skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If I remember correctly, Go was only allows source packages and does whole-program optimizations. They designed their compiler to be fast to enable this.
If apps sent this info to their own backend before forwarding it to a third party, there would be no way to tell this was happening, right?
Oh yeah, I wasn't trying in any way to insinuate that Gimp should just 'become like software x', and I guess in the above, it sounded like x would be Blender. I don't think project-focused development would make it anything like Blender, or even change Gimp's weirdness. And (I'd like to think) that there's some overlap between what interest Gimp developers themselves, and what interest various users too. Personally I see the value in all the GEGL

I myself make monthly donations to Øyvind Kolås, and I think it's important he just does what he thinks he needs to do. No "make Gimp like software X" stuff.
Youtube can obviously curate it, but it shows habits of a large population too. Navel videos having 5M+ views... mind boggling.
60k is high for a Polish software developer, 140k is probably below the median for SF.
No it won't. This result is related to the problems of proving properties about the prime numbers (such as gaps) and of determining whether or not a given number is prime. It has nothing to do with the computational intractability of factoring large numbers.

RSA utilizes an extremely large semiprime (the product of two very large prime numbers) to generate a public/private key pair. This result does not meaningfully change anything related to the computational work required to factor semiprime numbers that have over 600 digits.
Comingled means those can be counterfeit
The amount of innovation and capital at risk in private biotech companies is similar to that for the tech industry.

If we got rid of the tech industry and had the govt do all of it, do you believe we’d be where we are today?

I’d argue we wouldn’t be.

One of the big reasons why small biotech’s outperform big pharmaceutical companies is the lack of bureaucracy and high level of risk taking. Two things the govt is bad at.

As well, one reason why we have so many drugs is there are thousands of companies placing different bets on an idea. If that was all pulled under a centralized committee that made decisions on what to pursue, we’d be missing out on a ton of long-shots that every “smart” person said would never work.
Tumplines and the Benefits of Carrying Weight on Your Head
A Twitter Bot that will tweet every English word encrypted. Can you crack them?
Hoho, that made me laugh. The United States Postal Service offering 2 day delivery.
You're not forced to agree to that option. I think it's a good choice to have.
All prime is like that
That time cutting edge tech met cutting edge virus
In a ~3% margin business the difference between 1$ and 1.05$ is huge. But, nobody is going to be selling canned tuna out of their basement for under 10 cents profit on the can.

Which is the real power of monopoly pricing, it's not obvious that spending 1.05$ is vastly worse than 1$ but it makes a huge difference to a companies bottom line.
How do you apply NICE’s framework to in early R&D when you have no idea what the clinical benefit might be?
This is an example of what the article is discussing. Essentially, content on open platforms, (this thread), tend to link to more extremist content, (the thread you're pointing out). Then that content links to more extremist content, and on and on and so on and so forth.

So your comment is a good "for instance" of why YouTube does what it does as an algorithm. In essence, what YouTube's algorithm does is the exact same thing that we, as humans, do in any given discussion. We just don't get to the extremist content as fast as YouTube's algorithms get us there, so we don't notice that tendency in our face to face discussions.

In a very real way, YouTube is trying to be more human. With all of the negative implications that entails.
> Want to earn money with the work from Qt devs? Give them something back to pay their bills.

that's absolutely not mandatory with Qt's license (though a nice thing to do).
Besides, a non-negligible part of contributions to Qt aren't made by The Qt Company but by others such as KDAB, etc... which won't see a cent.
It seems like you are misinterpreting the term housing unit. It isn't the number of buildings. A single apartment in a 200 unit building counts as a housing unit. What this number is telling you is just less than 1 in 5 households in the US live in a building with more than 4 units. I would suspect that the distribution of household size if anything is a bit biased towards single family homes having more people per unit in them if anything.
That's exactly what has happened, black money got converted to white with help of politicians like Amit Shah. This FT article touches on this aspect.

https://www.ft.com/content/7dbe0e14-8d8a-11e7-a352-e46f43c58...
tldr: Why should I be made to feel dirty if I don’t want to be surveilled?

