skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think that you misunderstood my comment. I’m not arguing about probability, I’m saying that the toss of coins have already been done, and cannot be repeated or changed. That’s exactly what defines the past. You can spend time studying the details of why you got a specific result of your toss of coin (wind strength, forces applied to the toss, etc), and you can speculate that changing a parameter would have given different results, but you cannot change the toss that you did.

Now, let’s say that you have an actual toss of coin at one point in history that results in a missile being launched. The missile has been launched, that cannot be changed. The fact that tossing the coin n times more results in differents results doesn’t change the fact that the missile has been launched. Sure you can speculate what would happen if the result would have been different the first time, and your educated speculation may even be pretty good and based on strong facts, that doesn’t change the fact that you’re now in a fictional scenario.

That seems to be a rational point of view to defend, I would be interested to know what flaws you see.
Under XNA, the garbage collector on PC was rudimentary compared to the generational garbage collector on Xbox 360. I had the same problems when working on a game in 2008.
One thing people often don't realise about interviews at Google and other companies with similar interview standards. You can't casually apply for those. You have to prepare a lot. At least for a month (probably much more) before the interview you have to practice coding questions on Leetcode or similar resources.
The internet is a walled garden now, that desires a pound of flesh from everyone for every little thing.

It is no longer an egalitarian happy place for the exchange of ideas
Ford doesn't sell vans pre-painted with "Free Candy" on the outside. YouTube does package abusive videos as "kid friendly".
You have it backwards: a la carte is exactly what people want. If they didn’t, they wouldn’t pay for so many different subscriptions.
Like the others said, given any initial order, a 'proper shuffle procedure' gives the same probability to each other possible order of the deck.
Note that this definition is about the process, not the end result. (One might say something about the end result using Kolmogorov complexity, but I know very little about that)

It should also be said that the "7 normal riffle shuffles" mentioned earlier in the article is not a 'proper shuffle procedure' in the strict sense. For example, it seems to me that cards that were close together in the initial state are likely to remain closer together after 7 riffle shuffles than after a proper shuffle.
I'm seeing this for the first time. Probably a case of "10000/day": https://www.xkcd.com/1053/
Very nice! Any plans to extend it to support more noise types and 1D and 4D variants?
This may serve for inspiration:
https://github.com/Auburns/FastNoiseSIMD
It's only a security vulnerability if there is a bug already present in the code. This mechanism is not introducing the vulnerability. In fact, it's helping find out the bug during development. At release runtime, the spare bits should always match.
Peppa Pig and other cartoons have official channels with free episodes on YouTube.
What do you mean? Have you seen switchboard operators? Surely internet packets displaced the phone companies!

What about most things that you own today? Surely the metals you come across the very electronic you’re typing away on didn’t come from a blacksmith?

I’m sure I could go ad nauseum but I hope you get my point. I’d believe you if you lived somewhere in the artic circle in a remote corner of that desert. But here you are on HN of all places!

Edit: typo
No, the comments don't say that. What I'm trying to say is: HCI has not yet _recognized_ Engelbart's vision.
Ask HN: Do you consider yourself to be a good programmer?
if not, why? how do you validate your achievements?
It's interesting to see another entry point to HN. Is there some way to see how many comments the posts have? I think reading the discussions is a huge part of why people use this website.
A one time pad is a specific case of substitution cipher (it’s a generalization of vignere) where the key is the length of the document. It is probably secure - as in it is actually impossible to break.

The reason one time pads are not used in general is that you need a “perfect” rng, and you have to be able to get the random values to the recipient. Those old “person traveling with brief case of secrets” trope was a real thing. Key distribution is the problem solved by public key cryptography. But you can’t use one time pads with public key crypto, because the weakness is then breaking public keys (which is probably possible).

Stream ciphers loosely acted like a one time pad in that you generate a “random” stream and xor with the message. But it doesn’t reach the actual requirement of security for a one time pad because the key is the RNG seed, which means you can brute force the seed key space and only the correct key will produce a completely sensible decrypted output.

