skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You are not wrong. There is confusion about the word "Russian". There are Russian nationality and Russian ethnicity. These are different words in Russian language but one in English and often confused (native Russian speakers add to that by misusing word "nationality", which, in Russian, means "ethnicity"). One can become a Russian national through immigration but one cannot become an ethnic Russian, obviously. Newspapers would not refer to anyone as ethnic Russian (русский) and use only nationality (россиянин) even for ethnic Russians. As for Stalin, he wanted to call himself (ethnic) Russian and it so happened nobody could object at the time.
In this case you also need to be attracted to those persons for it to work in your favor.
Speaking from a python user's perspective, the batteries included philosophy works great when you have a neutral implementation. Python does a good enough job, and provides extensibility in a way that I don't need to download a package to do basic things. On the other I have to spend hours trying to find a package in JS that just gets shit done. The third party package way is only required for ui parts because you don't want everything to look generic. But having a good standard library to do non user facing stuff is essential. That's why every node project ends up with a thousand dependencies. Because the language is not batteries included. There in JS there is no "one correct and obvious way to do everything" which makes doing basic programming painful.
Anthony Bourdain – a life in pictures
Exactly this. I don't write code to make useful things I could sell (that's the day job). Code I write in my "coding every day" thing is more often toys, games or art.
The way the mentioned PRNGs "fail" is when testing just the lower bits (search for the occurrences of "lsb" in [1] above) and this may be important in your use cases or not. The same [1] claims in "Visual Summary" that the "cycles/byte" is 1 for various PRNGs but http://xoshiro.di.unimi.it/ seems to show that the reason splitmix64 is not preferred everywhere is that xoroshiro128+ is roughly two times faster than splitmix64 .

Regarding having lower bits poor statistically, it was known since forever that that is the case for the huge class of simple PRNGs (effectively all that are faster than the alternatives, unless maybe if there's some specialized instruction in the CPU), the question is if that is critical or not for your purposes. The author of xoroshiro128+ is of course aware of that issue, and he also writes:

"For general usage, one has to consider that its lowest bits have low linear complexity and will fail linearity tests; however, low linear complexity can have hardly any impact in practice, and certainly has no impact at all if you generate floating-point numbers using the upper bits (we computed a precise estimate of the linear complexity of the lowest bits)."

In short, if you don't know how you're going to use the PRNG and you don't have problems related to speed, sure, use the safest one. Note that "safety" is still differently understood in different use cases, e.g. take care to note that most of fast PRNGs still aren't cryptographically secure:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cryptographically_secure_pseud...

and that sometimes even "standardized" "cryptographically secure" turn out to be something else, e.g. the subtitle on that wikipedia page:

"NSA kleptographic backdoor in the Dual_EC_DRBG PRNG"

Also other considerations come into play when you have some specific needs and you understand the consequences: then it's not only black-and-white "safe" v.s. "not safe." For some purposes (as the mentioned generation of the floating-point numbers in some use cases) speed matters enough to sacrifice some "perfectness."
Having just finished a job search last year, starting wages in Tokyo range from $1600/month to $3500 WITH extensive (80+ hours) of "expected" (mandatory) unpaid overtime. But the $3500 is very theoretical. If you're not fluent in Japanese and don't have a reputation in the industry, you're looking at the low-end unless you're quite lucky.

Generally, your wage will start out low at any company since you're expected to stay forever and your loyalty eventually earns you a living wage after ~10 years.
Richard Feynman's Messenger Lecture Series
I wonder if bi-quinary decimal influenced the later Packed Decimal (known as COMP-3 in COBOL), which stored numbers in just over half the space of the text equivalent (e.g. a 7-digit number would need 4 bytes).
Is your encrypted USB drive secure?
Let's talk DevOps job titles
I think most people would assume the marketing meant "can spray at any angle, even the hardest case of upside down".

I knew I did when reading this thread until I saw this comment.
Is there a meta-init system of sorts that you could target as package developer and then have it generate sysvinit, systemd, bsd rc artifacts for you?
Strictly speaking, the Sumerians had a higher degree of technological advance than the Inca. They reached that level of sophistication in great part due to the availability of high yield crops and valuable agricultural animals (horse, goat, sheep) of the fertile crescent.

Europe benefited significantly from fertile crescent innovations: irrigation, writing, metallurgy, the wheel, animal-powered transport, horseback riding, etc.

By the time of the conquest of the Americas they also benefited from additional foreign innovations: steel metallurgy, gunpowder, the precursor to the sextant, the compass, mapmaking...

However, in the end what inflicted the most damage were the diseases and plagues that emerged by bad sanitary practices like living in proximity to animals: smallpox, cholera, typhus, etc. Those plagues practically emptied the American continent and the Caribbean. Meanwhile the only American disease passed to Europeans was possibly syphilis.

