skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My answer was a rarely honest report on my actual interactions with the world. We live in a time where give well estimates something on the order of a few thousand dollars can save a life, through malaria donations etc. How much of my income do I actually donate to these people? About 5% I guess. How much would I pay for my own longevity? Way more than that.

Would you? If given the option between extending your life to the age of 200 through yearly payments of $10,000 -- or instead donating that money to save countless lives a year, which would you do? Maybe you would donate it, I don't know you, and I won't presume the answer. But is it a callous indifference to pick yourself instead? Maybe it is, and if so, I'm callously indifferent.

We could play with those numbers though, to see how you would value an additional year of your life vs. saving a year for one of the world's poor. Would you value them the same? It's only natural to value your life, and your family's life, higher than others. What's the number where it's not callous indifference? It's worth thinking about, although I don't think the answer to these questions is pure nihilism or anything, we should definitely work to improve the world, and certainly donate more than we do now.

But the point I'm arguing against is that this doesn't mean we also need to put on hold work to improve longevity of our lives.

(It's also worth noting that this entire argument is far more nuanced and second order than the simpler one I offered above, which is that holding this business to a different standard than, say, Facebook, doesn't make sense. Any time you choose to start a business or work, you can always instead choose to go work for a firm with a mission to help the world's poor.)

As for your previous claim that it's in my direct interest to support the world's poor, that's true, but it's also not weighing it against the appropriate benchmark. The appropriate benchmark being what else could I do with that money that would benefit me.
> You have it exactly backwards. Generics and interfaces are commitments to formalism and the promises of static typing. Before that there was ‘void’, the canonical dynamic type. ‘void’ (or ‘Object’ in Java and other static OOPs) became less common, not more.

This has nothing to do with dynamic/static typing and everything to do with weak/strong typing.
Containing the Complexity of the Long Tail
Have a look at Talkyard, it's like open source Stack Exchange, + Discourse topic list, and Slack like chat topics.

https://www.talkyard.io

Yes there's GitHub login and async communication. (I'm developing it.)
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If they actually care, then force OEMs to provide Android security patches, instead of hand waving with Treble and still leaving the process to OEMs.
NIH has some good resources [1]; also the Mayo clinic [2]. Finally, examine.com [3] has lots of information on a whole bunch of supplements, vitamins, etc.

[1] https://www.nhlbi.nih.gov/health/educational/wecan/tools-res...

[2] https://www.mayoclinic.org/healthy-lifestyle/nutrition-and-h...

[3] https://examine.com/
he means hannibal
What does an ORM solution comprises of?
That is quite broad, and not related to the piece. I don't disagree with you, but it sounds like you're wandering far afield to make some other point not even close to where the article is going. Banging on your own drum as it were.

The well-educated of the time were taught classics, so yes, Romans had an influence, as did the Greeks. They were protestants, more of a deist nature, but protestants. So there's that influence. Wars of religion were recent for them. Up until 1776 or so, they considered themselves Englishmen. It was a time of great philosophical minds. You can't talk about the founding of the U.S. without talking about John Locke, for instance.

It's not that the Roman metaphor is completely inaccurate, it's that it's only a tiny slice of a very complex picture. Looking at the U.S. as some modern-day version of Rome can lead to all kinds of silliness. It's fun to do, sure, but best used very sparingly. It can lead to having all sorts of huge gaps in knowledge while assuring yourself that you understand the important parts of what happened.
> This means "00110" matches are easier to find, and happen more frequently!

They do not happen more frequently in a random bit stream. You are absolutely and completely wrong about this.

They only happen more frequently if you switch the problem from counting occurances to counting bitstreams that contain these occurrences.

The reason this is is because the sequence 111 contains two substrings of 11. Thus if this happens in a bitstream and you are counting bitstreams you only get a count of 1. Where as with the counting frequency you would still get two.

This will occur any time a sequence can be overlapped with itself.
Where do you get 2-4 days to work on an entirely speculative project?
I don't know the answer to that. Am I weak? Is it wrong that I'm on a vacation right now, when I could have donated that money instead? Some EA say just donate 10% or so of your money and don't feel bad, which is a wonderful social convention, but it is just a convention.

If you say the same about other startups, then at least you're being consistent, and it's the inconsistency that irks me.

