skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Awesome tool for mathing HW user names to their IPs.
This is known as the Dunning-Kruger effect[1], the cognitive bias that unskilled individuals overestimate their ability and skilled individuals underestimate it.

"The Dunning–Kruger effect is a cognitive bias manifesting in two principal ways: unskilled individuals tend to suffer from illusory superiority, mistakenly rating their ability much higher than is accurate, while highly skilled individuals tend to rate their ability lower than is accurate. In unskilled individuals, this bias is attributed to a metacognitive inability of the unskilled to recognize their ineptitude. Skilled individuals tend to underestimate their relative competence, erroneously assuming that tasks which are easy for them are also easy for others."

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunning%E2%80%93Kruger_effect
If the avalanche diode is the main/primary source of entropy why do we need the CC2531? The super paranoid part of me is worried about the 802.15.4 radio being used as a vector to taint the RNG.

Shouldn't an HW RNG NOT have any secondary communication method built in?

I am guessing you guys added that because that's the platform you're working with for your IOT project, but it just seems a little overkill to me. The diode data acquisition and the USB comms could be easily done using any Cortex-M0 type micro.
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I wished they would have shown their faces too next to the description. I don't know why but when I read such articles I expect to see the faces of the people too.
I was in Bangalore once. Traffic is like hell. Hard to imagine such a service in big cities. But at least you wont get screwed by the auto-drivers.
Actually disappointed I scored so low on this. I think it's healthy for community discussion that HN users to have sizable hater scores - otherwise we're a bunch of yes people (like me, it seems).
Here's my most trollsom comment:

"https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8497356*"

How does this thing work?
I recall seeing same kind of products in my local grocery store, just a few years ago. Though after most chains prohibited energy drinks from under 16 year olds, I haven't seen them since.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7728216

> This article seems to be talking about using quantum effects for random number generation.

> The devices you point to use the semiconductor avalanche effect (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avalanche_breakdown) which is a thermal effect.

> > Most noise is quantum noise (including the one quoted, even though electron avalanche is a classic phenomenon, in semiconductors it's going to have quantum effects)

> > But in the end it doesn't matter, any unpredictable, non manipulable source of randomness is fine. Other sources of noise in electrical circuits (apart from quantum noise origins) are interference (like the 60Hz hum, radio interference, and even background radiation)
In February, I had an aortic dissection. That's a big deal medical emergency with the kill ratio of a special forces operator.

Symptoms were similar to a heart attack, so it took a while to diagnose (John Ritter died of it, because they were treating him for a heart attack). In the ER they kept asking me if I was on coke, viagra, etc. Then someone brought up coffee.

I remember admitting that I had 6 cups that day, and thinking they'd stop taking me seriously. When they* finally figured out my medical situation and told me I needed to have IMMMEDIATE open heart surgery, the first thing I said was "thank god I'm not a hypochondriac".

Then I worried about my family and work and shit like that. But thanks to coffee my first worry was they'd think I "a bubblegummer".

* - "they" btw, was an awesome nurse and NOT the 3 doctors who saw me there.
I've worked with several people like this (at multiple companies) & I would recommend you to try & think of the both of you as a team working together towards a common goal, even if you're in different departments.

People naturally go into "defence mode" when they feel they are under threat. Do what you can to communicate in a way that is for the team vs for yourself as a silo (& thinking of him as a silo). Something as simple as asking if you can help him in any way, can change a dynamic entirely.
I really don't advice you to do work for free...
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Very nice list of top ten mistakes! You should write about it.

Can you please tell me what motivates you more beyond money? Challenge? Co-workers?

I did a similar list but focused on companies top ten mistakes when hiring tech professionals:
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/article/20140924112230-224359...
This is really really bad.
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My girlfriend recently bought an Xperia and a couple weeks later she received a notice from google that someone was blocked when trying to log into her gmail account from China. I wonder if there could be a connection.
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Yes, but the classification laws were always known to apply to pawns. The rules don't matter higher up, they never have. Use of force trickles down, not up.

If you were in power, would you really limit your propaganda to what's publicly known? What could possibly be the repercussion of selectively leaking to your advantage?
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Footnotes mention he later had a bribery scandal to deal with.
Thanks for the advice. But to get visibility and learning i feel i need to do that. I am from data-entry background and i am learning web technologies to make a career change.
Apparently my worst commment is "How did you use starred places?" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6346863

I'm sure I've said stuff on HN which is more negative than that.
"Because it’s so easy to judge the idiocy of others, it may be sorely tempting to think this doesn’t apply to you. But the problem of unrecognized ignorance is one that visits us all."

