skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As mentioned in the article, the documentation wasn't quite as obvious on the problems with KEYS. The problem was created way back when being "a real back-end person" still meant something completely different.
Relies on people how? Citation?

Any modern car is going to have an enormous amount of robotic assembly involved. Having humans can give you more flexibility (robots take time to set up), but expose you to more quality problems because they're inconsistent. But many things just can't be done that well by humans.
Definitely. A friend is bootstrapping a company that she just loves. It will never be a unicorn, but it doesn't have to be. They already have a bunch of wildly satisfied customers, good press, and excellent prospects for sustainable growth. This is probably the last year she'll have to consult on the side to pay the bills. And she's so happy with it.
I covered this in my original statement with the comment about "topping up" the Flynn effect.

The rest of your comment doesn't apply to my point, seeing as I was pointing out that it was easy to find the actual people at the actual uni's quoted, via simple Google searches, and that their published papers did in fact make the various claims.

Thus the original response of "this is from a tabloid" added no value.
So to be clear, your thesis is that it's improbable employees can get paid a lot because they would quickly volunteer to stop getting paid a lot?
Unfortunately it is #2. I am underpaid by over 75%. The average on the team is under by about 30 - 50%... so not only am I underpaid I am underpaid quite a lot more than others in the company. I do, however, have quite a bit more stock options.

And the CEO from what I understand went two years without a paycheck. But he is independently wealthy (I am not).

I stay for various personal reasons. Reasons that the other people on the team don't have.

And because 75% underpaid is still enough to support me and my family with a modest lifestyle.
Verizon to Force 'AppFlash' Spyware on Android Phones
>since taxpayers might end up paying taxes already on the books that they might have previously unintentionally evaded.

To take the charitable explanation of this position: studies have shown that prices go up when the payer gets more separated from the actual payment process: credit cards, automated tollbooths, and further open-road tolling have all been shown to significantly (statistically) correlate to higher prices. Automated billing is another great example of this.

As much as I want a simpler tax code and system (while I lived in Amsterdam I could literally calculate my own taxes in a spreadsheet. It was simple... but very expensive), given this data I don't think it unreasonable to think that putting lessening the cognitive burden of the payment process will lead to higher taxes.
Taxes do not exist to raise money. If the government needs money, they can just print it.

Taxes perform many functions. One of those functions is to limit federal spending, another one of those functions is to discourage certain behaviors, making too much money, burning too much carbon, leaving too much money to your descendants, drinking too much alcohol.

Simplifying the tax code is a dumb goal, fight against changes to the tax code that you don't like, but don't assume that the system itself is wrong.
This looks really cool, can't wait to dig in. Is it legit to redistribute that victim VM Windows 7 image?
As a small business owner I'd love to know how to avoid paying any income tax! Perhaps you didn't mean that?
That's a stupid demand. You said "very low capacity". You can get MLCC caps in the ones and tens of microfarads easily and cheaply now, which isn't "very low". "Very low" is picofarads. Ceramics advanced from that level ages ago.
This is very cool.

Are you working with the k8s teams for the sidecar spec...Or whatever SIG is working on unifying the Ingress vs Service debate.

It would be cool to have a k8s distribution with linkerd doing the Ingress and proxying.
Pro tip: go to a place that does the no-incision variety and then make sure that's what you're getting. Just the first part isn't enough. Just because you read that they take the same amount of (doctor) time and so assume that any place offering them must only do those, and that if they didn't they would surely offer you a choice, don't neglect to double check.

Source: all too painful personal experience (guess what doesn't always work on the first try? That's right. Local anesthetic.)
Also here in plain text: http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks01/0100021.txt
Are you counting non-earners like kids and retired folks in that 35%?

Federal "revenue" is a mistaken concept. The federal government just deletes money via taxation in order to offset the created money from spending. The government doesn't need or have any dollars, they are the source of the fiat currency in itself.

