skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"If you won competitive darts championships while blindfolded, that would suggest the blindfold wasn't an impediment."

How many of the other competitors were blindfolded?

How many of the other movie studios have this culture?

"I would think that any cultures that significantly impeded productivity would have been stamped out by now."

Evolution doesn't always lead to better final outcomes. In a culture of dickheads, being a slightly bigger dickhead can give a personal advantage. Soon, everyone is a raging dickhead. The same applies to companies. The same applies to species (although with them it's not so much "raging dickhead" as "some small individually advantageous feature").
> If a bunch of parents on the internet can hack it together

I can imagine people will think this after reading this article, but in my opinion this is not how it is in reality - which is why this article is very poorly written/exaggerated. The article presents this comparison as black & white: DIY = simple and cheap, whereas pharmaceutical companies = difficult and expensive.
The reality however, is not black and white.

In a nutshell: You and me can drive around in a car without wearing seat belts our entire life and in the end, this article would say "see nothing terrible happened, it's been completely safe to drive around and seat belts are ridiculous".

It all comes down to statistics, and i believe that the people doing this DIY stuff are unaware of the risks they are taking.
Then don't use "the kind of environment in which one elects a President..." (in 2016) as a defense.

If you must use the "they did it first" defense, at least use specific examples from 2013 to defend her.
Throwing an 'indie' tag on a company that makes over 1 billion in revenue annually is ridiculous.

And even indie companies have to pay the piper when the bad culture and tough decisions that are put off result in blowback.
> seem lazy and desperate [...] every social media

Wow that's quite the overreach. I mean, if not wanting to do the same thing twice means being lazy, and wanting to reach people who are in one media but not the other means being desperate, then... I'm totally guilty! But I don't really agree with either premise.
For a numerics-oriented language this is a good choice. It’s more consistent with mathematical conventions for matrices.

0-based indexes are commonplace in programming circles because of the C language, however 1-based indexes are the earlier standard set by Fortran.

EDIT: If Julia becomes popular outside data and numerics circles, it will have pulled off nothing short of a miracle in getting people to adopt 1-based indexes. This feud is older than vi vs. emacs. :-)
Trigger warning for health anxiety folks. Nothing to see here.

I will never forget one day I opened Hacker News, and the top story was about a 30-year-old programmer named Jonathan (also my name, and I'm 29) who found out about his terminal cancer spreading throughout his body. This was one of many trigger moments in my life.

I struggle against health anxiety. Specifically, I am obsessed with dying young from cancer.

I am not diagnosed with OCD, but health anxiety presents very similar behaviors.

When I feel particularly vulnerable to a specific kind of cancer, I tend to research and wrap my head around probabilities, prevention, and everything I can to hedge myself against that cancer. I'm constantly checking in with small pains in my body.

I have chronic back issues (partially because of my posture while working). Pain exacerbates the anxiety.

For the first two months of this year, I couldn't hold my infant son without ending up on the edge of tears, because I was emotionally convinced I would die before I ever had the chance to see him grow up.

One understated effect of OCD and anxiety is the feeling of guilt you can foster because of your own behavior.

My wife's father recently went through a battle with pancreatic cancer. It was a complete rollercoaster. He ended up having the unlikely type, in a good way - he is now cancer free. But one moment stands out to me: when she came to tell me about what they had found. She started out by telling me, "I don't want to trigger your anxiety..." This both broke my heart and made me feel understood.

This is something that really has more influence on life than you expect. I feel for those of you who struggle with OCD, anxiety, and any other mental health issues. I don't have an answer, other than you are not alone. You're not isolated. You aren't the first to experience this, and you can live your life WITH the struggle, even if it feels impossible.

Seek help. Surround yourself with people who love you and want to understand and help. Don't seek reassurance; seek acceptance.
I buy the NYT from retail when I have the time and leisure to sit and read a newspaper. I like the fact that you can be in fairly provincial settings (small towns, etc.) but if there is a starbucks, the NYT will be for sale ...

I note that it is frequently sold out at those starbucks locations (after lunch, at least) so it appears that others buy them there as well.

FWIW, I am a sunday-only print version subscriber.
I'd love to know from any resident Julia experts: what are your favorite examples of active, high-quality Julia packages?

And perhaps more importantly, what is missing?
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There is a well established correlation between education in girls increasing and child birth rates decreasing. Unless you think that funding could be cut without decreasing education rates, in which case shouldn't we cut funding?
> what evidence would you expect her to provide?

1. Witnesses that confirms her accusations

2. Chats / emails / memos / pictures etc

3. If possible, maybe audio recording would be in order here?

Why is it bad to ask about evidence? If someone told me aliens landed on earth I would not believe that person but suddently because she is a woman in tech, everything she say has to be the truth and nothing else is plausible?

