skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'd like to be a workplace safety inspector or ergonomics consultant and help people do their jobs better without risking injuring themselves as much.
I'm a VA with one long-time client who can only offer me part-time work, plus the occassional small project related to the work. I also sometimes get a few side jobs from previous employers. For the last several years, I've generally worked an hour per day, M-F.

Living abroad on dollars, and staying out of native-English speaking countries and Nordic ones, it's quite easy to live an average lifestyle on around $600/mo. However, to live like this you end up going through a few dry periods where you really are struggling. Three-fourths of the time, I'm living the same lifestyle as I did in the US, except it's more interesting and I'm not working a full-time job I don't like just to make ends meet.

My free time is spent exploring cities, learning languages which I teach myself and then practice in-country, reading and watching documentaries about everything that interests me (I was born curious), volunteering and working on some online side projects (non-monetary) related to growing my knowledge.

If this were a few hundred years ago, I would be the first person to sign up for overseas voyages, but since there are no more unexplored/untouched lands these days (barring the final frontier), I try to do the next best thing - explore subjects and places that are, in the least, not previously explored by me. Another way to look at it is to say I was born (SF in the early 80s) a few decades late, otherwise I would have grown up hippie and probably fit right in (rather than have friends who make amounts I can't even comprehend).
Definitely checkout the follow on post as well. It's got simple and concrete steps for making and eliciting forecasts quickly: https://blog.twitch.tv/flash-forecasting-f8384cfe4f6c
The reasons to use ReLUs are sparsity and improved gradient flow. ReLUs encourage sparsity because when the input to the ReLU is less than 0 as the activation becomes 0. This means some fraction of activations in a given layer will be omitted which can encourage better representations. They also have improved gradient flow because the gradients are zero or constant and thus don't suffer from vanishing/exploding gradients.

In deep learning, I would _generally_ not look towards biology for the reasons behind why things are done as this is usually an after-the-fact explanation. When in doubt, blame the gradients.
The Art of Pitching: How I Got Published in The Atlantic
Apple's share price for the last year is up by about 10%, despite problems with disatisfation over MacBook Pro, no earphone jack, etc. Personally, the only thing I am really disappointed with is slow progress on web services.

I was considering moving on from Apple myself, but decided that I like their hardware and my workflow is good on macOS and iOS (on a iPad Pro). I just bought a MacBook and when my Android phone is 4 years old (soon), I am going to get an iPhone.

Apple products are expensive but I spend so much time with them that the extra cost is worth it. Still, I wish Tim Cook and the board of directors would sit down together and compare Siri with Google Now and Google Assistant.
How is this different than tor?
And I'm not sure there is anything stopping a Tap from listening without you knowing.
Incidentally, since I don't see it mentioned anywhere obvious on the site, you can also use @yourdom.33m.co as short address.
> This is a post based on logic and knowledge and logic and knowledge played little role in the election. Maybe, outside of elite spheres, it plays little role at all in human life.

Maybe it's because you write shit like this. Condescending doesn't even begin to describe your last paragraph.

If I were to begin arguing why your article is wrong, one thing would be that you overestimate the amount of power a president has, despite being commander in chief. There are too many vested interests operating behind what is publicly seen, that would not allow a nuclear apocalypse to happen.
I'd be interested in working in media and/or politics given how significant their impacts are (and how rapidly things are changing).

It'd be far less likely to work out but I'd also love to be able to professionally produce music.
Ask HN: What languages/technologies do you plan to learn in 2017?
I'm interested to hear about what languages or other technology folks are planning to learn and use this year - whether it is strictly for a hobby or for production use.
Yes, although I can't imagine many people would recognize the concept yet.

http://scripting.com/2014/06/02/whatIsARiverOfNewsAggregator...
http://buzzmachine.com/2006/08/22/the-river-of-news/
I would have called it Credit Crunch. This is why I don't work in marketing.
I can't figure out if I appreciate your honesty or if I think you're a giant douche
You still need GCC (Clang still can't compile the kernel).
Especially when they pay it out every 6 months, which is standard practice.

