skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> “There was a famous guy in Italy who had what they called ‘Pinocchio syndrome,’” said Alice Flaherty, a joint associate professor of neurology and psychiatry at Harvard Medical School. “When he told a lie, he would have a seizure. He was crippled as a businessman.”
If you can find an aspect of frontend development even remotely analogous to integral calculus, LMK.
>if I were a parent, given the gravity of the responsibility, I'd be cautious at least.

I'm curious as to what this entails, because

>Exposing young people during significant portions of their waking hours to computers/screens is one of the widest-scale social experiments ever undertaken.

This is false. A kid in the year 2000 has a radically different childhood from a kid in 1950 (who had the kind of childhood that people opposing screentime seem to want), who in turn has a radically different childhood from a kid in 1850 (who was probably working in a coal mine or sweeping chimneys or something).

There is no way to be cautiously conservative because there is no default to default to. In fact, I find it a remarkable coincidence that out of humanity's 100,000 year history, the perfect childhood just happens to be the one that today's old people had. Rest assured that in 1950, there were just as many old people bemoaning their youth that didn't know the value of hard work and spent all their time watching movies.
A good step forward, although I wish they required explicit consent to continue. I.e., opt-in, not opt-out, for the renewal.
But human nature is Inertia. So humans should be striving for less Chaos.
Man the world you must live in where the option to be unemployed for months is a trivial thing for everyone involved.
2005: it is ridiculous to call a $350 GPU "midrange".
It's not even a matter of tiers. There are plenty of great candidates coming out of lower rated schools, although the hit rate is lower.

In general interviewers just have unrealistic expectations for entry level candidates. They forget how incompetent they were at the same age. Or they have ridiculous notions that everyone should know how to write a quicksort algorithm or whatever, when some students may have focused their studies on other (but equally challenging) topics.
> Theresa is determined to leave.

And rightly so, given the referendum outcome. However, she and the EU have a common incentive to kick the can down the road for quite a while and preserve some possibility (however small) of getting to something other than hard Brexit. It's not going to be over in 10 weeks.
From my reading of Brexit it appears that there are a lot of elites on both sides of the fight...

Just seems to me that one side of elites has co-opted the non-elites more effectively on this occasion.
Someones really really butthurt.
I really don't get the fascination for mechanical watches.

"engineering fun to appreciate"? Are you telling me you're thrilled to see a $4000 device (looking at the Jaeger Lecoultre) that will tell you the time (within a few seconds) if you remember to wind it up regularly?

I mean, you do you, by all means, but I don't get it.
Reasons to participate in Hash Code this year
Elm has a Debug.log function which takes a string and any value, prints "String: value" in the console, and then returns the value.
Cynically, curious how long you will end up staying. My guess is until your equity vests.
Ask HN: Would it be nice to know who upvoted you?
As HN currently works, you'll know neither who up- nor downvoted you. I overall agree about the downvotes. But I'd personally also really like to see who upvoted, and some of the best reasons of why you don't see your downvoters do not really also apply to upvoters.

So, would you be okay if I saw that you upvoted a comment of mine?

[Edit: Typos and formatting]
sounds like they need to accept more refugees
That's just the _urban_ homes.
A good portion of HN is people that got good at things before they were 15 and now lead comfortable lives thanks to that. Early specialization has its merits, unfortunately,
You're technically right, but I'm not sure it helps here; every step that took us from the EEC of 1972 to the modern EU was done with no UK referendum and required at most an ordinary majority in Parliament as far as I know. (Also, EU supporters rely quite heavily on the argument that the modern EU is basically the same as the original EEC, just refined, and that all of the subsequent changes were part of the original intention.)

Now, other member states did hold referendums on these changes, of course - and in some cases, their voting public ended up rejecting those changes. They went ahead anyway, usually with some tweaks to the language used to describe them but very few substantiative differences.
I don't think the pictures presented represent the current/full team. My team's picture on there is about 2 years old. We definitely have more than 2 people of color...
Seriously? That doesn't work in an entity who share the same revenue. Everyone lose.

They should rather hire the economist as their boss.
Woah, that ER diagram functionality reminds me of a tool that I tried a long time ago but which I had since forgotten. Back then the tool in question had too many issues and shortcomings, but they may have developed it sufficiently now.

https://pgmodeler.io/

Being told about Dbeaver and reminded of pgModeler right now is great because I am currently defining the tables for a project I am working on for a client, and as the number of tables grow jumping back and forth between the files that define each of them adds a still small but noticeable overhead. With a ER diagram tool I might be able to speed up a little part of the definition work.

