skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The point is that net neutrality doesn’t even exist presently.

That's a common misconception. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Net_neutrality_in_the_United_S...

> What do you mean?

I mean that if demand grows for broadband, they should match their service offerings to reach it. But because the US ISP industry is basically an oligopoly, it's hard to do so and way WAY profitable to keep their state on the market (by lobbying against municipal internet for example) and just start treating and charging traffic differently. It's funny that there is a large percentage of people glorifying the free market at the same time are against 'overreaching regulations' which don't do anything other than protecting an oligopoly.

> Yours or his?

His. And see above.

> How is this relevant?

It is. Because imagine that Comcast would be able to legally censor websites. Or AT&T would be able to cut access to Wikileaks or some websites promoting dissent [OOPS]. Ok, let's say they wouldn't go that far. But just basically cut access to competing services. But oh, they wouldn't do that because the Net Neutrality regulations are overreaching and against competition [1][2][3][4][5][6][7]. But history has shown who is actually against competition.

[OOPS]http://www.nbcnews.com/id/20201788/ns/technology_and_science...

[1]https://www.wired.com/2005/05/voice-over-ips-unlikely-hero/

[2]https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2007/10/eff-tests-agree-ap-com...

[3]http://fortune.com/2009/04/03/group-asks-fcc-to-probe-iphone...

[4]https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2011/08/update-paxfire-and-sea...

[5]https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/post-tech/post/fcc-fine...

[6]https://www.freepress.net/news/press-releases/att-blocking-i...

[7]http://money.cnn.com/2011/12/06/technology/verizon_blocks_go...

You're using a new account so I need to admit that I'm biased to think that you have a different agenda so I'm pretty sure what I wrote above will never change your belief but I'm open to hearing arguments from other side.
unfortunately being based on libui it is limited to barely be usable. libui does not even have a listbox.
I work at a big company and we are expending huge effort and expense to become GDPR compliant, even though we weren’t really doing anything sketchy beforehand.
If I’d seen any evidence that this cost wasn’t minuscule int the typical case, I’d be much more interested in expending the effort to try and measure it better and act on that - but that has an opportunity cost also. So you are suggesting incur a real cost just in case? I don’t buy it.

The guy with the watch analogy only works if there is good reason to believe he’d be better off searching elsewhere. But we don’t appear to have that here....
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Maybe Lyft varies it's interviews, but:

1) https://whiteboardfree.com/job_posts/52 - Lyft - Data Engineering

2) https://eng.lyft.com/interviewing-tips-for-android-engineers... - "Expect a few coding questions either on a whiteboard " ( Dec 21, 2017 )

Pretty sure Netflix (also has a job listed) does whiteboard based evaluation too.
One correction (already accepted by your co-author @shaunxcode) is that even for even n, your triangle and the one formed by OEIS A054521 are not equivalent. Specifically, here are some values of N, and (row, column) coordinates where the gcd sequence and your sequence differ:

Counterexample: N=14, (R,C) = (13, 3)
Counterexample: N=20, (R,C) = (17, 8)
Counterexample: N=20, (R,C) = (19, 1)
Counterexample: N=30, (R,C) = (17, 7)
Counterexample: N=30, (R,C) = (19, 1)
Counterexample: N=38, (R,C) = (37, 8)
Counterexample: N=44, (R,C) = (31, 2)
Counterexample: N=44, (R,C) = (37, 2)
Counterexample: N=50, (R,C) = (43, 13)
Counterexample: N=74, (R,C) = (73, 43)

(For n=74, look at the last shown row in the post right now, for N=73, where there's a “stray” red dot: this dot wouldn't be present in the computed-from-gcd sequence.)

There are very few counter-examples though (larger ones seem hard to find); you can see some reasons in my long comment here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17106193

Here's a rough heuristic calculation for how many counterexamples we should expect. Let's say gcd(R,C)=1, so that there should be no “special reason” to expect everything in the set to be composite. Then, as the set contains N numbers each of size roughly (NR^2/2), each is prime with “probability” 1/log(NR^2/2) — this is the Cramer heuristic — so the probability that all of them are composite is

(1 - 1/log(NR^2/2))^N < (1 - 1/log(N))^N ≈ e^(-N/log N).

