skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The argument is that engineering directed towards our short-term wishes seems quite likely to produce a result that's even worse for our long-term needs than simply continuing random wandering.

If we value diversity or some other population metric, then directed engineering can optimize also for that, and better than nature; however, realistically speaking, we're more likely to fall victim to some fad that embryos with gene ABCD-1 seem like the best kids ever but then a generation later find out in large scale that two parents with ABCD-1 result in kids with some horrible side effect.

Just as we optimize for fruit that look well but taste bland (because the consumers in supermarket look but don't taste), we are at a risk to optimize our next generation for "marketable" features at the cost of important but less visible things, e.g. athletic performance at expense of old-age wellbeing, early IQ scores at the expense of mental stability, cosmetic features at the expense of resistance to diseases which didn't matter before a homo sapiens monoculture.
In India (where I just was), the security guys give you a "token" (a number on a plastic paddle), and put one on the computer in the bin. So when you pick up the computer, they match the tokens to make sure it's you. Low-tech, but effective.
~95% of all convictions derive from plea bargains, and a not-insignificant portion (2-8%) of those are estimated to be innocent.[1]

So, we have a system where an investigator can indeed "feel clever," produce a defendant based on sketchy evidence, who then pleads out for any number of reasons. Neither judge nor jury ever hears what the evidence is in these cases. Ta da: the immaculate conviction.

1. https://www.themarshallproject.org/2014/12/26/plea-bargainin...
kind of off-topic, but I moved to the City a couple years ago and need a new dentist. is your wife accepting new clients?
Isn't it standard nowadays to write a homework assignment and then have to whiteboard?
This is really cool, and very nicely packaged. I agree with some other commenters that showing sample html would be a good improvement, but in general this is awesome.

That said...

Is it acceptable to animate `box-shadow` these days? Thought that was a pure framerate killer on mobile.
Goodbye Hivemind
This got me thinking. I have BitLocker on my XPS. If the same thing happened to me while it's powered down i would be screwed.
...Yikes.

They were giving pretty reasonable and, I dare say, obvious feedback. The site should provide an HTML snippet like just about every other demo page out there.

I can't see the author disagreeing with that.

You could copy and paste your "fuck them, right? /s" snark on just about every bit of feedback everywhere. I don't think that's very constructive, and it demonstrates a misreading of the parent comment.
I was kind of wrong on the details, was in 2002 and they asked Microsoft.

"Instead, agents simply tapped into the wealth of information that Microsoft Corp. and other Internet companies keep on people who visit their Web sites and use their services."

http://murderpedia.org/male.T/t/travis-maury.htm
Interesting thought. I was thinking just 1.6km/s for use as a first stage replacement. With a 60km tether that works out to only 4Gs. [1]

(1) http://www.calctool.org/CALC/phys/newtonian/centrifugal
By "research" I suppose you were being overly specific to mean publicly funded research?
Ask HN: Best way to host a photography portfolio?
I'm starting a portfolio and can either use something like Squarespace or make my own site and host with S3, Firebase, Azure, etc. I'm not familiar with any of these, and I don't know if I should spend time configuring my site when I could just buy one with Squarespace. No point doing it on S3 if I spend a lot of time, because I could just use a template and pay for the yearly cost, saving time in the process.

Not sure how to manage files and consider bandwidth or estimate cost. I would have a very simple site that people can view past galleries and choose which ones they want to buy.

I want an encrypted site, so Wix is out of the question, and it sounds like Google Cloud storage doesn't have HTTPS certificate management, but Firebase does.

Between the different hosting providers and cloud services, I have no idea which to go with. I don't anticipate high traffic. Thanks for any help!
Looks like this[1] is the original data source, if the mods want to change the URL.

