skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I live in Jersey City and once had a $4200 apartment deposit check stuck in the USPS system for about two weeks before it finally turned up at its final destination. It was mailed from Jersey City to a Hoboken address so literally should have taken two days tops. Hopefully this is a similar situation and this package shows up soon.
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India's ISRO to break own record, will put 103 Satellite into Space
>Combined with a bombardment of headlines that confirm their biases, targeted by personality, it could have a big impact.

Does your use of "their" mean that you think your own side of politics isn't exactly the same?
Compilers were one thing they didn't bundle. Whether they let you know everything about their operating system they knew is quite another matter. We now know there was no "Chinese Wall" between OS dev and app dev. Then toss in FUD for good measure, OED contracts that got them a DOJ consent decree for illegal activity and more...
> AKA those people with unique experiences and depth of knowledge necessary to come up with new ideas.

Statements like this make it sound like you believe that the middle American working class is not capable of coming up with there own solutions, or that there solutions are totally without merit. An even more uncharitable reading would imply that they cannot even enumerate the problems they face.

I don't assume you mean this, but so much of the division we face is due to the otherization that happens on all sides.

Middle America assumes that the coastal elite stopped caring about their problems and proposes actions that have negative consequences for them. This is definitely not intentional on a large scale. However if you look at the state of middle America's economy you can't argue that the is a huge room for improvement and the divide between them and the coast has become a chasm.
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Only if they are fixed length. If you used variable length strings in packet headers things would get complicated.

But if you're fine with fixed-length strings, you could just as well use all those bits to represent a number instead.
In the US a lot of people are understanding why less coercive labor laws ultimately end up benefitting the employees. That's why so many states have gone right to work recently.

Edit: I would also like to add that I don't support mandating unions to represent all employees. Just like an employee should be under no obligation to join/pay dues to a union, a union should have no obligation to represent all employees. It should be a voluntary association.
In what way? That serotonin causes stress, or that stress causes serotonin to be released? Or the opposites of those, that serotonin relieves stress or stress causes a reduction in serotonin? Or something else?
"Our team members prefer just walking over to a colleague’s desk to address whatever is on their mind."

Not to quibble too much, but as with everywhere, this depends on the office culture. It's depressing but there are many places where people prefer to use Hipchat and Slack to ping a nearby coworker rather than bother to take off headphones to talk to the person several feet away.
Since Nixon's very successful plan to distract the electorate with cultural issues, the GOP has taken the strategy to heart. Of course, some Republicans are true believers in the cultural mission, but it started as a plan to set economic policy for their own interests. Case in point, Trump.
I use CPLEX at work. I've also been told that Gurobi has a lot of people that left CPLEX and is generally up for trying more advanced albeit risky advancements.
Remote work:

- requires more management, not less

- requires more documentation and communication, not less

- can be equally as expensive (all-in) as colocating.

If you're going remote because you think you don't need to manage people, don't care about documentation or process, and want to save money, you are throwing your company away.
"picks up television signals out of the goddamn vacuum."

But how do you breathe while watching those shows?
> That has nothing to do with the "mainstream left", and everything to do with the volatile nature of holding political office in a sound-byte culture. Stop listening to professional campaigners and start listening to professional thinkers.

Why? The greatest mind in the world might solve poverty tomorrow but unless they can convince the public they may as well keep it to themselves. Let's also not forget that professional thinkers are often incorrect and disconnected from reality. Support for communism was quite high amongst professional thinkers. Not to mention that professional thinkers these days includes the like of feminist studies professors that are about as regressive as they come.
I think you're grossly underestimating the amount of money rich people have socked away in physical property. Besides the stock markets it's the largest investment market by far. This includes commercial property as well.

The boomers have more invested in the houses so more to lose. Having a home paid off just means even more money invested in your home, not less. Gen X and y will be hurt but not as much because defaulting on a loan will mean the liability goes back to the bank. Strategic default has been a thing since Britain abolished debtors prisons, and if you lose enough value in something you don't own there's always the option to walk away. If you own your house you absorb 100% of the loss of your asset with no way out.

The banks will be forced to make concessions to those with mortgages or face 100% of the value loss on their own balance sheets, so the effect on those who don't completely own their property will be muted and shared between with the lenders
I disagree, the "sheer scale" argument is not flat. The fact that one can scale horizontally and the other can't is significant.

Let me present a quote to you:
512 kb ram ought to be enough for everybody
That's your opinion of a dumb idea. Can you accept that other intelligent, informed, well intentioned people might disagree with you?
As I journey through my nascent (6? year) career in a sysadmin role (support previous to that), it strikes me more and more that ops is a craft, like blue-collar trades. You can't become a hot-shot ops staffer by being smart and attending a month of intensives; so much of it is learned through experience (and discussion). I think of myself more as a 'journeyman sysadmin' than a 'midlevel sysadmin'...
"Their" meaning the people being targeted in this way. Sure, both sides target specific demographics or biases, but I think this personalized approach is certainly novel.
Touch typing? Should present significantly different to one finger key hunting.

