skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Maybe look at: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_human_rights

> While belief in the sanctity of human life has ancient precedents in many religions of the world, the idea of human rights, that is, the notion that a human being has a set of inviolable rights simply on grounds of being human, began during the era of renaissance humanism in the early modern period. The European wars of religion and the civil wars of seventeenth-century England gave rise to the philosophy of liberalism and belief in human rights became a central concern of European intellectual culture during the eighteenth-century Age of Enlightenment. These ideas of human rights lay at the core of the American and French Revolutions which occurred toward the end of that century. Democratic evolution through the nineteenth century paved the way for the advent of universal suffrage in the twentieth century. Two world wars led to the creation of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

> The post-war era saw human rights movements for special interest groups such as feminism and the civil rights of African-Americans. The human rights of members of the Soviet bloc emerged in the 1970s along with workers' rights in the West. The movement quickly jelled as social activism and political rhetoric in many nations put it high on the world agenda.[1] By the 21st century, Moyn has argued, the human rights movement expanded beyond its original anti-totalitarianism to include numerous causes involving humanitarianism and social and economic development in the Developing World.[2]

> Some notions of righteousness present in ancient law and religion is sometimes retrospectively included under the term "human rights". While Enlightenment philosophers suggest a secular social contract between the rulers and the ruled, ancient traditions derived similar conclusions from notions of divine law, and, in Hellenistic philosophy, natural law.

One can say "human rights" and still not have accomplished the goal yet, but if one cannot say "human rights" at all, there is no goal in sight. The Chinese media always complains that "human rights" is a western-biased concept, not appropriate for China, and at least we can agree on the first part. Human rights was a concept in the west, even if it had flaws, it was never even a concept in China (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asian_values).
Yeah the stress it's causing my wife is one of the hardest parts about it. She got her BS in child development, worked at the local CDRC in college, and always assumed parenting would come easy for her. Thank god our 3-year old daughter is the sweetest thing in the world.

When I was in high school I remember my mom losing it one night and saying she wished I was never born. Those things stick for life and my wife is very much at that point.
While I agree with the argument you're making, you can't exclusively use this as your evidence.
Have a vive, I use mine whenever I get a block of an hour+ for setup and actually playing. It's not something you can just impulse play.

That said I haven't found many games that really do vr right. Job simulator nails it I think. I tried Elite Dangerous out briefly and it looked quite amazing. I just don't have the controls down enough to play comfortably with a headset on. American Truck Simulator is okay once you get it working. The screendoor effect is quite apparent though.

So far the best of the games have had cartoon style graphics. Anything that tries to look realistic is hurt by the poor (relatively speaking) resolution.

The other thing keeping from playing more is the price of the "games". I put it in quotes since most of them are just tech demos for 20+ bucks.
I love it. An American telling Americans are dumb and trying to use this fact in a way that makes it look bright to restrict US immigration. At least he started with "Selfishly" and warned users with his username.
The racism isn't from noting the race, it's from attempting to proclaim that the competitors are not Americans due to their race eg being Asian. As an example, that claim was made up and down the threads on Reddit about last year's US Olympiad win.
I think he's got my vote. I'm always glad to vote for someone who's not a prosecutor. Seeing Hawley win the AG nomination yesterday was almost enough to make up for the "I'm not a politician but I like to blow shit up" mini-Trump winning the governor nomination. After two terms of a Democrat governor, Missourians will feel like a change, so I expect that goofball to win easily.

I was not aware of the ridiculous budget cuts to the PD office. I'll be contacting my legislators...
Wow, lots of shelfers. Only two people in here talking about Raw Data, really?

The games are starting to mature beyond games. I would never part with mine because to me it's the cheapest/fastest form of travel. I look for content daily and try to test something new every night. Of course, I'm an aspiring VR developer.

Since nobody's talking about porn, please allow this burner account to speak up for it. I'm talking room-scale VR, not 360 videos. It does take a lot of digging and tinkering since that stuff is not on Steam, but if you know where to go on subreddits, torrents, etc. Try it for science, it's fantastic.
Figure out the intersection of what you want to do, and what you can do, and emphasize that. So, for an experienced technical founder at a successful company, think about...

- this job for which I'm applying, what do they REALLY need, and which 3 to 5 bullet points capture my competence and accomplishment in this area

- how is this company like mine, and how can I communicate the similarities to my experience working w/ others, building a certain type of product, applying domain expertise, etc.

