skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think with n=1 it's pretty hard to call it a skill. He made a call and was lucky. And it wasn't a hard call for him to make - if Toy Story had flopped, at least he wouldn't be out of pocket for the ongoing expenses of the studio. He took a punt on win-big-or-quit when he was planning on quitting anyway. The only downside to the call was for the people working for him, and his track record on that front speaks for itself.
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18f? at least she's legal.

anyway, what a gigantic, steaming pile of shit idea this is.

this business was doomed from the start because our government doesn't operate with an eye towards profitability because NO ONE is incentivized to do so!

so they're $30M+ in the red and are bringing in a "third party" (read: PRIVATE SECTOR CONSULTANTS) to figure this clusterfuck out?

this stories BEGS the question: does this country have a REVENUE problem or a SPENDING problem?
Rhetorical question, isn't it. Of course they wouldn't.

Support for the EU is deeply rooted in a belief that people can't/shouldn't rule themselves: they need to delegate 'complex matters' to elite experts who, of course, only have the people's best interests at heart. The sudden belief that the referendum was only a fancy opinion poll entirely fits with this narrative.
I have used this quite a bit.. http://www.dpriver.com/pp/sqlformat.htm
"The government has already set out how they want Brexit to work"

Have they? I'd really like to see this.
Saw this last night, and being that I work on the application side of facial recognition, I sent the paper and this discussion here to our neural R&D lab (on the other side of the planet, where it was morning for them.) The chief scientist read the paper with interest, ran their images through our system and found none of them worked as the paper claimed. I suspect the technique described had been suspected by some security industry technologists and measures put in place to combat these types of attacks. I suspect those that foresaw these developments have had their suspicions confirmed.
Thanks for your feedback sam, I just tried Materialistic and it seems it's not working indeed. I can see from the bottom of the page that the App version is missing meaning for some reason the socket.io communication with the server is blocked. FF on my Android 6 Samsung S5 seems to be working though. I'll investigate further. Thanks again for your feedback!
Leave definitely won the vote, but it appears opinions have shifted fairly dramatically to the point where remain would likely win today: http://www.economist.com/blogs/graphicdetail/2016/10/daily-c...

The problem is that the leave campaign won by lying and playing on people's fears, and when UK voters had a chance to reflect it turns out that was a stupid choice.
> [...] the Battery Status API, a feature that allows websites to detect the status of the user's battery level, and use this information to save critical website data to disk before the device shuts down.

If that was the primary use-case, why not add a new feature that explicitly handles this?

You could imagine an "emergency shutdown imminent" callback that the browser invokes if there is a high likelihood of an emergency shutdown (because of battery level or other indicators). This would also give the browsers more leeway in evolving this feature and experimenting with different indicators, without breaking compatibility.
Cohesion, coupling and viscosity
The emphasis on secrecy is rather overblown IMHO: there's an entire company (not mentioned in the article!) whose sole business is building/maintaining these networks and they make plenty of information public on their website http://www.mckay-brothers.com/product-page/
I disagree with what you said about it being okay to attempt to stop Brexit, even after we voted against membership of the EU and never agreed to be part of it in the first place.
I've got a lot of sympathy for this argument, but without wage inflation coming as well there's going to be a short-term nasty squeeze as food and fuel jump 20%.

We saw this play out in Greece. The situation there was far worse, both at government and private level, but there still wasn't enough support for jumping out back to the Drachma and devaluting. And meanwhile the shortage of hard currency caused medical shortages.
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Not constructive, but I couldn't help it: the title before editing was "Experimental Edge-Side Mustache Processing in Varnish (Edgestash)"

Best headline I read in a while. This made my day :)
Free trade deals outside of Europe never involve changes to visa policies, as far as I'm aware. This is not some sort of natural or unavoidable thing - it's the result of political choices. Very many other things are like that, such as the various courts that you have to agree to obey, agreeing to automatic implementation of laws created by the Commission, etc.
PS. which FF/Android version are you using?
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Staying in the EUCU requires consent of the Council of Europe—Parliament can put in primary legislation that they wish to remain in the EUCU, but they have no power to enact it. You cannot make Article 50 conditional, as once the notification is sent you cannot unsend it—you are stuck with whatever is agreed between the state and the Council of Europe (or nothing, if no agreement is made within two years, or longer with unanimous agreement).
I doubt attackers only rely on a battery API. It's a conglomeration of attributes, not a single one. Problem isn't this phone with 30% battery is Adam Jensen. The problem is this phone with 30% battery and this user agent, and these addons, that takes X time to render SVG as Y, and takes 20ms to execute this code, etc. is Adam Jensen.

