skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hadn't thought about it like that. Interesting. Was too late to edit when I saw your comment. Unrelated: Most interesting thing to me, of this nature(was from the snowden leaks) is known as 'RAGEMASTER;' an RF retro-reflector built into a vga cable(deployed by intercepted packages between computer supplier and target I believe) which allows NSA to observe the contents of a vga signal remotely, using radar, and subsequent re-modulation and sync of the signal.. Totally bizarre.

Edit: https://leaksource.files.wordpress.com/2013/12/nsa-ant-ragem...
Cheney and Rumsfeld ran a universal basic income experiment for president Nixon
Being in the middle of a new car purchase this week really has shed the light on how bad some loans are. Just from overhearing deals to asking the sales person if what I heard was true was enlightening.

While I did not hear anyone in that APR range one couple was working towards a 14.90 rate six year loan. Another was trying to roll over money owed on a new car but kept getting told no one would make that loan as the new exceeded the value of the new car by too much. Yet my salesperson told me they have customers they turned down and drive a new car to their dealership as if to brag they got it elsewhere.

short story, too many people are just irrational about their purchases and have very bad reasoning. thinking a thousand extra interest is okay over a long term 84 vs 60 usually by factoring the extra across the whole period instead of the extra 24 which is more telling. Let alone taking 84 month loans!
From what I can tell the teachers are wanna-be hippies who aren't really interested in teaching but enjoy collecting a paycheck while hanging out miles from supervision by administrators. Most of their teaching doesn't seem to be STEM related per-se, but more political ranting.
The emphasis makes it pretty clear that the statement you're quoting was an ironic one.
Zuckerberg quote from article:
>I think you need to have all kinds of diversity if you want to make progress together as a society

While I do think there are benifits to idealogical diversity, I think this statement is hamfisted. Do climate deniers aid the progress of climate science? Do flat earthers contribute meaningfully to cosmology, geography or cartography? No. I believe the actual benifits of idealogical diversity stem from scepticism and falsifiability within a community (science). A flat earther physicist would add idealogical deversity to the physics community but they wouldn't contribute to the progress of the field.

In softer, less objective spheres such as social issues and politics, the same idea applies. Does giving racsim a platform in the name of diversity really progress society? Maybe it could by reinforcing the beliefs of anti-racist people and thus diminishing racism. However it could also propagate racsim regressing society, which I think is a more likely outcome.

These problems and questions do not have a simple, computable solutions. The matters of progress are entirely subjective making fair solutions nuanced and difficult to come by. That's why I think statements like the one Zuckerberg made are hamfisted because they offer a one-size-fits-all solution to these nuanced complicated problems.

DISCLAIMER: I am not taking a stance on Peter Theil and Facebook, I am just responding to rhetoric that I have seen frequently since The Election™
Glomar Response
So, do you work for Uber full-time, or are you just shilling as a contract gig?
Intel Makes a Big Bet on Driverless Car Technology
At present they (uh, we, I suppose!) use the serialization only, for a variety of uses including (publicly disclosed) the log analysis system. I have some ideas where the RPC would be useful, though.
>Caltrain plans to use the money to switch to modern electric trains, from old diesel locomotives that are prone to failure.

I ride the Caltrain about once a week and I haven't encountered a delay due to a locomotive failure. How often does this happen?
For what it's worth, my mum had to literally limit my coding time so I didn't completely flunk out of high school due to inattention. I did have to repeat a year.

These days my girlfriend limits my coding time because apparently adults are supposed to, like, be adults. I'm often late for work, where my main job is coding, because I'm solving a fun coding puzzle of my own in the morning and lose track of time.

Yes, I'm weird. My point is that if you enjoy something, you'll find time to do it. If you don't, you won't. and that's okay
Uber seems to offer quite generous bonuses to drivers who complete milestones (e.g. $600 bonus for 100 trips in a week, for instance). Every time I've chatted with a driver in Oakland, it seems that the bonuses are generally in the $5-7 per trip range. I've also been alone for many Uber Pool rides where I am nowhere close to being an economically viable passenger for the driver ($6 for a ride that costs the driver at least half an hour of time and requires more than 10 miles of driving).
I've met a couple of people like that.

