skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
These questions pop up every now and then, and while I get the intent, you're not gonna get anything useful out of it. The idea that someone who knows how to code can disrupt an industry that they are not a part of is disingenuous, and the examples that you can find are exceptions, not the rule. It's also extremely naive and presumptuous...what makes you think people in the industry haven't already tried? People who fall ill to this delusion end up in one of two categories: those that attack easy problems with tiny markets, and those that attack hard problems and spend decades learning about and becoming a part of the industry before they solve them.

As someone in the supply chain and logistics industry, I can list for you hundreds of people that know the traveling salesman problem and precisely why its not applicable to their situation. I know hundreds of people that already know how to better manage their safety stock than someone who suggests using Gaussian demand models. I know hundreds of people who can optimize last mile delivery costs orders of magnitude better than a drone engineer. I know hundreds of people who can manage inventory distribution and ordering automation better than someone who knows databases.

And sure, there are companies out there that are doing everything ass backwards and could use some help, even if it is primitive and simplistic. And when they decide to look for it, who are they gonna choose: the guy who saved Amazon $500M/year with their truck load optimization expertise, or you, with your shiny website and a trick you learned from a textbook?

So as a piece of advice, if you aren't part of the industry already, don't try to do B2B in that industry. B2C is fine, because as a consumer you are ostensibly a part of the industry...but B2B is a death march.
Keeping it in your wallet sounds like a bad idea, for many different reasons.
The Nuremberg trials determined that "deportations and persecutions on racial grounds" were crimes against humanity [1]. I don't understand how FDR's executive order to deport Japanese-Americans to internment camps allowed the Nuremberg judges to punish Nazi members on this charge.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuremberg_principles#Principle...
Are you sure you have decent hearing? I thought I could hear what people were saying in noisy environments, but couldn't understand anything. This was one of the major symptoms for me before I was diagnosed with moderate/severe hearing loss. It's very isolating. No problems now with a decent set of hearing aids.

Have yourself tested! The quality of life improvement from a set of hearing aids is incredible!

edit: I was 31 when I was diagnosed, so don't think because you're young that you're immune. Generally hearing loss is very gradual so you don't really notice it. If you frequently have to ask people to repeat themselves though...
I don't know... My house has never been broken into in my life, but it doesn't mean I don't lock my door at night or when I go to work.
Yes, progressive enhancement is a fucking moral argument
Arnold might not be a self-made man, but he took what he was given, and did a million times more with it than I would have. And that counts for something.
Why doesn't google offer a paid version which encrypts your data and takes all manors of privacy measures? I would go for that
Pessimism absolves the thinking classes of ideas...
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That's an advantage for them but it doesn't seem like an advantage to me as the user. If they change their sources behind the scenes, what I get as a user would probably change drastically.

Google was great originally because their results were not just different and better but also reliable. If the back end changes without my knowledge that gets rid of the reliability aspect.
Try these: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0044DEESS. I keep a pair in my pocket. They're shockingly good, and unless someone is looking closely for them they're not real noticeable.

They're also cheap enough that a lost pair is not catastrophic.
This is a bit misleading, given the documented atrocities that certain Native American tribes committed against settlers.

Fact is, there was no future in which they were going to keep their nice things and in which we would be able to get where we are today.
I've got otosclerosis which causes tinnitus too. It sucks, but thankfully you get used to it somewhat and listening to background music brings me a lot of relief.
The JIQ algorithm seems to have very nice overlap with the work being done on reactive streams and reactive network protocols, for instance http://reactivesocket.io/

The idea being that, on top of a general purpose message stream, you overlay a back-channel where the stream receiver can signal to the producer how many more messages it's ready to handle.

Effectively what this does is moving the implicit back-pressure you get from network buffers up to an application level thing, where something like an app server can reason about how much load it's willing to take on.

Shameless plug: If you think that seems cool and are into Go, I wrote a client+server impl of ReactiveSocket that I'd love API feedback on from more experienced Go devs.. https://github.com/jakewins/reactivesocket-go
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I think that's the problem; they have a good idea and an approach and developing partnerships, but product delivery seems.
I do something very similar, but sometimes you run into passwords that disallow certain special characters and it's awful.
>So, because steroid users can exercise heavily every day, and make outrageous gains that means they're pulling heavy weights pretty quickly, or ridiculous rep counts, they say they're working harder.

I hear this option often enough but could anyone point out what those supposed outrageous gains are? IMO Bodybuilding (like many physical sports) in general self-selects for the physically 'gifted' person - good bone structure, proportions, muscle insertions, etc. e.g. You're pretty much stuck with a certain ratio of fast twitch to slow twitch fibers (I know, its a simplification), you can train with steroids all you want, but you ain't running 100m in under 10 seconds.

