skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No, that's not what I said. A new reprocessing plant would still be against environmental laws. That's why they can't build one and your whitewashing this won't help at all.

You've adressed Fukushima and Czarnobyl? Are you kidding me? You swiped that away saying one was a human error like this would never happen again and the other could be solved by some technology that didn't even come up with a prototype somewhere in the past and the development on it stopped 2015. It's in the link you've posted!

And you wonder why word like "idiotic" come up...besides the fact that you've started the insulting first of course.
Says Uber.

Unfortunately - based on their history - you're working for an utterly untrustworthy company, no matter the smiley face of nice they're trying to paint themselves nowadays.

This is not directed against you. I appreciate that you're hanging in here and participate in the discussion.
Microsoft tried to make vbScript an alternative to JavaScript. vbScript is a good language, but JavaScript is better. For example, how to make a custom object in vbScript:

Class foo

Private barval

Public Property Get bar()
bar = barval
End Property

Public Property Let bar(b)
barval = b
End Property

Private Sub Class_Initialize( )
barval = 1
End Sub

End Class

To make an object in JavaScript:

foo = {bar: 1};

Before NodeJS existed, most people, including myself thought that JavaScript is a stupid language only used in browsers. I was also aware of NodeJS for at least two years before I finally tried it. I thought it was stupid why the hell would you want to code JavaScript outside the browser I thought. After maybe one year of learning, walking through the swamps, I finally saw the light. The most revolutionary I think is the module system in NodeJS, it's what makes writing huge programs in JavaScript manageable. Because of this many JavaScript programs now a days comes with thousands LOC tested and hardened in production, while the actual code you write and maintain yourself is only like one hundred LOC.

I think the NodeJS module system is maybe hundred years ahead of its time, it's right in front of us, but few people seem to notice. And in the direction we are heading now it will soon be forgotten (ES6 import). People use NodeJS modules like imports and couples the code instead of decouple. Sure it works fine for a while, but sooner or later the project will grind to an halt because of code complexity.
Didn't have the right friends or reading material i suspect.
Already have, and loved every page.
In Spain, several tourists die every year trying to jump from their hotel window in the 5th floor to the swimming pool (balconing, look it up) under the influence of their own stupidity. Some people are just looking forward to dying, they just need an excuse.
Yeah that's a problem I know - I used to make some Electro/Dubstep/Trap music - and I feel people will always disagree with the genre you pick anyway.
> "I'd like a better to organize my code or be able to hide the extra small functions so that they are not visible when I'm scanning a file to get an overview."

Most of the 'extra small functions' make good reusable utility functions from which you can build up an external utils lib with different categories for different functions to keep your main code clean. Reasoning about those 'extra small functions' makes you also become more aware of useful third-party code, like standard libraries and popular utility libraries. So most of the 'extra small functions' can go into an external lib and the rest goes into 'helpers' or alike. This way you can keep the files which contain the app logic clean and readable.
> and one mother's room.

As a primary-carer father raising a toddler I don't like that terminology. I'd prefer that they'd just call it a Lactating Room rather than trying to be coy and seemingly indicating a preference for one parent.
Platform for configure, deploy and scale apps in cloud or your own servers
> to steer the droplets around. One is to create new types of microfluidic devices—or labs-on-a-chip

So.... Theranos is less impossible?
>> Just keep the motivation really short so that people see that you have a reason but they don't feel that you are bombarding them with a long argument that they can not relate to.

OK, I will definitely keep it in mind because I do have a tendency to waste other people's time. While I am at it, I will also send a personal note to Mark Z expressing my profound sorrow that I am not dedicating more of my life to FB's mission to connect people. Since I am not cheap, I will also attach a $20 bill to the note to compensate for his loss.
My abilities are artificially limited? I'm not sure I understand that.

I purposefully didn't select a metric. Was going much more for what the community judged. Could be users, rev, scale of impact (however that would be defined).

I'll have to look at the stats on each of the responses to see what kind of numbers craigslist, and pof had while the founders were still going it solo.
Theme Parks Use Sensors to Fight Lines, Improve Planning and Boost Revenue
Summary of AWS Re:Invent Keynote by Werner
> In today's time, we give up privacy for convenience. If you use a smart phone, Facebook, windows/google anything you are already giving up privacy. Stop pretending that 5 mins location monitoring is a big deal.

I find it quite disturbing to see ridiculous comments where one wrong is made right by pointing to other wrongs. We wouldn't need any laws or law enforcement if such logic were to be followed in every area of life.

"There are full body scanners at airports. Stop pretending that putting curtains at home is going to help."

"There are surveillance cameras in many places. Stop pretending that controlling the privacy of your personal photos really matters."

