skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Regardless of the cheating, this type of post doesn't fully sit right with me. Given the permanence of record on the internet, this does bring up the issue of how we police bad behavior, and how we incorporate forgiveness into that.

That said, the poster was pretty fair, and generally refer to her as "the runner". It definitely reads as an obsessive sleuthing, no doubt in part because there were follow-on discoveries made. As the saying goes, "one is a fluke, two is a coincidence, three is a trend", and it seems there's a trend here.

What's interesting is someone in the comments mentioned this:

> The majority of those "30K" instagram followers are fake accounts - many of the likes on her recent photos are spam bots. She 100 percent buys followers/likes.

My guess is a lot of people probably do this to bump up their social status a bit. It's relatively innocent (if a bit narcissistic), though if its true in her case, it fits a clear pattern. Can't verify though, given it seems she's shut down her social media presence.

This is one of those cases where sympathy and revulsion are equally valid emotions. I wouldn't want to be on the other end of the hive-mind, but it is a self-inflicted wound.
I mean you can stop well before half way. 2 years at 1g will get you to .97c and drastically cut the fuel requirements.
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Student visa. It's gotten pretty common in the last 5 years.
Good point. I think that might be a good thing too in the sense that you could support multiple API versions: by maintaining compatibility for older URL paths. Then clients could also crawl the hierarchy at startup or so to see if what they expect to be there is there or it changed. Maybe respond with a redirect if an older resource is accessed... In practice usually a v1 or v2 is shoved somewhere in the URL or headers.
Beyond this post, you might be interested in another post in the blog: http://www.marathoninvestigation.com/2017/01/WhyIcheated.htm.... The blogger interviews someone he caught cheating in a pretty benign fashion about why he cheated. From that article, and my perspective on it, the answer to:

> That would be hard thing to live with it seems

Is the choice is not between

1) My great life
2) My greater life, with some compliments

but

1) My life that I don't feel great about
2) My life that I don't feel great about, with some compliments now

Where "my life" is how I'm feeling at that particular moment. I am impressed that to you this concept seems so foreign, for me I can definitely recall moments that people overstated the importance of things I've done and I've accepted the compliments because it made me feel better at times I was feeling down. This to me seems like a minor leap from what I've done.

I've run marathons in the past and my times were awful but back then I was generally a happier person. If I were to be running a marathon today and somehow the timers marked me an hour faster then I really was for example, I might not correct them.
My entire life "tinkering" has always won out. However, right now I am doing the exact opposite in my attempts to learn math - working through a textbook from cover to cover.

Math seems like a difficult thing for a beginner to "tinker" with. You can go into Visual Studio and tinker with C#; you can open Chrome Dev Tools and tinker with CSS; you can go to Sublime and tinker with JS or python; and you can sit down and tinker with sketching or painting or building a wooden box. But how do you tinker with a tool which has so many rules and concepts and no compiler or runtime log to let you know when you've done something wrong?

So far my extent of "tinkering" with math has been completing the exercises at the end of each textbook section and Googling answers to various equations or examples of proofs I want to try out based on an assumption I've made from the things I've just learned. I guess that is a form of tinkering also, but it comes after the entire reading part.
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Why not do something that is easy to maintain on a daily/weekly basis? I cycle to work every day (approx. 11 km, so 22 km per day). In the summer I usually take a route where I have to climb quite a bit twice a week. Going by train/car takes approximately the same time. I am fit and have a good weight.

When I was still studying, I climbed indoor twice a week, which made me extremely fit. But after a couple of years I got bored.

I am on a regular Dutch/Germany diet.
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Irony and taunting really confounds sentiment analysis. I mean, street spirit ends in "immerse your soul in love" repeated 2X but is still incredibly bleak.
I drove Yellow Cab in Houston for a few tough months in Houston while I was in school and the taxi business is far worse than anything I've heard at Uber -- especially for those doing day-leases. The taxi business is more blue collar by comparison with Uber. I am definitely not defending Uber -- I am saying that Uber is getting this press because the situation affects educated (mostly white) liberal engineering type while taxi business practices often go unnoticed because taxi employees aren't typically the demographic that starts blogs or talks to The NY Times -- nor do they raise VC money thus entangling them in SV politics and media.

