skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I bounce back and forth on this. I don't really feel like Facebook enriches my personal connections; it just lets me remain to a lot of people I'm not really connected to anymore. It's like having a system for maintaining lower tier friends. LinkedIn feels the same way: I have a huge network of people that are all talking, but none of it really does anything to enrich my career. I don't listen to them, they don't listen to me. When I need career advice, help with job hunts, etc. I call someone I know and trust and they do the same. I don't think we can feasibly maintain large networks.
Something like https://qalo.com/products/mens-quality-ring?variant=99377443... ?
If you used Arq with AWS's Glacier, that is not Arq's fault, but AWS's; Glacier is designed to be (extremely-)high-latency.

If you want low-latency restores, see my other comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13000979. I've restored small, individual files with Arq + GCS several times, and each time takes just a few seconds.

All the other storage targets that Arq supports (Dropbox, S3, SFTP, Google Drive, etc.) should also be very fast to restore from.
i used to read a lot of blogs before, i don't know why now i can't stand reading a long article
*taxpayer funded research

Government doesn't do shit, except write the check. this all comes from acadamia, nasa, darpa, etc.

You're point that science is pushed forward by people pooling resources is absolutely correct, I just want to make it clear that Government has very little to do with it. This is just societ bolstering the resources of our greatest minds.
I got into the industry working for Geocities. Back then we had no cell phones no social media it was easier to focus in a world of landline answering machines lol.
Yeah that's reasonable. At Google Cloud "Beta" means very far down the line of maturity. But YMMV and buyer beware when using "Beta" for production at any provider.
I'm talking about natural selection. You can't have natural selection without the 'selection' part.
Parent is downvoted, but they're at least correct that it's legal to recommend employees not associate with union organizers (including related activities like downloading an app). It's only when they take retaliatory action that it starts to cross the line.
Here you have an overview: https://pep.foundation/pep-software/index.html
If banking fails your dollars are going to be in a world of hurt. Do you invest in gold/silver, too?

Unrelated question, what part of TN is your unprotected, cash filled trailer in?
However there is a 4-dimensional sphere (3-sphere) that you can easily access: the possible rotations of any object in 3-dimensional space is topologically and metrically isomorphic to a (half of a) 3-sphere, in the same way as the rotations of an object in 2-dimensional space are isomorphic to a 1-sphere (circle).

Think of an object’s current orientation as the “north pole” of our abstract 4-dimensional sphere. Rotating the object around any axis pushes you toward the equator, which you reach once you have rotated the object halfway around (the equator is made from all 180° turns, and is topologically a 2-sphere). Continuing to rotate the object takes you towards the “south pole”, which is where you get if you rotate your object 360°. To get back to the north pole, rotate by 360° again.

Cf. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Versor https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quaternions_and_spatial_rotati... and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rotation_group_SO(3)

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One other way you can get at the 3-sphere is by taking a stereographic projection into all of 3-dimensional space (plus a point at infinity). If you have some 3-dimensional shapes drawn on the surface of your 3-sphere, these will get distorted under the stereographic projection, but locally angles will be preserved, just like a stereographic projection of the 2-sphere onto a piece of paper.
What about lab-cultured cheese?
Hmmmm, I know it seems ridiculous but I wonder if it would it be cheaper to just spool up an ec2 machine and async invoke the lambda call e.g. via boto?

It seems like APIG has a boat load of features, which is great... but they are mostly unused.
Designing a Better Judging System
I mean a shared and free (beer and freedom) infrastructure in which the contributors contribute and control the content. May be blogging is not apples to apples with wikipedia. How about Quora ?

In fact, why restrict to only content. Anything that is shared and for public good s/could be community controlled. What about Uber ?
you mean, normal cheese
Loading JVM from a cold VM is a lot more than 100ms, more like 5-10 seconds. Same problem Google App Engine had 7 years ago before you could pay to keep an instance warm.
I had an ethics course as part of my CS degree as well. The thing is, it's not there to teach you how to deal with unethical or illegal business practises. It's main goal it to teach you how to behave in an academic setting.

It different from country to country, but CS degrees are training you to be a scientist first and for most, even if most of us leave the universities and will never work as a scientist. The ethics courses are designed to teach us not to fudge our research data, how to behave towards our academic colleagues and how to properly give credit to the work of others. And the well meaning professors that teaches these courses have no experience dealing with unethical managers.

In countries where unions are strong and work, I would let them help their members in these cases instead. In Denmark, unethical behaviour observed by a computer scientist working in the private sector is best left in the hands of the engineering union.
There's an interesting thread in Dark Forest by Cixin Liu (second book of the Three Body Problem trilogy (yes, I know I'm being boring constantly recommending them here but these are really good books)). I actually wonder whether it's a real thing.