If the new profile is sufficiently similar to your actual profile, the browser’s “fingerprint”, combined with network and machine information might still register.

On a non technical note I have a problem with browser makers chosing “sleuth” or risqué masquerading looking icons to represent “private” browsers. I turn on private browsing and the browser makes me feel sneaky or shifty or shady or suspicious (I’m just now noticing how many of those words start with “s”, interesting).

When I step out of my house and hope to not be tracked and surveilled I do not put on some Carmen Sandiego looking private eye get-up. (Unfortunately, I actually might have to in some cities, like London. And I’d def need to leave my digital devices at home.)

We opt-in to “do not track” and the servers ignore. We choose “incognito” mode and that’s not quite enough, even though at this point we are feeling dirty and sneaky because of the UI. I add uBlock Origin and Disconnect and now I feel like a full blown activist.

How do we flip the table so that the servers have to opt in to “Private Eye” mode? And if they’re still not getting enough info they have to enable “Five Eyes” mode. And if they’re still not getting what they need they can ask us to install the optional “surveillance state” module.

Not having the largest social network and largest browser maker both be for profit corporations with business models based on harvesting user information would be a start.
Top-grossing Mac App Store app steals users’ browser histories
The problem with client-side hashing in password forms is that the hash is now the password; as such, it provides no defense at all against even a passive attacker impersonating you. The only attack it provides any defense against is password reuse.
Those aren't progressive positions at all, those are internet bred radical identity politics issues that have nothing to do with progressivism, and stem out of liberalism which is meant to further divide the country. Most people on the true left wouldn't identify with those positions.

Edit: People downvoting need to look at a political spectrum of the left and research the viewpoints of progressive, democratic socialist, and socialist individuals in history. They would all denounce these radical identity politics positions as liberalism that don't end up helping anyone in any way -- especially joining together the working class. This only splits the working class. Identity politics is liberalism and liberalism is very close to centrism, not left politics.

>On Thursday, March 14, 78 “non-black” leaders traveled to Atlanta from 17 states for a planning meeting of the Poor People’s Campaign Steering Committee. They came from Native American, Mexican American, Puerto Rican, and white communities, representing 53 organizations. “It has been one of my dreams that we would come together,” King told the gathering. Their “declaration of unanimous support” for the Poor People’s Campaign, writes Stewart Burns, was “a breakthrough of major proportions, the high point of the entire campaign.”

https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2018/04/mlk-las...

Fred Hampton on Race: https://youtu.be/fJSqZrVjDds?t=1m14s

Identity Politics is incompatible with progressive or further left politics.
Do you really feel that deprecation of the HPKP self-ransoming foot gun came out of nowhere?
In rust, integer overflows are defined to be wrapping, which is how it works automatically on essentially every architecture Rust supports.
> An Alibaba spokesman said Ma remains the company’s executive chairman and will provide transition plans over a significant period of time, contrary to a New York Times article that said he was “stepping down” to “retire.” The Times story was taken out of context, and factually wrong, the spokesman said.

https://www.scmp.com/business/companies/article/2163376/jack...
7 Business Realities to Temper Invention Excitement
Google News works the same way. I've been using Google News since it was a list of links to news sites. The algorithm is very good at surfacing breaking news, but can't help showing the most extreme clickbaity BS among the legit stories.

Interested in stories about Oceach Science? We'll show you "Holy S*, These Triassic Ocean Reptiles Were As Big As Hell"

https://twitter.com/ilamont/status/983714720153612289

We see you read about NASA and space flight. Then you'll love this story about a Russian boy who who says 7-foot aliens reside on the red planet!

https://twitter.com/ilamont/status/929392451193835520

Or fossilized alien footprints on Mars, covered up by NASA!

https://twitter.com/ilamont/status/970814193631981568

Trying to get an update on news about China and foreign relations? Let's show you a "news" headline that suggests WWIII is about to break out:

https://twitter.com/ilamont/status/1037765753162919937
The valley is in a bit of moral panic in my opinion.
As someone who works in the industry, this is absolutely correct.

