skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The 40-Year-Old Burnout: Why I gave up tenure for a yet-to-be-determined career
Believe or not, there are people who like to have such relationship. The last thing I would like to see is the end of the freedom of choice how you want to be employed. There is a lot of advantages of not being recognised as employee - like minimal exposure to internal politics, zero red tape, tax efficiency, ownership of your time outside of contract and so on.
That "Hi" after the headline just sucked all of the momentum out of it for me.
I have a feeling this effect will soon be nil. The more subreddit sticky comment rules, the more people will adapt to filter them, like the way we ignore ads.

A lot of the subreddit I subscribe to have rules. I barely notice them anymore.
Asbestos is only a problem if you inhale a reasonably large amount of it.
I've seen similar stories in the past, the problem appears to be that in many areas the bill was 100% linked to actual usage and didn't reflect the costs of the connection and infrastructure.

In New Zealand the domestic electricity bill is broken up into a fixed daily charge plus a variable charge. According to this site only around 30% of the bill goes towards generation so it is a bit more closely matching the actual costs of the provider.

https://www.ea.govt.nz/consumers/my-electricity-bill/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Declaration_of_war_by_the_Unit...
Ok, Xeno.
What is hard to follow in my post?
What messaging apps can learn from the 'anti-Uber alliance'
It kind of makes me think of the Dumb Starbucks episode of Nathan for You (parody law).

> Spectators and media commentators questioned the stunt's authenticity, viewing it variously as performance art, a statement on consumerism, a viral marketing achievement or the work of street artist Banksy.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dumb_Starbucks
Firstly, damn there are a lot of TAs for the course! Secondly, it's pretty interesting how the course team has basically automated everything from homework submission checking to PDF report validation. I wonder how many students are taking the course?

As for the course itself, it seems quite interesting. Too bad I already have a lot on my plate.
What happened with Last Mile and Quora? We liked those answers. :) (I am one of Top Writers)
Trying out your ideas to do one thing or maybe even a way to improve something.

Doesn't have to be a complete idea all the time; mainly you need to build yourself hands-on experience of trying to solve a problem, the more you do the more ideas you get as well as the wisdom of why some methods may not work.

Sometimes I think of stupid ideas, but even thought I'm pretty certain it wont work, I will try it out just to see anyway. Many times such attempts leads me to other ideas.

Also if you are stuck, do some research, sometimes you will find a solution, others solutions might lead you to other possible methods. Just keep trying stuff.
HN is big and people spend a decent amount of time on it.
You're missing the forest for the trees. You can replace "brave enough to do this" with "brave enough to play at that open mic night" or "brave enough to talk to that cute girl in class".

In all cases, the reason that the OP doesn't believe he can do this has to do solely with his false limiting self beliefs about his abilities.
I had solar pool panels that did fine through hurricane Mathew in west palm beach. They are pvc and plastic I think. I was worried about them flying but they must have been engineered right as far as roof connections (plus the winds remained mostly tropical strength with a few hurricane gusts.)
Wow, are you my doppelgänger? We share the same name and I was about to post the same link.
How is it false? Not trolling, just out of the loop for a while.
You don't need either to incorporate (at least not in my experience w/ Delaware).
Cool thanks,

I will think on that, that definitely opens up quite a lot of interesting projects which are loosely related to my research. For example, my professor is working on another project related to consensus dynamics in autonomous fish drone formations. I am not involved in that at the moment, but I could definitely create a simulation testbed related to such work (maybe for aerial drone formations) with a 3d frontend. Actually that's a really good idea.
Doubt it. However I wouldn't trust any of his posts on how to get some tasty candy from Japan, cause he is the leading supplier of those.
Well it's easier than a facelift and memorizing comic books to maybe help an engineer qualify on culture fit.
Just in case anyone is wondering about the startup in Lithuania, it's a car sharing scheme called CityBee:

http://www.citybee.lt/en/

I've used various schemes around the world, but this has the best selection of cars and is the fastest growing. They now have over 500 cars, which given the size of Lithuania is crazy. Their emails have a real personal feel which is no doubt down to Lukas work!
Yes they do now, but if you stopped taxing corporations then it would be a lot harder.

The system we use in Australia is quite good. Corporations pay income tax, but any tax paid is passed onto the shareholders in the form of a tax credit (franking credits).
Letting Go of a Beloved Technology
It probably goes without saying that such egregious corner-cutting shouldn't be happening regardless of being rich or poor.
Agreed about the array syntax too. They missed the ball in bash about nested arrays, because freeing them is indeed a non-trivial problem. Bash can happily operate with just simplistic malloc() and free() calls. Nesting arrays breaks that simplicity.

My personal opinion is that they should not have added such broken array implementation, but rather let the user load an external library to deal with it, through an external tool like ctypes.sh: https://github.com/taviso/ctypes.sh/wiki.

