jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
That wasn't intended to be editorializing or picking a sensational detail. Rather, I found that to be the most relevant point and believed that it would be most salient to HN. I certainly wouldn't call it fabrication; it explicitly states that this data could be used to qualify many people for better credit, doubtless via some credit score system or similar. I think this quote best lays out that position:

> Recent research documents that, once powered by artificial intelligence and machine learning, these alternative data sources are often superior than traditional credit assessment methods, and can advance financial inclusion, by, for example, enabling more credit to informal workers and households and firms in rural areas.

Where "these alternative data sources" includes digital habits such as browsing history.

Edit: I would suggest "IMF researchers find that digital footprint yields better credit assessment" as an alternative. These aren't fintech data sources inherently; they've been used for advertising for years.
This is inhumane -- even prison inmates are allowed to spend some time outdoors. And research has found that outdoor spread of covid in people not in crowds is minimal.
Because Coding is not Working. Coding is not Planning. Coding is not Being Efficient. Coding is not Accomplishing Goals. Coding is not Saving Money. Coding is not Gaining Customers.

I am getting paid to get things done in a good manner. If I wanted to have a house built for me, I would not expect to pay somebody and immediately have them start laying bricks without them looking at the land, taking soil samples, sketching up drafts of what the house should look like within the constraints available, and then plan the foundation of which to start building.

If they came and immediately just started laying bricks, I'd know I have a really shitty house builder.

I mean no offense by this, but "why aren't you X" is a bit naïve and comes off as lacking a good amount of experience in that field. There are many reasons why not doing X is right, including social/mental recovery and prevention of burnout.
For certain, but let’s not forget that the time period of the late 19th-early 20th century represented a flowering of innovation and invention across all areas of life and tooling that is arguably very unique in human history. That spirit and the thinking that was applied in such diverse areas is staggering, and as I read more about it (say, 1868-1915ish?) the more I’m convinced it’s very under-appreciated.
I've absolutely noticed that my RSI / carpal tunnel flare-ups are extremely closely correlated with the closure of gyms in my local area due to pandemic restrictions. Now I'm training on bars at the park its getting a lot better.
> larger company looking for a generalist with no concrete role is a sign that they don't have their stuff together.

Or that their culture is such that they have entrenched, stovepiped personnel that don't venture out of their specific knowledge domains and they need somebody to bridge that gap.

An analogy that I've used far too often when describing software deployment in traditional orgs is one of the dev team and IT playing tennis with the grenade that is the software. With each volley back and forth they give each other nigh-useless information - the operations team will tell the dev team that it crashed without sending logs and that it's because of random setting X that they pulled out of a hat, then the dev team will tell the ops team that said configuration value is hardcoded but that can't be the problem because it runs perfectly on their dev machine, and so on and so forth. Having somebody to mediate this interaction so that it's actually productive is inherently invaluable to, y'know, getting actual work done.

Unfortunately it's not particularly valuable from a business perspective because if your org is operating this way then it means that they place greater value on the performance of "software engineering" than the actual value added by the software produced. So basically what you said.
Oh wow - didn't know this was on HN, so I'm guessing at least a few founders are shaking their heads at me and wondering why I'm not engaging with the commenters...

I may have left YC, but HN is still home, so long as Daniel lets me stay.
My whole point in the original thread was - I wonder if this will spill out into general advertising too.
I've had a bike stolen by a Russian gang.