[1] http://ss2.climatecentral.org
You should check this thing out, then: https://github.com/erichs/composure
Semi-official answer since this isn't an area I work on directly:

In general, the differences between Tier 2 and Tier 1 are:

1. Get tests running on every commit.

2. Gate building on those tests passing.

The first is a technical/money issue, the latter is a social issue. That is, getting all tests working is technical, being able to afford running them on every commit is monetary, but gating builds on failures on a platform is an issue of "who is responsible for making sure things stay passing."

Given that we run these tests on every commit, in some sense, it would be the PR author's job, but if they get stuck, we need someone who's able to help them fix that. That is the hardest part of moving from tier 2 to tier 1 in my personal opinion. Who is that person? What happens if they drop off the project?
Is there an EA job board somewhere? Maybe people aren't interested due to pay, but I doubt many people are aware the jobs exist in the first place. I was under the impression it was a small pool of applicants but a much smaller pool of job openings.
Introduction to Natural Language Processing with Python – Sessions by Pusher
javascript:location.href='http://facebook.com/l.php?u='+encodeURIComponent(location.href)
Building Microservices with Python , Part I – Medium
You might like this, then: https://github.com/erichs/composure
Just watch out for leakage.
A static version of HOSNY can be explored on our website: pubsci.agency!
You refuse while never taking your eyes off your stuff. You make them bring you your stuff
> The popular vote wasn't that far away;

Yes, it was

> it never is, or else the election would have gone the other way.

The electoral college can, in principle, support very radical differences from the popular vote; the actual difference in 2016 was mild compared to what is theoretically possible in that regard, but still a pretty extreme far outlier compare to historical norms.

> That's why I pointed out that the people voted for this Congress, not just this Administration.

But numerous prominent Republicans in Congress have dismissed the Trump budget as unacceptable. You can't say "the American people voted for this" and then defend that by pointing to—even if completely accuratelt—thr American people voting for a set of politicians that don't clearly support the thing you claim the American people voted for by voting for those politicians.
Using Numba to Accelerate Python Execution – Go Parallel
I'm the author of this piece for the WEF, and have written an entire separate piece specifically about inflation and rising cost concerns.

Link: https://medium.com/basic-income/wouldnt-unconditional-basic-...

Basically, more and more money only chases the same amount of goods if the UBI does not exist as a transfer of existing money from top to bottom and middle as described in this piece, and instead exists as continual expansion of the monetary supply through newly created money.

Additionally, UBI does not eliminate forces of market competition. In fact, I argue it will even increase competition through increased entrepreneurship. It would be really stupid to raise your prices in a competitive market where your competitor does not raise prices, or even lowers them.

As a quick example, every year when Alaskans get their dividend checks, there are a lot of sales as businesses compete for that money. It would be a really stupid business in Alaska that increases its prices every time the dividend is distributed, in the knowledge people have more money to spend.

You may also find this argument interesting as well in regards to concerns of technological deflation: https://medium.com/emergent-culture/an-exciting-new-idea-in-...
I really don't like talking on the phone, especially to strangers, but even to my wife. I used to even hate ordering pizza and in college I would ask other people to call for me. I think it's a function of introversion. I can expend energy on people but my store is limited, so I save it for important face-to-face interactions with my wife and kids.
OCR Using One-Shot Learning, RNN, TensorFlow
Problem is when that company becomes the industry standard at determining how interviews are done.
Sure. It works eventually, but it causes distortion as the frames layer over each other with very visible delays.
Posthaven.com works without problems.
There's a bug open about this, and I am literally deploying the fix right now. It'll probably be fixed by the time you read this comment :) (EDIT: deployed successfully, refresh the page)

Thank you!
I have no experience with Erlang, and about 30 years with MUMPS. Some MUMPS can be hard to read, and some is not.

Seems to me it's a matter of how well it was written and the experience of the reader.

Kind of like other languages.
> doesn't that become the new $0?

I don't think so... Because $10,000 will not be the same as ten times zero. (Or, will it?)
It depends on the role you want, but for front-end developers having a portfolio is an ABSOLUTE MUST.

Seriously.

