skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Firebase gets pushed into all Android developers since Google's acquisition, just check the amount of Firebase related sessions at the following IO's.

From Google's point of view, we would all be using it.
The article attempts to explain this property of phi:

> Maybe you have a picture of a flower, and you want to implement “every time the user clicks the mouse, add a petal to the flower.” In that case you want to use the golden ratio: Make the angle from one petal to the next 360/phi and you can loop around the circle forever, adding petals, and the next petal will always fit neatly into the biggest gap and you’ll never loop back to your starting position.

And points to a video. I think there's a much clearer explanation which shows how this is because (in some sense) phi is the "most irrational" ratio, stemming from its derivation from continued fractions: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sj8Sg8qnjOg

I freely admit I have not a clue how this does or doesn't improve hash algos, but it's a cool video! :)
I disagree, I think it makes sense. It makes it possible to link to a specific slide.
This is an important point and a really big advantage as I've painfully found out over the years when videos have not worked as intended.
Are you familiar with the fact that _still_ , after years of hype and hundreads of billions of $ in the system, there is not a single app that has reached mainstream adoption? In fact, interest is fading without any major breakthrough achieved.
I actually do run a {insert random blockchain based hyped decentral protocol here} app and I can see that absolutely nothing has happened or changed during the last year or so.
I know, but what I'm trying to say is that this whole discussion is misguided and ridiculous.

The shame is that those "49%" of students who are, according to Harvard, fully qualified, are not given access. The whole discussion should be about how to give every qualified person--and in fact, every person: barriers to entry will always be deleterious to competitive results--access to their degree programs.

But that's not how the world works. Harvard sells prestige and privilege, and profits from limiting access to it. So we end up in these ridiculous discussions about who should get access to that prestige and privilege.
I live in a small corner studio in the densest area of Seoul. Everything is close (piano, bed, PS4, kitchen, wardrobe, small table, bathroom), the view is nice and it still feels spacious and relaxed. I don't own too many things and actively try to reduce cleaning surface and remove anything that is even a tiny non-necessary maintenance burden. Keeping the house spotless is super easy. No anxiety due to visual complexity or owning too much. Loving it.
Survivor Library – 19th century craft books in PDF
You are responsible for what you do in your life. What other people do you have no responsibility for at all.

Today, a lot of people don't take responsibility for their actions because nobody external is telling them to. This is being a toddler. You wait for some parent figure to tell you that you have to do something when you dont want to.

Today, most of the western world are toddlers and its being programmed into us through movies and games as well. Because this is a state of mind that is super easy to control. You end up in consumer mode, wanting things that make your life easier. :)
Does France still have the problem that a lot of the connections are via Paris because there are no connections that run between the lines that are connecting cities to Paris? The image of the rail network on the TGV article in Wikipedia is giving the impression.

Did you know that mathematicians named a metric after that? It's the SNCF metric when the distance between two points (cities in real life) is defined as the sum of their distances from the origin (Paris in this case). (that is: go from city A to Paris and from Paris to city B, no matter how close A and B are geographically).
Everyone is getting older, not just you. That's just the course of life. There are beautiful things in life and at the same time scary, unpleasant or even heart-breaking. It's just the balance we need to understand and respect. There's not something we can do about it. We need to appreciate the life to it's fullest with all its flaws and joys.
Don't judge yourself or keep a grudge on things you cannot change. It will wear you out and you won't reach any resolution. Of course, it might sound easier said than done. Though you'd be doing yourself a favor spending more time with people you love and cherishing every day you have with them instead of throwing yourself into this void.
Accept things that you cannot change and use that saved energy to spread good and enjoying life in general. I myself have similar moments and it sometimes seems unbearable but I really try to step back a little and observe my thoughts as much as I can. 99% of the time I'm just being too emotional and life, in general, is not as bad as it seems. Many people have it worse so appreciate what you have and live a life that fills you and your loved ones with joy. Don't worry about the number on your passport.
ZTE has few cards left to play to avoid ‘death penalty’
That looks awesome! Reminds me of the Riscure challenges that requires you to flash a chip every time or the chip whisperer that teaches you power analysis attacks via an all-in-one chip
I experience exactly the opposite, never sick in a train when reading/working and from what I’ve heard it is the same among the people I know. Flying is way more bumpy and the pressure changes don’t help. Lack of space in planes makes some people uncomfortable also.
Isn't it ironic that people who cheat on exams expend so much effort at it? Wouldn't it be easier to just learn the material?
Fix bugs. If you have the grasp enough to fix bugs, it shows a good understanding of development.

