skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Does anyone have any idea why certain phone numbers are not able to receive SMS/marked as not US when they are clearly US?
This is such a wonderful reply. Thank you so, so much for this. It's so clearly actionable in my day-to-day life, too.

Hopefully you've saved my career before it implodes!
Still, the only think we know is that the odds are bigger than 10^-96.

You will need a huge amount of self-replicating chromosomes between 180 and 160 basis to make up for the increased size - it's known that self replication is not common, but I don't think we know that to a 10^-22 certainty either, so all that can still be wrong.

Anyway, there isn't a lot to argue about self-replicating on that context. It means that this chromosome is able to create copies of itself in a RNA-rich ocean. It can require light for that, or a big thermal gradient, but not both. The exact conditions of the ocean are, AFAIK, unknown, but things like your example do not fit.
Yeah god forbid everyone invests their fair share in building a fairer and better society.

Crony capitalism is like a flesh eating disease. It encourages everyone to look solely after their own individual interests. Then once a portion of society is exploited and impoverished by the greedier part of society to the point of becoming a burden on them, the rich want to "cut them off" or let them rot away. The cycle then repeats, until very few are left at the top extremely wealthy and powerful, but with no middle class left to exploit.
So. You're not one of the 0.1%. Society "collapsed", whatever than means. You did go through hardship, hunger, lack of Instagram, pain, loss of loved ones, loss of property but also amazing feats of solidarity and human compassion. It still doesn't really look OK and you're daily mourning the life you and society lost.

Then there lands a Gulfstream, out climbs a well fed billionaire straight out his fancy bunker. There's a street lamp nearby and a little bit of rope could be found..
Focussed is an acceptable, although unusual, spelling variant.
Sure, without tools like that being the rule, there's no way to make it work.

I sometimes wonder if many of the "on-site only" employers even realize how much they are missing out on. For example, when I'm in the office, I work from 9 to 6, period. When I work for a remote gig, I can be working 12 hours a day without realizing it - my job literally becomes my life. I understand that it may not be very healthy for me, but isn't that every manager's dream? Yes, you have to make sure people like what they are doing, but that's a different problem and relevant even for onsite gigs.
If you cannot go to bed at a reasonable time in order to function at a job you have been hired to do, then no, you are not a responsible adult.
One downside was that because many people didn't hear the 'temporary' part, the longer we kept it running the more confusion was created about what the permanent policy is. Something like "most but not all politics is off-topic, except for this week when it's temporarily all off-topic" turned out to be too complicated.

Another is that the political flamewarring didn't diminish, but merely shifted to arguing about site policy and the experiment. Indeed, it probably ticked up rather than down.

Another is that many good stories that were clearly on-topic for HN but also had political aspects were excluded, making the front page worse not better.

The bottom line is we can't run an experiment like this without changing the site itself in unintended ways. HN is a complex system that way. 'Do no harm' is at the top of our list, and we learned that there's a big leap in potential harm when you go from a 1-2 day timeframe to a week. So I'm sure we were right to end the experiment early; my internal "are things ok" geiger counter was bleeping like crazy at that point.
>Ah yes, only the toughest survive. Tech nerds are so tough that they get offended when somebody doesn't like their shirt.

No, you would know it was due to real, physical bullying back then. Not "someone said something I don't like on the internet", but injuring someone and/or degrading them publically due to them loving technology.

Oh, while we're at public degradation.
>They were complaining that he was wearing a shirt with scantily clad women on it? How is that gender-based harassment?

He was wearing a shirt his female friend made for him. She wasn't harassed for making it, he was - because he is a white male in a science field, the social justice warriors of the internet decided he is a target for abuse and public degradation, that a shirt is a reason women aren't getting into science. They decided he is a "misogynist" and a "sexist pigdog". That's abuse. That's bullying.

>Unless you are in the category of people with the highest level of privilege in our society, you are not allowed to forget these aspects of your identity. The police, public restrooms, inaccessible buildings, and other people will relentlessly remind you of your abnormality and victimize you.

Really? And let me guess, that would be a straight white male.
You're doing a good job of reminding people of their abnormality and victimizing them.
I'm mostly talking about moving between different machines. I would like to be able to tar up my source code and venv, distribute it to multiple machines, untar it and run it. However that's not possible with virtualenv unless you do a lot of hackery in your build. In particular, creating a virtualenv on each server during deploy is not an option.
Exactly. But, as I understand it, you can't port your Fi number back to Voice if you decide you don't want Fi.
No hard data, but would just add I find quality writing of prose just as hard (or harder) than the creation of quality software.
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You're right, I'm only doing black and white at the moment, but only because the color chems I ordered haven't arrived yet. From what I've read I don't think color developing is as difficult as you're making it seem, at least for C-41 color film. The temperature tolerances are tighter and the chemicals themselves are a bit more expensive (but still reasonable) and have a shorter shelf life, but it seems very doable. This is the kit I have coming sometime this week: http://www.freestylephoto.biz/20411-Arista-C-41-Liquid-Color...

