diff --git "a/cache_100_200_1000_512/test/hackernews_ngram_13_0.2.jsonl" "b/cache_100_200_1000_512/test/hackernews_ngram_13_0.2.jsonl" new file mode 100644--- /dev/null +++ "b/cache_100_200_1000_512/test/hackernews_ngram_13_0.2.jsonl" @@ -0,0 +1,955 @@ +"\nBitcode Demystified - happy-go-lucky\nhttps://lowlevelbits.org/bitcode-demystified/\n======\nHHad3\nWhen the author pointed out that bitcode may impact security, I expected to\nread about how compiler optimizations that happen during compilation of LLVM\nIR to machine language may introduce security issues.\n\nHowever, the article only mentioned that decompilation is easier with LLVM IR,\nbecause it is a more high-level language. It certainly is a valid point, but\naddresses the topic of binary obfuscation instead for algorithmic security.\n\nI'm thus wondering if anyone can shed some light on the real security aspects.\nFor example, let's say that I compile C that is supposed to run in constant\ntime to LLVM IR and submit it to Apple. Does Apple guarantee that their\nblackbox optimizations do not introduce branches or other factors that may\nresult in variable timing into a constant time algorithm? Can I do anything to\nensure that my code will always run in constant time despite unknown\noptimizations being applied to it in the future?\n\n~~~\nesrauch\nIt seems trivially obvious to me that there is no way to guarantee and code\nyou write won't be transformed into any runtime under arbitrary \"optimization\"\n(transformation).\n\nAs in, you can have just a single" +"\n\nShow HN: jhackers.net - Conversations with Japan's Hackers - hkmurakami\nhttp://jhackers.net/\n\n======\nhkmurakami\nOP here :)\n\nWould really love to hear the kind of things HN'ers would like to hear in\nthese interviews, as I'll be reaching out to the hackers named as \"next up\" by\nthe first three guys I initially interviewed.\n\nI never would have created this site without HN and my small contributions to\nFOSS, so any feedback to make it better for you guys would be awesome!\n\n~~~\nKenzo99\nAll three are described as \"hackers\" on the site, yet none of them seem to be\nhackers. Engineers, developers, computer scientists - I could see those terms\nbeing used to describe them, but not \"hackers.\"\n\n~~~\nhkmurakami\nThanks for the feedback :)\n\nPerhaps I didn't do them justice through my efforts, but all three of them are\nopen source hackers to the bone. Could you expand on what you see as \"hackers\"\nand what sorts of people you'd be interested in reading about and expected to\nfind?" +"\nThings I learned from OpenSSH about reading very sensitive files - jsnell\nhttps://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/programming/ReadingSensitiveFilesLessons\n======\ngargravarr\nThere is quite some irony here - I was always taught to code by using standard\nlibraries because they've been tested to destruction and back in ways I'd\nnever be able to work out, and that rolling my own was destined for failure.\nAs far as good practise goes, OpenSSH seems to tick all the right boxes. This\narticle seems to criticise this, but the deeper meaning is that the standard C\nlibrary is not designed with security in mind.\n\nThere's no inherent problem with the approach taken (not like OpenSSL\nreinventing several wheels and causing things like Heartbleed). In fact, the\narticle's conclusion that the OpenSSH team should have rolled their own memory\nmanagement code rather than use tried, tested and approved libraries doesn't\nsound like a good recommendation to me.\n\n~~~\nHerrMonnezza\n> In fact, the article's conclusion that the OpenSSH team should have > rolled\n> their own memory management code rather than use tried, > tested and\n> approved libraries\n\nThat's not the conclusion I draw from the article.\n\nI rather read it as warning that even innocent and quite common" +"\n\nLuadns, managed DNS with Git and Lua scriptable back-end. - sramov\nhttp://www.luadns.com/\n\n======\nrelix\nThe Lua-code doesn't appear to be executed once for each lookup - as I first\nimagined how it would work. So sadly, one cannot point different region users\nto the closest server IP.\n\n~~~\nvitalie\nHello,\n\nI'm Vitalie Cherpec, the founder of the Luadns project. :)\n\n@relix It's a design choice, Lua code is used only to generate records.\nExecuting user code on each lookup it's just too dangerous.\n\nWe wanted fast lookups and security. User code is executed in a restricted Lua\nenvironment in background.\n\nIf we'll have enough requests we'll add special functions to handle geo-aware\nDNS load balancing.\n\n~~~\nreginaldo\nDo wildcard records work?\n\n~~~\nvitalie\nYes, we have support for wildcard records. Example:\n\n\n\n------\ndfc\nAfter reading the title I was a little surprised when I skimmed the\ndocumentation. It seems like a better title would be:\n\n\"Luadns, managed DNS with Git and Lua scriptable _front-end_ \"\n\nIt seems like tinydns is your back-end. Which in my opinion is nothing to be\nashamed of. When I thought the service was a new dns server written in Lua I\nwas less intrigued." +"\nHarvard Online Master\u2019s Degree - tianyicui\nhttp://www.productivity501.com/harvard-masters-degree/6463/\n======\npetercooper\nRelated topic, different country. I discovered last week you can take a MSc in\nSoftware Development with the Open University (a partially government-funded\ndistance learning university in the UK):\n[http://www3.open.ac.uk/study/postgraduate/qualification/f26....](http://www3.open.ac.uk/study/postgraduate/qualification/f26.htm)\n\nThe really interesting part is if you have enough experience, you don't need\nto have an undergraduate degree to get into the prerequisite diploma course.\nSo you get on to the diploma course which takes two years part time, then do\nthe Masters project for a year.. no degree to Masters in 3 years. An education\nhack, if ever there were one. Who cares if you have an undergraduate degree\nwhen you have a Masters? (Genuine question - if there is a reason, let us\nknow.)\n\nThe only downside, it's not cheap cheap. You're looking at about \u00a31000 per\nunit and there are 8 units for the diploma. The Master's part is then \u00a31900\nish. So that's about \u00a310k ($16k) in all over 3 years. Still, only slightly\nmore than a single year of undergraduate study in the UK from next year..\n\n _Note: Yes, this is really for people in the UK or Europe._\n\n~~~\nbhofmann\nWhen I see CVs with" +"\nHume the Humane - pepys\nhttps://aeon.co/essays/hume-is-the-amiable-modest-generous-philosopher-we-need-today\n======\nfaitswulff\n> \u2018Be a philosopher,\u2019 advised Hume, \u2018but, amidst all your philosophy, be still\n> a man\u2019\n\n...is by far one of my favorite quotes of his, and I'm glad they included it\nin the article.\n\nEDIT - they also got \u2018Reason is, and ought only to be, the slave of the\npassions,\u2019 which is another one of my favorites that I'd forgotten!\n\n------\nJeuelyFish\nI've always been a big fan of David Hume and, in general, empiricism. It's\nnice to see that there is attention made to his point that a healthy human\nlife consists of a 'mixed kind' between higher intellectual activities as well\nas common mundane activities.\n\nOften times, at least in academia, his philosophical skepticism is presented\nas the main and only point. From my perspective, his skepticism is way of\ntargeting those _already_ reading philosophy (and thusly more likely to favor\npursuing intellect over the body) in the hopes of persuading them into more\nhealthy balance. Because of that tho, I almost never suggest reading him as a\nfirst introduction to Philosophy for new students. Instead, he seems a nice\ncounter point to the works of philosophers who" +"\nAsk HN: Fitting a Rockchip RK3399 into an X201? - dhanvanthri\nI've been using a librebooted X200 for 3 years now. It's no overstatement to say that it delivers the most holistically amazing computing environment I've ever worked in.

If I'm to buy a new laptop, it must remain "superficially" identical/comparable. I want better performance, but what's ciritcal is getting as much battery life and improved thermals as I can. Even the screen is not as much of an issue to me as those 2.

Now I've been looking at some products offered by thinkpad modders, but knowledge of the non free bios weighs some on my mind.

Since acquiring this laptop, beside remaining abreast of news about Pine and others striving toward software/hardware freedom, I've totally cauterized myself from the greater consumer tech ecosystem.