I’ve talked to hospital administrators about what price they think is fair for a new drug. They say “$100”. I asked what about a higher price and a discount ($200 and a 50% discount). They tell me “Even better! I can go to my boss and tell him I got a lower price which is great since that’s a big component of my bonus!”
Me too - though I also am perplexed by the massive "respect for other people's down time" rift too. It always saddened me when people said they'd be on vacation and then details of how to bug them with trivial issues.

That being said, I suppose I'm a little hypocritical because I live in Europe and work remotely for a US company. I was already doing fairly well (not astronomical) by local standards but got a 40% raise by just being normal by US standards.

It makes me wonder why there isn't more entrepreneurship here. Labour is cheap and if you fail you're unlikely to die in a gutter (at least you have health care). Hell, even commutes are better for the most part. It should be easier to start something in Europe than in California, not harder. Maybe I'll give it a shot after naturalization.
Yes, that's the $4.99 one I found.

http://a.co/7gJYjIx
> The installation ended up being the most devious part of the prank in the end, since it would install on the system it makes it really difficult for anyone to understand why everything looks just that little bit wrong.

This should be made a felony.
Typically speaking, all of the wiring is done in some central location for the building. The phone/electric/cable companies don't want to make individual drops to each unit. They make one drop to the building and then fan out to the individual units. All that changes when a new provider comes in is that they make a drop to the building and then connect the units wiring to it. They do not need to wire to each individual unit.

The level of complication for making the initial drop to the building will vary depending on the area and how wiring is done in general there, areas where there are pole hung wires making the drops are pretty quick to add areas where the wires are underground are typically a little more complicated.
> Talking about religion, Christianity used to refer to this, then it lost its way.

This is still true, to an extent, in the Christian Orthodox world, Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite is still reguarded as one of the main “intellectual stars” (so to speak) of the Christian Orthodox thought. As for the “lost way” that you mention, I think that that change started in the West once the Reformartion took off and people wanted to “be sure” that they’ll get to live the eternal life. Here in Eastern Europe people do not think in absolute terms about life after death, as in nobody actually believes you can “earn” your way into Heaven, it all resides in God’s Will which is not possible for us to know. There’s also that New Testament parable of a guy asking Jesus at some point with whom of his wives will he be married in Heaven (the guy had been previously married to a different woman) and Jesus basically answered that that is a stupid question as nobody knows anything about Heaven.
Can good teaching be taught?
I actually believe this - he is fulfilling his vision of the stages in life.

Sometimes there are no smokes and mirrors.
My comment references the original source where that number came from, and criticises the methodology. You can read it yourself and see what the number really represents.
Every government should be addressing homelessness with "housing first" approaches.

https://endhomelessness.org/resource/housing-first/

Being homeless is HARD and does not make it any easier to address any of your other problems.

We should all be telling our elected officials we want a "housing first" approach.
Show HN: t-SNE in Go, with 2D and 3D MNIST visualizations
But it's impossible to return if the housing prices are so high.

That's the thing NIMBY's completely miss: NIMBY policies cause displacement of middle class and poor people by giving them no affordable housing in the area. YIMBY policies actually increase access for people wishing to return and enable indigenous people--even those who aren't rich--to stay in the area.
If I might ask a more general question about start-ups, particularly people who have some experience directly with start-ups.

Is the goal of the start-up always to aim for an exit by being bought by somebody bigger, or do most people start businesses with a view to longevity but then end up being given offers they can't refuse? Or is it impossible to generalise? I suspect it's the latter as is usually the way with complicated human systems.

