billion years old, there is no way to observe(/interact with) entities that are more that 13 billion light years away at present.
That does not put these things in a different universe.
Of course they can, and should, but this does not make it relevant to bring in the argument "only 25% of people drive to work".
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Not sure if the ship was named after it as well, but Permit A38 references a scene from an Asterix and Obelix animated film (https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Passierschein_A38; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GI5kwSap9Ug). The comic series by René Goscinni and animated films were very popular in Europe, probably not so much in the US.

Permit A38 refers to a scene where the protagonists are referred multiple times within a overly beaurocratic Roman administrative office, so it has become sort of synonymous with a Sysiphean task in German language (at least in limited circles).
Good tooling can save you a lot of googling mentioned here. Your editor should tell you the required order of arguments, for example.
> most every company wants to know as much as possible about their customers

And it's crazy that we're allowing them to do that in the "data breach era". Companies should should be incentivized/penalized to keep the absolute minimum information it needs for its services. The less data, the better, and the less it would be penalized in case of a data breach. The more data it stores and the more data it exposes in a data breach, the bigger the penalties should be for it.

Companies would ignore that at their own peril, as the penalties should be a big percentage of the global annual revenues. So a company like Equifax would have to come out either crippled or bankrupt out of a data breach where it exposed all of the US adults' information.

Build the right system, and companies will be "incentivized" to do the right thing. This is why the EU is doing the right thing with the GDPR, and if the US Congress wasn't completely captured by corporations by now, it would probably do something like that, too.

But even GDPR doesn't go as far as I'd like, to the point where companies would be incentivized to use minimum amounts of information and switch to end-to-end encrypted systems (which by default would bring minimum to zero penalties in case of server data breach).
People often forget how the entire ecosystem is structured, when the Trump administration wanted to send back people who were on Green card wait, a statistic was published in the local newspapers here in India. Apparently there were a good 6+ lacs H1-Bs residing in US currently. Add L1 and F1 categories, to it, then add green card holders and you could be staring at 10+ lacs Indians/Indian orgin people in the US already.

This is already a lot of people. In some way there are already enough Indians working in the US.

This number already rivals the entire head count of several Indian IT firms added together.
I have only one thing to nag about. Password complexity rules. Please only do length check and promote checking against dictionary passwords to be rejected. For password security this was last year hot document: https://www.nist.gov/itl/tig/projects/special-publication-80...
All joking aside, most of the hiring I've been part of has been as a third-party recruiter. I was that guy who trawled LinkedIn for keywords and only sent out InMail if I couldn't find your email and phone number elsewhere. I was the guy who went through piles of resumes on Indeed, again scanning for locations and keywords.

I've never been the one to 'pull the trigger' on a hire, though I did have no-go authority most of the time. I've been the guy who made sure you didn't get through if you didn't look right; I was the human alternative to an ATS.
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Daily Goal Tasks with Todoist.

In order to accomplish goals, I set regular repeating tasks that I do to help me accomplish the goal. For example, I want to learn Spanish, so every day my task is to study 3 new Spanish words and once per week I review the words I learned.

I found if a goal (like a software task) was too broad, it wouldn't get accomplished. Breaking my goals down into small repeating tasks has helped me accomplish them.
In the US, medical issues can bankrupt people, even if they have insurance. If the couple married, his wife's income would be fair game to the hospitals and insurance companies.

I know a distant relative in the Midwest who's wife had a stroke. After about a year they made the difficult decision to get divorced because the aftercare was ruining them financially (she couldn't live at home). By divorcing, she became eligible for federal assistance, allowing her husband to keep a house over their children's heads.

This is the reality of healthcare in the US.
well, makes sense, we were the first to fly....

http://www.ctie.monash.edu.au/hargrave/pearse1.html
What's the issue with Quora?
But his conclusions turn out to be flat-out wrong.
They'd accomplish a lot, but I fear most of it wouldn't take anyway.

The problem is the Internet. Or, more precisely, other people.

Those systems of old didn't separate between "an user" and "a developer" because they assumed all users are trusted (and responsible people). With the Internet, this assumption immediately becomes false - between people attacking the network and social engineering, it's dangerous to let people have that much control over their environment.

Which is something that pisses me off, because I'd love to work on a modern-day version of a Lisp machine, but I understand this can't ever become mainstream (and myself I'd be worried using it to do my banking).

Or, as I sometimes phrase it, Star Trek-level tech requires Star Trek-level society.
I've tried lots of docs tools, but the one I've found works best for me is a self-hosted Dokuwiki.