Andean cultures did not develop such level of technological advance in great part because their lifestyle and survival did not require it. Potato, quinoa and corn agriculture, combined with llama and guinea pig farming effectively supported their large populations to the extent they had no famines. Then, Andean geography is not a good use case for wheeled transport.
10GBase-T certainly can work on cat5e, I run it over 10-20m at home.
Ask HN: An idea on how to create curated news site?
I'm curating news on a specific topic for my own use and thought to share it with the world. The topic is divided by countries.
I'm looking for a simple way to show the news links in a curated way, so it will be easy for me to track and update and for the visitors to find what they want.
I've thought about a Github repo like the Awesome X for languages, but it seems more complicated given the division by countries. Any ideas/examples? Thx!
Trouble with all this guilt by association is we don't choose friends and neighbours via criminal and national security background checks. Friends come from mutual situations such as work, or events, and chance via already existing friends and you just get along (or are attracted).

If you live nearby you might even be visiting a possible terrorist for barbeque or beer entirely innocently. I suspect few will be discussing, or have any idea of, their plans for a bank raid.

We may have a lot of data and meta data but we seem to be asking very unintelligent questions worthy of McCarthy / Stasi era paranoia.
The author makes a valid point, however the pushback against using OSS as an important hiring signal, is that most people are not privileged with enough spare time to work on OSS outside of their day job. Eg if you have a family, long commute etc.

And if they already are an excellent programmer and hitting all expectations, why should they do this? In fact, an employee who’s spending 5-6 hours/day on side projects might not be the best person for the company.

I don’t think recruiters look all that deeply either, I think you could game this by writing some docs or readme corrections to all of the top projects on github and get the PRs accepted.
Which of course will be ripe with caveats and loopholes for accountants to take advantage of.

Combined with the fact that they won't be taxed when they earn wealth but only when they use it, a significant advantage allowing one to let wealth compound tax free until the last second when it is used and taxed.

When you come up with these things it's not a simple equation, it's a game of chess or an evolutionary arms race. This doesn't obviously cause that. You're playing on people's motivations and loopholes which can be found and exploited. Just like a computer program doesn't always (never) does exactly what the programmer intended on the first version. There are always bugs and exploits and weird behavior nobody thought of.
Canada implements world's first national digital currency law
>> At this point, we've heard enough "rags to riches" stories in programming that it becomes difficult to dismiss this as simply "survivorship bias".

I like the rest of the article but this statement is disturbing. There are plenty of great open source projects which never got off the ground in terms of popularity.

Quality is not necessarily correlated with popularity.
I don't have problem with rich people making more money.

After all capital should go to people who can best use it.

Did you also create as much as value as Mitt Romney? As many jobs created?

If not then i think he deserves more money, so that he can continue doing that.

If James and Bob both make $100 but James invested that money into company (which used his capital to create more jobs) while Bob simply hold onto that money, I don't see anything wrong in James ending up with unfairly large returns (along with low taxes) since that's what's best for the economy.

Bob might be working somewhere, buying stuff for his family, indirectly creating jobs but if James money creates more jobs and value, he will likely a better bet.
Reverse engineering Animal Crossing's developer mode
Should delivering "OpenStack platform to an enterprise in two weeks with everything in place" even something that is considered an accomplishment? I have heard such statement from Canonical but I don't understand why it's something to talk about. Why not in an afternoon? One of their competitor products, Sardina FishOS, can be delivered in an afternoon. Our experience was that the whole process in FishOS was automated. From conversation with one of their customers (a European bank), we were told that in their case, they deployed a bank-wide OpenStack cloud in a day, including Ceph. With this in mind, Canonical's two weeks would seem 13 days too long? Of course, that would cut 13 days of services revenue for Canonical ...
Nah that would catch all negative results, not just 0xFF.
> Japan's unique culture would die.

Not commenting on your other points, but think you're misguided with this. Culture is not something that stays the same and needs to be preserved; it lives and changes with people. UK today isn't the same it was 30 years ago, and neither is Japan. Trying to set a culture in stone will lead to some quite undesirable undertones.
Self-driving cars are a bit of a misnomer and understanding the limitations helps to understand the potential as well.

