skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> and no-one at my institution cared whether I chose to do it or not

Are you speaking as a grad student, or faculty? Because if you don't review, sit on an organizing committee, or otherwise participate in the academic process in your field, you're not going to make it very far in your career. Our disciplines are smaller than you think, and people take notice, especially in your own department. Are you sure you don't have a reputation?
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How does that work? I had no idea you can map a combination to a key.
> Nor is it clear how you would build such a system (how do you quantify a "bad hire" or "good hire" in such a way that isn't lost in the noise?).

Sounds like a good interview question.
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From an advertiser analysis of both wings, it seems like the only thing both liberal-biased and conservative-biased television news consumers can agree on is discreetly mail-ordered boner pills.

I can't stomach too much of either CNN or Fox News. I can take just a bit more of MSNBC. But I really miss unbiased, fact-based journalism, without all the relentless subtext and agenda-pushing, without the editorializing. But I'm also not willing to pay for it, so I really can't blame anyone else for its absence.

That doesn't mean I can't complain about all the blatant, rampant editorial bias. It is polarizing the audience, likely by design, so as to better target the advertisements that pay for it all. Echo chambers are great for advertising niche products to niche audiences.
Furber's lab built an interesting extension on SDM with N-of-M rank codes http://apt.cs.manchester.ac.uk/ftp/pub/apt/papers/sbf_TNN07_...
It's not really a crapshoot: It's a process with relatively few false positives and a fair number of false negatives. You and your "more-talented" friends are likely all above bar by some perspective on it, and the process let a subset of those through. It's imperfect (the number of false negatives is obviously higher than desirable), but that doesn't mean it's random.
The contortion required to get your pinkie up to escape versus just pressing caps lock is pretty significant. Some people say that they get “vim pinkie” RSI as a result of making that awkward movement, the same as Emacs pinkie on Ctrl in the bottom left.
> I ALSO think SOMEONE should come up with a "financial ID." Instead of signing into banking sites with "Facebook" or "Google" each one has its own unique login, password, security questions, validation. One Financial ID, isolated from Social IDs could drastically cut down on phishing, hacking etc. Smaller institutions would not be running their own Identity/Trust silos in isolation. Resources to build trust over who is who could be shared. Intuit has something like that for their services, but it really needs to be a Chase/WF/BoA effort like Zelle. "Sign in with your Pony ID"

We do have those in (some parts of) Europe. BankID in Sweden comes to mind.
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The year off isn’t the fluffy unicorn bit. The fluffy unicorn bit is that you think your choices should have no consequences.

If you want to take a decade off work, you certainly have that right. But that doesn’t mean employers should pretend that you have an extra decade of experience, just as your choice to forgo a degree doesn’t mean an employer should pretend you earned a doctorate.
GRASP (object-oriented design)
Most of those answers boil down to 'because they are more desirable', is there any specific one you think nails the answer?
Yet another example that not using an "ad blocker" is a bad idea.
Maybe you spent so much time trying to create an environment, you forgot to make friends?

That said, modern generations are more about going out and doing things in short social engagements. People 'feel' very busy, and the idea of an overnight stay may be too much commitment for someone that doesn't feel they have a strong friendship with you.
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For the ultra-private, we've made it possible for you to add people without actually sharing access to your contact list — just choose the 'add manually' option when adding a friend, and enter anything you want for their name/phone number. The app will still work as a single-player option.

There's only one feature you'll miss in this case. You just won't be able to share availability with someone unless they log in with the same phone number as what you've got stored in your contacts. This is to ensure that only friends you add are able to see your availability.
Found this on the SOLID principles wiki page, and I thought it would be interesting to share.
From the article:

> I'm referring to passwordless solutions that involves things like QR codes, pictorial representations, 3rd party mobile apps, dedicated hardware devices or "magic" links sent via email.

I'm not entirely sure the argument holds for the magic links sent via email. To me, those feel like lower friction that entering a password. Because all of a sudden, users don't have to remember their password.

For any company considering this, I'd suggest looking at how often the 'forgot my password please send me an email' feature is used. I know that, before I had a password manager, there were accounts where I simply never remembered my password. I had to use them like once every month, and it was easier to just get the password reset link.

Now consider how much easier a 'click here and be logged in' link is than a password reset system. This only really gives friction for those few people who aren't always connected to their e-mail system.
On account creation, this system is even better. All a user needs to enter is their e-mail address. No more needing to enter a password (twice!). No more dealing with password requirements.

