skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is why I never lasted long in retail. The idea that every customer wants to be approached with a 'can I help you' just goes against my natural instincts. I always figured nobody really wanted that and a polite hello was all that was needed to break the ice.

If customers walked out without buying it never worried me because I'd seen enough come back later to know that 'not being pushy' was actually something people actually seemed to like?

I always sold more than anyone else btw and had my regulars who would sometimes just call in to say hello. My colleagues could never understand how that happened, especially since I am not a naturally outgoing person.
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Sure, the owners of the mining hardware could be on the other end, but that puts up the cost of the attack substantially - instead of depending on the cost of renting an hour's mining time, it now depends on the total lifetime value of the equipment used. There's also the rather large problem of how they could convert enough double-spent Bitcoins to something else before the price tanks; it'd have to be a very big heist to make the math work out.
So is the key point here a terse syntax for using actual CSS syntax (as opposed to react CSS) to create component wrappers?

It’s not really clear what this is.

Lack of a giant obvious demo link really annoys me with this sort of thing - “hey look at the code and all these words about our new visual offering”.
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He could probably be putting it on a CD, DVD or USB drive and mailing it out. But looks like only shipping to the UK... Says "May not post to United States" for me.
>it was quite impressive 8 years ago as it is today, but 10 years of demo without applications are weird.

That's practically Molyneuxesque!
Fully agree and in addition selling your data would only be useful if it contained enough identifiers to unambiguously tie it to a single identity. But this data would most probably enable the buyer to impersonate the seller. Not a good idea as OP obviously realized himself and hopefully redacted the data in addition to his disclaimer:

> What’s Not Included

> Permission to steal my identity and open a sweat shop.

On the other hand, the bar for identity theft is so low, that it probably wouldn't matter.
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If you pick 4.73% or 17.23% as the cutoff point you will reach the same conclusions, the numbers behave as you would expect. I read a similar article once that focused on the top 20% by income, this one focuses on top 10% by wealth... The reality is that there is no "aristocratic cutoff point" - people get richer (and their incomes go up) faster smoothly as you go towards the right on the curve.

I don't understand why the author feels his "top 10%" cutoff is somehow especially insightful and "smarter" than the 1% one. It is entirely arbitrary.

He says:

“We are the 99 percent” sounds righteous, but it’s a slogan, not an analysis.

But if you do an analysis of the 1%, the advantages you ascribe to the 9.9% will hold much more strongly. If you do it for the top 20% they will also hold, but less strongly. You just picked a number and ran with it. There is nothing insightful there.

Income inequality has been growing but what the author is attempting to do is childish, although the article is surprisingly well-written considering how stupid the core idea is.
Even-though I'm not huge Windows fan, I like to watch Scott Hanselman's videos. He's smart and funny, but hope he's wrong with "The year of Linux on the (Windows)". Not sure what is the Microsoft's initiative with WSL, but if I were them, I would be very careful. WSL can be two sided sword for them. I think for most Linux users, WSL is not enough to switch to Windows (there will be some, but talking about majority here). So IMO WSL will attract Windows user to Linux and not the other way round. Those same users may later discover that, they're actually more productive in Linux and eventually migrate away from Windows. Microsoft is also giving good reasons to do so (telemetry, forced updates,...). Almost hear Satya Nadella singing Ariana Grande's – No Tears Left To Cry :D
Pretty sure this is just a hackathon project.

Maybe I'm just not thinking big enough or whatever, but timely delivery of donated organs seems like exactly the kind of problem well suited to a fully accountable specialized courier working for a centralized medical authority. What benefit is gained by the trustless/distributed nature of blockchain here? Are there significant populations of donated organs which are lost due to logistical screwups? Does an analysis of the incidents where that has happened show that the root causes would have been fixed by using this approach instead?
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Angular supports this for quite some time.
I've felt that high-DPI touchscreens are the opportunity for an APL renaissance, if there's ever going to be one.

Once hardware keyboards standardized around ASCII in the '70s, it cramped the promise of APL's custom notation. On touchscreen it's trivial to render a software keyboard that contains the entire symbol set (perhaps even adapted to the user's experience level to make it less scary initially?). Increased resolution could be used to make the programs easier to parse visually by e.g. scaling symbols based on their context and nesting level, just like we do in math equations.