A true one time pad means that a brute force search of the key space for a message of length N will find every valid message of length N.

Eg an 11 letter message would produce (among others) “hello world” and “hello earth” as well as “die planet!”.
With 1270Hz/1070Hz you've got over 3 complete cycles to identify the tone at 300 baud, at higher frequency pairs it gets better. The person who wrote it was Tom Lyon at Sun but I bet I could reproduce it with a gnuradio-companion flow graph. That would make it pretty easy for anyone to play with it.
That's not really how it works. The hotel puts up the influencer in the ludicrously expensive over-water bungalow or deluxe suite or whatever. Followers book the cheaper rooms hoping for the same experience.
This sounds like a touch too much protestation to be coincidental...
No you have two machines. Cloud9 EC2 and server EC2 or Lambda
I built https://github.com/kshvmdn/point to do exactly this.

Only supports GitHub Pages right now, but might update it soon to support GitLab as well.
There already is an emphasis on the experience of one's lifetime during one's life time! It's a way better way to get context on Bach by starting with something familiar - instead of forcing them to "imagine a time long long ago..." Besides, it teaches one to be superstitious - like big bang theorists :)
I miss old phpbb forums. I still occasionally chat with people who's email addresses I got in the late 90s, early 00s. I never met any of them in person, but still feel a really close connection with lots of people that i "met" in that era.
Communities do still exist online although their flavor has changed. Group chat has essentially replaced the chatrooms and IRC channels of the mid 90s-00s. Pre 90s is too old for me, but I remember seeing pining for "days of gopher/usenet" etc during the 00's, so really everyone has always been pining for this or that. I don't mind it, people will always be nostalgic in some sense. I was nostalgic for high school in college, and I'm somewhat nostalgic for college now, so it's probably valuable to not take hindsight's insight too seriously.

That said, the internet has not been the democratizing force most of us believed it would become with curated and centralized social networks having arisen as dominant. I am convinced that this is still a fact that can be discerned distinct of the nostalgic pining. Individuals are pushing back a little (not consciously perhaps) by opting for groups/smaller circles of friends and interests.
The Truth About Inkjet Printers
You may think inkjet printers are resonably priced for the convenience they give you - at an average of around $50 they aren't the most expencive technology you buy but the issue of inkjet printers comes through the dear prices of ink.
Throughout the life of the inkjet printer ink prices have been seen to, usually, be around the same price as the printers themselves which can be confusing and infuriating for anyone buying ink nowadays. According to Consumer Reports “Even the cheapest ink, at about $13 an ounce, costs more than, say, fine Champagne, while the priciest, at about $75 an ounce, is more costly than, say, Chanel No. 5 perfume”.
Through multiple tests by companies such as the one listed above they have found that the average ink refill costs the company making them around $0.32 (235x the cost of the most expencive ink available for consumers. Companies such as HP and Epson argue that ink costs have not fallen due to the advanced technology in their printers but this is not the case, most of the ‘advanced technology’ in the inkjet printing world is found inside the printer itself.
Companies who sell printers often make a loss on them and sell ink for an upmarked price to make a profit but, is this right? Should it be cheaper for me to buy a whole new printer instead of replacing a couple ink colors?
How many people are actually informed that the Washington Post is owned by Jeff Bezos? How many people know that Jeff Bezos has contracts with the CIA[1] & sits on a pentagon board[2]? I doubt many. It's one of the few "left" wing newspapers I refuse to read for the reasons above.

I'm not arguing for this blockchain solution, I think it makes things worse exactly as you said.

[1]https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2014/07/the-d...

[2] http://www.businessinsider.com/amazon-ceo-jeff-bezos-joins-p...
Promoter.
Maybe the lesson here is that content creators for children should leave YouTube and find a more kid-friendly alternative. I imagine the day where a family-friendly brand sees these abusive videos being recommended in the same playlist as them and decides to pull all of their content.