Even with about N^2/2 chances for a counterexample, the expected number of counterexamples (union-bound) is only N^2e^(-N/log N), so for sufficiently large (even) N, the probability of the two drawings differing at any point should be vanishingly small. In fact, by this heuristic, we should expect only finitely many counterexamples, so quite likely the 10 above are the only ones.
Thresholds of Violence: How school shootings catch on (2015)
My two cents, as a very happy NumWorks customer.

Out of the box, there are Python scripts for calculating factorials, generating visual representations of Mandelbrot fractals, and finding roots of polynomials. On the NumWorks workshop, there are dozens of user-contributed scripts that perform various interesting functions and calculations. They've built a great open-source community, and the speed of their team in responding to issues and pull requests on Github is impressive.

Secondly, as someone who had to use various TI calculators in school, trying to get TI Connect software to work was a huge pain. NumWorks lets you install software patches and transfer scripts directly from Chrome, with a one-time driver installation. Not having to deal with bloated and finnicky calculator connection software has been very enjoyable.
This article calls for structural affirmative action to benefit blacks at the expense of non-blacks.

Wherever this weapon is yielded, be it Harvard admissions or tech leadership within Google, a pattern emerges regarding which groups are most and least affected.

It’s in poor taste to propose more of these policies while being a member of an unaffected group.
I'm curious though. Why did she fake a low voice? What does that achieve?
I can't recall ever having written actual code on a whiteboard in the course of doing actual work. I have, many times, sketched out a system's architecture or worked out some weird process using boxes and arrows.

I'm sure a shared digital sketchpad would accomplish the same thing for remote workers.
Why email is the most powerful project management tool?
Confirm me if I'm wrong, but didn't you just invent GTK?
Texas city reveals why it lost Amazon HQ2 bid
It's most probably some random person who has a similar e-mail address, and they mis-typed it. For example, john.smith7@gmail.com mistakenly typed john.smith8@gmail.com.
One thing is that various video domains have almost expected levels of quality. I assume that any video link to Facebook.com is likely garbage, and I almost always click a link to Vimeo.com, even though of course any file could be uploaded to either domain.
Are you saying Musk is a huckster who makes big promises and don't meet them because he has hit most of his promises from what I have seen (albeit they are always delayed but that is just his management strategy to incentivize his employees to work harder)?
The issue is that your 802.11 radio needs digital logic, whereas this is just a dumb mixer. Which is, conceptually, just a dual-gate MOSFET run with a bias voltage to exhibit linearity and often without the body diode, in order to permit AC inputs.
I do hope for SiC based VLSI, but this won't happen any time soon. One could probably run them pretty hot though, possibly without special cooling fans or such, or at temperatures that allow radiating the generated heat away into space, as long as it's not needed/used for anything better. This would also allow the recycling of waste heat from electronics for industrial processes and generating steam, for which we already know pretty well how to pipe it across a city in a city-scale central heating system.

Absorption cooling (often using ammonia/water as a mixture) could be powered by this and provide sufficiently low temperatures for airflow-free cooling of e.g. hard discs or other components where the temperature would kill them.
Also, the redirect + image doesn't exactly give the impression of maturity.
Our Bodies Aren’t Built to Have Babies on Mars – So Let’s Alter Our DNA
You can't just declare that humans have a right to know if they are talking to another human or a machine. That's just restating what you already said. You have to justify why humans should have that right.
Serious question: is a test provider who knowingly provides test results which it knows to be inaccurate and therefore leads patients to wrong diagnoses and potentially treatment, are they criminally liable or only civilly for fraud/breach of contract?
Where Americans Move to Find Jobs
Does anyone know of erlang being used for scientfic computing? The ideas and "let it crash" scheme outlined in the article are really cool, and it made me think how it would actually be very useful for making robust data pipelines in scientific contexts. For example, in astronomy you would have a telescope spitting out raw data, and a pipeline processing the data to create more inspectable intermediate products. Typically these are brittle C/C++ programs, with lots of state and branching logic, and further they become extremely hard to refactor because their function is so integral to running the facility. Erlang seems like it would be very useful for a control and pipeline system like this that needs to stay alive and not crash, but it's hard to tell (for me) if it's well suited to numeric/scientific computing tasks. Do people know of libraries or resources that would be useful for that? I did find this neat lsci[1] package that aims to call python modules like numpy/matplotlib (which would be perfect) but is sadly in a nascent state.

