skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Why is this even part of the discussion. This was a long time ago and we have no objective proof that they are in the business of abusing privacy and trust. I'm all for a good discussion of multiple view points but not via something thats baseless. If he had shown signs of having no regard for privacy in recent times then fine. But he's time and time again spoken of privacy. Leaving all that aside, they are audited by a 3rd party. That cannot and should not be negated by some frivolous use of a person's statement when he was far less mature and handling far less responsibility. Let's not breed unhealthy conversation please.
I'm working my way through this right now and highly recommend it. The book is excellent and the professors are personable and genuinely enthusiastic about the subject matter.
Though I am not a manager (and likely wont be very soon just a year out of college), this is definitely great advice. Thanks for posting and l'shana tovah (assuming you too are a member of the tribe :-).
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I considered buying a few of those, but I realized that if one lamp in the room failed, but the others were good, I'd have to replace them all since I'd be unlikely to be able to find an exact match.

So I decided to buy regular fixtures with replaceable bulbs.

The non replaceable kind only makes sense in places where you need light, but you don't see the actual fixture (for example edge lighting a room or stairs).
"The more important question is did he ever abuse that access? [in a way that isn't described in the TOS]"

The terms of service is one of those shrink-wrap style of licenses that gives them close to free reign. There's plenty of abuse and sneakiness of Facebook on record. He was fine with it all. He also wasn't 19 during most of it. He also still does things that contradict his profit-motivated claims like most scumbags do. Key one being lying about value of privacy while buying nearby properties to ensure his.

It's not that his opponents are taking one moment of an honest or halfway-decent businessman's past to paint a picture of his entire life. He's ensured that him being an ambitious, lying scumbag with a similar company is what we see him as despite the PR work. He tries hard to justify those actions over time. Then this bombshell dropped which fit totally with his actions over a long period of time to the present moment. As in, "screw everyone and get rich." It's just extra, more-specific corroboration of what seemed true all along.

That's why we're giving Zuckerberg so much shit over it. It clearly reflects who he is. He's simply a wiser, moderate monster now. ;)
You're right, their statement now it's pretty clear. Initially, things were worse. They give out conflicting information to different people, no one was really sure if it was a recall or how to handle it. That was weeks ago.
Not a great source but it's in these and works for me: https://nootrobox.com/go-cubes

No jitters but if I take all 4 at once I get a pretty unpleasant "coming up" feeling for about 15 minutes. I usually just have 2 a day, and I'd recommend people start with 1 just in the morning.
>"The infamous Petrobras espionage that was implied because it appeared in a slide in a training presentation ..."

This is interesting, I hadn't heard of this, are there any links to the slide?
I've been running this in a Telegram bot while simultaneously building a corpus library from the Simple English Wikipedia and the results have pretty pretty amusing thus far.
Citation would be nice. This article talks about them having rebounded after near extinction:

http://news.cornell.edu/stories/2015/08/some-honeybee-coloni...
It's a valid complaint when non-removable batteries are only there to increase frequency of device replacement. It's valid when batteries don't last anywhere near a day once you've installed some things.

In prehistoric times, when batteries lasted ages, many device docks had a slot to charge your spare battery as well.

Progress?
11 commandments for chatbot developers
As a counter-point, there are tons of drugs already in your head from various activities and e.g. Food. Orgasms release tons of drugs, as does exercise in general. Though I agree with your overall sentiment, where does one draw the line w.r.t. being "on drugs"?
I'd much rather it stored it in a central "database" of some sort, but I'd also want automatic detection of renamed files.
> has been capable of being far more long-lasting

Sorry, but that's not true. In order to make longer lasting bulbs you have to reduce the energy efficiency (i.e. don't run as hot).

> and therefore cheaper

You'll pay more in electricity than in bulbs with longer lasting type. It's not actually worth it.