I met an Assembly and C++ programmer on my first job. He was asked to maintain a Visual Basic project and months later got fired for underperforming.

Then, I met an APL programmer that at some point even owned a consultant firm. Nowadays he works as a cab driver, barely covering his cab expenses.
I've been wondering what happened to this story, which was doing better than most but didn't appear anywhere on first 15 hn pages.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12557020

https://twitter.com/trottiest/status/779036903517491200
Not JS/webdev friendly, but things like Xamarin or Kivy (or Qt or whatever) come to mind for cross-platform native-esque user interface building.
I appreciate your thoughtful comments. I wish Snowden were a participant on HN so he could address the specific detail points.

One recent historical point I'd mention based on your reasoning is that there was a period of time toward the end of Obama's presidency when there was immense political pressure on him to "do something" about Russia meddling in the US election to benefit Trump.

It seems plausible that since Obama was willing to impose last-minute sanctions on Russia and expel diplomats only weeks before leaving office, his administration might have also been pressured into explicitly investigating allegations of improper association between Trump and Russia via surveillance.

If such an investigation had been initiated and turned up any damning evidence, it is quite likely Trump would not have been sworn in as president.

I interpret Obama's willingness to impose sanctions and expel diplomats as an indication of how much pressure he was under to use his power to intervene in what was viewed by many as the effective rigging of an election.

I am not a Trump supporter, so I don't make this point in defense of Trump, merely as a possible indication of the amount of pressure Obama was under in his final days in office.
Escape to Another World: Video games seem to be stopping young men growing up
4 sum problem – Quadruplets with given sum
I think it's a really good exercise to take TensorFlow examples and algorithms and reimplement them in another language.
Great advice to everyone, not just self-learners
Something like this can be (could be?) done with a BlackBerry 10 application. I developed a hackernews client with a python backend and Qt QML frontend. Didn't involve embedding the interpreter as BB10 shipped with python3.2

https://bitbucket.org/microcode/blackberry-py/
http://blackberry-py.microcode.ca/
> My point wasn't that Google doesn't have data; my point is that they want to use it as evidence.. but said evidence has been created by themselves!

That's like saying the police created their own evidence by performing an investigation.
I expect a car that can get me to and from work safely and reliably so i don't have to waste an hour a day driving - and i hear i'm lucky that it's only an hour.
https://github.com/looterz/grimd

Is a golang ad-hole. I've found it to be more performant in both the DNS/server and UI
"The client won't want to pay for testing"

"We'll circle back and add tests later"
Vancouver-based founder here. What's the best way to stay on top of this -- apply through the front door? Would be up for connecting with others looking to apply when YC comes to Vancouver.
At somepoint with a family and having other obligations... It's Not easy. Some people choose the easier Road.
I take it this is in America and not an international study?
Mainly built this as an experiment to pull a bunch of data for some ML work I've been doing. Wrote about it more extensively here: https://hackernoon.com/microservice-series-scraper-ee970df3e...

AMA!
Much as I read Bitcoin articles from time to time I still don't get why on earth one would want to use a crypto currency.

I'm like, I vaguely get the "not under control of a .gov" and privacy concerns and all, but the thing seems literally backed 100% on faith, in contrast with (if only theoretically) the "we the nation" backing of fiat money.

Any odds an aficionado might be around to enlighten the uninitiated?
Is the FN call overhead really that horrible in lodash? I didn't see any side by side comps.

Also, the transformed code (like all transformed babel) is most likely ugly and more verbose than using lodash's get, no?
If you use the dropdown to go to New York and checkout NYC, your conclusion would be that all NYC students are unjustly funded and have much less than everyone else. But.... that makes no sense. New York City has some of the best public schools in the country.