I don't know if I'm weak or if I should be comfortable with my selfishness. I donate, but not as much as I could. I'm not sure I'll ever know the answer. I find that wrestling with the question, at least, prevents me from going down the path of buying luxury goods and signalling, so I guess it's somewhat useful.
You are horribly butchering Bayes' Theorem. Both your examples are incorrect because your two events ('2 girls' and 'at least 1 girl') are not oberved independently of one another, which is a necessary condition to using Bayes' Theorem with a valid result. Great tool but wrong job.
Low rate loans for ladies, stags pay extra [pdf]
Same for 1984
Yet cars kill many pedestrians on pavements every year.
You're right, I didn't word that very clearly. I meant "more strings contain this substring", not "this substring occurs more times total" (which, as you say, would be the usual meaning of "matches happen more frequently").

Why care about strings containing a particular substring versus total number of occurrences? The article referenced this PDF: https://www.cs.cornell.edu/~ginsparg/physics/INFO295/mh.pdf, which is about how many coin flips it takes to see a run of N heads. That's really what the argument in the second half of my post is about, but it applies to the "how many strings contain this substring" problem too, and that one seemed simpler to draw a table for.
> We've collectively chosen short term excess over long term sustainability

No. Damage to the environment is done because it's cheap. And why is it cheap? Because the owner of the thing (the state, the town, the "community") doesn't care. Now if there were a real market driven cost (throwing away a plastic bag or a TV would actually cost something), you would reconsider.

Next in line is consumption: How about the houses built everywhere on the planet with low interest rates that will never be inhabited because there are not enough people nearby to inhabit it.

Next is (as an example) military production in the US (>= 10x the military budget of Germany or Russia), using up money to destroy even more things of value.

There are a million reasons and most of them lead down to

- low interest rates (incentivizing producers to produce things people wouldn't want, disincentivizing consumers to save)

- a lack of democracy and/or accountability of the people in charge (those wars weren't exactly a consequence of people protesting on the streets)

- "public ownership" which basically translates to "no one gives a f* because it's not theirs'" - see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tragedy_of_the_commons

I suppose the last point is probably the least orthodox, so here are two sources that discuss the issue:

Audio: https://mises.org/ko/library/5-environmentalism

PDF: https://mises-media.s3.amazonaws.com/Environmentalism%20and%...
Google stopped personalising ads based on your e-mail (e.g. 'reading your email') last year: https://blog.google/products/gmail/g-suite-gains-traction-in...
Apple Registers Several New Unreleased iPhone Models in Eurasia Ahead of WWDC
Explain in brief structure and function of bootstrap
Doesn't that mean that the neural net learned itself a numerical method to compute the solution of the equation, and that it is close enough in terms of approximation up to 7 Lyapukov times, and after that time, the approximation becomes not good enough and the system can't predict?

It doesn't sound like too groundbreaking...
Pagination and Entity Counts in Google App Engine Cloud Datastore with Php-Gds
And a fields medalist, in one sense. Terry Tao is a Flinders graduate.
My dad got his license the week before this happened. He remembers it not being too difficult to relearn, but that the most impressive part of it was the sign reworks, ostensibly overnight, which seems corroborated by the article.
No, it's not. Any interaction you have in the world can be measured against a counter-factual of interacting with the world in such a way to improve the plight of others.
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Doing it through the package manager presents a uniform interface through one single command. Executing ordinary shell scripts through the package’s postinstall minimizes dependencies (no Puppet, Chef or CFengine required) and makes it easier on system administrators who do not have to learn any of those applications to perform system maintenance or perform telemetry gathering as directed by system engineering department. Doing or calling configuration scripts inside of OS packaging ensures that the system knows about and can be queried through its standardized software management subsystem as to what has been done to it, where, and by whom (component owner will be in the package metadata).

For example: a package delivers /opt/abcd/sbin/pgadm, which would be your engineered command line interface to CREATE DATABASE, database backups, and so on; then the application-db package calls that in its postinstall to create a database specific to that application. Best of all, once one has such packages, they can be plugged into Kickstart, JumpStart, AutoYaST, or whatever the OS provides for automated provisioning and hardware whether physical or virtual, turned into fully configured systems from literally nothing with no special or custom provisioning required. You could lose entire networks of servers and prop them up in seconds again this way.
Intel cancels its smart glasses due to lack of investment
No, physically present within EU jurisdiction
You absolutely can resign from the Armed Forces, otherwise how would there be veterans? The only difference is that you cannot resign mid-operation.
Legacy Code Rocks
The original question was “sent over the Internet” not “sent over the wire”.
Our democracy is broken. Why can't technology fix it?
I drive an EV. IMHO, this is the most effective solution to reduce CO2. I live in France where electricity is mostly carbon-free.
One Transistor FlipFlop
It Looks Like Apple May Be Making a Bunch of Cheap New iPhones – Gizmodo UK
Realistically, people concerned about that (or just being lazy) don't put real e-mail addresses in there.
Ask HN: Going to a hackathon this saturday. Any ideas relating to ecommerce?
I am going to a hackathon this week. The topic is on ecommerce, audio and video. Can anyone suggest some ideas to build something in 12 hourse. I have been trying to brainstorm since last week, but getting only creepy ideas.