As far as the hour time frame I gave, that was really just an estimate of diluting concentrates, loading the film reels (which is still the trickiest part for me so far), and then the actual developing. The steps of developing itself maybe take me about 25 minutes total.

Ane finally, yeah I do want to start printing at some point, but my bathroom currently is about 30 square feet, if that, so right now it doesn't seem very feasible.

Edit: I should also add that I live in very rural northern New York state. The nearest public use lab to me is a three-hour or so drive away, so that option's out.
> Question: Can bias come into play when evaluating statements, and how will that be handled?

Bias will definitely come into things because the informal language we use is often not precise enough to allow exact yes/no answers and doing so is reductive.
It happens to people in Walmarts. They're a lot smaller. Certainly could happen with races looking for each other in space with the timescale that energy takes to cross it. Another thing that popped in my mind are the nuclear submarines looking for each other while emitting almost no sound or energy. It's just a void with a tiny piece of data here or there that must be assembled into evidence of others' presence. This can happen even when they're fairly close to each other.
Why is gravimetric density more important than volumetric density? That sounds counter intuitive to me.
I can understand some of these different apps :

- Duo : here is an app in order to make video calls. I am ok to have a different icon on my launcher for this specific task. Especially since it comes with great perfs. I just miss a camera icon in places like the contacts app allowing to call the person with either Duo or another equivalent video call app (skype)

- Spaces : ok it is not going to work out but I can see this kind of semi public topical conversations as an usecase needing its own app.

- SMS Hangouts Allo -> this is where I have an issue. Anecdote : my mom calls SMS 'mails'. Casual users have a hard time following the different ways to send a text. And it is not their fault. all these apps serve the same purpose : send texts. I hope that some day we will have a single app in order to do it.
I comfortably and certainly fall into the first category. I'm not ever more than 90% confident...if you ask me directly what my confidence level is. I tend to be one who is labeled as not "smart".
don't understand the downvotes -> he's worth $5-10m at most, chump change in SV
So don't use password managers? That is the most common way to take a password from one of those and input it.
ATP have just posted a transcript

http://atp.fm/205-chris-lattner-interview-transcript
So this is actually something I've thought a lot about, in terms of whether it's actually rational to be a prepper or if it's just a fun hobby.

In nominal terms, your risk of dying in a society-wide collapse is actually larger than your risk of dying in a car accident.[1] So if you wouldn't think twice about taking basic steps to lower your chances of vehicle death (e.g. wearing a seatbelt) then it's absolutely rational to be at least concerned about your risk of dying in the apocalypse.

However, in absolute terms your risk of dying in the apocalypse is still considerably smaller than the most common causes of death. Given that only 1.2% of Americans meet all 7 guidelines for good cardiovascular health[2], being a prepper probably has negative returns unless you already have enough money to access safe food and healthcare, you're meeting all the guidelines for good cardiovascular health, you don't have any neglected mental health issues, etc.

[1] http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2016/04/a-huma...

[2] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22427615
Does anyone know what is RASTA? It's referenced in Rule #5. Looks like an ML algorithm.
>you just can't use both on the same account.

But that was the whole reason I wanted a voice number. I had my regular number I only gave to my close friends and family and would give my voice number to anyone who asked. After I got Fi I could no longer make or receive calls on my voice number.
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They're all separate chat services, yes, but the problem is the use case and differentiating features for each one isn't clear.

As I understood it, Voice was dying on the vine, and then google pushed everyone to Hangouts (to replace the built in SMS app on the phone anyways), but now Hangouts is suggesting to use other apps for SMS (but it still can anyways), so do I use GVoice or the built in one (answer: depends on the phone number you want the recipient to see). But now Allo came out, and that's somehow kinda like Hangouts but not? It has not-SMS chats like Hangouts, so it's just a hangouts replacement. But wait, Hangouts also does video chat - how's that different from Duo?

Google's product messaging is probably the most confusing in the entire technology industry.
That's about where I am with this. I got started with GV back when carriers were charging $0.25/each to send or receive texts, and eventually paid Google $20 to port my old AT&T number into their system.

Then Google stopped developing the GV app and I switched from iOS to Android to get the Hangouts Dialer integration. With the Hangouts integration instead of a real GV app, they apparently threw away the spam reporting/filtering (on voice and text) that had been one of its greatest features.