Danish police cracked down on them and returned my bike with the help of the VIN system
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Danish_bicycle_VIN-system
For everything negative you can say about modern UI patterns like the hamburger menu, lack of discoverability isn‘t one of them imho. You have a single button with an almost-standardized icon, from which you can get an overview of all the (non-context-sensitive) actions. Relative to menu bars, the actions are sorted more by their importance than some vague categories. (Where do you find Settings? Under File, Edit or Help? No, as a top-level entry of the hamburger menu.) Of course it has its own problems, like number of clicks...
If you think that there is 'no good reason' why excel users couldn't pick up some coding, and 'no good reason' why developers shouldn't make business reports, you should think about those questions harder, and try to understand what the reason actually is, not worrying about whether it's good or bad. Your not understanding why people do something is not going to make them stop doing it.
I’m sure there are plenty of things that are fine in English that sound mildly (or worse) offensive in other languages. Should we really be imposing on other people?
That's a good point, it is nuanced for sure. My line of reasoning is that ultimately the monkey only has to control one dimension of movement of some object, so whatever complex reasoning is required to arrive at the decision to move up or down (one dimensional movement), it would still be easier for a supervised learning algorithm to learn spatial-encoding neurons over a single dimension.

I think this gets deep into the difference between premeditation and action and what that means at a neural level. I would guess that Neuralink is not processing the "logical thinking" as much as it is on the neurons that dumbly encode an association with ping-pong racket location.

As long as some set of neurons uniquely fire approximately when the pong moves along its degree of freedom, different electrodes will pick up different voltages, and that can be learned by an algorithm. So we don't need to know how the monkey arrived at a decision, but rather just be able to index the possible outcomes of the decision. Which is why I thought that the entropy of the decision space mattered. It's easier to learn a smaller space.

I would tend to think this is a dumb pattern matching cluster (e.g. see visual encoding[0]) that's being picked up by Neuralink, and not the actual "logical decision making". Although, there may be more subtle neurons that fire in a sort of "premonition" which have learned the correlation of the racket position with the ball over time.

I can link to more papers on that -- it's not just visual encoding, but rats can "plan" where they are going to go, a sort of premonition. Humans also do this. It's like an echo that happens before you yell. That's what the brain does when you plan to go to the grocery store.

This is all really interesting stuff, but I'm not an expert!

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jw6nBWo21Zk
Horrible leadership that stifels innovation when your boss decides to torpedo your work on the idea stage simply because of an experience that he personally had. Why would anyone stick their neck out when they can be chastised and humiliated so publicly. Maybe this explains why the studio struggles without Miyazaki making movies.
True, but the new keyboards are great. They seem to have learnt their lesson.
Some of which they are not even aware of unless they have used other systems for some time.

"I don't even have any problems with bluetooth, audio or a secondary display"

Why would you mention these? Why would anybody expect to have problems with that? ;)

FWIW I use linux on laptop for dev, it's great for my specific use case (terminals flying around), I would not recommend it to my family.

i3wm FTW
Newer doc:

https://download.nvidia.com/XFree86/Linux-x86_64/465.19.01/R...

And https://download.nvidia.com/XFree86/Linux-x86_64/465.19.01/R... for power management, including turning off the GPU entirely when unused.
> Changing the name of the workplace is a bit like victim shaming, in the sense that the real problem is the harasser.

Yes, but the connotation is arguably quite NSFW. If it would be named penis directly, it should not make a difference either, but it does. Throwing in "we should use cock!" in a meeting will get you glances at first and surely some more afterwards, even if you clarify.

Ask the companies named ISIS (there are quite a few) how the name worked out for them; same thing here.

> If people have difficulties talking about their workplace name, then I think it's people's problem.

Yes, but it is then, in turn, your problem, as you loose out on quite a few people - either because they don't want the trouble with the name or because it simply deters them. Marketing is extremely important.
I don't see why you got downvoted: this just happens, too, and it doesn't make the reddit comment less touching. It's in fact quite related: people exploiting the natural willingness of other people to help, which in turns makes people less helpful with others.

It's a classic even in some occidental countries (either that, or requesting help on malls parking).

This doesn't mean I won't help someone - but I'm definitely careful when I do.
I DO see it as zero sum. OSM and Google maps compete for a limited supply of users. It's the "wrong" team because when Google gets users, they make money. When OSM gets users, the map gets better and people are freer from abuse and manipulation.
Several points:

First, children aren't the best judges of the topics they should be learning.

