skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Philip Tetlock has done a lot of research on objective measures of political expertise, specifically the ability to make objective predictions about future outcomes and likelihoods. He wrote a pretty famous book on it. The basic conclusion is nobody is really that good, but some people are objectively better than others. If you are really interested in this he has as website called "good judgement project" where you can test your ability to predict against other people on the site over time.

http://www.amazon.com/Expert-Political-Judgment-Good-Know/dp...

https://www.gjopen.com/
A booming business in automation and robot repair.
What tools do you use to keep track of job applications?
If you're looking for a job and have several applications/interview processes going at once, how do you keep track of the state of each one, what you need to do next, etc?
Of my four full-time jobs in my career, one had a prior contact and one was a you-know-nothing,-you're-a-college-hire job. (Much of my consulting comes from my personal network, of course.) Two were startups, two were big companies. Interestingly, the startups were more amenable to "you don't know this but you are obviously capable of picking this up".

Your point about personal appeal is well made, and I'm pretty good at projecting even though I pretty consciously avoid a lot of what the startup world thinks makes it great (and I won't work at one again because I respect myself). It helps that, to toot my own horn a little, I'm pretty good; I have a broad base of stuff to apply to a problem (even when I didn't know Ruby I knew Perl, Python, JavaScript, Smalltalk, Lisp...) and I can talk my way into an understanding via analogy and fundamental knowledge.

But what I think really matters on this front is that I'm able to express that I'm competent to somebody, and I don't need a whiteboard to do it, and I really do think that's key. My view of it is that all I need is to get somebody who's willing to listen and I'll pry that door wide open. I'm one of those people who interviews (well, interviewed, I like consulting) aggressively and habitually, and I have an Excel file with the results or non-results of every resume I've ever sent out in my life (155). When I look at he number of times I have gotten to at least a phone interview (112), not gotten an offer (53, but that includes me declining them), and gotten a reason why (21) that was related to a lack of direct subject matter expertise...I get a real small number. Two, as it happens. And this is totally a small sample size, I am not claiming statistical relevance. But I think the recognition that this industry, despite protestations of logic and high-mindedness, is still fundamentally and inescapably about making connections with people and making them like you, is something that even small-sample data like this can indicate. Most tech folks won't take this to heart, because of all the weird factors and weird people involved, but I do think that some pretty straightforward Dale Carnegie stuff is as beneficial to a reasonably good developer as anything they can learn with their hands on a keyboard.
I don't carry a smartphone, I don't have a Facebook account, and I use NoScript, so I have a certain amount of privacy online; but there's not much expectation of privacy in public places. (Not zero, evidently -- Google blurs out faces on Street View, for example -- but not much.)

And in this case, Google's not revealing personal data at all, they're finding and reporting industrial problems; their wide-ranging, unaccountable cyberstalking powers are very creepy, but this time they're being used for good.
Sometimes I like to blow people's minds by gently pedaling once before engaging the motors. Bystanders are visibly baffled by how one kick could produce so much momentum.
Yup yup. Thinking, communication, functioning as a human being who will have to talk to people who are not nerds. Simple asks, but they're uncommon enough that they can bend the odds a whole bunch.
Question for the more security-savvy among you: If the leak happened in 2012 and I've changed my password since then (it's listed in your account page [1]), do I need to change it again?

Logic tells me I've got nothing to worry about, even considering potential password reuse, if they've all changed since then.

[1] https://www.linkedin.com/psettings/account
I believe not all bootcamps are equal.

Is there anywhere a curated list of good, recommended, worth your money bootcamps?
Whoa, looks pretty nice:

https://onewheel.com/

If it had a range that was further than 10 km, I might’ve considered getting one.
I get you - but how many places do you not get sms reception but you still have enough internet connection to be trying to log in to LinkedIn? (Inside a data center, maybe?)
Support California's coalition to put an interest rate cap on payday loans.[1]

[1] http://www.calreinvest.org/crc-issues/payday-lenders-in-cali...
Only if the target market was price sensitive and invested time to find lower rates.
I am happy and sad about this.