I always wondered if the point of a start-up was to have a good idea, get a load of funding to flesh the idea out and then throw your bait into the water hoping some large company like Google or Apple comes along and snaps up your IP for an eye watering amount.

Any insight would be greatly appreciated. :-)
"This always confuses me a bit, why do we consider the first instants of the universe maximally ordered?"

Note what happens as the universe proceeds from that time period to its heat death; hydrogen is burned into higher elements until everything is cold iron floating in space. In this case, it might be best just to look at the available energy as a proxy for entropy; a universe full of hydrogen is a low-entropy universe that still has a lot of useful energy that can be extracted, whereas in the heat death of the universe, there's nothing left. No fusion can be done. No fission can be done. No chemical energy floating around that you can use. Just balls of iron in maximally thermalized environments, all maxed out in entropy.

As I've occasionally said in other contexts, right now the universe is young and awash in energy in many forms; our energy problem is a difficulty in figuring out the right way to metaphorically cup our hands and capture it all in the ways we want to use it. We're literally billions of years away from an actual lack of energy, because the universe started out with a lot of it.
No chacha20 support.. Only 128-bit encryption in personal mode..
Kinda ignorant.
"Does wpa3 support leaving wpa2 on?"

Yes, there are additional modes "WPA3 Personal Transitional" and "WPA3 Enterprise Transitional" which allow WPA2 on the same SSID and relax some of the WPA3 requirements like PMF.
Ha, that’s a good point! I drove from Paris to Bordeaux a few months ago and was blown away by the quality of the French interstate—it was perfectly smooth, zero potholes, impeccable lines and signage. Of course it had the most expensive tolls I’ve ever heard of, but as an American, it made me think about whether higher tolls would be worth it, if we could be sure the money would actually go into better infrastructure.

Anyway, I bet a similar bed-in-bus system on that French highway wouldn’t require this bump-cancellation tech, so you make a good point, at least from a technical standpoint. Politically, now that’s a different story ...
A year later, Equifax has faced little fallout from losing data
I once clicked on a video of Ben Shapiro speaking at a college campus. Now I see Ben Shapiro videos nearly every time I go on YouTube.
You’re right, trademark infringement just what I should’ve written.

It’s probably fine legally. They’re showing new NOAA weather data, so calling it a “NOAA weather“ or “NOAA Radar” is correct, just misleading.
We have 1.5 months off (paid). I never work past 5pm and most days not past 4pm (4 is when I get the kinds from school).

I could probably make 50-100% more somewhere else but I’d likely be working much more. What’s the hourly pay difference?
It actually hit 2.5% in 1953 under Truman.

Since then the second lowest point was 3.4% in 1969.

There was one month at 3.8% in 2000.

https://arc-anglerfish-washpost-prod-washpost.s3.amazonaws.c...
The final state is when every human on Earth is an Amazon employee, going through life with the computer strapped to their arm, telling them what to do next, awarding points for compliance, and electrical jolts when you don’t.
> I have never been concerned with tracking and no one has scammed me, broken into any account, knocked on my door, or tried to kill me yet.

Is this a challenge?
Routine Is the Key to True Creativity
It doesn't need to be a catch 22. Housing first. Which is, perhaps ironically what the LambdaSchool program in the top-voted comment does. Which is great. There is no reason government funds on addressing homelessness for people who aren't developers can't do the same.

https://endhomelessness.org/resource/housing-first/
Actually, he was addressing the unbelief in a resurrection by the sect of the Sadducees, as well as the simplistic idea underlying their question that life after death will be a direct translation of life before. The Sadducees were basically trying to make a clever intellectual trap.
The judicary is independent from the government. That's why inspite of the current ruling party BJP being so outspokennly against LGBT, it got legalized. Thanks to the judicary department.
Google fiber is in San Francisco. Not sure why you say google never did that.
Didn't say I was.

