skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you stock a team of people attacking a problem with people who fit one precise mold, you'll miss out on the breadth of problems that people from other backgrounds face.

If I'm building an algorithm for packing bytes into an array, inverting matrices, or some similarly technological issue, why would insights into police profiling or sexual harassment be useful?

Seriously in the most crass cynical context imaginable, diverse teams should be expected to outperform homogenous ones.

I note that two of your examples are from science fiction television, and the third is a (good) comedy routine.

I don't disagree with the spirit of the common-sense "should" in your sentence. I do question--because Lord knows we'd all be better off with concrete numbers so we can put this to bed and win a decisive victory for diversity--whether or not this diversity actually results in better outcomes reliably.

You're trading global progress for a blip of personal comfort extracted at a high cost from more vulnerable people.

Well, yes...that's pretty much the definition of capitalism as currently implemented: running arbitrage on scarcity of material or knowledge so as to enrich oneself and one's stakeholders.

~

Again, I'm all for diversity and these things. I'm just pointing out that these arguments would benefit from much more intellectual and practical rigor than many seem to possess.
Doesn't appear to. It may run slowly itself once you press the hotkey but startup speed is not really affected.
Cool! I think this project is really awesome and your blog is full of interesting things. Keep up the great work!
Yeah, I just went on an edit frenzy after you replied. Thanks.
I just tested the bot at Coupa Café in Palo Alto. I'm from Colombia, and all my colombian credit cards were decined but at the end, my local CC was accepted. I took a pic: https://instagram.com/p/5h993iw_hk/ and I was very happy. I'm a tea geek, and I loved the concept. Wish you the best, guys !!

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Hi,

I really love it and I'm very impressed. I'm actually just a high schooler and I was working a book for Java that I was planning on self-publishing as well. I was wondering if you could lend some insight into how you formatted your book (especially with the code)? Did you use any software or get it done by someone else? Or did you use any template that you recommend?
In looking at that thread (from the OP) I am wondering how much the algorithm, among other things, takes into account the appearance of comments downvoted to oblivion. I would guess that that needs to be a factor considered. A quick scan of that link seems to indicate many grayed out comments. (Which I didn't read..)
Is Amazon's wealth more concentrated ( as in just in bezos ) than Wal-Mart (the walton family)?

I think it's unfortunate if it is.
Thanks! As someone who hasn't worked on any JIT compiler, the Schilling paper was very easy to read and comprehend. I'll definitely check out the Dynamo paper too.

Haskell seems like an interesting language to implement, being both statically typed and lazy. Static typing provides some optimization avenues but having to evaluate thunks at runtime complicates many common optimization strategies.
Route calls from a specific person or group to your cell, and others to someone else, or to voicemail, or just drop them completely.

Nice start.

Now send all those unwanted calls and texts to email and let it handle them. Then you'd really have something there.
Yeah I know. But I still stand by my assertion that in every practical sense, the Fed should be treated as a govt. agency and should be pretty much completely transparent.
Well, the @import itself only works if it precedes other statements.
> True but all of our planet has an atmosphere conducive to supporting life.

The composition of Earth's atmosphere was pretty similar to Venus and Mars, before photosynthesis changed it to the current composition.
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I have a short piece coming up on Ars Technica this weekend on this exact issue. Stay tuned. :-)
> Is talking about feminism too off topic for HN or was it because of the article associated with the topic, or other?

I'd say it's closer aligned to politics than technology. But I'm just a person with an opinion, not an HN staffer. Definitely as 'dang about that.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
And here's the actual site where you can try it out: http://www.cs.toronto.edu/~graves/handwriting.cgi?text=
> Everyone who ever tried implementing any ML-like language on top of JVM failed miserably.

How is "ML-like" defined here? AFAIK, Haskell is usually considered "ML-like", and Frege is a Haskell dialect implemented on the JVM.
We're catering to the grab-and-go market. Our current machine doesn't address this but we're working on it.
Go port of https://github.com/bevacqua/fuzzysearch that was on HN this week (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9914042).
That's an odd sentiment. Walmart is more distributed just because Sam Walton was dead. As the time he was alive, it's even more concentrated than Amazon has every been.
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No really, any two of the walton family's main inherators are worth more than bezos.
Can someone explain why on earth do the likes of Goldman Sachs and Citibank line her pockets when clearly in this sense it's against their interest?
Nope, Heroku had a free tier that wasn't a trial, all kinds of people were using it for toys and experiments, some of them evolved into Serious Business projects with real costs, but a lot of them just idled along using minimal resources, but then Heroku decided the free lunchers were no longer welcome and severely throttled the free tier so that most of them now had to pay $7/mo. This took effect earlier this month. This was right on the heels of discontinuing their old stack, and apps that were running on it weren't auto-migrated or anything, just killed. So there's a lot of disgruntled former Heroku users out there.

