skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Excellent project. I think identity and trust are pending issues that need to be explored, perhaps with self-sovereign identity[1]. Curious to see how this project evolves.

Fwiw, I've been working on a digital credentialing system for education/training and have testing blockchain notarization. I was aware of this project and very happy to see it release.

[1] http://www.lifewithalacrity.com/2016/04/the-path-to-self-sov...
A lot of houses have the thermostat wire run for it but the installer just cut it off to hide it.

In my old house from 1950s the furnace had the terminal so I just ran a new wire. Easy if you have some fishtape or something similar. Kind of depends how far your thermostat is from your furnace though.
Wow, that's a really good question. I'm fairly certain you've done a great deal more research on this than me. I had to start by finding the definition of two of the words you used. For the benefit of others who might not be as well versed...

evopsych - psychological traits are evolved adaptations

phrenology - the detailed study of the shape and size of the cranium as a supposed indication of character and mental abilities

My previous post was based on information from a recent study on Y-DNA which indicates a high differential in reproductive rate between men and women, with men reproducing at a much lower rate. This of course means that reproductive competition is much higher amongst men (at least in terms of successful reproduction) and might have lead to the aggressive pruning that we see in the y-chromosome. I'm also aware that competition has a heavy influence on evolution and that the sex chromosomes are not really isolated to gender specific anatomy.

Here's that study: http://genome.cshlp.org/content/25/4/459.full

I found another study (link below) on differences in personality traits across genders and culture. The authors found gender differences to be most pronounced in cultures that minimize traditional sex roles. Does this study fit your criteria?

http://www.cin.ufpe.br/~ssj/Genderdifferences%20in%20persona...

With respect to phrenology, I'm aware of studies linking brain size to intelligence. The meta-analysis (linked below) confirms this and actually notes a higher correlation among women.

http://www.govrel.vcu.edu//news/Releases/2005/june/McDaniel-...

From your previous post, I'm guessing you might have reason to discard this type of study. Could you please elaborate and share your thoughts?
They got there by people telling everyone around them to join (same with WhatsApp, Snapchat etc.). Company just keepes the sites/apps running, but when it comes to building network effects - that is something people do themselves.
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Again, the numbers you pay attention to really depend on what you're trying to understand. A currency trader isn't exactly looking at them the same way I am.
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The top thread on HN is always a digression.
Please stop posting your OpenBSD propaganda here. It's all bullshit.

This is not the first time I saw you spreading lies on Hacker News
You find a gig?
I don't think you deserved downvotes for your original post, fwiw - it isn't particularly well argued, but it isn't offensive. On the other hand, your followup comment "Call it a terrible argument if you want, but you are wrong." does mark you as a bit of a jerk.
It's not impressive to get an image small if you delete a bunch of critical stuff out of it plus warp what remains. Ill agree on the art project part, though.
I wonder how it goes with the type of things I install. I suppose I am maybe trying to play with "fancy" stuff on linux that is not easy to install like .NET core. Because to install HTTP/SSH/FTP servers and configure is also quite easy for me.
Do you try to install some unusual things on windows maybe as well??
We finally ditched Slack and went back to email. Everyone (25+) has email, knows how to use it, and gets them instantly on their smartphones. We have a rule that if it can't be written in email, then to have a phone or real-life conversation.

It's been a couple weeks since we made the change, people were very skeptical, but now everyone feels a lot less stressed-out and engineering is overjoyed and its been a boon to productivity. Turns out a lot of time was wasted just chatting and being interrupted.

I'd be very reluctant to use a team chat service ever again.
Wifi is really hard to run constantly on battery. Honeywell makes the Lyric which has power stealing (charges when the equipment runs) so it doesn't require a C-wire.

Or, you can also install a wire saver:
http://www.amazon.com/Honeywell-THP9045A1023-WireSaver-Prest...
Many people are aware that soon after President Obama took office, he authorized federal funding of embryonic stem cell research, which President Bush had resisted. The Obama administration made a big deal out of it at the time:

https://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/removing-barrier...

What got swept under the rug was that at the same time, President Obama specifically rescinded a previous executive order that directed the HHS to "conduct and support" research using adult stem cells:

https://www.cellmedicine.com/obama-executive-order/

I don't think the Obama administration ever spelled out why, at the same time it was promoting ESCR, it decided to also deprioritize adult stem cell research, but I think this latest news -- along with all of the other advances of the past eight years -- has shown that moral issues aside, adult stem cell research is paying high dividends.
Yes. Too often, people stay at their jobs, simply because they don't even think about it. Leaving your job requires you to step outside of your routine and do something you don't regularly do. Conversely, staying your job simply requires you to stick to the same routine that you've been doing for years and years.

