skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What if the customer gives her phone to a friend (through a car window) during the ride?
Similar thing happened to me abroad. A couple of us used a single phone with a local card, so the phone exchanged hands frequently.
Similar experience but I had a talk with the recruiter, technical phone interview, and then 3 hour onsite. I thought the interview went OK but they never got back after that - even when I emailed.
I wonder what will happen when AI is good enough to imitate real internet users and ad agencies just spin up some servers in some datacenter that handles millions of bots that are indistinguishable from real people and follow the formula of the influencers.
My uncle had a bad trip - he had to go into therapy for a year afterwards. This is why psychedelics are the only drugs I refuse to do under all circumstances, bad trips really do exist and they can fuck you up badly.
> But in all seriousness, I'd imagine the execs need to go through the same process an engineer would.

You see. You imagine. You believe. You are told. You do not know. And even if it were so today it would not have to be that way tomorrow. So even todays security isn't enough of a reassurance.

The only secure data is data never collected in the first place. And until the friggin disruptive startups start to recognize this I will try to not support them in making my data more insecure.
Ask HN: Are men more willing to work for evil corporations than women?
Nokia dials back time to sell mobile phones again
My father suffered from the disease and passed away in October. Awful disease. This is great news, but it looks like any treatment based on this will still be quite some way off.
Politicians making one rule for the plebs and one rule for themselves? Well I never!
That's often because prisons everywhere are full to the brink. The increase in criminalization of all sorts of common behaviours (from drugs to copyright infringement) naturally leads to overcrowding, which in turns leads to continuous amnesties and sentence discounts.
I'm not a native English speaker, but I did go to an all-English speaking high school. I was a more-or-less conversationally competent in English at the time, but speaking it and learning from it full time in school was a real challenge.

I remember clearly that one of the most difficult subjects was chemistry, because everything suddenly had new names and none of them made any sense. Why is it "sodium" instead of "natrium", or "potassium" instead of "kalium", when the elements are Na and K?

For the first six months, I had to basically memorize a table of translations between my native language and english, and silently translate everything my teacher was saying to be able to follow along.
Ahhhh yeh I do remember my friends who recommended me the doc had also suggested Lords of Chaos first - but I was impatient and hungover when I decided to watch it :)
>The social skills learned in such an artificial environment are highly unlikely to transfer to the real world.

That's an odd argument, do you think there is little socializing benefit from any kind of schooling then?

A 12 month range of age is not unusual for a circle of peers/friends throughout life, especially if you normalise for age.

A narrow age band means that children are likely to be at similar stages of emotional & mental development as their classmates, so they can learn from each other. It's important not to forget that children are children and not adults. School shouldn't necessarily directly model the rest of their lives.
and we still have no idea what it's about. marketing 101
True, but I don't think I'd eat a chocolate bar with that warning on the label.

Maybe it was decided that other consumers would probably make the same decision?
Yes! A simple language that is easy to reason about with a tooling that doesn't resemble duct tape and black magic, better stdlib and actual strings would be nice to have.

Some people say Golang is that language, but the tooling is actually not that great and then theres the garbage collector...

Edit: forgot to add "sound type system", to me C feels like a hybrid between a properly strongly typed language and something scripty.
You should check out the history of IQ testing particularly in the US. On paper, it seemed to be a perfectly objective way to determine an individual's intelligence. But correlating the data, it was later shown to disadvantage blacks and that is why IQ testing for jobs is now illegal.
This is brilliant! As a fellow skeptic of "corporate values" I'm going to remember this one.

It might be a fun exercise to trawl through the company values of failed / disgraced companies to see if there's any pattern, or compare to genuinely ethical companies (if there is such a thing) to see whether there's a contrast.
when negotiating your contract, a discretionary bonus not written into your contract has expected value 0.
Just because we are biologically tuned to "market" ourselves, for leverage in survival/gene-spreading, I don't think it's correct to state that the "entire purpose" of life is to market oneself. Nor does it make sense to say all actions are rooted in this need. In-fact, it seems _most_ actions are in service of other basic or secondary needs. Where is the marketability in taking a piss? Or reading a novel? Or taking the dog for a walk?
Your last sentence really doesn't leave much of a choice.
> Spaces are for the human eye, while braces are for the compiler

and for the editor auto indenter too.

I don't like doing the job of the compiler but this is an exception.

