skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The real problem here is not the chain of marketing tech that allowed this, the issue is that the marketing message itself sucked. If the message was valuable, many people wouldn't have been bothered by receiving it.

I disagree. This sounds like the rationalization marketing folks put forward, namely that they're actually helping people. No, they are not. At best, they're shoving messages into peoples' faces. At worst, they're shoving poisonous radioactive garbage messages full of lies into peoples's faces. The range of behaviour here is from mildly annoying to outright malicious. Very rare is the case when unsolicited marketing messages are something people are actually happy about.
>I responded to an FBI call for recruits ... and was in their recruitment pipeline for two and a half years.

Dude! Just nine more months and they would have completed your SSBI and you could have been forwarded to the next stage!

God, it's like you don't want to put your life on hold for multiple years while an impersonal bureaucracy methodically sorts through your entire personal history.
I like his approach very much, but I think he is a bit too generous with the artistic license and short on actual research, which is the opposite with Dehaene. I might be wrong of course. But Graziano is perhaps the best writer among current neuroscientists.
RIP, Genee.
You’re always gaining credibility… or losing credibility
Make sure Rob tests his code and gets it reviewed before check-in. Don't single Rob out, though -- make the process universal.

If the lead programmer complains about the new process, make it as minimum a burden as possible, and make code quality the focus of the process. The lead programmer and the third programmer can review each others' changes, and Rob will need one of them to review his changes, which might improve communication between them, and make Rob look better.

Rob may be stuck not knowing what to do, or unmotivated because he does not see a future in his work. If this is possible, then give Rob work which directly impacts customers (internal or external), even future customers not yet realized.

If Rob is working on something which doesn't impact customers in the form of a product or service, this may be demotivating, and he may not know what to do next. Even if he's told what to do, if he doesn't see it having any real impact on the customer product or service, then he may be demotivated and may not be able to prioritize his work correctly.

Rob needs feedback, whether in the form of code reviews, direct communication, or in the form of comparing his work against customer requirements. If the requirements are unclear to him, or he cannot mentally connect his work to customer requirements, he may be stuck or unmotivated, even if he's very bright and has been assigned specific tasks.
Gawker, 2002–2016
NIPS 2016 Accepted Papers
Wow, the article reads like a Seinfeld episode, full of neurotic self-absorption. Almost every sentence includes either "me" or "I". If you over-dramatize going to get coffee with someone, making it all about you and your feelings, I'd hate to see how you handle signing a mortgage or picking a career to commit to.
Just because you write a blog post doesn't mean I have to do it.

Spam is acceptable content, you've no right to tell anybody what they can or cannot create. If you don't like it, then don't look at it. If they shove it in your face, it's YOUR job to ignore it, not their job to somehow pre-determine who wants to see it and who doesn't.

As a content creator, I'm not obligated to do a background check on each user and try and see if my content is going to offend them, or bother them, or be considered irritating by them, it's just to C R E A T E.
VR timeout room for kids
I think I've asked about this before, but this is such a good idea. Some hackers must be doing this. Place your kid in a VR timeout room. A 10x10 room with a lock. Yes the kid is locked in the room. But he/she gets a two hour ride in the park, or educational talk about healthy food, point is parent can leave and monitor kid from phone.
We just analyzed Android manufacturers [1] and found they tend to update in two groups: 3 months after release (Motorola, LG, HTC) and 6 months after release (Samsung, Sony, Huawei). This of course ignores Nexus devices by those manufacturers.

[1] https://www.apteligent.com/2016/08/apteligent-data-report-an...
You mean the part where it says the generic is not available in all states, and is not covered by all providers?
Free EBook on a Short History of Legal Drafting
I don't hear any sound using Firefox 48.0 on Fedora 23. The tab has the loudspeaker icon on it indicating that it probably should be making sound. I pressed a bunch of the buttons, turning them green and they are changed to yellow row by row.

Meanwhile, Chromium 51 on Fedora 23 works fine.
Maybe it has to do with the fact that Western society emphasizes individualism?
First, CAN-SPAM doesn't outlaw the sending of unsolicited commercial messages - on the contrary, it lays out rules for sending them. Second, in this case, at some point this guy agreed to receive emails from Criteo when entering his email address somewhere. The fact that people don't read TOS before they agree to them does not invalidate them.
Yeah, kind of. I'd agree except that it's not "always". The last time I tried it was in a London hotel where they didn't have any at the desk. Given that it was 1am and I'd just had an Unbranded Fried Chicken as the one meal still available at that time of night, I was a bit gutted...
Female anchors face a laundry list of wardrobe requirements
We decided to build our own dashboard since Google's is updated only about once a month. It also doesn't include data from non Google Play devices:

https://data.apteligent.com/android/
I'd like to know what happens if next time you end by asking for them to send you "a password you don't consider important."

