skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The list is missing the Mprize for mouse longevity, which is still out there, and the Palo Alto Prize for rejuvenation treatments in mammals. Possibly others as well.
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> Says who?

Says most of the people who care, and who therefore use the term the most.
IMO Amen was much more fleeting than the 808. Can't remember the last time I heard Amen in a mainstream track. Amen is super gritty and compressed which limits its style. 808 is an instrument, much more malleable.
I don't think it has that much of an impact. If you want to outsource work overseas, that's what you're going to do. But when you're a top tier company with big budgets, you're going to want people who work on your court, there's a huge incentive to bring them on campus. In short, the TPP is probably not going to change it too drastically.
We've done extensive research into the legality of our processes, and everything seems to be acceptable legally. If we become very successful, we will probably run into issues in the future though (e.g., Uber vs. Taxi unions).
>> We're moving from browsers being viewers for simple HTML documents (which can be copied, shared, and linked via simple means)

> Browsers still allow this.

Yes, they allow it. But consider that user stylesheets have been dropped, hardly any improvements have been made with presenting standard html (unless you count giving in to IE and moving from less-stark black-on-grey to too stark black-on-white as an improvement).

Still no browser does a half-decent job of avoiding ragged-right text[1], give you decent margins on un-styled content, etc. There's no real reason for this. You could claim "backwards compatability" -- but if there was genuine interest, there'd be nothing stopping the introduction of a <sane-default-render-html6-whatever> content type.

It's ironic, that browsing a plain html-site in w3m in the console is a better reading experience than opening the same page in a desktop browser. So of course people need to supply a crap-load of stuff just to get decent, basic text layout, that flows well across various screen sizes. No reason a basic, unstyled html-document couldn't look much better than a TeX/LaTeX document published in the 80s, with the added bonus of re-flowing in a sane way for various window/screen sizes -- but they all look awful, too the point that plain html is actually not usable.

You need to wrap a document in js to get sensible layout, and in css to get sensible presentation. Even if the document doesn't contain any other media than text. Add an image or two, and things keep going downhill. It's absurd.

[1] http://alistapart.com/article/the-look-that-says-book
> there are things that are Turing complete that I would not consider to be programming languages.

Like what?
Javascript is not HTML. Both can usefully exist without the other.
Sure!

HMAC keys are exactly one block long. But lets say an app wants to have a key that's two blocks long. No big deal, hash that app key and now two is one.

Ah, but now let's say the attacker has control of input keys. He can provide both the two block key which HMAC will hash for him, or he can do the work himself and prehash the two into one. Now two different input keys seem to provide the same output (assuming identical messages, of course).

Clever, no likely security impact.
I don't understand this. In most stories, arn't protagonists primarily male? Arn't they typically courageous, or intelligent, or unyielding, or strong, or determined?

I don't understand.
Ugh thinking of that gave me shudders. Kiting is dangerous enough without these things flying around, I would definitely give someone a piece of my mind if they started flying a drone in a busy spot.
2025 startup idea: an app that seeds your inbox with dubious pharmaceutical offerings and impassioned pleas from exiled Nigerian princes.
Can't help but comment that the title reminds me of a Doctor Who episode "Blink" where the statues only exist if someone looks at it. Anyway, cool Elixir project!
It's the crazy little things that people don't understand. You can't spell tax, without syntax.
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Nice thing about podcasts, you can drag the timeline slider to skip the ads. If you think you know enough about Squarespace already.
Er, syntax without tax. ANYWAY
Tech Book Face Off: The Edward Tufte Trilogy
My long - but casual - observation is this is not a phenomenon relegated to gender, but rather a common theme with the prevailing majority.

The ability to hold up traits common to those that are in power as a source of derision seems to have a cathartic function in both the recipient(s) and the sender(s).
> I wonder how this handles obstacles.

According to the creators v1 doesn't handle obstacles at all due to time and cost. I'm sure a later version can be made to do so; I feel like it should be far easier to do in a 3D space versus a flatted space like ground vehicles.
I find many things troubling in your statement, I'll explain myself as constructively as possible without sacrificing pragmatism (I hope all the following doesn't come as condescending, I'm just trying to help here).

1st of all. This is not facebook. Upvotes and downvotes are not likes/dislikes.

That said, here's another way to explain what I meant:
Commenting is not about pleasing readers (is also not about displeasing, so be kind, like the post recommends). If "someone important" likes or dislikes what you said, should not have such an impact that would make you consider changing your mind, your mind should be changed by feedback in the form of comprehensive information, that kind of feedback is much more meaningful than someone else's emotion (or even disagreement by itself without feedback provided).

There can be many reason/motives to upvote/downvote, but emotion is not reason, acting on emotion alone is just compulsive.