[1] https://github.com/lfex/lsci
All browsers (but Opera mini) support video [0]. There are standards all around video. The challenge is not in getting video from Final Cut Pro to a web browser, the challenge is to do it efficiently, economically with a good user experience.

CDN is the tiniest part of the whole process. Each video has to be re-encoded based on the device and network capabilities. CDN can the deliver anything anywhere. Also good video player is needed. Even with HLJ.js and Video.js it's a lot of work to put all of this together in a very user friendly way. And then you want to have cross device support and more. Video is just hard.

[0] https://caniuse.com/#feat=video
The fundamental annoyance I have is not only Amazon's (apparently) preferential pricing, but the e-Packet from China pricing.

As a consumer I can see the advantage to me, but it seems wildly unfair to Mouser / Digikey and the 1000s of much smaller businesses in the USA to have to pay more to ship a small parcel from Denver CO to somewhere in CA, than an e-Packet from HongKong to e.g. Plattsburgh, NY. It has to be hurting the ability to compete of lots of US based businesses...
Walmart’s Online Sales Grew by 33 Percent Amid Aggressive E-Commerce Push
Potential Spy Devices Which Track Cellphones, Intercept Calls Found All Over DC
If you throw out the "random data", some groups could be overloaned, which leads to a decrease of average credit score of that group (caused by increase of defaults in that group), and that can decrease amount of loans the group will get in the future, even when compared to the unfair profit maximizing policy.

That's what the article is about.
HN admins are giving preferential treatment to Theranos? Do you have evidence of this?

Also, equating Musk to Theranos is a bit ridiculous.
Every comment you've made has been about publii - leading me to believe you're associated with it. HN is supportive of people pitching their products - but I would suggest you disclose your association in comments - otherwise it's just plain spammy.
Research says it's more effective at the beginning or end [1] [2]. Could it be argued Google enhanced it's positioning by moving it to the end?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serial-position_effect

[2]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peak–end_rule
Ideas can be a problem. Like the guy selling disposable SMS. Sure to land themselves in legal trouble.
Apache Spark is what I use, personally.
And I guess the moral of the story - don’t raise money if you got to $100k+ revenue alone by yourself?
Didn't mean to target Musk, but he certainly is in the same area. You ever notice how thin-skinned he is towards criticism and how he's constantly pivoting to projects which are years away? Besides the actual lies/exaggerations about Autopilot (people have died because of this), forgive this first title. The important part is the quote:

http://www.businessinsider.com/musk-epic-failure-2016-5?op=1

Tesla reported first-quarter earnings last week, and while they were better than Wall Street expected, the earthshaking news that emerged was that Musk is taking the carmaker in a new strategic direction.

Tesla, which delivered about 50,000 vehicles last year, is aiming to deliver 500,000 in 2018. The production target isn't new, but the timeline is. Tesla had previously said it would build half a million cars a year by 2020.

This did not happen, which led him to Tweet last July that they could deliver 20k cars per month by Dec. This did not happen either. Investors were relieved they managed to hit 2k per week as of March (this is down from the 2.5k they were targeting).

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/881757617416056832

It's really not a difficult tactic. If you have lots of money you can subsidize lots of failure. The failure ends up ignored, but your 10% hit ratio is looked at as though you're some kind of visionary. You can do that for a long time, if you've got the runway. Holmes will probably be running a very big company in about a decade.
How are you qualified to make this claim? According to Andrew Anglin, he actually runs the infrastructure for The Daily Stormer[0] so he must have some level of technical competence.

