skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I really think the underlying problem is that she was a pretty young woman and this prevented her from getting the kind of reality check she should have gotten much earlier. I am a woman and I find that men either won't really engage me at all or they want to, I don't know, be nice? Be encouraging?

I know it is always challenging to get good constructive feedback, but I think charming, pretty women more often than others either get no feedback or get gushed at. I have a tendency to get treated by people like I am their best friend or something and it often weirds me out and fairly often leads to uncomfortable and problematic situations. I have spent a lot of years trying to find a solution to this.

I am kind of glad to see this company being reigned in, but I find it sad to watch what happens with Ms. Holmes, who probably believed and probably still believes the hype about herself. I think she still is failing to get the memo she needs to get and it is kind of tragic. She was essentially a child when she started this. Her elders and so-called advisors -- all brilliant men, it seems -- should have pulled her up short a long, long time ago. Instead, she is being dragged through this bloody mess.

It's a hard thing to watch, in part because I am so glad to see this vaporware company called on its BS, but at the same time I am generally inclined to be compassionate and I just feel someone -- probably many someone's -- failed in their duty (edit: To Ms. Holmes, a young kid with a dream) long ago and for a long time. It should have never gone this far.
They don't need it, but I can see why they'd perhaps want it.
I wonder if anyone has ever sent a fake National Security Letter. The inability to speak about or verify these letters is concerning to me.

Seems like you could cause a lot of damage by sending a fake NSL ordering a company to send you private data. At minimum it would cost the company several thousand dollars in legal fees to determine its fake.
> what's going on in the middle east in regards to foreign policy questions about that topic

Also not a great example of something we understand. I think realistically you would not be able to test on something so practical since most of these things are so poorly understood. Logic tests may be the safest thing you could test, though at that point you would just be cutting everyone off below a certain SAT score.

If I were in charge of coming up with a test, it wouldn't be a logic test, but some sort of test against hubris: to see how much they can admit that they don't know or can't know. In my opinion politicians play the "I know everything vote for me" game and load up on untested theories, leading to poor results (interventionist foreign policy leading to terrorism, stock market crashes, maybe even deep ocean drilling, etc).

But I also recognize that while I believe that excluding overconfident people (the ones who don't know what they don't know) from office would lead to better outcomes, I also suspect that this could turn out terribly.
The need to "not die" is a result of a deliberate policy choice, which you're obscuring by making it seem like the pedestrian is the only one choosing.

If we're talking about metaphorical "reigns" meaning control of society, then we definitely should not be handing these over to computers. The goal should be for computers to be responsible to people [0], rather than people being controlled by computers. Otherwise, we are abdicating are own right to exist.

[0] True independent AI would function as its own agent. But I would categorize that as a new "person".
I don't think people are confusing those things at all. The comment you're replying to is quite literally saying that using $_POST['somevar'] is too easy.
Wow, blast from the past.

I had one of those too. It was useful for its time.
In Python 2 and also in Python 3.4 and earlier, you get Callable, Tuple, and the rest from the `typing` module on PyPI: https://pypi.python.org/pypi/typing

This is a direct backport of the same `typing` module that's in the stdlib starting in Python 3.5.

(I'm one of the mypy core developers and work at Dropbox. We're using PEP 484 and mypy on a lot of Python 2 code!)
Yes, but that's what it means for other password managers too -- or at least it should. In the case where this isn't true, a third party would have access to your passwords in order to give you access once you lose your master.

The popular trend in other services is to use a master password to encrypt your data before storing it with them. In that case the third party has access to your encrypted data, but you still need your master password to decrypt it.

This allows you to use a public algorithm in place of storage. You still need to remember your username, as well the site to which you want to log in to, but this isn't the hard part for most people.
You could still choose to store a list of usernames and sites, but this is not generally considered sensitive information and they would be useless without the master password.
The only hard thing to do is to remember (or securely store) your master password.
I think he founded the company in Brazil. The article is not entirely right, he probably lives in Brazil because he likes. It is cheaper than SF or NY, but there are other countries and cities way more cheaper.
If I say you can put your diamond ring in my house and then give you a key, but tell you that if you want your ring you have to let me talk to you for five minutes every time you get it, and then you give your key to a friend who I don't like, don't I have the right to keep that person out, even though you gave them the key I gave you?

Basically this guy is your friend I don't like.

I understand not liking the walled garden, but if you don't like it, then you shouldn't enter it in the first place. Don't go into the garden and then give your friend a key to the place just to avoid me.
I think at this point you have to assume that chinese, american and russian intelligence if not organized crime have their fingers in all the major email providers.

I'm starting to think that these giant email providers are too much of a juicy target and we need to start moving towards a more decentralized model, or even move away from email entirely.
Librarians are unsung heroes.