With the context out of the way, what I want to know is whether it's possible to retrofit a Thinkpad X201 (When I'm casually using my X200, while laying down and watching a video for example, I miss the touchpad), with modern hardware capable of running mostly/all free software. I'm honestly not sure what projects are out there, and which ones are promising. Now although I do crave more" +"\n2048, Wolfram Style - lelf\nhttp://blog.wolfram.com/2014/05/09/2048/\n======\nb0sk\nI opened this page in Chrome and a file 2048.cdf got automatically downloaded.\nHardly the best practice.\n\n~~~\nNeff\nIt looks like they embed the CDF at the end of the post (line 549), and Chrome\ninterpreted that as \"let's download this file without any warning\". Both\nFirefox and Safari just display a \"missing plugin\" box.\n\nThis is most likely a chrome issue, not a Wolfram issue.\n\n------\nChromozon\nI downloaded the plugin for Firefox. The game is not registering key presses.\n\n------\ndavidgerard\nWhat's the plugin it's asking for?\n\n~~~\ndaureg\nOn Linux it's a 577 MB download[0], which IMHO is kind of heavy to play a\nHTML5 game.\n\n[0]: [http://www.wolfram.com/cdf-player/](http://www.wolfram.com/cdf-player/)\n\n~~~\ndavidgerard\nYeah ... no, I think." +"\n\nIn Praise of Inefficiency: A Manifesto - grellas\nhttp://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704479404575087241182091582.html?mod=WSJ_Opinion_LEFTTopOpinion\n\n======\npw0ncakes\nThe problem is that we, as a society, _aren't ready_ for the level of\nefficiency that technology is making possible. We don't have the values or the\ntools to survive a society without certain inefficiencies. The worst example\nof this is the tangle of buttfail known as private health insurance. Lobbyists\nfor those companies are fighting to the death against efficiency and progress\n(nationalized health coverage) because, for those firms and their employees,\nthis is a matter of \"life\" (employment) and death (layoffs).\n\nIn 50 years, only a minority will be able to earn a living on a free labor\nmarket. The current economic model (no basic income; minimum wage on which\nit's impossible to live, but that can't be raised to a liveable level without\nexacerbating the unemployment problem) cannot survive this change.\n\n~~~\nlmkg\n> \"In 50 years, only a minority will be able to earn a living on a free labor\n> market.\"\n\nMarxist communism was predicated on this assumption, based on the increasing\nefficiency of industrialism. It's an interesting idea, but historically the\ntrend has been that increased efficiency leads to increased production and\nincreased" +"\nShow HN: Write rust in off-side syntax (indent instead of braces like in Python) - chankyin\nhttps://github.com/chankyin/off-side.rs\n======\nkarmakaze\nToo bad about the trailing commas and semicolons. It would be cleaner if they\ncould be implied and there be punctuation for when a comma or semicolon is not\nmeant.\n\nThe commas aren't visually as bad as the semicolons. Would it work to say in\nan off-side block any non-blank line implicitly ends with semi-colon unless it\nexplicitly ends with comma or colon?\n\n~~~\nchankyin\nAlso, semicolons in Rust have special semantics. In Rust, semicolons are\ndelimiters rather than terminators, and function similar to how comma\noperators work in C++ (see\n[https://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/language/operator_other](https://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/language/operator_other)).\nWhile some may not like the implicit return behaviour in Rust, I think it has\na genuine idiomatic meaning in Rust that cannot be easily replaced. Ending a\nfunction with a semicolon differentiates returning the last value from\nreturning void (i.e. the empty tuple), so it does not seem like a good idea.\n(This is a proof of concept anyway it's not like I'm introducing a new\nlanguage)\n\n------\nsmt88\nWhy do you prefer semantic whitespace?\n\n~~~\nchankyin\nYou can find loads of reasons for and against semantic whitespace" +"\nRecovering Atari ST ASIC Designs - walkingolof\nhttp://www.chzsoft.de/asic-web/\n======\nwalkingolof\nAtari's chip company Styra (from the article) got me to search a bit and its\nonly mentioned on 3 sites according to google, and this goldmine for an Atari\nfan was one of them:\n\n[http://mcurrent.name/atarihistory/tramel_technology.html](http://mcurrent.name/atarihistory/tramel_technology.html)\n\n------\nAnnatar\nThis is amazing! Time to fire up my Atari Falcon again (anyone out there\nwilling to sell a CT63?)\n\nThese schematics could be used to implement the entire Atari STE's or Falcon\n030's in a single FPGA. In phase two, new chips could be added, or existing\nchips enhanced (Blitter with texel and shading support, anyone?) The best part\nis, as the Amiga 600 Vampire II accelerator proved, the FPGA implementation\ncould be anywhere from ten to 50 times faster and cheaper than the original\nhardware![1] The possibilities are endless with these schematics...\n\n[1]\n[https://youtube.com/watch?v=lEjtc6JWlsk](https://youtube.com/watch?v=lEjtc6JWlsk)\n\n~~~\ncmrdporcupine\nIt's worth pointing out that the entire Atari ST has been already done in a\nsingle FPGA. See the MiST project:\n[http://harbaum.org/till/mist/index.shtml](http://harbaum.org/till/mist/index.shtml)\n\nI'm sure there are things to be learned from the ASIC designs that could\nimprove the GLUE/MMU/Blitter/Shifter etc. VHDL. But they already work really\nwell.\n\nThe rest of the Atari ST is off the" +"\nWhy Do Americans Hate Android And Love Apple? - treskot\nhttp://readwrite.com/2013/01/29/why-do-americans-hate-android-and-love-apple\n======\nmikecane\nIn America, people were burned badly by a bunch of Android craptabs two years\nago. For example, the now-gone Borders sold the hell out of the Cruz Tablet,\nwhich was simply a piece of shit. The parade of craptabs have continued, with\nArchos producing a Retina-class tablet -- the 97 Titanium -- that is simply\njunk.\n\n------\nZigurd\nMight be a simpler explanation: iPhone had the longest head-start in the US.\n\nUsers, developers, and designers all have an iPhone bias because, for a few\nyears, it was the only new-generation smartphone.\n\nFor many users, there is simply no reason to switch. iPhone is a really nice\nproduct.\n\nTablets are a more-competitive situation. I can see someone switching to a\nNexus 10 or Asus from an iPad. But there, again, Apple has a huge head start,\nand many users will find too little reason to switch." +"\nSam Altman: 'The greatest threat to this country is incompetence of governance' - dkasper\nhttp://www.businessinsider.com/y-combinators-sam-altman-on-government-incompetence-2015-9\n======\nwaterlesscloud\nWhy should cities build more densely now if truly massive job displacement is\ncoming in as little as 10 years?\n\nWhy do people need to live in cities? To be near jobs that won't exist? Why\nshouldn't they be moving to less expensive low density situations if they're\nnot going to have jobs?\n\nIf you're going to think and talk about these massive fundamental structural\nchanges to the economy, then it's best to step 5 or 10 steps further back and\nstart looking at the really big pictures.\n\n~~~\nefoto\n> Why do people need to live in cities? Short answer: economy of scale. Higher\n> population density is ecologically more sustainable as well as it lowers the\n> cost of services.\n\n~~~\nZeroGravitas\nIt's a bit of a paradox then that city living is generally considered more\nexpensive given that the economies of scale should kick in.\n\nPresumably someone is making money here, probably owners of the land, which\ngoes up in value thanks mostly to the efforts of the other people in the city,\nnot anything the land owner does, as" +"\n\nWhat would it take to record and entire life on video? - Zenbach\n\nImagine you were asked to build a system with today's technology capable of storing people's entire life on video. This request would be insane a few years ago only. I think today is already possible and pretty soon it may be a reality ( I know, scary.. ie: wife to husband: \"Let's rewind an see where really were you last night? or an specific date 25 years ago?.. oops!)\nLet's assume video would come at same data rate as YouTube HQ video from a tiny camera (iPhone size) embedded into a person's forehead. Assuming and average life span of 80 years what kind of infrastructure, storage, costs would you estimate?\n======\nZenbach\nHere are some numbers to give you and idea of what it would take to record\nyour entire life on video.\n\nAssumed Parameters: \\- 80 years (average life span) \\- 1000 kbits/sec (YouTube\nvideo datarate) \\- $50.00/TeraByte\n\nSolution: \\- 80 yrs * 365 days/year * 24 hours/day * 3600 sec/hour =\n2,522,880,000 secs/yr \\- Total Secs in 80 yrs * data/sec = Total Storage\nrequired to store 80 yrs so: Total Storage = 2,522,880,000 secs/80yr" +"\nDopamine Cells Influence Our Perception of Time - JabavuAdams\nhttps://www.simonsfoundation.org/features/foundation-news/scgb-news/dopamine-cells-influence-our-perception-of-time/\n======\nAnsemWise\nThere is another article trending right now about increased Dopamine in the\nshower causing your executive functions to diminish and allows for increased\ncreativity.\n\nSeems like you could extrapolate that dopamine has a direct inverse\ncorrelation to executive functions in the brain. I'd go so far as to use New\nYork and Silicon Valley as good examples of increased executive function and\nincreased creativity, respectively.\n\nI'd also relate this to the certain side-effects of Adderall, increased\nDopamine causing a loss of time awareness and higher creativity, but the\nincrease in your sympathetic nervous system causes the increased focus and\nawareness. Almost a best of both worlds, besides the likely strain on the body\nfrom overworking both systems.\n\n~~~\noxide\n>causing a loss of time awareness and higher creativity\n\nwhatever you're doing when you take adderall, you'll be doing for the next 12\nhours before you realize how much time has past.\n\n~~~\nClassyJacket\nI wish there was a legal way to try Adderall. It's not even legal in Australia\nby prescription, and since I wasn't diagnosed with ADHD as a kid, there's\nbasically no chance I'll ever even" +"\nWhy now is the best time to study quantum computing (2014) - Phithagoras\nhttp://arxiv.org/abs/1501.00011\n======\ndheera\nAlthough I have studied the basics of quantum computing, I don't think it will\nbecome necessary for computer scientists to know the gory physics details of\nquantum computers. All they will need to know is that a certain function that\nis normally O(n^2) now has a magical implementation that is O(n), and another\nfunction that is normally exponential is now polynomial.\n\nQuantum computers will likely manifest themselves as co-processors, and you'll\nhave a nice well-abstracted API to access those implementations within\ntraditional languages, i.e.\n\n \n \n #!/usr/bin/env python4\n from quantum import qc\n qc.init(device=\"/dev/quantum0\")\n factors = qc.factor(15)\n\n~~~\ns_q_b\nLater in the game, sure. Who's going to build the early toolset? Who's going\nto own it? Will their be a FOSS API, or will we be locked in?\n\nAll of that design infrastructure needs to be built by somebody, and that\nsomebody stands to make a forunate. The tasks you listed are a decent summary\nof the likely eventual outcome.\n\nBut:\n\n\u2022 Who will do the work to create this beautiful API? \u2022 Who will create this\ncoprocessor architecture? \u2022 Will this theoretical stack be built by" +"\nAuthentication and the Have I Been Pwned API - mhaehnel\nhttps://www.troyhunt.com/authentication-and-the-have-i-been-pwned-api/\n======\nMattConfluence\nFrankly, USD3.50/month for API access is still an incredible bargain for a\nservice of this quality. Normal users can still use the webpage form to look\nthemselves up for free, API users pay a nominal fee that should cover the cost\nof the resources they consume.\n\nThe only concern I can think of is that this opens the gate to raising the fee\nin the future to profit from it, considering that Troy is \"selling out\" soon\n[1] and will not be in control of the service for ever. HIBP is the kind of\nservice I think ought to be provided by a non-profit entity. But Troy's record\nis good, so I have faith that he will do his best to pick a good new home for\nHIBP.\n\n[1] [https://www.troyhunt.com/project-svalbard-the-future-of-\nhave...](https://www.troyhunt.com/project-svalbard-the-future-of-have-i-been-\npwned/)" +"\n\nWorking on a few things in your bedroom doesn't make you an expert - zachinglis\nhttp://zachinglis.com/2012/working-on-a-few-things-in-your-bedroom-doesnt-make-you-an-expert/\n\n======\nlutusp\nI scanned the linked article until I got to: \"I am seeing an increased group\nof what I\u2019d call newbies and inexperienced designers having started speaking.\"\nThe remainder of the article lives up to the impression this sentence creates.\n\nAt that point I realized the author isn't in a position to criticize the\n\"novice\" writing and speaking of others. And a Web page with a red background\ndoesn't demonstrate the experience and maturity the author evidently thinks he\npossesses.\n\n~~~\nzachinglis\nYou scanned an article and made a judgement?\n\nI've worked on a variety of projects, small and huge. Lead the redesign of a\nmajor website among other things.\n\nI never criticised people's grammar, purely where they come from.\n\n~~~\nlutusp\n> You scanned an article and made a _judgement_? [emphasis added]\n\nNo, I scanned the article and made a _judgment_. If you don't want to be\njudged on your use of English, improve it. What works for computer languages\nshould work for English too.\n\nHowever unfair you believe it to be, people are going to judge you based on\nyour use" +"\n\nKogan Violating GPL - Benjamin_Dobell\nhttp://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=46737250\nKogan refuse to supply source code for GPL licensed software running on Kogan branded Android devices.\n======\nbelorn\nNoted a few other things:\n\nTheir manual/documentations has no mentioning of BSD licensed software. While\nits possible that bsd license is included in paper form with the devices with\nreference to each software package, it is unlikely. As such, 99% sure that\nKogan is violating BSD licensed software too.\n\nKogan is aware that they are using open source software\n([http://www.kogan.com/uk/newsroom/kogan-\nreleases-119-android-...](http://www.kogan.com/uk/newsroom/kogan-\nreleases-119-android-tablet-55/)), as is indicated by their press releases. As\nsuch, if an infringement is found, it likely to be seen as intentionally and\nwillingly regarding that product.\n\nOtherwise, it seems as a common misunderstanding by Kogan in _how_ one provide\nsource code to users. Its not very complicated, but hand waving users towards\nGoogle is not enough. Had the kernel been gplv3, then they could just given\nthe user a link, but since the kernel is gplv2, the options are either a\nwritten offer for minimum 3 years or to include the source code alongside the\nbinaries. GPLv3 changed the license text regarding source distribution because\nthey did not want to still live in 1990s." +"\nMultiple Vulnerabilities in IBM Data Risk Manager - Daviey\nhttps://github.com/pedrib/PoC/blob/master/advisories/IBM/ibm_drm/ibm_drm_rce.md\n======\nreader_1000\nThe way IBM handles this is pretty bad. No company, especially the ones\nselling a security product, should ignore security researchers reports and\nfeedbacks\n\nAlso the bugs described in article are quite surprising since for a IBM-sized\ncompany, you expect them to have solid authentication/authorization framework\nwhich they use for all their products. Is this a acquired product?\nAuthentication mechanism is very unusual. Why would anyone save a session id\ncoming from the user? This is more than trusting user input, I think.\n\nAlso ../../etc/passwd attack is a kind of vulnerability that almost every\nautomated vulnerabilty scanner scans.\n\nMost people assume that authenticated pages do not need that much security\nprecautions however as articles shows, when combined with authentication\nbypass vulnerabilities, you basically give keys of your systems to the\nattacker.\n\n~~~\nosipov\n>you expect them to have solid authentication/authorization framework which\nthey use for all their products\n\nhaha\n\n------\nteepo\nAccording to IBM this is not even an active product [1]. Although after some\nreading it does appear that if a client was still using this solution and was\npaying for extended support that IBM would take" +"\nHunting down Ken's PDP-7: video footage found - bsdimp\nhttps://bsdimp.blogspot.com/2019/10/video-footage-of-first-pdp-7-to-run-unix.html\n======\nfolkhack\nMan stuff I love stuff like this - what a trip. Reminds me a lot of Xerox's\nmother of all demos (in the same year 1968). These animations/graphics have\nsuch a wonderful feel to them that are still compelling and interesting in\n2019 =)\n\nWhat an amazing video.\n\n~~~\nmaartenh\nAre you referring to Doug Engelbart's demo of the Online System (NLS) [1]? He\nwas at SRI at the moment. The things that happened at Xerox after that were\ninspired by NLS, and build by some of the people that worked on it.\n\n[1]\n[https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mother_of_All_Demos](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mother_of_All_Demos)\n\n~~~\nfolkhack\nThat's the one! This early stuff gives me chills man - I'm so into it.\nPioneers of a new era =)\n\n------\nacqq\n\"this film features the song \"Daisy\" sung by a computer, a plot point that\nwould feature heavily in Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey.\"\n\nThe mentioned Bell Labs film is apparently from 1968, but it seems that the\nDaisy song inspired Clarke already in 1962 and 2001 was already made before\nthat film and released in April 1968:\n\n[https://kottke.org/06/04/hal-daisy-2001](https://kottke.org/06/04/hal-\ndaisy-2001)\n\n\"In 1962, Arthur C. Clarke was touring Bell" +"\nShow HN: Pantry \u2013 Free JSON Storage for Personal Projects - fiveSpeedManual\nhttps://getpantry.cloud/\n======\nstevage\nLooks useful. I really dislike the \"Download Postman and then you will have\ndocumentation\" approach. Documentation lives on the web, and there are better\nalternatives to Postman anyway.\n\n~~~\nNezteb\nI\u2019m curious: what are your top alternatives to Postman?\n\n~~~\nbovermyer\ncURL, with some bash aliases to help things along.\n\n~~~\nfiveSpeedManual\nI prefer this as well.\n\nRather not go down the road of having examples for every major platform.\n\n------\nfiveSpeedManual\nI'm so excited to finally be able to share this with you!\n\nPantry is a free cloud storage service that I've been building for the past\nfew weeks. You can use the API to store & retrieve data for you and your users\nonline for free.\n\nLooking forward to seeing what you all think of it, and please feel free to\npost suggestions or AMA.\n\nThanks!\n\n~~~\nwhalesalad\n\\- How would you sell me on Pantry vs. AWS S3? (You can use S3 in much the\nsame way ... throwing up JSON at a path and fetching it. The cost some would\nargue is neglible)\n\n\\- How do you deal with CORS?\n\n\\-" +"\nSecure deletion: a single overwrite will do it - ilitirit\nhttp://www.h-online.com/news/Secure-deletion-a-single-overwrite-will-do-it--/112432\n======\nm_eiman\nIf you think that you can recover overwritten data, feel free to accept 'The\nGreat Zero Challenge' over at \n\n\"Q. What is this?\n\nA. A challenge to confirm whether or not a professional, established data\nrecovery firm can recover data from a hard drive that has been overwritten\nwith zeros once. We used the 32 year-old Unix dd command using /dev/zero as\ninput to overwrite the drive. [...]\"\n\nIt's been over a year, and nobody has accepted the challenge yet. Even if\nthere isn't any prize money to win, I'd think that the PR opportunity would be\nquite enough for any data recovery firm to do it.\n\nSo my conclusion is: overwriting once is plenty good enough. You want to\noverwrite the whole disk though, otherwise the filesystem might leave metadata\nclues even after the file has been overwritten and unlinked.\n\n~~~\nErrantX\nI'd love to take them on. However they are right it is highly unlikely data\ncan be recovered from that drive. They have only a few folders/files on there\nit seems leaving little to go on to rebuild the image.\n\nIt's not worth" +"\nIs there a company that sells meal planning? - loorinm\nI'm spending so much $ on Munchery, because I am not good at planning my shopping / cooking / eating. I have a small repertoire of cooking recipes, I don't know whats seasonal, etc. Also, planning just takes a lot of time.

