skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Except of course, for the ones not living in free countries.

Gosh, pardon me for talking about the countries on the continent I was born on.

> A civilian population which regardless of how bad things have got has a bit more freedom to leave the country than those [about to be] drafted into the army.

Historical history fail. American draftees had the ability to cross the borders legally before their reporting date, and the borders were porous and easily crossed anyways. Vietnamese civilians would have had to walk hundreds of miles, crossing mine fields, into even less friendly countries, if they even knew a war was declared before the bomb destroyed their village.

> And seriously, you're suggesting [...]

No matter how hard the conscript has it, their victims will have it worse.

I'm not suggesting, I'm flat-out saying that if you don't take extreme measures to avoid shooting innocents, you're a murderer.

When you're drafted it's too late to avoid some horror but you can keep from making it worse for everyone.
> 1941 (Pearl Harbor) was not caused by 1915 (WWI), it was caused by 1893 and the invasion, overthrow and annexation of Hawaii that led the military of the US empire to be there in the first place.

Caused? No.

It wouldn't have happened if the US didn't own Hawaii in 1941, but the US takeover of Hawaii was not the causus belli for Pearl Harbor.
I have successfully obtained a TN-1 Visa with a mostly unrelated degree (CEGEP generic "IT" degree). It does require a fair bit of paperwork, but it is absolutely possible.

Fair warning, as i wish someone had told me exactly this when i got my own TN-1: Any given border agent has the power to repeal said visa for any reason, without oversight. If they have a bad day at the border, they may elect, at any time, to permanently repeal it.
I'm torn. The premise of holacracy is really interesting. On the other hand, for all the talk about how this idea is a human-centric thing and about the people and their happiness, everything sounds like Zappo's focus is on the system, with the actual workers a very secondary consideration. We're totally about the workers, we've just had to get rid of a lot of them.
I took the plunge to writing a blog, because I like to sometimes express (really stupid) ideas in long-form, which social media is ill-suited for. Also, I hate most social media platforms. So basically the same reason Stevey's Drunken Blog Rants exists. But I am an idiot, so don't expect that kind of quality content. If you're insane, or curious as to how many bad ideas a bored, slight knowledgeable hobbyist can come up with, it's at qwertyuiop924.wordpress.com
There is a technical name for that in psicology: Double-bind.

There are 2 acceptable responses to that, plus a taboo one. The 2 standard responses is either to try to uphold an unrealistically high standard (the neurotic overachiever type), or you can take the blame for not doing it and sacrifice your sense of self worth (the dilbertesque, paper pusher type). Both private and public sector have plenty of uses for workers of either type.

What is not permitted is to react like a grown up and point out to the inconsistency of the "mixed messages". I have read that this typically gets responded with hostility from higher-ups (who typically are not fully conscious of the dynamics of the game, or see themselves as just transmitting the requirements from upper management).

Of course I barely have a handful of first and second hand data points, but those seem consistent with the model as explained above.
Ask HN: Is Venmo Down?
Was sent money today but cannot log in on either phone or web site. Phone App says 'Unable to fetch data, are you connected to the internet' (yes, even rebooted phone). The Web site's form submission hangs for about 30 seconds and finally says 'Something went wrong, please try again' with console error stating there's a gateway timeout in marketing.min.js. I don't use Venmo much, but if this is somewhat frequent, can anyone recommend something better?
I've got a lot of blog post outlines saved, and I'm no longer so worried about posting something to the internet and receiving critique. However, no matter how good my intentions are, I always find something 'more important' to do with 2-3 hours on a weekend. E.g. sleeping, extra work via side projects or freelancing. I just need to find a way to break it down into half-hour blocks of time, or to lock myself in my office for a few hours on a Saturday night.
We use existing ones, but we haven't added any new ones in 2-3 years. Our web code dates back to before module bundlers were around and removing jQuery isn't really worth the effort.
Not having a github profile is fine and should raise no eyebrows same way not having a linkedin profile is fine. Resumes used to be a thing before linkedin and if someone says they don't have a resume then maybe that's an issue but otherwise it's business as usual. Similarly if a programmer has no side projects then that might or might not be a type of person you're trying to hire but github in no way is a prerequisite for having side projects which is what actually matters and is an indicator of how much a person invests in programming as a skill.
Yes – modern web archiving tools capture JavaScript, CSS, etc. The basic support where they just download URLs found in HTML has been around for years but the current best-practice is to use a real browser engine (e.g. PhantomJS, Firefox) which has either been integrated to store directly or simply is using a proxy like https://github.com/internetarchive/warcprox which adds every requested resource to a WARC file (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_ARChive).
jeff, sorry if I didn't make myself clear...

