skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Do you mean the online to offline issue? It's a pretty big thing right now because it's actually two issues: (1) is being more efficient with ad buying, and (2) is knowing whether your online ads are actually getting people to come in and buy stuff.

Hypothetically, let's say current ROI is $1.10 for every $1 spent. We stop spending for people who already bought a diamond. Our ROI might go up to $1.12 for every $1 spent. That means the ability to avoid targeting people who already bought a ring is worth $0.02 for every $1 we spend. A company comes and says "for $0.01 on every dollar, we'll give you that ability". Of course you'd take it.

That's more or less what's happening now.

> I've used a shopping cart product for about 6 years, I still get ads for their company on my phone. No offline to online issue there and they still dont solve it.

Yeah you're hitting on another theme of modern day digital advertising. Our collection of data far outstrips our ability to actually act on it. So you'll commonly find situations where you'd assume they could know based on the data they probably collected, but for some reason they don't act on it.
/r/titlegore

Took me a while to decypher that it meant "Android creator's startup Essential Products cuts about 30% of staff"
Yes. If you are using ANY stimulants, stop (obviously talk to your doctor if they're prescription). They can mess with your sleep beyond just keeping you awake at bed time.
I am in a pretty advanced stage of training, so I don't think it's an adaptation problem. I guess some people are like me, some aren't (shrug).
It’s not 100% clear from the documentation but it appears the card details have to be keyed in and there’s no voice recognition mode.

It would be great to hear a demo of what <Pay> sounds like, particularly the error handling.

I absolutely get the benefit of insulating your agents from the billing data. Not so keen on an abrupt switch to touch-tone inputs during a call though.
They may also worry you don't want to put in the late nights and long hours they want due to perhaps family obligations

Unless there's something broken, a system down, or a critical issue that needs to be fixed yesterday, I got news for you: I ain't staying late either.

I'm 32 with a dog and a highly opinionated cat. Hire me, or don't. Plenty of other companies out there that respect work life balance and don't insist on the awful notion of "well you don't have anyone waiting on you to get home anyway, why do you care?" (of course I'm deliberately phrasing that awfully, but let's be honest with ourselves here).
My bank hasn’t heard of encryption and thinks security questions + SMS 2FA are cutting edge. What the hell supermarket is this?

Closest thing is UPS mailing me a PIN to authenticate the address for the My Choice portal.
Because you know before you partake of the service what the expectations and the normed obligations are, and if you defect by availing yourself of the service and not tipping, you're just harming the worker.
Video games and anywhere you need a rigid body collision simulation. So TV & film visual effects is another common use.
Our theories of physics are time reversible. If you play a movie of an egg breaking backwards, it's a perfectly physically possible thing. It's just super unlikely. If you had perfect knowledge of the state of the egg, you could simulate it backwards to get the egg.

If information can be destroyed, physics are no longer reversible. Playing things in reverse would give you events that occur for no reason. This is hugely important not just for particle physics, but also thermodynamics.
After living in Michigan for a while, I've learned that just because you use EST does not mean you're I'm the East coast.
Fed Plans to Continue Raising Rates, Despite Trump’s Ire
The predominance of matter over antimatter I thought was explained by symmetry breaking at the ultra extreme conditions of early universe? Would there be a twin universe for other broken symmetries?
I am torn about using valuation to rank companies. Valuation is is a vanity metric. Its just a number that VCs use to trade their capital, not the true worth of a company. You could raise $1 million from your rich uncle claiming to hold 0.1% of company and claim a $1B valuation. But then the question is, what do you use as the true worth of a company?
as long as they are comfortable with their choices when things go wrong

Right, yet it seems like that often isn't the case. See hurricanes & NFIP/FEMA, see wildfires & the USFS.

