skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Facts and advertisements are like apples and oranges. The notion of "plain text listing of fact" is pretty vague, though I'd personally classify none of those above statements as "plain text listing of facts", and all of them could be advertisements in the right context.

An advertisement is a communication designed to manipulate its recipient. Whether it's "true" or not is neither here nor there. In fact, a lot of advertisements are complete non-sequiturs, because those kinds of statements are less likely to make the listeners/viewers think critically about the statements.
Are there services Russians use daily that would not be available on a Russia only WWW?

The utility of the web isn't the protocols it technology employed; it's the content.
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It doesn't matter if it's intuitive. Lots of intuitive things are false.

Further, the more you think about it, the less intuitive it is. I believe that second languages, completely unstratified on other factors, is correlated with "better brains" by some metric. I do not believe that the statement that this is causal, or totally uniform. Could it not be that better brains seek out new languages? Could it be that learning a language is healthy for some part of the population and not others? For a trivial example, is learning a fifth language really worth your time? Is it possible that people who learn a new language would do absolutely nothing with that time otherwise?

As for my own thoughts, learning a new natural language is extraordinarily boring. There are no problems to solve, it's just memorization and exercise. It takes a tremendous capacity to deal with boredom to learn a new language, and the tremendous capacity to deal with boredom does not strike me as uniformly good, though it does strike me as probably being correlated with higher average intelligence.
http://homepages.cs.ncl.ac.uk/brian.randell/NATO/NATOReports...
This service sounds exciting. My girlfriend and I like flying in and out of Brussels from the U.S., so we look forward to using it.

Last month we took an overnight train from Bucharest (Sinaia) to Budapest. We enjoyed the ride very much, and less than $100 each for a private cabin seemed like quite a bargain. If you have a little time to spare, and prefer to experience the journey rather than simply get from point A to B, travel by train is the way to go.
I don't think anyone has a problem with food you cook and freeze. "Frozen foods" in this context are generally understood to mean "packaged frozen food, prepared by the seller" (which excludes the corner case of a local charcuterie preparing and freezing something).
I should clarify the parent post - when they said "types of ads", what they really meant is the content. The 1st amendment forbids the government from discriminating on the content of a message, but they can restrict messaging in general. Though I believe there are limits to how much they can restrict that as well - a blanket ban on protests, for example, would likely not fly.
Awesome project!

However, practically do anyone use business card these days? What does it do which a LinkedIn or GitHub profile wouldn’t?
Just had a discussion with a friend of mine who's a college professor about this article. He's a former entrepreneur and has a working relationship with a Fortune 500 company that includes multiple patents.

He told me there's a constant debate between the majority of professors that are academics to tilt the curriculum more heavily towards research as opposed to practical real world knowledge. I said less than 5% of students in your field end up teaching or doing research. Couldn't there be two tracks?

He sighed and said they're in charge and that's what they want. What's best for the majority of students apparently just isn't important to them.
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As it is already Christmas Day in my part of the world, I wanted to wish everyone on HN a very Merry Christmas and Happy New Years!

Thank you everyone for sharing your tips and stories and like every year I've learned so much from many of you.

Here's to a great 2020 for us all!
Read the datasheets for your parts. Good datasheets will tell you what components you need, what values they need to have, and how to layout the board. They are often written assuming some knowledge but you'll have terms to google.
I agree. Preserving unknowns fortunately was recognized as mistake, and fixed in some more recent version, and presence can be worked around: it is still preserved for message types, so you only need to wrap your primitives into objects[1], Java style.

[1] - https://developers.google.com/protocol-buffers/docs/referenc...
That would appear to be about the 60s.
Based on the documentation[1], and not surprisingly, this library has been optimized for Intel processors. Particularly, you can enable AVX2 and AVX512 instruction sets in the regex. In addition to that, you can optimize the matching database to a specific Intel processor family (like Haswell or Sandy Bridge).

BSD-license, and they accept contributions. I wonder if they accept any flags that would allow optimization on AMD processors.

[1]: http://intel.github.io/hyperscan/dev-reference/api_constants...
Tact: They have a broad and inclusive means of understanding/managing perceptions, and motivations that starts from humility.

Their ability in troubleshooting, problem solving, risk-assessment, is detail oriented, and seeing the forest for the trees. Being keen-sighted, and maintaining a field of view, and depth of field.

Informing, teaching, educating: They have a pervasive means of being able to explain, walk through a problem and/or solution to a verity of audience types. Some of the best at ELI5.

Understands the Intent, over just the labeled end goal. (As basically what the US Military defines Intent as.)

