skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's not like trial by jury is an American invention. Like many other ex-colonies, the US basically kept the common-law legal system it inherited from English rule. Oddly enough, people who grumble most loudly about the malign influence of 'big government' seem to lean heavily (albeit often unconsciously) towards a civil law system, to the point of sometimes trying to parse Supreme Court cases by the standards of that approach.
Bring Back Your App: How to Prioritize Your Best Features
W^X enabled in OpenBSD Firefox port
The linked article from Scott Aaronson is quite accessible and very worth reading. My favorite quote is:

Perhaps the best way to explain local realism is that it’s the thing
you believe in, if you believe all the physicists babbling about
“quantum entanglement” just missed something completely obvious.

What I still struggle to understand is the realism part. The NYT article seems to imply that, when all loopholes are closed, we will have the final prove to live in a non-local world. Realism isn't mentioned.

The finding is another blow to one of the bedrock principles of
standard physics known as “locality,” which states that an object is
directly influenced only by its immediate surroundings.

I always thought that local realism meant one of the following:

- no realism
- no locality
- neither realism nor locality

The Wikipedia article Principle of locality (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Principle_of_locality#Local_re...) says

Any theory, such as quantum mechanics, that violates Bell's
inequalities must abandon either locality or realism;

Can the result of Bell's experiment be explained when we just abandon realism but not locality?
Trust has already been broken there. If the job is a bait and switch, why would you expect someone to stay if they have other options?
Little touches like that make the product great! Is the metabase front page part of the github repo?
TIL I've never had a good boss.
what is the tech stack...
We already had gov't, taxes and social programs. It may not be apparent to you, but homesteading on indigenous lands was a social program. I'd love to see if you could make 4X the salary and 2X the quality of life by migrating to another country if you'd change your tune. I hope your rigid rules of society always apply to you and your descendants.

But I'm guessing you're ok with the folks who migrated to North America. Just not ok when those same people move around their own continent.
El Niño Forecast, 2015
The Things Network – a global, open, free, decentralized IoT network
You mean like these Amazon Prime ("No shipping, please") subscribers that ended up either paying for ~other stuff~ or cancelling, like I did?

I guess it makes sense to merge offers into one big 'You probably want some of this' bucket - for the company.
Seems like either the NSA has easy methods to crack ECC that they think will be public knowledge in the immediate future(unlikely but who knows), or they can't break ECC and are trying to push people away from it for the NSA's own own good
> particles do not take on formal properties until they are measured or observed in some way

This sounds like lazy evaluation.
When someone is looking at something in the app, I need them to be able to paste a link to someone else, and have the recipient see the same thing. Sounds like a job for react-router, right?
When was the last extended break you had and how long was it?

Take a good chunk of time off with zero computer, technical or online stuff.

When I quit my old job earlier this year (after being burnt out hard) I was able to take 3 weeks off before starting new gig at smaller start-up-ish company. I used ZERO electronics and such over the 3 weeks. No programming books are anything like that.Was finally "refreshed" when I started the new job.
Ask HN: Any good collection of postmortems or guide how to write one?
My hunch is the same, but why do you say "certainly"?
> people are generally going to be very transparent with people they hire to help with a turn-around.

Really? I've never had an interview where I've been told the team has constant high pressure arbitrary deadlines, a culture of micromanagement, a lack of autonomy, no career progression, low skilled colleagues, etc. Yet these kind of companies are the majority.
Very true if, and only if, "a portion of the surplus value generated by these awful machines can be captured and paid to the people they displace".

But a very small group of financiers/entrepreneurs/VCs own all the machines, their ownership of the machines gives them an advantage in owning even more machines, and it is not in their nature (ie, human nature) for them to spread the sunshine. That's the problem. That's why we have a vast underclass already today, and it's not getting any smaller, despite the wishful thinking of the technerati (of which I am one).
Well, first of all painful adjustment in the immediate future is worth the permanent advancement after the adjustment. Second of all I feel we have every reason to believe advancements like this are inexorable, so I would rather devote my thoughts to how best to handle them rather than how to stop them or to lament how unfortunate it is.

