skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>It feels like there's a constant friction to overcome--like every choice takes a bit more willpower than it should. I think this is part of the reason that truly counter-cultural people and movements tend to segregate themselves from the rest of the world

You neatly summarized something I have been thinking about lately.

My wife and I are "digital nomads". We work on our laptops while traveling the world. Been at it since late 2011 and we spend a lot of time in places like Thailand where nomads tend to congregate, the vast majority of which cobble together a living through various entrepreneurial ventures rather than traditional employment.

At the moment we are back home visiting family and friends. "Constant friction" is pretty accurate. Not meaning arguments necessarily but constant little cultural differences, differences in how we see the world that can become contentious as ideas about how things should be done inform everything we do.

Meanwhile if you remove yourself to a community of similar people all of those little points of friction go away. Its pleasant if a little group-thinky.
To do that right, you need help from the borrow checker. When manipulating an owner pointer with a backlink, you'd need the backpointer to be unborrowed at the moment the ownership changes. A feature like this needs compile time checking.

I really need to think this through and make a proposal for Rust 2.
>> "...easy to verify with a disassembler."

Have to laugh at this, because only on HN is the use of a disassembler considered "easy."

True story, I program computers for a living, and I have literally no idea how to verify anything at all with a disassembler. Or even approximately how one works.
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off topic: is the there a third party service that will let me collapse all sub-comments and just read the parent comments?(and then expand them if they seem interesting?)
Whether it is gender-associated or not, if negotiation skill isn't what your company is seeking in employees, it shouldn't be providing premium compensation for it (and,consequently, inferior compensation for people with the skills you do want that lack negotiation skills.)
> Of course, that is the whole point of naming something sensibility..Just, for example, imagine how hard it would be if you have to learn/work in a version of C that calls pointers as 'branches'.

Yes, if you rename <arbitrary thing> to <other arbitrary thing>, it is very likely to result in nonsense. This is not such a case.

A branch in git is literally a name for a branch of the DAG that is the commit tree. It's possibly the least abstract interpretation of the concept as possible. There is nothing nonsensical about it.

But the objection seems to be that you don't work with it like in svn or hg or p4 or cvs (which are also all different from each other), which does not make it nonsensical, merely unfamiliar. This is the distinction I'm driving at.
Pretty much. Also, as a non white person I feel their echo chamber effects acutely. Casual racism and race "realism" is especially pronounced in nerd circles.
That argument is not invalid, but the counter-argument is that the functional version does a much better job of capturing the intention of the code, rather than the procedure of it. The intention is to get the sum of the squares of the first 10 numbers counting from 1. My gut tells me that I have fewer bugs when I'm capturing intention rather than process, but I won't claim that it's definitely true.

(Not to say this is an example of bug-due-to-process-over-intention, but you do have a bug – you're summing from 0 to 9 instead of 1 to 10.)
TechCrunch using Wordpress certificate for SSL
The list of /8 block owners makes interesting reading:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_assigned_/8_IPv4_addre...

The US Army in various guises controls vast swathes of address space, but there are also lots of corporations with a 256th of IPv4 all to themselves: Halliburton, GE, Prudential, Ford, etc. MIT also appears to be the last university still hanging onto their own block.
This branch adds slicing and broadcasting as in numpy: https://github.com/orangeduck/numeric

There are a few known bugs in mainline numericjs (including one in the eigen decomposition when there are repeated eigenvalues). The author of numericjs is active in the Google group, but hasn't had time to work on it in the last few years. Hence the third-party, not integrated orangeduck branch.

This project, when I started using it 5 or 6 years ago, was the one that made me realize just how fast JavaScript has become. This project also demonstrates how desperately JavaScript needs operator overloading. When I used numericjs for a homework assignment recently, I considered writing a sweetjs macro for my students but didn't get around to it. I would be grateful if someone else did!
Wondershare Dr.Fone for iOS Coupon Code
I'm not terribly worried about this actually, it seems more like general incompetence and pandering to our friends in Hollywood rather than an intentionally malicious step toward mass surveillance. I don't think its really capable of tracking anything more than who is download GoT on a regular basic... /sarcasm

Seriously though it is indeed concerning the way both major parties are heading with this, even if they had the best intentions its a nasty path.
Our current product was just released to address the needs of one market (scouting companies, if you aren't familiar with the term: http://www.farms.com/precision-agriculture/crop-scouting/). We are also building a general-purpose platform for handling the data (and partial visualization) of the farmer, e.g., field geolocation data, various data layers, etc.

The first addresses one market. The second addresses the entire market at a high-level. Most individual markets (such as seeds, fertilizer, pesticide, etc.) need specialized solutions.

