skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Maybe, maybe not. But what's definitely true is he's exception with respect to his own peer group. Tons of kids had the advantages he had. Only one of them started Microsoft.
Perhaps you ought to assume you are wrong that you were wrong about unit tests. :)
FHA gives loans at 3.5% downpayment.
I'm curious if anyone here has had success with more "coarsely grained" time tracking?

I've found that I'd have no issues tracking my time by day or at most half-day increments, especially since for the most part that's how I end up working on things in a lot of cases (as a developer, not a manager).

I feel like it would give most of the same benefits with a magnitude less work, but I haven't ever tried it out in a real situation before and I'm curious if it holds up.
Lol my 2011 MBP has 16 gb ram and a 128gb ssd... and a 17" matte screen!
It's not really ray tracing, but some engines do something analogous to render shadows. Rendering the scene from the point of view of the main light source, and just recording the depth value at each pixel, yields a shadow map. Now for the main render, for each pixel rendered, re-project its coordinates into the light source's camera and compare the distance to the shadow map. If it's further, it's in shadow.
The supplemental index was relatively tiny -- just new pages.
Netdata 1.12
Useful, thanks! God knows why they chose YAML though...
If it is the streaming thing the article mentioned, I just don't get it. How do they get around the fact you introduce round trip delay to every input? Do they somehow have a way to do client side prediction and reconciliation?
Ranking Economic Growth: Real per Capita GDP Growth in the 21st Century
They are being more discriminating with regards to boosting constructive social media and disregarding pop social media.
Interesting that the picture captioned: "Bob Pitzer, co-founder of Harvest Croo Robotics, holds a fresh strawberry picked from the fields" shows an unripe strawberry.

That sort of strawberry is why I don't bother with out of season strawberries and just buy them here (Norway) when the local ones are in season. Smaller, sweeter, ripe all the way through, and usually much better flavour than most of the imported stuff.
When I worked in Germany we had a union mandated 35 hour week with no option for overtime. One thing I noticed was that back then most people actually worked most of their hours at the office and decisions were made rather quickly and decisively. Now I work with no set time limit and I feel that a lot of people are wasting time with going over the same thing multiple times, hesitating in making decisions and calling huge meetings that achieve nothing.

I feel that part of it is that by working less people are fresher and think clearer. Whenever I worked 50+ hours per week for longer time I was more in a foggy state and couldn't think clearly.

Also, by limiting working hours management needs to be decisive and conscious of wasting people's times with unnecessary stuff.
Alibaba Is Behind Hit Chinese Communist Party’s Propaganda App
Ask HN: Any Performance Auditing *Firms* for JS Libraries?
Does anyone have experience having their JavaScript code professionally audited for performance impact and application side effects? (I'm not interested in security audits or general subjective code quality)

I've searched around online, made a few calls to security auditors for leads and found nothing.

I know how to generally test and document the effects of the code myself- I'm really looking a stamp of approval from a third party validator.

What are the actual empirical performance impacts of adding third party JS libraries like Google Analytics?

Example Audit:
Real user engagement on various websites across various browsers, on various devices in various locations testing for things like network in/out, impact on rendering times, added latency of user actions like clicks (from added event listeners etc).
This seems like a really cool idea. What I can't figure out is the bootstrap process. How do you launch/start the wings rotating?
>What if in some year doing harvests makes no sense because of storms or low prices or too little rain or too little sun or whatever. Such years exist.

For strawberries, they shouldn't. You should be growing them inside some kind of shelter with irrigation.
Does SourceForge have a pool of maintainers that can help with projects? That's the first I'm hearing of that.
Balloons?
The easiest to understand example of this is bypassing a naive login prompt:

If the function to test a password that has been entered stops as soon as there is a wrong character, it's trivial to write a program to send it a modified password each run and see how long it takes to come back. If it takes slightly longer than last time, then you have one more character correct. Iterate until you have the complete password.

It's one cheesy thing that Hollywood does that at least worked at some point in the past, ie. the hacker that uses a program to crack a password one character at a time (preferably as the clock ticks down to some impending disaster)
this issue discusses the transition:

https://github.com/LightTable/LightTable/issues/2383
Similarly not-COTS, but a series of UAVs, a Zephyr "7" made a record 336 hour flight - 14 days, with an unofficial runs of three minutes (!!) short of 26 days aloft for a recent Zephyr S.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Airbus_Zephyr
It's embarrassing, or ought to be, that we've had to ask you a half-dozen times already to stop posting unsubstantive comments to Hacker News. Continuing to do that will get your account banned, so please stop.