I would also argue that the greatest skill humanity possess is not dexterity, pattern matching, or anything else like that. But, rather, adapting.
I would also piss me off as a paying customer if that happened.
Bell inequalities and nonlocality (2006) [pdf]
I like to support content creators. And no, I don't want to have to sign up for the Patreon accounts of every single YouTube user I like the videos of.
Oh, I'm not sad for this guy at all - he's doing this by choice. The sadness is the fact that housing is so unaffordable. The irony is that these successful companies have driven up the price, but the average worker there can barely afford to live there and still have a life. If this is a viable choice for somebody working as a software developer at one of the most successful companies in the world, what hope is there for the ordinary working person?!
> jury doesn't understand it?

Everytime I hear a finance person use the excuse of 'you wouldn't understand' to a complex, I can't help but correlate it to a developer who's obfuscated code tell another developer they wouldn't understand, without acknowledging that they obfuscated the code.

I'm sure I understand, you just don't want me to because then it would be obvious you are just ripping people off to make more money for yourself / company. Kind of like how the government has used 'enhanced interrogation' rather than the common definition of torture to get around breaking the law.
Url changed from https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/wikileaks-publishes-..., which is just a summary.
Some Tesla owners are too trusting of autopilot
It's a shame that NYRB published Urn Burial separately from The Garden of Cyrus, since the two pieces were conceived by Browne as going together. You can get them both (along with Religio Medici and several more) from Penguin in The Major Works of Thomas Browne.
what's wrong about it besides the blurred background photos?
Bill Maris also says: "If we each keep our genetic information secret, then we’re all going to die".

To which I want to reply: "We are going to die anyway, Bill." and "I don't see a link to your genome, Bill!"

Later he mentioned things we will have to start caring about if we start living to 500yo, such as production and distribution of basic things to sustain life, like food.
To which I only want to reply: "Worldwide poverty, hunger and waste are actual problems that giant funds like GV should already be caring about, otherwise, well we are going to die and knowing your genome won't do s..."

Clearly, life is much easier on the Google planet than planet Earth. They seem to have solved most of the world problems.
I'm actually kind of surprised that the YouTube terms of service require a new agreement and aren't structured in a way that would allow them to make changes like this unilaterally.
AssMark received offer to not release rowhammer test
Talk first with your boss and then make your decision.
“Dear Jack” Want to Restore Devs Trust in Twitter?(from CEO of Hubspot)
No, what parent asked is how will Twitter profit...
IP addresses are not people and WiFi isn't always secure.

http://www.aircrack-ng.org/doku.php?id=cracking_wpa
When designers don't work, your developer or your marketing department (or whoever they produce designs for), they will tell you they are missing the designs and are blocked for this or that.

When QA does not work, there will be very few bug reports, and your support will see the number of tickets shoot up.

But you must have some process in place to really identify the bottleneck. Something I assume a big company should have.
One of the first thing the world needs is to get past the idea that when someone speaks about sensitive issues facing group X, that they're automatically attempting to speak "for", or "on behalf of" group X. And that the import of what they're saying can be weighed (and/or dismissed outright), accordingly.

The issues addressed in the article are complex, and sadly, quite pervasive; we could benefit from multiple perspectives, in seeking ways to address them.
Because only things that no one cares about stay the same.
To add to that, Bell's theorem says that either locality or hidden variables may be true, but not both. We could construct a formulation of quantum mechanics that includes hidden variables, but must account for the state of the universe at arbitrarily distant locations.
BTW, you can use Buffer for this as of a couple of months ago - should be easier than a custom script :)
Or you could just download Adblock Plus for free...
From the FAQ:

> "As an added bonus, your YouTube Red membership includes a free subscription to Google Play Music, with access to its extensive catalog of music. If you’re already a Google Play Music subscriber, you’ll receive a free YouTube Red membership."[0]

That's an interesting way to bootstrap their paying userbase.