This means YOU, person who thinks you see through it all.

You don't.

This applies to you too.
Thanks for the links. I haven't used these tools - are they useful? Which features are most helpful? Certainly we'll want to convert to or from some Linux trace format to combine traces that involve Linux and Mirage machines.
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Where in Indonesia?

I know there is a pretty strong startup hub in Ubud. There is a coworking space there (called Hubud) - you could ask around & see if anyone needs a jnr dev.
Aha cool, is the schematic online?
I'd love to see the points awarded, comments on each item and a separator between each item. I personally love the HackerNode app, although that design is a bit outdated (but still better).
Anecdotal evidence: I work in an office with a lot of our companies non-technically inclined folks, and I would say: Yes, that is exactly how they feel. They want one password, and they want all their bookmarks and customization exactly as they are on every other computer they log in on without giving the computer or the software running on it any thought.

For work especially, calendar, email, hangouts, docs/drive... it saves us from needing more IT or training.

Edit: added "Anecdotal evidence:" to show awareness that I do not represent all cases. Also removed snark.
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"Ah, fond memories of downloading MP3's via irc DCC :)" worst comment?
I was actually thinking the same, shame there wasn't an answer in the article.
That's great, thanks for confirming :)
I think that's a fair point, I agonized over it for quite a while - the cc2531 was the USB device/ and stack I was building with at the time.

This is the main reason why by default the device disables the RF source, you have to go out of your way to enable it by editing an /etc .conf file - however it actually does make a slightly better random stream
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Is it just a matter of training? Has anyone gone over the source?

https://github.com/kevinmcalear/hater_news

I like the idea of scoring people on their "troll" number. This might fix other conversation sites where there's lots of noise. Someone could sell the solution to the Wall Street Journal.
What are you talking about? Totally lost after the first sentence here.
So my worst comment included a smiley face...

"Ah ok. I looked at it more as something you force on your co-workers :)"

Looks like 'ah' implies negativity to the algorithms driving this.

Edit: It's also only pulling your 50 most recent comments by default. That covers about the last two weeks for me and is probably why it isn't very accurate. 50 comments is a very small dataset to work from. The other option it gives is 50 oldest comments - again not very representative for someone who has been commenting regularly for 1301 days. I try to keep my comments useful but I know for a fact I've gotten into emotional debates in the last 4 years in which I was negative/stupid/hating. Maybe it's not possible but I would suggest pulling a random sample of 100-200 comments for more accurate data.
Personally, I think you took his comment the wrong way & it's actually one of the most accurate comments on here.

So you have some designs on paper, great! Show these designs to anyone, everyone & gauge their interest. Remember, what a user says is very different to what a user does. Just because they say they WOULD sign up for something, doesn't mean they WILL sign up for something. Friends, family (& professors) are likely to be biased out of love, widen your reach.

I wouldn't code anything until you have done the above. The PG quote is basically reaffirming that your idea is worthless right now. Millions of developers are out there with ideas. Thousands are even out there with an MVP. Get user feedback from day one & make sure you're idea is actually worth something (& remember that 90% of good ideas aren't).
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Some years ago, I looked in on a friend in another department, whom I found stressed out by the tedious job of removing malformed telephone numbers from spreadsheets. I took over her chair, pulled the spreadsheet in to Access, ran a couple of queries, and re-exported. In a couple of minute this did what would have been fifteen minutes or half an hour of work. I then saved the queries, wrote down the steps, and walked her through it again.

We should do more of this stuff, you are correct. The proper question, and maybe after the New Year we can send out a survey asking it, is What tedious and repetitive tasks are getting in the way of your real work?
Dissenters identified and exposed by an algorithm? I don't think this is a good or ethical idea to put into practice. But I admit it's interesting.
FYI: You might have DDOS'd yourself here - the site is loading for minutes so far (but no timeout yet).

I'm interested and will check back later :)
My worst comment was my mention of the late Ken Campbell's project to promote Melanesian Pidgin English as a global lingua franca.
>>I don't think that is humanly possible in a 7 day week, even under slave-driven conditions such as described in the article.

Ever been to a services company in India? work in projects which are 'premium projects'. These literally translate to delivering impossible stuff under impossible timelines.

