skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree with most of your post. I was trying my best to find common ground with sama's perspective in his. Because I have had similarly crappy situations that did make me incredibly frustrated. You bring up good points though:

> What I am about write is blasphemy in this community, but needs to be said.
> Contributions to a startup are not quantifiable. There are truism that float around the startup community like, "Ideas are worthless, execution is everything." these are helpful motivation tools but they create a black and white world, in a universe that is multi-dimensional.

Amen, who gives a damn how fast you clmb the ladder if it's placed in the wrong spot? And it's such a simplistic point; often times the whole point of execution is to find a better idea. These ideas could be discovered through a combination of mental reflection, talking to customers, building prototype, ...

> I think the startup community and this post is evidence of it believes that what they know is above the law.
> This is a simple case of a dispute about money. Pretending it is about good guys and bad guys is being dishonest to yourself and others.

Yep. I don't care how many Airbnb's and Dropbox's you fund, you don't get to say what constitutes good and bad in a community.

At the end of the day, I think Sam got frustrated, acted a bit impulsively, and probably regrets how things turned out with the original post. But hey, mistakes build leaders, so if someone as public as him can reflect on it then all the better.
Ransomware learns the art of customer service to help victims pay up
I'm going to have to check out Salary for Life. I can see that there are nuanced differences.
If those people weren't optimists, they wouldn't have jumped off the cliffs.
Chicago Police Dept. Plagued by Systemic Racism, Task Force Finds
95% is absolutely not accurate. Amzn's latest annual report (put out April 6th 2016) states ”close to 50% of units sold on Amazon are sold by third-party sellers."
Stop Thinking Organizational Structure Will Solve All Your Problems
Yes, it has buttons on the side. I love it.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_video_fingerprinting
The buttons for page turning on the voyage are goofy force sensors. I just use the touchscreen.
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Everything listed in the article is actually already used by the FAA. Paper strips went away about 10 years ago in ATC centers and more recently in towers [0]. FAA has ADS-B for satellite-based navigation over Alaska and is deploying it elsewhere (notably oceanic regions) [1][2]. Digital communication ("text messaging") is coming to towers [3] and variants of it have existed for years in control centers for certain aircraft.

Check out https://www.faa.gov/nextgen/ for lots of info on their improvement efforts.

None of this is to say the FAA is perfect--it's not, but it's definitely improving and they have an immensely difficult problem to manage. The FAA handles a much larger traffic volume than Canada, including many of the most congested regions in the world. (Planes are not evenly distributed!) The Advanced Automation System was the wrong approach, trying to overhaul the entire system at once, and NextGen is successfully taking the incremental approach.

[0] https://www.faa.gov/nextgen/snapshots/stories/?slide=37
[1] https://www.faa.gov/nextgen/programs/adsb/
[2] https://www.faa.gov/nextgen/snapshots/stories/?slide=26
[3] https://www.faa.gov/nextgen/update/progress_and_plans/data_c...
Speculation: The production of this page was likely handled by Marketing, which functionally likely sits in a different org within FB and doesn't have access to many eng resources. So, Marketing sees WP VIP as an easy way to get a site up by just running a credit card. Speaking from experience, I think this "outsourcing" is probably good – if there's indeed no engineering team dedicated to Marketing needs like this.

That said, I'm sure WP VIP will break down when Marketing's needs increase – such as when Marketing needs to do internationalization, or perform a timed launch of a new site/content update.
> A venous draw is going to be pretty clean, in that whatever tissue got stuck in the aperture of the needle is going to be dwarfed by the quantity of blood taken

From the many blood draws I have done, standard practice is to fill a tosser vial before collecting the real samples in order to remove these contaminants.
you'd have to know to look
four stars? brutal
Location: Bay Area/ San Francisco

