skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I see SV and its ilk are doubling down on the actions and ideas that lost them the election. Perhaps something beyond a knee-jerk reaction is in order.

Great article along these lines:
http://blogs.spectator.co.uk/2017/01/nine-questions-protesti...

Particularly salient quote:

"If you decide that border restrictions are fascist then you are declaring the views of most people to be fascist, because most people believe in border security."

Food for thought.
How Life Turns Asymmetric
should be tagged with (2005)
So this is intriguing, I've never heard of the heartland as a great place for diversity. Do you have any evidence for this situation you describe?
No, but this is a bug, confirmed by Dianne Hackborn on G+
I support transparency in government spending, especially financial information in a standardized format. However, I don't share your optimism regular people will be able to make sense of this data.

Just take the financials for public companies for example. Because all public companies report their financials in GAAP formats you'd think that therefore it would be easy to look at a company's balance sheet and cash flow statement to figure out what's really going on, right? Except it isn't. Despite standardized accounting rules and a standardized reporting format it's still very difficult to tell what's really going on behind the numbers. With the stock market there is a huge incentive for analysts to figure out what the numbers represent, for obvious reasons. And yet, more often than not, analysts get it totally wrong. There won't be similar army of analysts for public spending disclosures, just a couple of dedicated individuals, think tanks, and PhD students.

I still support full financial transparency for the public sector, but I don't think it will have a huge impact because numbers by themselves say very little.
Slack Enterprise Grid
I have the option of cash payments here in New Zealand. I think I had that option in the US, too.
Thanks much appreciated. It was always a thought from day 1 knowing the way OSS goes. Hopefully dual licensing proves to be a good option.
Did any president before a few days ago denied the entry to green card residents? No? Well they may think it's a sign of things to come so it's rational to start supporting the ACLU now; and sure there are another million problems they turned a blind eye before, doesn't mean they have to turn a blind eye to all the problems forever
What do you mean by “moved a lot”? I assumed the HDD heads are moved to a parking position when the disk is turned off to not accidentally slam into the disks.

Portable means the storage has a compact form factor and a case so you can carry it around (turned off). I have never seen anyone actually use a portable disk while moving. Everyone puts them on their desk next to the laptop. The only thing I can imagine is working on a train.
Uh... that's a very dismissive comment for quite the breakthrough! Congrats to the human players and the AI team for a great showmatch.
Interestingly, Chrome AFAIK did and still does this for stored website passwords. The team argued that anything but plaintext would be a more dangerous illusion of security, since Chrome itself needs to be able to retrieve that data at any time with no password.
Trump has positioned himself as actively and explicitly anti-civil liberties. He does not feel he is bound to ethical rules or rule of law.
> Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon.

The president of the United States just signed an order legally barring hundreds of millions of people from entering the US on the basis of their country of origin, which is in fact unprecedented.

> This topic now is yet another gathering point for all unhappy with the election results.

Accurate.

> It's probably a good thing that liberals, in general, avoid firearms, otherwise there might be fighting in the streets already.

Classy
I think this 15% rule applies only to companies with more than 50 employees
Brain Computer Interface Allows Completely Locked in People to Communicate
One thing you could try is safety goggles that block UV:

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000USRG90

My experience with flux was that the screen still gave off enough blue light that it didn't make much of a difference for me.
>Given that what Trump is doing is allowed by law

both the (now fired) AG and several federal courts don't think it's allowed by law.
Not sure why this is downvoted because gcp is correct.

Apple has decided that Content Blocking is a Safari only feature. Apple has made the decision to not expose the private APIs in WKWebView that would allow browsers like Chrome and Firefox to use the same speedy content blocking.

The old WebView, UIWebView, also does not support content blocking. But since it runs completely in the same process as your app, you can replace the HTTP handling with your own and patch content blocking on top of that.

That is what Firefox Focus and Brave do for example. It works, but it is far from ideal. Also, it is likely an API on the way to be deprecated.
it won't be long before we hearing more headlines like:

"AI beats top 10 hedge fund managers"

to

"AI run hedge fund blows up due to black swan event"

regardless it's an incredible feat. It really casts questions into what our edge as humans are which is slowly disappearing and we didn't even need to put a brain in a jar and hook it up to a computer....it's deep learning reinforced algorithms that is appearing to outlearn, outthink the best of humans.

I just can't emphasize what a monumental period in history we are at. Humans are producing specialized algorithms that learn and hold information about the deep web of relationships between myriads of parameters to produce superior performance than humans.

It's almost like we've uncovered ways to automate our intelligence very much like we've been automating human and animal labor in the past couple centuries.

So the question is, how does an average joe hacker like me exploit and leverage this wonderful thing called deep learning? I'm not interested in reading PHD papers with advanced calculus.