I am happy because it means that the contribution graph looses it's importance. I could just use a cron script that auto commits 1-3 commits every day and noone could verify the importance of these commits. This is good because many people just got into the habit of updating their dotfiles once a day or do some very very insignificant things to keep the streak going.

On the other side it's sad because the graph only showed involvement with open source. Private repositories shouldn't be in there to taint the image.

I hope that with this people stop with artificial streak pushing and actually show their open source contributions only.
Luckily, there's an extension which fixes this:
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/reclaim-backspace-...

I'm an avid backspace-as-back user, so I went searching for a solution as soon as they introduced focus-stealing.
http://www.sciencebrainwaves.com/the-dangers-of-self-report/
Morons don't know how to use our web browser? Better break it!
That seems pretty cynical; your logic breaks down when a CS graduate goes into a bootcamp after college.

malkovich,malkovich
Damn, I thought this was the last place I could bloviate freely
And this: http://bit-booster.blogspot.ca/2016/02/no-foxtrots-allowed.h...

(p.s. your old comment on "git branching models" that starts "Not another one. All good git workflows are different..." was hilarious/awesome - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11193048.)
At what interest rate would you be willing to lend your savings to the borrowers who require the sort of financing offered by payday lenders? Its easy to say what the interest rate and loss ratio should be when its other people's money.

EDIT: Rereading your comment, I agree your math is sound (even with an assumption or two in there). The problem is we need a larger corpus of payday lender data. Anyone know where we can get that?
> If you use 50 as an example, he absolutely would not exist with his early mixtapes. You cannot release those on an official platform without running the risk of getting sued into oblivion. No label is going to back something like that. I also am not a fan of the curation process with a lot of these streaming services and definitely do not have any faith that you will be able to discover some unknown talented rapper in the way that you could with someone you've been buying shit from and you know they only carried good stuff.

I agree with all of these; my gut response indicates that because of this the "underground" mixtape sources (e.g. torrents) are not going to disappear.
I'm reminded of the inevitable "I'm not biased, but I'm going to complain about this because I think it's an attack on me" that comes up whenever anyone on the internet mentions that speaking about institutional racism is just virtue signalling.

You can see that arguments of that form aren't effective. I don't think that's a compelling argument for anyone other than those who have similar beliefs to you. Arguments from the left like that are the reason for the resurgence of the right.
I, for one, am not keen on having nanites in my bloodstream supplied and controlled by the company who dropped from their code of conduct, and stopped using "Don't Be Evil" as their motto: http://time.com/4060575/alphabet-google-dont-be-evil/

(Top HN post in Feb 2021: "Alphabet Corp announces it's dropping support for GoogleBlood starting April 1st: A blogpost advises users to replace their blood with blood from alternative vendors and restore from backups as access to all blood functionality (not just the SmartBlood(tm) features) will cease at midnight Mar 31th. Advertisers with prepaid in-blood advertising bids will be pro-rata credited in their AdsInside account.")
It looks like NYC is not in scope:

> Dallas is one of nine participating cities, including
> Boston, Los Angeles, Chicago and Jacksonville. This program
> was developed with scientists from Colorado State Univ
I'd also love to go to one like Maker Square after graduation but sadly they cost a lot.
Apparently a game called M.O.R.E. is lurking around, promising all kinds of crazy depth (I'm super sad how bad SotS 2 was :( )