Ability to give and take critique (also sharing with Tact above). This always seems to infer just the negative, criticize/criticism, and the opposite is often overlooked.
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When the world had 5 bullies WW1 and 2 broke out.
The way these guys did it is quite interesting:

http://marcio.io/2015/07/handling-1-million-requests-per-min...

I have experimented with something similar, ie a pool of goroutines to which work is dispatched (in my case, invoking anonymous functions passed via the input channels)
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It can be approximated with a single-item `oneof` field. It's ugly and boilerplatey, but at least it's binary-compatible with proto2 and gives the original behaviour.

My main problem with proto2 these days is that I needed to interface with some C# code, and there is no proto2 library for C#!
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It is a corollary essentially of running it the opposite direction on the axis, Imposter Syndrome.

It seems consistent with "every answer coming with two more questions" a "tree-like" question structure as knowing more means knowing more about the unknowns.

So someone less familiar would think "Carpentry? Illiterate innumerate peasants could do it, more strength than skill." Meanwhile even a master carpenter of bespoke homes would know that they are inferior to a jouneyman cooper who worked before metallic barrel rings because they didn't have call for making joins that round and tight, that they hardly even worked with steam bending, and that they use automated tools that millenia ago would have been done by say hand and feel and calculations rather than using a micrometer.
Later meta analysis that shows this effect is not true and is due to publication bias.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/m/pubmed/29494195/
I used it while homeless and woke up to an unwanted sexual experience and never used it again.
Only one field can be variable length, and it must be last. I'll pass.
Btw, since I'm idly browsing ncbi org, the following is a 2013 Cochrane meta-analysis of thirty-four randomised trials with 3230 participants.

I'm quoting the conclusions section but as usual the abstract has multiple sections including a Results section that's a bit large to post (but interesting to read):

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23558162

BMJ. 2013 Apr 3;346:f1325. doi: 10.1136/bmj.f1325.

Effect of longer term modest salt reduction on blood pressure: Cochrane systematic review and meta-analysis of randomised trials.

CONCLUSIONS:

A modest reduction in salt intake for four or more weeks causes significant and, from a population viewpoint, important falls in blood pressure in both hypertensive and normotensive individuals, irrespective of sex and ethnic group. Salt reduction is associated with a small physiological increase in plasma renin activity, aldosterone, and noradrenaline and no significant change in lipid concentrations. These results support a reduction in population salt intake, which will lower population blood pressure and thereby reduce cardiovascular disease. The observed significant association between the reduction in 24 hour urinary sodium and the fall in systolic blood pressure, indicates that larger reductions in salt intake will lead to larger falls in systolic blood pressure. The current recommendations to reduce salt intake from 9-12 to 5-6 g/day will have a major effect on blood pressure, but a further reduction to 3 g/day will have a greater effect and should become the long term target for population salt intake.

Remember that this is a meta-analysis and quite recent (6 years ago). I think my hunch above that we'd find many more studies supporting the mainstream view is not off.
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Wellington Ma's business card was a rectangular slice of pink synthetic quartz, laser-engraved with his name, 'The Ma-Mariano Agency,' an address on Beverly Boulevard, and all kinds of numbers and e-mail addresses. It arrived by GlobEx in its own little gray suede envelope while Rydell was still in the hospital.

"Looks like you could cut yourself on it," Rydell said.

"You could, many no doubt have," said Karen Mendelsohn, "and if you put it in your wallet and sit down, it shatters."

"Then what's the point of it?"

"You're supposed to take very good care of it. You won't get another."
I have no problem with the summary. I think it would have been a very strong comment if it had just skipped the first and last paragraphs.
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Makes the author stand out a lot more than yet another GitHub or LinkedIn profile will.
Which Altra would you recommend for minimalist style with no heel? A quick search shows me shows that all seem to have pretty significant heel padding.
I'm honestly not sure yet. Right now my top priority is getting good content on the site.
There's nothing white-hat about this. He accessed as much private data as possible, and didn't report the vulnerability to Twitter or to affected users.
Bruce Springsteen said we were Born To Run.
It used to take me just over two hours to compile a (very minimal stripped down) kernel on my 25 MHz 80486 with 4 MB of RAM (in the late 2.0.x/early 2.2.x days).
>If you have nothing except internet search results, your opinion that it is a pseudoscience is only as good as any layperson who believes in its validity.

Those internet search results would lead you to numerous articles and research done by experts in various scientific fields, but it seems you have yet to even bother to engage with them. The fact that people have been telling you the truth about astrology since you were a child, and you still give it credence, suggests your mind is already made up. You clearly believe in it, and are seeking validation for that belief, rather than objective truth.