That cartel had bad intentions but good results - if you run the number you'll see that they actually saved people money.
"and have some sort of insurance"

So the company doesn't provide insurance for its employees either? Or do you have some kind of temporary job that's not eligible for health insurance?

Maybe you should start looking for a job at another company. Companies aren't unique - if you fit in at this one, chances are there will be others you can fit into.

By the way, I once tried to get approval for a 100% raise for a grossly underpaid developer (hired by a previous manager), and was unable to. They were also making 30K in NYC. But that was 20 years ago - imagine how much less 30K buys today! (The employee wisely quit and found a job elsewhere.)
> The thinner the battery, the closer the positive and negative terminals are.

Absolutely false. All lithium ion batteries are made of 4 paper thin layers: two electrodes and two separators. These are cut in narrow strips and folded on themselves many times over, even in a thin battery. A thinner battery will simply have fewer folds. The distance between the two electrodes is given by the thickness of the separators and it has nothing to do with the thickness of the cell.

Here's a teardown: https://youtu.be/uI1eRy0uBI8?t=958 (possibly NSFW-ish language).
> and it probably happens more often to GM than it will to Soylent.

Maybe in sheer numbers of bad boxes, due to their much higher volume. But as a percentage of produced boxes, that seems unlikely. I've been eating cereal basically my whole life and never gotten a bad box, meanwhile I've been drinking Soylent for about nine months and had two shipments where the drink tasted very abnormal. Soylent replaced these without question in both incidents, but I had to reach out to them.

Rosa Labs has consistency issues that other food companies seem to have solved long ago. I hope they improve because I really like Soylent.
If Apple is open to admit the dev back to the program means he didn't really commit fraud.

And if he didn't commit fraud, why is Apple enforcing him to write a PR blog post in favor of Apple as a condition to get back into the program?

Apple wants him to write fake review. Oh the irony.
Indeed, it just seems inconceivable that a company with Samsung's experience and institutional knowledge about Li-ion technology could so thoroughly and irreparably botch something like this.

Li-ion in 2016 is, outside of the occasional 3-5 years-away breakthrough story, boring, a mature technology. One would think the best practices for safely building power supplies around it would have been settled on years ago.

Or: Am I wrong and there are in fact several competing standards in the industry right now? Is there actually some present innovation in Li-ion that Samsung may have utilized, in retrospect prematurely, in the Note 7?
The answer is "extremely far, so it's not sensible to compare them."

It's perfectly fine to say "We are going to attempt to build something, here's our plan" and then fail. It's completely unacceptable to say "We have something" when you don't.

The only way Theranos could be analogous to Musk is if he had got up on that stage in Guadalajara and said "we have a Mars rocket ready to go, we've tested it extensively, it works, we'll begin commercial flight soon, the line for reservations is on your left, please bring your checkbooks."
Nice. I was always wondering why no one was trying to do isometric stuff in other languages since every language and their mother seem to have a compile-to-js feature.
Exactly. If Elon wants to spend his billions building spaceships, as long as they don't routinely fall and kill people, then everyone will cheer for him and that's fair. Screwing up people's blood tests and then seemingly lying about, is a whole different thing.
It is? I've been using the PBKDF2 NuGet package, which I do not believe is from Microsoft. Are there classes I've missed that are built into .NET?

EDIT: It seems .NET does support it, but only with SHA-1.
A separate tool which helps with problems like this: rdfind

It will let you create hardlinks between identical files to reduce disk space usage. You will still have two files, but the impact will be reduced.
So no photo is the way to go? Unless the article is about taking photos?
Have listened to the first four episodes (I think a fifth one is out today). This is on my list of favorite podcasts. Each one is quite inspiring.
Not at all.

If Apple is ready to bring him back it's because he didn't commit fraud.