For example the mere presence of battery API gives bits of information (because it identifies your program as phone or computer). I assume that Battery API:

A) Provides enough bits of information,

B) Isn't useful enough.
It's a pity, DNS handles negative lookup caching / TTLs (in fact that is exactly what the TTL field in DNS zones are!). So negative lookups can be cached, but you need to do thinking about it ahead of time and set sensible TTLs (preferably configurable) for those negative caches.
> We work out of a very cheap office in a council

How did you arrange that?
The Australian capital territories are currently phasing in a broader land taxt and phasing out stamp duty in exchange. Not flight of capital has happened so far, and no crisis either.

And how is land supposed to flee? You can't take soil with you.

Wouldn't a broader wealth tax that applies to movable capital as well lead to that very moveable capital fleeing? (As an example, I am currently in the process of optimizing my own capital gains taxes, by eg choosing the country I hold my assets in carefully.)
Super PAC has a specific technical meaning, it's a PAC that has filed a statement following guidelines established by a couple of court cases. The statements are listed here:

http://www.fec.gov/press/press2011/ieoc_alpha.shtml

I guess it would be more accurate to just assert that you believe they are partisan.
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The reason is that the UK is best buddies with Ireland, while Cyprus and Malta are members of the Commonwealth and so their citizens get the same privileges as all other Commonwealth citizens (including the right to vote in UK parliamentary elections).

That's not a non-imperialist argument, but it is the reason.
To have worked in both (Pornhub Lead Dev a few years ago when it took off, and more recently tech architect at some ad shop), advertising is wayyy shadier and scummier than porn, no doubt.

I lasted barely a year in advertising, the whole industry is a scam, top to bottom, big players and small, just scam and horrible people. Worked 5 years at MindGeek/Manwin, saw/did some dodgy shit but nothing that made me want to distance myself from the industry.
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Thanks for the excellent article.

One more interesting thing I have observed in data projects failing: organizations culture around data and the gap between data science team and engineers. Say, you have 2 top notch data scientist who know enough (stats, markov chains, algorithms and so on..). But let us say an average engineer in the organization doesn't know even a bit about A/B testing or difference between building a machine learning model Vs. obtaining predictions from already built model. Then no matter how good your so called data scientist are, the end result in terms of product or solution delivery is always sub-optimal. If the engineers and data science teams can't speak a common language, the result is always disastrous. Note that the gap is specifically about understanding data analysis as a domain.

The efforts to narrow down this gap must be driven by the lead data science member or CTO. Something like 'data bootcamp' mandatory for every new joinee can help. I had read about Facebook having such a bootcamp mandatory.
The EU should absolutely have been willing to talk about it, yes!

Article 50 was only put there because the British insisted on it. Read what the guy who wrote it thinks:

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/brexit-eu-refe...
This kind of "legalese bs" happens all the time in Switzerland and you won't find a lot of people believing Switzerland is on a brink of a violent government overthrow.

Referendums are usually a mandate to the parliament to implement something.If the referendum idea turns out to be impossible (like eating and having your cake) then the parliament will dismiss or water down this mandate.
This reminds me of something a guitar playing friend of mine once said, when asked to play something difficult:

"Nothing is difficult if you practice it enough"
The same reason anybody stays with any archane system: entrenched interests.
As a former smoker I believe that the best way to quit smoking is cold turkey. Sure, the withdrawal phase is a hell but in my case that helped me realize just how addictive that shit was. Before I’d never imagine that quitting would cause me depression or sleeping problems. All that, and a lot more, helped me understand how much my body was reliant on cigarettes. From my experience most smokers don’t realize how addictive and dependent they are on their habit. If they were perhaps they’d think twice before lighting another one.
I really enjoyed Brendan Eich's exposition of the toxic web advertising industry.
> he points out that a one-hour meeting with eight people isn’t really a one-hour meeting at all; it’s a meeting that just consumed eight hours of productive time from your team

I still think this is an underestimate.

Odds are people were working on something before the meeting and stopped just a bit early to get their notes together or read that email chain or whatever. Count on at least 5 minutes but assume more like 15. And then after the meeting people collect their notes, head back to their desks, and then to read the recap after. Another 15 minutes is likely.

So that 1 hour meeting just became 1.5+ hours times 8 people.

What a waste.
I use org-mode's agenda as kanban board, so adding a global shortcut for agenda is invaluable.

Also more states. And I typically use a blank line between tree branches. Without altering org-cycle-separator-lines, it will be eaten up by last leaf of previous branch which I found annoying.

Apart from that their defaults are pretty good.

