skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What's the value of a like?
Please let me know what you think of this website!
yeah, now I'm having trouble getting webpack + hmr working with koa2 in node 7.6... the webpack page mentions issues with v7, so trying what I had in v6, will see if I can get it working.. :-(
I'm a bioinformatics scientist with an MS.

1) There are a lot of jobs for people with an MS, the hardest part is getting the initial experience though.

2)Pay seems to be all over the place, I make 65k in an expensive city right now. I have had a lot of recruiters contact me with offers that are close to double what I make currently, but they want a couple years of experience first. However, I also see a lot of jobs that require experience that are paying the same or less than what I make now.

3)I don't think there is that much of an oversupply yet, but since a lot of biotechs don't want to pay decent wages and can't get bioinfo. people with what they're offering, they often just grab a bench scientist that has a little bit of coding experience.

4)Yes, there is much less respect from bench scientists and they look at you as a tool to accomplish what they want to accomplish.

Working conditions only seem so bad because of where you are coming from. The conditions are very typical for biotech, if not slightly better (low pay, not a lot of freedom, requires extensive education). I've actually been looking for a good analysis on biotech wages compared to other industries for awhile - so if anyone has one, feel free to pass along.

I came from the bio side, so I got my MS in bioinformatics specifically because it is so interdisciplinary. I doubt I will stay in this industry for the entirety of my working career, likely will move over to health-tech or try my hand at a start-up focusing on services for bioinformatics.
So, you’re advocating that you should be able to sell products that are impossible to repair, impossible to modify, with 0 days warranty period, and then expect people to accept that?

I’m sorry, but there’s a reason we don’t allow that for physical things either.

> Every project has different requirements.

That might be. But that doesn’t change the problem I mentioned above.
Dell XPS 13 2-in-1 review (Bluetooth, touchscreen, and WiFi failures)
Well, a city called Fucking (even though it is in Austria) exists. So wix.com can't be that bad ;)
> devices like automatic-flush toilets acclimate their users to apparatuses that don’t serve users well in order that they might serve other actors, among them corporations and the sphere of technology itself

This nails it. It's not that things couldn't be implemented in a way that serves the users, it's that they're optimized to serve the interests of other parties first.
So, since Git uses SHA-1, does this mean we're going to see a new major version number of Git that uses SHA-2 or SHA-3 in a few years?

I don't expect one overnight. For one, as noted, this is a collision attack, one which took a large scale of power to achieve. In light of that, I don't think the integrity of git repos is in immediate danger. So I don't think it'd be an immediate concern of the the Git devs.

Secondly, wouldn't moving to SHA-2 or SHA-3 be a compatibility-breaking change? I'd think that would be painful to deal with, especially the larger the code base, or the more activity it sees. Linux itself would be a worst-case scenario in that regard. But, it can be pulled off for Linux, then I'd think any other code base should be achievable.
I pretty much moved away from it, though, when rich text and images became overwhelmingly prevalent.

I use nmh with MH-E (the Emacs layer on top of nmh) and I see rich text and images in my emails all the time.
xoom rocks this
> If you have to review the entire OSM dataset anyway, you may as well create your own.

I don't know what terribly mapped place that is - probably one with lots of people where it made economical sense for Google to have a very high map quality, resulting in nobody using OSM - but I cannot imagine that that statement is true anywhere in the world.

I've only used OSM extensively in the Netherlands, Germany and Finland and the data is very good. The occasional time I go into Belgium, data is much less good, but the roads are there and that's usually all I'm looking for. And where Google Maps is fine in the Netherlands and Germany, OSM was clearly better in Finland.

> I see they've since been 'updated' to incorrect information by someone who doesn't even live in my city.

Might be vandalism, though I have yet to see the first case in my five years of mapping. I've seen incorrect edits, but usually it's just clueless people doing something wrong, and most of the time it's caught by people checking up on new users.

Is there a local OSM community that you can talk to, like for your country? Because invalid edits are not quite appreciated and I bet someone will jump on it when you mention it.
Since the site is already experiencing the HN hug of death, it makes me wonder how doable it would be to make something like this but backed by a P2P store, possibly verified by blockchain
If this is your site, if it meets this guidelines, this should likely be a Show HN.

https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html
> UPDATE: some people are raising the possibility of hashes where some values have 1 or 0 preimages, which makes second and first preimage attacks formally impossible. Yes, such hashes are possible (in fact trivial) to construct, but they are not cryptographically secure. One of the requirements for a cryptographically secure hash is that all possible hash values are (more or less) equally likely.