Is there a service I can pay to just give me shopping lists and quick easy tasty recipes each week?

Then I can just put the shopping list into instacart and be ready to go.

I know there are a lot of shitty recipe websites and outdated cooking blogs but I'm looking for something quality and reliable, with an easy-to-use experience.\n======\nRannath\nThe Ontario government has you covered:\n[https://www.eatrightontario.ca/en/MenuPlanner.aspx](https://www.eatrightontario.ca/en/MenuPlanner.aspx)\n\n~~~\nloorinm\nHAHAHA\n\n------\nretroafroman\nIsn't that what Blue Apron is for?\n[https://www.blueapron.com/](https://www.blueapron.com/)\n\nStill kind of pricey at $10/meal.\n\n~~~\nloorinm\nno but they sell you the food too. I want to just get the food from the cheap\nmexican market near my house.\n\n------\njustsorneguy\n[https://emeals.com/](https://emeals.com/)\n\n~~~\nloorinm\nyeah that looks like the right idea but that site looks 20 years old. is it\neven still working?\n\n~~~\njustsorneguy\nYes, it is. I use it (the featured meal this week" +"\nFind running median from a stream of integers - J3L2404\nhttp://stackoverflow.com/questions/10657503/find-running-median-from-a-stream-of-integers\n======\ndude_abides\nHere is a clever algorithm to find the median of a stream of integers by using\njust one variable:\n\nThe idea is to maintain a floating median. Start with an arbitrary number, say\n0. If the incoming number is greater than the estimate, num += 1, else num -=\n1.\n\nIt is easy to prove that for a large enough stream, assuming the stream is\ndrawn from iid samples, this would converge to the median, by central limit\ntheorem.\n\nUsing two variables instead of one, you could converge faster. So instead of\nincrementing/decrementing by one, you store how big your leap is, and have a\nschedule to change it.\n\n~~~\nbjornsing\n> It is easy to prove that...\n\nReminds me of a similar comment in the margin of a old book:\n. :)\n\nBut it does sound both plausible and brilliant. How do you prove it (in broad\nterms)?\n\n~~~\nnjs12345\nSlightly off topic, but looks like toemetoch has tripped one of the hellban\nfilters, isn't a spammer, and has no contact info in his profile. Might want\nto sort that out if you're reading this toemetoch!" +"\nStep-By-Step Fundraising Tactics from an NYC Founder Who Raised $750M - imartin2k\nhttp://firstround.com/review/step-by-step-fundraising-tactics-from-the-nyc-legend-who-raised-750m/\n======\nnawgszy\nNot really a criticism, but this read a bit like a slimy dating guide.\n\"Remember, like everyone else they want to feel wanted for more than their\nmoney\". \"Keep them all interested until you've made up your mind\". \"Subtly let\nthem know that you're wanted by others\".\n\nOn an unrelated note: I don't know why I can never contribute constructively\non this site, but here I am.\n\n~~~\nCalChris\nGiven that this was published by a VC and that the writer has been on both\nsides of the table, I think you're misreading it.\n\n~~~\nnawgszy\nI wasn't really trying to imply it's bad advice or isn't ethical or anything.\nI get that the parallel I decided to draw does indeed somewhat imply that, but\nmy intentions weren't as such. Just struck me as funny.\n\n------\nbsder\n> \u201cWhen I plan to be raising in six months, I\u2019m already out there, proactively\n> connecting with VCs, having coffees, making as many of them aware of my\n> company as possible,\u201d says Ryan. \u201cThe conversation is safer when I\u2019m not\n> raising money.\u201d\n\nYeah, because so" +"\nWould you propose with a diamond grown in a lab? - rezist808\nhttp://qz.com/630512/would-you-propose-with-a-diamond-grown-in-a-lab/\n======\nexabrial\nYes? Diamonds aren't a rare rock anyway though, amazes me they are so\nexpensive\n\n------\nmizchief2\nWon't marry a woman who would want to waste money on a shiny rock.\n\n~~~\nseanp2k2\nI wish you good luck in finding a spouse. It's not about the shiny rock, it's\nabout the financial commitment to a symbol of your enduring love, or\nsomething.\n\n~~~\nJoof\nThere has to be something way more awesome than a diamond ring that costs a\nbundle.\n\nI'm probably fucked; I don't like hanging on to stuff as momentos. That goes\ndouble for expensive momentos. Triple if it breaks some societal norm.\n\nMy college had a class ring that was kind of a big deal. College buddies\npester me years later about when I'm going to get mine. They teased the guy\nwho got silver instead of gold (seriously).\n\nNever. Why do I want a $1000 reminder of something I already have? It's also a\nhuge psychological ploy to get people to rep the school and donate whether or\nnot it deserves it.\n\nI guess buying an expensive ring could make somebody think" +"\nScrutiny of 'Truthy', a university project that studies trends on Twitter (2014) - diyorgasms\nhttp://thehill.com/policy/technology/221565-five-things-to-know-about-truthy\n======\npnathan\n> One study highlighted an attack on Sen. Chris Coons (D-Del.) when he was\n> first running for his seat in 2010. It found that one social media campaign\n> criticizing him for spending taxpayer money on dinners and fashion shows was\n> largely the result of 10 Twitter bots.\n\nThis is an interesting finding. I think part of the broader question at hand\nin our society is that the relationships and communications are becoming\nworld-readable, with significant consequences for shifting the flow of\ndiscourse.\n\n------\nChuckMcM\nI expect a strong correlation with authoritative overreach :-) But more\nseriously, the study of information flows to uncover information sharing\nnetworks is not new, that the networks want to protect themselves from being\nexposed is also not new. I don't agree with a lot of what Assange says but I\ndo agree with him that conspiracies hate light, and what is more making it\nharder for them to communicate makes it harder for them to be effective.\n\n------\nelevenfist\nThis article talks about a research project studying the virality of\npropaganda in social media. The" +"\n\nCo-founder or no co-founder? - sum_itsin\nhttp://www.roundbreak.com/2012/06/05/co-founder-or-no-co-founder/\n\n======\npedalpete\nCompletely agree, but I think PG assumes that anybody who is smart/good enough\nto get into YC is going to have a solid co-founder.\n\nI wonder how many YC companies have failed due to a co-founder break-up.\n\nOutside of YC, I hear a co-founder break up is one of the top reasons a\ncompany fails.\n\n~~~\nsum_itsin\nThat's true. But I am somewhat skeptical about the fact that a smart person\nnecessarily is the one with good networking skills or the one capable of\nforging sound relationships. There are times when a truly smart person, either\ndue to his own eccentricity or the environment, doesn't get to have a chance\nof having a good co-founder unless he relocates himself which is hardly\npossible in many cases." +"\n\nIBM to build brain-like computers - timtrueman\nhttp://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7740484.stm\n\n======\npg\nA headline from the 1950s.\n\n~~~\nivankirigin\nWe know much more about the brain today.\n\nA similar headline can be found for using \"brainlike techniques\" for object\ndetection. \n\nBut the algorithms in this case are from numenta, jeff hawkin's company. The\nmethodology is:\n\n \n \n 1. Study the brain\n 2. Come up with theories on how memory and processing in the brain work\n 3. Write algorithms with the same structure.\n \n\nI'd call that brain-like.\n\n~~~\njey\nYeah, except that Step 2 is super sketchy and arguably unscientific at this\npoint.\n\n~~~\nivankirigin\nI wouldn't call the thousands of researchers in the field unscientific at all.\nAnd this process is iterative. If you have an algorithm that works, the\nproximity to how the brain actually works is largely irrelevant.\n\n------\ntimtrueman\nHaven't these guys heard of software? I thought the only good reason to do\nsomething in hardware was speed, but maybe I'm just crazy.\n\n~~~\nbchandle\nThe BBC article left out a critical constraint from DARPA. The final\ndeliverable (with the \"complexity of a cat's brain\") isn't just a model or a\nsimulation. It has to be a physical artifact which" +"\nBad Times in Tech? Not If You\u2019re a Startup Serving Other Startups - SREinSF\nhttps://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/02/technology/brex-start-up.html\n======\nnlh\nI will say, for what it\u2019s worth, that the customer experience of using Brex is\nreally quite outstanding (my current startup is a customer.)\n\nThey\u2019ve figured out things that in hindsight just seem so obvious to a good\nUX, and yet we\u2019ve all been so trained to have low expectations from the\nmediocre service traditional banks/corporate card providers offer that it\nseems outstanding.\n\nFrom limited experience - the fact that virtual cards are first-party\ncitizens, the helpful text messages you get (which include a warning the first\ntime you use a card physically, instant text records when you use a card\nphysically, the ability to photograph receipts and send them back to that same\ntext phone #, and and and.)\n\nAmerican Express (my only other corporate card comparison) of course _could_\noffer this stuff, but it\u2019s just not in their DNA because, well, they haven\u2019t\nhad to innovate because they had what amounts to a monopoly on corporate\nspending cards. And I should note - Amex ties the credit on those cards to the\nfounder (requiring a personal guarantee until the company reaches" +"\n\nAnother lovely Google Chrome ad - Extensions - yanw\nhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c5ryTLrgTbI\n\n======\nelblanco\nThey really only need to show one thing, the Google translate extension. I\nhave it set to automatic now and I often don't even realize I'm looking at a\npage that's not originally in English. That's some serious Star Trek universal\ntranslator business going on right there.\n\n~~~\nandyking\nIt's not perfect. Whenever I go on a page in Scottish Gaelic, it says \"this\npage is in Irish - would you like to translate it?\" That could cause some\ntrouble.\n\nThe languages are admittedly similar and there's some level of mutual\ncomprehension, but they're not similar enough for Google's translator to work\nacross both - it emits gibberish when you click \"yes\".\n\n~~~\nelblanco\nI have to admit, I do not spend much time on Gaelic (Scottish or Irish) sites.\n\nI've noticed that it's support for East Asian languages is also pretty bad.\nBut Romance languages, German and Arabic are pretty amazing.\n\n------\nfrou_dh\nI'll be grouchy and say I'm put off keeping a lot of the Chrome extensions I\ninstall because they want to plant their brash ugly icons (that apparently\ncan't be toggled or collapsed) on" +"\n\nSo you've Upgrade to Snow Leopard? Post Dev Feedback Here - whalesalad\n\nThose developing on the mac generally have lots of added libraries and tools... like Fink or MacPorts, different Python or Ruby versions, etc..

In my case, I don't use the base install of Apache and run my own, with mod_wsgi. I also run my own build of MySQL. Because of things like this, I tend to shy away from all of the automated crap (such as the migration tools, and upgrading a point release rather than a fresh install) and I don't think i'm alone. I upgraded my older Macbook Pro to Leopard by formatting and installing fresh, then manually moving data.