For instance, fertilizer companies and growers would love a tool that lets them take in all of their data and using known models (which exist in theory in academia) apply that information to allow them to apply correctly across a field. A myriad of individualized solutions for locales, crops, and the ilk are just begging to be built. And that's just fertilizer, one of the many cycles in crop production.

Large and small corporations are asking us to do work on various pieces of that huge pie, but we have to specialize or our fairly small team would be impossibly overloaded.
I would love to hear about what you guys are doing. I think thats a huge underrepresented field (outside of monsanto/cargill).
If they are eliminating negotiation, them either their offers need to be better than before or they'll lose talent. I suspect that the result of this will be people with less negotiating skill making more money in jobs where the skill is irrelevant to job duties and people with more negotiating skill making less than now in the same jobs at reddit. It won't be one side, and it won't particularly be about gender except to the extent that gender happens to correspond with negotiating skill and/or desire to have negotiation be part of the hiring process (the later more affecting who decides to apply to reddit in the first place.)
Turkey lifts Twitter ban after site removes photos of kidnapped prosecutor
I think the real argument against what Snowden did was that he gave journalists way too much information on certain topics, relative to what one could argue are "legitimate" operations of the NSA. The fact that the NSA is spying on foreign leaders seems pretty straightforward, and basically in their job description.

I think this argument holds a lot less strongly than it did with what Manning released (notably the cables that listed "infrastructure weak points" that would basically be a list of high-value targets for anyone looking to do pain to the allies of the US. Things like schools and pipelines). But it's a question of where you think the line lies in "legitimate" surveillance.

But if you don't think it makes sense for the NSA to be spying on Chinese research institutions, for example (if only to keep tabs on Chinese military research), then I don't know if you have any task that the NSA could do given its mission statement. Obviously a balanced position, but I think most people in the US believe some spying infrastructure is necessary.
Wholesale or retail? A head of organic lettuce (which is what you're comparing to) is about $3 in florida. MAYBE $4 if its a fancy looking variety other than iceberg.
The Iron Heel
On top of what you mentioned, if dollar remains strong or appreciates more, then that will make US exports less competitive and could take some steam away from industries demanding these trades. Especially when it comes to manufacturing.

Additionally, I read articles like this and see that entry-level wages for a welder are $16.50. If businesses are experiencing an actual shortage and want to draw new people into a trade, they are going to have to show that with more attractive wages or other perks such as paying to train people.
Slavoj Zizek has been persistently arguing (though I don't think he claims the original observation as his own) that 'western' liberal-capitalist democracy has developed a dangerous infatuation with the Singapore model of authoritarian capitalism and its pro-forma ather than substantive approach to democracy.
I realize the inherit issues with rewriting crpyto, but does the javascript-ness of it matter? Serious question, I feel like I've heard saying that it can be a factor.
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Unfortunately that advice is hugely misleading. The reason is that the p-value essentially tells you how repeatable your analysis will be, but doesn't say anything about how beneficial making the decision might be. Second, there is a relationship between how large the difference between outcomes are and how many people you need. So if taking your conversion rate from 10 to 15% would be really helpful to your business, you might need say thousands of people to notice that difference statistically.
> No. 4 story on HN

My sides!
I have a hard copy of the Princeton Companion to Mathematics and find it incredibly useful -- highly recommended.

http://www.amazon.com/Princeton-Companion-Mathematics-Timoth...
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do you work at farmlogs? its the only one I've heard of.
I have serious trouble with [2]. Disks not evolving as fast as the network? Under what rock have they been living?

The paper seems to peg local disk bandwidth at 150Mbps, and then compare it to remote network disk access at... 150Mbps. NVMe is going to grant us 2.2GBps bandwidth and 450K IOPS (from a single consumer-grade product), so that paper is off by more than an order of magnitude. Local disk is non-volatile storage sitting a PCIe lane away from your CPU. I just don't see how disk locality is not going to be crucial for many workloads, for decades to come.

In 2020 a flash-only SAN isn't going to deliver 20Gbit/sec to each of 100 blades in the rack. A 4TB NVMe card on each blade will though...

Look at Intel's latest Xeon-D SOC, yeah, it's got Dual 10GBE, but you're not going to get 7.7GB/s over that... [1]

[1] http://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/benchmarks/server/xeo...
"Run-on sentence" is a technical term denoting a specific grammatical error and not a synonym for a sentence with more words than you'd prefer. A sentence is either a run-on or it is not.

You may as well say that a polygon is somewhat rectangular.
Ok. I think that is a relatively accurate description of some normal git processes, but I don't think that's saying what you're getting from it.

You may be taking too strong a meaning of the 'ownership' concepts described there (and I think they're stated too strongly). No one owns a branch name in git, not even the person who first makes it. You own the branches in your own local repository, and you can choose how and if you share them, but it is perfectly possible to do shared work on a branch if you have a shared repo to work from (and even, with some extra work, without one).