Right now, my current pick is:

Scroll based recommendation learning for e-commerce.
Infinite scroll based react plugin, which generates more suggestions as scroll based on the time and scroll position on current items.

Thanks
I'm saying we're already so far fucked up the ass that there is no hope. Nature will herself tell us it doesn't work, just like it tells people that smoking causes cancer. I wish I could be the Bill Gates brand of optimist but I'm not. The world is getting worse not better.

There is a "wonderful" movement called the Dark Mountain movement. It is a collection of formerly uber-passionate environmental activists who've essentially thrown in the towel and decided Humanity ist kaput. Their leader now gives lessons on how to use scythes instead of lawn mowers to cut grass. Others have found similarly low tech pastimes to keep themselves occupied.
China's ZTE delays earnings amid confusion over US ban
In the first case, I guess what's happening is that when we pick two people randomly with uniform distribution, we expect, with equal probability, any combination of boys and girls: MM MF FF FM. When we observe a girl, we can exclude the case of two boys, so the remaining cases to consider are MF FF FM, where obviously only 1/3 of the cases is two girls.

So I guess what makes this counterintuitive is that we think of the example as independent variables actually affecting each other, but what happens is really that we're drawing from a collection without replacement, and obviously the mix of the collection is going to change as we do so.

This should apply also on a humankind, world-wide scale: if you have met three women in a row, the fourth person you meet is more likely to be a man. Gambler's fallacy! Or just drawing without replacement. A roulette table is drawing with replacement. :)
jQuery becomes less needed by the second, unless you want compatibility with other and older browsers, which is almost a given. :)
That's how most of the law works. If I commit a felony while on vacation, I'm subject to the penal code of the country I'm visiting, not the one where I have residence.
Mossad 2018 challenge
SEO vs. Social Media Marketing in 2018
Our Qbix Platform has a solution to this using the existing modern web:

https://encrypted.google.com/patents/US20120110469

We did not continue the patent application process to the end, so you’re free to use it.
Also https://www.lattepanda.com, around the same price.
Intel Threat Detection Technology Uses GPU to Speed Up Antivirus
I don't think they'll block facebook.com, that would produce a public outrage. The payment block sounds much more likely.
Ask HN: How do you monitor uptime/correctness of your APIs?
Currently I'm using status cake to ping a login request on our API to ensure it's up and reasonably functioning. I'm also using sentry for logging exceptions on the backend.

I'm curious as to how others are monitoring and ensuring correct responses from their APIs?
Probably better to send a letter.
Because democracy is not a technology -- it's what a vigilant citizenry does (and helps ensure).

We have had democracy (and far more extensive -- to those participating in it at least) before we had electricity.
That's simplistic. If you kill a Dutch in Berlin, you can be prosecuted by Germany, NL and your own country.
Well a RPi gives you a standard Linux with proper init system, tools like docker, proper headless support using SSH and so on. From a software point a RPi runs exactly the same stuff as any other Linux server out there. An Android phone on the other hand is a pretty quirky system for anything that's not a purpose built UI application
The Dark Mountain folks seem to revel in it all a bit much don't you think? They're a kind of refreshingly dark counterpoint to the 'everything will be saved by an organic urine-fermented artisanal hemp startup' Guardianista crew. But they seem equally silly (not to mention wanky).
How about block level checksums? Can LVM do that as well? Or is there some other way?

LVM by itself doesn't do anything, it's a management layer on top of device-mapper. But yes, a block-level checksum exists since cryptsetup v2.0 (very recent), called dm-integrity: https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/lin...
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It's not as bad as you imagine. Essentially, you can use data if you have consent, if you need it for a contract, if you need it for some "legitimate interest" (complicated), if you need it for regulatory reasons, etc. So there are plenty of avenues for using the data. The key is that you have to say up front under what "lawful basis" you are using the data. Each "lawful basis" has specific things the user is allowed to do and things the user is not allowed to do.

If you choose the consent lawful basis, then the user is allowed to withdraw consent. In fact, they are allowed not to give consent in the first place. If you choose the contract lawful basis, then the user can't withdraw without cancelling the contract. However, they can object if they believe that there is no reason you need the information to complete the contract. If you choose "legitimate interest", then the user can object and you have to show that the interest is indeed legitimate and that there is no other way to do what you are doing without the private information. One of the things explicitly prohibited is profiling. So it's quite complicated.

