skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Pick 3 that don't A) bias the result by only looking at negative outcomes and B) don't bias the result by their funding or researches massive bias.

EX: Cyber-bullying has many positive outcomes preparing sheltered children to the kind of people that live in the real world. Just look at what happened to the US hikers captured by Iran for an idea of what a sheltered upbringing results in.
> no work of political philosophy anywhere that suggests we should be able to say whatever we'd like "without fear of repercussions"

First sentence of Wikipedia article:

Freedom of speech is the right to articulate one's opinions and ideas without fear of government retaliation or censorship, or societal sanction. [1]

You're advocating societal sanction against Peter Thiel for his political opinions.

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom_of_speech
The part of the article that really rings true for me is the part about specialization. Certainly a lot move into management of one sort of another (line, product, project). Some move into "architect" roles or CTO offices where they apply their wisdom (and biases) to affecting technical direction other than by actually coding. However, many still remain in coding roles, but the coding tends to be more specialized:

* Outside of tech companies, in other orgs with their own specific tech needs (e.g. financial or scientific).

* More infrastructure, less user-facing.

* More "old school" like embedded/OS work.

I'm 51, and I specialize in storage. Consistent with this pattern, I've had many colleagues and collaborators in their 40s and 50s (after that it really does get pretty thin). We might be less visible than people doing the mobile/VR/ML kinds of stuff that are en vogue in the Silicon Valley VC/YC ecosystem, but many of us are still in high demand. There are even headhunters who specialize in facilitating such hires. They don't focus explicitly on age, but their focus on specific domains often results in a greyer-than-average contact list. You just have to know where to look.
I worked at Khan Academy for two internships and then just under 2 years fulltime, and don't know anyone that has anything less than positive to say about Kamens (nobody called him Ben because there were no less than 5 Bens at Khan Academy when I left).

One of his most memorable habits to me was coming into a meeting room where his words obviously had a lot of sway, then sitting on the ground when we were short on chairs.

He was an inspiration to many, first as an engineer, and later as a manager, and I'm excited to see what he takes on next.
SSRIs don't have clinically relevant effects. The following study is a review article. It cites most of the meta analysis the are relevant.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4172306/?report...

I am still trying to find the studies that indicate that stimulants might increase high school drop out. But there is pretty clear consensus that they don't increase grades over the long term.

https://www.nber.org/papers/w19105
> No, that's not true either. I've never had to show ID here in Switzerland, not least because I mostly vote by mail.

Actually yes, it is 100% correct that you need an ID to go vote at the physical voting booth. (I was asked every time and everyone else who was standing in line too)

The mechanism for voting via mail is different, but you still require an ID. The card can only be sent to an address where you have registered yourself to be living, and the registration has to be done with an ID.

Also the card isn't just dropped in your mailbox, it can only be handed to you or someone (in person) who is also registered to be living at the exact same address. (for example your wife)

If no one is at home you have to go to the post office and get it by showing your ID.

I really doubt that Swiss authorities will just send cards for voting via mail to arbitrary addresses for arbitrary persons (or even made up persons). There must be some kind of registration of every person with an ID that proves he/she is living at a certain address as a basic requirement before you can get this. (or it's a cultural difference between us)

From what I know the process is even stricter in Germany than here.
Just to point out (because hey, why not :P)

Table saws are a bad example in some cases.

My saw stop will stop the blade in <5 milliseconds of contact.
It equates to basically scratching your finger or better (blades move at 3000-3600rpm, so it calculates out to about 1/4 revolution of the blade, max.)

As far as i'm aware, they've literally never had a brake activation failure.

It's pretty much the safest thing in my shop.

Of all the things i'd never let kids play with in the shop, it'd probably be chisels.

Which is ironic, because people think they are a good way to introduce kids to woodworking, when they are probably the sharpest and least safe thing due to how sharp and easy to cause severe injury.
The biggest difference maker for me in terms of alleviating repetitive strain was switching from a mouse to a trackball. Something about not having to tense my arm up and move the mouse all over anymore...
Renting out your car on Getaround
I'm 55 this year, still programming. And I still love it ... well, I love trying new things.

One of my friends that I started my first job with is now at the CTO level, while I keep turning down opportunities to "advance" into management. Another friend of mine quit after the Senior Director level because he started hating his life, and went back to programming/embedded engineering for the fun of it.

Age does make you wonder if you were turned down for an offer because of subconscious ageism, but I am not aware of rampant problems with it.

You do have to be careful to give everybody's proposals a chance, instead of just pattern-matching to something awful in your past.

Keeping an open mind is a discipline.

Having kids helps you rediscover what you once loved, helps you recover from jaded oldsterism.
How to create an MVP that can get your startup funded
dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12704889
"The credit card was broken.
We fixed it.

The next time you hear about a big credit card breach, you can relax."

