skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Can anyone answer a related question? I had a memory test last year. One outcome was I scored at the 99th percentile in stress. I struggle with aphasia(can't recall words), and I am constantly troubled by tingling or numb hands and feet. I'm trying Cognitive Behavior Therapy, but that's way too slow. Anything else work for you?
Web Performance: 30 Man-Years of Research in a 30-minute Read
>> The theory that came to dominate, beginning in the second half of the
nineteenth century—and still does—was called “marginal productivity theory”;
those with higher productivities earned higher incomes that reflected their
greater contribution to society. Competitive markets, working through the laws
of supply and demand, determine the value of each individual’s contributions.
If someone has a scarce and valuable skill, the market will reward him amply,
because of his greater contribution to output. If he has no skills, his income
will be low.

"Productivity" here means the amount of income one generates, for their
employer or themselves. So in other words, if someone is good at making money,
they are productive and should be rewarded with more money.

For instance, people like me, who make their living sitting in front of a
computer screen all day are paid significantly higher salaries than people who
do back-breaking, physical work, like fruit pickers.

Picking fruit is really hard work and although you don't need a university
degree to be employed as one, it is not the kind of job that everyone can
easily do. Now that the UK is leaving the EU, fruit producers are starting to
have problems with employing people to pick their fruit, because local workers
will not do the job. "Will not" but also to a large extent "cannot" [1].
Agricultural work is not just a matter of good will- one needs to be able to
accomplish very physically demanding tasks. People who have spent most of
their working life as office workers do not have the experience, or the
stamina, to do agricultural work, even if they had the inclination. They might
be enticed to give it a try, if only the salaries for this type of job were
comparable to their usual fare. They're not- fruit pickers typically make
minimum wage.

And yet, agricultural work is an important part of the economy. Not to mention
that, without it, city-dwelling, office-working types like myself have nothing
to subsist on. We depend on the work of those low-paid workers who are poor in
formal skills but high in ability and determination, but we treat their job as
inferior, indeed less "productive" and therefore deserving of rewards than ours.

Inequality is certainly constructed, and ideas like "marginal productivity
theory" are at the root of this construction. Much like god-given ruling
rights of Western monarchies their use is to justify and legitimise absurd
social injustices, so that we can all cling on to the belief that the current
state of affairs is not so bad after all.

___________________

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2018/feb/11/british-far...

Catalin Constandis, a Haygrove farm manager, said British workers did not want
to pick fruit because it was too physically demanding.

“In my team in the past two years, no English people have worked here. We had
some graduates once; they didn’t last a day,” said Constandis, who has just
become a British citizen.
Well said. I blame 2nd coming Jobs (iMac and iPod era) and same period Microsoft for a lot of this as they competed with each other.

Usability became more important than flexibility. And intuitive operation prioritized over ease of learning.

There's a lot to be said for a harder to use computer with a learning curve, but which affords you more power to be a creator instead of a consumer at the end of the curve.

I'd go so far as to say that's better for us (as in, all humans).
Ask HN: Are There Any HackerNews-like Discord Channels?
Unfortunately it's not far fetched. I wish it were. It's just an unpleasant thought we've decided not to think about.

LE are a US corp, subject to US laws, and at the whim of US court orders. The implications of that are worth gaming out.

Our laws are (arguably) mostly fair. But there are cases where they're not.

Picture a world where an administration rises to power in the US on a platform that seems insane, but everybody endorses it anyway. And this platform just so happens to be against the sort of thing you're trying to do on the internet.

Sci-hub are stealing. We as a community are mostly fine with that. We don't consider it stealing, because the moral good outweighs the bad by a hundred to one.

But this isn't about Sci-hub. This is about a world in which we're free to do as we please, because we have the ability to decide what we want to do. If we want to make a site that can make information available, and someone else doesn't like that information or feels that they own it, what do you do? You have no power.

And when you blindly put your faith in institutions like Let's Encrypt on their platform of openness and trust, you set yourself up for a shift: One day you wake up and find out you were mistaken, and we were all mistaken to push this centralized model in the name of security and convenience.

And of course, that's the fundamental truth, isn't it? Liberties have always been eroded by pushing security and convenience.

We should think carefully about who we trust, and why.
looking at some of the the bugs that have been worked on over the past:

https://www.nethack.org/v330/spoiler.html

I'm wondering if these types of categorical errors like 'BUGFIX: kicking cockatrice meat while barefoot now stones you' can be eliminated by writing in a language with a more advanced type system that'll check for these things at compile time instead of relying on years of hard labor and the stone knives and bearskins of C.

I'm looking at the logic around eating and it's craaaaazy https://github.com/NetHack/NetHack/blob/NetHack-3.6.0/src/ea...