I'd like to work on an open source APL variant that runs on iPad and/or touchscreen Windows. It should be aimed at entry-level programmers because they don't have the imperative mindset strongly ingrained yet. It would be interesting to see if "touch APL as first language" could be a viable approach to teaching programming. Just need to find the time somehow... :/
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I, for one, am sending big hugs to Miguel Angel Maldonado. I can totally see how this played out. Wow this rant is obnoxious. keep strong if you ever happen on this thread.
Yep, you see it a lot in San Francisco (I've noticed it creeps into my mind a lot more frequently than I'd like to admit).

The thing is, it's like the boiling a frog in water analogy. You get desensitized to it. I tend to work with salespeople, so there's a tendency to get flashier things than a lot of my programming friends, but it manifests in things like always having the latest iPhone (or it's Android equivalent), travelling internationally a couple times a year, going for brunch whenever you feel like it, being able to save a good $10-15k yearly without really trying. Maybe hitting Tahoe a few times in the winter. Going to Soulcycle or Equinox to work out during the week. But you still can't buy a house in San Francisco. So you don't feel rich, but compared to the average American you're taking home a multiple of what they're making. It shocked me to find out the average household income is about $60k annually.

We all live in a bubble. San Francisco is a bubble. Dayton Ohio is a bubble as well. And when you live in a city with a ton of rich people (and a sizeable population probably in the bottom 10%) it gets pretty easy to forget about the other 80% who live somewhere in the middle of it all, in Concord, or Pleasanton or whatever they call it in the East Bay.
Its ironic that Linux (i.e. the kernel) is the one part of the operating system explicitly not being used in WSL. GNU userspace may have won a victory but its sad its not under its own name.
Or credit card details ;)
Yes, to an extent. Not sure how many individuals’ DNA ends up in a given sewage sample

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18769715
I've been using webpack a lot for React+TypeScript projects, it's very good when combined with babel, otherwise it can turn into an unmanageable headache. I've used webpack 1, 2 (briefly), 3 (briefly) and now am on 4
Yeah, and I think the reason is simply that 'public facing service job' is seen as the 'default' career for someone who doesn't have a particular skillset or what not.

So a ton of not particularly outgoing/not extroverted/no particularly 'people orientated' individuals who'd objectively be better off working in absolutely anything else are stuck doing service jobs they're not at all well suited for.

Unfortunately, there's not really an easy fix to this. In theory the best solution would probably be to get 'service' work treated like any other career path (a viable field that people go into because they're passionate about that sort of work and have the right mindset for it) and make it less 'if you've got no relevant skills, Walmart/Starbucks/whoever is hiring'. But that's probably not happening, since this sort of work is seen as something anyone can do and hence valued so low it's basically a 'last resort' job.
That sounds like people might be experiencing different things and calling it stress. For example one person might think stress and pressure are the same thing, and they would be physically healthy. Another person might only call themselves stressed when they started experiencing physical symptoms.
One question is how to you rig and deform voxel models onto skeletal animation?
> so many cases of thoughts seeming to affect reality that are difficult or impossible to explain with existing science

Rather, science has explained many of these cases already.

Humans are prone to confirmation biases, are really bad at probability, and have quite faulty memories.

Those facts combined result in phenomenon that exist outside science because any time science sheds light upon them, it turns out that it is a construct of the human brain unrelated to reality.

> strictly "scientific" people likewise behave the same, but using different books

Scientific people do not hold on to books with no evidence and accept challenge. Science is more about the methodology and reasoning than about the current conclusions.
If a scientist is ignoring something counter to their books, it's because the books have provided more scientific evidence than the challenging opinion.

There's a massive difference here, and simplifying science down to "it's like religion, but the bible is other scientist's books" is neither helpful nor accurate.
Could Numpy be considered the APL renaissance? Not in syntax, but conceptually?
Yes, this is a massive reason where donations of some form can be useful.