I never once saw a female taxi mechanic -- the only female employees I ever saw were grizzled old dispatchers too tough to take any crap or the occasional girl out of college working as a marketing assistant. Operations was almost exclusively men -- the mechanics in the yard were all men.

Pay attention to how taxi companies try to 'sell' cars to drivers at insane terms to were drivers would have to work 5 days out of a week just to pay the note. Try scratching a day lease car and watch how the repair costs get taken out of your money (despite also paying for "insurance" to cover such things.) Yoy get robbed when picking up a dispatch passenger and lose all your money -- too bad, you still have to pay the day lease. I get it -- drivers are independent contractors -- however any criticism of Uber ought to be tempered by a fair assessment of the industry they are ostensibly replacing.
A nuance that is underappreciated by a lot of people / the media is the degree to which any of the AI generates X models (faces, drawings, fills in photos, increases sharpness, etc.) simply copy and paste and interpolate from the training set.

Unlike general supervised learning problems, for many of the deep learning "generative" models that get posted to HN regularly, there is no objective "test set" to measure generalization, so it's extremely easy to claim the model has learned something. When we see a cool demo / audio sample / pictures, how do we know the model hasn't just simply interpolated a bunch of training examples? In many cases this is quite clear, like when you start seeing cats everywhere in the generated imagery. It's very hard to ferret out the BS with these models.
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I cant understand what can we possibly achieve from this type of explorations. NASA spends lot of money each year to excite us but nothing really achieved. Personal thought: Isn't worthy to spend this money for alleviation of poverty in this planet?
You could say that about all sports competitions...
Here's what would be great:

1. Person A takes the initiative and books an Airbnb

2. Airbnb gives him a link to a landing page.

3. On this page, his friends can 'opt-in' to the vacation. When they opt-in, the cost gets split. Say, if the rent/night is $200 and 3 people opt-in, the cost would be $50 each (including person A).

4. Each person who opts in gets charged for his share.

5. Airbnb can also promote other services on this custom landing page such as guided tours. Person A doesn't have to worry about getting the 'yes' from his friends; if you've opted in, you're coming.
I should check that out regarding the hiring-for-basic-income, I wonder is that a concept or... yeah should read. I don't understand how that proposed system would work as far as how things would be valued unless goods are just given to us/produced. Which you know, with regard to war I don't get what is to be gained, are there concentration camps, are there borders/lands trying to be gained. Also with the sun, what is this argument of diminishing resources if energy comes in from the sun, I mean are "nutrients" destroyed after being taken from the ground and into our bodies? sorry... ranting/rambling.

More so it was just, for me when I was not very busy I kind of felt unhappy, am I depressed? What is my purpose? I think the drive might disappear that made us evolve/try to do things in the first place. Then perhaps we become extinct haha. Got too darn efficient.

I also realize when we talk it's usually people reverting to themselves talking about themselves (I'm doing this right now). A friend of mine said "that's what people do, that's how you converse, offer your perspective tangible to the current discussion..." I don't know I just feel that I I I I I I (use the letter I) too much.

Yes, you might have just had the misfortune of crossing paths with an awkward person. Ha.