- what story will I tell if/when they ask, "So do why do you want a job when you've been your own boss for so long?" Maybe something like "You know, what I really like to do is make an impact doing X, and that's something I get to do in any position with responsibilities A, B, and C."

And my generic resume writing advice is... try writing your resume without adjectives. It forces you to focus on highlighting what you've really done. Let your awesomeness sell itself. Calling yourself awesome doesn't do much for you.
My Lessons Leaving School for a Startup P.1 (I'd never worked in a startup)
This post is to essentially give some insight into my experience thus far of putting school as my second priority and putting working at a startup first. Maybe it'll help those who are currently in the same spot I was a year ago.

Rewind back to August 2015. I was about to start my junior year of College studying Marketing. I had enough of the job I had been doing the last two years (working in student housing) and had always been fascinated with Startups and the whole idea of being your own boss. I tried to do some side projects, which failed horribly due to a lack of experience of starting a business. Eventually I decided that if I didn't have the expertise and knowledge in starting a startup, the best place to learn would be a startup.

So I searched and eventually ended up in an intern / part time position at one doing sales. Now I'd done sales for the last two years at student housing, and if we're being honest, I killed it, but it wasn't for me. I wanted to learn something new, not trace my old foot steps.

A key note if you're just beginning at a startup and aren't happy with where you are: you can always change that. If you're at the bottom, the only place you can go is up. I still made sure to do my responsibilities in the sales position but in my off time I worked on content and graphic design. I'd bring in the extra work I'd do outside of work and say, I want to move into this sort of role. With enough bugging, that eventually happened.
I'm pretty sure defiant children were not a 'thing' when it was still socially acceptable to use corporal punishment.

And I don't mean parents being sadists for the sake of it, but using it judiciously.

The lesson that resorting to violence results in even more violence thrown back at you and therefore violence is not something to start is a useful one.

Of course, this only works on people or animals with the mental faculties to understand this, so probably it's useless on children less than 6 years old.
Yeah, that's what I want in an office, WHIRRRRRRRRRRR passing by me with every visitor.
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So did I, and I disagree with you.

The part of Appalachia I grew up in for example, in Maryland, had among the best public schools in the state, and had among the highest testing outcomes in the state. That's still true to this day.

I'd like to see you prove your claim and define what a surplus of below average intelligence people means.

Given the small population base of Appalachia, you're not providing meaningful evidence of anything by referring to that location. The median standard of living in Appalachia is higher than that of Spain, Portugal, Greece, Italy, Russia, China, Latin America, and so on.
He's already seeing an OT at his school but it doesn't seem to be helping much. Not sure what the next step up is.

For the most part he behaves fine out in public (or when he knows he's being tested). But once he gets home he's an absolute terror.
Ensued. You're supposed to say "ensued".
I'd love to see their return customer number. If you hand out money, user acquisition if measured by signups is pretty meaningless.

I tried this site once and it was a disastrous experience. Their customer service is horrendous, and the complete opposite of Amazon. After that purchase it became pretty clear to me that Amazon has nothing to worry about.

This reminds me, I have around $100 in credits from 1 failed order because they messed up multiple times. Would be awesome if they sold Amazon gift cards.
Is it worth asking whether the author, as a company's managing director, is a high-profile target and perhaps his phone was specifically stolen for a high-touch scam? I'd imagine corporate espionage insights for even a minor company would be more valuable than the $800 iPhone itself; someone handling material non-public information about a publicly-traded company could yield stock tips worth thousands or millions.
I use my Oculus Rift basically every day. I prefer it to tv or other entertainment. I thought it would fade but there are new apps released all the time and I love the feeling of being transported to another world.

I would say about 50% gaming (I'm a fan of puzzle games personally) but the other half is entertainment- 360 videos and immersive education experiences from Vrideo, Jaunt, and several standalone apps are phenomenal and I can't get over the fun of "being there".

I can't wait for the market to grow and additional content to come out.
That's a pretty big chip on your shoulder. Hiring or promoting based on a quota is immoral. Hiring or promoting based on merit and ability is moral. Moreso, hiring based on a quota is so transparent and unfair it makes the ones who are capable be at risk to completely check-out of the system and it communicates to the incompetent that their mediocrity is a virtue.
I'm guessing that people in the US knows what 611 is, but I never heard about it. Could you tell me what that number is?
There's nothing stopping you from not wearing a suit to an interview. I never have, and I don't believe it's hurt me one iota.