"magic" e-mail links feel like they really could be a password killer in terms of lower friction.

However, it isn't clear at all that "magic" e-mail links are more secure than passwords. I'd guess that, given enough adoption, they'd develop some issues.
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I just checked - I'm actually using my left ring finger instead of my pinkie for some reason.
Who called 1688 a “Glorious Revolution”? (2016)
>Somehow he was allowed to board the flight to Moscow with a revoked passport

Your passport doesn't magically cease to work after someone somewhere says it's been revoked.
I pick the languages based on the platform stack I have to use and not the other way around.

Basically the first class languages on a given platform, or having official bindings for a specific set of libraries that must be used.

My experience has proven it is the best path for lowest attrition.

Every time I decided to do otherwise I repented later on.
"Popper was kind of an egocentric jerk."

Oh, the staggering irony of responding to the charge that philosophers don't produce anything worthwhile with an ad hominem. Res ipsa loquitur.
What utter rubbish. This type of paper has no place in a professional environment.
People aren't good at memorizing long lists of things, so just requiring long passwords isn't sufficient unless you are willing to also allow everyone to use the same password everywhere, and that's worse than the single point of failure problem than password managers because that's a distributed point of failure (just one breach of any site/application that you use; your security there is only as good as the weakest link).
Not really, I used ^C as an alternative to Esc for a while. Sadly, ^C isn't entirely the same as pressing Esc or ^] .
> the contemporary idea of work having to be the end-all to one’s identity, purpose and meaning in life.

This is something that bothers me a lot. The default answer to any question about who we are is something like "Ohh, I'm a $profession, I work for $company."

I suppose it's an easy ice breaker, but it is so rarely interesting or relevant.

I like riding BMX and Mountain Bikes, being outdoors, building stuff, and have some interest in open source/free culture. Those things are only at best tangentially related to my actual career in IT.
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"‘SpiNNaker’ machine is capable of completing more than 200 million million actions per second, with each of its chips having 100 million moving parts."

Could someone elaborate? I am probably missing something as I hadn't heard of moving parts on a solid-state device?
Yes, Apple is good at keeping their web stack good enough for "regular" web browsing but not feature full enough to compete with their native toolkits. And of course, doesn't allow alternative implementations of the web stack on their platform...
I quite like Angular, it's a bit lite Django with batteries included.
Very organized, TypeScript(!), reusable components, easy to write tests, create models, call Rest end-points for data, routing, make lazy loaded modules, scss and so on. Documentation is superb.
It took me only a few days to learn and become productive.

I tried React but it felt very incomplete and to get things done beyond the basic tutorial I had to go all over blogs, articles and forums to find instructions (often incomplete or out-of-date).
Still it required a complicated process to get data from a SpringBoot server (I was told I need to add Redux, then some other http library for the actual calls. Then try to tie everything together... well, I gave up.)

That was a year ago and I'm sure it's better now, but Angular at that time was very mature compared to the hackish React.
It's about 100B neurons in a human brain [0], but neurons are also much slower. Individual neurons run at under 200Hz [1], which is probably a half dozen orders of magnitude lower than these processors are running at. Maybe it balances out?

[0] https://www.verywellmind.com/how-many-neurons-are-in-the-bra...
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neural_oscillation
> Hartmann argues that experimenting on sonic black holes may indeed shed light on real ones because there might be a “common cause” underlying their similar mathematics. In the same way, yellow fingers and heart disease are both caused by smoking, and detecting one can be evidence of the other.

That seems like a terrible way to make this point. Honestly it practically argues against it.
Here's just guessing:

- Most of the tools by Sysinternals, eg. ProcessExplorer, ProcessMonitor

- Tools by Nirsoft, eg. TCPView, GDIView, HeapMemView etc.

- Microsoft's own tools eg. WinDbg, System Profiler, all the snap-ins for MMC

- Tools for looking at system components related to COM/OLE

That's just guessing, but I find I respect Windows more and more the more I learn about it.

I recommend reading the Windows Internals books because it shows the amount of work that has gone into things that are overlooked often eg. NTFS (which is miles better than Apple's new APFS, which seems to get a lot of praise for unknown reasons).

You can find out a lot of what is happening under the hood with Sysinternal's tools, including IPC which would be far harder to trace under Linux I believe.
>A modern consumer CPU has over 500m transistors

Try 10 billion

https://venturebeat.com/2018/10/30/apple-announces-a12x-with...
When searching use site:.edu for medical research.