And if he didn't commit fraud he shouldn't need to write a blog post as a condition to get back. Quite contrary, Apple owes him an apology.
> The conventional wisdom is that UX is everything. But a new generation or two is growing up today that is "digital native" and has grown up using computers of every kind. Might this generation of digital natives actually have less need for super-polished UI/UX hand-holding and inversely a greater desire for the increased freedom and versatility that comes with a more heterogenous open environment?

As a member of the generation which is often termed "digital native", I notice that other people my age are, in general, worse with computers than people in their parent's generation (again, generalizing). I would bet on UX becoming more important as people shift away from even bothering to read error messages.
>why can't the government have a democratized benefit pool where you'd pay employee prices for the same benefits as a freelancer?

For that to work for things like disability insurance, you'd need the same sort of mandate that's so controversial with the US ACA. The system doesn't really work if you buy benefits like disability only if you see a particular need for them. The 20-somethings need to buy them too whether they want to or not--or the system doesn't work.

I'm not sure why 401-Ks are so tied to individual employers.
My sister is currently finishing medical school at Penn. We talked about suicides in hospital and university settings.

She had an interesting perspective on the problem. She said that it isn't the intensity of the work, the academic rigor, or even the emotional damage from constant exposure to death and disease.

It's the sleep deprivation.

There is a very large amount of evidence that one night of reduced sleep massively increases medical errors. Despite this knowledge, sleep deprivation remains this massochistic macho hazing ritual, which increases in severity through residency.

It's dangerous and unnecessary.

This article does a good job of capturing the chain of internal events that lead from exhaustion to burnout to severe depression and finally to suicidal ideation.
I've been on a Functional Programming kick lately. Wrote an FP library for PHP. Done a little in JavaScript. Kicking the tires on a couple functional-first languages. Looks like Scala may be a good place to settle down & get comfy.

Aside from that, I'm thinking it might be time to start the discussion about digital identity & reputation ecosystems again.
Come to think about it, wow you are right.

As a huge introvert I noticed my mental health very visibly improved after I quit my regular office job to work from the comfort and peace of my home.

I think I had a bit of a case of Stockholm Syndrome at the time thinking that I'm going to get lonely or miss coming in to an office and seeing coworkers and so on. Not one bit. I feel like an adult and an independent human again after so long.

The routine and the lack of genuine choice had started to make me feel like a child.
It works on Google Play lol. Apple's iTunes accounts on iOS devices are actually pretty cumbersome to use and change quickly.

You just go on fiverr.com and pay someone in Indonesia $5 for the hit.
In the U.S., you can add authorized users to your credit cards, and they typically send you new cards that just have a different name, but for which the rest of the information is identical (same number, same CVV code, same expiration).

At least this was the case with the cards issued for authorized users I added to my Citi Double credit card account.

So you could have a single card number with multiple valid names/users.
Ask HN: How do Non-Profits repay investors?
I understand that Ycombinator works to help non-profit startups - but how does the relationship between investors differ in a non-profit vs a traditional for-profit company?
I agree. But then why force him to write a PR blog post in favor of Apple?

That's what's really wrong here.
To make it seem like sunlight you have to simulate Rayleigh scattering. I remember seeing a company that was making artificial skylights that did this, but can't seem to find it anymore.
Yep. Unfortunately, medical school is only the beginning.

Depending on your residency or fellowship program, it is not unusuall to sustain 80+ hours per week. And unlike nurses, you don't get to disconnect from work when you aren't in the hospital. There are pages to answer, notes to write, labs to review, and on and on...

The mental and emotional load is tremendous and there is no room for error. it's truly a miracle more people don't end up the subject of Morbidity and Mortality presentations from botched lines and pneumos.
The US law doesn't apply here... he is in Bulgaria I think?

Edit: Romania.
> The only way Theranos could be analogous to Musk is if he had got up on that stage in Guadalajara and said "we have a Mars rocket ready to go, we've tested it extensively, it works, we'll begin commercial flight soon, the line for reservations is on your left, please bring your checkbooks."