Because Snow Leopard is a smaller release and more of a glorified patch or service-pack if you will, I am wondering if I really need to do this. I'd love to get feedback from all the Mac hackers out there who have upgrade to Snow Leopard. What kind of problems have you noticed, if any?\n======\nGreggW\nI just told my wife, \"The next time I want to be an early adopter, just hit me\nuntil I fall to the ground and stay there.\"\n\nI have a bilateral" +"\nAnybody Can Fire This 'Locked' Smart Gun with $15 Worth of Magnets - kevination\nhttps://www.wired.com/story/smart-gun-fire-magnets/\n======\nadvisedwang\nThe range extension and lock circumvention is bad, but only weakens back to a\nregular handgun. The jamming is more scary to me as it makes the product\nactively worse than if it wasn't smart at all.\n\n~~~\nalex-\nI could imagine some firearm owners being willing to trade 100% reliability to\nprevent a casual accident.\n\nI imagine some firearm sales are for more recreational purposes.\n\n~~~\ndogma1138\nThis isn't any more likely to prevent negligent discharge than existing\nsafeties.\n\nBasic fire arms etiquette is to treat any firearm as loaded and ready to fire\nunless it's been explicitly cleared.\n\nIf you do not use guns for self defense then keeping them clear and keeping\nammo separate is much easier and safer.\n\nAny type of safety can fail and relying on it is just how you get some of\nthese accidents.\n\n------\narielweisberg\nThe description makes it sound like if you are firing weak hand (or strong\nhand) you might be outside the range of the watch?\n\nThey say \"just a few inches\" which implies less than a foot. That's not going\nto" +"\n\nInstantCab (YC W12): A Hybrid Alternative To Ride-Sharing and Taxi Apps - ajju\nhttp://techcrunch.com/2013/03/15/instantcab/\n\n======\njoshwa\nA big problem I've seen with the proliferation of these apps is that I've seen\ndrivers with three or four devices, (which makes sense from the driver's\nperspective--maximizing opportunity), but even though I'm in the car paying a\nfare, they show up on the other apps as available! The result is that when you\nput out a call for a ride, even though it shows tons of vehicles available,\nmost of them are actually currently occupied. As TFA points out, this leads to\ndistrust since as a rider you can't actually be sure you'll be able to get a\nride.\n\nI think the app makers need to encourage riders to report to them when they\nsee drivers using other apps and misleadingly showing themselves as available.\nI know I'm going to start doing it.\n\n~~~\najju\nThat's a good point Josh. We ask drivers to set themselves as unavailable if\nthey are on another ride, and we are measuring a lot of things that help us\nfigure out which drivers are more reliable so we can reward them accordingly\nvs which drivers are unreliable" +"\nHarvard, Princeton Targeted in Asian Discrimination Probe - leelin\nhttp://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-02-02/harvard-targeted-in-u-s-asian-american-discrimination-probe.html\n======\nkandalf\nSAT scores are not a sufficient indicator for bias in college admissions.\nThere are two factors at work here:\n\n1\\. For elite colleges, specific SAT scores are irrelevant. Essentially, once\na certain cut-off is reached, say 2250, it doesn't matter how high you go. In\nfact, I'm sure admissions officers get a kick out of rejecting the 2400 - I'd\nrather have a 2380 than a 2400 any day. The variance in SAT scores over a\ncertain cutoff is simply not a good enough indicator for what the colleges are\nlooking for.\n\n2\\. In my experience, Asian families tend to place a disproportionate emphasis\non test scores and grades. This leads to higher than average SAT scores for\nAsian students, sometimes at the cost of other parts of the application\npackage.\n\nTaken together, I believe these two ideas contribute to a reasonable\nexplanation for the phenomenon discussed in the article.\n\nThis is not to say that admissions are not racially biased - I would not be at\nall surprised if they are.\n\n~~~\ngxs\nThis is exactly right. I completely detest knee-jerk reactions and blanket\nstatements that crop" +"\n\nShow HN: \u201cEscape from Montegrande\u201d, Procedural Ski Game for iOS and Android - phaser\nhttp://mego.cl/montegrande\n\n======\nzimpenfish\nOne of the achievements says \"Slide trough N ice surfaces\" \\- is that supposed\nto be \"Slide through\"? Apart from that, good work, it's like a proper modern\nHorace Goes Skiing.\n\n~~~\nchulini\nWe'll fix that on the next update. Thanks! : _\n\n------\nthrowaway1979\nNice. What framework are you using?\n\n~~~\nphaser\nWe created the game using Unity3d. In order to generate levels we used a\ncombination of random \"chunks\" and perlin noise (very good for generating the\n'paths' across the trees)\n\n------\nchrisbennet\nGreat imagination! Good work!\n\n------\njstnn\nnostalgia" +"\nShopify and the Power of Platforms - jonbaer\nhttps://stratechery.com/2019/shopify-and-the-power-of-platforms/\n======\nTownley\n> Shopify is giving merchants an opportunity to differentiate themselves while\n> bearing no risk if they fail.\n\nIn addition to this being a great position for Shopify, this is an amazing\nthing for merchants compared to Amazon's offering; it's the critical\ndifference between \"We'll sell your stuff\" and \"We'll empower you to easily\nsell your stuff\" that leaves power and agency in the hands of individual\ncompanies.\n\nSemi-related: For a really insightful conversation about Shopify, personal\ninteractions, and running a good company, I highly recommended The Knowledge\nProject's interview with the company's CEO, Tobi L\u00fctke: [https://fs.blog/tobi-\nlutke/](https://fs.blog/tobi-lutke/)\n\n~~~\nDenisM\nWhat about traffic though? Amazon gives you traffic, user reviews, used\nconfidence.\n\n~~~\nimjk\nSure, you have to work to target your own audience and build the trust with\nthem yourself, but it's a tradeoff that benefits you in the long run. Your not\nbeholden to the whims \"the platform\" as many media companies learned the hard\nway by putting so much of their focus on Facebooks platform in the past\ndecade.\n\n------\nomouse\nShopify is just the next closed-source iteration of WordPress and Magento.\nWordPress has one of" +"\nNorwegian Air to cancel 85% of flights and temporarily lay off 90% of staff - spking\nhttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-norwegianair/norwegian-air-to-cancel-85-of-flights-and-lay-off-90-of-staff-idUSKBN2132F7\n======\njohnnymonster\nIt's a temporary layoff and it's exactly what they should be doing. When they\nlay off the employees, they are able to collect unemployment benefits from the\ngovernment. It's a perfect strategy so that the employees will be ok instead\nof not receiving wages. once things rebound, they can hire them back again and\nall is good.\n\n~~~\nmarvin\nWhile I agree with your point in general, Norwegian is done. They've got a\nheavy debt burden that's due soon. They will either go bankrupt and be\nrestructured, or have to do a wipeout-level stock offering (unlikely in the\ncurrent risk climate).\n\n~~~\naxlee\nCan't Norway bail them out? It's not like they lack the capital, and they're\nthe country largest airline.\n\n~~~\nucarion\nThis is not to contradict what you're saying, but it should be clarified that\nNorway's flag carrier is Scandinavian Airlines, not Norwegian Air:\n\n[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scandinavian_Airlines](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scandinavian_Airlines)\n\nAgain: I'm aware that you haven't said anything to the contrary. But it's\nuseful context.\n\n~~~\nmichaeljohansen\nWell. We Norwegians joke that SAS stands for \"svensk alt sammen\" (Swedish all\ntogether). Some of us" +"Ask HN: Should Apple Buy Duck Duck Go? - mack1001\n======\ngaspoweredcat\nsomeone should if only to rename it. why they chose that clumsy name and why\nthey continue to hang on to it is beyond me, i can only imagine its like the\nfirst season of silicon valley where the guy who makes the decisions loves it\nwhile everyone else rolls their eyes on hearing it\n\n------\nmack1001\nConsidering the privacy focus that Apple brings, Duck Duck Go could be an\ninteresting play to reduce Google\u2019s presence from the Apple ecosystem.\n\n~~~\ngreenyoda\nWhy would Apple need to _buy_ DDG to do this? Why not just make DDG their\ndefault search engine?\n\n------\nbradknowles\nHell no. That would be about the worst thing they could do to DDG.\n\nPlease, let it continue to fly under the radar for a lot longer.\n\n------\nemayljames\nNo." +"\nSwift UTF-8 String - gok\nhttps://swift.org/blog/utf8-string/\n======\nskrebbel\nI have never written a single line of iOS/macos code, but I'm interested in\nSwift because it's a cool language.\n\nCan anyone explain why this is done _now_ and not when Swift was first\nreleased? I mean, UTF-8 was already the clear winner when Swift started. Is it\nsome obj-c compat story?\n\n~~~\ngok\nThe commonly-accepted wisdom among Unicode people was that UTF-8 is good for\ntransmission and storage, but bad for in memory representation. It now appears\npretty conclusive that this was wrong.\n\n~~~\nrstuart4133\nThey are still partially right, and I'd go so far as to say were totally right\nif efficiency wasn't a concern. From the programmers point of view utf-32 is\nstill by far the easiest memory representation to use.\n\nBack in the day, when the Unicode people were pushing it as an alternative to\nwhatever the ISO standard is that solved the same problem, they argued it was\nbetter than the ISO standard because the was only one encoding, UCS2 whereas\nISO defined 8, 16 and 32 bit encodings. They said they could get away with\nthat because 16 bits was enough for all modern languages (read:" +"\n\nShow HN my christmas project: Focus.app, cut off your Internet so you can focus - benofsky\nhttp://therealfocusapp.com/\n\n======\ncallahad\nThe comment on FocusHelper's allowAllOutgoingExceptions is pretty amusing:\n[https://github.com/benofsky/Focus.app/blob/master/FocusHelpe...](https://github.com/benofsky/Focus.app/blob/master/FocusHelper.m#L69)\n\n~~~\nshadowpwner\nIf the guy who wrote the comment ever reads this, it's \"brightened\". :)\n\n~~~\nbenofsky\nha, it looked wrong at the time, thank you :)\n\n------\ntoisanji\nthis is already available, SelfControl, its open source and I use it all the\ntime: \n\n~~~\nzenspider\nand freedom: \n\n------\nDetrus\nIsn't there an OSX app that does this?\n\nI remember people on an extremely distracting forum using it, ultimately it\ndoesn't work. Those same people are still spending a lot of time on that\nforum, they've stopped turning it on.\n\n~~~\ngrep\nSelfControl\n\n~~~\nbenofsky\nHadn't seen that, only a pay for app (and I'm cheap :))! Anyway, Focus is\ntailored perfectly for me, hope some other people can find use out of it too.\n\nEdit: Clarification (I'm sorry I can't reply to your comment, it won't let\nme), I meant I had only seen a pay for app and not this one.\n\nEdit 2: (reply to comment also) also doesn't appear to have exceptions, maybe\nI'm wrong.\n\n~~~\nwtn" +"\nAsk HN: Anybody still into ES5 + traditional Javascript dev workflow? Why? - lewisjoe\nClient Javascript development has drastically changed in the last 5-7 years. ES6+ Standards, module bundlers, Managing dependencies with NPM, Typescript & such modern elements in the toolchain is becoming the de-facto.