This is basically a Zooko's triangle[1] problem, where git has chosen decentralized and meaningful, which necessarily implies a rejection of ownership (even to the extent that Fossil wiki page implies).

But in the end, most branches in git are focused on a piece of work and not who made them (it's mostly the 'lieutenants' in the linux model who would have personal branches). Single-author branches may be more common in git because it definitely does make those easier than other possibilities, but there is nothing stopping collaboration on a shared branch in git.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zooko%27s_triangle
"The irony is that a world leading electronic voting system was developed by Andrew Tridgell"

Of Samba, Rsync, rproxy, KnightCap, hacking Tivo, SourcePuller and a host of others. Also COMP8440 at ANU ~ https://www.samba.org/~tridge/
Oh, I see. Thank you! :)
Not only is that unnecessary, as laid out in a sibling comment, it would likely be ineffective legally, as you can't simply invent penalties and apply them through a license like that.
We are specializing on one stage of the crop-growing cycle: pest management.

In order to do that, we started by building a hardware tool to deploy in fields to monitor moth population. That's how incredibly specialized this industry requires: one part of the cycle and for one pest merits an entire company being started.

Because hardware is really hard to get right, and then to scale, we've started developing software products in parallel. What that means is like just about every other provider in the space, we had to develop a general purpose platform to allow growers to even see their data (farm, field level management and visualization). Luckily, we have a contract with a regional company to build that tool while maintaining the IP. We're just now starting to get that right, so that we can move on to solving interesting problems in the space (we just released our first product built on the platform for scouting companies, see: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9331917).

Thankfully the data problem is in the slow progress of being solved thanks to http://openag.io/. Hopefully in the future, new companies only need to develop awesome solutions to particular problems and allow those to be integrated with a variety of data storehouses. Unfortunately, that's a long way off.
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I don't. But if things go as planned, you'll be hearing about us soon. :)
Techcrunch is usually accessed via unencrypted HTTP as a quick search for Techcrunch will show: Google offers the HTTP URL. Techcrunch is hosted on Wordpress VIP[1] which explains the SSL cert you get. In other words, nothing to see here.

[1] http://techcrunch.com/2012/12/13/automattic-launches-wordpre...
I'm pretty sure Techcrunch is a wordpress VIP customer.
Addressing that first point is "The Difference Between 'Significant' and 'Not Significant' is not
Itself Statistically Significant" by Andrew Gelman and Hal Stern.

PDF link: http://www.stat.columbia.edu/~gelman/research/published/sign...
https://www.clearxchange.com/payments/

https://www.bankofamerica.com/onlinebanking/education/how-to...

https://www.wellsfargo.com/online-banking/transfers/surepay/

https://www.chase.com/online-banking/quickpay
I was living in Japan 22 years ago (Yamanashi), and I agree with your two-decade assessment.
> So what is South Wales doing wrong here

FYI, it's New South Wales (NSW). Nothing to do with the lower portion of Wales in the UK.
I have a personal blog, but its been a few months since I wrote anything.
three.js is a 3D engine. WebGL is a library that let's you interface with 3D graphic accelerators(rasterizers on steroids). That is it's main purpose. Rasterization is a fundamental of real-time 3D graphics. I am not sure why people are feeling deceived by finding this out?
I concur, the entire Opal/Tcard fiasco is already a good example of how things are done by the NSW Government.
People who object to javascript crypto usually mean that in the context of "browser javascript", which is fraught with peril [1]. The javascript language itself isn't necessarily the problem (although parts of it are dodgy by the standards of what you'd like to implement crypto with).

[1] http://matasano.com/articles/javascript-cryptography/
Stemmy – The Stemming Algorithms Tester. Porter, Porter2, Paice-Husk and Lovins
expected when hosted with wordpress:

$ dig techcrunch.com NS

...

;; ANSWER SECTION:
techcrunch.com.	14400	IN	NS	ns1.wordpress.com.
techcrunch.com.	14400	IN	NS	ns3.wordpress.com.
techcrunch.com.	14400	IN	NS	ns2.wordpress.com.
Hell, if anything on a short sequence the naive (one loop at a time) approach might be faster if it keeps the instruction and data caches more coherent.
I have also tried kubernetes a few times, and got stuck everywhere. I was unable to find a "this is how you build a kubernetes system from scratch" document somewhere. All I managed to find where very specific howto's for specific system combinations, none of which fits my needs. I tried a few times with building systems on the documentation list, but ran into issues at each step.

My biggest worry and issue with running kubernetes in production is the overall workflow of standing up an environment, which seems to be:

1. download some images/dockerfiles
2. [magic]
3. profit

I cannot find a document anywhere that tells me what components are used, how they interact, what settings are required, etc. I'd love to be able to give kubernetes a try and see how it would work for our service, but am having a very hard time getting the right level of detail. It appears to be either "go the [magic] route", or "read all the code" with little in between.