I don't actually agree with either of these statements. I think what is broken are practices of credit reporting agencies, theres really only the "Big 3" in the US = Transunion, Equifax and Experian." They are in control of your credit profile and not you the consumer/citizen/person. They are constantly selling your data. When you get a credit card offer in the mail it is because a third party bought a risk profile from one of these big three credit reporting agencies.

Their security practices and policies are also questionable. A recent example - last year Experian was breached and millions of customers data was stolen. Experian informed people weeks later via snail mail. Apparently they didn't think this was time-sensitive issue. They offered two years of free credit monitoring after which time they would start billing you for the service - talk about an inappropriate marketing opportunity.

This is so horribly broken on so many levels. You can not opt out of these agencies owning your credit profile.

Also I have had fraudulent activity on my credit card accounts before with two major credit cards and both times they have proactively informed me that there was suspicious activity and to contact them. I contacted them and they issued a new card and told me to not worry about the charges. This was the last I heard of it. Yes you need to go update your credit card number with people online but in my case only half a dozen places would have that and generally merchant will email you if there is a problem with the card such as you forgot to update them with the new one.

I am curious if anyone has tried this new card though, it looks interesting.
Shipping to third world countries and letting the local "recycling" companies handle the dirty work is the way these regulations are currently complied with.
Too much focus on ads, cluttered design and not enough good products?
I couldn't have said it better.

Nobody is choosing either Trump or Clinton. They are voting for the alternative against either Trump or Clinton.
Is there any benefit to a Russian hacker not working from Russia?
I hear you and my wife and I struggle with similar feelings! But taking a step back, I think it's plain that the actual risk from CPS over-reach is extremely low.

I posted my comment here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12744241 at the top level FYI.
No, relations describe facts, not things. Heath's theorem means you can decompose a table/relation that has n non-key attributes into n tables. This is something you have to do for BCNF.

Theoretically it's possible to imagine a normalised relation with 50 columns. In practice a table like that is unusual and suspect (frankly, even in a denormalised design).
When I was a kid, we ran around our neighborhood as a pack every day after school, and all summer. We would explore the woods, explore new construction houses near us after the workers left, play sports, and thousands of other activities.

Unfortunately, the environment has changed for my kids in ways that makes this difficult to duplicate:

1. Other kids aren't home anymore, they are all at structured activities. There is no neighborhood pack to play with.

2. Parents aren't home either, they are working. When I was a kid, if you got a splinter or scrape, you just went to the nearest house and someone's mom patched you up. All those houses are empty now.

3. If you keep your kid home to play freely, they miss out on all the social stuff going on in the structured activities. Much as I dislike all the structure, it is where the other kids are.

I agree it sounds great to let your kids roam free as we did, but I think in practice the environment has changed in ways that make it difficult.
Have you read the whole article? He goes on to describe research on rats who are prevented from playing as pups and develops his argument from there.
Commercialism and Journalism (1909)
You're just ignorant for labelling the race instead of the pertinent attribute: criminal. Are you OK being victimized by whites in Appalachia robbing you for pain pills or white rednecks in Tennessee high on Meth? As long as "blacks" don't do it?
... numerous bigger companies followed the startups into SOMA, and some of the startups have grown big already.
> Yes, but most kids are not allowed or encouraged to play on their roofs. If they were, the rate of injury would likely be much higher.

I used to play on the roof of our shed. I have no idea what I did up there but I think it was mostly being deliberately up high. I dangled and jumped many times and jumped at least once before deciding that kind of hurt and deciding not to do it again. You overestimate the stupidity of children who are familiar with the concept of consequences. I also had my thumbnails fall off multiple times after hitting them with hammers and burned off the skin on my little finger once on a stovetop seeing exactly what these burns were that were so scary. I never even broke a bone and I have less than five wounds that should have received stitches. I had a boring, safe childhood.
I also was diagnosed with ADHD and took Ritalin then Adderall for years. I stopped taking them in medical school and actually got better grades.

Regardless of my personal experience or your personal experience the evidence does not show that stimulants increase grades in the medium or long term.
We can agree that OLC opinions authorizing torture are bad without agreeing that they are law. One of the things that makes those OLC decisions bad is that they are lawless: they contravene the law. (The other, obviously, is that torture is inherently wrong).

Government officials probably cannot cite an OLC opinion in court in front of a judge as justification for torture. That's what my first comment on this thread pointed out. OLC opinions do not create binding precedent, any more than Wesley Snipes's tax lawyer's opinions did for his case.
There is a reason for this.

I happen to have an almost brand-new LCD screen here with LED backlight and high resolution, and a low-resultion over-a-decade-old LCD screen.

And guess what?

A website that looks totally fine on the old one is so blindingly bright on the new one that it hurts.

It literally hurts to look at.