From the experience of having to go through huge medical situations for my son and younger sister (Both passed away from cancer), a niece with extremely aggressive MS you need more then a few minute conversation with a doctor.

Doctors are amazing and great but you yourself have to be your own expert. Once you start having more then one doctor you need to not make assumptions. Also make sure you have someone else with you at the doctor meetings. I can't tell you how many times someone I trusted caught something we missed or remembered the doctor conversation better then I did.

a) NEVER assume that the doctor remembers every detail or even major issues about your case.

b) NEVER assume that that doctors talk to each other about your case (Because they never do except when it is time to make a decision and someone will always just defer to the other).

Treat each doctor like they are a silo of expertise and that you make sure you ALWAYS communicate what the other doctors have told you. They only have a few minutes so make sure you have things written down and ready to share. Doctor A said this and Doctor B said this .... Pro-Tip - NEVER tell any doctors diagnosis from other doctors unless they specifically ask you. You might lead them in their thinking and they go down the wrong path and miss something.

c) NEVER assume that they know everything. They don't, but they really do try to be the most informed they can be.

So it is okay to have questions about research or treatments they you have learned about. Never make a suggestion or a diagnosis about yourself it puts the doctors into a bad mood or defensive.

d) Find one of the doctors or Nurse Practitioners (these nurses really normally run the whole show in the office on behalf of the doctor) and tell them you need someone to help you if you have a question.

I have found that when things are very serious that someone will have compassion and go the extra mile for you. Because when you or a loved one are sick you can make a lot of emotional decisions that aren't beneficial. Have someone that you can talk things through so you can make sure your thinking through the facts correctly. They don't need to worry about making decision just to help fact check you or correct something medically that you messed up. Just don't over whelm them with multiple of questions limit it to just a few and something that doesn't take a lot of time.

Praying and hoping that something new will cure you soon.
> Typically the only parents that have any control over their child's "opportunities and levels of education..." are those in the uppermost classes.

I'm not in "the uppermost classes". I'm probably at the 80% of household income and went to a state school.

I put my son in a fantastic school in a well-off neighborhood rather than the default assigned school (my mom drives him there and I pay a babysitter/nanny to drive him back). Most of the kids that can read a little bit before entering kindergarten.

He goes to various sports camps and activities classes. His babysitter (more like a part-time nanny) helps teach him to read. We'll probably pay for music lessons and various tutoring later. I also taught my son addition and subtraction of small numbers before entering kindergarten. And we've done a variety of activities to help him learn about science, money, and more.
The Saudis are limited partners in the fund, so they don't really have any control over the investments. Investment decisions are left up to the general partner, Softbank. Once the fund reaches maturity and the profits are distributed, the Saudis would get paid (they would get close to 45% of the fund earnings) in cash or shares in the portfolio companies.
The Ancient Mesoamerican City That Spawned Copies of Itself
Higher-order functions are extremely constrained given that lambdas boil down to fixed interfaces, and there's very few tools for e.g. partial application and converting between function types. A lot of that is probably due to primitive variants and checked exceptions causing genericity to be extremely limited, so they capped the utility of lambdas in their design.
YIKES.

I pulled the link, anyone curious can figure out how to reach artchain dot info on their own time.
> qualified for the highest leadership duties

The problem is that it's hard to stay lazy when everyone wants you to make more decisions and you're not clever enough to event an AI to do it for you.
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> Was anyone of the US Government criminally charged for this whole thing or they only bothered to charge the guy who exposed the crime?

For the same reason no one was charged for hiroshima or nagasaki. Or the illegal iraq war. It was sanctioned by the government.

For there to be criminal charges, someone in the government has to be willing to prosecute. Good luck with that.
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Flickr to delete millions of photos as it reduces allowance for free users
I'm sure at the very least some of the sorts are incorrect and will brick your browser tab from an infinite loop or something.
There are plenty of people who are very technically minded that have absolutely zero interest in configuring their computer.

I'm not outraged by it. I just feel bad for the talented people at microsoft who sweat over the OS, only to have somebody glue-gun a bunch of trash to the front at the last minute.
Look, I don't want to get all in the weeds here because it would complicate things unnecessarily, but if it's really that simple to you then you should know that this argument contains a logical falacy:

Argumentum ad consequentiam or appeal to consequences.