(use-package org
:bind ("C-c a" . org-agenda)
:config
(progn
(setq org-agenda-files '("~/org"))
(setq org-cycle-separator-lines 1)
(setq org-todo-keywords '((type "TODO" "PROG" "WAIT" "|" "DONE")))
(setq org-todo-keyword-faces '(("TODO" . "brightblack") ("WAIT" . "yellow")))))
I'm sorry to be rude but this is a very basic interpretation of democracy.
It has some serious limitations:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Majority_rule#Limitations

typically we practice more complex implementations of democracy and as a rule we use majority rule for things like social questions as opposed to key strategic and economic ones.
People voted in general elections for many different reasons. People voting for a pro-EU party didn't necessarily support the EU. And all those elections took place under a flawed first-past-the-post system.
> It makes commenting out columns painless.

No it does not. If you have to comment out the first column you'll have to remove the comma from the second column. It's the same problem that happens if you put the commas at the end of the line, except that the offending line will be the last column. So putting commas at the beginning just makes it look weird because it differs from how we use commas in natural language.
Well, the people here in DC are rule-makers and rule-followers. So there are a lot of rules and a lot of people enforcing the rules.
They need to get back to having some evergreen non-licensed themes, besides Town, that aren't bat-shit crazy. Selfishly, I would like that to be Castle or Pirates; there's been a gap there since the Lord of the Rings/Hobbit sets went offline, and I think they could make a mint with more along the lines of Kingdoms Joust and Medieval Market Village.
If you're a vim person, there is vimwiki... it's not the same as orgmode (I believe, never having tried it), but it's not bad.
How about sugar?
You do realise crackers strip out your server request code. This is trivial to do. You really have no idea of how many people are using your program.
> Say you care very much but don't know what's best? Does your vote not matter, now?

Yes, your vote doesn't matter in that case, because you have no information to convey to the system: you have no preference. Only votes which are conveying a preference about how the situation should be handled are useful. There's no reason to distinguish between "I care, but don't have anything to say about the topic" and "I don't care" if you're not even willing to vote based on which candidate talks about the issues you care about, at least as far as elections go.

Write a letter or something.

Ed: In a slightly less snarky sense, your vote really doesn't matter at that point. The point you should participate in the process, if you feel candidates aren't addressing your issues, is way before that. It just requires actual amounts of time and effort to shift platforms, though, and participation beyond checking a box every year/few years.
i will never ever install FB app or FB messenger on my cell phone anymore. Firefox with adblock, and if I can't message, well then there is SMS/Viber/Whatsapp/Hangouts/whateva.
> having actually gone partly down the brexit path

What do you mean exactly?

> The treatment of leavers by remainers has been frankly disgusting

Completely agree. The whole thing of people taking sides, rather than discussing a political issue, has been absurd and awful.

> voted for brexit on informed reasons

Unfortunately this was badly communicated, the media's fault no doubt. It was genuinely quite difficult to find a reasoned, balanced view (especially on the leave side I have to say).
The UK economy was/is doing fine? Not sure you read up on all the facts.
And if the vote outcome _does_ change, what do we do afterwards - make it best of three and have another one to finally settle it as the pro Brexit voters revolt about their decision being overturned?
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That eventuality is perfectly legal and the reason the founders designed the Electoral College in the first place, as a last ditch emergency brake. Not that I would want that to happen but it is well known that only democratic convention binds the electors.
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> React's surface area (compared to something like Angular or Ember) is so small

Sure, the core React library is small. But when do people ever just use the core library? Think of all the additional libraries and components in the React ecosystem that get used in projects. The footprint of the average React project ends up being just as large as the footprint of the average Angular or Ember project.
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Are you confusing bootstrapped business with a startup? Would you call a bootstrapped fast food shop a startup since the owner dream of making it up to a McDonald like chain?
there is a vim plugin for org-mode (VimOrganizer)
I have experienced the same thing at least twice in the last 5 years ... automated scripts for compiling and uploading >50 .org files for a course website, suddenly fails. Spend 3 days chasing down why. Small naming change in an org function.

Now again?

It's very frustrating.
I too smell a hit piece. But I kept reading to figure out why.

What got me thinking this was the statement about generating 22 million when there is a goal of 32 million. And that was after a year of zero revenue.
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> deeply rooted in a belief that people can't/shouldn't rule themselves

Of course I believe that. Everyone who isn't a rabid libertarian or anarchist believes that, whichever side of political spectrum they come from. I imagine you believe it too to some degree. In representative democracies we don't rule ourselves, we choose the people who will rule us, which isn't the same thing at all.

There's a lot of valid arguments to be had around the process of choosing, the institutions, and what power those chosen should have, but no serious person believes that the best solution for a species that lives in societies is for every member to rule themselves in every particular.
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Well for one thing, in my state you have to be 18+ to purchase them, which makes it just as convenient to smoke actual cigarettes for kids.
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> refuse to keep useful services online

The project failed to gain widespread adoption. An org that runs marginally valuable side projects indefinitely is an org that is going to face a downfall.

