skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My fiance Aunt works with troubled youth in a relatively at risk community. In her decades long career, she has met a single clinical sociopath (many psychopaths but those are not as interesting, primarily characterized as a lack of empathy and a high need for stimulation). The sociopath was best characterized as chronically violent (history of physical abuse to pets, siblings, partners, parents and police) and disturbed every professional they came into contact with on the basis of their ability to transcend and violate your emotional boundaries with ease (and seeming satisfaction). 10x more charming, manipulative and sadistic than most people could conceive of being. Ie. A sociopath.

The organization of the world economy is not sociopathic. The orgnization of the world economy involves money, people and resources numberated in values not easily comprehended by our relatively linear cognitive abilities. It is comprised of a very large number of primarily good people making a primarily well intentioned effort to be successful for themselves, get respect, live well and if they can do useful things for other people. There are many reasons why people might still be in the gene pool but depending on the conditions of the environment they (and their ancestors) were raised in, the ability to be zero-sum competitive and hyper focused on what your competition does, could have been useful at one time and still may be.

HN nerds appreciate and give status to activities that try to create positive sum wealth for people, but the markets we work in can be just as zero-sum and unpleasant as winning an election or becoming CEO of a bank. It is not bad to win zero sum contests, we just need to create status incentives to make new things and create new wealth in favour of ruthlessly battling for old resources and zero sum opportunities to have power but do little good.

People think they are mad about capitalism but really they are mad about how hard it is to topple the faceless natural oligopolies that have taken over as default economic institutions as a result of the complexity and regulation in our globalized world. Instead of villainizing "capitalism" or giving up on trade and growing vegetables on your apartment balcony, I think we should do things that create new value and opportunities for people. It is a leadership bottleneck, to value creativity and give it status over role-based power, and an ongoing battle between people oriented towards different things.
"The first two weeks of basic conditioning prepare candidates for the third week, also known as "Hell Week." During Hell Week, candidates participate in five and a half days of continuous training. Each candidate sleeps at most four hours during the entire week, runs more than 200 miles, and does physical training for more than 20 hours per day." [1]

Insane.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Navy_SEAL_sele...
The volcanic islands tend to form pearl-chains... one making a law from the faultlines, can follow that line
https://plasma-mobile.org/nexus-5/ kind of hard to find but here's how one can actually use it. Any info on the network side of things?
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> That is not the case. Binary data is also allowed as the keys of objects

What is the value of binary key? A key is just the name for a value, it should not contain any data itself.

> I think it would make more sense to place the type tags on the values, not the keys, both visually and semantically.

Tags on keys are like types for columns or any other schema. I would rather not have to pre-process the values. To be pedantic, this would require copying all string-based values just to add a prefix.
Write one cover letter and copy paste. I can totally understand prose selling better than a listing of "past things done".
The last portion of your comment reminds me of the themes from Mythical Man Month by Fred Brooks.
I agree, and would add: data cleaning's importance to the quality of the result is also often underemphasized compared to the much bigger focus on the quality of the algorithms. A single bad decision on data cleaning can have a large effect on the end result (in many cases, more than choosing between algorithms, assuming you pick some vaguely reasonable algorithm). Especially any choice that ends up producing non-random effects, like deduplicating things in a way that ends up biased: it's common that missed duplicates in an automatic deduplication process aren't randomly distributed. Or a scraping process that ends up with biased samples. You can correct for these kinds of things in various ways (e.g. incorporating an estimate of the bias in a statistical model), but people who don't consider data cleaning a "real" part of the whole statistical modeling pipeline in the first place usually don't.
A Huge Victory for Privacy Advocates
I've written stuff to send notifications to slack channels and to XMPP. Slack was distinctly easier, so IMO they have a decent argument that Slack's more open than XMPP.

(You might consider other aspects of openness more important, of course.)
no babel/webpack?
> Your your interactions with them are subject to moral and ethical considerations just like any other, even though they are mediated by automatic mechanisms.

The moral and ethical considerations are simple - you sent data to me, I get to do whatever I want with it, subject to legal limits. I can view the whole site in my browser. Or half of it. Or view it in Emacs. I can run scripts. Or not run them. This is my machine, my execution environment. If you want to dictate how I consume the content, then you have the right to present me with the option and let me agree or disagree. If I disagree, don't serve me the content. Talking morality here is just trying to guilt-trip people into compliance with crappy money-making tactics.
How does the sandboxing work?
That isn't really true. In both of the previous elections they voted for
parties promising to end austerity.

The Greek electorate consistently voted for PASOK or ND, before the whole thing
blew up. And only after that, when no political party could promise any
unsustainable presents anymore, did a shift in the political spectrum take
place.