Are there any companies, projects/products, indie devs out there still sticking to plain old JS development without the modern tools?

Are there any reasons to not switch to the modern workflow?\n======\navoidwork\ni've avoided it entirely with my latest work project; no transpile, or\nunneeded tools... just awk & eslint.\n\nthere are no* \"de-facto standards\", just people doing what they think is\npopular 'cause they read about it on the net.\n\n------\ngfrryjfcryjry\nMe, because of KISS." +"\nLet \u201cQUIPU\u201d organise your research so you spend more time to explore content - biyanisuraj\nhttp://quipu.tilda.ws/\n======\nbiyanisuraj\nThe very best startup ideas tend to be something the founders themselves want,\nthat they can build, and that few others realise are worth doing\n\nRegister your interest for early Beta access at -\n[http://quipu.tilda.ws/](http://quipu.tilda.ws/)\n\nI want to make QUIPU so that knowledge seekers, like myself, can have all the\nexplored content organised, connected & displayed in real time.\n\nNo more time spent on indexing, trying to remember where that statistic came\nfrom, or keeping 50+ tabs open to avoid dropping a line of inquiry.\n\nClear representations of research information can be created from the\n\u201cdigitally exhaustive information\u201d we create when combined with powerful\nartificial intelligence to do the organising.\n\nPlease us know what you think about it." +"\n\nThe Pirate Bay Mystery - Absentinsomniac\nhttp://thepiratebay.se/\n\n======\nAbsentinsomniac\nSo, there's a bit of a mystery going on with thepiratebay's site. In the\nsource there's been various clues that have been changing over time. A couple\nof folks over at reddit were working on it, but I don't think anyone has come\nup with anything.\n\nBasically, in the source, they have stuff named like:\n\n\"key lowercase\" and \"WeAreTPB\" \"aes.png\" and class=\"pipe vi Makefile\"\n\nThere also appears to be an image of an AES key on the page. And before they\nallegedly had \"thecluesareallthere\" as one of the classes. I'd imagine there's\nsome kind of encrypted thing in the image or video. Maybe somebody here will\nfind it interesting.\n\n~~~\ntabrischen\nWhat is the reddit link?\n\n~~~\nAbsentinsomniac\nNew one:\n[https://www.reddit.com/r/thepiratebay/comments/2rml8a/update...](https://www.reddit.com/r/thepiratebay/comments/2rml8a/updated_again/)\n\nOlder one:\n[https://www.reddit.com/r/thepiratebay/comments/2q23mm/the_ke...](https://www.reddit.com/r/thepiratebay/comments/2q23mm/the_key_is_an_aes_key/)" +"\n\nHow to convert any 3D printer or CNC router into cutting or engraving machine? - reangeorge\n\nIntroducing Endurance L-CHEAPO diode laser

Endurance L-CHEAPO is a 445 nanometer diode laser which easily mounts on your 3D printer or CNC mill\nNo additional power supply is necessary, and it will not interfere with normal use of your hardware\nYou can readily switch from laser to print/mill mode, use your existing software (Slic3r, Skeinforge, etc), and with no tools the laser can be removed in about 2 minutes\nEndurance L-CHEAPO can cut paper and wood up to 3/16ths of an inch, and can engrave most non-metallic materials