Like you, I'd love to see a better authn mechanism, but Persona wasn't going to be it. So, this frees their resources to focus on what is going to continue making Mozilla relevant. Certainly a declining user base on Persona wasn't going to be it.
And yet the numbers say that people who go through phased withdrawal using e-cigarettes are more likely to give up...
Where I am now, it depends a lot on your individual initiative and your immediate manager.

We have some departments where everyone takes 4-6 weeks per year, and others where I'm pretty sure only a couple people have been out for longer than a sick day here and there. That's down to the individual managers, I think, and an example of a good way for an unlimited vacation policy to fail. Top brass certainly sets an example of taking plenty of time.

My manager has been on my case lately, encouraging me to take more PTO (I've probably already taken 15 days so far this year, and it'll be close to 25 by Dec 31). The guy who sits on one side of me takes 3-4 day weekends every couple weeks all summer so he can go camping and hiking with his girlfriend. The guy who sits on the other side took two weeks mid-year and that's it. A guy who regularly showed up about 2-3 times per week and worked half days when he did (despite being hired as a full-time employee) was let go.

For me it's better than the last place. 10 days combined PTO minus a medical or family event and one bad cold doesn't even leave you with enough time to take a full week vacation, let alone an additional mental health day here and there. Perfect recipe for burnout.

Here, at the end of a particularly rough stretch, I've learned not to feel the least bit guilty about taking an extra day to recover, or even to do so multiple times in a month. I come back motivated and focused instead of exhausted and resentful, and get more done in 4 good days than I would in 5 miserable ones.
What the GP was referencing was the old argument of us Emacs users:

"There is a difference with efficiency of easy learning and efficiency when using". It implies that the cost of learning Emacs is small, per year of bliss using it. (Why would you downgrade to something else if you know Emacs?)

I guess, something like this for a musician: "This was a hard piece of music to learn, but it is sure to get me laid many times." :-)

(Sorry about the preconceived opinion about why people learn to play an instrument, it is obviously jealousy since I can't even clap hands to most of my favorite music. :-) )
you're right, people get uneasy about it, but they get really uneasy when you keep bad people.

I've seen entire companies evaporate because a bad apple stuck around, people who had to work with them quit, then more quit, and eventually the whole company was just mediocre or bad people and they couldn't run with that anymore.

Kind of the broken window problem applied to people.
Last time org syntax was changed that affected me, it did not do automatic conversion (it was just last release, actually).

In that case, however there was a code snippet to repair them. You have to know and read the changelogs for them though.
Yep.

No, what explains that is that I used C for the first time in 1993, yet I was already coding since 1986.

So I was doing systems like level programming in Timex Basic, Turbo Basic, Turbo Pascal, Z80 and 80x86 on those in between years.

Also had friends using 68000, AMOS and GFA Basic on their Amigas.

Also I majored in systems level programming, with emphasis in compilers, which meant I have spent quite some time researching old programming environments, and still do. Better than reading newspapers sometimes.

So I learned that were better ways to do systems programming without having the compromises of C.
There hasn't been enough time yet (and brexit hasn't even actually happened yet) to prove or reject a single one of those points.
Do you have a link to a recent job posting? If so I'm sure you can get some feedback on why that is.
I do walk through it, it's painless (1 extra tap on screen) and it's exactly to not have FB apps on cell phone and not have ads displayed. I use FB less, which is good for healthier life. FB long lost its glamour, it's just another RSS news feed about friends/interests.

Same for my fiancee.
The 17 million votes for Leave was the largest vote ever cast in Britain for anything at all in the entire history of the UK. Blair swept to power in 1997 with 13 million votes. The Conservatives got fourteen million in 1992. With 16 million voting for Remain, putting it to the courts was a recipe for confrontation. Nothing has ignited the British people as much as this issue. Big trouble ahead.
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David Davis said "The mandate for Britain to leave the European Union is clear, overwhelming, and unarguable."
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Along with the 'open office work like a startup looks like' disease.
For those interested in the use of microwave links for HFT, there was an interesting post [1] a while back and some discussion on HN [2] too.

[1] https://sniperinmahwah.wordpress.com/2014/09/22/hft-in-my-ba...

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8354278
If you open them in a browser when you're offline, you won't be able to load/read your messages (yes, I know about HTML5 manifests for offline data... but that's a mess), but with Signal you can.

Moreover, being able to vet/verify the updates (which you can apparently even block altogether) before running the app is of paramount importance for a secure app like Signal.

With a run-of-the-mill webapp that's also impossible.

Again: tradeoffs. I'd prefer if Signal desktop was built on something different, but I still happily use it as is everyday.
I think (s)he was talking about collectively ruling ourselves rather than individually.

You don't have to be a rabid libertarian or anarchist to think that Direct Democracy has something to offer.