> There is literally nothing anyone can say to persuade you.

What? This is exactly the opposite of what the author of the first comment is writing. He or she is asking for evidence in order to be able to believe it.

P.S. Because no one denies that aliens have landed on earth doesn't mean it has happened.
No (though obviously some are, and its the tabs in particular which aren't particularly bothered about accuracy). But most European newspapers are expressly part of a particular political tradition, and many are openly partisan. In the UK, for example, the Guardian is part of the (social) liberal tradition, the Telegraph is both conservative and Conservative, and the Mirror is aligned with the Labour party. The same overseas: El País is associated with PSOE, and the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung has a Christian Democrat ethos.

None of which is to say that these are bad papers - they aren't. But the idea that you can stand back from partisan politics and report some kind of objective truth is more prevalent in European broadcast media: both the BBC and its private sector competitor ITV News, for example, do not aim for a particular political constituency (though, like the US papers, they're often criticised for their implicit positioning).
I would like to also add https://github.com/ipfs-shipyard/peer-star/pull/15 to the list of links.

If anyone is really into decentralized identities and authentication, please give it a read. Feedback would be appreciated!
I agree that the GIL has become a problem for a variety of high-performance tasks, but, I’m curious, what kind of problems have you encountered with numerical computation? I contribute to both NumPy and TensorFlow, two libraries with different processing models, and I don’t see any obvious area where removing the GIL would provide substantial benefits. However, I’ll readily admit that I don’t think about this too often and it’s entirely possible I’m missing something obvious! Maybe Julia could provide some guidance around this.

I would also bet (but not too much) that we eventually see major progress in removing the GIL. I really don’t think it’ll be around forever!
Thanks for these performance links, they're great.

> Not necessarily. Consider HSTS, HPKP, Expect-CT, etc.

Yeah, I'm aware of those (and use them on my own site) but the reality is that the vast majority of content sites out there do not use HPKP. Even if they use HSTS, many do not pre-load and as a worst case scenario the MITM can just switch the domain to something like google.unsecure.com or something like that.
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I get the feeling it's more generational than geographical. People who are making the decisions today won't be around to experience their consequences.
> The damnable thing about OCD is that a little is very valuable in my regular line of work (medicine). Without it I wouldn't be as careful, I don't think. It means it won't let me take shortcuts and it forces me to be thorough, and that's a very good thing in that business.

That's a really interesting take on the positive aspects of OCD and one that's not often discussed. Thanks for sharing. :)
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Could this arise from Japan more of a shame-based society than England?
But that is an app problem that you can’t really solve from the OS point of view.

And more importantly if you are using W/A Facebook will know all your details from the other end.

If only takes a few people in your social network to share dats with Facebook or Google for them to be able to construct your entire social network quite accurately.

You can do this experiment yourself, take one of each: a colleague, a family member and a friend combined is all it takes to expose high double digit % of your entire social network and for most people 2-3 of each type would likely expose all of it.

And that isn’t something Apple can protect you from the only option is to not use any such services and not to be in contact with anyone who does and that isn’t something most people would are willing to do.
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Cable channels would likely have the same disagreements, as would netflix series. So it's not impossible. (We'd have a lot less value on AP stories, though.)
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Academia in Physics was pretty hardcore from what I see of my friends working in it.

I left for CS after undergrad.
Yup, that's precisely the idea. The grandparent was concerned that this masked price increase (for Hulu or for NYT) is a breach of net neutrality.
Then I kindly submit this app: https://ipfs.io/ipfs/QmacAqRVhJX9eS7YJX1vY3ifFKF9CduDqPEgaCU...

This is an Atari 2600 emulator and every game, hosted on IPFS.

Getting Netplay wouldn't work directly with IPFS.. But I can imagine that you could use the message queue built in experimentally to do announce messages?
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With the poor state of Android security at the moment (in a nutshell, Android 9 Pie was just released while the previous Oreo release is installed on only 12% of devices), i cannot imagine anyone would want to connect a device that "can easily kill you" to an Android phone.

Most non-technical people using this DIY solution are probably not even aware of this...
I canceled via chat last week and was shocked at how painless it was.
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No. Don't even need to read the article.

You're looking for a very tiny needle in an enormous haystack. You're going to get flooded by false positives. If you turn up the filter enough to filter out false positives you'll miss real ones. If you investigate every false positive you'll create a civil liberties controversy plus you will get so fatigued investigating false positives you'll once again miss real ones.

"AI" is not magic secret sauce that lets you escape the fundamental limits of statistics and information theory. Claude Shannon would like a word with you.