I've noticed that no matter their personal political affiliations, they're generally extremely against any sort of censorship at all.

Most I've talked to believe that there are no bad ideas, and that if you ban ideas or books, more people will tend to want to read them.
I say this as someone who can't stand using it, but that's not why it's so widely used. It's widely used because nearly every experienced salesperson knows how to use it already. So when scaling a sales team and trying to minimize friction and get them producing as soon as possible, it can make a lot more sense than another CRM, even if you like it more.
Up vote my issue.

https://github.com/powdahound/ec2instances.info/issues/201
How to find a programming job you won't hate
It would be revolutionary for startups to start their org chart at the bottom, rather than the top. Programmer and BizDev, who get promoted as the company grows.
I think it does, I just opened the page up in a new tab and my previous search was still there.
I doubt that these are simply sent through the mail - they may be called 'letters' but they're the kind of thing that would likely be delivered by Men In Suits with ID cards, or at the very least accompanied by a phone call if they're frequent enough that the parties would be familiar with the forms and process.
Why isn't this on their site?
... this is just thinking out loud, not directed at you.
You mention facebook worked out better. I've never be able to get very good results with facebook. Google, to me is the best, if you can find good keywords. Although, expensive. I've just always assumed banner type traffic just sucks.
Pretty sure that Google or Facebook could handle the scale Twitter operates at without the same headcount.
That all depends on the definition of a CTO of course, and that definition wildly fluctuates.

These two things together render the term nearly meaningless.
Apple doing something in the cloud? Properly? Hahahahaha...
Show HN: Infogalactic
The Humane Representation of Thought
it isn't just one man... this went on for a vote and the majority of the people voted against it... sure he probably helped but a lot of us, including myself saw this deal as an insult to the millions of victims of the FARC... Colombia said no to a narconsitution for the second time in my lifetime and for that I am kinda proud.

The FARC IMHO are already defeated and they know it... the government just want to give them a way to save face, however they have no popular support and the country is moving forward without them...
> It's also unwise when your concept probably isn't even theoretically possible.

If the concept is easier and cheaper blood tests, I think we can solve that.

If the concept is testing with a given volume of arbitrary blood, you've dug yourself your own grave.
It turns out that the benefits of legal marriage have been carefully enumerated during the movement for legal gay marriage, so it's pretty easy to look this up. Here's a report from the federal government enumerating all the federal laws around marriage: http://www.gao.gov/archive/1997/og97016.pdf
if you ban ideas or books, more people will tend to want to read them.

Studies and real life incidents prove this to be true.
The market is distorted. Is it sustainable when you have to make $216k/yr [1] to even afford rent (not mortgage) on a 2bdrm?

[1] http://sf.curbed.com/2016/5/17/11692468/rent-salary-2016-san...
How companies see themselves:

Disruptive next-gen mobile VR social network startup powered by serverless machine learning and blockchains implemented by engineers/adept hikers fed exclusively with gluten free organic kale/tofu/quinoa salads and kombucha.

What they really are:

Death march ran by Steve Jobs' cultists/buzzword collectors solving problems that nobody has in a way they don't really understand implemented by overworked depressed people that drink themselves into oblivion to cope with technical debt.
Yes it does, because there is a proof of P /= PSPACE. So the whole paper implies P /= NP
Sure, but I think I'm still unclear on "platform" here. Does it mean "Android" and "iOS" (et al), or does each of those have multiple platforms within them?
Someone took "Go Forth and multiply" a little too literally, I would say.

(And then the lead developer lived to the age of 184, and begat Unfinished Company Software Port, who caused a stir in the legal department...)
I got a p value of 0.19 for getting at least as extreme results in this direction under the nul hypothesis that there was no difference by the treatments. So I agree this is pretty weak evidence.
If you jump on a new language early enough and are proficient enough to be productive in it, you have a chance to actually land some jobs with it without having to take a pay cut. Letting people know and engaging in the community is a requirement though.

You'll meet other people passionate about it and ultimately network is everything ;)

Then again I end up with php jobs anyway because I enjoy sharing my knowledge (coaching, improving way of working, etc) but at the same time surround myself with people who I can learn from. (Be it business, architecture or a different language, all relative knowledge is valuable)
> I think it's the people who use it. They just don't care. A successful project needs to be started by someone that cares just enough, but not too much.