The only candidates I see regularly wearing suits to interview are executives and college junior/seniors. I'm hiring you to code, not model. I couldn't care less what you're wearing as long as it's clean and reasonably respectable.
The founders of Gusto did sell shares, without a broader option for employees (they hand picked some employees that they wanted to allow to sell shares.)

Regardless I think employees should be able to sell shares. We (Seneca Systems) have a right of first refusal where we can choose to buy the shares. In that case, we do get to choose the investors, indirectly, because we can raise money to pay for it.

It really comes down to how you balance power between the two groups. Personally, we believe that founders and investors have enough rights with a RFR. We shouldn't have veto power over major life events for our employees.

Is it more inconvenient? No, not really. But it is a big deal for employees that have worked their asses off to make our company what it is.
I mean, sure.

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^--- That'll also cause destructors to not be run.
I think one important step is to recognize that bugs can and will happen in the process of cleaning up this tech debt. There are 2 things you need to do, to handle this.

1. Tell your team that cleaning up the tech debt is a major company priority, and even if some mistakes are made along the way, that's an acceptable price to pay for the benefits involved. People shouldn't let the fear of breaking something, dissuade them from cleaning up the mess.

2. Have your team invest heavily on building test/QA infrastructure, so that if they were to break something, it would get automatically caught and flagged, before it reaches production. If the advice given in bullet 1 scares you, then you need to double down here to make up for it.

I've been in teams where pull requests that significantly cleaned up the code base were literally rejected, because people were paranoid that any change at all could break something in unforeseen ways. People just bunkered up into a "if it ain't broke, don't touch it" mentality, which meant that the tech debt problem never ever improved. Ultimately, the only way to get yourself out of this hole, is by encouraging people to take risks even if it involves them sometimes failing, and building better safety nets to catch them on the occasions when they do fail.
I'm sure he's got more cases to assign. If, after the inevitable delaying tactics, he can actually force the governor to do this, he'll have many more letters to send, and precedent will have been set. (At least, until the new legislative session starts in January.)
I would be surprised if they didn't already track their customers' browsing history (and DNS lookups for insight into HTTPS browsing). Maybe they have to announce it now that they want to sell the data.
Frayed cables are the result of normal use coupled with bad design. Other manufacturers have been making robust cables for decades. (e.g. http://imgur.com/a/kQt77)
This conclusion does cut both ways. It should be acknowledged that treatment at mental institutions then was horrific. Current treatment is not much better.
It's historically the "repair" number, and goes to your provider's customer service line these days.
Or just don't use tools you don't understand enough to rely on in such a critical use case. My viewpoint is from a very developer's perspective, and rebels may not all possess the needed technical insight, but this looks like amateur hour. They must have trusted some technical person's advice in their organization, if they're a group, and you could be right that they were missing a sufficiently skilled CTO for such an operation.
If your iphone is locked, how about a log of the thumbprints that attempt to open the phone sent to an escrow account that only Apple and you can open with shared passwords?

The existence of the feature would hopefully act as one more trivial inconvenience to deter more thieves.
It's fairly simple to write a little server that accepts socket connections from multiple processes, and reads a line of data from each connection whenever there is data available and append it to the log file. I wrote a server like that years ago; a write-only socket service which hundreds of separate processes could write high-volume statistics-tracking to. The heart of it was only a few dozen lines.
Get him drawing or some other outlet.

Is he on the autism spectrum. The right teacher or school program might transform him. Please ffs stop restraining him.
I work at a big EDA corporation, and we make good use of feature flags in our product. Typically, any new feature that needs extra testing than usual will be included behind a gate for one or two major releases before being enabled by default. Then, certain customers who work closely with our support staff will be given "access" to the flag (typically, a beta license is needed before the flag can be enabled -- in some cases, the presence of a valid beta license will even enable new features automatically sans flag). This makes it very easy to roll out beta code: since it's included in the release, every customer already has the code, and beta testers just need to be told about a flag and/or given a beta license. We don't ever need to prepare a special beta release or anything like that.

There are other cases where feature flags come in handy, too. For example, sometimes our default behavior does not match our competitor's. For many customers, that's totally fine, it either doesn't matter or they just deal with it. Some customers, however, demand that they get the same behavior as the competitor's product for certain functionality. We can implement a feature that toggles a compatibility mode and stick it behind a flag. These are flags that will typically never be enabled by default, but they make some of our customers very happy. For certain strategic reasons, we obviously prefer that customers just get used to our behavior. (Not to mention that, from a purely technical standpoint, our behavior often makes much more sense anyway. But it's sorta like C: Rust might be technically superior, but C is so entrenched that it's not going to get replaced overnight.)