"Eh, I'm unhappy but I might as well stay around just another 6 months to get the next bonus. Then I'm gone."
Ask HN: People who did coding boot camps, what did you think?
What were some of the positives or negatives? Why did you initially enter, and did you feel like it gave you whatever tools you felt were necessary?
Assuming a 40% tax (no idea what it would actually be in practice), everyone earning less than $50 a month would be a net cost.

As a thought experiment, imagine that you increased the UBI payments so that they took up all the gross income of the country. Now your tax rates are 100%, even though the "net impact" of the redistribution is 0. A smaller UBI is the same concept, just the percent of income distributed is smaller. The bigger the UBI, the larger your tax rates on all workers. As those tax rates reduce the supply of labour, the costs mount even more.
Thanks, that's a bunch of great info. I'll be looking forward to an update on your bench.
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This is my plan! What kind/size of boats are you looking at?
VDI which is what most large organizations are moving to. That computer on the desk is just a dumb terminal.
I second Cryptomator. I used it to make an encrypted "File Cabinet" for important documents that I want on Dropbox.

It is so simple, I actually used to it show my mom show to set up an encrypted folder on a flash drive of important information she wanted to store in a safety deposit box.
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OP here, for myself, I've done a lot of reading up about Elixir and more recently about Clojure. I plan to dig in to both of them this year and build a non-trivial side project. If all goes well I might have the opportunity for production use at my work.

I'm also hoping to find some time to play around with software defined radio.
ES 5-6-7: From Callbacks to Promises to Generators to Async/await
Honestly, the current state of neural backpropagation research is still in flux and papers will be pretty technical. My background's in neuroscience, and the rough summary of what we know so far is: action potentials can travel backwards down a neuron, and they probably do so in vivo, but we don't know if this actually does anything. There's no mechanism we understand for passing information backwards through a synapse. In fact, the only reason people suspect this might be important, and not just an accidental effect, is because backpropagation has been important in developing artificial neural networks.

Getting inspiration from nature is often useful (convolutional neural networks are loosely inspired by the way information is processed down the optic nerve) but for the specifics of neuron function, the brain is almost certainly doing things that are more complex than is practical to simulate. The brain contains hundreds of billions of neurons, and each one is orders of magnitude more complex than a node in an ANN, interacting with local and distant neurons through all kinds of separate but interlocking electrical, chemical, and long-term genetic actions.
http://foopee.com/punk/the-list/

Shows (mostly punk/rock) in the bay area. Straightforward. Up to date. Gets the job done.
By this argument, if the basic income == the total income of a country, there is still no aggregate cost. Maybe, but I'd argue that such a system would come with huge costs due to the massive increase in taxation.
Ports aren't really an issue to me...in a couple of years everything will be USB-C and/or wireless charging/headphones anyway.

Big issue is Apple has no new innovative products. Apple Watch isn't really enough of new product to drive iphone like sales at least not yet and there is nothing else on the horizon.
Try applying to a different job, and getting an offer. That will give you perspective and leverage when talking with your current employer
I tend to use vim for fortran/java/haskell/python/clojure/scala/bash/latex.

Recently I've been working in a C#/F#/.NET world with Visual Studio + the vsvim plugin. It's a decent substitute for the most part, but I hadn't realized how much I valued not having to wait 30 sec 4 min (depending on project size) to load files. Also, occasionally I'm doing some plumbing work and find myself trying to use registers and macros, which seem to be missing.
He's an underdog to the public. A minority and perceived as a business maverick that also cares about the environment. You would group Cook with Musk and Mayer long before you would group him with the CEO of Exxon Mobil.

Apple's philanthropic and environmental toting has largely surpassed their hardware innovation under Cook's direction. Yet one has to wonder - if these environmental footprint reductions costed more money than they saved - would Apple risk their profits to save the environment?
>Chris Taylor left Wargaming back in November ...