Once you let go of thinking that truth is knowable you'll realize that there is some faith that you have.

It's not in science per-se; but it might be faith that you exist. That you can reasonably conceive of thoughts. That those thoughts order the world and that the world that you perceive is a representation not unduly clouded. That the actions of your being are guided by your own will.

Truth might not be knowable in an absolute sense, but you can use these little starting points of faith then come to appreciate that there is a truth continuum and science is a good approach to discovering knowledge.

Philosophy seems so stupid before you start learning it, but it really is beautiful and I regret not being able to pour over it more.
The never-ending user experience
As a parent, I would like to see a better offering of cloud backup for photos and videos. The space on newer IPhones keeps growing with each release. I use something like backblaze on a central computer at $5 a month for unlimited backup. I would like to see Apple compete a little more on this end.
You could, but I don't think it's fair. Shouldn't it be: If women and men (or any other classification) are indeed biologically identical in job preference, willingness to work in the first place, and aptitude, the quota in each job should reflect the basis distribution?

Just assuming that all of these are the equal might hide the actual problem we want to fix. Or might point to asymmetries we might not want to fix.

Of course, the 50/50 gender parity has also a different motivation, trying to address the culturally influenced preference. The argument goes like this: Because of historical reasons, some professions are male dominated. Girls are not interested in these professions because female role models are missing. So if we force the promotion of female role models, this historically created bias will vanish.
I went to a code jam with some of these guys (as part of the Human Brain Project), the architecture is pretty interesting but it's lots and lots of little ARM (v6?) processors on a grid interconnect, probably not too far from Xeon Phi, even if it aims for neural like computation more so that a Phi.
Shortly after being switched on, researchers where found telling SpiNNaker exactly what it could do with the lifetime supply of chocolate.
From the episode "The Siege of AR-558." Well done episode, if kind of on the nose.

http://memory-alpha.wikia.com/wiki/The_Siege_of_AR-558_(epis...
I'd hope they at least apply ROT13.
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speaking of misspresentation, i never said youre "asked" a pure algorithm question only that the timely implementation is a necessary component of succeeding

thanks for explaining how coding interviews work to me thou, really had no idea based on the 200 i've administered in recent years or dozens taken in my career.
The load is either 0V or Vcc. Which is 0 and 5V and 0 and 12V and you can easily guess everything else.

Also look here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Low-power_electronics

Energy dissipated by change of voltage in the capacitor is E=CU^2/2.

Now I stop.
Article says they’re using it to model specific parts of the brain rather than the whole thing for this reason. Also says they plan to add a lot more in future but still only up to mouse-brain territory.
> What if the password manager were in charge of logging you in _directly_, through some new protocol between browsers and PW managers?

FYI, this is exactly what WebAuthn is. The standard was just finalized in August. All we need now is some implementations.
>I highly recommend Object Oriented Software Construction.

I do, too. I had read most of the book [1] some years ago. It is really good. But readers should know that they need to be ready to put in enough time to read, understand and digest it, not just because it is a thick book, although it is that, but because, true to Bertrand Meyer's style, it is detailed, systematic, thorough, etc. It's not one of those books where you can read it in a few days and then start applying its stuff to your work, nor is it for casual programmers who are only into the field to make some quick bucks.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Object-Oriented_Software_Const...

BTW, the book may have an Easter egg in it.
Yeah, I've noticed the same. There's also a lot of anti-biology from my left-wing friends.

The problem is also compounded by the fact that Wikipedia discourages primary sources in favor of shoddy reporting. It makes sense to reject self published scientific articles in favor of journal-published articles. But more often than not, modern media outlets just seem like a vector for adding political bias and inaccuracies by reporting on things they don't really understand.
> I agree with your skepticism, but it's important not to fall back on the other end : i.e., "I know there's no difference between men and women therefore the policies are wrong !"

An awful lot of women have negative things to say about that situation, so maybe I should just quote them?

I don't think I am falling back on the "other side" here. I'm pointing out that the effectiveness of these measures seems quite low according to the data. It's odd to assume that the entire effect is therefore determined uniquely by "women's choice." Is there evidence of that?

It's one thing to say, "Keep an open mind." It's another to hedge off what's at least an equally likely scenario from discussion at all, which with the flood of downvotes I'm getting certainly seems like what's happening to me
Turning "something you know" into "something you have"... or anyone else can have too.