I'm sure I can imagine many other comebacks if I spend more time on this.
True, you don't need extra information to prefer organisms that age out of reproductive fitness, but you might need extra information to ensure a timely death. It remains to be seen whether aging is just due to entropy or that regenerative processes are programmed to stop after a certain amount of time. Programmed death confers very specific fitness advantage to one's offspring as you're no longer competing with them for resources.

The sharing of genes within a population creates a nice analogy between the population and a single organism. Programmed death for members of an organism is a standard feature of evolution. It's not implausible that such a feature exists at the level of population as well.
I definitely recognize this feeling. Some days everything fit and it's a clean implementation, but a lot of times there are tangential tasks that are never "seen" in the implementation. This can of course be reflected in scrum points or whatever, but is this an issue with our own psychology, with feature rewards or something else?

I don't know, and would like to know so I could work on it.
Microsoft shareholders express fear that the company is abandoning mobile
The market for high quality headsets is still small to support high quality VR content, which is expensive to develop. Casual (phone) headsets don't generate much revenue. So it's growing, but not generally profitable. The question is will it grow enough to support a large ecosystem?
I didn't find this report to be cheerleading at all. It called out several deficiencies and limitations.

This VR hype is ridiculous. People have been bitching about having to wear cheap, lightweight glasses to see high-resolution 3-D for years. So now all of a sudden they're going to strap on bulky, heavy, expensive, low-resolution headsets?

And aside from games, which can render their universe on the fly, what will sustain this? The gargantuan hassle to shoot a so-called VR film makes it simply impractical. The studios aren't even shooting REAL 3-D most of the time; they're churning out fake, post-processed crap. Now they're going to fund the logistics of shooting in the round?

And all of that to create footage that 99 percent of the people won't see, because they're not craning their necks around for two hours.

Other than games, porn is about the only compelling VR application.
Tldr: they showed certain gut bacteria are necessary for Parkinson's to progress (but not the sole cause) using an experiment with genetically identical mice.
Great one. I'm in Oz too, so may reach out. Thanks.
Surprised this doesn't have more comments. Maybe its the WSJ link

TL;DR Shultz is not leaving the company. He is stepping down from CEO duties to run Starbucks' "Siren Works" division. Siren Works is building: "high-end coffee shops that will charge as much as $12 a cup."

One may think Starbucks coffee tastes burnt/bitter and SBUX has made some mistakes, but Shultz has been a very good CEO, at a very large public company, that he built.

From 1 store to 25,000 locations today, a bit hard to fathom opening multiple brand new physical stores every day...for 30 years. And they are profitable.

Shultz was basically an awesome growth hacker in a very competitive market, imagine if he had been running a scalable tech company instead.

I look forward to seeing how the $12 coffee biz goes, I won't be joining a double digit prices coffee craze anytime soon.
Thanks for your inputs, it's true that we can use convolutions on raw waveform, however the main reason I've used a spectrogram was to work on precomputed relevant features as highd pointed out, instead of running the convolution on lots of data.
But isn't the system the same as we have in Finland: although employers report to the tax authorities and deposit PAYE, the tax authorities make a calculation and send it to the employee. But the individual is still responsible for declaring any income. You don't have to send back the report, if it includes everything and you aren't making any deductions. But if you have income that's not known by the tax authorities, and you don't report it, that's a crime.
> it would be better if Apple allowed users to rollback to the N-1 version of an app.

Apple should allow users to revert to any older version. There are so many apps that become worse over time, and it's only after an update that the shortcomings are found, with no way to remedy the situation. But Apple really doesn't care about such things on the user experience front. I have provided Apple feedback on this before.

The thing I like in this case is that iOS explicitly warns the user when an app requests for location services permission for use while the app is not running.
I think they are doing this also to stop riders/drivers who game Uber. Riders walking patterns post-ride can be also used for predicting return pickup locations for concerts etc.
Wow, that's an in-depth analysis of the task ! Thanks for sharing
Constitution means nothing. Check this one: https://www.reddit.com/r/worldnews/comments/5fxy9s/whistlebl...
French man sentenced to two years in prison for visiting pro-ISIS websites
How DNS Works (Childrens' Cartoon)
Not to mention sites that idiotically DISABLE ZOOMING.

Goole is such a bunch of hypocrites. They were adamant about how they were going to "punish" sites that aren't mobile-friendly, but their OWN pages disable zooming. Google News, for example.

