skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You're inverting the entire premise of the article: he isn't really talking about ADHD/ODD, he is talking about people who are anti-authoritarian and are misdiagnosed as ADHD/ODD as a result of it.

When he talks about famous people who would have been diagnosed as having these disorders in modern times, he's not saying that they have these disorders, but that the diagnosis is bogus.

It's as he's saying "these people who have the common cold are misdiagnosed as having the flu!" and you respond with "these common cold characteristics are nothing like the flu." Well, yes, that's part of the issue at hand.
Rage-quit: Coder unpublished 17 lines of JavaScript and “broke the Internet”
So I recently learned that registered mail is pretty much the highest quality way to ship anything, with full per-node tracking. This was gleaned after some prodding of some people in a law firm who were discussing shipping woes between fedex, dhl, and certified mail, when someone said "What about red-mail"? I had never heard of red-mail (actually registered mail, called red-mail for the red tags, vs the green certified mail tags), but it was explained to me that at least for some governmental purposes, it is the only acceptable way to ship documents and other things.

To me, if I want full "evidence custody chain" style logs of device location, for physical equipment, that would be the way to go. Now, the real question is, how much would you really trust the government mail program vs a NSL or interdiction for implant vs a private company vs a NSL or interdiction for implant. I think there is room for discussion there, but I would tend to side with the government one, because the company will have very little recourse, but the gov entity is likely to be staffed by bone-headed gov employees, who are surprisingly good at bad policy pushback when compared to their private counterparts. Perhaps I'm wrong on that though. Sometimes I find interesting insights into IT by listening to lawyers...
What the Left-Pad Incident Teaches Us About JavaScript Dependencies
That's right. The weights that connect the Nth neuron in the one-hot input layer to the embedding layer can be thought of as a vector encoding of the Nth word in the vocabulary.
+1 for meditation
Well, being anxious about it is certainly not healthy. But it's denying the reality of mass surveillance and encryption ban attempts that fits the definition of the word "delusion" perfectly.
Interesting project but it looks to me like it's solving an entirely different problem.
"usbkill is a simple program with one goal: quickly shutdown the computer when a USB is inserted or removed."

The article is referring to a USB cable that has been modified to phone home using either RF or some other covert channel. I'd think that USB Kill would be completely unaware of any such compromise given that it's only looking for a disrupted connection.
Agreed; bake easy PGP into Gmail.
I saw a girls startup plan that involved exclusively using Facebook. I was like, "You really need to support Flickr, Twitter. You shouldn't depend on one source for your customers to pull photos." She said they were just going Facebook because it was the quickest route to get a deliverable product. She obviously wasn't an engineer and I'm sure any software dev will tell you if you support at least two services, you'll write code in such a way that's expandable to many (more modular, classes for each service type). Even if that 2nd service may not have any customer base, it's worth the implementation cost just to have.

This doesn't really relate to this story as Price Zombie did utilize many different sites, but it does show just how big the giants are (like Facebook/Amazon) that even if you try to support lots of different sources, one of them can make or break you.
Hey! I own my farm in Corbin, KY and my grandfather worked for the Colonel when he peddled chicken at the service/bus station. The "historic" Sanders' Cafe that exists there today is actually across the road from where the original once was.

If you're ever around Simpsonville, KY it's worth stopping by Claudia Sanders' Diner. It still cooks his original recipe, unlike KFC.
> I think this comment is not very compassionate/overly harsh. But you have some good nuggets in here ...

What parts? I'm not trying to be harsh but nor am I trying to be compassionate.

I think what may be considered "not very compassionate/overly harsh" is nothing more than a subjective reaction to the vast difference in political opinion that I express compared to the rest of the HackerNews community.

> The knowledge that to broadcast one's thoughts exposes one to possible tyranny can only squelch discussion, and that drives people apart. We're social creatures, so that's not healthy.

Yes, we are indeed social creatures, which is why we should all spend more time offline. There is a world outside of the Internet and I think a lot of techies forget that. The government is not listening in on our conversations down at the local pub. The government is not taking minutes on Kiwanis and Rotary Club meetings.

This perceived totalizing nature of the "surveillance machine" is mainly experienced by people who mainly interact with the outside world on the Internet. It's like a Greek tragedy!

I posit that too much cellphone and Internet use can cause many kinds of mental health issues.

Go outside more! You're totally free! The streets are yours for the taking! Go hand out pamphlets in the town square! Grab a guitar and sing for an audience in a public park! Go to the beach and make new friends! There are no gatekeepers!