16-18 hour work days are the norm. If you don't work that hard, you will be taken as some one who isn't ready to pick up nice opportunities that come your way.
The "right" (too simplistic) answer in the article is "B".

"One group knew the right Newtonian principle: that the ball would continue in the direction it was going the instant it left the tube—Path B. Freed of the tube’s constraint, it would just go straight."
Not to hate, but this is really not working
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Indeed, during the last hour of the YC application, there have been 1 submission/second. !
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Another interesting slant on this is imposter syndrome.

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impostor_syndrome
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Well, that means the screen will not time out, and thus will not ask for a password. Baidu has location access too, so there's an obvious attack vector in disabling the screen time-out before sweeping in and confiscating the device.

It's the least menacing item on that list, but that doesn't mean it's completely harmless.
How to find clients and agencies if you're a nobody in the iOS community?
I have one app on the store, and another that's soon-to-be released, and I'm quite confident in my technical skills but I just don't happen to have a dozen apps on the store. Is this a disadvantage? I don't have very many contacts, the reason being I've been working in a small startup where I only know a handful of people.

I'm considering going to conferences and meeting other developers, but I can't afford the costs without a paying project. I know it takes time and many attempts but are there any other ways I can "put myself out there"?

If anyone is looking for a iOS developer, email me at xii.0684@gmail.com. I might as well get the word out here too.

EDIT - this should be a Ask HN but i can't edit the title.
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What about creating a docker image? I was just considering to do so for my postfix / dovcot setup. That way i can migrate the image when i want to....
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I think I misread that. It's supposed to mean "this device must be able to accept any interference received"?
There's a difference between disagreement and rudeness though.
It sure is far better than idiotic SunSpider. They are close to real-life application examples. If they really wanted to hand-pick they would not include asm.js benchmarks, where Firefox has a certain advantage.
Berlusconi does seem to have rather ruined (or improved!) that phrase for the rest of us, judging by the Bunga Bunga wikipedia page.
The FED artificially kept low interest rates since 2001 till 2008. All that money had to go somewhere. It went to housing. Cause and effect, plain and simple. The same currently nobody seems to understand that we have even lower interest rates today. From 2008 till 2014. And all this money goes to (primarily) US Treasuries. US Treasuries are currently the most expensive in its 300 year history. Mortgage APR fixed for 30 years at 4%. For 15 years at 3.5%. When the real inflation rate felt by consumers is at about 10%. Why nobody sees that? People don't like to think. They prefer imaginary fantasies where everything is just fine to brutal reality of the unproductive economy running from a bubble to bubble sponsored only by the USD being reserve currency of the world.

Once the US Treasuries bubble bursts, the same moment, the bubble in the US Dollar and America will burst too.

We're living in the final stages of the final bubble, mother of all bubbles in the mankind history. So we have house prices in bubble territory, car loans in bubble territory, Wall Street in bubble territory, VCs/startup scene in bubble territory. Enjoy the ride! But you don't want to be there for the bubble burst of the world reserve currency. I'm already on the other side of the pond.
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Ah yes, the trolls are the companies who actually create content, while the companies that trade in other peoples' content for profit are heroic do-gooders.
I think I've never seen a crappier Show HN! Totally ridiculous.

(maybe now?)
Yeah I am really not sure what it really wants to measure; I came back with a 1.69% Mr Rogers level of hate. My worst comment was referencing Apple product pricing as a dick move.

I would be more interested in measuring how often a person up/down votes, how often they are up/down voted compared to others within a similar posting. It is one thing to get down voted into oblivion but if you have a lot of company does that mitigate it?
DDG proxies ads from Bing and so they make some revenue from that. It's a small team so it seems to be enough (for now anyway).
"An ignorant mind is precisely not a spotless, empty vessel, but one that’s filled with the clutter of irrelevant or misleading life experiences, theories, facts, intuitions, strategies, algorithms, heuristics, metaphors, and hunches that regrettably have the look and feel of useful and accurate knowledge. "

Yes, and an informed mind is the same, only all the junk is "lined" up to agree with whatever the prevailing wisdom is.

People don't operate on facts. They operate on feelings, flimsly allegories, metaphors, and half-baked truths. This isn't a bug; it's a feature. It allows us to walk into a room we've never visited before, use a chair, and order from a menu without having to spend time verifying a lot of details. The brain is emotional and always wildly guessing and generalizing about things, no matter who we are or what we do.