This can be useful, as it provides a higher dynamic range, which can be used to recreate the blinding brightness of an explosion when watching a movie.

But it also means that websites have to use less contrasts.

The overall problem is:

We specify sizes in the web independent of the actual monitor size, with rem and em and pt and so on.

Why can’t we specify colors independent of the monitors actual contrast ratio, too?

Why can’t I have a website where the text seems to have the same contrast on and old and a new monitor, while that gif of an explosion is as blindingly bright as possible?
T-Mobile to Pay $48M for Misleading Unlimited Data Plan
As with everything else I hear on the Internet, I remind myself that it wouldn't be talked about if it were not newsworthy.
> Meanwhile, much of the web is now dominated by sites like Facebook, Google, BBC, etc - all of which are extremely readable.

The author actually calls out Google and Apple specifically, for breaking their own contrast suggestions

His example:
https://kevinmarks.github.io/appenginebefore.png
https://kevinmarks.github.io/appengineafter.png
Guccifer2.0?
That's an incredibly naive comment. He most likely faces extradition to the US for espionage. There's been no formal charges but senior US officials have hinted as much. Given how the US has treated journalists lately I think he has ample reasons to expect an unfair closed door trial in the US.

Here'sa bit about it, http://www.alternet.org/rss/breaking_news/1003054/does_the_u...
Updating diagnostics for Boeing’s 737 MAX
Does NASA come up in presidential elections, mid-term elections, or state governor elections?

Given that the US is a federation and the EU is a union, I would not expect European elections (which are parliamentary) to mention that, as each country selects its MPs for representation in the EU parliament.

Besides, I didn't hear NASA mentioned in the Clinton/Trump debate so far, though I didn't follow it closely.
Does anyone know what the contrast ratio for black ink on white paper roughly is? I was once a big fan of black-on-white on my computer screen, until I read that Solarized aimed for the contrast of "shaded paper" [1] and realized that the contrast ratio on a computer screen was much greater than the contrast ratio in printed material.

Also, it seems to me that monitors have improved in being able to display more contrast than was previously possible. Is that true? Is that another reason why lower-contrast designs have become more popular?

[1] http://ethanschoonover.com/solarized#features
> ...But hey 2 day shipping for $8/ month right!

Depending on the category, they're not even competitive on cost anymore. "Free shipping" has basically been baked into the costs, such that small items like groceries, home supplies and hardware routinely cost more than what's available at the local big box store. There's still bargains to be had on more expensive things, like electronics (as long as you catch the price flux wave at the right time), but you've got to do your homework.

At this point, Amazon is coasting on their market share. They're basically renting out their reputation to anyone with something to sell.
Has anyone else deployed a Chaos Monkey in production?

I can imagine it would be a tough sell to the CEO. :)
> Problem is, if I can't trust the reviews, how do I sort the shit from what I actually want?

Purchase only "Best Seller" items?
DeepTeach: the interactive deep image classifier builder
Nice! Thanks for the feedback. Out of all the combinations, which do you prefer?
It's only available on http, not https.
to be truly accurate, it is _allegedly_ launching a cyber attack.
This sounds a lot like a thinly veiled attempt to dump a story about a state sponsored hacker being arrested and possibly extradited back to the US. All we've heard for weeks now is how a group of state sponsored Russian hackers were feeding DNC documents to Wikileaks.

The lack of details and the Russian response just sounds fishy to me.
According to that, literally means figuratively, too.

Sometimes linguistic prescriptivism is necessary to keep a language actually understandable, and to ensure it makes sense, and doesn’t just become thousands of independent statements that you have to learn by heart.
NuttX would be interesting on a raspberry pi. Much lighter weight then Linux but still implements POSIX like interfaces. The POSIX stuff always felt to clunky for a microcontroller, but rPi might be just right.

While a port has been discussed, I don't think a port has been completed.
To get your first ID in my state, you need to provide proof of signature, birthdate, social security number and residency.

The closest government office to me is a 15 min drive, 30 min bus ride, or a hour and a half walk.

The wait varies but I would say an hour minimum from my experience. The fee is between 10 and 20 dollars depending on your age.

All of these offices are only open during regular business hours(8 to 5:30 Monday through Friday. Closed on weekends).

Getting my first ID was a four hour and a half hour affair. I was lucky enough that my dad was able to take off work and also drive me. A quarter of my time was spent at the bank getting my Social security card out of my safety deposit box(we tried to use a photo copy but they only accept the actual card).

Renewing a license is easier because you just need the expired license, but my last renewal took 2 hours.

The process sucks and I imagine it sucks even more if you don't have a car or have a job that is m-f 9-5(or can't easily take a day off)
UK24727: a shortest-possible walking tour through the pubs of the United Kingdom
I am seeing it. I can't see the images on Safari either, they show broken. It is saying the certificate was revoked.
Tips on First week starting as a new PM
What, if not correlation, does imply causation?
I'm so surprised that all attempts at solutions for "readability" so far seems to have addressed the actual article or post content only. I don't just want to read a sane looking web, I want to browse a accessible and sane looking web.