True, but the main issue with these proposals is that we want hash functions that are much shorter than the original thing being hashed. For instance, we want every string of length one million bits to get hashed down to some string of length 4096. So those 2^4096 short hash strings can't mostly have 1 or 0 pre-images, in fact on average they have to have gazillions of pre-images each.
A significant takeaway from this nice post is that being positive and kind - toward colleagues, customers, and people in general - keeps morale higher, which often results in better company results.

Some places I have worked have succumbed to mob behaviors, cliques of badly behaving (mostly men), or occasionally bro-coders that really put a bad mood on the company. I can't say how much it affected other employees, but it certainly reduced my enthusiasm and output.

And as with accepted leadership advice, praise many times more than you admonish; avoid admonishing as much as possible. Dale Carnegie gave some good advice on this.
I concur. Are there benefits and use cases for some of these things? Sure, but in the vast majority of cases it's simpler, easier, and less expensive to go with what we've got now.
I think it's safe to assume the OP meant being available legally.
>one has to wonder why anyone would find it viable to "store value" in a system that may at any moment become objectively obsolete.

The people of Venezuela or Kenya would say the same thing about their local currency.
Thanks.

I roped a buddy into doing the Old Croton Trail this spring as well.
Yeah like running a CI job for customers. Absolutely great with Docker, nobody cares about long term reliability. Container crashes? Now worries we spin up 10 more and re-start the CI job. Perfect match for Docker.

Running financial infra is quite the opposite. Long term reliable processes, not much space left for failures and mishaps, especially not in the lowest level of your infrastructure. What is the benefit for using Docker for this sort of services? Almost zero.
I sometimes cannot spontaneously remember, when waking up, where I am. It is not related to the place (usually happens in my own bed), nor to events the night before (standard evening and night) neither to the sleep phase (I usually wake up on my own).

I then need to think hard about the place, the context, etc. before rationally settling up on the place. I only then open my eyes.
That's an overbroad generalization. Not even close to all doctors constantly push for aggressive treatment of all medical conditions.
I hope I have been clear enough, I don't consider that Pinker technically "refuted" Taleb, and I wrote in the previous post why. At least the Pinker's response appears to be quite honest, not trying to hide that it's more based on a general attitude than on facts or statistics.
I do mainly iOS development, fulltime for about 4y. Before that, I developed Android, mostly in Eclipse; so I know both worlds. And before Swift I actually preferred AppCode to XCode, which is also based on IntelliJ. XCode is stuck in the nineties, while IntelliJ is such a beast, functionality-wise. Sure, it's less snappy and the font rendering is bad, but if you can live with that, it will make you a better developer. You will start "intent driven" development, where you define algorithms with method placeholders first and only afterwards declare the methods. Your classes and vars will have better names because renaming is a joy instead of being a shot in the knee. You will get a better grasp of the architecture by looking at call hierarchies. You will never again miss an instance of a renamed method in some selector, because searching for references in AppCode is perfect.

And you get all this with Android Studio, too. Let's not forget Kotlin, which might not even exist without JetBrains' involvement in Android Studio.

BTW I sometimes fell back to XCode even when I was a heavy AppCode user, e.g. when the battery was running low. Switching is mostly seamless, because both watch the filesystem and seldomly complain about clashes. Perhaps one could use some lightweight Java editor alongside Android Studio, too?
One Million Coachella User Accounts Found for Sale on the Dark Web
Missing $10,000 package of PAL SNES games recovered
That's a misreading of the guidelines:

If your account is less than a year old, please don't submit comments saying that HN is turning into Reddit. It's a common semi-noob illusion, as old as the hills.

https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html
Theres some truth around it. While QML may be nice I found the total experience of the QT stack lacking. It's still required to do large parts of the application in C++, since QML is mainly the View part. The impedance mismatch between the c++ and QML parts is huge compared to an environment that only uses a single language. I was part of some embedded system projects that used Actionscript (Adobe AIR) for some former projects and moved to QT in newer ones. For me personally it felt like a step backwards, from being able to implement the whole application in a single language with reasonable properties into a split world where I still need to use native code with all it's downsides. I don't want to say Actionscript is great here (it's for me somewhere between plain ES5 JS and Typescript) - I would also prefer a uniform Java or C# experience (as available on Android or Windows platforms) compared to a mixed C++/QML setup.