I think I came from an opposite boat than you did, because this is the first company I've worked for that made extensive use of feature flags. Rather than assuming it was some bad practice, I was actually delighted by just how convenient they make certain things. And the best part is that they don't seem to really have any drawbacks.
Loans may be originated by banks, but most get packaged and sold as securities. It's those securities that I'm talking about.
That would probably be a step backwards. I'm all for a debug mode that can let bad code in a running environment. It should not pass a build, though.
Why not build it yourself? If it's because you don't have money, just get a job somewhere and work on it on the side, why build something for someone else if you think it's actually different?
We've tried spanking but it just gets him riled up (and as you noted, more violent).

Not sure what else to do though. He refuses to accept no for answer and insists on doing whatever he pleases whenever he pleases unless you physically stop him.

Hopefully that attitude will make him wildly successful when he gets older, but it's currently tearing our family apart.
Doesn't really matter. If you're doing something that's risking your or someone else's lives, you better be sure about the security aspects of a tool. Neither WhatsApp nor Signal are it because you're still trusting a 3rd party way more than is healthy for an operation like a coup. I've read some of the alleged chat logs, and the whole event looks haphazard and little planned. Therefore, it's no wonder that they would coordinate in an unsafe medium (WhatsApp). If what we're being told is the truth, that is.
> People like that shouldn't be on parole in the first place.

But they are, so we have to consider them when writing new laws that will impact them.

I agree that them being jailed/on parole at all is the greater injustice here, but that doesn't mean we can just wave this off.
India passes landmark sales tax reform
And you thought legroom was bad now....
My point was that from the information in the article that isn't actually clear; it is like when people say that condoms are X% effective as a contraception technique, and so people assume that means that condoms have an X% failure rate, but what they really mean is that "couples who report using condoms as their primary means of contraception have an X% success rate at avoiding pregnancy". While it is interesting from a clinical perspective as to whether "sending a child home and telling them to floss by themselves" is a working strategy or not, it would be taking into account "children don't really floss" and doesn't tell us if an adult who actually knows they are flossing (such as an adult who actually knows they are using the condom every time) has a particular success rate.
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Yeah, it does look dodgy.

Bear in mind that it's also used for Mastercard's SecureCode and possibly other credit card providers as well.
...I don't think that's a relevant analogy at all.
You can shoot yourself in the foot or try to be a conscientious objector, I suppose.
I think Nintendo is going to be the one to knock VR out of the park next year with the NX.

That's what I'm waiting for because I believe it's going to not only be a handheld device/home console in one, but also easily support the holy grail, untethered VR. With first-party support from the world's premier game developer.

Of course, it will be Nintendo art style, easier to render than faux reality. But that style is ideal for the relatively weak VR resolutions that systems have today. Personally, I prefer artistic or cartoonish graphics. If I want reality, I don't want it rendered. I'll walk outside. Go play paintball and obliterate the desktop or HMD VR experiences.

If you want to dip toes in the water and start now, I'd get yourself a Google Cardboard setup. Nintendo is going to make Oculus/Vive and the 90's VR stuff (including VirtualBoy!) look silly as they bring this to mass market. It's going to be the games, simplified setup and console pricing that will win it. There won't be anything else like it.
Metrics versus Experience
Unfortunately every fingerprint reader outputs a unique hash per fingerprint, which is why if you break it you can loose all of your data. So even with a thiefs hash's you'd still need the thief to prove it was them.
I'd temper that statement significantly. Content integrity is the visible consequence of improved HTTPS compliance and use.

The biggest factor about surveillance is that you are rarely aware you're being surveilled. Direct evidence is rarely present.

Case in point, Michael Lewis's Flyboys. HFT trades intercepts weren't being overtly signalled, but were only evident when trades were structured such that they bypassed the opportunity to intercept intentions at the first market.
I find it interesting that major Chinese internet sites like qq.com, weibo.com, baidu.com & taobao.com seemingly have no interest in becoming globally recognised like western social media brands, and seem content with their mandarin speaking audience (which is quite a big audience, mind you).
My girl believes the "cloud" is a physical structure in California. That's why the Bay Area is popular for software development.

Not even joking.
I was just suggesting it would be easier to have people check for the displayed signature than get them to hash their download and compare it to something on the website.