[0]https://www.youtube.com/red
Just noting it doesn't matter how our 'native' population grows or shrinks - we'll have about the same available labor supply per capita. In fact as we push education, our labor supply shrinks as the next generation aspires to more than lawn maintenance.
Is that $9.99/month? The site doesn't say (AFAICT). That seems WAY expensive. I'd happily pay $20/year, but not $10/month -- not even close.
I got a MacBook Pro too. Couldn't find a linux laptop that was equivalent tbh
GitHub Development Workflow for Final Year College Senior Design
There are Android apps that can do this, too. Or at least, there were up until about a year ago. Mine stopped working, perhaps intentionally by Google? Not sure.
The inevitability assumption. Not borne out by history. There are very long periods of regression if you look at the century-level scale, and it is not unreasonable to contemplate the potential that we might be getting towards "peak tech", right, now.

Will technology move upwards? Most likely. Will technology move in an uninterrupted straight line upwards? most unlikely.
Google seems really desparate to make money lately.
Zoe Keating, as an independent musician, held out for a while: http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2015/jan/27/zoe-keatin...

Her biggest objection was that Google was purporting to tell her when she could or couldn't release a new song on various music services. It seems they've backed down on that. Google claims they were never asking for that, while Keating claims they quietly changed the terms.

She also objects to Google dictating a very narrow range of options for how she interacts with people who use her music. She doesn't like the "stick ads on all of it" option that Google is steering her toward, because that's not a strong enough enough response to people who are using her music commercially without licensing it, but also she would rather not stick ads on her fans.
The only thing of significant value that they give away is $20 credits to new riders and some new driver bonuses.

The number of full-fare (no subsidy to either rider or driver) Uber trips surely absorbs these incentives, leaving a positive gross margin. (There's also a miniscule computing, bandwidth, and payment processing cost to a marginal ride, marginal being defined as the nominal X+1th ride after all the costs for X rides are already paid for.)

Perhaps absolute certainty is a slight overstatement, but here's one where I'd bet eating my hat on it. I edited to insert an "almost".
This sort of plausible deniability depends on there being financial instruments which are genuinely difficult to understand. I'm sure you would agree that there are in fact mechanisms and systems in computer programming which would be fairly difficult to explain quickly. Especially in terms which are anything approaching accuracy.
Both your and the parent's suggested explanations seem to me to be more about pushing an agenda than an actual explanation. I'm sure there's no one reason that people are leaving Yahoo. It's possible that their interest in educational background in hiring and retention, and/or the work-from-work policy that received several orders of magnitude more media coverage than its actual effect on employees, have been factors in some departures. But it's much more likely that the biggest factor overall, and probably the single most important factor to most of the people who have left, is the fact that Yahoo is a zombie. There's little or nothing interesting happening there, the company is shrinking steadily, and its long-term prospects are not going to inspire or excite anyone. At this point, it's basically another AOL; the days of it being an important player are long gone and will not be coming back regardless of who the CEO is, what kind of strategy they pursue, or just how long the company continues to exist on paper (which may well be a very long time; e.g., AOL). It's over, and it's been over for a long time. People who have other career options don't tend to stick around such places, and it's hard to blame anyone for leaving.
Hey, this is the book that got me to try clojure out.