I totally agree that Stellaris kind of falls flat atm IMO - the foundation is rock solid, the game looks gorgeous and the music just blows you away...but then you play on Hard and literally nothing happens for 6 hours.
Eventually a war happens and instantly degenerates into a massive my-blob-chasing-your-blob-benny-hill-nonsense :/
And you can't even achieve anything because of 100 warscore limit!
Apparently there are serious improvements coming soon though(Allegedly a lot of content wasn't polished enough before the deadline so minimal viable product happened)
I disagree here. Some shortcuts simply suck. Backspace to go back is one. This is because backspace is very useful and means something different when a text field is focused. It would be like using just plain Q to quit.
That sharing bar covers the text if the browser width is less than 1290px and it's not closeable. Pretty annoying.
Airbnb Is Getting Sued for Racial Discrimination
Those aren't normally solved with scripting. However, any language with the ability to issue arbitrary system commands can accomplish everything a command line can.
Anecdotal, but when our app got featured on the Chrome Web Store, we saw "clusters" of people coming from single IPs and running Chrome OS, which we would later find out to be US high-schools; for us that was pretty interesting, the realization that a lot of students in the US actively run Chrome OS, we certainly didn't plan for it.
I found an error in Ivy (an APL-like calculator)
If a credit card company can make money from me by charging the merchants I use the card with, and the credit card company gets its money for free through bank deposits and the credit card company has decades and hundreds of millions already invested in its underwriting model, how can Tally sustainably charge me less than the credit card company?
No, you don't "get" it. Libertarians just don't think it's the state's place to decide the conditions under which consenting adults have sex.
Isn't it ironic to write this tool in a language that is not available on Windows[1]?

[1] "Windows support is comming soon. "
https://ocaml.org/docs/install.html
Last time I made a simple kanban board of application stages on trello and moved one card per app through the stages. Worked well.
I was just about to order a inboard due to the international shipping limitations on the first gen boosted. It seems to still have the classic belt based design instead of wheel based on on the inboard.

Is anyone here with more insights which board might actually be better?
I've clocked over 400 miles on my Dual+, most of that has been in the hills of SF. I go up a 20% grade at ~15MPH just fine. Best part is, you gain a lot of that charge back on the way back down :)
> Then ignore the metaphor and focus on the longer paragraph that succeeds it. :P

Your second paragraph had a bunch of economic pseudo-theory about what sells... Maybe that explains why we don't have a good general purpose programming language, but it said little about whether there could be one.
Inspector Gadget full song
Yeah we've hired a consultant. The stuff that has been most frustrating is very domain specific.

For our product category (sleep apnea diagnosis) the FDA has an unwritten rule that all devices must run a clinical study compared to existing tools.

The hard part has been extracting the exact details that would make an acceptable study in their eyes (testing environments, statistical methods...)

Also it seems like the testing standards have evolved over time and this isn't documented either. Only way we've been able to learn the standards is by giving the FDA a proposal and getting feedback on it.

We've gotten a few FOIA'ed 510ks of similar devices. Unfortunately they are 90% redacted and not very helpful.

Looking back on it, it may have been worth it to seek out a person who had gone through this exact experience before. That could have saved some time/effort.
What disturbed me about the Facebook meeting
This feels a little like PR spam, and I noticed it received a lot of upvotes in a short amount of time without any comments.

Would anyone who upvoted this mind explaining the significance of Algorithmia in general? The marketing itself seems to misuse the idea of an algorithm.

I remember the last time they popped up on HN someone pointed out how the licenses Algorithmia uses are one-sided. Has this situation improved at all, so developers aren't at a legal disadvantage?
Some time ago I wrote an English -> Gregg Shorthand converter: https://luckytoilet.wordpress.com/2010/07/09/an-introduction...

It's not very good, but I'd like to see if anyone can make a better one. It's a shame that shorthand is lost to time and mostly replaced by technology like audio recorders.
Why is the number of U.S. startups falling?
> I, for one, am not keen on having nanites in my bloodcell supplied and controlled by the company who dropped from their code of conduct, and stopped using "Don't Be Evil" as their motto