Since most of those comments haven't had to do with allcaps titles, the code changes are not, alas, sufficient.
Good point. In my prior comments, I wasn't really looking at the pragmatic side of organizing studies.
Is controversial international politics really what we want to read about on HN?
But the ultracrepidarians need reminding that they don't know what they're talking about and that their well-meaning advice is not received as a freindly gesture, it's received as something that's fucking annoying.
>IMO it's fair to refer to your success as "self made" if you exceed the median success level of your class peer group by a substantial margin.

Even if success were 100% down to luck, there'd still be people who exceeded the median success level of their class peer group by a substantial margin. It's begging the question to simply assert that a majority of these people can fairly claim to be "self made".
Amazon’s Winner-Take-All Approach to Small Business
Prices for early access .dev domains in other providers are at least 2x higher.

For example, using GoDaddy, you can buy .dev domain for 800$ instead of 350$ on Friday (4th stage of early access).
"a New Zealand financial services company, switched its 240 staff from a five-day week to a four-day week last November and maintained their pay. Productivity increased in the four days they worked so there was no drop in the total amount of work done"

And soon some genius will come in and think "How about we worked a few hours more? This would give us even more output" and soon we are back to normal.
The content on those domains is highly relevant and appears to be thorough. What do you think a non-profit could have used them for that would be better?
Even the superheros in the movies are permitted a little luck occasionally. "Only people who had the worst possible luck at every turn may be considered self-made" or similar is a ridiculous goalpost-moving standard. Next we'd be sitting around a table competing over who faced the most hardship to be considered legitimate.

I was able to use that luck to my advantage

That's what counts.
I took the approach of recording the type/category of work I am doing, and time it exactly using a tool I created for the purpose: https://doug.pacifico-hammond.co.uk/software/hardware/2018/0...

As a lead/director it is rarely useful to know exactly which task I am working on, but better to know that I spend the right % of time on each project or type of work.
It's meant in the sense of "shelter from the rain". Why do you think it has a sense of giving up all hope? One of the main goals when creating it was to not require the creator to move the repo away from their name.
Better signal processing, amplification, read noise and probably lot more that I can’t even imagine.

And of course, all the stuff during capture you mentioned could be a lot better too.

Picture being a camera engineer and suddenly have 10X more speed and a decent platform to work with. 32bit multiple exposure RAW in a single click, who knows.
I can't comment on the GPU comments, but you may be better off leaving the vectorization to gcc than using the simd pragma. On haswell, it uses avx2, but not fma, so you loose a factor of two on GEMM, for instance. The GCC manual also gives an example for the ivdep pragma.
Ask HN: Users start sharing copyrighted files in your app, Legal Advice?
Let's say you create a chat app that has groups, and people start sharing links to copyrighted materials.

How can you avoid that your app is banned from the Apple and Google stores ?

Is there a standard copyright notice mechanism ?
Would be enough taking down links that receive a notice ?
Would that exime you from any legal responsibility ?
Do you have an argument against the authors points that does not consist of adhominem and projection?

The self-made illusion is precisely that because we ignore the many things that gave us a headstart in life and allowed us to do the things that would've caused other people to fail. The only reason why I'm here now is because I took on a risk of going bankrupt moving across the country for a job opportunity in an industry that suddenly became very volatile. Had I been laid off or had the winds shifted and resulted in my first job being downsized, I would've been financially destroyed and dropped right back into poverty. We ignore the sheer amount of luck and circumstance in our career and lives in favor of telling a story where we're the hero.
Bitmain IPO Document Apparently Divulges $500M Loss in Q3
My blog - 100% bespoke PHP with no frameworks, etc: https://www.jamieweb.net/
I'm not sure how good it would be for first person shooters, but it worked great for me when I played assassins creed on it. Note, I do have a 100 Mb fiber connection in my apartment.
Obviously, but you are missing the point.
That is not true. If Bill Gates grew up like that, he would've been labeled a "self made success" even making $50k yearly. He is from a rich background and thus we have to compare him to his peers - and he definitely is successful and that success is self made compared to anyone from upper middle class - but that doesn't have to do anything with the fact that Bill Gates wouldn't have been able to do what he did if he didn't have rich background (is it even practically possible?).
I don't think they get around it. For most genres except FPS the round trip delay doesn't cause any issues in gameplay. What's an extra 60ms roundtrip when most people have reaction times around 300ms?
Spoiled delusional New Yorker has delusional view of the world, more at 11.
Can you clarify what exactly you think we're not doing? (Google Registry, that is.) Transfers are a contractually mandated requirement by ICANN, and we definitely support them.

Also, because of GDPR and WHOIS privacy/proxies, we frequently don't even know who the registrant for a given domain is anyway.
I've been on a four day work week for quite a while, working Monday through Thursday [1]. It definitely makes the off days better.

• If it has been a rough week at work, I can spend all day Friday relaxing, and still have a full two weekend days for my interests and hobbies.