There may be great content on YouTube, but that content could go anywhere. Is there maybe a market for a YouTube where a human reviews the content that gets posted and guarantees it is family-friendly?
how to discover new irc channels/servers?
> We want an on-demand nexus. A single hub.

That is close to existing, it'd be nice if the top players agreed to open their APIs so you could integrate it into a unified TV external like Chromecast or Firestick. Or, to go further, a unified platform that can process subscriptions and PPV across each library.

> $100/month for a dozen streaming "channels" with one or two good shows and a the same crap the rest of the other "channels" have.

Amen, we cut the cord officially on Friday. We went to $67 (including modem rental) per month plus about $25 dollars in streaming services and $40 for YT TV per month. That's still $35 dollars cheaper than what we were paying for Comcast TV and once we buy a compatible modem then we'll drop our internet to about $55 per month. We also have renters, so we loop them into YTTV for them to watch to their heart's desire for an extra $5 on their rent per month.

> Ghost in the Shell

Respect just got done rewatching an episode of the TV show.
Funny you should mention that, I wrote exactly that sort of link using my QR clock code (tweet embedded video of same: https://twitter.com/ChuckMcManis/status/794025248203022336)
> It's a wonderful rhetorical device.

It is very appealing, for sure, but it runs the risk of falling into the same trap of "trying to show that what came after was inevitable, when in fact it was one future among an infinite number of different possible futures".
I almost never stumble on Blogger blogs. Are there many?

I'm grateful that Google launched Android, but now I can use it without their ”services” and use only (albeit maybe a few manufacturer binary blobs) Free Software.

Gmail... Well, I don't use it, and altough not everybody wants to self-host, changing email provider (or having several) is easy.

If a company uses GApps, it probably means I'm not working for it.

...I'd probably use a VPN to be able to watch YouTube, I am not ready to give it up yet. Alternatives are growing, though!
I'm the same age and feel similar. I wonder how my and others actions differ now that my name is tied to everything. Back in those days, it was rare to know even the first name of my friend, only their handle. Now we just craft our posts carefully hoping it's not used against you in the future.

I grew up on forums, and began programming with php on them. I'd love to see something similar to them take over slack.
I think you mean Gabriella Goat[1].

1. http://peppapig.wikia.com/wiki/Gabriella_Goat
I was born in 1946. I miss acoustic couplers and I miss The Well.
Made me smile, I'm not too far behind. I think it was my rose colored glasses.

Forums are the biggest thing I'll miss and by comparison the nearest thing for kids these days is probably YouTube or Reddit. However they are nothing like Forums in ways.

How I'll miss spending months earning my way to become a mod, talking about the community or a user in private sub forums, joking/gossip threads with other mods, talking about real life issues with Mom-Mods and Dad-Mods in private forums, and eventually meeting them irl. Customizing my profile with weird ass sigs, animated avatars and coming home to an organized list unread threads interesting to me. Sounds strikingly like Reddit but nothing like it, how strange.

MSN was awesome, but I think kids these days have better options here. Snapchat come close in some ways and does well for the mobile platform.

I felt the Internet was a smaller simpler place with lesser influence from cooperate agenda, state sponsored ideas, and other influencing ideologies and actors. The Internet has become less transparent, commercialized (not just ads) blurring lines between genuine and insincerity.

Social marketing companies specialize in astroturfing places like Reddit making it almost impossible to spot sponsored content sometimes. Try doing that on a Forum and you'll be spotted miles away and made an example of.

Examples of propaganda factories in Russia or Israel with high influence on social media is an example of one big problem Reddit or YouTube has today. It's far too easy to game larger social media networks and make it seem like the consensus.
me too buddy
Where do you find local clients?
Bill Wurtz tried: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xuCn8ux2gbs
For me at least, telegram largely has replaced both IRC, and AIM/Yahoo/ICQ/MSN/whatever.