Devils advocate but isn't that what SpaceX told facebook when launching their satellite? I would assume they asked for money to launch that thing and I would also assume facebook didn't want it blown up.
Here's a comparison of the courses. Both are aimed at PhD students, one for students in the Machine Learning Department and one for students in other departments (including CS).

Edit: Whoops, forgot the actual link: http://www.ml.cmu.edu/teaching/ml-course-comparison_11.2015....
The Moral Instinct (2008)
Really good point. Apple wants him to make a fake review.
You just argued that mainstream media has rules, that they problems they bring in are well-understood, and independent media is untrustworthy. You provided evidence for two of them. You did not in any way show mainstream media to be more trustworthy than independent media. If anything, they're clearly not due to all the times they've been caught manipulating their audiences, lying, or even justifying a right to lie. They're both untrustworthy and consistently subversive in how they do things.

So, the proper response is to do just what honest journalists or even agents in intelligence collection are taught to do: use diverse sources, rate their integrity, identify their biases, and merge them in a way that accounts for the two. It's what I have to do if I rely on the mainstream sources. It's been clear on a regular basis that their goal is to hold interest of specific demographics to keep them looking at ads rather than inform them. They're also very prone to self-censorship of anything that gets in the way of that due to cash flow.
As a developer I get some of my absolute best work done at a time that I look like I'm a moron and just wasting time.

I'm talking about things like lying down on the bed, staring at the ceiling and just churning through stuff in my head.

Or just sitting on the desk and staring at a corner of the screen like someone who has had a traumatic experience.

This means typical office environments knock me down a few steps in terms of quality. As in, If I'm working for myself on my own terms I feel like I can be an "A" developer.

However when I'm forced in those environments I'm capped at being a "C" developer.

That's one of the biggest reasons I love working for myself because no one else is questioning me about the effectiveness of my methods. Who cares if I get work done while staring at the ceiling or typing on the keyboard? All that matters is the output.

This means I can walk to the park sit on a bench for half an hour and come back having more problems solved than I would have in 1 week of noisy office time.
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Probably not.

Dash is mostly a desktop app and he can keep on selling it outside the MAS.
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I always ask myself this whenever it is asked on Dragon's Den....could someone explain how customer acquisition cost is calculated? The "common sense" approach I'd think is something like:

(sales & marketing spend) / (customer count)

....but this would completely ignore whether the spend was efficient, so is there a more sophisticated way of calculating CAC?
Nando de Freita's "Deep Learning" course taught at Oxford, 2015.

https://www.cs.ox.ac.uk/people/nando.defreitas/machinelearni...
Stress Relieving Tricks for the Busy You: DO. EAT. THINK
An environment that doesn't match your production server is far from being the best one (this doesn't apply to all cases but you get the idea)
Coming up with a blank page unfortunately. Maybe overloaded.
Eh, I see where you're going. There's two ways to look at that, though. One is worrying about her sanity. The other is thinking she's an energetic, ambitious person pushing her product and company. You'll see a lot of what's in the photos if you ever delve into the world of sales teams and marketing execs. ;)
The amount of power Companies like Apple, Google, Facebook and others have to completely destroy and make businesses, makes me wonder if there should be some internet arbitration court to at least let people present their case to a third party. I get the companies would never want to give up this power and I get that every country has their own court system and laws...

This is more a middle ground, for people caught in the cross hairs to present their case. Maybe like WIPO arbitration for trademark domains.
> I'm not sure where you work, but I have never needed a doctor's note to get off work for a simple cold.

Every single prescription or referral to a specialist is a doctor's note.
Depends how you define being in trouble. I know a handful of people who started companies based on lies, and a true dose of narcissism, and were acquired with still nothing to show for
There's no comparison to be made between an accident occurring in an inherently risky field and peddling technology that you know doesn't work.