I'm not using it yet but Bluemix does appear to have a non-trial free tier, and it looks like they actually offer a fair bit more than Heroku did.
Forgive me if I'm an idea killer, negative nancy, devil's advocate, or whatever. Although this may be functional for a few people, I don't see it gaining traction among users of Excel. I'm a grad student and my lab mates all use Excel proficiently. However, they steer away from programming or anything to do with "code." As an anecdote, I had a few terminal windows open on my laptop. One of them walked by and remarked, "Are you hacking?!"

Also, I doubt version control is something this community would begin using, simply because of the perceived effort required to get going (in reality, source control is not that complicated, but once you start talking about "repositories" you are going to lose these people). It's unfortunate, but most of society (even really smart folks!) prefer to remain ignorant to tech in general. :/
Yes, people can and have, I never claimed they couldn't. However if Disney feels your version is too close to theirs, they'll sue. And with their war chest, your version can be a lot further from theirs than theirs can be of yours, because they can out litigate you.

Yes, they take PD works and create their own versions. They then are grossly overprotective of them. They've sued people for creating characters and costumes only vaguely similar to anything Disney specific versions of characters (including suing the Oscars!), as well as heavily lobbied congress for extensions to copyright. To claim Disney is anything other than very aggressive in their "defense" of infringement is to ignore their history.
If you like that, you might also like Thoreau's 1854 book "Walden"[1]

It is over 100,000 words about ignoring the silly distractions in town and making close observations of nature that help one to "discover oneself".

For example, he writes about how he closely watches ant colonies fighting and compares them to the armies in The Iliad, etc, etc.

But I do understand that ~1700 words in a magazine article is more digestible than 100k words from a 160 year old book if the themes are unfamiliar to the reader.

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walden
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I am sorry it didn't work out for you. Thanks for the great advices and good luck in your future life!
Thanks for that ... I stuck on that sentence too. What you should really do after reading this article is just stop doing anything for a few minutes. Seriously. Nothing. Don't check your phone, don't flip through the mail. Don't sort dishes in the sink. Don't grab a glass of water. Just sit and don't do anything. I dare you :)

My wife can't stand taking a bath with the kids because they always want to be in there for about 20 minutes longer than her sanity allows. I've discovered just sitting there with them, hanging out, watching them play and I love it.

Man, if we can't stop and watch the things move around us ...
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Yes, it does. We all collectively pay for the economic and social costs of advertising. Advertising makes nothing free for anyone: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8585237

Maciej Ceglowski (idlewords) also calls for an "anti-free-software movement" in Don't Be A Free User: https://blog.pinboard.in/2011/12/don_t_be_a_free_user/

There are better ways to screen out unwanted callers.

As Jeff Hammerbacher, fmr. Manager of Facebook Data Team, founder of Cloudera says, "The best minds of my generation are thinking about how to make people click ads. That sucks."
> If you situated it somewhere like the atacama desert, then you'd be right on the ocean

Well, the Atacama is 8000ft above the ocean, so the energy required to pump the water up there would be significant.
That's a really good observation!

We think GetScale works great for anything that:

(1) Is valuable enough to warrant a serial number (unique ID)

(2) Has unit margin of at least a few dollars

(3) Is complicated to build or inspect, or has to be held to an extremely high aesthetic standard (e.g. luxury goods)

That covers almost all of your examples. One counter-example might be T-shirt manufacturing.
> they have root on your box

Or they have your discarded dead drive from your backup disk that you forgot to enable full disk encryption on. Or they rooted a machine that you were using "ssh -A" on to forward your agent, and have been able to temporarily hijack your SSH agent session. Or there's an information disclosure vulnerability in your web browser that allows them to read files from your hard drive, though without control of what files they can read, and by chance the attacker got lucky and one of the files was .ssh/id_rsa.

While the above description goes way further than I probably would, and yeah, 2FA would be more reasonable, there are good reasons to practice defense in depth, and try to design systems that have a chance of staying secure even if one of your assumptions fails like "private key is compromised".
You're being too harsh. They'll probably just downgrade from HD/16:9 to SD/4:3 after you've exceeded your 10 hour limit. And you will always have the option to rollover hours you didn't watch last month!
A good heuristic is if num_points is close to num_comments, which is the case here.
I've been toying with the idea of making a tool to derive SSH keys directly from memorable passphrases, with something like scrypt. Almost as convenient as a normal passphrase, almost as secure as a random key! ("Secure" because presumably no script kiddies are bruteforcing keys like they are bruteforcing passwords.)