People wonder why prejudice and stereotyping hasn't gone away in society. Well heck, it's never going away until you replace people with robots. I was attacked by a clown as a kid, I hate and fear clowns. You saw your mom shrink from a tall person, you are afraid of tall people. That's how the brain works, and it's how we're able to function.

At best we learn to deliberately struggle with this. It's never going to go away -- at least while we're still human.
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You can add persecution of geohot to your list.
it thinks acronyms are shouting in caps
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how does he adjust his σ value ?
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I don't know about that, what I am pretty sure of is that for every funny answer, they have at least ten other boring "That person doesn't even exist" or "I don't know" replies.
We just launched a program to encrypt messages. I would be grateful for any feedback.
Now the program is in beta and is available for Windows.
Continue its development?
Glad they now have a faster way to make inaccurate predictions :)
uhh… with any "omnibox" UI in any browser, every keystroke is sent to Google.
not yet, the actual RNG circuit is pretty standard - we'll put up the eagle files, along with the software sources, before we open the kickstarter
I was joking though :P
I quoted Shakespeare because I admire him deeply and felt that my thoughts on the matter were relevant.

But the two statements are fundamentally different IMHO:

- Shakespeare writes of wisdom which comes in form of doubt. Only the wise men allow doubt into the conversation, hence their stance towards other parties is not aggressive and absolute, but rather flexible.

- The Dunning-Kruger effect, refers to personal biases of two categories.

However, I might be a little over-pedantic here, because comparing a study with a theatrical play can not be done in a straight way :-)
452000 is a pretty decent salary for a fresher/upto-4-years experienced guys in India. That is what most companies will pay you.

Of course if you are from an IIT or other big brand name college, you can milk your alumni network to get 4 times that in internet companies and funded start ups. Those are generally exceptions and not the norm.

Most importantly the very opportunity to travel to US and work there would be so important to many people here, that they would agree to work in almost any conditions.
thanks @robaras – glad you enjoy it!
> The origin of the word "sin" as most people use it today is a word from archery. It means hitting the target but missing the center.

This page (which gives the OED as a source) says that's true of the Greek hamartia (often translated as "sin") but not of the English word itself: http://www.wordorigins.org/index.php/site/comments/trespass_...
"Yeah, that book I linked is the same guy as that site you linked. Good stuff." is the worst thing I've said according to this. I'm positive I was much closer to trolling territory on that Angular 2 thread a couple days ago.
Yeah, with that (kids) in mind, high-dosage caffeine products shouldn't be sold over-the-counter like that; caffeine is seen as a harmless recreational product, but not in those doses.
So great! Is there a way to register (i.e. pay) for v1 and get v2 when it comes out?
The only one that can really gague that is yourself - have some coffee in the morning, check how you feel and how you sleep at night.
The incorrect use of apostrophe is. :3
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I troll by upvoting randomly.
All I do is make buttons blink with jquery and I'm supposedly an engineer.
libbd_push.so is Baidu's push notification service. Admittedly the fact they have to use native libs is a bit shady however if you have a large chinese userbase then GCM isnt really an option.
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Wow.

The progress of DLNs amazes me. The recent Ng et al. Zero-shot learning through cross-modal transfer[1] paper showed how a DLN could be taught to recognise classes of objects in images (cats vs trucks vs mice etc), then taught from non-image data about other classes (ie, "reading text") and then could distinguish between cats and dogs.

Now this shows a DLN can learn to program.

They say that technology means long-term change is usually great than expected while short term change seems slower. Right now the short term change seems damn fast to me.

[1] http://scholar.google.com.au/scholar?cluster=143306265984748...
It didn't like this wall of text:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7960514

which I can understand. Including that one I have a hater score of 3.5% which makes me a pretty positive person :)
Tl;DR :

The fast inverse square root is based on the fact that the integer representation of a floating point number is a rough approximation of its logarithm.

So convert floating point to its integer representation. So now you have its approximate logarithm. Now take half of that and improve that with some Newton raphson.
> However, I might be a little over-pedantic here, because comparing a study with a theatrical play can not be done in a straight way :-)

Don't worry, this is HackerNews, discussion among nerds of the highest form. Pedantry is what we do.

I think that while Shakespeare said it more poetically, he is essentially talking about the same thing. Perhaps Dunning-Kruger is more to the point and matter of fact, but it is the same thing. The expert speaks with doubt (because they know that there's so much more to know about a subject), and the fool speaks with certainty (because they do not know).

So maybe Shakespeare is describing half of Dunning-Kruger?