• I can do things on Friday, such as shopping, that most others have to do on the weekend, thus avoiding the weekend crowds.

• With three days to work on personal projects, I can do a day of getting things going and getting productive, a day of good in the zone work, and then a day of picking a good stopping point and reaching that and setting things up for resumption next week. With a conventional two day weekend, it's that in the zone time that loses.

• Three days is long enough that by Monday I'm ready and want to get back to my job.

I find the lower stress thing quite plausible based on the above. It's enough time to do my stuff without it feeling rushed, meaning my relaxing things can actually be relaxing. A two day weekend is more likely to result in the classic stressing out over trying to relax.

I also find the no cut in work output plausible, because of the lower stress thing. Stress should lower productivity. If your weekend is not lowering stress as much as it could, you are going to be less productive than you could be. If three days off lowers stress more, you productivity rate should be higher back at work. But a three day weekend means a shorter work week. So we have one effect trying to raise output and one trying to lower it. Given the fuzziness of productivity measures, I'm not surprised by a finding of no change in output.

[1] I started taking every other Friday as a vacation day, because I had so much accumulated vacation that I had hit my employer's accumulation limit. Later, when the big recession hit the company needed to reduce expenses to avoid layoffs, and I offered to take a 5% pay cut in exchange for every other Friday off, which when combined with the every other Friday vacation gave me a four day week.
Grave Concerns Over White House Efforts to Transfer Nuclear Tech to Saudi Arabia
Real estate underperforms index funds? Perhaps in capital appreciation, but in terms of cash on cash returns, nothing beats real estate. If you can turn a $50k downpayment into a $250k property netting $300 per month after mortgage/expenses, plus get capital appreciation on top of that — you’ll make far more money on that $50k than the same money invested in an index fund. Statements such as “indexes out-perform real estate” might be true for an owner-occupied residence, but it certainly isn’t true when the real estate is an actual cash-flowing investment and not your own residence. What people fail to grasp is that a $250k house doesn’t cost $250k in cash. It costs $50k in cash. While the bank owns the other $200k in value, that $50k gives you control of that asset and the cash flow that comes from it. If that $250k house goes up to $300k in value, then you just earned a 100% return on your cash plus the cash-flow revenue. Even if the house goes down in value, if you are still cash flow positive, you are still making money. A $300 net per month is $3600 per year which is a 7% return on your $50k cash, however on top of that 7%, you also get a “free” house since your tenant is paying the note and expenses. On top of that, you get depreciation, which in many cases can make that $3600 per year tax free when the depreciation exceeds the income from the rent.

Indexes outperforming real estate is a highly simplistic view and doesn’t accurately reflect cash on cash returns, tax advantages and cash flow. $50k in an index vs $50k as a down payment on a cash flow property— the property is going to make as much in cash as your entire capital appreciation for the index. For an index to be better, it’s going to have to both appreciate at a higher rate than the house as well as pay dividends equal to the annual net from the house.

Comparing indexes and real estate shouldn’t discount the value of leverage, nor should it discount the cash flow from the asset. (In the situation you are commenting on though, the author buying a residence, I don’t disagree; I am commenting on real estate as an asset class in general.)
>On the other hand this book is also available free online [3]. Maybe it is legal to print it and sell it?

No, it's not legal.

I found that Amazon sells what is presumably a genuine edition of the book for $67.

I did not realize that Amazon had started displaying other sellers as the default seller for brand new books that Amazon itself sells. It used to be that Amazon was always the default seller if they carried a book, and the only way you would see other sellers was to click on the link for other sellers. Which is the way it should be. It's insane that they've changed this.
Oh this is good!

How is the browser support for this?
> was there ever an attempt to do math with something like y=1/0 or another illegal construct?

Wheels are a type of algebra where division by 0 is defined.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wheel_theory

https://math.stackexchange.com/questions/994508/wheel-theory...

To call wheels "obscure" is to make them out to be better-known than they are, however.
> Tens of thousands of kids have the same background that he did

Or alternatively: statistics suggests that out of a big sample of people, a few of them are going to strike it really rich.
I'm the author of Polar ...

You can use Calibre to convert the ePub to PDF and then import.

ePub is used a lot more than I would have thought.

Initially we might just convert the ePub to PDF.
I received much better financial aid offers from top schools than the local state university. While the ability to pay tuition definitely is a factor, keep in mind that many students do not pay even close to sticker price.
I've long since moved on from competitive multiplayer games and I never measured it directly. But that said, I haven't noticed a lot of issues with Nvidia's game streaming service with casual use.
>She told me, “I was curious, but I don't know how a single person in America who doesn't have family money could buy anything, I really don’t, if they're not working in finance or they're not a doctor. ”

This is kind of like that cartoon of a New Yorker's view of the US, where Manhattan looms large, then there's New Jersey, and at the fringes there is the rest of the nation.