It's like planes which run on autopilot -- there is still a pilot. In addition to takeoffs and landings, the pilot is there to adjust. Self-driving cars seem to be similar -- hands off 95% of the time (and not 100% as some might expect), but that 5% that they are hands on are critical.
I saw it has a C API, if someone made bindings, that would be nice
Great to see infrastructure like this come along. I'm wondering what everyone else is using...
Or we could simply allow shareholders to pressure companies into giving dividends, as was the original intent for the value of a share. The bizarre focus on capital gains at the expense of dividends was created by the tax code. Switching it back would eliminate the perverse incentive for corporations to merge and acquire for no other reason than to avoid disbursing capital as dividends.
How so? Programming is unprecedented in it's power for upwards class mobility. We're just scratching the surface. But it's the only thing we have that:

a) doesn't require a lot of resources to make a meaningful contributions (access to a computer and the internet) that could land you a really good job.

b) it's probably the only industry that doesn't requires formal education. Case in point, only one person at my company has a CS degree, and that's me.
Most of those people wouldn’t have gone to the city if they could have stayed on their farm. It’s capitalism forcing those people from their land, not some innate desire to be exploited in a factory.
> most people are not privileged with enough spare time to work on OSS outside of their day job

I keep hearing this. Do you have any data to back it up?
oh my Gosh... she is crazy, her very own (so-called) "Reality Distortion Field" is even stronger, and more harmful more dangerous than Steve Jobs.
The Left Hand of Equals
I know this is going to be anecdotal, but curious about your experiences with local tech talent. Do you come across enough people familiar with data structures/algorithms, or, instead, more people who have taken proficiency exams like IT Passport?
I am not religious so I won't make any comment on that part, but I do hope we can culturally somehow figure out how to avoid someone like Mr. Rogers being considered a pedophile (and maybe he was a pedophile or a serial killer I don't know). Otherwise, all of our kids will be trained by AI robots that aren't capable of emotion to avoid any possibility that a human being could have a sinister motive as opposed to just trying to leave humanity in a better place than what they were born into? :) I haven't checked all of them, but I suspect if you search for any famous people that worked with kids (their fault for trying to influence the lives of more kids on television of course) and add the word pedophile to the search query, you will never fail to find results. So I don't want to speak about Christians specifically, I do very much appreciate people willing to teach the next generation, likely for a lot less money than they could earn elsewhere, out of some sense of compassion or duty.
A small suggestion, if I may - browsing your landing page, I found it would occasionally jump each time your ‘typing text’ changed towards the top of the page. You might want to set a static height on that div, or maybe just have a permanent zero-width space at the start of the div to give it a height when there aren’t any visible characters.

Or I suppose you could just tweak the JS so that it only runs when it is visible, otherwise it’s paused maybe?
Url changed from https://tech.slashdot.org/story/18/06/05/2130254/70-long-los..., which points to this.
Here is my source [1]. Perhaps it refers to sharing links in posts but direct message still works? Either way, I can't test it.

[1] https://torrentfreak.com/facebook-blocks-all-pirate-bay-link...
Do they circle while not carrying passengers or going to pick up? I've observed them usually waiting by the curb for the next hail.
All that can be taxed as well.

At the risk of increased compliance cost?
Even chemotherapy came after a group of researchers decided to try random plants. Western greatness is quite often mitm hiding very simple stuff. Some say that we made it large scale .. but still
And it appears that permanent residency for tax purposes and the VISA, are unrelated. So if you’re in Japan for more than 5 years you maybe taxed on your world wide income?

https://www.japantimes.co.jp/community/2016/10/30/how-tos/lo...

If anyone has more information, I’d be interesting it reading it as it’s pretty unclear to me.
My comment was in response to the parent comment, that a that "education" (which nearly everyone has) would cure the problem being discussed.
It’s not really.

You can throw the SpamAssassin detection engine at the PMs, and you’ll already get a much higher detection ratio than what Reddit gets today.
As someone without a degree who got the first job based on open source work, this rings true.
- Vim + the right ser of plugins. IDEs are nice and I appreciate IntelliSense in VSCode, but too much automation can be a problem when you really need to understand how you’re piecing together things,
The Mahua Story – Modern Times And An Iconic Brew
Is this an official GNU gitlab instance?

Because there's also gitlab.com/GNU/ but this has nothing to to do with GNU, they just captured the group name.
> (FYI I’m going to reverse the conventional order so that the 2⁰ is the left most throughout this post)

Um, why would you break (or rather worse, invert) such a common convention?

> So 11 is 9+3–1.

...and not follow through, just two sentences later?

> [...] at which point the number 11 would be 2-0-1 (1+1+9).

Surely you mean 2+0+9 or 9+0+2?
That's why I enjoy living in an apartment or condo building. Home-owners associations are also useful for a cluster of single-family homes.
> If you know the person through some other channel

My assumption is that you don't.

A transparent browser addon using JS and redditcensored.com would take care of that. ProtonMail is also browser-based and user-friendly.

Meanwhile, ROT13 (or a variation) could be a useful alternative for the time being. Has anyone tested it?
Thank you, made a clicky: https://www.google.com/search?q=%E4%BD%8E%E5%A4%B4%E6%97%8F%...