No, your conclusion, going by the coloring on the map, would not be that "all NYC students are unjustly funded". But rather, that "On average, NYC students are underfunded compared to the statewide average."

Do you understand the distinction?
1. Not everyone knows what they love: what are these people supposed to do? Not get a job until they figure it out? For every one person I know who has a true passion and talent for their profession I know ten others who don't know what their "passion" is (and most of whom desperately wish they did)

2. Not every lovable thing is profitable or in demand: my roommate has a passion for film production. But it is a hugely competitive field that is difficult to break into. He's gotten the occasional gig here and there, but nowhere near enough to support himself (and sometimes not enough to pay rent, but that's a rant for another day).

Everyone needs to eat but not everyone can follow their passion.
We use it for serializing log events between our Edge colos and our data processing datacenters. We chose it because it is a zero copy serialization protocol, as opposed to protobuf which doesn't do zero copy.

We don't currently use the RPC framework specifically though only the serialization.
I think you're mistaking SF and Hong Kong for being more similar than they are.

Hong Kong has about 7.2 million people in about 107 mi² of developable land[0]. In comparison, San Francisco has about 840,000 people in 47 mi² of land.

Additionally, San Francisco is just one piece of its urban area. There is a large amount of developed land outside of it that people can live in who can't afford the city proper. Hong Kong is much more self-contained, geographically and politically.

Furthermore, there is a vast amount of research showing that zoning laws hold tremendous (and quite possibly primary) impact over prices. To start, you might be interested in the book Zoning Rules! by William A. Fischel.

Excuse me for saying so, I can't help but think you made this comment with virtually no knowledge around zoning and urban development in general, and I don't want people to be misled.

[0] http://www.pland.gov.hk/pland_en/info_serv/statistic/landu.h...
I previously used meditech on a daily basis, and good grief is it horrible. I've seen intelligent people spend 45 minutes just trying to figure out how to write a simple progress note before giving up and writing it by hand.

What's very frustrating is that no one - EMR vendors, hospitals, or even doctors - seem to realize just how much of a productivity booster good UX design can be. Even the ability to have multiple windows open at once (i.e. the ability to look at lab results while writing orders or a progress note) would be a breath of fresh air.
ah gotcha. Yeah I don't think the majority of non-Trump-supporters would have anything positive to say about the rioters. It's horseshoe theory in action - there are 2 kinds of fascist; fascists and anti-fascists.
Whatever fancies publishers/distributors - as long as end-users are in charge of what their computer's doing and have the final saying.

If end-user can instruct their computer "do this and don't do that" and freely share those scenarios with other end-users - I guess, everything's fine... or it isn't?

(Of course there's a never-ending-until-the-singularity arms race between ever-complicating advertisement delivery code vs ever-improving advertisement blocking rules... but that's just bound to happen, so personally I'm just looking forward to whatever would speed things up to their logical conclusion, whatever it will be.)
Ask HN: Cheap, hackable e-reader?
I would like to buy a cheap e-reader where I can replace the software with my own (or at least be able to write my own software that I can launch and stay in, with minimal UI chrome around it). Preferably about $50 or under. I would like to have a touch screen or to be able to use most of the buttons.

What are some good options for this?
Scraping your network to figure out your system architecture
Thanks! Airflow was/has been a great source of inspiration =)
In the past, have junior developers working with you transitioned to greater responsibilities?

What approaches did you use?

How do those approaches compare or contrast to your own experience as a junior developer?

What do you see as the defining differences between junior developers and senior developers?

Is there an interesting technical subject you've recently encountered?

How often do you write code?

What makes a good programming language?

Tell me a debugging story.

[caveat, I might be old enough to be your parent]
Really? Both our cars are financed at < 2%. Cheap auto loans are all over the place.
To your last paragraph: if the girl think programming is male occupation girls are not naturaly interested in, she won't consider it nor try it. If she won't try it, there is no way for her to find out she like it or love it.