Edit: Hmm, pgModeler might still not be such a great tool https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17693582
An app that tells you random s**t to do if you're bored
Science and Culture: Searching for the science behind art therapy
I think this depends greatly on the social group your teenager is in. A bunch of girls that write fanfics together are going to have very different social dynamics than a bunch of boys talking about 9gag (or whatever meme site 14 year-old boys like these days. Might just be Youtube actually).
InVision Teardown: Knowing Your Users Creates a Great Invitation UX
> The US had a huge number of hijackings in the late 60s through early 70s [1].

And very few after that (two in the 1980s, with a couple attempts in the 1989s and 1990s) because of the first round of airport security rules adopted immediately in the wake of those and the tightening permanently applied during the 1990 Gulf Crisis.

> The TSA doesn't deserve all the credit there as other post-9/11 security changes were implemented at the same time, but you can't just hand wave away their role in that unprecedented streak of safety.

It's not significantly different that the period before 9/11, so it's not clear they the TSA and other post-9/11 actions deserve any credit, and calling it an unprecedented streak of safety is hyperbolic.
Lego bricks are an example of a product that has the market advantages of popular with both children and adults (as parents, nostalgia) that is also a durable good[1]. Purchasing new bricks today is a lot easier to justify with the knowledge that can be used with the bricks purchased 20 years ago thanks to their durability and backwards compatibility. While planned obsolescence can be profitable, durability reduces sales friction.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Durable_good
What percentage of the population is urban these days?
He is likely a part of Three Six Mafia's entry in the list.

It is a pleasure, however, to see Canibus ranked among the top. That man is a true legend IMO.
Were these homes bought with cash or loans?

People don’t have to sell if they own it, but if they can’t make the payments, that would be like the 2008 USA financial crisis.
How do you differentiate discontinued product versus ones that are upgraded to a different model?
One child policy since 1979 https://wikipedia.org/wiki/One-child_policy
because more money = more nice things, and i want to eventually do whatever i want, and you need money to do that

doesn't mean i like my work less. it just means i want to be paid what i'm worth
Well... yeah? If I'd spent my teens obsessively reading romance novels instead of learning how to build software, then I would consider that 'too much' time because the end result is useless (excepting the very few people who become rich by writing bodice-rippers).
I worked at a competing toy store in the mid 90s also. It always brought me great joy that Beanie Babies ended up being a bad investment. We had to call the cops the day we got our shipment of Princess Diana bears. I'd say about 90% of our BB sales were to adult buyers speculating on huge returns.

Care to share what action figures you held onto? My guess is Star Wars reissue figures from the 20th anniversary theater releases. Maybe some early McFarlane toys? :)

Fun fact: The small toy store chain I worked for is the toy store that Arnold goes to in Jingle All The Way. I make sure to watch it every year for a little trip back in time.
Until we don't see a balance sheet and the acquisition price and terms we cannot know how healthy your business was.

Not saying you are not right but saying that you should disclose details to back up your claims. If you can't it is better to stay silent. Partial claims only generate doubts.
Scientists sue to protect Utah monument–and fossils that could rewrite history
According to [1], there were about 814 million urban residents in 2017. Assuming an increase upto 850 over 2018 (and it's probably lower than that, checking the historic increase), the average occupancy is closer to 3.4, which is more realistic.

[1] https://www.statista.com/statistics/278566/urban-and-rural-p...
On the Origin of Posers
Couldn't you ask the country representative? A more expensive way night be to get a stamp from the destination country authorities that confirms your dog has all the relevant vaccines (is the stamping doable via post?)
We probably just have different views of personal space. I don't like people in my private spaces; it is hard enough when I am there, and even worse when I am not.

It isn't about closeness to the person; I wouldn't be super comfortable with my best friend, my family, doesn't matter.
Not knowing BFS is not just ok, it's better for problem solving. You should not be training your brain to remember specific names of complex algorithms. You should be training your brain to think in primitives, in basic algorithms and data structures and be able to naturally get to BFS without knowing what it is when it fits the problem well. At least if you want to be a programmer and not a master of interviews. Don't take pride in knowing terminology. Terminology comes naturally after working for some time in the domain.
Which I have in place for any email from my mom with a forward in the subject line. It helps maintain our relationship...
Yes, but an extended family spans multiple generations. You can easily get over ten people even if the last generation consists of one person per pair of parents.

Still, I'm sure there's a bunch of people that only live together on paper, or multiple families that share a house because they're poor, and the like.
Facebook employees caught leaving five-star Amazon reviews for Portal
Answered in the other sub-thread (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18936054)
Software Development: modern practices and where it’s headed
Ha! I came here to post that one of his problems (Lesson 2) with Facebook used to be my angst with email. Although I had email at an earlier age, most of my friends who moved away did not - and phone calls were too expensive. So we kept touch for a few years via letters until everyone got email.