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: Yes

Technologies: Web stacks (Node.js, python/django), Java

Résumé/CV: linkedin.com/in/vishnutej9492

Email: vm9069@rit.edu
Slack beats email, but still needs to get better
OSS software is not enough to ensure security, but it makes doing sketchy stuff a harder. Stopping every malicious actor would be great, but stopping some and making it more expensive for the rest is worth a lot.
One of the more interesting things I read about is how Salesforce.com reviewed their employees and their salaries, realized that female employees were underpaid, and increased their salaries accordingly, rather than waiting for someone to ask. I'm afraid that's rather rare, though.
You make a good point, but in the end the responsibility is on the life-critical application (e.g. medical software, device, self-driving car) to ensure that is has been properly QA'd and that all of its dependencies (including any cloud services or framework that it is built upon) meet its safety requirements. The event of an app server or cloud service experiencing downtime would very much have to be planned for as part of a Risk Management exercise. Ignoring that possibility would be negligent.
Replace your debug versions of libraries with stubs that contain no-ops. So in your code, just do:

import 'something';

And then create separate versions of 'something.js' for debug and release, where your release version just has stubs:

export function debugPrint(msg) {}

While the debug version might use console.log or winston or whatever.

If you compile your JS and the compiler provides tree-shaking, the calls will get optimized out entirely. Even if you don't, you can deploy the no-ops to prod and it'll use minimal bandwidth and no CPU time. And the best part is that it keeps the syntax of your code very clean; you don't have to litter your code with "if (DEBUG)", you just have it do what it needs to and those calls will equal doing nothing in prod.
Information asymmetry. They know you, you don't know them.
I'm not concerned about the regulators. What concerns me is the easy access by police and TLAs to so much data about who went where, when, and with whom. Mass surveillance, complementing collection through all the other methods.
Almost. Currently continuous views that contain an ORDER BY or LIMIT clause are not supported.
Stanford (or other big name schools) are probably a bad example, because if you get accepted, they'll ensure that you can attend regardless of your financial situation. Most "big name" schools have instituted programs in the last couple of years whereby they'll cover your tuition without (or with very minimal) student loans. For example https://nobarriers.uchicago.edu/

The problem is the the rest of the schools out there - 50K might be on the high end, but 20-30K is quite common, and having attended those, you might end up with a huge loan and a worthless degree.
This is awesome. Would be great if it gets OpenWRT integration as well.
Do you often remember stories that are either buried or pushed off to a sidebar? Looking at their home page now, there's one "serious" story at the top. Below that are hundreds of crap stories about celebrities with titles in blue, indicating they're clickable, and a description of the article below. Off to the right, with titles in black and no description, are the "serious" articles. It's clear that they either don't think their users value the serious articles or they can't make enough money off of them, so they deemphasize them. You can hardly blame users for not remembering them.
The difference there is that one person's mistake driving causes one accident. One person's mistake programming might cause a thousand.
Better we wash away a bit of fiat we shouldn't have then screw people who have already been screwed enough by being disabled.
Ah, but do you also remember that if you do something you enjoy, you'll never work a day in your life?

I enjoy what I do. But accomplishing all the awesome still requires a balancing act.
Correct. (This behaviour can be disabled via EC2 user-data.)
I don't think I've ever heard of anyone complaining of the buttons on both sides on the old kindles.
I cannot understand why they chose to change something so obviously good.
Based on the original article, their strategy has become sponsored content across 30+ platforms. Their site is only 1 part of this.
There are businesses that fit somewhere between Boeing and Spotify where failures still have some kind of steeper than casual cost.

On Hacker News the "move fast and break things" ethos is probably making sense for many of the people submitting and commenting, since their business is closer to casual usage anyway. But that's not the whole audience.
How you determine something is sentient or not? That's a tough one.
I hope this technology pans out. My brother is quadriplegic, but still has sensation in his hands. This would be perfect for him. It'll probably be a decade or more before it's commercialized, but hopefully within his lifetime he'll walk again.
> 499654.097

Dude. 9 significant digits? You don't know m to better than 1 or 2 significant digits. Just call it 5e5 and be done with it.
> If someone honestly was ok with all of them for the cost of a human feast, then that's fine.