(Anecdotally: I have a lot of Greek friends, and although I/they don't agree on
a lot of things about the current situation in Greece, there's one thing they
agree on: that the root of the problem was the rotten political system in
Greece, and that the people (meaning in that case: the generation of their
parents) consistently voted for PASOK/ND besides knowing how rotten that system
was.)

(As a note: I am not arguing about whether Greece is a puppet state, the
situation now is only the fault of (the) EU/EC/Germany/[place devil here], or
if austerity is the way out or the real problem. I leave that to people who
know more about it or at least think they do.)
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Stalin is an interesting choice [1]. He was very much in a position to say nice night tonight, then change his mind a month later and have all of the records altered.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Censorship_of_images_in_the_So...
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This reminds me of a funny conversation I had once with a recruiter. He essentially demanded I provide him a salary number to give to a prospective company, as I had been flatly refusing to on the basis that it puts me at a disadvantage.

Eventually I threw out the highest amount I'd ever earned, about $225k a year total comp (partly tongue-in-cheek, partly to make a point), and he got really angry with me, telling me I was wasting his time and that nobody got paid that much. Needless to say, I ended any dealings with him at that point forward.
Are you considering any other laptops? I have a 5 year old Air that I am looking to replace soon.
Show HN: Design chat bot conversations without any coding
Have you ever thought of creating that awesome bot but you are not sure how the interaction would work? The only option you have is to hack together some code to try and create a bot just so you can test the conversation structure, or even test out your idea!

And if you don't know any programming, well you are kinda stuck.

So we ran into this exact same problem while creating a spec for our own Facebook bot project. So naturally, we reached out to other developers and designers in our network to see what are they using and lo behold, they are as frustrated as us.

So we ended up creating our own internal tool that allowed our design team to create different conversation mocks and even test them out within browser or extract it as a gif or mp4.

People in our network are loving it. So we are creating a product out of it. And we are looking for early testers to help us polish this up. We are giving heavy discounts to those who signup at this stage.

Check it out at http://botmock.com and please do leave your feedback. Happy to answer any questions that you might have.
Last year's technology, at tomorrow's prices. A $200 price bump for an old design? no thanks. I suspect the secondary market for good, clean, used 2011-2015 MBPs (and replacement batteries) will be booming for some time unless Apple corrects course.
I find PuTTY so aggravating to use. I've only used Cygwin but I assume msys2 has an ssh client. Do you use PuTTY over that since it's the workflow you're used to or do you find it to be a better experience?
Awesome! I made a fiddle https://jsfiddle.net/wt309enw/1/
Microsoft is definitely building a marketplace for bots and integrations.
Hillary Clinton recognized as contributor to the open source project BleachBit
That's "new" development. If you want a cute little house in the Heights, prepare to shell out very close to a million. Those houses aren't getting bought and torn down.

But where prices are low enough and lots are big enough, that's absolutely how new housing is being built.
It used to be, but laptops have essentially stopped getting faster. Desktops are innovating primarily with power hungry video cards for VR.

2010 to 2013 MacBook Pros changed a ton (Retina, dropped optical drive, got loads faster thanks to more cores, etc etc).
That's probably how the established companies that sell military equipment keep their edge. Influence decision makers to not buy equipment from a company who built a revolutionary equipment and strangle them with so much restriction, then wait until it shriveled to almost nothing and desperate for a buyer, buy the technology patents at a bargain and build another one under their own names that will be approved by the same decision makers and bill them exorbitant prices for each.
I hope the ones that got laid off, get hired quickly.
Microsoft's business versions of Windows have substantially different configuration settings and license agreements.
I have been trying to figure out how will Apple survive this crisis and someone's comment mentioning thinness makes me actually get the whole purpose of this MBP release.

This MBP has two immense features: 1) the introduction of a touch interface; and 2) enough thinness to make the MBP mainstream instead of a high-end pro device.

(They could not pack computing power AND make the MBP thinner).

The next version will be a simple hardware update (cpu, gpu, memory, etc.) but this laptop will now be the defining trend of things to come. More touch, more slim, more mainstream.

The rest of the industry (e.g. professionals) will have to rely on the extension port (usb-c) for everything else.

So stop whining that Apple is abandoning its core customers. Because it is abandoning them. And the future that MBP is taking on is for an entirely different set of customers. (Deja Vu anyone?)
> Did you know that as a company looking to bypass adblockers you can pay ad blockers to whitelist you? That is extortion money!

Adblock does this, but to my knowledge uBlock does not.
I can't speak for Admiral, but I was just yesterday looking at local crime statistics, and traffic violations were the one crime that education didn't affect greatly. Education did reduce propensity, but not radically.