In each case, with residents who just want to do their own thing and ignore things like building codes & defensible space.
Great question. One of the things we're trying to do is encrypt everything in a way that requires multiple hacks to actually decrypt the content. We're keeping the encrypted content on our databases, but using multiple private keys (one tied to the user, one stored in a separate vault). Journal employees cannot decrypt a user's data without unlocking a vault on our end, and our auth store.
This is great, and it solves a problem of having all your public and semi-public information in one place, under one search interface.

But, of course, it effectively shares all this info with the search service, just a different search service.

I still hope that a similar but self-hosted tool emerges that would let you unite your public and private information, without having to share the latter with anyone. (A business model for such a tool could be support for corporate on-premises installations; not huge but at least not pure open-source contributors' goodwill.)
> only a couple hackathons a year

Over one hackathon a year sounds like overkill to me, and I've never heard of a company with over two of them (not saying they don't exist of course)
The iOS app will launch with that feature very soon =)
I'm pretty sure the Pixel 2 had hardware keystore security on par with an iPhone 6/7, which is what that suggests.
Thanks, then I'll bring my own waiter.
Because not so long ago, all the tech luminaries were asking "why are you still using paper ballots that take hours to count and are prone to error (both on the part of the voter and the counter)?"

Might have even been as recently as the "hanging chad" debacle in the Bush/Gore recount.
Bill Gates' plan for climate change
I understand why any alcohol before sleep is bad, so I am drinking less nightcaps. I have a better idea of how to handle inter-continental travel, trying to use less screens before sleep, etc. It is a work in progress for me also.
This actually shows how bad the odds are and should discourage anyone from starting or joining a startup...
When I waited in college this sort of thing happened all the time, but that's kinda beside the point. I guess to me it's weird that tips convey a sense of whether someone "deserves" their wage, whereas there's nothing really dictating why a waiter "deserves" their money more than the cashier at a grocery store. Minimum wage jobs are minimum wage jobs, so is there a particular reason for the custom of tipping (beyond the usual "tipping helps a subset of people make more than minimum wage").
Freedom of Expression.

Some American's think their interpretation of Free Speech is the only correct one and if you don't follow it then you have no freedom of speech.
The rsync algorithm.

There is a theorem that it is impossible in general to remotely compare two files with less network traffic than it requires to simply send one file over the wire. But rsync does it. How? By accepting a theoretical but unlikely possibility of coming up with the wrong answer.

What rsync does is compare hashes of ranges of stuff. If the hash comes out the same, the two are assumed to be identical with no further investigation. It is possible that different files will be thought identical. But it is unlikely that any two hashes ever generated by rsync have accidentally been the same when the underlying files were different.

(I do have to say "accidentally" because rsync uses MD5 as a hashing algorithm, and people have deliberately created collisions in MD5.)
"The wealthy" generally structure their income to avoid it being "income", or hide it in jurisdictions the US can't see, or any of dozens to hundreds of other tricks to make sure they don't pay anything resembling their share.

This is a game as old as the US income tax itself; the 16th Amendment wasn't passed to legalize income taxes (they were already legal), but to make sure Congress could tax income "from whatever source derived", since wealthy people were restructuring their income streams to try to avoid taxation.

They still do that today.
Are Consumers Worried Enough to Buy a Personal Computer Server?
It never terminates with probability 0.
I'd argue that knowing that a note is a "C" is equivalent to knowing that a color is "dark green" without needing to reference a box of crayons.
Judge planets by their size do you?
If you're able to work on your own schedule it definitely works. I'm most productive in the morning and at night so I like to work from 7am to about 2-3pm. Then I'll take a nap from 3:30-6:30, and work from 7p to 1 or 2 am and go to sleep again.

I'm able to be very productive on this schedule but obviously not everyone is able to follow a schedule like this.
Fabric meaning that the two things (space and time) are not separate entities. Read some of the cool thought experiments underlying special relativity and you will see how the two are "woven" together :)
https://cloud.google.com/shielded-vm/ ?
This is because of hardware-based encryption. It is physically impossible to retrieve a good deal of data without access to keys in one of your devices’ enclaves.
Cool. Now I'm tempted to have a background process run ever so often to add the current weather to my prompt.
Yes, learning programming because that's what you do on the learning-programming-machine is a great way to convince people that learning programming is a waste of time.