Don't allow your major life decisions to be made on auto-pilot. If you want to stay, then make a conscious decision and stay. If you haven't made such a conscious decision in years, it's time you had that conversation with yourself.
From talking to my colleague with an ecobee, that's not the point. If the ecobee detects a big swing between the two sensors, it'll run the fan, but not the heat/cool. That balances the rooms. It makes sense.
When in doubt: it's better to be the expensive consultant that "we couldn't afford" than the one "we are getting for a steal."

With appropriate qualification, you'll get those referrals and the respect.
That's the funny part.. I've been saying for years people could have 'saved energy' if they just set their 7 day schedule to their most common needs.

Most don't touch it.
one of his points was so many tickets go to people who dont care about seeing the event.

If you threw fewer of those around and instead put them up for public sale there would be more inventory for fans (or at least for fan club).

Also its one thing to stand in line and not get a ticket. Another thing entirely for scalpers to cut to the front of the line and buy everything up. You dont even have a chance (or much much less). People are angry about that too.
If you care about size, then the first step should be choosing the right protocol for the task, e.g. Protobufs.

Changing your data structure for the sake of compression harms the main advantage of JSON: convenience.
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Public rape accusations today from a female Tor core dev and her girlfriend aren't relevant to Applebaum's sudden departure?

EDIT: Tor doesn't confirm or deny the allegations drove the departure. https://twitter.com/JackSmithIV/status/738857839402311681
> finding consensus on a history of transactions.

Precisely. It becomes a federated accreditation system that's verified from consensus and identity, rather than a centralized body. It's also immutable and irrefutable evidence of achievement.

edit: Could venture to say that this model is what the future of education could look like, where transcripts are determined by your participation on the blockchain.
They do provide value to those people who buy their tickets. Like uber 10x surge they guarantee inventory during tight supply but you goina pay!!
The viability of door-to-door level 4 depends on which two doors you're talking about. Chris Urmson, the lead engineer will tell you that cross country, all weather level 4 might be 30 years out, but their Koala cars would be doing publicly accessible trials around Mountain View right now if it weren't for regulatory hang-ups.
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does it matter how many there are?
This is a fluff piece, that much is certain. To summarize it

1. Mark Zuckerberg is the Messiah, albeit with human traits of failure. (Makes a messiah more relatable)

2. Google pooh poohs Facebook

3. Google sits up and takes notice as Facebook's users pick up and Vic Gundotra's kids and their friends tell Vic that Facebook is where they are at and Vic goes to Larry Page and whispers warnings in his ears.

4. Larry bestows knighthood on Vic to wage war on Facebook.

5. Vic looks at the Google Landscape and thinks "I bet I can get 400 million users by bombarding Google properties with G+ buttons but that would be too easy so I am going to only allow people with invites to become users. Come on I need a challenge!!"

6. Zuckerberg looks at G+ and Google's search users and thinks "Holy God in Heaven! My flock is under attack"

7. Zuckerberg ushers his flock into the pen and closes the gates.

8. The flock sits in the pen and does what they had been doing though a little more carefully now.

9. Vic looks at the barren landscape of G+ and thinks "There's no one here. I better put cardboard cutouts of people here so Larry doesn't revoke my knighthood"

10. Mark's flock looks at the cutouts and laughs their asses off. They drink some more Kool Aid.

11. G+ is burned to the ground by all the bombardment Vic did and Vic tucks tail and leaves.

12. Mark opens the gates of the pen and his flock are let out and they rejoice. The author of this article thinks Mark is a genius for herding all his flock into the pen and hunkering down.

13. "That's how you "lead" wars, bitch", proclaims the Messiah.

sarcasm
Wow. I think he and Google keep figuring out.. hardware is well.. hard!

I mean they started a revolution in Smart Thermostats (they're also now the reason people are willing to pay $200+ for a thermostat).

They had a good innovation, found a market at the right time, got bought, and realized sustaining that type of business isn't easy.
What about a simple policy of revisiting the salary discussion on a regular (annual?) basis. As long as it's transparent and universal (not just for people who ask for a raise), it seems like it'd be in line with your philosophy.
It wouldn't be decoded on the CPU, but on the GPU. Or even specialized hardware. As convnets are being used more in image processing, that isn't too unrealistic. There is interest in making specialized consumer hardware for convnets.

And it doesn't need to work on every frame, it could pump out I-frames every 15 seconds or so.
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Arguably, the time to do the right thing was years ago, when Tony was abusing his employees and Nest was making no money other than what Dropcam was making (meaning that buying Dropcam instead of Nest would have made vastly more sense).
Yeah, I get that. I was speaking generally about what that does. That's how Ecobee works, but even still I'm sure it's not perfect. (I haven't tried it myself, just similar types of setups).
I prefer a more artisanal 71 degrees. Fahrenheit, naturally.
"so builders will only run it if the thermostat requires it and most included ones do not."