Fingerprints and never using public WiFi would both be good strategies. (I use my fingerprint to log into my banking app when on mobile.)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13647382
Most of the information on Android phones is stored on the Cloud. Someone can factory reset their phone before crossing the border, create a new empty profile* just to show it to customs and, once they are in a "safe zone", factory-reset it again and load the good profile that will automatically download the user data and apps.

* Just to make the customs agents happy, I would fill the history of the fake profile with porn and pictures of donuts.
It is an envious position to be in where you can positively impact such an incomprehensible number of human lives in the best of ways.

It's incredibly heart warming how many people have been saved by the Gates Foundation. Although, the realist in me worries about the possibility that in the long-run, civil liberties and human rights are also of importance to humanity in saving human lives, and human dignity.

Without going into an argument about the relative importance, shouldn't at least some significant portion be distributed towards solving the human and civil rights, liberties, and justice abuses here in America?

After all, the reason Bill Gates and Buffet are in a position to be able to help so many people is due the world they grew up in. The opportunities they were given. A large part of that is individual human liberty. Had Gates lived in another time, and been arbitrarily detained during one of his two arrests for refusing to unlock his electronic devices, would he have encountered a legal battle that derailed his entrepreneurship? If he was a minority, would the police had treated him the same way? If he was abused by the police the way Ian Murdock allegedly was, what would have happened to Gates? Would we have lost the opportunity to save 122 million lives to date through the Gates foundation?
i'm just glad there is someone thinking about those important things i dont want to think about.
So basically is an adult, public-domain version of those books you can get for children, where they insert their name in the story. e.g. http://www.simplypersonalized.com/product/personalized-spide...
This read like a poorly research article where the people running the company didn't even see what makes remote work feasible before allowing it. The goal seems to be to get a lot of page views via controversy so you would scroll to the bottom and see the ad for this person's company.
This is like driving around a $100k car with zero insurance. You might be the best driver in the world, but...
Is it true that Democrats had their own version of Cambridge Analytica, funded by Eric Schmidt, called The Groundwork?

I read that on qz.com but can't find many other sources.

https://qz.com/520652/groundwork-eric-schmidt-startup-workin...
I am questioning the premise that making the taxpayers pay for English majors' apartments is worth the money you take from the taxpayers.

Just because the money isn't being spent on bad idea "A" doesn't mean bad idea "B" should get funded.
> It's depressing but there are many places where people prefer to use Hipchat and Slack

I'm not sure this is bad in an absolute sense. If I'm working on something, the semi-asynchronous nature of chat (assuming disabled notifications) allows me to answer questions when it makes sense for my workflow.

Generally, confining in-person chats to blocking questions seems like a reasonable thing to do.
I should probably said less acutely or differently, Zen speaks of a kind of wistfulness-about-the-world that pervades the enlightened (word.)
I made a statement not too long ago to someone that "in a business transaction, it's totally fair to blame".

I think it may be the business model that is to blame here, not the policy to allow remote workers or schedule time for in person visits. Some models probably work with remote workers. Some probably don't.

I'm willing to put my money on the one's that do work with remote workers are non-viral models, enjoy a healthy holistic growth, and encourage focus on quality of life vs. access to unique skills in the workforce.

The reverse is true of highly viral models. Those models enjoy rapid growth, large cash injections, highly competitive workforce, optimizations for infra, sales approaches, etc.

This article has good information, given it's taken in context.
I have lived in UK, Italy, New Zealand, USA and Mexico. USPS is the only one which i've had a problem with, and I've had multiple, including one which is slightly more significant in terms of value than the OP. I spent months trying to track the 6 large boxes down (one of which turned up - all on one shipment), and only got frustrated by some of the... interesting... people who work there.
Do people actually say "fuck you" when they get FU money? Not really. They are usually saying something like:

I'm going to spend more time with family.
I'm going to travel.
I just quit.

Once someone has passed the point where they aren't having fun, if they have FU money, they will just stop caring so much, why bother getting angry?
Warren Buffett dumps $900MM in Wal-Mart Stock, end of brick and mortar
There are several advantages to the employer to have temp contract workers rather than full time employees (even at will). You don't have to pay them benefits like health insurance, workers' comp, 401k etc. Also if they get fired they are much less likely to bring a discrimination lawsuit.
Somehow I was expecting a longer account of things with more instances than "we hired this guy in Taipei, and he didn't like working remotely" - did I miss something?
> He took a loan of a few million from his father and turned it in to a billion dollar empire.

http://fortune.com/2015/08/20/donald-trump-index-funds/

What kind of business genius does it take to lag S&P 500 that badly? If he had done absolutely nothing with his dad's money, except park it in an index fund, he'd be 4 times richer.