I already wasted more time in a few months of Python by hand aligning and debugging code after I moved it around than it saved time for me by not having to type } or end at the end of the block. Note that Python has a { in most cases: it's a mandatory :

And how about the time lost because of "IndentationError: unexpected indent" when copy-pasting code from the editor to the command line interpreter?

To the point of bashing C, the post is an answer to a very few points of https://eev.ee/blog/2016/12/01/lets-stop-copying-c/ It's mostly about syntax and it's an interesting read. I particularly like "No hyphens in identifiers"
Since you have obviously figured this whole life-marketing thing out, what am I marketing when I am taking a shit or picking my nose?
But if what it's selling you is a good impression of the depth and quality of the author's analysis, that's not necessarily a bad thing. I've not read it in detail, so I can't give any view on that.
Pretty sure the point is the double standard. Plenty of people are fine with Facebook doing it, but where are those same people standing up for Wechat's right to do whatever they want in their private walled garden?
I know that in most western countries happens, in Spain it's similar , but it's difficult to find a politician who has served all of it and most of them don't give back what they have taken and usually end again in working in the public "service". What i think it's bad, they should be banned for life of all public work.
BBR: Congestion-Based Congestion Control
Didn't the Uber execs exactly state this publicly - that they are willing to brake the laws that they see are hindering innovation and a disruption?

I remember having read something like this but am unable to find it in my archives.
Unconventional Tools for Sound Design 2: TAPESTREA
Has there been an independent third party audit of Uber's internal data security? Or do we just have to take Uber's word on it?
(Maciej: +1; broke; "him" _ )... Hey... are u talkin' bout me?? ([:ха-ха!)]

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Gene Editing Must Reckon with the Unforeseen
Do you think the NSA is going to give your trade secrets to a domestic competitor? That's the concern.
The latter two fund the reporting organisation. The Daily Mail are actually profitable, whereas The Guardian are struggling financially.
Portions of the brain fall asleep and wake back up all the time, study finds
The fog catcher
You seem to be making the assumption that English is as popular and widely used as C. I would like to remind you that it is only the case in western parts of the world, which is by far, not the majority.
The same happened here. One of the mods found our product and put it on PH. We just had a signup button, but there was no activity that a signed in user could do. People still signed up. Who posts your product on PH matters, I think. If we had posted it ourself it would have looked pretty sad.
Why you need to learn C (Director's Cut)
C is beautiful portable assembly (nothing more).
*customer
> I'm wondering if there is any other product that one could pull of such stunt and make themselves billionaires?

Maybe not exactly billionaires, but

If a man really wants to make a million dollars, the best way would be to start his own religion. :)
Sometimes occurs to me with song lyrics. It's beautiful to understand part of a sentence after listening to a song ten times, while some parts remain unrecognized. Makes me want to keep listening to the song until I reveal more of its mysteries. If it's a sufficiently obscure recording there might not even be the possibility to look up the lyrics online.
I never researched too much, mostly watched what happened to M.J.Fox. I thought PD was mostly affecting motor controls on non life critical muscles (limbs). What are the other effects ?
I've always been a huge fan of the increment and decrement operators. I don't use them all the time, but they're very nice to have on occasion, and with operator overloading they can be made incredibly useful. I thought it was a very silly decision for Swift to remove them.
Password Chameleon
What do we know so far?

- Gut Bacteria are involved

- Inflammation is involved

- The brain works on glucose

- The brain can also work on Ketones

- Cinnamon seems to help in mice trials (and also has anti-inflammatory properties).

- Could diabetes be analogous to Parkinson's? Diabetics generally have lost the ability to process carbs (usually by eating too many); could Parkinsons be caused by people being very dopamine focused and wearing their brains out?

I wonder if diet can change the type of bacteria in the gut, the inflammation in the body, have a neuroprotective effect on the brain?

Sounds like I'd try a ketogenic diet which has known neuroprotective effects, changes the bateria in your gut and reduces inflammation.
Writing snarky comments on HN seems to work for most people.
Linux Kernel CSPRNG Performance
Normally this would be a positive feature, since it (in theory) serves to protect politicians from being coerced or blackmailed. However, I can't help but think it's the same gutless people that voted this in simply protecting their own interests above all else.

On the other hand, the protections may serve useful some day should they suddenly locate their spines—or perhaps a wave of vertebrate politicians somehow takes office. Either way, the protections would make it easier for the newly-granted surveillance powers to be revoked. Wishful thinking, of course.