Not all programs need nested arrays. Adding support for them, comes with a price tag attached. By keeping it external, the user only pays for what he really uses.
That's an interesting point - I had found that getting a very serious massage while I had symptoms had helped them. I didn't get them nearly enough to be able to say "for sure" that it really helped, or if it was just placebo (the original reason I sought the massage was because of reading that it sometimes relieves pain, so that thought was already in my head). Chiropractic also seemed to have an effect but that was so sporadic that I'm convinced it was placebo.

I tend to believe that massage could help, though, because I could reliably create the opposite effect. There were certain places on my neck and shoulders that if I applied sufficient pressure with a single finger, I could increase the pain and other symptoms to the point of inducing vomiting.

I feel for your partner. It's a miserable thing to deal with that very few people really understand or take seriously (I couldn't even estimate how many times someone asked me "Have you tried that Excedrin Migraine? Does it work?"[0] Nope.) Everyone's symptoms vary slightly. For me, the best thing that could be done was to leave me alone in a cold-ish dark room.

I didn't get the "snow" effect, but I got an aura -- mine was a wavy blurriness around the periphery of my vision that seeped slightly into my direct vision (the "waves" were visible every heart beat but never pierced into my direct line of sight). Even on my new medication, I still, occasionally have had a very mild version of the aura show up for a couple of minutes and then just fizzle out. I'm convinced I'm witnessing myself avoiding Migraine at that moment, but I don't know enough about how this medicine works (nobody seems to) to say that for certain.

[0] I would get quite irritable when experiencing symptoms but I don't think I ever, once, replied sarcastically with "Oh, you mean that medicine that's advertised on TV just about every commercial break? No, I've been living under a rock for a few decades and suffering needlessly, apparently." I always wanted to.
White-Asian marriages are something like 80% white male/asian female, 20% white female/asian male.

"Asian" is not an indicator of unattractiveness; "male Asian", on average, is.
The laptop repair shops I've seen in Shenzhen offer a BIOS reflashing service that involves using a long cable with a small clip on the end that connects to the BIOS chip. They usually reflash to OEM, to fix "hard bricks", but might be willing to flash an image you provide.
There's some great options in this link, thanks! It's probably worth noting that I'm on Windows for my desktop, so I guess I either need a Windows-compatible desktop option, or a Linux-compatible web option.

DocFetcher is fully multi-platform, which might be a nice option to look at. Though then I have to install Java. :/
You describe the process of meta-analysis as of there is something wrong with it.

The point about exercise or college is they are guaranteed to have some benefit, unlike playing a brain training game, which has at least a 50-50 chance of being a waste of time.
By 'tourist visa' you mean ESTA, right. Lithuanians are eligible for this.

While on the ESTA you can conduct 'business meetings'. I've (tried) to raise VC, interview at YC and conduct job interviews on the ESTA and it's been fine. At least the border patrol people didn't seem to mind.
Many of these companies did stand up to the government, but were forced into line through a secret set of courts, laws, and administrative procedures. This leaves aside all the undocumented pressures which the government has applied in order to achieve their desired objectives; we know these sorts of tactics are used because many government officials freely admit that they avoid e-mail (and it's not because they're illiterate). There is only so much that individuals can do to oppose the government, especially when the policies are popular.
Which dating apps are these? All the dating apps I've seen come out are either ways to scam people ("no connecting unless you pay with lots of fake profiles") or are just more of the same ("can only connect on superficial criteria. Don't enforce/encourage detailed profiles. Don't kick off men just asking for sex that basically poison the pot as so many women leave disgusted").
Yes, but if everyone assumes the company is immoral, it's discouraging to the moral employees, causing them to quit, leaving the company with only immoral ones.
I disagree with this recommendation; Project Euler is focused on mathematical questions that don't teach a type of thinking very similar to the thinking used while constructing most algorithms.
> You can replace "brave enough to do this" with "brave enough to play at that open mic night" or "brave enough to talk to that cute girl in class".

Seems like the potential downside to doing this is a lot higher than the examples you gave.
>This is the Instacart strategy. It's very interesting. A lot of the unit economics problems of these businesses go away if you just...make things expensive.

Yes this is true, but any market that can support this sort of markup is going to attract a lot of competition. There are very few ways of keeping out competition in these markets.
Actually, less than you might think. The Android OTA recovery environment is written in prolog, last I remember.
The biggest hackathon in the blockchain space is to launch a new token HKG
Since we're in the mood for unsolited amateur advice on how to communicate with regard to criminal acts...

I generally try to leave organised crime to organised crime syndicates. And governments, of course.