From what i can tell, this is wrong. I asked 30 builders in 3 states (a mailing list), and every single one of them basically agreed with the statement that they have put them in all homes they've built since 1990.

The truth is, AFAIK, the largest homebuilders in the US do it as a matter of policy.

The building code does not require running low voltage wiring (including RG6) anywhere, either, but most do it nowadays.

I really think you are wrong about this :)
There's a lot of upside to saying it this way and really no downside except the dopamine hit of calling out the other party.

With this approach:

- He gets paid a lot of money to do nothing for a period of time.

- He exits "gracefully" from a perception standpoint (obviously any board considering hiring him in the future knows the backstory, but it is better than if Google were forced to fire him for gross negligence or something).

- Google minimizes impact to their stock price to the extent possible with this, since they want to preserve an image of having everything be copacetic and under control for the mass Main Street investors. Tony likely has plenty of their stock and thus a financial incentive to play along.

- Burning bridges is never a good strategy, and he and Larry are (were?) friends. Not a bridge I'd want to burn even if things didn't work out.

- The person that gets a company from Point A to Point B is often not the same person that gets a company from Point B to Point C. In all of this Tony may have recognized that (even if it was a tough lesson) and acknowledged he was not the best person for the job.

At lower-level/pay positions the stakes are much lower and it is much easier to conveniently leave a bad experience like this out of your resume, or paint it a different way. When the major media outlets cover your departure, ensuring every possible future employer knows the situation, you tend to play things a bit more strategically.
What e-bike are you using?
I disagree with your notion that in all the world there is only one real issue.
"If artists are willing to boycott streaming music services to protect the 20 percent of their income that comes from recorded music, why wouldn’t they fix live music, where they make 80 percent of their income?"

Because as you yourself pointed out, theyre maximizing income by taking guarantee pay days above face value of all tickets. And by performing fewer shows they drive up value per show.

With streaming they actually think there is money left on table. Thus boycott temper tantrum to try to force spotify to cough up more money.
You would store the diff between the reconstructed version and the original. The diff could be compressed to much less space than the original image, because the NN can predict most of the pixels. And get within a few bits of the rest.
Sure took a while to summarize all that fluff.
On a similar note, I heard a story from one trans guy who was disturbed by the reaction when he accidentally bumped into somebody on the street. The other guy recoiled back, threw his hands up, and started profusely apologizing while sounding like he was in a panic. It took the trans guy a few seconds to realize that the other guy was afraid of him and thought he'd beat him up for bumping into him by accident.
> You come off as either selfish or naive.

Or, if framed appropriately, expensive and valuable.

Your time is money. You do not want to waste it on a role that has compensatory packages beneath what you'd be willing to take. You are a professional doing another professional a favor.

Framing this correctly is a bit more nuanced, however.

If you're talking to an external recruiting or staffing agency, however: immediately jump to salary. They will not hesitate and have no opinion on you as a candidate. You're saving their time and they're not emotionally staked in the possible negotiations to come.
Yeah, I'm not speculating. This was the most popular query. No bigger implications meant to the observation.
Sort of.

Individual cells are usually fragile (as in, you can dent or puncture easily). However, they are usually protected by their enclosure.

If you are talking about lithium cells, then you should not drain them completely. Which means that they should be kept with some charge. But, unless you intend to keep them stored away for months at a time (and maybe even then) you should be fine.

There's also that fact that, when people think about batteries, they think about laptop batteries. Those are optimized for power density above all else. They are not the only type of cells available.

If you are worried about safety (and charging cycles), get a LiFePo battery (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lithium_iron_phosphate_battery). This is the same kind usually found in electric vehicles and hybrids.
I know that proverb via a popular Spanish version, and I do quote it in the book, though not in reference to Google Plus.
ever tried to compress cotton candy into a solid ball? it takes a while :)
FWIW, if I get a link to YouTube while on my phone, I watch it in Firefox which also has uBlock origin installed. I just kinda ignore the app.
https://twitter.com/puellavulnerata/status/73882339100054733...
You seem to be very excited to argue about a variety of points I'm not actually making.

Your secret-Nazi fantasies notwithstanding, I see this aa pretty simple reverse engineering. If his goal is to change how journalists behave, there are effective, well-known ways to do that. I believe his approach is inconsistent with that, but perfectly consistent with a personal vendetta.

If your carefully considered analysis of approaches to social change differs, well, it differs. I'm ok with that.
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You must be upper-class. The only treble that working-class Brits know, is when you win the Premier League and two other cups in the same season.
Even if it were, it can anchor your next role at a much higher place.