Initially, the fact that we could email each other instead of writing letters was awesome. But after about 2 years, all I got were 1-2 liners, and no one wrote thoughtful emails any more. And it got much worse once IM became popular.

Recently, a friend who thinks likewise moved to another continent. Although we do occasionally email, we mostly communicate every few months via letters. Hope it remains that way.
These hyper-polished, exactly on-tone, on-message blog posts from what is basically Microsoft PR are causing credibility loss for the GitHub brand in my eyes. I don’t really believe we’ll see non-corporatese from them ever again, now.
And yet some of the most expensive real estate in the world.
The hash method (SHA1 iterated 4096 times) is quite secure for this purpose. Even md4 would be fine. Of course, lots of Bitcoin ASICs are designed to compute SHA256 fast, but they are very fixed function and lacking the bandwidth to a CPU to stream in passwords. Also, they are just a constant factor better than what a GPU can do. I'm sure the NSA and other peers have rooms full of ASICs devoted to WPA2 though.

A good GPU cracker rig will get 500k hashes/second per GPU. That is still very slow compared to the search space of a 12 character [a-z][A-Z][0-9][@#$_&-+*"':;!?~|{}%] password.

For a 6 character string, it still depends on what mask you are providing, or what the search space is, i.e are there requirements like one or more upper, 1 or more digits, or is it purely random from a RNG?

Still, if it isn't breaking it within a day I'd say you are in CPU mode, where a multicore box is still only 5k hashes/second.
There's everyday politicking, and then there's Trump.
There's a chance I made up that uncle myself... it's easier than using Google to find this information.
That's an unrealistic ask. 40 years have passed since 1975, almost two generations. People die, the will of the country changes, and you cannot run elections on a single issue. Even europhile countries like France and Italy have periodic bouts of euro-skepticism, and places like Texas, Quebec or the Balkans demonstrate that tribalism is always lurking anyway.

I think the EU should simply improve its outreach programs. Some of them were very successful (Erasmus), some weren't (the EU flag on buildings is almost imperialistic).

The truth is that getting 511m+ people to agree on things, when they won't even speak the same language, will always be a huge challenge. Unfortunately, there is no alternative: this planet has to learn to resolve its problems by talking and agreeing a common course of action, so might as well start with your immediate neighbours.
My company's IT team won't allow install of non-approved tools. I'm stuck with oracle sql developer. fml.
Cyberpunk still resonates and has cultural value for many reasons (the aesthetic not the least among them) but primarily because it is very much human-centered, messy, broken and glitched, or, to put it another way, realistic.

Previous SF genres had shiny futures, technology that worked, bad guys who were bad and good guys who were good... cyberpunk turned that all on its head and asked "What if everything is as broken and shitty in the future as it is now? What if it's even shittier? Never mind the captains and the heroes, what will the lowlifes and the junkies and the scoundrels do in the future? What if technology is no solution but just a source of more problems?"

These questions remain as relevant and compelling as ever, and so the genre endures.
...what? Devon Zuegel doesn't come from Microsoft and she's not working in PR.
Oh nice, it looks like an actual "let's talk", rather than a "I have something to say" like I've apparently started to expect that phrase to mean.
A lot of $$$ was stored away in housing assets in China. When I was in Chongqing in 2014 it was clear -- building for building's sake with the expectation that these empty properties would ultimately accrue in value and demand would exist at some point...

I think much of this open housing is in new urban cities -- the 10M person cities that are mostly west and on the Silk Road built to support trade (but not quite built because of actual need just yet)
Shark fin is banned in 12 U.S. states–but it's still on the menu
Asteroid Rate Jumped in Solar System’s Past
That's a different feedback.

If you can allocate capital better than the index through an active investment (that is, you can find investments that give a better return), you will beat the index, so passive investors will want to invest with you instead - a negative feedback to indexing investment.
Operable software
Thanks for that. Time to add "Bad Golf My Way" to the rewatch queue, it was a favorite childhood movie of mine.

I guess a followup question for those who've been talking about this tool with colleagues, do you just casually call it "beaver" or the full "dee-beaver"? I want to call it "dee-bee beaver" but there's a missing b...
Unless Moore's law stops, Ray tracing probably is the future. Regardless, Ray tracing in 2019 is pretty much useless. AMD needs to have Ray tracing ready for future chips, but in the mean time they can take advantage of Nvidia wasting a quarter of their die on a currently useless feature.
I have a few friends who send out periodic group emails like these, though IIRC only one uses mailing list software to do it. I really enjoy the mailings, and keep meaning to start sending them out myself.

Receiving one of the mailings feels much more personal to me than I guess seeing a fb post would (I've been off it for several years), and seems more likely to prompt a personal reply from me.