I was told multiple times girls are just not good nor interested by people who knew I plan to study computer science. Had I not met teacher in school who showed me interesting parts and treated me realy equally, I would have no idea it can be potentially something for me.

If you would be a guy who work in kindergaden and knit for hobby, your theories about gender not matering would hold something. You have systematically picked occupations that have no risk in feminizing you nor has "but women do it naturally better" element of.
I overlooked this talk. My apologies.
I think people are really underestimating how generous these subsidies are. They're not usually on the riders side, but the drivers.

In Edinburgh, Scotland over NYE all Uber drives were on £75/hr minimum, regardless of how many rides they took. A friend of a friend who decided to ride for them that night said he was out for about 7 hours and picked up about 10 people the whole night (was very busy after midnight but quiet otherwise).

The fares totalled about £150. So Uber probably got £30 but subsidised the driver by £525. Pretty crazy if you times this by all the 'newer' markets uber is in.
Well, what's to differentiate that argument from being used against video evidence of a robbery? It's up to the defense to get the evidence deemed inadmissible to discredit it in court if there's any indication that it may not be legit.

I imagine logs by themselves might not sway some people, but logs combined with whatever is found in a discovery process from Uber along with the fact that a parts supplier of Waymo happened to be making the exact same part for Otto (either because the secret part was requested or because they were provided the exact same design docs), doesn't make it look very good for Otto/Uber (if that allegation is correct).
True.

But when you are just taught to use libraries and technologies without having some exposure to he principles behind their inner workings, it's easier to fall in cargo cult.
> Watch an NFL broadcast and observe the product placement, the logos and sponsors everywhere. It's organic, integrated into the very fiber of the broadcast in a way that couldn't be blocked with even the most sophisticated blocking software.

As an aside, I've seen multiple cases of live video-processing to replace or overlay advertisements on sporting events, such as those plastered on the walls of arenas. (Generally done during broadcasts of those events, as part of deals that separate the market for broadcast and in-person advertising at those events.) So, don't underestimate the ability to block advertisements given sufficient motivation.
A big advantage of embedding the Python interpreter is that it cannot be replaced by a malicious program pretending to be Python. It’s going to be internal to your binary, so it will be difficult for someone to intercept the scripts you are executing, or modify the functionality of your application.

There are only a handful of cases where it is worthwhile to embed the Python interpreter. For most cases, running Python in a separate process is probably the best approach.
> As an investigation will occur on this matter

What seems odd to me is that this "investigation" takes more than a few minutes. How is a system that allows easy auditing and checks and balances also the same system that takes weeks or months to determine who accessed specific records.

I think it's unlikely we'll see any raw data. Chances are that if there was any investigation going on into anyone on Trump's team (which we know there was), then those individuals showing up at Trump Tower for a meeting creates a metadata correlation to Trump Tower. Hence Trump's claim of "wiretapping Trump Tower" would seemingly be trivially true if even the simplest metadata link between, say, Flynn and Trump Tower were followed or considered potentially relevant by any analyst.
How is what Austin did good? It dissuades capital investment and innovation. City governments were why rides were so expensive and service was poor for decades upon decades. Taxi licensing and medallions priced out everyone. Soon Austin's city government could easily be "captured" and limit the number of drivers, driving up ride prices and stifling competition. That wouldn't be market demand driving (unlike surge pricing.) That's actually why they passed the measure in the first place, the taxi lobby was incredibly strong. Now people I know in Austin use work around to use Uber.
Who are these FEE folks? What's their angle?

The author sounds like a very classical economist.
Scottish independence: Nicola Sturgeon to seek second referendum
hey not to derail a thread recommending your app (which I think is pretty nice! I drop into the lw coworking room sometimes), but I've never quite figured out how to take advantage of it, despite feeling like I should be the kind of person who can (I do daily intention / outcome logging, I have a premium beeminder sub, I do pomodoros and stuff like that). I've done the free trial a couple times but never managed to get it into my flow in a way that quite justified the cost.