Compare job hopping and seeing 15+% base salary bumps each hop to possible, but not definite (often meager) raises + possible bonuses: rarely is the prospect (gamble) of a bonus worth the career trajectory + salary hit.
That limited "market making" wouldn't even be necessary if refunds were allowed. By not allowing official refunds, patrons with unwanted tickets are forced to participate in the shady secondary market.
> Calgary is a very conservative city

Economically? Sure. Socially? no way.
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How about things like the entire dataset that we have sent to Nest over the years? We only get access to the last 10 days worth, which is absolutely useless. I need year-over-year data, not just 1.5 weeks ago. Seriously, do these guys even use a Nest? Why have such an arbitrary restriction of data?
The author seems to be arguing for socialism. As he explains, liberalism is based on the idea of preserving capitalism through social and economic reforms. However, for decades now American capitalism has done fine, enriching the %1, but the general population has done poorly, and that has lead to a situation where much of the public, both Republican and Democratic, is revolting.

I agree with this analysis, but I don't see where socialism, at least in its classic sense of having the government own the means of production, would be a solution.
You both must be made out of money. I set mine to 65-68, depending on the time of day.
Thank you. I stopped reading after a few paragraphs in which the author discussed several different definitions of the word genius and where he listed things that Zuckerberg is not. It was pretty clear that the author was desperately trying to fill the pages.
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I've been slowly working on writing something up on this subject that shows how the constraint "energy must be conserved" allows us the freedom to solve a large number of problems just by describing them in terms of energy. Hopefully to tease out a more clarity on how we can transform abstract symmetries into practical solutions to real problems.
Nope.

I just think that the submission's merit is independent of the page full of awful comments it generated. The submission itself seems about as HN worthy as other "X leaves Y" submissions. IMO, the comments are a problem in the HN community, not a problem in the submission.

Pragmatically though, flagging the story and getting whatever this comment section off the front page probably makes sense.
Arguably, with that much experience, you would make more money consulting.

Instead of being seen as a curmudgeon who could be replaced by four college grads, you're an external, automatically-trusted authority who commands a healthy day rate.

It's just a matter of optics. Though that life isn't for everyone.
A single app is really shitty. I would rather have an app for the cam and an app for the thermostat.

As I mentioned above, I want better and longer access to data so that I can do real comparisons like year over year data. Not just 10 days ago which is really stupid.

And how about a more stable app as well that doesn't crash?
>Sure. Socially? no way.

Compared to what?

Calgary is more conservative than Edmonton, Toronto, Montreal, Quebec, Vancouver, and Victoria.

Perhaps it's more liberal than Red Deer or Kelowna, but that's not saying much at all.

It's also just an awful place to live. The urban sprawl makes public transit pale in comparison even to Vancouver which also has really bad transit. It's an 80 dollar cab ride to the airport which is like an hour and a half from the downtown.

There's the Stampede, I guess, but frankly I've never found the culture in Calgary much to write home about either.

If you like pickup trucks and imported American culture, then sure, Calgary sounds great.
This thread is just plain bizarre and probably the lowest quality content I've seen on hacker news. Glad you flagged it.
The vast majority of Americans lean "fiscally conservative, small government".

When Bernie Sanders won his mayoral election many years ago, the town council thought he was going to institute a Marxist-Leninist state. They were shocked when he streamlined budgets. (I'm not a Bernie supporter; it's just an anecdote I recently heard on the radio.)

Many consider San Francisco to be one of the most "liberal", "progressive" cities in the United States. But during the California fiscal crisis recently, at the depths of the national recession, San Francisco was the only major city in the state (IIRC) that kept a balanced budget the whole time. They did that by relying on savings (the city keeps billions stashed away for emergencies), and by rapidly instituting furloughs and budget cuts. This wasn't by fiat--all components of government, as well as the special interests, were on board. LA and other major cities couldn't accomplish that. And that's ignoring the rest of the country. Similarly, when Democrats obtained a super-majority in California, capable of overriding Republican tax and budget filibustering, they didn't open the flood gates of taxes and spending.

The only politicians in recent memory who flat-out stated that they didn't care about fiscal conservatism was Dick Cheney and a substantial minority of similarly-minded politicians and pundits, almost all dedicated Republicans. To quote Dick Cheney, "deficits don't matter".

Ignoring social issues, the divide in America isn't about fiscal conservatism and small government versus a gargantuan state. The conflict is over emphasis (social services vs military and police), and small percentage point changes in the taxation rate.
A true fan would probably be pissed off that some random person who's going on a lark gets awesome seats whereas the true fan is sitting in the worst area, despite paying the same price and despite the true fan probably buying their ticket first.

Also, this system completely breaks down when you consider that people often go to venues in groups, which means they want to sit together, which means they need to buy their seats in a batch. If you don't know where you're actually sitting until you arrive, you won't end up sitting together.
Considering how they managed their Heritage Trust Fund, I somehow doubt that.