I hadn't heard the news, that is terrible. It basically crushes any hope I had for TA2 being good.

Figured they'd have just given CT free reign and had TA2 use a traditional retail pricing model ala Master of Orion, a Wargaming Labs project. It's still possible that could happen, but doubtful.
The site is just a static site hosted on a cdn. Very basic js and not using any frameworks.

To get the data is a bit of a different story, but it's a collection of scripts written in nodejs / golang for retrieval, cleaning the data etc.

Hope that helps!
That is pretty impressive. Sadly, I'm limited to shared workspaces given that I'm in an urban area. Good to know about for whenever I decide that I'm sick of the city.
All he has to do, really, is just not fuck up what Steve built. Focus on continuous iteration of all profitable products. Maybe introduce a few new ones, but make sure they are best-of-breed, premium products. Apple's status quo is (was) elegance and excellence.
Therapist/counsellor. I love technology/coding/hacking but what gives me the best feeling is helping someone on a personal level. I have realised (from having been told) I am a good listener and I think I would have done quite well in some kine of mental health role. Not a full on doctor but someone who listens and helps a person during difficult times.
The secret nuclear bunker built as the UK's last hope
make a distro, call it gnu/linux, problem solved.
This happened because environmental policy focused too much on one metric: CO2 emissions. It should've been reduction of all polluting emissions, which would naturally favor hybrids and then plug-in cars as the rules get more strict.
*non-monotone
This would be great because then I could receive streams of the radio from the UK. It's impossible to get sporting events via anything except FM radio.
I have a few options/dreams.

1. Become a musician. I love all kinds of music and drums/percussion in particular. On the side, I'm working my way to being able to play drums+timbales for Cuban timba music. I've only been doing this for about a year and think I have a talent for it.

2. Go into criminology and/or politics. Crime is one of the biggest problems in Venezuela, with murder and kidnappings at all time highs, affecting me personally and frankly every Venezuelan. I'd heavily use technology to help me. If I can play a significant role in eradicating that problem, I'd be very proud of my life.

3. Open up a bar/restaurant. I love hosting people and providing an environment for people to have fun. Live music and a dance floor would be a must, but a nice chill lounge area should be available too. Again, I'd like to use technology, e.g. having automated beer taps that you can open with your RFID wristband or code and get automatically charged, and having something similar for standard mixed drinks (of course, I'd still keep bartenders for specialty cocktails).

I guess there are more, but these will suffice for now :)
Alisa Shevchenko denies she aided election hackers
Imagine the implications for the real world if you can solve #32. I wonder will it be able to detect emergent laws (e.g. thermodynamics, Newtonian gravity as an approximation to general relativity etc.)? Also it will be very interesting to see which experiments AI chooses to perform.
My first thought is that if you have the old password then it was not stored properly in the first place. Need to fix that first.

Second thought is that anything that exposes information about the existing password is an information leak just waiting to be exploited.
If you don't have to share data between users, a multi-database setup is the way to go. I wrote a post about how I do it a little over a year ago...

https://tomschlick.com/2015/11/29/lessons-from-building-mult...
They teased a photo of a FH interstage. I think it's going to be this year:

https://www.instagram.com/p/BOkwrgQAmI8/
I don't have a time machine, but why do you think he wouldn't have done the book? He was responsible for the ridiculous 20th Anniversary Mac ($7499 in 1997!):

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

That's a way bigger time/money sink than allowing your designers to put together an art book of Apple products.
https://www.cronweekly.com
It's also worth noting that the lead maintainer, Mark Otto, is also simultaneously heading design at GitHub as well. Not entirely two small things to deal with in your life, ha. :)
Our company pumps out tons of long-document PDFs that are fairly complex in terms of text, charts, tables and whatnot. We then take the docs, excel files, and charts into InDesign to create a nicely designed PDF to upload online.