The company itself don't want to go bureaucratic and involve lawyers into this. They want something like a standard open source license, were we can just copy and paste into a file on a Github private repo.
There is a significant (pun) difference between statistically significant and economically significant. The conclusion in the drug paper conflates the two. In finance, we could find plenty of statistically significant results (e.g. small cap stocks outperform large cap stocks on Fridays, with a small p-value if you like), but most results were not economically significant--they were not usable for a trading system because they were too small to overcome real-world costs. In short, they weren't meaningful in a real world sense, even though the result was detectable statistically.
> If you're a level 500 elite hacker like I am, you will note that the cryptographic quality of numbers from /dev/urandom is not the same as numbers from /dev/random. In our case, we don't want this operation to block, so we use /dev/urandom.

This is wrong. See http://www.2uo.de/myths-about-urandom/

(The part about /dev/urandom not blocking is right though)

Edit: changed http://security.stackexchange.com/questions/3936/is-a-rand-f... to the current link, since the current link is more to the point.
I remember the feeling after my first undergraduate course in statistics essentially being that we stated these principles, then spent the remaining weeks essentially invalidating them without offering any real alternatives. My professor may have been more careful than I remember, but the subtleness was lost on me at the time if that was the case.

The testing of statistical hypotheses always seemed like an odd area of the mathematical sciences to me, even after later taking a graduate mathematical statistics sequence. Like an academic squabble between giants in the field of frequentist inference (Fisher vs. Neyman and Pearson) that ended suddenly without resolution, with the scientific community decided to sloppily merge the two positions for the purposes of publication and forge onward.
'Devil's breath' aka scopolamine: can it really zombify you?
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"Even if we were to intentionally just scatter all the nuclear waste along road sides in urban areas, nuclear would likely still remain one of the safest power sources."

It would be if you ignore the effects of radiation on biological and electronic systems. If you don't, the idea is as ridiculous as you may have intended.

"Disposing the waste is largely a political problem."

It's actually a problem of making a material non-radioactive or storing arbitrary amounts of it safely for longer than we've existed as a civilization. Neither is a political problem: one is impossible so far per science; other faces risks from logistics, environment, personnel, and politicians. I'd expect us to be able to build out CO2 capture systems at local power plants before we could successfully counter all the above for thousands of years straight given global issues.

So, no, it is one of the least safe power sources if one considers the risks of operation or waste. Japan had a recent reminder of that.
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Nearly all our development has been on the HN application rather than on Arc itself. Of course, in a Lisp, the line between application and language is blurred. Many of our changes have a language-like quality, but because they're implemented in macros, they haven't involved modifying Arc itself.

We did make one change to Arc proper: we added syntax for binding thread-local variables in function signatures, analogous to how optional arguments are declared. This adds a limited kind of dynamic scoping to Arc. That is useful when you have some 'top level' state (e.g. the basic parameters involved in making an HN web request: username, item id, etc.) that you'd like not to have to pass down every chain of function calls that's going to need it at some point. We originally added this as an experiment to see whether it would simplify or complicate the code. It simplified it very nicely, so we kept it. I can describe this in more detail later if anyone's interested.
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You can get a US programming job without a college degree, but it's easier if you have one (which you do). If you can do the job, any BA is fine for lots of places.

The main issue you'll have is resume screening -- so try to network to a job instead (or have a very compelling programming job application that makes your unrelated BA make you look well-rounded.)

There are also remote jobs in the US. Most would probably hire from Canada.
i missed that part, thanks
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That depends on the amount of computing capacity required for those data centers and if the last years have been any indication the amount of data center capacity is not even close to where we will end up. Even the 'thin clients' will acquire features and more capacity as time goes on, that's just the eternal terminal->personal computer pendulum on one end of it's swing at the moment.
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This was in the news before. What's the big new thing about this article? It reads like a writeup of the news of yesterday. Also, ZFS is not coming to Linux as such, it's coming to Ubuntu specifically and the article does not clear up the detail why this is now possible for Ubuntu but was not possible for the rest of the Linux community.
Re: everyone saying the Kinect can't scan that well—remember this paper (http://news.mit.edu/2015/algorithms-boost-3-d-imaging-resolu...) posted on HN a few months back? That research was done by hacking a Kinect.

From the news article:

> The researchers’ experimental setup consisted of a Microsoft Kinect — which gauges depth using reflection time — with an ordinary polarizing photographic lens placed in front of its camera. In each experiment, the researchers took three photos of an object, rotating the polarizing filter each time, and their algorithms compared the light intensities of the resulting images.