Ultimately I'm asking if even though "The Dev Team Thinks of Everything" to not have to rely on that when designing a game.
without actual legal force.

That's precisely the main concern here, given the nature of SciHub.
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Which town is that?

Hebden Bridge I always got the impression was a bit touristy (as well as being the lesbian capital of the country). A bit further south to Marsden, also on a rail line into Manchester and Leeds, is remarkably cheap
Why would the Paris Court of Appeals have any jurisdiction in this case? I'm surprised web.com didn't have their lawyers review the request and then throw it in the trash.
Favorite quote: "Those at the top have learned how to suck out money from the rest in ways that the rest are hardly aware of—that is their true innovation." Rings true to me. That's why labor markets are purely competitive but the markets for products are dominated by price fixing. It's why you get more jail time for stealing a car than cheating your employees or customers to the tune of millions of dollars. And so on.
>I think it should be obvious that you won't get rich unless you sell something... None of those people sold things or seemed to be interested in the process of selling things

Obvious under the current system maybe.

Obvious that it should be so, and that it's better that it's so, or that it can only ever be so? Not so much.

I, for one, think that society would be so much better if production of value like what Einstein did or what Tesla did etc, was rewarded with richness, rather than selling something.

For one, we'd have gotten rid of fucking SPAM email and social media leeching on private data to sell ads...
Max Weber wrote the government has a monopoly on the legitimate use of force while arguing that we trade safety for freedom to build modern societies.

Going forward the ability to trust information will matter as much as physical safety. We're starting to build institutions that regulate that for us, CAs are one of the first.

Depending on where you stand this is either a success or a failure of institutional trust.
I have been extremely happy with Weekend Bakery's rye sourdough starter recipe:

http://www.weekendbakery.com/posts/rye-sourdough-starter-in-...

I keep it in the fridge and feed it once a week or so with a 50/50 mix of rye and white bread flour.

Have also had excellent results with their Pain Rustique recipe:

http://www.weekendbakery.com/posts/our-version-of-a-pain-rus...
> Is it really that surprising to people that you wont become rich unless you convince thousands upon thousands of people to hand you money?

> What our system rewards are practical products that provide value that the average working class person would want to spend money on.

Hmm. The first statement either tautologous or ignores the importance of inheritance and marriage; the second one ignores the importance of property.

http://uk.businessinsider.com/sunday-times-rich-list-2017-ri...

In addition to fairly standard retail I can see: gambling, property, inheritance, diamonds, inheritance (Earl Cadogan, Duke of Westminster, Heineken), property, actual inventions (Dyson, Rausing), corruption/oil oligarchy (Abramovich, Usmanov, Blavatnik), and war profiteering (Fredriksen).
Nice! Reading through this doc is like going back to Computer Science classes again.
It's not meant to stop malicious users, it's meant to stop careless ones. Malicious users will always find a way.
Could MS not ultimately stop honoring said vendor's certificates?
Anything that requires quick reaction time (e.g. mountain biking) or pure speed (e.g. track) or both.
Why is this downvoted? I had the same problem and I am certain many others faced it too.
Since the burn Rate is now very low OP now has all the time in the world to take her decision.
I have founded several businesses and there is nothing as productive as taking your mind off your work and finding a new perspective.
What sucks is that even though you can’t see comment scores, you can clearly notice downvoted comments as their font is faded out.

So bandwagoning does happen, but only for controversial comments. This results in the reinforcement of groupthink and the rejection of ideas that don’t fit the mold.
Totally agree. In fact i think we need to intebtionally call some stuff ai. Watson was an ai.
Giving Compliments Examples and Using Them in Online Marketing
I don't think it's a super-rare case, but more towards the norm. Here's Jack Black opining about how his son racked up a $3k bill on in app purchases in a game clearly targeted at kids. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Y4YSpF6d6w
As few comments already mentioned, post college, preparing for this type of thing immensely helps in job interviews. I find it very hard to clear job interviews and in 2017 alone, I appeared for ~25 job interviews. I'm very convinced that competitive programming skills gives you a leg up in job interviews.

Many people may already may know this, but Peter Norvig indicated that it correlates poorly with on the job performance (at least at Google) [1]. I wonder why, then, companies still continue to do this style of interviews.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DdmyUZCl75s
63,782 Websites Worldwide Accept Bitcoin but Major Obstacles Remain
It is quite insane something as foundational to a society, to an economy, the transaction of payments, isn't provided by the government - along with fraud protection.
The Muse is hiring full-stack and back-end engineers
Professional poker players have been dealing with this type of risk for years. Major poker tournaments present a juicy target for organised hacking gangs. A high-stakes pro might have tens or hundreds of thousands of dollars deposited in their PokerStars account. Hundreds of professional players in a tournament cardroom means hundreds of very valuable laptops left in hotel rooms.

