skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I can't tell whether you're being sarcastic, but the article is essentially correct. The security of an encryption algorithm doesn't depend on how complex it is if you never reuse the key, because a uniformly random key produces uniformly random output for any input. Only key reuse can introduce statistical regularities that allow cryptanalysis to be applied. The reason most encryption algorithms are more complex than simple substitution is exactly that they are intended to allow applying a relatively short key multiple times, both to encrypt messages longer than the key and to encrypt multiple messages.
Partially why I believe short haul city-to-city flights should have more taxes applied to them if viable alternatives exist. And ways to further ease the tax burdens more for the alternatives if possible. (A stick for using flights and carrot for alternatives)

Penalising medium and long haul, and flights to minor towns or remote towns excluded of course as alternatives are rarely viable. And of course, alternatives can't immediately handle all the passenger load so scaled approaches are needed.

Thinking more of the Paris-London, New York-Boston, etc. Seems it worked with Barcelona - Madrid already, which might be more due to convenience than price?

Though don't think it will happen as the opposition will be too much, and making the taxes/fee rules work easily without complicated red tape will also doom it.
51 here ;))

I'm having a lot more fun than when I was 21 ;) Stay healthy, be careful with your relationships and stop worrying.. There's only one way out and it's the same for everyone
On the other hand, in my experience the cheaper inflexible advance tickets stay cheap for longer for flights than for trains. I guess it depends on whether you travel for business or leisure.
Three men charged in $2M cryptocurrency kidnapping and robbery
Since I've worked remotely (from home) for years I can't possibly conceive how most workers are forced into a chair through the entire day. I had the luxury to lay down pretty much any time I wanted. No wonder back problems are so common.

Now running a small office and I put a couch in a separate room specially for resting. Everyone seems to enjoy it for 10-15 minutes a day, nobody abuses it. Whoever thinks people can be productive in a chair 8+ hours a day is deluding himself in my opinion. At least take a decent break then.
Some folks here are misinterpreting paranoid in this context; perhaps it's a language thing. Read paranoid about being late for a flight as wanting not to cut things close. In my case, it's a significant stress reducer. Get to the airport 30+ minutes earlier than I probably have to and relax/have a coffee rather than cut things close and be potentially looking at my watch constantly in traffic/in the security line/while rushing to the gate.
Satori #botnet is back again, experts observed a surge in port scan activity
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You are correct. According to [0], M. oleifera has 19465 known protein-coding genes, so you're probably looking at something on the order of thousands of proteins.

[0] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26032590
Painting has deteriorated since the old masters, of whom Goya is sometimes considered the last. Why this happened is not something people have a good answer for, but the end of the 18th C brought increasing rationalisation, modernisation and division of labour which seems to have gradually killed the skills and ways of looking that produced previous masterpieces. It is sad.

Picasso is great, but in a very 20th C way, a lot of what carries his work is a feeling of his energy and charisma, rather than depth of technique of concept.
In contrast someone like Bosch was creating these very intensely realised fantasy scenes. Picasso couldn't have done that if he tried, nor can any movie concept artist working today. The same goes for any of the old masters. It's gone, somehow...
Author here. This is a pretty simple script and I suspect there may be smarter ways to do this but it's been useful for me and others, so thought I'd share it.
> theyre doing stuff like manual config, and future state is everythign automated as much as possible in the cloud and shutter the data centers

Ok, who let the C'level out of his cage? Quick, convene a meeting about meetings and distract him with new synergistic products that mesh the work output of the teams into a new daily reporting product with shiny graphs for him to make informed decisions about, preferably by proposing an "cloud only" data scientist.

But seriously. This comment alone shows this person doesn't have a clue wtf they are talking about. If your guys were so focused on manual config that was a management problem, and isn't an inherent fact about the current state of data centers. So you decided to move data centers, you just moved the jobs somewhere else, to the new provider (Let me guess, amazon, microsoft, or google...)

Say it with me: "There is no such thing as "the cloud"."; Say it again: "There is no such thing as "the cloud"."

Your shit still runs on servers, that at the end of the day someone manages the systems of. So they manage the systems at a lower level that is transparent to you as the modern datacenter is able to hotload blocks, devices, vm's, containers, etc across a swath of machines, clusters, etc.

At the end of the day, you made a business decision that decided managing your own on prem wasn't for you. For some companies, that can be the right strategic move, but as the salty ol bofh who has seen it happen, it's not all puppy dogs and rainbows and there are many pros and many cons to such a move... with "the boss" usually completely underestimating the cons.

Next up: the boss asks how to ease the transition of the low level programmers because he's hiring a new wave of nodejs/meanstack devs because "there's so many of them he can pay them less than the greybeards" and "they are young and know all the cool new devops agile cloud cycle methodologies" and "c++ is dying".