As a customer i still don't like it,even if other customers do. Much like how I don't like fastfood restaurants serving unhealthy food,even though customers like it.
Is there something like Google I can pay for with money instead of privacy?
I've been trying to be less hypocritical about saying "if you're not paying you're the product". In light of that, I pay for an email provider. I pay for a few newspapers. I pay Google for a few things; drive, and their directions API. After doing this for the last year or so I'm realizing how ridiculous it was that I ever worried about signing up for stuff when it's five bucks a month - for most people on HN I suspect that's utterly unnoticeable.

But I have to admit, Google's search is pretty nice, and I've never found a substitute. I just hate the tracking and ads. Mostly the tracking, though.

Is there a company I can pay for Google-quality search so they make money off of that instead of by selling my info to advertisers? Barring that, is there some other way of doing this that's a more sustainable business model? Or hell, maybe a self-hosted search engine, though I doubt that's feasible... Every time I try Duckduckgo I find myself coming back to Google.
There are things like cost of living and social security nets that account for the difference, but even then there's still a gap, albeit smaller. It seems that you do have more purchasing power in the US than in Europe, if you're college- or PhD-educated.

On the flip side: I know a few people who turned down opportunities to go work in the US, or who went there and came back to Europe after a few years. Having not worked outside Europe, I'm always curious about discussing the various pros and cons, and although the pros were fairly obvious (good weather all year long, astronomical salary, etc.), one of the cons listed was invariably "I have to live in the US". Exactly why this was a con changed from person to person, but it was always there, and couldn't be accounted to long distance since countries like Japan or Singapore were fine.

I'm going to hazard a guess and say that there's something intangible (which could probably be best ascribed to 'quality of life', as vague as it sounds) that makes very competent people stay in or go back to Europe, and this limits the brain drain somewhat and maintains competition for lower wages on this side of the Atlantic.
>forgot to mention - I had lots of stuff that was WEP only.

Such as? You had to go out of your way to find devices that both had wifi and were only WEP capable in the early 2000s.
Two criticisms: one old tweet (edit: parent added extra tweets after I posted this -- and... I can't find them when I do equivalent searches anywhere near the top of the page. ilamont appears to have some kind of axe to grind here) doesn't carry much weight. A current search for "ocean science" on news.google.com in fact looks pretty much like what you'd expect.

Secondly: sorry, what exactly is wrong with a sensationalized headline about interesting content? Some of those animals were, in fact, "big as hell", and it's worth covering in popular media. This appears to be the article in that screenshot:

https://gizmodo.com/holy-shit-these-triassic-ocean-reptiles-...

And it's a good article! It's a writeup of this paper, and it even links to it:

https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal...

So... what's your criticism here, exactly? That Google put a good story up on their front page even though it had "shit" in the title?
There are exceptions everywhere.

That case is really odd. I read the article about it. It’s really questionable how it got that high up in the App Store, and it’s from a developer who has ripped off other peoples apps and done questionable things in the past.

It wouldn’t surprise me if the developer had used shady tactics to “buy“ a lot of copies of the app to push it up the rankings so that they could start to lure in real users.

More than anything it just looks like Apple was asleep at the wheel with a sketchy developer.
Why would you use binary code when Go compiles so fast?
That's household income, not wages, and not comparing like age groups across time (because of population aging.) So it doesn't support the above claim about real wages for those born in 1990 vs. their parents being true when shifted from mean to median.

Even leaving aside that outside of abject, starvation-level poverty, relative deprivation is a bigger contributor to disutility than absolute deprivation, such that everyone getting richer in absolute terms but the already rich getting rich faster would actually be a bad thing even if true.
Oh no, more evil political hacking! Placing an industry PR article into a newspaper of note is totally fine btw.

http://m.faz.net/aktuell/feuilleton/medien/eu-and-copyright-...
Thanks for feedback, I agree about T, testing and Promise rejection. I should improve README and API to fix this.