skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well, then, we have a fundamental difference of opinion. If I see someone make claims that the vast majority of homeless people are completely unhelpable because of a specific example which they have observed anecdotally, then I'll ask for empirical evidence.

Nobody is calling that person a liar. Asking someone for evidence does not necessarily mean they consider that person a liar. They may believe they are mistaken. They may be interested in understanding how they came to their conclusions. They may want to understand why someone's world view is so different to their own.

You should ask yourself why you consider asking for evidence on a discussion forum rude. It sounds like you feel it's overly confrontational. If that's the case, then you might want to consider your own confrontation (ala "If you feel so passionate about the issue, do your own research and provide your own citations against. Nothing wrong with that. But demand that the person who said something you don't like should do it for you? Rude.")
Hundreds of University students hit in data breach
I can't help but think as quantity has gone up, quality has flattened. I was just browsing a list of the last few classes and don't see a (m)any obvious winners. I know it takes awhile but you'd think a few would stick out.
How do you think this would have played out differently if the other theory were true?
FCC Appoves Open Set-Top Box Proposal in Split Vote
I'm afraid this is a fight Uber won't win. I just can't see the Chinese internet giants letting an American company dominate this space. Call me jaded, but the world isn't so black and white, and I'm sure in the end Uber will concede to defeat after realizing their biggest competitor aren't playing by the same rules.
I understand people hate apple, but saying they are creating their own chips for marketing purposes is just delusional.
Any data points on this? I mean real knowledge, not just "I don't like redesign so they must be failing".
In related news:

2/3rds of Hedge Fund returns never disclosed.
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Good thing she's not a designer then
The only downside I can think of is if you're not equipped to deal with elevated expectations.
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I think the core issue is that biology doesn't know as much as the media likes to claim it does. I mean read this: http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2015-06/uovh-mlf05291.... If true, this effectively invalidates nearly all previous research regarding the safety of anything we inject into our blood stream because they may in fact impact the brain.

Many people have a choice to make. Although the scientific community may make a consistently supported claim about something does not mean that something will turn out to be true. Creating a near-perfect predictive model of the human body for doctors to use is about as complex a task as reverse engineering a UFO (actually reverse engineering an alien space craft is still probably more simple). They are going to make mistakes along the way.

So you are faced with a choice. Either take a risk with incomplete knowledge that something man made will not be harmful in the long term or keep doing most of the same stuff that we've been doing for centuries that has a known, if imperfect, outcome. Yes there are a lot of things can will probably kill you first, but does that mean you should continue to assume more risk on the claim that a predictive model that the scientific community generally endorses is correct enough to avoid harm?

Then again "organic" can mean a lot of things and the lack of regulation and quality control can and has made things worse on the other end. Just because it has the label "USDA Organic" doesn't mean that the USDA or FDA has done the job you think it does. There is risk and uncertainty either way.
> would deliberately try to brick their customers phones through something this obvious?

would deliberately try to brick their customers phones who made unauthorized alterations to their phones via 3rd party repairs

Yep. Totally would.
I realized how meaningless the term 'processed food' is when I started trying to eat a more natural diet and every source of information I could find on the topic recommended I start by buying a food processor.
Looks interesting. I'm curious about the ways a user can visualize the summarized information.

Is it just via paragraphs (like in the one example on your site), bullet points or some other manner? Does each paragraph equal one sentence or do you look for hard-to-understand terms and only summarize those?

On a side note, if any readers know of all the best/varied ways to summarize information ('manually', not via algorithms), I'd be very interested in seeing examples, particularly of news articles and research.
I have known a freelancer who sort of did this, by preferring projects that required them to extend their skills, but not charging the client for the time they take to learn the new skills (i.e. before they start working on the actual deliverable).

The result was a lower average hourly rate to them, but it helped them stay up to date--and in some cases on the cutting edge. Why? Because it's easier to learn a new technology when there is a real project at stake. The deadline and accountability provides strong motivation, and there are real problems that need to be solved along the way--not just self-directed exercises.

I'm not a freelancer but I can see the long-term advantage of that approach. If you're one of just a few people who can do the cool new thing, then you can charge higher margins on easier projects, because you have less competition for the jobs.

Personally, I have never learned as much as when I am working a real project (i.e. paid, deliverable) that is a bit outside my current comfort zone.
I guess your and nols response do make sense from a operations perspective.
Mint has always pulled my data automatically from BOA, Chase and Wellfargo. Which banks are you using??
It's not irrelevant for me. When I look at a record in my database it looks the same as when defining it in code. This is a big advantage for me. Using an ORM is way more complicated than just inserting/retrieving my JS object. As I said, I don't want to configure stuff. I just want to save the object and be able to retrieve it by some key in the object.
From the article, it sounds like it was a hard problem to solve.
In case someone doesnt want to watch the videos: the amount of sodium discussed in the first video as "normal" is <1g/day.
My suspicion is that most of the population does not react too strongly or fast to a suboptimal diet, hence the general softness of this topic. But maybe a certain percentage does, and i consider myself one of them. It could well be that those who do are on the brink of a deficiency, but i'm not sure about that.