Not to say that's all there is, but that is one thing that'd move you out of the novice phase in my opinion.
Noise masking, not cancelling. As in, you will hear waves, rivers, rain etc.
> It's not a political rant to point out that the USPS operates on a different (and often insensible) plane because it is a government bureau.

Sure it is, that's an inherently political argument to make.

My counterpoint: I ordered a few things from a vendor (Waytek) recently. Waytek ships via UPS exclusively. I chose UPS Ground service which would've gotten the package to me in about a week. UPS got the package to California, to the regional sorting center in California, sent me an email telling me to expect a delivery, and then got the package to Massachusetts that same evening. UPS said they'll deliver the package in another week or so (assuming they don't bounce it back to the east coast). Despite being able to ship it on their dime cross-country in less than a day, they've put the package on the slow boat back to its intended destination. The UPS response has been: keep an eye on the tracking number and take it up with the vendor if you have any issues. Waytek's stance is that it's officially my property and their duty ended when they dropped the package off with THEIR shipping vendor (UPS).

Tell me again how private corporations are inherently more accountable?
According to The Meaning of Liff, I have always thought of this as "Woking".

http://tmoliff.blogspot.com/2012/06/woking-participial-vb.ht...
I wonder if you considered that my concern is still valid when replacing "watching TV" with "reading a book".

I wonder if you considered that maybe I use my bed throughout the day for non-sleep-related activities.

I wonder if you considered that "watching TV" might have been an example, and I don't actually have a TV in my bedroom.
I agree, I also can't see a paradox in terms of nature. And I would like to add an aspect of sociology (sociology is rarely discussed at this topic):
Given mankind's industrialization period and decline of the ecosystem is normal it takes longer to get to an exoplanet than to ruin it. - So, what interstellar space travel really would be is this: The living mankind on Earth gives up itself and its home planet to spread the genes of those who plan its demise.
http://www.hashsign.eu/html/blog/dominance/hadfield-hawking-...
My answer to the Fermi Paradox is this: These bastards shouldn't get away with it.
> The seed of M. oleifera contains at least eight different proteins.

Seems like an understatement. Doesn't any cell contain thousands of different proteins?
No, you didn't comprehend what I said. I said that it doesn't work as a payment system, so they should name something else where it's good at. Can you name another application in any sector?
I agree, the writer put this process into very nice wording. I've seen other people use this process to gain informal leadership but I never saw it described in quite this way. Very nice.
while that's true, intercity trains in the UK run at 125mph, which I believe falls into the "high speed" category in the U.S.

Also frequency wise the Uk wins over this link.
London to Edinburgh, 534km, takes 4h20 and runs every half hour.

HS2 is under construction which is a true high speed line and will knock an hour off trips to Manchester, Glasgow and Edinburgh, and allow more frequent trains (the WCML can only support one train an hour to Glasgow for example as the lines south of Rugby are crammed - over 40tph in each direction, or one every 3 minutes on each track)
Are you in the US? I think that's a particular limitation of your country's payment systems, with its over-reliance on credit cards. In most other places you can use payment systems which are less vulnerable to fraud (since they use a push-style system, not pull) and much harder to chargeback.