I'm curious though what do peoples windows clojure workflows look like, as most tutorials I'm seeing are in mac or *nix
Yeah, unlike youtube who are giving you the option to remove ads, we'll put twice the ads on everything! Please invest in my startup, advee (it's like teevee, but with ads!).
Your confusing the sorting aspect with the 'picking' aspect. Right now a lot of fruit ends up on the ground and never makes it to the sorting facility.
This is a great idea, but the general advice you get is the same thing your doctor is telling you - lose weight, lower blood pressure, wear sunblock. For specific issues you could pass down to your kids, there are physician-ordered genetic tests. The real "killer app" right now for personal genetics has to do with pharmaceuticals - how well does my body handle Warfarin, etc. That's a great application, and something that I think is better ordered by a physician at the point where you'd need to know that information.
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Ask HN: Need Startup Growth Advice/Help
So, I work at a digital marketing startup based out of Denver, CO. We provide social media marketing, SEO, and have a platform that provides some great big data.

We work with pretty much anyone, but keep the big data for high end clients only. We have a pool of small biz clients that hire us for smm.

I was pretty much hired on to help grow the business. Although it is backed by a multi-million dollar software company, they are pretty cheap when it comes to outreach and marketing.

The first thing I noticed is they have all these clients - But give very little value too. Social media marketing, some entry level insights, and that's about it. The big data we provide is good and valuable, but that's only for our BIG clients. But from a small biz perspective, we charge a shit-ton and don't give much back. I know, that needs to change!

I need advice on some good growth hacks. They company has sucked at marketing themselves up until this point, and I'll be helping turn that around. But I need some quick, bootstrapped ideas on how to quickly grow this agency.

I really like the culture, and I have a kick ass opportunity in front of me, but I need to give results.
Any suggestions?

I also get the feeling that my boss (the CEO), is pretty much relying on me. I feel like I'm his last hope. He's made historically some bad hires, and I think he's confident I can turn that around.
I took the leap out of corporate for this, and Im happy about it so far. Since I don't want to go back to corporate, I need this to succeed.

I'm open to any and ALL ideas/feedback/and suggestions. Thanks in advance!
Agreed, it's really the only feature I care about. I used a third party app exactly for this but it broke about half a year ago. I wonder if it broke intentionally because of Google.
I'm curious if we're going to see a glut in housing with so many Boomers entering retirement, wanting to downsize or needing to extract their equity to live on.

Also, economics for Millennials have been terrible. They're of course going to have a terrible time trying to get a down payment together as well as afford a reasonable mortgage payment. Even assuming they use a 3% down mortgage program, they then have no equity, and are locked to the property if they need to move/relocate unless they're willing to default on the property (which then keeps them out of buying again for 3 years).

EDIT: As someone who has seen deep into the real estate market, the game is rigged.
That would be a great idea if all messages were not harmful in reality.

Unfortunately, some of those threatening messages are from real world stalkers. Those need to be seen because the message might be the only clue that the person has been targeted.

Such threatening messages must not be automatically deleted, rather seen, saved, and forwarded to the appropriate authorities.
Any manager which cares about their employees would say that, "you should have come to me sooner." Only issue is how many managers are actually empathetic?
Tax Hack: Increase your take home pay with each paycheck
I wish we were back in the days of 20% down. Seems like that would ground the market properly and make people more price sensitive, but I am not an economist. Turning the spigot off is harder than turning it on.

My beef is that easy credit isn't just driving up the price of housing it's driving up the size of housing which is connected to the price.
Breathing wood smoke is a terrible health hazard, and people have been suffering the consequences of cooking over wood-fire hearths in small poorly ventilated houses for millennia.

The air pollution we used to breathe every day in peasant agricultural societies (and still do in many parts of the world) is worse than the worst smog days in a city powered by coal burning power plants or the worst second-hand cigarette smoke you’ll breathe going to parties filled with chain smokers.