I'd like to be able to activate a browser mode that cleans up not only the content of the site, but also the structure by creating simple and accessible navigation (perhaps according to html and css rules that I can write myself).

Many sites have a similar type of structure (/about/, /contact/ etc). HTML5 sites with <nav> will hopefully have made this endeavor much easier.

Sites with more complicated structure could perhaps be analyzed by AI and OK'd and corrected by a collective of users (via a browser extension). When the sites has been "solved" by AI and/or it's users, it can be added to a shared database (think something like https://userstyles.org/) that will be automatically queried when you use the site.
This seems neat but not what I was expecting. I am writing a small django app to track my finances. This is just an app I am writing for myself to use personally. I would love to be able to get transactions directly from a credit card, I know it is possible there are other services (like mint.com) that can do it. Can anyone point me the right direction? If could get my Amex transactions as json or xml that would be great. As a personal project I wouldn't be willing to spend much money to get access to an API like what I am describing (if fees are associated with it).
Ask HN: What is the state of C++ vs. Rust?
I would love to hear the thoughts of people who have kept up with the developments in both these languages.

Some of the stuff I'm wondering along is features, safety, performance, simplifying the language and so on.

C++11/14 brought good things to the table, perhaps C++17 will bring more improvements?

I havent gone through the proposals for upcoming features in either language but seems like the pace of Rust development is really good.

But then there is the idea of ignoring legacy C++ and treating Modern C++ as a new language altogether.

Just curious to hear anyone's thoughts on the state of these two languages.
They probably have limited resources like many startups, and have to prioritize. Like how the stock trading app Robinhood was Android only at first, then they went to iOS. No web version yet as far as I know.

Ideally I think if your building a product, you should have Web version, native iOS and Android versions as that would cover pretty much all of the market in the long run. But maybe it's best to focus on just one version, get it right and then make it for other platforms
I'm not saying both sides' arguments have equal merit. The problem I'm talking about is that we don't hear the arguments, facts, and logic anymore, from either side. Just name-calling and vitriol, for the most part.

I am not just talking about the actions of "some Democrats" here. It's more than just some, but HRC herself is not at all innocent of inciting racial and gender-based tension for her own political gain. I can provide numerous examples if you need them.

I think the Democrats would win on the merits on most issues, but neither they nor their opponents are even discussing the issues anymore.

As for the question of "who is worse" on non-factual issues, like the many despicable antics of Trump versus the hypocrisies and distortions of HRC, it's not a question I'm interested in or a game I wish to play. It seems to me that partisans on both sides will conclude the other side is worse, and there is no available standard for resolving it.
All I'm saying is I don't like where this is going, and I think it's eerily similar to a path both countries have traveled before.

If history must repeat, I'd rather not have the world's hackers get dragged into the struggle. I hate politics in my technology, dammit.
Many of us still work. I am in my 60s and I still work about 20 hours a week. I love designing and writing code, and I also do software maintenance and devops, and I write about one computer science book a year (working on two right now: one on Haskell and one on Cognitive Science).

I don't earn the very high salary that I used to earn, but that is OK because I am doing what I want to do.
What I find most interesting about that strategy is in practice it fails. The strength is it can push people to wait longer before judging. The weakness is it fails to demonstrate intelligence.
How do you know they didn't touch it for a decade?
Your comment reminds me of quantum theory (you know, the part about observing...)

I didn't vote on your comment, but it looks like it contains "react" and got downvoted, so stating that "anything" would get upvoted obviously wasn't true.

However, if you hadn't had written it, the claim could have still been true.

So, your writing about some fact... might have changed it.

Is there a name for that kind of occurence?
Where do you get those check marks from? There is not a single word in the article that has a proof of what he did.

Imagine if Russia captured US citizen in Argentina saying he is American hacker who they think hacked Russian servers, I can imagine the outrage of the US and its European puppets.

Also nytimes is incredibly biased against Russia, I would not trust a single word it says.
So I checked a bit for the newspapers.

None of the English newspapers I checked does it.

In the USA, Wall Street Journal, NY Times, do it; but USA Today, LA Times, Chicago Sun-Times, Denver Post, Chicago Tribune don't. Washington Post apparently does or did both.

None of the Australian newspapers I checked does it (and at first sight, most of them seem to fall in the following category...).

Tabloids either use one foot high full capital titles, or don't capitalise.

Not any French, Spanish, German use this capitalisation style either. Of course Germans do capitalise nouns, as they do in regular text.

So, it seems to be an American-only thing, and not even widespread there (for newspaper titles).