Cryptocurrencies might have an edge for a while, but don't count on it long-term.
The oxygen would be the hard part. You'd want a temperature of about 2 billion degrees Kelvin and have it compressed to a density of about 4 million kg/ml.

That's a lot of activation energy, but it takes money to make money. Err, takes energy to make energy.
I agree it won't replace a mouse anytime soon, It might be a good solution for handicapped people though.
Again, doesn't contradict anything I said.

An iPhone is cheaper to build today than a typical computer of the 1960s. Does that mean it would have been cheap or easy to build a current-model iPhone in the 1960s?

Because that's the argument you're making here, essentially. Once you have the necessary tech under your belt, yes, you get a bunch of benefits from switching. But until you have that tech, you're probably not going to say "oh well, won't build any planes for the next few decades, because the engines we'd use today are way more complex and less useful than the ones we'll have eventually".

Jet engines are simpler than reciprocating engines. I'll happily write that on the blackboard 1000 times, if you'll write "But until you have the fundamental technology for it, you can't build any jet engines" 1000 times.

Also, read your own link:

Completed engines earned a reputation for unreliability; the time between major overhauls (not technically a TBO) was about 50 hours.

Even those early engines, despite being cheaper, and quicker to assemble, still weren't up to the point of being usefully reliable. Jet engines are hard.
The puzzling prominence of the Twitter-famous Krassenstein brothers
Foreign Direct Investment Data and Visualization
Is there any app which displays net inflow, outflow, source, destination of foreign direct investment.

I am having hard time collecting data from many different sources.
You're just ignoring the second half of my statement entirely. Changing your behaviour and taking political action to change the context of our behaviour are two sides of the same coin. If you're not willing to change your own behaviour, how are you expecting to change the states?

This just ends up with you declaring: It's someone else problem to make me.

That's not pragmatic. Unless you personally invest time and effort into political change to address these issues, it's just lazy and irresponsible.

Just own that. I have adjusted some behaviours and still fall short in many other areas. Never said it was easy. But here is actually an example where it is easy. Take the train and little cost in time and money, while gaining comfort and productive time. And you're saying you can't even be expected to do that? That's just cynical and irrational.
The infrastructure will last a lot longer than 20 years. Perhaps hundreds of years, with proper maintenance.
Not necessarily. Maybe the best student of my course (Architecture) discovered that he was color blind some years later.
"A chemistry" doesn't even make grammatical sense.
It's almost certainly a hoax, but any book substitution cipher is very sensitive to errors both in counting, and in exactly which book. From that perspective, if you remove the spaces, it's almost intelligeble even to a non native speaker. Observe:

ihaiedeposotedinthecopnttolBedoortaboupfourmilesfrombulordsinanepcaiationoriaultsipfestbelowthesurlacsofthhgtoundthsfotlowingarticissbeaongingjoiotlttothepartfeswhoslnamfsategiietinnumberthr ffhttewith

i haie deposoted in the copntt ol Bedoort aboup four miles from bulords in an epcaiation or iault sip fest below the surlacs of thh gtound ths fotlowing articiss beaonging joiotltto the partfes whosl namfs ate giiet in number thrffhtte with

I have deposited in the county of Bedoort (Bedford?) about for miles from bulords in an epcaiation or vault/fault six feet below the surface of the ground.

Supposedly epcaiation is excavation, that one I didn't get. Some of the latter parts I also have trouble reading without guessing a lot. Like 'joiotltto' and 'thrffhtte'.
This is a neat idea, but people may not be comfortable with trusting a company about what they read on internet.
Damn I got 0, but now that I think about it I am pretty sure my monitor is not accurate, things tend to be oversaturated and reddish.
Your frequency plot is very peculiar and almost unexplainable:

1) while it can be explained if the author was intelligent enough to understand letter frequency cryptanalysis, but how widespread would that idea have been in his day and age?