Would you sing the same tune if you were the one that they wanted to eat?
Why are people downvoting a fact?

edit it looks like I misread the OP's comment, but it would have been more useful to comment than to downvote.
Not quite trivial: people can crop, skew, vignette, mirror, timestretch and scale video to try to defeat it. YouTube's Content ID seems to be vulnerable to this sort of thing still.
Ah yes, remember: the poor people have your money: http://www.ibtimes.com/panama-papers-corporations-shifted-ha...
But do we, the voters, think it's worth it? I think it is, personally. Of course it would be nice to move toward cheaper education, but I'm OK with this forgiveness of debt.
That would not disprove what Zikes is proposing. Zikes (and gburt, and myself) are saying that it's possible the two actions are coincidentally linked. We are not arguing they are not linked, just that the fact they are linked does not necessarily mean they were intentionally linked by the developer. We all agree on the events in the game, we're talking about intent. The only way to know would be to ask the developer.
In a scope of logic alone, yes, you are absolutely correct.

An example I like to raise regularly is the farm subsidies put in place by the Roosevelt Administration to prevent overproduction. Was there a better way for farms to stay in business and for food to be affordable to consumers? Maybe. But this way worked to solve problems created by the Great Depression.

Now I'm sure as you know, farm subsidies now are sweeter than high fructose corn syrup. There is even sitting republican senator who makes millions from the federal government paying him to not plant cotton. Few can argue this policy still works as intended, but it so politically locked-in that it's almost impossible to shake out. Same with the tons of unnecessary military hardware and property sitting around solely because representatives in those districts want to be re-elected by their core constituencies.

To me the problem isn't about getting it right the first time, it's about changing something that has outlived its usefulness when powerful beneficiaries fight to keep the wasteful status quo.

A metaphor: bandages are useful for flesh wounds, but after the wound has healed the bandage must be removed and the skin must be cleaned or it will rot.
Yeah, but how many people really even want a $90 cover? I don't use a cover at all, but when I did I sure as hell didn't drop $90 on one.
"Provide images to the public" isn't what people do; they provide images to a limited audience, either unwillingly (you can't walk around outside without creating some kind of image, it is not a willed action) or with people they know or expect to know them (online). It's technology which has converted this limited audience to a universal concept of "public".
Sure, but rayval was talking about a scenario that could happen today.

Although looking at the other comments, I think I'm significantly underestimating just how much of modern airliners is dependent on software. The pilots might be able to see that they're heading for disaster, but may not be able to do anything about it.
If your measurements are good enough you can make a methodology out of throwing spaghetti at a wall.
Scott started VN with a very small crew, he shared a picture once showing how often he was eating takeout between work sessions, I wouldn't be surprised to find out he was putting in 12+ hour days initially. Leading up to the eventual sale the company grew quickly though. He's been creating profitable sites for years and VN was just the next evolution. The key difference was seeing the potential in taking VN further then just a site run by a couple of people.

I've been told the change was when he hired an executive team to go after bigger ad buys and to shape the business to be more then just a small group operation.

I've been reluctant to ask him personally about the details but this is what I've put together talking to acquaintances. Say what you want about VN, Scott is a top notch guy that has hit it out of the park many times.
If LLVM has a C backend, then yes, otherwise, no.
did you fork the cli too? or it's the same CLI for the 3 platforms?
> so if someone as public as him can reflect on it then all the better.