I'd like to see what is the currently accepted science on what an average Joe would stand to gain from taking steroids.
The idea that Russian hacks of the DNC and John Podesta were benevolent or positive might be a Twitter trope, but it bears no relationship to reality, where decontextualized emails did little but create (often absurd) conspiracy theories that drowned out the news cycle.

But your comment also presupposes that hacks of the DNC are the only thing the administration is investigating.
I have great hearing and totally agree. I am always annoyed being out with a bunch of friends around a restaurant table and no one can hear further than about 2 people away from them. This seems kind of neat!
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Sure, maybe those maneuvers were provocative, but they do not rise to the same level of responsibility as launching the first actual attack. Japan bears responsibility for taking the bait.
In my experience given talks given by Fastly are always worth seeing or attending.

If have the opportunity to attend a talk given by the founder Artur Bergman don't miss it.

It will be as informative as it is funny and entertaining. There are many on youtube from conferences past.
Great question, but I don't see this much different from other industries or companies with millions or billions of dollars at stake. They don't all roll their own software inhouse, and most companies (hedgefunds or not, small or even large) simply cannot afford to for financial and commercial risk-management reasons unless they can justify the software truly being a core competitive competency.

The same line of inquiry has been evaluated for most 3rd party software that companies rely on. For this specific instance of data collection and cleaning, I'm imagining it's not going to be a much different calculus, although perhaps you'll see a higher percentage of firms choosing to roll their own if they have the chops and pockets (e.g. Two Sigma, Bridgewater, Goldman Sachs, etc.).

I will note that there are commercial mechanisms firms could try to implement to try to limit the downsides in case something like this happens: warranty & damages provisions, and insurance are two come that spring to mind. I'm sure there are numerous other considerations in the age-old "build or buy" cost-benefit analysis.
Tons of PC games have had title screens going way back. Ultima IV (1985) and Commander Keen (1990) spring to mind.
> The Euler method is too inaccurate to be useful.

You can make it as accurate as you want by shrinking the time step. :)
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At least on Android and the Google Maps app, when one requests mass transit directions, UberX is often given as a potential route. Gives a fare quote and a trip time, IIRC.
Save the internet by dropping icon fonts altogether. You save a lot of bandwidth, and you stop breaking the web.
I am reminded of the old joke about how there are 2 major problems in computer science: caching, naming things, and off-by-one errors.
Does something like the [Recurse Center](https://www.recurse.com/) count?

Some stuff more like what you describe also pops up on google if you search "digital nomad retreat".
What I do is record clues to what the actual password is. Clues that only I know the meaning of.

I was given a random password for an account years ago and came up with a sentence that I associate with the original random password.

Whenever I use that random string in a password and I want to write down the password, I record that sentence instead of the original random string.

That way anybody that finds what I've written can't really use it.
I can think of a solution that's VERY VERY anti-consumerish.

Being a SaaS provider, create an extensions that you have to install (something consumers want...). This extension should have the permissions to read history / or urls visiting.

Have a blacklist transmitted of urls (so you don't need to transfer the user's data back to the server) and match with it. If it matches...you have to work on that consumer a lot more.
The Implicit Assembly Line (2008)
Heck, even software with the equivalent level of unpopularity (PHP) doesn't disappear.
Interesting, mine have held up pretty well. My hf3s are going on four years old. I've used them on a near daily basis at work and fairly frequently under a motorcycle helmet. The exterior sleeve of the cords is starting to fray at the attachment points to the actual earphones, but they still work just fine. I expect I'll have to finally replace them within the next year or so, but I'll do it happily because they've outlived everything else I can remember in my daily rotation including two phones, a laptop, a wallet, and a backpack.
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I'm the co-author of this blog post. I'm happy to answer any questions!
That the water at the source is clean may be true, but you judge the water by its nature at the final destination, because in the final analysis, that is where the grade of quality matters to those who'll be drinking it.
My site's advertising is comprised of self-hosted, static images so it isn't impossible. They are also much more relevant than most websites' ads because I target the ads based on the content.
Hm, okay. Not quite Google-Glass level overkill personal tech in the wild, but I'm not sure these will find a good patch of target market. Not quite hearing aids, not nearly as cool as headphones intending to keep the world out...I just have my doubts as to how well these are going to be adopted.

Oh, and if there comes a time when there are YouTube/Vine videos of jerks coming up behind people wearing these and screaming and/or otherwise messing with them, well, I wouldn't be surprised. Not that I'd approve, mind you. But would I laugh? No comment.
That isn't a representative description of most recruits. It sounds like your sample size is too small and not representative.
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I'm the same and it drives me (and my wife if Im honest) crazy. For whatever reason I pick up background noise with much more intensity than most people. Surround sound is useless to me, I'll hear cricket chirps and background music over the dialog.