The only solution to the school shooting problem is to ask why this is only a big thing in the USA. I think it's a mixture of culture, ready access to guns, and an awful mental health system (and health care system in general).
Instead of 50 professional reporters confirmed writing about an event, we’ll have 5

That's pretty what we already have actually. The amount of original reporting done on a major news story is far, far lower than the number of newspapers out there.

This study from 2010 is useful:

http://www.niemanlab.org/2010/02/the-googlechina-hacking-cas...

Out of the 121 distinct versions of last week’s story about tracing Google’s recent attackers to two schools in China, 13 (11 percent) included at least some original reporting. And just seven organizations (six percent) really got the full story independently.

Only seven stories (six percent) were primarily based on original reporting. These were produced by The New York Times, The Washington Post, the Wall Street Journal, The Guardian, Tech News World, Bloomberg, Xinhua (China), and the Global Times (China).

The story being studied had an international dimension which bumped up the number of outlets doing original reporting, as it was impactful to both the USA and China. Most stories that are only relevant to one country would have far fewer.

This is one of the reasons why the newspaper industry is shrinking - the internet makes it clear for the first time how little original reporting there really is, and how much duplication of that little original reporting goes on.

As for picking teams, gaslighting etc ... US media is experiencing a surge in profits right now, and as far as I can tell the reason is that they've more or less openly abandoned any pretence of political neutrality. They've become anti-Trump cheerleaders that are more in the business of helping their readers feel superior than in the business of real news. It's hard to blame them because this appears to be a more profitable business to be in than trying to be neutral and it's caused a surge in trust amongst democrats only. But of course it makes them vulnerable, even in a country with the first amendment. The USA doesn't have a president who hates the media for no reason.
> The same thing has happened to books and software.

I agree about books but software is still the best way for someone to make $100m unless they already have enough money to invest in something.
I understand the parent's idea. An employer gives his employees Tickets Resto. It's a 'social advantage' that may cost the employer less than simply paying the employees more because exempt from certain social charges. As a result, there are more of these scriptural Tickets Resto floating about than real money that people want to spend on restaurant meals. Which could lead to an inflation of restaurant prices in a fashion not so different to the inflation of the prices of medical prestations paid by private insurance.
This is a rather ironic statement, because this is just what many of us have done. I use ublock origin, read books from the library, watch Netflix without any ads (obviously), have no physical magazine or newspaper subscriptions. I (gasp) live in an area where I can walk to grocery stores and other shopping establishments. Okay, I guess I see occasional ads on the subway when I look up from my book...
Title is actually "Taking Tesla Private". It's from an email for employees discussion rationale; "Tesla going private" (submitted title) suggests it's final (even though the email explicitly states, "a final decision has not yet been made")
Thanks for replying!

> In theory some random joe could somehow drive to this gate, but I'm not sure how, it wasn't exactly on the way to anywhere.

Ah, that explains a lot.

> As for equipment I belive the customer paid for each visit, equipment included. Everyone knew the rules outright so they paid a ton for everything.

Wow. Part of me says that's crazy, the other part wants to know where to sign up, since this sounds like it paid well :D

(Of course I'm inordinately curious what equipment was being maintained, but we'll just drop that one on the floor since it's probably quite boring)
Is there a preference of Telegram over Signal or vice versa?
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You're actively ignoring the point and just being offended which is natural because it was put extremely bluntly. But you've just restated that the current state of affairs is "entirely reasonable" when the comment you are replying to explains why it's actively harmful. You've provided no argument for why it's reasonable, just taken offense and waved around cases of catastrophic failure.
Ask HN: How long did it take you until you became “fluent” in TDD?
I've recently gotten an offer for a project where I can pretty much dictate the setup. For my own professional development, I always try to add a new aspect to each project.

This time I'm aiming for 100% code coverage and an app written with TDD methodology.

The process is sooooo slow though. I'm guessing it will speed up after a while, but as it is, I feel I'm losing lots of hours for small gains.

For those of you that always TDD, how long did it take you until you felt that it wasn't holding you back in delivering?
This is essentially the model the Go community is aiming to do with versioning standards. It's also the philosophy the linux kernel takes to e.g. syscalls.

It's something a lot of libraries could learn from. Most users want to build software for the long term and tend to avoid upgrading libraries too often.

Fwiw, this is a large part of Rich's Spec-ulation [0] talk.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oyLBGkS5ICk
And Matlab and Octave in turn inherited it from Fortran, which inherited it from classical numerical analysis.

One-based indexing has a good, long history.
That's true, and Utah was the only Red state with anything close to a successful protest vote this last presidential election. Then again, the only meaningful difference between that candidate and Trump was that he was less vulgar and Mormon.
Yeah, I tried inlining it, and it turned out it was going to be a massive amount of CSS :)

Maybe I'll just bite the bullet and do my own CSS.
Telegram doesn't use end-to-end encryption by default and likely never will. Paul Durov has been quite hostile against that feature in the past. So yes, choose Signal over Telegram.