I promise you, you could find the same counter-arguments made in scientific journals as well, if you don't trust the internet, as I'm certain plenty of online sources will cite them. You could talk to any astronomer, physicist or psychologist in person and they will tell you the same thing. The opinion that astrology is a pseudoscience is not merely my own, it is the opinion of the entire scientific community.

>This thread is for people who have opinions that they can articulate with some background.

I've given you exactly what you've asked for, even better than my own personal opinion. Attempting to discredit or debunk me, personally, has no bearing on the truth. Its up to you to educate yourself.
Are you willing and able to explain why/how it's off base?

And if not (to be a bit of a devil's advocate and unapologetic promoter of subversive ideologies like extreme rationalism), why not?

Possibly relevant: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21856809
Especially since... how long did it take them to notice?

Hypothetically someone could get these funds into their account, transfer them offshore, flee the country, and probably live out their life in a low cost of living area without extradition.

They seem to assume if there's an error they can drag the person into court, but if you have ~3 million you've changed into gold/diamonds/cash it'd be very hard to catch you...
JavaCard is hilariously weak though, as far as Java is concerned. Support for "int" datatypes is optional, and there's no such thing as java.lang.String.

To your point though, it's pretty amazing to see the sheer number of devices with it deployed, and the things that can be done with sim card applets (mobile banking, etc.).
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Hebrew.
FWIW, those TI boards have tons of hardware bugs. Way more than you'd even typically expect from embedded hardware.

And if you don't use the arduino ecosystem, but use an RTOS on an Arduino, it's a perfectly valid dev board for learning real embedded systems development.
>No offence and I don't intend to be rude but literally everything in your statement is comedically wrong.

> Uber has virtually no network effects

I have never seen a combination of so much rudeness, stupidity and ignorance in a single hacker news comment in a very long time. Any kid can see that Uber is a 2 sided market place with typical market place network effects.
> calling people amateurs without really substantiating is a huge smell IMO. The average Google engineer isn't a genius or particularly amazing by any stretch

Note that Jeff Dean and Sanjay Ghemawat -- the original creators of Protobuf -- aren't average Google engineers. They are literally the highest-ranked engineers at Google (Level 11, "Senior Fellow", a title assigned only to the two of them last I heard), and they basically invented MapReduce, BigTable, Spanner, and a variety of other foundational distributed systems technologies. Jeff now leads the AI division while Sanjay continues to focus on systems infrastructure.

So yeah, "amateurs".

(Disclosure: I wrote Protobuf v2, but it was just a fresh implementation of the same design.)
-- William Gibson, Virtual Light
> How would they be showing production data if they couldn't access the database were, presumably, this data was stored?

The entire anecdote was about them telling the representative that they DO in fact have access to the production DB. Why would you expect him to act as if they didn't have access after being told they do?
I can't be sure it's "on" unless it leaves little 0603-sized purple spots in my vision. ;)

(Maybe I'm biased because I often have my office window open and it's bright... and having couple orders of magnitude of current above what a microcontroller pullup/pulldown will source/sink has been nice sometimes-- that or I'm just stubbornly trying to justify following the very-old 4mA rule of thumb).
It doesn't help that getting a copy of the actual standard costs an arm and a leg[1,2], especially if you want both parts of the 2019 edition.

[1] https://www.iso.org/standard/70907.html

[2] https://www.iso.org/standard/70908.html
Not to mention that a tiny chip in a micro-SD case can hold a library of a hundred movies.
Hawaii has a similar ban in place too. It's so nice not being bombarded by billboards in your day-to-day life. Definitely one of the things I've missed since moving from there.
This is a cool idea!

One thing that sticks out to me is once you get past the overview of what a job entails, you'll probably have a lot of specific questions where Q&A or mentorship with someone that's done the job might be a better fit than a pull-only model.
I went twice on a train trip, used the Nightjet multiple times (and some other night trains). Wonderful experience !
> Can we get back to just putting the members of C structures into network byte order and sending that over the wire in binary, à la 1995?

I hope not (I know you are being sarcastic). We should use something that's trivial to implement correctly, as well as easy to read and to debug.
Forgot to mention, but here is a recent theoretical result (prediction of generalization performance giving size of training set) based on tensor networks: https://itensor.org/miles/GenerativeMPS.pdf
So you allow it for those folks and block it for the rest, there will always be edge cases but you need to reduce risk and attack surface. So hopefully they have those academic staff members on record as accepting the risk.
Supply of labor. The lump of labor fallacy does not apply to software bugs.
"but unfortunately, literally nobody considers Java to have a well-designed type-system". What? That is mildly put a lie.
True; throught a SaaS model a cloud company could make extensive changes to Linux and deploy it to their datacenter on which their services are sold, but without the obligation to give back any of the code because they haven't distributed the code.