If they're interested in the truth, that'll be a pretty convincing illustration.

(For any avoidance of doubt - this comes say after explaining what the score is)
Hear, hear.

I've been using uMatrix for some time (I'm a control freak, I guess) and I support this - you end up whitelisting a few sites here and there (or even just some aspects of those sites, in case of uMatrix), and the Internet becomes overall a much better (and faster) place. The amount of useless JS bloat on-line is staggering, and it hurts me that developers are actually defending this practice. Engineers should know better.
Thanks for taking the time to review and comment.

YADA doesn't abstract any underlying system, it abstracts access to the underlying system. You can think of it as a pluggable web service that you slap on, say, a legacy warehouse, except it can also reach into any other system, enabling access to data using the same standard syntax.

It's like a BI or ETL tool in that respect, except those tools wall off the work you've done and limit repurposing. BI tools generate reports and that's pretty much it. You couldn't, for example, point Spotfire to Cognos, you'd connect them both to the db instead, distributing the credentials, and possibly construct the same query in both places using their interfaces. With YADA, you could instead write the SQL once, and get the data from anywhere.

I do agree with your sentiment however, that as innovators we always think there is a better way, or more commonly, that their _must_ be a better way, because we don't understand the problem fully, or grasp the complexity of the current solution. Often we discover we're not the first to think of a great idea. I'm sure there are similar tools to YADA, but I also think YADA has potential to offer a wide array of users some options and combinations of features that are distinct in the marketplace.
I really like that. But the thing is, even if we Europeans are still quite protected from the outside world the outside world is still there. And there are always people who try to take what you have. So having some fighting skills is also necessary, I think. Life is not just about finding happiness.
> IIRC the memory layout of bitfields is not specified so you can't use them to portably destructure binary streams

This is true, but for many of us in the embedded world, we use the specific packing anyway. I know my endianness, and I know my compiler--so my structs map straight across.
> decided that shorting calls and puts would work well. The time value decay seems to work in the investor's favor

Yeow that could go wrong very easily. For shorting a call/put option, the maximum amount of money you can make is 100% when the contract expires worthless. However, you can potentially lose way more than 100% if the contract ends up being worth a ton of money.

This could bankrupt you if you don't know what you're doing, especially if you're trading with volumes where you can buy houses off the profits...
I understand your motivation, but this is a really bad idea. If I didn't know Haskell and I saw "Joinable", I wouldn't know that that meant. "Concatenatable" seems like it might be clearer, and it is a little bit but not completely, because the concept of "concatenation" doesn't apply to all monoids. For instance, here's a (not particularly useful) monoid that has nothing to do with concatenation:

newtype Sum a = Sum { getSum :: a }
instance (Num a) => Monoid (Sum a) where
mempty = Sum 0
mappend (Sum a) (Sum b) = Sum (a + b)

Finally, and perhaps most importantly, I seriously doubt anybody reading your codebase is going to do so in complete isolation of the rest of the Haskell ecosystem. They are going to encounter the word "monoid", so you're not really doing them any favors by hiding it from them. You're just forcing them to jump through the mental hurdles of reconciling your wording with what's used everywhere else.
The Ethernet PAUSE frame
I tried to use TF to train an RNN recently and ended up using Keras, which is a layer on top of TF/Theano that made it much simpler, and I hear Theano's RNN implementation is better atm anyway.

This is the most straight forward TF example I could find, but it uses google's skflow library: https://github.com/tensorflow/tensorflow/blob/master/tensorf...

One of the things I realized when trying to improve my Keras model is that Keras seems to have a lot of good defaults, so it's easier to get something working quickly, and then dig into all the options, rather than having to start from scratch.
I've been using a catch-all email domain for years where anytime I give out an email address, the local part is a description of the party receiving the address (e.g. bestbuy.com@mydomain.com).

If I receive spam at a particular address, it's easily blocked and I know who leaked it.

An interesting side effect of receiving email from so many different addresses to the same inbox is that I often receive the same spam to multiple addresses simultaneously. This is easily caught by spam filters and so I never have Spam in my inbox. It also makes identifying false positives in my Spam box easy because they usually stand out against the repeated subject lines so it's a simple game of which one of these is not like the others.
Ask HN: Where can I find a list of startups at Demo Day S16?
How fitting. I have just received a mail from Medium with no "unsubscribe" button because I commented on it.
> It used to be totally fine for one shopkeeper to mention to another that he saw a customer looking for a particular item. When you do it at scale, the old rules don't apply.

The on-line equivalent of that would be e-commerce sites sharing their detailed analytics data with each other. What was described in the article is more alike to a shopkeeper saying to another, "Did you see that woman in red scarf? Her name is Jane Doe, she lives in the house over that hill. She seems to be interested in this particular item, so your best bet is to upsell her something similar."
AI development is going to get even faster
We were definitely inspired by awesome software such as Trello and Asana. We've woven it into GitLab and have some iterations to go before it's exactly what we want, but we believe we've shipped something useful so far.