However, employment status was a very significant factor.
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Good to know things from a recruiter's perspective! Thanks.
Hasn't this been (historically) how Apple laptop hardware revisions work? First gen of a refresh gets +200$ or so, with the bottom model missing some of the changes (retina, ssd or i5/i7 chips, for example). Next year they'll apply the changes to the old bottom model and drop all prices by $100 or so, and then drop them again the year after that. Maybe I'm misremembering, but this seems to be what they've done before.
The big one that's missing: There is nothing you can conclude from your data. It's clean, it makes its way properly to the analyst, and yet, there's just nothing there...
I'd have to disagree. Large companies spend a lot of money on their approach to compensation. They hire outside consultants to benchmark their pay relative to competitors. I've worked at jobs where pay has gone up due to such engagements. Having this data on LinkedIn isn't going to change that process.
Ha! That's what they should do building social media apps for music
Absolutely! Some websites I can't even scroll properly without disabling ads. I like the Patreon idea, because of not middleman, so it certainly appeals to an audience. But I don't think its scalable. With ad networks like Google, I do not have to create an account anywhere, or link my credit card. Google takes care of compensating both content creaters and advertisers.
Marvelous. Kudos to all who contributed to this project!

I'm now very expecting the KDE tablet.
It feels like we've seen this before. Is there any reason to expect this to be something I'll actually be able to use? I'm not able to use Firefox OS or Ubuntu on my phone now.
Agreed. At the end I turned to Python + Fortran (via the awesome f2py) for almost everything, although using two languages is far from ideal. It confuses students which hardly know just one of them, plus there is the cognitive burden of using two different sets of conventions (e.g., zero-based vs one-based array indices) and models of computation.

I don't know how much help I could give you regarding your script, but I would be happy to help. Feel free to contact me, my email is maurizio dot tomasi at outlook dot com.
Yes. When the Windows 10 offer expired, there was no incentive left to advertise it. Windows 7 users that want upgrades now have to go to a store and buy said upgrade.

But don't worry, you can continue parroting that line for another 20 years like "embrace, extend, extinguish". It's not like people make mistakes and learn from them. That never happens.
Are you an ad industry shill?

>Did you know that as a company looking to bypass adblockers you can pay ad blockers to whitelist you?

That's AdBlock Plus. uBlock Origin doesn't have this problem; it blocks everything and doesn't accept protection money.

>Lets stop this, lets get rid of the ad blockers and lets force the advertising companies to be responsible with their technology,

And how exactly do you propose to "force" ad companies to not serve malware, pop-ups, pop-unders, battery-draining ads, auto-play videos, etc.? Your comparison with TV is BS: with TV, the ads are constrained to only taking up 30 seconds of display time. They have no way of taking control of your TV, getting access to your personal info, etc. This isn't the case with internet ads.
> And no, endurance events like these are all about preparation and hours put in.

If you don't think there is a significant mental portion to endurance events like these, then I must assume that you have no idea what you're talking about.
I used to get 8-9hrs on macOS and about 6-8hrs on Ubuntu on the same Macbook. I'm sure Linux can do much better on non-apple hardware that is more or less open or well known in the Linux community. The problem with Linux and power savings is that a lot of the proprietary hardware manufacturers don't release specs that make writing drivers easy for obvious reasons so Linux open source driver implementation is never as good as macOS or Windows. Dell's XPS13 developer edition has been doing quite well in the last couple of years. If it picks up more steam, we could see Dell or Intel write proper open source (or closed) drivers to support the hardware better.
If they offered it a la carte I would be a lot more interested. Our company is just getting over Microsoft hegemony. I'll never be part of getting back into that by buying Microsoft services that are intertwined.
Well, that's certainly the ethos of American modernity -- but there seems (to me, at least) to be little reason to believe that it's actually true.

And, even if we were to assume the difficult-to-justify proposition that the purpose of life is to be your best self, it's hard to buy that this sort of behavior actually brings you closer to that goal -- any more than the Skoptsy were actually better able to commune with God after castration.

(It probably sure felt like it worked at the time, though.)
Compared to nVidia and AMD, Intel used to be much better. These days the driver situation isn't as rosy. There's a spotily maintained X driver (no releases in 3 years, updated by git snapshots) that is even being replaced by the generic modesetting driver in some distributions to avoid bugs. If you want flicker-free GUIs, tear-free video and general lack of bugs it's a bit of a crap shoot right now. The kernel driver does seem to get steady progress though, which is why the generic modesetting X driver seems to be a way forward.

Meanwhile both the AMD and nVidia situations have improved with more robust open source drivers appearing. I don't have experience with those to know if they've surpassed the Intel drivers in general quality though.
I don't think it ever reached the level of maturity of GTK/Gnome and Qt/KDE at the time.

