skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
FTC Is Warning App Developers About Using Audio Tracking Code
It's too bad John felt he needed to seek treatment to 'cure' his autism.

I was diagnosed when I was 17, and I get to interact with a lot of other students on the spectrum every day at my school. There are a few students that believe autism is something to overcome, and that if they try hard enough perhaps one day they won't be 'autistic'. Most of us are comfortable with the fact that we're different.
No?

PayPal, EC Cards, and the eID system can do 18yo verification online.
This experiment is similar to what happens in the novel The Speed of Dark by Elizabeth Moon. http://www.amazon.com/The-Speed-Dark-Elizabeth-Moon/dp/15012...
An email was published to Wikileaks, obviously there's a conspiracy afoot.
The S Class has been Mercedes platform for autonomous driving cars. The current generation actually has a very capable installed sensors for autonomous mode. Per https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=fhDqgh6DClo
> In a matching market each person wants only one of each item, each item is unique, and each item can be given to at most one person at a time. Jobs are a classic matching market, and just like any market, matching markets can work well, or poorly.

People may be unique but the dynamics of unraveling are showing either that they are fungible or that recruiters can convince themselves quickly that they are seeing someone better. The latter psychological dynamic is more of the problem but fungibility is too.

Unraveling probably happens in dating too. Dating is a matching market. Maybe the job market is Tinderizing.
Slave trade kills cities and cultures.
Unfortunately I don't have any articles to back this up, just anecdotal discussions with drivers in Germany, but;

First: they're a domestic car manufacturer, lower cost to deliver to local drivers.
Second: they're able to offer specific taxi options, such as manual front seat adjustment (vs automagic).
Third: they offer a substantial discount to taxi drivers (they justify the discount through the marketing value of having large number of individuals ride in their cars).

Such discounts for marketing purposes is quite common in the industry. I've also heard dealerships sell cars to rental car companies at a loss, just to make sure customers have access to their cars (and will possibly consider buying that type of car for the next purchase).
If it was Condoleeza Rice who had made this request a lot of people in this comments section would be singing a different tune.
My understanding is that there was never any rational basis or honest belief that a YouTube video was ever "inciting murderous violence against our embassies." It was a smoke screen to try to blunt the impact of what the expert reports at the time described as a well-planned terrorist attack.

But I guess if you have to pick between gross incompetence or lies and cover-ups, you can take your pick, or perhaps the truth is just, "yes".
There's a bookmarklet: https://hnlivecomments.pex2.jp/
Reminds me of Flowers for Algernon, my grandfather's favorite book.
Is the service there called UberBlack?
Turning online harassment into Wikipedia articles on women scientists
> No idea how that would translate to an online shop.

That would translate to using the age verification of the eID ;)
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Meritocracy in SV is a myth. Some of the highest paid executives in SV are some of the most intellectually handicapped people I've ever encountered. Irresponsibility, blowing more money than I've ever even seen in my life on frivolous pursuits. Petty squabbles throwing years of progress down the drain. Sundar Pichai, now the highest paid CEO in the US, set Android platform development back two or three years due to his own vanity.

I'm sad at how much could be accomplished with the waste created by SV incompetence. It's incredible how little merit people have considering the amount of money they're paid. I feel like the compulsive gambler is the best analog to Silicon Valley: Blowing every last penny you have, over and over, on the belief that you'll someday strike it rich.
> data sets sooooo huge, that they would fit on my laptop

well yes this is an embarrassing fact for data scientists. A midrange stock macbook can easily handle a database of everyone on earth. In RAM. While you play a game without any dropped frames.
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But the whole thing is a massive conspiracy theory based on ridiculous tainting inference. It's like seeing Bill Gates ask if Clinton is thirsty and then bringing her a drink, and concluding that Microsoft is an arm of the State Dept.

Really, the whole thing reads a bit like Ancient Aliens. I can't be the only one who reads it this way.
That wasn't posted on April Fools Day...

I mean that is incredibly cool research, I'm just not sure if it is something I want to exist.
The really fun aspect of this for me, personally, is that I've been doing computers for ages (25 yrs or so?) now and 3TiB still intuitively feels like a massive amount of data even though I think I have something like 6TiB free space on my home server disks... which, in total, didn't even cost as much as a months' grocery shopping. Sometimes it really takes effort to rid yourself of these old intuitions that don't really work any more.

(I'm getting better at it!)

EDIT: And my desktop machine has -- let's see -- about 500000 times the RAM my first computer had. Truly astounding if you think about it.
Everyone is different, their problems effect them in different ways, they have different dreams for the future. Live with it or cure it is a decision all of us make with different premises and conclusions.
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Yep totally agree, I always found that to be a slightly bothersome but they are ultimately trying to reduce costs and don't have much control.