If you have to do any anonymous communication, with people you can't authenticate the identity of, over the internet, you're doing crime wrong, should assume the other party is a government plant / agent / honeypot, and should quit while you're ahead. Preferably before you start.
Didn't Linus say something along the lines of "I don't care about your gender, ethnicity, sexual orientation, or whatever else, except the code you submit"? That seems to be his attitude toward such things.
I'm not even a great programmer, but I found learning formal logic, abstract algebra and category theory to be incredibly useful. That, algorithms and data structures. That's what I would study if I were in prison. Not, trying to learn Python or something, which could be a dead language by the time you get out.
Below the line, you have many employees to one vacancy. Above the line, you have many vacancies to one employee. Below the line, do not hope to talk your employer out of making you showing up at work with a red nose, dressed like a clown, and sitting not to far away from the boss, so that he can conveniently spit at you, when he is not just ignoring you. Above the line, you will have to slam the phone to recruiters, and "No, you cannot have a minute my time, okay?". The boss will pay up to half of your salary as a finder's fee just for someone to find you and talk you into coming over. In fact, above the line, you can just work from home too, so that you do not need to hear the boss begging to please not chuck and abandon him like a used-up girlfriend, with not even a verbal contract to fall back on. I have enough of using you, ok? I am using someone else now, alright? The whole point is that no amount of regulating will shift around the line. The situation below the line cannot be made better. It can only be made even worse.
Project Euler is not a good resource for algorithmic thinking.

Doing old GJC problems would be a better move. https://code.google.com/codejam/contests.html
The new MacBooks should be out at the end of the month. I would evaluate those.
Ask him for a list of concepts he doesn't understand well and post them here. Maybe the crowd can find some good blogposts online that you can print out and give it to him.
Lichens did not grow on Homo naledi
I have just learned how to merge two sorted list because I do believe it is a good thing to know and I appreciate the algorithm. I have no memorized it, just an iterative vs recursive tree traversal.
What is 'listing of the compiled source'?
Sadly, viewing the videos requires login with a Stanford ID. For those inclined to learning through videos like me, this is a good alternative resource for the same - https://see.stanford.edu/Course/CS229
I imagine there's a metric shit ton of students due to the recent memification of machine learning.
They're asbestos after a week long meth binge. They treat your lungs like a paper target of Bernie at a Texas gun range.
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Same in Brazil. It's called "jeitinho".
I took this class a couple of years ago. It's outdated and overrated imho, with nowhere enough mathematical rigor to be useful. For example, the discussion of support vector machines (and classification in general if I recall correctly) was limited to two dimensions so that you didn't need linear algebra. The class also spends a lot of time on problems like path finding that you should be able to solve with your standard CS algorithms toolkit or just "logic" rather than needing to reach for anything that deserves the name "artificial intelligence" (at least today). Prof. Winston furthermore spends way too much time on vague truisms that may sum up or organize what's in his brain but aren't helpful to students. ("What if the answer doesn't depend on the data at all? Then you've got the trying to build a cake without flour.")

I hate to dismiss something as ambitious as this course and just tell people to blindly follow trends, but my honest advice would be to just skim these notes if you're interested and go take a normal machine learning course instead.
Manic Digger – A multiplayer block-building voxel game, Minecraft clone
A token to fuel an accelerator isn't a bad idea at all. Most accelerators would have loved to do the same, but don't have a blockchain they verify on. This project is the first of a kind in terms of the tech.
The Journal of Peer Production: Issue #9: Alternative Internets
Ah the Ivan Bratko book was the textbook at Uni... gosh 13 years ago. I loved doing Prolog and once the penny drops it makes you feel very clever thinking about things differently.

I'm not certain it's useful in the real world, but I did write a solitaire solver in it that could work with any number of decks and consequent stacks.
I actually met Lukas a few days ago, very nice guy. I was in San Francisco for Salesforce's Dreamforce conference and was staying at a shared AirBnB where he was my roommate for the week.

One night there was a party hosted by Salesforce that I thought Lukas was planning on attending so when I noticed it seemed like he was turning in soon I asked him what changed his mind; he told me he had an interview in the morning with ABC. Not knowing his situation I assumed it was for his startup so I told him congratulations and asked what kind of work his company did. He saw I was confused by his answer that he was actually looking for a job so he just showed me a clip from Good Morning America that talked about the story and said it was probably easier to understand if I just watched the video.

I have a feeling I'll be seeing him again next year--leading a session on marketing at the conference.
If it's 99% of your income, the CEO knows about it. If it's a tiny percentage, or none at all, the CEO might not know about it.
Economics of signalling and signalling costs.

Someone willing to try this is clearly highly motivated in their job search. Which is one of several axis of qualifications you'd wan to consider. Depending on the position sought (I've not RTFAd), the gumption could be a positive indicator for, say, marketing or leadership (charisma, initiative, risk-tolerance, confidence) though quite likely flat or negative for programming / knowledge-work (humility can matter a lot there).