2) even though the symbol frequencies match up, the text seems gibberish, which for now I can only explain as follows:

The author of the pamphlet somehow obtained the 3 original ciphertexts and sincerely believed in their authenticity. (even if his source may or may not have scammed him). He identified the DOI as the correct key for ciphertext 2 (this insight too may have come from the potential source). Trivially the same key is tried on ciphertext 1. The author notices the quasi alphabet and otherwise gibberish. Unable to solve the puzzle he notes that if he cuts up decipherable ciphertext 2 in say 7 letter chunks, they clearly form random parts of english phrases. Similarily he cuts up ciphertext 1 in say 7 letter chunks (but leaves the alphabet part intact), and publishes it, in the hope that someone will find a "weird convincing but failed decoding", such that he only has to restore the ordering of the letters (since he knows how he reordered the 7 letter chunks).

I.e. the pamphlet author might sincerely believe in the authenticity of the originnal ciphertext, but is trying to scam his audience into solving the puzzle for him!
If need be, Tesla will come out with a huge report at some point adding up the so many more incidents and faults of other car companies out there that happen every week of every month of every year, to remind people how unfairly Tesla are being singled out (for every damn incident that happens) just because they're the sexiest car company in the world.

It's good though to end the false perception that Tesla is the pure stuff of world-saving unicorns. Sorry Elon those times are over. Just get to work and do your best to achieve the goals you've set out in public. I sure don't want you to stop.
Yeah, that was lame. I mean the test was mildly interesting, but they could have provided a few more stats and not just the min and max for my gender. Maybe if they had decided to make a graph they would have thought about form validation and acquired useful results.
Go West Young Firm: The Value of Entrepreneurial Migration for Startups [pdf]
If there’s one argument against copyright I would bring up it’s patent trolls. If you can propose an IP law to me that makes sure creative individuals are not bullied and stifled by unscrupulous people hungry for a quick buck I would be more inclined to support copyright laws.
The cost saving from going cloud in a large part comes from utilization. 1 box that you can keep busy at 100% by clever workload timing is cheaper than 10 boxes that are idle 90% of the time that you just need to spike on. Or capacity that you can give back when you don’t need it. Rack space is expensive, power and cooling are expensive.

The job of the people is to translate the business requirements into stuff actually happening, and that doesn’t go away with cloud. If anything you need to do more of it (someone has to take care of auto-scaling, a thing that wasn’t possible in your legacy DC, for example). The worst thing you can do is sack the people then realize you need consultants at 5x the cost to do anything now...
“A new firm choosing a location must trade off the agglomeration benefits of a destination with the loss of local embeddedness from leaving home. I study this tradeoff for a large sample of growth-oriented startups born between 1988 and 2014, who might move to Silicon Valley. The results show migrants improve their performance across a range of outcomes, including equity sale, patenting, commercialization, venture capital financing, and sales. In spite of these benefits migration, many potential migrants do not move; a subsample analysis suggests this is due to high personal costs from leaving home that make migration personally unprofitable.”
>And in most scenarios when I've had to argue against isolationists they tend to ignore issues such as Americans refusing to work in certain labor sectors that illegal immigrants tend to work

Well, that's a question of payment. Raise the salaries, and Americans will flock to those sectors. Instead of artificially keeping the margins up and the salaries low through labor import (which would end to the lowest common denominator race to the bottom among world economies, but usually it stops midway just lowering the options for the higher economies).
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According to the article, better machine learning leading to more consistency.
That's essentially what a package manager does - there are even such groups as you suggest.

It does differ from Lego because of the complexity - multiple orders of magnitude, in fact; and another thing: everything made of Lego has a distinctive Lego-style. That's perhaps another driving factor: "that style looks ugly, we will build another, nicer and more fluid."
>Right, protecting an investment in R&D is a protection racket.

It is, when most "R&D" is trivial compared to the revenues you command, and is stealing off earlier ideas, government subsidies, and so on, anyway...