My experience, and there was i time i was really into this, doing interviews with mostly young people. The results fit the assumptions of William L. Wolcott very well, that most people basically fall into 2 groups, fast and slow metabolizers. They differ significantly when it comes to digestion. One group needing more of certain minerals then the other when eating the same foods (potassium making the biggest difference as far as i remember).
I remember often guessing correctly what type of water brand people would prefer based on this (chosing between 2 favourite sources, one with high potassium content. the sample size was small, but i'm really sure you can replicate this).

If this is due to genetics or due to gut microbes or both at the same time - i really don't know.

So, i think that the macro level does differ between people. That every person needs an individual mixture of nutrients to keep the metabolism in balance.

Btw, you can modify your metabolism bye eating differently and the body can adapt for a long time before any clinical symptoms show.

Wolcott explains the differences between those 2 groups in the following way: either the sympathetic nervous system or the parasympathetic nervous system is stronger and determines your metabolic type. And those systems can again be influenced by the environment (climate, food availability etc.).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autonomic_nervous_system

As i could use his theory to predict food preferences, i never questioned the basic premise. Would be interesting to do some more digging again.
I setup something like that for my laptop a while back. I ended up switching to chrome, not chromium, as netflix supports HTML5 video streaming through it instead of silverlight.
Apple’s biggest product disasters of all time
Hey, what about Dropbox and Airbnb!?!
:)
> If you think it was a mistake, then can you explain why Apple wasn't bothered to do anything until someone ran an article on it and publicized it?

That hardly takes too much imagination. One possible explanation is that higher-ups in Apple read the news, but not necessarily every single "the Apple Store won't replace my broken phone" complaint.
I'm 29, where do you learn this kind of leadership?
If Uber goes public, nothing significant will change. The same creepy people will be in charge, the CEO will still be the same guy who's advocated breaking laws and sending PIs to stalk reporters.
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Or even more accurately, many of us think that it is possible to conceive of things worse than rent-seeking, and so in some circumstances it is possible that a reasonable amount of it may be the lesser of two evils (just as accepting killing in self defense is not the same as "supporting murder"). Others, of course, may believe that there can be nothing worse.
The irony struck me too.
On HN every day brings some new event that completely changes everything forever and deserves all our attention and capacity for outrage. Don't you ever find this exhausting?
Sounds like you know something the FBI is missing in the San Bernadino case! Definitely shoot them an email about how updating the firmware makes it easier to brute-force the pin.
52 hours of study to start a whole new career do not seem redundant to me. Specially when the field is highly sensitive, legal repercussions are huge, collateral damage arising out of wrong communications can be millions of dollars.

Besides, the "redundant" requirements just caught a person trying to cheat -- Zenefits. So you cannot even claim they aren't working.
The initial app takes an hour. Then if you are lucky enough to get an interview it's a few hours if you're local (more if you're traveling) and probably some healthy anxiety leading up.
The last release is from 16 Oct 2015: http://forum.outerra.com/index.php?topic=3151.0
>Government written software

It will be somehow worse than Apple software
Of course. Not an issue to move it, just really wanted to stay on Google Cloud. I actually like some of the stuff on there.
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This is generally an awesome idea. The value add is really a jumping off point that can equip you with enough understanding to begin to read about the issue overall.

An additional glossary for terms most important to that research area would also be helpful.
https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Template:Citation...

Chris Sherlock was Ta bu shi da yu. Dozens of people can confirm that, I was at the first Australian meet up. I met David Gerard and co in London. Even Jimmy Wales can confirm it.
> They certainly don't go out of their way to make it easy to switch, but I can't
> come up with any examples off the top of my head where they're deliberately
> making it harder to switch without having a good reason for that decision.

Just an example for those that are not familiar with Apple devices.

You can sync your calendar, reminders and contacts with iCloud.
But you don't have to.

iCloud calendar sync is basically a CalDAV server.
You can setup your own CalDAV and sync with that if you like. On the iDevice
you have to set the parameters for your server which makes it slightly harder to
setup than iCloud, but that's just the way it is and not Apple's fault.
There are no other stumbling blocks to make it more complicated than it needs to be.

Once set up it works like a charm. I can say "Hey Siri, remind me to buy pasta" and a split second later I have a new VTODO on my CalDAV server.
At CoreOS and we tried really hard to make btrfs happen, but it really came down to how different it operated than other file systems. It was mainly a UX issue and thus fell into my lap.