The article linked also compares the investment performance of Bill Gates and Warren Buffett. You can see quite a big difference.
consensus: the word 'startup' is a swear word
It'd be nice if we could upvote one livestream next time.
Um, supply and demand? Fixed number of jobs, more applicants. So unemployment goes up almost tautologically.
For Twitch Streamers Who Spend Their Lives on Camera: Hard to Know When to Stop
My company recently changed its organisational structure. As a result, developers now know about issues that the users of our website are facing (before, those issues were filtered by a non-technical manager and only those that were thought to be 'critical' would be notified to the developers).

The above is done by simply CC-ing some specific developers into every customer service ticket (which developer depends on what type of problem the ticket is about). Those developers then investigate and, if needed, communicate with the rest of the dev team and coordinate appropriate action.

Since the new policy kicked in 2-3 months ago, we had two main results:

- The development team discovered (and rapidly fixed in almost all cases) several bugs that were unknown up until that point. Some of those bugs had probably been present for some time.

- The UX/frontend devs had significant feedback and redesigned the interface based on it. As a result, we have a more user-friendly website now.
The app store button is the one with the app icon and saying available in the app store.

The folder on my mac uses that icon for Applications.
Not exactly the same, but they've done similar posts the last two years:

https://www.gatesnotes.com/2016-Annual-Letter

https://www.gatesnotes.com/2015-Annual-Letter

Also, the annual reports are quite interesting as well:

http://www.gatesfoundation.org/Who-We-Are/Resources-and-Medi...
Google is just afraid of GPL I think.
With a laptop, this seems trivial: just create a second user in the system with some data (so it does not look empty). Then create a login script that deletes the data of you primary user and deletes itself. Nobody would ever realize what happened (except with forensic tools).
> He took a loan of a few million from his father and turned it in to a billion dollar empire.

See the other comment about how he'd have much more money if he'd plowed his inheritance into an index fund. It's been a story that cropped up every few years for the last decade. He's a bad businessman who keeps going bankrupt and borrowing money from greater fools. This last time, it seems he went into debt to the Russians. Maybe Putin is not so foolish.

Honestly, I think he didn't release his tax returns because they'd show he's actually broke and living off borrowed cash.

> always manages to outsmart his opponents?

Right time, right place. I've seen inept people "succeed" so many times, it makes me weep. But hey, no one likes to hear bad beat stories.
You mean change human nature? That experiment didn't go very well in Soviet Union or Maoist China.
Well, to us I think it would be irrelevant as it wouldn't take anything 1/2 as complicated or energy intensive to do in our planet. However, an FTL weapon could be relevant to an FTL capable species at war with another FTL species. What is interesting is that motion through space + motion through time must add up to the speed of light. So an FTL weapon would arrive at the target before it was launched if I understand the consequences right.
Had not seen that, thanks!
i may be wrong, but its my understanding that the Clinton campaign was more demographics based and Analytica's was more personality / individual targeting.

I also read that boots on the ground were begging for resources and refused because what they were seeing did not fit the models - thats bad analytics no matter how you wash it. especially since the same models predicted landslide wins over Sanders where she had lost.
Just from vaguely reading their shorthand documentation (correct me if I'm wrong) but there doesn't seem to be a way to associate this with goals you've set for each event (you'd normally do this within your own code;) which imo means you're going to collect a lot of junk data you don't want.

I guess you could find out how it outputs the event and then set a goal for it, but I doubt it would be pretty and you're still going to get a lot of junk in your real-time view. I hate having to set-up callbacks for outbound links, it's a real pain in the butt (especially if you're having to instruct someone else to place the code,) and sometimes it doesn't fire properly on certain browsers so this would be nice...but it could also be messy (from my quick look.)

I do like that GTM can do -most- of this now, which allows the marketing/PPC/Analytics team(s) to do things on the fly without having to bother me.
Care to share her portfolio? perhaps over pm, if you like. I'm looking for one atm =)
Have a mode that allows users to selectively designate and delete sensitive data.

Everyone has the feels over this border stuff and HN is collectively spewing the same inane questions repeatedly, but the reality is that people are more likely to get into trouble more often when spouses, employers, teachers, family, etc get to see things that weren't intended to be seen.