A short (minor) spoiler follows.

One of the protagonists is married to a writer. He follows her advice about writing, and in the process of developing a character he manages to, well, instantiate a pretty much living version of that character in his own mind - a version that grows and thinks independently of its creator. He eventually gets emotionally involved with his imaginary creation, and later learns that it's something that happens to good writers, and that his wife has such a character "living" with her too.

What I wonder is whether it's really the case that good writers actually develop their characters to the point of them turning pretty much into tulpas? A kind of background thread in their brains, with separate micro-consciousness.
1. Nobody except your echo chamber cares about using a distributed or user controlled system. In fact, the vast majority of users will actively avoid such a system.

2. RSS is great, we've just launched this little open source project
https://github.com/getstream/winds
But by no means does RSS replace Twitter. RSS will never become mainstream like Twitter has (to some extent)

3. The author has a point about the various issues with Twitter's usability.
It's not just because of fishery collapse. The changing temperature and pH matters, too. Reefs bleaching and all that.

I wouldn't say it's a rumor. Just a possibility as reported by some researchers. Not a consensus, as far as I know, though there was a book about it summarizing the research.
> they could negotiate for fair compensation.

What, exactly, is unfair about the current compensation? Walmart pays exactly what they and the employee agreed to at the onset of the employment agreement. Those who couldn't reach an agreement have do not provide work for Walmart at all.

I really don't know how you can get any more fair than that? Everyone equally has the ability to decide what works for them and are free to move on when it doesn't work.

> If workers have room to negotiate

A union actually takes away a worker's room to negotiate. The union becomes the only vendor and, in this case, Walmart would be legally required to hire through that vendor for the defined positions. This is less fair, as now you are managing the supply of labour and actively hindering competition. A union has no bargaining power if it has competition, of course.

While the benefits of a union are clear, the way you try to spin the situation is, to say the least, interesting. A union is beneficial because it takes away the fairness and takes away the freedom to negotiate. Fairness and freedom are what allow people to drive value towards zero, which is where the problems stem from.

I have a feeling this will be taken as an anti-union message, even though it really is a pro-union one. The loss of fairness is a good thing! We have a long history to look back on to see why.
This is what the folks at https://tent.io were trying to do: create a messaging protocol that was decentralized (like email).

The problem is that it's hard to compete with momentum. People use Twitter because it's where all their friends, followers, and interesting people to follow are.

If you're going to create an alternative, it has to be able to hit critical mass.
The weather predicting organizations of developed nations are remarkably cooperative and significant data are shared widely.
Words That Work: The 10 Rules of Communication
We already have that first generation of robotic weaponry. Systems like the AGM-88 HARM and Aegis/Phalanx CIWS will autonomously select their target and attack. Everyone is largely content with them, despite the occasional mis-identifications and accidents (they tend not to properly consider what is behind their target, which leads to some problems when they miss).

The South Koreans and Israelis are both working on automatic sentry turrets and the Israelis have actually deployed such systems. This is probably the closest analogy to your "land mine" but we're still OK with it.
Arq [1] with Google Cloud Storage here, scheduled nightly. See my other comments about pricing: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13000979.

Arq supports multiple sources and targets. When a source is an external hard disk that is only occasionally plugged in, Arq does the sensible thing and backs up the disk when it's plugged in, but otherwise leaves it alone.

[1] https://www.arqbackup.com
I've said before that Social Media is our generation's "cigarette".

Very much like in the early days, people just didn't have any awareness that cigarettes were harmful. Hell, everybody was doing it (see Mad Men).

I've learned from day trading and investing is how much we downplay herd psychology. Our society has geared us to beat any sense of opposition as hostile. Our evolutionary process have selected individuals based on how well they are able to blend and we feel instinctively safer in large numbers (def. mech. against predators). We are social creatures so they say.

But history is filled with instances were the crowd behaves very predictably over and over because the underlying constraints of group think are there. Social media is particularly aggravating medium for which false,fake,wrong have greater mobility than facts and common sense.

Besides the dissemination of false information which is harmful to our society and individual as a whole, perhaps the sheer noise and frequency of sensationalist artifacts is the biggest perpetrator of all.

It's only recently that we are beginning to become aware of the what if effects of being exposed to so much "spamming with our running commentary of bullshit masquerading as insight". So far, studies have confirmed that it's negative on the individual.

Having said that, there's plenty of people who don't care. They are happy uploading selfies and food they are about to digest and poop out in 12 hours. It's fleeting moments that are so ephemeral, information that otherwise would be irrelevant, insignificant noise, is being magnified through the crowd effect that social media platforms exploit and engineer to grow their user base.

Our low interest money has created a whole new economy where the number of active users without any doubt, taken at it's face value rather than examining it's intrinsic worth.