Choosing to have your entire life thinly channeled through a certain kind of electrical signal that you constantly broadcast from your person and then suffering under the consequences is quite maddening.
How to smuggle money into N. Korea (Aka why cash is still king)
How does the recurrent neural network technique compare to the CBOW technique in word2vec? CBOW would've been the first thing I tried.
Seems like you guys could partner with companies like "Coin" - https://onlycoin.com/ - having "soft" physical credit cards with dynamically issued numbers would be crazy.
Why empathy is a bad thing
Every business is 100% on other companies. Everyone uses electricity, has to ship product, buy resources, use devices to transform those resources etc.

The problem here only really exists in these silly other parasitical web-only businesses. Yes, if you track Amazon's prices and Amazon makes that harder then you'll be on trouble. So probably best to set up 20 or so companies/services in your spare time and not take any of them too seriously.
Oh, good idea! I'll think about it. Thank you.
Exactly. I also deal with Amazon on a seller's platform and can confirm this. It doesn't matter who you know, the company itself is bipolar and unreliable.
Good point. I wonder if there is a way to detect USB cable being plugged into the port?
Critical Oracle Java 7/8 patch for CVE-2016-0636 (remote code execution)
>So the difficulty at the top end never gets any easier just because the bottom end does.

Personally, I think the end of construction came after the lever and fulcrum were invented.

After humans didn't have to exert effort to build things, construction became a thing of the past...

Oh wait.
Betterment and Wealthfront are just showing Vanguard and Schwab how to do business in the future. Their UI/UX is easily copied.

The startups are betting on that the big guys will continue to be incompetent in UI/UX.

Maybe that bet will pay off, but it's not a bet I would make.
This is not Asimov's usual style. The book you should be looking for is "Azazel", later re-packaged as "Magic". It's never establishes that Azazel is a demon. The book vacillates between "demon" and "technologically advanced extraterrestrial being".
NPM Gate: a different approach to prevent it
The total cost of ownership only matters if you are deciding whether to own a car at all, and that is really less a question of cost than your willingness to change your lifestyle around a commitment to non-car-ownership and stop doing the things which are only feasible when you have a car.

For decisions about any individual trip, gas price really is most of the issue, because you're already committed to paying for the option of driving whether or not you choose to exercise it in any particular instance.
I never got Prime because the yearly cost of it (even before the price went up) did not amortize to an acceptable shipping cost. I take the slower free shipping because I'm not impatient or buying on impulse.

So I've never been locked into Amazon and always been free to shop around. And I can absolutely confirm that Amazon is no longer the "default" winner on price. Sometimes they are, but often not. I don't even have to spend a lot of time shopping around to find this. The same deals are everywhere now.
Being a Couchsurfing host (Free) in NYC and an AirBnB traveler (paid), I believe a long-term meaningful friendship cannot form while money is changing hands.

In my experience, money calls into question the sincerity and authenticity of both the person paying, and the person being paid. Authenticity being "are they being themselves?", and sincerity being "do they want you to know themselves?" and vica versa.

Is a person being friendly because they like me or because they are counting the dollar signs in their head?
Do they really want to get to know me or are they simply being polite, i.e. applying social lubricant?

I don’t have a single host from my AirBnB stays that I remember fondly, if at all. I have several Couch-surfers who I miss dearly and who message me from time to time on Facebook.

I feel that it’s possible to make real friends with people you start with on a “business level”, but until that “business” gets removed, the relationship is just a thin veneer over what is essentially a transaction.
Besides likely being less effective than saving such arguments for the magistrate, what exactly is wrong with that? It's a standard avenue of contesting a speeding ticket.
Greenplum is a fork of Postgres codebase, Citus is not; it's an extension that leverages community Postgres's extensibilty APIs. This point seems to be highlighted in their post.
Good. C++ still badly needs to go through a phase of tuning, deprecation and removal before adding much more.

As I have said before, there have been shockingly poor design decisions in some of the oldest and most fundamental standard libraries. Little to no work has been done to introduce replacement APIs (or even replacement classes) that would allow the deprecation of stupid features to begin.
> Product Management, Product Design, Product Marketing, Engineers, Ops & Legal, Finance, Marketing (Growth) & Analytics, Sales, Business Development, Privacy & Security, Talent/Recruiting, etc...

I get all that. I don't get how that kind of head count works for a company that only has about 100,000 customers and $3 billion in assets, considering the value proposition for this company is supposed to be intelligent passive investing.

> They're dealing with people's money and they're growing. Doesn't seem too absurd. They're not just building a rinky dinky dumb interface between a user and a Vanguard fund.

Prop shops and hedge funds run leaner than they are, and those places are employing lots of people for actively developing trading strategies and maintaining large, sophisticated backend systems. Betterment is supposed to reduce the risk and cost of investing by using algorithms to build index funds and cutting all that active management crap, thus I would expect them to be running leaner than those other places.

As for growth, they have been in business for almost eight years. I don't think the growth rate justifies the current head count. I worry that they are pulling a Twitter and hiring a bunch of people they don't actually need yet as part of a talent war.