Eventually I got fed up with the poor service. Third parties would refuse to accept my phone number, or would accept it but couldn't actually send me messages. Group MMS didn't work properly. As of late 2013, they "integrated" MMS support with T-Mobile and Sprint. When one of them tried to send you a picture, you'd receive it as an email attachment on your gmail account. MMS from AT&T and Verizon users, as far as I can tell, continue to disappear into the ether.

I have no idea how many missed social calls I had from people in college organizing social lives via group texts that I never got, and they never knew I didn't get because there was zero indication on either end that it wasn't delivered.

As far as I'm concerned, Google Voice is dead. Maybe this reincarnation lasts two years before management decides to refocus on Duo/Allo, or maybe it's six months. Maybe they throw it out and go all-in on a new Project-Fi based VOIP/messaging system. Either way, I'm staying out of it.

My number's been ported to T-Mobile on the $30 prepaid unlimited plan, and I switched back to an iPhone. Voicemail transcriptions work just as well as GV's did, and my text messages don't just vanish anymore. Everything's great.
Ofcourse it matters where the data is at any one moment.

Obligatory XKCD:
https://www.xkcd.com/908/
Also mentionable is that you need to service them if you want them to last / keep their value, I think it's about $500 every 5 years or so.
When you use the word literally where no one would be confused that you are speaking figuratively and resort to name calling it weakens your argument.
Did you mean universe? Our galaxy is a spec of dust. Our local galaxy cluster is also just a spec of dust. For how large the universe is - even a supercluster is a spec of dust. The universe is mind boggingly massive.

The observable universe has an estimated diameter of 93 billion light-years. A few million years might be enough to explore nearby galaxies. For example, to explore just our Local Supercluster you would need approximately 65,000,000 years [0]. Travelling at the speed of light.

E:
Virgo is further than Ursa Major. Updated 55,000,000-->65,000,000.

E2:
I always refer people to this video in regards to aliens, space, and time. I forgot to in this post, so here it is now: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HPl10L40pBM

[0] https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/e2/Local_su...
Indian: feathers or dots?

Seriously, what's the point of mentioning their ethnicity and gender, exactly? I'm thankful that I'm not your co-worker.
You and all of us that lived in rural areas learning to survive on the land, cooperate with neighbors, and fight off trouble-makers. Such people will probably do better than most.
Side projects are great to get recruiters' attention and also a great filler if you want to show what you can outside of your previous job. But even if you have an awesome side project you may still get rejected. So in the end if you want a job I will focus on getting really good at solving interview questions. It is broken. You can optimize for it.
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"So the absence of radio signals from nearby planets"

Whoa there... The SETI people whom are only occasionally telecom engineers have a thing about scanning for the simplest carrier waves and that's it.

Note that we only broadcast vestigial sideband amplitude modulated video signals which had a lovely strong stable carrier for oh maybe 50 years and we don't broadcast analog TV anymore. Lets be honest that the future for broadcast radio/TV doesn't look particularly bright so even if the aliens had the bright idea to use 8VSB modulation when the USA is in view or OFDM when the euros are in view then they still would see total radio silence from us in "a couple years". Terrestrial broadcasting is pretty much done.

You need to add a term to the SETI equation that your average civilization is only going to broadcast "SETI@HOME" compatible radio signals for maybe a century, probably less.

There's a section of Kraus classic radio astronomy textbook indicating that detecting Earth during the peak of the analog TV era would still have been pretty tricky if the aliens used our own "SETI@HOME" modulation.

You feed a baseband thru the wrong demod and you just get distorted noise.

Broadcast seems kinda dead as a concept in a packet switched social media era. The aliens and us are not going to understand each other on some rather fundamental levels making USA 2050 compared to USA 1950 look fairly trivial. Wait... you still use radio waves for communication instead of high frequency short range gravitic waves? You broadcast to a significant fraction of your unified population instead of social media via low power point to point systems? How... retro.
It’s a massive opportunity for humanity, not a threat. On this subject, Peter Diamandis is brilliant > http://www.diamandis.com/blog/ai-bring-it-on
Plus iCloud is known to have heavily leveraged S3 and other services for its actual storage.
What city/state was this in?

Is there no place to report such behavior to? The manufacturer?
Correct me if I'm wrong, but those content blockers only apply to safari, not apps, right? Blocking ads while browsing isn't really the issue I'm talking about - web ads are already fairly restricted in what they can do, especially if you have a decent browser with extensions.

With adaway on Android I'm able to block inapp ads, statistics and demographics reporting services, crash reporting services and other privacy invading services.
> Generally claiming that a person is doing the method wrong when the method brings no perceived benefits raises a red flag on the general applicability and value of the methodology itself

Agree completely. When incredibly common complaints about a methodology are raised and the response is "you're doing the method wrong" you start to err towards dogma and a "No true Scotsman" approach to management.