I didn't have a stellar portfolio, but the jobs I applied to got so many applicants with NO portfolio that I immediately stood out.

The thing is -- your personal projects don't have to be front-page HN-worthy, but they should demonstrate skills that you'd be using on the job you're applying for.
The solution here is simple -- lobby W3C to include custom scrollbar colors in the CSS specs, then call out Mozilla for not following the standards.

As it is, colored scrollbars are not part of any standard, so asking for them are like asking Google or Mozilla to support ActiveX for your webapp -- if you rely on non-standard, proprietary features, you're locked in to your non-standard browser.
Actually if you have 3d features, could use edge detection algorithm like Kirsch after fuzzing the colors a bit.
Improving performance in Python 2.7 (2015)
Maybe this: https://github.com/benjaminoakes/maid
It's possible he was attempting to feign for the cameras that he was doing work on it, waiting for you to walk off, and then he would take it home.

Or he's just severely incompetent when it comes to the honor and dignity that TSA agents should have when temporarily confiscating other people's items.

I once had my hands swabbed at Raleigh Durham for a "random test" done by the TSA. The testing unit beeped very loudly and said my hands tested positive for explosive residue.

I sat there "waiting for instructions" for 10 minutes until another colleague informed the person in charge, "oh yeah; that's been broken for weeks"
AutoHotKey

https://www.autohotkey.com/

Create scripts to automate all kinds of things, usually triggered by keyboard / mouse conditions.

Here are a few - these are small things, but they can incrementally save hours and hours

- CTRL+@ - pastes my email address at the cursor

- ALT+MouseWheel - Page up / Page down

- ]d - send the current date and time to the cursor

- CAPSLOCK - sets transparency of window to 75 as long as
caps is held down

- #t - open http://e.ggtimer.com

It's also set up as a universal spell-correct and intellisense for SQL/ JS / PHP etc independent of IDE

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ShellJump

https://github.com/kjerk/shelljump

Set up jump locations and shortcuts so that you can quickly move between project folders in powershell

---

Renamer

http://www.oldware.org/software.php?swid=74

The original authors site isn't available anymore, not sure why because this was a super useful utility. Its like Ant Renamer or File Renamer or any of those, but I just prefer this one's simplicity

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Mp3Tag

http://www.mp3tag.de/en/

Bulk edit Id3 tags on mp3 files (if anyone has mp3s anymore)

---

NimbleText

http://nimbletext.com/

Simple tool to repeatedly format text. Like foreach for plain text
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I'm assuming "growth" meant meaningless users just writing comments, and it was pitched as DAUs convertible to profit. If my assumption is correct this sounds like fraud to me.
Essential Statistics for Data Science: A Case Study Using Python, Part I
-looks at this datacenter-

Well, actually it doesn't.

RAM and Xeons are expensive.
I really hate how google will show every possible copy of a newswire article before it shows local sources, etc. I've had slightly better luck with DuckDuckGo on that front, but I always feel like there is a happy medium between Google's ridiculously "context-aware"* algorithm, and DuckDuckGo's "context-agnostic"* algorithm.

What's really annoying is that if you use Google trends, it will let you know the context of what you are looking for, and you can clarify. I really hate it when I'm trying to look for something on Google, and I know it's just using the wrong interpretation of a word.

Easy example: I do a fair amount of scripting in VBA. I often want to look up documentation for things in VBA. If I use VBA in my search term, I will get a bunch of 15 year old pages on Excel tips and tricks. If I search VBA MSDN, I will get a bunch of pages on VB.net or VB6. I specifically have to use VBA MSDN OFFICE ACCESS in order to get the correct results. DuckDuckGo does not have this problem, but I use date filtering a lot, where DDG falls apart.

Search engines aside, it's ridiculous that Microsoft allowed this situation to happen in the first place.