The entire point of any tax or spend decisions is to further some political objective. For example, we tax everyone in order to assure the fiat currency has value. We also tax to discourse certain behaviors. We tax to have some impact on who has how many dollars in order to address social issues.
Why do farmers continue to buy these tractors?
Cyberpunk headline of the day!
http://vectorinstitute.ai

Scroll down to career opportunities. The research scientist position is advertised as being competitive with industry labs.
Thanks, that's an interesting calculation, and I didn't take population into account. The 650k to 8.5M sounds like a higher ratio than I'd expect though. If we take the MSA from rrdharan's post, NYC metro population is 4x greater rather than 13x with your numbers. If we use those numbers, then we'd get accessible pairs per thousand residents of 0.2093 for NYC, and 0.2256 for Boston, which makes Boston about 8% better.

I'm not sure how valid that is though, since at least for the NYC area, that MSA population is for the tri-state area, which is served by a number of other rail lines, and the majority of which isn't directly accessible to the NYC MTA system that those numbers are for. I don't know as much about the Boston area, but seems like a fair guess that those 5M people mostly don't have direct access to the Boston city transit, and may or may not be served by various other transit systems. Can any Bostonians confirm or deny?
Well, it didn't seem to bother Juanita Martinez too much.
I have had things stolen from me by someone else and tried to get police help with that.

And I've also stolen things from both poor and from large businesses and:

a) confessed to it (thankfully before 18 years old, my advice from the experience : do not ever, ever, ever do this, no matter how obvious the situation is)

b) gotten away with it

Comparing the reactions of the authorities between what happened when I offended a large business, who wanted to make an example (I didn't realize this at the time but they never even want restitution or the stolen item back), and what happened when I tried to recover my own stolen property and attempted in vain to get ANYTHING done (other than "fill in this paper and add to this huge stack here")

Just a piece of advice : DO NOT learn kids to not steal by having them return a stolen item, unless you know and trust the store owner.

Does this count as violence ?
Good design is thoughtful, opinionated, and fearless
SpaceX set to launch ‘used rocket’
Actually I think Grover Norquist's position is that making the tax easier to pay would make it less easy to notice it rising and less unpopular. It's a horrible position but not quite so bizarre.
Our taxes aren't that high compared to some states. California's are definitely higher. Toronto's housing market is stupid though. Would be better off in Waterloo, or Ottawa
I think you will agree there is no reason why we need to throw away 95+% of the fuel that is left in high level nuclear waste and bury it in the ground for thousands of years. There are better options.

>...I am not an expert but many seem to consider the increased handling risk related to the toxicity and activity of plutonium and other products,

I agree that nuclear waste needs to be handled carefully.

>...especially considering terrorism, and also the risk for weaponizing the enriched plutonium.

There is very little terrorism risk from nuclear waste. The weight, size and danger of high level waste means it would be beyond the capability of terrorist group to take advantage of it. Other sources of power have much, much more of a risk from terrorism.

>....also the risk for weaponizing the enriched plutonium.

None of the nuclear states got their start by using nuclear waste from a commercial reactor. This wasn't a coincidence - it is much easier to get nuclear fuel by using a special purpose reactor or enriching uranium.
'Cards Against Humanity' Creator to Buy and Publish Congress's Browser History
Haha, I forget I'm not anonymous on Hacker News, but it has been both ways, 1 really good outcome so far.
It might or might not be unjust, but feudalism is all about the hierarchy of oaths- it is about distribution of power - you give power to those sworn to you and in turn they give it to those beneath them.

Jeff bezos having lots of money is an oligarchy, not feudalism.
On the other hand, simpler taxes would lead to less expensive tax filing process. You don't need to buy an updated software, pay a professional or spend some hours - if not days - of your life doing something like that.

Are you sure people should keep this inconvenience as a reminder of government expenses?
It would make it pretty hard to get a place to live if you move and weren't rich enough to buy.