I find that instead of trying to convince friends/family to use Signal I just tell them "use Signal as your default SMS app" or install it myself for them. This tactic worked well in the Internet Explorer/Firefox and then Chrome transitions, so I don't see why it can't work again.

Then whenever I will be chatting with them, it won't matter if they try to send me a SMS, as long as I use Signal, their messages will be encrypted, as they will be data messages. I wouldn't trust the default SMS app/Android Messages not to steal your SMS texts anyway, especially on Chinese phones.

Also, I can't wait until the Matrix-based Riot gets its redesign:

https://medium.com/@RiotChat/a-sneak-peek-at-a-whole-new-rio...
Secure messaging on android seems like an oxymoron.
> There is no valid reason for this.

Provoking an opponent into irrational behavior seems like a valid game strategy. In other words the language is not necessarily used for its face content but for its psychological effects.
"To fathom Hell or soar angelic, just take a pinch of psychedelic" -Humphry Osmond, when he coined the term "psychedelic"
I have a similar rant: https://rkeene.org/projects/info/wiki/176
Another reminder that today's stock market sector needs to be reimagined for the 21st century.
By 'addressed' I think he means 'solved'.
As another atheist/naturalist, I always find interesting how members of one religion found the mythology of another religion "ridiculous" and worth making fun of, but want the mythology of their own religion to be taken seriously and as a truth.
duplicate https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17709799
Yes, yes, yes, and yes, all of those things are cancelled. And it's not a huge loss to do so.
Completely agree, but what about Alpine using musl rather than GNU libc? AFAIK this has caused trouble in the past (such as https://github.com/gliderlabs/docker-alpine/issues/11), and will eventually in the future again since third-party packages don't test against non-GLIBC Linux or do they? I'm wondering if it's prime time for Devuan.
I had a similar reaction about this being a little premature.

On the other hand, I'm wondering if this will help a little with the dependency hell that's caused me to drift away from Julia over the last year or so.

At first I was fairly excited about Julia, and greatly preferred it over R or Python for numerical work, library resources aside. It was fast and I liked the language design itself.

Over the last year or two, though, I've had recurring problems with trying to install and use packages, and them failing at some point due to some dependency not working. Sometimes the target package itself won't install, but most of the time it's some lower-level package.

It's more frustrating than not having packages available, because it creates some sense that packages are available, when they're not. At first I looked at it as some idiosyncratic case with one package, but it's happened over and over and over again.

Basically in this time I've given up on Julia, because there's such a huge discrepancy between what it looks like on the surface and what it looks like in practice, once you get out of certain limited-use cases, or when you're not coding everything yourself from the base language. (Related concerns about misleading speed claims have been raised, although my personal experience in that regard has been mixed, because my experience overall has been pretty good in some critical performance cases, but there have also been some wildly unpredictable exceptions that act as bottlenecks... but it's still much better than R or Python).

When I've tried to figure out what's going on with dependency hell, usually it's because some package that was previously working with a earlier version is no longer working. So maybe stabilizing the language will help that?
What's "secure" without stating your threat model?
> Part of the reason Instagram has surged in popularity lately is because it's generally real humans posting the content rather than endless automated shitposts (I'm not saying they don't exist, but it's certainly more difficult to implement than it is on Facebook).

We are clearly not looking at the same subset of Instagram. I don't know anybody that actually uses it to post real content; it's just an endless feed of meme shitposting to laugh at.
Fair point, thanks. Changed the title to be more accurate.
It's a valid argument, but I personally never had a NES and don't legally own any of these games. How do developers of these projects make sure Nintendo get what's due from people like me?

I'm quite happy to pay as long as the money is going to the right place. I wouldn't buy one of those Raspberry Pi arcade things on ebay that just profit from shamelessly ripping off others' work.
Telegram doesn't have end-to-end encryption by default (only in secret chats).

That's all you need to understand to know that it's an inferior product in comparison to Signal.
That's not an API, that's a private protocol for which they can easily anticipate and control load (e.g. by pushing changes to their apps).
The narrative is more complicated than that, see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frances_Oldham_Kelsey and https://blogs.fda.gov/fdavoice/index.php/2012/02/50-years-af.... In particular: athough Kelsey did correctly identify issues, there wasn't legal support for that kind of regulation until her work led to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kefauver_Harris_Amendment which was necessary legal support for the FDA regulation process.
I've been asked if I can allow DungeonsTOME to make bigger dungeons.

I'll try to modify it this weekend so allow slightly bigger maximums, and probably to allow you to specify the size of dungeon desired.