We had various stipulations as part of the wellness program:

First off, this is a "optional" wellness program but opting out could cost the typical employee hundreds of dollars.

If you fall within a certain threshold for BMI, blood pressure, and haven't smoked within 30 days you immediately qualify for the health premium discount (or some other custom incentive including PTO, cash, giftcards, etc whatever we negotiated with the group).

If you failed the BMI or blood pressure criteria, you have the option to show improvement in your BMI over the course of a period of time.

If you smoke or can't/won't improve your BMI or blood pressure you immediately fall into the third ring which involves third party programs that you have to prove you attended. Some of which include achieving a particular goal at Weight Watchers, smoking cessation programs, Walkadoo, etc.
Is what he described different from popular view that autistic personal has a problem because they are incapable of handling their sense of emotions from others so they choose to avoid social interaction?
> It took me five years to find a new balance and stability. In that time, my sense that I could see into people’s souls faded.

I wondered how that would go, we all go through years of social interaction and have to build walls. Nowadays, I don't know if my walls have become too thick or if I never had the same emotional range as others in the first place.
It's been submitted many times.
I think the other function Uber serves is not just an aggregator of supply (of cars and drivers) but of demand (passengers). It is far from a trivial effort to have a sufficient amount of users know of your app/service, download and install it, trust it enough to add payment details and use it.

While not quite as insurmountable an obstacle as, say, making a new smartphone platform (sorry Palm/Nokia/BlackBerry/Microsoft), it is enough of one to make this far from a perfect, liquid market.
Also, I'm not a "paranoid freak"

I'm just curious about how the web works and how modern sites use JavaScript.

Maybe I'm talking out my ass, since UX isn't my field, but I imagine that 90% of UX is "the application allows me to do the thing I'm using it for, it has logically layed out screens, and navigating between screens is fast and intuitive." I think hypermedia accounts for these concerns. Sure there are some annoyances, like "voting on a comment or article causes the screen to flash." It's a little jarring but everything still functions. You can sprinkle some JavaScript in, like on HN, to smooth that over.
Terribly sad and beautiful book. Totally recommend it to anyone who hasn't read it already.
Memory manufacturers all use heavy testing to both test designs and to weed out bad chips. This seems to be a weakness in these tests and should have been caught. Row-hammering is no different than applying test vectors. I'm sure those tests now include row-hammering but it will take a while for the new designs to come out.
Do you thinking under pinning this is a belief that you would eventually be very good at making music and be recognized for it? This may not be the case, but, if it is, is there a point of discouragement that would lead you to stop pursuing hobbies or other passions?
Google tries to hire our app
has anyone got messages like this?

it seems Google is parsing through Github or something, anyway found amusing:

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Hello Q-municate powered by QuickBlox,

I was wondering if you would be open to confidentially exploring engineering opportunities with Google.

As you know, Google is back in the Virtual Reality Competition and we are forming our dedicated division for virtual reality computing.

So we created a private competition to find promising talent, the detail is in the attached document.

Thanks and I look forward to seeing you in the competition!

Best Regards,
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Software Engineer Recruiter
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Predicting successful entrepreneurs with test analysis
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Unclear how it made sense to provide such a potential life changing treatment to someone that was likely more than halfway through their adult life. Is this common to perform such potential profound treatment when there's a very real chance of it having a negative impact?
But without those walls you'd be as dysfunctional as the author in his first few years of experiencing emotion.

Having some measure of "thick skin" is part and parcel for existence as a social animal.
You're not accessing a private method. All UIView subclasses have a method to get the subviews.
Oh, I agree with that completely. Just wanted to distinct between "good" and "bad" use of private API.
Yes, whereas you of course have no bias! Let's be honest: everyone has made a judgment about whether this is a real issue or not, by now.

My point, however, was a factual one: this particular email was a) voluntarily disclosed, and b) does not mention Clinton or substantiate the allegation in the headline, and c) also fails to show that anything untoward occurred here.
Neutrons are absorbed by air, so at some sufficient depth they'll all be stopped before they escape. I don't know what that sufficient depth would be.

People working on nuclear testing in the 1950s may not have been so strict about their idea of perfect containment, though.
I read a dozen books about Google's origins many years ago and I thought I got it from that. Searching for it today, the closest equivalent source I could find was Myhrvold talking to Joe Kraus in 1995[1]. It's possible that Myrhvold repeated that lecture again to Larry and Sergei which I read in the Google books, or I misremembered and shifted the target of that quote from Excite to Google. I didn't read any book specifically about Excite so not sure why I would have done that. However, it's also possible the authors writing about Google weaved in a side note about Excite which my brain merged into the "Google story". Hopefully, my imperfect recall does not detract from the point that the smart guys at Microsoft misjudged what "search" could become.

