skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That was a really interesting read, and almost amazing the lengths that Jeff was willing to go to debug the problem. But it's also worth considering, how much work was possibly wasted during this arduous debug process? I say that not to knock the work Jeff did, but really to appreciate the creative process which is "debugging" and this is a great example of where a different strategy could save a lot of time.

Anytime you debug a problem, you create in your mind a list of likely candidates for the problem, and sort them based on a combination of how likely the problem is being caused by 'X' multiplied by how hard it is to prove the problem is not caused by 'X'.

I may have missed something, but from the story it seems like testing with one AirBud versus the other AirBud active would have isolated the problem immediately to the left pod. If you see different performance on left vs. right pod, you know immediately the problem almost certainly has nothing to do with your RF environment. So before going to extreme lengths to modify the RF environment, you absolutely must ask yourself; how can I prove the problem is not RF?

Well, you have one shared RF environment. So naturally you need two or more DUTs (device under test) to run the test against and see if the problem is consistent across different DUTs.

What's so neat about this particular case is that Jeff already had two DUTs, since the pods can apparently operate completely independently. Having two DUTs, it was a massive missed opportunity to test them independently before going down the RF rat hole.

Please don't read this as a critique of Jeff, his write-up is a great place for learning to happen!
I don't think they charged the advertisers for those clicks since they thought them fraudulent.
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Wow, the bike rental app is awesome. Do you know how they prevent theft?
We've come full circle, now even the clickbait is fake.

/s?
You can't ask for individual data points; you ask for a segment of the population (eg. "musicians over 40 with children") and they'll return the data aggregated in bulk.
US customers are paying in form of higher transaction fees which merchants are obviously pushing to the customers.
She repeatedly says "the brain does not have a lymphatic system", but wasn't that discovered to be incorrect prior to this video recording?

What am I missing?
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I didn't mean that way. But I have updated the comment
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You don't need to be a foreigner to be murdered in a Russian prison. Look up Sergei Magnitsky.
Reminds me of Mao, where the rules of the game are unspoken and you have to learn the rules by playing.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mao_(card_game)
Yes. Isolated facts in and of themselves, without considering either the narrative into which they are embedded, or the world-views they invoke in recipients of those messages, are at best only a part of the much larger picture.

This is why fact-checking, at the very least alone, is not a total solution.
3. Get hit by a massive bill when moving to another property.

In Norway, they do the same - you are supposed to report your actual usage, but if you don't or they believe you've gamed the numbers, they just guesstimate based on the average consumption in the area, past consumption in your home, phase of the moon, whatever.

However, when you move, both you and the new owner/renter need to read off the meter and sign a form, after which the balance is settled.

Years ago, I had a massive refund - ever the workaholic, I traveled 230+ days a year and, unsurprisingly, consumed much less electricity than the previous tenant.

The utility company refused to believe the numbers I reported (which, in fairness, I didn't report too often, as I was most often abroad during the reporting window (typically a couple of days either side of a billing period change))

After a few years, I asked them to send a representative to have a look at my meter; they refused, claiming that they had other, more important matters to attend to.

End result: When I moved after seven years, I got a refund of more than US$6,000. I had a couple of extra beers that evening.

I warned the incoming tenant that he really, really wanted to report his usage - if they guesstimated consumption based on my numbers, he'd be in for a nasty surprise when leaving the property...
Socially or politically epistemic systems inevitably are. So designing around this must be among your initial objectives.

https://www.reddit.com/r/dredmorbius/comments/5wg0hp/when_ep...
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Me! I launched https://ForwardMX.io early this year. And recently hit profitability. It is low maintenance and 2 small servers are not expensive ether, but i still am happy to hit that point after a month other than half a year as i thought it would take.

(I obviously don't count my working time)
One in December with the newer Professor Trash Wheel: https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/5gnek7/we_are_mr_tras...
It means that money is worthless unless it can eventually be converted into goods and services that you want. Debt means "money now, goods and services in the future". But what happens when you arrive in the future - as inevitably you will - and those things aren't there?
Sub £10 DIY Vive tracker
I found this DIY Vive sensor:-
https://github.com/ashtuchkin/vive-diy-position-sensor

But its only accurate to 10mm and the relatively slow lighthouse frequency.
Im just wondering how easy it would be to use a $5 webcam +/- IMU instead.
For slow movement camera alone would work:-
1. IR camera on the wall and aluminium foil on the object (ala vive/oculus fusion). Use openCV or similar to look for the reflected flash (and filter the sweep) which would give you a 6DOF location, even with only one lighthouse. Could use a very cheap camera as the lighthouse should enable compensation for the low res and minimise jitter. Also once it was coded, the only cost is as many cameras as you desired to cover the FOV (but I'm figuring they wouldn't need to be as close as the Oculus rift because of the added lighthouse accuracy, so probably 3 would be enough ie about $10 for 3 cameras + aluminium foil (which reflects ir). Also you could potentially use every pulse and sweep from the lighthouses, so update frequency could be higher.