The key is that once you have informed the user of how you are going to use their data, you can't change your mind (within the same business context). This means that you have to be very, very careful. If you decide to use consent (in my example), but you should have used contract, then you are in big trouble. If you say that it's part of the contract but it's not strictly necessary to provide service, then you are in big trouble. Etc, etc.

One thing that I think will be very interesting is under what lawful basis FB publishes your real name. If it's consent, then you can withdraw it. If it's contract... do the really need you real name to give you service? Legitimate interest... Yes, potentially, but I don't see how they will get away with sharing your name with the whole world.

I'm very much looking forward to seeing how it pans out.
How does Facebook determine if a user resides in the EU? Based on the location that they give Facebook? Based on their IP address? Phone number?
Japan has very strict inspection rules on older cars, probably to boost car manufacturers.
Pretty sure Freedom of association is at least part of French constitution https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/D%C3%A9cision_Libert%C3%A9_d%2...
Can it network boot ?
How to Reduce Waste Procurement Costs for Marketing Budgets
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6 Things your audience really need from you
It only partially covers Washington, but I found the revolutions podcast great:

http://www.revolutionspodcast.com/

the American revolution starts here:
http://www.revolutionspodcast.com/2014/02/017-the-new-world....
IRS systems crash came after years of warnings to Congress
Looks like this is the Boy or Girl paradox [0], which has ambiguity problems.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boy_or_Girl_paradox
MySQL Query to “flatten” or pivot table by fields?
Say, how well are the various hardware features supported on this tinker board? For example, I've had trouble with enabling I2C on an Orange Pi and there's precious little documentation about this niche-ish use.

Since the reason for using these boards is ease of development, as in not doing a custom kernel, how well the SOC specific bits work is pretty important.

Note: while externally these boards are all similar (same expansion connector etc), internally they use different SoCs and different kernels and configuration utilities. And this sometimes bites.
You seem to think nobody would ever damage the environment of land they owned. Except that oil companies and other industries do that constantly, across the world, to make money. And in addition to that, throwing things away does have a cost, that’s what we have garbagemen for. It just turns it to be extremely cheap for the most part.

Honestly people like you that worship the free market as a panacea confuse me. How does a free market prevent me from dumping toxic waste in the ocean? How does it prevent micro plastics from flowing down rivers into the ocean? How does it prevent me from releasing however much CO2 into the air as I want? I just don’t see it.
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DevOps success: Why continuous is a key word
Clearly you're not a shareholder.
Why Network Optimization Service Is Important for Cloud Communications
could you explain? I got the same thing...
> if some new chinese website becomes globally popular, the EU will try to prevent its business from paying money or buying ads from such company?

This is a red herring. The hypothetical involved Facebook, a company serving European users and with equipment and people in Europe, reacting to European regulation by moving said equipment and people out of Europe while continuing to serve the same Europeans. That is skipping jurisdiction. Given such a blatant attempt to skip the law, while still doing what the law was designed to prevent, one expects enforcement.

A comparable hypothetical would be an American company reacting to an American law by moving its people and servers to Canada while keeping all its American users and then saying "we're no longer in America, you can't touch us."
Cost maybe?
Intel ME on steroids ...
Hey, just made an account to say I'm one of those, and I have several gay friends who are in the same ship. Gay men being promiscuous is just a shitty stereotype that's as baseless as it is persistent

How about you take a look at any of the studies that have debunked it?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1783788
Steve Jobs' 2005 Commencement Address
Could you elaborate a bit on the connectivity problems? What is your setup? CloudSQL Proxy, any loadbalancers?
I'm surprised nobody mentioned CHIP from https://getchip.com/ - when they where available I paid 10 euros for each including shipping.

It came with WiFi, bluetooth, 512MB of RAM, 4GB of flash, plenty of GPIO
Not exactly correct. GDPR is closer to FATCA meaning — non US banks that deal with US citizens are subject to FATCA reporting IF they also have US assets. The penalty for a foreign bank not complying with FATCA is a penalty against US assets.

A bank with zero US financial system exposure can’t be penalized under FATCA because they have nothing to penalize. FATCA only works because banks have exposure to US assets.

The unintended consequence of FATCA is that it is dramatically harder for a US person to do any business with European banks — banks have closed accounts in order to reduce operational risk. So this “good law” (occurring to Democrats that passed it) actually made it much more difficult for Americans overseas and American companies who need overseas banking.

GDPR could be considered similar — it won’t have any jurisdiction if the company involved has no EU presence, but it could result in companies denying services to EU persons based on operational risk.

People should have thought this through much better.