At least the UK doesn't waste time on charades like we do here in the US—serving up deprecated or redundant surveillance programs on the altar of political sacrifice while other, more compartmented programs (usually broader and more invasive in scope) seamlessly take their place. Then again, perhaps there's just not enough public opposition to justify the effort in the first place.
Best definition of Uber that I read in life! Could not agree more!
GoodUI – A Good User Interface
I think everyone can understand why it's been done. Because parliamentarians have looked at the legislation and come to the conclusion that it would infringe on what they believe to be their legitimate privileges.

It's just that they don't believe those same privileges should extend to everyone else.

Note the use of the word 'privileges' rather than rights, because once parliament starts making that distinction between groups that have them and groups that don't that's exactly what they become.
I think the latter two go hand-in-hand: Outrageous opinion pieces that get shared a lot attract people to the site, and then a sidebar of clickbait keeps people browsing.
We still have some slots left for the 2016 edition, so feel free to contact (info at the bottom of the website) if you have a cool disk image to contribute.
Once I thought a function should fit on a screen. I did small functions and tried to use the function names as comment replacement.

But after coming back to old code for years now, I think one big function that can simply read from top to bottom without any jumps is the way to go.
I just listened to a podcast that touched this topic, an interview with David Nutt, seems like he does similar research over in the UK.

It's a Swedish podcast but not that much in this episode, the interview starts 14 minutes in:
https://soundcloud.com/user-659943582/david-nutt-magic-mushr...
Fuck Your Your Agile Certificate Agile Was Never a Fucking Noun
Somehow I do not think that US and European salaries are comparable.
this has been on the front page for 12+ hours already...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13080283
Tried looking in github, project-specific pages, wikipedia and still have no clue:

What does OMR stand for?

<something><something>runtime?
Oh god, this is one of my least favourite parts of python. It is unnecessarily hard to restructure if-then code. It is risky to cut-and-paste from webpages. And as you say, you can't always paste from the editor to the interpreter.

Python has an "invisible close brace" character, the newline, which closes a varying number of braces. When you think of it like that, it makes much less sense.
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We value people over deadlines. We offer a respectful, creative and result-oriented environment in which you can perform at your highest level. We work hard, sweat the details, and celebrate our progress with drinks at the end of the week.

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We value potential over experience. We expect you to be honest, smart and daring. You see feedback as an opportunity to grow. You are keen to learn and eager to succeed.
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Putting aside all the other arguments regarding privacy, ethics, etc, I have a more acute issue: battery life. I allow almost no app "Always Using" privileges on location because of battery drain. I saw this update on Uber yesterday and now i've had to literally turn on and off Location services altogether when using/not-using Uber to prevent potential battery drain.

Over the weekend, now I need to run a test to see how Uber performs on the "24 hr Battery Usage" stats with Location always on. That is a lot of work for a retail device, but I'm also so dependent on Uber now (gave up having a car!)...
> no template tags

Why? Native PHP excels at html templating, that's what it was created for.
Knit: Untangle your JavaScript
All I see is people reporting their own experiences. If you've been brought up to think that all drugs are inherently bad, then that might be difficult to come around to.
Ask HN: Would you like to build a meeting extractor together?
I have recently seen x.ai and I found meeting extraction an extremely interesting technical project for NLP. I would like to extract meetings from texts and return the place and time of a meeting.

I need help building a meeting classifier and the initial labeled data set to decide whether documents are meeting invitations or not. To parse the meetings seems a simpler problem but I think there's opportunities for some interesting models in this area as well.

To this end initially to build a meeting classification model I need some help extracting meeting proposals, I have decided to use the ENRON email data set and the leaked Hillary emails as an initial corpus to build my meeting classifier.

After having the meeting invitations I would like to extract and validate the times and places involved.

Get in touch if you are interested, email in profile! I think building the meeting corpus is the most time consuming part of the project my current strategy is to think about a list of relevant regex and get a subset of the emails I have based on these and hand mark these to build a labeled data set.
Here are some reasons that Python removed them:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1485841/behaviour-of-incr...