If you want to make living cheap there are other ways. Increase supply for a start. In London for example you are often limited by planning to 2 or 3 floor houses where tech and finance would support 40 floor blocks if they were allowed.
Or Stephen Fry
GEE lets you take a lots of imagery and vector data and process it together so that it can be displayed on Google Earth or anything that can render simple imagery tiles like the Google Maps API. It can run locally / on prem which is a big benefit if connectivity is a challenge for your business or end-users. Previously, this was something Google sold but was deprecated a few years ago. Now that it's open source people can keep using it :-)

Disclaimer: I work for Google, but not on GEE.
A brief review of CI-friendly UI testing tools
It was announced yesterday that Geoff Hinton will lead a google brain lab in Toronto.
It was far less risky for Bezos to start his business than most of his current employees. He was wealthy before he started.
I read HN in this way I go to https://news.ycombinator.com/news?p=5, then https://news.ycombinator.com/news?p=4, till "/news" which is the same as "?p=1". I do that every night before bedtime.

If maybe I'm too busy and can't read HN one night, what I do is read the next day starting from "?p=10", if I miss two days I start from "?p=15" and so on, though that query has a varying limit, going after the limit gives no results, in the past I've gotten a successful request til "?p=25" but today it seems the limit is just "?p=10", most times I've seen the "?p=15" working.

I don't want to miss new tools or discussions so I always try to keep a maximum of 2 days of not reading HN.
Yep. But I anticipate the Plaid vote will head rapidly upwards – not to SNP levels, but 25% territory.
Disneyland is a small integrated ecosystem and is entirely voluntary. I think it's quite reasonable for Disney to keep tabs on all of their guests while they're in the park. But that same level of surveillance doesn't belong out in the public.
Could anyone in the know comment on whether their invite-only nature contributed to this? I have wanted to have Deck Network ads on my sites forever, but there was no real way to do so. They seemed to be restricted to inviting only Apple-themed blogs and sites, plus maybe their peripheral network.

I wonder if having a somewhat more clear and easy vetting process would have helped expand their reach somewhat.
It's totally solved from a technical standpoint. Dig a hole half a mile deep in bedrock in a tectonically stable area, and whatever you put in that hole is safe forever. But that's kinda expensive, so we keep burying it in people's backyards and then going "gosh, this is hard!" when it bites us in the ass.
Really need to change the title to reflect that the increase in size is not present in App Store binary.

Side note: filing a Radar is the new top of the customer acquisition funnel. Go Realm! :)
A bit isn't a divisible unit, so nobody is going to be confused as to whether "mb" stands for "millibits". As for the capitalization of "b", if we're going to be pedantic then we should say "Mo" for "megaoctets", since "byte" is, as far as IEEE standards are concerned, of ambiguous length. But I think we can trust people enough to not spend too long puzzling over whether "mb" means megabytes or megabits, just as we can trust them to assume that byte implies eight bits in this context.
What Does Stay Hungry Stay Foolish Mean?
Been working on getting my business going for a year now. I legally registered it just a few months ago, but started developing the products for it about a year ago.

I even opened up a business bank account and a Paypal business account (currently $0) to keep my personal life and my business separate for tax purposes.

I developed about 5 different web apps, completed 2 of them, and am in the process of completing the other 3. I also have about 3 or 4 more projects in the design stages.

My business specializes in making life easier for individuals and companies at an affordable price... performing simple tasks and getting things done with emphasis on productivity, of course.

After having built a free web page creation platform called MyPost ( https://mypost.io ) and sending it off to the Internet, it is now used around the world. From the analytics data, Russia, Japan, Phillipines, Brazil, and many other places. That got me thinking about other things I could create that people all over the world might find useful. Just analyzing the amount of people using it, how it is being used, and where it is being used led me to understand that people actually like my products and pushed me to create new products, though my newer ones will not be fully free.