You learn programming so you can do the things you want to do. Handicapping the device handicaps the whole project.

On the other hand, if your machine is able to run the programs you write, then it isn't a single-purpose device.
Consider hiring a resume writer. The guy I hired was older, and had some very specific techniques to combat ageism (I'm still pretty young, but was good to learn about them).
Actually very true, please feel free not to post your email and I will reach out to you =). Also, we have a signup list on our landing page.
I've always been curious about the mechanics of the FCC frequency spectrum auctions. I know you can view the results on the FCC site below but I'm not sure how to bid and view ongoing auctions:
https://www.fcc.gov/round-results-auctions-held-july-2005-pr...

Anyone care to shed some light?
This is a key point.

The cognitive distance between power on and "10 print" is nothing.

The cognitive distance between all modern ways to teach programming is vast.
I don't understand. Can you describe the hole? It seems preferable to treat foo@gmail.com, fo.o@gmail.com, and foo+bar@gmail.com as different addresses.
Peterson is right, just look at all the arrests!
https://www.reddit.com/r/ArrestedCanadaBillC16/
> They are employees of the hotel (or third party contractor) to do work in a hotel. They are paid money for that.

That’s not any different than pizza delivery drivers, waiters, or car wash employees.

In any case, yeah, tipping your housekeeper is a common thing. Maybe not as common as I thought.
It took billions of years before complexity started. We don't even know if that is a long time or a short time. We may be among the first.
Another challenge might be how much AI has changed in the past 35 years. In 1983, AI meant expert systems, small neural nets, phrase-structured NLP, symbolic reasoning, and a lot of custom models that embedded knowledge into heuristic-driven unstructured functions, like Minsky's Society of Mind.

The challenge now may be how to present your skills in ways that convinces others that they're up-to-date or relevant. I can definitely see why many employers might be wary of a PhD with a 35 year old history working in R&D who might have drifted away from the cutting edge (i.e. published research).

Obviously if you can emphasize relevant domain expertise (a major advantage of being experienced), you may be able to turn your liability into an asset. I know military and intel contractors value domain experience much more than do startups. Sell yourself as a principal scientist with "the right stuff". Large corporations buy into that.
PresentCardScroller: A pretty card scrolling UI in Swift
I'm down for building such a tool. Anyone else?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16671944

^ See above for relaxation techniques. It's just a ripoff from yoga.

• Read book before bed, not computer/phone.

• Walk

• Keep room COMPLETELY dark and quiet

• Don't eat heavy a few hours before bed

• Walk, bike, or workout
The surprising endurance of the eReader
No worries, we're using different numbers.

A16Z said that there are 2000 startups worth funding every year. Side note, A16Z only talks to about 1000 of them due to focus areas and competitive overlap.

Based on the 19 unicorns that YC has unearthed over the past decade, we can really only say that roughly 2 unicorns are born every year, and 2 megaunicorns born every 5 or so years.

They payoff is immense for finding one, but the chance that you keep at least all 150k is probably worse than your roulette odds, not to mention time invested and emotional capital.
What does this have to do with first.last@gmail.com being the same as firstlast@gmail.com? IMO the correct thing to do is treat the local part of the email address to be opaque.
Spectrum auctions have a really neat theoretical history. They're rooted in a 1959 paper by one of the pioneers of regulatory economics, Ronald Coase: https://www.chapman.edu/ESI/wp/Porter-Smith-Hazlett-RadioSpe.... Today, spectrum auctions are the go-to spectrum allocation tool in not just the U.S., but most of Europe as well.
When I was running kids workshops I created this site so kids could write scripts (accessible by pressing ESC) to manipulate a Minecraft-style and using it they could even build their own games:

http://webblocks.uk/
I'd second this advice if budget is the main driver. To add on to what you said, if you're on an engineering track, your first two years are more or less the same wherever you go anyway. And as an added bonus, if you didn't do exceptionally well in high school, getting good grades at community college can make it easier to transfer into a more competitive state school for your third and fourth years.
Vim: Squeezing the Text Editor’s Juice with More Features
Dandelion Seeds Fly Using ‘Impossible’ Method Never Before Seen in Nature
YEMV, but I am a consultant. Putting a bow on an engagement report is really not comparable to seeing your building occupied or watching your plane take off.
I have to point out that while their marketing copy claims that they want to know "as little as possible" about their customers, they have Segment's JavaScript tag on thehelm.com

Do you know what Segment does? It makes it easy to send data anywhere -> https://segment.com/catalog
You gotta do what works, yeah. Some people rig up stuff to make their tools work with others, others don't find that worth the effort; ultimately a personal call.
Lets go with that ;)
Notes are Base 12. A scale may be base 7.
I was very curious about this and so whipped up a quick poll to share with friends - feel free to fill it out if you feel so inclined (US only). https://goo.gl/forms/ppBBDCkgoeoFJ6tu1
Very exciting to know that this now exists under 1 interface. Will be very useful.
Keep warm list of people on Skype/Hangouts/whatever IM. I have got multiple IM clients running just to keep contact with people I have previously worked with, even some whom I haven't seen live for over 10 years now. There is a lot of occasional exchange of creative ideas, interesting links or just silly "how is it going at...?" out of boredom.
FOSDEM Decentralized Internet and Privacy – CfP
At first most if not all, but it might play a part in their long term goals. Hard to say though.
I think you're confusing purpose with functionality; they're not the same thing. Designing with a single purpose in mind determines the needed functionality; it does not limit it. Instead, the purpose supports the design decisions in relation to functionality.
The next sentences are:

Alan’s team found out that every encrypted message ended with the same string: “Heil Hitler” Aha! After changing the algorithm, the machine was to decoded in minutes rather than days!
It's so easy to fix:

Android Creator's Startup, Essential Products, Cuts About 30% of Staff
That's not a hole. Those are different email addresses according to the email standard.

How exactly would this attack even work that you have in mind? And wouldn't it even be easier to conduct this so-called attach on an email host that actually treats first.last@domain.com as a different email from firstlast@domain.com since it wouldn't even require the 'victim' to click anything in their email?

The right answer is for Apple to keep treating them as separate emails and refuse to give people access to accounts with different email addresses. It's that simple.
Good for you. As you correctly point out, there are lots of companies that will allow you to strike the work life balance you're looking for.
How's this different from Evernote? You keep saying "You ask journal, it'll find stuff for you" Can you get a little more technical? Is it just an indexed search on your notes/links?
> the tax burden on folks with low incomes just scraping by

Low income folks just scraping by don't pay taxes as it is -- at least not income taxes.
No.

When my dad gradutated high school in the mid 1970's, you could get a decent job with a high school diploma. Not having a HS diploma meant you were flipping burgers, but you could still find work. My uncle lived with my father (and mother) while working on his GED, which really didn't give him HS diploma status but was good enough to find slightly better work.

College basically meant you could make sure you had a steady salary for life and could definitely find work. You had much more than the minimum schooling.
T minus 100 – Copenhagen Suborbitals
We have a very intuitive sense of asking "what's happening right there at this time". It's a super simple question and it's how we want to understand black holes. Like, after it collapses, what happens to the stuff inside? What if there was a planet? Etc.

The question necessarily treats space and time as two seprate entities, which generally works fine. Relativity starts to break that question. Different inertial/non-inertial observers will get different answers. Not a huge problem for physics, because we can easily figure out the answer for each observer. But if it was super important to you what event happened first, you won't get a satisfying answer, unless the two events occur inside each other's light cones. Then there's no ambiguity.