Just how important is it for everybody to be so connected and knowing every possible detail going on with everybody else?

For me, not very, and I've for the most part (besides HN & Reddit) have embraced off the social media grid lifestyle 3 years ago and I'm fucking loving it so far. I feel happier.

I'm not perfect as I use HN & Reddit. Although, I do spend less and less time on those platforms and experience more joy as well.
Systems which use the noises in people's heads to cancel each other out do better. That's Smith's point abut his scorn for "the Man Of System" - nobody is that smart.

It's important to understand the limitations of such things.
I have to ask if you ever looked for any evidence confirming that programming enhances critical thinking?

In my opinion, there is no doubt that programming improves critical thinking, but it is possible to question the definition of critical thinking.

I've worked with programming as a tool for better learning in schools based on critical thinking or meta-cognition.

If you read the work of Jean Piaget, Seymour Papert, Jerome Bruner, Dave Catlin or John Hattie, I believe you would have a hard time saying there is no proof that programming enhances critical thinking or meta-cognition as I would call it.

It is not a guaranty, but it is possible. Programming can be scaffolding in difficulty if you constantly keep challenging yourself. You can start with "Hello World!" move to building API's to build your language. It will for sure improve your critical thinking. It is not the only activity that does so, Soduko will also help do so, but it gives you no valuable skill you can get a job with as programming does.

There is also research showing how games like Soduko reduce the chance of Alzheimer and other mental deceases.
Because when you provide public toilets, they end up being monopolized by junkies as a place to shoot up.
Ask HN: What's your interview question?
What behavioral or technical interview questions do you like giving? What has proven to be a good measure of a candidate's ability?
Agreed. Firefox has two advantages: it's customizable, and it's not made by a major tech company. If the customization goes, then there's only one advantage left.
Coach Fitz's Management Theory (2004)
Ask HN: Stories of breaking into tech without a tech background?
Has anyone on here transitioned into working in the tech/start up world without a tech background (specifically, for a non-tech role)?

I'd love to hear stories about the transition.
I'm trying to use HN & reddit mostly as a pull-based source of information, instead of something that pushes an endless stream of things into my brain and needs to be followed constantly.

It's quite simple, when I'm looking for something, I do a google-based site-specific search to HN. I often find very old threads with really good value.

I still follow things every few days to stay on top of trends. I haven't discovered how to catch up with those without frequent visits, though. Perhaps the solution lies in NLP summary technology.
This PR propaganda is making the rounds. Most of the real use-cases I've seen point to self-hosting on AWS is cheaper than using GCE and friends.

Pick whichever service has the cheapest TCO, not what some paid blogger says.
wow thats an insane number
somebody else punching you in the face does not means your comment is uncivil. I'm guessing, but two centuries ago you could be punched in the face for opposing slavery.
You cannot measure and argument by how offended others get when they contemplate it.
Thanks for the explanation, that makes sense. We wanted to see aliases as well, because it's cumbersome setting a client ID for our Lambda monitoring service.
I write for a living and my grammar is awful. Most people would be better served by writing more without worrying about grammar-- instead focus on improving style, voice, persuasive arguments, etc.

Knowing how to use a semicolon won't make you a better writer. My trick is if I'm not sure where to use a hyphen or whatever, I either google it, rewrite the sentence, or just assume I have it right.

If your grammar is wrong, don't worry, somebody will joyously point it out to you.
It is planned but as sibling comment suggests, in the backlog for the moment.

If anyone is interested in the technical details -- I am using an angular-cli version that doesn't support AOT compilation so no tree shaking. Also no Angular Universal, therefore a loading screen.

I hate spinners. And hamburger menus.
spam for one.
Quantity can actually help you here - for complex questions, you want to get a feel of the answer-space first, instead of picking a single point on it and exploring it thoroughly.
As well as Android and iPhone, many auth services (e.g. Facebook Connect) also offer this feature to presumably mostly non-technical users.

Also, I've not investigated but I doubt the WebExtensions API would provide access to features required to implement this as an extension (it's a much more limited extension API than previous Firefox ones)
Except what I remember is something about finding a scapegoat at the bottom, and all the higher ups seem to have never been involved, and you blame the goat, and everyone else goes home happy but the goat. The military thrives on goatism.
Business class? Delta has power in what amounts to the front half of the plane on most flights.
Cool. I can see that for the purposes of this discussion. Is this only a workplace issue in your mind? At least for right now? Other aspects on my mind is what kind of heuristic do you use to determine if the political opinion is fireable? Or rather, it's not only what the opinion is (there are a lot of controversial political issues), or the opinion itself, it's the expression of it, right? For example, something said (some sort of speech act), or some other behavior.
I have been thinking of non-anonymous reviews for a while now, but I know it can't be the default.
Interesting to see how the parent is being downvoted...
> On Atari the agent now achieves on average 9x human performance

Very impressive. I guess the human limit has to do with humans being limited about number of things to track at once? I wonder if they can apply this to optimizing the traffic lights in a big city.
That was my interpretation as well.
I seem to recall that there is something like a 5% discount after a few hundreds k per months.