I eagerly await this much anticipated reflection. For what I can tell he is a sincere, integrity driven, human being. Money has a way to messing with us and causing us to do all sorts of things we regret. I just hope he can see past his blind spots once the initial frustration wears off.
Do we actually know that? I got the impression that they were reporting much more than that. Maybe not to regulators. But to police and TLAs, presumably without warrants. That's the key concern, here. Another form of mass surveillance.
Obama's not up for re-election.
Apple is pretty committed to HTTPS within iOS apps, many of which are created by small companies, so they ought to support it.
I would argue that point-based estimation is just as inaccurate as time-based estimation in that it only serves as a proxy for effort, which is done over time. Point systems (and time systems) have two big issues

* You're throwing away all your data points when you condense a story down to a single point. Systems exist to try and avoid things like anchoring bias, but you just throw it away.
* You imply uncertainty exists about the task duration, but don't try and measure how uncertain you are.

Using Monte Carlo simulation here can really help address these two issues.
I think the human race will evolve too, at an artificial rate, with the advancement of genetics. Also, human cognition evolves with the network and hand in hand with the AI. The most probable outcome will be a fusion. We are cheap capable computers, if the AI could redesign the brain to make it 1000 times more powerful without making it larger, then the next step in AI could be humans.
An excellent idea. But then you have to worry about oscillation and damping.

The stabilization problem sounds really hard to me.
Cool idea though I'm not seeing the chat on mobile
The Best–and Worst–States to Avoid Income Taxes
They originate that many per year. So that's $5.5B per year for 20+ years. At any given time, they should have income for 20+ years worth of originations, right? Obviously, this situation is more complicated since they couldn't pay.
If he lives in Norway, as indicated in the blogpost, his doctor can give him sick leave for up to 1 year. The state will compensate his salary 100%.

If one is still sick after 1 year one can apply for permanent disability. Permanent disability will probably be around 66% of one’s previous salary, but no less then 25 000$ per year and no more then 65 000$ per year. One can additional apply for some special benefits like housing subsidy, child benefits etc if needed.
Is Freshbooks the Right Invoicing Software for You?
Cool idea. sounds like online version of 60 minutes
Consider that most driving is done feet away from another vehicle. If those cars start being replaced by self-driving cars, then the you are safer (system safety x personal safety). The car might make more dubious decisions than you would yourself, but now it has less opportunities for failure due to others driving erratically.
The machine code may still be obfuscated, but not for the sake of obfuscation. Cartridge ROM space was tight, so you end up with lots of tricks (like overlapping graphics and code) in some NES games to save space. That's not to mention the scarcity of clock cycles and RAM.
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Maybe. Or use the contact link to ask the moderator, dang.
Honestly I believe it would've taken minimal effort to obfuscate the players and turn it into a venting / warning regarding best practices in the industry, and, in some ways, perhaps have been more constructive.
If only there was a way to allow a people to hold power over their government.
For all we know the code isn't explicitly tied together, so you'd have to find two things going off (probably) the same condition, and they even then might be going off two different (yet related) conditions that are non-obvious just looking at the code.

Just because the two things sync up doesn't mean the code makes that obvious.
it's a logical fallacy to try to use wolf behavior to justify our own

Human society tends to operate on that logical fallacy. The badness/awfulness of others is taken to justify "extreme measures" from our own side. (And I would agree that this is wrong.)
Somebody can crash into you.
This is true, however onvif is an application level protocol and is relatively easy to deal with and can be portable and is pretty much low-level/hardware agnostic, so it's of less concern.
The entire game is based around timing your punches, and the whole thing is filled with subtle timing cues that, once you learn them, make it possible to win every time. I find it much more likely than not that this was intentional, given how many other intentional cues exist.
It would have a lot to do with dialogue systems (chat bots). I am very interested in this domain but the news seem to be slow. Siri didn't improve, Google Now is no conversationalist, and the Microsoft's Tay disappeared within 24 hours of being put online. I tried some other chat bots but they seem incapable of bouncing back ideas and forming a proper conversation.