And it's the real issue — not enough people contributing.
I think a lot of people have always considered some of the practices employed in the tech sector to be creepy and unwelcome. It's just that awareness has increased, and now there's a sense that you don't just have to put up with the intrusions and abuses to live a normal life any more.
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Some companies don't sell ads or user data at all, but use related user information to detect things like scam rings on dating sites, spam rings on forums, and fraud rings on finance sites. If that information can just be deleted at the request of the user, say hello to way worse user experiences on sites like those, and many more you haven't yet thought of. The only way around it is to lock down signups, provide constricted service, or let the communities rot.
Great writeup. I really want to play this now, need to find n android version :)

I was curious about the speed comment... "computer with a newish 4-core CPU can simulate 2-3 million randomly played games in 24 hours"

On my old 2014 MBP (2.8ghz 4 core i5) I get 580k games per 24 hours on python3 and 12 million on pypy3.

On my work 2017 MBP (2.8 Ghz 8 core i7) I get 2 million games per 24 hours on python3 and 53 million games per 24 hours on pypy3.

Nice speedup to be had :)
Apparently if it didn't create meaningful discussion it isn't a dupe.
Sadly no detail on how to find the keys, which is the hard bit.

Vulnerabilities in the protocol make it relatively trivial to discover the keys if you have the correct hardware (e.g. a Proxmark3), but as far as I know nobody has done this with a phone – all these writeups conveniently only clone tags with keys in the list of common keys distributed with MifareClassicTool.
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I had an experience with a border patrol checkpoint in Arizona in 2009. I was driving from Yuma, AZ towards Vegas (probably on US-95) in a rented brown Prius with Washington state plates as I was flagged down by the border patrol.

At the checkpoint the officers looked at me with disinterest (probably a combination of the dull routine and because I looked like a white US citizen). First they asked me if I was a US citizen and I said no, and suddenly they were looked far more interested. They asked to see my passport and informed me they'd need to search my vehicle and I was to open the trunk. I complied, opening the trunk and passing my passport to one officer while the other went to the rear of the vehicle to start a search. A few seconds later the officer with my passport notices something and urgently signals the other officer. At this point I was worried that my paperwork must not be in order and that I was in trouble. Once the other officer rejoins the first they briefly confer and then they hand me back my passport and apologize profusely for the inconvenience saying that they didn't realize that I was a diplomat before sending me on my way.

The kicker is that I wasn't a diplomat, merely a bureaucrat on an official trip to the US and any "diplomatic immunity" I had was the thinnest kind of intergovernmental courtesy.

At first this story was funny to me as the time I accidentally wielded diplomatic immunity. However, more recently I find it less amusing as instead I consider it a tale about how the changing assumptions of the officers significantly affected the nature of the interaction and how different the interaction could have been if their assumptions had been less favorable.
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The cookie law did not forced the sites to tell you exactly what data they sell/share and to what companies.

The way it was implemented was "This site uses cookies to store your preferences and it can't work without this essential technology".

I suggested this because I see some people here don't want to stop selling the data, at least have this selling transparent to the user.
Maybe we get the ad blockers, containers in browser and other related technology adoption rise faster(it won't solve all the problems but would stop tracking at least)
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I would read that as "adhoc guess of people outperforms statistical model," so the model probably misses some factor that people just take into account. As an example, someone who knows that they have cancer and that therefore their health will rapidly decline in the near future will likely not report that they are leading a healthy and active live, even though data right know shows that they are trying to keep in good shape. Or a combination of many similar but less spectacular things.

Not to belittle the researchers, but trying to outperform a brain that gets data about the individual situation 24 h a day is a quite hard task.
>If I tell you how “good” someone’s family or health is, you can tell me if they are a millionaire or not?

Yes, I can. That's the point -- the rich and poor are far more visually distinct today. Take for example obesity/overweight and marriage status. The poor are far more likely to have both an elevated BMI and to be single parents / divorced / never married
One of my goals is to reuse parts of the engine for future projects where hardware acceleration might be used.
I'd offer to buy the companies or groups controlling most of the mining power. Even paying off individual executives to cut deals to lower the price. The resulting buy would probably be way, way, way less than $100 billion for Bitcoin. Hell, it might be less than a billion.
I'm intrigued by thinking about wealth vs income. To get to the 1% in income takes $250k a year, apparently 195k gets you to the top 2%. So in Seattle, that means that almost every software engineer at a big company (amazon, facebook, microsoft, google, etc) with 10 or 15 years of experience is probably in the 1%. Thousands and thousands of people. If I was a dental hygienist like my mom, or a teacher, I'd be middle class but not 1%.