My perception of the Clojure crowd is the exact opposite. They seem to be a bit too in love with the process and craft and not enough with the end results. That being said, I'd much rather code Clojure as a day job (I promise to be market focused!) than PHP. Right now I am almost all Python. There are definitely a lot of Python folks who are too much enamored with the craft, but the crowd is so big there's plenty of room for the GTD folks.
Hopefully after you make the mistake of firing someone for laughing, your boss is kind to you (as in the OP) and lets you keep your job
Palantir Faults Labor Dept.’s Data in Discrimination Suit
That is true, but the premium is a price lower than today. Twitter is a great business, but not one that can support the current share price.
The vast majority of current twitter engineers have nothing to do with keeping fail whales at bay.
While I agree that Congress and the States are not going to change the system now, that was not the case in 1780 or so. The weak Articles of Confederation were a failure and that system of government did abandon itself for a stronger more federal Constitution.
It's definitely an obvious one to PE. My brother works at a PE firm, and it's pretty commonly discussed (not as something they're actually going to do, but as a thought exercise, since it's got lots of characteristics that scream PE). The problem is that Twitter almost certainly won't take an acquisition for less than it's currently trading, which rules out a lot of PE.
Most long term couples have financial entanglements anyway - especially if kids are involved, or if there has been any financial or logistical support of one partner by the other (e.g. A quit their job so they could move with B to the other side of the country for B's job). Not being married doesn't make it easier to split a house.
Not nearly as exciting (read: politically contentious) as the last fork.

This time around it's mainly repricing opcodes that were cheap enough to effectively spam the network with.
In no street car does 124mph feel simply "adequate"
I'd be shocked if you couldn't verify their legitimacy with the agency that served them if for some reason their origin was in question.
The good feeling of having cleaned your house before it gets sucked into a black hole :)
Was there not an annoucement of new negotations that were announced in Havana again after this vote went through? What happened to that?
Same reason people invest in VC and other high-risk/high-reward asset classes: it may not work, but if it does, it will be immensely valuable.
"The problem is the language [JavaScript] wasn't designed."

FTFY
> Twitter almost certainly won't take an acquisition for less than it's currently trading

Would almost certainly need to be, if not hostile, done without management's coöperation. Why would they kill their golden goose?
Ask HN: Good books or articles on UI design?
Coming from a newbie perspective. It's something I'm interested in learning more about on the side
PHP is an easy language that is usable by practically anyone. And it simply make tech snobs and self-proclaimed gurus jealous :j
A deliberate policy choice of... allowing cars on roads? Before that it was horse drawn carriages and people on horseback running people down. I'm not clear on the pure policy choice you're referencing.

The rest of your post is a complete tangent.
IT workers aren’t cogs in a machine
Moller makes the same claims over and over, and adjusts the proposed completion date on the web site year after year to be about three years in the future. (Long discussion of this on the Wikipedia talk page.) He's been in trouble with the SEC for overclaiming to investors. His product has been "real soon now" since the 1970s. Here's his 1974 brochure.[1] Full-scale production was to begin by the end of 1976.

Moller was trying to build a VTOL powered by Wankel engines. His company was trying to build Wankels with much better power to weight ratios than usual. As usual, this resulted in much reduced engine lifespan. (Classic tradeoff, as everybody in drag racing knows.) He's been able to build a vehicle that can get off the ground, and hover a bit, tethered from a crane, for 2-3 minutes.

Pure-thrust VTOL is quite possible with jet engines. The aircraft that do it,
such as the Harrier and the F-35, are fighters, which are mostly engine anyway. It can be done, but not at low cost or high payload or high efficiency.

Jet engines remain expensive. Despite many attempts, small, cheap, reliable jet engines remain out of reach. Below 6-passenger bizjet size, reliable engines don't seem to get much cheaper. There are cheap high-powered small jet engines with model aircraft levels of reliability and a life of 100 hours or so. That's how the Flyboard Air does it.[2] Not being stupid, they always fly this over water at low altitudes.

[1] http://www.downside.com/scams/moller/
[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KEDrMriKsFM
Interesting I was surprised this happen so quick. I figured a few other companies were interested in Twitter (Google/Spotify/Pinterest) but lets see what happens
That's true, you can definitely over-correct. I guess if I was the supervisor in this case, I'd be doing some analysis with the developer after the fact. Were procedures correctly followed? If not, use this event as an example of why the procedures are in place. If they were followed, was it a brain-dead simple error? If so, then obviously there is something wrong with our test plans. If it was one of those errors that turned out to be a perfect storm of environment differences, unexpected inputs, code side-effects or what-have-you, then there probably is no quick solution and the imposition of some overbearing system to try to limit something that will probably not happen again would be overkill.

It's always best to do an after action analysis to see where things broke down, I think. Changing procedures or adding protections might be warranted, as long as it's not the "get my permission before ever putting a Y in that field again" kind of enhancement.
Or move into heavy, future-proofed encryption as the norm.
Facebook shuts down adverts across an entire country
Pure opinion without any indication of facts. Perhaps Uribe has legitimate reasons for wanting to punish the rebels?