Not sure I understand the worry about awkwardness with opting out - surely it's just as easy to ignore an email as a post on "social media"?
Given: "Mere days before the Declaration of Independence was signed in July 1776" then the waters are a bit muddier than might be desired for claiming legal justification for certain actions.
Heh, so out of curiousity, i have a very high confidence that the state of Tennessee leaked a lot of data as well. How i know:

- i use fastmail, and use the alias@myemail.mydomain.com to alias everything.

- tennessee has a way to let you remind to renew your plates, so i used licenceplate@myemail.mydomain.com
- i got a phishing email licenceplate@myemail.mydomain.com

- i contacted them, and the investigator said they allow third parties access, so basically it was too hard to track it down.

I really don't know what to do, maybe send it to a newspaper?
Round watches don’t get caught on clothing, or on other people/obstacles as you brush past.
This is not new. First it was the militaries and governments, then it was the financial institutions, now it's big tech companies, and eventually it will actually be AI (because firms will use AI to guide their actions).

Aligning anything with its stated goals has always been a hard problem, the superintelligent paperclip factory just happens to be sensational enough to grab attention.
Needs Java. I saw it mentioned in the HeidiSQL thread and thought I would try it. Never completed the installation. Not putting Java on my machine, nope. Yes, I do understand the advantages of Java. Runs everywhere, which is nice. I'm still not installing it.
For context, it's been estimated that there are around 18M vacant homes in the US, though it's difficult to find a reliable source for this information.

https://www.google.com/search?q=how+many+vacant+homes+are+th...
My guess is that there is currently no actual image to code functionality, given that all designs are 'curated' and attempting to upload your own results in simply being added to their sales/mailing list
I used Dbeaver for years. Once with MS-SQL, which was quite unstable... But no problem with MariaDB, SQLite and PostgreSQL.

Plus, the built-in support of SSH tunnels is a big plus for my use cases!
> the 1975 referendum was on leaving after we'd already joined

Something I see forgotten often is the referendum experience in other countries like Canada and Australia (who have them more frequently) is that most referendums fail, it's incredibly hard to get a vote to change the status quo because you have to convince people why changing is necessary. A vote to remain in the EEC/EU should not be seen as the same as a vote to join would have been.

I suspect this is why there has not been a second brexit vote, they know how much momentum there is behind leave side. Well that and the decade of uncertainty of stay vote would bring.
Yeah. There's something right about this line of thought, I think, but it could use a bit more development.

A big part of the conceptual problem is that the distinction between positive and negative rights is much less clear than people often assume. GP highlighted a pretty good example: "you have no right to offend my beliefs." It's a positive right if you call it a "right to go through life without being offended" but negative if phrased as "you have a right not to be the object of offensive conduct." And often, preventing something from happening (i.e., enforcing a negative right) may impose some sort of affirmative obligation, or impose seemingly objectionable restrictions, on others.

One somewhat fruitful way to untangle this can be to add another distinction between acts of the state and acts of private citizens. Thus, under the U.S. constitution, for example, one typically has negative rights against some state action or other (e.g., :"Congress shall make no law...abridging the freedom of speech.")
Here’s the fundamental thing. We don’t need digital social networks. Email, just like mail, is sufficent.
Possibly but the sampled data they mentioned makes this seem 100x worse than just announcing "millions of files".

This was a very very serious leak and I don't see how the severity could be communicated otherwise.

> This post reads more like an ad for upguard than a responsible disclosure.

As long as there is quality information in return I have no problem with this type of stuff appearing HN. And this was a very interesting post.
Yeah, I get why there is a shade of one-siding. What I am considering doing is worth fighting for. This means something different to each person.
I don't see any paragraph where they talk about whether/when/by whom the data was actually accessed. Granted I was only skimming. (Because I was looking for that.) But yeah if an IP address falls in the forest and no one is around to connect to it, does it make a sound?
So if i have a solar charged Tesla, i can drive as fast as i can?
What's wrong with well polished, on-tone, on-message writing?
Combine this with some sort of blockchain straight on your DNA, you could have a permission system to grant/deny access to things, that would work not only for your biological system, but with binding contracts on the real word. Like bad credit, or denying access to your bank account, to kill someone by making his system 'forget' how to process a given amino acid, or make them dependent of some drug to live so a government could just wait a "traitor" come to them so he/she can keep on living..
Hard to say, but there is a strong reason poor people would plea out even if they were innocent: they can get in and out with a minor plea, since their processing can take a long time (weeks or months). Ergo, if you're financially solvent, that fact may be taken into account, since you'll be harder to prosecute - you'll have your own lawyer, etc.

One major problem with plea bargains in the US is that we don't know, because plea agreements themselves are sealed. Also, there is very inconsistent oversight of these plea arrangements.

https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2017/05/plea-ba...