Second, children aren't the best judges of how to most effectively spend their time and judge their own pace, nor should they be: They're children. If I were given a choice in high school, I would have skipped all literature and English classes, played videogames all day, or something else that would be equally destructive to my future.

> Wouldn't it be the best possible outcome if children grew to love the learning process instead of learning to sit and regurgitate?

You're knocking down a straw man: Allowing children absolute freedom isn't necessarily going to lead to them love the learning process, nor is the current system completely about regurgitating facts.
It just seems to me like a coincidence that the upgrade was followed by your G-Mail account being hijacked.

It could be that you have been firesheeped - even though G-Mail uses ssl by default, if you use the same password for something else, trying the same password with your email would the first test any spammer would do.
It could also be a simple phishing scam.

As a matter of fact, there are so many ways for an attacker to steal your password so If i where you i would:
1.Boot my computer from a live CD
2.Change all my passwords
3.Do a clean install of all my computers

If you have a lot of free time, before reinstalling everything you can try and find out which one of your machines is actually infected with malware. Try antiviruses, or maybe sniffing the network for random traffic thats not supposed to be there.

That is probably not enough,
you should also change your habits :
Don't login to your account from public machines/networks.And if you have to - use a live CD/USB to boot it.
Don't install just any software on your computer/iphone etc.. make sure it's from a reputable source
Don't use the same password for everything.

There is a lot more you can do but i think you get the hang of it - just be sensible on when and where you use your account.
Apple do a lot of refurbishing, and I can't imagine replacing a plastic case is going to set them back much.
I will shoot you an email in the morning.
Depends on the scope of patents and trademarks.
I've added those - thanks. Rather a shame that this item has sunk without trace - I'd've been interested to see more comments from people making recommendations.

<fx: shrug /> Unclear as to whether people don't care, or didn't see it. Never mind, thanks for your contribution.

EDIT: Bizarre - briefly hit 20 on the front page, now get more votes, and the item has disappeared. I suspect it's been flagged, or triggered a voting ring. Very odd.
? Not a complaint, I don't even have kids. But if it was $99 for the ride (regardless of people) then it's more price efficient for a family flying compared to the hundreds it costs after their promotional pricing.
Displaying <? echo "hello world;" ?> is programming, doing some Excel thingies is programming, heck, even doing a

> print 'test'

inside the Python REPL is programming, all this is not that complicated The only issue is that we've stopped calling that sort of stuff "programming", we've started moving the goalposts more and more, and then of course "programming" has become harder and harder: if you don't write tests you're not programming, if you don't to TDD you're not programming, if you're not ready for pair-programming you're not programming, if you're not writing everything inside a container you're not programming etc.
How does Chrome own the OS? ChromeOS is hardly what's making Chrome the dominant browser.
I went to the comment section looking for the first person to take issue with that statement. I wasn't disappointed.

Why is it unrelated to the general thesis?
Cheers. I thought NI was capped at a fairly low level so I ignored it, but it turns out that employer's NI is not.
How does buying a car with an internal combustion engine prevent such issues? As far as I know, all cars have a battery and many ICE vehicles have cameras and microphones.
>because who would trust an SSO created by one guy in his basement

You don't have to tell everyone that you are one person company operating from basement. Why not use phrases like "our company", "our clients", have different email addresses like support@, sales@, hr@ subtly insinuating there are more of you, use picture from photobank when listing address of your company's headquarters(basement) etc.. You won't be first nor last person doing this.

And Open Source/Proprietary doesn't need to be either/or problem. You can dual license it as AGPL/Proprietary and make contributors sign CLA.
Mostly everybody can learn to cook, only a few will become professionals, and fewer still will ever get a Michelin star. Mostly everybody can learn how to cycle, but only a few will compete in (let alone win) the Tour de France. Everybody can learn how to read and write, but there's only a handful of Shakespeares and Hemingways among us.