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We hope this product will allow high school shop classes," +"\n\nShow HN: Fot\u014dko \u2013 Your perfectly-ish organized photo library - maham_tayyab\nhttp://www.fotoko.com/\n\n======\nmaham_tayyab\nHi, I am one of the members of Fot\u014dko's development team. I would love to hear\nfeedback from you on our product.\n\nFot\u014dko automatically organises and safeguards your entire photo and video\nlibrary in the cloud making it easy to search, browse, and share from any\ndevice. Fot\u014dko uses your Google Drive (One Drive and Dropbox coming soon) for\ncloud storage so you have ownership of your photos.\n\nMoving forward we wish to integrate more cloud storage options such as One\nDrive and Drop Box so that users can fully exploit the free storage tier on\nvarious storage platforms while being able to browse, share or search their\nphotos from any device irrespective of where they are stored. We are also\nworking on OCR and face recognition features to allow better organisation and\nsearch. We would love to hear what you think about the product and what you\nwould like to see in a product like this.\n\n------\nrohaan\nHow Fot\u014dko is different from Picasa?\n\n------\nbabarRehman\nHow many devices I can sync at once?\n\n~~~\nmaham_tayyab\nYou can sync as many devices as you like." +"\nIntel announces Cascade Lake Xeons: 48 cores and 12-channel memory per socket - rbanffy\nhttps://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2018/11/intel-announces-cascade-lake-xeons-48-cores-and-12-channel-memory-per-socket/\n======\nSantiagoElf\nDesperate move by Intel. They are stuck with Cascade Lake until 2021, when\ntheir 'new' architecture will be available. In order this Xeon to be under\n300W TDP, they disabled the Hyper Threading and when they benchmark vs AMD\nEpyc they disabled AMD's SMT. Just wow.\n\n~~~\neinr\nNot only that, but they also apparently recompiled Linpack with the Intel\ncompiler -- which is notorious for favoring Intel chips -- before running the\nbenchmarks. Some really shady stuff going on here.\n\n~~~\ngeezerjay\nOn the other hand, these shady practices are a testament to AMD's technical\nsuperiority, as the incumbent is showing himself to be very desperate to react\nalthough it has absolutely no answer to AMD's new line of products.\n\n~~~\nKoshkin\nAMD does not have techinal superiority, as Intel cores have better single-\nthread performance. Look at the recent low-end i3-8100 - it is an amazing\nchip.\n\n~~~\napi\nSingle-threaded performance is a toss up and depends on work load. Overall AMD\nbeats them on price/performance and multithreaded performance, which matter\nmore for everything but some games and a few not" +"\nMultiple ways to compute e in Raku - gbacon\nhttp://blogs.perl.org/users/damian_conway/2019/09/to-compute-a-constant-of-calculusa-treatise-on-multiple-ways.html\n======\nvvillena\nThis article is a love letter to both mathematics and programming. It is\nawesome to read something and grasp the joy and playfulness of the author. The\nmaths are explained in a simple way. The programming concepts go from the\nstraightforward to the delightfully weird (and let't not kid ourselves, Raku\nshines the most the weirder things get). And the final result is downright\nfun. I love it.\n\n~~~\nalfiedotwtf\nDamian is a magician in the way how he teaches different subjects. His talk on\ncalculating PI was fun too.\n\n------\nMrEldritch\nThis looks surprisingly neat, honestly. I've never used Perl, let alone Perl\n6, but I think I see why people cared about it.\n\n~~~\nianai\nIs it officially appropriate to talk about Perl in the past tense?\n\n~~~\nlmkg\nI think technically yes, because the present tense should be referring to Raku\ninstead.\n\n~~~\nmclehman\nRaku is not the direct successor to Perl, active Perl development continues.\n\n------\ntzs\nComputing e to thousands of decimal places is an interesting exercise for the\nmathematically inclined students in a beginning programming class. If you use\nthe \u22111/n! series" +"\n\nPosterous (YC S08) launches group blogs that are also email lists - rantfoil\nhttp://mashable.com/2009/05/05/posterous-email-lists/\n\n======\njonas_b\nI'm not sure, but this, or some evolution of this feature, could turn out to\nbe a real revolution when it comes to group collaboration and sharing.\n\nOr it might just be another feature, or that I'm trying to see something that\nisn't there.\n\nI've been searching for a merge between this, Chatterous and possibly etherpad\nfor small-group collab. Alas, it eludes me still.\n\n~~~\nrantfoil\nWe're definitely excited about the potential for this feature to grow into its\nown product!\n\nYou can expect improvements to this coming fast and furious.\n\n------\nzaidf\nThis is ridiculously awesome and the exact feature we needed few months ago.\n\nWe started a blog for our larger extended family(50+ people) so there is a\nsimple place for all our family communication. Yet a lot of the people in our\nfamily know only rudimentary use of the computer--and that means email. So the\nblog idea didn't quite work out and we're back to emailing--which is\ndisorganized but works.\n\nWith this we can get the best of both worlds! Communicate via email, archive\non a blog!\n\n~~~\nrantfoil\nWould love" +"\n\nUpdated Ask HN Archive - michaelfairley\nhttp://remembersaurus.com/askhn.html\n\n======\nRiderOfGiraffes\nThis is brilliant, but didn't I see it submitted just a day or so ago? And yet\nI've looked, and not found it.\n\nRegardless, I've added it to my ante-pre-alpha \"Great Articles\" project.\n\nThank you.\n\n------\nadrianwaj\nA \"back to top\" would be helpful.\n\nOr, I'm not a big fan of vertical static menus, but because the page is so\nlarge, using something like:\n[http://www.dynamicdrive.com/dynamicindex1/omnislide/index.ht...](http://www.dynamicdrive.com/dynamicindex1/omnislide/index.htm)\n\n\n------\nepi0Bauqu\nThank you for picking up the torch!\n\n~~~\njacquesm\nMaybe you could link to the new list from the old one too?\n\n~~~\nepi0Bauqu\nI will.\n\n------\njacquesm\nGreat work! Maybe you could ask Gabriel for permission to merge the lists ?\n\n------\nelbenshira\nAwesome stuff. Did you write a script to find all the Ask HN posts?\n\n~~~\nmichaelfairley\nI used a couple of different script for all of this. The first intelligently\ncrawled HN, trying to minimize the amount of total hits to the server while\nstill grabbing every post. It also dumped most of its internal state to file\nevery few seconds, allowing me to kill and restart it at my convenience and to\neasily grab only the new posts" +"\nWhy I use Object Pascal - samuell\nhttps://dubst3pp4.github.io/post/2017-10-03-why-i-use-object-pascal/\n======\nStillBored\nAs I get older, I'm strongly swinging into the camp that thinks languages\nshould have strongly restrictive syntax. Object pascal is one of those\nlanguages which is both low level enough to cleanly map to efficient code, as\nwell as high level enough not to feel really restrictive. Its a language that\nis completely misunderstood because far to many people read a couple critical\nessays, and believed everything they read, even though the strongest argument\nfrequently was that its harder to type \"begin/end\" than \"{/}\". Which is a\npretty lame thing, given code completion in editors as old as emacs.\n\nPut another way, the thought patterns programmers fall into when using it seem\nto result in code which is easier to understand than most other languages\nwhich seem to encourage \"perlism\" (creating a single unreadable line),\n\"forthism\" (creating a billion two line words that combine to solve all the\nproblems in one word), or a few other things which become completely\nunmaintainable when the project grows beyond what can be written by a over-\nenergetic student in a semester at school.\n\n~~~\nchubot\nI don't think anyone really disagrees with" +"\nThe IRS\u2019s Effort to Convert Its Assembly Codebase to Java - computerlab\nhttps://federalnewsradio.com/tom-temin-commentary/2018/01/irs-clutches-its-modernization-holy-grail/\n======\nTimJYoung\nWow, what a cool project to work on: working out the logic flows in\n_assembler_ and breaking them out so that they can be translated into a\nhigher-level language.\n\nI've always thought that this type of government work should be open to bids\nfrom _anyone_. If the government is worried about trojans, malware, etc., then\nthey can easily hire an auditor to audit the code and vouch for its\nauthenticity. The fact that only very large, well-connected corporations get a\ncrack at these types of problems is insane and a complete waste of taxpayer\nmoney.\n\n~~~\njacquesm\nThe big trick is the proposal itself. Writing that is only possible if you are\nalready tied in at all kinds of levels. I've seen some of these tenders up\nclose, the companies that land the deals submit phone book sized proposals to\ntenders that are officially open but actually closed unless you are in a very\nselect circle already. It's not uncommon for the proposal writer to then pass\non the actual work to a whole slew of subcontractors at substantially lower\nrates.\n\n~~~\nryanmarsh\nAre you" +"\n\nComparing Standard ML and OCaml - rohshall\nhttp://adam.chlipala.net/mlcomp/\n\n======\nWilya\nRegarding build systems, ocamlbuild is included with the standard ocaml\ndistribution and gives a high-level interface that is much simpler to use than\nocamldep and friends. Especially when combined with findlib.\n\n~~~\nnrlucas\nYeah, this is really old. I remember seeing it six years ago when I started\nusing OCaml.\n\n------\nbeering\nNothing said about multithreading and parallel processing? Seems like a big\nomission if you're comparing languages.\n\n~~~\nrwmj\nThe user group explicitly rejected multithreading at the OCaml Users\nconference a couple of years back. (There was a working implementation called\noc4mc).\n\nThe reasons were that it will slow down single-threaded performance, and\nthreads as a programming model is not robust (compared to, eg. forking,\nmessage passing, MPI etc). Also actual graphs of 4- and 8-way SMP performance\nshowed pretty poor scaling for real problems, so the benefits aren't that\ngreat compared to going for full MPI, which you have to do for NUMA anyhow.\n\n~~~\nEvbn\nGHC has a compiler flag to enable multi threaded runtime. Why can't OCaml have\nthat? It is a bit rigid to have to build two versions of a binary, but for\nfolks" +"\nAsk HN: Good Resources for Data Engineering - fargo\nI am looking for some example case studies/exercises in order to learn play with some libraries, is there a book or website you can recommend?\n======\niso1337\nkleppmann\u2019s book: designing data-intensive applications.\n\nIt\u2019s very well written, but maybe doesn\u2019t have as much in the way of\nexercises.