Whatever f50 this is I'd longshort the fuck out of it. I bet it's in a downslide for other reasons and IT is the easy dept to squeeze politically while ignoring the root causal issues that are probably management related.

tldr; Data centers aren't going anywhere, your shit still runs on servers, people still design build and rack boxen, design, fine tune, and diagnose networks, munge and wrangle data, etc, etc, and the skills they have are still in high demand the world over. Disagree? Tell me how many data centers as a percentage that have fully automated robotized racking?
ActorDB – Distributed SQL database
Is anyone going to seriously talk about how we can treat code as inventory? How can we continuously reduce inventory?

His idea around three month time based decay on code doesn't seem that feasible to me.

Perhaps what we need is a fixed complexity (LOC and other metrics) target where we're not allowed to exceed that unless specific reasons come up.

100% code coverage is probably another thing that might help reduce dead inventory.

We also can measure what code actually gets used in production, and delete anything not being used. Could even automatically delete code based on lack of usage, and even delete the corresponding tests.
Meanwhile, the price I pay because I don't want to plan my trips weeks and months in advance keeps rising and rising.
This was to compete with the pirated editions - its mentioned in the forward of my UK edition.
Solar sail (1980)
> swapping pairs clearly shows what’s wrong. It is like a bubblesorting by hand.

I found exactly the same, looking at the overall gradient only gets you so far. I wonder if the magnitude of the statistic of 1 in 255 women and 1 in 12 men have more to with how many people figure out how to effectively sort things without being explicitly told than it has to do with colour - perhaps if an equivalent subtle sorting test was done with something other than colour it would reveal a similar statistic.
It's def an interesting philosophical comparison between it and RN, will be interesting to see where it goes.
Taxes in SF are about $3,300 per capita ($2.7b). Hotel taxes bring in $300m revenue, basically what it costs the city for it’s homeless budget. Also tourists are not voters they have no long term interest in the city, cities should be prioritizing around the residents not tourists.
It would be nice to get some tangible benefits from the mind scanning satellites we're already paying for.
There is a characteristic gentle sound when many German people speak English as well. They also tend to enunciate more carefully than many native English speakers, so they are usually very easy to understand.

I find that same careful enunciation means German spoken by natives often has a slightly sharper sound than English, but that could just be because many everyday German words use sounds like ch, ck, b, d and z, and as a native English speaker and non-native German speaker I notice those more. As you say, this has nothing to do with shouting, though.
Actually, of the long-distance trains in Germany, only 78% is on time (less than 6 minutes late). Local trains are a lot better.[0]

[0] https://www.citymetric.com/transport/are-german-trains-reall...
Actually, it's pretty amazing that it got the structure of the recipes right- title first (with subtitle), ingredients list next, complete with quantities, then preparation and even serving suggestions at the very end (Serve on ranged removable pieces; lol).

There's no information on the training (the link on the top first asks me to accept targeted ads so, no) but it looks like an LSTM trained to predict the next character (hence the nonsensical names of the recipes and some other words, clearly invented by the network to approximate real words in its training data). In a way it's really impressive that this sort of setup can learn such rigid structure.

On the other hand, not an expert, but I'm pretty sure there are ways to force the network to learn that the ingredients list and the prepration section must be somehow related. I think, something something attention something would make for more coherent results :)
In the case of Bitcoin it's incredibly slow and had high transaction fees. It's an outright terrible payment system.
There is a video intro to this project on youtube

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g2QWG9sAQqs
Basic theory of physically-based rendering (2015)
It's like those "pass the ball" games.
Haven't they done nutrition studies in the military and in prisons because of the level of control over food intake?
You're gonna love Vimium/Vimperator/whatever. It makes the whole browser keyboard-accessible with easy bindings (if you're familiar with the Vim ones).
I also didn’t understand this.

I had a lot of respect for AH and USV. In particular I know some of the folks at USV. But some of their decisions astound me. When they invested in Crypto Kitties and Fred posted about it, I felt they jumped the shark.

I remember how $31M was poured into a startup called Color a few years back, only for the startup to go belly up a month later. Meanwhile they don’t even take a meeting with something far more promising, sometimes. I feel I will never understand the VC mindset.

For what it’s worth, here are their perfunctory rationales:

https://versionone.vc/announcing-our-investment-in-cryptokit...

http://www.usv.com/blog/cryptokitties-1
Also known as a One Time Pad for anyone wanting more info,
generally the key and message are xor'd if its digital and that's the entirety of the encryption algorithm.

Used properly it's proven to be unbreakable.
>What was the data-driven decision in that case?