The most sensible precautions seem to be a) full-disk encryption with a strong passphrase, b) hardware 2fa using a token that is stored separately from the computer, c) physically securing the machine whenever possible and d) tamper-evident seals covering screwholes or seams.

If your adversary is capable of beating these precautions, you're probably screwed anyway.

https://www.f-secure.com/weblog/archives/00002647.html
Interesting implications for Google Fi if this goes through, since T-mobile and Sprint are their 2 main providers.
The Midwest Is Booming–Just Not Where You Think
It's true HTTPS traffic can be blocked (at least partially) by revoking certificates, but is this worse than the censorship opportunities offered by unauthenticated HTTP?

Whether the traffic is authenticated or not, ISPs block sites when instructed by government orders. And that is much harder to work around than a revoked TLS cert (although a revoked cert does mean "totally blocked" for almost all users).

These are not purely technical challenges, but rather political issues that must be addressed as such. We will always lose to our governments if we focus only on technical solutions to censorship.

I'd like to add that the USA government, for the most part, does not accept an absolute right to private communication. The possibility of ubiquitous end-to-end encrypted communications with tools like TLS and WhatsApp is not something we should take for granted. The USA matters here because we are the powerful nation with the strongest legal and cultural commitment to freedom of speech.
Create fake REST API in one sec
We've updated the headline. Thank you!
Pretty sure France can't "imminent domain" property located in foreign lands -- like, for instance, they wanted 1600 Pennsylvania Ave as their new US tourism office.
To me Gmail is largely worthless.
I use it only for spam (site registrations and such).
I’ve had an account since the year service was launched.
>So do you have an actual proposal for how we should be rewarding these people?

Sure.

An innovation tax, and a group of cross industry and academic people (e.g. a mix of successful founders, engineers, great researchers, Nobel winners, plus a jury of common folk etc) that decides, every e.g. 5-10 years, who gets to share the money among a shortlist of potential benefactors.

"Hmm, looks like this Turing person did good work in retrospect that hugely helped our society. Let him have $100 million of the $1 billion innovation fund".
And, as the article says, in Japan! There has been some fair criticism of the Japanese games market lacking in innovation compared to the West. Their indie scene is pitiful, AAA games stuck in 90s mechanics with fairly boring use of modern 3D hardware and a complete avoidance of online gaming trends. But, except for the online thing (although Splatoon might be among the strongest Japanese contenders), Nintendo manages to be maybe the most innovative AAA game developer in the world (especially when you consider their integration of hardware innovation in input devices). It’s quite remarkable. It’s an example of a very different culture being able to arrive at success in entirely different ways. It’s refreshing.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but the signed server-identifying cert is swapped in TLS before the connection is encrypted, no?

So it's not technically infeasible to have networking gear drop any connection which doesn't chain back to a government-approved root?
I understand the discussion, but then that's a very specific use case, which gmail is probably not trying to cover (and it might be a good idea that it stays like that). To be fair, I don't think that's even a good use for email. If you need help with selection from a wide pool of options, then you probably need a more specific tool.
I don’t think it’s really that intractable. The traditional middle class lifestyle in the US for the past several decades involves getting married, probably having a few kids, and buying a 3 bedroom house to live in. Probably even in the towns you’re thinking of, that describes a middle or upper middle class lifestyle.

The thing that’s crazy is that this can cost 2-3 million dollars in many places in the Bay Area. The housing crises in affluent cities is absolutely the driving factor of our growing inequality issues. It’s been shown in different ways in many studies. We need to build a lot more housing if we hope to make any real progress on these issues (and in desirable places like the Bay Area it probably requires shifting the ideal to be a 3 bedroom condo rather than a standalone house).
Microcomputers came in part from the homebrew computer scene in the 70s.
i always thought that it looked a bit childish, was not innovative, was not fully developed as a vision and was not particularly well-explained. it was like, from its very announcement, they were trying to imitate Apple, but not doing it very well.

and i can't help but wonder if these are the reasons why the new GMail UI doesn't work well for this article's reviewer: the GMail app team doesn't really have a clear design inspiration to work from either.

i never liked "Material Design" as a name either. they might as well have called it "stuff design" because, you know, it's designed to look like "stuff."
If you want to get technical, it's flash ROM chips; more akin to an SD card than SSD (though the technology between the two isn't far apart these days). But for all intents and purposes Nintendo's Game Cards are cartridges. They're designed in the spririt of cartridges and thusly are often referred to as cartridges.
You can get around this. A biased HRNG is still an RNG, and there are other sources of entropy on a system anyways, so a decent OS can make exploiting a bias in an RNG infeasible.
Seeing Whole Systems (Nicky Case)
The intent of graying comments is to deemphasize them and mitigate bandwagoning.