I met this veteran taxi driver in South Carolina who had bought a big Federal era house north of the state capital, for only $20,000 back in the late 90's. Everything about the house needed fixing, and there was no heating/ventilation equipment functioning at all. He was living there, however, and he was putting all of his extra money into buying construction materials, so he could eventually sell it for 20 times as much. I also knew a waitress/barista in Ohio who had bought a duplex, was living in one half, and renting out the other. She had done all of that on $5/hour plus tips and sweat equity. Both of the above examples happened in the 90's.

This Kirsten Dirksen video is basically a documentary about how homeowner's interests and their affect on local laws have basically ossified our society. (This is set in Sonoma, which is not overcrowded in the least.)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R8x4CWBMsPg

Basically, homeowners have thrown up roadblocks to keep "the wrong element" out of their neighborhoods, which also locks out the young people of their own group. The big irony is that this happened much more in liberal California than it did in conservative Ohio and South Carolina.
Sensor response is pretty much linear. That's why you want to shoot in RAW which gets you file without a tone function applied. Whereas with JPEG, it's not only applying a tone function but a contrast function as well which aggressively tosses highlight and shadow detail.
This is hilarious. Did they site the falling cost of ram at least
Football and the NFL Are Facing White Flight
I'm not going to pretend to understand all the moving pieces here, but this is fascinating because it sounds like the root conspiracy being alleged by the "Mueller, she wrote" podcast from the few episodes I've heard so far. It'll be interesting to see what comes out of this and if they've actually somehow pieced it together.
(Edit: Yes, I know it's working now. That doesn't mean it wasn't working, and it doesn't mean this comment is invalid. It just means that it got fixed, perhaps even because of this comment pointing out the problem.)

I'm getting this:

Secure Connection Failed

An error occurred during a connection to
www.7pace.com. Cannot communicate securely
with peer: no common encryption algorithm(s).
Error code: SSL_ERROR_NO_CYPHER_OVERLAP

The page you are trying to view cannot be
shown because the authenticity of the received
data could not be verified.

Suggestions? Yes, I've read the article via the Google cache.
this seems only one degree removed from a 9-5.

"work when you want" to me requires more than that. multiply your simple example to 2-4x a week, xN employees, that's a lot of noise
I don't understand how these could possibly be mutually exclusive.
AVS, an Open Standard for Autonomous Vehicle Visualization
Polar will support Android / Linux and iOS and web in about 2-4 weeks.

We're working on both mobile support and web at the same time.

The cool thing is that the multi-device cloud sync support will also work with the web version.
I was not making a judgement about whether or not there's a difference between a single balloon and a drone swarm (there is), but addressing the comment:

> And also, in typical neo-luddite fashion, I'm fearful for the surveillance applications of this device. Even if staying airborne isn't eventually completely free (eternal flight) with this system, the ability to stay up for 9 hours at a time on a few Li-Ion cells opens up a world of possibilities, not all of which are great.
What I'm wondering is if it'll tell you to speed because that's the only way to break the cycle of getting stuck at every red light.
I just try and not hold any viewpoint with any dogmatism now. I'll admit that maybe people will come back and realize that unit tests were stupid, but this time at least I'll know that I was neither a staunch defender or detractor.
Target markets you have insights and don't care about the other. When you grow in your home market, you can pay employees or lawyers and then expand.
> But nobody with any respect for themselves has an un-ISP doing borderline illegal shit like that.

advertising and malware (both ad-related and not) injection by ISPs is a well documented global issue.
"How not to setup SSL on your website"
I always get the feeling that the whole white collar capital game is all about skirting conflicts of interest and doing it in a legal way. It's like pretty much what the entire industry is abput
What happens to the domains in your account if your Google account has become banned?

Same question for your colleagues at Google Domains.
wakatime! Just dont install the chrome extension haha.. i accidentally logged 197 hours on one customer..
It's interesting that you only mentioned politicians and not any of the businesses or professors who have been ruined, like I said in my comment. When an internet mob comes for a politician, a political mob fights back. Most people don't have that luxury.
That's a dubious proposition. Spend a fair bit of money on games only to have Google cancel the product later.

I mentioned Nvidia in another thread but they partnered with Valve/Steam to stream games you purchase there. Steam is unlikely to suddenly fold up and vanish.
Well I guess this beats the time that a McKinsey partner gave insider tips to his hedge fund buddy, but frankly not by much.
> Financial help from parents comes in many forms, and it’s the basis of so many success stories. So why do millennials act like it doesn't exist?

Because never before your chances of becoming wealthy without help from your parents were so good? At least that is my impression without knowing any facts.