I can more of less push through it at a pub and in other social situations but its extremely draining.
The bartender API is very limited. The customer is either ordering one of a few enumerated things, or asking one of 3 questions.
It doesn't mean they have to be skippable, just that they can't drag on too long.
>Do you need to be willing to risk your reputation and pursue crazy ideas? Is that what leads to great breakthroughs?

>>First of all, it helps to be ignorant. The time when I did my best work was when I was most ignorant. Knowing too much is a great handicap. Especially if you’ve been teaching for some years, things get so fixed in your mind and it’s impossible to think outside the box. I was in the lucky position of jumping into physics without ever having taken any courses in physics. I’d only been a pure mathematician up to that point.

>Is the great scientist also naturally subversive?

>>Yes, undoubtedly. You’ve got to destroy what exists in order to build something new. You need good taste, of course. If you destroy indiscriminately, it doesn’t help at all. That’s where intuition comes in—what parts of the old building should be taken down.

>Is physics a young person’s game? It seems that most great discoveries are made by people under 40 or even under 30.

>>That is true in theoretical physics. Experimenters can keep going much longer and sometimes stay very productive into old age. That’s a very different game. For theoretical physics, I suppose you need to be ignorant. After a while, you get so attached to things as they are.

I find this pretty fascinating. I was wondering why people who make something really impressive tend to not repeat that, or they basically only make variations on the original. Be they musician, painter, composer, mathematician, scientist, computer scientist, etc. It's not true for all, but it does seem to describe many successful people. Though, they already made one great feat, so it makes sense for there to just be one.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13139997
https://twitter.com/affairesmtl/status/807221404961800193
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For what it's worth, this tech has been available in hearing aids for a long time already. I carry a remote that can:

* switch my hearing aids between 5 different programs depending on the environment.

* play "fractal" like tones to combat my tinnitus

* adjust the volume including muting the outside world

* play music from anything with a 3.5mm jack (bluetooth also available)

* hear calls from my phone

* probably more I'm forgetting

If it wasn't for the being hearing impaired part, having hearing aids is pretty cool :)

It looks like Bose is trying to bring this technology to a bigger market which is cool.
> Gmail is objectively an amazing email app on both desktop browser and mobile.

Hum. I would not say "objectively".

I can't stand gmail, it does not come close to what I can do with Thunderbird
and K-9, and I'm not doing anything complex.
A webapp still can't compete with a native client.

> Lots of great apps like Google Docs, Calendar, and Translate exist to make your life easier for free.

Google services are not free, your privacy may be worth an app or two, but mine
sure isn't.

I'm giving a talk next week on how to get rid of Google so I would not say I'm being impartial here.
Depends on price for me.

I have trouble hearing in noisy environments. When I was young I was diagnosed with an auditory processing problem so I assume it's related to that.

When I meet with someone in a noisy environment I just accept that I'm only going to understand every other word that someone says. Which leads to a lot of smiling and nodding blankly.

I know very expensive hearing aids could handle this for me but it's not a big enough problem for me to check into that route. However if this was $150 bucks or so I might get some. Though I expect the price tag will be more like $600.
I agree with your larger point, but should user privacy be part of the user experience?
Like WhiskeyTang, I also attended Makersquare. For my final project, my group and I made a WebRTC file transfer app. Check it out at https://www.mkstream.club/#/ (It might take a few seconds to load, though)
"You’re one of the select few invited to the Bose Corporate Center facilities to demo Bose Hearphones for yourself."

Wow, I feel so special, and all I did was click a link on HN. This sounds like the Bose version of those cheap late-night "as seen in TV" amplifiers. Yeah, Bose is overpriced for what you get, but at least their stuff is if decent quality. Dunno, after too many years of standing in front of a Marshall stack, be it my own or other's, I could see myself interested in this.
How about http://freecbr.sourceforge.net/ or http://mycbr-project.net/preview/

Also, depending on how broadly you define things, pretty much all of the work going on in the Semantic Web world is "knowledge based AI". Look at something like Jena and/or reasoners like Fact++, etc.
How quickly after learning JavaScript should one consider learning TypeScript? I've used JS for a while now (two-three months) and want to try TS but at the same time not jump ship too quickly.
If it's hosted in local IP space and therefore you can't get a certificate, you can setup a CA and push that CA certificate through Group Policy. I had to do it myself and it took 3-4 hours (mostly because I'm bad at Group Policy)
KeePass doesn't store anything online by default and doesn't run any servers at all (people use their choice of online file folder provider [Dropbox, Box, OneDrive, Resilio, private servers, etc] if they want online access/sync), so you may be confusing it with something else.
I seem to recall Bruce Schneier advocating the same strategy:

> I write my passwords down. There’s this rampant myth that you shouldn’t write your passwords down. My advice is exactly the opposite. We already know how to secure small bits of paper. Write your passwords down on a small bit of paper, and put it with all of your other valuable small bits of paper: in your wallet. [1]

I think this is a viable strategy. And I don't think the fact that a wallet can be lost or stolen should dissuade a person. If your wallet is stolen, you're already facing a security compromise, with or without written passwords inside. Your typical wallet is going to contain ID cards, bank and credit cards, etc. You already need to cancel those cards and get new ones issued. Fortunately, by being in the wallet, those passwords will be rather secure. IME, people seem to understand losing one's wallet is Serious Business.