The major issue is that regular debugging tools that folks have been using forever like `df -h` aren't just non-functional, they actively misrepresent the state of the file system. The most common example is indicating that you have plenty of free space when in fact you're out. We had to write a lot of documentation to teach people how btrfs works and how to debug it: https://coreos.com/os/docs/latest/btrfs-troubleshooting.html

The second major issue is that rebalancing requires free space, which is the problem that most folks are trying to fix with a rebalance operation. Catch-22 in the worst way. Containers vary in size and can restart frequently, churning through the btrfs chunks without filling them up, leaving around a lot of empty space that needs to be rebalanced.
I didn't do the initial configuration myself but I wouldn't rule out this kind of gross, self-inflicted problem.

One has to wonder why the software even lets you run it with an unsafe number of nodes though... (Lots of distributed software is guilty of this...)
They do, but the implications of their fears are different.
The CDDL does not prevent ZFS from being used in Linux. It's the GPL that prevents using CDDL code in the kernel. Oracle doesn't have any grounds to sue based on their IP. They would only be able to sue on behalf of Linux, and violation of the GPL. Although I wouldn't rule that out, it's somewhat less likely to happen.

On the other hand, I suspect RMS isn't too happy with this turn of events. The sfconservancy may be the more likely party to bring a lawsuit. I'm curious to see either of them comment on the situation.
I see. Never let profit stand in the way of principles. I can understand the appeal, even if I don't share it.
Doesn't "hard to maintain" contradict the "once you have it set up and running"?
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“Swiftly” app is “Waze” of public transit, is 20% more accurate than other apps
In iOS you can specify that files in an app's sandbox are "encrypted" when the device is locked.

https://developer.apple.com/library/mac/documentation/FileMa... (See "Files Can Be Encrypted On Disk")

Implementing the feature is pretty trivial and works on a file by file basis

https://developer.apple.com/library/ios/documentation/iPhone... (See "Protecting Data Using On-Disk Encryption")

More details about the options here:
https://developer.apple.com/library/ios/documentation/Cocoa/...

https://developer.apple.com/library/ios/documentation/Cocoa/...
it would have affected both OTA and itunes updates.
BuzzFeed Wants to Use a New Measuring Stick to Tell You How Big BuzzFeed Is
Here is Google's page on it:

https://www.google.com/edu/trust
I'd keep Zenefits in the winner column. In fact, after they clean things up, which will be relatively easy (compared to achieving hypergrowth), they will be in better legal shape than the others.
Please don't be rude in HN comments.

We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11124822 and marked it off-topic.
You're living the dream then, and I'm glad to hear this is possible. :)

Do you mind sharing which GlusterFS version you're on, which kernel, and roughly what your load profile is? (eg. lots of small files, read-heavy, write-heavy, etc.)
Also, are you using Red Hat Gluster Storage or the open source version?
she also worked for queen rania
the wife of a tyrant

i have very little sympathy for her

we should take this more seriously, dont help tyrants ... or their wives
Easy suggestions are Tableau or Splunk. You'd probably be able to ride Splunk for free (unless you had zounds of data), and Tableau is cheap (but not realtime).
Right, they are sometimes using it as a marketing advantage, but I don't think "hurting Google" is why they care about encryption/privacy in general or why they are standing up about this court case specifically.
Fun fact: The HTML5 video stuff has a Javascript API so that you can access the subtitle-data. This means if the subtitles are well-made, you can "re-generate" a searchable/seekable "transcript" from the same data.

Example: https://gist.github.com/DHager/2e01f0b82e5d3f5a39e6
(Full disclosure I work with the author, Noah, at Basecamp.)

Not sure if more important than math, but you are right it's extremely important.

One of the biggest on going problems we have isn't getting data in -- it's helping everyone get data out. Even with training sessions, documentation, and some fairly fleshed out "self help" tools, there is still confusion about where to look and how to "find" and "combine" the right data to answer a given question.

One of the ways we've partially solved this problem is through Tableau which is a commercial solution. (I was skeptical about whether we would stick with solutions like Tableau but it has been worth every penny.)
> They do the alphabet-rename thing to better split things into different brands, yet this is attached to the Google brand.

Because this is a new feature of Google Express, which was part of the established core Google business when the Google/Alphabet split happened, not one of the pre-existing non-core things broken out into Alphabet or a new venture by Alphabet post-reorganization.
I believe they said somewhere that they don't analyze business accounts (because they are paid) or educational accounts (for the sake of good will).
"Social engineering"? Does he realize the guy whose phone it was is dead?
> That hardly takes too much imagination. One possible explanation is that higher-ups in Apple read the news, but not necessarily every single "the Apple Store won't replace my broken phone" complaint.