Maybe they could apply reinforcement learning to training a chatbot how to direct the flow of a conversation in order to make it interesting. I think it could be huge if only the dialogue was a little better.
If you haven't seen it, this a pretty interesting and controversial paper:

Increasing disparities between resource inputs and outcomes, as measured by certain health deliverables, in biomedical research
http://www.pnas.org/content/112/36/11335.full

Basically, increased funding of biomedical research hasn't resulted in better output, and that we do, indeed, need to change the model. The current model is really inefficient.
US Senator Warren Introduces Bill to Simplify Tax Filing
Do you have fun integrating every new mode that you might like to use when you decide to open a source file for a new programming language?
Do you have any examples the DX screen being driven by a microcontroller? I looked into this a while back and it seemed a lot more complex than just hooking up an Arduino or something due to the screen's voltage requirements. The projects I saw involved making a custom driver PCB.
Boy are those debtors going to get a surprise when the 1099 comes for forgiven debt. (they mention trying to eliminate the tax burden for the disability folks, but no mention of anybody else.)

Edit: Or in plain english- the IRS thinks forgiven debt is income.
The first part seems probable (sell to the DoD), but intentional fraud is unlikely. Remember Hanlon's Razor - "Never ascribe to malice that which can be explained by incompetence."

It seems more likely they were very close on the science, and decided to run with it while they worked out the last 10%. That works great for most tech companies, but healthcare technology is very different.
40 year old study could have reshaped American diet, was never fully published
Court to spaghetti: You are not a god
You can look at what the YC app entails if you click on apply at the bottom of most HN pages. If they filed it together there is definitely talk about equity and ownership of the company among founders. founder required to have at least 10% ownership. IANAL so I don't know how binding applying to an incubator is if you don't have a partnership agreement filled out prior to the application. Without it in writing explicitly it's very gray. I imagine it's not as cut and dry as it seems; especially with legal definitions and practices sometimes going against common sense.
I know many friends and former Googlers who are now at Uber and can tell you that it's not run by complete jerks. The company and the employees take their commitments to the cities they operate in very seriously. There might have been issues pre-2015, but not anymore.

Also, you appear to be wrong about each taxi company requiring to support wheelchairs. As far as I can tell from my brief search, the ADA requires training, not supporting vehicles that allow wheelchairs.
That stat doesn't really tell us anything about how easily baseless claims are dismissed, because judges can (and do) schedule pre-trial meetings for the purpose of encouraging a settlement by discussing a case's chances with both parties.
This doesn't apply only to expensive universities. Or no-name universities. Or liberal arts universities. Or universities that people "rushed" to (that's a new one on me - how long does one have to delay their higher education before you deem it "not rushing"?). More to the point: "the law" clearly says that you don't have to pay your loans if you're disabled.
This is pretty light even for editorial fare. Are there actual statistics stating that people stay in more now? I was under the impression that dining out in particular was at an all time high.
Why IRC over SSL is pointless (2009)
That sort of double-duty was pretty common in old console games, which were limited in both memory and available compute time, so that's a pretty plausible theory.

But seeing as one of the game's creators has mentioned they liked to put in contextual cues for when things were about to happen, it also seems pretty plausible that it's intentional.
Pedantic, but… you mean Quest, not Qwest. The latter is (was?) a telecom company.
My point is that it's extraordinarily cheap compared to what I'd expect to pay for a "best in the world" anything else, not that it's affordable.

It would be crazy, I think, to expect a 'best in the world' education without it costing a substantial amount of money.

I'm not saying it's fair to a kid making that decision, and personally, I think that bankruptcy laws are central to civilization. I'm just saying that it's amazing how cheap a 'best in the world' education is.

Certainly, I don't oppose the government just paying for colleges; after all, that's a big part of why Berkeley is so cheaper. I'm just saying that running a good school takes money, and the fact that the best in the world schools (at least by my perception) are so cheap is a counterpoint to this idea that costs are spiraling out of control.
2 months seems really long to me. I have to charge my Kindle weekly. That said, I'm still not exactly unhappy with charging a device once a week.