(translate.google.com for the phrase is also mildly amusing: "Lower family dedicated channel")
Amazon, Macmillan: an outsider's guide to the fight (2010)
Separate line item in the nightly rate. It's easy to overlook. It references the locale collecting the tax.
Where is pushback against using degrees as an important hiring signal, given many people are not privileged with enough money to go to the university? Where?
The point was about the user-facing side not the internal representation of state.
> What evidence have we ever seen that allowing wealthy individuals to make more money results in increased utility?

SpaceX is a modern example.

Historically, people of great wealth have been able to invest in great projects. Scientists historically have been wealthy people. The guy who won WW2 was a wealthy man who invested his fortune into developing radar. Many historians believe that radar shortened the war considerably and saved an awful lot of lives. Wealthy people donate a ton of money to universities to fund research. (UW has a Gates building and an Allen building.)

> on environmental and social concerns

The Gates Foundation, for a modern example. For a historical one, see the Carnegie libraries.
I hope the interest can't compound on the interest. That would become a messy situation indeed.
San Francisco's project to build an open source paper-ballot voting system
>There are plenty of great open source projects which never got off the ground in terms of popularity

Popularity isn't the real issue - it's, "What can you do?" or, "Show me what you've done."

When interviewers say, "Tell me about yourself," from my own experience, they mean - what can you do? Not hobbies.

Photographers and designers create portfolio websites to get clients (instragram too). Github or OSS provides the same for programmers.

Doctors and other professionals do the same by placing their certificates, awards, certifications on walls for their clients to see. And gain trust.

In summary, the open source project does not have to be popular. It just simply a proof of ability.
If you're using httpd you'd probably pair it with relayd.

With relayd you can add custom headers, as this random example shows:

https://github.com/reyk/httpd/wiki/Using-relayd-to-add-Cache...

However that's probably not great still, because it's a global solution to a per-file problem.
Everything is tainted by psychological issues. If not, there would be no reason to prefer one state of the world over another.
What is Enlightenment? (1784)
> Make it clear what's important to you.

Do you think they don't know the tax cattle don't want a police state?

If we only let them know, then they'll just stop establishing absolute power over us all? "Gosh, what were we thinking?!"
We aren't children, we all know that art is a way to park money. The title is misleading and the subject clickbaity.
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's Harvard Commencement Speech Reflections
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> Quality is not necessarily correlated with popularity.

Eh, it definitely is correlated. Maybe you wanted to say correlation is not perfect?
Ah 6502 arithmetic... Back in 1984 I wrote a 3D graphics toolkit for the VIC20 in 6502 assembler. Starting with fixed point multiply, then my own floating point format, then floating point arithmetic functions, including transcendentals. From there I added 3D to 2D perspective and orientation transforms. And finally Bressingham's line drawing algorithm, clipping, etc.

I was 14 at the time. Wrote the code in exercise books on a Christmas camping holiday and then typed it in when I got home. After a couple of weeks' debugging during the January summer school holidays, it all worked.

Kids nowadays don't know how easy they have it. Clone a Github repo... Pfffff !
The point people are making about using GitHub profiles for hiring is that it ignores great developers who don't write code outside of their job (that might be due to other interests, family responsibilities, a second job, whatever). The fact this guy is in a position to write code in his spare time just means he's not in that group, and the fact his open source work on Github specifically landed him a job he wanted kind of proves the point people are making.
> it's probably the only industry that doesn't requires formal education.

I think this is because large majority of tasks do not require formal education (proverbial CRUDs etc.). And that's OK.

For the record I've got a master degree in CS but I can't remember last time I had to utilize that knowledge. Hobby projects? Sure. But not daily work.

Great article by the way! I was also on the side of "it's hard to do PRs and github as resume is a bad idea" but it turns out that it's surprisingly easy to start and the experience of working with people that have similar interests is really fun!
Discouraging new construction? If you are referring to San Francisco that is not correct. Here rent control only applies to building built before 1979.

http://homeguides.sfgate.com/san-francisco-rent-control-info...
If they do this, it will be the nail in the coffin for me making any future Mac purchases.
On the other hand, if you have two shitty jobs to make ends meet, how to program and contribute to OSS after that?

There are cases. But most probably are survivorship bias.

I would bet, most current IT professionals have a at least lower middle class background.

If I take a look at my company, that at last rings true. Not sure about the US, though.
I can see that the standard committee is taking some steps to make things safer and I would really appreciate a C++ safety profile, where one can choose if they want the STL UB or not.
E.g: GCC 7.x has a macro which makes all these unsafe member functions abort instead of exhibit UB.

Even better would be a "safe" block like D, where everything is checked & well defined.
People generally invest in startups because they believe the sales/customer numbers. Not because they pay attention to the implementation of every single component which is used by the company.

That said OkCupid famously used a custom HTTP-server to power their site:

https://github.com/OkCupid/okws