2. Fusion with a 6 or 9 DOF IMU to allow interpolation between sweeps would probably be the only way of getting increased accuracy for v. quickly changing accelerations. And an IMU, nano, and bluetooth module together come in under $10.
This is a good example: https://www.rcgroups.com/forums/showthread.php?1677559-DIY-Headtracker-(Easy-build-No-drift-OpenSource)
yeah I was thinking the same, and wanted to look at IBM because of that reason to see if the larger nodes matched middle meddling managers that hold the keys to the patent process, but the search turned up only some hundred patent, which is weird because it's touted as the largest patent holder ever... oh well.
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I don't think that the average person taking an introductory program course has any interest in calculating the sum of squares or fibonacci numbers. May be alright for MIT students in 1986 but in 2017 people want to know how websites and phone apps work.
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The Deck is great, but invite-only.
Once in the dear dead days beyond recall, an out-of-town visitor was being shown the wonders of the New York financial district. When the party arrived at the Battery, one of his guides indicated some handsome ships riding at anchor. He said,

“Look, those are the bankers’ and brokers’ yachts.”

“Where are the customers’ yachts?” asked the naïve visitor.

I bought Air Jordans. Where is my multi-million dollar NBA contract? I bought golf clubs...why am I not as rich as Tiger Woods? That is literally the same logic. Brokers provide a service to clients by managing money. Some do a better job than others. Whether or not such services are worth the fees is a matter of debate though. But expecting the recipients of a service to be as wealthy as whoever is providing them is unrealistic.
Some ideological boilerplate is well-established with a long record and plausible basis:

“I did not mean that Conservatives are generally stupid; I meant, that stupid persons are generally Conservative. I believe that to be so obvious and undeniable a fact that I hardly think any hon. Gentleman will question it.

[John Stuart Mill, in a Parliamentary debate with the Conservative MP, John Pakington, May 31, 1866.]”

― John Stuart Mill

https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/76179-i-did-not-mean-that-c...
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I'm still learning, I've lived in Denmark for 18 months.

I thought I'd finally got a clear answer (no tip) but evidently not.
>So "if we really believed in the free market", we should regulate the details of how a private transaction can take place?

The information that has to be expressly stated as part of a contract is not some minor detail. It is at the very core of enabling free markets in the first place.

Some seem to think of free markets as a sort of natural phenomenon and of regulations as a distortion. But that isn't true at all.

Contracts, property rights and the responsibilities of all participants in a trade are concepts of law. Without them you would have to rely on implicit cultural conventions and resolve disputes by means of duels and vendettas.
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Okay. Now you're sitting with an interviewer to talk about your home asssigment. Turns out there were some changes in a system and you program needs to evolve accordingly: actual format is protobuff struct and API is asynchronous — you send a bunch of tasks, server queues them up and gives you ids, after some time, results are pushed to a client as they come up. You must store data in SQLite and account for HTTP or REST errors (retry logic, etc.).

Your one liner is neat and all, but now you have to do 2-3 hours of initial work + w/ever time it takes for adjustments in 2 hours scheduled for an interview.

You could've thought out this toy architecture up front with initial simple implementations or at least discuss what they expect you to provide, but instead you wrote a shell script for some nefarious reason, even though you saw obvious disconnect between estimated time and time you actually spent.
I like your suggestion to include reputation and attribution (and am actively campaigning for this to be included on news reporting and aggregation). Also on your suggestion that unattributed sourcing then bears on the reputation of those citing it.

"The reader decides" is ... problematic in multiple regards. Among them, the fact that it's been shown to work poorly in practice, witness the present situation.
It's a leftists jab at "dumb white males who believe they can get away with anything".

Media is full with this crap nowadays. They even manage to put it in completely unrelated stories (like this one).
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Before blaming Linux devs for lack of support of new chips I would first check how Intel is cooperating with them by releasing proper documentation in due time.
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> post-war Soviet paranoia

Pre-war, during the purge, they would be executed for sure. Still can't believe how lucky they were to stay alive in 1946
Well, that's actually not google support...
Likely anti money laundering legislation.
It's absolutely valid to point out that the entire incentive structure, from advertising to outrage to virality to dopaminagenic, of the current state of online media, is antithetical to promotion of truth.

Yes, the systems themselves, and their incentives, are at fault. And must be changed. For the sake of the Liberal Democratic Experiment (referencing liberalism, not the similarly named political party).
Original, with a little bit more detail: http://www.news.com.au/travel/travel-advice/travellers-stori...