That based on telemetry data the RSS feature was barely used in general. I haven't seen any commentary that suggests any relation with their support for Pocket.
If you read the thread, there's multiple comments about the back button. Do you want that to be not expressed as well?

> The irony being that if he'd have opted to not share at all, there wouldn't have been a user experience problem to begin with.

This isn't what GP asserted, this is a hyperbole.

GP is just making a suggestion to improve the software. You can take the suggestion for granted, comment on it, ignore it, you can up- and downvote it even. Just like you can do on GitHub or one of its competitors. You could even take it into account during a major overhaul.

If you can't even give honest feedback [1] on creative works we end up in a world of self-censorship. Compare it to how you're not allowed to give a negative reference in Germany. The difference then becomes in how positive people are raving about the employee. Pretty soon, you get a fake society where you supposedly fake it until you make it. I'd rather have brutal sincerity. Its more realistic and easier to process therefore more efficient.

Please, if my code sucks, tell me so, and tell me where you think I could improve. Heck, send me a patch or clone my git repo. I thrive on criticism as long as its constructive instead of destructive. The comment of GP is constructive.

[1] In this case a suggestion for improvement.
Night trains are especially good for conversations, at least if you have a few hours before the seats are converted to beds.
I asked the question because of Distro Watch, i was always wondering why are there so many Linux Distros, why not work on just a few Distros United, while enabling the modularity where each group would have a piece of their vision while enabling the users to chose which one they would use,

could this fragmentation be the cause for the lack of Linux presence on the Desktop?

Rather than uniting the forces, and building experiences on top of functionality, they each build their own experience their own way in hopes of attracting users...

Thanks
This is why I have a real hard time buying anything other than a Thinkpad, because of the trackpoint. If I have to move my wrists from where they're planted on the keyboard, it feels about as annoying as having to get up off the couch after I'm all comfortable because I have to go to the bathroom.
Indeed, but it's the same concept, just different target groups.
Thanks, I will take a look at it :), please read the bellow comment.
Do you mean transitioning older rolling stock to short lines built to high speed spec and prioritise new trains for the long lines?

Not sure if I understand correctly.
> What I really liked about it is how it forces publishing companies to truly make knowledge available for everyone.

I haven't read the article yet, but wow will that interact with: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2018/06/eus-copyright-proposal... [0]

[0] https://act1.openmedia.org/savethelink
Sounds like you’re upset vue is more popular than you wished.
Yeah, in the US, for me driving to NYC is probably both the cheapest and the fastest option--even given expensive parking. But I essentially always take the train as I hate driving into Manhattan.
There's a world of difference between a substitution cypher that maps the same characters to the same code points and one that doesn't.

The former is trivially crackable and the latter is a "one time pad" hard (which is how the texts were created)
I'd never be able to do substantial work on a bus. A train, easily. A plane, maybe.
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If something is troubling my mind I will walk through a door and voila! My brain has found something else to think about.
I have a Myo, and it's the device which taught me that what I'm actually interested in is interface technology that reduces my movement cost, and the Myo -- while being a pretty cool device and also one of the few that actually works within 10% of what's advertised -- unfortunately increases my movement cost. It's also got a pretty narrow range of actions. More than a few, but not enough to make the increase in movement cost worthwhile, IMO.
Seems like a great read, thanks :), book on the way...
I can see it: virtual screens projected in our eyes (or directly to brain), with mind-controlled keyboard, mouse and/or other input types..

So programmers of the future might just look like high-tech monks meditating.
I'll also add that flight prices fluctuate whereas train ones are fixed, which gives extra peace of mind when planning a trip.
I really liked Vimium, but I ran into a problem where it just annihilated CPU and I had to uninstall it. It's probably been a few version changes since then, so I might give it a try again.
You can query a GraphQL API via a normal request. You simply append a query to the body of the post.

As this app uses Redux not apollo, the implementation of it is slightly different. You can look at the actions file to see how it works.

This is a link to the demo:
https://react-starter-kit-demo.herokuapp.com/blog

GraphCMS has been used (GraphQL) to return posts
>There has to be some reasonable line between incentivizing investment and "everyone had a right to everyone else's ideas".

Isn't this just argument to moderation?

Moreover, patent portfolios that inhibit competition through the threat of a lawsuit are disincentivizing investment and competition.
That actually works in meetings or other group situations when people seem ignore my points - deeper voice works better. Not sure why doing it would be shocking. It is tiring to do it all the time through. Men chage their voices based on social situations too.

It works also with students when you are teaching.