If I had some kind of pointer, I'd be happy to write something up about how to get it running for a prod setup...
What effect does extreme cold have on the human body?
Also see,
http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v483/n7391/full/483531a...
, and a counter-view,
http://www.nature.com/news/reproducibility-the-risks-of-the-...
We use it at Mi9 to run some of Australia's highest trafficked websites, like ninemsn.com.au (and family of new sites) and jumpin.com.au. Also Stan.com.au (Australian Netflix competitor) runs their micro service architecture on Elasticbeanstalk
Well he was a moron. Linus is Linus-kun because often he is right.

Here is more of the exchange for context:

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Umm. Notice how the "Joseph" I replied to had deleted all the comments he wrote?

That should tell you something. I smacked down a troll.

If I was polite to you all those years ago, and I was polite but firm
in the two first responses, please give me credit for when I smack
somebody down. There may be a reason for it. The fact that the person
deleted his messages (or github deleted them for him - I have no idea
what their comment policy is) and you cannot see that context any more
online should not make you think that I suddenly went crazy.

Btw, since I get the github messages in email too, I have a copy.
Joseph replied to those "polite but firm" messages where I explained
exactly why I don't want to bother with github pull requests with
this gem:

"I did not realizes that Linus' shit does not stink. Thanks for

clearing that up..."

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In that case, would they not spent 10 bucks on an SSL cert and redirect to plain?
I usually am able to find everything here:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_mathematical_symbols
That's not an unreasonable argument. Here in NZ various political leaders (e.g. Don Brash) and prominent business lobbyists (members of the now-defunct Business Roundtable, for example) have been quite open in their desire to see New Zealand be "more like Singapore" (though not, curiously, on topics such as large-scale state intervention in housing or telecommunications, for example).
He's not talking about checks specifically, but about the idea that there is some technology or institution in Australian culture that seems perfectly normal, maybe a bit old-fashioned, that outsiders see has hilariously behind the times.

I'm American, but unfortunately I'm not familiar enough with Australian culture to really see what such a "fixation" might be.
Ok, instead of reading a Wikipedia page or two, or the most elementary chapter in a probability/statistics textbook and gaining a bunch more skills (among them the tools needed to reason about whether your MCMC is doing anything close to reproducing the original distribution), I can peruse a huge blog post filled with patronizing language and it doesn't even have the Metropolis-Hastings algorithm listed out even in pseudocode. Got it, this is what progress looks like.
I think I'd state it another way. We've overstated education as a path to a good job, but not the importance of education. Education is important in and of itself, specialization can indeed enhance one's job prospects, but general secondary education isn't or should not only be interpreted as a means to a job but rather a means to personal growth.

Im not saying we should all turn to soft majors, the contrary, there is too much of that, but we do need the GE classes even for line cooks and anyone else doing menial work. It should give us all a better understanding of that which affects our daily lives.
Another Ag founder here and this is totally true. There's a lot of groundwork to lay before we can start applying state of the art algorithms to ag.

For example, a few months ago my co-founders and I built a computer vision system that could count fruit (predicting yield is important because produce spoils quickly). The growers we've shared it with love it but most don't have the infrastructure to use the data in their operations. It's hard to respond quickly when everyone is emailing spreadsheets.

Adoption of tech in ag has been slow, in part, because farmers are already very good at their jobs. Many of them have been working the same crop on the same land for decades so there has been some skepticism about what new information can be learned from "just another sensor."

But change is in the air. The water is running out, there's a huge labor shortage, and every farm employee now has a smartphone.

If we can spend the next year or two getting farm operational data online then there is a huge amount of value that can be unlocked with even relatively simple algorithms (not to mention deep learning etc.)

In fact, we don't really have any other choice. Software can bring in the next green revolution and that makes this a really exciting time.
The stemming algorithms tester. Featuring Porter2, Porter, Paice-Husk and Lovins stemming algorithms, it allows you to change among them easily and see the outcome in the blink of an eye.

Don't believe the hype! Check it out for yourself!

http://www.stemmy.ninja
The author draws a distinction between computing expected value of a random variable and computing the volume of a convex set, but from the point of measure theory, both are computations of integrals. So maybe the definition given from the encyclopedia wasn't so bad, given the right prior knowledge.
I get paid 1st and 15th, my wife (RN) every 2 weeks.

Per 6: not sure what I expected, just didn't find a particular use for the function.
wtf are you talking about?

The nameservers for a domain don't indicate what the DN of a cert is.
Here are two contemporaries and WP.com VIP customers that do have their own certs:

https://recode.net/

https://gigaom.com/

Here are two that don't:

https://qz.com

https://pando.com/

And one that redirects you from https

https://time.com

Is that last one the best experience if you don't have a cert?