I need to find a way to automate this workflow. Anyone out there experience this in their organization and want to work together on something?
I thought this would be similar to a collection of images like uber.gif and lottapixel.jpg[0], but it's just plain images. Hm.

[0] - https://github.com/danielmiessler/SecLists/tree/master/Paylo...
Thought Industries | REMOTE | US | Full-time | Javascript Application Engineer | https://www.thoughtindustries.com/

We’re looking for a JavaScript Application Engineer to help us build out our SaaS Learning Business Platform.

You would be a good fit if:

- You are excited about new web technologies like ES2015 and RxJS.
- You sweat the small stuff, but know when to ship it.
- You are passionate about listening to users & building elegant web products.

We use Node.js with Koa and Ember.js, but are open to any framework experience you might have. This role is split evenly through the full stack. Bonus points for reporting, data viz, and any AWS experience you might have.

Throughout the day, we rely on Slack, GitHub pull requests, and Screenhero for remote collaboration. Our platform makes heavy use of Node.js, RethinkDB and Ember.js. The development team is completely distributed across the US.

The company:
Thought Industries is a funded startup in the Online Learning space. We enable companies to launch and sell their own online school and distribute learning material — think Shopify meets Udemy/Coursera.

This is a full-time position. You can work from anywhere, but there should be some overlap with US East Coast hours. No Recruiters, please, and we are only able to consider US citizens at this time.

Headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts, Thought Industries is one of the world’s fastest-growing online learning companies in the U.S. We are helping consumer brands and for-profit learning organizations change how they build, deploy and grow online learning businesses. Today, more than 100+ customers and brands are using the Thought Industries’ Learning Business Platform to transform the way they reach, teach, and engage audiences.

We are a growing, well-funded technology company, with a talented team and a clear vision. This is a unique opportunity to take a lead role at an exciting SaaS software company with a robust cloud-based platform. We hire talented people who are self-motivated and team orientated.
It's mildly interesting that this is only for 7 Iridium-NEXT launches. An eight was recently added, but it will also have a pair of German GRACE-FO satellites attached to it, so it probably makes sense that the FAA would want to approve that one separately.
How prevalent is the use of non-Word tools in drafting legislation? At Open Law Library[1], we're building a linter for legislation drafting as a Word plugin under the assumption that most drafting is done in Word. Would love to learn more about your process (vchuang at openlawlib dot org).

[1] www.openlawlib.org
> what is the compatibility store for third party components/themes based on bootstrap.

I can't speak to components, but for themes there's already a migration guide, and I'd expect to see tools that help with the conversion since they're conceptually similar.

https://v4-alpha.getbootstrap.com/migration/

> will these third party components need to be re-written and support multiple bootstrap versions?

They'll need to be updated, but it's a one way trip. It wouldn't surprise me to see popular themes maintain Bootstrap 3 and Bootstrap 4 versions in parallel for a while.
Is dang reading this?
I completely agree. Very few people outside of HN and r/apple that I have talked to have negative opinions of what Apple is doing.

I see no evidence that Apple's products are becoming less popular. The iPhone is still the go to smartphone that I would recommend to anyone. I have switched back and forth between iPhone and Android since they came out, but I would never recommend an Android phone to a casual user. If they want the newest phone they get the iPhone 7. If they just want a phone the iPhone SE is a great phone for the price. It will last years and be secure with continued security software updates.

The Apple Watch is the only smartwatch I've seen bought en mass by non-techies.

The MacBooks are still the go to laptop for college students that can afford it. With the exception of some engineering circles where the Surface is popular, MacBooks are ubiquitous.