Anyway this post isn't going to give you enough information to recommend anything highly specific, but do you have any ideas what I might have been missing?

Maybe I've just already got that kind of thing well enough sorted, but then, I'm not entirely satisfied with my current approach to self planning.
Postagga – A nice lib to parse natural langauge in Clojure/Script
I've heard this, but whenever I've looked at job listings for COBOL they pay is much lower than for a similarly skilled Python or Java developer.
Reading the deposition, under oath, of the forensics engineer who investigated the situation basically made me agree with the blog post and even that quote in particular. I think they have him dead to rights, here, barring a miracle of explaining away very, very suspicious behavior and a mountain of circumstantial evidence. I would hope if I asked any of my source control clients to dump a bunch of stuff and then walked to another employer who oh by the way is doing something very similar, I'd be investigated as rigorously.

I hear what you're saying, but I think you're being unfair. This isn't bloggism; I think it's a pretty solid analysis from a lot of available information. There is definitely another side, and it's definitely making an appearance in this thread, but I don't think it's unfair to say "yep, that looks like a hole in one." Certainly smells like one, and it's not partisan or agenda-based to say that.

Could you elaborate on what you feel the agenda is here?
ESPP are complicated for me because my company withholds the taxes already, but that isn't reflected in the form I get from the stock company so I have to spend significant time every year refiguring out how to adjust and report everything while cursing myself for not taking notes the previous year.
Kamisama – Background process control and monitor tool
The same issues seem to happen across the board, no matter which platform. I use a Ruby framework for most of my development (not Rails, but a Sinatra based one), and keep finding that gems my apps depend on can quickly become stale and abandoned all over the place.

Kind of disconcerting to go to Github to lodge a suspected bug report on a gem we use every day, and see that the last commit was 6 years ago!
All uber shills are independent contractors. Disclosure: I used to shill for Uber but when I factored in wear on my laptop/keyboard (you have to bring your own equipment) I realized I was actually working for below minimum wage.
Yes, all of the following are possible needs:

(1) event scheduled for 7:00pm local time in a certain place on a certain date, that needs to be at that local time regardless of whether the government changes to time zone of that locality, or changes DST rules.

(2) event at 7:00pm Central Time ona certain date, that needs to occur at that time in the regardless of DST date changes.

(3) event at 7:00pm CST, which has a fixed offset from UTC.
The function call overhead is in browsers and in node, but it is low. Inlining is a top priority for all JavaScript implementations.

However, I wonder why lodash doesn't use a lambda. Parsing that path seems silly. It could just be a try on a lambda https://github.com/lodash/lodash/blob/master/.internal/baseG...
>That is actually remarkable given that women entered the workforce en-masse during that time.

The labour participation rate went from 60 percent in 1970 to 66 percent in 1992. At the same time, average hours worked per employed person declined from about 1900 hours a year in 1970 to 1790 hours a year in 1992:

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/USAAHWEP

So there was no relative growth in the size of the work force.

Socialism destroys the economy. Believe it or not, forcibly confiscating the earnings of highly productive people, to give without discrimination to less productive people, is poison to an economy. And that is all social welfarism amounts to:

https://youtu.be/arOGHY27JwI

Leftist authoritarianism that destroys incentives and breeds dependency.

But hey it's politically fashionable to defend welfare, because it makes it look like you stick up for the underdog, so that's what the majority will continue to do.

Any politician that promises more government "help", from the pocket of the faceless taxpayer, will have a major advantage in any election. That's why social welfare spending has increased so dramatically over the last 50 years.
Intel to Buy Mobileye for About $15B in Car Tech Push
I only have uBlock Origin on Firefox for Android, as opposed to uMatrix on desktop Firefox. It's better than nothing wrt tracking blocking, and it kills most of the ads.