For a company that takes so much pride in supporting its customers, you'd think the stores would have been able to contact Apple internally to find out what the error even is before saying they won't fix it, right? Which would have led them to realize it was not meant to be running in production?
> They may be "do no evil" on privacy, but apple heavily pushes vendor lock in and basically does everything they can to keep you from being able to easily switch to a different vendor.

This is often used as an argument against Apple, but having gone back and forth over the years, I just don't think it's true anymore. It certainly was a decade ago, but now I'm finding it hard to think of any issues I've had going from Apple to any other vendor – regardless of whether it's software (migrating data, chiefly) or hardware. At least, I don't think they're significantly worse than any other vendor.
Linux Foundation to support Zephyr microkernel
More technical details available here:

http://blog.cloudera.com/blog/2016/02/introducing-apache-arr...
This is exactly right. I went on an interview once, years back, for a company that will remain unnamed.

Their hiring process was delegated to non-recruiting function hiring managers, and had no structure to it whatsoever. I met with two different people I'd have been working with, and neither had any idea how to structure an interview, or ask questions that provided them the insight needed to determine if I was capable of doing the job. There were all sorts of questions about what I've done in the past, but nothing about what I intended to do, or how I'd apply what I know to solve the specific problems the job was created to solve.
It may not make sense, but in my experience, microwave manufacturers seem to be very bad at making their own device-specific software.

Somehow, the software on microwaves has gotten worse over time (even without becoming "smartmicrowaves"), which I didn't think was possible. Limited sample, but I've seen three new microwaves, in '99, '10, and '14.

The first one was really easy to use: buttons 1-6 were a quick-start for 1 to 6 minutes. e.g. hit 3 and it immediately starts with a 3-minute timer. If you hit start, it would immediately start with 30 seconds (or add 30 if it was already started).

Second one ('10) was basically the same model, but with worse software: if you used the number quickstart, it somehow couldn't accept I/O for the next half second. So if you wanted to do 90 seconds (common operation), you would have to pause after hitting 1, then hit +30. A really annoying inconvenience, and completely unnecessary.

The third microwave ('14) was admittedly a different model, but doesn't seem to have learned from previous microwave innovation. The start/+30 button doesn't work for a quick start, only for adding to an active, ticking timer. And cancel no longer deletes previous input, but emits an error sound.

How hard is it not to make microwave UI software worse?
Yes. Though in practice, I still feel more comfortable with gender segregated bathrooms, and I (female) would rather just share with female-identified persons than with males.

Interestingly, a local university (Uvic) has gender non-specific public washrooms. The kind with 4-5 stalls and sinks. Everyone welcome.
She's designing social media strategies. Do they have to degrade gracefully, too?
The point is that no amount of money will solve the problem with San Francisco's current approach (whatever that is). If they spend $50 million with zero effect, and they spend $100 million with zero effect, and they spend $150 million with zero effect, where do you guess the problem stands at the $200, $250, $500 marks?
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The data that Google (or anybody else) collects is probably going to be around approximately "forever". Do you really believe Google will:

1) never sell that data at any time in the future (perhaps if they should suffer a bad year financially), and

2) that they will be able to retain control of that data (no leaks, no employees that abuse access, no attacks from other people interested in the data).

Without these criteria, saying anything about what Google "re4ally does" with their data is a best describing the past and maybe the present. Why does everybody act as if current business plans are some sort of Truth that we can rely on? Plans change, management changes - unless it's in writing on an actual contract, it's just wishful thinking.

Of course, this doesn't matter when talking about Google and their data. We already know they give data to the government because they are part of PRISM[1].

As for advertisers, the scenerios "Google gave customer data to an advertiser" and "Google did the targeting work for the advertiser as a (paid) service" differ only in minor details. The end result is the same. There numerous creative ways the data can be moved by proxy or as a service.

[1] https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/c7/Prism_sl...
Anyone else find it suspicious that this comes the day after court order to backdoor their devices?
Sounds like a justification for performance enhancing drugs.
> But even with the rises, Venezuela’s petrol will still be the cheapest in the world, allowing Venezuelan’s to fill their tanks with high-octane gasoline for the equivalent of the price of three beers.

Whose idea was it to compare gasoline prices (heavily subsidized or taxed, depending on regime) to beer prices (heavily taxed, depending on regime)? Big Macs are a much better indicator of PPP.
Of course not. I won't have a hard time moving my stuff, although I would have preferred to stay on Google.

I was a bit pissed off when I wrote the original comment due to this unexpected twist. Obviously not their fault, but it sucks that the two most viable cloud providers are now both in the fucking retail world.

Honestly, I love Google, and just wish they would TRY to focus a bit before branching out into anything and everything. My main gripe is that I don't think they will AT ALL succeed in grocery delivery. It's complicated and requires focus.