I'm not saying this is actually happening, and experience with companies who build on FreeBSD show that upstreaming their changes helps keep the diffs small when pulling down updates around their proprietary code.
Even better, it's alone time that's not constrained to keeping your eyes on the road. You could read a book, play a handheld console, browse your phone, etc.
Even in Western Europe it’s uncommon. The average German commute is 10 miles: https://www.dw.com/en/record-number-of-germans-commute-to-wo.... 80% of Germans don’t even bike weekly, much less daily.
> Taxi companies are profitable and they have employees, a fleet, garages.

They’re only profitable because of regulatory capture. The government gives them a monopoly and limits supply.

If they offered unlimited medallions, taxis would lose money too.
its literally the main reason i will never be in favor of this "responsible disclosure"

It pays shit and also vilifies users for learning how the system was built
Lists don't make great HN submissions because there's little to discuss about them. People might point out something that should or shouldn't be on the list, but otherwise the thread (if there is one) will just focus on the things the elements on the list all have in common, which is a lowest common denominator sort of discussion. We've learned over the years that specific topics are much more intellectually interesting than generic ones, so generally it's better to select the most interesting item on a list and submit that instead. You can always add a comment that points to the list it came from.

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...
I read an article a while back that described one trait of the "10x" engineer as dispassionate curiosity. Setting aside the argument of what a "10x" engineer actually is, I'm sure those of us working in the field can recall folks that were exceptionally talented. Every one of those people that I can recall have exhibited this trait.

It's easy to deduce that those folks would be more interested in hard tech than any paint-by-numbers startup. I've worked at startups and well-established companies, and have found it surprising how easily really good engineers will turn down lucrative but uninteresting opportunities at well-established companies and how readily they'll take an "interesting" role for less or sometimes way less money.
The dynamics of commercial projects can be very different from open-source. You're much more likely to tolerate sitting through long builds if you're being paid to do so.
They say No.
That might've been the case, but it can't be the excuse.
They were spending €100mil a year on maintaining the current infrastructure. The team's incentive is to save a large portion of that through the migration, and somebody higher up should've given them unlimited access to do so.
You can do all of those things by walking or transit if your community is built for it.

It just so happens that Americans have placed everything to require driving, so all these places need massive surface lots, spreading things out even further and then requiring even more driving and disadvantaging non-driving modes in a vicious cycle.
> the Tarahumara (ancient running people) are the best distance runners on earth

Pretty sure the Kenyans, Ethopians, etc. might have a word or two to say about that.

More importantly, the emphasis in "may be counterproductive" should definitely be on the first word. Actual real-world results haven't matched the theory. Sure, there will always be someone to provide anecdata about how they switched to minimalist running shoes and it was great. The ones who switched to minimalist running shoes and either injured themselves or didn't see any benefit and switched back tend to talk a lot less. Statistically it's a wash, and ends up being pure personal preference. People who run poorly will improve exactly enough to make up for the difference in shoes, and no more.
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I agree with you. And I suspect 9 out of 10 doctors do as well.

I want to neuter advertising more than anything, but I can't think of any kind of "rule" we could establish that would make public mind hacking illegal.
I made one a few months ago and it immediately did the suspicious activity provide phone number b.s.

I've not tried again since, and considered twitter 100% off-limits after that experience since it's obviously just an effort to acquire phone numbers coupled to accounts and email addresses under the guise of "security".
When Betelgeuse goes supernova, the brightness will rival a full moon
Katie Moussouris has spoken a lot about this. The incentives are pretty complex.

https://www.computerweekly.com/news/252450337/Bug-bounties-n...

https://www.zdnet.com/article/relying-on-bug-bounties-not-ap...

https://threatpost.com/newsmaker-interview-katie-moussouris-...
I meant for people using it as their daily driver operating system (not servers).

Most linux enthusiasts know a bit more/are interested in technology so they would be likely to engage in better security practices than a typical "home user" using Windows.
In addition features like package managers and actually functioning permissions systems help as well (how long has Windows had public UAC bypasses?)

Of course you're correct and most servers run linux and get hacked every millisecond otherwise though because they don't keep them updated.
> Consider that the mental aspect of a race is inversely correlated to the distance of a race

I disagree with your quoted statement. I'd say the mental aspect is equally important in the 1/2 marathon as it is in the 5k. In the 1/2s I ran, the mental part was mostly fighting fatigue, whereas in the 5k, it was mostly fighting through pain (and fatigue too, but anaerobic fatigue instead of aerobic)