*I'm not sure if either of those terms is remotely accurate, but they seem to articulate what I'm trying to say.
I supported this for a few years as a sysadmin. The most flexible EMR application I have ever seen.
Took an entrepreneurship class

My group didn't want to work on our project (I was the only tech person in the group)

Another group recruited me to build theirs. I was the only tech person willing to do the work in the group. I self-taught Angular and Javascript

Attempted to get into an incubator with those people.

Failed.

Met up with another team wanting to build a startup.

Built it. Launched it. Learned Meteor and expanded JS skills

Graduated.

Got job at startup writing JS.

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tl;dr: Pretty far.
The 29-page decision shows that the "Oxford comma"
is only part of the court's interpretation of the
law, and I recommend reading the decision before
commenting.

http://cases.justia.com/federal/appellate-courts/ca1/16-1901...
Or, just wrote you name, number and email on some stickers and put them on the bottom of the laptop. It doesn't have to be high tech, and in this story the woman who took the laptop could have got in touch much sooner.
Yes that's actually one of my favorite ES features. Kafka doesn't do any type of automatic topic partition rebalancing which was quite shocking to me when I first started using it. Seems kind of primitive in comparison.
کف کاذب اتاق برق و اهمیت آن
There's no shortage, the perennial shortage claims are simply an effort to reduce wages across the board.

To their credit, they do include this obvious fact in the article, although it's presented as "there are those who claim..."
Noone steals my ThinkPad T420s. There are advantages to a laptop older than my boots besides the excellent keyboard.
Yes! We recently changed our name to horbito, do you like the change?
Yeah, I agree that it's much easier to get on board with the fundamental proposition of EA if you're of a consequentialist disposition, because the 'most' in 'do the most good' implies a maximising view. I don't think that it's inherently antithetical to other value systems, but agree that because there are more consequentialists, it's more culturally consequentialist.

The reason we publish fund manager grant history/writeups is so that you can have a sense of what their values are, and can make some calls about whether that accords with your views. Without presuming to speak for him or pre-empt any decisions, I strongly suspect that Lewis is unlikely to grant to anything on the more speculative/controversial side of animal welfare (in general I think it's more likely to focus on corporate cage-free programs and meat replacement tech). We think there are a lot of good reasons not to use the Funds[1], and if you're worried that you're going to end up funding something that's harmful, you shouldn't donate to that Fund.

[1] https://app.effectivealtruism.org/funds/faq?tag=why-use-ea-f...
Please note, as it says on the tin, that these are intended for your local use only.

Adapt the styling if you wish, using Stylish:

https://codepen.io/dredmorbius/full/QwXBEO/
I'm from upstate NY - I grew up with superfund sites to the North, East, and West.

And yes, I'm glad that the EPA (and DoJ!) have occasionally done the right thing. But I don't think they've done the right thing often enough to suggest that the model they represent is the best humans can do.
"Can't be standardized" is something of a red-herring, as I've encountered a huge variety in how even algorithmic questions are presented and judged.

[More] prone to biases and opinions? Let's assume this is true (I'm not convinced that it's such a slam dunk - someone who wants to say no to a candidate can find a way, especially if they aren't being shadowed or recorded (which would feel pretty draconian for the interviewee too)). Isn't it still just a way of making a lazy complaint, "but that's harder!" You as hiring manager are responsible for knowing yourself, knowing your interviewers, knowing their strengths and weaknesses, and knowing your own.

That makes it hard to assembly-line interview fresh graduates, but maybe you should have a separate process there anyway because they won't have much in the way of useful experience yet anyway.
I think that the difference is from historical reasons, anyway when if you introduce in school partial derivatives with functions of only one variable that is confusing because here partial is not partial but global.
So it's not supposed to be started often? Where does it say that?
Definitely, wsparkdental.com :)
In my defense, they said beforehand that they use Scala, including the functional parts.
"Going from imperative programming to functional programming has been a powerful paradigm shift for us to think about financial processing and accounting. We can now think of this system as a straightforward actor/handler system rather than getting mired in complicated SQL-join logic."