Thanks though for entertaining my thought. Wall-e is the answer.

edit: subbed awkward for neurotic
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When I switched to management, I had a new kind of "imposter syndrome" -- here I was sitting still bossing around the guys in the trenches doing the real work. I still have to write code even as manager, or I just feel lazy and like I'm taking advantage of my direct reports.
Private lenders in India often charge up to 24-25%
Tesla's mission is a prerequisite for SpaceX's— it's difficult to establish modern civilization on Mars, but establishing fossil fuel-powered civilization there is a non-starter.
The classical papers and codes about generative adversarial nets
>WSL has less overhead

In my experience, Linux in Virtualbox is a lot faster then WSL. I'm not talking barely noticeable here, I'm talking operations taking 0.2 seconds vs 10-15 seconds (on an SSD) in the worst case. It's literally faster for me to do shit in Linux and rsync it back to Windows than it is for me to deal with WSL at this point. The only overhead is memory and CPU, of which I have plenty. I don't have plenty of time.

>far easier to start

I just keep my Linux virtual machine open, so it's just an alt-tab away. At work, I run it the other way around (Windows as the virtual machine). It's basically the same story.
Getting a loan or even a credit card in India as a freelancer is a massive pain in the ass. Most would flat out refuse to even entertain self-employed people.
Childishly provocative article.

In terms of the law of torts, the obvious analog would be treating robots like beasts of burden. Beasts of burden are like property that also require taking into account some minimal agency. That law also derives from Roman law. Laws for slavery are inappropriate as in most of the world, including in the ancient world, slaves were no less human than anybody and accorded some minimal human rights (not that the term "human rights" existed back then). Bring up slavery is just a way to pique fears about artificial intelligence, or to seem risque by tapping into contemporary unease when reflecting upon the modern European (and especially American) history of slavery.

Apropos of taxation, the most likely route would be taxing robots like other forms of personal property that create significant, continuous externalities, such as cars. Some American states tax cars like they tax land--yearly and based on valuation--exclusive of any sales or registration taxes.
> It's Uber who loses money on those rides, not the drivers. They are trying to get you to use them, instead of the competition.

Are there not laws against predatory pricing like this?
It is extremely difficult to maintain a caloric surplus in the wild with primitive technology. This is dependent on your environment but the places where this type of survival would be easier are also nicer to live in so they've almost all been developed.

This video lays it out pretty well: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iAdl63XpXX8
You might also want to look at Pex4Fun which has a bunch of little coding challenges (you'll need to select F# if it isn't already). Hit 'Ask Pex' to get going.

http://www.pexforfun.com/Page.aspx#learn/
Publicly shaming people for money is not right way for holding the true, athletic, fair-play spirit of running. While his work and methods are outstanding, it's still ethical burden to ask for donations just to humiliate wrongdoers. Don't get me wrong, i'm a runner myself and i'm all about reporting, but making it opportunistic just doesn't feel right for me.
Keto has so far been quite easy to maintain. It's just a simple habit change.

I already walk to work every day.
Not much, other than UNIX kind of workflows.

I use Microsoft products since MS-DOS 3.3 and my path into UNIX was via Xenix and DG/UX, before GNU/Linux was a thing.

Being a developer doesn't mean using UNIX, rather producing software with whatever tools our employer uses for producing business value.

Powershell is much better concept for a CLI, taken from Lisp and Smalltalk REPLs than a pure UNIX shell.
Google-coder haha that sounds better.

Yeah can't be too copy-paste, gotta see what you're copying/pasting. Still the upvotes though/comments and date. Yeah really helpful and MDN/forums.
(For the avoidance of doubt, I agree with you, I'm just expanding on your thoughts...)

You can have effects working both ways at once.

A lot of world-class woman scientists seem to wind up working in either brand-new or highly interdisciplinary areas; certainly statistically more than you would expect. I hypothesize that, based off my own (anecdotal) experience, this is (in part) because many of the major departments are eye-wateringly bigoted, sexist environments.

Male-dominated environments playing power games are, largely, pretty awful places and one of the power games which gets played a lot is sex discrimination up to sexual harassment. You see the kind of egregious shit you see in Silicon Valley just as frequently in academe. It's pretty awful.