If it did, the GNUstep desktop could have gained users (WindowMaker was very popular, me included) and developers would have got interest in it.

That didn't happen.
That's an interesting way to look at it. Since Microsoft let's you install Windows on whatever hardware you want clearly macos is more locked down but due to Apple's lock down you get more flexibility by using a Mac.
Please name the organizations that led you to believe this so we can never work for them.

I don't doubt that this toxic environment exists, but I'm fortunate not to have worked in one yet and I'd like to keep it that way.
json became so popular in first place because of its simplicity, i.e. no schemas, namespaces, attributes, less bizarre notation than xml. let's keep it this way.
Nope. That's a GUI app :)
Why did you choose Replicant over CopperheadOS? I've been looking at different ROMs like these and Replicant seems to only maintain pretty old devices which steered me away, plus the fact that it's still on KitKat.
>Personally I would vote for revolution - national default, totally new political leadership - and start to rebuild the country from scratch.

That was actually the best of Greece's bad choices, but they were strongarmed by the IMF and the ECB into not defaulting and pulling a brick out of the financial pyramid scheme upon which western society is based.
For sure. I've grew up around Berkeley and now I'm in Europe. Both places (at least where I am now) are walkable which surely helps when making small runs to the market/bakery/etc.
Was just researching that myself. In America at least, looks like everybody except Verizon. But what I could find looks to be 2-3 years old:

http://www.techradar.com/news/phone-and-communications/mobil...

hardware specs: http://www.gsmarena.com/lg_nexus_5-5705.php
Most of the content in 'the open web' depends upon advertising.

No ads = not much for you to download.

Realpolitik will very quickly trump any ideological arguments.
Property is a bad investment in greece. Rental yields too low. Rent instead, it's dirt-cheap at the moment.
That is a terrible thing and it highlights the wild west that is internet advertising right now.

Much like TV ads, internet ads have to be responsible but there has to be a place for them or dont be surprised when this sort of thing happens.
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And if you're shooting your resume off to such different positions that you can't cover them with the same (or one of a few) intro paragraphs, you're probably not that great a candidate for this specific role anyway.
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Resume/CV: On request

Email: jshevland@calm-horizons.net

I've been in the software development industry for roughly 20 years now, involving a range of full-time and contract positions across a diverse set of industries and technologies. Happy to donate time for non-profits of certain types or organizations such as the EFF.
> ...and it's difficult on a modern 10-speed cassette to look behind you and know if you're in 5 or 6.

For a little clarification: it's not so hard on modern 11-speed cassettes to tell if you're in 5 or 6...unless you've been racing for two or three days straight. ;-)
If you're stateside you should check Microcenter. They usually have in stock previous year MBAs or MBPs (new or refurb) - often on huge discounts.
I'm sure the troica will accept this and make it a plank of the next payment traunch...
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Ahhh "Middle Men" -- if you weren't thinking of that movie with this comment, I must suggest that everyone watch it. It's about (Hollywoodified) the two guys who created credit card processing over the Internet-- according to the movie, parts of their system are still in use today.
No...the author of the article was the lazy one, and it's not just this author because as you may have noticed there's a rising cry for companies to help police cyber bullying, truthiness etc. Notice how no one inside the establishment is assigning culpability to themselves, the self serving conglomerates for the public's distrust. Instead shifting the blame and calling for actions...actions which undoubtably will ramp up propaganda and censorship for the benefit of elites. For every Alex Jones that gets censored, will there be a Chomsky that also gets banned from public discourse?

How am I supposed to sympathize with this author when we just had a presidential campaign openly discusses their social media astro turfing whilst leaks reveal dizzying amounts of media collusion, but is there any official cry to end that practice? Of course not. So go ahead and pretend that it's all because the internet allows people to go get their conspiracies from so many different sources, and pretend that the public's distrust in MSM is unfounded and undeserved.
The whole point of a blockchain is to prevent double spending by untrusted parties. If you have to go to a judge to resolve your transaction then you're kind of missing the point of this entire experiment.
looks fancy,I hope it will do better than sailfish os.

any luck with android sandboxing, maybe dalvik ?
Are they still running a hard-to-audit ColdFusion CMS?
The fact humans can easily see through the disguise means there are huge glaring faults in the recognition algorithm. These types of attacks will probably be wiped away one day with a single breakthrough.

You can't fool a human by covering up a small percentage of something with noise. Humans can recognize parts of a face pretty well, classifying smaller parts of an image separately may help defend against this (and also be able to detect composite images, for example where eyes and mouth of different people are combined).

Also humans instantly detect that those glasses are noise, there probably needs to be a filter that removes obvious noise before the face recognition begins.
Pretty amazing infrastructure - great opportunity for developers interested in health.
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