There's no excuse for it.
The word "satanic" or "satanism" appears 10 times in the article, several times in the context of black metal acts. From what I had gathered from watching the couple of documentaries and books mentioned in the comments, the Norwegian black metal acts that made headlines for their criminal acts were not "satanists" as they rejected christianity altogether.
a large part of the point of a diamond is the emotional response. It's not just about how it looks, it's about how rare it is, even if only you know it.
Well this particular intern who wrote the post was found due to things he had build/done. So I'd say in this case it does matter.
I'd also say that a Google offer means more than being able to play the recruiting game because Google actively rethinks their recruiting process and tries to be data driven.
The End of Globalism
In one way, this is sponsorship taken to a micro level. And sponsorship is fine - and usually open, for the benefit of both parties.

But if I open a random influencer agency website, I can read something like this: "Influencers drive trust". The message here seems to be: Yes, trust is super valuable - and now the price is finally dropping! But is it really?
You forgot the best ones: using dirty tactics against journalists [1] and Lyft [2],

I don't understand how anyone can with a straight face claim that "Uber as a company is very ethical company". I would rank the company management (not drivers) as ethical as the New York mafia.

[1] http://www.businessinsider.com/an-uber-exec-brought-up-the-i...

[2] http://money.cnn.com/2014/08/11/technology/uber-fake-ride-re...
sigh... Europe does not stand a fucking chance!
Vanilla JS
>The entire purpose of life is to market.

Maybe my target market isn't slavish devotees of a vapid consumerist culture who assert their identity with commercial brands?
I don't brush my teeth every morning.
And I still manage to have a life that is more than enjoyable
You're not wrong, but the idea is that it has a longer shelf life, and perhaps more consistency in flavor.

Many American staples are throwbacks to the depression era, where buying a flat of Campbell's soup was a safer bet than buying a bunch of tomatoes and cream. Since then, marketers have capitalized on that sense of consistency, as well as feelings of nostalgia, to ingrain that sort of food into the American psyche.
Hardobtanium
> Hotels can provide VR guides to properties.

Ha, most hotels barely provide photos.
Search for someone who has already taken them you trust the most, and ask where to find/buy (the same part they buy). Know what are you taking (as much as possible), read a lot about it on the internet, specially if you suffer from some chronic illness or are genetically predisposed to something (e.g. heart attacks). Only consume them surrounded by friend(s) in an known place, not with strangers, have water ready (maybe food too); if you have no friends around do the minimun dose at home (perhaps with music), have a medikit around if you are feeling paranoid about it. Fir time take only the minimum recommendation or so, try to have at least one friend around who will stay sober, don't take more if you don't feel anything; better to not combine with alcohol or other drugs.
Russia says foreign spies plan cyber attack on banking system
No, but at least US is not likely to leak some random personal info to non-allied government, e.g. China in this case, on purpose. It is neither legal nor preferable for the U.S. government to do so, I guess. And it might also be probable for an U.S. citizen to feel safer under the surveillance of an opponent of U.S., if not by the U.S. simultaneously.
Garrett Smith did a talk on Writing Quality Code in Erlang[1] which highlights this priciple of separating intention from implementation. He starts with a 20 line function and refactors it into 16 separate functions. The result is much more verbose but it's much easier to read, understand and change. I think terseness rarely does programmers any favours in the long-run.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CQyt9Vlkbis
Yes it's surely not that the humanity only

"once wielded the weapons"

the threat is still too big.

The danger of the accident increases, as people (even those in charge) start to think that if nothing really bad happened until now it won't in the future. In fact, we in the computer related professions should be more than aware how easy is for some minor bug or glitch to escalate. I've posted this just some days ago:

The nuclear weapons, ready to be launched at the moment notice "are prone to the same problems any other computer-related projects are: the amount of the damage is effectively infinitely larger than the effort needed to start it."

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13030541

And the accidents happen.

We must still push in the direction of the reducing the amount of nuclear weapons. The danger is still immense.
There's No Gravity, No Dark Matter, and Einstein Was Wrong
You know your marketing yourself right now with your statements to the audience here, right?

An audience built around silicon valley's capitalist culture...
Thanks! Should have known there was more to it than I realized, interesting.
uberlogs – making python logging awesome again
> Excellent - lets play Enron Bingo! Go through your company values and every time one of them matches or strongly overlaps with the list provided in Enrons 1998 Annual Report[1] - Shout "WOOOO" really loudly.

Now there are two people who insist on escorting me out of the building.
> I know nothing about deep learning but I'm curious. Why can't tweaking parameters be automated? Why is human intuition necessary here?

ok, well, imagine (for simplicity) that you are standing on a 3d-surface with mountains and valleys and such. you can only see so far. you need to walk/run etc. to get to a pot of gold which is there at the global minima of this landscape.

what do you do ? one option is choose gradient descent :) start walking somewhere, and see if the your height, from your previous position, is decreasing. if it is, then maybe you are on the right track...
>The article blatantly edited out those reasons and rearranged his quotes to give this doctor an anti-psilocybin crusading slant. It worked, you immediately dislike him not knowing what his real concerns are, and were just given an out of context snippet.