My social circle is full of people like you - but I'm a furry - maybe you should seek out the local scifi or furry community around you - I promise you, that you'll feel right at home.
The root cause of this problem is that YouTube does not offer a whitelist only option for parents.
Writing phpBB articles, was my first clue of what programming was. Oh, the shame, but still, was quite fun
I know, I was thinking about sites like this one. I don't think I'm missing a lot, the internet is huge.
Thanks. I thought the facts were relevant to the comments, and that students wondering if this were good advice, would benefit from the reference. I’ve been contributing here eight years so I know moderators and community would flag anything actually self promoting.
Show HN: Reworn.co, a website which makes browsing second hand clothing easier
This only pushes the responsibility down lower in the stack. Somewhere someone would have to handle a state where we have data and error being nil at the same time.
No, that is indeed not what I meant to say. I meant to say that you're wrong.

The fact that capitalism had lifted billions out of poverty is uncontroversial, very broadly accepted (and there is plenty of evidence). Of course you can disagree with that, but exhibiting a minimal grasp of the argument you're disagreeing with makes it a lot easier to take your concerns seriously.
There are some nice irc networks listed on http://irc.netsplit.de

I actually use /list and join new channels from time to time!
Why did the USENET have to disappear?
Because the quality of the product or experience is irrelevant. The goal is to imitate the influencer, and to thereby also become someone who people want to imitate.

If I can pattern myself 90% after someone that other people are imitating, those other people are virtually already 90% imitating me anyway, they just don't know it yet. If I can get them to remember my name, and a significant chunk to think that my 10% difference is in qualities where I'm superior to the person I'm imitating, I've at least carved out a niche, but I maybe on the road to completely replacing them.

Of course on a very small scale, this could just be amongst people at my workplace, or who go to my college.
Sounds like you don’t even remember the old internet. The old internet was Usenet, telnet, gopher, etc.
One thing I appreciate about the internet, even nowadays, is learning about people I've never met. This isn't talking to them necessarily. It can just be someone I could imagine striking up an interesting conversation with if I did meet them someday.

As an American who grew up in a way that I felt was somewhat typically (but perhaps less so nowadays) suburban middle-class, I similarly appreciate reading thoughtful comments from people who grew up in different circumstances and didn't necessarily have it as easily as I did. Where I have most frequently encountered these voices is here and on Reddit and on Metafilter (which I first discovered here on HN). If I can dig up a good example, I'll add it to this comment.

Finally, when I think about that old spirit of the internet that I think you're talking about, and places where it still may prevail, I'd like to offer as an example Erowid. I'm not a contributor, I don't even read it that often. But it just comforts me that sites like this still exist:

https://www.erowid.org/

So I don't think the good old internet is dead. You just have to know where to look.
As a frequent user of both: I can't echo that.

On a scale from 1 to 10 (being the best), airplane food ranks -5. ICE restaurant brings home a solid 0.

ICE's bigger cooking compartments (relative to the everything cramped airplanes) allow for better options. Plus, you have real tables to eat from and elbow space.

The ratio of "unrelated diners engaging in conversation with each other" vs. "unrelated diners engaging in conversation with each other because of the ridiculousness of the food" is way higher in ICEs than in planes.

Long story short: In an ICE you have to know what to order. Most meals will be optimized for their type of kitchen (stews; the most ordered item must be Chili con Carne). At least ICE meals don't shy away from their humble origins of being heated-up like airplane food does ("Sansibar Airplane Currywurst...").
The general approach described by the author is the one used by many game enginges. The main reason, however, the refactor that you've described here isnt used is that it bloats memory by a significant factor (which thereby reduces performance). Since you have to allocate for each array index the size of the largest item in the union, there is a lot of wasted space when you have lots of smaller items. If you have fewer than a couple billion points, a triangle will fit in 12 bytes, a game object can easily have 10 fields for a total of 30 bytes. Thats a massive expansion of your triangle array which will result in more cache misses.
Dude you're 30. You're 10 years early for mid-life crisis. Go back to work.
I think there is a community problem out there that remains unsolved in a nice way - particularly in real life spaces.