All of these are useful, easy to acquire, everyday skills that can be done at incredibly high levels of sophistication. Programming is easy in exactly the same way all of these things are easy, and hard in the same way all these things are hard.
Yeah, that football manager is still catergorised as a game is hilarious. I think I may have even developed a appreciation of the finer aspects of the modern games use of data analysis.

But I do find something attractive about games that keep someone's brain active. Never played factorio though my colleagues wax lyrical about it ad nauseum.
on the other hand, the factors that force you to let people go may also make it more expensive to retain executive talent.

Optics matter, but they arent the only consideration.
Yeah, it really just gave them a shape that devs were familiar with and they could evolve the underlying mechanisms over time
Yeah but I'm older than all those guys already and the project I was passionate about at 21 didn't do the thing.
I prefer to just use a closure - but that just might be because I've used them so long that my brain thinks it looks nicer.

Another nice context-setting trick is to set the context manually when you do ajax requests - then callbacks will have the context of the object you did the request in:

var myobj = {
done: "I'm done.",
load: function(){
$.ajax({
context: this,
success: function(){
alert(this.done);
}
});
}
};
It works well, but I prefer the internal features, Youtube's Watch Later (and private playlists), and Vimeo's Watch Later. I think it will work better when there's more overlap between the sites it supports, or maybe it just doesn't support my habits. I'd love to come back in a month and look.

I'd be interested in an iphone app that plays the hd audio of youtube playlists, is this related enough to be a feature?
Your first and last link are the same
For all the supposed geekery associated with linux,there is actually a thriving community and superb documentation to help you with any stumble.The supposedly "geek" linux distros are not difficult,but rather require you to think more.

Start with Ubuntu though.It has reached a stage now where its pretty intuitive,and all the configuration you want can be done by points-and-clicks.There is also a lot of support and any problem can be solved by a mere google search.An alternative is Linux mint,it is designed to be even easier than Ubuntu for beginners.

THEN get your hands dirty,as you gain confidence.And have an internet connection handy.That's when the fun starts!
"We assume that microbes evolved to attack humans when actually we are just civilian casualties in a much older war"

Did anyone actually have this assumption?
http://www.snopes.com/history/document/horseless.asp
I think maybe Facebook should stop asking for complicated algorithms questions in their interviews, and instead ask to debug code like this with 7 indentation levels per function and behavior affected by a dozen flags.

The tool is nice, but it would have been better if the code was more readable in the first place, such that any editor would have sufficed.

To be fair, I have seen much worse. At least there’s plenty of comments, and the naming is ok.
Dishonest reporting is not a quality inherent to arbitrary political labels, there is no "spectrum", there are only "particular actors" and people decide in real time which particular actors they prefer to focus their attention on.
Wow, I hadn't checked Prgrmr's rates in a while. Their smallest is now $5 for 64MB of ram, and for $20 you get 1GB.

http://prgmr.com/xen/
Are you in Brisbane?
Have you tried it? it doesn't.. when the focus is on the address bar it reverts to the whole URL.
I sent him an PM. I'm sure there is a lot more to this!
You don't happen to work at Amazon?
Unless you spend a lot of time in the car! :) I listen to 1 hour of audio each day whilst driving. This will be ideal now that I'm about to finish one of the Warren Buffet audio books
Thanks sincerely for the advice, but I already know these things. As I said, they have no bearing on whether it is acceptable to create new persons.
The best free resources are your friends and contacts. Your personal network is the reach of your world. Everything beyond that requires direct knowledge or money.
Never mind, I see you're in Melb.

I met David at an event a while back.
And back in the 1500s anyone could build a printer and rags for paper and crank out hundreds of broadsheets or pamphlets to be distributed all over town. Which lead to pulp fiction, the open exchange of ideas and the religious wars of the 1500s and onwards.