On their institutional product, LinkedIn gives me the impression that it is run as a quasi-separate entity. I don't know if the 180 people referred to here have much to do with that part of the business.
Yep, or they can even shut you out by mistake and there's nothing you can do about it except send emails and hope someone woke up on the right side of the bed that morning.

I can't imagine a massive Associates Program user like, say, Gizmodo, doesn't have some kind of internal connection.
VCs have raised more this quarter than in the past 3 years
You are using public good a bit unusually; a public good is a positive externality (and the term is sometimes extended to things that produce positive externalities), it's the opposite of a public (or social) cost, a negative externality.

Roads aren't a source of public good because odometer taxes are impossible, they are sources of public good because and to the extent that creating them provides benefits beyond those who make the choice to use them, whether or not those making the choice to use them pay directly for that use in accordance with their dirct, private benefit from the transaction.
I guess the solution is to have a cheap to run web service which tracks prices and monetise it via ads rather than pretend you've got a real business that needs loads of employees and office space etc.

But then I'm always amazed at how many employees and offices Twitter has.
You miss the point. PriceZombie was above board with what they were doing at all times. Amazon TOLD THEM that as long as their latest price was within 24 hours they could display price history like dozens of other price trackers were doing. PZ was reviewed three times, not just by low level people but higher up in the chain, and each time there was no question they were within the TOS so long as they displayed the current price along with price history. This is why PZ's Reddit bot always pulls up and displays the current price when queried. After three years, Amazon changed their mind - but not for everyone, just PZ.
"The Net treats censorship as a defect and routes around it."

Source: https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/John_Gilmore
Typelevel boycotts LambdaConf over politics
Shrink wrapped software locks you into an eco system. How are you supposed to get it to run, without using the right OS and support programs?

Many cloud APIs are trivial. Cloud file storage has basically zero lock-in.

If your argument is "don't buy subscription software", then I can agree. But "cloud" covers a lot more than that, and cloud data storage in particular, the subject of the article, has very little downside.
What targets did you have in mind? Boost seem to do a good job of "standard library 2.0", although perhaps a bit too keen on the templates.

Killing anything in any C++ that's actually used is going to be extremely hard. Systems stick around forever. Yesterday I had to write some COM/OLE code because it was the only way to do something.
The Browser Isn't Feature Complete (The Internet as an Incremental Skill)
I suspect I agree with this guy on most things, but it is a bit tone-deaf to suggest McCain should be in prison. Most people would say he has done his time. That kind of statement calls to mind McCain's famous mic-drop: "I wish I could have had the luxury, like you, of growing up and living and spending my entire life in a nice place like the First District of Arizona, but I was doing other things. As a matter of fact, when I think about it now, the place I lived longest in my life was Hanoi."
The lit test are not really "unitests" per-se, even if we try to consider them as it. We are writing them to stress a specific part of the compiler (can we vectorize this specific construct for instance), but they still involve a large chunk of the compiler.
The reason we don't have more real unittests is IMO because:
- it is hard to write (you need to mockup the analysis result that is used by the vectorizer if you want to test it in isolation).
- it adds lot of maintenance burden/overhead
- it does not add much value for the compiler over the lit tests.
I've got a Delaware LLC and the tax is pretty simple - you just fill in a form (w8-ben) to say you are non US resident and that's it for US tax. Whatever income and gains are regarded as being yours personally and you are supposed to declare them where you live.

For the UK there's some info here on getting bank accounts (2013) https://www.rapidformations.co.uk/blog/business-bank-account...
I'd recommend phoning them / the banks for the current situation.
come on now, arguably the most valuable commenter on r/nba is a bot that converts twitter videos to streamable links.
Kind of pointless. If you don't want to use USB stuff then disable it completely. This would make using an USB HSM a lot harder.
I would have thought that Amazon wouldn't want transparent price comparison websites. Wouldn't that tend to cut into their products?
The weak point in the cryonics movement, in my view, is this:

1) The average life expectancy of a multinational corporation-Fortune 500 or its equivalent-is between 40 and 50 years.

2) The average life expectancy of a civil government is only slightly longer, at a few hundred years (not a lot of data points, admittedly).

3) Cryopreservation is resource-intensive and requires frequent interventions (e.g. needs to be actively maintained, no passive storage solutions).