I want to have a map of what AI, ML, DL, NN methodologies to use and when and who to hire based on that. This is no time to be a luddite and don't count on basic income from appeasing the masses anytime soon. Much like people took the most hit in the early rise of industrial revolution, our generation and immediate generation will be hit the hardest.
"Capable of bluffing" would perhaps be the surprising thing.
The problem, as history amply demonstrates, is that the "breaking point" is often reached after the means to coordinate an effective resistance are destroyed, leaving the population complying out of fear until the regime is stopped by an outside force.
Of course; even "this new idea is actually old idea" is an old idea: Ecclesiastes 1:9, "The thing that hath been, it is that which shall be; and that which is done is that which shall be done: and there is no new thing under the sun."
Outsmarting the DBMS: Analysts Should Beware
The elephant no one seems to talk about is: Why are universities not accepting more "local" grad students? In my experience, it was the standardized tests. I was completing an undergrad in math while attempting to the GRE. Meanwhile I heard stories of students in other countries essentially focusing on the GRE as their undergrad equivalents weren't as time consuming/rigorous.
Meet the startups helping broke ass millennials invest their couch pennies
> "AI run hedge fund blows up due to black swan event"

Knight Capital, 2012:

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2012-08-02/knight-sh...
GitHub Classroom for AP Computer Science at Naperville North High School
I voted libertarian in part because of the concerns you're mentioning about Clinton, but I think it's disingenuous to somehow imply that Trump isn't worse, or that this didn't start with the Bush administration's response to 9/11, or that unbridled GOP power concentrated in the executive and legislature isn't a horrifying thing.

I (1) don't think Clinton would have been worse policy-wise, (2) think Clinton would have been more psychologically stable and competent, and (3) the GOP in Congress would have actually criticized and raised concerns about what she was doing to score party points.

The current situation is terrifying to me. I'm tired of being labeled a liberal or conservative, because I don't fit in to either camp, and get accused of being one by the other, and am tired of these arguments about who's at fault. It just needs to stop.
superhi is a terrible name for a company. it doesn't make me think of online courses at all.
The Making of Future Man
Device reads brain activity to help locked-in people communicate
China needed strong assurances from the US and UK that formally splitting from the Soviet Union wouldn't see the American alliance then turn against China in a divide-and-conquer strategy.

Could we have gotten a better deal? I'm not sure. Given the earlier incursion into Vietnam and Korea, the military support of the ROC and the militarization of the First Island Chain, I can't imagine that anything short of the very strong reassurance the alliance pursued with the "One China Policy" would have been acceptable.

The move is one of the only things heralded of the scandal-plagued Nixon Administration as a wild success for the United States, and is even often credited for being the key diplomatic victory that ultimately won America the Cold War.
DeVos questionnaire appears to include passages from uncited sources
and no one will be surprised when you all continue to cower and do nothing just like you did then.

you're all idiots.
Any more thoughts?
At a guess: LO is requesting (via mmap) enough memory up front to represent a full spreadsheet with data in every cell from A1 to the bottom-right corner, and letting the OS supply pages for the small parts of the spreadsheet that are actually accessed. AIUI this is a common technique for big sparse arrays.
But people...run corporations! And since we live in a country has decided that corporations are persons and have rights to free speech and participation in the political realm, why not use this privilege to advance civil rights?
It's simpler than that, currency exchanging costs money. If you're using a foreign currency, then you don't have to pay those fees. If, that currency is even available in your country (in some, using certain countries is prohibited)
Mostly Linux ISOs.
Are you referring to https://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=193802 perhaps?

This was fixed at https://android-review.googlesource.com/#/c/221708/ and probably merged into many custom roms generated since. It also only occurred under fairly specific circumstances.

EDIT: Yup, https://romhut.com/versions/cm-13-0-20160508-v8-0 indicates it's been in CM for a while, which is probably why I haven't experienced it. Dianne Hackborn fixed this as far back as November 2015, it might have made it into 6.0.1 on some devices too, though I could be misreading.
This is absurd. Following this, no one should ever do anything since they could have just done some other thing sooner.

Now maybe I'm wrong and you're a Nobel Peace laureate, but it looks a lot to me like someone claiming to care but only criticizing in an unproductive manner.

"You should have engaged in this other thing earlier" is a bullshit criticism. And then the holier-than-thou nonsense at the end about just caring oh so much. Unbelievable.
> This has always been the logic of the strike as a means of protest - sure, it's unfair, but its also the way labor politics works.

Except this has nothing to do with labour politics, the controversial "Muslim ban" had nothing to do with taxi laws. Using a labour union to push a political agenda is basically abuse of power. Imagine if pro-Trump police would start striking...

> And honestly, with a strike lasting only an hour, it feels much more symbolic than a real hardball days-long strike.