I try to keep everything I do simple and easy to use. My sister is not so tech-savvy, so I normally use her as my beta tester. If she can't figure something out, I make it easier and simpler. This is how MyPost was designed. Everything she stumbled with and asked me questions about: I revised until she had no more questions and started using it on her own without any input from me. I continue designing this way and let her test everything.

So hopefully I'll be able to launch some of my official products in a month or two.

What has been taking so long you ask? I am still working my regular day job so the business is my side business. I know even after launch I'll probably run into some problem, but its all about trial and error and getting there! Soon!
I would think you would build them as close to your main markets as real estate and electricity costs will let you, to lower transportation costs and to allow you to be sloppier when predicting demand (no longer thinking in terms of shipping containers arriving at the warehouse next month). Which probably means developed countries like you suggest.
I live in the US.
Certainly the engineers were, and that's how it was sold to the public. But the people who wrote the checks were mainly interested in weapons.
Answering to one of replies.

> Federal "revenue" is a mistaken concept. The federal government just deletes money via taxation in order to offset the created money from spending. The government doesn't need or have any dollars, they are the source of the fiat currency in itself.

Does it mean that taxation in USA works differently than taxation in a country with currency tied to US dollar by a fixed exchange rate? In that country government can't, I assume, so easily print money and delete them.
without a lot of knowledge my wag would be that the technology really is beneficial over non-smart competitors and that the other options probably have the same legal problems anyways.
Sort of reminds me of the Drell[1] from Mass Effect.

They nearly went extinct because their population outgrew their planet, and probably would have if they didn't make contact with the Hanar, a species that had achieved interstellar flight who took a few hundred thousand home with them before the rest died off.

[1] http://masseffect.wikia.com/wiki/Drell
Worth noting that Gates leads by a $10 billion margin.
I had a serious side hobby which was performance art related. I took gigs when and if they came. If that was my full-time job like most aspiring artists, I would have been a starving artist.

Also while being fully employed as an engineer, I would take side projects, contracts etc that I would work on during the evenings and weekends. Eventually that became my full time job. I now run a small consultancy.
It's how I came up with the subversive username Irrumatio. :O
When you use a VPN (OpenVPN) is there still a way to use DNSCrypt? My VPN provider seems to force their own DNS. Tried OpenVPN config manual pages to no help.
> The money that you "pay" in federal taxes is just dollars that are deleted out of existence so that the dollars created by federal spending don't create inflation.

Does it mean that taxation in another country is different than taxation in US? Especially in a country where local currency has a fixed exchange rate to US dollar? They presumably can't create money that easily.
Board of directors hires a CEO. Gives them funding and requires they produce a return. CEO hires upper management. Gives them funding, requires return. Upper management hires middle management. Funding, demands return. Etc...

This is a hierarchy of oaths. It's just not as ceremonial as you've put it. It's also not directly agrarian (and territorial) as you'd expect from a medieval feudalist regime, but the basic structure is still present.
MIT Mathematician Develops an Algorithm to Help Treat Diabetes
Repetition is a very persuasive technique. The more someone hears a claim, the more inclined they will believe it or at least attribute credibility to it, independent of the claim's merits.

Regardless of what one thinks regarding AI displacing jobs, there's been a remarkable growth spurt of technology and that begs lots of uncertainty about the future. When things get uncertain, people will speculate more, push their opinions on others, etc.