[0] - https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2017/12/the-mak...
Apple shipped 600,000 HomePods, Amazon smart speaker market share drops to 43.6%
I know, I work with several. I’m pretty good at spotting them because I studied them while working with them. Fun fact: if you poke in the right places, you’ll see that they don’t even understand GoF and architecture, they just regurgitate the what they memorized.
Insurance Policies do not call in sick.
Perhaps they could have a few rules with order of precedence [1] that outline how to "Do Good"?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three_Laws_of_Robotics
I don't think you understand the definition of the words that you are saying. Consider looking up the definition of e.g. fraud
> Google Glass, which you could argue was a response to apple watch and the whole wearable craze

Very arguable, considering how Apple Watch was announced in 2014, while Google Glass was first shown off in 2013.
That's easy - Insurance policies do not call in sick.
Do most programmers have significant amounts of open source contributions? I only had a couple of years of life when I had the luxury of enough time for that sort of thing.
Ion (https://github.com/pervognsen/bitwise/tree/master/ion) is a relatively new language with round-trippable conversion to C as a design goal.
Facebook privacy: MEPs to press Zuckerberg
That sounds like stupid management. You can say in a similar number of words what you want, but you prefer other people to try to read your mind and guess what you want? Or was that a test (yea but most people would wait till after the meeting even if implicitly they knew that was what he wanted, right?)

I prefer Steve Jobs' shouting, but direct management anytime.
Same for my company, but we're 22 people.
Maybe for English-speaking countries. But iZettle is market leader in Europe and LatAm, so the counterargument could be that iZettle is more visually memorable and easier to pronounce than e.g. Square if you are not a fluent English speaker.
> (Part of this is because they say that about every Apple feature except fragile keyboards.)

I'm pretty sure they say that about the keyboards too -- i've seen comments like "the j and k keys are stuck, but i love it so much"
Here is animation by Ian Rust that shows how the pattern approaches GCD as the even values of n increase.

https://streamable.com/l7r96

Note that for odd values of n the pattern does not resemble GCD.
Those companies are the most visible places to get a high-paying job. They pay at the top of the market. Sure, a niche software company may pay its senior engineers higher, but even well-connected developers may never get any exposure to them.

If you want to get that first house downpayment for the Bay Area, I'd say it's almost essential at this point.
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No success is without a good degree of luck. Repeated successes show it's less likely that the "luck" is the main factor.
Volkswagen-sized companies would be subject to the 4% of revenue limit, since that's >20M EUR. That 4% seems high to me, but not insane.

The 20M seems insane to me. If the standard for smaller companies were e.g. 100% of the last five years of revenue plus 50k EUR, then can you imagine a case where it would be cheaper to violate the law and keep paying the fine? That would be a lot less menacing to small, non-commercial or semi-commercial projects.
Less significant for treatment-resistant depression, I imagine. They've been through this before and might have pretty dampened expectations.
Erlang's main weakness is computationally intensive mathematics. You could always write a NIF in C if you needed pure speed for a specific function. If you're not interested in writing safe c code it looks like there is a bridge from rust to erlang.

https://github.com/hansihe/rustler
Coming in from the Cold: On Spy Fiction
DonHopinks:

My first encounter with the concept was "Secret of Mana"

One more example for your catalog: http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/RingMenu

Not exactly the same since the input was a directional pad instead of a mouse, but close enough...
What do you mean by "real calculations"?
>>"Mercury's apsidal precession computed precisely"
>
>- GR was designed to fit this, which is great.. but doesn't count as a confirmation.

How can you claim this? GR is derived from first principles only. It also does not need any new physical constant to describe Mercury's apsidal precession. There are no adjustable parameters. It fits precisely even without the cosmological constant which you seem to hate with a passion.