If you are visiting the US for the first time, you probably won't know that, and you might not even be able to get off the airport.

They could have had their protest in an area where people would have noticed them and in a way that does not harm innocent bystanders.

> Because it's the biggest way to show power the taxi drivers have.

Any amount of power they have, the state has more of it. The only way they can achieve something is if they get the public on their side.
You're a fucking hero
It's possible that consistency may be a large part of the value proposition of Uber or Lyft. I can go across the country and get a ride with a company I have some level of trust in. Regional co-ops do what taxi companies did, forcing me to re-evaluate everything all over again in every new place.
So in the US a lot of civil rights actually show up as restrictions on what the government is allowed to do.

Isn't it reasonable that we should seek to limit the actions of our government towards non citizens to those actions that are necessary or beneficial (either to US interests or to both parties)?

So for example, it may be reasonable to investigate the backgrounds of people that would like to visit the United States. But after such a reasonable investigation, I personally don't think the government should then be allowed to use those people as political props.
Always Produce
There has been standardization in many areas since the days of Toy Story: Autodesk Maya,
Houdini, Nuke are now standards in the industry.

It took a while for forward thinking technical managers to convince studio executives
that open-sourcing some internal tools and data formats would benefit the studio by
making it a standard within the industry. OpenEXR (image format, ILM),
Alembic(data format, Imageworks), OpenSubdiv(subdivison surfaces, Pixar),
Ptex(texture mapping, Disney) are examples that were quickly adopted across studios.
It helps that artists and engineers tend to move across studios bringing with them
ideas about what worked best at the previous studio.

In general, the software teams at the studios fall under the line item of "Overhead"
in a producers financial spreadsheet. There is pressure to reduce this overhead by
adopting standardized tools and not reinventing things in-house.
For bonding and breastfeeding, newborns benefit from a cheek full of dextrose
Yes, there are several browser plugin to do that. But blocking cookies doesnt mean that websites wont serve you ad. Its just that ads may be less personalized. Some companies have been using device fingerprinting rather cookie, so u may still see personalized ads from them. Better do an ad opt out from links like adobe, google or ad choice. But all of them are very ticky and uses cookies.
Absolutely. The onus is on the business themselves to facilitate that, not the government via the H1B.
It is so fucking predictable that you're getting downvoted to hell for your smart comments.
You are confusing conservatives with libertarians (a confusion facilitated by the manner in which conservatives have—especially over the past ~50 years, though obviously the "states rights" line goes back much further—selectively adopted libertarian rhetoric to rally opposition to policies that they disagree with for other reasons.)
If something is crippled in Firefox for iOS, nine out of ten times it is because Apple severely limited the exposed APIs of WKWebView. All browsers that are based on WKWebView are stuck between a rock and a hard place.
because it opens up the options to sponsor you for a green card.
You forgot the most prominent feature of PCMCIA/PC Card: You can stuff them inside of the laptop instead of carrying bunch of USB dongles and cables.

For storage expansion this was easy way to get more space but of course network cards required additional dongle for the RJ45 connector etc. But still the idea was awesome :)
How many of these hedge funds running on AI are out there in America?

I'd think one would make a lot of money shorting such outfits.
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I work with a guy who is 70. He's a test manager and one of the smartest guys on the team. He also works on the side writing betting software. In the 80s he wrote several hit games for the zx spectrum and also worked with psygnosis. I don't see any reasons why you can't keep on programming but some people's lifestyle definitely doesn't fit with startup culture.
The ACLU tries pretty hard to stick to their values, even when it puts them in opposition to Democrats. They've sued the Obama administration several times and have frequently defended groups (ex. Nazis) which liberals find repugnant.

For example, the ACLU supports the SCOTUS decision in Citizens United even though the majority of liberals and democrats strongly oppose it.
Right. With flex you can create elements whose height is equivalent to the elements to the left and right, or whose width is equivalent to the elements above and below, but not both at the same time.
'Tinder for orangutans': Dutch zoo to let female choose mate on a tablet
Just a comment on the expected salaries for developers in London:

- A junior developer at £20k is probably going to do you more harm than good

- £30 - £40k for a junior developer is more reasonable, where £30k would be fresh from red-brick uni (if lucky) or a couple years industry experience

- A senior developer asking less than £50k is probably not super confident (could be various reasons e.g. failing to get other jobs, not super experienced) or experienced with startups

- Good senior developers experienced with startups are more likely to be on a minimum of £60k and anywhere up to £80/90k

Also it's a little more nuanced than this. A first hire developer might (perhaps reasonably) expect to be a CTO or Tech Lead assuming further hires - this is one of the reasons some developers consider working in startups as it's a potential fast track to gain management-like experience. If you're hiring a junior developer, this probably isn't the best idea and it should be made clear to them this isn't the case. In hiring a senior developer it should at the very least be discussed - the outcome of this may potentially be an expectation of higher salary (either immediately or upon company growth). It's not unheard of for small startups (seed / series A) to pay £100k+ for CTOs.
That's true, but most vary fluctuate wildly with respect to the USD, not in their purchasing power within their country of origin, even less so in the span of weeks or days.