> “The vibe I got was weird. He asked me a question, then asked me a follow-up question to prove I wasn’t lying.

> “Do they not allow bad software engineers into the United States?” Thornton joked.

See also, more recently: http://money.cnn.com/2017/03/02/technology/andela-engineer-c...
One phase is the standard in UK and Spain too. You don't get the same amount of Watts outs of a hob wired with one phase, and most hobs seem to be possible to wire either way.

I'm trying to google a diagram, but I only find a bunch of forum posts that explain. For Neff stuff (the one we have), the connectors are numbered 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5.

1-2-3 would be separate phases in a 3-phase home and joined together for a single phase.

https://www.diynot.com/diy/threads/neff-hob-t1-k40x2-wiring-...
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Satire, clearly presented as satire, is legitimate.

Satire, deceptively (or unwittingly) packaged as reality, is not.
People are quick to blame this on Trump, but reading through the comments on a previous article for this incident (http://www.news.com.au/travel/travel-advice/travellers-stori...), it looks like it’s par for the course to test someone’s knowledge on their claimed profession. Here’s a comment from one of the users:

> Had the same experience 12 years ago: admitted I am developing linux device drivers, and had to explain differences between kernel 2.4 and 2.6 APIs. The guy actually understood it.

Testing occupational expertise is not a bad way to find people who are lying. To be able to explain the difference between kernel 2.4 and 2.6 APIs or how to balance a binary search tree are questions one could not possibly answer without actually being in that profession.

Let’s say you’re a hitman traveling to Malaysia to take out the estranged brother of a dictator. Before you go, you’re given a fake passport and character sheet telling you your profession, your family situation, etc. It’s pretty easy to answer questions like “how long have you been working as a photographer?” or “how did you meet your wife?” but a lot more difficult to prepare for questions like “What is the best lense for close ups?”
This happened to me when I was in college- I had been running a small forum and it made enough to help with school books but not much else. They left the ads running on my site until I attempted to withdraw the money, at which point they suspended me with no recourse. This was the first of many very disappointing encounters with Google, and I always try to stress to people that if they are at all reliant on Google for money they are basically playing the lottery with their livelihood. I'll be the first to admit I'm still bitter over this, but as a college student with not a lot of money Google's decision to steal from me had a real impact.
And they, as an employer, want you to trade some of your irreplaceable time on earth for some money and the chance to "be part of something".

If you can't see the symmetry in the situation it says something about your values, but it is not a compelling argument.
It's a little bit strange that even though Python was mentioned there's not a hint about the actual problem in question.
This makes me wish some of my colleagues were issued an airplane ticket to the US. Possibly one-way.
Apologies if I misinterpreted.
It's actually fairly typical. When you enter on a H1B visa they ask you questions to see if your occupation (the one you got the visa for) is not made up.

I work in Finance, and when I was on a H1B visa (back in 2010), the immigration officer asked me some bond-related questions, just to see if I had any clue.

They also asked my wife what I was working on.

It's pretty annoying to feel that you're not being trusted, but yes, they don't trust you.

Also the fact that he's Australian is a reassuring proof they don't base these question on color of skin...
The tldr is: "I wanted a lofty title and a very specific role at some future company. It took a long time and hard work. That's not good for some reason, which I won't go into here."
Like you said it's dead. Hypotheticals don't matter here only real tools we can use today.
One cannot but wonder what happens if you answer the question in a different manner than that suggested by Wikipedia or whichever resource the CBP draws their questions from.

I think the basic idea - questioning people about things they ought to know, given who they claim to be - is a good one.

However, it only makes sense if the one doing the questioning is able to judge the quality of the answer - or, for that matter, determine whether your inability to answer satisfactorily is because you bluffed - or if you're just a bit outside your professional comfort zone.

(I would probably have to answer 'software engineer', as that is what my business card says - however, I am much more of a hardware/systems guy in practice, only our HR department is completely unable to change my title to something a bit more descriptive. If speaking to another engineer, I wouldn't have any problems convincing him of my bona fides - however, if a CBP officer just looks up question #13 in the 'SW engineer' quiz - I may be in trouble.
The actual product was hosting, more or less, although with some additional constraints that meant more moving parts. The bash grew out of manual scripts to provide automation and a UI for support.

> You must have mastered the bizarreness of bash arrays by the end of that :)

I mastered a lot of the weird corners, though we mostly kept them out of the code. I've forgotten much since.
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It's been always the case of real-politik at play. Some people can get a multi-year business visa on arrival even if their passport is revoked (Snowden et al).
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Does this still apply to (say) Piper Archers?
Nice. One thing though, choosing a country and setting the color for water also makes neighbouring countries that color, as if a country suddenly becomes an island.
And probably also because by removing one hair at a time you can eventually make someone bald without he even noticing.
That's some pretty quick downvoting (2 downvotes in 4 minutes), despite my comment only adding to the story.
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> Also the fact that he's Australian is a reassuring proof they don't base these question on color of skin...