We have airplane mode to shut off phone radios, why not a purge mode to whack marked data. On iOS, the most rudimentary level of this sort of protection is available with MDM -- you can configure a device to erase managed data when it leaves a building or campus. The device is still active and manageable, but the data is gone until it becomes compliant.
Besides a shell script with a "for each repo. git clone", there is no build process (besides running the go build command)...
PewDiePie made a video in December lampooning how he's represented in the media (with a nazi uniform watching a Hitler speech). WSJ used that joke segment without context as evidence that he's anti-semitic. That's not an argument about what's racist, it's a complete and total lie.

It's no different than me pulling a clip of Alec Baldwin impersonating Trump on SNL, and saying "Alec Baldwin is a lunatic, and for some reason thinks he's the President."
There's a ton of good reasons to replace Android beyond licensing. Security being the largest one. Fuchsia is designed with security in mind from the ground up, Android arguably is not (at least not from the sense of what is considered security today).
So their strategy is to go full-blown closed source?
Because humans are good at increasing Earth's human carrying capacity
It's not an issue, but the `cargo build --release` line is redundant, `cargo run` will build the executable if it isn't already before running it.
Very similar situation persists in India where the section VIIB of the Industrial Disputes Act says that a company needs government permission to lay off people if they have 100 or more employees. As a result a lot of companies never go beyond 99, giving up growth and employment prospects for a large part of the population. Moreover, this creates a vast class of underemployed people outside the protection of those laws, euphemistically called the "informal sector".
"Whalesong..."

(Yes, more than one pun in that. But also, semi-seriously -- something that takes and lasts longer than 140 often inflamatory characters.)
I know, right?! I mean who needs chairs. They've been in use forever and yet not a single double blinded study, nevermind one which shows benefits.
I know. We probably just disagree about the ordering of these possibilities:

* Keep spending $B/2 on bombs

* Give $B/2 back to the taxpayers instead

* Use the $B/2 to support cultural activities that are not profitable enough to support themselves
Think of it this way: now there are 122 million more potential climate change researchers on Earth that didn't die before the age of 5.
I prefer to deal in options, and options won't trade on the symbol for a while.
Interesting. I didn't know they had no dependencies. Is it still considered native though since you have to import another module? Rebol & Perl6 don't require that although I'm probably grasping at straws lol. Thanks for pointing out Damian replaced Parse::RecDescent with the other one as I was reading doc on it today at work.
Because the complaint is actually more complex. It isn't simply that you are paying for stuff you don't watch, it is that you want to watch something good but there isn't anything good to watch. Then those other shows, the ones you don't want, look like they have pushed aside the things you are interested in. Netflix is different because in the streaming model nobody perceives one show as crowding out another. So those shows you don't want to watch aren't impacting your day and don't need to be removed.
You mean 4GB.

And yes, 32-bit programs can't use more then 4GB.
Well, what did they expect?

A drop in foreign grad students will negatively impact the capacity of professors to conduct research. That can't make America great, ever!
... you know you can edit your article title at any time ...
Hmm, so many anti-ML articles in such a short timeframe. I wonder is it just a snowballing effect or is someone purposely trying to spread negative stories about them?
The dog has been rescued:

https://twitter.com/MBarisSengun/status/831699209761980416
Simple is better than complex. I agree with that.
What about contacting the postal inspectors?

https://postalinspectors.uspis.gov/

They maybe able to open a case for you
Arguably, a better plan would be to appear apolitically neutral until a surprise election result occurs, then roll out an algorithm in response to the calls for more filtering...
Maybe if cops would quit running around like violent thugs with a badge killing people like Tuba Man, people would hate cops less.
BTW, that was a joke.
Spanner doesn't use SQL for writes it seems, so its still a significant rewrite for legacy applications (especially ones that dont use an ORM).

The thing thats really different here is Google are basically saying, heres this awesome system, yes it has obvious risks from partitioning, we are going to stake our reputation on those partitions not happening.

In contrast AWS are saying, this is DynamoDb, its really limiting but because of those limitations it should be pretty reliable as long as you write your application correctly.

It will be interesting to see if Microsoft and Amazon have to follow Google's lead here.
Not basically, but literally: https://qz.com/256586/the-inside-story-of-how-netflix-came-t...

Comcast is charging to put data into their tube, and charging for access to the tube. They get paid on both ends. They can do this because they have no competition in most markets and there is little will in Washington to make this situation better for Americans.

Edit: also, get ready for Ajit Pai's FCC where Comcast, Verizon, ATT, TimeWarner, etc will be allowed to "zero rate" "select" services (read: when services pay their ransom). Data caps and speeds for the "regular" internet will go down without this, and first-party offerings from the ISPs will of course be exempt from the caps.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.wired.com/2016/11/att-time-... it's already happening. ISPs refuse to be dumb pipes and want to open additional revenue channels by figuring out creative new ways to charge everyone for moving bits across their network. They will continue unchecked and without meaningful competition.