Open exchange of ideas is not new. It's just faster and cheaper now.
But the cost is vastly different as well. You can get a drill at Wal-Mart for under $40 and it barely takes up any room. People's time is a lot more expensive than the drill so there will never be a time that it will be economical to pay somebody to do just that for you instead of buying a drill and doing it yourself.
I once moved into an apartment with bed bugs. So this is what I learned:

- at least in Germany you cannot buy bed bug spray in a regular store

- if you have bed bugs, it's recommended to contact an exterminator that will cost you hundreds (or even thousands)

- you can still buy spray against bed bugs. The warning sign on the spray is one level below "explosive". As you can imagine, the stuff you get in the store says that you mustn't use it indoors.

Sorry mate, not sure which Spray Brand you used, but using bed bug spray is really dangerous.

You say that the TSA, FBI etc. are ignorant. You are ignorant too by not reading the spray bottles you use.
The title from Bloomberg is misleading and the others here are correct to say that this is more a history of Electronic Clearing. That said, Electronic Clearing does allows for increased automated interaction with the exchange spinning off everything we think of today as Electronic Trading(think HFT algo-prop trading, dark pools, reg NMS, etc.).

Bloomberg could have also arbitrarily picked ticker tape as an example of how computers (or just technology for that matter) took over Trading. Its a natural progression in a highly competitive industry where speed of information is an essential edge.

It would be more poignant to analyze how Reg NMS came to be and what effect that has on the market.

Also consider the financial incentive that the exchanges are in as electronic trading has become prevalent. More trades me more commissions. The exchanges WANT higher volumes and more churn. Take what the exchange operators say with a grain of salt.
From a quick look, SourceForge pushed out about 19TB of FileZilla bandwidth in the last 30 days in terms of binary downloads. I'm not sure any projects on GitHub are pushing that kind of bandwidth for binary downloads yet. Or are they?

In terms of PortableApps.com, I don't think we'd be a good fit for GitHub since we're a project that's a conglomeration of apps made portable (for USB and cloud use). I think we're around 90TB of bandwidth for downloads in the last month for our open source apps via SourceForge (some of our open source apps the publishers self-host like Inkscape and LibreOffice so we don't push those through our SourceForge project).
Other similar sites: http://www.accountkiller.com/en/ && http://tosdr.org
Here's an idea: Go contact everyone on your stargazers list and ask them if neo4django is used at their company. https://github.com/scholrly/neo4django/stargazers
Wow what a bunch of morons
and http://www.accountkiller.com/
It's a business decision - web makes all the OS platforms equal. It is against Microsoft's interests to do that. They wanted to keep the status quo as long as possible.
So many people tripping over themselves to criticize this.

But hey, everyone is talking about it. $0 ad spend.

It elicits strong reactions. People seem to love it or hate it. Far better than indifference.

Not a truck owner, nor in the market, but I appreciate bold moves and deviation from the norm.
I can expand why I think SE do not like "what is best ..." questions.

1: There is no definitive answer to it. At best there is best practice, and at worst there is flame wars. If Moderators tried to distinguish what topic could become flame wars, you tend to end up with very biased moderation.

2: Recommendations are much more time-sensitive than purely technical questions. The best framework in 2005 might be abandon in 2015, which can mislead readers. As a reader, I know this and always check the post date, but from a UI perspective, this key component is not obvious in SO.

3: Flame wars are destructive, and SE has historically tried to avoid them. Questions like "should I pick GPL or BSD?", "Emacs or VI?", and "Python or ruby?" tend to be cut down before they cause problem in the SE community. I wish sometimes that HN would follow suit and do the same.
Good question - they obviously don't need to buy a bunch of hardware or something.
slackbot bot is amazing!
I want one!
Same in India. It is indeed a critical social infrastructure here, if one is "texting" someone it is inherently assumed it would be through WhatsApp. And yes, schools, offices and even the Police use it too.