-To their credit, looking caucasian while coming from Australia strongly suggest that your family has a history of trouble with the authorities... ;)
Why doesn’t “~/.profile” take effect in Arch Linux?
And the people who have "non-bad" opportunities will, of course, take them instead.
Yet in the same time period I ran a website that was legit, made a few hundred bucks, and then when I tried to withdraw that money had my account closed for click fraud. It was only a few hundred bucks but as a poor college student it really sucks for google to essentially mug me.
I live in a newly renovated apartment with electric meters in Brooklyn and i have led lights and have experienced similar excesive charges... At one point my bill for my 1 bedroom apt was upwards of $300. Totally absurd.
Truth is the ultimate judge of truth -- world-views are tested against the world, and those which don't correspond, sufficiently, to reality, are shown wrong. It's an evolutionary process (in several deep senses).

There is a philosophical discipline devoted to establishing Truth: epistemology. "Criteria of Truth" describe how people can, and do, make judgements on the truth of propositions, in the face of information which is incomplete, confusing, and out-of-date. Correspondence, coherence, and pragmatic theories are the strongest, though other fallbacks, including authority, tradition or custom, and majority opinion are used, despite the fact that they are unreliable.

The ultimate keeper of truth isn't quite the right question, but in general, those who are trusted with distinguishing truths are those who have shown the capacity, ability, and integrity to serve in that role. That is: who judges truth? Someone who is very good at doing just that.

Authorities aren't absolute, they're not perfect, and they're not immune to bias or corruption. But, over time, they should show themselves to be sincere in their efforts to uncover the truth, inclusive of admitting their errors and changing their judgements in the face of new evidence.

The problem is a complex one, but not a greenfield.
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Since this appears HN-unpopular, I just want to agree wholeheartedly with the points made here.

Though FB is only part of a broader media problem.
For argument's sake, suppose it is fair to ask such questions.
What happens if you code the problem out in Java but it doesn't match the official answer written in Python? Fail?

What happens if you design an algo with O(N-LogN) but the official answer is O(N^2) -- do you get bonus points or fail?
according to the license headers in the source files I am not even allowed to copy the thing to my computer...

edit: ok, found the project license (bsd) but you really should update those headers...
Is this true ? I have entered the US at least 30 times on H1 and never been asked anything like this and have never heard anything like this from my friends either
These are my guesses. Not sure how educated they are.

I'd expect it to depend on the nature of the post-Brexit relationship between the UK and the EU. They will have some sort of treaty or agreement on trade, and that will probably include something about handling taxes.

In the best case they cooperate fully and keep the VAT MOSS system working like it does now. That will result in no change from a VAT reporting and collection point of view.

In the worst case they do not cooperate. The consequences of that depend on where the seller is located.

If the seller is not in the UK and not in the EU, then the result is to approximately double the quarterly paperwork. Instead of reporting to the VAT MOSS system of one country and having it distribute the tax to all the others, they will have to report to one EU country VAT MOSS to deal with all of the EU, and to the UK tax authorities to deal with VAT for UK customers. My guess is that those currently using UK VAT MOSS will most likely switch to Ireland VAT MOSS for their EU VAT, to stick with an English speaking country.

If the seller is in the UK, and not in the EU, then the "do not cooperate" case is not as big an impact. That's because the UK VAT MOSS system cannot be used by UK merchants to report UK VAT. They can only use it to report non-UK VAT. They have to file separate paperwork with the UK tax authorities for UK VAT. So worst case for these sellers is that UK VAT MOSS goes away and they have to register with some EU country's VAT MOSS to deal with EU VAT. After that, they are essentially in the same position they are now: they are still reporting to both the UK tax authority and to a VAT MOSS. All that changes is that they might have to use a different VAT MOSS.
And compelling. Can you really make that work securely in the kernel?
What does being Australian have to do with the color of his skin?
> I think the basic idea - questioning people about things they ought to know, given who they claim to be - is a good one.

It's an awful idea. False negatives. Discriminates against people with harder professions. Wouldn't keep out determined people
>Let’s say you’re a hitman traveling to Malaysia to take out the estranged brother of a dictator. Before you go, you’re given a fake passport and character sheet telling you your profession, your family situation, etc. It’s pretty easy to answer questions like “how long have you been working as a photographer?” or “how did you meet your wife?” but a lot more difficult to prepare for questions like “What is the best lense for close ups?”

Hopefully for the estranged brother, Mr. Hitman doesn't happen to enjoy a photography hobby in his spare time. :)

Then again, high-end assassins are probably adept at photography anyways. Part of their job is planning, and that involves surveilling targets prior.