We should constantly appreciate how fortunate we are are, those of us software engineers. I am hoping against my expectation that somehow there will be good jobs in the future for more than the 1% (bio-medical engineering maybe?).
I am not a programmer but have been learning programming since last 2 years.

Only yesterday, I installed emacs and spent half an hour on it. Even opened a tutorial to learn the basics.

But I got irritated pretty soon and gave it up. Now I am thinking about people who use it like a pro. How the hell did they master this beast?
FYI Grommet V2 has been in active development for a while and is now in beta. For styling, they’ve replaced SASS with styled components, which I think is a great move.
Doubly ironic in that the article describes abuses of power by immigration officials. "To read about this abuse of power, consent to our abuse of power". At least we can still say no to one.
Sorry, "^only execute when the sequence was empty".
Perhaps if you delete or edit this comment right now it will keep them off for at least days/weeks/months?
Maybe I'll write a Haskell tutorial...
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> The vast majority of middle class wealth is locked up in (non-investment) housing.

There are literally 0 people I know who think owning a house is not an investment.

If you're trying to make a distinction between income generating assets and assets that don't generate income, you're just digging yourself into a hole - housing doesn't generate income, but it does save cost - namely rental cost. In that sense, it is a better investment because the return is less risky.

> 2. Whatever remaining money that is deployed as capital, is not done so in a way that implies control over their chosen investments. Think "majority shareholder" vs. "just another investor". That's the difference between "controlling capital" and merely having a bit of skin in the game.

That's well and good, but it's just as true for most people above the 10% line as for those below. You have to get to some truly lofty heights before you find the activist investors.
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Steeep learning curve. Baby steps and don't give up. Make judgement after a month or two.

Key point is you can program it to do what you prefer.
The likelihood of an employer firing people abusively is much greater than an employee being an asshole.

It can indeed hinder start-ups a little because of uncertainty in any new ventures.

But keep in mind that the vast majority of workers are not working in a startup environment. Relaxing a law to fit the legitimate needs of a small number of start-ups with an even smaller proportion of the work force at the detriments of the vast majority doesn't seem like a good idea.

And I've seen people getting fired when redundant and/or toxic for the company.
The administration will keep an eye on you if you fire more than a dozen employees per year (for a 1500 employees company), when firing "en masse" (ironically named "plan de sauvegarde de l'emploie") an employers has some obligations like giving opportunities for training, maybe finding another position in the firm, firing people close to retirement with some compensation until their actual retirement (pre-retraite).

Lastly, this protection goes both ways, if you, as an employee, you end-over your resignation, you must remain in the company for 3 months, that way the employer has time to find a replacement and schedule a knowledge transfer in good conditions.
This! Einsteinium would apparently cost $33 to attack? Even if it's off by an order of magnitude or two (as some of the other comments seem to suggest), this _still_ seems like something a security researcher could/should try.

(Not to steal peoples' money but rather just to prove security or lack of it!)
The elephant in the room is that with the exception of Ethereum, all GPU-mined coins can relatively easily be "51%-attacked" by a small fraction of GPU miners.

There are ~10 million GPUs mining cryptocurrencies in the world today. Because the majority of them mine Ethereum (5-10 million are needed to generate 250 TH/s), it means the other coins can easily be overpowered and attacked if a small fraction of GPU miners decided to do so. For example look at Monero: 400 MH/s of CryptoNightV7 hashrate means there are 400k-800k GPUs behind it, therefore only 4-8% of the pre-existing worldwide GPU mining capacity is needed to attack it.

In a way we could say Monero is vulnerable to a "4-8% attack!"

The best way to defend a coin from this scenario is for it to implement a unique PoW algorithm that is very ASIC-friendly so that GPU miners couldn't overpower it. Of course the same attack scenario would exist if there is a large pre-existing installed based of this ASIC, so the PoW algorithm must be unique. For example Bitcoin Cash could currently be attacked by 10% of Bitcoin miners as they are both mined by the same SHA-256 ASICs.

The irony is that the misguided trend to try to be "ASIC-resistant" is actually worsening the value proposition of all these GPU-mined coins as it makes them more vulnerable to the very real possibility of 51% attacks...