\n\n~~~\nfargo\nThanks for the excellent recommendation, I have been through kleppmann's book\nand it's a must for anyone who wants to be serious about data engineering (or\nwhatever it's called these days). I am looking however for something more\npractical and less technical, maybe something like projecteuler or cracking\nthe cracking the coding interview but for data\n\n~~~\niso1337\nIMHO data eng is too niche and new for that kind of content. But I would love\nto see if there is anything out there like that.\n\nIs the goal here to get through system design interviews or something like\nthat? You can check out pramp.com if so.\n\nIf it\u2019s for learning, then reading some of the original Google papers behind a\nlot of the big data technologies has been very rewarding for me. You could try\nreimplementing the paxos algorithm for example.\n\n~~~" +"\nIntelligence Augmentation and the Myth of the \u201cGolden Lost Age\u201d - jf\nhttp://codinginparadise.org/ebooks/html/blog/ia_vs__ai.html\n======\nfr0styMatt2\nThere's a bit of a 'reboot' as such (I forget what it's generally referred to)\nthat contributes to this. By that I'm referring to the way that microcomputers\nreset progress in software.\n\nWhen low-power microcomputers hit the masses, the advances that had happened\nin software in the minicomputer / mainframe world couldn't follow along. So in\nthe first instance you had computers that could only barely run BASIC programs\nand where you were programming in assembly close to the bare metal if you\nreally wanted to do much more advanced things with the machine.\n\nNow, the kids growing up on these computers in the 70s and 80s (I'm an 80s kid\nmyself) had no idea about things like GUIs or the latest in virtualization\ntechnology on minicomputers or all the many problems that had been solved in\nbig-mainframe world but were yet to hit consumer devices. One factor is that\nconsumer hardware of the time wouldn't have run the software efficiently\nanyway; another one is that there was no Internet where you could just Google\nanything and find out.\n\nSo many of us then grew" +"\n128-bit storage: are you high? - iuguy\nhttp://blogs.sun.com/bonwick/entry/128_bit_storage_are_you\n======\nacabal\nThe most interesting thing in this article is the reference to \"Ultimate\nphysical limits to computation.\" It's something I never thought about before\nand honestly it kind of blew my mind a little bit...\n\n~~~\nsammcd\nA proffessor once told me never to believe the physical limits. He mentioned\nhow a wavelength of light was the smallest we could etch silicon. He then\nmentioned that today (at the time of the class) we were etching with 1/20th\nthe wavelength of light.\n\nHe then said that he could not explain how the new 1/20th of of a wavelength\ndrawing works because new physics had been learned, and it had not been in his\nphysics book.\n\n~~~\njessriedel\nYour sentiment is healthy, but you should distinguish between \"we don't know\nof a way to do X\" and \"X is impossible under the current laws of physics\". The\nformer is like etching sub-wavelength silicon. The latter is like moving\nfaster than the speed of light.\n\n> new physics had been learned, and it had not been in his physics book.\n\nAgain, there is a difference between learning new techniques and phenomena\nrunning on" +"\nThe Social Network Wars Begin In Earnest: Facebook Bans Google Friend Connect - kyro\nhttp://www.techcrunch.com/2008/05/15/the-social-network-wars-begin-in-earnest-facebook-bans-google-friend-connect/\n======\ndbreunig\nGiven that Google was tapping into Facebook as if they were an Open Social\npartner, I can see why FB was quick to react.\n\nIn other news: who is completely underwhelmed by G's Friend Connect? Since\nwhen is MySpace the innovator?\n\n~~~\nblogimus\nWell, I've not checked out Friend Connect, so I can't comment on that, but as\nfar as being the innovator, when you do enough stuff, it is highly unlikely\nyou'll get is all right. Look at Google Video versus YouTube. I (and most\neveryone else it seems) ignored Google Video after trying it out for a little\nbit and just went to YouTube by default." +"\nBats use private and social information as they hunt - dnetesn\nhttps://phys.org/news/2019-09-private-social.html\n======\ngerbilly\nWhile this is almost lost knowledge these days, humans and other animals have\nalways paid attention to each other to find out what is going in on around\nthem.\n\nThe nature (or absence of) bird or animal calls or activity can tell you that\nthere is a large predator in the area.\u00b9\n\nSome animal calls are even specific to the type of threat as well.\n\nIt has even been proposed by some linguists that prairie dog calls satisfy\nenough of the requirements to be considered language.\u00b2\n\n1: [https://birdlanguage.com/products/what-the-robin-\nknows/](https://birdlanguage.com/products/what-the-robin-knows/)\n\n2: [https://medium.com/health-and-biological-research-\nnews/prair...](https://medium.com/health-and-biological-research-news/prairie-\ndog-chatter-the-science-behind-a-new-language-9144ace4114f)\n\n------\nLinuxBender\nSomewhat off topic, semi-related, I have a bat that thinks I control the\nweather. If it gets too hot or cold, it will go just outside my window and\nsqueak at me. There are patterns to it's communication, though I have no idea\nwhat exactly it is saying. I can talk to it and it talks back. Obviously we\ndon't understand each other. I can tell it \"get back to work\" (taking out\nmosquito's) and it will leave. I think it understands tone of human voice.\n\n------\ngrawprog\nWhen we were" +"\nDotfiles.github.com - A guide to dotfiles on GitHub - netherland\nhttp://dotfiles.github.com\n======\nComputerGuru\n(Obvious) disclaimer: this is a user-hosted subdomain on GitHub. It is not an\nofficial GitHub page (even if the logo is two octocats snuggling together).\n\n~~~\nudp\nWhich means, of course, it's also a repository if anyone is interested:\n\n\n\n------\nah-\nI've meant to finally put my dotfiles into a repository but the one thing\nkeeping me from it is that I haven't yet stumbled upon a script to symlink\neverything into it's place that I'm totally satisfied with.\n\nI don't use ruby and don't want to install rake on each machine for something\nthat should be possible with a simple shell script, and didn't like the\nscripts I saw so far. Everything had a medium or large aspect that kept me\nfrom using it.\n\nMaybe I just need to write my own thing.\n\n~~~\nJoshTriplett\nI highly recommend not symlinking things at all; just have the repository\nitself as your home directory.\n\nWhenever I set up a new machine, I always do this:\n\n \n \n git clone git://joshtriplett.org/git/home\n mv home/.git .\n rm -rf home\n git checkout -f\n \n\n(There probably exists a simpler way to do that, but" +"\n\nDOJ advises that Net Neutrality could hamper development of the Internet - youngnh\nhttp://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070906/ap_on_hi_te/internet_fees_justice_department;_ylt=AlDVAzEP6zj3FCeqjPcXCsWs0NUE\nBad news and the flawed analogies still persist. This time instead of tubes, the internet is likened to the Post Office charging more for express mail.\n======\nbrlewis\nTalk about spin.\n\nThey use the example of the post office, saying you can pay different amounts\nfor different speeds. That's not what net neutrality prevents. Net neutrality\nwould prevent the situation where you send off two order forms at the same\npostal rate, but one company gets their order form faster because they're a\nsubsidiary of the post office, or have paid a big fee." +"\nAsk HN: What are some gift ideas from an alumni to a professor? - neoplatonian\nHaving graduated from university a few years ago, I feel like visiting all my professors who influenced me for the better, and I'd feel awkward if I go empty-handed.\n======\nxnyan\nJust the fact that you are coming back is very nice and uncommon.\n\nUnless you are trying to influence/bribe someone or you are from a culture of\nexpensive gifts, gifts between professional friends are tokens of goodwill. A\ncard or letter are both good, maybe some other small trinket but honestly a\ncard is worth far more to me than some $20 pen in a gift box." +"\nWelders set off Beirut blast while securing explosives - tafda\nhttps://www.maritime-executive.com/article/report-welders-set-off-the-beirut-blast-while-securing-explosives\n======\nGerardd\nWe were 600 meters away from the blast walking peacefully in the popular\nBeirut street Mar Mikhael. The scale of the explosion was surreal [1]. I\nhugged my sister and thought it\u2019s our last moment. We miraculously survived\nwith only a few scratches. Ten days have passed and there\u2019s not a single\nminute I don\u2019t think of what happened and emulate different scenarios where I\ncould\u2019ve died. I also work at the most affected hospital that became instantly\nnon-operational and had to be evacuated with over 17 patients, staff, and\nvisitors dead [2].\n\nPlease consider donating [3].\n\n[1] [https://youtu.be/SkIYjNGiaoA](https://youtu.be/SkIYjNGiaoA)\n\n[2] [https://youtu.be/JIxuwE_WPXw](https://youtu.be/JIxuwE_WPXw)\n\n[3] [https://www.stgeorgehospital.org/stgeorge-\ndonation](https://www.stgeorgehospital.org/stgeorge-donation)\n\n~~~\nTeknoman117\nI had a similar personal reaction after getting into a high speed car crash\n(mechanical failure of my car, while traveling at 70 mph on the highway.\nEntered a spin, slid off the road, did at least one complete roll). 8 years\nlater, I still sometimes think of all the ways the crash could have gone\ndifferently that would have resulted in my death.\n\nIf I was going a little faster, my car could have ended up in the irrigation\nditch" +"\nHow Seattle blew its chance at a subway system (2016) - wallflower\nhttp://features.crosscut.com/seattle-forward-thrust-sound-transit\n======\ngandreani\nThe best time to build a rail system is kind of like the best time to plant a\ntree. 20 years ago.\n\nIt's sad but it seems to me contemporary Americans don't want to pay for\nsomething that they will only reap the benefits of in later decades\n\nThere's so much in that style of thinking. The irony of depending on roads\nbuilt decades ago. The debt system conditioning people to expect to \"get it\nnow, pay it later\". The hypocrisy in \"investing\" 10k-100k in an education but\nnot a few measly percent in taxes\n\n~~~\nrayiner\nThe problem is not that the benefits will come in decades, but that they won\u2019t\ncome at all to most taxpayers. Here in DC we built a subway 40 years ago. It\u2019s\na huge boondoggle that is usable for a single digit percent of the taxpayers\nwho pay for it. Folks in Richmond who might ride Metro a few times in their\nlifetime or lower income folks who work in the suburbs subsidize the commutes\nof lawyers and federal government workers who work downtown.\n\n~~~\npcwalton\nThe D.C." +"\nStudents being forced to buy online textbooks to do homework - bjd2385\nI was forced to buy an online textbook for my CS course this past semester to do homework. Now I've been notified that my `subscription' to this information is ending at the start of January (specifically by ZyBooks).