To get a rep (that's unrelated), you have to pay full support which is about 10% per month (with a high minimum fee).
Hey everyone you can also just ask me.

If you're every curious if something is true or not, just ask me. I know what is true and what's not, and I'll always tell you the truth about what is true, don't think about any of it, let me do that.

Happy news reading everyone, remember, don't do your own thinkin.
I noticed one of the Related Content articles was regarding a picture collection from the Museum of Victoria, Australia.

I was was really impressed when I clicked through to find this museum provides a full API for accessing their content[1], and everything is at minimum Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International licence.[2]

I'm sure some other museums already have something similar, but I wish even more would follow this lead.

[1] http://collections.museumvictoria.com.au/developers

[2] https://github.com/museumsvictoria/collections-online
I like all the constant bubble talk. As I see it, the more wary people are, the less likely we are to collectively make dumb decisions that lead to an actual bubble. It's not like any of this talk goes around with total certainty.
I consider Glacier as the final offsite backup in the event my apartment burns down or something terrible happens to all of my local backups. In that case I don't care about how long it might take to restore - I will throttle the recovery as needed to not blow the AWS budget.
Get out of your creative rut
You cannot be a profession if you have a hiring manager, a boss who can fire you or no central professional body that can take away your right to program.

Software engineering is not not not a profession. It is a form of literacy. People write down lies and untruths and abominations, using the great gift of literacy.

And society assumes that as everyone else it literate those who write down lies do not automatically have an advantage

We do, but creating a software literacy profession is not the right solution

Edit: let me adjust this.
Professionalism is meant to be about minimum standards of performance expected from any member of the profession (it is a way of saying we the profession ensure you get at least the baseline service no matter who you hire)

The ethics of professionalism are usually well enforced in areas of individual criminal mesbehaviour (i.e. Accountants who dip into their clients accounts get barred)

However the issues discussed here are more areas of regulation than criminality. Yes making software that drives a tesla into a truck is bad, but that was not an actual requirement - it was a failure in the whole industry to decide what is the right thing to do. Different regulators in different industries and countries will let different standards (i.e. With LIdar / without) - and unethical companies can play arbitrage.

Arguing that a spec for a online game fails to meet regulations might work, but individually saying younundersrand the regulations better than the various hierarchies above you is unlikely to work.

So I have lost my trainnof thought but

- TPP is actually supposed to be where regulatory arbitrage is defeated. We need something like it back

- All professions face ethical issues at all levels (I would argue that most issues in software (privacy, self driving cars, armoured robots) are issues we as societies have not decided upon yet so individuals are just applying their own judgement (this is the don't work for a tobacco company question)

- and other professions stuff this up as well - banking did it spectacularly so.

So, yes we should raise the minimum standards but questions of ethics are something for the profession as a whole to decide, (I will not code a self driving car that does not have LIdar out to 100 yards behind, and my professional body will support me, is an ethical stance yes, but really it's a post hoc regulation)
>Government doesn't do shit

>nasa, darpa

I don't think you understand...
True - doing is an important part. But good (and hard) books are not like encyclopedias - they're not a collection of facts, they're also a way to discover and internalize author's mental model. You get to learn the connection between the facts and their relative importance. I feel it's something that later greatly aids you in the "doing" phase.
The parent is downvoted but raises the noteworthy point that congress has in fact diverted funds away from atmospheric research specifically to avoid climate science. I'm not sure where this GOES satellite falls in the constellation of climate study tools.
I wrote Gimel[0] - an A/B testing backend using Labmda and Redis (it can also work with Google BigQuery w/Kinesis).

It's used in production for a few months now and we're really happy with it. It provides a negligible-cost replacement to Optimizely for us.

[0] https://github.com/Alephbet/gimel
Thanks everyone for the nice comments!

Here is what's in the works. Hopefully answering most of your requests:

- Upgradability (how fast does the phone get official updates)

- Better specs (sent out emails to the companies yesterday)

- Rootability

- Unlockable Bootloader

- CM port available

- Non-stock phones with CM port
Is something like this useful for you?
https://aws.amazon.com/getting-started/tutorials/
As someone else recently pointed out, you do know there is an awesome instant search feature right here on hn, https://hn.algolia.com. Don't need to power up The Google.
If you like the northern lights, Jupiter takes them to the next level