Edit: a nice write up by Chris Lattner:
https://github.com/apple/swift-evolution/blob/master/proposa...
C Books and C++ Books You Don't Want
> but remember it has a half-life of under 1 millisecond

You say that as if it was short! Do you realize W and Z bosons have half-lives of the order of 10^-25 seconds? ;-)
How to empty ketchup bottle 101:

- close the lid

- take the ketchup bottle in your hand holding it upside down, possibly covering the lid to make sure it stays closed

- swing your arm forwards-backwards rapidly

- ??? (let the physics do its job)

- ketchup!
Yes, but even with that restriction, it doesn't let you transfer ownership of structured messages, only buffers and images; so a serialization roundtrip is needed.
German BND-NSA Inquiry Exhibits
It's becoming common to call these experiences 'difficult trip'.

The idea is that there's always something to learn, even if it might not be pleasant. And to not scare people away with 'bad' nomenclature.
Whoa. I can't believe how many people are saying just talk to your manager. I am a manager and I really disagree with that advice. Talking to your manager may need to happen at some point but it should certainly not be the first step.

Unfortunately, in the real world, even a completely rational fair question asked to a manager can have negative results for the employee. The risks compound when a new employee might not fully realize they asked a question that the manager thought was stupid or inappropriate and now thinks differently/worse of them.

...To answer your question. Yes of course it's cause for concern

A $100 bonus like is most likely one of 3 things:

1. It's a fuck you level intentionally bad bad bonus as you suggested.

2. It was a mistake by HR and there should be two more zeros (at least) that are missing.

3. There's no mistake by HR or bad intention by your boss, the $100 check is correct, but it fails the "people I work for need to have enough common sense that I don't despise them and think they are clueless" test.

As for how I might play it. Is there a coworker not your manager who you are friendly enough with and trust to just bring this up casually? You don't have to talk numbers or express disappointment just get a better understanding of what other bonuses looked like.

Even if you and your manager are bros and you think you can chat off the record, I still wouldn't do it. Find someone else. If you can't find a coworker to chat with casually then speak to HR, maybe bring it up in a nice way: "Hi HR, just wanted to ask about how our bonuses should be reported for tax purposes, I heard it might be a different tax rate, by the way just a random q too, are $100 dogshit bonuses like this normal"?

Either way start networking. Never hurts to start building that network even if this works out ok and you stay a while.

Good luck, mate.

P.S. If they really did make you stand and queue up, I would quit for that alone.
Previous comment on this subject: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12744624

In general, avoid freelancing websites. Networking is key. Go to industry and tech meetups. Talk to other freelancers.

If possible find a more specific niche. Freelancers offering generic web development skills are ten a penny. Specialising in problems and industries is preferable to specialising in technologies. If you're the "Python guy" you're essentially positioning yourself as a fungible commodity. If you can for instance be the guy who uses software to solve specific problems in supply chain management that'd be a much more lucrative and sustainable niche.
Everyone in China learns English now, and a lot of the Far East has English (or Panglish, Singlish etc) as a major language. And it's pretty popular in India.

Nor sayng it's perfect and universal, but it is pretty widespread even outside "The West"
Show HN: Cast Player – Cast All Your Photos and Videos to Chromecast
Yes, it works for women:

http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/2011/11/21/helpful...

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2633676/

> Fetal cells migrate into the mother during pregnancy. Fetomaternal transfer probably
> occurs in all pregnancies and in humans the fetal cells can persist for decades.
> Microchimeric fetal cells are found in various maternal tissues and organs including
> blood, bone marrow, skin and liver. In mice, fetal cells have also been found in the
> brain. The fetal cells also appear to target sites of injury. Fetomaternal
> microchimerism may have important implications for the immune status of women,
> influencing autoimmunity and tolerance to transplants.
I have yet to have a post-public-school (college, work, sales, relationships, you-name-it) experience that even comes close to the barbarity of my in-public-school experience. I've seen things on TV in that vicinity, but not in real life -- knock on wood!

Of course, in my public school we had dudes who were fully-pubed driving their cars to the 6th grade, so kind of an extreme example.
I member too !

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Many algorithms have parameters that have be tweaked, and dreadful nights are common with any machine learning concept.

Deep learning is not "better" than other forms of algorithmic prediction. There's a best tool for every job
Thats weird, we build something. Someone posted it, and we were made makers pretty quickly.. I guess every time a system fails, it does turn a couple of people away. I would had similar feeling if we were not made makers immediately.
That's a dramatic and very silly example.
No I think the war on drugs banning potentially useful things is far stupider.
Expected to see Bullschildt at the top of the list. Wasn't disappointed.
Good One!
Agile has went through a dark path nowadays, Same as the state of Javascript