I don't think PG would ever downvote you if he dislikes what you said, I'd like to think he's more sophisticated than that; he would either have an interest (motive) on muting the info you introduce to the conversation (but that's sketchy), or even better he would provide feedback (reason) on why he disagrees with you. (But I have absolutely no idea on how would PG make decisions, I'm just being rhetorical here and using PG as an example of "someone important")

So my point is:

You should not make comments expecting PGs approval (or any other figure you consider "someone important", which is what I stated as a "perceived moral leader"), because that's the very definition of a "herd-like mindset of following perceived moral leaders", if HN introduces tools that allow that mindset, the community's value will suffer. Being inspired by leaders is cool, but allowing them to make your mind just by liking or disliking what you said is very dangerous (and immature).

You should participate in a conversation with confidence, and to obtain confidence you need to be well informed and prepared to test your ideas.

EDIT: Rephrased a few things, but didn't change substance I hope.
Totally agree, if I'm using a smiley and not an actual emoji.

It's really weird, but in Hipchat, it always throws me off a little bit when I include an emoticon, but the resulting graphic conveys a slightly different connotation than I was expecting.
Reminded me of "Nosotros los Nobles"
I tried it for 5 mins,the encryption is freaky slow. Telegram is still my favorite private chat app
Hi there.. it's really interesting because that's a core feature that we are focusing on at Saleswhale (http://saleswhale.io/product-tour). When you click into a contact's dossier (sadly, I'm not able to upload screenshots here), it will show you all related contacts, interactions and other smart insights that we managed to surface.

We are currently still in beta though, but we would love to work closely with you and get your ideas and feedback how to make Saleswhale more useful for you.

I'm the technical co-founder at Saleswhale and you can drop me a line at gabriel@saleswhale.io if you want to chat more.
What do you mean, can't curl a live sport event? Do you mean you can't save it to disk (PVR), or if it's not audio/video, it's not useful to curl it and parse it for stats? If it is video, and you don't consider curl-as-pvr a valid use-case of curl'ing -- how about presenting the text-overlay as a text/html/rss-feed? Mix it at the client for those that want video, or show it as an RSS stream for text w/images?

Not to mention that when we demand to have a functional js-parser and dom-tree just to get at the content, things like text-to-speech and many other things (including building a search-engine!) becomes much harder. For very little (I'd say no) gain.
Both of the above comments are great answers from the technical point of view, but I'd like to add one more thing: customer service. When people pay a lot of money for enterprise software, they expect to be able to get competent and timely help for their questions and problems. A startup that sells products or services to businesses might need to learn something about customer service if they want to be able to compete with established players in their field.
See: http://web.archive.org/web/20090804164014/http://i.gizmodo.c...

Students were asked to judge the quality of a variety of
compression methods randomly mixed with uncompressed 44.1 KHz
audio. The music examples included both orchestral, jazz and
rock music. When I first did this I was expecting to hear
preferences for uncompressed audio and expecting to see MP3 (at
128, 160 and 192 bit rates) well below other methods (including
a proprietary wavelet-based approach and AAC). To my surprise,
in the rock examples the MP3 at 128 was preferred. I repeated
the experiment over 6 years and found the preference for MP3 -
particularly in music with high energy (cymbal crashes, brass
hits, etc) rising over time.

And from http://radar.oreilly.com/2009/03/the-sizzling-sound-of-music...

... each year the preference for music in MP3 format rises.
In other words, students prefer the quality of that kind of
sound over the sound of music of much higher quality. He said
that they seemed to prefer “sizzle sounds” that MP3s bring to
music. It is a sound they are familiar with.

EDIT: See also http://wiki.hydrogenaud.io/index.php?title=Myths_(Vinyl)
He's speaking of commercials, which often portray dad as barely able to tie his own shoes.
Yeah, I'm not really seeing the whole social perfectionism thing either. An ex-coworker killed himself in a similar situation.
> Missing the main reason: child care is extremely expensive

Seems like highly dependent on geography and underlying real estate prices. The private market for child care is fairly open to anyone who's willing to go through proper training and safety rigor.

But let's say you plan a home-based childcare business, an it's in Bay Area, and the first thing you need to take care of is to buy real estate for it (in $2 million range) and child-proof it.

What you then have to charge for it to cover the mortgage, the property taxes, the insurance, the salaries to the employees quickly results in some unrealistic numbers.

Which is why no child-care provider would choose an expensive place to live as launchpad for their business, and expensive places to live have exorbitantly high childcare costs.
huh? I hardly feel threatened by basically everything you just listed there. Do you?

I get the feeling if you asked most women: "Do you think men are awful?" The answer would be "Yes but we love them anyway."

and, to be on a less cutsey point.