I suspect – again, based off what I've seen and what I've heard from people who were there – something similar may have been going on in the early days of programming. When it was a wide-open new field, there was less in the way of straight-up power games because there wasn't wider societal prestige to be won. So it was more hospitable to out-groups than the other professions fishing in the same hiring pool, e.g. wider engineering and science. But then, over timer, perceived prestige came in, and with it came the status games you find everywhere perceived prestige is, and... vicious cycle.

Incidentally, for anyone who hasn't observed this kind of phenomenon before, this is pretty much how patriarchy works. Interlocking systems of power create perverse incentives which, in turn, reinforce those same systems.

As far as I'm concerned, speaking bluntly, these days there are people who get intersectional feminism and there are people who are just not paying attention to how things work. There's not much middle-ground.

I don't expect that to be a hugely popular viewpoint on HN, but, y'know, I'll live.
How high is their current valuation relative to other energy storage companies? (Honestly, I don't know)
IE9? That was about the time I last did a site using XHTML (2010?) and two years before W3C ditched their XHTML efforts officially.
Before you throw away your MacBook, also consider that a lot of the 'ecosystem', e.g. the way you install libraries such as NLTK have a 1 step process for installation on Mac/Linux and a may-or-may-not-work multistep process for Windows, with sometimes sheepish apologies from maintainers of said libraries that sometimes they simply couldn't get it working and couldn't afford to waste any more time on it.

Example:
http://www.pitt.edu/~naraehan/python2/faq.html
Read the question "How do I install NLTK 3.0 (Windows)?"
Of course they could have. I want to know in what situation you would have gone to the cops for. Your comment was "You'd think someone here would go to the cops, no?".

If you saw any of your current coworkers do cocaine, would you go straight to the cops and what would you tell them? What do you think they would actually end up doing about it?

I think the cops would not have enough evidence to actually do anything about it besides he said/she said, and you would totally alienate yourself among your coworkers essentially screwing over your career.

My point is that it is not nearly as black and white as you make it out to be and it is usually better to be safe (don't do anything) than sorry (speak out and ruin your career/friends/network over it).
Not quite to the point, but I learned recently (probably from BBC's program Click) that in Cuba, while there's more access to the internet now, it's non-net-intermediated piracy that's a huge thing in that very information enforcement-minded state. Massive libraries circulate from hand to hand. That's really the larger threat to copyright holders in the long run, it seems to me. To exaggerate what's now possible, if people can swap USBs with the contents of the library of congress or every song in the Billboard top 100 for the last decade, then you have a whole different order of difficulty for enforcement. A difficulty that I think was behind the (then shocking) decision long ago to legally allow people to record songs from the radio onto tape recorders for later listening. Preventing it was all but impossible, and it's clearly not advisable to pass laws that many or most people will violate as a matter of course.

Close off one method, and another very good method steps up to the plate.
A much more interesting "marathon cheating" story: http://time.com/3822577/rosie-ruiz-history/

Also related to Boston: http://www.runnersworld.com/boston-marathon/dozens-suspected...
> I can agree audio is now OK, but everything else is as sketchy as ever was.

I politely disagree. It has its warts, but most of the OP's complaints were true--10-12 years ago. Now, not so much, and it's not anecdotal either. Let's go back over it by point:

- Hardware video acceleration? Works on most hardware ("most" in this instance refers primarily to vendor). NVIDIA cards are almost always guaranteed to work well, provided there's driver support. This is usually the case except for brand new cards.
- xorg.conf edits required? Nope. Maybe for exceedingly special cases. It's rare now unless you're using a card that's not well supported (see above).
- xserver crashes? Almost unheard of outside hardware problems or driver-related issues. Usually a PEBKAC-instigated fault.
- UTF-8? No point talking about this...
- Random USB devices? Depends on the device. Same for Windows, really.
- Manual invocation of `startx` required? Uncommon. Most distributions ship with login managers that work quite well. If you're using a rolling release, you'll probably have to do this infrequently if an update broke something (but then, you should be expecting that with a rolling release anyway; if not, then you shouldn't be using rolling releases).