[1]https://books.google.com/books?id=ktm885vGIXEC&pg=PA68&dq=go...
Full-screen on one monitor should still allow normal operation on the other. And even allowing another full-screen app on the other monitor(s). It's ridiculous to waste a monitor displaying my desktop background when I'm running something full-screen.
> eg. If you're working for 15k units of money...

Sure, but wouldn't price increases effectively divide the equation by 15k? I find it intuitively difficult to believe that if walmart cashiers suddenly got an extra 15k money units the price of toilet paper (and every other basic essential) wouldn't increase by some factor, effectively neutralizing UBI.

UBI sets a floor, and we conveniently already have a floor today - disability + food stamps + unemployment + whatever else you qualify for.
Python for Data Structures, Algorithms, and Interviews
> "mom and pop broker"

/s/broker/asset manager/
The Pentagon’s procurement system is so broken they are calling on Watson
They're not really a high-frequency firm by most definitions. They use some high-level strategies that high-frequency firms also use (ie market making) and have some automation, but don't optimize for latency. Nothing about that is high-frequency trading per se—in many securities, you can make markets manually or semi-manually.

Market making as a strategy is more like providing a service on the markets than it is like investing. You don't make money by holding a security until the price moves; indeed, you try to limit you exposure to the security as much as possible. Instead, you maintain offers to both buy and sell a security at any given time and make money on the differences between them (the "spread"). The main value you provide is liquidity, making it easier for other people to buy and sell the security quickly, rather than price discovery or the like.

While Jane Street does a lot of different things, they're mostly known for market making on ETFs. This makes them more a normal company that happens to operate on public markets than a fund of some sort.
> Most companies structure their data science departments into 3 groups:

> Data scientists ... aka “the thinkers”

> Data engineers ... aka "the doers"

> Infrastructure engineers ... aka "the plumbers"

The author is clearly not an infrastructure engineer.
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Yes. Period, paragraph. An important person can make informal requests, too.

A formal request would cite legal authority.

Interesting, btw, that you assume that Clinton did this directly, despite zero evidence. Seems just as possible to me that a staff member would have made the request.
I'm "spectrum" enough to have an opposite reaction to various drugs - Ritalin being the important one, here - and my experience is... similar, in some ways.

I probably didn't notice other people's emotions a lot when I was younger, to the effect that now that I'm older, and do notice them, I frequently don't have any idea what to do with that understanding.
Thanks for the breakdown, it was a helpful analysis.
I'm surprised there was no protocol where he went to regular therapy to help him process the new emotions, and his new ability to read emotional cues in others. I suspect therapy may have helped with his understanding that he gained years later, which is that your perception of someone's emotions is not always correct.
i would bet that the author must be thinking that those who disagree with him are ... mediocre engineers or developers

personally, i think, there is nothing wrong with being average .. people with average skills built great things

mediocre is just a mean way to say average
Modularity and file structure of universal apps
There is no need to modify the ISO image on the server's disk just as there is no need to modify the ProtonMail source code on disk (both of which would make it more likely to get caught). The NSA has been known to have the ability to modify the ISO image as it was downloaded in a single selected TLS stream. So, if TLS is compromised the attack on a Linux Distro is the same as an attack on ProtonMail.
Why? I have certainly described work I've done as "plumbing".
Maybe a more apt title would be "An experimental autism treatment gave me my son back".
Agreed. I don't think we should ignore the problems, I just think we (and especially the heavy-influencing media) should be much more intelligent about crying "racism" when the issue was not a racist one to begin with.

There are far too many publications going out that overreach and point out minor details to make something seem racist or sexist. It's total bullshit and out of context.
Your folks have had years now to show any—any—proof of "lies and coverups", and they have utterly and laughably failed. So perhaps the truth is just, "no", instead.
Rental cars aren't vandalized because they are inspected before and after every rental by rental company employees.

Driverless rental vehicles will very quickly look like the back of public buses. "Dave {hearts} Christina" inscribed on every surface.
I'm not dodging anything. From my very first reply to Rayiner:

As for the problems you bring up, if low prices are the problem, he's contributing to the solution by increasing demand. I segregation is the problem, he's bringing his nordic white family into the neighborhood and reducing segregation.

Insofar as he's benefiting from these problems semi-directly it's because he's helping to solve them.

As for me, I've passed through Georgia once on a family road trip when I was 11. Insofar as more diffuse benefits like "well those actions caused a good economy that you benefit from", I work for a Indian SAAS with American customers. How's that any different from an Indian guy working for an Indian SAAS with American customers?
Why compare the margins of nonsense (lisp and php)? If a site like this were written in Node.js and with mobile users in mind, it would be in all means superior to what we see right now.