I am pretty sure she also carefully selected cloths and hair style to project the right image and thought in advance about what she is going to say. It is the same thing. That is what all charizmatic leaders, whether good or bad, do all the time.
Arrow functions in JavaScript an introduction
I created a proof of concept Xcode for iPad (using a Mac as build server)
I assume most of the demand/volume was secretly subsidized by the company.
is there a way to use this technique for consistent hashing?
Without a doubt, average HN reader knows more about cryptocurrency than average cryptocurrency owner, knows more about farming than average farmer, knows more about biology than average bioscientist. Why? It's obvious, isn't it? \s

Cryptocurrencies aside, currencies are hard to understand. It's not "you trade money for stuff, duh!". It's how USA can print dollars to import stuff from China year by year without giving anything back. It's who prints money. It's how come printing dollars makes existing ones less valuable while also creating debt. How does independent currency affect debt-based currencies?

It's easy to be elitist. We know about computers more than average Joe, so we are experts on computer's money, but IMO cryptocurrencies are more currencies than crypto. And currency part is harder to understand than crypto part.
There does seem to be a general trend with hotels--which are often my biggest expense--to offer material discounts for advanced purchase/no cancelations.
Storytime is a framework to parse and render Interface Builder Storyboard files
What time do you go to sleep that your body wants to sleep until 11 or 12? You might be staying up too late and not getting enough sleep.
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Ever since my teens I considered sleep the most difficult thing in my life, and the most detrimental to my health. For me falling asleep has been a difficult assignment that usually takes 1-3 hours. It's been a negative feedback loop where when I am tired I lose discipline and stay awake longer, which makes me even more tired the next day, which makes me stay awake even longer. It makes no sense at all and frequently throws me in bouts of grogginess that last days.

It's been that way for more than ten years now, and I've read and talked a lot about sleeping but nothing ever made me get rid of this problem of not being able to fall asleep. A couple of weeks ago however I read two HN articles that together seem to have finally given me some grip on falling asleep more quickly (i.e. in less than 1 hour).

Reading back that last paragraph makes me feel like I'm about to introduce a "doctors hate this one trick" product.. Anyway, the first article is the one about WW2 pilots having to fall asleep in two minutes:

https://www.artofmanliness.com/articles/fall-asleep-fast/

The key takeaway from that is kind of obvious, but it's nice to be made conscious of it, and that is that it's important to actively make yourself relax. Relax both your muscles, and your mind.

I can't seem to find the second article, maybe it didn't have sleep in the title or something, but it was the missing link for me. The article was a little bit controversial because it had a linkbaity title implying sleep is not important. The main point of that article was that since stress and stressful thinking inhibits sleep, you sleep better if you don't worry about sleeping. It's the old ice bear problem, you have to sleep, but you're not allowed to think about having to sleep.

I combined those two articles into a simple strategy that seems to be fairly succesful so far. First step is to get into a position where all my limbs are relaxed, and I actively relax my body.

The next step is to stop my mind from racing through the realization and acceptation that the most important thing right now is to sleep. That means that my ideas are unimportant, that my organization of tomorrows tasks are unimportant, that sudden realizations are unimportant, that nothing matters, not even falling asleep. I kill any brain activity with "it doesn't matter", almost as a mantra. When something pops up in my brain, I force myself to think "it doesn't matter" and cease working on the idea.

Maybe it sounds a bit silly, but I think it might help someone in the same situation as me. I think I let myself feel my thoughts were important for too long. I really enjoy thinking about how to do things, and apparently it's become a point of discipline to make myself stop thinking about things.
Or... first get the team to acknowledge the problem and agree that a fix is needed. Then have everyone research solutions. Propose your tool while asking what other solutions have been found. As a team, talk about the pros/cons of each option, and facilitate those discussions. Build consensus by listening and understanding what your team has to say. Once you agree on the solution, talk through the configuration questions. Then talk through a deployment and adoption plan.

Because if you just want the problem fixed, then it isn't an issue of manipulating corporate politics to support your lead... it is an issue of working together to come up with a shared solution.
This is your opinion, not a consensus-based viewpoint (feel free to link studies though).

Yellow light is more romantic and it creates melatonin. White light keeps people alert due to the blue light in it. What you prefer, depends on your interests. On the road, people need to be awake. For that purpose white light does make sense.
> Typically dogfood is labeled "dogfood" for a reason--it's not really fun or stable or effective to use/interact with (yet?).

“Dogfooding” is also a term for using your own products like you expect customers / clients to use them. In that usage it isn’t a criticism of the product’s quality.
Pretty sure Picasso was trained in the "old master's way", his early works were more academic and following the painterly tradition, if I recall correctly.. Dali was deep into the techniques of the old masters, and more recently there's a movement sparked by Max Doerner, Ernst Fuchs et al, called Mischteknik that seems to breathe new life into the tradition.
The committers' names are all fake though :)
Also, from a few days ago:

http://www.bbc.com/capital/story/20180612-the-reasons-why-wo...