Besides the dubious security value, another reason I haven't bothered is that if you don't have convenient+secure access to a proper key, you're not going to have convenient+secure access to the key generator either. Maybe it could still be an excuse to learn a new language and how SSH keys work. I don't know if I could rationalize even tossing it up on Github with warnings though.
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IT departments are not buying Titans and they are not going to be buying Pascals.

IT departments aren't even buying Nvidia at all, they are buying Intel integrated.
Thank you for the feedback. We're so glad you enjoyed it! Sorry it didn't accept your Colombian credit card. We'll work on it. I know it accepts Apple Pay if that helps.
I didn't mean to infer that Disney stole Sherlock, but instead to demonstrate how ridiculously long copyright terms are still encumbering stories 85 years after the death of the author and up to 92 years after their creation.
that's http://portlandmaps.com for those confused
The Walton's own a lot more of Walmart, closer to 50%. Bezos less than 20%.
If those are taken, then there are synonyms like sentry, sentinel, guard, guardian, watchman, protector, monitor, screener, defender, shield, chaperone, paladin, vigilante, ...

How did they end up with "janitor". I'm looking at thesaurus.com and it doesn't list "janitor" as a synonym for any word that denotes a protector of something.

There is "custodian"; sometimes building janitors are called custodians, but that word has connotations of taking care of something (having it in your custody).
No, you are just totally oblivious to Nvidia's product segments.

The deep learning applications and those that want massive amount of RAM buy Teslas, which have exactly that. Titan X is a gaming card and it's marketed as such.
First paragraph: You're still making major assumptions.

Second paragraph: I concur, sir!
Not all fission reactors use the same cycles to turn heat from the nuclear reaction into usable power.

Most existing reactors in the US use the reactor core as the heat source, a convection cooling tower as the heat sink, and water/steam as the working fluid.

Using salt water as the working fluid in a BWR or SCWR would probably be dangerous, as it circulates around the reactor core. In a PWR, the working fluid and the fluid circulating past the reactor core are separated via heat exchangers in the steam generator, so that's probably the only widely used reactor type that could do distillation-based desalination without heavy modification.

But probably the most useful way to go about doing it is to keep the rest of the reactor as it is, and just attach the reverse osmosis desalinator pumps to the same driveshaft as the electricity generator. Even though boiling and condensing water is an integral part of steam engine operation, it really works best when that water has been completely demineralized already. Otherwise, your boiler fills with salt sludge, and your condenser gets clogged with mineral scale.

You're saving efficiency by taking out the two conversions between electrical and mechanical work and the transmission loss between generator and pump motor. The purified water and waste brine could also carry heat away from the steam engine's heat sink if it can go out hotter than the ocean water that comes in. I'm thinking that you'd heat the waste brine as hot as possible before dumping it in a solar evaporation pond. The infrastructure required to pump pre-heated water to the nearest community along with cold is probably not going to pay off unless you're supplying high-rises or a university campus.
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I always wanted this, typing paths is so annoying. I think the command line got stuck in the last millennium. So much things could be automated there, especially command completion. Why do I have to remember the stupid -xfv parameters for tar or whatever. Computers should be like magic.

What could be improved:
if I type
"nano <ctrl f> index."
I see some index.js files but not my index.html file from my node project.

Ah ok it's in a different folder, but it would be cool if it showed anyways.
Also, Bezos has far more influence (and responsibility) over Amazon than the Waltons do over modern-day Walmart.
His book is pretty fantastic, but I didn't realize he wrote half of the packages I use.
The Walton family hold a bit more than 50% of Walmart shares. This is by design. As they control the board, they usually make sure that Walmart buys back enough share to keep them in control. Their income are mostly coming from dividend, which amounts to a few billion a year :) It is possible to argue that this basically prevents Walmart from taking risks in more innovative business lines.

Jeff Bezos holds less than 20% of Amazon now, but he basically "owns" Amazon for all practical purposes. I'd also say that at least 20% of Amazon valuation is based on Bezos being the CEO/President/Chairman of the Board.
Why do all the simple spreadsheet implementations forbid circular references? A colleague of mine made a very nice solver for temperature and pressure calculations in a transformer which would have been much more complicated without circular references.
There's also https://github.com/systemjs/systemjs which aims to implement the ES6 Module Loader.
Since no one seems to have mentioned it yet, here is a remarkable photo of Terry as a ten year old child, working on a math problem with Paul Erdos:

https://plus.google.com/+TerenceTao27/posts/fiZbgKv4Yew
> RESTful also never meant HTTP.