Dokuwiki stores it's output in text files (not in a database) so installation is as simple as unzipping an archive, and a cron job to copy the docs directory to s3 weekly takes care of backups.

As a plus, you can easily allow collaboration since it is a wiki after all. Needless to say, you can use it on any platform with a Web browser.

Lack of support for markdown is the only shortcoming, but the wiki syntax is easy enough to learn.
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Given the problems with replication, and the selection biases, I’ve decided it’s a safe bet to ignore the implications of articles about health studies!

It’s shocking how many dietary and medical practices have been championed, and then later repudiated.

One challenging example: fish oil.

Article saying it’s good...

http://time.com/4619488/omega-3-fats-heart-health/

Article questioning the overall research:

https://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/03/30/fish-oil-claims-no...
I don't see this working well as long as Twitter us also using the badge as a means of punishment
These sorts of projects make me excited to hear what's coming in the future as machine learning gets more and more powerful, as well as accessible to developers at home.
> "Somewhere out there, a brilliant kid and their friends are working in their garage" using and improving on tools like Blender, DeRose tells the assembled children and adults at MoMath. "They will be the next Pixar."

Nope. I love Pixar because of the stories and storytelling. First ten minutes of Up? Inside Out? As long as they looked slightly better than ass I bet I'd still love them.
Domestication, like in the foxes study, needs a small genetic pool to work and a deliberate selection of the sexual reproduction by humans (killing the non-desired ones, mating only animals with desired traits). Nothing of that is happening here.

One of the problems with the article is that does not try to discard those explanations. A simple check to investigate if white spots are linked to sex or age would help. A check for scars in those patches would positively help us to understand what is happenning. It does not mean necessarily harming the mice, they could just rasurate some white patches and take a look.

We are concluding that animals sort of "deliberately increase" their "cuteness" to please humans but this conclusion is not justified. What if aggression is just being increased as response to animals being marked with strange human odour?. This kind of articles should discuss at least some of those alternative explanations.
I think you're close to the point - but I don't think it's about money.

If you love someone and they're dying, being married to them especially in the 40s makes things a lot easier for handling their affairs both before and after they die.

There's so many laws even now that aren't fixed to handle when people aren't married.
Were the people to whom you had to explain those concepts juniors or people with a couple of years of experience?
Pretty much, it's more that I'm saying that would have been my understanding of the word "universe" until now, but that may be actually an incorrect understanding of the word as Hawking means it.
By that you mean if more software was more strict about what it accepted instead of being liberal about it?
It is easy to confuse it for such, but it is not bootstrapping. It is a form of multi-dimensional random variable generation, where the generated dimensions preserve same correlations/relationships as those in the original dataset.
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Every project I’ve been on goes through periods of crunchtime, at which point process goes out the window and it all becomes word of mouth. The team chat app becomes a firehose of information and if I look away for a minute, I miss something important and end up working on something that someone else is already working on. Developers become an extension of the team lead who effectively becomes the sole thinker and commander of his little army of code monkeys. It’s like being a unit in Command & Conquer. And all because of an arbitrary deadline to build a demo for internal stakeholders, which sets up the project for ultimate failure.
Sadly the internet isn't as nice. I've been to various hotels where the router would silently drop keep-alive packets (but god forbid informing the packet layer you do this!) and mangled DNS packets ("looking for mail.example.com? Here is the answer for example.com" and "looking for doesnotexist.com? Here is result for internalsearchengine.com which redirects you to a sponsored search page with ads")
As much as I'd like to see this being tested in California, this is also perhaps more of benefit to both the US and New Zealand.

New Zealand is a small nation of less than five million people. It's a competitive advantage to be able to offer greater and more nuanced accomodation. Anything New Zealand can test at a smaller scale and prove out, that larger countries can then learn from and adopt, is a win all around.

The government system of New Zealand is radically smaller and you can interface far more directly and easily with it accordingly. Their government is ~1/90th the size of the US Federal Government + States. For something like Kitty Hawk, it makes a lot of sense to prove the concept first before engaging a bureacracy the size of the US Govt + States (California in this case). If a country like New Zealand does things right, that will always be the case no matter how hard the US tries.
This code is actually part of NSS, I wonder whether this affects other applications using the soft token db in a similar capacity.

https://dxr.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/source/security/nss/...

It also processes salt||pw; while that's not a problem per se for password hashing, I generally prefer unique encodings when hashing multiple fields, such as len(salt)||salt||len(pw)||pw.
It's probably a fantastic lib, and well done. But..

What if node-sqlite redesign it's library and gets even faster than this? Then it won't be better anymore? I think it's a bit of a bad name for a lib to have since stuff like this changes with time.