>- This idea predates GR: https://arxiv.org/abs/1206.1165

What?! How can you possibly claim that work published in the 1930s predates GR, which was published in 1915 (Hilbert) and 1916 (Einstein himself). An incomplete version of the theory was published by Einstein in 1912.
How many other time critical communications did they have going on at the time. I assume the new horizon team was given all the DSN time they wanted during this.
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He mentions that toward the end.
The article is actually about benefiting credit-worthy people with a bad credit score by giving them loans they can pay back, and they show that attempting to enforce certain fairness criteria is actually counter to that.
Again, every situation is different. But the benefit of bringing the client in is that they can act as your first reference client (the hardest to get), and that it's not job+sidebusiness, but a hybrid so your time is more efficiently spent.
Bigger lesson is to buy a house as soon as you can. I’ve made more money on paper living in this house than building the company.

I kind of needed to raise the money. The wheels were falling off the bus because the software was so bad and it needed to be professionally written. I should have raised less and sold sooner though.
Hey Joey, fan of your projects.
I'm not sure if the fridge you have pulls a vacuum when it is closed, but pulling a vacuum can make a fridge much more efficient. I worked with some of the engineers that designed this -80C freezer for the International Space Station (where power is at a premium):

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GLACIER_(General_Laboratory_Ac....

One of the key efficiency factors was being able to pull and hold a vacuum. And obviously the more efficient the engine that pulls the vacuum the better.

If it's a modern high efficiency unit, it probably already pulls a vacuum. If not, it may be worth physically hacking.
It was therapeutic to write. Maybe more people should write about their weird work related issues? Uber and sexism was hyped up for a month, there must be more out there.
At a conference, probably no empty rooms.
My experience with git-annex is that it seems heavily designed for individuals and not for projects. The places it looks for files are often just a computer you were once developing on, and it sometimes expects you to go find that computer. It never forgets about any crazy place your files have been.

It was very hard to use in asymmetric cases where different people have different credentials, such as where one person has access to a computer and others don't, or where a couple of core developers have authenticated R/W access to a file server or an S3 bucket and everyone else just has HTTP.
Possible, but unlikely. Single nucleotide changes to DNA are very common. Every single person born has multiple altered base pairs ("SNPs") and acquires more throughout their life (this is in part how cancer develops).

DNA is pretty interesting. It's kind of like reading a binary file in that every three base pairs constitutes a "codon" or the code for an amino acid, a building block of a protein. In this case, a base pair was knocked out via one of many unfortunate methods, and this causes a "frameshift error".

This is kind of like if you have an array of xyz vertices (common in 3d graphics) xyzxyzxyz and then you suddenly delete one: xzxyzxyz. If you try to read that file, you'll get unintelligible artifacts. Unfortunately, that's what happened to the little girl's gene. Depending on where the error occurs, more or less of the gene is read incorrectly. Sometimes if you're lucky, it occurs near the end and it might not be a big deal, but if it happens at the beginning or middle, the entire protein is messed up.

Anyways, I hope that helps illuminate what's happening here if you weren't already aware.

I'm not a professional biologist, but I sometimes act like one. Please correct me if I got a detail wrong. :)

EDIT: I should mention the reason why those changes don't hurt most people is that there's a lot of non-coding DNA that serves various functions such as structural, can promote the activation of other genes, could be part of disabled viral genomes, and then there's the fact that DNA is a degenerate code (some codons code for the same amino acid). There are probably many other categories that I didn't mention too.
So, if he had, say: one character passwords but they were hashed and salted instant success?

Or can I call any system a fraud with a pithy one liner:

Not air-gapped - fraud.
By my read she had only a passing knowledge of the gene as any researcher in her field would before a colleague suggested it might be worth looking at and she confirmed a single nucleotide mutation and started to study the gene in more depth.
I'm mostly surprised they solved a critical server bug on the client side and by introducing even more hacks into the protocol. I mean, who in their right mind would run a public git server with this super easy to exploit DOS bug:

Unfortunately due to a bug introduced in 2006 we aren't
able to place any extra arguments (separated by NULs) other
than the host because otherwise the parsing of those
arguments would enter an infinite loop.

I'm not sure if entering an infinite loop means what i think it does in this context but that's almost CVE worthy and they should release a fix and mark that version as obsolete as ever and never have to make their clients cater to it any more.