Would love to hear your feedback and suggestions for improvements.
The case of alpha business models and beta technology
We use uWebSockets as the main WebSocket server engine for SocketCluster http://socketcluster.io/ - We liked it from the beginning because it was a drop-in replacement for the 'ws' Node.js module and performed MUCH better. Even in the worst case, we found it to be more than 2x faster than ws.

Alex (the author) has been very thorough and made sure that it passes all the popular WebSocket standard tests so the switch has been seamless.
Join the club.

San Francisco is already well on its way towards the same goal.

SF is easily the most car-hostile city in the US, by far.

Lately they've upped the ante with a set of absurd red transit-only lanes on Mission St.[1] that prevent other vehicles from more than a few blocks of passage, forcing the non-transit vehicular traffic to take side streets.[2][3]

This is in addition to the constant removal of street parking spaces, replacement of parking spots with parklets, the constant addition of bulbouts, medians and traffic islands and a variety of other traffic "calming" measures you didn't even knew could be legally deployed on American surface roads.[4]

You don't need to be an urban planner to see where this is headed.

Eventually, SF wants to be able to make the city mostly a public transit only city with whole neighborhoods that are pedestrian only. Bike lanes will be taking up the rest of the street acreage.

I bet these changes will be coming to your city sooner than later, depending on the amount of resistance they confront.

That much is a given.

[1]

http://i.imgur.com/ElD7ILi.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/jbu0fg4.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/tNHrkxa.jpg

[2]

https://www.sfmta.com/about-sfmta/blog/mission-street-rapid-...

[3]

http://sf.curbed.com/2016/8/18/12540620/mission-locals-grill...

[4]

http://sf.curbed.com/maps/mapping-all-43-awesome-san-francis...

http://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/A-new-view-of-Twi...

http://sf.streetsblog.org/2014/01/13/dismissing-sffds-irrati...

http://sf.streetsblog.org/2012/10/18/sfmta-reveals-strategy-...
Nature Communications, which publishes a dozen articles every working day.

(2191 so far in 2016)
pbhjpbhj's comment doesn't have a reply link for some reason so I will reply here. Left to their own devices computers will play crude simple development moves in the opening. That's because there are no tactics until the pieces come into contact and it's all strategy, where humans still have an advantage. Decades of experience have resulted in a corpus of classic subtle opening strategies that the computers don't rediscover - for example in some Kings Indian positions Black has precisely one good plan - a good human player will initiate this plan with move ...f5 automatically - an engine will juggle ...f5 with a bunch of other slow moves, (all of which are irrelevant) and might not play it. If you look through the pages of "New In Chess" magazine you will see the top masters analysing their games and saying things like - "The computer does not understand this type of position - it rejects $some-good-human-move but eventually when you lead it down the right path it changes its mind".

All of this is not to say that computers have not overtaken humans in chess. They have. But primarily because they have superb qualifications as practical players - they never make crude errors and all humans on occasion do. This trumps all other considerations. But the vast gap you see when comparing the human lists and the computer lists is exaggerated - 500 Elo points means a 95% expectation. I am 100% convinced that if Magnus could be properly motivated (think big $$$ and somehow convincing him that scoring a decent proportion of draws as White would be a "win") he could deliver for humanity :-)
If you try to make them sound like completely different things, then yeah I suppose they are all different. But when I use tuple, I think "take F[A] and F[B], sequence their effects, then give me (A,B) to work with." That's an extremely common operation when writing referentially-transparent programs. Understanding "sequence their effects" is the prerequisite intuition, but if I can intuit it with no formal teaching or a finished degree at the time, so can you!

By your logic, it's silly and confusing for Option, List, Either, and State to all have a function called map. But in my (and everyone else I work with)'s experience, map feels like map! And it doesn't take a mathematician to feel that way given our backgrounds...
Why chatbots are so disruptive
Kinda surprised the FCC/Wireless providers didn't help. Usually when there's 911 connectivity issues they take it pretty seriously.

I remember a story a while back where someone was driving around with a cellphone jammer since he was sick of people talking and driving. They caught him by noticing his commute pattern as connectivity dropped along the freeway he took each day.

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Also another great example of hams helping the local community. Quite a few clubs run communication for remote events(think large bike races/etc) often free of charge and it always great to see technology used in this way.
Yet More Proof Things Keep Getting Better for the Top 10%
It doesn't sound like winning a lottery but rather like making a series of good investing decisions.
LinkedIn may be a special case, and then Google may be a special case too. But it will definitely help for all the other countless sites that are not LinkedIn.
Yahoo offers a similar service and is the only reason I use them still (though of course all yahoo emails then get forwarded to gmail).