And while the AirPods had a delayed launch, they are in my opinion an amazing first gen Apple product. The ease of use and quality of the Bluetooth connection is not something I've experienced in Bluetooth before.
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Pretext for dinging employee raises and bonuses? </speculation>
Getting the material is not that difficult for a determined group. Truly dangerous isotopes like caesium-137 or strontium-90 are both used for medical and other applications, and have both been accidentally released from non-military sources after having been forgotten in scrapyards, then causing fatalities. They also have considerable half-lives, about 30 years, so you can't just wait a few months for it to decay out of an area. Dispersing them is also not that hard, and you don't even necessarily have to use an explosive. You could do an indoors release of a powder, or a release of a water-soluble salt into a pond or a fountain, or what have you.

Of course, other motivations, like the panic generated by a physical attack, may be more important to someone choosing methods.
What is the future of SmartTV apps?
I was always under the impression that he's not full time. He posts sporadically, usually around big Apple news, and it seems more out of personal interest than dedication to his job.

Plus, I don't see him as trying not to look biased. If anything, he completely disregards attempts to -- he frequently states that something is his opinion, that seems to be the appeal of the blog. That it's completely biased and all one man's opinion is what makes him so polarising.
Show HN: Alacritty, a GPU-accelerated terminal emulator written in Rust
How is Dropbox access stored on AgileBit servers? I buy an app license. I then set up a vault in a Dropbox folder just like a local folder. I use 1Password to access that vault. Same goes for the iOS app. If the worry is iOS, one should assume that every iOS app company that uses Dropbox has a copy of your Dropbox creds on their server, correct?

It is my understanding that at no point, does AgileBits store my Dropbox creds. It also does not store my 1Password vault.
Thousands of German researchers lost access to Elsevier journals
I sincerely hope BS4 is the last nail in IE9's coffin.
Yes, all things I am grateful for make me happier. But not all things that make you happier, are you grateful for.

Being grateful for something transcends being happy about that something. It's about holding in your mind, certain things that don't just make you happy, but resonate with you.

I don't, for example, think that just conjuring up the thought of a delicious ice cream cone, is going to have any lasting effect on your mood. Yet, ice cream makes me happy.

I do think that taking a moment to reflect on how lucky you are to have a family that is supportive, functional, and healthy... can definitely be a small bump, on the happiness scale.
LEGO is doing really good by offering free software-, firmware-, and hardware developer kits for their stuff. Their official firmware is even open source under a GNU license. You can actually view the electric schematics for the MINDSTORMS hardware. The resulting community support for various custom sensors and languages is awesome. They are also being a good internet citizen by allowing downloading without any account registration.

https://education.lego.com/en-us/support/mindstorms-ev3/deve...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lego_Mindstorms#Programming_la...
I've already said the problems with SC. It was a very bland and plain successor. They recognized this and tried to bring it up to the level of TA with SC:FA but it is not as good as Total Mayhem or TA:Escalation. Try them out and you will see the difference.
Domestic freight, specifically rate quoting and booking.

I sell large equipment to the food & spirits industry. It often has to be shipped on pallets. Before a customer decides to order something from us they generally want to know the freight shipping cost. Rates vary daily, so our salesperson has to stop the sales process to get a freight quotation.

3PL companies already exist, and are supposed to exist to get a best-available rate from the sprawling mess of local, intrastate, and interstate freight carriers. Still, we've found that to REALLY get the best freight rates we have to send out a quote request to 3+ different 3PL companies, wait for all the quotes to come back in, figure out the cheapest quote from the most reliable carrier, then re-ask the same 3PL parties if they're willing to beat the best available rate. The sales process loses a ton of momentum, and it wastes our shipping manager's time.
Offboarding
Wow, what will happen to Angular 2 now?
I've wondered if I could shortcut the school requirement on the basis of already having an ABET-accredited computer engineering undergrad. My state does not seem to distinguish the type of engineering education required to be a PE. I would think that a computer PE is not quite the same as a civil/structural PE though.

As for welding, certifications and or even training seems to be very expensive. E.g., a single one-semester (4 credits) welding class at the local community college is $847. I'm tempted to buy some welding equipment from Harbor Freight and just try to learn from YouTube videos (which is basically what I did to teach myself car repair).