Church used to be a source of it for people, but it has a lot of obvious negatives and there are limited options without religion involved.

Children probably also take a lot of people off the map, but I think that doesn’t have to be true either given the right solution.
Just noting, I can not access the link you posted and I am in the US. I have no problems retrieving https://www.latimes.com
Plenty of sites like popsugar already do this.

That was basically one of my good friend’s wife’s job.
Discord communities are the new IRC, MSN, AOL, whatever. Find a few discord servers of your interest, and you might find a bit of that old magic again.
I talk to my 3 year old while we're waiting for a haircut. Or I'll go for a walk with him, or play. Same as with the 6 year old.

I don't understand why some parents find electronic gizmos so essential for day to day activities.
Hi, I worked on the C/C++ compiler for zLinux, the COBOL compiler for zOS, and on the non-open-source version of Hercules.

If you've got zOS and COBOL knowledge then Toronto is the place for you. IBM develops their zOS software in Toronto (well, Markham) mostly. At least the compilers, DB2, and parts of WebSphere.

The other users are the major banks, and they're all headquartered in downtown Toronto. They're desperately looking for people with zOS and COBOL knowledge, I get plenty of recruiter emails for that despite not really having much COBOL knowledge.

Honestly, if you apply for any of those jobs with even a passing familiarity of COBOL you're pretty much guaranteed. Also, welcome to the mainframe club!
I’d look at local and remote freelancers in the similar fields and add 10-25%.
Experimenting with Digital SCA Signals
There are a lot of good answers to #2 already, but most talk about abstract benefits and don't directly address the purely fiscal nature of the question. So here you go:

There is no additional $40/day cost to the taxpayer.

For a single servicemember living on base, the taxpayer is paying for their housing (the building may be paid for, but has limited capacity and ongoing repair & maintenance costs), their food, their water, their power, their garbage collection, their cable tv, and on and on. While it would be a pretty dull life, it is possible in some facilities to have all your needs met with essentially $0 living expenses (depending on availability of things like non-coin-op laundry machines).

When a servicemember moves off base, for example to live with their spouse, all those become out of pocket expenses. The housing allowance is simply an offset to what otherwise would be a pretty drastic cut in total compensation.
>An uncensorable internet is sorely needed.

Governments don't need to censor the internet via technical measures to impose their will. They just need impose large fines on the companies that violate censorship laws.

Facebook has a version of their site hosted on Tor. That doesn't mean facebook can violate EU laws.
yeah, I miss having 16 too
Isis was an extreme example, I agree. There are more common ones though. Would you prefer to leave your kid unattended on Youtube or supervised online by a random adult chosen from anywhere in the world? Most of those random adults will include people from countries where attitudes to violence are different. Most of them will have some weird religious belief that will involve involve threats of violence against the child for breaking the arbitrary rules of the religion. Most of them will be homophobic and most of them will be racist. Many of them will support killing members of their enemy groups such as the neighboring country, other religion, other race, criminals, etc. Some will encourage the kid to kill insect pests while others will punish them for doing that. Many of them won't have the patience to talk to the child, which is important for their intellectual development but boring for adults. Many of them will just be bad at caring for children.
Some of the middle era SV history books are quite good, although they cover the combination of hardware, software, and startup stuff.

Fire in the Valley,
Dealers of Lightning,
Where the Wizards Stay up Late by Katie Hafner,
Soul of a new Machine by Tracey Kidder,
The Dream Machine.

There are histories of Apple, Microsoft, and many smaller (and now gone) companies and/or projects.

Showstopper (Windows NT),
Insanely Great (Macintosh),
Defying Gravity (Apple Newton),
In the Plex (Google),
Hackers (by Steven Levy),
Ghost in the Wires.

More philosophical type stuff
In the beginning was the command line
Dreaming Code,
Coders at Work

There's many worthwhile books about the history and culture of programming and hacking not listed, but this might be a useful starting point.