Yahoo's implementation gives you a secondary email address of the form [fakeemail]-*@yahoo.com where you get to add in anything after the dash and only email addresses you create are valid and will be sent to you. You can also delete these email addresses at any time. Also you're able to respond to emails from using these temp accounts so you don't have to worry about revealing yourself.
> I don't understand why this article is so long.

It's a humor piece. "Shouts & Murmurs" is the New Yorker's humor section.
Michael Jordan is a billionaire because of Nike. Magic has diversified quite nicely beyond his original sponsorships.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magic_Johnson_Enterprises

http://fortune.com/2014/12/09/magic-johnson-the-businessman-...
I just upgraded to Android 7.0. Night Mode is still there! You can access it by enabling the system UI tuner.

Just swipe down from the top of the screen to reveal the quick settings, and then press and hold the Settings icon (gear) for a few seconds and release. This will enable the UI tuner.

Swipe down from the top again, then tap "EDIT" in the bottom right corner. There should be a tile for "Night mode", which you can drag and drop into the quick settings panel for easy toggling.
Apache Sling – Bringing Back the Fun
Thanks for taking the time to comment. You're basically rephrasing the hammer cliche, which is accurate. First though, as your first sentence indicates, you agree we still need hammers. Right now, YADA is a great tool for prototyping, adhoc reporting, data analytics, ETL, and smaller SPJAs. One testament in our environment has been to repurpose the work we do for one endpoint in another, e.g. webapp and spotfire, or vendor app and ad hoc reports. We are working with a high-volume machine-learning group, so eventually we expect to be able to scale.
This is what an $800 “Lord of the Rings” Blu-ray box set looks like
Haha, kinda. My daily audit shows that I am on average 63% right. It comes up to cutting your loses early and riding out the profits.
It seems that many people that we all know do become quite
rich as investors, and the secret to their good fortune is
not apparent. Studies promising us "they'll all lose in
the long run!" makes us feel good about our decision not
to participate in the game.

This would be a way stronger argument if the king of the buy-index-fund team wasn't Warren Buffett:)
Where Are the Tallest People in the World?
Funding for the enforcement branch of the FCC has been seriously cut in recent years.
to be fair, in this scenario, Me or I has a 50% stake in how things go down.
You're joking, right?

> If they shove it in your face, it's YOUR job to ignore it, not their job to somehow pre-determine who wants to see it and who doesn't.

No, it's exactly their job. It's the difference between pushing and pulling. If you want to show your content to people, start a webpage and put it there. No one gets the right to be offended by the content of a website they're browsing voluntarily. But conversely, no one gives you the right to shove the content in my face.
TL;DR

"The interference source turned out to be a recently replaced neon sign switching-mode power supply, which was generating a substantial signal within the on-street parking area just across the sidewalk, between 8 and 40 feet from the sign."
Is that true? Will my email client stop notifying me of new email?

That doesn't sound appealing at all.
Having dedicated computers to control peripherals (like a RAID controller or a network card).

To be fair, Atari and Commodore computers already had that.
Extensive discussion of same article, less than a year ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10455681
http://www.pcworld.com/article/2149501/florida-commuters-ill...

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3488793/Pictured-Chi...

A few of these cases apparently.
They're partial substitutes, not perfect ones.
> By the time SF gets around to building any new subway line (10-15 years), private autonomous cars and shuttles will have siphoned away most of SF MTA's revenue

How will a city that's already jam-packed with cars and losing fast thoroughfares to transit-only lanes be fixed with autonomous cars. You may not have to drive or park, but it will take 30-40 minutes to get around the city. A subway line would reduce this time in half which will always be appealing to riders.
> It used to be totally fine for one shopkeeper to mention to another that he saw a customer looking for a particular item.

No it wasn't fine at all. I certainly do not expect them to share my contact details without my consent, offline or not.
This is good, but it would still be better if Bloomberg broke out top 1%, top 0.1% and then top 0.01% -- the graphing then makes it that much more obvious.
>millennials, who value more open, collaborative environments

No. Give me an office that shuts where I can concentrate away from people without the visual and auditory distractions that come with them. This myth needs to die. Give us a collaborative meeting/commons space instead.
Ah, that would help explain it.

Shame though, the number of wireless things is only going to grow. The amount of stuff I pick up just driving around on 2m is pretty incredible.
Will Trump wait to give a statement and see how the public responds, before taking action on the proverbial "3am phone call"?

I think not. I might not like Hillary, but it's an absolute joke that Adams thinks that Trump is the embodiment of some pure form of democracy. He's changed the game in American presidential politics (he's basically gotten rid of the idea of a "gaffe" at this point), but his goal is selfish; he wants to be president for his own benefit, and he'll say anything to get it.