So we get to black holes, they seriously break this question, the light cones are completely messed up.
Getting more popular ~2010 lures more 'big-dreamers' to flood into YC. It's the same thing as the Ivy League effect on universities where top talent chooses top universities which yield top science/business champions in a virtuous cycle. YC's actions to increase batch size, open a startup school are all going to have bigger "net" effect.

Timing-wise the web2.0 and then smartphone waves as business disruptors have their trace on the numbers as well as the prolongation of the market boom with increased venture money and the network effect of YC alumni.

Risks include a market correction, post-smartphone bets, applicants more apt to 'gaming' the YC acceptance process.

I would like more numbers on competition (other accelerators), overall startup market, and the YC batch size.
> I've been to the gym more simply because I can be bothered.

Conversely I can take 6.5 hours of sleep and do exercise, or sleep for 8 hours and not have time to exercise.

Self-help books are noticeably silent on which is better.
Imagine if the Equal Opportunity act was modified to forbid employers from discriminating based on college education credentials. Then imagine how employers and students would act differently. Employers would have to find other ways to determine if employees could do the jobs. Maybe elaborate tests or prior job experience. Most students would probably would stop going to college.
>Don't know the mathematical / cryptographical reason for it, if any.

I wonder if tptacek or any other crypto expert here can explain it. maybe there is some mathematical formula or principle behind the phenomenon I observed.
That's an argument for changing the income tax rules, not for adding a wealth tax.

In any case, a wealth tax would be easy to game too. There is a lot of room for loopholes in the definition of wealth, what kind of wealth should be taxed, what the tax brackets should be, what kinds of deductions are allowed, etc.
If you get a 403 error (as I do), here's the latest web archive capture: https://web.archive.org/web/20181017190008/https://www.super...
That's why you setup and alternate email in your google account. It also sends the same alert to your alternate.
Hmm, nice result. That makes me want to map letters onto primes in order of frequency. So "e" is 2, "t" is 3, etc., see: http://pi.math.cornell.edu/~mec/2003-2004/cryptography/subs/...
Knuth defines effectiveness as: "... all of the operations to be performed in the algorithm must be sufficiently basic that they can in principle be done exactly and in a finite length of time by a man using paper and pencil."

K-means and other heuristic algorithms fit that description.
Winter x should be before summer x, should be a smoother curve
Personally, I'd just get them an Apple II.

They're still plentiful and cheap to find on eBay, and it's exactly what you're looking for.

There are modern hardware upgrades you can find to use CF or SD cards in place of floppies, so old media won't be an issue, as well as modern ways to connect to an LCD screen, and even Ethernet cards if you want to go online.

And of course, the Apple II is supremely open and hackable, perfect for kids who want to have access to the entire computer.
It's not even a media thing. It's fact that Apple has always been more privacy-conscious than Google or Facebook. They didn't create the Secure Enclave for kicks, and they stand more to gain (financially) from inspecting your unencrypted data than your Enclave-encrypted data.
You could merge the two charts, to make it shorter )
It's hard to expect people who want to live small lives to pay for other people to have bigger lives

This is a beautiful short talking-point answer that glosses over a lot of awful.

The track record of American political movements dedicated to the principle you've articulated above is... appalling. Not even as a matter of subjective taste; as a matter of demonstrable historical record. The shocking state of rural Appalachia, which launched the "War on Poverty", was the result of generation after generation of people who voted to "live small lives" and "just "live their private country lives", and forgot that they weren't just making that choice for themselves as individuals -- they were also forcing that choice on their neighbors and their children, who got trapped in the resulting cycle of poverty.

I am perfectly comfortable telling you that you should not be allowed to vote your neighbors and children into that situation, and that they should have the right to interfere with your attempt to do so.