> On its own, at a distance of several meters, the Kinect can resolve physical features as small as a centimeter or so across. But with the addition of the polarization information, the researchers’ system could resolve features in the range of tens of micrometers, or one-thousandth the size.

Not a hard hack to accomplish! It's just a piece of plastic, and then a compressed sensing algorithm (which you can run at your leisure on your scan data after leaving the building) to merge the UV maps. And it doesn't even require a thousand scans or anything—just three!

ETA: and the 2015 paper isn't even novel. Here's a 2014 paper (PDF: http://ro.uow.edu.au/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=5372&contex...) on using multipolarized compressive sensing to enhance the resolution on through-wall radar. (I assume to target drone strikes or something.) This technique has been in the wild for a while. I assume archivists—those who would most benefit—are well-aware of it.
The salary for a marketing person is on the low side IMO. With rent prices being some of the highest in the world, can you even live in Vancouver for $35,000 CAD?
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This argument is not very sound. It ignores eg that native Americans had domesticated dogs (like the Hare Indian), the domestication of caribou in the north, the presence of mountain goats and bighorn sheep, etc etc etc. It's like the author thinks the only large mammals in the new world were bison and llamas.
When is this going to be available for DICOM medical images? :)

http://dicom.nema.org
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didn't know that about cadmium! lead has a nice sweet smell which helped contribute to it's use in human history....
I think the biggest thing is that you can't get "real" cloud/systems/devops/whatever experience on your own, unless you manage to build something that attracts the kind of traffic that you'd see once you're managing instances for a mature product.
interesting, I'd like to know / learn more without signing up. Is there a YT video or something?
> > Because it allows votes to be purchased or coerced.
> Already happens indirectly now right? Or are you saying the person with the most money hasn't always won the US presidential election?

You're conflating buying influence with buying/coercing votes. These are vastly different. Imagine you live in a factory town and work in the factory. A proposition is put on the ballot to require your employer to dispose of waste properly at great cost. How are you going to vote knowing that your employer and coworkers will be able to see your ballot?

Secret ballots are necessary and "presidential elections are determine by money" isn't a counterargument against it. I am also skeptical that the link between campaign money raised and votes received is strictly causative. It seems likely that a popular candidate will receive more donations just as he receives more votes.

> That's fine but I'm suggesting a way to make the young more engaged. I vote but my vote is usually wasted as we don't have proportional representation in the UK. Why should voting power not be held by those with most to loose? The current system is an arbitrary 1 person is worth one vote, why it shouldn't be done on years of remaining life is arbitrary as well.

Like MTV's RockTheVote which motivated people who could not otherwise be bothered to stay informed to vote? No thanks.

Why do you think young people have the most to lose simply because they are statistically more likely to have more remaining years on Earth? What about people who ultimately leave the country? Or who die in car crashes? Why should people with less experience and knowledge have a greater choice in decisions? (That same demographic has already largely decided not to vote, despite being the largest demographic and therefore having the most potential influence.) The idea is absurd. (It used to be land-owning males "who had the most to lose". Disenfranchising others doesn't work.)

> This is actually just a fact. If you move boundaries to make safe majorities in areas that were close now my vote that might have changed something is worthless.

Corruption is always a threat to a vote. But giving yourself "a better vote" because you feel disenfranchised doesn't solve the problem of gerrymandering, etc. I would say your belief that your vote is unable to effect change (despite most eligible voters not even voting) is more causative than these problems.

As for the Electoral College, it's an odd example, since the position of POTUS is elected by the States and not the people. Individual states can choose to use "winner-take-all" or not.
I suspect "Just ignore the licences and focus on the technology" is not going to fly with enterprise customers.
The FLIF format isn't finished yet. There are optimizations still being made both in compression ratio and decoding performance. Encoding performance is a lower priority.

Also it wouldn't really be a fair comparison to show this slowly maturing format's decoding time versus that of formats that have had decades of time for people to research and find the best ways for decoding (even hardware tailored). You're comparing the heavy weight champ against the up and comer with a lot of promise. FLIF would get pretty beat up in that comparison, but perhaps only because it isn't even finished yet, and thus hasn't had the time to reach that level of efficiency. From having used it, and played around with it, it seems to be pretty fast. Fast enough that people wouldn't notice a perceptible difference between it and other common formats. I think the current decode time is about 20 MegaBytes per second. Which is faster than most people's internet, and considerably larger than most people's images (on the web).