Right. HTTP is a (the original and motivating, in fact) RESTful protocol, not a required lower-level protocol on which all RESTful protocols must rest.
Tried that but it doesn't always work. The important people in your life may not know or remember that they've been given your real number, and they end up passing your number along to the next degre of people who you may not want to have your real number...and of course you have to juggle one more number (not unlike most of us who juggle more than one email for work, personal, side project, or side business, etc.).
Reminds me of this great piece of digital art using differential growth algorithms: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9HI8FerKr6Q

There appears to be work in progress on a shape generator app that presumably uses the same algorithms: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DbMlrigvVZk
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Great! Have to remember that one :)
As an east-cost embedded systems programmer working at a sole proprietorship, you've changed my perspective of programming culture in SF more than anything else that I've ever read.

Sad that you're downvoted. I don't have much perspective to judge the veracity of your interpretation, but it seems perfectly plausible. I wonder which invisible boundaries of narrative you've been punished for crossing.
This has been writing on the wall for a while.

While both companies have their pitfalls, it's certainly interesting to continue to watch e-commerce's rise.
I don't think sarcasm and irony are a good way to get people to see your point. You're very clear headed and it still takes paragraphs to explain and to be honest isn't very convincing.

"Male tears" definitely went beyond a joke as well. It's often used now to celebrate events that anger men.

If feminists (radical or otherwise) want people to take them seriously, they must treat people as they want to be treated.

"It's just a joke" most definitely doesn't work when it comes to men talking about women so it shouldn't be used in the opposite direction.
Most of Amazon revenue is reinvested in the company, so the models are a bit different.
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I suspect you are being facetious, but I've for a long time thought that this was actually an okay idea, even for systems less screwed up than PHP.

When I need to write a function with lots of complex interactions, I mash the keyboard rather than try to come up with a name that's misleadingly simple. That way you have to read the documentation.
No mention of polymer yet. Web components are a good candidate for the future structure of the web. Just mind the recent bump to 1.0 and with a slew of components still developed for 0.5
> The problem is that a fix for this particular problem doesn't actually make anyone secure, it only blocks the one specific attack the hacker told them about.

You are absolutely correct. Unfortunately, so is "jacquesm":

> > They have to be seen to do something to counter all the bad press.

To me, Fiat Chrysler is doing classic PR damage control that the automotive industry knows far too well. It wouldn't surprise me to find out that Fiat Chrysler has threat analysis reports regarding this and other vulnerabilities within their organization.

Sadly, this is not uncommon in the automotive industry[1]:

GM has been heavily critiqued after the
company admitted that engineers were aware of
the issues that caused this recall as early as
2004. Yet it took nearly 10 years later for GM
to finally issue a recall ...

1 - http://www.bcoonlaw.com/general_motors_recall_lawsuit
I promise you the claims was to protect Steamboat Willie (which isn't even commercially exploited by Disney) but the goal was to protect Snow White, Sleeping Beauty, etc. they could still have protect the name under trademark, the argument about the film itself was just nostalgic subterfuge.
Do you really want to follow your passion?
Too early to tell if Affordable Care Act(aka ObamaCare) is good for consumers
Has someone calculated the rate of data decay due to cosmic ray events?
> responsible disclosure to the company

When are you going to start discussing the criminal implications of the company in ignoring that disclosure?

> a way that isn't quite so expensive or rushed.

Since when is the company's expense our problem?

The fix is trivial. Yank the cellular connection. The company is refusing to do the simple, easy, and quick fix. They're the ones making it a painful process. They're the ones choosing to leave everyone vulnerable while they hide the problem with a bandaid.

> legislative pressure put forward to regulate the info sec industry

Your country's laws are your problem. That would be disastrously dumb, but it's your responsibility to forbid your politicians from shooting the country in the foot.

If you blame this on hackers you'll only ensure that a foreign hacker will start a campaign of trying to get you to pass broken laws.
You are correct that it's only being pumped in places, but that doesn't really change the fact how much energy we are using to move water.

A fifth of energy usage in California is water related, and a fifth of that is for pumping, over 10TWh anually.
One interesting thing is that Amazon is almost approaching Walmart's bad reputation in terribleness for employees. (Maybe not software devs, but perhaps warehouse contractors.) Is this kind of ruthlessness essential for such a huge company to be so profitable?
Is it worth more than walmart + walmart.com? I doubt it.
"by the time he or she was starting a career, women were already in the workforce and it was accepted by many as a good thing"

How many women who were working in the 70s and 80s have you talked to about this.
Why does it matter? This is probably true for most VC backed companies. Founders have loins share of equity. Why is it unfortunate? This is how VC backed economics work or more generally how capitalism works. Risk takers reap most rewards.
Not if you include debt, in addition to equity.

http://blogs.ft.com/lex-live/2015/07/24/no-amazon-is-not-mor...

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