Sticking to any technique, including agile, no matter what and with no modification is a symptom of a problem. Projects are unique, there's no one size fits all way to manage them.
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* https://www.sendinblue.com/ (like Mailchimp, but easier)

* https://logz.io/ (log aggregation FTW)

* https://www.skylight.io/ (application performance monitoring for Ruby, similar to New Relic, written in Rust)
As a Project Fi user, that makes heavy use of Hangouts, I sure hope not (as Voice and Fi are incompatible).
i like the wording in Symantec's press release: "Symantec has learned of a possible situation..."

so, let's not be hasty. this isn't a security problem. it's just a "possible situation".

hell, we've all been in situations before. there's nothing inherently wrong with a situation, even if it took place in a location named "test, Korea". i mean, hey, we've all taken tests. some of us have even been in test situations. it's not a problem.

you can just go now. this is not the situation you're looking for.
There is no such thing as a finished project. Just one you no longer work on.
> dehydrated water capsules

Is that a real thing? that sounds like nothing at all.
This is the distilled version of my opinion. You get so many more useful tools to analyze and search data when it's digital.
What would be the mechanism by which which two previously separate but each fully legitimate (in their own network) ledgers interact?

Not trying to poke holes; Just curious.

E: To clarify, imagine that the North American Free Peoples Conglomerate and the New China Society finally re-establish contact between the two continents for the first time in hundreds of years. They have each been running fully functional bitcoin networks for generations on their (until now) 100% separated continent-wide networks.

Is there any current consideration for combining two block chains? or would this need a new custom solution to handle treating each as a completely separate currency (exchange rates)?
One suspects it's you who hasn't distributed or installed many modules on either python or node. So many of the problems that python has, simply don't exist for node, because it finds modules in a bottom-up hierarchical fashion. That allows a single app or module to use modules that in turn use different versions of other modules, and not to worry about what other modules are doing, or how other modules are installed, or how node is installed, or what version of node is installed. This prevents the traditional "dependency hell" that has plagued devs for decades. Thanks to tools like browserify and webpack, the browser may also benefit from this organization.

On top of all that, npm itself just does so many things right. It's quite happy to install from npm repos, from dvcs repos, from regular directories, or from anything that looks like a directory. It just needs to find a single file called "package.json". It requires no build step to prepare a module for upload to an npm repo, but it easily allows for one if that's necessary. package.json itself is basically declarative, but provides scripting hooks for imperative actions if necessary. At every opportunity, npm allows devs to do what they need to do, the easy way.

In a sense, node and npm are victims of their own quality. The types of "issues" (e.g. too many deps, too many layers of deps, too many versions of a particular dep, deps that are too trivial, etc.) about which anal code puritans complain with respect to node simply couldn't arise on other platforms, because dependency hell would cause the tower of module dependencies to collapse first. node happily chugs along, blithely ignoring the "problems".

Personally, I used to be able to build python packages for distribution, but since I've been spoiled by node and npm for several years I've found I simply can't do that for python anymore. It is so much harder.
Yes, the States were offered extra funding for adopting the Common Core. They were not forced to take it, but who doesn't want a few million dollars, right?
If you still believe the US military obeys the rule of law, international law, common decency, and their own rules of engagement then you have not been paying attention to 1, the Manning leaks, 2 Snowden leaks, 3 recent war crimes involving the bombing of hospitals operated by doctors without boarders, Senate report on torture, Obama refusal to exercise the laws against torture, Gitmo, the 'disposition matrix' aka kill lists without oversight, 'double-taps'. The list so long, extensive, and well documented that I can only question your sincerity.
The article says that their quarterly revenue was $1.4 billion.
In 99.999% of cases where they find out, the only downside is you'll be fired. Could they sue you? Of course. Will they? Almost certainly not. What would it get them?

So yes, the only reasonably foreseeable risk is losing your job.
FWIW, Typescript also has async/await, as of 2.1 (in reference to the Alternative section in your README).
>There's a great deal of cultural and technical enablement that needs to happen to allow remote work to be effective. A great employee won't be as productive if your environment isn't set up for them to succeed in a remote capacity.

A good example of this:

At my company we used to have problems with people working from home accidentally being excluded from meetings because the meeting leaders would forget to set up a video conference room, or would forget to join the video conference room that had been created ahead of time. To fix this, we decided that every meeting would have a video conference room set up for it, and that the meeting leader would always join the video conference room, regardless of whether anybody in the meeting was expected to be working remotely. In other words, we always run our meetings as if there are remote workers involved. This eliminated the issue entirely.

Another benefit was that we no longer wasted time determining if we needed a video conference set up for a meeting. We just set it up in all cases. For recurring meetings, we have persistent video conference rooms.
Like any other companies they have a list of values, company culture etc. I said tough because you could have easily passed all their interviews and failed at the very end, by talking to one of the founders.
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