Once it's bitstream has been finalized and it starts to get some use, we'll see decoders improve their performance. The initial plan was to lock the bitstream for a 2016 release, and then in a year or two release a new bitstream with further improvements. Similar to GIFv87a (1987 version) and GIFv89a (1989 version with improvements and new features). However this may have changed as the FLIF 2016 release was set for late December, then February, and has been pushed back again.

In due time we'll see more accurately how the format compares to the existing champs in terms of performance.
This is a big victory:

> 16. Termination of Investigation. In express reliance on the covenants and representations in this Consent Decree and to avoid further expenditure of public resources, the Bureau agrees to terminate the Investigation. In consideration for the termination of the Investigation, Verizon Wireless agrees to the terms, conditions, and procedures contained herein.

Verizon has agreed to pay $1.35M and will likely notify the FTC by mail if it makes a change. It has agreed to abide by the law. If you put this in perspective, this is way more than a slap on the wrist. If we assume a gb costs ~$10 and an average user uses ~6gb then:

($1,350,000 fine / $10/gb) / (6gb/user * 12months) = 1875

This is almost very nearly 1900 people! A huge number. Obviously this is back of a napkin, and the actual size of headers is pretty negligible so there isn't any sense in backing that out of the calculation, because the users already paid for the bandwith.

Plus, verizon is literally the only company out of hundreds of providers doing this. Surely between the weight of this fine and the competition the company will go bankrupt soon.

Big win! Say what you want about the FTC but they closed down the investigation saving an untold number to the US tax payer, Verizon is forced to break the bank, and the response time was rapid, 4 years open shut.

The FTC has been super sharp on policing the industry, by allowing the Governement to subsidize huge swathes of infrastructure costs and selling a finite amount of bandwith, they have been able to keep companies on their toes, not allowing any one company to own telephone, wireless, and internet capabilities.

I hope they can keep this up because Verizon is the only bad actor in the entire space, so it is pretty much all taken care of now.
They uprooted everyone and moved to Vegas, leaving behind friends and family, and ensuring everyone who moved only knew Zappos people when they landed there. Maybe it's not a boat in the ocean level of isolation, but it is isolation. One startup founder who moved his startup along with Zappos (it was a multi-startup move, kinda like a corporate migration) eventually committed suicide...
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With 3 miles between Google <-> Caltrain, maybe a light-rail project could also help push a project like this forward (connecting the new densely populated Google housing with the rest of the area).
A new patent shows how airfares may one day depend on your girth
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If your $500m budget is only returning $1b you are probably losing money and are wasting a ton of your budget.

For what it's worth, Duolingo raised $83.3M , so it's not like they bootstrapped to that growth.

The growth hacking you are referring to has a large cost too. You need disciplined and very creative engineers, copywriters, analysts, a culture of testing, social psychologists, marketing experts, directors, etc... I bet Duolingo's marketing costs are well into the millions a year in Human Capital.

The stories of guys going from 0 to whatever cheaply are not the same stories as a company with 83 million in funding.
131b revenue in 2015. So, at 1.3m, a 0.001% fine, aka half a minute of revenue.

Interestingly it doesn't directly fix the problem either (although it wrecks the current free-profit model, yay!), "To settle this matter, Verizon Wireless will pay a fine of $1,350,000 and implement a compliance plan that requires it to obtain customer opt-in consent prior to sharing a customer’s UIDH with a third party to deliver targeted advertising"

But lest anyone think this is a UIDH prohibition, the next line goes on to say customers must at least have the ability to opt-out from internal Verizon usage, meaning the UIDH will be there (unless the customer opts out) and that a persistent, unique identifier that follows the user wherever they go is permitted. This ruling is primarily about Verizon sharing the targeting information: Verizon is still permitted a persistent attack on their users, but they are now only permitted to sell customer data on an opt-in basis. Ad-networks will have to do their own tracking themselves for everyone else.

Hopefully Verizon's profits from this schtick are shorn from this shift, to a degree where they give up this disgraceful corpoate panopticon they've been going to the bank on.
We're building something like it - https://medium.com/@jasim_ab/code-generator-to-create-react-....

Also - https://protoship.io/story
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Garner's focus is on usage, not grammar, so for a usage linter, this doesn't seem like a big problem.

Is there an accessible, comprehensive, easy-to-read guide like Garner's Modern American Usage that's considered more accurate? There don't seem to be many options.

(I have a copy of GMAU and enjoy it, but mostly for discussion of usage, not the details of grammar)
I wish you could get rid of the default channels, so everything has more of a point. #general basically always becomes a garbage dump.