The economics of information, signalling, signalling costs, proxies for information, quality assessment, etc., are a fascinating and IMO under-studied area. In another tab I'm going through the American Economic Association's annual Papers & Presentations issues looking for topics covered. There are a few on information (early 1970s) that I've found yet. But overall, horribly broken.

It's a bit like the Xerox-generation effect -- if you take an image and photocopy it repeatedly, you'll get an increasingly high-contrast image (a similar effect comes from playing with contrast settings in a photo editor such as the GIMP). But what's lost is the subtlty and nuance. For images which present well in high-contrast (say, the Eiffel Tower against the sky), this isn't terrible. Monet's Rouen Cathedral, Facade (Morning effect) not so much.

https://commons.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Claude_Monet_-_Rou...

The children's game of "telephone" (in which a message is passed by voice from person to person around a circle) is similar.

I'm starting to wonder what examples there are of error-correcting high-quality, high-relevance information transmission systems within biology and elsewhere.
What is to stop anybody with the price of a plane ticket from flooding into Silicon Valley? In practice this is one area where immigration is stricter than you might think.

I've got a Canadian friend who was keynoting a conference and couldn't get admittance to the US because he was getting a free hotel room in exchange for speaking.
Good question. I think it's just one of those things that takes a lot of time to manage and update, and we are understaffed and somehow it's not prioritized. I'll bring it up and see if I can get some more updates going..
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> >Modern anonymity breaks generally work by getting code to run on your local system

> Would you have any reference to specifics on this?

FBI using a Firefox js bug to unmask tor users a couple years ago:

http://arstechnica.com/security/2013/08/attackers-wield-fire...
http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2013/09/fbi-admits-what-w...
"Peace through strength" very nearly turned the Cuban missile crisis into WWIII.

In the real world things aren't black and white, they're often nearly indistinguishable shades of gray and at the nation state level nobody has clean hands. "Peace through strength" is more often than not an excuse to ignore the many reasons one's own side has been escalating conflicts.

If we actually want peace, we need to get serious about deescalation, and the nature of world politics - and endless series of tit-for-tat - means that someone has to go first.

Obama appears to get this. Hillary doesn't. Who fucking knows what goes on in Trump's head...
Corner cutting as a behavior can only persist because of high competition and information asymmetry: if buyers can't tell quality from crap, then honest sellers get out-competed and driven out of the market.

China is a very, very competitive market with relatively low barriers to entry. Any successful product instantly attracts legions of competitors and copycats.

Technological changes can make the information asymmetry much worse. If buyers have had a long time to familiarize themselves with a product, they're more likely to tell good from bad, in the process weeding out bad producers. If it's a new product, they never got that chance. I'll bet a lot of these apartment buildings are sold to first-time owners.

Classic paper, in the context of used cars:

https://www.iei.liu.se/nek/730g83/artiklar/1.328833/AkerlofM...
I am a student at online MS from Georgia Tech and a large number of TAs is pretty usual there too.

Incidentally right now I am taking the AI course there and the assignments submission and checking is automated to the core. There are a few hiccups though but the team of TAs is super responsive and working through it.

I think these are the things that should be automated by default in most courseworks as it frees up time for more important things. I see we have a lot of office hours in my course and I can basically jump to any running hangout based office-hour within few hours from the time I have a question.
I don't have the data to know this for certain, but I find it hard to believe that this main purpose of Tor of which you speak is really true.

Surely the most numerous users of Tor are Americans and Russians downloading pirated media and porn.

Didn't the Tor Project only recently align itself with this purported main purpose and that people then argued it was a stupid move because Tor shouldn't have a politcal agenda as that just draws attention to people who might use it for political purposes.
> 1. Get as much data about each site as possible. Try to find data that you think will separate the non-ecommerce sites from the ecommerce sites. This data should be in a table form- think of an Excel spreadsheet, where each row represents a different site.

This will be the hardest step. Feature extraction from html for identifying specific things like products, for any given site, is very hard (in my experience, which I will admit is pretty limited). Would love to be proven wrong though.
The problem isn't summarizing or recommending or condensing submissions. Most comments do some or all of those things.

The problem is tl;dr culture, which actively encourages people not to read the story, and, worse, to discuss the story without having read it.

This is so easy: you can almost entirely avoid the issue simply by avoiding the term "tldr".
Hacking Around with AirSerbia's InFlight WiFi
I think they were tested as a cluster headache treatment, not migraines
Same system on a WestJet flight I just took (and was poking around in).
"Alternative medicine doesn't work because if it did, it would just be called medicine."
Tesla Seeks Permission to Double Size of California Car Plant
More than that, you have to be an enrolled student, SUnetid is not enough
Milo Yiannopoulos Eyeing Bid for 4chan