Besides, you said it yourself: "protecting". It obviously is a protection racket, and is an artificial limitation imposed on the market by legal dictum.

Artificial because, unlike e.g. police protection against mere theft or contract law, this one, as history shows, is not necessary for the market to operate and grow.
Cryptocurrencies are really not that hard to understand. Without a doubt, they are better understood on average among HN readers than among cryptocurrency owners, and yet, it is the only subject where expressing doubt over it's worth always gets you hit with "Well maybe you're just not enlightened enough??"
I took this connection for the first time this week and I was really impressed. I even took a picture of the screen once it showed that we crossed 300km/h. They used the latest ICE model, wifi was really reliable and they now even offer onboard entertainment. You can watch tv shows, movies, get access to audiobooks etc. on your phone, tablet or laptop (even though the selection is still quite limited). The train is one of my favorite places to get work done. I always try to get a seat in the cabin where phone calls are not allowed.
> You speak as if you were a toddler.

This sort of response isn't acceptable here. I would suggest you rephrase.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Building a reproducible CI system
so, uh, I'm not weighing in on the job stuff... but I suggest you check your numbers on how hosting in the public cloud is cheaper than your own data centers.

I mean, sure, automating things is great, and running your own hardware cloud-style is great for a lot of workloads... but that doesn't have a lot to do with the decision to rent rather than own your servers.

Cloud providers charge a lot compared to owning your own hardware, unless your load is extremely bursty.

The bandwidth prices are particularly eregrious. They are like what you would pay for bandwidth 10+ years ago.

I personally ran a small VPS company and managed to turn a (small) profit while selling compute for rather less than amazon, even though I had to rent space and power from a fancy pants datacenter by the rack. I was essentially paying retail, and I only had 20-30Kw of capacity, max, and even at that scale, owning was cheaper than renting.

I can only imagine that at F50 scale, the economics tilt even further towards own, as you can much better amortize the labor than I could

(and it's not like the datacenter loses money, either. Renting datacenter space is like renting commercial realestate. When your lease is up, the renewal rate goes up to whatever competing space costs + what it costs you to move. Owning is so much better in that respect.)
I see Aluminium Chloride salt sachets in fast food outlets from time to time.
It's life. I can't put it a better way. You can either accept what life has given you or you can fight it. And fighting it is fufile anyway. Embrace that you are getting older and do your best to be the best person you can be every day.
You have to know these guys have earned their right to stay 5.5h out of range with a safety record. A longer flight also means more expensive. There is a calculation showing once you increase the price too much people start taking other less-safe transportation which results in more deaths and more GDP lost in terms of business. While this doesn't directly correlate here with pacific flights, I am sure they've done the same calculation for this case too.
Being anxious and paranoid about such things adds up to higher stress level, worse mental condition, and a less enjoyable and shorter life overall.
In fact, if you actually choose a random odd number, you'll get multiply-shift, which is probably the fastest universal hash function that exists.
I don't think "power fantasy" is central at all to the appeal of videogames. Rather, the things that can really easily be modeled by computers happen to be... casting rays from point a to point b, changing an objects position based on its heading and speed, bouncing two things off of each other, or, to put it simply keeping track of a bunch of values that interact in a linear fashion...

There just isn't a whole lot more you can do well other than having the stuff on screen either bump into each other, shoot each other, or punch each other, or move and jump around (preferably all at the same time if you want something fun). I don't really find anything empowering about the whole process, it is just interesting to see stuff happen on screen and solve little puzzles and there isn't really any other type of game available.

If we had a tea party simulator where you poured tea for virtual friends and had riveting virtual conversations I'm sure that would be insanely popular (I'd play it just after I finish this game about ordering lots of dudes to run around a map and shoot each other). It's just that we don't have it because your virtual friend needs to be something like a strong AI to carry out a riveting conversation.
Speed reading is bullshit
There is no repeat offenders law?