Sorry I'm not answering your question directly, but hopefully it suggests why we might be seeing all these "what's going to happen with AI" articles. You can bet there will be lots of opinions coming soon on "what should we do about it", but these are harder to tease out.
Here's one my family's photo albums from Soviet Ukraine: https://imgur.com/a/1mIwM
On iOS and OSX, TexPad.com apps work very well. Not affiliated but prefer TexPad over all other editors. Even works with git clients on iOS.
Disney film executive delivers sobering message on changing cinema business
Paper link here: https://arxiv.org/abs/1703.10135
I wouldn't want my government doing this to me either cause I have to live somewhere and hey, we're all in this together. I don't need to experience Disneyland though, so I'm all right with this policy. I hear they also kick you out if you're too intoxicated, they probably have a lot of policies that would be ludicrous if implemented by real countries.
Or Bill Kurtis? :)
There is something else she could have done on her knees to make an old man young again, surely they knew of that
Fingers crossed. In theory it shouldn't be any more dangerous than a first-time rocket, given that they've examined every inch of it and deemed it flawless. If it weren't flawless, obviously they wouldn't be trying to fly it. So we're just hoping there isn't some unanticipated source of entropy, so to speak. As always.
Maybe not yet, but I am sure there will be speaker cloning extension soon, like photo and painting style transfer.

Edit: It would seem they only need 25 hours of audio to train the model, so it would probably be easy to find or make alternate datasets.

> We train Tacotron on an internal North American English dataset, which contains about 24.6 hours of speech data spoken by a professional female speaker
I don't think many people know this, or at least never think about it. "https means encrypted, that means secret."
> you're going to get in retirement back as entitlements

No. Taxes are not prepayment for services in the future.
They were certainly a romantic and ebullient group, eh?
And that's after Bloomberg weirdly adjusted his net worth down by about $12-$15 billion recently, right before he was about to cross $100 billion again for the first time since the dotcom bubble.

They left a note on his profile in the billionaires list that says:

"The net worth history for Bill Gates was changed to reflect a revised approach to the valuation that was applied on Jan. 27, 2017."

Which is probably another way of saying, that he put in a favor with Michael Bloomberg to not show him crossing $100 billion, as he doesn't want the headlines.
> The way I structure them and lead them are heavily influenced by my past experiences, and it boils down to three core tenets:

> Third, and most important, I have three rules for operation:

So one of the three core tenets is the three rules for operation?

Well I read the rest of the article, and at the end I got to

> three most inspiring highlights about Steve:

Someone likes the number three, it seems.
You seem to be assuming that the SF and Toronto workers will retire to the same place, so the extra savings of the SF worker will go further. Conversely, if you assume that the SF worker retires to a place with a 50% higher COL than the
Toronto worker, the difference disappears.

Personally, my backup plan is to retire to Bulgaria based on SF savings ;)
Getting Started with Microservices, Part 1: Advantages and Considerations
They are more Java developers than python developers :)
Show HN: A simple and clean sublime text editor cheatsheet for macosx
PDF Version: https://github.com/sublime-text-university/cheatsheet/blob/m...

Markdown: https://github.com/sublime-text-university/cheatsheet/blob/m...

I focused on three key areas when designing this sheet:

1. 80 / 20. What's the 20% of actions that make up 80% of my time in the editor? Sublime does a lot more than what's covered in this sheet, but you can be damn sure that what's here is essential to most day to day editing for users of all levels. Master these and you're on your way to attaining higher levels of mastery.

2. Simplicity. There's often more than one way to manipulate a piece of text in sublime. I only include the simplest way (which is a combination of number of keystrokes and ease of hitting those keys).

3. Clarity. I sought out to do this even though there's a million cheatsheets because I found many of them to be too cluttered and disorganized. I made sure to clearly divide the sections of the sheet by the primary actions a user performs on any file.

If you like this or think it could be improved, let me know!

If there's enough interest, I'll be making a linux and windows version of this sheet as well.
The US government lends itself SS and Medicare funds because there is no safer asset class than US treasuries.
This is why I pirate Turbotax every year.

Fuck Intuit. Fuck H&R Block.

I'll give them money over my dead body.
No. Social security is only taxed on your first $127,200 of annual income. Anything over that is not assessed social security tax. Medicare is 1.45% of your income with no limit, and an additional 0.9% on income over $200k/year. I'm unsure where you would get the idea that those rates increase as your income increases.