I really liked working on the projects and reading through the descriptions, I thought it was worth the $70 or so that I paid for it. However, it was hardly ``fresh,'' I could look up the same information by Googling or surfing SO.

I've been forced to buy these now extinct access codes to websites that have ``online textbooks'' before for courses (I still have the $60-100 cards, about 4 or 5 of them now). I honestly don't feel they're worth, most of the time, what I've paid for them. And at the end of the day, I end up empty handed, robbed of that information (unlike an actual textbook, albeit still way overpriced, but at least it's _mine_ and no one can take it away from me).

Has anyone else gone through the same thing? Thoughts? Opinions?\n======\nbrudgers\nCollege textbooks have been a way to extract money from students for many" +"\n\nWhen to start publicizing a startup. - knandyal\n\nFriends,

We are a startup that deals with fashion. We are about 3-4 months away from the final product.

Questions are:

1) When is a correct time to start seeding the news about this site?

2) Who are the professionals that do this sort of \"spreading the news\"?

If anyone have any guidance regarding this I will be thankful.

Regds\nKarthik\n======\nbadmash69\nDefine your target audience, find a small representative sample whom you know\nand have them come in to your site and kick the proverbial tires. Don't go\nabout \"spreading the news\" until your representative sample is happy about\nyour product." +"\nHacking Work Manifesto - DanielRibeiro\nhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c8xiRGrVgbE&feature=share\n======\nColinWright\nClever video. Artistic, compelling.\n\nDreadful, dreadful, dreadful presentation. Hated it with a passion. It wasted\n3 minutes of my life reading the same text as was presented in a difficult to\nread font, with distracting effects, no doubt to make it difficult to read so\nI'd have to listen to the droning monologue.\n\nI wish people would learn to present well and stop wasting the time of\neveryone who pays attention. They talk about tools holdingyou back and wasting\nyour time. Ineffective presentations prevent your message from getting to the\ntarget, wasting their time and yours.\n\nEven worse, I went to the lunk-to site - \\- and\nmy first click took me to a \"not found here\" page. More wasted time." +"\nAsk HN: Early in career \u2013 is it a bad idea to change jobs after six months? - mountainApe22\nFor some context: I am in my mid-twenties, have a computer science degree from a top ten American university and moderate experience developing software applications. After graduation I did a bit of research and worked as a bartender/waiter while going through the whole post-grad thing.

I eventually decided on taking a white collar job in technology. I was hired into a subsidiary of a well known CPG company as an Information Systems Specialist. When I was brought on board, I was told that I would be assisting the head of the IS department in documenting ERP customizations, developing/optimizing SQL, and working closely with other departments in order to build customizations and automations. It sounded great.However, my boss wasn't located in the same office as me and only spent 6 days on location "training" me. My "training" was consistently interrupted as my boss had to go put out fires multiple times per day.

Four weeks later I was brought in to HR and told that my boss resigned without notice and that I was to fly to the HQs the next week to do" +"\nSymbolic expressions can be automatically differentiated too - objections\nhttp://h2.jaguarpaw.co.uk/posts/symbolic-expressions-can-be-automatically-differentiated/\n======\njohnbender\nOne can also calculate the derivative of a context free grammar with respect\nto a given terminal.\n\n[http://matt.might.net/articles/parsing-with-\nderivatives/](http://matt.might.net/articles/parsing-with-derivatives/)\n\n~~~\nApanatshka\nThat's also a really cool article. Thanks for sharing it!\n\n------\ndelluminatus\nGreat post, as an AD tutorial and as a (an?) Haskell exercise. Having known\nnothing about AD before, I feel like I have a good understanding of what it is\n-- as he says, it's so simple -- but I don't understand _why_ the algorithm is\nso much faster. Just looking at the differentiator function and the AD\nfunction, it actually appears that the AD should take longer because it does\nmore computation per step (both the function and the derivative). But it seems\nlike every article or paper is talking about how to implement AD, not why the\nalgorithm is so efficient. Does anyone happen to know of a good article or\npaper about that? Ideally, one just as nice and comprehensible as this!\n\n~~~\nvidarh\nThe first alternative builds a large tree structure, and then evaluates the\nwhole tree structure afterwards.\n\nSo first it blows up the size of the expression to process" +"\n\nAsk HN: Coming up with ideas? - jwdunne\n\nI'd like to build a few small but useful apps to build experience and a portfolio outside of my workplace, an area shamefully neglected.

I'm stuck at the first hurdle and I haven't got a clue where to start or what to build first!

Do you have any tips for coming up with ideas?\n======\nmc_hammer\ni usually just get the ideas while im working, from things that suck\n\nneed to write a regex for css parsing... why isnt there a regex generator yet\n\nneed to debug my javascript... why isnt there a repl?\n\nwriting windows 10 hello world,