I don't really know why you'd think that line would be the one thing holding them back from super villainy, but you'll be relieved to know that it's definitely still there:

https://abc.xyz/investor/other/google-code-of-conduct.html
Conversely, I'm absolutely infuriated by sites that grab my keyboard focus and prevent me from going back with the key. This is extremely surprising because it's going against well established UI paradigms. Backspace as worked on literally every browser and operating system I've used for over a decade.
it works just like a industrial grade router firewall - the router is connected to a gas main, which directs a stream of gas over the back the of router where the rj45s go into, and a flame continuously burns any nasty hackers attempting to hack into your system.

home router systems don't have such a feature.

edit: matt levine used to work at goldman and he posted a piece that has a description of how goldman's multiple chinese wall systems works:

> Nor will [the research analysts] get any hearty back-slaps and high-fives from the bankers, because any banker who walked onto a research floor would be vaporized by powerful lasers long before he could raise his hand for a high-five.

> Remember, bankers can't just call up analysts. Their phones would explode.

https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2016-05-19/goldman-p...
Or at least until "rich" becomes your identity, then you defend your position.

http://paulgraham.com/ineq.html
Until your enterprise security people have a fit at something like PowerSploit [1] existing and turn on AllSigned via Group Policy. Then it's pretty much impossible to use PowerShell - edit, sign, test, edit, sign is quite painful with the current tooling (and that's even if you're "trusted" enough to get the codesigning cert). Not to mention that some of the scripts that Visual Studio uses aren't signed!

1: https://github.com/PowerShellMafia/PowerSploit
A lot of game pirating instructions involve "disable your antivirus"
Chance the Rapper is the world's first truly independent artist
sort of, It makes sense if you take into account the esoteric speech cadence of ESL individuals.

Something that the meme generation is all to happy to not only accept but verbatim repeat.
> Less passion and more logic.

You can be more passionate and have more logic.
I think you're fine.
Umm, Backspace in Windows Explorer absolutely does go back in history, unless this changed in Windows 8+ or something (testing on Windows 7 here).
Most of these lending startups are relying on dumb money institutional investors who have been chasing yield in the low interest rate environment.
Chrome has replaced IE on the web mono-culture :'(
This one (http://www.seeedstudio.com/depot/Grove-Gas-SensorMQ2-p-937.h...) is $7, Its sensitivity can be adjusted by the pot, so putting a digital potentiometer on the board and driving it remotely should give you some "range". It isn't designed as a precision instrument but in an IoT situation just watching sensors detect something over time, correlated with wind speed and direction, should give useful information for the gas company at least.

These guys (http://lmsnt.com/applications/applicationideas/ch4/) will sell you a sensor development kit. The commercial instruments are all several hundred dollars but my experience with specialty tools is that they have high prices to support high margins because they don't sell in very high volumes.
> Why does this happen with religion and not with Javascript or baking or other topics people talk about on forums?

He must not spend a lot of time on Slashdot, or Hacker News, for that matter.
OCaml is available on top of MinGW or Cygwin. The thing that isn't supported is OPAM (the package manager), and that's only for official support -- if you compile with MinGW or Cygwin you can get it working well enough for most tasks. You can actually get the compiler binaries from a precompiled versoin of the official distribution[1] or from a user-maintained distribution[2]. Additionally, you could just compile everything from source but that's more complex.

[1] https://protz.github.io/ocaml-installer/

[2] https://www.typerex.org/ocpwin.html
anyone saved the video ? Please share. you tube pulled it down
> Try using Rust without boxing, for example, as is necessary if you want to catch OOM.

It's not necessary, you can plug in a custom allocator that works differently and use boxing as usual.

There are plans for more robust custom allocator APIs that make this even easier to handle.