You shouldn’t assume something is safe just because it is “natural”.
Dell Goes Back to the Future with Product Releases at Dell World 2015
I would be buying a home (or two) if 300k was the price tag.
According to the Bank of England Inflation Calculator [1]

£30 in 2010 would be £34.35 in 2014

(I had to do it that way, it only goes up to 2014)

[1] http://www.bankofengland.co.uk/education/Pages/resources/inf...
If I could rely on Twitter, I'd pay them. That's how they profit. Not a hard question, really.
Easy to say, Guy With A Job. Hungry people have other opinions. If we had, say, a Basic Income in place (or other hunger-proof social network) then I'd lean toward a Utopian view of progress as well.
I won't take a look until I can see it without signing in
Where I live (very large US city) buying actually works out better than renting IF you can afford a substantial down payment, which I imagine most millennials can not. My wife and I ('88-'89 born millennials) were able to and are saving money every month on the bottom line while living in a condo larger and nicer than our previous apartment.

Given the generally anemic savings and salaries/wages of most millennials, I think being able to qualify for a good mortgage is a major hurdle.
800 bucks a month or a year?

300k place with 20% down should be about $1500 a month ($1600 a month at 10%) for mortgage + property taxes.

Am I missing something?
Theranos CEO: Company Is in a ‘Pause Period’
The interaction between the particles is instantaneous. There is no mention of a non-FTL communication betwixt the particles. And then there's this sentence in the same article:

But since the 1970s, a series of precise experiments by physicists are increasingly erasing doubt — alternative explanations that are referred to as loopholes — that two previously entangled particles, even if separated by the width of the universe, could instantly communicate.

So I don't think my reading was insufficiently parsimonious.
Indeed. Unfortunately, so much of the US economy rides on the housing market, you'll never see sane policies such as this enacted.
The even bigger question is what their margins will look like if they're forced to reclassify all or most of their contract workers as employees. Both DoorDash[1] and Instacart[2] are facing class action lawsuits over this.

[1] http://www.latimes.com/business/technology/la-fi-tn-grubhub-...

[2] http://www.xconomy.com/san-francisco/2015/08/06/instacart-ex...
>Well, because the comments being made are laced with gender

Can you please clarify this? I just went over the words in the highlighted quotes from the first article. 1 of the 8 statements had any reference to gender.

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I just did (incognito window, vpn on) and i see several videos from creators with less than 1000 subscribers[1][2][3]. I'd say they aren't "super-creators"... In fact the 3rd one has only a handful of videos most of them with under 1000 views.

[1]https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCUKscPY5MjY0I8C1WMw-qSQ

[2]https://www.youtube.com/user/Internalsi

[3]https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCwJKPRUkv7IezEkaG7ClQ0g
Reddit posts are off by 30 or so years
Is the $800 amenity fee monthly? If not, you're probably better off buying (see http://nyti.ms/1han05C ; plug $300k in for the "price of home")
It's "pro user" unless it starts to limit new content, which is possible. Many videos are actually on YouTube without ads because they are stored as tutorials, etc. I get why Google wouldn't want to keep hosting them but it could mean a reduction in content.
(Erlang) records in function-heads
This is not good for such a young company. Fan Duel is in trouble too. Didn't see one add this past weekend.
I would like to interject: This heavily depends on the boss. I've seen great bosses who will make stuff like this happen, and I've seen terrible bosses who don't give a shit. Make sure you work for the right-kind of boss if you are going to take this approach!
It's also disgusting that there are only two states where inmates can vote. More disgusting that there are states where felons can't vote, ever, for the rest of their life. Making a mistake shouldn't remove your ability to be represented.
Sell the company if anyone is willing to pay a premium to the current share price. Otherwise liquidate most of it, perhaps keeping a small rump if that rump can churn out enough cash to keep the lights on and a small dividend flowing. An ad company can be run profitably with very little ongoing investment and minimal staffing, and that's all Yahoo is at this point.

There's not going to be any turnaround. All that trying to turn it around is doing is enriching the senior executives at the shareholders' expense. The above plan will maximize returns to the shareholders, not hiring another whiz-bang CEO to make a nine-course gourmet meal out of this pile of fetid dung.
They prefer to open an office and hire support staff within each location they operate. In some markets (LA, SF) the revenue from rides quickly outpaces the cost of supporting those offices, in others (Spokane, Halifax) it remains to be seen.