Though whether SQL is a functional language (or a programming language at all, if you're talking ANSI SQL) is a subtle question, I would at the very least not describe it as a traditional imperative programming language. I think this is an important distinction for the article because, contrary to what this article suggests, I've found SQL to be quite helpful for understanding functional and declarative programming concepts. That said, it might be a lot easier to express the types of tasks in the article as straight-forward functions rather than getting wrapped up in all this set-based talk in SQL.
It's a good thing that Mother Nature is working on a Plan B, because Plan A ain't looking so good right now.
And so it is: some more price-sensitive people will wait for the sale and buy a whole lot to last them to the next sale, while others don't care and just buy every week regardless. So you've managed to sell the exact same product at two different prices, using the "small hurdle" method I described before (forcing buyers to plan their coffee capsule purchasing).

Granted, this is not exactly at the "same time", but for a consumable product like coffee, sales aren't measured in such short scales anyway. They're still two effective parallel prices if you measure by quarter.
I don't understand what's better about the sequels. Over the top CGI and action, overdoing the philosophical and religious mumbo jumbo, too much boring and confusing dialog, not following up on Neo's God-like resurrection at the end of the first where he was going to free the human race from the matrix in favor of deconstructing him and recasting him as recurring program.

They were worse in virtually every way from the first, but to each his own, I guess.
Put a maximum amount to the fee. Let's say 100k for the month I am here.
Google hopes to improve search quality with ‘offensive’ flag
It does sound like a scam, though. Creating a commotion to distract as many agents as possible and hold up the line is exactly how you would do this; and it's still unexplained why the woman accepted a MacBook that wasn't hers (did she have a MacBook too? If so why wasn't it found still at TSA?)

The only evidence otherwise is that the laptop was returned — which could also be because the posting attracted so much publicity that the scammers thought they would be caught if the investigation continued. Or at least their modus operandi would become a "known scam", which makes it harder for them to operate.
> A real historian work.

Dan Carlin is great, but you should take his warning that he's not a historian to heart: he enthusiastically speculates and characterizes the people in a way a historian would not, and can be very guilty of picking and choosing events to support the narrative he paints. You will almost certainly get a better understanding of the topics from looking at the academic materials from which he bases his own podcasts.

That said, enjoy him—he really does make the topics come alive, and I haven't been satisfied with JUST his podcast after he's piqued my interest. That's a great thing.
The theory is that the "not rocket science" rule is a major reason why this is possible: http://graydon2.dreamwidth.org/1597.html .
>That's why I pointed out that the people voted for this Congress, not just this Administration. They voted GOP not only for the House, but for the Senate too, so you can't even make any claims about "gerrymandering".

The majority of voters voted for a Democratic senator.
I think it's getting more and more popular, hearing about a lot of offices switching to OpenDental. I'm not sure how proprietary software will compete in the future.

It's been pretty easy to run, no complaints other than the usual MySQL ones.
The battery thing was terrible. Seriously, audiences were too dumb to understand using human brains as computing nodes in 1999?
Together with Google services, we also created a SWISS-German language school in Zurich: https://www.schweizerdeutsch-lernen.ch/
The original SICP is in Scheme. Surely Scheme is worth leaning for SICP?
OT but: so many engineering blogs lack a link to the company's main site. It's a small thing but it bugs the hell out of me. I was just reading the (also currently front page) article on Segment's blog and actively noticed and appreciated the presence of such a link.

Is it a Medium thing? Does it disallow linking out from a Medium hosted, privately branded blog?
What would you say is the most important, specific skill required in conversion rate optimization?

Is it copywriting?
Is it UI/UX?
Is it analytics?

Or would it be fairer to say CRO is holistic, requiring a multitude of skills?
Fintech firms can now apply for bank charters
It seems that https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lzip came out at the time between lzma and xz, possibly because lzma lacked proper file headers and checksumming at the time.

These days, some distros use lz and most use xz, probably mostly due to historical reasons.