There was a time in my life where I was seriously depressed, and it was not because I thought society treated men poorly on average. It was because I thought I would have no place in society.

So at the very least for this poster, my experience directly contradicts you. Hardly scientific, but I trust my own eyes.
Yes, every engineer there has a dev server running a copy of Facebook.
You've moved from a closed, proprietary system for the entire application, to a closed system for just the DRM and nothing else. That's huge progress.

Is it, really? You're still supporting DRM, because that's the basic requirement here. You're still therefore running unknown, closed source code that is prima facie working against your interests as a user. You still have an extra potential attack vector for malware. Sure, the scale may (or may not) be smaller, but qualitatively it seems the key facts are still the same.

The killer app for Flash was largely video and games, both of which don't work well in Flash on phones.

Flash on phones only really lasted for about two years, and given that the earliest phones somewhere around 2010 were running something like 1GHz low-power processors, it's not entirely surprising that the initial performance wasn't great.

The game was basically over by mid-2012 and Jelly Bean, but by that time, there had been quite a few reasonable investigations into how many of the reputed performance problems were real, and how many were either out-of-date or just plain false. Various video hosting sites that had been reported to perform badly in earlier criticism were debunked, with evidence that the other junk on the sites was causing more of a problem than the Flash video itself and that similar Flash videos could play just fine on devices of the 2011-2012 era. Likewise claims that Flash seriously reduced battery life didn't stand up to careful scrutiny over several days of investigation in some cases; battery life was generally found to be reduced, by sometimes by no more than a few minutes.

And that was with mobile technology from 3-5 years ago, which of course had quite a bit less processing power and lower battery life than the modern equivalents.

By the time Flash could run well on the iPhone, the web had largely gotten rid of Flash and it was fast becoming a legacy technology

When did Flash ever run on the iPhone?

The performance is now irrelevant because the web has moved on from Flash.

Given the number of sites I run into that still don't work properly on an iPad, I have to disagree. Maybe the sites you visit regularly have moved on, but there are a lot more sites using Flash than YouTube and other similarly large video sites with similarly large budgets to update their sites and convert their content to the brave new world of HTML5 video.

If you can avoid adding a binary blob to your browser that has frequent security issues, why wouldn't you do so?

Because I have concerns beyond just security. I don't run a browser so I can be secure. I run a browser so I can browse. When you take security so far that you break the basic functionality of your system, you aren't so much securing it as... breaking the basic functionality of your system.

In any case, with the new model using media extensions, we still will be adding binary blobs to the browser, and as I've said before, I see no reason to expect that these ones will somehow not turn into security vulnerabilities sooner or later the same way just about every other web technology in history has.
I'd rather have a plugin that just ensured I never went to these sites at all. Or a list to drop in my hosts file.
There are a lot of successful sales people who'd agree with you. Choosing a non-sales field makes it so you don't have to focus on this as much since much of your work is non-social and you have a good excuse to be in a corner staring at the screen, but the social element is still the most important part of maintaining and improving your employment status. Your social status is much more important than the quality of your actual work product.
Spend a day in family court. Nowhere are the expectations of perfectionism for men lower, but rules and the penalties higher. The suicide and early death numbers for men whi transit this system are predictably high.
Sounds good in theory, but in practice kites can move really fast when manoeuvring or doing tricks. No guarantee that the drone would always avoid you successfully. You'd have to stay aware of where it is and where it's going, which would probably interfere with your kiting significantly.
> It’s a good idea to keep enough control so that investors can’t fire you (there are a lot of different ways to do this)

Such as?
Indeed, it seems as though Drummond's suffered from real setbacks and a lack of true social connectedness. I'm not sure why he would be chosen to be the centerpiece of this article about social perfectionists.
Maybe I won't get anything. That would, in real, practical terms of lives improved, put me on par with OWS. I could do worse for company. But maybe I'll get the Gates Foundation, which uses its morally tainted power-dervied money to save lives around the world. Orders of magnitude more lives than OWS.

(I had a paragraph here remarking on the differences in accomplishment between OWS and the Gates Foundation as I see them. I have removed it, because it is distinctly unkind.)

Consider, friend, the possibility that I understand every single one of your points. Consider the possibility that I understand your criticisms. Consider that I understand the accusations of arrogance, moral duplicity, corruption. Consider that perhaps I do understand what you mean about integrity and walking the talk.

Consider, then, the possibility that I might understand you, your points, and your positions. And still honestly disagree.

Please. Just consider the mere possibility.
Having a decent shim to code against instead of having to deal with the internal gooiness of different JS engines is actually very much preferred. By throwing a shim over the JS execution layer, they actually make the life of extension developers much easier.
That is simply NOT TRUE.