I do wish a 0-score would not show any graying though, in the case where this is an errant downvote.
I like this merger, but the companies use different cellular tech. How long and how much cost to convert Sprint to CDMA?

I would expect Verizon to be affected both positively (short term) and negatively (long term) since some (most?) devices are specific to the radio type. Verizon will be the lone major hold out on CDMA.
Here is a good introduction to programming on the next, what you have to chose from (rationally) is Z80 Assembler and Basic, the basic is called NextBasic and is an extended version based on the one found in the orginal, hope this helps !

https://www.specnext.com/category/resources/resources_coding...
Archaeologists investigate what life was like after dark in the ancient world
I don't think he thought he was targeted, if he thought the hacker stickers would make a difference. But if I had an exploit like that and was targeting a security-conscious journalist, then (a) I'd be mystified when he checked his laptop, and probably unprepared to take advantage, and (b) I doubt I'd risk my >$1M exploit--even if I could hide it perfectly in some firmware, it still has to communicate out to the world somehow, and that's where it's likely to get noticed.
RCA made the first mass produced TV set. That doesn't mean RCA panels today get a pass. Apple's devices have been eclipsed by better alternatives for years now.
It's hard to disable my adblocker for the correct domain if the anti-adblocker message redirects to a different domain.
Comparison of Programming Languages Syntax
What about the case where companies pay for vanity phone numbers that either match their business name, or approximate the business name: ex, 800 mattress or 800 eyeglasses?
90% of the #SAP customers exposed to hack due to 13 Year-Old configuration flaw
The “Technocratic” Oath
Google could have ended up paying for some of the R&D needed for phones to work on both existing networks at the same time.
And also you should not recompute the size on each iteration, or ban the same user more than once.
The Fountainhead: Worshipping Man’s Greatest Achievements
>hop hop

How do you do, fellow kids?
Normally I'd agree with this sentiment: language changes constantly, usage is king. However we're in an era where people (often in the course of marketing themselves or a product) intentionally move the goalposts of word meanings in a way that's generally unhelpful to users of that language. So we describe there is something called X that sounds very impressive and powerful. And there is something else kind of like the existing idea we called X, but it's more mundane ... it's close enough that salespeople can get away with calling it that, so they do, and the definition of X is now hopelessly muddled. I don't know what to do about it, but this does not strike me as being the same as the natural evolution of word meanings over time. I guess really it is still one form of that. But maybe it's one that as a society we should be more careful of - you can't, for example, call one medication by the name of another for marketing reasons.

Maybe AI is not the worst example. But with most buzzwords that are not legally protected, they just get marketed into meaninglessness in a way that harms non-expert consumers.
I don't get this story. Why did you have IDs if you didn't need them?
Reminds me of the old joke:

What do you call somebody who hangs out with a group of musicians?

A drummer.
What you’re describing is basically a panopticon. [1]

1: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panopticon
They probably are now.
Front Page of Hacker News, 10 years ago
First impressions about Graal VM
> At any point in history, have CAs revoked certs solely to censor a target website?

Revoking certs from US CAs is probably the new DNS seizure, post- encryption and TLD expansion.

Although hopefully it'll die a quick death when they realize it's ineffective.
Seemed interesting up until the "Shortening code" section, that'd drive me mad.
Machine Learning with Google TensorFlow
Previous discussion at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14115826.
Sway reporting in from KDE's Berlin development sprint
There will always be a few companies that make outsized margins due to unique market circumstances. These would include the likes of Google, Amazon, Boeing and Disney for example. But companies like these are a red herring when trying to get to the root cause of inequality in America.

The real cause is the regulatory capture of the Republican party by business generally and the subsequent maintaining of that process through, first, gerrymandering and subsequently, gaming appointments to the Supreme Court.

It will be a difficult and long process to reverse this attack on the public interest.
Disclaimer: your pee will turn green.
Design principles of wordsandbuttons.online
Searching for EUV Defects
What could possibly go wrong? It’s not like these smaller carriers have been aggressively pushing the entire industry to adopt more consumer-friendly practices (unlimited data, less exorbitant international roaming, etc.)

Once we’re down to a trioploy we’ll have a duopoly in no time! Or, with this FCC, perhaps we’ll get lucky and all the carriers will merge into a single monopoly!
This is a good resource that I'm currently going through to prepare for interviews. Another one would be Competitive Programming (3rd edition) [1] but for general interview skills the Codility lessons are also OK [2].

1 - https://www.amazon.com/Competitive-Programming-3rd-Steven-Ha...

2 - https://drive.google.com/open?id=1WjXxbdle0_Syip_LygBpnZkfHv...
How would you use features like event listeners and other web APIs from client-side mruby? I guess this is a question about WebAssebly in general: does each language that gets ported over have to re-implement those APIs?