Nitpick mode: Facebook didn't own that satellite and their only involvement in it was a plan (now, obviously, altered) to lease a decent chunk (but by no means all) of its capacity from its owner once it was operational. I'm not sure why everyone decided it was Facebook's satellite.
i draw the line at "is the substance itself acting as a neurotransmitter in your brain". definitely sex exercise diet &c are indirectly drugs, in that they inspire your body to adjust its own mix of chemicals in the brain, but it's a whole 'nother thing to directly inject substances into the mix yourself.

i think where people tend to get into trouble with drugs is that since it is an external effect changing the brain's chemical balances contrary to its self-regularted levels, the brain tries to adapt, leading to tolerance – the user tries to counter-adapt, upping the dosages, "chasing the high", & often ending up in a no-fun place of dependence, addiction, side-effects...

(obviously more true w/ some drugs & some people than others...)
Damn it, maybe machine learning isn't for me. I took this class CSE-191 and I sucked bad at it, similar to this with proofs, logic statements. Fuck
> What? How could they possibly be able to consistently find these problems without customers coming forward?

Quality control? Testing/inspecting their products for mold during and after production?
Previous job used Yammer. People spent most of their time on the site complaining about the company there. Daily notifications by default containing a ton of garbage. After reading Corporate Confidential by Cynthia Shapiro I figured it was a tool for HR to hold opinions against individuals, so I deleted my account and kept my opinions to myself.
This works, but its critical you define "wait_for_elb_capacity" if this is in reference to an autoscaling group associated with an ELB serving any sort of inbound requests. Otherwise terraform will create the new resources, and then immediately terminate the old resources before the new resources are fully available ("f--- it, we'll do it live" mode).

This won't do a rolling deploy per se, it'll just bring up all new resources, wait for them to be healthy, and then terminate the old resources; if you want to do rolling changes, you'll need Cloudformation (or if its deploy-specific, tooling like Spinnaker).
I don't know, every time I see a new release of Atom or VS code and people praising it in comments I go ahead and download it and open the project that I am currently working on in Sublime for side by side comparison. And what strikes me most is how smooth Sublime is compared to Visual Studio Code or Atom (at least on my mac, I dont know about windows experience). Scrolling is much slower in VSC and searching through files is much much worse than in Sublime. Those little things are what makes an editor a winner, it just does not slow you down and annoy you. So once again Visual Studio Code failed to lure me away from Sublime, I dont even know why I am still trying to...I love Sublime Text.
When you separate the web app from the server and build it as a stand-alone React codebase, you can create applications that run in the browser, iOS, Android (via Cordova / reapp) and cross-platform desktop operating systems (via Electron).

Now wait a minute, you're going to say, I can do all of that with my server-side web application. And faster too. Sure, but does your application work when the user is offline? Does it have access to the client runtime's local storage for data persistence? Can it access client hardware like the camera, GPS, and accelerometer? Can it be distributed through Google Play and the Apple App Store? Can it be installed as a desktop application?
The shortest day in San Francisco is 9.5 hours. The shortest day in Chicago is slightly north of 9 hours. The shortest day in London is less than 8 hours.

That's not an insane schedule. It's a bit longer than regular day, unless you're in London or north.
As a Caucasian (and human being), I'm so sorry that happened. Personally, my first instinct would have been to yell at her to "go back to Europe," but it sounds like that would have gone right over her head.
> At what point did she shift from being an optimistic entrepeneur to a criminal?

Going out on a limb here, I would say when found out their machine didn't provide accurate results. Yet waited until threatened to be closed for two years before voiding results. This is not Uber for Dogs, and puppy doesn't get to the park to play with its friends, but potentially life or death situations. We are not talking just a 0.01% error rate, this is stuff like like 20-40% error rates in some tests.

> Was it when Hwnry Kissinger joined the board of directors?

Well, some would say it would be a warning sign, for sure ;-)
She looks ok in google image searches. I'd personally like to meet her just to find out how she convinced so many people to invest in her company.
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