Vinyl has been demonstrated to be able to cut and playback frequencies of up to 70khz, and many commercially released records from as far back as the 70s had data up to the mid 40khz range (and in fact this is required for quadraphonic playback).
Yea but out of hundreds of photo sharing apps only one was worth $1 billion.
North Korea Defence Chief Hyon Yong-Chol 'executed'
I stand corrected, there are in fact a decent number of people who mentioned HMAC(K,X)==HMAC(H(K),X) when len(K)>blocksize. So, you had no reason to cite Solar Designer and I shouldn't have implied you should. Sorry about that!

Still interested if you can find an earlier cite for HMAC collision. Most of what I find implies mad crypto cleverness, not this silly little construction.
> I'm effectively being demoted due to my general lack of kindness

I am posting on a throwaway and I'm going to offer some unsolicited advice:

You need to change jobs now.

If you want to do a better job at politicking, you've already poisoned the well at your current company.

Once you've been branded as being unkind and it's stuck, you can't recover from that with the same people.

Sorry if that comes across as unkind, but I feel it's worth pointing out explicitly in case you haven't discovered it on your own yet.
See if you can view this: http://ephemeralp2p.durazo.us/1358fa296d21d03a6e6bf996e429f3...
From Raymond Hill (gorhill), the author of the 'uBlock Origin' ad blocker.
In defense of the article, when picking between protein shake brands to stock up on, I ended up selecting a pre-packaged one for the exact reasons described in the article: quicker, less messy, requires no extra tools.

Pre-packaged soylent seems like a good idea. Might not be possible, but if it is, that would probably win me over. I have to imagine it'd make the author happy to.
I've always thought that the rose diagram is an interesting example for discussing the purpose of visualisations. The positive result of this work is undeniable, but is it a good visualisation?

That depends on whether you believe the goal of a visualisation is to convince people of something, or if you believe the goal is to accurately communicate information. It excelled in the former, but failed in the latter.

Quantity of deaths in the diagram is represented as the distance from the edge of the wedge to the centre of the circle. Because of this, larger quantities have proportionally much larger areas displayed, which the brain interprets as a measure of quantity. The other way this diagram is designed to convince people at the expense of accuracy is the placement of preventable deaths furthest from the centre, meaning those wedges are much larger in area for the same quantity as the inner ones, further distorting the reality.

We've all seen bad representations of data by the media, politicians, and businesses criticised, but this work often seems to get a pass because of its undeniably positive outcome
This took 15 seconds to find: https://eprint.iacr.org/2012/684.pdf
If I watch an action movie, I am not intimidated by or identify with the cool guy in the movie because I'm not the guy they're portraying. When sitcoms and commercials emasculate and defame the everyman, I know they're talking about me.
The most insightful answer for me, thanks a lot!

If it's really common that:

"an employee can be dismissed by an employer for any reason (that is, without having to establish 'just cause' for termination), and without warning"

then that explains the motivation of the workers to really please the bosses.

Is it really so common and easy to lose the job "just so"?
Does anybody happen to have the video for the talk? I'd be much obliged. Just the slides leave a bunch of holes I want to fill in.

I can only find the videos from 2014.
It feels like you may have considered my reply an argument rather than a riff on your observation that Coq gets props as a programming language. When I see a programming language that comes with an infinite tape, I'll take the idea of Turing Completeness as a necessary condition for a programming language more seriously.

My point is that excluding HTML from the family of programming languages is a social distinction. And mentioning Turing Completeness is usually a way of cutting off conversation not opening it up.
Hi Thomas

I manually take the outputs of a feed forward network and out them back as inputs in the next time step, kind of making it a fully connected RNN.

Here are some details of the implementation:

http://blog.otoro.net/2015/03/28/neural-slime-volleyball/
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Kind of related, http://channelurl.com/ -- the site only has those pages that are linked to. In other words, the content of a page is taken from its URL.

Example: a couple of Mark Twain quotes at

http://channelurl.com/show/1f8b080054c8525500036d90b16a04310...

Cheers
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> I hardly feel threatened by basically everything you just listed there. Do you?

Seeing a bias and pointing it out does not equal "being threatened". Would you speak this way to a woman who was pointing out, say, anti-female bias in hackathon results?

> I get the feeling if you asked most women: "Do you think men are awful?" The answer would be "Yes but we love them anyway."

The fact that you accept the "yes" at the beginning of that answer reflexively illustrates my point precisely. Remember that the adjective I used to describe majority of the bias I referred to was subtle, not blatant.

> There was a time in my life where I was seriously depressed, and it was not because I thought society treated men poorly on average. It was because I thought I would have no place in society. So at the very least for this poster, my experience directly contradicts you.

I think you are misconstruing my post as a reflection of my life situation. Nothing is really verifiable over the Internet, but I can assure you that it is not.