And right now I see yellow outline around this textarea, which is WebKit's default and they didn't even bother to remove it to make this textarea look the same in all browsers, let alone adapt it for mobiles.
If your parents stole a bunch of money and then immediately gave if to you would you feel guilty about that?

If your parents stole a bunch of money and then you got it when they died would you feel guilty about that?

If your grandparents stole a bunch of money, your parents inherited that money, and then you inherited it from them would you feel guilty about that?

Where exactly does the "statue of limitations of guilt" end? I'm honestly not sure.
Also, it can be dangerous if administered by a doctor
I doubt they're spending a single cent up-front.
I agree with you... though it wouldn't be that dramatic and thus less clic-baitish.
"The Speed of Dark" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speed_of_Dark) addresses this topic.
What works for you, may not work for someone else. I know some very successful autistics who leverage it to their benefit, and some very unsuccessful ones who are dogged by it.
When I see tons of similar projects pop up in a short time period (such as chat applications recently), I am feeling kind of divided.

On one hand, it's cool, someone spent their time and actually shipped something. That's great, really.

But on other hand, all the hard work could be utilized so much better if a few people joined their efforts to produce one great product rather than a few less polished ones. Is it that people prefer to work alone? Or is it just too hard to join an existing project (e.g. lack of docs, build procedure and general workflow is too inconvenient)? Or maybe it's too hard to find a project that you'd love to join?

It's not something aimed personal at the OP, really no, just a though I am having when I see similar things.
No, it's kinda misleading. Saying that everyone should be intimately familiar with your chosen platform is pretty arrogant.
You make solid points, but just as people's attics become cluttered with crap that they never use but are reluctant to throw out, I think you could argue users innately feel the same with their personal photos / friends / posts on FB.

I was confused about downvotes because I was at -2 for awhile (maybe I offended snapchat employees ;), but I appreciate you rebutting me. I do believe if there was to be a huge contender to Facebook, it would need a messaging component to grow out of. However, I still do not believe FB made the purchase primarily out of fear of competitive threat. I think FB Integration in a tencent model can make them more money than FB ads (while driving more targeted FB ads).
maybe should say:

This effectively putting a current the the subject's brain and can be dangerous EVEN IF administered by a doctor
Do you have any sources for this?

I haven't heard about this before and would like to know more if possible.
>But to claim the entire network has no value to anyone else on Planet Earth, well...

I cannot see this claim being made by anyone. Care to link to that claim?
Being complicit in state-ordered censorship is different than removing someone's embarrassing video when they ask nicely.

And the fact that it was an informal request, not legal arm-twisting, and that they complied anyway just makes it more evident that there was some form of tit-for-tat expected.
A fabulous example of a chess hustler in action (against a Grandmaster): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U5vnpOp0U_g

This shows a hustler "strategy" not mentioned in the article around 2:25, as well as the recommended move of switching the clock position when you're playing as Black.

Filmed as part of The Tim Ferriss Experiment TV show (available on iTunes!)
Perhaps they're purchasing these to handle the constant/baseline load of riders throughout the day, and then will continue to use human drivers & contractors to supplement demand beyond that, eg. the peaks times you mention.

So it'd be the best of both worlds for Uber: being able to put the self-driving vehicles to use around the clock and not having to make a capital investment to handle spikes in demand, which would just continue to be handled by existing drivers (for now). Just call in the human backup to help out when required.

I'm also wondering if they made the huge order so that they'd be able to influence and guide the requirements for the vehicles to Uber's specs. It seems that the requirements for a self-driving car for an individual's use differs from that for commercial taxiing.
Customer acquisition is, I mean, it's not like you literally just snap your fingers, but it's very straightforward. There are hundreds of channels to acquire customers, and services to help you do it.

In a hypothetical world in which we have fully autonomous vehicles and someone wants to compete with Uber, anyone who can afford capital investment in a fleet is not going to have much difficulty generating a customer base (and then they can have a mutually destructive price war with Uber).
Very telling that Uber is trying to go with Mercedes, when Tesla is really their first choice. It's an open secret that Elon Musk will be launching an Uber competitor using Tesla vehicles. I expect a "surprise" announcement from Tesla within 18 months.
Now we just need to submit this code as an answer to the next "how do I sort a list" question on Stack Overflow.
How is this usable on mobiles? And... Why do I have to rely on a piece of third-party software in order to get features present in any really modern website?
Why do people ever do anything to improve their skills? Why not just accept whatever happens and sit back and enjoy it?
> Unlike the rest of us, you've signaled mainstream virtue with your comment.

You're taking this thread into personal attack, plus slinging a lot of sarcasm around, which has the effect that trolling does. Please stop doing these things.