Taken together, it's doubtful that humans can create institutions long-lived enough to accomplish uninterrupted cryopreservation for any real amount of time. Therefore if humans actually do achieve singularity or end aging at any point in the future, it will most likely be only that generation of humans (or some subset) that enjoy the benefits. The amount of time preceding that moment during which it would be possible to achieve human preservation uninterrupted by the demise of necessary institutions such as companies and governments, is likely to be short, or possibly fully within the life expectancy at that time (everyone born at the start of the era of stability that leads to the "end of death" will be saved from death; people born during the prior era could not have been revived anyway due to the lack of stable institutions to preserve the bodies).
Show HN: Auto-spam reactions on Facebook
> As I have said before, there have been shockingly poor design decisions in some of the oldest and most fundamental standard libraries.

if you don't mind, may you please elucidate a few here ? or if you already have a dedicated post may you point to that ? thank you !
CCC makes money off of Amazon links. Other ways price trackers make money is to sell personal shopping habits, and other data they gather. PriceZombie's developer has always stated they would not do that which is why they relied wholly on affiliate fees.
Disliking Plato because he's not "modern" is a little silly. His teachings are obviously old, but they were also a huge stepping stone in philosophy.
I don't agree with that at all. We have to guess how much transaction volume PriceZombie sends to Amazon, but $50k/month isn't an unreasonable estimate (probably very low). It is totally worth a couple hours of a support person's time to deal with the source of $600k of annual revenue.
I worked as a contractor on a military installation a few years ago. We had a snarky, know-it-all new employee who decided to test the base's "no thumb drives" policy his very first day on base. Every employee and subsequent employee learned about the hell he went through as a result. Needless to say, no one tested the policy again.
Reasons why I will not be replying to your argument
In the meantime, no current presidential candidate is willing to pardon Snowden.
Yeah. Iostreams doesn't work with strings and is not const correct. Also a horrible idea to use oop IMHO. Somehow POSIX is a lot simpler to use with read/write and void
Proton mail doesn't support IMAP, 3rd party clients, or email export. If you decide you no longer want to use Proton but you want to keep some of your emails, you have to manually save the contents of each message. It's irresponsible to recommend Proton without mention of the commitment involved.
Snowden as a service, saas
Oh. My. Word. This is awesome - both the UI and how it works/what it does. Well done!

Having this embedded inside JetBrains IDEs would be fab (no idea if possible via a plugin).

And a slightly-jealous programmer Q about step 10 of the tour ('Reviews stay “stuck” to their line!'): how did you make that work, when GitHub can't?
What is it with the downvotes? Zombie is the moe of American culture; you just take something good put Zombie on it, and then idiots will lap it up at the movie theatre.
I hope the author likes the taste of polonium in his coffee.
That's correct. Also, note that Google's take down system is NOT a DMCA take down request. It does not satisfy the requirements in several places, and it is actually stricter than the DMCA.

Google is basically volunteering to allow people to issue take down requests without consequences; if it was an actual DMCA take down, they would have to

And yes, Content ID is another system entirely where Google pattern-matches uploads (and old stuff when they feel like it); when hits are found, Google tends to reasign the monetization to the "content owner" that registered with Content ID. Getting that money back has generally been impossible, even in cases where Content ID clearly screwed up (false positive).

If you're interested in the history of how Google has been using Content ID, there is an older discussion[1] from a few years ago when Google really started to abuse Content ID hard.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bt1ubSVMwaw
Right, but those other business have alternatives if the relationship with one fails (with the exception of electricity, which is regulated and therefore a bit different.)
I don't understand his argument that empathy causes us to bomb people. I thought that was competition for resources, ideological differences and shady clandestine foreign policy. I consider myself empathetic and I can't see how any of these current conflicts were started by thoughts of empathy. There certainly doesn't seem to be much empathy around for refugees fleeing the conflict in Syria, here in Europe. There seems to be a lot of fear.
I'm not taking sides in this debate, but I am surprised that we haven't yet seen a product which is a car lease for 3 years where the hood doesn't even open. The car ships with synthetic oil and high mileage tires and literally the only thing you do is put gas in it. The high end version of the lease involves someone driving to your place of work and filling up your car with gas, so that for three years you literally just get in and drive.

I think there is enough of a luxury market for that to be a thing, and I am surprised we haven't seen it yet.
The blog post that lists the limitation: https://github.com/blog/1986-announcing-git-large-file-stora...

Part of the communication issue is that Github doesn't treat "Free" as a plan so there's no good place to place limitations. https://github.com/pricing

I suppose that part of that is the subtle difference between the idea that "Github is free for open source projects" versus "being free for you to host your open source project". There's a separation between users and accounts along the lines of Github as a free social network and as a money making business.
I am going to miss their price protection tracker that emailed when the price dropped within a certain period of time following a purchase. That let me get the difference refunded by my credit card company.
Show HN: Amazon Dash button monitor daemon
- Smalltalk can happen over IM, if you work at it. During standup ask for "consumption updates" meaning what movies, books, TV shows people have consumed - great fast way to learn interests.
- Move from oral to written communication. Could a person who could not hear at all make it at your company? Write everything down to keep a remote minority in the loop.
- This is harsh, but teach the remote developer that they need to do some of the work themselves to integrate. They might have to go out of their way to push updates, ask questions, etc. They are the canary in the mine and should tell you when they are left out. Be open to this feedback