I see the main proposition of QT/QML in providing a framework that is not tied to a particular platform. The main thing that comes close are browser engines, but many people will find their huge footprints too large for using them for embedded applications (or partly even standalone desktop apps).
I'm not trying to rule who is more reasonable (and frankly, I have no idea) and certainly not to misrepresent category theorists (whom I didn't mention), but just respond to fmap's statement that "ZFC itself is unnatural as a foundation for mathematics", which assumes that 1. a foundation is something is regularly used for anything, and 2. that it is something that is both fixed and essential for mathematics; in other words that the name "foundation", rather than signifying the study of math at the lowest levels, actually refers to something fundamental mathematics "rests on". Very little math is done on top of a formal foundation at all, and most of math does not even require a foundation. In fact, it is questionable whether any formal "foundations" are really foundational, or, as Wittgenstein called them, "just another calculus". If that is the case, it's meaningless to argue that ZFC isn't a natural foundation for mathematics, because in spite of the name, it may not really be a foundation at all; just another calculus that is called "foundational" because of its level of discourse, in which case the arguments against it can only be aesthetic or pragmatic. In order to be pragmatic, you need to say what for what uses the foundation is inadequate.

But I think it's naive to pretend that there's no fight over aesthetics here, which is why I mentioned Turing, as I see a return to logicistic (as in logicism) arguments (which view mathematical foundations as truly fundamental) in new form, while Turing's philosophy manages to, according to Wittgenstein, avoid "needless dogmatism and dispute". I strongly encourage anyone interested in the subject to read Juliet Floyd's fascinating paper on Turing's mathematical philosophy: https://mdetlefsen.nd.edu/assets/201037/jf.turing.pdf
There's also http://txti.es/ which is by the same creator as http://motherfuckingwebsite.com/
> media attachments

How large?

> several recipients

How many, in what countries?

Is the communication anonymous?

Can I use it in such a way that obfuscates the message's recipient?

Can I send an encrypted message when the Signal servers have been DOSed?

If seized, can the controllers of the Signal servers get the contents of my entire phone contact list?

I believe that Signal is adequate for a small subset of encrypted message cases, but not as a good replacement for encrypted emails.
I think the hope with these systems is that eventually there will be a preponderance of evidence that proves the study in general terms, not necessarily that everything in this study is 100%. Later scientists will follow along and prove/disprove these findings. If all the studies are 50-50, then we have no idea. If it is 90-10, findings indicate some kernel of truth in these studies. An astute grad student may also be encouraged to look at the 10% that disagreed to see why or if the 90 are too susceptible to selection bias (meaning they decided their conclusion from the beginning and are massaging the data to fit).

The wrong incentives for studies are a bigger problem. I think the only way to solve that is with a higher threshold of peer review to be required before one of these "findings" is put out to the public.
I have issues with the Emulator due to needing virtualbox to run my ArangoDB instance. So I moved to just running Android as a VM instance within VirtualBox. The end result is a fairly nice setup.

Edit, here's a good source for an image. http://www.osboxes.org/android-x86/
Thanks. I asked because searching seemed to be telling me that we have only theoretical arguments about gas giants' cores. That surprised me at first, but then I realized how little data we probably have. Basically, mass and its distribution, plus spectroscopic data about surface composition, right?
An interesting solve here is structuring research grants for outcome replicability. The article implies a real % of grant money is wasted on results that cannot be replicated.

Could look like X0% of grant money is held for future researchers who work on replicating the outcome. And, wouldn't it be cool if Y% of the grant was held back to be awarded to the researcher whose results were replicated?

This spend, while increasing grant sizes, has the effect of creating replicable science which does more for Science and Society than small grants that end up creating non replicable results.
As an EU citizen, I wonder how this conflicts with EU legislation. As I understand it, if Google holds data in the EU, then EU law says that they may not move the data outside the EU without the data owner's permission. Now the USA insists that Google move data from (among other places) the EU to the USA based on a USA warrant.

This could make gmail pretty much a non-starter for many uses in the EU and may possibly even make it problematic for some email users to correspond with a gmail address.
Learning a few words in a language spoken locally at your target destination really really goes a long long way. Doesn't need to be the native language spoken, but Spanish and/or Portuguese will get you pretty far in large parts of the world. I'm more the Africa person but quite a few friends of mine travelled china and Nepal without ever resorting to an uber. It's harder, granted, but not fundamentally impossible.
I think you're describing "Number Needed to Treat" (NNT, or 'How many patients need to be treated with a drug or procedure for one patient to get the hoped-for benefit?'), which is described briefly just before the graphic you mention.

NNT is a great idea, but not as practically useful for individuals as for policymakers, IMHO. I suspect few primary care clinicians can discuss current and precise NNT figures. More likely they will rely on standard of care advice from the AMA or their subspecialty board that itself was shaped by NNTs.
Yes, thanks for sharing. "If You Can: How Millennials Can Get Rich Slowly" is a great primer. The author also provides the names of several other books to read and the order in which to read them. I've learned a lot following his plan.
Anyone who thinks about it at all understands that reddit gets manipulated pretty heavily.