After our Civil War the U.S. government imprisoned Jefferson Davis and others, and confiscated great quantities of land from former rebels.
> I've ridden TGVs in Europe. At 250 Km/h (~150 Mph), it's bumpy enough that I have a hard time doing anything other than stare out the window.

Uh? The only problem you may feel is the pressure in your ears when you are in a tunnel. But the ride feels much less bumpy than a regular train on a classical line.
> I recall reading the charges from the government though, and I believe there it mentioned the size of credit line from Credit Suisse
"Relying on gravity"

I have never built one of these, I wonder why they do that.

I would think 3 strong steppers would be capable of some pretty amazing forces and would be quite well constrained. Or perhaps 4 steppers or more.

I've spec'd out NEMA 42 frame steppers that could quite easily start my car (under the theory that a pony engine need be a tenth size to start a larger engine and my commuter car only has 100 ft-lb torque, so 20 or so ft-lb of torque should easily be adequate to start the engine)

Lets see a KollMorgan KM11 with 3750 in-oz of torque applied to a six inch pulley is 40 pounds of force. That should accelerate a ten pound router with some authority, 4 G or so. I know from experience I can push a traditional router against a jig or fence or table much longer and more comfortably than I can curl 40 lb barbells so 40 peak should be more than adequate.

A stepper of that output retails qty one to end users for like $150 delivered maybe? So figure maybe $300 for three in bulk order shipped by pallet-full?

Over the course of my life the prices of steppers and control electronics doesn't seem to change but the torque seems to go up an order of magnitude per decade for several decades now, so it might be a matter of waiting until 2026 to unleash something like the above.
Latest Linksys WRT router supports 802.11ac Wave 2
The air pressure 10 km above sea level is about 25 % of the air pressure at sea level, the Hyperloop paper says the air pressure in the tube will be 0.1 % of the air pressure at sea level. So the pressure is way closer to a perfect vacuum than to the air pressure outside of airplanes.
I've recently (as of four weeks ago) moved to silicon valley. I am amazed at how much wasted land there is here used as car parks, or sprawling one and two store buildings, or just flat out vacant. (There is a lot of vacant land.) I am also pleasantly surprised by the potential I see all around here for in-fill, and intensifying neighborhoods, or just outright building entirely new towns on top of that sprawl of car parks and office parks.

The solution to housing costs is not rent control. It is better urban planning, and building more houses. Sadly half of the examples of intensification I see here are miserable, soul crushing places, huge monolithic superblocks of mid-rise cookie cutter apartments on-top of parking that you only access by driving into your building and driving out of your building.

South bay could practically be a utopia if it pulled it's head out of its car loving ass.
Google and Google.org Celebrating Hispanic Heritage Month
The End of Men and Rise of Women in the High-Skilled Labor Market [pdf]
There's a signature requirement.

https://ballotpedia.org/Ballot_access_requirements_for_polit...

The primaries bypass that, major party candidates (selected privately by the party, the thing I propose to remove) can either file a petition (with ~1/2 the signatures required of an independent) or pay $100.

Note that I'm not proposing preventing groups from organizing and participating in the gathering of signatures and endorsing of candidates, I'm proposing removing the provisions that make it easier for the incumbent groups to get on the ballot and putting them on equal footing with everyone else.
> But by then I suspect ASICs (including one from NVIDIA) will be the new kings.

Yes, I suspect Nvidia has been developing/prototyping a Deep Learning ASIC for some time now. The power savings from an ASIC (particularly for inference) are just too massive to ignore.

Nvidia also seems to be involved in an inference only accelerator from Stanford called EIE (excellent paper here - https://arxiv.org/pdf/1602.01528v2.pdf).
Renewable energy adoption takes a new turn with partnership in the Netherlands
The policy choice you seem to be advocating is that cars should have complete right of way, which is decidedly not the present condition.

My "tangent" directly addressed something you said.
Perhaps CHICKEN?

https://www.call-cc.org/
It's really outrageous.
University research publications behind paywalls, but paid for by us. Now patents, the development paid for by us, in the hands of trolls. And public universities involved.
This privatization is outrageous.
Setting the rpm of the router is an ordinary setup/configuration step for doing 2d machining. I used to run 2d router systems at sign shops for years. You're always looking to optimise the speed of travel and router rpm to get the best cut qualities - fast travel with high quality cut - too fast can result in chips/burrs, too slow results in burning/melting and damage to bits, etc.

I always had a list of settings to use for various combinations of materials, thicknesses, router bit sizes/types. It was a bit of a black art actually - sometimes the results of changes were counter-intuitive because of specific material properties (heat retention, etc), and that cheat-sheet wound up containing the accumulated knowledge of years of trial and error experimentation. "The only difference between Science and screwing around is writing it down" :)