The common advice against writing passwords down is not the only bit of perverse security policy I've encountered. On the AIX boxes at one my employers, it wasn't so bad that password policy required a minimum length of multiples of letters, numbers, and symbols and forbade reusing the past N passwords. No, what was BS was that the policy also forbade X repeated letters, and Y letters that were in any of the Z previously used passwords. Now, while this might have been intended to prevent users from using passwords like "aabbccdd1", "aabbccdd2", "aaaabbbb3", etc, it also in effect forbade stronger passphrases. The longer a passphrase is, the more likely you are to have multiple repeated letters, or letters that occurred in the last few passphrases. There are only 5 vowels in the roman alphabet, and many words use more than one. For example "correcthorsebatterystaple", has 6 repeated letters, and its replacement of "wargnomefinaltreetruce" not only has 4 repeated letters, but 5 letters used in the previous passhrase, thus forcing a much weaker password like "FuckA1X!". Oops.

1. http://freakonomics.com/2007/12/04/bruce-schneier-blazes-thr...
I'm not going to be the only one at a club who brings hearing protection with me. It's not hip. Clubs need to start giving them out either for free, or renting them, or something. it needs to be available on location there. I don't see anyone else wearing them.
If you’re talking about https://theandrewbailey.com/blog/ then your CSS with and without the base64 encoding looks like this:

101K 9 Dec 18:30 with.css
99K 9 Dec 18:31 with.min.css
73K 9 Dec 18:31 with.min.css.gz
6.8K 9 Dec 18:30 without.css
5.2K 9 Dec 18:31 without.min.css
1.8K 9 Dec 18:31 without.min.css.gz

Although this might be true:

> …72k, which is not much bigger than the CSS without the fonts + the fonts separately.

The issue here is that CSS is a render-blocking resource and fonts are not; ergo you’ve increased render-blocking assets from 1.8K to 73K, meaning the user has to download 4056% more bytes before they get to see anything at all. Base64 encoding assets is usually a huge anti-pattern. You’d be better off moving those fonts back out into separate requests.

I hope this comment is taken in the spirit it’s intended: I like making the internet fast :)

Have a great weekend!

(If you’re interested in further reading, look up anything to do with the critical rendering path.)
Well, feel free to suggest some alternative that is as easy to use, because I don't read or speak French beyond that which is required to start a fight.
Actually just getting some earplugs helps this. Will filter your noise and make it really easy to have a conversation at normal level with someone near you. Use this myself for sports events, sometimes lounges, and of course flights. They cost way less than these headphones and work just as well to quell the problem you have.

Or if you don't want to use earplugs, just plug your ears when someone is talking to you. Same effect really.
tinnitus is a symptom with many causes.

Loud noise being just the most common--and least treatable--cause.

Another cause is otosclerosis, which is preeminently treatable.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otosclerosis

If you have tinnitus, don't assume that nothing can be done. See an audiologist.
So your viewpoint is that, if the law on the books criminalizes an enormous number of people who are not really harming anyone, then one should nonetheless support rounding those people up using whatever means necessary?

I mean, I guess your view is consistent and makes some kind of sense. Selective enforcement of the law is a bad thing in many ways, and in an ideal world there would perhaps be no difference between "technically illegal" and an actually enforced crime. Perhaps disastrous policies like rounding up medical marijuana users, longtime undocumented residents, jaywalkers, "sodomites" before Lawrence v. Texas, miscegenators before Loving v Virginia, etc., etc., would "heighten the contradictions" and force civil society to legislate what it actually wanted to punish.

I'm confused how you could be confused by the opposite viewpoint though. The opposite viewpoint is informed by millenia of the reality of law, which is that laws are often not enforced because they don't make sense, and a zealous enforcement of an existing law can be a radical, destructive break with an informal rule. For those of us who see this as simply part of reality, a given proposal to increase or decrease the enforcement of existing laws must be weighed against its practical effects.

The proposal to enforce the immigration laws is controversial because it will cause an enormous amount of suffering, it solves no real problems, it will weaken the US economy, and it is motivated by racial animus and xenophobia.
True, "all water filters get very funky after a year", that funkiness is an indication of the true quality of the water that reaches your house or apartment.

That's how you tell what you'd have been drinking without filtration.
What do hearing aids with those feature cost? I feel like even premium Bose products would be cheap in comparison
This is already a thing, however data rates tend to be slower