Probably. But then again, I cannot imagine what his concerns about marijuana are in general, since we've had studies on marijuana for 50+ years now and there's really no scientific basis for banning it or not using it for "other purposes" (besides medical), any more than there's e.g. for smoking in general.
Neutron stars aren't a counterexample because they have z=0! They have a lot of neutrons but no protons.
UK Investigatory Powers Bill: Politicians exempt themselves from new laws
Two years ago, two colleagues from China came to visit (South American country) on a business trip (mostly training and technical discussions).

I took them to a nice restaurant after a day of meetings. I said something about the censorship being bad after they said they couldn't access some websites I mentioned.

They answered a nervous "It's ok" and an awkward silence followed. I sensed they had a lot of things to say about that but even 6000km+ away from China, they still didn't feel comfortable voicing any concerns.
I'm pretty sure what you study or should be studying is data structures and algorithms and their application in most cases (for programming interviews). I don't think it's bad at all and in fact I should study up on these topics because I'm not as good as I'd like. It is extremely useful to roughly identify that the problem you work on is of a divide and conquer nature and that something quicksortish might be an interesting approach. I do remember from the last time I prepared algos that my overall thinking got a lot clearer.
Multiple shared parameters up is a strong motivation to create a composite type, yes, but one should not instantly jump to making the functions methods of the class. In your example it makes sense, but there are equally many cases it does not. Shared state and shared behaviour are two entirely independent concerns.
Curious case of python string += operation
Please send this message to management: "fuck off". Thank you.
How to build a compiler
bug bounties

How about just responding to reports? I've re-reported this to McAfee every year and originally blogged it on a much earlier version something like 2005.

https://lolware.net/2012/12/12/uvscan.html
How much would it cost to make a game like Pokemon GO?
I don't agree entirely with what the article says because it can be a problem to have to sift though a lot of small functions in order to determine what is going on. Sometimes, I think it's easier to read a moderately sized, but "clean" function that you can read from top to bottom, rather than a spiders web of references to other functions which may contain the nuance or bug you are looking for. What he has said reminds me of what the Forth community necessarily espouse, though.

People tend to take the length guidelines far too seriously though. Instead it requires thought and experience. The main Principe I try to follow is make it readable, it doesn't matter how it's written or if you've decided to use a goto in there, so long as it is one of the more readable alternatives.
Thanks for your insights! I agree that log/mel spectrograms could be even more detailed and effective, and could be used with the SoX patch discussed here https://sourceforge.net/p/sox/feature-requests/176/.
Realtime permissions using Valve
I'm no expert, but my understanding is that a neutron star looks very much like a ridiculously huge nucleus.
In normal conversation, I'd be 100% sure this is sarcasm.

On HN it's 50/50.
5 versões gratuitas do Photoshop para celular
What does this article have to do with Europe? I know First Round is based in SF, but they don't state where the startups are located - the only mention of the US is when comparing demographics of the workforce with the US itself.
> There are thousands of engineers now working here and we would be the first ones who would stand up to management if we felt that something nefarious or even careless was being done with user's personal information. Many of the company values revolve around "toe stepping" and "principled confrontation" and this means even against our own management.

Then how come the "while using" option is not there ? the best way of not being careless with sensitive data is not having them in the first place.
awesome post!
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Surely they can get the pick up points from the drivers data, can't they flag where the found the passenger? Why would they need it from the users side too?
I didn't intend to go that far in the human genre recognition parallel, but thanks for the references ! Good job on the script too
I think the issue I have is with people who create info products on how to create info products.
Given how about 90% of your posts on HN are attacking Google, that Googlers have continued to try to engage you in rational discussion nicely speaks volumes.
I brush my teeth so that they last longer and I can chew food longer and thus stay alive longer, marketing only comes into it for people in marketing.
This is a bold move. I wish India shall implement this too.
My assumption is based on the differences between the Charge (non-HR) and the Alta I was given after 4 Charge replacements. The Alta does text alerts but doesn't do stair counting. Assuming the latter only needs an accelerometer there isn't anything obvious in the hardware that might other be missing to make it impossible.
I took amazon links because:
1. They are most popular links to products on /r/SuggestALaptop and 80%+ mentions of laptops in Reddit comments come from this subreddit (second popular site is Newegg).
2. There is an easy access to product details via Amazon Products API

I wanted to ship it fast, so these are the reasons.
Affiliate program is a nice addition to it, but even without it I'd still collect laptop mentions this way, as it's the simplest way for me to implement such a tool.

>More mentions does not equal better.

I totally agree with it, it's only one step in laptop research, but if you don't have time or knowledge to do some more research I think it's quiete safe guess.