Also, really, even if Rust didn't have this, the situation wouldn't be worse than C. In C you have to malloc and free things manually. In Rust you can do that too. Rust's abort-on-OOM is an stdlib thing (which can be overridden as previously mentioned).
Just try and encrypt my optical storage backups. Old school is the best school. Tape, the anti ransomware.
How are you going to install batsh though?
$1B stakes on the menu
If the design of the CAD software were designed around the usage of a touch screen, and I don't think one would have to be constrained to require its use. I'm not saying they'd have to use the on-screen keyboard but build the interface to work well with a touch screen using what's already established in most programs (pinch, twist, tap and drag an item off a pallet or adjust its size etc).
I think perhaps you glossed over the part where I said "metaphorical".
Gandi is experiencing an all service distruption
Me too. He created it at a Hackathon, it gets posted to Hacker News, and people here are still asking why. Because...
I'm curious how much of the agricultural land then is the residential land today.
you don't need to install batsh. you maintain your code in batsh, compile to bat and have that up on your page as a download.
Then how will batsh get installed?
That's 20% monthly default, but better to think about an annualized default rate, which at 20% would be much more manageable, right?
That is the concern. AI and robotics keep evolving, perhaps at an exponential rate, and therefore more and more jobs will be slated for automation.

The study should be thought of as valid only short-term.
Thanks! It does. Learning something everyday.
Which happened earlier this year.
The average age for a child getting their first smartphone is now 10.3 years
Agreed, but it can't be as simple as merely sitting down. For example, sitting down for meditation is considered healthy, and may in fact be so.
Not sure why the OP invented this title -- it's far from the oldest known document even just in the Middle or Near East.

For example: https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/07/100712102816.h...
Google engineer says he’ll push for default end-to-end encryption in Allo
This point is missed so often. The same applies to lots of things that are urgent, immediate demands like urgent care, car repair, and even addiction.
Rusts binary size issues are just a matter of defaults, and they're an additive bloat, not multiplicative (If the corresponding rust binary for a 5kb C binary is 200kb, then the corresponding rust binary for a 100kb C binary is 305kb). Most people don't care about a few extra kilobytes in their binary, so Rust has chosen defaults that make some things easier but also add some extra binary size. You can turn these off and get tiny binaries if you wish without much effort.
I use pwgen for sites where I care if my account is compromised (and store them in a gpg text file), but for all those sites where I don't care, I use a terrible password, because I wouldn't care if my login on most random forums I joined to read some attachment that was members only or my linked in (if I had one) was stolen, chances are I'm going to forget I have an account there before it gets compromised, so it doesn't bother me.

I've used some sites which had a login cookie, and if you lost it, you just put your email address in and they'd send you a new link, no password needed; much nicer for many things.
There's only so many times you can retrain a human. Plus, the "re-trainability" rate decreases dramatically with age.

In a decade or two there will be a heck of a lot of middle-age people hopelessly outpaced by the rate of change. 10 years after that, even young people won't be able to keep up.
If every person has the right to defend even by force — his person, his liberty, and his property, then it follows that a group of men have the right to organize and support a common force to protect these rights constantly. Thus the principle of collective right — its reason for existing, its lawfulness — is based on individual right. And the common force that protects this collective right cannot logically have any other purpose or any other mission than that for which it acts as a substitute. Thus, since an individual cannot lawfully use force against the person, liberty, or property of another individual, then the common force — for the same reason — cannot lawfully be used to destroy the person, liberty, or property of individuals or groups.

Such a perversion of force would be, in both cases, contrary to our premise. Force has been given to us to defend our own individual rights. Who will dare to say that force has been given to us to destroy the equal rights of our brothers? Since no individual acting separately can lawfully use force to destroy the rights of others, does it not logically follow that the same principle also applies to the common force that is nothing more than the organized combination of the individual forces?[1]

[1]: http://bastiat.org/en/the_law.html#SECTION_G008
A Docker file for Reason development
That's pretty cool. If one were inclined to take it to the next level of absurd awesomeness, one could employ machine learning:

1. Feed all the examples from the Gregg dictionary into a neural network.
2. Generate all the possible positionings for a word.
3. Have the trained NN pick the best one.

That said, I think doing the opposite conversion, from Gregg to English, would be marginally more useful (and a lot harder, I assume).
The goal for a research OS isn't market dominance or to have users. It's to test ideas.