And for what it's worth, I stopped using FB and stay in specific subreddits now in large part due to the politics surrounding Trump.

I'm a left leaning moderate who got really sick and tired of all the outlandish gif/memes running through FB that completely mischaracterized BOTH candidates, and then the lefts response on reddit just ... disappointed is probably the best word I can think of (I am left leaning, after all).

In truth I only ever had 13 friends on FB and I know all of them in real life (And talk to them on a regular basis) so quitting FB wasn't really a big deal as I hardly used it except to post something I thought was amusing.

And with reddit I just stick to things like /r/programming, /r/printSF, etc. Even in /r/programming I've gotten irritated when I see people take completely unrelated topics and inject politics (trump hate) into it.

I guess the long and the short of it is that I understand completely, and I think your observations are fairly accurate.
It isn't allowed to use HN primarily for political and ideological arguments, nor are single-purpose accounts allowed here, so we've banned this one.
Google is aware of that.

Meanwhile, check out Flutter: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mx-AllVZ1VY
Probably means I will finally give Atom editor another try. :)
Yea, it's essentially a minimalistic pastebin for markdown
>the governments of those places will probably snoop your emails

Uhm, how? Gmail supports Transport Layer Security (TLS), and >80% of their emails to and from other providers do as well (https://www.google.com/transparencyreport/saferemail/). Reject non-TSL emails, give the server a public key and tell it to throw away the email plaintext, and the only remaining threat vectors seem like "get rubber hosed into disclosing your private key" and "server gets compromised, causing future emails (but not past ones) to get exfiltrated".
Medium now charges one-time payment of $75 for custom domain and SSL certificate
I wish they would just kill Android after 7, since nothing new/overhauled is on the horizon, the other project OSes that google is working on should debut(Fuchsia/Magenta) & have performance (Go/Swift anyone?) as the core priority instead of crossing over Java apps from the previous behemoth.
I don't see why someone would buy Bolt over a Model 3 because of a few miles. If there really is so important then get a larger battery, but for most people the different style and features will probably be most important than 10% more range.
Fine, point taken, I amend my example to: seems like the OP doesn't remember actual honest-to-God Red Book CDs, which it was both practical and (in the US) legal to rip (format-shift) for personal use.
The first paragraph is her premise. On first read, I uncharitably dismissed it - "yeah, tech companies should be tripping over themselves to achieve diversity so they can take advantage of this.... uh, correlation with.... a hot 35% bonus....in the mission-critical field of "probability of "performing well""" (all quotes intentional).

Then I charitably followed the links in the paragraph. The scientific studies are underwhelming (in terms of convincing a tech company to do something). The mckinsey article cheapens itself towards the end ("The unequal performance of companies in the same industry and the same country implies that diversity is a competitive differentiator shifting market share toward more diverse companies." That implication is terrible)

It's not hard to understand how diversity in the workplace might challenge our minds more, keep us more professional (in company culture and hiring practice), improve fitness in whatever other ways. But it's all conceptual, and until there's more scientific evidence, the literature has to settle for being obnoxious - light on information, heavy on telling the reader what to think before and after said information (tabloid style).
Yes, you should be able to create any kind of product you want as long as it's within the law. You're not the authority on what constitutes a problem. It's certainly debatable and far from settled, contrary to the definitive character of your indignation. And it's far more nuanced than your ungenerous characterization of it - this is part product, part intellectual property.

What's great is you are free to exercise your philosophy in your products, and if you're right, then that will make your products superior.

I don't feel the need to utterly destroy my ideological "enemies" to the point that I need closed source software to die, just because I believe in open source. Nor can I claim to have an indisputable moral high ground that just goes without saying.
I'd much rather hop to the finish line with 1 leg than roll and drag my torso across the ground.
I could do that.. it's been a while since I've done SLI.. last time, I was running linux and dual displays, and had a LOT of issues (went back to windows), it was very bad. Might give it another try though... though not planning an upgrade for another year... got the 1080, and a 40" 4k late last year... I try to space out my upgrades. Carry over video card, then upgrade that later.
I just use TransferWise. Works great.

I used to use Xoom but every six months when I'd go to do a transfer they'd need more security verification and it got tiresome. Although that was a few years ago, maybe it is better now.
The author says that the AWS ECS AMI they provide is based on ubuntu but it is an amazon linux AMI which is based on centos/rhel.
>many people don't have the required IQ to participate in their own governance, as such maybe it's time to prevent them from doing so

Subjugate: to make someone or something subordinate.

Does your statement not fit the definition? Forcing someone out of their inalienable rights because they don't pass an arbitrarily dictated exam is to make them subordinates or untermensch. Epistocracy was a common method used to prevent blacks from voting in the southern United States.