For example, if I was paid the equivalent of a 50 USD ride in Bitcoin in Jan 4, and were to go to buy food today, I could only buy 40 dollars worth of food.

Which currency does that? Sure there may be a few examples in case of extreme inflation, etc, but it's not the norm at all.
It isn't cynicism about a potential future. It's recognition of a pattern that has played out time and again. This isn't new or uncharted territory here.
ᶦ ᵈᵒᶰᵗ ᵍᶦᵛᵉ ᵃ ᶠᵘᶜᵏ
echo "Truecrypt test" > /mnt/plausible_deniability_volume/README && history -d $(history | tail -n1 | cut -d' ' -f1)
That would be interesting.

It seems to be feasible given the language semantics.

We'll definitely investigate it.
Yep. There are a lot of things in the US political system that give states with lower populations more representation per capita than states with greater populations, and the electoral college is one of them and perhaps the most egregious, given that we're long past the time when it made sense to fear that US presidents would prioritize their home state over the country, if that was ever a concern.

The Senate is the most extreme example- every state gets two Senators. So Rhode Island and Wyoming have just as much representation in the Senate as California and Texas, despite having ~30x the population. Of course that's the whole point of the Senate, to counterbalance the representation-by-population of the House to avoid a tyranny by the majority. We may have worked ourselves into a tyranny by the minority at this point though. :(

Even the more egalitarian House somewhat overrepresents the more sparsely populated states, although it probably doesn't make nearly as much of a difference in practice. States get a number of representatives based on population, but every state gets at least one representative, so you have the case of (for example) Wyoming having one representative for its 600,000 people, but Texas ends up having one representative per ~800,000 people. Of course, Wyoming has one rep total and Texas has 36 of them, so I don't think Wyoming will be outvoting Texas anytime soon, but still.
Imagine you're living in Detroit in the 1970s. All around you, people are vilifying the Japanese car makers for ruining their livelihoods. Nobody would dare buy a Toyota or Honda, for fear of finding it burned out and being labelled a traitor. You might know that American manufacturing is inefficient, you might know that Japanese cars are of higher quality, you might know that your community is doomed, you might suspect that everyone around you knows it, but are you going to voice those concerns?

Multiply that by a hundred and you've got Nazi Germany. The country was humiliated and impoverished after the First World War, the Treaty of Versailles, the Weimar crisis and the Great Depression. Hitler promised food, jobs and pride, and he delivered on those promises. The Jews were just convenient scapegoat.

You might disagree with all sorts of things being done by the Nazis, but you can also see that Herr Schmidt next door has a job, that the children in the street have shoes, that people have a sense of hope and purposefulness. Kraft durch Freude gave you your first beach holiday, they put on plays at the town hall, they're teaching your daughter ballet. When the war is won, you'll get the brand new car you've been saving for, you'll have a beautiful new home in the suburbs, your son will be the first in your family to go to university.

Would you speak out, or would you turn a blind eye? Would you resist, or would you just go with the flow?
Ask HN: Java ecosystem, where to start?
My background is mostly on web development (using the .NET stack), I'll looking to get into Java, but I don't know exactly how to get started ... help?
Weird... I don't know anyone with digestion disorders. Well, I know a couple of people who came from India with treatable H.pylori, but that's about it for the last 20 years including friends, family, and co-workers. Maybe it's a different part of the country.

I've definitely had bad doctors and you have to treat them like any professional (Lawyer, Architect, Engineer) who may have very limited time, but certainly they aren't all bad.
I believe history also shows that labeling anyone who disagrees with you a fascist and organizing to systematically ostracize them from polite society is without virtue as well.
These days, it feels like that effort is well coordinated by a combination of voluntary ignorance, poor foresight, and targeted messaging. Tools like social media sure make it easier.
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Only works if you have enforceable non-compete contracts to prevent your workers from leaving after you trained them, since most employers will pay a premium to get workers who are already trained and the original employer will pretty much never give salary bumps that high year-over-year since it would quickly bankrupt them.
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If an employer won't pay an employee based on market rates, when that employee leaves, they are going to have to pay the next employee they get to replace them at least market rate anyway and on top of that probably 30% more for a recruiters fee, plus the loss productivity while they are looking for a replacement, plus they are losing a person with knowledge of the company.

I read something somewhere.

A software dev manager asked his manager for a training budget for his employees. His manager asked him, what if we spend the money on training and they leave? The software dev manager asked his manager, what if we don't train them and they stay?