> It was _the software ACPI support that broke,_ not hardware

I apologize. I misread your original comment due to misleading verb ordering, and the fact that I'm a horrible, horrible person who has an awful habit of skimming comments.

Generally this shouldn't be the case and is certainly the fault of the kernel. However, 4.0 was released on April 12, 2015 and there have been a number of improvements since, including with ACPI. I would encourage you to try a newer kernel. Preferably something around the 4.7-4.8 vintage. (Or lack thereof.)

It's also plausible your issue was cased by module renaming/removal. My memory is hazy on this part, but I recall support for some hardware being rolled up into a single module, requiring some manual intervention. Unfortunately, the actual working solution can be hit or miss with some hardware (what motherboard are you using?). I've had ACPI work fine on ancient boards from circa 2000ish or earlier (tested recently for my own amusement) but fail completely on recent laptops (2014-2015) out of the box. I'd suggest starting here [1], although this guide may or may not be useful as it's for Arch. It'll at least give you a good start.

ACPI is one of Linux's primary warts, but it depends on your hardware selection. Is it a problem? Absolutely. But I'd also point out that Microsoft used to publish hardware compatibility guides for NT and its various successors. :)

Common hardware will go a long way to improving your experience with Linux, but it's no replacement for researching one's selection. Linux may be condemned to a hobbyist's operating system (on the desktop, at least), but some of us do use it everyday with no ill effects!

[1] https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/ACPI_modules
Well, the best way to know for sure is to get diagnosed :), although I believe this problem is waaaay overdiagnosed today because of the pharmaceutical lobby. So many people especially kids now take these unnecessary pills which make their heads even more messy. I decided not to take this route, and instead make an advantage from my ADD. For example hyperfocus is one of the common traits people with ADD have ,and allows you to be extremely focused on things you like for many hours and don’t get tired at all. On the other side when there is something you don’t enjoy - like reading a book in this case :) it is sometimes very hard to stay focused. In my case a diet has a big impact as well.
It is pretty OK for those of us that don't care about UNIX and POSIX.

I am quite happy just with XCode, Swift, Objective-C and OS X Frameworks.
As an investor, I assume Creedy will help with the legal documentation.

1. How does the platform ensure Borrower is paying on time and/or reminded for delayed-payments

2. Co-investment. This means you are sharing equal risk. But not sure how a platform could scale with the amount of money required. Are you planning to become a bank? I'd really like to know how your biz-model would work in this case. And how do you prevent a borrower-lender gang up to fraud you?

3. In case of non-payment, legal procedures could be costly and for small amounts it might be infeasible. How does Creedy help with the legal issues and legal costs?
Wonderful and inspiring. I loved the narration from Carl Sagan. One of the greatest.
Man, how did you survive on 5 hours of sleep ? I rode my bike for 200 km in 11 hours and post that, slept like a log for 9 hours. I mean, I was knocked out. Couldn't open my eyes despite alarms.
If a third party could access my private Facebook posts then border patrol wouldn't require my phone in the first place.
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A farm robot assistant! Or seven. Past three years broke my body. Getting too old for 24/7 physical labour!
Hi Pratish / harshit,

This looks very interesting. Was curious about a few things:

a) If I understand correctly, you are introducing p2p lending, on the lines of the Lending Club (the pioneer?) & I2I funding (Indian P2P lending company). Am I on the right track?

b) What is the typical customer profile you guys are targeting (and who have actually used your service?)

I ask because I'm curious about how you are planning to bridge the language / awareness gap if you are targeting non-English readers / speakers.

Disclosure: I am a partner in a start-up (3 months old) that is targeting blue-collar workers. Among the areas we are focusing on is financial literacy (clients being banks, etc.) Our experience has been that English is a significant barrier to adoption & communication. Therefore, pretty much everything we are developing is multi-lingual from the start.

(We are also developing solutions for the textile & apparel industries, safety & security services (Govt. and otherwise, and healthcare / pharma) )
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